G'day, For those of you who don't remember, about two years ago I became annoyed at trying to maintain a local Squid-2.5 installation with half a dozen different patches which everyone used to 'fix' Squid-2.5 to perform well. I called this derivative "cacheboy" and after a few weeks (and a few users!) the resulting patchsets were pulled out from my repository and fed into what became Squid-2.6. (The original email: http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200604/0615.html) Well, I'm at that point again, where I'd like to do some large-scale work to the Squid-2 tree to fix a whole range of longstanding performance and codebase issues to help the codebase move forward. Unfortunately this clashes with the general Squid project direction of developing Squid-3. The Squid-2 codebase has been in "maintainence mode" for a number of years now and in the interval between Squid-3's announcement and today there have been a large number of replacement HTTP proxy/cache/routing open source projects, all of which perform much better in one particular area than Squid. So I've decided to fork the Squid-2 project again into another "cacheboy" derivative seperate from the Squid project. I'm going to pursue a different set of short-term and medium-term goals whilst focusing on maintaining the relative maturity of the Squid-2 codebase. I'm going to continue offering commercial Squid support and development for the foreseeable future. You can find the current project details at http://code.google.com/p/cacheboy . I'll set up a proper project homepage to coincide with the first stable release, which I hope will be in a couple of weeks. This will be based on Squid-2.HEAD with the initial code reorganisation I've been working on. It should be just as stable as Squid-2.HEAD but the reorganisation should lead to further short-term improvements. I wish everyone working on Squid-3 the best of luck for the future. Adrian -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA -
