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 :)

Like every year, google is running the GSoC 2009 and if you have a neat idea that you would like to propose, please do so and add it to the list at our "GSoc2009 wiki page"://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/GSoC2009

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

Please head over there for more information.

As mentioned before, we planned to extract spawn-fcgi into its own project and remove it from lighttpd.

Now the first standalone release has been published, starting at version 1.6.0.

Read more about it in the announcement: Release: spawn-fcgi 1.6.0

Future release announcements regarding spawn-fcgi will be published at redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/spawn-fcgi/news so please keep that in mind when looking for updates.