Awesome(!) and congratulations. 

Since it's midsummer, happy midsummer to you all.

.pelle

> On 19 jun 2014, at 21:54, Willy Tarreau <w...@1wt.eu> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> The list has been unusually silent today, just as if everyone was waiting
> for something to happen :-)
> 
> Today is a great day, the reward of 4 years of hard work. I'm announcing the
> release of HAProxy 1.5.0.
> 
> For people who don't follow the development versions, here are the most
> noticeable features that 1.5 brings over 1.4 :
>  - native SSL support on both sides with SNI/NPN/ALPN and OCSP stapling.
>  - IPv6 and UNIX sockets are supported everywhere
>  - end-to-end HTTP keep-alive for better support of NTLM and improved
>    efficiency in static farms
>  - HTTP/1.1 response compression (deflate, gzip) to save bandwidth
>  - PROXY protocol versions 1 and 2 on both sides
>  - data sampling on everything in request or response, including payload
>  - ACLs can use any matching method with any input sample
>  - maps and dynamic ACLs updatable from the CLI
>  - stick-tables support counters to track activity on any input sample
>  - custom format for logs, unique-id, header rewriting, and redirects
>  - improved health checks (SSL, scripted TCP, check agent, ...)
>  - much more scalable configuration supports hundreds of thousands of backends
>    and certificates without sweating
> 
> Since dev26, a few bugs were fixed, and some low-importance things were
> integrated. Basic OCSP stapling support from Dirkjan and Emeric was
> finally merged. Sasha's header replace actions were merged as well. I've
> added a few more info in the stats page (avg response times) and CSV
> output (health check status), added support for PROXY v2 on the accept
> side, and added the "capture" action on tcp-request in order to log
> contents such as SNI or payload. Rémi's dh-param was finally integrated.
> 
> People love numbers, so here are a few :
> 
> From 1.4.0 to 1.5.0, we had :
>  - 1574 calendar days (4 yr 3 mon)
>  - 26 development versions (one every 2 months on average)
>  - 540 bugs fixed (387 added during 1.5, 153 affecting 1.4 as well)
>  - 2549 commits
>  - 683 unique commit dates (at least this many days worked)
>  - up to 24 commits per day
>  - 69712 lines removed, 122279 lines added
>  - many extremely useful bug reports (too many to list)
>  - 73 code/doc contributors :
> 
>  Adrian Bridgett, Alex Davies, Aman Gupta, Andreas Kohn,
>  Apollon Oikonomopoulos, Arnaud Cornet, Baptiste Assmann, Bertrand Jacquin,
>  Bhaskar Maddala, Conrad Hoffmann, Cyril Bonté, Daniel Schultze,
>  David BERARD, David Cournapeau, David S, David du Colombier, Delta Yeh,
>  Dirkjan Bussink, Dmitry Sivachenko, Emeric Brun, Emmanuel Hocdet,
>  Evan Broder, Finn Arne Gangstad, Gabor Lekeny, Geoff Bucar, Wei Zhao,
>  Guillaume Castagnino, Guillaume de Lafond, Hervé COMMOWICK,
>  Hiroaki Nakamura, James Voth, Jamie Gloudon, Jarno Huuskonen,
>  Joe Williams, Joshua M. Clulow, Julien Vehent, Justin Karneges,
>  Kevin Hester, Kevin Musker, Kristoffer Grönlund, Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki,
>  Lukas Tribus, Marc-Antoine Perennou, Mark Lamourine, Mathieu Trudel,
>  Michael Scherer, Neil Prockter, Nenad Merdanovic, Nick Chalk,
>  Olivier Burgard, Oskar Stolc, Patrick Mézard, Pieter Baauw,
>  Prach Pongpanich, Rauf Kuliyev, Remi Gacogne, Sagi Bashari, Sasha Pachev,
>  Sean Carey, Sergiy Prykhodko, Simon Horman, Simone Gotti,
>  Stathis Voukelatos, Tait Clarridge, Thierry Fournier, Todd Lyons,
>  Vincent Bernat, William Lallemand, William Turner, Willy Tarreau,
>  Yuxans Yao, Yves Lafon.
> 
> Additionally, we are very thankful to a few organisations who have sponsored
> the development of certain advanced features which required to dedicate a
> person or a team for a significant amount of time (I hope I have not missed
> any) :
>  - HAProxy Technologies (formerly Exceliance)
>  - Loadbalancer.org
>  - StackOverflow
>  - SmartFile
>  - SmugMug
>  - ImageShack
> 
> Don't forget to offer a beer to your distro packagers who make your life
> easier. It's hard to list them all, but if you don't build from sources,
> you're likely running a package made and maintained by one of these people :
>  - debian: Vincent Bernat, Apollon Oikonomopoulos, Prach Pongpanich
>  - Fedora: Ryan O'hara
>  - OpenSuSE: Marcus Rückert
>  - other? just report yourself!
> 
> And last, I'd like to assign a special mention to our most active mailing
> list supporters during that period who make the project a reality by off-
> loading the support task from developers, and kindly help our 800 permanent
> subscribers on a daily basis, BIG THANKS to you guys :
>  - Baptiste Assmann
>  - Lukas Tribus
>  - Cyril Bonté
>  - Jonathan Matthews
>  - Thomas Heil
> 
> For the HAProxy development team here in France, it will be time to do
> some errands and buy some Champagne to celebrate the event :-)
