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[arch-announce] Breaking changes for all users of `varnish`, which is renamed to `vinyl-cache`

https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/4BSRLLGJ5552NASTYKCDZ3Q6DIMW2J4J/

#Linux #ArchLinux #Varnish #VinylCache #OpenSource

👩🏻‍💻 my so-called sudo life - day 497: Mastodon stampede edition 🐘​

Dear Fedi friends,

You may remember how last year I was dealing with self-DDoS attacks every time I shared a link to my Wordpress or Ghost sites. Well, I solved the issue with Ghost (#VinylCache is brilliant) but I never found a solution for my Wordpress site... not even with #BunnyCDN. I guess I wasn't tweaking the right settings.

This is a pity because TBH the ActivityPub for Wordpress plugin is SO COOL and works flawlessly. I had to move my blog posts to Ghost and keep Wordpress as a static portfolio site. That being said, I never dared share links to my Wordpress site anymore because I would get about 4000 requests within 60 seconds and everything would freeze.

I just looked into #BunnyCDN's settings again and tried to tweak them. So please bear with me for an experiment, sharing an old blog post and seeing what happens.

Wish me luck!

From the archives:

https://elenarossini.com/2025/01/my-so-called-sudo-life-time-matters/

#BuyEuropean #CDN #DDOS #MastodonHugofDeath #MastodonStampede #Wordpress #blog #MySoCalledSudoLife

@borup https://gitlab.com/uplex/varnish/libvmod-blobdigest/-/blob/master/src/vmod_blobdigest.vcc?ref_type=heads has hmac sha512 and https://gitlab.com/uplex/varnish/libvmod-crypto/-/blob/master/src/vmod_crypto.rst?ref_type=heads has the rsa verifier.

both got vinylized and should work with #vinylcache. if not, please share the issue you are experiencing.

note that both only do the crypto part on blobs. to convert to/from encodings like base64 or hex, we have the bundled blob vmod.

@resuna @brouhaha

I agree.

Until it croaked, we had a BeagleBoneBlack in the CI cluster of #VinylCache (The FOSS project formerly known as Varnish Cache)

New tutorial: Configuring TLS with haproxy

We show a low-maintenance, “configure and forget” solution for using TLS for client- and backend traffic with Vinyl Cache and haproxy.

https://vinyl-cache.org/tutorials/tls_haproxy.html

#vinylcache #haproxy #tls

My very rough test shows that Rust hyper can achieve ~119k requests per second, but vinyl cache formerly known as Varnish with 1s cache on front of a same URL can reach 96k requests per second.

https://github.com/Ciantic/stress-test-vinyl-cache/tree/main

#Rust #VinylCache #Varnish

WikiApiary is back online after having been down and overloaded for a long time.

Bawolff brought it back and did a ton of full stack performance work to optimise the whole system. Adding HTTP caching, tuning InnoDB, and more!

https://blog.bawolff.net/2026/03/giving-wikiapiary-kick.html

#MediaWiki #WikiApiary #Wikibase #Wikidata #VinylCache #VarnishCache #MariaDB #MySQL #webperf #SRE

Hmmm,

My impression was that #Varnish Software would be based off on the #VinylCache upstream.

But now it seems like they have effectively created a new "varnish" repository where they intend to follow upstream, with their own patches *and* features vinyl doesn't want?

I already see changed not upstreamed, and they seem to be pushing for existing varnish packages to point to the "new" upstream?

@kly i agree, in particular about the people. i like them and they do good work.

but as much as i try to avoid becoming an arrogant asshole, i would go one step further: what we do in the open, keeping feature parity in many aspects and sometimes exceeding the closed source fork in features and/or performance, even helps those who decide to use the closed fork: only because the alternative exists ready to be fired up is the oracle-ification potential rather limited.
#vinylcache

Why did #varnishcache change it's name to #vinylcache ?

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@vinyl_cache/116239868219463184

The identity is now live on the newly revamped Vinyl Cache website: https://vinyl-cache.org

It’s also released under a Creative Commons license to guarantee that the open source project can use it freely.

Oh and finally: they actually had a new software release today, have a look below!

Thanks a lot to @slink especially as well as the rest of the @vinyl_cache team for your trust! It has been a pleasure to work on this, can’t wait to see where it’s going :)

3/3

#VinylCache

It isn’t just the logo :)

Meet the Vinyl Ghost, a new mascot for the project.

