| Changelog |
| --------- |
| |
| v4.1.0 |
| ====== |
| |
| - NEW: travis / appveyor / bintray are replaced by Sai |
| https://libwebsockets.org/sai/ which for lws currently does 193 builds per |
| git push on 16 platforms, all self-hosted. The homebrew bash scripts used |
| to select Minimal examples are replaced by CTest. Platforms currently |
| include Fedora/AMD/GCC, Windows/AMD/mingw32, Windows/AMD/mingw64, Android/ |
| aarch64/LLVM, esp-idf (on WROVER-KIT and HELTEC physical boards), Fedora/ |
| RISCV (on QEMU)/GCC, CentOS8/AMD/GCC, Gentoo/AMD/GCC, Bionic/AMD/GCC, |
| Linkit 7697, Focal/AMD/GCC, Windows (on QEMU)/AMD/MSVC, |
| Focal/aarch64-RPI4/GCC, iOS/aarch64/LLVM and OSX/AMD/LLVM. |
| |
| - NEW: The single CMakeLists.txt has been refactored and modernized into smaller |
| CMakeLists.txt in the subdirectory along with the code that is being managed |
| for build by it. Build options are still listed in the top level as before |
| but the new way is much more maintainable. |
| |
| - NEW: event lib support on Unix is now built into dynamically loaded plugins |
| and brought in at runtime, allowing all of the support to be built in |
| isolation without conflicts, and separately packaged with individual |
| dependencies. See ./READMEs/event-libs.md for details and how to force |
| the old static build into lws method. |
| |
| - NEW: Captive Portal Detection. Lws can determine if the active default |
| route is able to connect to the internet, or is in a captive portal type |
| situation, by trying to connect to a remote server that will respond in an |
| unusual way, like provide a 204. |
| |
| - NEW: Secure streams: Support system trust store if it exists |
| Build on Windows |
| Support lws raw socket protocol in SS |
| Support Unix Domain Socket transport |
| |
| - NEW: Windows: Support Unix Domain Sockets same as other platforms |
| |
| - NEW: Windows: Build using native pthreads, async dns, ipv6 on MSVC |
| |
| - NEW: lws_struct: BLOB support |
| |
| - NEW: lws_sul: Now provides two sorted timer domains, a default one as |
| before, and another whose scheduled events are capable to wake the system from suspend |
| |
| - NEW: System Message Distribution: lws_smd provides a very lightweight way |
| to pass short messages between subsystems both in RTOS type case where the |
| subsystems are all on the lws event loop, and in the case participants are in |
| different processes, using Secure Streams proxying. Participants register a bitmap |
| of message classes they care about; if no particpant cares about a particular message, |
| it is rejected at allocation time for the sender, making it cheap to provide messages |
| speculatively. See lib/system/smd/README.md for full details. |
| |
| - NEW: lws_drivers: wrappers for SDK driver abstractions (or actual drivers) |
| See lib/drivers/README.md, example implementations |
| minimal-examples/embedded/esp32/esp-wrover-kit |
| - generic gpio |
| - generic LED (by name) lib/drivers/led/README.md |
| - generic PWM, sophisticated interpolated table |
| sequencers with crossfade |
| - generic button (by name), with debounce and press classification |
| emitting rich SMD click, long-click, double-click, |
| down, repeat, up JSON messages |
| lib/drivers/button/README.md |
| - bitbang i2c on generic gpio (hw support can use same |
| abstract API) |
| - bitbang spi on generic gpio (hw support can use same |
| abstract API) |
| - generic display object, can be wired up to controller |
| drivers that hook up by generic i2c or spi, |
| generic backlight PWM sequencing and |
| blanking timer support |
| - generic settings storage: get and set blobs by name |
| - generic network device: netdev abstract class with |
| WIFI / Ethernet implementations |
| using underlying SDK APIs; |
| generic 80211 Scan managements |
| and credentials handling via |
| lws_settings |
| This is the new way to provide embedded platform |
| functionality that was in the past done like |
| esp32-factory. Unlike the old way, the new way has no |
| native apis in it and can be built on other SDK / SoCs |
| the same. |
| |
