[Cherokee] Cherokee "As hard as a rock" 0.8.0 released

[Gloria Martínez Vidal]

http://www.goear.com/listen.php?v=f40dfb4

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2008/8/14 Alvaro Lopez Ortega <alvaro at gnu.org>:
>       ===============================================
>          Cherokee 0.8.0 "Hard as a rock" released!
>       ===============================================
>
> 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
> ------------
> - 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
> -------
> 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
> -------------
> You can find a list of our available mailing at:
>
>     http://lists.cherokee-project.com/
>
>
> Feedback
> --------
> 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
> ------------
> 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!
>
> _______________________________________________
> Cherokee mailing list
> Cherokee at lists.octality.com
> http://lists.octality.com/listinfo/cherokee
>



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