From des at linpro.no Wed Sep 20 17:47:18 2006 From: des at linpro.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:47:18 +0200 Subject: Varnish 1.0 released Message-ID: On behalf of the Varnish team, I have the great pleasure and honor of announcing the release of Varnish 1.0, the first production release of the Varnish high-performance HTTP accelerator. When we set out to design and implement a high-performance HTTP accelerator about a year ago, we knew that we could improve on the state of the art, but we did not quite realize how much room for improvement there was. A year later, we have an HTTP accelerator that can run at wire speed on cheap off-the-shelf hardware. The difference in performance between Varnish and our closest open source competitor is almost two orders of magnitude. We are fully aware that Varnish is still a little rough around the edges, particularly with regard to documentation. However, we are confident that the code is sound, and that Varnish is ready to be deployed in production environments. We are also confident that the open source community will assist us in identifying those areas which require improvement, and we are committed to the continued maintenance and development of Varnish. NOTE: At a late stage of the release process, we identified a bug in a codepath used under high-load situations, which could cause throughput in such situations to fluctuate, following a sawtooth curve. We have therefore rolled a new tarball with version number 1.0.1. Get Varnish: http://www.varnish-cache.org/ DES -- Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav Senior Software Developer Linpro AS - www.linpro.no