Arch Linux - News: Breaking changes for all users of `varnish`, which is renamed to `vinyl-cache`

Breaking changes for all users of `varnish`, which is renamed to `vinyl-cache`

2026-05-25 - Sven-Hendrik Haase

The Varnish project has renamed itself to Vinyl Cache.<br>We followed this rename with a new vinyl-cache package.<br>This upgrade results in breaking changes and users are advised to study these changes and how it affects them before following the replacement.<br>All references to "varnish" have been changed to "vinyl" in all binaries and directories.

At minimum, users will have to:

rename /etc/varnish to /etc/vinyl-cache

rename /var/lib/varnish to /var/lib/vinyl-cache

fix up ownership of files inside /var/lib/varnish

user varnish becomes vinyl

group varnish becomes vinyl

user varnishlog becomes vinyllog

user vcache remains the same

disable the old varnish.service and varnishncsa.service systemd units

enable the new vinyl-cache.service and vinylncsa.service systemd units

Meanwhile, the varnish package has been dropped from [extra].<br>We're not currently planning to maintain a new varnish package as it's a different upstream project.

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