My server has Varnish 1.1 installed. Is it worth me updating, and if so how can I do it safely?

Posted December 8, 2014

I’ve searched for information on how to upgrade from 1.1 but I’ve not found any results so I’m wondering if it’s worth me updating and if so how should I do it?

My server runs on Apache and Ubuntu 12.04.

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Andrew SB • December 8, 2014

Varnish 1.1 is quite old at this point. Ubuntu 12.04 ships with 3.0.2 by default. While version 4 has been released in the meantime. There have been quite a few changes to the VCL file syntax. While there aren’t any official docs for upgrading from 1.1, there are some covering the changes in 3 and 4:

You’ll most like have to make a number of changes to your configuration. It might be best to start clean.

gparent • December 8, 2014

If you don’t know why you’d even upgrade in the first place, it’s probably not worth upgrading.