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Squid 3 5 20 Open Source Proxy Server released Squid 3.5.20 recently released, is an open source, full-featured and high-performance web proxy cache application that can be arranged hierarchically for an improvement in response time and a reduction in bandwidth usage. Squid 3.5.20 Changelog Fix icons loading speed. This bug had the annoying result of making Squid startup or restart very slow. All installations should see a few seconds shaved off startup and restart. Do not allow low-level debugging to hide important/critical messages. Due to the way debugging log records were produced in previous Squid it was possible for some important or critical messages containing complicated mesage to become hidden. Please note that if this version suddenly starts reporting high level errors previously unseen it may not be a regression, but simply that you were not seeing them before. Support unified EUI format code in external_acl_type. Squid supports %>eui as a logformat specifier, wh...

Squid for Ubuntu because proxies are too much of a hassle EDIT : Added Authentication methods for dynamic ips It has been more than a year since I have been using squid to mitigate all the proxy problems that come due to the proxy authentication. This is the most effective and hassle free way to set proxy in Linux. Steps: Note : Replace squid with squid3 if you are not using Ubuntu 16.04 1. Install squid sudo apt-get install squid 2. Edit the squid configuration file. sudo vim /etc/squid/squid.conf (for Ubuntu 15.10 and older) sudo vim /etc/squid3/squid.conf 3. Delete all the contents of that file and replace them with the configuration given below: Replace 10.0.2.21 with your own ip address/ other ip addresses that you want to access this proxy from. Change 202.141.80.22 with your Proxy server address. Change username:password to your proxy username and password. 4. Save the file ( Esc and ":wq" for vim noobs) 5. Restart the squid server. sudo service squid restart (for U...