# Thin 0.7.0 Spherical Cow release

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/thin-0-7-0-spherical-cow-release/130068>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 25, 2008, 5:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/thin-0-7-0-spherical-cow-release/130068 "2008-02-25T05:32:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![macournoyer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@macournoyer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/macournoyer)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 5:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/thin-0-7-0-spherical-cow-release/130068/1 "2008-02-25T05:32:03Z")

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Hey all,

Version 0.7.0 (codename Spherical Cow) of the fastest Ruby server is  
out!

[http://code.macournoyer.com/thin/](http://code.macournoyer.com/thin/)

== What’s new?

Persistent connections (Keep-Alive) and Swifitply support!

- Add --max-persistent-conns option to sets the maximum number of  
persistent connections.  
Set to 0 to disable Keep-Alive.
- INT signal now force stop and QUIT signal gracefully stops.
- Warn when descriptors table size can’t be set as high as expected.
- Eval Rackup config file using top level bindings.
- Remove daemons gem dependency on Windows plateform, fixes #45.
- Change default timeout from 60 to 30 seconds.
- Add --max-conns option to sets the maximum number of file or  
socket descriptors that  
your process may open, defaults to 1024.
- Tail logfile when stopping and restarting a demonized server,  
fixes #26.
- Wrap application in a Rack::CommonLogger adapter in debug mode.
- –debug (-D) option no longer set so logging will be less verbose  
and Ruby won’t be too strict, fixes #36.
- Deprecate Server#silent in favour of Logging.silent.
- Persistent connection (keep-alive) support.
- Fix -s option not being included in generated config file, fixes  
#37.
- Add Swiftiply support. Use w/ the --swiftiply (-y) option in the  
thin script,  
closes #28 [Alex MacCaw]

== Get it!

sudo gem install thin

Or using my mirror:

sudo gem install thin --source [http://code.macournoyer.com](http://code.macournoyer.com)

WARNING:  
Thin is still alpha software, if you use it on your server you  
understand the  
risks that are involved.

== Contribute

If you’re using Thin, let me know and I’ll put your site on  
[http://code.macournoyer.com/thin/users/](http://code.macournoyer.com/thin/users/)

Thin is driven by an active community of passionate coders and  
benchmarkers.  
Please join us, contribute or share some ideas in Thin Google Group:  
[http://groups.google.com/group/thin-ruby/topics](http://groups.google.com/group/thin-ruby/topics)

Also on IRC: #thin on freenode

Thanks to all the people who contributed to Thin, EventMachine, Rack  
and Mongrel.

Marc-Andre Cournoyer

> **[Marc-André Cournoyer](https://www.macournoyer.com/)**
>
> Code, lifting & loops