caddy/dist/CHANGES.txt

CHANGES

0.8 beta

• Let's Encrypt (free, automatic, fully-managed HTTPS for your sites)
• Graceful restarts (for POSIX-compatible systems)
• Major internal refactoring to allow use of Caddy as library
• New directive 'mime' to customize Content-Type based on file extension
• New -accept flag to accept Let's Encrypt SA without prompt
• New -email flag to customize default email used for ACME transactions
• New -ca flag to customize ACME CA server URL
• New -revoke flag to revoke a certificate
• New -log flag to enable process log
• New -pidfile flag to enable writing pidfile
• New -grace flag to customize the graceful shutdown timeout
• New support for SIGHUP, SIGTERM, and SIGQUIT signals
• browse: Render filenames with multiple whitespace properly
• core: Use environment variables in Caddyfile
• markdown: Include Last-Modified header in response
• markdown: Render tables, strikethrough, and fenced code blocks
• proxy: Ability to exclude/ignore paths from proxying
• startup, shutdown: Better Windows support
• templates: Bug fix for .Host when port is absent
• templates: Include Last-Modified header in response
• templates: Support for custom delimiters
• tls: For non-local hosts, default port is now 443 unless specified
• tls: Force-disable HTTPS
• tls: Specify Let's Encrypt email address
• Many, many more tests and numerous bug fixes and improvements

0.7.6 (September 28, 2015)

• Pass in simple Caddyfile as command line arguments
• basicauth: Support for legacy htpasswd files
• browse: JSON response with file listing
• core: Caddyfile as command line argument
• errors: Can write full stack trace to HTTP response for debugging
• errors, log: Roll log files after certain size or age
• proxy: Fix for 32-bit architectures
• rewrite: Better compatibility with fastcgi and PHP apps
• templates: Added .StripExt and .StripHTML methods
• Internal improvements and minor bug fixes

0.7.5 (August 5, 2015)

• core: All listeners bind to 0.0.0.0 unless 'bind' directive is used
• fastcgi: Set HTTPS env variable if connection is secure
• log: Output to system log (except Windows)
• markdown: Added dev command to disable caching during development
• markdown: Fixed error reporting during initial site generation
• markdown: Fixed crash if path does not exist when server starts
• markdown: Fixed site generation and link indexing when files change
• templates: Added .NowDate for use in date-related functions
• Several bug fixes related to startup and shutdown functions

0.7.4 (July 30, 2015)

• browse: Sorting preference persisted in cookie
• browse: Added index.txt and default.txt to list of default files
• browse: Template files may now use Caddy template actions
• markdown: Template files may now use Caddy template actions
• markdown: Several bug fixes, especially for large and empty Markdown files
• markdown: Generate index pages to link to markdown pages (sitegen only)
• markdown: Flatten structure of front matter, changed template variables
• redir: Can use variables (placeholders) like log formats can
• redir: Catch-all redirects no longer preserve path; use {uri} instead
• redir: Syntax supports redirect tables by opening a block
• templates: Renamed .Date to .Now and added .Truncate, .Replace actions
• Other minor internal improvements and more tests

0.7.3 (July 15, 2015)

• errors: Error log now shows timestamp with each entry
• gzip: Fixed; Default filtering is by extension; removed MIME type filter
• import: Fixed; works inside and outside server blocks
• redir: Query string preserved on catch-all redirects
• templates: Proper 403 or 404 errors for restricted or missing files

0.7.2 (July 1, 2015)

• Custom builds through caddyserver.com - extend Caddy by writing addons
• browse: Sort by clicking column heading or using query string
• core: Serving hostname that doesn't resolve issues warning then listens on 0.0.0.0
• errors: Missing error page during parse time is warning, not error
• ext: Extension only appended if request path does not end in /
• fastcgi: Fix for backend responding without status text
• fastcgi: Fix PATH_TRANSLATED when PATH_INFO is empty (RFC 3875)
• git: Removed from core (available as add-on)
• gzip: Enable by file path and/or extension
• gzip: Customize compression level
• log: Fix for missing status in log entry when error unhandled
• proxy: Strip prefix from path for proxy to path
• redir: Meta tag redirects
• templates: Support for nested includes
• Internal improvements and more tests

0.7.1 (June 2, 2015)

• basicauth: Patched timing vulnerability
• proxy: Support for WebSocket backends
• tls: Client authentication

0.7.0 (May 25, 2015)

• New directive 'internal' to protect resources with X-Accel-Redirect
• New -version flag to show program name and version
• core: Fixed escaped backslash characters inside quoted strings
• core: Fixed parsing Caddyfile for IPv6 addresses missing ports
• core: A notice is shown when non-local address resolves to loopback interface
• core: Warns if file descriptor limit is too low for production site (Mac/Linux)
• fastcgi: Support for Unix sockets
• git: Fixed issue that prevented pulling at designated interval
• header: Remove a header field by prefixing field name with "-"
• markdown: Simple static site generation
• markdown: Support for metadata ("front matter") at beginning of files
• rewrite: Experimental support for regular expressions
• tls: Customize cipher suites and protocols
• tls: Removed RC4 ciphers
• Other internal improvements that are not user-facing (more tests, etc.)

0.6.0 (May 7, 2015)

• New directive 'git' to automatically pull changes
• New directive 'bind' to override host server binds to
• New -root flag to specify root path to default site
• Ability to receive config data piped through stdin
• core: Warning if root directory doesn't exist at startup
• core: Entire process dies if any server fails to start
• gzip: Fixed Content-Length value when proxying requests
• errors: Error log now includes file and line number of panics
• fastcgi: Pass custom environment variables
• fastcgi: Support for HEAD, OPTIONS, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE methods
• fastcgi: Fixed SERVER_SOFTWARE variables
• markdown: Support for index files when URL points to a directory
• proxy: Load balancing with multiple backends, health checks, failovers, and multiple policies
• proxy: Add custom headers
• startup/shutdown: Run command in background with '&' at end
• templates: Added .tpl and .tmpl as default extensions
• templates: Support for index files when URL points to a directory
• templates: Changed .RemoteAddr to .IP and stripped out remote port
• tls: TLS disabled (with warning) for servers that are explicitly http://
• websocket: Fixed SERVER_SOFTWARE and GATEWAY_INTERFACE variables
• Many internal improvements

0.5.1 (April 30, 2015)

• Default host is now 0.0.0.0 (wildcard)
• New -host and -port flags to override default host and port
• core: Support for binding to 0.0.0.0
• core: Graceful error handling during heavy load; proper error responses
• errors: Fixed file path handling
• errors: Fixed panic due to nil log file
• fastcgi: Support for index files
• fastcgi: Fix for handling errors that come from responder

0.5.0 (April 28, 2015)

• Initial release