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-<H1>Squid 3.2.0.16 release notes</H1>
+<H1>Squid 3.2.0.17 release notes</H1>
<H2>Squid Developers</H2>
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<LI><A NAME="toc2.1">2.1</A> <A HREF="#ss2.1">Fixed CVE-2009-0801 : NAT interception vulnerability to malicious clients.</A>
-<LI><A NAME="toc2.2">2.2</A> <A HREF="#ss2.2">SMP scalability</A>
-<LI><A NAME="toc2.3">2.3</A> <A HREF="#ss2.3">Helper Multiplexer</A>
-<LI><A NAME="toc2.4">2.4</A> <A HREF="#ss2.4">Helpers On-Demand</A>
-<LI><A NAME="toc2.5">2.5</A> <A HREF="#ss2.5">Helper Name Changes</A>
-<LI><A NAME="toc2.6">2.6</A> <A HREF="#ss2.6">Multi-Lingual manuals</A>
-<LI><A NAME="toc2.7">2.7</A> <A HREF="#ss2.7">Solaris 10 pthreads Support (Experimental)</A>
-<LI><A NAME="toc2.8">2.8</A> <A HREF="#ss2.8">Surrogate/1.0 protocol extensions to HTTP</A>
-<LI><A NAME="toc2.9">2.9</A> <A HREF="#ss2.9">Logging Infrastructure Updated</A>
-<LI><A NAME="toc2.10">2.10</A> <A HREF="#ss2.10">Client Bandwidth Limits</A>
-<LI><A NAME="toc2.11">2.11</A> <A HREF="#ss2.11">Better eCAP Suport</A>
-<LI><A NAME="toc2.12">2.12</A> <A HREF="#ss2.12">Cache Manager access changes</A>
+<LI><A NAME="toc2.2">2.2</A> <A HREF="#ss2.2">NCSA helper DES algorithm password limits</A>
+<LI><A NAME="toc2.3">2.3</A> <A HREF="#ss2.3">SMP scalability</A>
+<LI><A NAME="toc2.4">2.4</A> <A HREF="#ss2.4">Helper Multiplexer</A>
+<LI><A NAME="toc2.5">2.5</A> <A HREF="#ss2.5">Helpers On-Demand</A>
+<LI><A NAME="toc2.6">2.6</A> <A HREF="#ss2.6">Helper Name Changes</A>
+<LI><A NAME="toc2.7">2.7</A> <A HREF="#ss2.7">Multi-Lingual manuals</A>
+<LI><A NAME="toc2.8">2.8</A> <A HREF="#ss2.8">Solaris 10 pthreads Support (Experimental)</A>
+<LI><A NAME="toc2.9">2.9</A> <A HREF="#ss2.9">Surrogate/1.0 protocol extensions to HTTP</A>
+<LI><A NAME="toc2.10">2.10</A> <A HREF="#ss2.10">Logging Infrastructure Updated</A>
+<LI><A NAME="toc2.11">2.11</A> <A HREF="#ss2.11">Client Bandwidth Limits</A>
+<LI><A NAME="toc2.12">2.12</A> <A HREF="#ss2.12">Better eCAP Suport</A>
+<LI><A NAME="toc2.13">2.13</A> <A HREF="#ss2.13">Cache Manager access changes</A>
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<H2><A NAME="toc3">3.</A> <A HREF="#s3">Changes to squid.conf since Squid-3.1</A></H2>
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<H2><A NAME="s1">1.</A> <A HREF="#toc1">Notice</A></H2>
-<P>The Squid Team are pleased to announce the release of Squid-3.2.0.16 for testing.</P>
+<P>The Squid Team are pleased to announce the release of Squid-3.2.0.17 for testing.</P>
<P>This new release is available for download from
<A HREF="http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.2/">http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.2/</A> or the
<A HREF="http://www.squid-cache.org/Mirrors/http-mirrors.html">mirrors</A>.</P>
<P>The most important of these new features are:
<UL>
<LI>Fixed CVE-2009-0801 : NAT interception vulnerability to malicious clients.</LI>
+<LI>NCSA helper DES algorithm password limits</LI>
<LI>SMP scalability</LI>
<LI>Helper Multiplexer and On-Demand</LI>
<LI>Helper Name Changes</LI>
error status page.</P>
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.2">2.2</A> <A HREF="#toc2.2">SMP scalability</A>
+<H2><A NAME="ss2.2">2.2</A> <A HREF="#toc2.2">NCSA helper DES algorithm password limits</A>
+</H2>
+
+<P>Details in Advisory
+<A HREF="http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2011_1.txt">SQUID-2011:2</A></P>
+
+<P>The DES algorithm used by the NCSA Basic authentication helper has an
+limit of 8 bytes but some implementations do not error when truncating
+longer passwords down to this unsafe level.</P>
+
+<P>This both significantly lowers the threshold of difficulty decrypting
+captured password files and hides from users the fact that the extra bits
+of their chosen long password is not being utilized.</P>
