Release Notes v1.10

Objectives: OpenSSL 1.1 support, add server statistics and diagnostic data

Changes

  • Add missing mg_ or MG_ to symbols in civetweb.h. Symbols without will be removed a future version.
  • Add HTTPS server configuration example
  • Lua Pages: mg.include should support absolute, relative and virtual path types
  • Add API function for HTTP digest authentication
  • Improved interface documentation
  • Support parameters for Lua background scripts
  • Use new connection queue implementation (previously ALTERNATIVE_QUEUE) as default
  • Add USE_SERVER_STATS define, so the server collects statistics data
  • Convert system_info text output and all other diagnostic strings to JSON format
  • Add experimental function to query the connection status (may be dropped again)
  • Add document on proposed future interface changes (for comments)
  • Officially drop Symbian support
  • Ignore leading blank lines in multipart messages (for Android upload service)
  • Rewrite some functions, in particular request parsing
  • CORS preflight directly in the server, with additional config options
  • Solve some warnings from different static source code analysis tools
  • Collect server status data
  • Allow hostname in listening_ports
  • Make maximum request size configurable
  • Allow multiple Sec-Websocket-Protocol
  • Add configuration option to send additional headers
  • Add configuration option for Strict-Transport-Security
  • Mark “file in memory” feature is a candidate for deletion
  • Improve examples
  • Fix timeout error when sending larger files
  • Add mg_send_chunk interface function
  • Allow to separate server private key and certificate chain in two different files
  • Support for multipart requests without quotes (for some C# clients)
  • Initialize SSL in mg_init_library, so https client functions can be used when no server is running
  • Allow “REPORT” HTTP method for REST calls to scripts
  • Allow to compile civetweb.c wih a C++ compiler
  • Lua: Remove internal length limits of encode/decode functions
  • Allow sub-resources of index script files
  • Add config parameter allow_index_script_resource the aforementioned feature
  • Remove deprecated “uri” member of the request from the interface
  • Improve documentation
  • Make auth domain check optional (configuration)
  • Update unit test framework to check 0.11.0 (C89/C90 compilers still need a patched version)
  • Limit depth of mg.include for Lua server pages
  • Additional unit tests
  • OpenSSL 1.1 support
  • Update version number

Release Notes v1.9.1

Objectives: Bug fix

Changes

  • Add “open website” button for pre-built Windows binaries
  • Fix for connections closed prematurely
  • Update to a new check unit test framework and remove patches required for previous version
  • Update version number

Release Notes v1.9

Objectives: Read SSI client certificate information, improve windows usability, use non-blocking sockets, bug fixes

Changes

  • Add library init/exit functions (call is now optional, but will be required in V1.10)
  • Windows: Show system information from the tray icon
  • Windows: Bring overlaid windows to top from the tray icon
  • Add Lua background script, running independent from server state
  • Move obsolete examples into separated directory
  • Change name of CMake generated C++ library to civetweb-cpp
  • Add option to set linger timeout
  • Update Duktape and Lua (third-party code)
  • Add continuous integration tests
  • Add API documentation
  • Limit recursions in .htpasswd files
  • Fix SCRIPT_NAME for CGI directory index files (index.php)
  • Use non-blocking sockets
  • stdint.h is now required and no longer optional
  • Rewrite connection close handling
  • Rewrite mg_fopen/mg_stat
  • Enhanced tray icon menu for Windows
  • Add subprotocol management for websocket connections
  • Partially rewrite timeout handling
  • Add option keep_alive_timeout_ms
  • Improve support for absolute URIs
  • Allow some additional compiler checks (higher warning level)
  • Add option for case sensitive file names for Windows
  • Short notation for listening_ports option when using IPv4 and IPv6 ports
  • Make usage of Linux sendfile configurable
  • Optimize build matrix for Travis CI
  • Retry failing TLS/HTTPS read/write operations
  • Read client certificate information
  • Do not tolerate URIs with invalid characters
  • Fix mg_get_cookie to ignore substrings
  • Fix memory leak in form handling
  • Fix bug in timer logic (for Lua Websockets)
  • Updated version number

