== Monkey HTTP Server v1.4.0 is out!, codename Spider Monkey ==
Monkey HTTP Server is a very Fast and Lightweight Web Server for GNU/Linux.
It has been designed to be very scalable with low memory and CPU
consumption, the perfect solution for embedded devices. Made for ARM, x86
and x86_64.
http://monkey-project.com
== Introduction ==
We are very proud to announce the availability of a new major release
Monkey v1.4.0, codename Spider Monkey. This major release delivers a new
memory handler based on Jemalloc, extra debugging mechanism based on Linux
Trace Toolkit (LTTng), outstanding performance improvements through the new
Vhost File Descriptor Table which allows to share opened file descriptors,
experimental Proxy Reverse, SSL improvements and many others.
== What is new ? What has changed ? ==
- Core: New Virtual Host FDT feature 'Shared file descriptors'
- Core: new error handler for system calls
- Scheduler: optimizations
- Jemalloc: new default (and optional) memory allocator
- Linux Trace Toolkit: core implements LTTng for hard debugging
- Proxy Reverse: Experimental proxy reverse plugin
- SSL: new support for PolarSSL v1.3
- Plugins: adapt plugins to use core memory wrappers
- Scheduler: workaround for ULONG_MAX bug
- Threading: all TLS is done through __thread
- Core: fix ghost connections
- CGI: safe return on socket exception
- Logger: minor fixes and better descriptions
- Logger: plugin is optional
- License: move from GPLv2 to LGPLv2.1
note: all our repos were moved to Github:
http://github.com/monkey
Official announcement: http://monkey-project.com/Announcements/v1.4.0
== Contributors ==
We would like to thanks to the following people who have been involved
doing code and bug fixes contributions on this release:
- Lauri Kasanen
- Nikola Nikov
- Sonny Karlsson
== Join us! ==
We want to hear about you, our community is growing and you can be part of
it!, you can reach us at:
- Mailing list: http://lists.monkey-project.com
- IRC: irc.freenode.net #monkey
- Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/monkeywebserver
- Identica: http://identi.ca/group/monkey
- Freecode: http://freecode.net/projects/monkey
- Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Monkey-HTTP-Daemon-3211216
cheers!
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Eduardo Silva
http://edsiper.linuxchile.cl
http://monkey-project.com
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