Re: Upcoming changes on the methods used to distribute Squid

Hey Francesco,

Thank you for the big effort.
I had the next git working for the past 2 years now:
https://github.com/elico/squid-latest

I have been using it to release my binary builds.
I hope that the new releases github format will help to automate squid
builds in the long run.
Will it be ready for the 6.13 release?
Id it is, then I will update my builds and git to work with the releases
page.

Thanks,
Eliezer
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On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM Francesco Chemolli <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Squid Users,
>    there are some ongoing changes on how we distribute the squid sources;
> some of them have already happened, some more will happen in the
> upcoming weeks.
>
> The end state we are aiming to settle on is to distribute Squid via Github
> Releases (https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/releases) .
>
> Each Squid release has been and will continue to be tagged in git with the
> SQUID_MAJ_MIN tag, which will be the official release point. Signed release
> tarballs will be made available as Github release assets. These are already
> available at https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/releases for every
> squid version from 1.0.0alpha to 6.12.
> We will no longer provide patches, these can be obtained from git.
>
> We have decommissioned the rsync and ftp distribution points on
> www.squid-cache.org, and are no longer advertising Squid mirrors on the
> website. We are very thankful to Squid mirror operators and volunteers for
> their continued support through the years.
>
> In the next few weeks we will rework the "Download" section of the squid
> website (https://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/) to point to Github for
> downloading instead of self-hosting tarballs, patches etc.
>
> Our plans moving forward:
> - we will restart announcing new releases to the squid-announce mailing
> list
>   see https://www.squid-cache.org/Support/mailing-lists.html
> - anyone wanting to track Squid releases can:
>   - use git tags
>   - use the 'gh' tool from github (https://cli.github.com/)
>   - rely on the 'releases' github page:
> https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/releases
>   - to only track the latest supported release:
> https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/releases/latest
>
> Any feedback is welcome
>
> --
>     Francesco Chemolli
>     Squid Software Foundation
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