From tfheen at linpro.no  Wed Oct 15 19:06:44 2008
From: tfheen at linpro.no (Tollef Fog Heen)
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:06:44 +0200
Subject: Varnish 2.0 released!
Message-ID: <874p3dptiz.fsf@qurzaw.linpro.no>


The Varnish development team is proud to announce the release of
Varnish 2.0.  This is the first release of the 2.x series.  It
can be downloaded from
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155816

Key features:

 * ESI include support
 * Round-robin and random backend load balancers
 * Backend health check
 * Serve expired objects, until we have a fresh one
 * OpenSolaris support
 * Much improved malloc backend, particularly on Linux
 * Lots and lots of bug fixes

Known issues:

 * Varnishreplay does not work on Linux

All users of Varnish are encouraged to upgrade to this new
version, it is substantially more stable, has more features and
better performance.

Please report any bugs in trac, at
http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/newticket

For a full list of changes, please see the changelog available at
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=155816&release_id=633519

--
Tollef Fog Heen, Varnish Release Manager
on behalf of the Varnish team


From tfheen at linpro.no  Fri Oct 17 19:29:54 2008
From: tfheen at linpro.no (Tollef Fog Heen)
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:29:54 +0200
Subject: Varnish 2.0.1 released
Message-ID: <87myh3c959.fsf@qurzaw.linpro.no>


Varnish 2.0.1 has just been released.  This release contains a fix for a
denial of service vulnerability in which Varnish could crash when
receiving a malformed HTTP request.

2.0.1 also contains a fix for the ACL compilation code and a fix for the
RPM spec file.

The source can be downloaded from the usual location:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155816&package_id=173643

All users are advised to upgrade immediately.

-- 
Tollef Fog Heen