Unit 1.29. released

[Timo Stark]

Hi, NGINX Unit community,

We are happy to announce Unit 1.29.0! This release sets the first milestone
for NGINX's JavaScript runtime, njs, on Unit and also introduces the first
version of a Unit-specific CLI.

Now you can use njs to define JavaScript-based template literals in the
configuration; evaluated at run time, they can be anywhere that supports
variables to customize Unit's behavior. This is only the beginning of a
new feature series based on the NGINX JavaScript project.

Next, we introduce the very first of Unit-related tools to assist new users.
If you want to fast-track to get your first configuration up and running or
use Unit’s control API as intended, the “curl wrapper” command-line
script, unitc, will surely help. 

In addition, version 1.29.0 also adds:

*) per-application cgroups; now, you can place each app into a separate cgroup
   or tie them together.
   
*) new "prefix" attribute for Python applications.

*) new $request_time variable.

*) fixes for a few community-reported bugs.

For more information about the new features, visit:
https://unit.nginx.org/news/2022/unit-1.29.0-released/

Changes with Unit 1.29.0                                         15 Dec 2022

*) Change: removed $uri auto-append for "share" when loading
   configuration.

*) Change: prefer system crypto policy instead of hardcoding a default.

*) Feature: njs support with the basic syntax of JS template literals.

*) Feature: support per-application cgroups on Linux.

*) Feature: the $request_time variable contains the request processing
   time.

*) Feature: "prefix" option in Python applications to set WSGI
   "SCRIPT_NAME" and ASGI root-path variables.

*) Feature: compatibility with Python 3.11.

*) Feature: compatibility with OpenSSL 3.

*) Feature: compatibility with PHP 8.2.

*) Feature: compatibility with Node.js 19.0.

*) Feature: Ruby Rack v3 support.

*) Bugfix: fix error in connection statistics when using proxy.

*) Bugfix: fix HTTP cookie parsing when the value contains an equals
   sign.

*) Bugfix: PHP directory URLs without a trailing '/' would give a 503
   error (fixed with a 301 re-direct).

*) Bugfix: missing error checks in the C API.

*) Bugfix: report the regex status in configure summary.
    
Platform Updates

*) Added support for Ubuntu 22.10

*) Added support for Fedora 37

Wbr, Timo & the Unit team