Squid-2.5 internal changes Everything is now automake'ed Dependency checking is properly implemented Even more GNU software is needed by the developers Compiles cleanly under cygwin Native windows compiling port is underway Squid's internals aren't very windows-native-friendly Large amounts of code tidyups Runs without strange crashes on various strange platforms Linux / S/390 Improved load spike recovery (2.4 and 2.5) storage manager will trade disk hits for throughput to prevent squid spiralling into death during peak periods Squid-2.2 and squid-2.3 can suffer from this max_open_disk_fds in squid.conf can be used to place a hard limit on the number of open disk files