[squid-users] Squid 3.1.1 is available

The Squid HTTP Proxy team is very pleased to announce the
availability of the Squid-3.1.1 release!

This is the first release of the Squid-3.1 series which has passed our
criteria for use in production environments.

3.1.1 brings many new features and upgrades to the basic networking
protocols. A short list of the major new features is:

  * Connection Pinning (for NTLM Auth Passthrough)
  * Native IPv6
  * Quality of Service (QoS) Flow support
  * Native Memory Cache
  * SSL Bump (for HTTPS Filtering and Adaptation)
  * TProxy v4.1+ support
  * eCAP Adaptation Module support
  * Error Page Localization
  * Follow X-Forwarded-For support
  * X-Forwarded-For options extended (truncate, delete, transparent)
  * Peer-Name ACL
  * Reply headers to external ACL.
  * ICAP and eCAP Logging
  * ICAP Service Sets and Chains
  * ICY (SHOUTcast) streaming protocol support
  * HTTP/1.1 support on connections to web servers and peers.
    (with plans to make this full support within the 3.1 series)

Further details can be found in the release notes or the wiki.
   http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.1/RELEASENOTES.html
   http://wiki.squid-cache.org/RoadMap/Squid3

3.1.1 still has some issues.

Some may still be resolved by a future 3.1 release:
  * IPv4 fall-back occasionally failing on dual IPv4/IPv6 websites.
  * An ongoing very slow FD leak introduced somewhere during the
Squid-3.0 cycle to AUFS.
  * Windows support is still largely missing.
  * Build status for the 3.x series is still largely unknown for Unix
based OS and other less popular systems.

Some are not able to be fixed in the 3.1 series:
  * The lack of some features available in Squid-2.x series. See the
regression sections of the release notes for full details.
  * The lack of IPv6 split-stack support for MacOSX, OpenBSD and maybe
others.

All users of Squid-3.1 beta releases are urged to upgrade to this
release as soon as possible.

3.0.STABLE25 is expected to be the last release of the 3.0 series.
Support for Squid-3.0 bug fixes has now officially ceased. Bugs in 3.0
will continue to be fixed, however the fixes will be added to the 3.1
series. All users of Squid-3.0 are encouraged to plan for upgrades
within the year.

Plans for the next series of releases is already well underway. Our
future release plans and upcoming features can be found at:
   http://wiki.squid-cache.org/RoadMap/Squid3

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 Mon Mar 29 2010 - 11:45:52 MDT