Commit c4f7d107 authored by Geoff Simmons's avatar Geoff Simmons

Elaborate on the UDS restriction to 4.1 in "Upgrading to 6.0".

parent d6a127b0
......@@ -49,8 +49,13 @@ access the socket file. So you can reliably restrict access by
restricting permissions on the directory containing the socket (but
that must be done outside of the Varnish configuration).
When UDS listeners are in use, VCL >= 4.1 will be required for all VCL
programs loaded by Varnish. If you attempt to load a VCL source with
``vcl 4.0;``, the load will fail with a message that the version is
not supported.
If you continue using only IP addresses in your ``-a`` arguments, you
won't have to change them.
won't have to change them, and you can continue using VCL 4.0.
Unix domain sockets as backend addresses
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......@@ -84,6 +89,10 @@ The path of a socket file may also be specified in the
The value of ``-b`` must fulfill the same conditions as the ``.path``
field in a backend declaration.
Backends with the ``.path`` specification require VCL 4.1, as do paths
with the ``-b`` argument. If you don't use UDS backends, you can
continue using VCL 4.0.
varnishd parameters
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