| - NEW: Security-aware JWS JWT (JSON Web Tokens) apis are provided on top of the existing |
| JOSE / JWS apis. All the common algorithms are available along with some |
| high level apis like lws http cookie -> JWT struct -> lws http cookie. |
| |
| - REMOVED: esp32-helper and friends used by esp32-factory now lws_drivers |
| exists |
| |
| - REMOVED: generic sessions and friends now JWT is provided |
| |
| v4.0.0 |
| ====== |
| |
| - NEW: Lws is now under the MIT license, see ./LICENSE for details |
| |
| - NEW: GLIB native event loop support, lws + gtk example |
| |
| - NEW: native lws MQTT client... supports client stream binding like h2 when |
| multiple logical connections are going to the same endpoint over MQTT, they |
| transparently and independently share the one connection + tls tunnel |
| |
| - NEW: "Secure Streams"... if you are making a device with client connections |
| to the internet or cloud, this allows separation of the communications |
| policy (endpoints, tls cert validation, protocols, etc) from the code, with |
| the goal you can combine streams, change protocols and cloud provision, and |
| reflect that in the device's JSON policy document without having to change |
| any code. |
| |
| - NEW: lws_system: New lightweight and efficient Asynchronous DNS resolver |
| implementation for both A and AAAA records, supports recursive (without |
| recursion in code) lookups, caching, and getaddrinfo() compatible results |
| scheme (from cache directly without per-consumer allocation). Able to |
| perform DNS lookups without introducing latency in the event loop. |
| |
| - NEW: lws_system: ntpclient implementation with interface for setting system |
| time via lws_system ops |
| |
| - NEW: lws_system: dhcpclient implementation |
| |
| - NEW: Connection validity tracking, autoproduce PING/PONG for protocols that |
| support it if not informed that the connection has passed data in both |
| directions recently enough |
| |
| - NEW: lws_retry: standardized exponential backoff and retry timing based |
| around backoff table and lws_sul |
| |
| - NEW: there are official public helpers for unaligned de/serialization of all |
| common types, see eh, lws_ser_wu16be() in include/libwebsockets/lws-misc.h |
| |
| - NEW: lws_tls_client_vhost_extra_cert_mem() api allows attaching extra certs |
| to a client vhost from DER in memory |
| |
| - NEW: lws_system: generic blobs support passing auth tokens, per-connection |
| client certs etc from platform into lws |
| |
| - NEW: public helpers to consume and produce ipv4/6 addresses in a clean way, |
| along with lws_sockaddr46 type now public. See eg, lws_sockaddr46-based |
| lws_sa46_parse_numeric_address(), lws_write_numeric_address() |
| in include/libwebsockets/lws-network-helper.h |
| |
| - Improved client redirect handling, h2 compatibility |
| |
| - NEW: lwsac: additional features for constant folding support (strings that |
| already are in the lwsac can be pointed to without copying again), backfill |
| (look for gaps in previous chunks that could take a new use size), and |
| lwsac_extend() so last use() can attempt to use more unallocated chunk space |
| |
| - NEW: lws_humanize: apis for reporting scalar quanties like 1234 as "1.234KB" |
| with the scaled symbol strings passed in by caller |
| |
| - NEW: freertos: support lws_cancel_service() by using UDP pair bound to lo, |
| since it doesn't have logical pipes |
| |
| - NEW: "esp32" plat, which implemented freertos plat compatibility on esp32, is |
| renamed to "freertos" plat, targeting esp32 and other freertos platforms |
| |
| - NEW: base64 has an additional api supporting stateful decode, where the input |
| is not all in the same place at the same time and can be processed |
| incrementally |
| |
| - NEW: lws ws proxy: support RFC8441 |
| |
| - NEW: lws_spawn_piped apis: generic support for vforking a process with child |
| wsis attached to its stdin, stdout and stderr via pipes. When processes are |
| reaped, a specified callback is triggered. Currently Linux + OSX. |
| |
| - NEW: lws_fsmount apis: Linux-only overlayfs mount and unmount management for |
