Re: [squid-users] Re: Squid-2.5.STABLE9 available

From: Reuben Farrelly <reuben-squid-dev@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:06:19 +1300

(Taken from squid-users to squid-dev as it is probably more relevant here)

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

>> What ever happened to Squid 3.0? Did development stop or is it
>> continuing in the background?
>
>
> It is continuing in the background.
>
>> What can we expect from it if it is still being developed?
>
>
> In terms of functionality there is mostly news for people running Squid
> as reverse proxy, but there is also a few interesting bits for normal
> proxy use such as custom log formats, selective logging to more than one
> log file, much improved redirector and authenticattor interfaces and a
> bit more.
>
> Internally there is a lot of changes as Squid is undergoing a transition
> from C to C++ to ease future maintenance and development, including
> redesign and cleanup of a lot of the internals of Squid.

Other than this bug:

http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1244

which is pretty critical for me (as I can't compile squid-3-CVS at the
moment with FC4-devel), I think perhaps it is time to tag another -DEVEL
release. There are probably other good bug candidates to fix before
releasing anything (#1218 springs to mind also), but I suggest that any
critical bugs which prevent the binary building and segfaulting
immediately when started up be fixed first. At least then, there is an
opportunity for other bug reports to be submitted.

Last release was tagged 17 months ago in August 2003, a lot of commits
have gone in since then. Perhaps the release of another -PRE will send
the message that that development work hasn't in fact stalled.

Comments?

reuben
Received on Mon Mar 07 2005 - 19:06:33 MST

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