Changelog

Version: 3.9.0

Released: 23 Aug 2020

Changes:

• Minor release which fixes various CVE’s due to usage of old libraries.

Version: 3.8.6

Released: 08 Jul 2020

Changes:

• Patch release which fixes an issue of not showing the VAC version.

Version: 3.8.5

Released: 27 Mar 2020

Changes:

• Mongo driver has been upgraded to 2.14.3.
• SSL support for self signed certificates.
• Various small fixes in reqards to RRD issues.

Version: 3.8.4

Released: 13 Nov 2019

Changes:

• Fixes a bug where parameters in the database were multiplied. If parameters are handled in VAC through the Web based UI, please review parameters for all parameter sets in VAC (Configure -> Parameters(gray button) -> Edit -> [Review all values]), then press ‘Save Changes’ even if no changes were made. Repeat for each parameter set. This will update the database correctly.
• Support for missing parameters in VCP4.1 clock_step mse_delay_writes mse_membuf_pool mse_membuf_size mse_nuke_limit mse_pad_writes mse_prune_factor mse_prune_loop pool_sslbuffer ssl_buffer startup_timeout thread_pool_reserve
• Support for missing parameters in VCP6.0 allow_exec backend_local_error_holddown backend_remote_error_holddown crypto_buffer h2_header_table_size h2_initial_window_size h2_max_concurrent_streams h2_max_frame_size h2_max_header_list_size object_mutex_slots scoreboard_active scoreboard_enable thread_pool_watchdog vsm_publish_interval
• Bad things graph no longer present 0.5 as 500m

Version: 3.8.3

Released: 28 Aug 2019

Changes:

• Upgraded the Mongo Java driver to 2.13.2
• Added various log calls throughout the code to help with support
• VCL editor improvements
• Added the options to secure the unrestricted /stats endpoint if a rest_api_token is set in the defaults file

Version: 3.8.2

Released: 28 Mar 2019

Changes:

• Fix a Purger bug concerning client SocketTimeouts.

Version: 3.8.1

Released: 2 Oct 2018

Changes:

• Introduce MongoClient connection string.
• Enable ReadOnly User to view VCL and Parameters set.
• Bug fix for VAC not allow passwords containing special characters.
• Other minor bug fixes.

Version: 3.8.0

Released: 13 August 2018

Changes:

• Proper logging for systemd.
• Minor bug fixes and other various improvements.

Version: 3.7.0

Released: 28 June 2018

Changes:

• Full responsive, changes in layouts and modern look.
• Minor bug fixes and other various improvements.
• systemd compliant packages for CentOS / RHEL 7.

Version: 3.6.2

Released: 25 May 2018

Changes:

• Fix a purger bug where socket connections were not soaked acrross multiple requests.

Version: 3.6.1

Released: 23 May 2018

Changes:

• Fix a purger bug where multiple requests on the same connection were not handled.

Version: 3.6.0

Released: 14 March 2018

Changes:

• Compatibility with Varnish 6 through the Varnish agent 6.
• Introduces ability to register a Varnish node directly into a existing group.
• Fixes the broken scroll in the parameters list.
• Ignoring casing when comparing parameters in VAC, avoiding unnecessary pushes to an instance.
• Prevent close of parameters view without saving.
• Show restart groups messages individually per node.
• Correct notification on group restart.
• Fixes broken API documentation link in support page.
• Parameter editor uses new notification system.
• User view uses new notification system.
• Handles health icons more gracefully.
• Better handling of the parameters deploy message.
• Better interpolation for past data graphs when a node is dead in a group.
• Better ban pagination.
• Fix for user API parsing bug.
• Display private badge when a VCL is private to the group private VCL.
• Fixes issue where login was triggered multiple times.
• Fixes issue where group was not uploaded.
• Updated references to VCP 6 in the UI. Linking in Support page and bans page.
• Better handling of summary errors in the configure page.
• Fixes issue where Parameters didn’t show correct group.
• Fixes group displays and response for params.
• New Parameters schema response. (groups/groupNames attributes) API documentation
• Displays information in how to register a Varnish instance.
• Handles group deletion not leaving node with null references.