| aggregating read-only layers with disposable, changeable upper layer fs |
| |
| - Improvements for RTOS / small build case bring the footprint of lws v4 below |
| that of v3.1 on ARM |
| |
| - lws_tokenize: flag specifying # should mark rest of line as comment |
| |
| - NEW: minimal example for integrating libasound / alsa via raw file |
| |
| - lws_struct: sqlite and json / lejp translation now usable |
| |
| |
| v3.2.0 |
| ====== |
| |
| - This is the last planned release under LGPLv2+SLE. It's not planned to be |
| maintained like previous releases, please switch to master for the latest |
| stuff or continue to use v3.1-stable until the next release under the |
| new MIT license. |
| |
| - NEW: completely refactored scheduler with a unified, sorted us-resolution |
| linked-list implementation. All polled checks like timeout are migrated |
| to use the new timers, which also work on the event lib implementations. |
| Faster operation, us-resolution timeouts and generic scheduled callbacks |
| from the event loop. |
| |
| - NEW: lws_dsh specialized buffer memory allocator that can borrow space |
| from other cooperating buffers on the same list. |
| |
| - NEW: lws_sequencer allows managing multi-connection processes and |
| retries |
| |
| - NEW: memory buffer cert support |
| |
| - NEW: LWS_WITH_NETWORK in CMake... can be configured without any network- |
| related code at all |
| |
| - NEW: builds on QNX 6.5 and SmartOS |
| |
| - NEW: JOSE / JWK / JWS / JWE support, for all common ciphers and algs, |
| works on OpenSSL and mbedtls backends |
| |
| - NEW: gencrypto now has genaes and genec in addition to genrsa, works |
| on OpenSSL and mbedtls backends |
| |
| - NEW: raw_proxy role |
| |
| - NEW: Basic Auth works on ws connections |
| |
| - CHANGE: REMOVED: LWS_WITH_GENRSA, LWS_WITH_GENHASH, LWS_WITH_GENEC, |
| LWS_WITH_GENAES have all been removed and combined into LWS_WITH_GENCRYPTO |
| |
| - CHANGE: REMOVED: LWS_WITH_JWS, LWS_WITH_JWE have been removed and combined |
| into LWS_WITH_JOSE |
| |
| v3.1.0 |
| ====== |
| |
| - CHANGE: REMOVED: lws_client_connect() and lws_client_connect_extended() |
| compatibility apis for lws_client_connect_via_info() have been marked as |
| deprecated for several versions and are now removed. Use |
| lws_client_connect_via_info() directly instead. |
| |
| - CHANGE: CMAKE: |
| - LWS_WITH_HTTP2: now defaults ON |
| |
| - CHANGE: Minimal examples updated to use Content Security Policy best |
| practices, using |
| `LWS_SERVER_OPTION_HTTP_HEADERS_SECURITY_BEST_PRACTICES_ENFORCE` vhost |
| option flag and disabling of inline style and scripts. A side-effect of |
| this is that buffers used to marshal headers have to be prepared to take |
| more content than previously... LWS_RECOMMENDED_MIN_HEADER_SPACE (2048 |
| currently) is available for user (and internal) use to logically tie the |
| buffer size to this usecase (and follow future increases). |
| |
| - NEW: CMAKE |
| - LWS_FOR_GITOHASHI: sets various cmake options suitable for gitohashi |
| - LWS_WITH_ASAN: for Linux, enable build with ASAN |
| |
| Don't forget LWS_WITH_DISTRO_RECOMMENDED, which enables a wide range of lws |
| options suitable for a distro build of the library. |
| |
| - NEW: lws threadpool - lightweight pool of pthreads integrated to lws wsi, with |
| all synchronization to event loop handled internally, queue for excess tasks |
| [threadpool docs](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/lib/misc/threadpool) |
| [threadpool minimal example](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/minimal-examples/ws-server/minimal-ws-server-threadpool) |
| Cmake config: `-DLWS_WITH_THREADPOOL=1` |
| |
| - NEW: libdbus support integrated on lws event loop |
| [lws dbus docs](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/lib/roles/dbus) |
| [lws dbus client minimal examples](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/minimal-examples/dbus-client) |
| [lws dbus server minimal examples](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/minimal-examples/dbus-server) |
| Cmake config: `-DLWS_ROLE_DBUS=1` |
| |
