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3
Andy Greeneda102e2018-12-13 20:05:12 +08004 - CHANGE: REMOVED: LWS_WITH_GENRSA, LWS_WITH_GENHASH, LWS_WITH_GENEC,
5 LWS_WITH_GENAES have all been removed and combined into LWS_WITH_GENCRYPTO
6
7 - CHANGE: REMOVED: LWS_WITH_JWS, LWS_WITH_JWE have been removed and combined
8 into LWS_WITH_JOSE
9
Andy Greenac032542018-11-16 09:10:41 +080010v3.1.0
11======
12
Andy Green502130d2018-05-10 16:13:26 +080013 - CHANGE: REMOVED: lws_client_connect() and lws_client_connect_extended()
14 compatibility apis for lws_client_connect_via_info() have been marked as
15 deprecated for several versions and are now removed. Use
Andy Greenac032542018-11-16 09:10:41 +080016 lws_client_connect_via_info() directly instead.
Andy Green502130d2018-05-10 16:13:26 +080017
Andy Greenac032542018-11-16 09:10:41 +080018 - CHANGE: CMAKE:
19 - LWS_WITH_HTTP2: now defaults ON
20
Andy Greend9f982a2018-11-19 07:40:47 +080021 - CHANGE: Minimal examples updated to use Content Security Policy best
22 practices, using
23 `LWS_SERVER_OPTION_HTTP_HEADERS_SECURITY_BEST_PRACTICES_ENFORCE` vhost
Andy Green9bed6d62018-11-23 08:47:56 +080024 option flag and disabling of inline style and scripts. A side-effect of
25 this is that buffers used to marshal headers have to be prepared to take
26 more content than previously... LWS_RECOMMENDED_MIN_HEADER_SPACE (2048
27 currently) is available for user (and internal) use to logically tie the
28 buffer size to this usecase (and follow future increases).
Andy Greend9f982a2018-11-19 07:40:47 +080029
Andy Greenac032542018-11-16 09:10:41 +080030 - NEW: CMAKE
31 - LWS_FOR_GITOHASHI: sets various cmake options suitable for gitohashi
32 - LWS_WITH_ASAN: for Linux, enable build with ASAN
33
34 Don't forget LWS_WITH_DISTRO_RECOMMENDED, which enables a wide range of lws
35 options suitable for a distro build of the library.
36
37 - NEW: lws threadpool - lightweight pool of pthreads integrated to lws wsi, with
38 all synchronization to event loop handled internally, queue for excess tasks
39 [threadpool docs](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/lib/misc/threadpool)
40 [threadpool minimal example](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/minimal-examples/ws-server/minimal-ws-server-threadpool)
41 Cmake config: `-DLWS_WITH_THREADPOOL=1`
42
43 - NEW: libdbus support integrated on lws event loop
44 [lws dbus docs](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/lib/roles/dbus)
45 [lws dbus client minimal examples](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/minimal-examples/dbus-client)
46 [lws dbus server minimal examples](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/minimal-examples/dbus-server)
47 Cmake config: `-DLWS_ROLE_DBUS=1`
48
49 - NEW: lws allocated chunks (lwsac) - helpers for optimized mass allocation of small
50 objects inside a few larger malloc chunks... if you need to allocate a lot of
51 inter-related structs for a limited time, this removes per-struct allocation
52 library overhead completely and removes the need for any destruction handling
53 [lwsac docs](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/lib/misc/lwsac)
54 [lwsac minimal example](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/minimal-examples/api-tests/api-test-lwsac)
55 Cmake Config: `-DLWS_WITH_LWSAC=1`
56
57 - NEW: lws tokenizer - helper api for robustly tokenizing your own strings without
58 allocating or adding complexity. Configurable by flags for common delimiter
59 sets and comma-separated-lists in the tokenizer. Detects and reports syntax
60 errors.
61 [lws_tokenize docs](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/include/libwebsockets/lws-tokenize.h)
62 [lws_tokenize minimal example / api test](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/minimal-examples/api-tests/api-test-lws_tokenize)
63
64 - NEW: lws full-text search - optimized trie generation, serialization,
65 autocomplete suggestion generation and instant global search support extensible
66 to huge corpuses of UTF-8 text while remaining super lightweight on resources.
67 [full-text search docs](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/lib/misc/fts)
68 [full-text search minimal example / api test](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/minimal-examples/api-tests/api-test-fts)
69 [demo](https://libwebsockets.org/ftsdemo/)
70 [demo sources](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/plugins/protocol_fulltext_demo.c)
71 Cmake config: `-DLWS_WITH_FTS=1 -DLWS_WITH_LWSAC=1`
72
73 - NEW: gzip + brotli http server-side compression - h1 and h2 automatic advertising
74 of server compression and application to files with mimetypes "text/*",
75 "application/javascript" and "image/svg.xml".
