[naviserver-devel] NaviServer 4.99.31 available

[Gustaf N. <ne...@wu...>]

Dear all,

I am glad to announce that the release of NaviServer 4.99.30 is 
available at SourceForge [1] and on GitHub [2]. In essence, this release 
contains a few small bugfixes and some backported features from the 
NaviServer 5 developement (auto SNI and Improved handling of large file 
uploads, portability improvements). Since we want to release NaviServer 
5 after Tcl9, and Tcl9 is still not out, some of the backports become 
more urgent.


All the best!

-gustaf neumann

[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/naviserver/files/naviserver/4.99.31/
[2] https://github.com/orgs/naviserver-project/repositories

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NaviServer 4.99.31, released 2024-08-11
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  71 files changed, 897 insertions(+), 303 deletions(-)

New Features:
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   - Added auto-SNI support to "ns_http" and "ns_connchan open": When
     opening an TLS-connection to named target, the used hostname is
     automatically used as a default value for the SNI-host.  The
     automatically derived values has a lower priority than the
     parameter "-hostname" of "ns_http run" or "ns_connchan open".

     This change eases of use with cloud services and affects all
     packages using, e.g., "ns_http", including reverse proxies.

   - Introduced experimental command "ns_fseekchars": This changes
     Improves file-based parsing of multipart/form-data, supporting
     files larger than 4GB, reducing memory usage, and speeding up
     processing..


Bug Fixes:
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     - Fixed invalid memory reallocation of pool descriptors array
       [commit 7efaafe4].

     - Fixed potential issue for move operation with overlapping memory
       areas. This change is which was critical for ARM architecture
       when musl is used (Alpine Linux) [commit 20438ed4].

     - Fixed potential crash in "ns_conn copy" to handle cases where an
       incoming request contains no content [commit 79b8cb8a].


Changes in Sample Configuration Files:
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     - Sample configuration file updates for handling container
       mappings and whitelisting domain names [commits ece849ac,
       9a102a97, 86a176ab].

     - Backported from NaviServer 5: Includes multiple changes to
       configuration files and scripts [commit 0d32e5ea].

Misc Improvements:
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     - Improved forward compatibility to ease backports [commit ef8b4386].

     - Improved spelling and documentation across multiple files to
       enhance readability and understanding [multiple commits e.g.,
       a2cdaa10, 15253120].

     - Improved portability by not assuming that type "char" is the
       same as "unsigned char", important for compatibility with
       different architectures [commit 7635ef00].

     - Made testing more robust for docker images with partial IPv6
       setups to improve reliability in varied deployment environments
       [commit 516ca38c].

     - Removed misleading and unneeded "-encoding binary": This command
       was a no-op since many Tcl releases and was removed in Tcl9 at
       all. This change clarifies code usage [commit a36d15b1].