The Squid HTTP Proxy team is very pleased to announce the availability of the Squid-3.4.5 release! This release is a bug fix release resolving several regression bugs and portability issues found in the prior Squid releases. The major changes to be aware of: * Packaging toolchain updates We have recently updated the machinery used to package Squid. As a result of this the autotools and libtool software versions with embeded components in the Squid packages have changed. Some of you have noticed the 3.4.4.* beta releases made to ensure this transition went as smoothly as possible. NOTICE: For this release onwards in all series of Squid we will be tracking the autotools updates a lot closer than previously. Please be aware: The effect of this change is likely to be un-announced issues when compiling with very old tool chains. autoconf: versions older than 2.63 are expected not to build. While this is not exactly new, the likelihood of breakage when building with older versions has increased. automake: versions older than 1.14 were expected to have issues, but so far none have been reported with at least automake 1.11. This situation for older versions may change at any time without further warning. libtool: the LTDL library used by libtoolize v2.4 is now required. libtool v2.2 can still be used to build Squid but now requires the ./configure option --with-included-ltdl. compiler: as before the requirement is "a C++ compiler". The Squid Project performs continuous integration and pre-release testing with ICC 11+, Clang 3.3+ and several GCC 4.x. Other C++ compilers are expected to work but are not regularly tested. A working C compiler is still also required by some libraries. NOTICE: Please be aware our C++ language roadmap: As of this release we are officially beginning a transition to C++11. If the compiler offers support for -std=c++11, it will be used. While Squid-3.4 will continue to build on all GCC 4.x, please begin any necessary planning for the minimum required GCC version to become 4.8 later this calendar year. * Bug #3371: CONNECT with data sent at once loses data This long-standing bug in CONNECT requests has finally been resolved. While uncommon for some time it has recently shown to be a large problem with web browsers implementing SPDY/3 and was expected to get worse with the upcoming HTTP/2.0 transition. * Bug #3955, #3982 and other EUI issues have been resolved These multiple regression bugs in 3.4 EUI handling have been preventing Squid from logging EUI-48 and EUI-64 values properly. A blank MAC address has been logged instead. There remain some design issues surrounding EUI48/64 mapping which will be fixed in later releases. * logformat annotation redesign NOTICE: This change may affect log analysis or other processing tools. The output produced by the logformat %note token in earlier releases included uncecessary URL-encoded quotations and value delimiters. This release removes the quotation and makes the delimiter configurable to produce much cleaner log content. * Squid Project welcomes Android builds With a remarkably simple addition we are pleased to announce support for building Squid on Android, or cross-compiling for Android is now supported. We look forward to seeing what will happen in this new arena. All users of Squid-3.4 are encouraged to upgrade to this release as soon as possible. All users of older Squid versions are urged to upgrade as soon as possible. See the ChangeLog for the full list of changes in this and earlier releases. Please refer to the release notes at http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.4/RELEASENOTES.html when you are ready to make the switch to Squid-3.4 Upgrade tip: "squid -k parse" is starting to display even more useful hints about squid.conf changes. 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
