Hi all,
I got several annoying bug reports which all finally got fixed
(last one fixed this evening). So, since the bug queue is now
empty, it's a good time to release a new version.
I now encourage everyone to migrate to maintenance release 1.3.19.
The 3 last bugs I fixed can cause random pauses in traffic and
sometimes return 502 server error for extremely small objects if
the server closes too fast. This should be enough to motivate you
to upgrade.
The less nasty one (server error) also affected old versions
such as 1.3.15 and 1.3.14, so I have released one of each as
well.
But now let's talk about the goodies. Having a development
tree in parallel is nice, because it allows better testing
with less risks, and the ability to backport riskless features.
So there are a few minor features that I have backported
since there is some demand :
- support for multiple configuration files. You can now have
up to 10 files in which you split your various sections
(eg: global, http defaults, http frontends, http backends,
tcp frontends, tcp backends).
- a lot more verbose error reporting when checking the conf,
even if you specify "-D". I have encountered huge errors
in some configurations which were not detected, so some
specific checks have been added for such errors, and the
config parser now returns after reporting all the errors,
not only the first one. This helps for instance when checking
a config which has hostnames which do not resolve where you
check it.
- support for per-server source port ranges, because there
are some people who needed to overcome the 64k concurrent
connections limit (!) They promised to send me a screenshot
of their stats page when they reach the million if ever :-)
- support for setting a server's weight to zero, which helps
for maintenance periods. It's better than setting it backup
as you're certain it will never be used for new requests,
even if it's alone.
And that's all for the features, so that's pretty minimal as
you can see. The goal of this maintenance release clearly is
to be a bugfix release before anything else.
The develpment version has much more interesting things, but
I've not released it yet as I need to fix my release scripts
first, which are getting really annoying to use. I will send
a new mail for this one.
This time there is no sparc binary because I have not yet
unpacked my Ultra5 since I moved. I hope to do so quite soon,
but no ETA is set yet. If someone really needs the sparc
binary, please tell me and I may find the courage to plug
it just for the time to build.
Source, changelog and Linux/x86 binary for 1.3.19, 1.3.15.10
and 1.3.14.14 are here as usual :
http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.3/
BTW, some of you might have noticed that the GIT interface
work much better now. I've replaced the server. The 25 MHz
HP was replaced with a 500 MHz mini-PC :-)
Special note to the distro packagers : as usual, wait a few
days in case something very big would be discovered, and please
update your packages, as the bugs described above are really
nasty to chase and describe for the end user.
Happy upgrade,
Willy
