xKey Maintenance Mode: what does this mean long-term?

[Pål Hermunn Johansen]

Hello Peter,

The xkey VMOD is indeed very useful, and it will continue working on
upcoming versions of Varnish Cache. The status as maintenance mode is all
about us (Varnish Software, the company) disclosing the fact that xkey will
not gain new features.
When it comes to your observations about Varnish Enterprise, yKey and
pricing, we see your pain, and are working on improving in this area.

Best,
Pål

lør. 14. sep. 2024 kl. 22:34 skrev Peter Bowyer <peter at mapledesign.co.uk>:

> Hi,
>
> I'm one of the small-time Varnish users. Nothing I do is high traffic, but
> I use Varnish because it gives users a faster experience, lets me use cheap
> servers, and because it's a pleasure to use.
>
> xKey is a feature I use because it lets me easily flush dynamic HTML pages
> from the cache, for the whole site or for sections of it.
>
> xKey is now in maintenance mode [1]. It's great that it is still
> maintained. But it does give me concern about the future. Will Varnish (the
> corporation) open-source yKey? Is there an alternative planned in Varnish
> (the open source project)?
>
>
> Two tangents.
> 1. Drupal went their own way instead of using xKey and use a BAN with a
> regex (a regex which has been wrong until recently [2]). Can anyone
> estimate how much less performant this is than xKey?
>
> 2. The maintenance mode notice points us at yKey. I'd like to use the
> VMODs from Varnish (the corporation) for their DX and have offered them
> money multiple times, but their starting price for a license is usually
> more than the entire annual cost for the digital infrastructure of projects
> I work on. If anyone from the corporation is reading, t's a shame there's
> no SME licensing.
>
> Peter
>
> 1. https://github.com/varnish/varnish-modules/pull/226/files
> 2. https://www.drupal.org/project/varnish_purge/issues/3293641
>
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