Roxen WebServer

Roxen WebServer is a complete Web server. Roxen WebServer is platform-independent, modular, and features a version with strong 128/168-bit encryption.

Add-on products for information retrieval, visitor behavior analysis, and powerful tools for application development offering connectivity to databases are available.

Altogether the Roxen Platform is a secure Web-based workgroup solution for time and cost-efficient content and Web site management.

Features:

• Open source code.
• A web-based interface for easy configuration and administration.
• The highly regarded Roxen graphics support which can be used for dynamic generation of e.g. headers, images and charts.
• Integrated MySQL database.
• Server-side programming via RXML, Java, Perl, PHP, CGI scripts and more.
• Strong encryption.
• Modular architecture where server extensions can be loaded without shutting down the server process.
• Platform-independent architecture makes custom modules portable with no extra effort.

What is new in this release:

• Many IPv6-related improvements have been made.
• The SSL renegotiation_info extension has been implemented.
• Several improvements have been made to the DB browser.
• The binaries have been recompiled with libjpeg-turbo.
• Many minor bugs have been fixed.

What is new in version 5.1.185:

• The new RAM-cache and HTTP compression are now enabled by default.
• Caching of YUI resources when using HTTPS has been improved.
• SNMP-probes for request timing and other internal statistics were added.
• Some IPv6-related fixes were made.
• The argument cache is now flushed on shutdown.
• HTTPS now supports AES 128 and 256.
• Lots of optimizations and bugfixes were made.

What is new in version 5.0.449:

• WebServer-specific changes:
• Administration Interface improvements:
• Site: Reduce SNMP OIDs clutter.
• Site: Fixed backtrace that could happen when adding a port to a site. [Bug 5047]
• Tasks: Debug info page now includes environment2 in output.
• Tasks: Debug info page should be more tolerant to exceptions in _sprintf().
• Tasks: Hide/show toggles in backtrace wizard.
• Tasks: Make OK button on patch page link back to list.
• DB: Fix for problem where "" is shown as 0.
• DB: Don't run out of memory when importing db dump. [Bug 5190]
• DB: Database backup now shows $VARDIR path in dialog.
• Replication improvements:
• Make sure database alias points to a database. [Bug 4698]
• Improve warning for unconfigured database.
• RXML improvements:
• Fix missing variable type conversion for entities with encodings.
• New flag that forces tag content to be valid value instead of RXML.nil.
• Added timeout parameters to < gtext >, < cimg >, < gbutton >, < atlas >, < gxml > and < diagram >.
• Fixed filename attribute in < cimg-url >.
• Support internal images in < gxml >. [Bug 4888]
• Correct < gxml > format strings when using coordinate systems. [Bug 4924]
• Include < gxml > documentation.
• Quote wide characters in JavaScript support module. [Bug 4904]
• Fixed quoting issue in < insert#cached-href >.
• Corrected use of timezone in < date http-time="..."/ >.
• Fix bug in s command in < sed >.
• Fix scope cloning when evaluating p-code.
• Fix < sort > with empty content. [Bug 5219]
• Allow use of remote database in < accessed/ >.
• Core improvements:
• New start()/stop() callbacks and tightening of bootstrap_info.
• Allow zero resource in log_event().
• register_vary_callback() promotes 0 to *.
• Protect against zone_to_ascii()throwing errors.
• Robustness fixes in reading of configuration.
• Improved robustness to strange input in find_ips_for().
• Only set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL if supported.
• Roxen.SqlNull now based on Sql.Null.
• Ignore port number in Preferred Language filter Match host name. [Bug 4882]
• Improve error message for proxy connection failures.
• Protect pike script instances during execution. [Bug 5072]
• Fixed various bugs in HTTP layer.
• Avoid loading modules several times when instantiating a new site from template.
• Added old-password auth method compatible with MySQL 4.0.
• MySQL logs to console when running with --once.
• Remove unwanted inherit from patcher.pike.
• FastCGI race-condition and infinite loop fixes. [Bug 5213]
• Improve debug when wide strings are written to access log.
• Many other fixes and changes.
• Pike-specific changes:
• Module improvements:
• Calendar: Updated timezone data.
• LDAP: More tolerant to various invalid characters that occur in reality.
• LDAP: Fixed noise about root DSE attributes without schema.
• SSL: Disable renegotiation to avoid man-in-the-middle attack.
• SSL: Don't hog the backend thread if network is fast enough to keep up with encryption.
• SSL and Stdio: Significant performance improvements when sending large files.
• MySQL: Fixed initialization of charset after reconnect.
• MySQL: Implemented big_typed_query() and streaming_typed_query().
• MySQL: Fix infinite loop for unbalanced quotes.
• SQL: Added Sql.Null and fetch_json_result().
• Standards.URI: Better handling of empty URIs and error handling in query variable access.
• Web.Crawler: Avoid getting stuck on errors.
• Gz: Fixed stray lock if error occurs during inflate or deflate.
• Image: Fix various memory issues in PNG, WBF and XWD decoders.
• Image: decode_header() support for TIFF and PS.
• Graphics.Graph: Fixed issues with axis labels and scale.
• Protocols.DNS: Support for async replies and multiple port/interface combinations.
• String: Added String.normalize_space().
• Core improvements:
• Speed up string searches for single-character strings.
• Speed up appending a single element to an array.
• Workaround for bug in Windows with paths starting with a wide character.
• Fix buffer overflow for float to string conversion.
• Fix regression from Pike 7.4 in integer/floating-point comparisons.
• Fix detection of POSIX high-resolution timers.
• Update Mac OS X/x86 compilation flags to use SSE math.
• Call compile_warning() in current master.
• Improve line number reporting in error messages.
• Various internal fixes. [Bug 5086] [Bug 2672] [Bug 4351] [Bug 5085] [Bug 4257] [Bug 2823]
• Many other fixes and changes.