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Cherokee 0.11.1 "Heatseeker" released!
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Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server.
It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP,
CGI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, Virtual hosts, Authentication,
on the fly encoding, Apache compatible log files, HTTP load balancing,
data base balancing, and much more.
Cherokee also provides an easy to use configuration interface that
allows to configure the server from top to bottom without having to
edit a text configuration file.
Please visit the Cherokee Web Server site for more information:
http://www.cherokee-project.com/
Availability
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- Main site:
http://ftp.cherokee-project.com/0.11/0.11.1/cherokee-0.11.1.tar.gz
- US Mirror:
http://cherokee.osuosl.org/0.11/0.11.1/cherokee-0.11.1.tar.gz
MD5 (cherokee-0.11.1.tar.gz) = 1f72fe255e42789e03f81eb336722685
Changes
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This release ships a whole lot of important improvements; this is the
best Cherokee web server version so far. The overall stability and
performance have been improved while a number of minor bugs have been
fixed. Upgrade it encouraged!
Highlighted new features:
- New SSI support
- New Reverse proxy support
- New "File Exists" rule type
- New "HTTP Method" rule type
- SSL/TLS support moved to a plug-in
Cherokee:
- Spawned interpreters are killed on exit
- Keep-Alive can be disabled per virtual host
- User change on spawning support
- SERVER_ADDR, SERVER_PORT and REMOTE_PORT support
- Dirlist: Links to directories support fixed
- Spawning timeout support
- Validators support relative paths now
- Better CGI/FastCGI/SCGI error management
- DbSlayer has been deeply tested; a few bugs were fixed
- FIN_WAIT2 state issue has been fixed
- The QA bench can be run through the new reverse proxy
- A few Win32 issues were fixed
- Solaris compilation has been fixed
Admin:
- Information Sources management has been improved
- Custom env. vars for CGIs
Documentation:
- A number of new Cookbooks have been added
Mailing lists
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You can find a list of our available mailing at:
http://lists.cherokee-project.com/
Feedback
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Bugs and Requests for features can be submitted too. We will be happy
to take care of them. Your feedback is very valuable to us!
http://bugs.cherokee-project.com/
Acknowledges
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A whole lot of people have contributed with the project during the last
years; without their help Cherokee could not be possible. Many thanks
to everybody who has contributed.
Special acknowledges to our main contributors for this release:
- Taher Shihadeh
- Stefan de Konink
- Antonio Perez
- Jędrzej Nowak
- Tim Post
- Michal Pryc
- Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo
- David Galan
- Leszek Taczkowski
- Gunnar Wolf
- Leonel Nunez
ROCK ON!!
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Octality
http://www.octality.com/
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