Algernon Files

Security related

• Fix possible path traversal when --domain is used (thanks @fg0x0).

Fixes

• Fix a possible file descriptor leak after trying to write to /dev/shm.
• Fix a possible issue with setting header values when proxying.

New functionality

• Add new functions for using SQLite, ref [#156] (thanks for the feature request, @judell).
• Add support for compiling TypeScript and rendering index.tsx files, ref [#166] (thanks for the feature request @fayakun-it-consulting).
• Add multiple ways of specifying ports and protocols, ref [#173] (thanks for the feature request @DaVyze).

Other improvements

• Improve how JSX and TSX files are cached.
• Improve error handling when extracting .alg files.
• Add a --noninteractive flag as an alias for the less descriptive --server flag, and also deprecate the --server flag. The short -s flag remains unchanged, and the --server flag is still supported.
• Improve the Lua plugin system wrt. oncurrency.
• Let the desired React version be specified in a comment in index.jsx/index.tsx instead of in an .algernon file. Currently only React 19 is supported and can be specified like this: // React: 19.
• Add more Lua functions for building HTML output programmatically by using the github.com/xyproto/onthefly package.
• Prioritize configuration values from command line flags first, then positional arguments and then serverconf.lua.

Examples

• Add two new example projects under samples/react_tsx and samples/onthefly.

General

• Update dependencies.
• Update documentation.