Version: 3.5.0

Released: 5 October 2017

Changes:

• New VCL schema response. API documentation
• Updated Cache API response. API documentation
• Fixes upgrade fails from 3.3.0 to 3.4.0 or 3.4.1 when a group has no caches
• Adds a VclCommitHistory and using it to provide compilationData and deployedData.
• Improves UI usability and feedback by using Backend fetches using promises.
• Splits some of the html elements into smaller templates to reduce footprint.
• Fixes Snippets not rendering when being clicked.
• Fixes “Save changes” doesn’t reset to correct state.
• Fixes “Save changes” does not save all changes
• Error checking on VCL’s is improved at the API level.
• Removes groupName and group from the vcl entity.
• Improves the rendering and location of the “diff box” for each commit.
• Creates a separate view for the vcl editor node compile and deploy table.
• Shows an individual message per node in the bans.
• Makes panic messages readable and able to copy to the clipboard
• Introduces a new VCL name format: vclName_yyyyMMdd_HHmmss_commitIdHash
• Fixes issues with the list of resources while authenticated, via the API.
• Have the compilation error and highlight properly
• Fixes issue while on a new VCL, and when back to the active tab.
• Fixes issue with the VCL name validation not showing when a wrong name is used.

Version: 3.4.1

Released: 6 July 2017

Changes:

• Prevents debian installations to override the existing defaults file
• SuperFastPurger curl request hangs in 3.4.0

Version: 3.4.0

Released: 27 June 2017

Changes:

• SuperFastPurger Handles case-sensitive custom headers in the SFP purger
• SuperFastPurger Fixes Responses that where invalid for nodejs clients purger.
• SuperFastPurger Fixes the content-length that caused problems in nodejs
• SuperFastPurger Adds the reqnum to the response in the purger.
• When proxied, accept X-Forwarded-For to set the ip address of the node
• Graphs on “live” now use total instead of average in a group.
• VCL Diff functionality is working properly. (not working in 3.3.0)
• Removes /versionjson endpoint /version now accepts Content-Type: application/json and text/plain
• HTTP 500 errors are now properly shown in the UI, to be able to dismiss and proceed.
• Fixes conflicting data when querying cache endpoints and caches in a group.
• Distinguishes between varnish and varnish-plus in the UI
• When both hits and misses and hits for pass are zero, NaN was returned rather than 0.
• Copy and paste in the terminal now works.
• Fixes issue with text encoding in VCL.
• Fix for rendering graphs when no active nodes.
• Improves graphs, when one node is not coherent in a group.

Version: 3.3.0

Released: 17 November 2016

Changes:

• Fixes invalid XSS filter for VCL using VCL_synth with javascript tags
• Fixes terminal for Safari browsers
• VCL deploy will also add the commit hash to the VCL name, when hashed for the Varnish instance. Re-deploy in VCL might be needed to fix inconsistency warning
• Past data UI reads RRD_conf.xml for updated configuration.
• New message page UI.
• Parameters for Varnish 4.1.
• Ban end point, now returns Content-Type json.
• Improve the security of password reset.
• Super fast purger + custom varnishd listening port. Dealing with the removal of listen_address in Varnish >= 4.1. Check API reference for more information.
• Better JSON of the VCL deploy message.
• API endpoint status/all now shows the license.
• VAC Guide and changelog available in support page.

