Changes since version 1.4-dev5 :

Cyril Bonté (2):
      [BUG] appsession: possible memory leak in case of out of memory condition
      [MINOR] config: don't accept 'appsession' in defaults section

Emeric Brun (8):
      [BUILD] warning in stream_interface.h
      [BUILD] warning ultoa_r returns char *
      [MINOR] Add function to parse a size in configuration
      [MEDIUM] Add stick table (persistence) management functions and types
      [MEDIUM] Add pattern fetch management types and functions
      [MEDIUM] Add src dst and dport pattern fetches.
      [MEDIUM] Add stick table configuration and init.
      [MEDIUM] Add stick and store rules analysers.

HervĂŠ COMMOWICK (1):
      [MINOR] add option "mysql-check" to use MySQL health checks

Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki (14):
      [MINOR] hana: only report stats if it is enabled
      [MINOR] stats: add "a link" & "a href" for sockets
      [MINOR]: stats: add show-legends to report additional informations
      [MEDIUM] default-server support
      [BUG]: add 'observer', 'on-error', 'error-limit' to supported options list
      [MINOR] stats: add href to tracked server
      [BUG] stats: show UP/DOWN status also in tracking servers
      [DOC] Restore ability to search a keyword at the beginning of a line
      [BUG] stats: cookie should be reported under backend not under proxy
      [BUG] cfgparser/stats: fix error message
      [BUG] health checks: fix requeued message
      [OPTIM] remove SSP_O_VIA and SSP_O_STATUS
      [BUG] checks: fix newline termination
      [MINOR] acl: add fe_id/so_id to match frontend's and socket's id

Willy Tarreau (43):
      [BUG] http: disable auto-closing during chunk analysis
      [BUG] http: fix hopefully last closing issue on data forwarding
      [DEBUG] add an http_silent_debug function to debug HTTP states
      [MAJOR] http: fix again the forward analysers
      [BUG] http_process_res_common() must not skip the forward analyser
      [BUG] http: some possible missed close remain in the forward chain
      [BUG] http: redirect needed to be updated after recent changes
      [BUG] http: don't set no-linger on response in case of forced close
      [MEDIUM] http: restore the original behaviour of option httpclose
      [TESTS] add a file to test various connection modes
      [BUG] http: check options before the connection header
      [MAJOR] session: fix the order by which the analysers are run
      [MEDIUM] session: also consider request analysers added during response
      [MEDIUM] http: make safer use of the DONT_READ and AUTO_CLOSE flags
      [BUG] http: memory leak with captures when using keep-alive
      [BUG] http: fix for capture memory leak was incorrect
      [MINOR] http redirect: use proper call to return last response
      [MEDIUM] http: wait for some flush of the response buffer before a new request
      [MEDIUM] session: limit the number of analyser loops
      [RELEASE] Released version 1.4-dev6
      [BUG] appsession's sessid must be reset at end of transaction
      [BUILD] appsession did not build anymore under gcc-2.95
      [BUG] server redirection used an uninitialized string.
      [MEDIUM] http: fix handling of message pointers
      [MINOR] http: fix double slash prefix with server redirect
      [MINOR] http redirect: add the ability to append a '/' to the URL
      [BUG] stream_interface: fix retnclose and remove cond_close
      [MINOR] http redirect: don't explicitly state keep-alive on 1.1
      [MINOR] http: move appsession 'sessid' from session to http_txn
      [OPTIM] reorder http_txn to optimize cache lines placement
      [MINOR] http: differentiate waiting for new request and waiting for a complete requst
      [MINOR] http: add a separate "http-keep-alive" timeout
      [MINOR] config: remove undocumented and buggy 'timeout appsession'
      [DOC] fix various too large lines
      [DOC] remove several trailing spaces
      [DOC] add the doc about stickiness
      [BUILD] remove a warning in standard.h on AIX
      [BUG] checks: chars are unsigned on AIX, check was always true
      [CLEANUP] stream_sock: MSG_NOSIGNAL is only for send(), not recv()
      [BUG] check: we must not check for error before reading a response
      [BUG] buffers: remove remains of wrong obsolete length check
      [OPTIM] stream_sock: don't shutdown(write) when the socket is in error
      [BUG] http: don't count req errors on client resets or t/o during keep-alive