Thanks to our new energy, we have been able to chase down and close a fair number of weird bugs in Varnish, and right now, -trunk looks pretty solid.
Subject to the quantum-murphy-o-meter freaking out, I think we are ready to cut a 2.1 branch, maybe even in time for VUG2. This will become the new "-stable" release branch, and it is probably a good idea for you to plan to migrate to it at some point. I really appreciate the effort some of you already are throwing at crashing -trunk for me, and urge everybody to get in on that game before the release. I can't offer your cheques signed by Donald Knuth, for each bug you find, but I really do appreciate the effort and quality of bug-reports. To be honest, I have somewhat lost track of what has and what hasn't been merged into 2.0, so I skimmed the 25k+ line diff between -trunk and 2.0 and noticed: * A lot less bugs. * Dynamic minimum sizing of per-object storage. * Max number of HTTP headers a parameter. * -hcritbit the default, should be faster, self sizing. * -spersistent still aprototype, but it might be usable for a limited number of setups already now. * saint-mode. It's complicated to explain, but smart. * Authentication of CLI connections. * New expressive ban/purge syntax * ban-lurker to try to keep purge-list length under control * New "hash" director, distributes backend traffic according to the object hash-key. * New "client" directors, distributes backend traffic according to client IP#. * Separate VCL access to request sent to backend, reply from backend. * Elimination of magic numbers in varnishtest testcases (+23 new tests) * (More?) correct handling of HTTP/1.0 <-> HTTP/1.1 headers. + probably a lot of details I overlooked. + whatever bugs we manage to fix before 2.1 is cut. On the down-side: * -spersistent still not done. * Various solaris issues still not resolved. * You need to change your VCL at bit. * We still have a half hundred open tickets. * Some new bugs, didn't see them, but I know they are there. Enjoy, Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list varnish-misc@projects.linpro.no http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
