[squid-users] Squid-2.5.STABLE2 released

The Squid HTTP Proxy team is pleased to announce the Squid-2.5.STABLE2
release of Squid.

Squid-2.5.STABLE2 is a major bugfix release of Squid-2.5, containing all
the latest bug fixes and corrections at the time of release (a total of
72 fixes and improvements from 2.5.STABLE1).

Squid-2.5.STABLE2 is considered the current STABLE release by the Squid
HTTP Proxy team and is the release currently recommended for production
use. Users of Squid-2.5.STABLE1 or earlier are encouraged to upgrade to
Squid-2.5.STABLE2, or at a minimum carefully investigate the full list
of bugfixes to determine if an upgrade is required or not for your
environment.

Key changes in Squid-2.5.STABLE2 compared to Squid-2.5.STABLE1:

* authentication now works in most access directives if
  first enforced in http_access

* contrib files included in the distribution again as
  intended.

* aufs bugfixes to address both stability and data corruption
  issues, and some aufs performance improvements.

* now possible to specify acl values with spaces in them via
  the "include file" technique.

* winbind helpers updated to match Samba-2.2.7a and should
  work with Samba-2.2.6 or later. For compatibility with older
  Samba versions a new configure option --with-samba-sources=...
  has been added to allow you to specify which Samba version
  the helpers should be built for if different than the above
  versions.

* squid_ldap_group updated to correctly handle LDAP groups

* new experimental configure option --disable-hostname-checks
  to make Squid not validate that received hostnames are valid
  for use within HTTP.

* several assertion or segmentation faults corrected

* a large number of minor bugfixes. See the full list of
  squid-2.5.STABLE1 patches and the ChangeLog file for details.
  <url:http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/>

The new release can be downloaded from the squid-cache.org mirrors, or
directly from http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/ or
ftp://ftp.squid-cache.org/pub/squid-2/STABLE/ if no mirror can be found
close to you. For a list of known mirrors see

  HTTP <url:http://www.squid-cache.org/Mirrors/http-mirrors.html>
  FTP <url:http://www.squid-cache.org/Mirrors/ftp-mirrors.html>

Note: If upgrading from Squid-2.4 or earlier then please make sure to
read the release notes for important information on changes in
configuration directives.

Regards
The Squid HTTP Proxy team
http://www.squid-cache.org/
Received on Fri Mar 21 2003 - 14:43:13 MST