[squid-users] [squid-announce] Squid 4.1 is available

[TarotApprentice]

Hopefully the Debian guys will push this through to Stretch-backports this time. 3.5.27 only made it as far as buster (testing). Unfortunately libc 2.27 is in there and that meant it wanted to update many other packages.

MarkJ 

> On 4 Jul 2018, at 3:02 pm, Amos Jeffries <squid3 at treenet.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> The Squid HTTP Proxy team is very pleased to announce the availability
> of the Squid-4.1 release!
> 
> 
> This release is we believe, stable enough for general production use.
> 
> Support for Squid-3.x bug fixes has now officially ceased. Bugs in 3.5
> will continue to be fixed, however the fixes will be added to the 4.x
> series. All users of Squid-3.x are encouraged to plan for upgrades.
> 
> 
> A short list of the major new features is:
> 
> * RFC 6176 compliance (SSLv2 support removal)
> * Secure ICAP service connections
> * Add url_lfs_rewrite: a URL-rewriter based on local file existence
> * on_unsupported_protocol directive to allow Non-HTTP bypass
> * Update external_acl_type directive to use logformat codes
> * Experimental GnuTLS support for some TLS features
> * TLS/SSL related helpers renamed
> 
> 
> Several features have been removed in 4.1:
> 
> * refresh_pattern ignore-auth and ignore-must-revalidate options
> * cache_peer_domain directive
> * basic_msnt_multi_domain_auth helper
> * ESI custom parser - use XML2 or Expat instead.
> 
> Further details can be found in the release notes or the wiki.
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/RELEASENOTES.html
> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Squid-4
> 
> 
> Please remember to run "squid -k parse" when testing upgrade to a new
> version of Squid. It will audit your configuration files and report
> any identifiable issues the new release will have in your installation
> before you "press go".
> 
> Please be particularly aware that for the TLS features the removal of
> SSLv2 support may require manual attention to configuration settings
> when upgrading from any Squid-3 or older version.
> 
> 
> All feature additions are considered *experimental* until they have
> survived at least one series of releases in general production use.
> Please be aware of that when rolling out features which are new in
> this series. Not all use-cases have been well tested yet and some may
> not even have been implemented. Assistance is still needed despite the
> releases general stability level.
> 
> 
> Plans for the next series of releases is already well underway. Our
> future release plans and upcoming features can be found at:
> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/RoadMap
> 
> 
> See the ChangeLog for the full list of changes in this and earlier
> releases.
> 
>  All users of Squid-4.0 beta releases are urged to upgrade to this
>  release as soon as possible.
> 
>  All users of Squid-3 are encouraged to 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
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