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[Amos Jeffries <question268037@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #268037 on squid3 in Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/squid3/+question/268037

Amos Jeffries proposed the following answer:
The situation is a side effect of Ubuntu being a derivative
distribution, low down on the release chain. Overall a major case of bad
luck really. If any one of several technical delays had been shorter
Ubuntu would be distributing 3.4 or 3.5 Squid versions today.

Debian went into a release freeze for Jesse late in 2014 with 3.3.8
package version. Since that freeze ended mid 2015 it has taken some time
to update the Debian packages to newer version. Debiain went through a
squid3/squid package renaming transition which menat a lot of extra QA
slowed the normal speed of release down. Then the Debian as a whole went
through a transition to GCC 5. Which further delayed the squid packages
by a month.

Meanwhile the Ubuntu Wily release freeze began before the newer upstream
Debian packages were finalized. So the latest version available when
Ubuntu did its pre-freeze sync was still 3.3.8.

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