# HAProxy

Load balancer and reverse proxy for TCP and HTTP applications, built as a single multi-threaded daemon.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/haproxy/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-29
Listed since: 2026-10-29

## Record

### Links

- home: https://www.haproxy.org
- repository: https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy
- docs: https://docs.haproxy.org/3.4/intro.html
- forum: https://discourse.haproxy.org/

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Willy Tarreau
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2000
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: web-server
- hosting: binary
- language: c
- runtime: binary
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: docker-image

### License

- licenseModel: open-core
- license: GPL-2.0, LGPL-2.1

### Releases

- currentMajor: 3
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-14

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 6956
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 303
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- name: https://www.haproxy.org (read 2026-10-29)
- urls: https://www.haproxy.org (read 2026-10-29)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/haproxy/haproxy (read 2026-10-29)
- urls: https://docs.haproxy.org/3.4/intro.html (read 2026-10-29)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/haproxy/haproxy/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-29)
- maintainerType: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/haproxy/haproxy/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-29)
- category: https://www.haproxy.org (read 2026-10-29)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/haproxy/haproxy (read 2026-10-29)
- runtime: https://docs.haproxy.org/3.4/management.html (read 2026-10-29)
- installMethod: https://www.haproxy.org (read 2026-10-29)
- installMethod: https://www.haproxy.org/download/3.4/src/ (read 2026-10-29)
- installMethod: https://www.haproxy.org (read 2026-10-29)
- runsAs: https://docs.haproxy.org/3.4/management.html (read 2026-10-29)
- license: https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy/blob/master/doc/gpl.txt (read 2026-10-29)
- license: https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy/blob/master/doc/lgpl.txt (read 2026-10-29)
- licenseModel: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/haproxy/haproxy/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-29)
- currentMajor: https://www.haproxy.org (read 2026-10-29)
- latestReleaseDate: https://www.haproxy.org/download/3.4/src/CHANGELOG (read 2026-10-29)
- firstRelease: https://www.haproxy.org/download/3.4/src/CHANGELOG (read 2026-10-29)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/haproxy/haproxy (read 2026-10-29)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/haproxy/haproxy/contributors (read 2026-10-29)

## Notes

HAProxy is a load balancer and reverse proxy for TCP and HTTP traffic. It runs as a multi-threaded, event-driven daemon written in C. It is installed from a source tarball published on haproxy.org, from Debian and Ubuntu packages or from its Docker images, which come in Alpine-based, Debian-based and RHEL-based variants. The project maintains several branches at once, and each branch has its own end-of-life date, which endoflife.date lists.

## Worth knowing

HAProxy Enterprise is a commercial edition, sold with pricing on request. Its source is mirrored on GitHub, while the project's own git repositories are on git.haproxy.org.

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