Just in case you didn’t see the announcement here

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Hey folks,

back in december, we posted about a new lighty branch and opened up our project to the public: redmine.lighttpd.net/wiki/lighttpd-sandbox

It’s still not in a fully useable state yet, but we have been very busy and made huge progress meanwhile.
Look what we had last time:

Dec 08:

• the config handling is pretty complete
• basic connection handling including throttling and keep-alive/IO timeouts works
• error logging works (introducing multiple error log levels and targets)
• module/plugin interface mostly done
• completely multithreaded
• serves static files

Apart from some minor features we can now say the core is almost done with just small changes or optimizations to it.
We now start to add functionality to the core via modules and following ones already work pretty well:

• mod_accesslog
• mod_auth (auth-basic with plaintext files working)
• mod_dirlist
• mod_expire
• mod_fastcgi (working pretty well already, giving usability a big boost!)
• mod_openssl (ssl functionality provided through openssl)
• mod_redirect (more powerful than in 1.x)
• mod_rewrite (also more powerful than in 1.x)
• mod_status
• mod_vhost (virtual hosts, plenty of options and possibilities; combines mod_simple_vhost and mod_evhost plus more)

Performance seems to be really great so far. Thanks to being fully multithreaded, lighty 2.0 scales nicely with multicore CPUs.
It can handle several hundred thousand requests per second on a new Intel i7 (for really small static files, on localhost, not a great benchmark :P).

Let me tell you, alot has changed! And of course you’re welcome to test and have a look at its current state. But – just like last time – the forum as well as ticket/issue tracking is still disabled for it because we are not capable of providing any support as well as getting things done within a reasonable amount of time – so we focus on getting things done. :)

Some people might already be able to do basic stuff like serving static files, maybe play with fastcgi a little. As the config and design completely differs from 1.x you might already want to take a look or “test ride”. Remember: No support at the moment. :-)

We can’t (and really don’t want to) provide any specific release date but hope to have 2.0 in a usable state by the end of the year.
Remember we do this in our free time for fun.

As for lighty 1.4 and 1.5: everything will continue like before – no worries.

This is it for today.

Thanks for flying light.

Just in case you didn’t see the announcement on the main page: click

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As a quick followup to release candidate #1 of 1.4.23, here comes #2.

You can get 1.4.23rc2-r2534 from these urls:
www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.4.23rc2-r2534.tar.gz
www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.4.23rc2-r2534.tar.bz2
Checksums:
www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.4.23rc2-r2534.sha256sum
www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.4.23rc2-r2534.sha1sum
www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.4.23rc2-r2534.md5sum

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.

Additionaly, we have created a new 1.5 snapshot.

It contains an important fix for a remote crash bug (only in 1.5) when ssl is used.

You can get 1.5.0snap-r2533 from these urls:
www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.5.0snap-r2533.tar.gz
www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.5.0snap-r2533.tar.bz2
Checksums:
www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.5.0snap-r2533.sha256sum
www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.5.0snap-r2533.sha1sum
www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.5.0snap-r2533.md5sum

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.

Just in case you didn’t see the announcement here

Please head over there for more information.

There is a new prerelease available – including a fix for a segfault with usernames starting with a digit and not existing users for a given userid and IPv6 support.

Announce in redmine: Release candidate: spawn-fcgi 1.6.2-rc1-r42

Please test it as much as possible and provide us with feedback :)

As announced in an earlier post, spawn-fcgi has now been removed from the lighttpd tree.
spawn-fcgi has become a completely seperate project (located at redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/spawn-fcgi/wiki)

Lighty 1.4 can still spawn fastcgi processes internally via mod_fastcgi of course.

Package maintainers are advised to provide packages for spawn-fcgi, to make it a dependency of lighttpd and to remove the binary from any existing package as soon as possible so spawn-fcgi can be updated even when there is no new lighttpd release.

Lighttpd 1.4.23 will not include the binary anymore.

Just in case you didn’t see the announcement here

Please head over there for more information.

There is a new prerelease available – including now the feature to chmod/chown the unix socket.

Announce in redmine: redmine.lighttpd.net/news/3

Please add comments in redmine :)