lighttpd 1.4.38 发布高性能Web服务器

lighttpd 1.4.38 发布，此版本值得关注的改进：

mod_secdownload now requires an algorithm option to be set
fix a header parse bug (#2670)
sendfile support for darwin (just select “sendfile” as backend)

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相比 1.4.37 改进列表

[stat-cache] fix handling of collisions, might have returned wrong data (fixes #2669)
[core] allocate at least 4k buffer for incoming data
[core] fix search for header end if split across chunks (fixes #2670)
[core] check configparserAlloc() result with force_assert
[mod_auth] implement and use safe_memclear, using memset_s or explicit_bzero if available (thx loganaden)
[core] don’t buffer request bodies smaller than 64k on disk
add force_assert for many allocations and function results
[mod_secdownload] use a hopefully constant time comparison to check hash (fixes #2679)
[config] check config option scope; warn if server option is given in conditional
[core] revert increase of temp file size back to 1MB, provide a configure option “server.upload-temp-file-size” instead (fixes #2680)
[core] add ‘~’ to safe characters in ENCODING_REL_URI/ENCODING_REL_URI_PART encoding
[core] encode path with ENCODING_REL_URI in redirect to directory (fixes #2661, thx gstrauss)
[mod_secdownload] add required algorithm option; old behaviour available as “md5”, new options “hmac-sha1” and “hmac-sha256”
[mod_fastcgi/mod_scgi] zero sockaddr structs before use (fixes #2691, thx Kyle J. McKay)
[network] add darwin-sendfile backend (fixes #2687, thx Kyle J. McKay)
[core] show correct crypt support result (fixes #2690, thx Kyle J. McKay)

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Lighttpd 是一个德国人领导的开源Web服务器软件，其根本的目的是提供一个专门针对高性能网站，安全、快速、兼容性好并且灵活的web server环境。具有非常低的内存开销，cpu占用率低，效能好，以及丰富的模块等特点。

Lighttpd是众多OpenSource轻量级的web server中较为优秀的一个。支持FastCGI, CGI, Auth, 输出压缩(output compress), URL重写, Alias等重要功能，而Apache之所以流行，很大程度也是因为功能丰富，在lighttpd上很多功能都有相应的实现了，这点对于apache的用户是非常重要的，因为迁移到lighttpd就必须面对这些问题。