Squid-2.7 being moved to "old releases"

With the release of Squid-3.2 it's about time we drop Squid-2.7 as a
supported release. Maintenance of Squid-2 have already fallen way
behind, not receiving anywhere close to the attention deserved for a
"supported release" with all currently active developers mainly focusing
on Squid-3.

Squid-3 have in the meantime also gained a lot of interesting
functionality, both ported from Squid-2 and new functionality,
considerably closing the upgrade feature gap. There is still some
feature gap left, but it is getting smaller and smaller.

One way to see this is that if you or someone you know is stuck in
Squid-2.7 for some reason then it's about time to look into solving that
now. In reality that should have been done years ago.

In practice it does not mean that much as maintenance of Squid-2.7 is
already practically stopped with last release over a year ago. Partly
because there isn't very much left to fix in the release, but also
because there simply isn't any project resources actively working on
Squid-2 maintenance.

There is some bug fixes pending in the Squid-2 merge queue, sufficient
to compose a final release, but if you know of any more Squid-2 bugs
that really should be fixed please speak up now.

Then there is some feature stuff in Squid-2.HEAD, but I think these will
remain there. I do not see sufficient momentum for branching a Squid-2.8
release.

See http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.HEAD/changesets/merge.html
for lists of both pending merges to 2.7 and 2.HEAD specific features.

So at the moment it looks like there will be one final Squid-2.7 release
collecting some pending bug fixes, after which maintenance of the
Squid-2 tree will cease completely, enabling the project to focus
entirely on Squid-3.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Mon Jun 20 2011 - 23:09:03 MDT