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The continuous shift toward containerization means businesses are migrating more complex, mission-critical workloads to Kubernetes. This trend necessitates traffic management solutions that support diverse protocols (such as TCP, UDP, HTTP, and gRPC) and sophisticated organizational architectures, while delivering exceptional performance and efficiency.

HAProxy ALOHA 17.5 is now available. This release delivers powerful new capabilities that improve security and performance — while future-proofing HAProxy ALOHA to enable richer features and advanced functionality. With this release, we’re introducing HTTPS health checks to Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB), new partitioning for larger firmware updates, enhanced web application firewall (WAF) functionality, and our new Threat Detection Engine (TDE).

HAProxy Enterprise 3.2 is a pivotal release that reinforces the product’s identity as both the world’s fastest software load balancer and a sophisticated edge security layer. This release brings next-generation security intelligence, extends its industry-leading performance, and expands the native routing and integration capabilities in HAProxy Enterprise.

They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas—but this year, we couldn’t keep the latest in cybersecurity to ourselves. Though it wasn’t our first time attending Black Hat USA (we’re no strangers to the neon lights and desert heat), our anticipation was high when we landed at LAS. We couldn’t wait to get to the show, connect with security professionals, learn more about where the industry is headed, and put our own solutions to the test.

Critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint (CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771) are currently being exploited in the wild. Disclosed on July 19, 2025, these vulnerabilities have CVSS scores of 9.8 and 7.1 respectively, indicating severe and high risk. CVE-2025-53770 affects on-premises Microsoft SharePoint Servers, allowing unauthorized attackers to execute code over a network. CVE-2025-53771 affects Microsoft Office SharePoint, allowing authorized attackers to perform spoofing over a network.

A lot can change in three years. The world of 2022 was a quite different place. Queen Elizabeth II was the longest-serving living monarch, the world population hadn’t yet cracked eight billion, and many of us were still emerging from the strangeness of the Covid years. Meanwhile, at HAProxyConf 2022, we unveiled HAProxy Fusion Control Plane for the first time.