On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:55:34PM +0100, Pavlos Parissis wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, are there some features of 1.7 that you've > > already got used to and that prevent you from using 1.6, or is this just a > > matter of staying on something modern ? > > > > The latter, I prefer to use the latest stable version. I usually wait 1 month > before I switch to the new stable release[1]. For instance, I switched from > 1.5 to > 1.6 when 1.6.3 was released. Switching to 1.7 takes more time because I have > other > projects with higher priority.
OK that makes sense. In fact I do push the .0 in production on haproxy.org in order to know and to show the example (eat my own food). But I agree over time and due to the delays I tend to accumulate between older releases you can sometimes be safer on a more recent branch. I've use to consider that we needed about 4 versions before starting to think about blind deployments, and that's approximately it. 1.5.4, 1.6.4 were getting better and here we still discover annoying issues in 1.7.3 that will be fixed in 1.7.4 (some of them were already in 1.5 and 1.6 so we're improving). > [1] With the only exception of 1.5, I switched to 1.5.0 only a day after it > was > released. Zero issues on production! But, I keep the config clean and very > simple, > I hate unnecessary complexity. 1.5 was different, it used to be production ready since dev7 without SSL and dev17 if you used SSL :-) What a pain, I never want to do that again! Cheers, Willy