| - NEW: lws allocated chunks (lwsac) - helpers for optimized mass allocation of small |
| objects inside a few larger malloc chunks... if you need to allocate a lot of |
| inter-related structs for a limited time, this removes per-struct allocation |
| library overhead completely and removes the need for any destruction handling |
| [lwsac docs](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/lib/misc/lwsac) |
| [lwsac minimal example](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/minimal-examples/api-tests/api-test-lwsac) |
| Cmake Config: `-DLWS_WITH_LWSAC=1` |
| |
| - NEW: lws tokenizer - helper api for robustly tokenizing your own strings without |
| allocating or adding complexity. Configurable by flags for common delimiter |
| sets and comma-separated-lists in the tokenizer. Detects and reports syntax |
| errors. |
| [lws_tokenize docs](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/include/libwebsockets/lws-tokenize.h) |
| [lws_tokenize minimal example / api test](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/minimal-examples/api-tests/api-test-lws_tokenize) |
| |
| - NEW: lws full-text search - optimized trie generation, serialization, |
| autocomplete suggestion generation and instant global search support extensible |
| to huge corpuses of UTF-8 text while remaining super lightweight on resources. |
| [full-text search docs](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/lib/misc/fts) |
| [full-text search minimal example / api test](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/minimal-examples/api-tests/api-test-fts) |
| [demo](https://libwebsockets.org/ftsdemo/) |
| [demo sources](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/plugins/protocol_fulltext_demo.c) |
| Cmake config: `-DLWS_WITH_FTS=1 -DLWS_WITH_LWSAC=1` |
| |
| - NEW: gzip + brotli http server-side compression - h1 and h2 automatic advertising |
| of server compression and application to files with mimetypes "text/*", |
| "application/javascript" and "image/svg.xml". |
| Cmake config: `-DLWS_WITH_HTTP_STREAM_COMPRESSION=1`, `-DLWS_WITH_HTTP_BROTLI=1` |
| |
| - NEW: managed disk cache - API for managing a directory containing cached files |
| with hashed names, and automatic deletion of LRU files once the cache is |
| above a given limit. |
| [lws diskcache docs](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/include/libwebsockets/lws-diskcache.h) |
| Cmake config: `-DLWS_WITH_DISKCACHE=1` |
| |
| - NEW: http reverse proxy - lws mounts support proxying h1 or h2 requests to |
| a local or remote IP, or unix domain socket over h1. This allows microservice |
| type architectures where parts of the common URL space are actually handled |
| by external processes which may be remote or on the same machine. |
| [lws gitohashi serving](https://libwebsockets.org/git/) is handled this way. |
| CMake config: `-DLWS_WITH_HTTP_PROXY=1` |
| |
| - NEW: lws_buflist - internally several types of ad-hoc malloc'd buffer have |
| been replaced by a new, exported api `struct lws_buflist`. This allows |
| multiple buffers to be chained and drawn down in strict FIFO order. |
| |
| - NEW: In the case of h1 upgrade, the connection header is checked to contain |
| "upgrade". The vhost flag LWS_SERVER_OPTION_VHOST_UPG_STRICT_HOST_CHECK |
| also causes the Host: header to be confirmed to match the vhost name and |
| listen port. |
| |
| - NEW: If no 404 redirect for `lws_return_http_status()` is specified for the vhost, |
| the status page produced will try to bring in a stylesheet `/error.css`. This allows |
| you to produce styled 404 or other error pages with logos, graphics etc. See |
| https://libwebsockets.org/git/badrepo for an example of what you can do with it. |
| |
| v3.0.0 |
| ====== |
| |
| - CHANGE: Clients used to call LWS_CALLBACK_CLOSED same as servers... |
| LWS_CALLBACK_CLIENT_CLOSED has been introduced and is called for clients |
| now. |
| |
| - CHANGE: LWS_CALLBACK_CLIENT_CONNECTION_ERROR used to only be directed at |
| protocols[0]. However in many cases, the protocol to bind to was provided |
| at client connection info time and the wsi bound accordingly. In those |