76 Cmake config: `-DLWS_WITH_HTTP_STREAM_COMPRESSION=1`, `-DLWS_WITH_HTTP_BROTLI=1`
77
78 - NEW: managed disk cache - API for managing a directory containing cached files
79 with hashed names, and automatic deletion of LRU files once the cache is
80 above a given limit.
81 [lws diskcache docs](https://libwebsockets.org/git/libwebsockets/tree/include/libwebsockets/lws-diskcache.h)
82 Cmake config: `-DLWS_WITH_DISKCACHE=1`
83
84 - NEW: http reverse proxy - lws mounts support proxying h1 or h2 requests to
85 a local or remote IP, or unix domain socket over h1. This allows microservice
86 type architectures where parts of the common URL space are actually handled
87 by external processes which may be remote or on the same machine.
88 [lws gitohashi serving](https://libwebsockets.org/git/) is handled this way.
89 CMake config: `-DLWS_WITH_HTTP_PROXY=1`
90
91 - NEW: lws_buflist - internally several types of ad-hoc malloc'd buffer have
92 been replaced by a new, exported api `struct lws_buflist`. This allows
93 multiple buffers to be chained and drawn down in strict FIFO order.
94
95 - NEW: In the case of h1 upgrade, the connection header is checked to contain
96 "upgrade". The vhost flag LWS_SERVER_OPTION_VHOST_UPG_STRICT_HOST_CHECK
97 also causes the Host: header to be confirmed to match the vhost name and
98 listen port.
Andy Greenc027c3d2018-11-21 06:46:23 +080099
100 - NEW: If no 404 redirect for `lws_return_http_status()` is specified for the vhost,
101 the status page produced will try to bring in a stylesheet `/error.css`. This allows
102 you to produce styled 404 or other error pages with logos, graphics etc. See
103 https://libwebsockets.org/git/badrepo for an example of what you can do with it.
Andy Green502130d2018-05-10 16:13:26 +0800104
Andy Green1c08a962018-05-04 13:27:12 +0800105v3.0.0
106======
107
108 - CHANGE: Clients used to call LWS_CALLBACK_CLOSED same as servers...
109 LWS_CALLBACK_CLIENT_CLOSED has been introduced and is called for clients
110 now.
111
112 - CHANGE: LWS_CALLBACK_CLIENT_CONNECTION_ERROR used to only be directed at
113 protocols[0]. However in many cases, the protocol to bind to was provided
114 at client connection info time and the wsi bound accordingly. In those
115 cases, CONNECTION_ERROR is directed at the bound protocol, not protcols[0]
116 any more.
117
118 - CHANGE: CMAKE: the following cmake defaults have changed with this version:
119
120 - LWS_WITH_ZIP_FOPS: now defaults OFF
121 - LWS_WITH_RANGES: now defaults OFF
122 - LWS_WITH_ZLIB: now defaults OFF
123 - LWS_WITHOUT_EXTENSIONS: now defaults ON
124
125 - CHANGE: REMOVED: lws_alloc_vfs_file() (read a file to malloc buffer)
126
127 - CHANGE: REMOVED: lws_read() (no longer useful outside of lws internals)
128
129 - CHANGE: REMOVED: ESP8266... ESP32 is now within the same price range and much
130 more performant
131
132 - CHANGE: soname bump... don't forget to `ldconfig`
133
134 - NEW: all event libraries support "foreign" loop integration where lws itself
135 if just a temporary user of the loop unrelated to the actual loop lifecycle.
136
137 See `minimal-http-server-eventlib-foreign` for example code demonstrating
138 this for all the event libraries.
139
140 Internal loop in lws is also supported and demonstrated by
141 `minimal-http-server-eventlib`.
142
143 - NEW: ws-over-h2 support. This is a new RFC-on-the-way supported by Chrome
144 and shortly firefox that allows ws connections to be multiplexed back to the
145 server on the same tcp + tls wrapper h2 connection that the html and scripts
146 came in on. This is hugely faster that discrete connections.
147
148 - NEW: UDP socket adoption and related event callbacks
149
150 - NEW: Multi-client connection binding, queuing and pipelining support.
151
152 Lws detects multiple client connections to the same server and port, and
153 optimizes how it handles them according to the server type and provided
154 flags. For http/1.0, all occur with individual parallel connections. For
155 http/1.1, you can enable keepalive pipelining, so the connections occur
156 sequentially on a single network connection. For http/2, they all occur
157 as parallel streams within a single h2 network connection.
