# Rack 1.0.1, a modular Ruby webserver interface

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**Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 10:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rack-1-0-1-a-modular-ruby-webserver-interface/177482/1 "2009-10-18T22:00:30Z")

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Hello,

Today we are proud to release Rack 1.0.1, a maintenance release.

= Rack, a modular Ruby webserver interface

Rack provides a minimal, modular and adaptable interface for developing  
web applications in Ruby. By wrapping HTTP requests and responses in  
the simplest way possible, it unifies and distills the API for web  
servers, web frameworks, and software in between (the so-called  
middleware) into a single method call.

The exact details of this are described in the Rack specification,  
which all Rack applications should conform to.

== Changes

- October 18th, 2009: Eighth public release 1.0.1.
  - Bump remainder of rack.versions.
  - Support the pure Ruby FCGI implementation.
  - Fix for form names containing “=”: split first then unescape  
components
  - Fixes the handling of the filename parameter with semicolons in  
names.
  - Add anchor to nested params parsing regexp to prevent stack  
overflows
  - Use more compatible gzip write api instead of “\<\<”.
  - Make sure that Reloader doesn’t break when executed via ruby -e
  - Make sure WEBrick respects the :Host option
  - Many Ruby 1.9 fixes.

== Where can I get it?

You can download Rack 1.0.1 at

```
    http://chneukirchen.org/releases/rack-1.0.1.tar.gz
              http://rubyforge.org/projects/rack

```

Alternatively, you can checkout from the development repository with:

```
git clone git://github.com/rack/rack.git
cd rack && git checkout rack-1.0 # for this release

```

== Installing with RubyGems

A Gem of Rack is available. You can install it with:

```
gem install rack

```

I also provide a local mirror of the gems (and development snapshots)  
at my site:

```
gem install rack --source http://chneukirchen.org/releases/gems/

```

== Contact

Please mail bugs, suggestions and patches to  
[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid).

Mailing list archives are available at  
[http://groups.google.com/group/rack-devel](http://groups.google.com/group/rack-devel).

There is a bug tracker at [http://rack.lighthouseapp.com/](http://rack.lighthouseapp.com/).

Git repository (send Git patches to the mailing list):

- [GitHub - rack/rack: A modular Ruby web server interface.](http://github.com/rack/rack)
- [http://git.vuxu.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=rack.git](http://git.vuxu.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=rack.git)

You are also welcome to join the #rack channel on [irc.freenode.net](http://irc.freenode.net).

== Thanks

The Rack Core Team, consisting of

- Christian N. (chneukirchen)
- James T. (raggi)
- Josh P. (josh)
- Michael F. (manveru)
- Ryan T. (rtomayko)
- Scytrin dai Kinthra (scytrin)

would like to thank:

- Daniel Rodríguez Troitiño
- Darrin Mann
- Hongli L.
- Julien Sanchez
- Masayoshi T.
- Simon C.
- Tom R.

for their work towards this release.

== Copyright

Copyright (C) 2007, 2008, 2009 Christian N.  
[http://purl.org/net/chneukirchen](http://purl.org/net/chneukirchen)

Rack is freely distributable under the terms of an MIT-style license.

== Links

Rack:: [http://rack.rubyforge.org/](http://rack.rubyforge.org/)  
Rack’s Rubyforge project:: [http://rubyforge.org/projects/rack](http://rubyforge.org/projects/rack)  
Official Rack repositories:: [http://github.com/rack](http://github.com/rack)  
rack-devel mailing list:: [http://groups.google.com/group/rack-devel](http://groups.google.com/group/rack-devel)

Happy hacking and have a nice day,  
Christian N.  
on behalf of the Rack Core Team.

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