On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Five months have elapsed since 1.5-dev6. A massive amount of changes was
> merged since then. Most of them were cleanups and optimizations. A number
> of changes were dedicated to making listeners more autonomous. The immediate
> effect is a more robust handling of resource saturation, and the second
> effect is the removal of the 10-years old maintain_proxies() function which
> was harming performance and hard to get over.
>
> Halog was improved too (faster with more filters). A significant number
> of external contributions were merged, among them the stats socket updates
> to clear session-table keys by values. There are too many changes to list,
> but nothing too dangerous, so I'd say it's the 1.5-dev version I trust the
> most today.
>
> I'm planning on putting all the focus on server-side keep-alive again. Some
> of the remaining issues have been overcome. Surely there are still a number,
> but we can't know if we don't try :-)
>
> Do not hesitate to give 1.5-dev7 a try. I'm currently updating all 1.5 I
> have to it.
>
> site index : http://haproxy.1wt.eu/
> sources : http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.5/src/devel/
> changelog : http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.5/src/CHANGELOG
>
> Cheers,
> Willy
>
>
>
Hi all,
I wrote up a small post entry on our blog which summarizes the main
new features:
http://blog.exceliance.fr/2011/10/03/whats-new-in-haproxy-1-5-dev7/
cheers