158
159 See minimal-http-client-multi for example code.
160
161 - NEW: High resolution timer API for wsi, get a callback on your wsi with
162 LWS_CALLBACK_TIMER, set and reset the timer with lws_set_timer_usecs(wsi, us)
163 Actual resolution depends on event backend. Works with all backends, poll,
164 libuv, libevent, and libev.
165
166 - NEW: Protocols can arrange vhost-protocol instance specific callbacks with
167 second resolution using `lws_timed_callback_vh_protocol()`
168
169 - NEW: ACME client plugin for self-service TLS certificates
170
171 - NEW: RFC7517 JSON Web Keys RFC7638 JWK thumbprint, and RFC7515 JSON Web
172 signatures support
173
174 - NEW: lws_cancel_service() now provides a generic way to synchronize events
175 from other threads, which appear as a LWS_CALLBACK_EVENT_WAIT_CANCELLED
176 callback on all protocols. This is compatible with all the event libraries.
177
178 - NEW: support BSD poll() where changes to the poll wait while waiting are
179 undone.
180
181 - NEW: Introduce generic hash, hmac and RSA apis that operate the same
182 regardless of OpenSSL or mbedTLS tls backend
183
184 - NEW: Introduce X509 element query api that works the same regardless of
185 OpenSSL or mbedTLS tls backend
186
187 - NEW: Introduce over 30 "minimal examples" in ./minimal-examples... these
188 replace most of the old test servers
189
190 - test-echo -> minimal-ws-server-echo and minimal-ws-client-echo
191
192 - test-server-libuv / -libevent / -libev ->
193 minimal-https-server-eventlib / -eventlib-foreign / -eventlib-demos
194
195 - test-server-v2.0 -> folded into all the minimal servers
196
197 - test-server direct http serving -> minimal-http-server-dynamic
198
199 The minimal examples allow individual standalone build using their own
200 small CMakeLists.txt.
201
202 - NEW: lws now detects any back-to-back writes that did not go through the
203 event loop inbetween and reports them. This will flag any possibility of
204 failure rather than wait until the problem happens.
205
206 - NEW: CMake has LWS_WITH_DISTRO_RECOMMENDED to select features that are
207 appropriate for distros
208
209 - NEW: Optional vhost URL `error_document_404` if given causes a redirect there
210 instead of serve the default 404 page.
211
212 - NEW: lws_strncpy() wrapper guarantees NUL in copied string even if it was
213 truncated to fit.
214
215 - NEW: for client connections, local protocol binding name can be separated
216 from the ws subprotocol name if needed, using .local_protocol_name
217
218 - NEW: Automatic detection of time discontiguities
219
220 - NEW: Applies TCP_USER_TIMEOUT for Linux tcp keepalive where available
221
222 - QA: 1600 tests run on each commit in Travis CI, including almost all
223 Autobahn in client and server mode, various h2load tests, h2spec, attack.sh
224 the minimal example selftests and others.
225
226 - QA: fix small warnings introduced on gcc8.x (eg, Fedora 28)
227
228 - QA: Add most of -Wextra on gcc (-Wsign-compare, -Wignored-qualifiers,
229 -Wtype-limits, -Wuninitialized)
230
231 - QA: clean out warnings on windows
232
233 - QA: pass all 146 h2spec tests now on strict
234
235 - QA: introduce 35 selftests that operate different minimal examples against
236 each other and confirm the results.
237
238 - QA: LWS_WITH_MINIMAL_EXAMPLES allows mass build of all relevant minimal-
239 examples with the LWS build, for CI and to make all the example binaries
240 available from the lws build dir ./bin
241
242 - REFACTOR: the lws source directory layout in ./lib has been radically
243 improved, and there are now README.md files in selected subdirs with extra
244 documentation of interest to people working on lws itself.
245
246 - REFACTOR: pipelined transactions return to the event loop before starting the
247 next part.
248
249 - REFACTOR: TLS: replace all TLS library constants with generic LWS ones and
250 adapt all the TLS library code to translate to these common ones.
251
252 Isolated all the tls-related private stuff in `./lib/tls/private.h`, and all
253 the mbedTLS stuff in `./lib/tls/mbedtls` + openSSL stuff in
254 `./lib/tls/openssl`
255
256 - REFACTOR: the various kinds of wsi possible with lws have been extracted
257 from the main code and isolated into "roles" in `./lib/roles` which
258 communicate with the core code via an ops struct. Everything related to
259 ah is migrated to the http role.
260
261 wsi modes are eliminated and replaced by the ops pointer for the role the
262 wsi is performing. Generic states for wsi are available to control the
263 lifecycle using core code.
264
265 Adding new "roles" is now much easier with the changes and ops struct to
266 plug into.
