[squid-users] Please help testing Squid-2.5.STABLE7-RC3

Hello Squid Users,

Sorry for bothering you once again with this request, but some bugs has
been discovered recently and required substantial changes to core
components of Squid postponing the Squid-2.5.STABLE7 release for a few
days more. We surely hope this is the very last release candidate for
2.5.STABLE7.

The Squid-2.5.STABLE7 release is currently scheduled for Monday Oct 11,
but as before it still needs a little more testing before getting a STABLE
approval stamp. To aid in this we would be thankful if some of you could
test the Squid-2.5.STABLE7-RC3 release candidate before this date in a
controlled manner, especially in areas changed by the current patches.

The current release candidate Squid-2.5.STABLE7-RC3 can be found from our
web server until Squid-2.5.STABLE7 gets officially released

      Squid-2.5 Release
      <url:http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/>

For information about what has changed since 2.5.STABLE6 see

      Squid-2.5.STABLE6 patches
      <url:http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/#STABLE6>

      Squid-2.5.STABLE7-RC3 ChangeLog
      <url:http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/squid-2.5.STABLE7-RC3-ChangeLog.txt>
      [also included in the distribution]

      Squid-2.5.STABLE7-RC3 ReleaseNotes
      <url:http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/squid-2.5.STABLE7-RC3-RELEASENOTES.html>
      [also included in the distribution]

Changes since RC2:

      - [Medium] new reply_header_max_size directive
        (Bug #874)
      - [Medium] suspected instability on aborted PUT/POST request
        (Bug #1089)

Changes since RC1:

      - [Cosmetic] ncsa_auth now accepts Window formatted password files
        (Bug #1078)
      - [Cosmetic] Support the --program-prefix/suffix options or other
        configure program name transforms (Bug #1019)
      - [Minor] Fix race condition in CONNECT and also handle aborts of
        CONNECT requests in a more graceful manner. (Bug #859)
      - [Minor] New balance_on_multiple_ip directive to work around certain
        broken load balancers and optimized ipcache on reload requests
        (Bug #1058)

Please report any problems found to our bug database

      Squid Bugs <url:http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/>

and any success stories to

      Squid Developers <squid-dev@squid-cache.org>

For information on how to report bugs if a problem is found in your testing see

      Squid FAQ 11.19 Sending in Squid bug reports
      <url:http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-11.html#ss11.19>

      Squid FAQ 11.20 Debugging Squid
      <url:http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-11.html#ss11.20>

Please try to include the information requested in the above documents in
your bug reports as applicable. Especially important is to get a stack
trace on crashes or fatal errors where your Squid terminates.

If you own or otherwise know of an existing bug report you consider
important to have fixed before Squid-2.5.STABLE7 is released please leave
a note saying so in the bug report in question.

For questions regarding installation, upgrading or configuring please use
the mailinglist. If unsure if your problem is a bug or a configuration
error ask here on the mailinglist first.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Tue Oct 05 2004 - 17:28:50 MDT