On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 09:56:50AM +0100, William Lallemand wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 05:16:38AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > Subject: Re: Can you add RSS feed for your blog? > > Hi Arta, > > > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 02:48:44AM +0000, Arta wrote: > > > Hi Willy (and other HAProxy devs), > > > 1. I follow the update of my favorite softwares/websites through RSS in my > > > feed reader. I was wondering if you can add RSS capability > > > to https://www.haproxy.org/news.html ? > > > > We did that maybe 15 or 20 years ago, I don't remember, it was when I was > > updating release announcements on freshmeat.net! It stopped working at > > some point without anybody noticing nor asking for it so I concluded > > that nobody was using this anymore and stopped copy-pasting to that file. > > While at that time everyone was speaking about RSS every day, it's been > > very long since I ever heard about it, but I know one person who tells me > > they still use it, so I don't know what to think about this, nor if it > > remains popular. I've never used that myself so I can't judge, but if > > there is demand, maybe something can be done, but we really need it to be > > automated, I don't want to start again doing manual copy-paste anymore. > > > > It's still popular but some websites decided unilaterally that is was obsolete > without any particular reason, just because it's an old standard. But a lot of > tech websites are still providing it. (phoronix, lwn, HN, etc) > > I do know a lot of people still using it, but there's probably less than a > few years ago since websites are silently removing them... > > By the way, on the haproxy.com blog, there's a feed: > https://www.haproxy.com/feed
Thanks for sharing your perspectives on this, William. If you're interested in this, we can see together how to add this to the publication process. Last time I did this, I did it completely blindly, I don't even know a client that consumes and validates such data, nor do I know how people use them. On a side note, I had plans to try to automatically update the news.html page with LLM-assisted summaries of the announce message, maybe it's worth combining the two efforts. For example for the previous announce I'm getting this, which I find pretty satisfying, though it will require some tooling to be placed there: HAProxy 3.4-dev3 adds larger thread-group limits (up to 32768), runtime warnings for slow password-hash algorithms, CLI control to publish/ unpublish backends and use force-persist in frontends, flexible systemd unit with conf.d support, JWE AES decryption/conversion converters, session-aware fetch helpers, and a dump_all_vars fetcher for easy variable export. Maybe it could be helpful in the RSS feeds though. Willy
