On 31/07/25 09:56, Francesco Chemolli wrote:
Hi all,
Now that v7 out of beta, it's time to start thinking about v8.
Unfortunately we released too late to make it into Debian forky. V7 is
in sid/unstable, but the next stable will ship v6.13.
Ubuntu 25.10 ("questing") is also carrying 6.13 at this time.
> > I've asked the Debian maintaner a tentative timeline for getting
squid-8 included in the next stable version of Debian, he mentioned a
likely target is to be out of beta by january 2027. Working backwards,
I propose to set the date for forking v8 in early October 2026.
FTR; The release cycle of our major vendor ecosystems are:
* Debian has a 2 year major release approximately Jun-Aug on
odd-numbered years. With a 6:12:18 month 'update' release where Squid
might be eligible to change if there are major benefits demonstrable.
* Ubuntu has 6-monthly release cycle (Apr/Aug) and bi-annual Apr
becomes a LTS for 10-15 years. Whatever Squid is in Debian Testing a few
months prior to their release will be provided.
* Debian/Ubuntu derivative OS will either match, or follow by 1-2
years and thus at least one Squid major version. Most accept install of
newer Debian/Ubuntu packages for more up-to-date Squid installs.
* Fedora has release cycles every 6 months (+/- some weeks). So easily
tracks whichever Squid release.
* RHEL has a 5-year release cycle. Whichever Squid version was in
Fedora **5 years prior** will be provided. A semi-official 'backports'
is used to track whichever Squid version is in Fedora with up to a year
delay.
* NetBSD has a 2-3 year release cycle. With 6-monthly updates pulling
in Squid latest stable as-needed.
* Gentoo and derivatives are all rolling release. They track our
stable release cycle with a few weeks QA delays at each subsequent level
of OS derivative.
* The remainder of the vendor ecosystems are proprietary or volunteer
based with ad-hoc delays based on their community interest in latest Squid.
Thoughts?
My old v3-v5 release cycles of Sep fork/beta and Feb stable were aimed
at meeting these regular Debian/Ubuntu release cycles. Which is
convenient timing for most of the major ecosystems - excluding RHEL
which cannot meet our short cycle anyway.
Convenience for Alex and Measurement Factory was the biggest driver for
changing to Feb forking and Jul release.
Cheers
Amos
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