July 2, 2002

Squid version 2.4.STABLE7 has been released, with important security fixes.
See also advisory SQUID-2002:3

Mars 20, 2002

Squid version 2.4.STABLE6 has been released, with important security fixes.
See also advisory SQUID-2002:2

February 19, 2002

Squid version 2.4.STABLE4 has been released, with important security fixes.
See also advisory SQUID-2002:1

March 20, 2001

Squid version 2.4.STABLE1 has been released.

May 16, 2000

Squid version 2.3.STABLE3 has been released.

May 15, 2000

Squid won the Network Computing Well-Connected Award for best Network Caching Solution!

March 3, 2000

Squid has been nominated for Network Computing's Well Connected Award to be announced at a Network Computing event at the NetWorld + InterOp 2000 in Las Vegas the week of May 8th. The Well Connected Awards will also be the cover story for the May 15th issue.

March 2, 2000

Squid version 2.3.STABLE2 has been released.

Feb 29, 2000

Squid's bakeoff results spark a fascinating slashdot discussion.

Feb 29, 2000

Squid version 2.4.DEVEL2 is released to coincide with the publication of the Second IRCache Bake-Off Results.

Feb 28, 2000

ISP-Planet published a review of Squid.

Jan 10, 2000

Squid version 2.3.STABLE1 has been released.

Oct 7, 1999

Squid is listed at Ice Walkers, a Linux software directory. Apparently you can vote for Squid if you want.

Sept 23, 1999

Version 2.2.STABLE5 has been released.

Sept 3, 1999

You can now search the entire Squid site. We're using SWISH-E for indexing.

Aug 29, 1999

We are running under a new domain name: www.squid-cache.org!

July 27, 1999

Squid is nominated as a finalist for the LinuxWorld 1999 Editors' Choice Awards. We're up against Apache in the ``Web server'' category. Information on where to send bribes for the Judges could not be found.

Update: Alas, we didn't win. According to LinuxWorld, ``Choosing Apache as the winner was a no-brainer.''

July 24, 1999

The squid-users mailing list reaches a new all-time low when a request for a list of porn sites to block turns into a thread about the morality of censorship and threats of a lawsuit against the government for funding our work.

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. --John Perry Barlow

July 4, 1999

Squid received a ``Best of Linux'' award from the staff of the DaveCentral Linux software archive. Thanks Dave, and God Bless America!

May 31, 1999

Squid received an ``Editor's Choice Award'' in an evaluation of Web proxy caches by Network Computing Magazine. Unfortunately, this is a bittersweet moment for us, since they also used our Web Polygraph software for the performance testing, but their test was pretty bogus.

April 2, 1999

Squid participated in the The First Semi-Annual Web Caching Bake-off. During the testing we sustained a throughput of 96 requests per second under the Polygraph workload. Please see the full report for all the details.

December 22, 1998

Squid received recognition as a Cool Site by the Open Directory Project. Christmas came a bit early this year.

October 2, 1998

Squid version 2 is officially, and finally released, ending the worlds longest beta testing period in known history.