alvaro at gnu
Aug 14, 2008, 9:13 AM
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Cherokee "As hard as a rock" 0.8.0 released
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Cherokee 0.8.0 "Hard as a rock" released!
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Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server.
It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP,
CGI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, Virtual hosts, Authentication,
on the fly encoding, Apache compatible log files, load balancing,
and much more.
Cherokee also provides an easy to use configuration interface that
allows to configure the server from top to bottom without having to
edit a text configuration file.
Please visit the Cherokee Web Server site for more information:
http://www.cherokee-project.com/
Availability
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- Main site:
http://www.cherokee-project.com/download/0.8/0.8.0/cherokee-0.8.0.tar.gz
- US Mirror:
http://cherokee.osuosl.org/0.8/0.8.0/cherokee-0.8.0.tar.gz
Changes
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This release ships a whole lot of important improvements; this is the
best Cherokee web server version so far. The overall performance has
been improved while a number of interesting features have been added:
Cherokee:
- Brand new I/O cache: much faster
- HUGE FastCGI performance improvement (PHP, for instance)
- Graceful restart (upgrade the server binary w/o downtime)
- Transfer-Encoding 'Chunked' support
- X-Sendfile support
- Deflate encoding support
- New GeoIP rule module
- Cherokee-guardian support one-time operations
- Added sendfile() support on OS X
- Added TCP_CORK support on OS X
- A number of tracing goodies have been added
- The server knows how to handle overload state
- Keep-alive management has been improved
- The nn handler has became an error handler
- 3xx replies can be Keep-Alive now
Documentation:
- Major documentation enhancement
- Added missing man pages
Administration interface:
- Show only available modules
- The SCGI internal communication port is dynamic
- Virtual Servers can be renamed and cloned
- Virtual Servers have an evaluation order now
- Configuration changes are send automatically
Mailing lists
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You can find a list of our available mailing at:
http://lists.cherokee-project.com/
Feedback
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Bugs and Requests for features can be submitted too. We will be happy
to take care of them. Your feedback is very valuable to us!
http://bugs.cherokee-project.com/
Acknowledges
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A whole lot of people have contributed with the project during the last
years; without their help Cherokee could not be possible. Many thanks
to everybody who has contributed.
Special acknowledges to our main contributors for this release:
- Taher Shihadeh
- Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo
- Gunnar Wolf
- Cesar Fernandez
- Antonio Galindo
- Milo van der Linden
- Stefan de Konink
- M. David Peterson
- BSDero
Rock on!
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Cherokee mailing list
Cherokee[at]lists.octality.com
http://lists.octality.com/listinfo/cherokee
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