2.6.PRE1 is out the door

The 2.6.PRE1 release has been shipped.

  http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.6/

Have a good feeling about it in general, but much testing remains.

Open issues where you can help:

  - WCCPv2 workaround for Linux/IOS when having multiple routers. Should
use one connected socket per router.

  - Some ETag tunings to get rid of "Loop" warnings on odd responses
(Henrik)

  - Release notes still a bit empty. Only covers squid.conf changes, not
why or how to.. (Reuben)

  - diskd still as broken as in 2.5.. (see bugzilla)

  - and a number of other 2.5 issues which have not yet been solved (see
bugzilla)

  - Some benchmarking is needed to see if comm_poll is really worth to
keep, or if comm_select is actually better. The current comm_poll
implementation looks extremely inefficient (same as it always been in
2.x)..

Note: The comm event handling got shuffled around a little in the last
days making life considerably easier for epoll and select, which also
made the inefficiencies in the implementation of comm_poll much more
apparent.

Discussion:

  - Should we fix HTCP to comply with the RFC? The Squid implementation
has several errors in it's implementation of the HTCP protocol messages
making it quite outside of the RFC.. See Bug #1554.

Regards
Henrik