Release Notes v1.8

Objectives: CMake integration and continuous integration tests, Support client certificates, bug fixes

Changes

  • Replace mg_upload by mg_handle_form_request
  • CGI-scripts must receive EOF if all POST data is read
  • Add API function to handle all kinds of HTML form data
  • Do not allow short file names in Windows
  • Callback when a new thread is initialized
  • Support for short lived certificates
  • Add NO_CACHING compile option
  • Update Visual Studio project files to VS2015; rename directory VS2012 to VS
  • Sec-Wesocket-Protocol must only return one protocol
  • Mark some examples and tests as obsolete
  • Remove no longer maintained test utils
  • Add some default MIME types and the mg_send_mime_file API function.
  • Client API using SSL certificates
  • Send “Cache-Control” headers
  • Add alternative to mg_upload
  • Additional configuration options
  • Fix memory leaks
  • Add API function to check available features
  • Add new interface to get listening ports
  • Add websocket client interface and encode websocket data with a simple random number
  • Support SSL client certificates
  • Add configuration options for SSL client certificates
  • Stand-alone server: Add command line option -I to display information about the system
  • Redirect stderr of CGI process to error log
  • Support absolute URI; split uri in mg_request_info to request_uri and local_uri
  • Some source code refactoring, to improve maintainability
  • Use recursive mutex for Linux
  • Allow CGI environment to grow dynamically
  • Support build for Lua 5.1 (including LuaJIT), Lua 5.2 and Lua 5.3
  • Improve examples and documentation
  • Build option CIVETWEB_SERVE_NO_FILES to disable serving static files
  • Add Server side JavaScript support (Duktape library)
  • Created a “civetweb” organization at GitHub.
  • Repository moved from https://github.com/bel2125/civetweb to https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb
  • Improved continuous integration
  • CMake support, continuous integration with Travis CI and Appveyor
  • Adapt/port unit tests to CMake/Travis/Appveyor
  • Bug fixes, including issues from static code analysis
  • Add status badges to the GitHub project main page
  • Updated version number

Release Notes v1.7

Objectives: Examples, documentation, additional API functions, some functions rewritten, bug fixes and updates

Changes

  • Format source with clang_format
  • Use function ‘sendfile’ for Linux
  • Fix for CRAMFS in Linux
  • Fix for file modification times in Windows
  • Use SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE instead of SO_REUSEADDR for Windows
  • Rewrite push/pull functions
  • Allow to use Lua as shared objects (WITH_LUA_SHARED)
  • Fixes for many warnings
  • URI specific callbacks and different timeouts for websockets
  • Add chunked transfer support
  • Update LuaFileSystem
  • Update Lua to 5.2.4
  • Fix build for MinGW-x64, TDM-GCC and clang
  • Update SQLite to 3.8.10.2
  • Fix CGI variables SCRIPT_NAME and PATH_TRANSLATED
  • Set TCP_USER_TIMEOUT to deal faster with broken connections
  • Add a Lua form handling example
  • Return more differentiated HTTP error codes
  • Add log_access callback
  • Rewrite and comment request handling function
  • Specify in detail and document return values of callback functions
  • Set names for all threads (unless NO_THREAD_NAME is defined)
  • New API functions for TCP/HTTP clients
  • Fix upload of huge files
  • Allow multiple SSL instances within one application
  • Improve API and user documentation
  • Allow to choose between static and dynamic Lua library
  • Improve unit test
  • Use temporary file name for partially uploaded files
  • Additional API functions exported to C++
  • Add a websocket client example
  • Add a websocket client API
  • Update websocket example
  • Make content length available in request_info
  • New API functions: access context, callback for create/delete, access user data
  • Upgraded Lua from 5.2.2 to 5.2.3 and finally 5.2.4
  • Integrate LuaXML (for testing purposes)
  • Fix compiler warnings
  • Updated version number

