2.6 is the next LTS version of HAProxy. it's been released on 2022-05-31 and on it's current 2.6.6 it can be useful in several aspects:
- OpenSSL 3.0 support
- HTTP/3 over QUIC support (it can't be enabled right away due to lack of QUIC support in current OpenSSL versions)
- tcp-request connection set-var
- set-var-fmt action added (uses the logging message string format to set variable values)
- The new global directive close-spread-time lets you close idle connections gradually over a period of time, rather than all at once.
We are currently running HAProxy 2.6.6 in the following hosts:
- deployment-cache-text07
- deployment-cache-upload07
- cp1075
- cp2027
- cp3050
- cp3051
- cp3052
- cp5007