Dear friends of NaviServer, on sourceforge is a release candidate for NaviServer 4.99.14 (see [1]). The version fixes essentially a few new and a few old bugs and continues the ongoing code cleanup process. Also the portability is improved (FreeBSD, OmniOS) and ns_connchan was stress-tested via the new revproxy module and received several updates.
If everything goes well, the release should follow next week. Please test if possible. Below are the changes since 4.99.14: best regards -gustaf [1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/naviserver/files/naviserver/4.99.14/ ======================================= NaviServer 4.99.14, released 2016-11-XX ======================================= 66 files changed, 2391 insertions(+), 1327 deletions(-) New Features: * Added statistics for "trace times": i.e. the time spent in a connection thread after the main request was executed, for running post filters, server traces (e.g. writing access.log) and cleanups. The statistic results are included in [ns_server stats]. * Improved compatibility with FreeBSD and OminOS (Solaris). * Added module "revproxy" for implementing a reverse proxy based on ns_connchan (working as well for proxying WebSockets). Performance Improvements: * Added new config flag "concurrentinterpcreate" to "ns/parameters" to allow optionally concurrent creations of Tcl interpreters. Concurrent creations of tcl interpreters were a problem with Tcl 8.5, but seems to work with Tcl 8.6. Per default, this feature is turned off. * Don't update interp in "ns_ictl cleanup", when no defer callbacks were executed. Bug Fixes: * ns_connchan improvements: - Handle potential race condition between ns_connchan and socket callbacks during shutdown - Make sure, channel is writable before we are writing to it - Add support for partial write operations ("ns_connchan write" and "ns_connchan open") - Provide more detailed error messages - Allow callback changes without invoking socket-shutdown machinery * Make sure, the tests are running with expected locale and encoding (fixed a problem on FreeBSD) * Fix bug #77 (potential crash during ns_mktemp, strdup() vs. ns_strdup(), introduced in 4.99.13, reported by Patrick Heissenberger) * Collect statistics before traces are run (i.e. before access.log is written); this fixes a bug reported by David Osborne. * In HTTP client requests, don't start urls with "//" under certain conditions * Keep internally convention, that stored request lines do not end with crlf to avoid unneeded tests * Don't "roll away" log file from stderr, when nsd was started with "-c" or "-f" flags * Don't complain about uncorking, when user has already closed the connection * Make windows variant of ns_mkstemp() more compatible with unix/mac (remove _O_TEMPORARY flag) * Use datatype "int" for parameters passed with Ns_ObjvBool (rather than bool, which causes invalid values on gcc 4.8.4 (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3)) * Fix several bugs in keylist Documentation improvements: * doc/src/naviserver/ns_connchan.man: - Added documentation for "ns_connchan open" - Clarified format in which timeouts can be specified - document new flags * doc/src/manual/admin-tuning.man: - Added documentation of "ns/parameter" option "concurrentinterpcreate" * doc/src/manual/admin-maintenance.man: - Added section with sample configuration for systemd * doc/src/naviserver/ns_mktemp.man: - Improved function, explain deprecation state of c-library function, * General overhaul of the contrib/example scripts contrib/examples/index.adp, contrib/examples/upload.tcl, contrib/examples/writer.tcl * Various small documentation improvements. * Improved sample config files. Tcl API Changes: * ns_connchan: Added flag "-version" to "ns_connchan open" to specify HTTP version (default 1.0) C API Changes: Incompatible API Changes: Configuration Changes: * Improved output of "make help" * Don't throw error message, when doing an install from a bitbucket checkout and no documentation was generated locally. Command Line Changes: * improve usefulness of "nsd -c": in case the environment variable NAVISERVER is not set, and bin/init.tcl is not found under the running binary, fall-back to the configured install directory as "home". Code Changes: * Extended regression test * Keylists: - Added new testset for keylists - fixed several bugs - use naviserver memory management - prefer Tcl_Objs over string based interface * Improved source code documentation * Turn ns_tmpnam into a proc and get rid of call to deprecated C library function tmpnam() * Added preprocessor variable NS_NAVISERVER to point to the configured install directory (can be used as last resort to find configuration data when started e.g. with "nsd -c"). * C-Code cleanup: * Improved type cleanness on gcc 4.8.4 (Ubuntu) and under gcc7. * Aligned function prototype with definition (Ns_DbInterpretSqlFile(), Ns_ThreadCreate(), Ns_ThreadStackSize(), caused complaints under Solaris) * Introduce macros for IPv6 support under Solaris, since it does not define s6_addr16 members) * Reduced number of return statement before end of function. * Reduced number of gotos. * Reduced variable scopes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. 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