The Squid HTTP Proxy team is pleased to announce the Squid-2.5.STABLE2 release of Squid.
Squid-2.5.STABLE2 is a major bugfix release of Squid-2.5, containing all the latest bug fixes and corrections at the time of release (a total of 72 fixes and improvements from 2.5.STABLE1). Squid-2.5.STABLE2 is considered the current STABLE release by the Squid HTTP Proxy team and is the release currently recommended for production use. Users of Squid-2.5.STABLE1 or earlier are encouraged to upgrade to Squid-2.5.STABLE2, or at a minimum carefully investigate the full list of bugfixes to determine if an upgrade is required or not for your environment. Key changes in Squid-2.5.STABLE2 compared to Squid-2.5.STABLE1: * authentication now works in most access directives if first enforced in http_access * contrib files included in the distribution again as intended. * aufs bugfixes to address both stability and data corruption issues, and some aufs performance improvements. * now possible to specify acl values with spaces in them via the "include file" technique. * winbind helpers updated to match Samba-2.2.7a and should work with Samba-2.2.6 or later. For compatibility with older Samba versions a new configure option --with-samba-sources=... has been added to allow you to specify which Samba version the helpers should be built for if different than the above versions. * squid_ldap_group updated to correctly handle LDAP groups * new experimental configure option --disable-hostname-checks to make Squid not validate that received hostnames are valid for use within HTTP. * several assertion or segmentation faults corrected * a large number of minor bugfixes. See the full list of squid-2.5.STABLE1 patches and the ChangeLog file for details. <url:http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/> The new release can be downloaded from the squid-cache.org mirrors, or directly from http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/ or ftp://ftp.squid-cache.org/pub/squid-2/STABLE/ if no mirror can be found close to you. For a list of known mirrors see HTTP <url:http://www.squid-cache.org/Mirrors/http-mirrors.html> FTP <url:http://www.squid-cache.org/Mirrors/ftp-mirrors.html> Note: If upgrading from Squid-2.4 or earlier then please make sure to read the release notes for important information on changes in configuration directives. Regards The Squid HTTP Proxy team http://www.squid-cache.org/
