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1.4.44

Important changes

  • support HTTP/1.1 ‘Transfer-Encoding: chunked’ request body
  • bug fixes

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Highlights

  • improvements
    • support HTTP/1.1 ‘Transfer-Encoding: chunked’ request body
    • mod_dirlisting: render dirlisting as HTML
    • mod_proxy: option to replace HTTP Host sent to backend
    • mod_proxy: proxy.balance = “sticky” option
    • mod_ssi: basic recursive SSI include virtual
    • various code portability and build fixes for older platforms
  • bug fixes
    • fix race in dynamic handler configs (reentrancy)
    • mod_cgi: fix out of sockets error for POST to CGI (1.4.43)
    • mod_scgi: fix segfault (1.4.43)
    • mod_magnet: fix magnet_cgi_set() set of env vars
    • mod_fastcgi: fix segfault if all backends down (1.4.43)
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1.4.43

Important changes

  • improve FastCGI, SCGI, proxy reconnect on failure
  • bug fixes

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  • improvements
    • improve FastCGI, SCGI, proxy reconnect on failure
    • build systems: do not build modules for which dependencies are not present
    • autobuild: use CC_FOR_BUILD for lemon when cross-compiling
    • config: warn if mod_authn_ldap,mysql not listed
    • config file remote IP conditions are valid for TLS SNI
    • mod_deflate ignore trailing ‘*’ in deflate.mimetypes
    • mod_deflate skip deflate if loadavg too high
    • mod_accesslog %{ratio}n logs compression ratio
    • mod_expire by mimetype
    • mod_evhost partial matching patterns
    • mod_dirlisting config header and readme files
  • bug fixes
    • fix potential tempfile corruption with streaming response
    • fix fd leak when using libev (1.4.42)
    • fix ssl client certificate authentication segfaults (1.4.42)
    • fix mod_scgi prefix matching to always match url
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1.4.42

Important changes

  • new modules, expanded features, rewritten auth framework
  • fix bugs introduced in 1.4.40/1.4.41

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  • new modules, expanded features
    • performance: use extended socket/file syscalls and flags
    • rewritten auth framework
      • updated mod_authn_ldap
      • new mod_authn_gssapi
      • new mod_authn_mysql
    • new mod_deflate
    • new mod_geoip
    • new mod_uploadprogress
    • mod_dirlisting sortable columns
    • mod_fastcgi support for authorizer, responder keyed with same path/extension
    • mod_cgi permit CGI exec of unreadable files
    • mod_scgi support for uwsgi protocol for Python WSGI backends
    • add some SSL_* variables to CGI environment
  • bug fixes
    • remove preemptive shutdown() to backend
    • fix backend socket connect issue: enforce wait for POLLWR after EINPROGRESS
    • fix crash if ready events on abandoned fd
    • fix broken digest auth
  • behavior changes
    • behavior change in mod_ssi to conform to same CGI env as CGI, FastCGI, SCGI:
      • REQUEST_URI is original client request, instead of URI modified by mod_rewrite.
      • DOCUMENT_ROOT changes if mod_alias or mod_userdir changes basedir.

1.4.41

Important changes

  • security fixes
  • fix bugs introduced in 1.4.40

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  • security fixes
    • security: encode quoting chars in HTML and XML
    • security: ensure gid != 0 if server.username is set, but not server.groupname
    • security: disable stat_cache if server.follow-symlink = “disable”
    • security: httpoxy defense: do not emit HTTP_PROXY to CGI env
  • fix bugs introduced in 1.4.40 (sorry)
    • bug: lighttpd 1.4.40 might leave client sockets in TIME WAIT (FIN2_WAIT)
    • bug: lighttpd 1.4.40 times out on TLS requests with POST data
    • bug: lighttpd 1.4.40 reversed REQUEST_URI/REDIRECT_URI (now reverted)
    • bug: lighttpd 1.4.40 rejects IPv6 addrs in \$HTTP[“remoteip”]
    • bug: lighttpd 1.4.40 rejects IPv6 addrs in \$SERVER[“socket”] scope identifier
    • bug: lighttpd 1.4.40 segfault in mod_accesslog if %T in custom format
    • bug: lighttpd 1.4.40 might trigger assert when converting to hex string
  • behavior changes
    • new: use TMPDIR if server.upload-dirs is not defined, “/var/tmp” if neither
    • new: inherit server.use-ipv6 and server.set-v6only from global scope
    • reverted REQUEST_URI/REDIRECT_URI to match behavior in lighttpd \<= 1.4.39

