Squid 3.5.7 recently released, is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator. It runs on most available operating systems, including Windows.
Squid 3.5.7 changelog
- wrong SNI sent to server after URL-rewrite
- Add ENABLE_POD2MAN_DOC automake conditional for pod2man builds
- basic_smb_auth: rejecting valid credentials
- basic_smb_auth: doesn’t handle passwords with backslashes
- basic_smb_auth: nmblookup fails when smb.conf contaisn WINS servers
- Docs: fix man(8) page syntax for lexgrof tool
- Make pod2man an optional dependency
- Handle exceptions during squid.conf parse
- When SBuf chop()s away everything, always clear the buffer.
- Cleanup: avoid mentioning compiler directives in configure output
- incorrect instance name for memory segments in /dev/shm
- Support %un (any available user name) format code for external ACLs.
- AUFS: Raise I/O queue congestion limits
- Improve handling of client connections on shutdown
- Avoid SSL certificate db corruption with empty index.txt as a symptom.
- Errors served using invalid certificates when dealing with SSL server errors.
- IPv6: improve BCP 177 compliance
- Polish debugs on NAT failure
- Fix crash in TcpAccepter with profiler enabled
- Splice to origin cache_peer.
- invalid key in AuthUserHashPointer causing assertation failure
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