[ANNOUNCE] haproxy 1.5-dev7

[Willy Tarreau]

Hi all,

Five months have elapsed since 1.5-dev6. A massive amount of changes was
merged since then. Most of them were cleanups and optimizations. A number
of changes were dedicated to making listeners more autonomous. The immediate
effect is a more robust handling of resource saturation, and the second
effect is the removal of the 10-years old maintain_proxies() function which
was harming performance and hard to get over.

Halog was improved too (faster with more filters). A significant number
of external contributions were merged, among them the stats socket updates
to clear session-table keys by values. There are too many changes to list,
but nothing too dangerous, so I'd say it's the 1.5-dev version I trust the
most today.

I'm planning on putting all the focus on server-side keep-alive again. Some
of the remaining issues have been overcome. Surely there are still a number,
but we can't know if we don't try :-)

Do not hesitate to give 1.5-dev7 a try. I'm currently updating all 1.5 I
have to it.

   site index  : http://haproxy.1wt.eu/
   sources : http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.5/src/devel/
   changelog   : http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.5/src/CHANGELOG

Cheers,
Willy

Re: [ANNOUNCE] haproxy 1.5-dev7

[Willy Tarreau]

I forgot to add something : I have updated the README file to request
a change in the format of the subject in patches. To put it short,
I'd like that we avoid the square brackets for the parts we want to
keep in the commit message. The reason is that Git either removes all
words enclosed within brackets, or keeps them all. When a patch series
is submitted, the [PATCH] prefix is added and I have to remove it by
hand for each patch. Also, right now it's not easy to indicate the
criticity of a bug, so it as time to suggest a change. Anyway it's
not critical if you forget, it's just something I'd appreciate.

All the details are in the README.

I'll try not to forget to do it myself ;-)

Thanks,
Willy