lighty's life

I’ll give a presentation on lighttpd at the Kieler Linuxtage on September 8th, 2007. I’ll talk about lighttpd, its past and future, the special modules and performance.

I will also try to give some content to the un-conference going on at the same time. Perhaps some MySQL Proxy stuff ?

Looking at the bug-system a few days ago we had something like 460 bugs open.

Quite a bunch of them were duplicates of the same issue and others were already fixed in the code and just not closed in the bug-system.

Scanning through the bugs I wrote some more test-cases to verify that the reports were valid and along the way at least these bugs got fixed:

  * added dir-listing.set-footer in mod_dirlisting (#1277)
  * fixed hardcoded font-sizes in mod_dirlisting (#1267)
  * fixed different ETag length on 32/64 platforms (#1279)
  * fixed compression of files < 128 bytes by disabling compression (#1241)
  * fixed mysql server reconnects (#518)
  * fixed disabled keep-alive for dynamic content with HTTP/1.0 (#1166)
  * fixed crash on mixed EOL sequences in mod_cgi
  * fixed key compare (#1287)
  * fixed invalid char in header values (#1286)
  * fixed invalid "304 Not Modified" on broken timestamps
  * fixed endless loop on shrinked files with sendfile() on BSD (#1289)
  * fixed counter overrun in ?auto in mod_status (#909)
  * fixed too aggresive caching of nested conditionals (#41)
  * fixed possible overflow in unix-socket path checks on BSD (#713)
  * fixed extra Content-Length header on 1xx, 204 and 304 (#1002)
  * fixed handling of duplicate If-Modified-Since to return 304
  * fixed extracting status code from NPH scripts (#1125)
  * removed config-check if passwd files exist (#1188)

Now the bug-count is at 413, a start.

We had enabled spamfilter in http://trac.lighttpd.net/ long ago and it was doing fine blocking lots of spam messages, but I didn’t notice that it blocked some ham messages too by rasing “your ip is blacklisted by sc.surbl.org” error.

I appreciate your help when you try hard clicking the submit button for wiki/tickets and am sorry for blocking you.

I spent some time tweaking karma settings in trac spamfilter recently. It was a bit hard to get what karma is even by asking the ppl in #trac, until i read the source. Anyway, it looks better now, and we’ll keep watching the monitor and see if there’s something mis-blocked, and tweak the settings accordingly. You may also register and login to get pass the spam checking.

You provided feedback. We listened.

Thanks.

darix released a bug-fix release for 1.4.x

http://www.lighttpd.net/2007/7/24/1-4-16-let-s-ship-it

It contains fixes for crashing bugs discovered by over the last weeks and we encourage to upgrade from earlier releases to 1.4.16. Especially lighttpd-SA2007-03 should convince you to upgrade. It can crash all lighttpd 1.4.x releases. In 1.5.0 this is fixed as we replace the parser by a generated one and replacing the hand-crafted one in 1.4.x.