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Apache 2.0.49 Released

Posted by michael on from the happy-happy-joy-joy dept.

chipster writes "Apache 2.0.49 has been released today. This version addresses some bugs, as well as a few security issues. You can read about the new features here, and get Apache 2.0.49 here. Also available is the 2.0 ChangeLog."

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  1. Now if only... by afabbro · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ....they'd release mod_perl 2.0 ;)

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    1. Re:Now if only... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Patches and other contributions in order to get stable releases out the door are welcome and embraced. "Insightful" comments are wimpy.

  2. Re:Apache alternatives. by yusufg · · Score: 5, Informative

    One thing I really miss in thttpd is keep-alive support. I am currently kicking the tires of cherokee . It supports epoll/kqueue and also does keep-alive/pipelining. Very useful if you have to serve lots of images, it even has a nice mechanism to serve cache-friendly headers I see some issues with its gzip support but the author is quite responsive

  3. Re:Apache alternatives. by gtrubetskoy · · Score: 4, Insightful
    For example, very excellent thttpd

    Thttpd is good for some things, but don't think it's a full alternative to Apache. We use thttpd to serve http on ftp2.freebsd.org, and for something like this it is great, because speed is all we care about. On the other hand if verstatility is an issue, stick with Apache. It is not bloated and will perform really well if properly configured.

    My personal take on tools that claim to be small, fast, secure and "better than what the rest of the world uses" is that you try them, then sooner or later end up switching back to the "old school" - I've done it with both qmail/sendmail and djbdns/bind...

  4. mod_deflate by wattersa · · Score: 3, Informative

    The mod_deflate features works really well. It's reduced the bandwidth of my mostly text site to about 25% of its former size.

  5. mod_deflate underused! by bangular · · Score: 3, Interesting

    mod_deflate is so incredibly useful, if there were mod_deflate commercials I'd be in one. It's probably one of the most under used webserver resources out there. mod_deflate can take a large page and reasonably compress the text to a 1/4 or 1/5 the original size. This can be the difference between having to go to a fractional T-3 or being able to use a 1.5 megabit SDSL line.