lighty's life: RELEASE: lighttpd 1.4.12

RELEASE: lighttpd 1.4.12

jan — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 19:17:00 +0000

I’m very proud to announce the release of 1.4.12.

After 8 pre-releases and several cross-compiles and test-runs no new bugs were found and you should have a solid and stable release in your hands.

Over the 1.4.11 was available for download (03/2006 – now) the number of lighty installations raised from 27 103 to 120 442 according to netcraft.com. That’s amazing. It was important for us to create a release is good enough to replace 1.4.11.

This release fixes several long-standing bugs like

SSL hangs with Opera (we added work-around for a bug in Opera)
a long list of fixes for SSL in general
added ssl.use-sslv2 and ssl.cipher-list for all who have to comply with PCI

and only added a 2 really new features:

(experimental) LOCK support for webdav
mod_magnet as long-term replacement for mod_cml

On mod_cml:

mod_cml is deprecated from now on
it will be removed in 1.5.0
mod_magnet provides the same functionality and more with a cleaner syntax and in a more generic form

Download:

lighttpd-1.4.12.tar.gz
http://www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.4.12.tar.gz

MD5: 8f6756452138f5da384251f849b329f2

ChangeLog:

added experimental LOCK support for webdav
added Content-Range support for PUT in webdav
added support for += on empty arrays in config-files
added ssl.cipher-list and ssl.use-sslv2
added $HTTP[“querystring”] conditional
added mod_magnet as long-term replacement for mod_cml
added work-around for a Opera Bug with SSL + Chunked-Encoding
changed—print-config to print to stdout instead of stderr
changed no longer use 0600 for new files with webdav. umask is honored. Make sure you have set a proper umask.
fixed upload hangs with SSL
fixed connection drops with SSL (aka bad retry)
fixed path traversal with \ on cygwin
fixed mem-leak in mod_flv_streaming
fixed required trailing newline in configfiles (#142)
fixed quoting the autoconf files (#466)
fixed empty Host: + $HTTP[“host”] handling (#458)
fixed handling of If-Modified-Since if ETag is not set
fixed default-shell if SHELL is not set (#441)
fixed appending and assigning of env.* vars
fixed empty FCGI_STDERR packets
fixed conditional server.allow-http-11
fixed handling of follow-symlink + lstat()
fixed SIGHUP handling if max-workers is used
fixed “Software caused connection abort” messages on FreeBSD

"RELEASE: lighttpd 1.4.12 " by A. H.

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:13:58 +0000

ohh sorry for my mistake , please remove duplicated messages

"RELEASE: lighttpd 1.4.12 " by A. H.

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:13:02 +0000

thanks for update , but after upgrading to this version i dont know why it was adding an unknow code at first of PHP pages ! like ( 13b3 & .. ) but after downgrading to 1.4.11 problem resolved !

"RELEASE: lighttpd 1.4.12 " by A. H.

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:13:01 +0000

thanks for update , but after upgrading to this version i dont know why it was adding an unknow code at first of PHP pages ! like ( 13b3 & .. ) but after downgrading to 1.4.11 problem resolved !

"RELEASE: lighttpd 1.4.12 " by A. H.

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:12:59 +0000

thanks for update , but after upgrading to this version i dont know why it was adding an unknow code at first of PHP pages ! like ( 13b3 & .. ) but after downgrading to 1.4.11 problem resolved !

"RELEASE: lighttpd 1.4.12 " by Andreas Korthaus

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 23:03:03 +0000

Over the 1.4.11 was available for download (03/2006 – now) the number of lighty installations raised from 27 103 to 120 442 according to netcraft.com. Raised to 160 070 already (again +30%)! The average monthly growth rate of lighttpd distribution over the past 28 months is 40%! for comparison: thttpd: 171 541 Zeus: 522 311 both with negative growth rates. After those only Apache and IIS are left ;-) Great job!

"RELEASE: lighttpd 1.4.12 " by Harry Potter

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 14:44:56 +0000

What happened to mod_proxy_core? I don't see it in the release...

"RELEASE: lighttpd 1.4.12 " by John Marino

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 09:38:55 +0000

Freedude, I just ran portsnap on FreeBSD 6.1 and lighttpd 1.4.12 is available.

"RELEASE: lighttpd 1.4.12 " by Fernando Silva

Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:40:02 +0000

Still no mod_deflate (mod_compress) for dynamic content generated by FastCGI?

"RELEASE: lighttpd 1.4.12 " by Richard Warburton

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:33:51 +0000

As Web Servers go, lighty rocks!!! And the fixes just make lighty even better. Unfortunately, I'm with Stefan Soeliner on the WebDAV front. I'm trying to get rid of ftp and afp, and WebDAV (when working) looks like the solution.

"RELEASE: lighttpd 1.4.12 " by Stefan Soellner

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:55:00 +0000

Thanks for the release and development in general. But still no working WebDAV functionality when using OSX as client :( Looking forward :) Cu, Stefan

"RELEASE: lighttpd 1.4.12 " by Tim

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:00:59 +0000

Thanks for a great release. I updated tonight and will test the new features today.

"RELEASE: lighttpd 1.4.12 " by FreeDude

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 12:31:01 +0000

Great news! Any idea when the FreeBSD port will be updated?

"RELEASE: lighttpd 1.4.12 " by ngccn.com

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:05:27 +0000

good news! I will update my website now :)

"RELEASE: lighttpd 1.4.12 " by Ezra Zygmuntowicz

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 22:31:40 +0000

Congrats on the release Jan & friends! Its great to see lighty gain the attention it deserves. Can't wait for 1.5 ;)