lighty's life: New prereleases: 1.4.20-r2294 and 1.5-r2294

New prereleases: 1.4.20-r2294 and 1.5-r2294

icy — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:20:00 +0000

It’s been some time since the last 1.4 release and especially since the last 1.5 prerelease. There have been a lot of fixes in both branches so be sure to check them out, no matter if you are using 1.4 or 1.5.

You can get the prereleases from this url: http://opensu.se/~darix/lighttpd/

The 1.4.20 changes can be read here:
http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/browser/branches/lighttpd-1.4.x/NEWS
While 1.5 changes can be fetched from here:
http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/browser/trunk/NEWS

We ask you to test these snapshots as extensive as possible and report any broken things back to us.
If everything goes well and no showstoppers are encountered, there will be an official 1.4.20 release soon.

As for 1.5: should this prerelease be stable and bugfree enough, it will be the last prerelease and there will be a 1.5.0 release. It will not retire the 1.4 branch though. There are still some things missing in 1.5 like internal spawning of fcgi backends that prevent it form being the next main branch.

You can thank stbuehler for all his hard work he has put into both trees as he is responsible for nearly all of the work recently.

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://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/Devel/Subversion
Bug reports or feature requests can be filed in our trac ticket system:
http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/newticket
Please make sure to check if there isn’t a ticket already here:
http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/report

Thank you for using lighty.

"New prereleases: 1.4.20-r2294 and 1.5-r2294" by helox@gmail.com

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:38:55 +0000

(plugin.c.541) plugin-version doesn't match lighttpd-version for extforward 2008-09-15 05:31:40: (server.c.1419) Initialization of plugins failed. Going down.

"New prereleases: 1.4.20-r2294 and 1.5-r2294" by nitrox

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:32:58 +0000

@Ray Stinger and others:

Bug reports or feature requests can be filed in our trac ticket system: http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/newticket
Please make sure to check if there isn’t a ticket already here: http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/report

We need this in our ticket system to work with and get things done.
Thx for testing!

"New prereleases: 1.4.20-r2294 and 1.5-r2294" by Ray Stinger

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:40:54 +0000

1. --disable-ipv6 doesn't work, since the first pre-release of 1.5.0; 2. Is there any alternative way to enable GDBM and memcache? I am using FreeBSD 5.5 with these libs, but -lgdbm or -lfam doesn't work. 3. FAM and Sqlite could not be enabled, but I used them in 1.4.

"New prereleases: 1.4.20-r2294 and 1.5-r2294" by JamesD

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:36:26 +0000

No reply on Content-Range support for X-LIGHTTPD-send-file replies ? http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/865

"New prereleases: 1.4.20-r2294 and 1.5-r2294" by kes

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:10:52 +0000

Murat, gthread-aio is replacement for it, I think.

"New prereleases: 1.4.20-r2294 and 1.5-r2294" by Murat

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:27:32 +0000

What happened to linux-aio support? It seems that option is removed from 1.5.0 ?

"New prereleases: 1.4.20-r2294 and 1.5-r2294" by ben

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:37:46 +0000

hi, i just want to say thank you for this wonderful piece of software. walk on

"New prereleases: 1.4.20-r2294 and 1.5-r2294" by U294

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:20:33 +0000

> We ask you to test these snapshots as extensive as possible and report any broken things back to us.
Don't you think that such news should appear on main page if you want EXTENSIVE test??? Surely it should be clearly stated that it's not release but rather pre-release. However, keep in mind: I figured out this fact some TWO WEEKS after your posting. You're quite successful in hiding news from people, so how you can expect extensive test then?... :(

"New prereleases: 1.4.20-r2294 and 1.5-r2294" by CyberCr33p

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:23:56 +0000

We are shared hosting provider which use lighttpd sucessfully since 2006. I can't wait for the new release.

"New prereleases: 1.4.20-r2294 and 1.5-r2294" by Random dude

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:00:08 +0000

> like debian, ubuntu and cent os
FYI: Ubuntu provides recent 1.4.19 version. They MAYBE slow BUT they're sometimes apply some patches or testing. So some delay is OK. As for Debian, they're conservative bastards. Too conservative sometimes. As for me, I'm preferring Ubuntu Server due to this fact on my servers so I do not have to stick to ancient versions of software and do not have to risk with updating all system to "unstable" or "testing" but still can have recent software.As for CentOS ... uhm er, I used it and do not like it (just another boring RedHat ripoff). Same applies as to Debian and what worse, it's packet manager is really ugly and changes too often. In such system I may even prefer to rebuild from source, especially if this gives some benefits\features.

