Cherokee 0.4.30 "In shape" released! Description =========== Cherokee is a flexible, ultrafast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable, extensible with plug-ins, and supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings, content compression, virtual hosts, authentication, dynamic content, pipelined requests, GGI support and run in a chroot environment, among other features. It scales up in SMP systems.
More information: http://www.0x50.org Changes ======= - New features: * New MIME types parser * New tracing facility * Easier Request redirections * New incoming URL clean up process * C++ compilers ready * New ChangeUser option for PHP and CGI * Dirlist's HeaderFile accepts lists * Dirlist's HeaderFile accepts full paths * New header management code * Handler checks for supported HTTP methods * Much better OpenSolaris packages * More work on the Win32 port * New default page and new logos - Fixes and Changes: * Dirlist handler fixed for restricting ServerTokens * Detects DragonFly in the configure phase * Kqueue performance support improved * The onfiguration grammar has fewer reserved words * --with-sendfile-support fixed * Some regular expression processing improvements * UserDir redirections fixed * Without UserDir ~ is a common character * GTM/local time management fixed * Loads of small fixes and improvements * Many new QA tests ============= ** WARNING ** ============= The MIME type file format has changed since the last release!! If this version try to read an old format file it might crash. Please, REMOVE the of /etc/cherokee/mime.types file BEFORE installing this release. Known bugs ========== None Work in progress ================ We are working on the FastCGI support for the 0.5.0 release. Availability ============ * Main site: http://0x50.org/download/0.4/0.4.30/ ftp://0x50.org/cherokee/0.4/0.4.30/ Binary packages =============== * Debian: - Archs: alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc, hurd/i386 http://packages.debian.org/testing/web/cherokee http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/cherokee * OpenSolaris: http://www.0x50.org/download/0.4/0.4.30/opensolaris/ Acknowledges and special thanks for this release ================================================ * Rodrigo Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Code * Mohammad DAMT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Code * Manu Benoît <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Code * Rodolfo Pilas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tons of feedback * Jonathan Hernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> New web site * Gisle Vanem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Patches * Mark Nipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Patches * Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian packages * Jose Alberto Suarez Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo package * Damien Carbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenSolaris spec * Antonio Ognio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Feedback * Kurt McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Feedback * Pablo Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Feedback * Brian Nitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Feedback * Evert Meulie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Feedback * Mike Frisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Feedback * Joshua Rodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Feedback * Eric S. Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Feedback * Juan Eliseo Carrasco Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Feedback Enjoy Cherokee, The Cherokee Team _______________________________________________ Cherokee mailing list [email protected] http://www.alobbs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cherokee
