Squid Roadmap

• see also the Schedule for Feature Removals

Roadmap rules

To minimize noise and the number of half-baked abandoned features, two Feature sets are established for Squid development projects: The TODO List and The Wish List.

TODO list

TODO list features determine the release focus and timeline. Each feature must document their desired effect and estimated development time. Each feature must have at least one known active developer behind it willing to prioritize the feature and be ready to spend the time to fully develop the proposed feature (i.e., write, test, document, commit, and provide initial support).

Wish List

The Wish List accumulates features that do not meet the strict TODO List criteria. Many of these features can be implemented if there is enough demand or a sponsor. Some may get implemented outside of the official process, submitted as patches, and accepted into the release.

There are no freezing points in the RoadMap. Instead, the development version gets branched whenever a reasonable number of features have been added. One branch gets renumbered and use as ongoing development. The other for Point Releases made at regular intervals with bug fixes.

All features must pass an auditing process for commit, and any feature which has passed that review process at time of branching will be included in that serie of piint releases.

Features which have not reached completion or have failed the audit, are automatically delayed to the next Squid series. Which should not be an unreasonable delay given the fast-track release plan.

TODO

These are the features we are trying to work on at present. New features may be requested, suggested, or added to the plan at any time. Those which are completed and merged will be in the next formal branch after their merge date.

Bug Zapping

• Serious Bugs

• General Bug Zapping

• Minor Bugs

Features Under Development

Features currently being worked on have a Goal, an ETA, and a Developer is listed; but Status is not "completed":

• 1. Features/AclNamespaces
  2. Features/AclRequestStatus
  3. Features/ActAsOrigin
  4. Features/BenchmarkCacheMgrPage
  5. Features/BetterStringBuffer
  6. Features/BrowsableStorage
  7. Features/CacheDirFailover
  8. Features/ClientSideCleanup
  9. Features/ConfigUpdater
  10. Features/FasterHttpParser
  11. Features/HTTP2
  12. Features/HotConf
  13. Features/HttpStatusStringsPassThrough
  14. Features/InternalRedirectors
  15. Features/MemcachedStoreDir
  16. Features/ObsoleteOses
  17. Features/Optimizations
  18. Features/RequestBuffering
  19. Features/ServiceOverload
  20. Features/Socks
  21. Features/SourceLayout

Some feature work saying completed but still having an ETA:

Wish List

Wishlist consists of features which have been suggested or requested but do not yet have a Developer or any contributor listed as willing to see the feature completed and support it.

Please contact squid-dev and discuss these if you with to take on development of one.

a Goal, an ETA, and a Developer is listed; but Status is not "completed":

• 1. Features/AclMgrAction
  2. Features/AutoCacheDirSizing
  3. Features/ControlChannel
  4. Features/Diagnostics
  5. Features/DumpCallInfoOnCrash
  6. Features/EtagSupport
  7. Features/ExternalRefreshCheck
  8. Features/ExtraParamsOnCmdLine
  9. Features/HelperPause
  10. Features/IcpLoggingAcl
  11. Features/Ipv6DelayPool
  12. Features/LoadBalance
  13. Features/MaxObjectAge
  14. Features/MonitorUrl
  15. Features/MultipleUnlinkdQueues
  16. Features/NetDbForIpv6
  17. Features/NoCentralStoreIndex
  18. Features/PartialResponsesCaching
  19. Features/Quota
  20. Features/SimpleWebServer
  21. Features/SquidAppliance
  22. Features/SrvDnsOriginServerLocation
  23. Features/StackableIO
  24. Features/StaleWhileRevalidate
  25. Features/TCPAccess
  26. Features/UrnSupportRemoval
  27. Features/VarySupport
  28. Features/XvaryOptions

Some beginner Tasks which anyone can help with.

Old Squid-2 wishlist:

• Variant Invalidation

More ideas are available elsewhere.