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Boa 0.94.13 is primarily a "clean up" release, which means that most of the changes made are to improve the overall quality of the code, without introducing many new features. There are some bug fixes, and some new features, but the overall changes have been to do a better job of checking the results of system calls and memory allocations.

Boa version 0.94.12 has been released. Please see the files section for changelog information.

Boa version 0.94.11 has been released. Please see the files section for changelog information.

** Changes from 0.94.10 to 0.94.10.1
* Actually update the SERVER_VERSION in src/defines.h

** Changes from 0.94.9 to 0.94.10
* Fixes escaping rules
* Fixes segfault when directory_index is undefined and
directory needs to be generated
* adds dummy signal handlers for SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 (Closes SF #425921)
* Update documentation regarding mime.types (Closes Debian #69991)
* Make sure documentation builds (Closes Debian #110818)

Version 0.94.9 was released 18 Jul 2001.

What follows is the changelog:

** Changes from 0.94.8.3 to 0.94.9
* src/Makefile.in updated to take CFLAGS, LIBS, and LDFLAGS
from autoconf
* Update escaping rules with latest RFC
* unescape_uri skips fragments and also stop parsing at '?'
* Don't accept fd over FD_SETSIZE in request.c:get_request
* use backported documentation from 0.95
* make sure POST fd gets closed even on client cancel
* use backported index_dir.c from 0.95
* support subdirectories in ScriptAlias directories
* add SinglePostLimit (int, in Kilobytes) to config system
* check for ENOSPC on body write
* use environment variable TMP (or "/tmp" if not available),
and chdir there when boa exits.
* add 1-time-only hack to make a 32kB read at the end of a request
on POST or PUT
* close unused file descriptors (/dev/null in boa.c, and the
unused part of the pipes call in cgi.c)
* made Makefile.in VPATH happy... read more

An update to 0.94.8.3 in in the works.

** Changes from 0.94.8.3 to 0.94.8.4
* Don't accept fd over FD_SETSIZE in request.c:get_request
* use backported documentation from 0.95
* make sure POST fd gets closed even on client cancel
* use backported index_dir.c from 0.95
* support subdirectories in ScriptAlias directories

I'm finally starting to use this SourceForge thing, and as a start, I started with Boa-0.94.8.3, which was offically released 3 Oct 2000.