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:
www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.4.23rc1-r2522.tar.gz
www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.4.23rc1-r2522.tar.bz2
SHA1 checksum:
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:
redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/DevelSubversion
Bug reports or feature requests can be filed in our ticket system:
redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/issues/new
Please make sure to check if there isn’t a ticket already here:
redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/issues

Thank you for flying light.