From phk at phk.freebsd.dk Mon Apr 7 09:42:25 2014 From: phk at phk.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 09:42:25 +0000 Subject: Varnish development funding badly needed! Message-ID: <4314.1396863745@critter.freebsd.dk> I just did my companys books for the month of march, and as of right now I only have 20 hours funded for Varnish development in the month of April: http://phk.freebsd.dk/VML/ 20 hours is not enough to get from the Beta release of Varnish 4.0 we just released to a full release, so I'm almost guaranteed to be into the red by the end of this month. Please help me find som happy Varnish users who are willing to fund the future development and maintenance of Varnish. Varnish is Free and Open Source Software ("FOSS"), but that is "Free" as in "freedom", not "Free" as in "Free Beer". You can find all the details of how to contribute at the URL above, and if you have any questions, just send me an email. Thanks in advance, 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 ruben at varnish-software.com Thu Apr 10 06:06:53 2014 From: ruben at varnish-software.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Rub=C3=A9n_Romero?=) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 08:06:53 +0200 Subject: Varnish Cache 4.0 Release Parties on April 29th, 2014 Message-ID: Hello everyone, Every few years we have a major Varnish Cache release and that needs to be celebrated properly. So let's again gather locally to learn about the goodness the 4.0.0 release brings in the good company of fellow Varnishers. As the release is now imminent we have set the date to April 29th, 2014 for the Varnish 4.0 Release Parties. Our site is now up and you can organize or join a party already now: * Party Site with Map and General info > http://v4party.varnish-cache.org/ * Your own party + party pack? > http://v4party.varnish-cache.org/help-us As usual, make sure to tag your blogs, tweets, pictures and videos with the #vr4p hashtag so that we can all be part of the fun both during and after the parties. If you are busy on work rotation that day or have no party nearby, no worries, you can join us online on the Varnish Cache 4.0 Release Party - Live Stream (Hangout on Air) from Copenhagen, Oslo and London. You can RSVP already now > https://plus.google.com/events/cvuqnm8cof58paogkc2uj0giru0 If you have any questions related to the Release party (i.e. want to set up your own party and don't know where to start or want to broadcast from your local party) feel free to reply to this email or reach out to me on Skype, Twitter or IRC and I will do what i can to give you a hand. Hope you all can join us! In behalf of the Varnish Cache team, -- *Rub?n Romero* Community & Sales | Varnish Software AS Cell: +47 95964088 / Office: +47 21989260 Skype, Twitter & IRC: ruben_varnish We Make Websites Fly!Winner of the 2013 Red Herring Top 100 Global Awards -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lkarsten at varnish-software.com Thu Apr 10 10:25:38 2014 From: lkarsten at varnish-software.com (Lasse Karstensen) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 12:25:38 +0200 Subject: Varnish 4.0.0 released Message-ID: <20140410102538.GA21697@immer.varnish-software.com> Dear Varnish community. It is my pleasure to announce the release of Varnish 4.0.0. This is a major feature release with a lot of big changes from the last version released 2.5 years ago. Some prominent examples include: * Full support for streaming objects through from the backend on a cache miss. Bytes will be sent to 1..n requesting clients as they come in from the backend server. * Background (re)fetch of expired objects. On a cache miss where a stale copy is available, serve the client the stale copy while fetching an updated copy from the backend in the background. * New varnishlog query language, allowing automatic grouping of requests when debugging ESI or a failed backend request. (among much more) * Comprehensive request timestamp and byte counters. * Security improvements, including disabling of run-time changes to security sensitive parameters. For the full detailed list of changes, see the changes.rst[1] file. Source version of the software can be downloaded from: https://repo.varnish-cache.org/source/varnish-4.0.0.tar.gz Debian and Redhat packages will be available shortly. Existing users will need to adapt their VCL files before running Varnish 4. The changes needed are outlined in the upgrade documentation[2]. The development team would like to thank Amedia AS and Redpill Linpro AS for their help in testing Varnish 4.0 on production traffic. We couldn't have made this release without it. We're celebrating this release by having Varnish 4 release parties around the world. See our web site[3] to find the one nearest you! Varnish Cache is developed under the Varnish Moral License and is currently looking for funding to continue the development. If you or your business can help out, see Poul-Henning's VML pages[4]. 1: https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/browser/doc/changes.rst 2: https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/whats-new/upgrading.html 3: http://v4party.varnish-cache.org/ 4: http://phk.freebsd.dk/VML/ -- Lasse Karstensen Varnish Cache release manager