Release Notes v1.6

Objectives: Enhance Lua support, configuration dialog for windows, new examples, bug fixes and updates

Changes

  • Add examples of Lua pages, scripts and websockets to the test directory (bel)
  • Add dialog to change htpasswd files for the Windows standalone server (bel)
  • Fix compiler warnings and warnings from static code analysis (Danny Al-Gaaf, jmc-, Thomas, bel, ...)
  • Add new unit tests (bel)
  • Support includes in htpasswd files (bel)
  • Add a basic option check for the standalone executable (bel)
  • Support user defined error pages (bel)
  • Method to get POST request parameters via C++ interface (bel)
  • Re-Add unit tests for Linux and Windows (jmc-, bel)
  • Allow to specify title and tray icon for the Windows standalone server (bel)
  • Fix minor memory leaks (bel)
  • Redirect all memory allocation/deallocation through mg functions which may be overwritten (bel)
  • Support Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) for static files and scripts (bel)
  • Win32: Replace dll.def file by export macros in civetweb.h (CSTAJ)
  • Base64 encode and decode functions for Lua (bel)
  • Support pre-loaded files for the Lua environment (bel)
  • Server should check the nonce for http digest access authentication (bel)
  • Hide read-only flag in file dialogs opened by the Edit Settings dialog for the Windows executable (bel)
  • Add all functions to dll.def, that are in the header (bel)
  • Added Lua extensions: send_file, get_var, get_mime_type, get_cookie, url_decode, url_encode (bel)
  • mg_set_request_handler() mod to use pattern (bel, Patch from Toni Wilk)
  • Solved, tested and documented SSL support for Windows (bel)
  • Fixed: select for Linux needs the nfds parameter set correctly (bel)
  • Add methods for returning the ports civetweb is listening on (keithel)
  • Fixes for Lua Server Pages, as described within the google groups thread. (bel)
  • Added support for plain Lua Scripts, and an example script. (bel)
  • A completely new, and more illustrative websocket example for C. (bel)
  • Websocket for Lua (bel)
  • An optional websocket_root directory, including URL rewriting (bel)
  • Update of SQLite3 to 3.8.1. (bel)
  • Add “date” header field to replies, according to the requirements of RFC 2616 (the HTTP standard), Section 14.18 (bel)
  • Fix websocket long pull (celeron55)
  • Updated API documentation (Alex Kozlov)
  • Fixed Posix locking functions for Windows (bel2125)
  • Updated version number

Release Notes v1.5

Objectives: Bug fixes and updates, repository restoration

Changes

  • Corrected bad mask flag/opcode passing to websocket callback (William Greathouse)
  • Moved CEVITWEB_VERSION define into civetweb.h
  • Added new simple zip deployment build for Windows.
  • Removed windows install package build.
  • Fixes page violation in mod_lua.inl (apkbox)
  • Use C style comments to enable compiling most of civetweb with -ansi. (F-Secure Corporation)
  • Allow directories with non ASCII characters in Windows in UTF-8 encoded (bel2125)
  • Added Lua File System support (bel2125)
  • Added mongoose history back in repository thanks to (Paul Sokolovsky)
  • Fixed keep alive (bel2125)
  • Updated of MIME types (bel2125)
  • Updated lsqlite (bel2125)
  • Fixed master thread priority (bel2125)
  • Fixed IPV6 defines under Windowe (grenclave)
  • Fixed potential dead lock in connection_close() (Morgan McGuire)
  • Added WebSocket example using asynchronous server messages (William Greathouse)
  • Fixed the getcwd() warning (William Greathouse)
  • Implemented the connection_close() callback (William Greathouse)
  • Fixed support URL's in civetweb.c (Daniel Oaks)
  • Allow port number to be zero to use a random free port (F-Secure Corporation)
  • Wait for threads to finish when stopping for a clean shutdown (F-Secure Corporation)
  • More static analysis fixes against Coverity tool (F-Secure Corporation)
  • Travis automated build testing support added (Daniel Oaks)
  • Updated version numbers.
  • Added contributor credits file.

