[squid-dev] Squid v8 release schedule proposal

[Francesco Chemolli]

Hi all,
  Now that v7 out of beta, it's time to start thinking about v8.

Unfortunately we released too late to make it into Debian forky. V7 is
in sid/unstable, but the next stable will ship v6.13.
Ubuntu 25.10 ("questing") is also carrying 6.13 at this time.

I've asked the Debian maintaner a tentative timeline for getting
squid-8 included in the next stable version of Debian, he mentioned a
likely target is to be out of beta by january 2027. Working backwards,
I propose to set the date for forking v8 in early October 2026.

Thoughts?

-- 
    Francesco