Re: 2.5.PRE9 released

Might need to add to the list 'mysterious' disappearence of aufs
threads. I've got three boxes running it, two of which lost their
threads during a restart. Strangely, on shutdown, we get 'aioSync:
done' messages, and the storedir cachemgr output reports the directories
as aufs storage type. But no threads are started. They disappeared
after the first or second restart on boxes after an RPM upgrade from
2.4STABLE7. We still have a parent process, a child process, and an
unlinkd, as well as the external_acl helpers, but no threads.

I won't say it isn't a problem with the RPM, as it may very well be...my
2.5 RPMs aren't well tested, and the (automake/autoconf) changes in
Squid broke some things.

I thought maybe it was related to using external_acl_type helpers, but I
can't reproduce it on my local machine when using the same helper script.

I'm trying again with debugging turned up. Any tips about what would
make the source of this problem reveal itself?

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> Squid-2.5.PRE9 has been released. This is in my opinion a
> Squid-2.5.STABLE1 release candidate.
>
> Known issues:
>
> - Unknown if delay_access and connection oriented proxy_auth (ntlm)
> works. Seems to now work now with Basic authentication after Roberts
> old patch that tries to address connection oriented auth has been
> applied.
>
> - tcp_outgoing_address/tos does not work with proxy_auth. cache.log
> should report "no connection data, cannot process authentication" on
> any attempt to do so.
>
> - NTLM seems to have problems on big-endian architectures such as
> Sparc (reported by Guido). Hopefully only a problem with the helpers.
>
> - Release notes needs to be written documenting the changes and what
> to care about when upgrading from Squid-2.4. The 2.5 release is quite
> different from 2.4 both in squid.conf and file layout.
>
> Regards
> Henrik

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