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Roxen WebServer X Changelog

What's new in Roxen WebServer X 5.4.66

Mar 27, 2014
  • Administration Interface improvements:
  • Fix bug when restoring DB backups. [Bug 6963]
  • Improve module info display now that package system and git hashes are used. [Bug 6267]
  • Fix error when scheduling backups on tables with views. [Bug 7002]
  • Fix a backtrace seen when dropping a site. [Bug 6237]
  • Patch system now correctly handles mode bits on updated files.
  • Added documentation link for SMF manifest.
  • Implemented new RoxenPatch format.
  • Support stronger passwords for administration interface accounts.
  • Added centralized garbage collection of directories on server disk.
  • Deprecate the use of site templates due to various design issues. [Bug 5600]
  • Include version number and non-empty administration interface name in window header.
  • Fixed issues with Memory Logger functionality.
  • Fixed error in DB backup scheduler where changed settings didn't take effect.
  • Improve memory calculation correctness in Pike Memory Usage wizard.
  • Support removal of imported patch packages.
  • Patch system can now import archives of multiple patches.
  • Repeated import of same patch will now overwrite older copy.
  • Added XHTML extension.
  • Added $scheme for logging URL scheme.
  • Updated support for Cacti monitoring.
  • Added support for optional host header to Periodic Fetcher module.
  • Fix missing privilege elevation in patch system when writing to disk. [Bug 6036]
  • Added support for running MySQL upgrade binary.
  • Implement support for newer patch format with fat binaries and platform-specific patches.
  • Check for required binaries before attempting to patch. [Bug 6587]
  • Support stronger password hashing algoritms. [Bug 6358]
  • RXML improvements:
  • Allow min and max for HTML5 ranges in .
  • Fixed regression from Roxen 4.5 concerning old PS font names in graphics rendering tags.
  • Improved HTML5 support in .
  • Added mutex and generation variables to .
  • Add optional disabling for run-together words in Aspell.
  • Improved . [Bug 6903]
  • Fix quoting issue in .
  • Make more tolerant to database connection issues.
  • Extend with remove-unwanted-tags attribute.
  • Support Russian locale in .
  • Improve database performance for .
  • Added a compatibility NULL object for . [Bug 5900]
  • Support custom spell checker dictionaries. [Bug 5737]
  • The tag can now use prestates to verify its cookie.
  • Clarified documentation for vs HTML5 compatibility.
  • Improved documentation for . [Bug 6343]
  • Allow overriding return code in 401 and 404 pages. [Bug 6287]
  • Fix a problem with unwanted data sharing in mappings. [Bug 6342]
  • Fix expansion of RXML variables in inside . [Bug 6359]
  • Added the showscope attribute in .
  • Avoid internal server error in when passing wide string data.
  • Extended syntax with new functions floor(), ceil(), round() and log(), and fixed infinite loop bug in search().
  • Fixed error that could manifest in e.g . [Bug 6425]
  • Added as a new data source.
  • Compiled RXML will now be split in 64K segments to improve threading. [Bug 6467]
  • will now exclude port numbers from Host header for HTTPS (443) requests.
  • Improve HTML markup compatibility in . [Bug 6051]
  • Added soap-method attribute to to post tag data as SOAP request. [Bug 6523]
  • Don't send linebreaks in auth headers. [Bug 6592]
  • Added a set of decoding methods to entity syntax: -utf8, -hex, -base64 and -html. Example:
  • Improved russian language support.
  • Less noise in HTML output when using some attributes.
  • Fix conflict between inside and HTML5.
  • Avoid table scan when clearing old entries in . [Bug 6680]
  • Fixed some weekday/-number calculation bugs in >, and added some new ISO 8601 formatters.
  • Extend with some new styling attributes: background-color, background-image, color and font.
  • Core improvements:
  • Switched to modern MariaDB library for MySQL connections.
  • Fix Windows problem with mysql_upgrade binary. [Bug 7007] [Bug 7018]
  • Updated default 404 page to work better on small screens.
  • Show thread name in slow thread dump header.
  • Avoid DNS timeout for resolving IPv6 link-local addresses (fe80::1).
  • HTTP output of wide strings with narrow charset will now force UTF-8 conversion instead of error.
  • Improve robustness in start script in directory permission checks. [Bug 6980]
  • Fix issue with internal request object observed on Windows.
  • Fix module initialization problem seen on Windows. [Bug 7059]
  • Fixed internal locking issues in protocol layer.
