-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Squid Software Foundation is very pleased to announce the availability of the Squid-3.5.0.1 beta release! Thats right! The Squid Software Foundation is now formally in place as copyright representative (Squid remains GPLv2+ with hundreds of individual copyright holders), and operator for the infrastructure used to assemble and publish this and later Squid versions. This new 3.5 series of Squid brings useful new features and changes providing improved performance 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/v3/3.5/RELEASENOTES.html http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Squid-3.5 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 no more planned alterations to the existing features, ./configure options or squid.conf options. All users of Squid-2.7 held back because of the Collapsed Forwarding feature will be happy to know it has finally been ported in this release. Please upgrade ASAP. All developers of eCAP plugins need to be aware this release of Squid supports libecap 1.0. This brings with it an end to some complications plugins built against older libecap library versions had. This version has some backward compatibility support, but plugins really should be rebuilt against the new library for reliable behaviour. Squid is now capable of accepting native FTP commands at an ftp_port and relaying native FTP messages between FTP clients and FTP servers. Some Squid modules (e.g., caching) do not currently work with native FTP proxying, and many features have not even been tested for compatibility. Authentication helpers can now be passed arbitrary details in addition to the credentials required for the HTTP authentication scheme. PLEASE NOTE: care needs to be taken when using this feature, it *will* cause an increase in load on the authentication system proportional to the variability of the extra details sent. In short, it bypasses Squids' built-in DDoS and credential replay protection. The Store-ID and URL-rewrite helper interfaces are also extended with matching abilities. The Digest authentication, Store-ID, and URL-rewrite helpers packaged with Squid have been updated to support concurrency channels. They will auto-detect the channel-ID field and will produce the appropriate response format. With these helpers concurrency may now be set to 0 or any higher number as desired. Developers of third-party helpers still needing concurrency support are encouraged to take a look and see how this auto-detection is done for each interface. Concurrency on these interfaces is scheduled to be enabled by default in a future release. Named Services has now been extended to be available on all operating systems, it has previously been a Windows-only feature. It restores the ability to run multiple instances on the same machine even when SMP support is being used. The squid.conf ${service_name} macro is also added to simplify configuration file management. The ability intentionally includes some backward compatibility. Whereas older Squid-3 SMP-aware versions may only have one instance of themselves running in total, this feature allows the new version to run alongside an older version by using a different service name. Initial support for PROXY protocol, a more portable alternative to X-Forwarded-For and Forwarded HTTP headers has been added in this version. Currently only http_port uses the protocol wrapper to receive traffic from a peer proxy or gateway device. The squidclient tool has been through a minor overhaul in this version. Anyone utilizing its ability to 'ping' an HTTP server for uptime monitoring need to be aware the command line options have now been changed. HTTPS is now also supported if the GnuTLS library was available when building Squid. OpenSSL-only builds of the tool do not have this feature. Run 'squidclient -h' for a quick summary of options or see the Release Notes for more details. Operating System support: * Windows support has in recent times worked its way back into view with both MinGW and Cygwin builds showing some success. Windows is now being considered a supported OS again. So any and all assistance building, testing and bug reports welcome. Just be aware that as this is all a recent event Squid-3 as a whole is still considered beta on this OS. * MacOS X is at risk of ending up in the sad situation Windows is just vacating. Due to breakage in the shared memory API needed by Squid for SMP support, along with a lack of interest from the MacOS community in getting it fixed. If Squid on Mac is of importance to you some assistance getting over that blocker problem is welcomed. Major features dropped: * COSS support is officially purged from the code. Rock store has been available for several versions, with COSS operation broken for even longer. This version brings >32KB object support to Rock store and thus removes the last potential need for COSS. * DNS helper API and dnsserver are officially purged from the code. mDNS support has been available since Squid-3.4 and has no bug reports across the entire series. Thus passing our criteria for stable, and demonstrating the lack of need for the DNS helper. All users are encouraged to give this Squid release a test run as soon as time permits. All feedback welcome. Please refer to the release notes at http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.5/RELEASENOTES.html if and when you are ready to make the switch to Squid-3.5 This new release can be downloaded from our HTTP or FTP servers http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.5/ ftp://ftp.squid-cache.org/pub/squid/ ftp://ftp.squid-cache.org/pub/archive/3.5/ 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJURepmAAoJELJo5wb/XPRjke8H+wegB986HJfjpDaQ4JQv580t YFzQwcCVExxumgA6B4waiTCJCGQ72JSQKktIoxidKKkA2fAgcp1Zvqx1lLUjw1kX L9Z8yj8/mhsaSri0H5Ygr7HfuoodnqYJb+VOiGztkuORJK1WgBajIAuL5XMOFkMR AlUKcDnzg5Q+KIW5lAOKMpR3Gy5gFRAmYG18iRm3YQ3hKtvYJNnxtnh4d0sILqu1 km+oF8fHMgL5WT0M0MPy2Wy2ds8+z/yUV0P08WyxgRotD2hQNI5d/P0CatEvHWsq dizu5O6m92zi6L38tBnCeznSZgFSPxLsNR6rcEmLFOTPOvAhE3iErwTWrBrsZfE= =l0aL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users
