[ANNOUNCE] Tengine-1.4.0

[Michael Shadle]

I would love to see and even pledge a bounty (if Igor, Maxim and team
even need any money anymore! :p) to get DSO into nginx mainline...


On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:19 PM, David Yu <david.yu.ftw at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Joshua Zhu <zhuzhaoyuan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> We are excited to announce that Tengine-1.4.0 has been released. This
>> is the first release of the 1.4 development branch. You can either
>> checkout the source code from github:
>> https://github.com/taobao/tengine or download the tarball directly:
>> http://tengine.taobao.org/download/tengine-1.4.0.tar.gz
>>
>> The highlight of this release is the dynamic module loading support
>> (http://tengine.taobao.org/document/dso.html). We now can load modules
>> upon demand instead of having to recompile nginx with the individual
>> modules. It is very convenient for module developers and corporations.
>> And as this release, Tengine is based on Nginx-1.2.3.
>> Complete changelog is as follows:
>>     *) Feature: added the dynamic module loading support (a.k.a. DSO),
>> so we don't have to recompile tengine when we want to add a new
>> module. (monadbobo)
>>     *) Feature: updated the Lua module to the latest stable version.
>> (chaoslawful, agentzh, jinglong)
>>     *) Feature: added json and csv format output for the
>> upstream_check module. (yaoweibin)
>>     *) Feature: added the 'log_empty_request' directive which could be
>> used to turn off logs from a connection without HTTP data.
>> (zhuzhaoyuan)
>>     *) Feature: added the 'concat_delimiter' directive to the concat
>> module to allow adding delimiter between each file. (dinic)
>>     *) Feature: added the 'concat_ignore_file_error' directive to
>> ignore file errors and the syntax of concat is less strict now.
>> (dinic)
>>     *) Feature: added the 'default' option to the 'error_page'
>> directive to set all error pages to default values. (jinglong)
>>     *) Feature: added the 'priority' directive of the procs module.
>> (yzprofile)
>>     *) Feature: added the 'delay_start' directive of the procs module.
>> (yzprofile)
>>     *) Change: merged changes from nginx-1.2.3. (zhuzhaoyuan)
>>     *) Bugfix: fixed a segmentation fault bug of the geo module when
>> 'range' was set without default value. (yzprofile)
>>     *) Bugfix: fixed a segmentation fault bug with the procs module.
>> (yzprofile)
>>     *) Bugfix: fixed a socket leak bug when upstream_check was
>> enabled. (yaoweibin)
>>     *) Bugfix: fixed some bugs of the limit_req module. (monadbobo)
>>     *) Bugfix: fixed wrong format types with error logs. (yaoweibin)
>>     *) Bugfix: fixed a compile error if the perl module was used with
>> procs. (yzprofile)
>>
>> For those who don't know Tengine, it is a free and open source
>> distribution of Nginx with some advanced features. See our website for
>> more details: http://tengine.taobao.org
>> Have fun!
>
>
> Very nice!  If you have a benchmark comparing performance with compiled
> modules vs DSO, please do share.
> I'm expecting the speed difference to be too small to notice.
>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Joshua Zhu
>> Senior Software Engineer
>> Server Platforms Team at Taobao
>>
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