* New upstream stable series. Notable changes since the 1.4 series: + Native SSL support on both sides with SNI/NPN/ALPN and OCSP stapling. + IPv6 and UNIX sockets are supported everywhere + End-to-end HTTP keep-alive for better support of NTLM and improved efficiency in static farms + HTTP/1.1 response compression (deflate, gzip) to save bandwidth + PROXY protocol versions 1 and 2 on both sides + Data sampling on everything in request or response, including payload + ACLs can use any matching method with any input sample + Maps and dynamic ACLs updatable from the CLI + Stick-tables support counters to track activity on any input sample + Custom format for logs, unique-id, header rewriting, and redirects + Improved health checks (SSL, scripted TCP, check agent, ...) + Much more scalable configuration supports hundreds of thousands of backends and certificates without sweating
* Upload to unstable, merge all 1.5 work from experimental. Most important packaging changes since 1.4.25-1 include: + systemd support. + A more sane default config file. + Zero-downtime upgrades between 1.5 releases by gracefully reloading HAProxy during upgrades. + HTML documentation shipped in the haproxy-doc package. + kqueue support for kfreebsd.
* Packaging changes since 1.5~dev26-2: + Drop patches merged upstream: o Fix-reference-location-in-manpage.patch o 0001-BUILD-stats-workaround-stupid-and-bogus-Werror-forma.patch + d/watch: look for stable 1.5 releases + systemd: respect CONFIG and EXTRAOPTS when specified in /etc/default/haproxy. + initscript: test the configuration before start or reload. + initscript: remove the ENABLED flag and logic.