PRE-RELEASE: lighttpd 1.4.25rc1-r2692 6

Posted by stbuehler Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:20:00 GMT

We would like to draw your attention to the latest pre-release of the stable 1.4 branch of lighttpd.

You can get the pre-release from these urls:
http://www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.4.25rc1-r2692.tar.gz
http://www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.4.25rc1-r2692.tar.bz2
SHA1 checksums:
http://www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.4.25rc1-r2692.sha1sum


Please test it as much as possible and provide us with feedback.
A lot of testing ensures a good release.

We did some important bug fixes (some of them new since 1.4.24, and some older bugs). Only 2 small new features: traceback for lua errors and the SSL_CLIENT_* vars export for ssl client cert validation.

If no showstoppers are encountered, there will be a final release soon.

Changelog since 1.4.24:

  • mod_magnet: fix pairs() for normal tables and strings (fixes #1307)
  • mod_magnet: add traceback for printing lua errors
  • mod_rewrite: fix compile error if compiled without pcre
  • disable warning “CLOSE-read” (fixes #2091)
  • mod_rrdtool: fix creating file if it doesn’t exist (#1788)
  • reset tlsext_server_name in connection_reset – fixes random hostnames in the $HTTP[“host”] conditional
  • export some SSL_CLIENT_* vars for client cert validation (fixes #1288, thx presbrey)
  • mod_fastcgi: fix mod_fastcgi packet parsing
  • mod_fastcgi: Don’t reconnect after connect() succeeded (fixes #2096)



If you want to get the latest source for any branch, you can get it from our svn repository.
Documentation to do so can be obtained from this page:
http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/DevelSubversion
Bug reports or feature requests can be filed in our ticket system:
http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/issues/new
Please make sure to check if there isn’t a ticket already here:
http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/issues


Thank you for flying light.

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  1. Ted Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:16:20 GMT
    Any updates on 1.5? I would like to get a rough idea on the release timeline. Are we talking about 1st half of 2010. 2nd half? (nothing specific but it would be nice to have a level of magnitude as to when it *might* be available)
  2. Jani Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:23:32 GMT
    Seems to work fine on my test server. :)
  3. 501 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:45:24 GMT
    Compiles fine and works fine.
  4. nitrox Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:50:52 GMT
    @Ted curl -I lighttpd.net - thats that we´re working on in the future. Thats why we can only support one stable version in the future for 1.x and that´ll be 1.4.x. 1.5 was never supposed to be released.
  5. Horst Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:39:42 GMT
    "...never supposed to be released." Then why you call it "PRE-RELEASE"? Even I prefer focussing on one branch, but then the mods should be ported to 1.4.x...
  6. stbuehler Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:29:37 GMT
    @Horst: This is a 1.4.x pre release... not a 1.5. And no, we will not port mods from 1.5 to 1.4, that would be stupid.
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