Hi,
Previous 1.3 version was released 14 months ago, the same day as 1.4.8.
Since then, a number of fixes went into 1.4 and a part of them were
queued for 1.3. These fixes are not *that much* important but are still
worth a release. Among those fixes, there was the cookie parser rework
which is tricky but which is necessary to fix parsing issues that were
encountered from time to time with buggy applications. I've been doing
this backport with extreme care and for me it's OK. Both 1.3.26 and
1.3.15.13 were released and are available as source and precompiled
binaries for Linux/x86 and Solaris/sparc.
I realized that I don't use 1.3 anymore myself, and for this reason I'm
afraid of the risk of introducing regressions with future backports. So I
decided that it was time to turn 1.3 into a "critical fixes only" status
after 2.5 years of stable releases and 5 years of existence, meaning that
minor fixes will probably never get there anymore, and that future releases,
if any, will be focused on important bugs. That does not mean it's not
supported anymore, but that fixes will come at a very slow pace and that
new deployments are encouraged to use 1.4 if they expect a responsive
support (which is the most deployed as can be seen on the list).
I'm also switching the 1.3.14.X and 1.2.X branches to the "unmaintained"
status since nobody appears to be using them anymore (last updates were
more than 2 and 3 years ago respectively).
For those who don't remember where 1.3 may be fetched, here are the links :-)
site index : http://haproxy.1wt.eu/
sources : http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.3/src/
changelog : http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.3/src/CHANGELOG
binaries : http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.3/bin/
Willy
