Hi all,
I'm seeing some people rightfully complain that 1.6.3 is quite old and
still plagued with some severe bugs for which fixes have been queued for
some time. Time flies fast and bugs are not fixed as quickly as I'd like.
So I'll release 1.6.4 and 1.5.16 with what we have right now. I think
1.5 is up to date (I'll just have to recheck) but no known bug is pending
on it.
For 1.6 we still have several annoying bugs pending :
- peers can desynchronize due to a design issue in how the applets
work internally. Some events are not properly passed to the peers
applet so it depends on the timing. This is the most painful thing
to fix as it requires some time concentrated on the issue.
- gpc0_rate would report crap when peers are configured. It could be
a side effect of the bug above, I don't know yet.
- I found that aborted connections can be offered to connections waiting
in queue when a server maxconn is reached and the client aborts. It's
not critical but not fun when using http-reuse.
I'll work on this this week-end. I have a kernel to release first then
a minor build warning to fix in 1.7, 1.6 and 1.6, I'll backport into
1.5 any possibly missing fix, and then I can release 1.7-dev2, 1.6.4
and 1.5.16.
If anyone has any fix waiting to be merged that I could have missed,
please do not hesitate to resend it before tomorrow (I already have
yours Andreas). I had an e-mail issue for all this week after I
replaced my machine and forgot to properly configure the mailer. I
resent what was in my queue but maybe some people are still waiting
for some responses from me that were lost.
On the more positive side of things, today for the first time we're
more than 1000 permanent subscribers on this list (1001 to be precise).
Oh I know that after this long e-mail I'll see one or two unsubscriptions
from people who prefer daily spam to monthly informative e-mails :-)
But anyway it's a nice milestone. I tried to imagine something original
to celebrate the event, and thought we could send an Aloha Pocket to the
two persons who subscribed today and made us cross this new limit. I'll
contact them off-list to get their address, hoping they'll have as much
fun as I do with a very small load balancer that fits in the hand and is
powered over USB :-) Some doc still remains to be done but it won't take
long.
Stay tuned and have a nice week-end,
Willy
