Added the foreign_analyze_interval setting, in seconds, indicating how often to gather foreign statistics during autovacuum.

Added a possibility to create a foreign key between a sharded and a global table or between two global tables with the ON DELETE CASCADE action.

Added support for MergeAppend node pruning in generic plans.

Added support for a pushdown (remote execution) of to_timestamp() functions.

Implemented global views. Fetching from a global view returns a union of rows from the corresponding local views with the rows fetched from each of the local view cluster nodes.

Added a description of Silk multiplexer diagnostics views.

Improved error messages related to updating cluster parameters.

Added the --no-validate and --skip-block-validation flags to the shardmanctl probackup restore command.

Improved the process of restore to a cluster compatible with the source one.

Added the shardmanctl probackup checkdb command to verify the Shardman cluster correctness by detecting physical and logical corruption.

Enabled shardmanctl set and config update commands to work on a cluster that was stopped using shardmanctl stop.

Added the --all flag to the shardmanctl getconnstr command to add information on replicas to the command output.

Added new commands nodes start, nodes restart and nodes stop for nodes, as well as start and stop for shards to shardmanctl.

Extended permissions for the shardmand data directory.