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lighttpd 1.4.28 released

stbuehler — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:30:00 +0200

Just in case you didn’t see the announcement on the main page: click

Please head over there for more information and comments.

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.

lighttpd 1.4.27 released

stbuehler — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:02:00 +0200

Just in case you didn’t see the announcement on the main page: click

Please head over there for more information.

Thank you for flying light.

PRE-RELEASE: lighttpd 1.4.27rc2-r2758

stbuehler — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:37:00 +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://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/snapshots-1.4.x/lighttpd-1.4.27rc2-r2758.tar.gz
http://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/snapshots-1.4.x/lighttpd-1.4.27rc2-r2758.tar.bz2
SHA1 checksums:
http://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/snapshots-1.4.x/lighttpd-1.4.27rc2-r2758.sha1sum

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

New changes since rc1:

We fixed a race condition with mod_cgi responses; and a similar problem in mod_proxy (forward response as soon at it is available).

There is a new fdevent handler “libev”; “linux-rtsig” got removed. The “libev” handler should support solaris ports, so it might be especially interesting on solaris.

And the last commit changes a small bit how we handle IPv6; we now disable the “dual-stack” IPv6 sockets in almost all cases, see IPv6-Config for details.

Changes already in rc1:

The most important change is the SSL_CTX_set_options fix, as lighttpd doesn’t start without it if you use a recent ssl library; most distributions included it with 1.4.26 for a while now.

We hope to have fixed some problems with mod_proxy and we really hope TLS SNI works now, and lighty doesn’t use the wrong certs anymore; it would be nice if you could test this :)

We fixed a segfault in mod_compress; if you disable etags, mod_compress won’t try to cache on disk anymore (and doesn’t set etag).

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

Changelog since 1.4.26:

Fix handling return value of SSL_CTX_set_options (fixes #2157, thx mlcreech)
Fix mod_proxy HUP handling (send final chunk, fix usage counter)
mod_proxy: close connection on write error (fixes #2114)
Check uri instead of physical path for directory redirect
Fix detecting git repository (fixes #2173, thx ncopa)
[mod_compress] Fix segfault when etags are disabled (fixes #2169)
Reset uri.authority before TLS servername handling, reset all “keep-alive” data in connection_del (fixes #2125)
Print double quotes properly when dumping config file (fixes #1806)
Include IP addresses on error log on password failures (fixes #2191)
Fix stalls while reading from ssl sockets (fixes #2197)
Fix etag formatting on boxes with 32-bit longs
Fix two compiler warnings
mod_accesslog: fix %p for ipv6 sockets (fixes #2228, thx jo.henke)
mod_fastcgi: Send 502 “Bad Gateway” if we couldn’t open the file for X-Sendfile (fixes #2226)
mod_staticfile: add debug output if we ignore a file with static-file.exclude-extensions (fixes #2215)
mod_cgi: fix race condition leaving response not forwarded to client (fixes #2217)
mod_accesslog: Fix var declarations mixed in source (fixes #2233)
mod_status: Add version to status page (fixes #2219)
mod_accesslog: optimize accesslog_append_escaped (fixes #2236, thx crypt)
autotools: don’t recreate parser files with lemon after lemon rebuild
openssl: silence annoying error messages for errno==0 (fixes #2213)
array.c: improve array_get_unused_element to check data type; fix mem leak if unused_element didn’t find a matching entry (fixes #2145)
add check to stop loading plugins twice
cleanup fdevent code, removed linux-rtsig handler, replaced some fprintf calls
only require FDEVENT_IN bit to be set for listening connections (fixes #2227)
add libev fdevent handler: server.event-handler = “libev”
mod_proxy: return response as soon as it is available (fixes #2196)
don’t overwrite global server.force-lowercase-filenames setting (fixes #2042)
bind to IPV6-only if ipv6 address was specified (IPv6-Config)

Thank you for flying light.

