The Squid HTTP Proxy team is very pleased to announce the availability of the Squid-3.4.0.2 beta release! The Squid-3.4 series is dedicated to Dmitry Kurochkin who died in an accident on July 21, 2013. His work directly underpins several of the major and popular performance and stability changes for recent and upcoming Squid-3 series. This new 3.4 series of Squid brings useful new features and changes providing improved stability over earlier release series. More detailed descriptions of the major new features are available in the release notes and wiki: http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.4/RELEASENOTES.html http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Squid-3.4 Detailed lists of the ./configure build and squid.conf changes can also be found in the release notes. This code is released as beta for wider testing purposes and potential use. There are several features we still hope to improve further before production release. However there are no more planned alterations to the existing ./configure options or squid.conf options. All users of Squid-2.7 Store-URL feature will want to start looking at the Store-ID feature incorporated with this series. It polishes and cleans up a number of issues found in the experimental 2.7 feature. All developers of helper scripts or tools will want to start looking at the new helper protocol extensions. Error reporting with BH result code from any helper improves re-try capabilities when errors are caused by the helper instead of the user. Ability to annotate any transaction from a helper with arbtrary notes (key=value tags) allows far more flexible control and logging than ever before. Users with networks containing multicast DNS (.local) services will be happy to hear Squid now fully supports mDNS resolution of those service names without requiring additional DNS resolver support or configuration. Due to PTR queries over mDNS being very "chatty" the feature is disabled by default. Details on how to enable this can be found in the release notes. Please refer to the release notes at http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.4/RELEASENOTES.html if and when you are ready to make the switch to Squid-3.4 This new release can be downloaded from our HTTP or FTP servers http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.4/ ftp://ftp.squid-cache.org/pub/squid/ ftp://ftp.squid-cache.org/pub/archive/3.4/ or the mirrors. For a list of mirror sites see http://www.squid-cache.org/Download/http-mirrors.html http://www.squid-cache.org/Download/mirrors.html If you encounter any issues with this release please file a bug report. http://bugs.squid-cache.org/ Amos Jeffries
