lighttpd (pronounced /lighty/) is a secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible web server that has been optimized for high-performance environments. lighttpd uses memory and CPU efficiently and has lower resource use than other popular web servers. Its advanced feature-set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and much more) make lighttpd the perfect web server for all systems, small and large. lighttpd is released under the Open Source revised BSD license.

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News

1.4.71

May 27, 2023

Important changes

  • bugfixes and portability; HTTP/2 support separated to mod_h2 module

Downloads

Behavior Changes (previously announced):

  • http/2 support will be split out into optional separate module (mod_h2)
    (static builds will need to list mod_h2 in plugin-static.h to include mod_h2)

Changes from 1.4.70

  • [mod_h2] HTTP/2 separate module; no longer builtin
  • [mod_magnet] fix static build using autoconf (fixes #3203)
  • [core] fix new use of posix_spawn with some glibc (fixes #3201)
  • [core] _WIN32 quiet compiler warnings 32-bit build
  • [core] check getaddrinfo EAI_ADDRFAMILY w/ glibc
  • [core] quiet lemon.c clang C2x warnings
  • [core] compile w/o posix_spawn() on iOS
  • [core] fix crash due to missing initialization (fixes #3207)
  • [core] request_init() separate static func
  • [multiple] remove some unused/redundant includes
  • [core] server.modules s/mod_compress/mod_deflate/
  • [core] preproc consistency #pragma GCC diagnostic
  • [core] update ls-hpack
  • [core] use empty value in srvconf.config_touched
  • [core] provide mimetype.assign default if unset
  • [mod_vhostdb_mysql] MySQL missing mysql_get_socket (fixes #3208)
  • [core] clarify comment