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= Welcome to the Varnish project =

Varnish is a state-of-the-art, high-performance HTTP accelerator. It uses the advanced features in Linux 2.6, 
FreeBSD 6/7 and Solaris 10 to achieve its high performance. 

Some of the features include

 * A modern design
 * [wiki:VCL VCL] - a very flexible configuration language
 * Load balancing with [wiki:BackendPolling health checking of backends]
 * Partial support for [wiki:ESIfeatures ESI]
 * URL rewriting
 * Graceful handling of "dead" backends
 * [wiki:VarnishFeatures more features]...

Varnish is free software and is licenced under a modified BSD licence. Please read the [wiki:Introduction introduction] to get started with Varnish.

See what people [wiki:Blogs blog about varnish]

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= Trouble, Errata and things you should know =

[wiki:TroubleLog Here is our running log of things you probably want to know]

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= News =

== 2010-02-05 Varnish User Group meeting 2 announced ==

On the 29th and 30th of March 2010 we will hold the next Varnish User Group meeting in Amsterdam.

For more information and how to sign up see the [wiki:VUG2 VUG2] page.

== 2009-12-16 Varnish 2.0.6 released ==

Varnish 2.0.6 has just been released.  This release contains multiple
changes, amongst them:

 * Fix off-by-one error in ESI handling
 * Bug fixes related to session lingering
 * Backend probes should now work correctly with more servers
 * Portability fixes
 * Make it possible to specify the per-thread stack size, useful for 32 bit systems

There are some [wiki:OldNews old news] as well.

== Source ==

 * [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155816 Download Varnish from SourceForge]
 * [wiki:Releases Pre 2.0 releases]
 * [wiki:Repository Repository]
 * [http://www.varnish-cache.org/roadmap Short term roadmap] details changes in future releases
 * [wiki:PostTwoShoppingList] is a more strategic overview of what could be done in the future


== Documentation ==
 * an [wiki:Introduction introduction] to varnish. Read this first.
 * [http://varnish-cache.org/static/getting-started.html Getting started], read this also.
 * The various [wiki:VarnishFeatures features of varnish] explained. 
 * [wiki:Installation Installing Varnish]
 * [wiki:FAQ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)]
 * [wiki:VCLSyntax VCL Syntax], formalized and detailed descriptions.
 * [wiki:VCLExamples VCL Examples], small snippets for doing common tasks.
 * [wiki:CLI], CLI documentation
 * [wiki:VTLA], VTLA documentation


== Resources ==
 * [http://varnish-cache.com varnish-cache.com] is our commercial sister-site 
 * [wiki:CommercialSupport Commercial support] can be bought
 * [wiki:DebuggingVarnish Debugging Varnish]
 * [wiki:Performance Performance tuning of Varnish and the underlying OS]
 * [wiki:DeveloperResources Developer resources]
 * [wiki:VarnishAndWordpress Accelerating Wordpress with Varnish]

== Community support ==

 * IRC channel:  #varnish on irc.linpro.no
 * [wiki:MailingLists Mailing lists]
 * [wiki:200909UserGroupMeeting Varnish User Group meetings]

== About this Wiki ==

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