  • Fix issue with domain resolving from /etc/resolv.conf. [Bug 6357]
  • Support quoted strings in cookie header parser.
  • Cleaned up error reporting in image caches.
  • Fixed handling of charset errors in case-insensitive path lookup code.
  • Support Java modules located in local/modules/.
  • Don't load old Java class files if current process doesn't support Java.
  • Shorten very large argument lists in thread dump output.
  • Name more internal threads for easier thread dump analysis.
  • Refactored PID file handling to protect against multiple launches. [Bug 6516]
  • Improved calculation of RAM cache entry sizes, thereby also improving eviction decisions.
  • Fix memory leak in WebDAV module.
  • Improved accounting of protocol-level cache callbacks. [Bug 6520]
  • Speed up FTP directory listings when certain authentication modules are loaded. [Bug 6410]
  • Solve SNMP port binding error on OS X 10.8 and newer. [Bug 6613]
  • Optimize image cache storing by removing redundant SQL inserts via extra read first.
  • Improved image cache support for large images.
  • Don't linger on HTTP connections after timeout.
  • Pike-specific changes
  • Modules improvements:
  • ADT.Struct: Working int32/SWord.
  • Calendar.Timezone: Make compile() reentrant.
  • Freetype: Support name mapping that is backwards compatible with older Freetype.
  • Graphics.Graph: Fixed some infinite loops.
  • Image.Image: Fix crash in skewy().
  • Image.GIF: Fix robustness against decoding broken files and infinite loops.
  • Image.PNG: Fixed crash problem in decoding certain PNG files.
  • MySQL: Switched to MariaDB client library.
  • MySQL: Fixed overflow in fetch_fields().
  • Sql.rsql: Various improvements and fixes.
  • Stdio: Reduce number of system calls in mkdirhier().
  • Stdio.File: Implement support for changing linger time on sockets via linger().
  • SNMP: Fix error in GetRequest variable bindings.
  • SSL.sslfile: Implement support for changing linger time on sockets via linger().
  • SSL.sslfile: Improve robustness in destroy to avoid error message.
  • Unicode: Fix hash table issue in normalize() for 32-bit strings.
  • Core improvements:
  • Enable full address space (3 GB) on Windows.
  • Fix internal compiler problem with running out of stack.
  • Low-level fixes to setting up socket pair.
  • Fix internal error class to avoid an issue while printing backtraces.
  • Added callbacks during garbage collection.
  • Various fixes to wide-string handling in compiler.
  • Improve thread safety in backend call-out handling.
  • Switch to binary mode when opening text files.
  • Various fixes to integer math overflow detection.
  • Increase thread stack to 1 MB to help 64-bit architectures.

New in Roxen WebServer X 5.2.191 (Mar 20, 2012)

  • WebServer-specific changes:
  • Administration Interface improvements:
  • Fix recursive lock issue in Tasks > Debug > Pike Memory Usage Information wizard.
  • Fixed minor overcaching issue in Debug > List Fonts.
  • Various fixes in the Debug > Open Files wizard.
  • Solved permission issue when unpacking Roxen patches.
  • Add collapsible levels and restyle Debug > Resolve Path output.
  • Add proper quoting to module names in Debug > Resolve Path. [Bug 6034]
  • Various internal fixes to the crunch box widget. [Bug 6007]
  • Better error catching in DB browser.
  • Fix string quoting, whitespace washing and wide text in DB browser.
  • DB browser queries can now be disabled with a line containing --.
  • Fixed browser redirects in some DB browser actions.
  • Make it easier to check/uncheck all databases when dropping site.
  • Request tracing of , and now show variable name.
  • Improved support for Internet Explorer 9 and dropped old Internet Explorer 6 kludges.
  • Make configuration interface more robust against double submits.
  • Fixed a quoting issue with settings fields. [Bug 6131]
  • Better robustness in port handling with hostname glob. [Bug 6174]
  • Prevent repeated shutdown/restart requests. [Bug 6169]
  • Database Manager improvements:
  • Set connection charset after releasing global cache lock. [Bug 5961]
  • Shorten connection timeout to 1 minute (override with -DDB_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT). [Bug 5964]
  • Keep connections with errors out of the connection pool. [Bug 5969]
  • Disable automatic reconnect for cached connections. [Bug 5964]
  • Patch management improvements:
  • Roxen patches with header in git format is now supported. [Bug 6166]
  • Roxen Patch now works better across filesystems. [Bug 5924]
  • Modules improvements:
  • Host Redirect module now supports %q (URL query) expansion. [Bug 5930]
  • Added Argcache GC module.
