PRE-RELEASE: lighttpd 1.4.23rc1-r2522

icy — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:02:00 +0200

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-1.4.23rc1-r2522.tar.gz
http://www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.4.23rc1-r2522.tar.bz2
SHA1 checksum:
http://www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.4.23rc1-r2522.sha1sum

Please test it as much as possible and provide us with feedback.
A lot of testing ensures a good release.
If no showstoppers are encountered, there will be a final release soon.

Changelog since 1.4.22:

Added some extra warning options in cmake and fix the resulting warnings (unused/static functions)
New lighttpd man page (moved it to section 8) (fixes #1875)
Create rrd file for empty rrdfile in mod_rrdtool (#1788)
Fix workaround for incorrect path info/scriptname if fastcgi prefix is ”/” (fixes #729)
Finally removed spawn-fcgi
Allow xattr to overwrite mime type (fixes #1929)
Remove link from errormsg about fastcgi apps (fixes #1942)
Strip trailing dot from “Host:” header
Remove the optional port info from SERVER_NAME (thx Mr_Bond)
Fix mod_proxy RoundRobin (off by one problem if only one backend is up)
Rename configure.in to configure.ac, with small cleanups (fixes #1932)
Add proper SUID bit detection (fixes #416)
Check for regular file in mod_cgi, so we don’t try to start directories
Include mmap.h from chunk.h to fix some problems with # mmap mmap64 (fixes #1923)
Add support for pipe logging for server.errorlog (fixes #296)
Add revision number to package version for svn/git checkouts
Use server.tag for SERVER_SOFTWARE if configured (fixes #357)
Fix trailing zero char in REQUEST_URI after “strip-request-uri” in mod_fastcgi
mod_magnet: Add env[“request.remote-ip”] (fixes #1740)
mod_magnet: Add env[“request.path-info”]
Change name/version separator back to ”/” (affects every place where the version is printed)
Fix bug with FastCGI request id overflow under high load; just use always id 1 as we don’t use multiplexing. (thx jgray)
Add some dirlisting enhancements (fixes #1458)
Add option to enable TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT (fixes #1447)
Limit amount of bytes read for one read-event (fixes #1070)
Add evasive.silent option (fixes #1438)
Make mod_extforward headers configurable (fixes #1545)
Add ’%_’ pattern for complete hostname in mod_evhost (fixes #1737)
Add IPv6 support to mod_proxy (fixes #1537)
mod_ssi printenv: print cgi env, add environment vars to cgi env (fixes #1713)
Fix error message if no auth backend was set
Fix SERVER_NAME port stripping (fixes #1968)
Fix x-sendfile 2gb limiting (fixes #1970)
Fix mod_cgi environment keys mangling (fixes #1969)
Fix workaround for incorrect path info/scriptname if scgi prefix is ”/” (fixes #729)
Fix max-age value in mod_expire for ‘modification’ (fixes #1978)
Fix evasive.silent option (#1438)
Fix mod-fastcgi counters
Modify fastcgi error message
Backup errno for later usage (reported by Guido Reina via mailinglist)
Improve FastCGI performance (fixes #1999)
Workaround broken operating systems: check for trailing ’/’ in filenames (fixes #1989)
Allow using pcre with cross-compiling (pcre-config got fixed; fixes #1986)
Add “lighty.req_env” table to mod_magnet for setting/getting environment values for cgi (fixes #1967, thx presbrey)
Fix segfault in mod_expire after failed config parsing (fixes #1992)
Add ssi.content-type option (default text/html, fixes #615)

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.

lighty's life: PRE-RELEASE: lighttpd 1.4.23rc1-r2522

PRE-RELEASE: lighttpd 1.4.23rc1-r2522

Changelog since 1.4.22: