Varnish 8.0.0 and bonus project news

Date:
Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:51:37 +0000

Description:
Version
8.0.0 of Varnish Cache has been released. In addition to a number
of changes to varnishd parameters, the ability to access some
runtime parameters using the Varnish Configuration Language, and other improvements, 8.0.0 comes with big news ; the project is forming an organization called a forening that will set out formal governance for the project. The move also comes with a name change due to legal difficulties in securing the Varnish Cache name: The new association and the new project will be named "The Vinyl
Cache Project", and this release 8.0.0, will be the last under the
"Varnish Cache" name. The next release, in March will be under the new
name, and will include compatility scripts, to make the transition as
smooth as possible for everybody. I want to make it absolutely clear that
this is 100% a mess of my
making: I should have insisted on a firm written agreement about the
name sharing, but I did not. I will also state for the record, that there are no hard feelings
between Varnish Software and the FOSS project. Varnish Software has always been, and still is, an important and
valued contributor to the FOSS project, but sometimes even friends can
make a mess of a situation.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1038242/


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