  • Added Memory Logger module.
  • Added Perodic Fetcher module.
  • Improve XML byte-order mark support in XML DB Mirror.
  • Disable YUI2 resources with known security issues. [Bug 6210]
  • RXML improvements:
  • Preserve RXML context when evaluating subrequests. [Bug 5940]
  • Setting HTTP headers in certain ways should work in p-code.
  • Implemented global constants for Boolean and NULL values (&roxen.true;, &roxen.false; and &roxen.null;).
  • Reject empty src attributes in various graphics tags (e.g. ). [Bug 5791]
  • Avoid rounding errors when comparing compatibility level. [Bug 3877]
  • Fixed path encoding issue in p-code on Windows.
  • More RXML API types (t_str_or_int, t_num_array, t_str_array, t_map_array).
  • Make the &var.data:js; encoding safe inside tags.
  • Added MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 variable encodings (e.g. &var.data:utf8.md5.hex;).
  • Added &var.data:json; encoding for JSON output. [Bug 6056]
  • The JS library method selectFirstInputField() won't focus a field if the user already focused elsewhere. [Bug 6228]
  • Support Content-Encoding header in . [Bug 6041]
  • Avoid memory garbage from lingering HTTP connections in .
  • Add caching in various expression forms (e.g. ).
  • Add subindexing, var(), index(), min() and max() in variable expressions.
  • Added filename attribute to .
  • now emits the currently selected language.
  • Fix multiple bugs in . [Bug 4901] [Bug 6055]
  • now gives each attachment a unique Content-ID. [Bug 5136]
  • Avoid memory garbage from circular references in .
  • Removed possibility to override quiet RXML errors via URL prestate.
  • Added as companion to . [Bug 5427] [Bug 6097]
  • Fixed broken use of Vary callbacks. [Bug 5365]
  • needs on attribute to turn on debug mode.
  • with CSV advancing now handled postprocessing. [Bug 5926] [Bug 5777]
  • Better error handling in and .
  • Added (Hash-based Message Authentication Code).
  • Added and .
  • Fix issue with user overrides in roxen/page scopes together with . [Bug 6130]
  • Added option to to use shared database. [Bug 5915]
  • P-code with huge number of compiled statements should now work correctly. [Bug 6146]
  • Added secure and httponly attributes to the tag.
  • Core improvements:
  • Removed old RAM cache implementation.
  • Log errors during argcache sync.
  • Changed strategy for argcache sync to run in dedicated thread. [Bug 6014]
  • Handle duplicate argcache keys by replacing instead of flagging an error.
  • Return 503 response code for requests waiting too long. [Bug 5886]
  • Corrected problem with data corruption in chunked transfer encoding.
  • Fixed RAM cache expire to only expire the requested cache. [Bug 5861]
  • Added SNMP probes for protocol cache, Pike memory usage and gc.
  • Destroy protocol cache keys when entires expire to reduce garbage.
  • Don't attempt to start modules that failed to load.
  • Support variables (e.g. $LOGDIR) in e.g. font and module settings.
  • Avoid backtrace for closed connection when configuration loads. [Bug 4832]
  • URL registration/unregistration fixes. [Bug 5982] [Bug 6037]
  • Handle some situations of ANY/specific IPs better. [Bug 5982]
  • Avoid stale argcache database connections. [Bug 5964]
  • Fix backtrace during shutdown.
  • ABS now dumps handler queue after thread backtrace.
  • Internal server errors now get more prominent appearance in server log.
  • Thread dumps now display thread names and thread busy time information.
  • Speed up image cache flushing through new database index.
  • Threading fixes to image cache metadata syncing.
  • Set image/argument cache access time no more than once a day.
  • Remove unneeded thread lock in image/argument key creation.
  • Less serious warning for harmless log/security pattern decoding issue.
  • Added experimental fork optimization (enable with ROXEN_USE_FORKD). [Bug 6043]
  • bin/create_configif should use current compatibility level.
  • Set TMPDIR to a non-user-specific directory to avoid uid issues on OS X.
  • Added support for bytea encoding. [Bug 5377]
  • Support --valgrind.
  • Ensure correct locale before running ifconfig. [Bug 5898]
  • Updated compatibility with Cacti 0.8.7h.
  • Use privileged access to filesystem in Roxen Patch. [Bug 6036]
  • Make start script more robust against various errors involving Roxen/MySQL PID files.
