Re: [squid-users] Squid 3.2.1 is available

Hi ,
  This is a big milestone achieved. We would love to see a
squid-3.2.1 windows native port getting done.

To initiate I have put a freelance job here
https://www.elance.com/job/32971665/proposals

I am ready to contribute myself also for any tasks that needs to be done.
regards
Kshitij

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
> The Squid HTTP Proxy team is very pleased to announce the availability
> of the Squid-3.2.1 release!
>
>
> This release is we believe, stable enough for general production use.
>
> Support for Squid-3.1 bug fixes has now officially ceased. Bugs in 3.1 will
> continue to be fixed, however the fixes will be added to the 3.2 series. All
> users of Squid-3.1 are encouraged to plan for upgrades.
>
> Support for Squid-2.7 has now officially ceased. Bugs in 2.7 will continue
> to be fixed, however the fixes will be added to the 3.2 series. All users of
> Squid-2.7 are encouraged to plan for upgrades.
>
> A short list of the major new features is:
>
> * CVE-2009-0801 : NAT interception vulnerability to malicious clients.
> * NCSA helper DES algorithm password limits
> * SMP scalability
> * Helper Multiplexer and On-Demand
> * Helper Name Changes
> * Multi-Lingual manuals
> * Solaris 10 pthreads Support
> * Surrogate/1.0 protocol extensions to HTTP
> * Logging Infrastructure Updated
> * Client Bandwidth Limits
> * Better eCAP support
> * Cache Manager access changes
>
> A number of security enhancements in this series are known to be surprising
> if you are not aware of the change. Particularly notice the CVE-2009-0801,
> NCSA, and Helper Name Changes sections of the release notes, and where
> applicable the "regressions since squid-2" release notes section. Those
> changes MAY affect your traffic behaviour in a significant way. Please be
> sure to read the release notes for the 3.2 series before upgrading from
> older versions of Squid.
>
> 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/Squid-3.2
> <http://wiki.squid-cache.org/RoadMap/Squid3>
>
>
> Please remember to run "squid -k parse" when testing upgrade to a new
> version of Squid. It will audit your configuration files and report any
> identifiable issues the new release will have in your installation before
> you "press go". We are still removing the infamous "Bungled Config" halting
> points and adding checks, so if something is not identified please report
> it.
>
>
> All feature additions are considered *experimental* until they have survived
> at least one series of releases in general production use. Please be aware
> of that when rolling out features like SMP support which are new in this
> series. Not all use-cases have been well tested yet and some may not even
> have been implemented. Assistance is still needed despite the releases
> general stability level.
>
> 3.2.1 still has some issues.
>
> Some may still be resolved by a future 3.2 release:
> * Windows support is still largely missing.
> * FreeBSD 9, OpenBSD 5, MacOS are known to encounter build issues.
> * Build status for the 3.2 series is still largely unknown for Unix
> based OS and other less popular systems.
> * Negotiate/NTLM authentication has issues when performed via the
> negotiate_wrapper helper.
>
> Some are not able to be fixed in the 3.2 series:
> * TCP logging of access.log does not recover from broken connections well.
> * SSL-Bump not re-wrapping decrypted traffic in CONNECT for peers.
> * Cache Manager reports in txt/plain format even when requested directly
> via browser.
>
>
> See the ChangeLog for the full list of changes in this and earlier
> releases.
>
>
> All users of Squid-3.1 beta releases are urged to upgrade to this
> release as soon as possible.
>
>
> 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/v3/3.2/RELEASENOTES.html
> when you are ready to make the switch to Squid-3.2
>
> Upgrade tip:
> "squid -k parse" is starting to display even more useful hints about
> squid.conf changes.
>
> 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.html
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Download/mirrors.html
>
> If you encounter any issues with this release please file a bug report.
> http://bugs.squid-cache.org/
>
>
> Amos Jeffries
>
Received on Fri Aug 24 2012 - 05:43:17 MDT