Open Source

Lighttpd 1.21 released

2009-02-18 Felix Ehlers

Version 1.21 is mainly a bugfix release over 1.4.20 and fixes at least 30 bugs. There are also 3 new features: mod_compress now supports caching through etags and last-modifieda new config setting debug.log-timeouts = “enable”. The default is now disabled and eleminates annoying log entriesa new $HTTP[“language”] conditional that allows interesting stuff like url rewritings that takes language codes into account The official Lighttpd 1.4.21 release announcement and changelog

Hiawatha 6.10 released, new feature: CSRF protection

2008-10-30 Felix Ehlers

Hugo Leisink has released a new version of his webserver hiawatha. The version 6.10 adds CSRF (Cross Site Request Forgery) protection. Hiawatha is a secure and light webserver written in C.

Google Browser Chrome released. First exploit available.

2008-09-03 Felix Ehlers

Google’s new browser Chrome has been released today. There’s also the first exploit available. Read more

Open Source

Piwik: OpenSource Web Analytics

2008-03-14 Felix Ehlers

Looking for an opensource alternative for Google’s Google Analytcs software I found Piwik. With Piwik you can create interesting reports about poular pages, used keywords in search engines and obviously about your visitors. It is licensed under the GPL. References: Piwik WebsiteTry it out at the online demo page.

Lighttpd 1.4.19 released

2008-03-11 Felix Ehlers

Lighttpd 1.4.19 is out! This release is mainly a bugfixing and security release. It is still being worked hard on the 1.5.0 release. References: Announcement on lighttpd website