Re: [SEC][ANN] Rack 1.5.0, a modular Ruby webserver interface

[raggi <jftucker@gmail.com>]

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My sincerest apologies, this was not a SEC release.

On Monday, January 21, 2013 11:46:10 PM UTC-8, raggi wrote:
>
> Hello, 
>
> Today we are proud to announce the release of Rack 1.5.0. 
>
> = Rack, a modular Ruby webserver interface 
>
> Rack provides a minimal, modular and adaptable interface for developing 
> web applications in Ruby.  By wrapping HTTP requests and responses in the 
> simplest way possible, it unifies and distills the API for web servers, web 
> frameworks, and software in between (the so-called middleware) into a 
> single method call. 
> The exact details of this are described in the Rack specification, which 
> all Rack applications should conform to. 
>
> == Changes 
>
> Please note that this release includes a few potentially breaking changes. 
> Of particular note are: 
>
>  * SessionHash is no longer a Hash sublcass 
>  * Rack::File cache_control parameter is removed in place of headers 
> options 
>
> Additonally, SPEC has been updated in several areas and is now at 1,2. 
>
> A new SPEC section was introduced that provides two server-optional IO 
> hijacking 
> APIs. Further information on these APIs will be made available by the 
> community 
> in good time. In the mean time, some information can be found in the 
> original 
> pull request: https://github.com/rack/rack/pull/481 
>
> * January 21st, 2013: Thirty third public release 1.5.0 
>   * Introduced hijack SPEC, for before-response and after-response 
> hijacking 
>   * SessionHash is no longer a Hash subclass 
>   * Rack::File cache_control parameter is removed, in place of headers 
> options 
>   * Rack::Auth::AbstractRequest#scheme now yields strings, not symbols 
>   * Rack::Utils cookie functions now format expires in RFC 2822 format 
>   * Rack::File now has a default mime type 
>   * rackup -b 'run Rack::File.new(".")', option provides command line 
> configs 
>   * Rack::Deflater will no longer double encode bodies 
>   * Rack::Mime#match? provides convenience for Accept header matching 
>   * Rack::Utils#q_values provides splitting for Accept headers 
>   * Rack::Utils#best_q_match provides a helper for Accept headers 
>   * Rack::Handler.pick provides convenience for finding available servers 
>   * Puma added to the list of default servers (preferred over Webrick) 
>   * Various middleware now correctly close body when replacing it 
>   * Rack::Request#params is no longer persistent with only GET params 
>   * Rack::Request#update_param and #delete_param provide persistent 
> operations 
>   * Rack::Request#trusted_proxy? now returns true for local unix sockets 
>   * Rack::Response no longer forces Content-Types 
>   * Rack::Sendfile provides local mapping configuration options 
>   * Rack::Utils#rfc2109 provides old netscape style time output 
>   * Updated HTTP status codes 
>   * Ruby 1.8.6 likely no longer passes tests, and is no longer fully 
> supported 
>
> == Where can I get it? 
>
> You can download Rack at 
>         http://chneukirchen.org/releases/rack-1.5.0.tar.gz   (upload 
> pending at time of writing) 
>                   http://rubyforge.org/projects/rack 
>
> Alternatively, you can checkout from the development repository with: 
>     git clone git://github.com/rack/rack.git 
> cd rack && git checkout rack-1.5   # for this release 
>
> Happy hacking and have a nice day, 
>
> James Tucker 
> on behalf of the Rack Core Team. 
>
> 9f506c84a6edbeb8c98f381e8edce15e7ae08324  rack-1.5.0.tar.gz 
> 71b6627efbc8795bd3077eff9850fcb508d57ea3  rack-1.5.0.gem 
>

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