Future scheduled behavior changes in lighttpd 1.4.42

  • mod_ssi will set REQUEST_URI to original, client-requested URI
    to match behavior of mod_cgi, mod_fastcgi, mod_scgi, mod_cml

1.4.40

Important changes

  • major bug-fix release; hundreds of issues resolved in issue tracker
  • git master lighttpd source repository (migrated from svn)

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Highlights

  • improved resource management
    • asynchronous, bidirectional streaming options to dynamic backends
    • detect client disconnects and abort request to dynamic backends
    • rework dynamic handler control flow logic for consistent clean up
    • constrained memory footprint; limit memory used by large responses
  • robustness and portability
    • fallback to traditional I/O if mmap or sendfile not available
    • update support for lua 5.2, 5.3; memcached; libressl; openssl 1.1.0
    • better cygwin support; passes tests
    • better webdav support
  • selected new features
    • lighttpd -tt performs config validation and preflight startup checks
    • lighttpd –1 process single (one) request on stdin socket (e.g. xinetd)
    • lighttpd -i <secs> graceful shutdown after <secs> of inactivity
    • config file supports include file globs (e.g. include “conf.d/*.conf”)
    • server.bsd-accept-filter (“httpready”, “dataready”)
    • server.error-handler to handle 4xx and 5xx status
    • server.http-parseopt-header-strict restrict chars allowed in HTTP headers
    • server.http-parseopt-host-strict restrict chars allowed in HTTP Host
    • server.http-parseopt-host-normalize normalize HTTP Host header
    • server.listen-backlog to configure socket listen backlog
    • server.max-request-size is now scopeable (no longer one global setting)
    • server.stream-request-body to control streaming, buffering of request
    • server.stream-response-body to control streaming, buffering of response
    • server.upload-dirs will retry in remaining dirs in list if disk full
    • accesslog.format now supports %a %A %C %D k{}t %{}T
    • evasive.location for 302 redirect option if limit reached
    • url.rewrite and url.redirect now short-circuit if replacement is blank
    • url.access-allow for explicit list of allowed suffixes; deny others
    • mod_cgi handles local redirect response if Location: /path?query
    • REDIRECT_URI is set for internal redirects (cgi, magnet, rewrite, errdoc)
    • REDIRECT_STATUS is set to http error status for error docs
    • mod_indexfile sets PATH_TRANSLATED_DIRINDEX if target URL begins w/ ‘/’
    • “listen-backlog” to configure socket listen backlog for FastCGI, SCGI
    • X-Sendfile for CGI and SCGI (in addition to FastCGI)

Future scheduled behavior changes in lighttpd 1.4.41

  • server.use-ipv6 = “enable” will be inherited from global scope if set, so if that is not what is desired, add server.use-ipv6 = “disable” to appropriate \$SERVER[“socket”] blocks. Similar for server.set-v6only.
  • long-deprecated config directives will be removed. These directives are non-functional and emit a warning message if directives were renamed. After being removed, they will result in “directive unknown” warnings.
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1.4.38

We should have released sooner (due to #2670) - let’s hope we got it right this time :)

Important changes

  • mod_secdownload now requires an algorithm option to be set
  • fix a header parse bug (#2670)
  • sendfile support for darwin (just select “sendfile” as backend)

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1.4.37

In good tradition every (second) release is followed by another one to fix the regressions. Sorry…\ So this release contains mostly regression fixes for 1.4.36 and other bug fixes.

Important changes

1.4.37 contains some regression fixes for 1.4.36, and cmake, scons and FreeBSD (and maybe other BSDs) related fixes. Static builds (for now scons only) have been improved. mmap handling in mod_cgi was improved, also the network mmap backend now handles SIGBUS (SIGBUS is triggered if a file gets smaller while reading; there are still some other places this can happen).

The internal API changed again, so please be careful with 3rd party plugins.

The test suite on our jenkins instance is now also run for scons (including static and fullstatic builds) and FreeBSD, hopefully preventing the kind of regressions especially FreeBSD had with 1.4.36 in future releases.

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1.4.36

This release contains mostly bug fixes.

Important changes

  • [ssl] disable SSL3.0 by default
  • escape all strings for logging
  • fix segfault when temp file for upload couldn’t be created (found by coverity)
  • changes to the internal API for buffers, chunks and more; 3rd party plugins are likely to break

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1.4.35

Important changes

This release contains a lot of bug fixes, many detected by scan.coverity.com (and more to come). The main reason for the release is a fix for an SQL injection (and path traversal) bug triggered by specially crafted (and invalid) Host: headers.

Security fixes

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