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# 20 July: Support for TLS connections in the Postgres compatibility layer

We now support TLS-encrypted connections to our Postgres compatibility layer.

You no longer need to specify sslmode=disable when connecting to Agnostic through the Postgres protocol.

This also improves compatibility with tools that do not allow non-encrypted connections.