[squid-announce] Squid 5.8 is available

[Amos Jeffries]

The Squid HTTP Proxy team is very pleased to announce the
availability of the Squid-5.8 release!


This release is a bug fix release resolving several issues
found in the prior Squid-5 releases.

The major changes to be aware of:

  * Bug 5162: mgr:index URL do not produce MGR_INDEX template

This bug shows up as Squid producing just the text "mgr_index" instead 
of the intended template contents when the cache manager API is 
requested. Breaking the use of third-party cache management tools and 
also cachemgr.cgi auto-detection of support for those tools.


  * Bug 5241: Block all non-localhost requests by default

This release changes the default squid.conf to disable the rule:
   http_access allow localnet

This change affects new Squid installs only.


  * Bug 5241: Block to-localhost, to-link-local requests by default

This release adds a predefined ACL named "to_linklocal" which matches 
traffic attempting to access link-local network services. Such traffic 
can be a problem for proxy operating within Cloud services or container 
hosting.

Squid installations which have enabled:
http_access deny to_localhost

May wish to also enable:
   http_access deny to_linklocal



   All users of Squid-5 are encouraged to upgrade as soon as
   possible.

   Users of Squid-4 holding back due to earlier release issues
   are encouraged to test this version for upgrade.


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/v5/RELEASENOTES.html
when you are ready to make the switch to Squid-5

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

http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v5/
ftp://ftp.squid-cache.org/pub/squid/
ftp://ftp.squid-cache.org/pub/archive/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.
https://bugs.squid-cache.org/


Amos Jeffries