[squid-users] Squid 3.1.0.9 beta is available

The Squid HTTP Proxy team is very pleased to announce the
availability of the Squid-3.1.0.9 beta release!

Another release with large amounts of improvements. Most of the large
changes this time have been fixes for the distribution packaging side of
things as more operating system distributions begin to package beta
releases. If you are packaging Squid for any OS and have to apply
patches to get it to build or install, now is the perfect time to bring
them to our attention on the squid-dev mailing list.

Again the diff patch to upgrade from 3.1.0.8 has been omitted this
release due to its size. Please grab a clean copy of the bundles or rsync.

The result of bug 2395: "FTP auth errors not displayed" being closed now
is that FTP downloads from servers requiring FTP login now appear to be
producing authentication popups from most browsers. An old
often-remarked absence with the FTP fetch process.

Two new minor configuration options are added this release:
   - Bug 2682: Add ftp_epsv control to disable EPSV support.
   - Add "tag" type acl matching tags set by external acl helpers.

The error page templates are now fully updated to new ISO-639 codes and
translations. The old named languages are gone starting with this
release. Also a script and data file have been added to the package
which creates aliases for auto-negotiation of languages known to have
multiple country codes.

In other news some more minor changes are:
   - Port from 2.7: Show local address on listening sockets
   - Fix many Windows port issues
   - Fix squid_kerb_auth helper install location
   - Better detection of IPv6 stack types
   - Updates Licensing information for Squid 3.1

Please refer to the release notes at
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.1/RELEASENOTES.html
if and 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/

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 Sun Jun 28 2009 - 04:44:26 MDT