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Amaury Denoyelle b52c60d366 MEDIUM: proxy: implement persistent named defaults
This patch changes the handling of named defaults sections. Prior to
this patch, every unreferenced defaults proxies were removed on post
parsing. Now by default, these sections are kept after postparsing and
only purged on deinit. The objective is to allow reusing them as base
configuration for dynamic backends.

To implement this, refcount of every still addressable named sections is
incremented by one after parsing. This ensures that they won't be
removed even if referencing proxies are removed at runtime. This is done
via the new function proxy_ref_all_defaults().

To ensure defaults instances are still properly removed on deinit, the
inverse operation is performed : refcount is decremented by one on every
defaults sections via proxy_unref_all_defaults().

The original behavior can still be used by using the new global keyword
tune.defaults.purge. This is useful for users using configuration with
large number of defaults and not interested in dynamic backends
creation.
2026-01-22 18:06:42 +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 MEDIUM: proxy: implement persistent named defaults 2026-01-22 18:06:42 +01:00
examples MINOR: mailers: warn if mailers are configured but not actually used 2025-06-27 16:41:18 +02:00
include MEDIUM: proxy: implement persistent named defaults 2026-01-22 18:06:42 +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: proxy: implement persistent named defaults 2026-01-22 18:06:42 +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.