[master] 7912194 Add release note draft

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at FreeBSD.org
Thu Sep 15 07:21:08 CEST 2016


commit 79121940ebab00c2bc3c2e6618357884a5396d36
Author: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at FreeBSD.org>
Date:   Wed Sep 14 13:20:41 2016 +0000

    Add release note draft

diff --git a/doc/sphinx/whats-new/index.rst b/doc/sphinx/whats-new/index.rst
index 68d076f..1d2c41c 100644
--- a/doc/sphinx/whats-new/index.rst
+++ b/doc/sphinx/whats-new/index.rst
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Varnish 5.0
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2
 
+   relnote-5.0
    changes-5.0
    upgrading-5.0
 
diff --git a/doc/sphinx/whats-new/relnote-5.0.rst b/doc/sphinx/whats-new/relnote-5.0.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b73d32b
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+++ b/doc/sphinx/whats-new/relnote-5.0.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+.. _whatsnew_relnote_5.0:
+
+Varnish 5.0 Release Note
+========================
+
+This is the first Varnish release after the Varnish Project moved out
+of Varnish Softwares basement, so to speak, and it shows.
+
+But it is also our 10 year aniversary release, `Varnish 1.0 was
+released`_ on September 20th 2006.
+
+That also means that we have been doing this for 10 years
+without any bad security holes.
+
+So yeah… 5.0 is not what we had hoped it would be, but we are as
+proud as one can possibly be anyway.
+
+We have put the technical stuff in two separate documents:
+
+* :ref:`whatsnew_changes_5.0`
+
+* :ref:`whatsnew_upgrading_5.0`
+
+
+The obligatory thank-you speech
+-------------------------------
+
+This release of Varnish Cache is brought to you by the generous
+support and donations of money and manpower from four companies:
+
+* Fastly
+
+* Varnish Software
+
+* UPLEX
+
+* The company which prefers to simply be known as "ADJS"
+
+Without them, this release, and for that matter all the previous
+ones, would not have happened.
+
+Even though they are by and large employees of the very
+same companies, the developers who have contributed to
+Varnish in a major way in this release also deserve thanks:
+
+* Martin - HTTP/2 HPACK header compression code, stevedore API, VSL
+
+* Niels & Geoff - Shard backend director, ban-lurker improvements
+
+* Guillame - HTTP/2 support for varnishtest
+
+* Dridi - Backend temperatures etc.
+
+* Federico - Too many fixes and ideas to count
+
+* Lasse - Our tireless release-manager
+
+* Devon - Performance insights and critical review.
+
+* The rest of the V-S crew, for too many things to mention.
+
+We need more money
+------------------
+
+Until now Varnish Software has done a lot of work for the Varnish
+Cache project, but for totally valid reasons, they are scaling that
+back and the project either needs to pick up the slack or drop some
+of those activities.
+
+It is important that people understand that Free and Open Source
+Software isn't the same as gratis software:  Somebody has to pay
+the developers mortgages and student loans.
+
+A very large part of the Varnish development is funded through the
+`Varnish Moral License`_, which enables Poul-Henning Kamp to have
+Varnish as his primary job, but right now he is underfunded to the
+tune of €2000-3000 per month.
+
+Please consider if your company makes enough money using Varnish
+Cache, to spare some money, or employee-hours for its future
+maintenance and development.
+
+
+We also need more manpower
+--------------------------
+
+First and foremost, we could really use a Postmaster to look after
+our mailman mailing lists, including the increasingly arcane art
+of anti-spam techniques and invocations.
+
+We also need to work more on our documentation, it is in bad need
+of one or more writers which can actually write text rather than
+code.
+
+We could also use more qualified content for our new project homepage,
+so a webmaster is on our shopping list as well.
+
+Finally, we can always use C-developers, we have more ideas than
+we have coders, and since we have very high standards for quality
+things take time to write.
+
+*phk*
+
+
+.. _Varnish Moral License: http://phk.freebsd.dk/VML
+
+.. _Varnish 1.0 was released: https://sourceforge.net/p/varnish/news/2006/09/varnish-10-released/
diff --git a/doc/sphinx/whats-new/upgrading-5.0.rst b/doc/sphinx/whats-new/upgrading-5.0.rst
index 848b4e0..31371da 100644
--- a/doc/sphinx/whats-new/upgrading-5.0.rst
+++ b/doc/sphinx/whats-new/upgrading-5.0.rst
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. _whatsnew_upgrading_5_0:
+.. _whatsnew_upgrading_5.0:
 
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 Upgrading to Varnish 5.0



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