I was asked to give a short description of what varnish is. Varnish is a state of the art, high performance http accellerator. Think squid in reverse caching mode, but powered by the dark side of the force, on steroids*. Varnish is Free Software, available under the BSD license. Some highlights - A modern design, using advanced features in Linux 2.6, FreeBSD 6/7 and OpenSolaris - A very flexible compiled configuration language - Load balancing with health checking of backends - Partial support for ESI - URL rewriting - Graceful handling of "dead" backends - Live statistics and logging Varnish is used to accellerate well-known sites like Slashdot, Wikia and Twitter, to name a few. More info at http://www.varnish-cache.org/ Please consider testing varnish-2.1.0-2.fc13 for F-13, see below. Ingvar *) Real life cases has shown one varnish instance out-performing a cluster of 12 squid boxes. * Ingvar Hagelund: > I think it's important that varnish-2.1.0-2.fc13 is included in F-13, > and hope that it's not too late. > > It was submitted by bodhi today, and can also be downloaded from koji. > > Please test the update and give feedback through bodhi. > > > Snipped from the bodhi update request: > > Details > Upgrade to new upstream release 2.1.0. This upgrade is important > because > > * The previous 2.0 series will be discontinued within the > lifetime of F-13 > > * 2.1.0 contains a fix for CVE-2009-2936. It is not > probably that upstream will backport this fix for the > 2.0 series > > > These changes should be important enough to include > varnish-2.1.x in F-13, even after the freeze. > > > Ingvar > -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
