darix released a bug-fix release for 1.4.x
www.lighttpd.net/2007/7/24/1-4-16-let-s-ship-it
It contains fixes for crashing bugs discovered by over the last weeks and we encourage to upgrade from earlier releases to 1.4.16. Especially lighttpd-SA2007-03 should convince you to upgrade. It can crash all lighttpd 1.4.x releases. In 1.5.0 this is fixed as we replace the parser by a generated one and replacing the hand-crafted one in 1.4.×.
Baby-steps, …
As we are running this release on lighttpd.net it is time to push it out to more testers.
Download: www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.5.0-r1857.tar.gz
Changes:
Last weekend I was at the PHP Unconference and gave a talk about lighttpd. Perhaps we will see a mod_auth_backend_"openid":http://www.unconf-hh.de/index.php?title=OpenID in the near future …
A nice small unconference with some nice non-talks about Tagging and University meets Business. While the quantity of attendance was a bit low, the quality was high.
Anyway, my talk covers lighttpd, 1.5.0 and the cool modules around flv, secdownload, … and is available as PDF and SWF
All the lighttpd.net domains (blog, trac, www, xcache, upload, …) are now running lighttpd 1.5.0-trunk. It took some debugging to sort out problems with the way trac wants to handle PATH_INFO 1841
and how ruby handles fastcgi-keepalive requests via Unix-Sockets 1850 1849
In case you see that one of the sites is down, ping me (weigon) on IRC. The server is running in valgrind and should provide enough information to fix the problem.
… or eating our’s own dog food.
We are now running lighttpd 1.5.0-r1811 at lighttpd.net next to the lighttpd-1.4.13 [official debian] package.
This is one way to say that this is a Release Candidate and that we want to expose it to more testers out there. Update: lighttpd.net is running on 1.5.0-trunk/
As working demo you have:
Yes, that’s mod_uploadprogress in action :)
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.
Today I stumbled over this quote again:
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to remove.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
… and this reminds me that I want to remove mod_rrdtool from the 1.5.x tree and replace it with a more flexible, external solution.
mod_rrdtool is a rip-off of mod_status and calls the rrdtool binary directly via a pipe. Problems:
digg.com is currently having lighttpd.net on the front-page It looks like del.icio.us got also “infected” and its users joined right away
The rails-based mephisto-blog which is driving this site is generating static content which is served by lighty. Thanks to darix work on clean-url and mod-magnet impact on the site is minimal.
Netcraft reports:
This month the Web Server Survey adds public tracking of lighttpd, an open source server designed for high-performance sites that has been gaining popularity in recent months. Lighttpd is currently detected on 1.38 million sites for a 1.2% share of the web server market, well ahead of Zeus and moving up quickly on Sun. Lighttpd has a relatively small memory footprint and is optimized for a large number of parallel connections, which has made it popular on sites using applications based on AJAX or Ruby on Rails, or hosting environments for virtual private servers.
The news got picked up by:
With the release of 1.5.0 we aim for higher ranks and try to get ahead of Suns iplanet. You always need a goal: World Domination. :)