Version: 3.2.1

Released: 30 June 2016

Changes:

• RRD_conf.xml is re-read after a VAC service restart
• Addresses XSS concerns in both API and UI
• User that issued ban is listed on the UI and API
• VCL in a group show deployed label and the content that is deployed.
• Better distinction between VCL and VCL in a group
• Multiple Health endpoint to minimize calls
• Speedometer fix to show proper percentage within group
• When issuing an empty ban, the empty ban show in the list

Version: 3.2.0

Released: 31 March 2016

Changes:

• New role User.
• Users can now be specific to a group or groups.
• New permissions schema.
• Groups scopes, so users can only see what belongs to them.
• Varnish 4 parameter set by default.
• Reference to mongodb-org and updated documentation.
• Minor improvements in the UI
• Several bug fixes

Version: 3.1.0

Released: 2 September 2015

Changes:

• Past data in the UI
• VCL commit history in the UI
• New graphs in the configure page in the UI
• New percentage graph for cache hit, miss, hitpass in UI and API
• Select primary group feature in the UI
• Duplicate parameter
• Filter by message in the UI
• Minor improvements in the UI
• Several bug fixes

Version: 3.0.4

Released: 24 July 2015

Changes:

• API support of Roles
• New User interface: Roles and new dialog
• Support for varnish-agent use of hostnames for AWS purposes
• Several bug fixes
• Minor UI improvements

Version: 3.0.3

Released: 3 December 2014

Changes:

• UI redesign
• Varnish 4 compatible
• Several other bugs

Version: 3.0.2

Released: 6 April 2014

Changes:

• Ubuntu init script: Invalid content.
• Overview: Change bandwidth label
• Upgrade: upgrading from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 made the init script disappear
• Changed default TTL for object cache in purger

Version: 3.0.1

Released: 28 March 2014

Changes and bug fixes:

• Overview: Bandwidth axis doesn’t handle large values
• RRD: out of memory with backing up to mongo
• Bans: fix escape characters
• Historical Data Counters time inconsistency
• Overview: Limit the averages to two decimals
• Configure: Edit and save active VCL, possible to deploy unsaved VCL
• Firefox doesn’t render correctly user page, message page and bans.
• Missing VCL and parameter status
• Parameter: we need to keep active tab highlighted on menu in parameter view
• Adding a second varnish cache to a group will not inherit the active VCL immediately
• UI: Collapse messages to make it easier to read through them
• Versioning: bottom version numbers.
• Configure: VCL editor doesn’t correctly parse backend response when save is used more than once.
• overview: real time counters labels
• Configure: unclear message when failed to deploy VCL

Version: 3.0.0

Released: 15 September 2013

Changes:

• VAC API implementation
• backend re-architecture
• frontend re-architecture
• integration with varnish-agent 2.2

Version: 2.0.1

Released: 22 February 2013

Changes:

• ping included in vagent2
• integration with vagent2
• in memory rrd to improve performance and scalability
• websocket refactor to improve performance and stability
• scheduler refactor to improve performance
• user password updates bug fixes
• password reset api included

Version: 2.0.3-11

Released: 6 December 2012

Changes:

• removed redundant default VCL deployment

Version: 2.0.3-10

Released: 5 December 2012

Changes:

• re-try when response fails too

Version: 2.0.3-9

Released: 4 December 2012

Changes:

• cache timeout now resets on retries

Version: 2.0.3-8

Released: 3 December 2012

Changes:

• instrumentation in header and warning logs

Version: 2.0.3-7

Released: 27 November 2012

Changes:

• super high performance purger
• less verbose cli warning
• configurable host
• init script fix for non rpm and deb builds
• un-configured caches fixed

Version: 2.0.3-6

Released: 27 November 2012

Changes:

• improved warning logs

Version: 2.0.3-5

Released: 5 November 2012

Changes:

• changed default client thread setting to support high concurrency out of the box
• added db cache TTL as a configurable item in default file

Version: 2.0.3-4

Released: 26 October 2012

Changes:

• ulimit set in init script
• accepting threads don’t close when out of file descriptors

Version: 2.0.3-3

Released: 26 October 2012

Changes:

• db cache added

Version: 2.0.3-2

Released: 19 October 2012

Changes:

• fix bug with empty request on connection close

Version: 2.0.3

Released: 2 October 2012

Changes:

• Super Fast Purger

Version: 2.0.2

Released: 30 August 2012

Changes:

• Rounding errors
• Telnet/CLI stability issues
• VCL editor error reporting

Version: 2.0.0

Released: 2 May 2012

Version: 1.0.0

Released: 14 December 2011

• Initial version