On 01.05.2018 16:26, Norman Branitsky wrote: > We opened a ticket with RHEL Support to ask when they would upgrade to at > least HAProxy 1.7. > This was their reply: > > Most recent comment: On 2018-05-01 10:22:28, Patil, Ravindra commented: > "Hello > > The reason 1.7 (as well and 1.6 and 1.8) are not in RHEL is due to backward > compatibility. We can't simply rebase haproxy in RHEL to the latest release > -- we would break existing deployments. This is a non-starter. > > We have added haproxy 1.8 to RHSCL 3.1 which should be released soon. But it > will never been in base RHEL. > > There are no defects in 1.5. It is extremely stable. Far more stable that 1.7 > or 1.8. > > Regards > Ravindra Patil > Red Hat Global Support > > Comments? >
The message above is pretty self explanatory. LTS Distributions like RHEL don't do major upgrades so as to not break their users setups on updates. The expectation is that if you do a "yum update <package>" then said package will operate exactly as before and this is often not the case for major software updates. Regards, Dennis
