Changelog
Release history for Fluxheim. Full release notes are on GitHub Releases.
Released June 23, 2026
- +Moves plaintext upstream HTTP/2 forwarding into the native HTTP/1 proxy path for h2c/prior-knowledge origins
- +Adds pooled native upstream H2 connections with bounded stream capacity and safe-method retry after pre-response pooled-handle failure
- +Supports TLS ALPN-negotiated upstream HTTP/2 with existing upstream TLS/SNI/CA policy
- +Adds explicit, disabled-by-default h2c Upgrade fallback for plaintext
http1-and-http2origins - +Bounds native upstream H2 handshakes, stream-slot waits, keepalive pings, and setup timeouts
Released June 23, 2026
- +Moves inherited global/vhost compression policy into the native HTTP/1 proxy and route proxy
- +Merges root/vhost/route header-policy inheritance into native route proxy construction
- +Moves safe forwarded-client-IP ownership, trusted-chain append, regex rewrites, ACLs, concurrency, and rate limits onto the native path
- +Adds native ACME HTTP-01 challenge serving, traffic mirroring, auth-request, and route-scoped gRPC validation
Released June 21, 2026
- +Moves route-level native response compression onto the HTTP/1 route proxy through
fluxheim-compression - +Moves
proxy.error_pagesonto native HTTP/1 proxy fallback pages backed byfluxheim-web
Released June 21, 2026
- +Adds native HTTP/1 route static-web serving backed by
fluxheim-web - +Adds route request-header mutation, response rewrites, static upstream round-robin, and static upstream weights to the native route proxy
Released June 21, 2026
- +Adds native route redirect actions with safe
{uri},{path}, and{query}expansion - +Moves route body limits and response-header overlays onto native HTTP/1 route proxy responses
Released June 21, 2026
- +Adds native HTTP/1 route-proxy execution for exact, prefix, and fallback routes with method filters and safe rewrite handling
- +Adds
native-http1-proxy-candidaterows to runtime cutover evidence so remaining compatibility blockers are explicit
Released June 20, 2026
- +Promotes the native HTTP/2 downstream safety preview to cutover-ready after focused parity tests
- +Makes the representative native runtime cutover report blocker-free for simple HTTP/1, HTTP/2, admin, metrics, stream, and UDP configurations
Released June 20, 2026
- +Cuts stream and UDP proxy service startup over to Fluxheim-owned native task boundaries
- +Adds cancellation-safe native shutdown waiting and abort-on-cancel background task joins
Released June 20, 2026
- +Starts native admin and metrics serving behind Fluxheim-owned server primitives
- +Hardens native background handles so dropped critical handles abort instead of silently detaching tasks
Released June 20, 2026
- +Adds
NativeBackgroundSupervisorfor Fluxheim-owned background task orchestration - +Adds critical task watchdog support and hardens shutdown delivery edge cases
Released June 20, 2026
- +Adds native runtime cutover evidence gates and
fluxheim-config-tester --runtime-cutover - +Moves remaining Pingora exception targets to a documented multi-release exit plan while keeping policy gates active
Released June 19, 2026
- +Adds explicit
pingora-compatfeature gating for the remaining compatibility runtime boundary - +Moves rustls/OpenSSL downstream TLS SNI, certificate storage, reload, PEM parsing, and native HTTP/1 TLS listener previews into Fluxheim-owned code
Released June 19, 2026
- +Continues the Pingora-exit slice by shrinking the remaining root compatibility surface for proxy, cache, and runtime paths
- +Splits native health checks into HTTP/gRPC, database, exec, and TCP/TLS transport helper modules with stricter probe bounds
Released June 19, 2026
- +Removes the direct Pingora dependency from
fluxheim-load-balancer - +Adds Fluxheim-owned bounded HTTP/1.1 and h2 gRPC active health checks with policy coverage to prevent Pingora reintroduction
Released June 19, 2026
- +Adds native HTTP/1.1 proxy cutover readiness planning on
ServerPlan - +Fails closed for compatibility-only proxy features such as auth subrequests, mirroring, redirects, strip/rewrite transforms, and advanced load-balancer policy
Released June 18, 2026
- +Adds a Fluxheim-owned native HTTP/2 upstream client primitive with bounded headers, bodies, trailers, and deadlines
- +Adds h2 client/server tests for trailer preservation, oversized responses, stream resets, and flow-control timeout behaviour
Released June 18, 2026
- +Adds native rustls/OpenSSL upstream TLS and mTLS support to the staged HTTP/1.1 proxy path
- +Adds ordered static upstream failover for safe methods plus bounded no-follow TLS material reads and hostname-policy coverage
Released June 18, 2026
- +Adds bounded native HTTP/1.1 upstream connection pooling for safe content-length and no-body origin responses
- +Adds keepalive pool sizing, upstream idle timeout handling, conservative no-reuse guards, and real socket reuse/expiry tests
Released June 18, 2026
- +Adds reusable native HTTP/2 connection primitives with bounded request-body collection and response trailer support
