Great news ! What about more ESI features (ie : cookie support), backend revalidation with conditional GETs or streaming fetches (http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/wiki/PostTwoShoppingList) ?
Jean-François > -----Message d'origine----- > De : varnish-misc-boun...@projects.linpro.no > [mailto:varnish-misc-boun...@projects.linpro.no] De la part > de Tollef Fog Heen > Envoyé : jeudi 8 janvier 2009 11:30 > À : varnish-misc@projects.linpro.no > Objet : 2.1 plans > > > Hi, > > a short while before Christmas, I wrote up a small document > pointing to > what I would like to get into 2.1 and when I'd like milestones to > happen. This is a suggestion, I'm open to ideas and comments on both > feature set as well as if my guesstimates for dates is completely off: > > Varnish 2.1 release plan > > The theme for Varnish 2.1 is "scalability", particularly trying to > address the needs of sites like finn.no which has a lot of objects and > where priming the cache takes a long time, leading to long periods of > higher load on the backend servers. > > The main feature is persistent storage, see > http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/wiki/ArchitecturePersistentStorage > for design notes. Another important scalability feature is a new > lockless hash algorithm which scales much better than the current > one. Poul-Henning already has an implementation of this in the tree, > but it's still fresh. > > Minor features which would be nice to get in are: > > * Web UI, showing pretty graphs as well as allowing easy configuration > of a cluster of Varnish machines. > > * Expiry randomisation. This reduces the "lemmings" effect where you > end up with a many objects with almost the same TTL (typically on > startup) which then expire at the same time. The feature will allow > you to set the TTL to plus/minus X %. > > * Dynamic, user-defined counters that can be read and written from VCL > > * Forced purges, where a thread walks the list of purged objects and > removes them. > > The schedule > ------------ > > Alphas: > - 2009-01-15: New hash algorithm working > - 2009-02-15: Web UI > - 2009-03-15: Persistent storage > Beta: > - 2009-04-01: Feature complete > Release > - 2009-05-20: Release candidate > - 2009-05-01: No release critical bugs left > - 2009-05-10: Release > > -- > Tollef Fog Heen > Redpill Linpro -- Changing the game! > t: +47 21 54 41 73 > _______________________________________________ > varnish-misc mailing list > varnish-misc@projects.linpro.no > http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc > _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list varnish-misc@projects.linpro.no http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc