Released version 1.3.15 with the following main changes :
- [BUILD] Added support for 'make install'
- [BUILD] Added 'install-man' make target for installing the man page
- [BUILD] Added 'install-bin' make target
- [BUILD] Added 'install-doc' make target
- [BUILD] Removed "/" after '$(DESTDIR)' in install targets
- [BUILD] Changed 'install' target to install the binaries first
- [BUILD] Replace hardcoded 'LD = gcc' with 'LD = $(CC)'
- [MEDIUM]: Inversion for options
- [MEDIUM]: Count retries and redispatches also for servers, fix redistribute_pending, extend logs, %d->%u cleanup
- [BUG]: Restore clearing t->logs.bytes
- [MEDIUM]: rework checks handling
- [DOC] Update a "contrib" file with a hint about a scheme used for formathing subjects
- [MEDIUM] Implement "track [<backend>/]<server>"
- [MINOR] Implement persistent id for proxies and servers
- [BUG] Don't increment server connections too much + fix retries
- [MEDIUM]: Prevent redispatcher from selecting the same server, version #3
- [MAJOR] proto_uxst rework -> SNMP support
- [BUG] appsession lookup in URL does not work
- [BUG] transparent proxy address was ignored in backend
- [BUG] hot reconfiguration failed because of a wrong error check
- [DOC] big update to the configuration manual
- [DOC] large update to the configuration manual
- [DOC] document more options
- [BUILD] major rework of the GNU Makefile
- [STATS] add support for "show info" on the unix socket
- [DOC] document options forwardfor to logasap
- [MINOR] add support for the "backlog" parameter
- [OPTIM] introduce global parameter "tune.maxaccept"
- [MEDIUM] introduce "timeout http-request" in frontends
- [MINOR] tarpit timeout is also allowed in backends
- [BUG] increment server connections for each connect()
- [MEDIUM] add a turn-around state of one second after a connection failure
- [BUG] fix typo in redispatched connection
- [DOC] document options nolinger to ssl-hello-chk
- [DOC] added documentation for "option tcplog" to "use_backend"
- [BUG] connect_server: server might not exist when sending error report
- [MEDIUM] support fully transparent proxy on Linux (USE_LINUX_TPROXY)
- [MEDIUM] add non-local bind to connect() on Linux
- [MINOR] add transparent proxy support for balabit's Tproxy v4
- [BUG] use backend's source and not server's source with tproxy
- [BUG] fix overlapping server flags
- [MEDIUM] fix server health checks source address selection
- [BUG] build failed on CONFIG_HAP_LINUX_TPROXY without CONFIG_HAP_CTTPROXY
- [DOC] added "server", "source" and "stats" keywords
- [DOC] all server parameters have been documented
- [DOC] document all req* and rsp* keywords.
- [DOC] added documentation about HTTP header manipulations
- [BUG] log response byte count, not request
- [BUILD] code did not build in full debug mode
- [BUG] fix truncated responses with sepoll
- [MINOR] use s->frt_addr as the server's address in transparent proxy
- [MINOR] fix configuration hint about timeouts
- [DOC] minor cleanup of the doc and notice to contributors
- [MINOR] report correct section type for unknown keywords.
- [BUILD] update MacOS Makefile to build on newer versions
- [DOC] fix erroneous "useallbackups" option in the doc
- [DOC] applied small fixes from early readers
- [MINOR] add configuration support for "redir" server keyword
- [MEDIUM] completely implement the server redirection method
- [TESTS] add a test case for the server redirection mechanism
- [DOC] add a configuration entry for "server ... redir <prefix>"
- [BUILD] backend.c and checks.c did not build without tproxy !
- Revert "[BUILD] backend.c and checks.c did not build without tproxy !"
- [BUILD] backend.c and checks.c did not build without tproxy !
- [OPTIM] used unsigned ints for HTTP state and message offsets
- [OPTIM] GCC4's builtin_expect() is suboptimal
- [BUG] failed conns were sometimes incremented in the frontend!
