Editing Squid (software) (section)

==History==
Squid was originally developed as the ''Harvest object cache'',<ref name=":0">C.Mic Bowman, Peter B. Danzig, Darren R. Hardy, Udi Manper, Michael F. Schwartz, The Harvest information discovery and access system, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Volume 28, Issues 1–2, December 1995, Pages 119–125. [https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0169-7552(95)00098-5 doi:10.1016/0169-7552(95)00098-5]</ref> part of the [[Harvest project]] at the [[University of Colorado Boulder]].<ref>[http://www.squid-cache.org/Intro/ Squid intro], on the Squid website</ref><ref>[http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-dev/199504.mbox/%3CPine.BSD.3.91.950404163551.11902J-100000@get.wired.com%3E ''Harvest cache now available as an "httpd accelerator"''], by Mike Schwartz on the http-wg mailing list, Tue, 4 April 1995, as forwarded by [[Brian Behlendorf]] to the [[Apache HTTP Server]] developers' mailing list</ref> Further work on the program was completed at the [[University of California, San Diego]] and funded via two grants from the [[National Science Foundation]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Squid Sponsors |url=http://www.squid-cache.org/SPONSORS.txt |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070511220833/http://www.squid-cache.org/SPONSORS.txt |archive-date=11 May 2007 |access-date=13 February 2007 |quote=The NSF was the primary funding source for Squid development from 1996–2000. Two grants (#NCR-9616602, #NCR-9521745) received through the Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research (ANIR) Division were administered by the University of California San Diego}}</ref> Duane Wessels forked the "last pre-commercial version of Harvest" and renamed it to Squid to avoid confusion with the commercial fork called Cached 2.0, which became [[NetCache]].<ref name="auug-keynote">Duane Wessels [https://web.archive.org/web/20051030045131/http://www.life-gone-hazy.com/writings/auug-keynote.ps.gz Squid and ICP: Past, Present, and Future], Proceedings of the Australian Unix Users Group. September 1997, Brisbane, Australia</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.netcache.com/ |title=netcache.com |access-date=7 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961112032719/http://www.netcache.com/ |archive-date=12 November 1996}}</ref> Squid version 1.0.0 was released in July 1996.<ref name="auug-keynote"/> [[SquidNT]], a port of the Squid proxy server was merged into the main Squid project in September 2006.<ref>{{cite web|title=Squid FAQ: Does Squid run on Windows? |url=https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/AboutSquid#head-500ddc367517c94cdf5cc49cb26868ab64becf63 }}</ref>

Squid is now developed almost exclusively through volunteer efforts.

In October 2023, it was revealed that Squid continued to suffer from 35 security vulnerabilities which had not been fixed for two and a half years after their initial reporting.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://joshua.hu/squid-security-audit-35-0days-45-exploits | title=55 Vulnerabilities in Squid Caching Proxy and 35 0days | date=11 October 2023 }}</ref>