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| | 7 | <a name="8"></a> |
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| | 8 | <div class="blog-entry"> |
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| | 9 | <div class="blog-title">Cherokee 0.8.0 "Hard as a rock" released!</div> |
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| | 10 | <div class="blog-body"> |
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| | 11 | <p> |
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| | 12 | This release ships a whole lot of important improvements; this is the |
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| | 13 | best Cherokee web server version so far. The overall performance has |
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| | 14 | been improved while a number of interesting features have been added: |
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| | 15 | </p> |
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| | 16 | <p> |
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| | 17 | Cherokee: |
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| | 18 | <ul> |
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| | 19 | <li>Brand new I/O cache: much faster</li> |
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| | 20 | <li>HUGE FastCGI performance improvement (PHP, for instance)</li> |
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| | 21 | <li>Graceful restart (upgrade the server binary w/o downtime)</li> |
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| | 22 | <li>Transfer-Encoding 'Chunked' support</li> |
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| | 23 | <li>X-Sendfile support</li> |
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| | 24 | <li>Deflate encoding support</li> |
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| | 25 | <li>New GeoIP rule module</li> |
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| | 26 | <li>Cherokee-guardian support one-time operations</li> |
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| | 27 | <li>Added sendfile() support on OS X</li> |
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| | 28 | <li>Added TCP_CORK support on OS X</li> |
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| | 29 | <li>A number of tracing goodies have been added</li> |
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| | 30 | <li>The server knows how to handle overload state</li> |
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| | 31 | <li>Keep-alive management has been improved</li> |
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| | 32 | <li>The nn handler has became an error handler</li> |
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| | 33 | <li>3xx replies can be Keep-Alive now</li> |
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| | 34 | </ul> |
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| | 35 | </p> |
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| | 36 | <p> |
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| | 37 | Documentation: |
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| | 38 | <ul> |
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| | 39 | <li>Major documentation enhancement</li> |
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| | 40 | <li>Added missing man pages</li> |
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| | 41 | </ul> |
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| | 42 | </p> |
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| | 43 | <p> |
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| | 44 | Administration interface: |
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| | 45 | <ul> |
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| | 46 | <li>Show only available modules</li> |
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| | 47 | <li>The SCGI internal communication port is dynamic</li> |
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| | 48 | <li>Virtual Servers can be renamed and cloned</li> |
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| | 49 | <li>Virtual Servers have an evaluation order now</li> |
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| | 50 | <li>Configuration changes are send automatically</li> |
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| | 51 | </ul> |
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| | 52 | </p> |
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| | 53 | |
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| | 54 | </div> |
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| | 55 | <div class="blog-addinfo">15 August, 7:00pm </div> |
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| | 56 | </div> |
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