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Load Balancing VMware Horizon's UDP and TCP Traffic: A Guide with HAProxy

If you’ve worked with VMware Horizon (now Omnissa Horizon), you know it’s a common way for enterprise users to connect to remote desktops. But for IT engineers and DevOps teams? It’s a whole different story. Horizon’s custom protocols and complex connection requirements make load balancing a bit tricky. With its recent sale to Omnissa, the technology hasn’t changed—but neither has the headache of managing it effectively.

Protecting against Next.js middleware vulnerability CVE-2025-29927 with HAProxy

A recently discovered security vulnerability requires attention from development teams using Next.js in production environments. Let’s discuss the vulnerability and look at a practical HAProxy solution that you can implement with just a single line of configuration. These solutions are easy, safe, and incredibly fast to deploy while planning more comprehensive framework updates.

Announcing HAProxy ALOHA 17.0

HAProxy ALOHA 17.0 is now available, delivering powerful new features that improve UDP load balancing, simplify network management, and enhance performance. With this release, we’re introducing the new UDP Module and extending network management to the Data Plane API, a new API-based approach to network configuration. The Network Management CLI is enhanced with exit status codes and contextual help.

Announcing HAProxy Enterprise 3.1

HAProxy Enterprise 3.1 is now available! With every release, HAProxy Enterprise redefines what to expect from a software load balancer, and 3.1 is no different. With a brand new ADFSPIP Module and enhancements to the HAProxy Enterprise UDP Module, CAPTCHA Module, Global Profiling Engine, Stream Processing Offloading Engine, and Route Health Injection Module, this version improves HAProxy Enterprise's legendary performance and provides even greater flexibility and security.