Release Notes v1.5 (UNDER DEVELOPMENT)
Objectives: TBD
In planning.
Changes
- Replaced Windows AdvancedInstaller with Inno Setup to solve install problems.
- 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.
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