Hi folks,
We are glad to announce that Tengine-1.4.5 (development version) has
been
released. You can either checkout the source code from github:
GitHub - alibaba/tengine: A distribution of Nginx with some advanced features or download the tarball directly:
http://tengine.taobao.org/download/tengine-1.4.5.tar.gz
In this release, we have added the consistent_hash module which
dispatches
requests to upstream servers based on consistent hashing algorithm
(Consistent hashing - Wikipedia). It is better than
the
ip_hash module, by decreasing the possibility of hash key to be remapped
when the number of servers changes.
We also introduced the “keepalive_timeout” directive to set timeout for
the
upstream keepalive connections. It can reduce the sum of idle
connections
with backend servers.
Two new configure script options ‘–enable-mods-shared=all’ and
‘–enable-mods-static=all’ were added. Now you can compile all the
modules
to be shared or static.
The full changelog is as follows:
*) Feature: added the consistent_hash module which dispatches requests
to
upstream servers based on consistent hashing algorithm of a variable
specified.
(dinic)
*) Feature: added the “keepalive_timeout” directive to set timeout for
upstream keepalive connections. (jinglong)
*) Feature: now the configure script supports compilation of all modules
to
be
shared or static. (monadbobo)
*) Change: updated the Lua module to 0.7.19. (jinglong)
*) Change: merged the changes of Nginx-1.2.8. (yaoweibin)
*) Bugfix: fixed the compile warnings of syslog and upstream_check
modules.
(magicbear)
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!