Release Info¶

• Version: 1.4.43
• Previous version: 1.4.42
• Branch: 1.4
• Status: stable
• Release Purpose: bug fixes
• Release manager: gstrauss
• Released date: 2016-10-31

Important changes from 1.4.42¶

• improve FastCGI, SCGI, proxy reconnect on failure
• bug fixes

Downloads¶

• http://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/releases-1.4.x/lighttpd-1.4.43.tar.gz
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• http://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/releases-1.4.x/lighttpd-1.4.43.tar.xz
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  • SHA256: fe0c4a06dd2408a83ee7a2bfedc45e09597f3313cbda82485507573ae8fa948a
• SHA256 checksums: http://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/releases-1.4.x/lighttpd-1.4.43.sha256sum

Highlights¶

• improvements
  • improve FastCGI, SCGI, proxy reconnect on failure
  • build systems: do not build modules for which dependencies are not present
  • autobuild: use CC_FOR_BUILD for lemon when cross-compiling
  • config: warn if mod_authn_ldap,mysql not listed
  • config file remote IP conditions are valid for TLS SNI
  • mod_deflate ignore trailing '*' in deflate.mimetypes
  • mod_deflate skip deflate if loadavg too high
  • mod_accesslog %{ratio}n logs compression ratio
  • mod_expire by mimetype
  • mod_evhost partial matching patterns
  • mod_dirlisting config header and readme files
• bug fixes
  • fix potential tempfile corruption with streaming response
  • fix fd leak when using libev (1.4.42)
  • fix ssl client certificate authentication segfaults (1.4.42)
  • fix mod_scgi prefix matching to always match url

Changes from 1.4.42¶

• [autobuild] remove mod_authn_gssapi dep on resolv
• [mod_deflate] ignore '*' in deflate.mimetypes
• [autobuild] omit module stubs when missing deps
• [TLS] openssl 1.1.0 hides struct bignum_st
• [autobuild] move http_cgi_ssl_env() for Mac OS X (fixes #2757)
• [core] use paccept() on NetBSD (replace accept4())
• [TLS] remote IP conditions are valid for TLS SNI (fixes #2272)
• [doc] lighttpd-angel.8 (fixes #2254)
• [cmake] build fcgi-auth, fcgi-responder for tests
• [mod_accesslog] %{ratio}n logs compression ratio (fixes #2133)
• [mod_deflate] skip deflate if loadavg too high (fixes #1505)
• [mod_expire] expire by mimetype (fixes #423)
• [mod_evhost] partial matching patterns (fixes #1194)
• build: use CC_FOR_BUILD for lemon when cross-compiling
• [mod_dirlisting] config header and readme files
• [config] warn if mod_authn_ldap,mysql not listed
• fix FastCGI, SCGI, proxy reconnect on failure
• [core] network_open_file_chunk() temp file opt
• [mod_rewrite] add more info in error log msg
• [core] fix fd leak when using libev (fixes #2761)
• [core] fix potential streaming tempfile corruption (fixes #2760)
• [mod_scgi] fix prefix matching to always match url
• [autobuild] adjust Makefile.am for FreeBSD

External references¶

• http://www.lighttpd.net/2016/10/31/1.4.43