-The Squid Team are pleased to announce the release of Squid-3.2.0.13 for testing.
+The Squid Team are pleased to announce the release of Squid-3.2.0.14 for testing.
This new release is available for download from
From: Amos Jeffries
The Squid Team are pleased to announce the release of Squid-3.2.0.13 for testing. The Squid Team are pleased to announce the release of Squid-3.2.0.14 for testing. This new release is available for download from
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.2/ or the
mirrors.Squid 3.2.0.13 release notes
+Squid 3.2.0.14 release notes
Squid Developers
@@ -25,18 +25,17 @@ for Applied Network Research and members of the Web Caching community.
3. Changes to squid.conf since Squid-3.1
@@ -73,7 +72,7 @@ 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 @@ -198,7 +176,7 @@ 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 @@ -246,7 +224,7 @@ 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 @@ -282,7 +260,7 @@ 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 @@ -328,7 +306,8 @@ For several helpers the directory name used in --enable-X-helpers configure opti
The man(8) and man(1) pages bundled with Squid are now provided online for all @@ -377,7 +356,7 @@ 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
@@ -389,7 +368,7 @@ 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 @@ -414,7 +393,7 @@ 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.
@@ -441,7 +420,7 @@ required to store a long period of access.log and needs to conserve disk space.< These logs are now created using an access_log line with the format "referrer" or "useragent". -In mobile environments, Squid may need to limit Squid-to-client bandwidth @@ -473,14 +452,14 @@ 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:// @@ -522,6 +501,10 @@ The manager ACL needs changing to:
This option allows Squid administrator to add custom ICAP request +headers or eCAP options to Squid ICAP requests or eCAP transactions.
+Same as depricated icap_send_client_ip but applies to both ICAP and eCAP.
@@ -558,6 +541,9 @@ Impacts cache integrity/reliability and client browser security. destination IP to another source indicated by Host: domain DNS or cache_peer configuration. It does not affect Host: validation. +Renamed from persistent_request_timeout.
+New setting for SMP support to map Squid processes onto specific CPU cores.
@@ -588,6 +574,9 @@ If-statements can be used to make configuration directives depend on conditions.The else part is optional. The keywords if, else and endif must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular configuration directives.
+Ported from 2.7. Specify the file I/O daemon helper to run for logging.
+Places an upper limit on how stale content Squid will serve from the cache if cache validation fails
@@ -605,8 +594,8 @@ must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular configuration directiv -Ported from 2.7. Specify the file I/O daemon helper to run for logging.
+Renamed from pconn_timeout.
Controls whether the indirect client address found in the X-Forwarded-For @@ -764,9 +753,6 @@ The IPv6 magic 'to_ipv6' hacks needed in 3.1 are now no longer necessary.
This parameter is now compatible with persistent server connections.
-Now only available to be set in Windows builds.
-New options startup=N, idle=N, concurrency=N
Now only available to be set in Windows builds.
+The behaviour controlled by this directive is no longer possible. It has been replaced by connect_retries option which operates a little differently.
+Renamed to server_idle_pconn_timeout
+ +Renamed to client_idle_pconn_timeout
+Replaced by the referrer format option on an access_log directive.
@@ -896,7 +891,7 @@ default is to auto-detect the library and use where available.
No longer takes a list of arguments. This option now is restricted to building with or without for authentication.
+No longer takes a list of arguments. This option now is restricted to building Squid with or without authentication support.
The new --enable-auth-X/--disable-auth-X parameters determine which authentication protocols and helpers are built.
-The Squid Team are pleased to announce the release of Squid-3.2.0.13 for testing.
+The Squid Team are pleased to announce the release of Squid-3.2.0.14 for testing.
This new release is available for download from