-The Squid Team are pleased to announce the release of Squid-3.2.0.16 for testing.
+The Squid Team are pleased to announce the release of Squid-3.2.0.17 for testing.
This new release is available for download from
From: Amos Jeffries
The Squid Team are pleased to announce the release of Squid-3.2.0.16 for testing. The Squid Team are pleased to announce the release of Squid-3.2.0.17 for testing. This new release is available for download from
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.2/ or the
mirrors.Squid 3.2.0.16 release notes
+Squid 3.2.0.17 release notes
Squid Developers
@@ -25,17 +25,18 @@ for Applied Network Research and members of the Web Caching community.
3. Changes to squid.conf since Squid-3.1
@@ -72,7 +73,7 @@ for Applied Network Research and members of the Web Caching community.
1. Notice
-
The most important of these new features are:
Details in Advisory +SQUID-2011:2
+ +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.
+ +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.
+ +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.
+ + +The new "workers" squid.conf option can be used to launch multiple worker @@ -176,7 +198,7 @@ worker customization in SMP mode. For details, search for "Conditional configuration" and "SMP-Related Macros" sections in squid.conf.documented.
-The helper multiplexer's purpose is to relieve some of the burden @@ -224,7 +246,7 @@ the reduction in direct helper spawned by Squid can result in a great reduction
-Traditionally Squid has been configured with a fixed number of helpers and started them during @@ -260,7 +282,7 @@ When client requests threaten to overload the running helpers an additional 2 wi of starting the maximum number of helpers will occur.
-To improve the understanding of what each helper does and where it should be used the helper binaries @@ -343,7 +365,7 @@ This helper has also gone through a version update and now uses more current Ber
-The man(8) and man(1) pages bundled with Squid are now provided online for all @@ -356,7 +378,7 @@ versions and beginning with 3.2 they are available in languages other than Engli This move begins the Localization of the internal administrator facing manuals.
-Automatic detection and use of the pthreads library available from Solaris 10
@@ -368,7 +390,7 @@ are now available in Solaris 10. We recommend giving AUFS a try for faster disk storage and encourage feedback. -The Surrogate extensions to HTTP protocol enable an origin web server to specify separate @@ -393,7 +415,7 @@ and for some uses desirable to receive external reverse-proxies Surrogate-Ca is required to prevent an unacceptable surrogate ID of 'localhost' being generated.
-The advanced logging modules introduced in Squid-2.7 are now available from Squid-3.2.
@@ -421,7 +443,7 @@ These logs are now created using an access_log line with the format "referrer" o They also now log all client requests, if there was no Referer or User-Agent header a dash (-) is logged. -In mobile environments, Squid may need to limit Squid-to-client bandwidth @@ -453,14 +475,14 @@ response data from Squid. This delay may need to be lowered in high-bandwidth environments.
-Support for libecap version 0.2.0 has been added with this series of Squid. Bringing better support for body handling, and logging.
-The Squid Cache Manager has previously only been accessible under the cache_object://
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/release-3.2.sgml b/doc/release-notes/release-3.2.sgml
index 74f4ba3aaa..8cf3561e51 100644
--- a/doc/release-notes/release-3.2.sgml
+++ b/doc/release-notes/release-3.2.sgml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-The Squid Team are pleased to announce the release of Squid-3.2.0.16 for testing.
+The Squid Team are pleased to announce the release of Squid-3.2.0.17 for testing.
This new release is available for download from