- [BUG] timeout.check was not pre-set to eternity
- [TESTS] add test-pollers.cfg to easily report pollers in use
- [BUG] do not apply timeout.connect in checks if unset
- [BUILD] ensure that makefile understands USE_DLMALLOC=1
- [MINOR] silent gcc for a wrong warning
- [CLEANUP] update .gitignore to ignore more temporary files
- [CLEANUP] report dlmalloc's source path only if explictly specified
- [BUG] str2sun could leak a small buffer in case of error during parsing
- [BUG] option allbackups was not working anymore in roundrobin mode
- [MAJOR] implementation of the "leastconn" load balancing algorithm
- [BUILD] ensure that users don't build without setting the target anymore.
- [DOC] document the leastconn LB algo
- [MEDIUM] fix stats socket limitation to 16 kB
- [DOC] fix unescaped space in httpchk example.
- [BUG] fix double-decrement of server connections
- [TESTS] add a test case for port mapping
- [TESTS] add a benchmark for integer hashing
- [TESTS] add new methods in ip-hash test file
- [MAJOR] implement parameter hashing for POST requests
Released version 1.3.14 with the following main changes :
- New option http_proxy (Alexandre Cassen)
- add support for "maxqueue" to limit server queue overload (Elijah Epifanov)
- Check for duplicated conflicting proxies (Krzysztof Oledzki)
- stats: report server and backend cumulated downtime (Krzysztof Oledzki)
- use backends only with use_backend directive (Krzysztof Oledzki)
- Handle long lines properly (Krzysztof Oledzki)
- Implement and use generic findproxy and relax duplicated proxy check (Krzysztof Oledzki)
- continous statistics (Krzysztof Oledzki)
- add support for logging via a UNIX socket (Robert Tsai)
- fix error checking in strl2ic/strl2uic()
- fix calls to localtime()
- provide easier-to-use ultoa_* functions
- provide easy-to-use limit_r and LIM2A* macros
- add a simple test for the status page
- move error codes to common/errors.h
- silent warning about LIST_* being redefined on OpenBSD
- add socket address length to the protocols
- group PR_O_BALANCE_* bits into a checkable value
- externalize the "balance" option parser to backend.c
- introduce the "url_param" balance method
- make default_backend work in TCP mode too
- disable warning about localtime_r on Solaris
- adjust error messages about conflicting proxies
- avoid calling some layer7 functions if not needed
- simplify error path in event_accept()
- add an options field to the listeners
- added a new state to listeners
- unbind_listener() must use fd_delete() and not close()
- add a generic unbind_listener() primitive
- add a generic delete_listener() primitive
- add a generic unbind_all_listeners() primitive
- create proto_tcp and move initialization of proxy listeners
- stats: report numerical process ID, proxy ID and server ID
- relative_pid was not initialized
- missing header names in raw stats output
- fix missing parenthesis in check_response_for_cacheability
- small optimization on session_process_counters()
- merge ebtree version 3.0
- make ebtree headers multiple-include compatible
- ebtree: include config.h for REGPRM*
- differentiate between generic LB params and map-specific ones
- add a weight divisor to the struct proxy
- implement the Fast Weighted Round Robin (FWRR) algo
- include filltab25.c to experiment on FWRR for dynamic weights
- merge test-fwrr.cfg to validate dynamic weights
- move the load balancing algorithm to be->lbprm.algo
- change server check result to a bit field
- implement "http-check disable-on-404" for graceful shutdown
- secure the calling conditions of ->set_server_status_{up,down}
- report disabled servers as "NOLB" when they are still UP
- document the "http-check disable-on-404" option
- http-check disable-on-404 is not limited to HTTP mode
- add a test file for disable-on-404
- use distinct bits per load-balancing algorithm type
- implement the slowstart parameter for servers
- document the server's slowstart parameter
- stats: report the server warm up status in a "throttle" column
- fix 2 minor issues on AIX
- add the "nbsrv" ACL verb
- add the "fail" condition to monitor requests
- remove a warning from gcc due to htons() in standard.c
- fwrr: ensure that we never overflow in placements
- store the build options to report with -vv
