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<p class="MsoNormal">Good morning everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Online repository with latest Squid 7.4 (rebuilt from sources in Debian) for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 64-bit is available at
<a href="https://github.com/diladele/repo-squid-7_4_1-ubuntu-24_04/">https://github.com/diladele/repo-squid-7_4_1-ubuntu-24_04/</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Github repo <a href="https://github.com/diladele/squid-ubuntu">
https://github.com/diladele/squid-ubuntu</a> contains all scripts we used to make this compilation.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here are simple instructions how to use the repo.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"># get diladele apt key, dearmor it and add to trusted storage<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">curl https://packages.diladele.com/diladele_pub.asc | gpg --dearmor >/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/diladele_pub.asc.gpg<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"># add new repo<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">echo "deb https://diladele.github.io/repo-squid-7_4_1-ubuntu-24_04/repo/ubuntu/ noble main" \<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> >/etc/apt/sources.list.d/squid-7_4_1.diladele.github.io.list<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"># and install<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">apt update && apt install -y \<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> squid-common \<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> squid-openssl \<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> libecap3 libecap3-dev<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"># create the override folder for squid<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">mkdir -p /etc/systemd/system/squid.service.d/<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"># and override the default number of file descriptors<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">cat >/etc/systemd/system/squid.service.d/override.conf << EOL<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">[Service]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">LimitNOFILE=65535<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">EOL<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"># switch to openssl based squid<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">update-alternatives --set squid /usr/sbin/squid-openssl<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"># finally reload the systemd<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">systemctl daemon-reload<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This version of Squid will be part of Web Safety 9.8 being released in spring/summer of 2026. If you have some spare time and are interested in Admin UI for Squid and ICAP web filtering, consider
<a href="https://diladele.com/websafety/download.html">downloading a Web Safety appliance</a> for VMware ESXi/vSphere , Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox or even deploy it directly on Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS. The free license key for your experiments is
<a href="https://www.diladele.com/websafety/licensing.html">available at the site</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hope you will find this useful. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Diladele Dev Team<o:p></o:p></p>
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