In general I'm thinking that putting task of maintaining distro-specific stuff on developers is not a good idea. Developers should create great programs, just like lighttpd is. Distro maintainers should cope with distro specifics.Nothing good happens when someone tries to do job he is not skilled to do.Do you remember Debian and SSL keys vuln?That's what happens when someone deals with thing he really shouln't.

P.S. sorry for double-post.Pls delete upper one.And uhm, what about to delete trackback stuff with adult advertising? 8)

"New prereleases: 1.4.20-r2294 and 1.5-r2294" by Ali

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:26:21 +0000

Hm, thx very much, but it dont run when i test it now :-/

"New prereleases: 1.4.20-r2294 and 1.5-r2294" by GW

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:17:42 +0000

@nitrox and @stbuehler: No? In http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/browser/trunk/src/Makefile.am lines from 24 to 40 still contain the | (pipe) character and if I remove it it compiles fine under PMake (FreeBSD-7.0).

"New prereleases: 1.4.20-r2294 and 1.5-r2294" by Omar

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:50:50 +0000

Thank you very much for lighty. Been using for more than a year now and i think now i get the hang of it and how to refine configuration (especially on a light-weight server). Anyhow, i'm using ubuntu hardy server and the binary that is provided by ubuntu is rather old. At the same time, i would like to maintain an easy to update environment and don't want to break my server. Is there any plan you know of to update the repos of ubuntu to include lighty 1.5? Where can i find a comparison between the features of 1.4.x and 1.5? thanks.

"New prereleases: 1.4.20-r2294 and 1.5-r2294" by stbuehler

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:27:11 +0000

i guess GW is talking about 1.5 (in 1.4 it was "| lemon"); use gnu make and you should be fine (building the parsers is really ugly with make, you have to care about cross compile, -jX, ...). The "solution" in 1.4 is only a workaround (the automake faq says it can be fixed, but their solution doesn't work with -jX)

"New prereleases: 1.4.20-r2294 and 1.5-r2294" by nitrox

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:07:18 +0000

@GW:
current svn is ok. -> http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/Devel/Subversion

"New prereleases: 1.4.20-r2294 and 1.5-r2294" by GW

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:03:41 +0000

"make: don't know how to make |. Stop" error was introduced somewhere between 2282 and 2294. It appears because someone put some | (pipe) characters near the end of src/Makefile.in in lines like: @CROSS_COMPILING_FALSE@configparser.c configparser.h: $(srcdir)/configparser.y $(srcdir)/lempar.c | $(LEMON) Just remove the pipe character before $(LEMON) and it should work.

"New prereleases: 1.4.20-r2294 and 1.5-r2294" by Jan Berger

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:23:35 +0000

Awesome! Thanks for this great release. I'm excited to test it this evening.

"New prereleases: 1.4.20-r2294 and 1.5-r2294" by Steve

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:41:07 +0000

Great work guys, keep it up. I have been watching the development closely and there sure has been a lot of bug fixes being made to the 1.4.x branch. Can't wait to try it out :)

"New prereleases: 1.4.20-r2294 and 1.5-r2294" by stbuehler

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:01:46 +0000

We will not provide binary packages, and there are many reasons for this.

"New prereleases: 1.4.20-r2294 and 1.5-r2294" by Neville

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:15:53 +0000

Hi, I have been using lighttpd 1.4.19 on my development server (ubuntu) and production server (debian). The speed is amazing and love the stability as well. It would be great if the http://www.lighttpd.net/ include binaries for major distros. like debian, ubuntu and cent os as I do find that updates come rather late from the distros. repositories.

"New prereleases: 1.4.20-r2294 and 1.5-r2294" by hoffie

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:33:21 +0000

What makes you think that mod_magnet was removed? There have never been such plans.

"New prereleases: 1.4.20-r2294 and 1.5-r2294" by eric

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:16:38 +0000

mod_magnet was removed?

"New prereleases: 1.4.20-r2294 and 1.5-r2294" by rapidshare premium account

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:24:29 +0000

been using lighty for over a year now ... never going back to apache :) Nick

"New prereleases: 1.4.20-r2294 and 1.5-r2294" by Jonah

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:36:28 +0000

I am curious about content-range support with x-lighttpd-send-file as well... did this get released? (http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/865)

"New prereleases: 1.4.20-r2294 and 1.5-r2294" by mlx

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:35:27 +0000

Sweet :-)

Thanks a lot for those new pre-releases!