Squid-2 Roadmap
Overview
This document outlines future Squid-2 features.
OBSOLETE status for Squid-2.7 series will occur with the release of Squid-3.2
DEPRECATED status for Squid-2.7 was achieved in Aug 2011.
UPDATE: As of May 2008 the active Squid developers are now concentrating all new features and developments at Squid-3. If Squid-3 does not meet your requirements, please notify squid-dev of the missing requirements which need to be ported from Squid-2. Some are already known and listed on the Roadmap for Squid-3
Release Map
These aims consist of the wishlist outstanding for 2.x series. Some of these items have been implemented in the 3.x series.
The remaining Squid-2 plans are now down to polish and performance polishing and still planned for implementation later in the Squid-3 RoadMap.
- Restructure the data paths:
Server -> Store buffer referencing (Complete; not integrated)
- Restructure HTTP request and reply paths to take advantage of buffer referencing (Complete; not integrated)
BEGUN (3.1+) Break out some code into separate library modules, including documentation and some unit testing
- memory management
- debugging
- buffers
- strings
- http request parsing
- http reply construction
BEGUN (3.2+) Separate out client-side server-side code from caching logic
BEGUN (3.2+) Memory and Disk storage changes
- Split storage index lookup code to be fully asynchronous
- Look at supporting sparse objects efficiently