[squid-users] Squid 2.6.STABLE1 released

The Squid Web Proxy developers are pleased to announce the availability
of the Squid-2.6.STABLE1 release, celebrating the 10 years anniversary
of Squid.

Squid-2.6 is based on the Squid-2.5 codebase, but has many new
enhancements and features which have been developed over the last three
years while Squid-2.5 has been in it's feature frozen STABLE cycle, and
these have now been rolled into this formal Squid-2.6 release.

Squid-2.6 is planned to be the last major Squid-2 release. Further
development will go into the much awaited Squid-3 train of software
which is under active development.

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

   http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.6/
   ftp://ftp.squid-cache.org/pub/squid-2/DEVEL/

or the mirrors. For a list of mirror sites see

   http://www.squid-cache.org/Mirrors/http-mirrors.html
   http://www.squid-cache.org/Mirrors/ftp-mirrors.html

The release has passed a wide array of quality checks and is the current
release recommended for production use. With this release Squid-2.5 is
no longer actively maintained as the developers will focus on the
current releases (i.e. 2.6 for production and 3.0 for development/test)

The most important new additions in this Squid-2.6 release are:

  * Major rewrite of the code and simplication of the configuration
    which handles reverse-proxy or transparently intercepting mode
    of operation

  * WCCPv2 support

  * Support for epoll under Linux and kqueue under FreeBSD for heavily
    loaded servers

  * ETag and Vary HTTP header support

  * Numerous authentication improvements

  * Enhanced operation and integration with and into Microsoft Windows

For a more information on the individual changes see the Squid-2.6
changes page
<url:http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.6/changesets/>,

For more information on changes to squid.conf and other notes related to
upgrading from Squid-2.5 see the RELEASENOTES
<url:http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.6/RELEASENOTES.html>

We openly welcome and encourage bug reports should you run into any
issues with the new release. Bug reports can be entered into the Squid
Bugzilla database at <url:http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/index.cgi>.

This Squid-2.6 software was brought to you by Henrik Nordstrom and the
rest of the Squid Web Proxy Developer team, and is in part based on
countless third-party contributions made available over the years. Many
thanks to all contributors who have either hired Squid developers for
developing new features of submitted new features themselves.

Note: If there is interest in becoming an official sponsor for the
ongoing Squid maintenance or development efforts please contact
info@squid-cache.org.

Best regards
The Squid Web Proxy developers