In additions to all the bugs and improvements done to the code and plugins, the following new features are available when you upgrade from v3.2 to v3.4. For details on what has changed to existing features and configurations that might affect your upgrade, please see
Tagging disks in storage.config
The intent of this feature is to allow content to be assigned to specific disks. As an example, using storage.config tagging, together with rules in hosting.config and volumes.config, you can force certain URLs to go to SSD disks. TBD more details, Phil and Jan ?
HTTP streams throttling
Being able to throttle HTTP streams can be a valuable function for reducing bandwidth waste. TBD more details, Alan.
The following configurations have been added to control this feature (the default values are shown):
CONFIG proxy.config.http.flow_control.enabled INT 0 CONFIG proxy.config.http.flow_control.high_water INT 0 CONFIG proxy.config.http.flow_control.low_water INT 0
CPU thread affinity
It is now possible to set thread affinity for the main worker threads. This can improve performance, particular on NUMA systems. This is configured via
CONFIG proxy.config.exec_thread.affinity INT 1
Delay proxy services until cache is enabled
When Traffic Server starts, we load meta-data information from the cache. For very large caches, this can take a fairly long time (several seconds). During this load and initialization time, the server will by default proxy requests to the origin. A new configuration has been added, which prevents proxying while the cache is being initialized:
CONFIG proxy.config.http.wait_for_cache INT 1
Controlling chunking size
A new configuration option is added, which lets you control the size of the chunk sizes for content that is Transfer-Encoding with chunking (default value shown):
CONFIG proxy.config.http.chunking.size INT 4096
New Plugin: cacheurl
TBD: More details.
New plugin: gzip
TBD: more details. TBD: We should move this to stable plugins too!
API additions and changes
TBD: please edit / add.
HTTP Range requests
Wasn't working with 3.2, is hopefully working with 3.4...