A mystic but friendly creature who nests on web servers. Like hermit crabs, it caches itself underneath a sheet of vinyl. Yet, it’s always out there to lend a hand delivering webpages.

I drew the mascot in a few different poses and expressions, with possibilities to create more in the future!

And of course, visual identity classics: colour palette, typeface selection.

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#GraphicDesign #Mascot #Logo #VinylCache

Happy to share a project I have been working on: a new visual identity for Vinyl Cache!

Installed in front of a web server, it makes websites faster to load.

The new logo stems from a simple concept: Vinyl Cache protects the server just like vinyl film protects what it’s applied on.

The symbol combines a solid block representing the website and a translucent flexible layer as the cache. Together, they form a V monogram, along with a customised wordmark.

1/3

#GraphicDesign #Logo #VinylCache

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@vinyl_cache/116239868219463184

Congratulations on the first #vinylcache release and a wonderful new design & mascot! I love it! 💜

Well done @slink & @rhubarbe 👏🥳

The #vinylcache project has a new identity - and winners of our competition have been announced:
https://vinyl-cache.org/organization/new-identity.html

Vinyl Cache, the FOSS project formerly known as Varnish Cache, has a new logo:

https://vinyl-cache.org/

#Vinylcache #Varnishcache

Thanks to user ibotty and sphinxfeed-lsaffre, the #vinylcache homepage now has an atom feed

https://vinyl-cache.org/atom.xml

#atom #rss

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@slink/116085606009199224

This is how leading by example in #opensource looks like! 💪 if you are really serious about your #foss principles, this is what you do. 🧡

Congratulations, @slink! Thank you for being such an inspiration in the open source scene and beyond! Amazing step! I hope others will follow this direction. 🥳👏

#unplugtrump #unplugbigtech #github #forgejo #vinylcache #diday #entshitification

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@slink/116085606009199224

This is how leading by example in #opensource looks like! 💪 if you are really serious about your #foss principles, this is what you do. 🧡

Congratulations, @slink! Thank you for being such an inspiration in the open source scene and beyond! Amazing step! I hope others will follow this direction. 🥳👏

#unplugtrump #unplugbigtech #github #forgejo #vinylcache #diday #entshitification

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@slink/116085606009199224

This is how leading by example in #opensource looks like! 💪 if you are really serious about your #foss principles, this is what you do. 🧡

Congratulations, @slink! Thank you for being such an inspiration in the open source scene and beyond! Amazing step! I hope others will follow this direction. 🥳👏

#unplugtrump #unplugbigtech #github #forgejo #vinylcache #diday #entshitification

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@slink/116085606009199224

This is how leading by example in #opensource looks like! 💪 if you are really serious about your #foss principles, this is what you do. 🧡

Congratulations, @slink! Thank you for being such an inspiration in the open source scene and beyond! Amazing step! I hope others will follow this direction. 🥳👏

#unplugtrump #unplugbigtech #github #forgejo #vinylcache #diday #entshitification

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@slink/116085606009199224

This is how leading by example in #opensource looks like! 💪 if you are really serious about your #foss principles, this is what you do. 🧡

Congratulations, @slink! Thank you for being such an inspiration in the open source scene and beyond! Amazing step! I hope others will follow this direction. 🥳👏

#unplugtrump #unplugbigtech #github #forgejo #vinylcache #diday #entshitification

#vinylcache has left *) #github for self hosted #forgejo yesterday.

https://vinyl-cache.org/organization/moving.html

There is a also a bit about some additional measures we implemented and a mini-retro with mistakes made.

*) repos are archived to help people find the new location, and some related projects are still TODO

#varnishcache

A first look at how we run #forgejo for and on #vinylcache. No technical details yet, sorry (will be coming when we are ready to share them):

https://code.vinyl-cache.org/vinyl-cache/code.vinyl-cache.org#readme

main #vinylcache repository is migrated 😀

https://code.vinyl-cache.org/vinyl-cache/vinyl-cache

#vinylcache forge migration in progress…

#varnishcache

@slink are you sure I need an account as a #vinylCache *user*? Or did you mean *developer*?

