Rocket 1.2.0 (web2py's embedded web server) is now in the trunk. It have various improvements, which perhaps Tim will describe. There is one user-visible interface change that might affect some of you. In the previous version, Rocket's min_threads and max_threads were 10 and 1024 respectively. The cli (and winservice options) --numthreads option allowed the user to override min_threads.
In the new version, the Rocket defaults are 10 and 0 (meaning no upper limit), and the cli options are --minthreads and --maxthreads (--numthreads is provided for compatibility, meaning the same as --minthreads, but is deprecated). If you're running CPython, my impression is that you need to do nothing, and if you've been ignoring thread-count options, also do nothing. If you've been patching maxthreads, the new default of 0 may work fine for you, and if not you now have command-line access to it. Tim suggests increasing minthreads to 64 for a production server. If you're running JPython, Tim has some thread-count advice for you here: http://packages.python.org/rocket/usage.html (it's for 1.1.x, not 1.2, but I assume that it still applies). If you're running winservice, numthreads is now ignored; you must use minthreads and maxthreads (assuming that you want something other than the defaults). Again, this is in the trunk, and unless the wheels fall off will be in the next release *after* 1.89.5, which is current-stable.
