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by Patrick Lenz.
Original Post: lighttpd 1.4 is out
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Since weigon silently slipped lighttpd 1.4.0 out of the door last week (despite it still having 20 open tickets in its milestonecough) it only saw the light of the day of a few dozen servers when a few more or less critical bugs were found and squashed to release 1.4.1 this fine Monday.
So, what does 1.4 get us?
The NEWS entry for 1.4.0 is just 6 lines long. Among them are three word statements such as "added nested conditionals". Hey, that's major! Lets repeat that in bold. "added nested conditionals". Much better.
Nested conditionals provide you with a way to evaluate multiple conditions in a, well, nested manner. You can use regexes to provide special treatment for a certain hostname/url combination for example. This might solve some of the trac migration issues I talked about in the previous post, although I haven't really played with the nested syntax just yet. See weigon's announcement for additional examples.
Additionally, 1.4.0 (and the now available 1.4.1) ship with a complete Class 1 WebDAV client, a stat-cache based on FAM/Gamin as well as assorted fixes to mod_proxy and mod_fastcgi.
Something weigon completely missed out on shouting out loud in his release announcement is the fully backwards compatible configuration file format although certainly some directives changed from 1.3.x. I didn't have to touch a single line in my 247 lines long lighttpd.conf (not counting comments). The manual would be the best place to start looking for updated directives.
Downloads in various binary forms as well as raw source code (compiling charmingly as a Debian package through the included buildpackage scripts) are available from lighttpd.net.
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