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-1.4.25rc1-r2692.tar.gz
www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.4.25rc1-r2692.tar.bz2
SHA1 checksums:
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)

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.