Upgrading to Varnish 7.4

Important VCL Changes

When upgrading from Varnish-Cache 7.3, there is only one breaking change to consider in VCL:

The Content-Length and Transfer-Encoding headers are now protected, they can neither be changed nor unset. This change was implemented to avoid de-sync issues from accidental, inadequate modifications of these headers.

For the common use case of unset (be)req.http.Content-Length to dismiss a request body, unset (be)req.body should be used.

Parameter Changes

The new varnishd parameter startup_timeout now specifically replaces cli_timeout for the initial startup only. In cases where cli_timeout was increased specifically to accommodate long startup times (e.g. for storage engine initialization), startup_timeout should be used.

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