From phk at phk.freebsd.dk  Tue Oct  4 07:22:43 2011
From: phk at phk.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 07:22:43 +0000
Subject: VUG4 report / Future of VUG ?
Message-ID: <69119.1317712963@critter.freebsd.dk>


The fourth Varnish User Group meeting is over, and as usual I want
to share my thoughts about it with our users.

This was the first VUG on the American Continent and also the first
where we did not have everybody sitting around a table, so it was
a different VUG4 than it used to be.

It was also the largest so far, peaking sometimes at 40-50 persons.

But the SURGE/2011 conference association clearly skewed the audience,
in the sense that there were "just peeking in" attendees, something
we have not previously seen, so the number of filled chairs is not
directly comparable to previous VUGs.

We tried hard to avoid the developers hi-jacking the forum with
stuff they could easily discuss elsewhere, without boring everybody
else.  Not quite sure we succeeded entirely, but we did try.

But there is no escaping that this "User Group" is still very much
being pushed by the Varnish developers, and to be honest, I had
hoped and expected to see more user involvement by now.

It could well be that there isn't much users have to say to each
other about Varnish, or it may be that Varnish does not give people
enough heartburn to make travel to VUG's seem like a good investment
of their time.

If that is the case, I'm perfectly happy to continue the current
VUG meeting model as a forum for developer-user interaction and
for those users who needs some developer face-time.

But if people don't go to VUG's because they are not what users
want, and not what users need, then we should drop the VUG concept,
and instead focus on what users want and need.

But that sort of depends on you, the users, telling us why you did
_not_ go to the VUG4, and what we could have done to make you attend.

Please drop me a private email on the subject...

Poul-Henning


PS: In case you havn't noticed, we have a new Varnish Developer,
Andreas "scoof" Plesner Jacobsen, who wants to make our documentation
much better and who has already improved it a lot.

Much appreciated Andreas!

-- 
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 Oct 26 13:12:30 2011
From: tfheen at varnish-software.com (Tollef Fog Heen)
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:12:30 +0200
Subject: Varnish 3.0.2 released
Message-ID: <87d3djnbgh.fsf@qurzaw.varnish-software.com>


It is my pleasure to announce the release of Varnish 3.0.2, the second
maintenance release in the 3.0 series.  Some of the most notable changes
include:

* A crasher bug when requests were queued and the backend sent a
  response with Vary has been fixed

* A crash when a too large synthetic response was produced has been
  fixed.

* The ban lurker now properly sleeps the 1 second it is supposed to

* Varnish now releases disk space properly if no -s argument is
  provided, and the default cache size is now 100MB instead of 50% of
  the available disk space

A fuller list of changes is available in the changes document, available
at http://varnish-cache.org/trac/browser/doc/changes.rst

Installation instructions and sources are available from
https://www.varnish-cache.org/releases/varnish-cache-3.0.2

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