[ANN] unicorn 3.0.0 - disable rewindable input!

[Eric Wong]

Unicorn is an HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve
fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections and take
advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels. Slow clients should
only be served by placing a reverse proxy capable of fully buffering
both the the request and response in between Unicorn and slow clients.

* http://unicorn.bogomips.org/
* (e-mail address removed)
* git://git.bogomips.org/unicorn.git

Changes:

Rewindable "rack.input" may be disabled via the
"rewindable_input false" directive in the configuration file.
This will violate Rack::Lint for Rack 1.x applications, but can
reduce I/O for applications that do not need a rewindable
input.

This release updates us to the Kgio 2.x series which should play
more nicely with other libraries and applications. There are
also internal cleanups and improvements for future versions of
Rainbows!

The Unicorn 3.x series supercedes the 2.x series
while the 1.x series will remain supported indefinitely.

 

[Eric Wong]

Rainbows! is an HTTP server for sleepy Rack applications. It is based on
Unicorn, but designed to handle applications that expect long
request/response times and/or slow clients.

* http://rainbows.rubyforge.org/
* (e-mail address removed)
* git://git.bogomips.org/rainbows.git

Changes:

This release is targeted at the minority of web applications
that deal heavily with uploads.

Thanks to Unicorn 3.x, we now support HTTP keepalive for
requests with bodies as long as the application consumes them.
Unicorn 3.x also allows disabling the rewindability requirement
of "rack.input" (in violation of the Rack 1.x spec).

The global client_body_max_size may also be applied per-endpoint
using the Rainbows::MaxBody middleware described in:

http://rainbows.rubyforge.org/Rainbows/MaxBody.html

 

[Eric Wong]

Zbatery is an HTTP server for Rack applications on systems that either
do not support fork(), or have no memory (nor need) to run the
master/worker model. It is based on Rainbows! (which is based on
Unicorn (which is based on Mongrel)) and inherits parts of each.
Zbatery supports your choice of all the thread/fiber/event/actor-based
concurrency models and Rack middleware that Rainbows! supports (or will
ever support) in a single process.

* http://zbatery.bogomip.org/
* (e-mail address removed)
* git://git.bogomips.org/zbatery.git

Changes:

This release syncs up with the latest from Rainbows! 2.0.x
and Unicorn 3.0.x. See Rainbows! and Unicorn release notes
and changelogs for relevant details.