As Lucas an David already written it the point of view from Red Hat stability of paying customers.
From my point of view is the "stability" not only from technical also from support point of view. The 1.5 is really Rocksolid but the following releases also, with some more features and Bug fixes. If you would like to have a suggestion I would use the 1.8/1.7 from rhscl (=Red Hat Software Collection), if they are there. Angelo have also created a RPM package just in case the latest version is no available on rhscl. https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg29526.html I personally also would prefer to have the latest stable upstream on the distributions but from commercial point of view could this be a very hard road, IMHO. Regards Aleks -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Norman Branitsky <[email protected]> Gesendet: 1. Mai 2018 16:26:52 MESZ An: haproxy <[email protected]> Betreff: RHEL distribution still uses HAProxy 1.5 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?