Release Notes v1.4

Objectives: New URI handler interface, feature enhancements, C++ extensions

The main idea behind this release is to bring about API consistency. All changes are backward compatible and have been kept to a minimum.

Changes

  • Added mg_set_request_handler() which provides a URI mapping for callbacks. This is a new alternative to overriding callbacks.begin_request.
  • Externalized mg_url_encode()
  • Externalized mg_strncasecmp() for utiliy
  • Added CivetServer::getParam methods
  • Added CivetServer::urlDecode methods
  • Added CivetServer::urlEncode methods
  • Dealt with compiler warnings and some static analysis hits.
  • Added mg_get_var2() to parse repeated query variables
  • Externalized logging function cry() as mg_cry()
  • Added CivetServer::getCookie method (Hariprasad Kamath)
  • Added CivetServer::getHeader method (Hariprasad Kamath)
  • Added new basic C embedding example
  • Conformed source files to UNIX line endings for consistency.
  • Unified the coding style to improve reability.

Release Notes v1.3

Objectives: Buildroot Integration

Changes

  • Made option to put initial HTMLDIR in a different place
  • Validated build without SQLITE3 large file support
  • Updated documentation
  • Updated Buildroot config example

Release Notes v1.2

Objectives: Installation Improvements, buildroot, cross compile support

The objective of this release is to make installation seamless.

Changes

  • Create an installation guide
  • Created both 32 and 64 bit windows installations
  • Added install for windows distribution
  • Added 64 bit build profiles for VS 2012.
  • Created a buildroot patch
  • Updated makefile to better support buildroot
  • Made doc root and ports configurable during the make install.
  • Updated Linux Install
  • Updated OS X Package
  • Improved install scheme with welcome web page

Known Issues

Release Notes v1.1

Objectives: Build, Documentation, License Improvements

The objective of this release is to establish a maintable code base, ensure MIT license rights and improve usability and documentation.

Changes

  • Reorangized build directories to make them more intuitive
  • Added new build rules for lib and slib with option to include C++ class
  • Upgraded Lua from 5.2.1 to 5.2.2
  • Added fallback configuration file path for Linux systems.
    • Good for having a system wide default configuration /usr/local/etc/civetweb.conf
  • Added new C++ abstraction class CivetServer
  • Added thread safety for and fixed websocket defects (Morgan McGuire)
  • Created PKGBUILD to use Arch distribution (Daniel Oaks)
  • Created new documentation on Embeddeding, Building and yaSSL (see docs/).
  • Updated License file to include all licenses.
  • Replaced MD5 implementation due to questionable license.
    • This requires new source file md5.inl
  • Changed UNIX/OSX build to conform to common practices.
    • Supports build, install and clean rules.
    • Supports cross compiling
    • Features can be chosen in make options
  • Moved Cocoa/OSX build and packaging to a separate file.
    • This actually a second build variant for OSX.
    • Removed yaSSL from the OSX build, not needed.
  • Added new Visual Studio projects for Windows builds.
    • Removed Windows support from Makefiles
    • Provided additional, examples with Lua, and another with yaSSL.
  • Changed Zombie Reaping policy to not ignore SIGCHLD.
    • The previous method caused trouble in applciations that spawn children.

Known Issues

  • Build support for VS6 and some other has been deprecated.
    • This does not impact embedded programs, just the stand-alone build.
    • The old Makefile was renamed to Makefile.deprecated.
    • This is partcially do to lack fo testing.
    • Need to find out what is actually in demand.
  • Build changes may impact current users.
    • As with any change of this type, changes may impact some users.

Release Notes v1.0

Objectives: MIT License Preservation, Rebranding

The objective of this release is to establish a version of the Mongoose software distribution that still retains the MIT license.

Changes