| cases, CONNECTION_ERROR is directed at the bound protocol, not protcols[0] |
| any more. |
| |
| - CHANGE: CMAKE: the following cmake defaults have changed with this version: |
| |
| - LWS_WITH_ZIP_FOPS: now defaults OFF |
| - LWS_WITH_RANGES: now defaults OFF |
| - LWS_WITH_ZLIB: now defaults OFF |
| - LWS_WITHOUT_EXTENSIONS: now defaults ON |
| |
| - CHANGE: REMOVED: lws_alloc_vfs_file() (read a file to malloc buffer) |
| |
| - CHANGE: REMOVED: lws_read() (no longer useful outside of lws internals) |
| |
| - CHANGE: REMOVED: ESP8266... ESP32 is now within the same price range and much |
| more performant |
| |
| - CHANGE: soname bump... don't forget to `ldconfig` |
| |
| - NEW: all event libraries support "foreign" loop integration where lws itself |
| if just a temporary user of the loop unrelated to the actual loop lifecycle. |
| |
| See `minimal-http-server-eventlib-foreign` for example code demonstrating |
| this for all the event libraries. |
| |
| Internal loop in lws is also supported and demonstrated by |
| `minimal-http-server-eventlib`. |
| |
| - NEW: ws-over-h2 support. This is a new RFC-on-the-way supported by Chrome |
| and shortly firefox that allows ws connections to be multiplexed back to the |
| server on the same tcp + tls wrapper h2 connection that the html and scripts |
| came in on. This is hugely faster that discrete connections. |
| |
| - NEW: UDP socket adoption and related event callbacks |
| |
| - NEW: Multi-client connection binding, queuing and pipelining support. |
| |
| Lws detects multiple client connections to the same server and port, and |
| optimizes how it handles them according to the server type and provided |
| flags. For http/1.0, all occur with individual parallel connections. For |
| http/1.1, you can enable keepalive pipelining, so the connections occur |
| sequentially on a single network connection. For http/2, they all occur |
| as parallel streams within a single h2 network connection. |
| |
| See minimal-http-client-multi for example code. |
| |
| - NEW: High resolution timer API for wsi, get a callback on your wsi with |
| LWS_CALLBACK_TIMER, set and reset the timer with lws_set_timer_usecs(wsi, us) |
| Actual resolution depends on event backend. Works with all backends, poll, |
| libuv, libevent, and libev. |
| |
| - NEW: Protocols can arrange vhost-protocol instance specific callbacks with |
| second resolution using `lws_timed_callback_vh_protocol()` |
| |
| - NEW: ACME client plugin for self-service TLS certificates |
| |
| - NEW: RFC7517 JSON Web Keys RFC7638 JWK thumbprint, and RFC7515 JSON Web |
| signatures support |
| |
| - NEW: lws_cancel_service() now provides a generic way to synchronize events |
| from other threads, which appear as a LWS_CALLBACK_EVENT_WAIT_CANCELLED |
| callback on all protocols. This is compatible with all the event libraries. |
| |
| - NEW: support BSD poll() where changes to the poll wait while waiting are |
| undone. |
| |
| - NEW: Introduce generic hash, hmac and RSA apis that operate the same |
| regardless of OpenSSL or mbedTLS tls backend |
| |
| - NEW: Introduce X509 element query api that works the same regardless of |
| OpenSSL or mbedTLS tls backend |
| |
| - NEW: Introduce over 30 "minimal examples" in ./minimal-examples... these |
| replace most of the old test servers |
| |
| - test-echo -> minimal-ws-server-echo and minimal-ws-client-echo |
| |
| - test-server-libuv / -libevent / -libev -> |
| minimal-https-server-eventlib / -eventlib-foreign / -eventlib-demos |
| |
| - test-server-v2.0 -> folded into all the minimal servers |
| |
| - test-server direct http serving -> minimal-http-server-dynamic |
| |
| The minimal examples allow individual standalone build using their own |
| small CMakeLists.txt. |
| |
| - NEW: lws now detects any back-to-back writes that did not go through the |
| event loop inbetween and reports them. This will flag any possibility of |
| failure rather than wait until the problem happens. |
| |
| - NEW: CMake has LWS_WITH_DISTRO_RECOMMENDED to select features that are |
| appropriate for distros |
| |
