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    Squid V6.10

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Cache/Proxy
    squidsquid-proxysquid update
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    • JonathanLeeJ
      JonathanLee
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      Squid version 7 is still in development it’s not available to anyone. I only know by way of email list from Squid. You can enroll in them also if you want.

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        Nafryti @JonathanLee
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        @JonathanLee I understand, but how did you get Squid 6.6? What I'm being told by a few on Reddit is that Netgate has not touched anything to do with Squid since November 2023, even though the github shows otherwise. That said my available packages still shows it as 6.3 even though the latest is 6.10, and you say you have 6.6 which only further confuses me.

        Why can't it be simple cut and dry.

        Negate: "We won't use this anymore, moving forward"
        Me: "So then remove it and stop updating it?"
        For someone to be so huge you'd think removing a package from a list would be trivial.

        All that aside, please tell me how you managed to get Squid 6.6 from Netgate?

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          Patch @Nafryti
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          @Nafryti have you looked at https://forum.netgate.com/post/1144255

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          • JonathanLeeJ
            JonathanLee @Nafryti
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            @Nafryti I have to be honest I don’t want them to remove it, just leave it, it’s already been updated to fix security issues. So no reason to remove it. Squid 6.6 I have pfSense Plus, do you have that? If not I also do developer snapshots sometimes so that may also be the reason.

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            • JonathanLeeJ
              JonathanLee @Patch
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              @Patch mine is directly from pfSense official freeBSD repo. I could never install the other version because I have an ARM processor

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                Nafryti @JonathanLee
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                @JonathanLee I built my own setup, using Community Edition.
                It won't let me pick anything other than "Current Stable Release (2.7.2)" in System/Update/Update System > Branch.

                @Patch I don't have those in the "Available Packages" list.
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                  Patch @Nafryti
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                  @Nafryti did you run the fetch command in the post I linked above first.

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                    Nafryti @Patch
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                    @Patch OH... ok, I'll give that a shot on Skunkworks and if all goes well I'll deploy it on the primary.

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                      Nafryti @Nafryti
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                      UPDATE 08/29/24:
                      My HyperV instance of pfSense nicknamed "Skunkworks" has stopped connecting to the internet and I have no idea why, for all intents and purposes, there should be a completely unobstructed pathway from the Modem to the VM, and yet, it just can't see the netgate update server anymore. I haven't messed with any settings since my last post and was finally going to buckle down and give this a shot and it decided it had enough of me. I'm grateful the Primary isn't screwed up any, going without internet is entirely unacceptable. Seeing how the network usage is far more than any OTC box router can handle, but not quite Enterprise grade, I'll touch back on this with a fresh installation of Skunkworks, and well after my anxiety settles down.

                      @Patch said in Squid V6.10:

                      @Nafryti did you run the fetch command in the post I linked above first.

                      I'm assuming you either did that in the terminal access or using the Package that allows you to enter commands from the WebUI? I suppose Telnet is an option too, but that'd be at the outer extents of my ability level. Last time I tinkered with Telnet was to reprogram an old Dell Managed Switch I was playing around with, and that took some nightmarish re-wiring of a serial COM cable, still have the cable too.

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                        Patch @Nafryti
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                        @Nafryti said in Squid V6.10:

                        I'm assuming you either did that in the terminal access or using the Package that allows you to enter commands from the WebUI?

                        Any of

                        • HyperV terminal
                        • pfsense -> Diagnostics -> Command prompt -> command
                        • ssh terminal
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                          FoolCoconut
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                          @JonathanLee aren't you running the non-pfsense maintained version from @lg1980

                          https://forum.netgate.com/topic/186331/new-squid-6-7-and-clamav-1-3-0/7

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                          • JonathanLeeJ
                            JonathanLee @FoolCoconut
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                            @FoolCoconut No. I have an Advanced ARM processor. You remember Cirix processors?

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                            • JonathanLeeJ
                              JonathanLee @Nafryti
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                              Dang, the updated one fixed all the security issues but the GUI has some small issues

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                                Nafryti
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                                Well, I have a lot to do and sort out sometime soon, and I've been procrastinating for far too long. I still have not been able to get a new Skunkworks loaded yet, I've got to reorganize components, and then I'll be able to finally start testing again.

                                My wish for 6.10 to finally be reevaluated by NG hasn't changed, I haven't looked, but I know from experience how stubborn some devs can be over things.

                                There was and imho still is a demand for such a caching service, not everyone has a completely separate machine to cache downloads to, but when you DIY a router, with a 1TB HDD and run the OS on the RAM, then you honestly have the freedom to setup something like that, but only if there isn't any complacency.

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                                  ICS_DOS
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                                  Now that the Vulnerabilities are fixed Upstream, I see no reason why this Package is still deprecated. I would love to deploy it for my Customers but can't reasonably do so :(

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                                    michmoor LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance @ICS_DOS
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                                    @ICS_DOS Outside of the vulns found and/or fixed there is still the fact that there is no maintainer for Squid for pfsense. There is a lot wrong with the package and unless someone steps up and volunteers their time to fix all the glaring problems i see no reason why netgate would still have this package in the repo.

                                    Firewall: NetGate,Palo Alto-VM,Juniper SRX
                                    Routing: Juniper, Arista, Cisco
                                    Switching: Juniper, Arista, Cisco
                                    Wireless: Unifi, Aruba IAP
                                    JNCIP,CCNP Enterprise

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                                      Nafryti @michmoor
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                                        Nafryti @michmoor
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                                        @michmoor said in Squid V6.10:

                                        "still the fact that there is no maintainer for Squid for pfsense."

                                        That's not true at all, there is someone from NG (at least that's my understanding of the name: "marcos-ng") updating the repo.

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                                        @michmoor what problems, if you don't mind my asking?

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                                        • JonathanLeeJ
                                          JonathanLee
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                                          I do not think that he still uses this package anymore for a while. I would search out others for help.

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                                            michmoor LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance @Nafryti
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                                            @Nafryti Yes there were commits done but that does not mean there are maintainers. I repeat there are no volunteers maintaining this package on pfsense.
                                            Read the redmine notes regarding those Git commits. Its clearly stated by the engineer who pushed the PR that Squid is going away.

                                            One of the biggest issues is that transparent mode is useless and broken. That alone makes the package unusable for most.
                                            https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/14390

                                            There are those in the forum who still use the package daily like @JonathanLee who is very active with it and probably is a good resource for all things Squid on pfsense.

                                            Firewall: NetGate,Palo Alto-VM,Juniper SRX
                                            Routing: Juniper, Arista, Cisco
                                            Switching: Juniper, Arista, Cisco
                                            Wireless: Unifi, Aruba IAP
                                            JNCIP,CCNP Enterprise

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