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PRE-RELEASE: lighttpd-1.4.x.r1745

darix, our brave maintainer of the 1.4.x branch, just uploaded lighttpd-1.4.×.r1745

Please give it a test as we want to push out .14 in the next days.

ChangeLog:

  • fix crash if gethostbyaddr() failed on redirect 1718
  • properly handle 206 responses generated by *cgi scripts. (#755) 1716
  • added HTTPS=on to the environment of cgi scripts (#861) 1684
  • fix handling of 303 (#1045) 1678
  • made the configure check for lua more portable 1677
  • added mod_extforward module 1665
  • references to the fam stat cache engine should be conditional (#1039) 1664
  • fix http 500 errors (colin.stephen/at/o2.com) #1041 1663
  • prevent wrong pidfile unlinking on graceful restart (Chris Webb) 1656
  • ignore empty packets from STDERR stream. #998
  • fix a crash for files with an mtime of 0 reported by cubiq on irc 1519
  • allow empty passwords with ldap (Jörg Sonnenberger) 1516
  • mod_scgi.c segfault fix #964 1501
  • Added round-robin support to mod_fastcgi 1500
  • Handle DragonFlyBSD the same way as Freebsd (Jörg Sonnenberger) [1492,1676]
  • added now and weeks support to mod_expire. #943
  • fix cpu hog in certain requests 1473
  • fix for handling hostnames with trailing dot 1406
  • fixed header-injection via server.tag (#1106)
  • disabled caching of files without a content-type to solve the
    aggressive caching of FF
  • remove trailing white-spaces from HTTP-requests before parsing (#1098)
  • fixed accesslog.use-syslog in a conditional and the caching of the
    accesslog for files (fixes #1064)
  • fixed various crashes at startup on broken accesslog.format strings (#1000)
  • fixed handling of %% in accesslog.format
  • fixed conditional dir-listing.exclude (#930)
  • reduced default PATH_MAX to 255 (#826)
  • ECONNABORTED is not known on cygwin (#863)
  • fixed crash on url.redirect and url.rewrite if %0 is used in a global context
    (#800)
  • fixed possible crash in debug-message in mod_extforward
  • fixed compilation of mod_extforward on glibc < 2.3.4