Although this release is deemed good enough for use in many setups, please note the existence of
<url url="http://bugs.squid-cache.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&product=Squid&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&version=3.4" name="open bugs against Squid-3.4">.
-
<sect1>Changes since earlier releases of Squid-3.4
<p>
The 3.4 change history can be <url url="http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.4/changesets/" name="viewed here">.
+
<sect>Major new features since Squid-3.3
<p>Squid 3.4 represents a new feature release above 3.3.
<p>Arbitrary key-value pairs can be returned from any helper.
Allowing future helpers to be forward- and backward- compatible
- with this and future version of Squid.
+ with this and future versions of Squid.
<sect1>SSL Server Certificate Validator
affects which <em>refresh_pattern</em> directive will be matched.
<p>Store-ID helpers bundled with Squid can be built with the --enable-storeid-rewrite-helpers
- options which is added in this version. Currently there is a <em>file</em> helper
+ option which is added in this version. Currently there is a <em>file</em> helper
provided.
accordance with RFC 6762.
<p>The <em>dns_multicast_local</em> directive must be set to <em>on</em> to enable this
- feature.
+ feature.
<p>The multicast DNS group IP addresses for IPv4 and IPv6 resolving are added to the set
of available DNS resolvers and used automatically for domain names ending in <em>.local</em>
<p>Statistics for multicast DNS resolution can be found on the <em>idns</em> cache manager
report.
+<p><em>NOTE</em> that the external DNS helper interface is now deprecated and has been
+ removed from future Squid versions. Any installations still using it for local hostname
+ resolution need to upgrade to mDNS resolution with this Squid version.
+
<sect>Changes to squid.conf since Squid-3.3
<p>
<tag>external_refresh_check</tag>
<p>Not yet ported from 2.7
- <tag>ignore_ims_on_miss</tag>
- <p>Not yet ported from 2.7
-
<tag>location_rewrite_access</tag>
<p>Not yet ported from 2.6