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Upgrading to Varnish **7.2**
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varnishd
========

Parameters
~~~~~~~~~~

The following parameters are deprecated:

- ``vcc_allow_inline_c``
- ``vcc_err_unref``
- ``vcc_unsafe_path``

They can still be set as individual boolean parameters. The deprecated
aliases will be removed in a future release.

They are replaced by the ``vcc_feature`` bits parameter:

- ``allow_inline_c``
- ``err_unref`` (enabled by default)
- ``unsafe_path`` (enabled by default)

The following commands are equivalent::

    param.set vcc_err_unref off
    param.set vcc_feature -err_unref

Identity
~~~~~~~~

The server identity must be a valid HTTP token, which may pose a problem
to existing setups. For example ``varnishd -i "edge server 1"`` is no
longer accepted. You can use something like ``varnishd -i "edge-server-1"``
instead.

VCL
===

Varnish generates a Via header and forwards it to the backend by default.
This can be prevented for example in ``vcl_recv`` or ``vcl_backend_fetch``.

::

    sub vcl_recv {
        unset req.http.via;
    }

    sub vcl_backend_fetch {
        unset bereq.http.via;
    }

The Via header is generated with the ``server.identity`` variable for
the ``received-by`` field. See `rfc9110_` for a description of the Via
header.

A ``resp.http.via`` header is no longer overwritten by varnish, but
rather appended to.

.. _rfc9110: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110#name-via

VMODs
=====

Cookies generated by vmod_cookie used to have a trailing semi-colon that
goes against the recommandations from `rfc6265`_. This should not pose a
problem, unless a piece of VCL code or a backend have come to rely on this
incorrect behavior.

.. _rfc6265: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6265

varnishlog
==========

The ``Begin`` and ``Link`` log records have an optional 4th field for the
sub-request level. This may break log processors, log queries or NCSA
formats that expect those records to have exactly 3 fields.

varnishstat
===========

The ``MAIN.fetch_no_thread`` counter is gone, it never worked. Track the
``MAIN.bgfetch_no_thread`` counter instead.

Changes for developers and VMOD authors
=======================================

The functions ``VRT_AddVDP()``, ``VRT_AddVFP()``, ``VRT_RemoveVDP()`` and
``VRT_RemoveVFP()`` are deprecated. Use ``VRT_AddFilter()`` to add a pair
(VFP and VDP) and ``VRT_RemoveFilter()`` to remove it. A filter pair needs
at least one member of the pair.

The ``varnishtest -i`` option no longer works outside of a Varnish source
tree. There shouldn't be a reason to use ``-i`` outside of the Varnish
test suite.

*eof*