Varnish 8.0.0 and bonus project news

Version8.0.0 of Varnish Cachehas been released. In addition to a numberof changes to varnishd parameters, the ability to access someruntime parameters using the Varnish Configuration Language, and otherimprovements, 8.0.0 comes with big news; the project is forming anorganization called a foreningthat will set out formal governance for the project.

The move also comes with a name change due to legal difficulties insecuring the Varnish Cache name:

The new association and the new project will be named "The VinylCache Project", and this release 8.0.0, will be the last under the"Varnish Cache" name. The next release, in March will be under the newname, and will include compatility scripts, to make the transition assmooth as possible for everybody.

I want to make it absolutely clear that this is 100% a mess of mymaking: I should have insisted on a firm written agreement about thename sharing, but I did not.

I will also state for the record, that there are no hard feelingsbetween Varnish Software and the FOSS project.

Varnish Software has always been, and still is, an important andvalued contributor to the FOSS project, but sometimes even friends canmake a mess of a situation.