Xuefer pointed me to a thread on internals mailinglist on php.net. It starts nicely with the question if a upgrade to Apache2.x can solve the low-latency problem that arise when you want to use AJAX on a high-traffic site, talks about keep-alive and its problems until Andreas Korthus throws lighttpd into the game.

.15 is like a best-of album from your favourite band which contains all
the good song, a few remixes and one or two new songs, just to make sure
that you buy it.

We did the same: the core stuff got bugfixes and two new modules were
added which might interest you:

• mod_cml

• mod_trigger_b4_dl

Changes
-------
  * added mod_cml
  * added mod_trigger_b4_dl
  * added encoding to mod_dirlisting
  * added ?auto to mod_status
  * relaxed handling of characters in URIs even more
  * fixed detection of sendfile() on Linux 2.4.x
  * fixed comparision of buffers for short strings
  * server.errorfile-prefix is now conditional
  * fixed mod_rrdtool to close STDERR

Xuefer opened a ticket to document the history of lighty.

As we have a new logo now I wrote everything up, why I started it, why I continued and were we will head to.

If you want, add your date when you started using lighty to the comments.

After the logo-contest went very well and we have seen very nice and professional proposals lighty finally has a logo.

The winning entry is based on the paper airplane submitted by Phu from endturn. It was modified by Paul from openartist.net.

Good work. Now we have a nice button which everyone can add to their sites and link back to lighttpd.net.

For a real big one, we have the big logo with a nice slogan:

For more information about the idea of the logo and more background on how lighttpd was started check the story of lighttpd on lighttpd.net.

After the release didn’t revealed any serious bugs the documentation was updated and the final release was roled.

Get it at www.lighttpd.net/download/ and spread the word.

I would like to see some comments on the loadbalancers in mod_proxy and the new mod_scgi.

The last release of lighttpd is now 3 month ago and several patches are waiting in the trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ for their release.

Next to several bug-fixes it contains a simplified CARP (Cache Array Routing Protocol) like load balancing for mod_proxy and a new mod_scgi for WSGI + python.

The first public pre-release has been upload and is meant for a wider testing than the svn-tree.

Please don’t put that on a production system yet even it contains mostly bugfixes.

www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.3.14-20050612-1303.tar.gz

Yeaha, what a impressive contest. So many nice ideas on how to interpret the word light. Even in the last days before the contest was closed we got some final submissions. I’m impressed and confused in the same way.

I can’t draw a decision on my own. I need your help. Think about the following questions and post yours answers in the comment.

• Which of the logos do you like the most ?
• Which of the logos would wear on a t-shirt and be proud of being a user of ?
• Which represents the idea of a light webserver the best way ?

I have some personal candidates, but can’t come to a final conclusion, perhaps you can help me ?

After poking I was poked several times to publish a benchmark between lighttpd and Apache2 I added it to the benchmark page.

More impressive than scientific benchmarks are real-world tests like the oen Jason has done: Taking a full frontal slashdot lighttpdly at textdrive. :)

Only 7 days are left for the lighttpd logo contest. In the last week 3 artists have sent in there submissions with one of them being so creative to submit 8 logos at once.

Please take a look at the new submissions and leave your comment under this article.

The logo contest is very successfull. In the second week we got several new candidates which have their own idea of the word light. From the beginning I thought about the word light in all fashions:

• as in lightbulb
• as in light as a feather
• as in diet products
• as in lighting

The authors of the logos have added more ideas to this base and it looks truly amazing what they have created and I really love to see this. I still encourage you to add more ideas to this base, perhaps a authors graps it and draws something nice.