Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache
2 days ago
- #Software Governance
- #Project Fork
- #Open Source
- The former Varnish Cache FOSS project changed its name to Vinyl Cache as of April 2026, with the transition finalized with the 9.0 release on 2026-03-16.
- Vinyl Cache is considered the continuation of the Varnish Cache FOSS project, with the same maintainer team and processes, while Varnish Software now maintains a separate downstream project called Varnish Cache.
- Key changes include migrating the source repository to a self-hosted Forgejo instance, archiving GitHub repositories, updating branding, and preserving historical content under the new domain vinyl-cache.org.
- The new Varnish Cache by Varnish Software is a downstream distribution with different governance, codebase, and a trademark policy, not a continuation of the original FOSS project.
- An opinion from some board members compares the situation to MySQL/MariaDB, where Vinyl Cache represents the independent FOSS continuation and Varnish Cache is a corporate-controlled fork using the old name.