The Varnish Cache Project Will Soon be Called the Vinyl Cache Project
canopic jug writes:
Famed developer Poul-Henning Kamp (phk) has posted an update on the status and future of the project currently known as Varnish Cache. And, after 20 years of being a go-to component in WWW infrastructure, it will change its name to The Vinyl Cache Project with version 8.0.0 being the last under the old name. The software project will be sheperded under the new name by a Danish association formed for that specific purpose.
We will instead form a voluntary association, a "Forening", under the laws of Denmark, with bylaws that set out what the goal is (develop, maintain and distribute the software), who gets to make the decisions (a governing board appointed by the members), who can become members (anybody but subject to approval by the members) and that the association cannot ever hold or handle any money.
The commented bylaws of the association will be ratified by the founders and made public this autumn, and the first general assembly will be on Monday February 23rd 2026 - hopefully with many membership applications to approve - more about that when we publish the bylaws.
We will also, at the same time, reluctantly change the name of the project.
Varnish Cache is a very fast web application accelerator, or caching HTTP reverse proxy. It runs in front of web servers and the output of the server is cached there, subject to specific caching criteria, to save overloading the back end.
Previously:
(2022) The New Yorker on NTP Software Maintenance
(2022) PHK on Surveillance Which Is Too Cheap to Meter
(2018) Transparency Versus Liability in Hardware
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