Lighttpd

1.4.27 RC has been released already, hence 1.4.28. Sometimes I'm patient. ;)

But seriously, is there any ETA on 2.0?

http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd2/wiki
Nope, no release-date yet. Not even plans for alpha/beta or rc´s.

Version-string patch will follow in a few mins. 1.5 is already done. spaam is working hard on this :P

I veto those patches. What if you don't want to expose the version? Maybe show server.tag instead.

You're exposing the status page but you don't want to expose the version? That doesn't make much sense.
Use case? :p

You could have a static file mirror where you can freely show the status page to anyone interested but still not expose the version.

In lighty 2.0 I introduced a "short" mode for this reason, where it does only show the stats but not connected clients or version and other runtime info.

Then in 2.0, don't show the version in short mode.
In 1.4/1.5, that seems like a privacy violation.

True

There's also the case where server.tag is set, but you'd like to see the real version in the status page.