> 
> Now the practical things. 1.5 now enters in maintenance status and the
> development continues with 1.6-dev0 which is the exact equivalent of
> 1.5.0. The links have been updated below. Note the removal of /devel/
> for the sources and the introduction of haproxy-1.5.git since this is
> not the development tree anymore :
> 
>      Site index       : http://www.haproxy.org/
>      Sources          : http://www.haproxy.org/download/1.5/src/
>      Git repository   : http://git.haproxy.org/git/haproxy-1.5.git/
>      Git Web browsing : http://git.haproxy.org/?p=haproxy-1.5.git
>      Changelog        : http://www.haproxy.org/download/1.5/src/CHANGELOG
>      Cyril's HTML doc : 
> http://cbonte.github.com/haproxy-dconv/configuration-1.5.html
> 
> I'm figuring that tomorrow is Friday. Guys, be reasonable, don't forget the
> good old principle of not upgrading on Fridays, try to hold on till monday
> if you can :-)
> 
> BTW, since I've got this question off-list a number of times now, yes we're
> going to release updated HAPEE packages very soon, please keep an eye on it :
> 
>        https://www.haproxy.com/products/haproxy-enterprise-edition/
> 
> And finally the changelog since 1.5-dev26.
> 
> Have fun an as usual, please report anything abnormal you'd face up, but
> after checking the doc.
> 
> Willy
> 
> --------
> 2014/06/19 : 1.5.0
>    - MEDIUM: ssl: ignored file names ending as '.issuer' or '.ocsp'.
>    - MEDIUM: ssl: basic OCSP stapling support.
>    - MINOR: ssl/cli: Fix unapropriate comment in code on 'set ssl 
> ocsp-response'
>    - MEDIUM: ssl: add 300s supported time skew on OCSP response update.
>    - MINOR: checks: mysql-check: Add support for v4.1+ authentication
>    - MEDIUM: ssl: Add the option to use standardized DH parameters >= 1024 
> bits
>    - MEDIUM: ssl: fix detection of ephemeral diffie-hellman key exchange by 
> using the cipher description.
>    - MEDIUM: http: add actions "replace-header" and "replace-values" in 
> http-req/resp
>    - MEDIUM: Break out check establishment into connect_chk()
>    - MEDIUM: Add port_to_str helper
>    - BUG/MEDIUM: fix ignored values for half-closed timeouts (client-fin and 
> server-fin) in defaults section.
>    - BUG/MEDIUM: Fix unhandled connections problem with systemd daemon mode 
> and SO_REUSEPORT.
>    - MINOR: regex: fix a little configuration memory leak.
>    - MINOR: regex: Create JIT compatible function that return match strings
>    - MEDIUM: regex: replace all standard regex function by own functions
>    - MEDIUM: regex: Remove null terminated strings.
>    - MINOR: regex: Use native PCRE API.
>    - MINOR: missing regex.h include
>    - DOC: Add Exim as Proxy Protocol implementer.
>    - BUILD: don't use type "uint" which is not portable
>    - BUILD: stats: workaround stupid and bogus -Werror=format-security 
> behaviour
>    - BUG/MEDIUM: http: clear CF_READ_NOEXP when preparing a new transaction
>    - CLEANUP: http: don't clear CF_READ_NOEXP twice
>    - DOC: fix proxy protocol v2 decoder example
>    - DOC: fix remaining occurrences of "pattern extraction"
>    - MINOR: log: allow the HTTP status code to be logged even in TCP frontends
>    - MINOR: logs: don't limit HTTP header captures to HTTP frontends
>    - MINOR: sample: improve sample_fetch_string() to report partial contents
>    - MINOR: capture: extend the captures to support non-header keys
>    - MINOR: tcp: prepare support for the "capture" action
>    - MEDIUM: tcp: add a new tcp-request capture directive
>    - MEDIUM: session: allow shorter retry delay if timeout connect is small
>    - MEDIUM: session: don't apply the retry delay when redispatching
>    - MEDIUM: session: redispatch earlier when possible
>    - MINOR: config: warn when tcp-check rules are used without option 
> tcp-check
>    - BUG/MINOR: connection: make proxy protocol v1 support the UNKNOWN 
> protocol
>    - DOC: proxy protocol example parser was still wrong
>    - DOC: minor updates to the proxy protocol doc
>    - CLEANUP: connection: merge proxy proto v2 header and address block
>    - MEDIUM: connection: add support for proxy protocol v2 in accept-proxy
>    - MINOR: tools: add new functions to quote-encode strings
>    - DOC: clarify the CSV format
>    - MEDIUM: stats: report the last check and last agent's output on the CSV 
> status
>    - MINOR: freq_ctr: introduce a new averaging method
>    - MEDIUM: session: maintain per-backend and per-server time statistics
>    - MEDIUM: stats: report per-backend and per-server time stats in HTML and 
> CSV outputs
>    - BUG/MINOR: http: fix typos in previous patch
>    - DOC: remove the ultra-obsolete TODO file
>    - DOC: update roadmap
>    - DOC: minor updates to the README
>    - DOC: mention the maxconn limitations with the select poller
>    - DOC: commit a few old design thoughts files
> ----
> 
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