- +Hardens HTTP/2 response lifetime, handler timeout, DATA capacity handling, prohibited headers/trailers, and request-body zeroization
Released June 17, 2026
- +Adds the native HTTP/2 runtime preview gate and h2 stack probe with bounded headers, URI, body, streams, frames, buffers, and rapid reset policy
- +Adds HTTP/2 preview smoke coverage and extends native HTTP/1 behaviour coverage for HTTP/1.0 keep-alive/close semantics
Released June 17, 2026
- +Adds the bounded native HTTP/1 upstream client and staged native proxy handler for plain static upstreams
- +Adds native proxy candidate inventory, Fluxheim-owned proxy headers, privacy-mode behaviour, and fail-closed eligibility for unsupported policy layers
Released June 17, 2026
- +Adds the native HTTP/1 connection/listener runtime over Tokio IO and staged native static-file adapter
- +Maps server limits into native HTTP/1 policy and adds socket tests for keep-alive, body framing, shutdown, static files, slow clients, and connection caps
Released June 17, 2026
- +Adds Fluxheim-owned HTTP/1.0/HTTP/1.1 request-head parsing, request-body framing classification, Host validation, persistence handling, and chunked decoding
- +Adds downstream HTTP/1 policy defaults and hardened native parser boundaries for future runtime cutover work
Released June 16, 2026
- +Moves server bootstrap planning, listener inventory, service intent, background-task intent, HTTP/2 policy, PROXY protocol policy, and private Unix socket planning into
fluxheim-server - +Keeps the current runtime as an explicit compatibility adapter while native server/listener work continues
Released June 16, 2026
- +Adds
fluxheim-tlsas the downstream TLS listener planning and provider-policy boundary - +Moves TLS listener plans, SNI selection, wildcard matching, ALPN/cipher/curve policy, and rustls/OpenSSL provider checks into the TLS crate
- +Hardens TLS feature gates, SNI fallback behaviour, PROXY v2 signature validation, and trusted PROXY CIDR validation
Released June 16, 2026
- +Adds the first dedicated
fluxheim-headersboundary for header policy helpers - +Moves rewrite algorithms, forwarded-header handling, hop-by-hop request policy, and repeated-header joining into Fluxheim-owned header code
- +Moves stream PROXY protocol byte parsers into
fluxheim-protocoland tightens privacy/proxy CIDR validation
Released June 15, 2026
- +Moves shared background task lifecycle primitives into
fluxheim-runtime - +Moves OTLP metrics export, ACME certificate reload control, admin snapshot validation state, and rollback decisions into Fluxheim-owned runtime/snapshot code
- +Hardens the local certificate reload control socket and private backend filtering
Released June 15, 2026
- +Adds
fluxheim-streamas the internal TCP stream proxy runtime boundary - +Moves stream upstream selection, PROXY protocol parsing/writing, source policy, DNS-rebinding guards, byte accounting, and timeout handling behind Fluxheim-owned stream code
Released June 14, 2026
- +Moves cache key identity, object envelopes, disk index management, storage-bin helpers, tag handling, and cache storage interfaces into
fluxheim-cache - +Adds tests and release gates that enforce Pingora dependency removal targets during normal
cargo testruns
Released June 14, 2026
- +Starts the first concrete 1.6.x implementation release after the foundation tag
- +Removes
pingora-load-balancing/pingora-ketamafrom full and load-balancer image profiles, restores 1.6 load-balancer image builds, and moves TCP health checks plus request-key extraction behind Fluxheim-owned boundaries
Released June 14, 2026
- +Started the
1.6.xPingora-exit foundation line while keeping runtime behaviour unchanged - +Added modularity policy validation, legacy oversized-file exceptions, runtime baseline capture, and performance evidence capture
- +Added release-gated Pingora dependency exceptions, runtime parity fixtures, and the extraction dependency graph
- +Added initial
fluxheim-runtimeandfluxheim-serverboundary crates plus typed policy proof primitives
June 2026
- +Introduced the enterprise HTTP/TCP load-balancer line with focused binaries, images, runtime member and weight controls, persistence, health checks, queueing, and migration docs
- +Expanded Fluxheim-owned runtime boundaries across HTTP, stream proxying, load balancing, background tasks, cache interfaces, observability, config, and shared crates
- +Added managed affinity cookies, service discovery, active and protocol-aware health checks, restart-persistent state, and runtime backend mutation controls
- +Added UDP beta guardrails, cache origin-protection budgets, ARM/Linux and macOS developer assets, config tester archives, and broad proxy/cache/PHP-FPM security hardening
Released May 25, 2026
- +Production proxy parity release with trusted-proxy-aware ACLs, local rate limits, concurrency limits, bounded queues, and edge policy metrics
- +gzip, Zstandard, and Brotli response compression with vhost/route overrides and cache-safe
