Release Info¶

• Version: 1.4.57
• Previous version: 1.4.56
• Branch: 1.4
• Status: stable
• Release Purpose: bug fixes
• Release manager: gstrauss
• Released date: 2020-12-17

Important changes from 1.4.56¶

bugfixes

Downloads¶

• https://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/releases-1.4.x/lighttpd-1.4.57.tar.gz
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• https://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/releases-1.4.x/lighttpd-1.4.57.tar.xz
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Future Scheduled Behavior Changes¶

• HTTP/2 support will be enabled by default in a future release
• graceful restart/shutdown default timeout will change from
  0 (infinite/no timeout) to 5 seconds (or some similar non-zero period)
  configure an alternative with:
  server.feature-flags += ("server.graceful-shutdown-timeout" => 5)
• mod_compress is DEPRECATED; use mod_deflate
  mod_compress has been subsumed by mod_deflate
  Note: mod_compress config options may be removed in a future release
• mod_geoip is DEPRECATED; use mod_maxminddb
  Note: mod_geoip will be removed from a future lighttpd release
• mod_authn_mysql is DEPRECATED; use mod_authn_dbi
  Note: mod_authn_mysql will be removed from a future lighttpd release
• mod_mysql_vhost is DEPRECATED; use mod_vhostdb_dbi or mod_vhostdb_mysql
  Note: mod_mysql_vhost will be removed from a future lighttpd release
• mod_cml is DEPRECATED; use mod_magnet
  Note: mod_cml will be removed from a future lighttpd release

Changes from 1.4.56¶

• [core] attempt to quiet some coverity warnings
• [mod_webdav] compile fix for Mac OSX/11
• [core] handle U+00A0 in config parser
• [core] fix lighttpd -1 one-shot with pipes
• [core] quiet start/shutdown trace in one-shot mode
• [core] allow keep-alives in one-shot mode (#3042)
• [mod_webdav] define _ATFILE_SOURCE if AT_FDCWD
• [core] setsockopt IPV6_V6ONLY if server.v4mapped
• [build] fix meson.build when building all TLS mods
• [core] prefer inet_aton() over inet_addr()
• [build] fix SCons build when building all TLS mods
• [core] add missing mod_wolfssl to ssl compat list
• [mod_openssl] remove ancient preprocessor logic
• [core] SHA512_Init, SHA512_Update, SHA512_Final
• [mod_wolfssl] add complex preproc logic for SNI
• [core] wrap a macro value with parens
• [core] fix handling chunked response from backend (fixes #3044)
• [core] always set file.fd = -1 on FILE_CHUNK reset (fixes #3044)
• [core] skip some trace if backend Upgrade (#3044)
• [TLS] cert-staple.sh POSIX sh compat (fixes #3043)
• [core] portability fix if st_mtime not defined
• [mod_nss] portability fix
• [core] warn if mod_authn_file needed in conf
• [core] fix chunked decoding from backend (fixes #3044)
• [core] reject excess data after chunked encoding (#3046)
• [core] track chunked encoding state from backend (fixes #3046)
• [core] li_restricted_strtoint64()
• [core] track Content-Length from backend (fixes #3046)
• [core] enhance config parsing debugging (#3047)
• [core] reorder srv->config_context to match ndx (fixes #3047)
• [mod_proxy] proxy.header = ("force-http10" => ...)
• [mod_authn_ldap] fix crash (fixes #3048)
• [mod_authn_ldap, mod_vhostdb_ldap] default cafile
• [core] fix array_copy_array() sorted[]
• [multiple] replace fall through comment with attr
• [core] fix crash printing trace if backend is down
• [core] fix decoding chunked from backend (fixes #3049)
• [core] attempt to quiet some coverity warnings

External references¶

• https://www.lighttpd.net/2020/12/17/1.4.57