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Civetweb v1.6 Release Notes

Release Date: 2014-06-27 // almost 10 years ago

  • 🔋 Features

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