Varyhandling - +Load-balancer resilience, TLS/protocol parity, PROXY protocol v1/v2, upstream mTLS, HTTP/2 controls, and gRPC pass-through
Released May 23, 2026
- +Managed php-fpm process supervision under the existing
php-fpmfeature, while external php-fpm remains the default - +Respawn watchdog, bounded backoff, SIGTERM-before-SIGKILL teardown, sanitized environment, and private generated pool state
- +Auditable
[vhosts.php.fpm] mode = "managed"config surface for private sockets, worker counts, process manager modes, slowlog, temp paths, and pool files - +Expanded WordPress PHP-FPM smoke coverage across external, managed-static, managed-dynamic, managed-ondemand, and managed-respawn modes
- +Recommended Wolfi PHP image now installs
php-8.5-fpmand uses managed php-fpm container config by default
Released May 23, 2026
- +FIPS/ISO-required configs fail closed for unsupported internal cryptography, managed ACME, and local cache encryption
- +Provider-backed admin auth, numeric-local-loopback OTLP exception, and OpenBao Transit cache encryption evidence boundary
- +New compliance evidence template and release evidence package sections for regulated reviews
Released May 22, 2026
- +rustls/AWS-LC FIPS-capable candidate backend through
tls-rustls-fips - +FIPS and ISO/IEC 19790 rustls profile aliases, config examples, diagnostics, and validation script
Released May 21, 2026
- +OpenSSL FIPS/ISO-capable TLS validation through
tls-openssl-fipsand provider diagnostics - +FIPS deployment guide, config fixtures, validation script, release evidence, and OWASP Top 10 2025 baseline
Released May 20, 2026
- +PHP-FPM keepalive pooling, upstream retry/failover, and request body disk spooling for safer operation under load
- +WordPress routing/cache preset plus PHP application recipes for common framework and forum deployments
- +PHP metrics and OpenTelemetry attributes, X-Accel-Redirect, X-Sendfile, and X-Accel-Expires support
Released May 18, 2026
- +
fluxheim-acmestandalone companion binary for certificate renewal, status, and ACME reload socket signalling - +
fluxheim-config-testerstandalone binary for validating configs in CI and container entrypoints without starting the gateway - +ACME reload Unix socket — live certificate pickup without gateway restart
- +New
profile-phpbuild profile —proxy + web + php-fpm + tls-rustls + security - +Security hardening improvements across the request pipeline
Released May 16, 2026
- +Opt-in PHP-FPM FastCGI bridge for WordPress-style front-controller applications
- +Strict script resolution and bounded FastCGI request/response handling
- +Browser-validated WordPress proxy/PHP cookie compatibility fixes
- +PHP-FPM can serve static assets from same root while routing PHP to FPM
- +New
php-fpmCargo feature (impliesproxyandweb)
Released May 14, 2026
- +Shared ingress/TLS feature-graph split — focused cache and proxy profiles are now TLS/ACME-capable
- +New
profile-cache-edge— cache without static web module - +New
profile-proxy-edge— focused reverse proxy edge - +Official focused container images for cache and proxy profiles
May 2026
v1.2.6
- + Fixed-slice range-cache composition: open-ended, suffix, and multipart byte-range
- + Opt-in
range_slice_cache = trueextends bounded range caching
v1.2.5
- + Bounded range caching for large proxy-cache objects
v1.2.4
- + Distributed cache peer fill with safe
only-if-cachedpeer fetches - + Bounded fail-open/fail-closed peer fill behaviour
v1.2.3
- + Optional disk cache encryption with local keys or OpenBao Transit
v1.2.2
- + Storage-bin disk cache backend for larger high-churn caches
v1.2.1
- + Opt-in local static-file caching via
local_static = true
v1.2.0 — Cache & Observability Baseline
- + Vhost/route cache policy, memory/disk/tiered cache backends
- + Cache locks, stale serving, purge and status endpoints
- + Cache warm, key assertion, and lookup tooling
- + Prometheus metrics listener
- + OpenTelemetry export profiles (metrics + tracing)
2026
- + TLS policy profiles
- + Multi-certificate rustls SNI
- + Managed ACME certificate issuance and renewal
- + EAB-capable issuers (Actalis and others)
- + File-backed TLS secrets
- +
acme-initguided issuer bootstrap tool - + Packaged certificate renewal systemd units
2026
- + Virtual host routing by Host header with default-vhost fallback
- + Route-level static, proxy, and redirect actions
- + Static file serving with MIME detection, ETag, conditional 304, byte ranges
- + Whole-vhost and route-level reverse proxying
- + rustls TLS with SNI, static/bought certificate support
- + Safe ACME HTTP-01 challenge forwarding
- + Admin control-plane with bearer-token auth and brute-force throttling
- + Secure request/response header policy
- + Optional HTTP → HTTPS redirect with safe Host validation
- + Systemd unit, RPM packaging
- + Rootless Podman container images
What's Next
1.6.30 continues the native proxy cutover by adding pooled upstream HTTP/2, TLS ALPN H2 origins, and explicit h2c fallback controls. Remaining parity work stays documented through the source notes and release gates.
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