| - NEW: Optional vhost URL `error_document_404` if given causes a redirect there |
| instead of serve the default 404 page. |
| |
| - NEW: lws_strncpy() wrapper guarantees NUL in copied string even if it was |
| truncated to fit. |
| |
| - NEW: for client connections, local protocol binding name can be separated |
| from the ws subprotocol name if needed, using .local_protocol_name |
| |
| - NEW: Automatic detection of time discontiguities |
| |
| - NEW: Applies TCP_USER_TIMEOUT for Linux tcp keepalive where available |
| |
| - QA: 1600 tests run on each commit in Travis CI, including almost all |
| Autobahn in client and server mode, various h2load tests, h2spec, attack.sh |
| the minimal example selftests and others. |
| |
| - QA: fix small warnings introduced on gcc8.x (eg, Fedora 28) |
| |
| - QA: Add most of -Wextra on gcc (-Wsign-compare, -Wignored-qualifiers, |
| -Wtype-limits, -Wuninitialized) |
| |
| - QA: clean out warnings on windows |
| |
| - QA: pass all 146 h2spec tests now on strict |
| |
| - QA: introduce 35 selftests that operate different minimal examples against |
| each other and confirm the results. |
| |
| - QA: LWS_WITH_MINIMAL_EXAMPLES allows mass build of all relevant minimal- |
| examples with the LWS build, for CI and to make all the example binaries |
| available from the lws build dir ./bin |
| |
| - REFACTOR: the lws source directory layout in ./lib has been radically |
| improved, and there are now README.md files in selected subdirs with extra |
| documentation of interest to people working on lws itself. |
| |
| - REFACTOR: pipelined transactions return to the event loop before starting the |
| next part. |
| |
| - REFACTOR: TLS: replace all TLS library constants with generic LWS ones and |
| adapt all the TLS library code to translate to these common ones. |
| |
| Isolated all the tls-related private stuff in `./lib/tls/private.h`, and all |
| the mbedTLS stuff in `./lib/tls/mbedtls` + openSSL stuff in |
| `./lib/tls/openssl` |
| |
| - REFACTOR: the various kinds of wsi possible with lws have been extracted |
| from the main code and isolated into "roles" in `./lib/roles` which |
| communicate with the core code via an ops struct. Everything related to |
| ah is migrated to the http role. |
| |
| wsi modes are eliminated and replaced by the ops pointer for the role the |
| wsi is performing. Generic states for wsi are available to control the |
| lifecycle using core code. |
| |
| Adding new "roles" is now much easier with the changes and ops struct to |
| plug into. |
| |
| - REFACTOR: reduce four different kinds of buffer management in lws into a |
| generic scatter-gather struct lws_buflist. |
| |
| - REFACTOR: close notifications go through event loop |
| |
| |
| v2.4.0 |
| ====== |
| |
| - HTTP/2 server support is now mature and usable! LWS_WITH_HTTP2=1 enables it. |
| Uses ALPN to serve HTTP/2, HTTP/1 and ws[s] connections all from the same |
| listen port seamlessly. (Requires ALPN-capable OpenSSL 1.1 or mbedTLS). |
| |
| - LWS_WITH_MBEDTLS=1 at CMake now builds and works against mbedTLS instead of |
| OpenSSL. Most things work identically, although on common targets where |
| OpenSSL has acceleration, mbedTLS is many times slower in operation. However |
| it is a lot smaller codewise. |
| |
| - Generic hash apis introduced that work the same on mbedTLS or OpenSSL backend |
| |
| - LWS_WITH_PEER_LIMITS tracks IPs across all vhosts and allows restrictions on |
| both the number of simultaneous connections and wsi in use for any single IP |
| |
| - lws_ring apis provide a generic single- or multi-tail ringbuffer... mirror |
| protocol now uses this. Features include ring elements may be sized to fit |
| structs in the ringbuffer, callback when no tail any longer needs an element |
| and it can be deleted, and zerocopy options to write new members directly |
| into the ringbuffer, and use the ringbuffer element by address too. |
| |
| - abstract ssh 2 server plugin included, with both plugin and standalone |
| demos provided. You can bind the plugin to a vhost and also serve full- |
| strength ssh from the vhost. IO from the ssh server is controlled by an |
