The release of the lightweight HTTP server lighttpd 1.4.70 has taken place, aiming to combine high performance, security, standard compliance, and configurability. Lighttpd is suitable for use in high-load systems and is designed for low memory and CPU resource consumption. The project's code is written in C and is distributed under the BSD license.
Key Changes:
- The launch of CGI scripts has been accelerated in mod_cgi.
- Experimental support for building on the Windows platform has been provided.
- Preparations have been made to extract the code implementing HTTP/2 from the core server into a separate module mod_h2, which can be disabled if HTTP/2 support is not needed. The transition from the built-in implementation to mod_h2 is expected in a future release.
- In HTTP/2 proxy mode, the ability to handle requests from multiple clients within a single connection has been implemented proxy server and proxy (mod_extforward, mod_maxminddb).
- The building of separate dynamically loadable modules mod_access, mod_alias, mod_evhost, mod_expire, mod_fastcgi, mod_indexfile, mod_redirect, mod_rewrite, mod_scgi, mod_setenv, mod_simple_vhost, and mod_staticfile has been discontinued, as their functionality is integrated into the main executable (the separate modules were not practically used).
Source: opennet.ru
