The Squid Web Cache team is very pleased to announce the availability of the Squid 7.0.1 beta release! This new 7.x series of Squid brings useful new features, changes and bug fixes over earlier release series More detailed descriptions of the major new features downloadable files and release signatures are are available at: <https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/releases/tag/SQUID_7_0_1> 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 for release 7. We routinely test Squid for compatibility with major Operating Systems and hardware platforms, including most current Linux distributions, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and MacOS/Homebrew Major features dropped: * Edge Side Include (ESI): no longer used widely enough to justify the ongoing effort of maintaining it * ident protocol: an insecure relic of earlier Internet days * cache_object protocol support: replaced by HTTP and the well-known URL prefix /squid-internal-mgr/ * 'cachemgr.cgi', 'purge' and 'squidclient' tools: their functions can now be implemented using standard HTTP clients such as curl Changes in distribution channels: Squid is no longer distributed via ftp or rsync. The only channel for releases is now github, at the URL: <https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/releases/tag/SQUID_7_0_1> We encourage early adopters and testers to try this version out and provide feedback about bugs and issues at <https://bugs.squid-cache.org/> Francesco Chemolli _______________________________________________ squid-announce mailing list squid-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-announce
