alt.hn

4/8/2026 at 3:20:59 PM

Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache

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

by Foxboron

4/11/2026 at 7:02:38 AM

This is helpful, but it is yet to be seen how downstream picks it up. Wikidata[0] has renamed it and marked the Vinyl repo as the preferred one. Gentoo[1] renamed the package and switched to Vinyl. Homebrew[2] is now tracking Varnish Software (downstream of Vinyl). Fedora[3] has switched to Varnish Software as well. At endoflife.date[5], we renamed to vinyl and switched tracking as well. Wikipedia[6] has renamed Varnish (Software) -> Vinyl Cache.

[0]: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1602447

[1]: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=679937b...

[2]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/273280

[3]: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/varnish/c/59f403810b746e0...

[4]: https://repology.org/project/varnish/packages

[5]: https://github.com/endoflife-date/endoflife.date/pull/9792

[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_Cache

by captn3m0

4/10/2026 at 11:47:37 PM

This is the first I've actually heard of the name change... I used to use Varnish quite a bit, and had a decent grasp of VCL, for Drupal deployments. But I think Varnish 6 or 7 was when I started dropping off managing the caching layer as almost every project chose to offload caching to Cloudflare.

by geerlingguy

4/11/2026 at 1:47:21 AM

Did not know this had happened, but does seem PHK (the original author of Varnish) is now with of the Vinyl Cache project, so this is not just a typical fork.

by hannibalhorn

4/10/2026 at 11:34:30 PM

What's the deal with Antirez and PHK refusing to add TLS support?

by wmf

4/11/2026 at 5:08:02 AM

I'm not "refusing to add TLS support" I insist that the certificate is safely isolated in a separate process for security reasons. There are many ways to skin that cat.

by phkamp

4/11/2026 at 7:05:55 AM

Aside: Loved your bit talking about money and varnish in Gift Community[1]. And thanks for the Beerware License, I've started using it!

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOn-L3tGKw0

by captn3m0

4/11/2026 at 4:55:55 AM

Varnish Enterprise has https support.

by lofaszvanitt

4/11/2026 at 6:17:20 AM

the whole point of varnish software keeping a public version of "vinyl cache" as "varnish cache" with TLS is to give people a way to access a FOSS version with native TLS.

I think TLS is table-stakes now, and has been for the last 10 years, at least.

by perbu

4/11/2026 at 8:17:45 AM

just use the tool that does the job.

TLS in -> hitch or caddy Cache -> varnish/vinyl TLS out -> haproxy

Connect them up with Unix sockets, if you like.

by time4tea

4/11/2026 at 7:01:49 AM

Terminate tls and you have your cache.

by lofaszvanitt

4/11/2026 at 2:44:41 AM

I appreciate the mysql/mariadb comparison.

by willjp