Re: [squid-users] Squid 3.1.10 is available

From: David Touzeau <david_at_touzeau.eu>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:52:19 +0100

A new version for the christmas

Many thanks for the gift !

Le samedi 25 décembre 2010 à 00:55 +1300, Amos Jeffries a écrit :
> The Squid HTTP Proxy team is very pleased to announce the
> availability of the Squid-3.1.10 release!
>
>
> This release brings a long list of bug fixes and some further HTTP/1.1
> improvements into 3.1.
>
> Some small but cumulative memory leaks were found and fixed in Digest
> authentication and adaptation ACL processing.
>
> New limits are placed on memory consumption when uploading files and
> when using delay pools. Previously Squid would pull in as much as
> possible from the source and slowly deliver it. Which would lead to
> massive memory consumption and other stranger problems with upload tools
> and timeouts. A directive (client_request_buffer_max_size) has been
> added to limit consumption, a default of 512KB has been picked so as not
> to slow any small transfers.
>
> cache_dir problems on 64-bit systems needing to store large (>2GB)
> individual objects has been fixed. Along with a capacity accounting fix
> which expected to enable caches >2TB to be used now. The total object
> count limit remains unchanged, these fixes are for multi-TB caches
> dedicated to very large objects.
>
>
> The squid.conf parser now reports useful messages when processing a
> config file with obsolete directives. Where these used to just get a
> "bungled" message they will now report what needs to be done to update
> config file. "bungled" will still occur on completely unknown directives.
> Please run "squid -k parse" while upgrading to correct outstanding
> config garbage. Obsolete directives are not always fatal now.
>
>
> HTTP/1.1 If-Match, If-None-Match and If-Modified-Since features are now
> supported. Early adopters in testing have noticed that some browsers may
> appear to receive a larger proportion of MISS'es while the rest are
> receiving HITs. Investigation has traced this to HTTP variants and is a
> separate older bug in Squid. These features are making Squid outputs
> more reliable.
>
> HTTP extension Set-Cookie2 and Cookie2 headers are now registered as
> known and may be controlled with the header access controls.
>
>
> See the ChangeLog for the list of other minor changes in this release.
>
>
> Users of Squid-3 experiencing memory or large cache problems are urged
> to upgrade as soon as possible.
>
> All users of older Squid are encouraged to upgrade as time permits.
>
>
> Please refer to the release notes at
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.1/RELEASENOTES.html
> when you are ready to make the switch to Squid-3.1
>
> This new release can be downloaded from our HTTP or FTP servers
>
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.1/
> ftp://ftp.squid-cache.org/pub/squid/
> ftp://ftp.squid-cache.org/pub/archive/3.1/
>
> or the mirrors. For a list of mirror sites see
>
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Download/http-mirrors.dyn
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Download/mirrors.dyn
>
> If you encounter any issues with this release please file a bug report.
> http://bugs.squid-cache.org/
>
>
> Amos Jeffries
Received on Fri Dec 24 2010 - 12:52:37 MST

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