Re: Announce: squid-3.0PRE3 (release candidate)

On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 23:45:28 +1000, Robert Collins wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 23:18, Evgeny Kotsuba wrote:
>
>
>> And next point is that any human can realize only up to 7 points. Users
>> will ask me what is difference from previous squid and is there any
>> reasons to migrate from 2.3/2.4/2.5 So it is desirable to have
>> something like "7 main changes"
>
> I'm not sure. '7 main changes' would be very hard to select. Theres over
> a year of development between squid 2.5 and 3.0, and (as you can see)
> many changes. In the release notes we already separate out the bug stuff
> from the syntax changes.
>

Here what I'd call key:
        - configuration for the common case is vastly simpler
        - cleanup http proxying versus http acceleration seperation
                : these two changes make it trivial to get squid up and running
        - improved authentication infrastructure
                : Easily! hook up NTLM, LDAP, NIS, etc.
        - support encrypted peers, SSL gatewaying, SSL hardware acceleration
        - support for millions of clients
                : via epoll (Linux), kqueue (FreeBSD), completion ports(?) (Win32)
        - enhanced reliability via an automated test suite,
        - native Win32 port, take over ISA one server at a time

Remember, "Lies, damned lies and marketing material". Or similiar.

Anand
Received on Tue Aug 19 2003 - 19:09:25 MDT