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See also: <xref linkend="upgrading-repmgr">
</para>
<sect1 id="release-4.0.5">
<title>Release 4.0.5</title>
<para><emphasis>Wed May 2, 2018</emphasis></para>
<para>
&repmgr; 4.0.5 contains a number of usability enhancements related to
<application>pg_rewind</application> usage, <filename>recovery.conf</filename>
generation and (in <application>repmgrd</application>) handling of various
corner-case situations, as well as a number of bug fixes.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Usability enhancements</title>
<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Various documentation improvements, with particular emphasis on
the importance of setting appropriate <link linkend="configuration-service-commands">service commands</link>
instead of relying on <application>pg_ctl</application>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Poll demoted primary after restart as a standby during a switchover operation (GitHub #408).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add configuration parameter <option>config_directory</option> (GitHub #424).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add sanity check if <option>--upstream-node-id</option> not supplied when executing
<xref linkend="repmgr-standby-register"> (GitHub #395).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Enable <link linkend="repmgr-node-rejoin-pg-rewind">pg_rewind</link> to be used with
PostgreSQL 9.3/9.4 (GitHub #413).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
When generating replication connection strings, set <literal>dbname=replication</literal>
if appropriate (GitHub #421).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Enable provision of <option>archive_cleanup_command</option> in <filename>recovery.conf</filename>
(GitHub #416).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Actively check for node to <link linkend="repmgr-node-rejoin">rejoin</link> cluster (GitHub #415).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<application>repmgrd</application>: set <literal>connect_timeout=2</literal> (if not explicitly set)
when pinging a server.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Bug fixes</title>
<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix display of conninfo parsing error messages.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix minimum accepted value for <varname>degraded_monitoring_timeout</varname> (GitHub #411).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix superuser password handling (GitHub #400)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix parsing of <varname>archive_ready_critical</varname> configuration file parameter (GitHub #426).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <command><link linkend="repmgr-cluster-crosscheck">repmgr cluster crosscheck</link></command>
output (GitHub #389)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix memory leaks in witness code (GitHub #402).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<application>repmgrd</application>: handle <command>pg_ctl promote</command> timeout (GitHub #425).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<application>repmgrd</application>: handle failover situation with only two nodes in the primary
location, and at least one node in another location (GitHub #407).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<application>repmgrd</application>: prevent standby connection handle from going stale.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-4.0.4">
<title>Release 4.0.4</title>
<para><emphasis>Fri Mar 9, 2018</emphasis></para>