TLS cipher defaults have been incrementally updated to stronger defaults
New defaults are forward-secret and support authenticated encryption (AEAD)
New defaults: openssl ciphers ‘EECDH+AESGCM:CHACHA20:!PSK:!DHE’
Previous defaults: openssl ciphers ‘EECDH+AESGCM:AES256+EECDH:CHACHA20:!SHA1:!SHA256:!SHA384’
Little or no impact is expected for lighttpd configs already using lighttpd TLS defaults
(and supported clients, i.e. those which have not already reached end-of-life).
Reference: https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/reference/cipher-suites/recommendations/
mod_redirect: default url.redirect-code for HTTP/1.1 and later has been
changed from 301 Moved Permanently to 308 Permanent Redirect
(only if url.redirect is not explicitly set in lighttpd.conf)
RFC7538: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7538
(published almost 9 years ago)
Future Scheduled Behavior Changes: (2025)
lighttpd TLS defaults will change to MinProtocol TLSv1.3
Other configurations will still be supported, but will not be the default.
Proposed default: MinProtocol TLSv1.3
Current default: MinProtocol TLSv1.2
server.error-handler-404 will operate only on 404
(historical error: server.error-handler-404 operated on both 404 and 403)
Since lighttpd 1.4.40 (released Jul 2016), server.error-handler is available
to produce dynamic error pages for 4xx and 5xx responses.
Since lighttpd 1.4.56 (released Nov 2020), magnet.attract-response-start-to
is an additional, high performance mechanism to produce dynamic error pages.
https://wiki.lighttpd.net/mod_magnet
Changes from 1.4.74
[mod_redirect] url.redirect-code = 308 new default
[ls-hpack] more portability fixes for sys/queue.h
[ls-hpack] update version to 2.3.3
[TLS] default to stronger ciphers w/ PFS and AEAD
[ci] apt-get install build-essential on Ubuntu
[ci] /usr/local/opt keg-only pkgs on Darwin(macOS)
[mod_authn_sasl] translate SASL_LOG_* to syslog
[build] include src/compat/sys/queue.h in tarball
[core] fdlog_openlog(), fdlog_closelog()
[mod_accesslog] fdlog_openlog() if using syslog
[cmake] fix LEMON_PATH with empty CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE
[ci] limit github ci to specific branches
[ci] prefer non-login shell for Cygwin CI build
[ci] prefer dash for Cygwin and MSYS2 builds
[mod_wstunnel] fix server.ping-interval w/ HTTP/2
[mod_dirlisting] fix suffix display of ‘/’ on file (fixes #3242)
[mod_openssl] use internal asn1_time fn on 32-bit (fixes #3244)
[mod_openssl] faster ASN1_TIME parse
[mod_wolfssl] faster ASN1_TIME parse
[doc] update TLS comment in sample lighttpd.conf
Posted by gstrauss
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