HAProxy reloaded but new configuration is ignored.

[hetii]

Hello.
I struggle with ssl-redirect issue described in #788
As a workaround I have such configuration in my helm value file:

  ## Custom configuration for Controller
  ## ref: https://github.com/haproxytech/kubernetes-ingress/tree/master/documentation
  config:
    # Disable build-in redirect to http as it add internal port to location block
    # BUG: https://github.com/haproxytech/kubernetes-ingress/pull/788
    ssl-redirect: "false"
    ssl-redirect-code: "302"
    frontend-config-snippet: |-
      # Workaround for broken redirect, http -> https with exception for ACME challenge:
      http-request redirect scheme https code 307 if !{ ssl_fc } !{ path_beg /.well-known/acme-challenge/ }

After helm upgrade I see in the logs:

2026/05/06 11:24:11 INFO    controller/controller.go:227 [transactionID=add8054a-5c9d-4115-9794-af84c07a8151] HAProxy reloaded
2026/05/06 11:24:57 INFO    store/events.go:303  configmap 'haproxy/haproxy-kubernetes-ingress' updated

But when I called my domain by using curl I got old http code from my snippet,
eg. I set now in the snippet to return code 307 but the curl return me the previous one, eg 303.

The config file is updated inside the pod.

I also tried

    global-config-snippet: |-
      hard-stop-after 10s
and 
  extraArgs:
    - --disable-quic
    - --sync-period=10s

but without success, the only way to load proper configuration is to full restart of haproxy pods.

Also notice some unstoppable Jobs in haproxy:

'echo "show info" | socat stdio /var/run/haproxy-runtime-api.sock' | grep -i "hard\|stop"
Hard_maxconn: 41000
Stopping: 0
Unstoppable Jobs: 1

This issue is critical as I'm not sure if the ingress configuration applied by the Ingress objects be the latest one used by haproxy controller.

Used chart: haproxytech/kubernetes-ingress version 1.49.0

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