From phk at phk.freebsd.dk Fri Sep 4 08:22:19 2015 From: phk at phk.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 08:22:19 +0000 Subject: Varnish Cache Project summer status Message-ID: <88304.1441354939@critter.freebsd.dk> Hi Everybody, This is a quick update from the Varnish Cache project, it wont take long, but please spend 1 minute, there is important stuff here. Where the heck is the 4.1 Release ? ----------------------------------- It is now truly right around the door. I have closed the gates for any new features, only bugfixes and performance tunings allowed until 4.1-R is out the door. We are busy getting tests run to make sure it lives up to expectations. If you have any chance to try out the code in git/trunk on live traffic on in test environments, it would *really* help the project and speed up the release: Give it a roll and send me an email with any and all observation, even if it runs flawlessly. Whats after 4.1-R ? ------------------- We don't know yet if there will be a 4.2 release or just 4.1.X releases, but we know for sure that there will be a 5.0 release. I don't like to pre-announce code I have not written yet, so that is all I want to say about 5.0 at this time. However, it is quite obvious to everybody that our release process for 4.x and to a lesser extent 3.x did not really work for anybody, so I have decided a new release strategy starting from 5.0. The new strategy is this: We will make a head-of-tree release every six months, come hell or high water, and whatever works at that time is the feature-set of that release. This will allow both developers and users to actually plan their Varnish upgrades going forward. More importantly it will eliminate the "You *have* to hold the release so I can get this $PETFEATURE in, because I can't wait years for the next release" perverse incentive to schedule slippage. If you analyse this change deeper, it reflects the transition in the project where we now have full time developers working on Varnish, rather than Devops running websites doing part time development. The downside to this, is that we do not have any people in the developers group running bleeding edge Varnish all the time, and consequently our release strategy cannot rely on that testing. Community News -------------- We have not had a Varnish User Group meeting for a very long time, but the Varnish Developer Days have been happening on a semi-regular basis. We have talked about what the right frequency and format of these events should be in the future, and more details about this will be forthcoming once details fall into place. The big picture is that we want to turn the VDDs into more of a working gathering than a formal meeting, and we want to open it up to other people than the core developers to come and hang out and contribute to the Varnish Project code base and documentation. We also want to get some kind of devops/user oriented annual event going, but we're not quite sure how, we want to make it affordable and easy for people to participate. Any good ideas are most welcome (email ruben at varnish-software.com and phk at varnish.org) Varnish Moral License News -------------------------- Brazil is going through a hard time, and therefore GLOBO.COM have had to discontinue their economical support to the development and maintenance of the Varnish Cache software. I can fully sympathize with that. I want to thank GLOBO very much for the support they have provided during the last four years, and I wish them speedy recovery from their trouble. Fortunately Bluehost.com, a major webhosting company out of Utah, USA has decided to help support Varnish, so there is going to be no break or disruption in the near term. That means going forward the Varnish Cache development and maintenance is funded by: Bluehost Fastly UPLEX Varnish Software Many thanks to them all, it puts bread under my butter and quality software on your computers. As always full details at: http://phk.freebsd.dk/VML/index.html And if you want to show your appreciation another way, my Amazon Wishlist is here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/ref=cm_reg_rd-upd?id=1XSZNDWXKIAS0 That's it, thanks for reading. 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 lkarsten at varnish-software.com Fri Sep 11 09:49:25 2015 From: lkarsten at varnish-software.com (Lasse Karstensen) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 11:49:25 +0200 Subject: Varnish Cache 4.1.0-beta1 released Message-ID: <20150911094924.GA733@immer.varnish-software.com> Dear Varnish community, Varnish Cache 4.1.0-beta1 has just been released. This is the first public beta release of 4.1.0 and initiates the final stage of our roadmap towards Varnish Cache 4.1.0. Source download is available in the usual location: https://repo.varnish-cache.org/source/varnish-4.1.0-beta1.tar.gz Packages for EL6, EL7, Debian Wheezy, Debian Jessie, Ubuntu Precise and Ubuntu Trusty are built in Jenkins, and can be found by following links from: https://jenkins.varnish-cache.org/view/VC-4.1/job/varnish-4.1-src/ Other resources: https://github.com/varnish/Varnish-Cache/blob/4.1/doc/changes.rst https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/whats-new/ We've had two major installations running the previous tech preview 1 under load, but we appreciate any additional testing you can provide to make sure the 4.1.0 final release is as bug free as possible. -- Lasse Karstensen Varnish Software AS From lkarsten at varnish-software.com Wed Sep 30 12:56:01 2015 From: lkarsten at varnish-software.com (Lasse Karstensen) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 14:56:01 +0200 Subject: Varnish 4.1.0 released. Message-ID: <20150930125600.GA30983@immer.varnish-software.com> Dear Varnish Community. It is my pleasure to announce the immediate availability of the Varnish Cache 4.1.0 release. Source code can be downloaded from: https://repo.varnish-cache.org/source/varnish-4.1.0.tar.gz List of changes: https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/whats-new/changes.html Debian, Ubuntu and Redhat packages will be available shortly. -- Lasse Karstensen Release manager