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Amaury Denoyelle 116983ad94 MEDIUM: cfgparse: do not store unnamed defaults in name tree
Defaults section are indexed by their name in defproxy_by_name tree. For
named sections, there is no duplicate : if two instances have the same
name, the older one is removed from the tree. However, this was not the
case for unnamed defaults which are all stored inconditionnally in
defproxy_by_name.

This commit introduces a new approach for unnamed defaults. Now, these
instances are never inserted in the defproxy_by_name tree. Indeed, this
is not needed as no tree lookup is performed with empty names. This may
optimize slightly config parsing with a huge number of named and unnamed
defaults sections, as the first ones won't fill up the tree needlessly.

However, defproxy_by_name tree is also used to purge unreferenced
defaults instances, both on postparsing and deinit. Thus, a new approach
is needed for unnamed sections cleanup. Now, each time a new defaults is
parsed, if the previous instance is unnamed, it is freed unless if
referenced by a proxy. When config parsing is ended, a similar operation
is performed to ensure the last unnamed defaults section won't stay in
memory. To implement this, last_defproxy static variable is now set to
global. Unnamed sections which cannot be removed due to proxies
referencing proxies will still be removed when such proxies are freed
themselves, at runtime or on deinit.
2026-01-22 17:57:16 +01:00
.github CI: github: fix vtest.yml with "not quictls" 2026-01-19 13:22:10 +01:00
addons BUG/MEDIUM: promex: server iteration may rely on stale server 2026-01-19 14:24:11 +01:00
admin MEDIUM: systemd: implement directory loading 2026-01-16 09:55:33 +01:00
dev CLEANUP: use the automatic alignment feature 2025-12-09 17:14:58 +01:00
doc DOC: vars: document dump_all_vars() sample fetch 2026-01-21 10:44:19 +01:00
examples MINOR: mailers: warn if mailers are configured but not actually used 2025-06-27 16:41:18 +02:00
include MEDIUM: cfgparse: do not store unnamed defaults in name tree 2026-01-22 17:57:16 +01:00
reg-tests REGTESTS: ssl: fix generate-certificates w/ LibreSSL 2026-01-21 16:50:16 +01:00
scripts SCRIPTS: build: enable symbols in AWS-LC builds 2026-01-22 15:25:24 +01:00
src MEDIUM: cfgparse: do not store unnamed defaults in name tree 2026-01-22 17:57:16 +01:00
tests TESTS: quic: add unit-tests for QUIC TX part 2025-09-08 14:49:03 +02:00
.cirrus.yml CI: cirrus-ci: bump FreeBSD image to 14-3 2025-10-09 14:06:48 +02:00
.gitattributes MINOR: Configure the cpp userdiff driver for *.[ch] in .gitattributes 2021-02-22 18:17:57 +01:00
.gitignore MINOR: tevt/dev: Add term_events tool 2025-01-31 10:41:50 +01:00
.mailmap DOC: update Tim's address in .mailmap 2021-09-16 09:14:14 +02:00
.travis.yml MEDIUM: mworker: remove USE_SYSTEMD requirement for -Ws 2024-11-20 12:07:38 +01:00
BRANCHES DOC: clarify the experimental status for certain features 2025-10-17 18:41:13 +02:00
BSDmakefile BUILD: makefile: commit the tiny FreeBSD makefile stub 2023-05-24 17:17:36 +02:00
CHANGELOG [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev2 2026-01-07 11:02:12 +01:00
CONTRIBUTING CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2025-04-02 11:12:20 +02:00
INSTALL MINOR: version: mention that it's development again 2025-11-26 16:11:47 +01:00
LICENSE LICENSE: add licence exception for OpenSSL 2012-09-07 13:52:26 +02:00
MAINTAINERS MAJOR: spoe: Let the SPOE back into the game 2024-05-22 09:04:38 +02:00
Makefile REORG: cfgparse: move peers parsing to cfgparse-peers.c 2026-01-20 17:17:37 +01:00
README.md DOC: change the link to the FreeBSD CI in README.md 2024-06-03 15:21:29 +02:00
SUBVERS BUILD: use format tags in VERDATE and SUBVERS files 2013-12-10 11:22:49 +01:00
VERDATE [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev2 2026-01-07 11:02:12 +01:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev2 2026-01-07 11:02:12 +01:00

HAProxy

alpine/musl AWS-LC openssl no-deprecated Illumos NetBSD FreeBSD VTest

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HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

Installation

The INSTALL file describes how to build HAProxy. A list of packages is also available on the wiki.

Getting help

The discourse and the mailing-list are available for questions or configuration assistance. You can also use the slack or IRC channel. Please don't use the issue tracker for these.

The issue tracker is only for bug reports or feature requests.

Documentation

The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. It is available in text format as well as HTML. The wiki is also meant to replace the old architecture guide.

Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for:

  • INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy
  • BRANCHES to understand the project's life cycle and what version to use
  • LICENSE for the project's license
  • CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions

The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory:

License

HAProxy is licensed under GPL 2 or any later version, the headers under LGPL 2.1. See the LICENSE file for a more detailed explanation.