PgBouncer 1.23.1 is now generally available in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server. As a built-in connection pooling feature, PgBouncer helps you scale to thousands of connections with low overhead by efficiently managing idle and short-lived connections. With this update, you benefit from the latest community improvements, including enhanced protocol handling and important stability fixes, giving you a more reliable and resilient connection pooling experience. Because PgBouncer is integrated into Flexible Server, you don’t need to install or maintain it separately—simply enable it on port 6432 and start reducing connection overhead in your applications. This release keeps your PostgreSQL servers aligned with the community while providing the reliability of a managed Azure service.