[squid-users] Squid 3.2.0.1 beta is available

The Squid HTTP Proxy team is very pleased to announce the
availability of the Squid-3.2.0.1 beta release!

This new 3.2 series of Squid brings useful new features and changes
providing improved stability over earlier release series.

More detailed descriptions of the major new features are available in
the release notes and wiki:
   http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.2/RELEASENOTES.html
   http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Squid-3.2

Detailed lists of the ./configure build and squid.conf changes can also
be found in the release notes.

This code is released as beta for wider testing purposes and potential
use. There are several background changes we still hope to incorporate
before production release. However there are no more planned major
alterations to the existing ./configure options or squid.conf options.

All users looking at testing with this release series need to be aware
of the naming changes made to the Squid helpers. This affects both
the build options and the configuration of nearly all helpers.
see the release notes.

High performance users will want to start looking at the initial SMP
multi-process support, logging and helper on-demand features.

Reverse-Proxy / Content Delivery users will want to look at the
Surrogate/1.0 protocol support which is on and advertised as of this
release and the peer login changes.

Captive portal users will want to look into the changes with EUI/MAC
support along with deny_info and additional ERR_AGENT_* templates available.

Users suffering with authentication resource leakages or crashes in the
earlier Squid-3.x series will want to look at upgrading to this release.
There has been a major stability upgrade to the authentication systems
in 3.2. Including a looking-glass report of current and recently
logged-in users.

Users with url_rewrite helpers performing simple tasks need to look at
deny_info which can now be templated to replace the crude re-writing
with true HTTP protocol compliant redirection.

Users having trouble with the TPROXY feature combined with third-party
programs such as DansGuardian will want to look at the TPROXY changes in
this release.

Users having trouble with bandwidth management and partial requests will
want to look at the ACL support now available for range_offset_limit.

Please refer to the release notes at
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.2/RELEASENOTES.html
if and when you are ready to make the switch to Squid-3.2

This new release can be downloaded from our HTTP or FTP servers

       http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.2/
       ftp://ftp.squid-cache.org/pub/squid/
       ftp://ftp.squid-cache.org/pub/archive/3.2/

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 - 13:26:44 MDT