Commit 5e2804f2 authored by Nils Goroll's avatar Nils Goroll

release docs: req.grace/req.ttl wording

parent 7a0f2cf7
......@@ -56,15 +56,15 @@ VCL variables
``req.ttl``, ``req.grace`` and keep
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``req.ttl`` had been previously listed as deprecated, but it is now
fully supported, since there are use cases that cannot be solved
without it.
``req.grace`` had been previously removed, but was now reintroduced,
since there are use cases that cannot be solved without it. Similarly,
``req.ttl`` used to be deprecated and is now fully supported again.
``req.ttl`` and ``req.grace`` set upper bounds on the TTL and grace
times that are permitted for the current request -- if these variables
are set and the TTL/grace of a cache object is longer than their
settings, then a new response is fetched from the backend, despite the
presence of the response in the cache.
presence of an otherwise fresh cache object.
A common application is to set shorter TTLs when the backend is known
to be healthy, so that responses are fresher when all is well. But if
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