| "ops" struct of callbacks for tx, rx, auth etc. |
| |
| - Many fixes, cleanups, source refactors and other improvements. |
| |
| |
| v2.3.0 |
| ====== |
| |
| - ESP32 OpenSSL support for client and server |
| |
| - ESP32 4 x WLAN credential slots may be configured |
| |
| - Libevent event loop support |
| |
| - SOCKS5 proxy support |
| |
| - lws_meta protocol for websocket connection multiplexing |
| |
| - lws_vhost_destroy() added... allows dynamic removal of listening |
| vhosts. Vhosts with shared listen sockets adopt the listen socket |
| automatically if the owner is destroyed. |
| |
| - IPv6 on Windows |
| |
| - Improved CGI handling suitable for general CGI scripting, eg, PHP |
| |
| - Convert even the "old style" test servers to use statically included |
| plugin sources |
| |
| - LWS_WITH_STATS cmake option dumps resource usage and timing information |
| every few seconds to debug log, including latency information about |
| delay from asking for writeable callback to getting it |
| |
| - Large (> 2GB) files may be served |
| |
| - LWS_WITH_HTTP_PROXY Cmake option adds proxying mounts |
| |
| - Workaround for libev build by disabling -Werror on the test app |
| |
| - HTTP2 support disabled since no way to serve websockets on it |
| |
| |
| v2.2.0 |
| ====== |
| |
| Major new features |
| |
| - A mount can be protected by Basic Auth... in lwsws it looks like this |
| |
| ``` |
| { |
| "mountpoint": "/basic-auth", |
| "origin": "file://_lws_ddir_/libwebsockets-test-server/private", |
| "basic-auth": "/var/www/balogins-private" |
| } |
| ``` |
| |
| The text file named in `basic-auth` contains user:password information |
| one per line. |
| |
| See README.lwsws.md for more information. |
| |
| - RFC7233 RANGES support in lws server... both single and multipart. |
| This allows seeking for multimedia file serving and download resume. |
| It's enabled by default but can be disabled by CMake option. |
| |
| - On Linux, lwsws can reload configuration without dropping ongoing |
| connections, when sent a SIGHUP. The old configuration drops its |
| listen sockets so the new configuration can listen on them. |
| New connections connect to the server instance with the new |
| configuration. When all old connections eventually close, the old |
| instance automatically exits. This is equivalent to |
| `systemctl reload apache` |
| |
| - New `adopt` api allow adoption including SSL negotiation and |
| for raw sockets and file descriptors. |
| |
| - Chunked transfer encoding supported for client and server |
| |
| - Adaptations to allow operations inside OPTEE Secure World |
| |
| - ESP32 initial port - able to do all test server functions. See |
| README.build.md |
| |
| - Serving gzipped files from inside a ZIP file is supported... this |
| includes directly serving the gzipped content if the client |
| indicated it could accept it (ie, almost all browsers) saving |
| bandwidth and time. For clients that can't accept it, lws |
| automatically decompresses and serves the content in memory- |
| efficient chunks. Only a few hundred bytes of heap are needed |
| to serve any size file from inside the zip. See README.coding.md |
| |
| - RAW file descriptors may now be adopted into the lws event loop, |
| independent of event backend (including poll service). |
| See README.coding.md |
| |
| - RAW server socket descriptors may now be enabled on the vhost if |
| the first thing sent on the connection is not a valid http method. |
| The user code can associate these with a specific protocol per |
| vhost, and RAW-specific callbacks appear there for creation, rx, |
| writable and close. See libwebsockets-test-server-v2.0 for an example. |
| See README.coding.md |
| |
| - RAW client connections are now possible using the method "RAW". |
| After connection, the socket is associated to the protocol |
| named in the client connection info and RAW-specific callbacks |
| appear there for creation, rx, writable and close. |
| See libwebsockets-test-client (with raw://) for an example. |
| See README.coding.md |
| |
| |
| (for earlier changelogs, see the tagged releases) |