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Key features in 2.0

  • ESI include support
  • Round-robin and random backend load balancers
  • Backend health check
  • Serve expired objects, until we have a fresh one
  • OpenSolaris? support
  • Much improved malloc backend, particularly on Linux
  • Lots and lots of bug fixes

Known issues:

  • Varnishreplay does not work on Linux

All users of Varnish are encouraged to upgrade to this new version, it is substantially more stable, has more features and better performance.

For a full list of changes, please see the changelog available at https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=155816&release_id=633519

Published: 22/10/2008
Author: Henrik Wigestrand