From: Amos Jeffries Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 12:25:53 +0000 (+1300) Subject: Docs: add Release Notes template for Squid-5 X-Git-Tag: M-staged-PR71~383 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=aee44ee6aec9472b55c924dfaef53631cff0b67b;p=thirdparty%2Fsquid.git Docs: add Release Notes template for Squid-5 --- diff --git a/doc/release-notes/Makefile.am b/doc/release-notes/Makefile.am index 6490ef09b5..a75b9292de 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes/Makefile.am +++ b/doc/release-notes/Makefile.am @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ # requires the linuxdoc tools if ENABLE_RELEASE_DOCS -DOC= release-4 +DOC= release-5 %.ps: %.sgml linuxdoc -B latex -o ps $(DOC) diff --git a/doc/release-notes/release-5.sgml b/doc/release-notes/release-5.sgml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..16b42b010b --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes/release-5.sgml @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ + +
+Squid 5.0.0 release notes +Squid Developers + + +This document contains the release notes for version 4 of Squid. +Squid is a WWW Cache application developed by the National Laboratory +for Applied Network Research and members of the Web Caching community. + + + + +Notice +

The Squid Team are pleased to announce the release of Squid-5.0.0 for testing. + +This new release is available for download from or the + . + +

While this release is not deemed ready for production use, we believe it is ready for wider testing by the community. + +

We welcome feedback and bug reports. If you find a bug, please see + for how to submit a report with a stack trace. + +Known issues +

Although this release is deemed good enough for use in many setups, please note the existence of +. + +Changes since earlier releases of Squid-5 +

+The Squid-4 change history can be . + + +Major new features since Squid-4 +

Squid-5 represents a new feature release above Squid-4. + +

The most important of these new features are: + + SSL Support removal + + +Most user-facing changes are reflected in squid.conf (see below). + + +SSL Support removal +

Details in + and + +

SSLv2 is not fit for purpose. Squid no longer supports being configured with + any settings regarding this protocol. That includes settings manually disabling + its use since it is now forced to disable by default. Also settings enabling + various client/server workarounds specific to SSLv2 are removed. + +

SSLv3 is not fit for purpose. Squid still accepts configuration, but use + is deprecated and will be removed entirely in a future version. + Squid default behavour is to follow the TLS built in negotiation mechanism + which prefers the latest TLS version. But also to accept downgrades to SSLv3. + Use tls-options=NO_SSLv3 to disable SSLv3 support completely. + + +Changes to squid.conf since Squid-4 +

+There have been changes to Squid's configuration file since Squid-4. + +This section gives a thorough account of those changes in three categories: + + + + + + +

+ +New directives

+ +

No new directives in this version. + + + +Changes to existing directives

+ +

No changes to existing directives in this version. + + + +Removed directives

+ +

No removed directives in this version. + + + + +Changes to ./configure options since Squid-4 +

+There have been some changes to Squid's build configuration since Squid-4. + +This section gives an account of those changes in three categories: + + + + + + + + +New options

+ +

No new options in this version. + + + +Changes to existing options

+ +

No changes to existing options in this version. + + +

+ +Removed options