More details on the #vinylcache move here: https://vinyl-cache.org/organization/moving.html

TL;DR: Expect github repos to soon be archived, get an account on code.vinyl-cache.org

#varnishcache

If you are a #vinylCache user, please prepare for the upcoming move to a self hosted #forgejo instance and register an account:

https://code.vinyl-cache.org/user/sign_up?jwt=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6IkRWZFVKUFU5QlJVVUNRdHl5Uk1xcS00TmdIVXZJVmtSbE5BUE5jeDgyMmciLCJ0eXAiOiJKV1QifQ.eyJhdWQiOiIvdXNlci9zaWduX3VwIiwiZXhwIjoxNzcxNDQwNjkyLCJpYXQiOjE3NzA4MzU4OTIsImlzcyI6Ii91c2VyL3NldHRpbmdzL2ludml0YXRpb25zIiwibmJmIjoxNzcwODM1ODkyLCJzdWIiOiJzbGluayJ9.LFDvydBh_cxhyvP1sOdobInlEr4OtqISQtwoDiYE6AvvI6q4A2PxqikFOrwpg5NP5dqSU84ctwxMmiDI61-ypk2nRGya6RW5xAu4PskcaDO8_41gob9SQ-MUtbJCBeldHpDJIrYi1GS_tmdjh4x2jEXne9vSoTXBAmFmh8k7c1gyJvtRJx_HJApPTbcreZ-ug2RjLGvK8zLf-llnPA1AeaeF1SRLZIGD6i8-wvT25u6Taaz64gPICl-I5k8mvwODCt1aZy3R9sUB9jY1YKxvKiBEhCpLn51Nr2cmSc9MzCOonqwsnIZ3Ql-aJo5BwAdvDl82fBiKOoZV6La7GOoW5Q

This link expires 2026-02-18T19:51:32+01:00.

After this date, anyone who already has an account should be able to help out,
unless we still get abused by spammers and need to close registrations again.

#varnishcache

@amapanda for backend tls, you can use the same haproxy as an onloader:

https://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/users-guide/vcl-backends.html#connecting-through-a-proxy

tls should be used when you have an untrusted network inbetween your cache and backends. otherwise http is more efficient

#vinylcache #haproxy

Ohhh #cloudflare is down? :blobcatonfire: You know that there are #opensource alternatives, right?

Can fully recommend #vinylcache. 🧡

"the team and I would like to thank you for your very efficient and thorough work supporting us" -- new client

When you work with clients long-term, it's natural for some things to become routine. That's why feedback like this is so meaningful and energizing.

Thank you, new client.

#varnishcache #vinylcache

Last call! Logo #contest!

Since #Cloudflare was recently facing a global outage, it’s a good moment to make you aware of a logo contest organised by an #opensource alternative #VinylCache.

Vinyl Cache, previously known under the name #VarnishCache, is rebranding itself and looking for a new logo and mascot. If you are a designer and would like to shape their visual branding, feel free to submit your sketches (no final designs needed) until the end of Nov https://varnish-cache.org/index.html#logo-contest

Announcing VCOT: OpenTelemetry Instrumentation for #vinylcache

We’re happy to announce to have opened the repository of VCOT (VinylCacheOpenTelemetry), a brand new open-source Go utility designed to enhance observability in Vinyl-Cache (and, for the time being, #varnishcache) environments through an integration with #opentelemetry.

VCOT parses Varnish Shared Logs (VSL) in real-time and exports telemetry data to OpenTelemetry-compatible backends.

https://gitlab.com/uplex/varnish/VinylCacheOpenTelemetry

a databricks report on smart load balancing in k8s makes the rounds.
i would like to mention that we solved this and other problems using the shard director in #vinylcache (formerly #varnishcache) years ago. for k8s we have viking (repo needs renaming).

and yes, l4 loadbalancing of http is, in most cases, the worst choice

http://vinyl-cache.org/docs/trunk/reference/vmod_directors.html#directors-shard
https://gitlab.com/uplex/varnish/k8s-ingress

Varnish Cache project to change its name to Vinyl Cache with after the next release (after today's 8.0.0, in March), per @bsdphk:

We have tried to negotiate with Varnish Software for many months about this issue, but their IP-Lawyers still insist that Varnish Software owns the Varnish Cache name, and at most we have being offered a strictly limited, subject to their veto, permission for the FOSS project to use the “Varnish Cache” name.

We cannot live with that: We are independent FOSS project with our own name.

So we will change the name of the project.

The new association and the new project will be named “The Vinyl Cache 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 new name, and will include compatibility scripts, to make the transition as smooth as possible for everybody.

https://fosstodon.org/@bsdphk/115208900512511929

#VarnishCache #VinylCache