Bug #12898
closed
Update HAProxy Backend to Latest LTS
Added by Kris Phillips about 2 years ago.
Updated about 2 years ago.
Affected Architecture:
All
Description
The version of HAProxy in stable is very old and due to be unsupported at the end of the year. We should really move to the 2.4 branch for LTS support on the latest LTS.
This version is already in Freshports:
https://www.freshports.org/net/haproxy
- Assignee set to Viktor Gurov
Kris Phillips wrote in #note-2:
Viktor Gurov wrote in #note-1:
HAProxy-devel is already 2.4 (2026-Q2 (LTS))
HAProxy-stable update to 2.2 version (2025-Q2 (LTS)):
https://gitlab.netgate.com/pfSense/pfSense/-/merge_requests/655
https://gitlab.netgate.com/pfSense/FreeBSD-ports/-/merge_requests/194
Why are we moving to 2.2 for the stable release? 2.4 is the current LTS and 2.6 is set to be the next LTS in Q2 of this year. Even 2.2 is quite old at this point. I would say we should move the -devel branch to 2.6 to stay in line with the next LTS and move stable to the current LTS of 2.4.
The -devel branch means the development state only for the package, but not for the haproxy binary.
The current -devel branch uses haproxy 2.4.9, while non-devel can use 2.2.x.
- Status changed from New to Pull Request Review
They are still putting out 2.2.x releases and it's a smaller and therefore safer jump. If that is OK then after a while we can always bump both up again to later versions.
- Status changed from Pull Request Review to Feedback
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
- Status changed from Feedback to Resolved
Installed HAproxy on the:
2.7.0-DEVELOPMENT (amd64)
built on Fri Mar 11 06:21:33 UTC 2022
FreeBSD 12.3-STABLE
[2.7.0-DEVELOPMENT][admin@pftest2.ipbgd.office]/root: pkg version | grep haproxy
haproxy22-2.2.19 =
pfSense-pkg-haproxy-0.61_5 =
I am marking this ticket resolved.
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