  • Added robustness to detect already running myisamchk.
  • Memory logger can now report more low-level information. [Bug 6275]
  • Incorporated ActionFS API.
  • Apply URL quoting to data in WebDAV directory listings.
  • Avoid recursion in 404 reply on WebDAV requests from OS X clients.
  • Generate SSL shadow certificates for bundled certificates. [Bug 268]
  • Disable single DES in SSL due to known weakness.
  • Fixed a broken Xerces Java archive. [Bug 4252]
  • Pike-specific changes:
  • Modules improvements:
  • Array: Fix infinite recursion with non-numeric input in oid_sort_func().
  • Calendar: dwim_time() should know how to parse ISO 8601 timestamps.
  • Calendar: Updates to timezone data.
  • Debug: Added memory_usage() fields on more internal state. [Bug 6275]
  • Filesystem.Tar: Fix for Windows issue with permission bits.
  • Filesystem.Tar: Don't abort when directory timestamp can't be set on Windows.
  • Gmp: Added functions to access the numerator and the denominator of an mpq.
  • Gmp: Fixed bugs in the formatting of mpz as floats.
  • Gmp: Fixed strange bug where mpq were initialized as mpz from strings.
  • Image.JPEG: Recompiled with libjpeg-turbo to Mac OS X and RHEL to get significant performance improvements.
  • Image.JPEG: Fix broken detection of libjpeg lossless transformation support.
  • Image.PNG: fix tRNS handling in decoder.
  • Image.X: Fixed typo in encode_pseudocolor().
  • Java: Restore Java support on OS X 10.6.
  • Locale.Charset: GB2312 should typically be treated as EUC-CN.
  • Locale.Charset: Fixed NULL-dereferencing in the decoder for EUC-CN and EUC-KR.
  • MIME: Join adjacent decoded words with the same character set.
  • Parser.RCS: Avoid recursion and reduce memory when extracting revision content.
  • Parser.XML.NSTree: diff_namespaces() needs to return its return value.
  • Parser.XML.Tree: Bugfixed implementation and documentation.
  • Process: Added support for spawning processes via forkd. [Bug 6043]
  • Process: spawn(), popen() and system() et al now use Process.Process.
  • Protocols.DNS: Support A6 replies in Protocols.DNS.Server.
  • Protocols.DNS: Improved detection of IPv6 support.
  • Protocols.DNS: Abort active requests in close(). [Bug 6031]
  • Protocols.DNS: Fixed issue where async_client objects became garbage even after close().
  • Protocols.DNS: Made safe_bind() less verbose in the common failure case.
  • Protocols.DNS: Simple hack to allow literal ipv6 in /etc/hosts.
  • Protocols.HTTP: Increased robustness in close() against connection not being open.
  • Protocols.HTTP: Set the Content-Length header for zero-length data. [Bug 5936]
  • Protocols.HTTP: Some keep-alive handling fixes for async_request().
  • Protocols.HTTP: Support proxying of HTTPS.
  • Protocols.HTTP: Support keep-alive for proxied requests.
  • Protocols.HTTP: Proxy methods now support falling back to no proxy.
  • Protocols.HTTP: Use set_callbacks() to clear the callbacks.
  • Protocols.HTTP: Include a more complete list of response codes and descriptions.
  • Protocols.HTTP.Query: Clean up closing of the connection.
  • Protocols.HTTP.Query: Filter weak SSL ciphers rather than list strong.
  • Protocols.HTTP.Query: Fixed broken state when open_socket() has thrown an error.
  • Protocols.HTTP.Server: Multiple multipart file submissions will be preserved as suggested by HTML5.
  • Protocols.HTTP.Server: Use better response descriptions.
  • Protocols.XMLRPC: Added boolean support using Val.true and Val.false.
  • Protocols.XMLRPC: Fix parsing of requests that wrap values in CDATA directives.
  • Regexp.PCRE: Fixed return value from exec() to always have entries for all submatches.
  • Regexp.PCRE: Add support for capture groups in replace().
  • SSL: Implement the renegotiation_info extension from RFC 5746. [Bug 5840]
  • SSL: Various fixes for client mode.
  • SSL: Added set_callbacks() and query_callbacks() to sslfile as per Stdio.File.
  • SSL: Ensure that queued alerts are sent if the connection hasn't been shutdown by the alert callback.
  • SSL: Convert ALERT_no_renegotiation to ALERT_handshake_failure for SSL 3.0.
