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Willy Tarreau bff33b4e32 DEV: patchbot: update: support replacing a whole note blob (setnotes)
Notes are append-only on the wire, which makes concurrent edits
conflict-free but leaves no way to revise or clean up a note from the
page: fixing a note requires a hand-edit of the storage file. This adds
the replacement directive that the design had reserved:

    <cid> setnotes <hash> <replacement text>

Unlike the other directives, a replacement must carry a token of the
base it was computed from, or it could silently destroy a concurrent
update (one reviewer's append landing between another's read and
replace). The token is the SDBM hash (8 hex chars) of the note blob
the client based its edit on: the server only applies the replacement
if it still matches the stored blob (empty-string hash for a commit
without notes). On mismatch the directive is dropped, the line is left
exactly as found, and a "conflict <cid>" line is emitted in the
response before the resulting lines so that the client can point the
user at what needs manual reconciliation; other directives from the
same POST are still applied, and nothing is written nor committed when
everything conflicted. SDBM is trivially computed on both sides (a
concurrency token, not a security feature, and JS crypto is unavailable
on plain http anyway), and its small multiplier keeps the whole hash
computation exact in awk's double-precision arithmetic, which is
precisely why it was chosen over wider-multiplier hashes.

An empty replacement deletes the notes (and the line if no state is
left), finally allowing obsolete notes to be removed without editing
the file by hand. Replacements are capped to 4000 chars instead of the
500-char append cap, since a coalesced blob may legitimately have grown
beyond a single addition.
2026-07-07 14:45:32 +02:00
.github CI: github: remove OpenTracing leftovers 2026-06-26 16:45:38 +02:00
addons MAJOR: ot: remove deprecated OpenTracing support 2026-06-26 11:27:07 +02:00
admin CLEANUP: admin/halog: improve handling of memory allocation errors 2026-05-31 10:30:00 +02:00
dev DEV: patchbot: update: support replacing a whole note blob (setnotes) 2026-07-07 14:45:32 +02:00
doc MEDIUM: quic: remove deprecated keywords 2026-07-06 17:19:24 +02:00
examples EXAMPLES: lua/acme: fix acme-gandi-livedns.lua configuration example 2026-06-15 13:50:22 +02:00
include BUG/MEDIUM: mux_quic: complete stream shutdown for read channel 2026-07-06 10:19:12 +02:00
reg-tests REGTESTS: server: add test for 'set server name' CLI command 2026-07-01 09:32:30 +02:00
scripts MAJOR: ot: remove deprecated OpenTracing support 2026-06-26 11:27:07 +02:00
src MEDIUM: quic: remove deprecated keywords 2026-07-06 17:19:24 +02:00
tests TESTS: quic: add unit-tests for QUIC TX part 2025-09-08 14:49:03 +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 CLEANUP: tree-wide: fix typos in user-invisible files 2026-05-13 17:03:48 +02:00
BSDmakefile BUILD: makefile: commit the tiny FreeBSD makefile stub 2023-05-24 17:17:36 +02:00
CHANGELOG [RELEASE] Released version 3.5-dev1 2026-06-25 16:53:19 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2025-04-02 11:12:20 +02:00
INSTALL BUILD: makefile: add a new generic target "tiny" 2026-07-03 16:33:27 +02:00
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 BUILD: makefile: add a new generic target "tiny" 2026-07-03 16:33:27 +02:00
README.md CI: github: replace cirrus by a vmactions/freebsd-vm job 2026-06-03 11:20:31 +02:00
SUBVERS BUILD: use format tags in VERDATE and SUBVERS files 2013-12-10 11:22:49 +01:00
VERDATE [RELEASE] Released version 3.5-dev1 2026-06-25 16:53:19 +02:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 3.5-dev1 2026-06-25 16:53:19 +02:00

HAProxy

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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.