The Slony team is pleased to announce the first beta for the next major 
release of Slony-I (2.1.0).

Slony-I 2.1.0.b1 is available at 
http://www.slony.info/downloads/2.1/source/slony1-2.1.0.b1.tar.bz2

The documentation can be downloaded from 
http://www.slony.info/downloads/2.1/source/slony1-2.1.0.b1-docs.tar.bz2


This release includes over 20 new features and bug fixes from the last 
2.0 release.   The Slony team is asking the Slony community to try out 
this beta release and send test reports (both successful and 
unsuccessful to the slony1-general at lists.slony.info mailing list).



Highlights of 2.1.0 include:
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-Improvements to the performance of replication when a node is 
significantly behind (Bug # 167)

-A component status table that monitors the state of each thread in the 
slon process (Bug # 175)

-Multiple tables to a replication set can be added with a single command 
using regular expressions (Bug # 181)

-Slonik will now automatically wait for event confirmations when 
required (Bug # 179)

-Support for TRUNCATE triggers with PostgreSQL 8.4 or higher (Bug # 134)

-Support for adjusting TCP keep alive values (Bug # 126)


A complete list of changes can be found at 
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=slony1-engine.git;a=blob_plain;f=RELEASE;h=3ab8d7cd49b8a934f63d5db9bbf82e41bd40581c;hb=29fa3df92c2205df877d2c864fc38f037437577c


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