Varnish HTTP Cache

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What is happening

2018-08-29 - Maintenance release: Varnish Cache 6.0.1

Today we made Varnish Cache 6.0.1 available on the download page and the official package repositories.

This maintenance release is recommended for all users of 6.0.0, and contains many bug fixes. More information is available in the Change log

2018-06-08 - Publically available packages from UPLEX

The varnish-cache contributors from UPLEX are happy to announce an alternative source for varnish binary packages for Debian, Ubuntu and RHEL/CentOS (work in progress).

Debian/Ubuntu packages are based on fairly recent varnish-cache master snapshots and are expected to be updated on a bi-weekly basis, synchronized with the official varnish-cache weekly builds.

The main purpose of the UPLEX Packages is to provide simple and efficient access to up-to-date varnish builds and a matching range of additional vmods which are not commonly found in package repositories like blobdigest, re, re2, geoip2 and dcs in addition to the varnish-modules vmod bundle. Other will be added over time.

This packaging effort is still in its early stages and will grow over time.

2018-04-26 - Maintenance release: Varnish Cache 4.1.10

This maintenance release is recommended for all users of 4.0 and 4.1 versions, and contains several bug fixes. More information is available in the Change log

2018-03-15 - Varnish 6.0.0 is released

Come and get it… Varnish Cache 6.0.0

Now with support for Unix Domain Sockets, better HTTP/2 support, many bugfixes and … Well read more about it all here

2017-11-15 - Security Advisory: (Unlikely) data leak

Certain uncommon configurations of Varnish may leak data in synthetic responses from vcl_backend_error{}

Please see VSV00002 Data leak - ‘-sfile’ Stevedore transient objects

We have released Varnish Varnish Cache 4.1.9 and Varnish Cache 5.2.1 to fix this issue.

2017-09-15 - Varnish 5.2.0 is released

Come and get it… Varnish Cache 5.2.0

2017-08-02 - Security Advisory: Denial of Service

All varnish versions from 4.0.1 are vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack, please see VSV00001 DoS vulnerability

2017-08-02 - Security releases: 4.0.5, 4.1.8 and 5.1.3

Varnish versions 4.0.5, 4.1.8 and 5.1.3 are now available. See VSV00001 DoS vulnerability for details.

Package repository status

The official Linux (apt/yum) package repositories are now located at Packagecloud.io. A list of all available repositories can be found at: https://packagecloud.io/varnishcache

The old http://repo.varnish-cache.org/ is going to be removed on the 31st of August.

For more details on packages, see Releases & Downloads

Privacy

You can access the varnish-cache homepages with HTTP or HTTPS as you like.

We save the logfiles from our Varnish instance for a limited period, in order to be able to debug problems.

We do not use any external trackers and do not analyze traffic.