NEWS in yahns-1.12.5 vs NEWS in yahns-1.13.0

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@@ -1,4 +1,84 @@ +=== yahns 1.13.0 - some user-visible improvements... / 2016-08-05 07:26 UTC + + And probably a billion new regressions! + + yahns now allows users to skip the Rack::Head, Rack::Chunked and + Rack::ContentLength middlewares to ease migrating from/to other + real-world Rack HTTP servers. Most notably, our chunked + encoding implementation is a bit faster than Rack::Chunked by + taking advantage of the writev(2) syscall: + + https://yhbt.net/yahns-public/20160803031906.14553-4-e@80x24.org/ + + There's also rack 2.x fixes in the test case and extras/ section + (these incompatibilities did not affect existing users unless + they use the wonky extras/ section). + + There's also some graceful shutdown fixes, the process title is + now changed to display the number of live FDs. + + Of course, there's the usual round of documentation improvements + which are systemd and OpenSSL setup-related this time around. + + However, the majority of changes (proxy_*, wbuf_lite), affect + currently-unadvertised functionality which is subject to removal + or incompatible config changes. However, they are used to serve + our mailing list archives at: + + https://yhbt.net/yahns-public/ + + 49 changes since yahns 1.12.5: + proxy_pass: simplify writing request bodies upstream + proxy_pass: hoist out proxy_res_headers method + proxy_pass: simplify proxy_http_response + proxy_pass: split out body and trailer reading in response + proxy_pass: trim down proxy_response_finish, too + proxy_pass: split out req_res into a separate file + proxy_pass: fix resumes after complete buffering is unblocked + proxy_pass: X-Forwarded-For appends to existing list + proxy_pass: pass entire object to proxy_http_response + proxy_pass: support "proxy_buffering: false" + proxy_pass: remove unnecessary rescue + req_res: store proxy_pass object here, instead + proxy_pass: redo "proxy_buffering: false" + wbuf: remove needless "busy" parameter + Merge branch 'maint' + extras/try_gzip_static: do not show backtrace on syscall errors + wbuf: remove tmpdir parameter + wbuf_lite: fix write retries for OpenSSL sockets + test_proxy_pass_no_buffering: fix racy test + queue_*: check for closed IO objects + cleanup graceful shutdown handling + proxy_pass: more descriptive error messages + proxy_pass: fix HTTP/1.0 backends on EOF w/o buffering + wbuf_common: reset offset counter when done + extras/try_gzip_static: resolve symlinks + test_ssl: remove unnecessary priv_key DH parameter + openssl_client: wrap shutdown for graceful termination + proxy_pass: keep trailer buffer on blocked client writes + proxy_pass: avoid TOCTTOU race when unbuffering, too + proxy_pass: avoid accessing logger in env after hijacking + proxy_pass: avoid stuck responses in "proxy_buffering: false" + extras: include status messages in responses + update init and add systemd examples + test_proxy_pass_no_buffering: exclude rb/ru files, too + wbuf_lite: use StringIO instead of TmpIO + wbuf_lite: truncate StringIO when done + wbuf_lite: prevent clobbering responses + wbuf_lite: unify EOF error handling + wbuf_lite: reset sf_offset/sf_count consistently + wbuf_lite: clear @busy flag when re-arming + http_response: drop bodies for non-compliant responses + fix rack 2.x compatibility bugs + doc: add session cache usage to OpenSSL example + test: skip some buffering tests on non-default values + response: drop clients after HTTP responses of unknown length + response: reduce stack overhead for parameter passing + response: support auto-chunking for HTTP/1.1 + Revert "document Rack::Chunked/ContentLength semi-requirements" + extras/exec_cgi: fix for HTTPoxy vulnerability + === yahns 1.12.5 - proxy_pass + rack.hijack fixes / 2016-06-05 23:09 UTC Hopefully the last of the 1.12.x series, this release fixes a few minor bugs mainly needed for testing.