Crossroads Load Balancer 2.74 - Changelog

What's new in Crossroads Load Balancer 2.74:

April 7th, 2011

· Promoted to STABLE. A word of warning: DOS protection under high load may be unstable, currently under investigation.

What's new in Crossroads Load Balancer 2.68:

September 28th, 2010

· The mutex code has been rewritten to greatly speed up the handling of mutexes. Logging (verbose or debugging) has been rewritten for type safety.
· A bug involving incorrect processing of HTTP messages was fixed.
· Several optimizations were added.
· The startscript xrctl was enhanced.

What's new in Crossroads Load Balancer 2.62:

January 11th, 2010

· Fixed possible coredump cause in Balancer::serve(), which might explain some troubles during high load (many really concurrent requests).

What's new in Crossroads Load Balancer 2.59:

October 14th, 2009

· Bugfix in logger handling of xrctl, read http://xrforum.org/viewtopic.php?t=495 if you fancy. Thanks Hobbit for reporting this!

What's new in Crossroads Load Balancer 2.44:

February 13th, 2009

· This version introduces the ability to rewrite Host: headers in HTTP mode with the hostname of a back end to which Crossroads is dispatching.
· The Activity overview of the Web interface now shows the number of used file descriptors and the maximum limit.
· A number of bugs were fixed and code parts were slightly reworked.

What's new in Crossroads Load Balancer 2.41:

January 5th, 2009

· This version fixes some smaller bugs or omissions, and further improves the management Web interface.

What's new in Crossroads Load Balancer 2.36:

November 12th, 2008

· The balancer control script xrctl was rewritten to use an XML configuration file describing all services.
· The management Web interface is much richer, allowing modification of more properties of the balancer and allowing addition or deletion of back ends.
· DOS protection was extended to delay or block client IP addresses that exceed a connection threshold.
· Resolved back end host names are cached to ease the load on DNS.
· Back end verification supports HTTP GET or TCP connects to ports other than the back end itself.
· Portability issues for gcc 3.4, Solaris, and 64-bit systems were solved.

What's new in Crossroads Load Balancer 2.30:

November 3rd, 2008

· New features include DOS protection capabilities, bugfixes, a "weighted-load" dispatching mode, a richer management Web interface, and a rewritten, optimized HTTP dispatcher which runs 40-50% faster.

What's new in Crossroads Load Balancer 2.18:

October 8th, 2008

· This is the next stable version.
· It introduces much more configurability through the management Web interface.
· Furthermore, portability issues for older MacOS versions were solved.
· Crossroads users are encouraged to sign up at the forum at http://xrforum.org.

What's new in Crossroads Load Balancer 2.12:

September 12th, 2008

· Compilation compatibilities with Solaris and gcc 3.x were fixed.
· A Web interface for status monitoring and for the modification of key parameters was implemented.
· Reverse-proxy functionality was implemented, so that in HTTP mode, Crossroads can address several back end pools to balance Web sites by their host name.