Varnish Controller 7.3.0
Release
Published December 3, 2025.
All components require to be upgraded for this release.
After installing this upgrade, make sure to start Brainz before the Router. More details are in the
upgrade notes.
- Fix potential transfer problems of transferring agents between organizations when running routers
in grace mode.
- Provide internal metrics under new endpoint
/api/v1/internal-metrics.
- Keep ownership when transferring an agent or router to another organization.
- Statistics can now be pruned with
vcli stats prune ... command and via the API with a DELETE /api/v1/stats.
- In DNS traffic routing, reply with a NOERROR instead of a SERVFAIL if we do not have any records
to respond in the DNS traffic router.
- When filtering
vcli results, the new accept-empty flag allows empty results without giving an
error.
- ACME certificate acquisition timeout is configurable with
acme-timeout
parameter.
- Retry failed ACME certificate acquisitions after five minutes.
- ACME CAA checks got more resilient regarding NXDOMAIN DNS responses.
- Extended ACME related log messages.
- The ACME DNS endpoint can now be looked up though
vcli acme lookup-dns ... and via the API with
a POST /api/v1/acme/dns-record.
- Allow for schema-less base urls.
vcli can now read the password from the environment variable VARNISH_CONTROLLER_CLI_PASSWORD.
- UI: Added support for ACME upstream validations (DNS only).
- UI: Fixed a status alert bug related to the controller license.
- UI: Fixed a bug related to disappearing routing rules in VCL Groups.
- UI: Improved scaling of pop-ups on the CDN map when zooming.
- UI: Improved the informational message for cluster.vcl in the editor.
- UI: Added the ability to see which VCLGroups are attached to a domain in the UI. Previously, only
certificates were shown, now the domain detail page includes a filtered list of connected
VCLGroups.
- UI: Added new feature in VCLgroups (Rollback) to display file names, versions, and descriptions
for better visibility.
See Varnish Controller Changelog for
more details on the changes and the
upgrade notes for more details on
how to upgrade.