[squid-users] Squid 3.1.0.14 beta is available

The Squid HTTP Proxy team is very pleased to announce the
availability of the Squid-3.1.0.14 beta release!

This release contains fixes for a large number of bugs. Mostly annoyance
bugs and behavior corrections.

The most notable change is a collection of bugs within NTLM and
Negotiate authentication. This release builds on many small fixes across
earlier releases with a great simplification of NTLM handling. Which
covers and resolves a wide array of possible issues not formally
reported and a small few which were.

Another fix (Bug 2745) cleans up one final annoyance left after security
advisory 2009:2. This is not a critical problem, but can lead to clients
receiving unnecessary errors (fail-closed) when the network is slowed by
load or long-distance requests.

Some very interesting changes this time around:

  - Linux TPROXY support has gained IPv6 capability. With a proviso that
the kernel and associated firewall have been updated to also support it.
We know this has been a blocker problem for some.

  - ESI has been fixed up to operate in 'multi-mode' Squid. This means
you can now operate Squid as an ESI accelerator, a non-ESI accelerator
and a forward-proxy in one binary instance if you need to.

  - Digest Authentication LDAP has been fixed and now supports TLS.

  - Gopher support in 3.x has now been tested and all known issues resolved.

Users of Squid-3.1 needing NTLM, Negotiate, or ESI are encouraged to
move up to this release as soon as possible.

Please refer to the release notes at
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.1/RELEASENOTES.html
if and when you are ready to make the switch to Squid-3.1

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

      http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.1/
      ftp://ftp.squid-cache.org/pub/squid/

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 Wed Sep 30 2009 - 08:08:46 MDT