> On 2 Jan 2019, at 19:10, Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> On 02.01.2019 20:01, Michael Tremer wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On 2 Jan 2019, at 18:55, Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> On 02.01.2019 18:27, Michael Tremer wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> This is quite good that we finally have a stable release of this (am I right that 4.4 wasn’t considered to be stable?).
>>> 
>>> 'squid 4.4' was "stable", too:
>>> 
>>> In July 2018, 'squid 4' was "released for production use", see:
>>> https://wiki.squid-cache.org/Squid-4
>> 
>> Why do they compare everything to squid 3.5 then?
> 
> No idea. Perhaps to make upgrading easier for people running
> (huge/complex) 3.x-installations? They even still list "missing
> squid.conf options available in Squid-2.7"! ;-)
> 
> But as I read it, 3.x will not be continued, see:
> 
> https://wiki.squid-cache.org/RoadMap/Squid3
> 
> "We are no longer releasing new Squid series with 3.x numbers.”

No, it is indeed time to migrate!

> 
> Best,
> Matthias
> 
>>> 
>>>> This however removes support for the SMB_LM helper which we still use and I will have to remove that from the CGI. We will have to announce that properly, but I do not think that it is a huge problem because this is Windows 2000 era. Hopefully nobody is using that any more.
>>> 
>>> I'm not an expert for this - never used it -, but I found this on the
>>> above website:
>>> 
>>> "Major UI changes:
>>> ...
>>> basic_msnt_multi_domain_auth: Superceeded by basic_smb_lm_auth
>>> …"
>> 
>> The latter is not being compiled any more. You removed it from the rootfiles.
>> 
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Matthias
>>> 
>>>> Apart from that, I hope that we can now stay on the releases in this series until there is a new one.>
>>>> Best,
>>>> -Michael
>>>> 
>>>>> On 1 Jan 2019, at 17:39, Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> For details see:
>>>>> http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/
>>>>> ...
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>