PR/44165 CVS commit: pkgsrc/www/varnish

["Thomas Klausner" <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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From: "Thomas Klausner" <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%gnats.NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: PR/44165 CVS commit: pkgsrc/www/varnish
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 14:25:45 +0000

 Module Name:   pkgsrc
 Committed By:  wiz
 Date:          Mon Dec  6 14:25:45 UTC 2010
 
 Modified Files:
        pkgsrc/www/varnish: Makefile PLIST distinfo
 Added Files:
        pkgsrc/www/varnish/files: varnishd.sh varnishlog.sh varnishncsa.sh
        pkgsrc/www/varnish/patches: patch-ac
 
 Log Message:
 Update to 2.1.4, provided by Matthew Sporleder in PR 44165.
 Includes new startup scripts.
 
 Summary of changes from 2.1.3 to 2.1.4
 
     * A bug in the binary heap layout caused inflated object counts, this has 
been fixed.
     * Much more comprehensive documentation.
     * A DNS director that uses DNS lookups for choosing which backend to route 
requests to has been added.
     * The client director now uses the variable client.identity for choosing 
which backend to send a given request to.
     * String representation of now, making it easier to add Expires headers
     * Portability fixes for Solaris.
     * Various bug fixes.
 
 Summary of changes from 2.1.2 to 2.1.3
 
     * The scalability of critbit, the default hashing method, has been 
improved.
     * A bug in varnishd would in some cases confuse varnishncsa leading to 
lost or wrong log lines.
     * Some bugs in the handling of Range requests has been fixed. This only 
matters if you enable Range support.
     * Add «log» command to VCL which will log to the Varnish log.
 
 Summary of changes from 2.1.1 to 2.1.2
 
     * When adding Range support in 2.1.1 an error was introduced. Garbage was 
appended to some objects. This affected some load balancers - but clients 
seemed not to be affected.
 
 Summary of changes from 2.1.0 to 2.1.1
 
     * Experimental support for the Range header, must be enabled with the 
http_range_support parameter.
     * A bug in workspace rollback prevented ESI from working correctly in all 
situations. This is now fixed.
     * A race condition and a deadlock in the critbit hasher have been fixed.
     * HEAD requests are no longer converted to GET requests for pass and pipe.
     * Support for completely obliterating objects including all variants 
(«nuke»). See http://varnish-cache.org/changeset/4668 for details
 
 Summary of changes from 2.0.6 to 2.1.0
 
 Varnish 2.1.0 has just been released. It contains lots of changes relative to 
2.0.6, the most important ones being:
 
     * Experimental support for persistent cache
     * The regular expression engine is now PCRE
     * Saint mode, where we can serve a cached object if the backend is down or 
otherwise faulty.
     * A more scalable hashing method called critbit
     * Increased scalability, removing a limitation of maximum 64k connections
     * obj_workspace is removed, this is now scaled automatically
     * Hashing and client IP based directors
 
 Note: The release has some syntaxchanges in VCL, please read the full changelog
 
 
 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.7 -r1.8 pkgsrc/www/varnish/Makefile
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.4 -r1.5 pkgsrc/www/varnish/PLIST
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.5 -r1.6 pkgsrc/www/varnish/distinfo
 cvs rdiff -u -r0 -r1.1 pkgsrc/www/varnish/files/varnishd.sh \
     pkgsrc/www/varnish/files/varnishlog.sh \
     pkgsrc/www/varnish/files/varnishncsa.sh
 cvs rdiff -u -r0 -r1.3 pkgsrc/www/varnish/patches/patch-ac
 
 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
 copyright notices on the relevant files.