[squid-users] Upcoming changes on the methods used to distribute Squid

[Francesco Chemolli]

Hi Squid Users,
   there are some ongoing changes on how we distribute the squid sources;
some of them have already happened, some more will happen in the
upcoming weeks.

The end state we are aiming to settle on is to distribute Squid via Github
Releases (https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/releases) .

Each Squid release has been and will continue to be tagged in git with the
SQUID_MAJ_MIN tag, which will be the official release point. Signed release
tarballs will be made available as Github release assets. These are already
available at https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/releases for every squid
version from 1.0.0alpha to 6.12.
We will no longer provide patches, these can be obtained from git.

We have decommissioned the rsync and ftp distribution points on
www.squid-cache.org, and are no longer advertising Squid mirrors on the
website. We are very thankful to Squid mirror operators and volunteers for
their continued support through the years.

In the next few weeks we will rework the "Download" section of the squid
website (https://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/) to point to Github for
downloading instead of self-hosting tarballs, patches etc.

Our plans moving forward:
- we will restart announcing new releases to the squid-announce mailing list
  see https://www.squid-cache.org/Support/mailing-lists.html
- anyone wanting to track Squid releases can:
  - use git tags
  - use the 'gh' tool from github (https://cli.github.com/)
  - rely on the 'releases' github page:
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/releases
  - to only track the latest supported release:
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/releases/latest

Any feedback is welcome

-- 
    Francesco Chemolli
    Squid Software Foundation
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.squid-cache.org/pipermail/squid-users/attachments/20250104/941cf390/attachment.htm>