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 >