  • SSL: Throw an error from create() in client blocking mode on handshake failure.
  • Search: Add database indexes. [Bug 5844]
  • Search: Fixed compatibility with old MySQL.
  • Search: Support optional watchdog script for external filter binaries.
  • Search: Replaced publication date sorting with one that uses a better field.
  • Sql: Added wrappers for is_open() and ping().
  • Sql.Sql: Added typed_query() for convenience.
  • Sql.pgsql: sendterminate() implies close().
  • Sql.Mysql: Improved typed mode for DECIMAL and BIT fields.
  • Sql.Mysql: Added option to disable automatic reconnect, and force the default to on.
  • Sql.Mysql: Removed all remains of the Pike C-level reconnect code. [Bug 5964]
  • Sql.Mysql: set_charset() and create() now set the charset option.
  • Sql.Mysql: Update the stored connection charset only if the charset change is successful.
  • Sql.Mysql: Improved support for Blastwave.
  • Sql.Mysql: Fixed a refcount bug.
  • Sql.Mysql: fetch_json_result() now quotes U+2028 and U+2029. [Bug 6103]
  • Standards.JSON: Improved escaping of U+2028 and U+2029 to help buggy parsers.
  • Standards.JSON: Handle \u encoded surrogate pairs in decode().
  • Standards.JSON: Made string escaping accessible by itself through escape_string().
  • Standards.JSON: Check that \u escapes produce valid Unicode chars in validate().
  • Standards.JSON: Use surrogate pairs for chars above U+FFFF in ASCII_ONLY output.
  • Standards.URI: The authority section may be undefined. [Bug 5859]
  • Stdio: Fixed cp() to work on directory trees on Windows.
  • Stdio: Set the mode bits last in cp() in case they remove write bits.
  • Stdio: Added documentation for recursive_mv() on some behavior inherited from cp().
  • Stdio: Added set_callbacks() and query_callbacks() to handle several callbacks at once.
  • Stdio: Avoid warning when System.cp() exists (e.g. on Windows).
  • Stdio: Fix file length handling in sendfile(). [Bug 6118]
  • Stdio: Improved file descriptor capability handling.
  • Stdio: Throw errors in ALL failure modes for write_file() and append_file(). [Bug 6052]
  • Stdio.Fd: Fixed several cases where the flag FILE_HAVE_RECV_FD was lost.
  • Stdio.Fd_ref now supports subtyped Stdio.Fd objects.
  • Stdio.File: Added send_fd() and receive_fd().
  • Stdio.File: Deregister events properly when the fd is closed.
  • Stdio.File: Fixed bogus errno from query_address() when given a socket with an invalid protocol family.
  • Stdio.File: Added robustness in rm() for EINTR.
  • Stdio.UDP: Improved support for IPv6.
  • Stdio.UDP: query_address() now knows about IPv6-mapped IPv4 addresses.
  • System.getgrent: The group member list can be NULL on Mac OS X. [Bug 6187]
  • Tools.X509: Use a unique serial number for each self-signed certificate.
  • Tools.X509: Added lower level functions dsa_sign_key() and rsa_sign_key().
  • Val: Added a new Val module for various global constant values.
  • Web.Crawler: Support for URLs containing Unicode characters. [Bug 5958]
  • Core improvements:
  • Added kludge for function_name(). [Bug 6156]
  • Avoid relying on stale pointers in getters/setters.
  • Disabled an unsafe optimization.
  • Fix profiling of recursive functions by tracking recursion level. [Bug 5131]
  • Fixed overoptimization of time() calls.
  • Fixed potential memory clobbering in special cases when dividing the empty array with a float number.
  • Fixed resolving of external symbols in deep inherits. [Bug 6063]
  • Fixed typo that could cause fatal when comparing objects with equal().
  • Fixed multiset masking typo.
  • Fixed fallback order for master compatibility resolver.
  • Forward compatibility with 64-bit line numbers from Pike 7.9.
  • IPv6: Added support for generating mapped IPv4 addesses on getaddrinfo() failure.
  • IPv6: Enable IPv4 mapped adresses explicitly.
  • IPv6: Support giving hints about IPv6 to get_inet_addr().
  • Patch cmod precompiler to support negative int(low..high) bounds.
  • Update current_time returned by time(1) after sleeping.
  • Workaround for call_c_initializers() creating broken frames. [Bug 6156]
  • Survive crypt(3C) failing. [Bug 6013]
  • Documentation-specific changes:
  • Major restructuring and reformatting of PDF documentation.