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A decision-making framework breaking down the strengths, weaknesses and ideal use cases to help users choose the proper protocol for their systems. Initially published in The New Stack We often think of protocol choice as a purely technical decision, but it's a critical factor in the user experience and how your application is consumed. This is a high-impact business decision, making it crucial for the technical team to first understand the business situation and priorities.

Last week, the cloud-native jamboree that is KubeCon descended on London, UK (my home city), and HAProxy Technologies set out to be the life of the party. This year’s event was our biggest yet, so we brought our A-game – with a huge booth, a lot to show off, and thousands and thousands of T-shirts to fold and give away.

If you’ve worked with VMware Horizon (now Omnissa Horizon), you know it’s a common way for enterprise users to connect to remote desktops. But for IT engineers and DevOps teams? It’s a whole different story. Horizon’s custom protocols and complex connection requirements make load balancing a bit tricky. With its recent sale to Omnissa, the technology hasn’t changed—but neither has the headache of managing it effectively.

A recently discovered security vulnerability requires attention from development teams using Next.js in production environments. Let’s discuss the vulnerability and look at a practical HAProxy solution that you can implement with just a single line of configuration. These solutions are easy, safe, and incredibly fast to deploy while planning more comprehensive framework updates.

HAProxy ALOHA 17.0 is now available, delivering powerful new features that improve UDP load balancing, simplify network management, and enhance performance. With this release, we’re introducing the new UDP Module and extending network management to the Data Plane API, a new API-based approach to network configuration. The Network Management CLI is enhanced with exit status codes and contextual help.

HAProxy Enterprise 3.1 is now available! With every release, HAProxy Enterprise redefines what to expect from a software load balancer, and 3.1 is no different. With a brand new ADFSPIP Module and enhancements to the HAProxy Enterprise UDP Module, CAPTCHA Module, Global Profiling Engine, Stream Processing Offloading Engine, and Route Health Injection Module, this version improves HAProxy Enterprise's legendary performance and provides even greater flexibility and security.

HAProxy 3.1 makes significant gains in performance and usability, with better capabilities for troubleshooting. In this blog post, we list all of the new features and changes. All these improvements (and more) will be incorporated into HAProxy Enterprise 3.1, releasing Spring 2025. Watch our webinar HAProxy 3.1: Feature Roundup and listen to our experts as we examine new features and updates and participate in the live Q&A.

We’re excited to announce the release of HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller 3.1! This release introduces expanded support for TCP custom resource definitions (CRDs), runtime improvements, and parallelization when writing maps.

We’re excited to introduce HAProxy Enterprise Kubernetes Ingress Controller 3.0, packed with powerful new features that bring greater control, performance, and observability to managing Kubernetes environments. This release delivers TCP custom resource definitions (CRDs) to improve mapping, structuring, and validation for TCP services within HAProxy Enterprise Kubernetes Ingress Controller.