From phk at phk.freebsd.dk Wed Jul 7 22:52:29 2010 From: phk at phk.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:52:29 +0000 Subject: Varnish Moral License (almost) pays for half-time developer. Message-ID: <40110.1278543149@critter.freebsd.dk> Midsummer night came and went, and it is time for another status email from the Varnish Software Project. Varnish Moral License ===================== A little over half a year ago, I instigated the "Varnish Moral License" to fund development and bugfixing of the Varnish HTTP Cache software package. This has been a great success: I have been working half-time on Varnish since january 1st, resulting in dozens of bugfixes many new features and a couple of releases. To the 8 companies who bought Varnish Moral Licenses: A BIG Thank You! You can read more about the Varnish Moral License including accounting of money and hours here: http://phk.freebsd.dk/VML/ Now, the bad news is that strictly speaking the VML scheme is running in the red. I have worked 508 hours, but since some of the outstanding invoices cover dates in the future, only 472 of those hours have been funded. I am as much an idealist as the next guy in Open Source Software, but I also have a mortgage to pay and kids to keep warm and happy, and while those 36 hours are not going to bankrupt me, they come on top of all the time I spend replying to varnish-related emails and helping out on the varnish IRC channels _and_ the VML being invoiced at my absolutely lowest possible hourly rate. Unless I can increase the VML license fees by approx EUR2000/month, I will have to pace my Varnish work a little bit, in order to not actually loose money on it. Send me email if your company is interested in helping fill this gap. Another and much cheapr way to show that you appreciate Varnish is to surprise me with good books. It doesn't pay my mortgage, but it makes me very happy: http://www.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/1XSZNDWXKIAS0 With that bit of begging over with, let me give you a bit of status: Release Status: 2.1.3 ====================== We are trying to get a 2.1.3 release canididate tested and released this month, contents will be something like the top part of this test-patch: http://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/_.2.1.3.patch 2.1.3 will probably also contain the new Tutorial that Per Buer of Varnish Software has written. Release Status: 3.0 ==================== My main focus is on Varnish 3.0, which will be better, shinier, safer, cooler, will cure the common cold while always showing correct signal strength bars, no matter which hand you hold it with. To be honest I have no idea what will be in Varnish 3.0: That depends entirely on how much time I manage to spend before we release it and how many bugs I have to track down. Tentatively, I am aiming for a release around december 2010, but we may do an "preview" release earlier than that. Right now I am working on the VCL compiler, to add support for expressions, functions (such as type conversions) and external modules. This will allow stuff like: // Not sure what this actually means... if (beresp.ttl + beresp.grace < client.grace - duration(beresp.http.extra, 30s)) { [...] } and: set resp.http.Expires = now + 4.5h; and: // Overwrite client.ip, if X-Forwarded-For is valid IP# set client.ip = IP(req.http.x-forwarded.for, client.ip); and: // Much neater than inline-C module geoip; [...] set bereq.http.country = geoip.country(client.ip); Dynamic stats-counter allocation is almost working, so that we can get per-backend, per-vcl, per-storage etc. etc. statistics. In the background I am experimenting with streaming pass and fetch and several other points from the extensive TODO list I brought home from VUG2 in Amsterdam. The main reason we bump the major number from 2 to 3, is that I want to fix up some inconsistencies and bad naming choices, to make varnish more intuitive. For instance we have "purges" which are really "bans" and an experimental "nuke" which is really a "purge", and we have queued requests showing up as "overflowed" in the stats etc. etc. Other Varnish stuff =================== Anybody want to arrange Varnish User Group meeting #3 ? The VUG2 participants, inspired by then recent volcanism wanted to go to Iceland, but we will take any reasonably accessible location. I have a new presentation brewing, aimed at a CMS audiences. It has been proposed to DrupalCon2010 in Copenhagen and T3CON10 in Frankfurt, will update Wiki as events develop. Thanks for listening, enjoy your (Antipode ? Winter : Summer) Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk at 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. From tfheen at varnish-software.com Wed Jul 28 12:35:58 2010 From: tfheen at varnish-software.com (Tollef Fog Heen) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:35:58 +0200 Subject: Varnish 2.1.3 released Message-ID: <878w4vyea9.fsf@qurzaw.linpro.no> We are pleased to announce Varnish 2.1.3, a bug fix and feature release in the Varnish 2.1 series. The most notable changes are: * The scalability of critbit, the default hashing method, has been improved * A bug in varnishd would in some cases confuse varnishncsa leading to lost or wrong log lines. * Some bugs in the handling of Range requests has been fixed. This only matters if you enable Range support. * Add ?log? command to VCL which will log to the Varnish log. This is a summary of the changes, please see the changelog for a fuller list. The release can be downloaded from Sourceforge, as usual: http://sourceforge.net/projects/varnish/ -- Tollef Fog Heen, on behalf of the Varnish development team