From tfheen at varnish-software.com  Wed May 11 13:03:23 2011
From: tfheen at varnish-software.com (Tollef Fog Heen)
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 15:03:23 +0200
Subject: Varnish 3.0 beta 1 released
Message-ID: <87d3jp2xus.fsf@qurzaw.varnish-software.com>


We are pleased to announce the first beta for Varnish Cache 3.0.0.  It
has been a little more than a year since Varnish Cache 2.1.0 was
released and we have been working hard.

Some highlights include:

 * Preliminary streaming support, both on miss and on pass.

 * Compression and uncompression support, including stiching together
   compressed ESI fragments.

 * Plugins (vmods)

 * Much improved documentation

 * Better default values for parameters

 * Varnishncsa now has custom log format support

 * Varnishlog, varnishncsa and varnishhist can now filter out records
   that match multiple expressions.

In addition to various bug fixes and other improvements.  Please see
http://varnish-cache.org/trac/browser/doc/changes.rst for a fuller list
of changes, and the more in-depth review of the changes on
http://www.varnish-software.com/blog/

The release can be downloaded from
http://www.varnish-cache.org/releases/varnish-cache-3.0-beta1

-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
Varnish Software
t: +47 21 98 92 64



From phk at phk.freebsd.dk  Wed May 18 20:19:08 2011
From: phk at phk.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 20:19:08 +0000
Subject: Varnish 3.0: Please help test.
Message-ID: <6054.1305749948@critter.freebsd.dk>


Hi,

It's me, your Varnish software developer, got a minute ?

Cool, I'll make it really brief:

As you may, or may not, have noticed, we have pushed out a Varnish
3.0 Beta1 release:

	http://www.varnish-cache.org/releases/varnish-cache-3.0-beta1

The major news are two features:

	GZIP/GUNZIP support, with or without ESI.

	Streaming PASS and FETCH support.

I have also added, undoubtedly, some bugs, and this is where you
come into the picture:

My website gets 75 hits an hour, but I am pretty sure you have a
website that takes more traffic than that, why else would you be
on the Varnish announce mailing list ?

So if you could find a couple of hours to test out Varnish 3.0 and
report back to me how it goes, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance,

Poul-Henning

-- 
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