[squid-announce] Squid 4.0.14 beta is available

[Amos Jeffries]

The Squid HTTP Proxy team is very pleased to announce the availability
of the Squid-4.0.14 release!


This release is a bug fix release resolving several issues found in the
prior Squid releases.


The major changes to be aware of:


* Bugs #4404 and #4503: access.log responses marked _ABORTED

The past few Squid-4 releases have incorrectly logged several
transaction types as ABORTED. This hopefully resolves the
remaininginstances of that behaviour.


* Make Squid death due to overloaded helpers optional

Previous Squid versions would halt the entire Squid process if a helper
became too non-responsive and its lookup queue became overloaded. This
release allows the Squid handling behaviour to be configured to simulate
an ERR helper response instead of always halting.


* Crashes on shutdown

The Squid shutdown process when set to a short timeout was crashing
while cleaning up idle ICAP connections. This resolves the ICAP issues,
however some other sources of shutdown crash still remain to be fixed.



* Various HTTP/1.1 compliance updates

Previous Squid releases have a number of compliance issues with RFC 7230
updated HTTP specifications. This release fixes several issues involved
with detecting invalid message framing and required error reponse
generation.


* General portability and stability changes

This release also includes a large number of code cleanup fixes too
small to mention individually, but which resolve a lot of portability
and build issues.

The release size appears to be very large, however the majority of
alterations are in documentation and translation updates for Squid-4.



 All users of Squid-4.0.x are encouraged to upgrade to this release as
soon as possible.

 All users of Squid-3 are encouraged to test this release out and plan
for upgrades where 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/v4/RELEASENOTES.html
when you are ready to make the switch to Squid-4

This new release can be downloaded from our HTTP or FTP servers

 http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/
 ftp://ftp.squid-cache.org/pub/squid/
 ftp://ftp.squid-cache.org/pub/archive/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