[squid-users] Squid 3.1.6 is available

The Squid HTTP Proxy team is very pleased to announce the
availability of the Squid-3.1.6 release!

This release brings a functionality bump for several operating systems
and bug fixes over previous releases.

  * A update of the squid-cache.org packaging systems has occurred.

This and later packages now support Libtool 2.2. We hit several
compatibility issues in the process and hacks have had to be implemented
to retain support for older Libtool on build systems. One small issue
remains yet to be closed satisfactorily in the loadable-modules feature
below eCAP.

Limited support for IPv6 split-stack has been worked out.

This means that users of MacOS X, OpenBSD and any others which forcibly
disabled IPv6 due to lack of Squid support may enable as desired. IPv6
DNS and contact with IPv6 clients is fully operational. Contact with
IPv6-enabled websites and several management protocols is partially
supported although some special squid.conf alterations are needed.

The Database-backed basic authentication helper has Joomla and MD5
support added with optional salting.

Several other bugs have been resolved in this release:

   - Bug 2991: Wrong parameters to fcntl() in commSetCloseOnExec()
   - Bug 2975: chunked requests not supported after regular ones
   - Bug 2985: search scope for digest_ldap_auth didn't work
   - Bug 2963: Stop ignoring --with-valgrind-debug failures
   - Bug 2885: AIX support: several fixes
   - Bug 2651: crash handling NULL write callback
   - Fix: 32-bit overflow in reported bytes received from next hop
   - Fixed several memory leaks related to Range requests
   - Fixed SASL helper build checks
   - Updated error page translations

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/
       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 Tue Aug 03 2010 - 12:14:19 MDT