- fix the status return of the init script (R.I. Pienaar)
- stats: real time monitoring script for unix socket (Prizee)
- document "nbsrv" and "monitor fail"
- restrict the set of allowed characters for identifiers
- implement a time parsing function
- add support for time units in the configuration
- add a bit of documentation about timers
- introduce separation between contimeout, and tarpit + queue
- introduce the "timeout" keyword
- grouped all timeouts in one structure
- slowstart is in ms, not seconds
- slowstart: ensure we don't start with a null weight
- report the number of times each server was selected
- fix build on AIX due to recent log changes
- fix build on Solaris due to recent log changes
- replace the code under O'Reilly license (Arnaud Cornet)
- add a small man page (Arnaud Cornet)
- stats: report haproxy's version by default (Krzysztof Oledzki)
- stats: count server retries and redispatches (Krzysztof Oledzki)
- core: added easy support for Doug Lea's malloc (dlmalloc)
- core: fade out memory usage when stopping proxies
- core: moved the sockaddr pointer to the fdtab structure
- core: add generic protocol support
- core: implement client-side support for PF_UNIX sockets
- stats: implement the CSV output
- stats: add a link to the CSV export HTML page
- stats: implement the statistics output on a unix socket
- config: introduce the "stats" keyword in global section
- build: centralize version and date into one file for each
- tests: added a new hash algorithm
- acl: smarter integer comparison support in ACLs
- acl: specify the direction during fetches
- acl: provide the argument length for fetch functions
- acl: provide a reference to the expr to fetch()
- acl: implement matching on header values
- acl: support maching on 'path' component
- acl: permit to return any header when no name specified
- errorfile: use a local file to feed error messages
- negation in ACL conds was not cleared between terms
- fix segfault at exit when using captures
- improve memory freeing upon exit
- acl: support '-i' to ignore case when matching
- str2net() must not change the const char *
- provide default ACLs
- acl: distinguish between request and response headers
- added the 'use_backend' keyword for full content-switching
- acl: added the TRUE and FALSE ACLs.
- shut warnings 'is*' macros from ctype.h on solaris
- do not re-arm read timeout in SHUTR state
- optimize I/O by detecting system starvation
- the epoll FD must not be shared between processes
- limit the number of events returned by *poll*
- fixed ev_sepoll again by rewriting the state machine
- switched all timeouts to timevals instead of milliseconds
- improved memory management using mempools v2.
- several minor optimizations
- several fixes in ev_sepoll
- fixed some expiration dates on some tasks
- fixed a bug in connection establishment detection due to speculative I/O
- fixed rare bug occuring on TCP with early close (reported by Andy Smith)
- implemented URI hashing algorithm (Guillaume Dallaire)
- implemented SMTP health checks (Peter van Dijk)
- replaced the rbtree with ul2tree from old scheduler project
- new framework for generic ACL support
- added the 'acl' and 'block' keywords to the config language
- added several ACL criteria and matches (IP, port, URI, ...)
- cleaned up and better modularization for some time functions
- fixed list macros
- fixed useless memory allocation in str2net()
- store the original destination address in the session
- modularized the polling mechanisms and use function pointers instead
of macros at many places
- implemented support for FreeBSD's kqueue() polling mechanism
- fixed a warning on OpenBSD : MIN/MAX redefined
- change socket registration order at startup to accomodate kqueue.
- several makefile cleanups to support old shells
- fix build with limits.h once for all
- ev_epoll: do not rely on fd_sets anymore, use changes stacks instead.
- fdtab now holds the results of polling
- implemented support for speculative I/O processing with epoll()
- remove useless calls to shutdown(SHUT_RD), resulting in small speed boost
- auto-registering of pollers at load time
- rewriting either the status line or request line could crash the
process due to a pointer which ought to be reset before parsing.
