[squid-users] Squid 3.4.3 is available

The Squid HTTP Proxy team is very pleased to announce the availability
of the Squid-3.4.3 release!

This release is a bug fix release resolving many portability issues
found in the prior Squid releases.

The major changes to be aware of:

* Fix external_acl_type async loop failures

This issue shows up as extra failed authentication checks if the
external ACL uses %LOGIN format code and credentials are not already
known. This can have nasty side effects when combined with NTLM in older
3.4 releases.

* Fix memory leak in peer cache Digest exchange

A relatively small leak, but it can build up over time on high traffic
installations using Cache Digest exchanges.

* Fix peerSelectDnsResults() IP address cycling

Squid will now more strictly obey IP address rotation when selecting
which upstream server to fetch a request through. This can greatly speed
up traffic to servers with non-working IP addresses, such as IPv6
enabled servers being contacted over broken tunnels.

* Support for clang 3.4

Squid is now expected to build without erorrs using clang 3.4.

 All users of Squid-3.4 with NTLM authentication are urged to upgrade to
this release as soon as possible.

 All users of Squid-3.4 are encouraged to upgrade to this release as
soon as possible.

 All users of older Squid versions are encouraged to plan for
upgrade to this version as time permits.

 See the ChangeLog for the full list of changes in this and earlier
 releases.

Please refer to the release notes at
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.4/RELEASENOTES.html
when you are ready to make the switch to Squid-3.4

Upgrade tip:
  "squid -k parse" is starting to display even more
   useful hints about squid.conf changes.

This new release can be downloaded from our HTTP or FTP servers

 http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.4/
 ftp://ftp.squid-cache.org/pub/squid/
 ftp://ftp.squid-cache.org/pub/archive/3.4/

or the mirrors. For a list of mirror sites see

 http://www.squid-cache.org/Download/http-mirrors.html
 http://www.squid-cache.org/Download/mirrors.html

If you encounter any issues with this release please file a bug report.
http://bugs.squid-cache.org/

Amos Jeffries
Received on Mon Feb 03 2014 - 07:18:58 MST