Changes since version 1.4-dev3 :

Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki (17):
      [DOC] add missing rate_lim and rate_max
      [MAJOR] struct chunk rework
      [MEDIUM] Health check reporting code rework + health logging, v3
      [BUG] check if rise/fall has an argument and it is > 0
      [MINOR] health checks logging unification
      [MINOR] add "description", "node" and show-node"/"show-desc", remove "node-name", v2
      [MINOR] Allow dots in show-node & add "white-space: nowrap" in th.pxname.
      [DOC] Add information about http://haproxy.1wt.eu/contrib.html
      [MINOR] Introduce include/types/counters.h
      [CLEANUP] Move counters to dedicated structures
      [MINOR] Add "clear counters" to clear statistics counters
      [MEDIUM] Collect & provide separate statistics for sockets, v2
      [BUG] Fix NULL pointer dereference in stats_check_uri_auth(), v2
      [MINOR] acl: don't report valid acls as potential mistakes
      [MINOR] Add cut_crlf(), ltrim(), rtrim() and alltrim()
      [MINOR] Add chunk_htmlencode and chunk_asciiencode
      [MINOR] Capture & display more data from health checks, v2

SaVaGe (1):
      [BUG] task.c: don't assing last_timer to node-less entries

Willy Tarreau (42):
      [BUG] http stats: large outputs sometimes got some parts chopped off
      [MINOR] backend: export some functions to recount servers
      [MINOR] backend: uninline some LB functions
      [MINOR] include time.h from freq_ctr.h as is uses "now".
      [CLEANUP] backend: move LB algos to individual files
      [MINOR] lb_map: reorder code in order to ease integration of new hash functions
      [CLEANUP] proxy: move last lb-specific bits to their respective files
      [MINOR] backend: separate declarations of LB algos from their lookup method
      [MINOR] backend: reorganize the LB algorithm selection
      [MEDIUM] backend: introduce the "static-rr" LB algorithm
      [MINOR] report list of supported pollers with -vv
      [DOC] log-health-checks is an option, not a directive
      [MEDIUM] new option "independant-streams" to stop updating read timeout on writes
      [BUG] stats: don't call buffer_shutw(), but ->shutw() instead
      [MINOR] stats: strip CR and LF from the input command line
      [BUG] don't refresh timeouts late after detected activity
      [MINOR] stats_dump_errors_to_buffer: use buffer_feed_chunk()
      [MINOR] stats_dump_sess_to_buffer: use buffer_feed_chunk()
      [MINOR] stats: make stats_dump_raw_to_buffer() use buffer_feed_chunk
      [MEDIUM] stats: don't use s->ana_state anymore
      [MINOR] remove now obsolete ana_state from the session struct
      [MEDIUM] stats: make HTTP stats use an I/O handler
      [MEDIUM] stream_int: adjust WAIT_ROOM handling
      [BUG] config: look for ID conflicts in all sockets, not only last ones.
      [MINOR] config: reference file and line with any listener/proxy/server declaration
      [MINOR] config: report places of duplicate names or IDs
      [MINOR] config: add pointer to file name in block/redirect/use_backend/monitor rules
      [MINOR] tools: add a new get_next_id() function
      [MEDIUM] config: automatically find unused IDs for proxies, servers and listeners
      [OPTIM] counters: move some max numbers to the counters struct
      [BUG] counters: fix segfault on missing counters for a listener
      [MEDIUM] backend: implement consistent hashing variation
      [MINOR] acl: add fe_conn, be_conn, queue, avg_queue
      [MINOR] stats: use 'clear counters all' to clear all values
      [MEDIUM] add access restrictions to the stats socket
      [MINOR] buffers: add buffer_feed2() and make buffer_feed() measure string length
      [MINOR] proxy: provide function to retrieve backend/server pointers
      [MINOR] add the "initial weight" to the server struct.
      [MEDIUM] stats: add the "get weight" command to report a server's weight
      [MEDIUM] stats: add the "set weight" command
      [BUILD] add a 'make tags' target
      [MINOR] stats: add support for numeric IDs in set weight/get weight