- rewriting the status line in the response did not work, it caused
a 502 Bad Gateway due to an erroneous state during parsing
- fix reqadd when no option httpclose is used.
- removed now unused fiprm and beprm from proxies
- split logs into two versions : TCP and HTTP
- added some docs about http headers storage and acls
- added a VIM script for syntax color highlighting (Bruno Michel)
- fixed several bugs which might have caused a crash with bad configs
- several optimizations in header processing
- many progresses towards transaction-based processing
- option forwardfor may be used in frontends
- completed HTTP response processing
- some code refactoring between request and response processing
- new HTTP header manipulation functions
- optimizations on the recv() patch to reduce CPU usage under very
high data rates.
- more user-friendly help about the 'usesrc' keyword (CTTPROXY)
- username/groupname support from Marcus Rueckert
- added the "except" keyword to the "forwardfor" option (Bryan German)
- support for health-checks on other addresses (Fabrice Dulaunoy)
- makefile for MacOS 10.4 / Darwin (Dan Zinngrabe)
- do not insert "Connection: close" in HTTP/1.0 messages
- fix critical bug introduced with 1.3.6 : an empty request header
may lead to a crash due to missing pointer assignment
- hdr_idx might be left uninitialized in debug mode
- fixed build on FreeBSD due to missing fd_set declaration
- stats now support the HEAD method too
- extracted http request from the session
- huge rework of the HTTP parser which is now a 28-state FSM.
- linux-style likely/unlikely macros for optimization hints
- do not create a server socket when there's no server
- added complete support and doc for TCP Splicing
- replaced the wait-queue linked list with an rbtree.
- stats: swap color sets for active and backup servers
- try to guess server check port when unset
- a few bugfixes and cleanups
Released 1.3.3 with the following changes :
- fix broken redispatch option in case the connection has already
been marked "in progress" (ie: nearly always).
- support regparm on x86 to speed up some often called functions
- removed a few useless calls to gettimeofday() in log functions.
- lots of 'const char*' cleanups
- turn every FD_* into functions which are faster on recent CPUs
- builds again on OpenBSD and Solaris
- started the changes towards I/O completion callbacks. stream_sock* have
replaced event_*.
- added the new "reqtarpit" and "reqitarpit" protection features
Released 1.3.1 with the following changes from 1.2.15 :
- now, haproxy warns about missing timeout during startup to try to
eliminate all those buggy configurations.
- added "Content-Type: text/html" in responses wherever appropriate, as
suggested by Cameron Simpson.
- implemented "option ssl-hello-chk" to use SSLv3 CLIENT HELLO messages to
test server's health
- implemented "monitor-uri" so that haproxy can reply to a specific URI with
an "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" response. This is useful to validate multiple proxies
at once.
Released 1.2.14 with the following changes :
- new HTML status report with the 'stats' keyword.
- added the 'abortonclose' option to better resist traffic surges
- implemented dynamic traffic regulation with the 'minconn' option
- show request time on denied requests
- definitely fixed hot reconf on OpenBSD by the use of SO_REUSEPORT
- now a proxy instance is allowed to run without servers, which is
useful to dedicate one instance to stats
- added lots of error counters
- a missing parenthesis preventd matching of cacheable cookies
- a missing parenthesis in poll_loop() might have caused missed events.
Summary of changes :
- 'maxconn' server parameter to do per-server session limitation
- queueing to support non-blocking session limitation
- fixed removal of cookies for cookie-less servers such as backup servers
- two separate wait queues for expirable and non-expirable tasks provide
better performance with lots of sessions.
- some code cleanups and performance improvements
- made state dumps a bit more verbose
- fixed missing checks for NULL srv in dispatch mode
- load balancing on backup servers was not possible in source hash mode.
- two session flags shared the same bit, but fortunately they were not
compatible.
