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.
- an uninitialized field in the struct session could cause a crash when
the session was freed. This has been encountered on Solaris only.
- Solaris and OpenBSD no not support shutdown() on listening socket. Let's
be nice to them by performing a soft stop if pause fails.
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.
be displayed even in quiet mode.
* display an alert when a listener has no address, invalid or no port, or when
there are no enabled listeners upon startup.
* second batch of socklen_t changes.
* clean-ups from Cameron Simpson.
* because tv_remain() does not know about eternity, using no timeout can
make select() spin around a null time-out. Bug reported by Cameron Simpson.
* client read timeout was not properly set to eternity initialized after an
accept() if it was not set in the config. It remained undetected so long
because eternity is 0 and newly allocated pages are zeroed by the system.
* do not call get_original_dst() when not in transparent mode.
* implemented a workaround for a bug in certain epoll() implementations on
linux-2.4 kernels (epoll-lt <= 0.21).
* implemented TCP keepalive with new options : tcpka, clitcpka, srvtcpka.
* the time-out fix introduced in 1.1.25 caused a corner case where it was
possible for a client to keep a connection maintained regardless of the
timeout if the server closed the connection during the HEADER phase,
while the client ignored the close request while doing nothing in the
other direction. This has been fixed now by ensuring that read timeouts
are re-armed when switching to any SHUTW state.
* enhanced error reporting in the logs. Now the proxy will precisely detect
various error conditions related to the system and/or process limits, and
generate LOG_EMERG logs indicating that a resource has been exhausted.
* logs will contain two new characters for the error cause : 'R' indicates
a resource exhausted, and 'I' indicates an internal error, though this
one should never happen.
* server connection timeouts can now be reported in the logs (sC), as well
as connections refused because of maxconn limitations (PC).
* new global configuration keyword "ulimit-n" may be used to raise the FD
limit to usable values.
* a warning is now displayed on startup if the FD limit is lower than the
configured maximum number of sockets.
* new configuration keyword "monitor-net" makes it possible to be monitored
by external devices which connect to the proxy without being logged nor
forwarded to any server. Particularly useful on generic TCPv4 relays.
* dirty hack to fix a bug introduced with epoll : if we close an FD and
immediately reassign it to another session through a connect(), the
Prev{Read,Write}Events are not updated, which causes trouble detecting
changes, thus leading to many timeouts at high loads.
* changed the runtime argument to disable epoll() to '-de'
* changed the runtime argument to disable poll() to '-dp'
* added global options 'nopoll' and 'noepoll' to do the same at the
configuration level.
* added a 'linux24e' target to the Makefile for Linux 2.4 systems patched to
support epoll().
* changed default FD_SETSIZE to 65536 on Solaris (default=1024)
* conditionned signals redirection to #ifdef DEBUG_MEMORY
* made epoll() support a compile-time option : ENABLE_EPOLL
* provided a very little libc replacement for a possibly missing epoll()
implementation which can be enabled by -DUSE_MY_EPOLL
* implemented the poll() poller, which can be enabled with -DENABLE_POLL.
The equivalent runtime argument becomes '-P'. A few tests show that it
performs like select() with many fds, but slightly slower (certainly
because of the higher amount of memory involved).
* separated the 3 polling methods and the tasks scheduler into 4 distinct
functions which makes the code a lot more modular.
* moved some event tables to private static declarations inside the poller
functions.
* the poller functions can now initialize themselves, run, and cleanup.
* changed the runtime argument to enable epoll() to '-E'.
* removed buggy epoll_ctl() code in the client_retnclose() function. This
function was never meant to remove anything.
* fixed a typo which caused glibc to yell about a double free on exit.
* removed error checking after epoll_ctl(DEL) because we can never know if
the fd is still active or already closed.
* added a few entries in the makefile
* implemented the HTTP 303 code for error redirection. This forces the
browser to fetch the given URI with a GET request. The new keyword for
this is 'errorloc303', and a new 'errorloc302' keyword has been created
to make them easily distinguishable.
* added more controls in the parser for valid use of '\x' sequence.
* few fixes from Alex & Klaus
* fixed a few errors in the documentation
* do not pre-initialize unused file-descriptors before select() anymore.
* merged Alexander Lazic's and Klaus Wagner's work on application
cookie-based persistence. Since this is the first merge, this version is
not intended for general use and reports are more than welcome. Some
documentation is really needed though.
* add an architecture guide to the documentation
* released without any changes
* increased default BUFSIZE to 16 kB to accept max headers of 8 kB which is
compatible with Apache. This limit can be configured in the makefile now.
Thanks to Eric Fehr for the checks.
* added a per-server "source" option which now makes it possible to bind to
a different source for each (potentially identical) server.
* changed cookie-based server selection slightly to allow several servers to
share a same cookie, thus making it possible to associate backup servers to
live servers and ease soft-stop for maintenance periods. (Alexander Lazic)
* added the cookie 'prefix' mode which makes it possible to use persistence
with thin clients which support only one cookie. The server name is prefixed
before the application cookie, and restore back.
* fixed the order of servers within an instance to match documentation. Now
the servers are *really* used in the order of their declaration. This is
particularly important when multiple backup servers are in use.