+
+<P>The NCSA helper bundled with Squid will prevent passwords longer than 8
+characters being sent to the DES algorithm. The MD5 hash algorithm which
+supports longer than 8 character passwords is also supported by this helper
+and should be used instead.</P>
+
+
+<H2><A NAME="ss2.3">2.3</A> <A HREF="#toc2.3">SMP scalability</A>
</H2>
<P>The new "workers" squid.conf option can be used to launch multiple worker
configuration" and "SMP-Related Macros" sections in squid.conf.documented.</P>
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.3">2.3</A> <A HREF="#toc2.3">Helper Multiplexer</A>
+<H2><A NAME="ss2.4">2.4</A> <A HREF="#toc2.4">Helper Multiplexer</A>
</H2>
<P>The helper multiplexer's purpose is to relieve some of the burden
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-<H2><A NAME="ss2.4">2.4</A> <A HREF="#toc2.4">Helpers On-Demand</A>
+<H2><A NAME="ss2.5">2.5</A> <A HREF="#toc2.5">Helpers On-Demand</A>
</H2>
<P>Traditionally Squid has been configured with a fixed number of helpers and started them during
of starting the maximum number of helpers will occur.</P>
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.5">2.5</A> <A HREF="#toc2.5">Helper Name Changes</A>
+<H2><A NAME="ss2.6">2.6</A> <A HREF="#toc2.6">Helper Name Changes</A>
</H2>
<P>To improve the understanding of what each helper does and where it should be used the helper binaries
</P>
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.6">2.6</A> <A HREF="#toc2.6">Multi-Lingual manuals</A>
+<H2><A NAME="ss2.7">2.7</A> <A HREF="#toc2.7">Multi-Lingual manuals</A>
</H2>
<P>The man(8) and man(1) pages bundled with Squid are now provided online for all
This move begins the Localization of the internal administrator facing manuals.</P>
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.7">2.7</A> <A HREF="#toc2.7">Solaris 10 pthreads Support (Experimental)</A>
+<H2><A NAME="ss2.8">2.8</A> <A HREF="#toc2.8">Solaris 10 pthreads Support (Experimental)</A>
</H2>
<P>Automatic detection and use of the pthreads library available from Solaris 10</P>
We recommend giving AUFS a try for faster disk storage and encourage feedback.</P>
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.8">2.8</A> <A HREF="#toc2.8">Surrogate/1.0 protocol extensions to HTTP</A>
+<H2><A NAME="ss2.9">2.9</A> <A HREF="#toc2.9">Surrogate/1.0 protocol extensions to HTTP</A>
</H2>
<P>The <EM>Surrogate</EM> extensions to HTTP protocol enable an origin web server to specify separate
is required to prevent an unacceptable surrogate ID of 'localhost' being generated.</P>
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.9">2.9</A> <A HREF="#toc2.9">Logging Infrastructure Updated</A>
+<H2><A NAME="ss2.10">2.10</A> <A HREF="#toc2.10">Logging Infrastructure Updated</A>
</H2>
<P>The advanced logging modules introduced in Squid-2.7 are now available from Squid-3.2.</P>
They also now log all client requests, if there was no Referer or User-Agent header a dash (-) is logged.</P>
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.10">2.10</A> <A HREF="#toc2.10">Client Bandwidth Limits</A>
+<H2><A NAME="ss2.11">2.11</A> <A HREF="#toc2.11">Client Bandwidth Limits</A>
</H2>
<P>In mobile environments, Squid may need to limit Squid-to-client bandwidth
high-bandwidth environments.</P>
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.11">2.11</A> <A HREF="#toc2.11">Better eCAP Suport</A>
+<H2><A NAME="ss2.12">2.12</A> <A HREF="#toc2.12">Better eCAP Suport</A>
</H2>
<P>Support for libecap version 0.2.0 has been added with this series of Squid. Bringing
better support for body handling, and logging.</P>
-<H2><A NAME="ss2.12">2.12</A> <A HREF="#toc2.12">Cache Manager access changes</A>
+<H2><A NAME="ss2.13">2.13</A> <A HREF="#toc2.13">Cache Manager access changes</A>
</H2>
<P>The Squid Cache Manager has previously only been accessible under the cache_object://