Squid 3.2.3 Caching Proxy Improves IPv6 Protocol

Squid, a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP that help reducing bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages, is now at version 3.2.3.

Squid 3.2.3 is mainly a maintenance release, with just a few bug fixes and improvements. Users should upgrade nonetheless.

Highlights of Squid 3.2.3:

• A regression that caused SMP crashes on startup with workers > 1 has been fixed;
• Pinning failure no longer breaks NTLM and Negotiate authentication;
• A UFS cache_dir entry is now allowed to coexist with a shared memory cache entry;
• Honour Cache-Control before Pragma:no-cache;
• A Cache-Control compliance upgrade has been performed;
• Obsoleted refresh_pattern ignore-no-cache option has been removed;
• IPv6 enabled squidclient has been fixed;
• Several compile fixes have been implemented.

A complete list of changes and updates can be found in the official announcement.

Download Squid 3.2.3 right now from Softpedia.