Forum: Ruby unicorn 4.6.0 - Rack HTTP server for fast clients and Unix

Unicorn is an HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve
fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections and take
advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels.  Slow clients should
only be served by placing a reverse proxy capable of fully buffering
both the the request and response in between Unicorn and slow clients.

* http://unicorn.bogomips.org/
* mongrel-unicorn@rubyforge.org
* git://bogomips.org/unicorn.git
* http://unicorn.bogomips.org/NEWS.atom.xml

Changes:

This pre-release adds hijacking support for Rack 1.5 users.
See Rack documentation for more information about hijacking.
There is also a new --no-default-middleware/-N option
for the `unicorn' command to ignore RACK_ENV within unicorn
thanks to Lin Jen-Shin.

There are only documentation and test-portability updates
since 4.6.0pre1, no code changes.

... and people say unicorns are mythical...

Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
> Unicorn is an HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve
> fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections and take
> advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels.  Slow clients should
> only be served by placing a reverse proxy capable of fully buffering
> both the the request and response in between Unicorn and slow clients.
>
> * http://unicorn.bogomips.org/
> * mongrel-unicorn@rubyforge.org
> * git://bogomips.org/unicorn.git
> * http://unicorn.bogomips.org/NEWS.atom.xml

Just pushed out 4.6.1 with some minor fixups.  Have fun.

Changes:

Unicorn::Const::UNICORN_VERSION is now auto-generated from
GIT-VERSION-GEN and always correct.  Minor cleanups for
hijacking.

Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
> > * http://unicorn.bogomips.org/NEWS.atom.xml
unicorn 4.6.2 - HTTP parser fix for Rainbows!

This release fixes a bug in Unicorn::HttpParser#filter_body
which affected some configurations of Rainbows!  There is
also a minor size reduction in the DSO.

(this parser fix only seems to affect Ruby 2.0.0)