Cherokee 0.98 released | alo's web site

Cherokee 0.98 released

At last! After a couple of months of tough work, Cherokee 0.98.0 has been finally released.

Here is the summary of the most important changes on this release:

• I/O caching: A number of I/O-cache issues have been fixed. I have to admit that to fix these bugs was a hell of a task. Long story short: I had to write a new distributed stressing tool, and then I needed a few client boxes running hundreds of processes in order to reproduce the issue locally. Now, I'm proud to say that the I/O cache is rock solid: it handles really high concurrency loads with no hassle.
• Binding: The listening mechanism has been rewritten, so the server can bind to an undefined number of IPs/ports without suffering any performance penalty.
• Documentation: A bunch of new cookbooks have been added.
• Redesign: Cherokee-admin has got a new theme. It's cleaner and much more usable.
• Load Balancing: There have been some improvements regarding the load balancing capabilities of Cherokee. Firstly, a new IP Hash load balancing plugin has been integrated in the stable branch. Besides, another of the new 0.98 features allows to dynamically off-line Data Sources whenever the server detects that something goes wrong with one of them.
• Server Info: The information server handler has received some attention as well. Now, it allows third party monitoring applications to fetch information from the server in real time. This is one of the most flashy new features of this release, actually.

This is our best release ever. Upgrade it encouraged.