RHEL 8 provides HAProxy 1.8 LTS. This version was first released in November 2017 and minor versions provide bug and security fixes only (with limited feature backports downstream, if any). HAProxy 2.0 is the latest released TLS version. HAProxy 2.0 includes many new features and improvements such as end-to-end HTTP/2, gRPC, enhanced TCP Fast Open (TFO), tunning for optimal performance, and improved HTTP/2 support. Red Hat OpenStack Platform Octavia (load balancer as a service) roadmap includes adding support to new features and performance improvements only available starting in HAProxy 2.0. Other Red Hat layered products also require a more recent HAProxy version. In RHEL 8, through a new technology called Modularity, we could offer alternate versions in the same repository (AppStream). This is different from RHSCL. In RHSCL, apps are installed in a non-standard location, the name of the SCL must be unique and the collection must be enabled for every process that wishes to use it. Modularity seems like a new handy vehicle to add support to newer major software versions that were not possible prior to RHEL 8. This Bugzilla is to request the availability of the most recent HAProxy LTS version in RHEL 8 and follow its LTS release cadence, i.e. provide HAProxy 2.2 LTS once it is released upstream. Support of version 2.0 could be ceased immediately after to ease on maintenance resources of multiple versions. HAProxy 1.8 support in AppStream would remain unchanged.
(In reply to Carlos Goncalves from comment #0) > In RHEL 8, through a new technology called Modularity, we could offer > alternate versions in the same repository (AppStream). This is different > from RHSCL. In RHSCL, apps are installed in a non-standard location, the > name of the SCL must be unique and the collection must be enabled for every > process that wishes to use it. Modularity seems like a new handy vehicle to > add support to newer major software versions that were not possible prior to > RHEL 8. Bandwidth is the issue. I'd love to introduce haproxy 2.x to RHEL8 AppStream, but that requires development and QA support. We're already stretched thin. Not likely to happen.
Closing this bz CANTFIX as there are currently no plans for including this version of HAProxy in RHEL 8.