From phk at phk.freebsd.dk Sun Jan 2 22:17:53 2011 From: phk at phk.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:17:53 +0000 Subject: Happy New Varnish Year! Message-ID: <13843.1294006673@critter.freebsd.dk> A quick news-letter from your varnish-coder, on the occation of the new year: 1. The 3rd Varnish User Group meeting (VUG3) -------------------------------------------- VUG3 will take place in Amsterdam on February 14 & 15 2010 Tom-Tom has kindly offered to host the meeting. If you arrive late and say "I couldn't find it", you will be mocked. Sign up at: http://varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/VUG3 Ask for wiki bit in the IRC channel if you don't have one. There are only 9 seats left at this point. 2. Varnish 3.0 boiling in the pot --------------------------------- I won't bore you with how I lost my December, but I'm be working furiously on finishing Varnish 3.0 so we can tell you all about it at the VUG3. Some of you spotted a gzip library being committed during X-mas, you know what that means. 3. Varnish Moral Licenses ------------------------- Funding looks good. A big THANKYOU to the companies which have taken out a license. After five years (see below) I have finally adjusted my hourly rate to the inflation. Next thing you know I will update my home-page too. Follow the status of the Varnish Moral License here: http://phk.freebsd.dk/VML/ Also a big thanks for the X-mas gifts from my Amazon wishlist: http://www.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/1XSZNDWXKIAS0 Should I mention my birthday is jan 20 ? Nahhh... :-) 4. Who put 545k websites on Varnish in December ? ------------------------------------------------- "Varnish gained 545k hostnames": http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2010/12/01/december-2010-web-server-survey.html I'd love to hear the story behind that, drop me an email if you know it. 5. Varnish is five years old about now -------------------------------------- Not that any code had been written at that point but I spent quality time with blank paper and a sharp pencils during the first months of 2006 and I'm pleased to say that I had absolutely no idea how far reaching those doodles would become. We'll raise a glass to the occasion in Amsterdam. In the meantime: May your hitrate be good, 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 kristian at varnish-software.com Thu Jan 27 13:40:00 2011 From: kristian at varnish-software.com (Kristian Lyngstol) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:40:00 +0100 Subject: Varnish 2.1.5 released Message-ID: <20110127134000.GB2126@freud> We are pleased to announce Varnish 2.1.5, a bug fix and feature release in the Varnish 2.1 series. The most notable changes are: * Two bugs relating to Content-Length and possible duplication of Content-Length headers have been resolved. * Support for bourn-like "here"-documents in the command line interface, allowing <<__EOF__ and similar schemes. * Fixed an issue with re-using connections after Chunked-Encoding. * Fix a bug that would inflate the "lost header" count and could cause problems during heavy traffic over a single connection, typically seen by load testing. * Use the time of cache-insertion for "If-Modified-Since" requests if a "Last-Modified" header isn't provided by the backend. * Merge multi-line Vary and Cache-Control headers from clients, which Google Chromium seem to split up. * Various build fixes and documentation improvements * Various bug fixes. This is a summary of the changes, please see the changelog for a fuller list. The release can be downloaded from http://www.varnish-cache.org/releases/varnish-cache-2.1.5 -- Kristian Lyngst?l, on behalf of the Varnish Developers