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Civetweb v1.10 Release Notes

Release Date: 2017-09-26 // over 6 years ago

  • Major Features

    👍 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
    • 0️⃣ 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