PRE-RELEASE: lighttpd 1.4.27rc1-r2724

stbuehler — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:46:00 +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://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/snapshots-1.4.x/lighttpd-1.4.27rc1-r2724.tar.gz
http://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/snapshots-1.4.x/lighttpd-1.4.27rc1-r2724.tar.bz2
SHA1 checksums:
http://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/snapshots-1.4.x/lighttpd-1.4.27rc1-r2724.sha1sum

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

The most important change is the SSL_CTX_set_options fix, as lighttpd doesn’t start without it if you use a recent ssl library; most distributions included it with 1.4.26 for a while now.

We hope to have fixed some problems with mod_proxy and we really hope TLS SNI works now, and lighty doesn’t use the wrong certs anymore; it would be nice if you could test this :)

We fixed a segfault in mod_compress; if you disable etags, mod_compress won’t try to cache on disk anymore (and doesn’t set etag).

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

Changelog since 1.4.26:

Fix handling return value of SSL_CTX_set_options (fixes #2157, thx mlcreech)
Fix mod_proxy HUP handling (send final chunk, fix usage counter)
mod_proxy: close connection on write error (fixes #2114)
Check uri instead of physical path for directory redirect
Fix detecting git repository (fixes #2173, thx ncopa)
[mod_compress] Fix segfault when etags are disabled (fixes #2169)
Reset uri.authority before TLS servername handling, reset all “keep-alive” data in connection_del (fixes #2125)

Thank you for flying light.

lighttpd.net maintainance downtime at 14:30 CET today

jan — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:44:07 +0200

Looks like we have a disk failure in our RAID. The replacement of the disk is scheduled for 14:30 CET today.

Downtime should be minimal.

lighttpd.net moved to new host

jan — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:15:33 +0100

In case you havn’t noticed: lighttpd.net moved to a new home. After several years running on sponsored hardware, we now run on our “own” server. Now including IPv6.

The transition went very smoothly thanks to the wonderful team. If you notice some issues, please ping us on IRC.

BTW, all your donations get used to keep the domain and server running. Thanks to all that make this possible. hint More support is always welcome.

lighttpd 1.4.26 released

stbuehler — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:56:00 +0100

Just in case you didn’t see the announcement on the main page: click

Please head over there for more information.

Thank you for flying light.

PRE-RELEASE: lighttpd 1.4.26rc1-r2710

stbuehler — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:29:00 +0100

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://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/snapshots-1.4.x/lighttpd-1.4.26rc1-r2710.tar.gz
http://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/snapshots-1.4.x/lighttpd-1.4.26rc1-r2710.tar.bz2
SHA1 checksums:
http://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/snapshots-1.4.x/lighttpd-1.4.26rc1-r2710.sha1sum

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

There have been some important bug fixes (request parser handling for splitted header data, a fd leak in mod_cgi, a segfault with broken configs in mod_rewrite/mod_redirect and of course the latest security issue with an OOM vulnerability)

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

PS: As it is often asked in the comments: We don’t plan to release 1.5, as we are working on 2.0; we can’t support too many different versions, so while we are still trying to keep 1.5 working, our main efforts will be keeping 1.4 stable and working on 2.0 for now.

Changelog since 1.4.25:

Fix request parser to handle packets with splitted \r\n\r\n (fixes #2105)
Remove dependency on automake >= 1.11 with m4_ifdef check
mod_accesslog: support %e (fixes #2113, thx presbrey)
Fix mod_cgi cgi.execute-x-only option in global block
mod_fastcgi: x-sendfile2 parse error debugging
Fix mod_proxy dead host detection if connect() fails
Fix fd leaks in mod_cgi (fds not closed on pipe/fork failures, found by Rodrigo, fixes #2158, #2159)
Fix segfault with broken rewrite/redirect patterns (fixes #2140, found by crypt)
Append to previous buffer in con read, fix DoS/OOM vulnerability (fixes #2147, found by liming, CVE-2010-0295)

Thank you for flying light.

lighttpd 1.4.25 released

icy — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:57:00 +0100

Just in case you didn’t see the announcement on the main page: click

Please head over there for more information.

We also started a public directory listing with all the releases, snapshots and security announcements of our projects under http://download.lighttpd.net

Thank you for flying light.

PRE-RELEASE: lighttpd 1.4.25rc1-r2692

stbuehler — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:20:00 +0100

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)

Thank you for flying light.