Today the Varnish Project released version 2.0.4 of their proxy cache. According to the web site, the changes from 2.0.3 are:

Serve graced objects if the backend is unhealthy.
Portability fixes for Solaris, MacOS X/Darwin and NetBSD
Documentation updates
Added server.hostname and server.identity to VCL.
Fixed a problem where we would sleep for far too long when we would run [...]

This is yet another site born in my search for a place where I can drop my thoughts, ideas and other stuff. This time it’s all about caching. In particular this means caching of content normally delivered by a web server to a requesting party. Now, why caching? Isn’t that a technology we should [...]