lighty's life: Tag 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

PRE-RELEASE: lighttpd-1.4.12-r1320

jan — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:25:00 +0000

Ok, a last pre-release before the final .12 release:

UPDATE 3 http://www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.4.12-r1335.tar.gz

Most important are:

SSL hang in phpMyAdmin with FireFox is fixed
SSL delays with Opera are fixed

Please try this release as hard as possible before we have a final release.

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
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

A New Power-Magnet

jan — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 10:56:00 +0000

In mod_cml is dead, long live mod_cml I gave some hints about mod_cml going to die soon. With lighttpd 1.4.12 there will be a new module called mod_magnet can attract every request and decide on its further execution.

If you want you implement most of our current modules via mod_magnet, e.g.:

Instead of inventing a new language as I did for the first versions of mod_cml we used lua again. Lua is a simple, performant, light and extensible language. Pretty much what your lighty is for web-servers.

Thanks to the help of the #lua channel in freenode especially rici I could implement the basic magnet-engine over the weekend. On http://p.caboo.se/12501 you can see the first version of the code-cache that is giving mod_magnet its performance.

While most of the configuration in lighty needs a restart of the server to get activated, mod_magnet reloads its scripts when you change them. The scripts itself are compliled once and executed on each request. Thanks to the architecture of lua it was very easy to implement the this byte-code cache, mOo had to write a while until his XCache worked nicely with php.

And now ? Try it out, get the 1.4.12 (or the last pre-release) and tell us how you like it.