PRE-RELEASE: lighttpd-1.4.x.r1745

darix, our brave maintainer of the 1.4.x branch, just uploaded lighttpd-1.4.x.r1745.

Please give it a test as we want to push out .14 in the next days.

ChangeLog:

  • fix crash if gethostbyaddr() failed on redirect [1718]
  • properly handle 206 responses generated by *cgi scripts. (#755 [1716]
  • added HTTPS=on to the environment of cgi scripts (#861) [1684]
  • fix handling of 303 (#1045) [1678]
  • made the configure check for lua more portable [1677]
  • added mod_extforward module [1665]
  • references to the fam stat cache engine should be conditional (#1039 [1664]
  • fix http 500 errors (colin.stephen/at/o2.com) #1041 [1663]
  • prevent wrong pidfile unlinking on graceful restart (Chris Webb [1656]
  • ignore empty packets from STDERR stream. #998
  • fix a crash for files with an mtime of 0 reported by cubiq on ir [1519]
  • allow empty passwords with ldap (Jörg Sonnenberger) [1516]
  • mod_scgi.c segfault fix #964 [1501]
  • Added round-robin support to mod_fastcgi [1500]
  • Handle DragonFlyBSD the same way as Freebsd (Jörg Sonnenberger [1492,1676]
  • added now and weeks support to mod_expire. #943
  • fix cpu hog in certain requests [1473]
  • fix for handling hostnames with trailing dot [1406]
  • fixed header-injection via server.tag (#1106)
  • disabled caching of files without a content-type to solve the aggressive caching of FF
  • remove trailing white-spaces from HTTP-requests before parsin (#1098)
  • fixed accesslog.use-syslog in a conditional and the caching of the accesslog for files (fixes #1064)
  • fixed various crashes at startup on broken accesslog.format string (#1000)
  • fixed handling of in accesslog.format
  • fixed conditional dir-listing.exclude (#930)
  • reduced default PATH_MAX to 255 (#826)
  • ECONNABORTED is not known on cygwin (#863)
  • fixed crash on url.redirect and url.rewrite if %0 is used in a global context (#800)
  • fixed possible crash in debug-message in mod_extforward
  • fixed compilation of mod_extforward on glibc \< 2.3.4