267
268 - REFACTOR: reduce four different kinds of buffer management in lws into a
269 generic scatter-gather struct lws_buflist.
270
271 - REFACTOR: close notifications go through event loop
272
273
Andy Greenfcf5b2c2017-10-16 20:09:58 +0800274v2.4.0
275======
276
277 - HTTP/2 server support is now mature and usable! LWS_WITH_HTTP2=1 enables it.
278 Uses ALPN to serve HTTP/2, HTTP/1 and ws[s] connections all from the same
279 listen port seamlessly. (Requires ALPN-capable OpenSSL 1.1 or mbedTLS).
280
281 - LWS_WITH_MBEDTLS=1 at CMake now builds and works against mbedTLS instead of
282 OpenSSL. Most things work identically, although on common targets where
283 OpenSSL has acceleration, mbedTLS is many times slower in operation. However
284 it is a lot smaller codewise.
285
286 - Generic hash apis introduced that work the same on mbedTLS or OpenSSL backend
287
288 - LWS_WITH_PEER_LIMITS tracks IPs across all vhosts and allows restrictions on
289 both the number of simultaneous connections and wsi in use for any single IP
290
291 - lws_ring apis provide a generic single- or multi-tail ringbuffer... mirror
292 protocol now uses this. Features include ring elements may be sized to fit
293 structs in the ringbuffer, callback when no tail any longer needs an element
294 and it can be deleted, and zerocopy options to write new members directly
295 into the ringbuffer, and use the ringbuffer element by address too.
296
297 - abstract ssh 2 server plugin included, with both plugin and standalone
298 demos provided. You can bind the plugin to a vhost and also serve full-
299 strength ssh from the vhost. IO from the ssh server is controlled by an
300 "ops" struct of callbacks for tx, rx, auth etc.
301
302 - Many fixes, cleanups, source refactors and other improvements.
303
304
Andy Greene6bd6292017-07-28 14:13:42 +0800305v2.3.0
306======
307
308 - ESP32 OpenSSL support for client and server
309
310 - ESP32 4 x WLAN credential slots may be configured
311
312 - Libevent event loop support
313
314 - SOCKS5 proxy support
315
316 - lws_meta protocol for websocket connection multiplexing
317
318 - lws_vhost_destroy() added... allows dynamic removal of listening
319 vhosts. Vhosts with shared listen sockets adopt the listen socket
320 automatically if the owner is destroyed.
321
322 - IPv6 on Windows
323
324 - Improved CGI handling suitable for general CGI scripting, eg, PHP
325
326 - Convert even the "old style" test servers to use statically included
327 plugin sources
328
329 - LWS_WITH_STATS cmake option dumps resource usage and timing information
330 every few seconds to debug log, including latency information about
331 delay from asking for writeable callback to getting it
332
333 - Large (> 2GB) files may be served
334
335 - LWS_WITH_HTTP_PROXY Cmake option adds proxying mounts
336
337 - Workaround for libev build by disabling -Werror on the test app
338
339 - HTTP2 support disabled since no way to serve websockets on it
340
341
Andy Green6be573f2017-03-06 15:35:45 +0800342v2.2.0
343======
344
345Major new features
346
347 - A mount can be protected by Basic Auth... in lwsws it looks like this
348
349 ```
350{
351 "mountpoint": "/basic-auth",
352 "origin": "file://_lws_ddir_/libwebsockets-test-server/private",
353 "basic-auth": "/var/www/balogins-private"
354}
355```
356
357The text file named in `basic-auth` contains user:password information
358one per line.
359
360See README.lwsws.md for more information.
361
362 - RFC7233 RANGES support in lws server... both single and multipart.
363 This allows seeking for multimedia file serving and download resume.
364 It's enabled by default but can be disabled by CMake option.
365
366 - On Linux, lwsws can reload configuration without dropping ongoing
367 connections, when sent a SIGHUP. The old configuration drops its
368 listen sockets so the new configuration can listen on them.
369 New connections connect to the server instance with the new
370 configuration. When all old connections eventually close, the old
371 instance automatically exits. This is equivalent to
372 `systemctl reload apache`
373
374 - New `adopt` api allow adoption including SSL negotiation and
375 for raw sockets and file descriptors.
376
377 - Chunked transfer encoding supported for client and server
378
379 - Adaptations to allow operations inside OPTEE Secure World
380
381 - ESP32 initial port - able to do all test server functions. See
382 README.build.md
383
384 - Serving gzipped files from inside a ZIP file is supported... this
385 includes directly serving the gzipped content if the client
386 indicated it could accept it (ie, almost all browsers) saving
387 bandwidth and time. For clients that can't accept it, lws
388 automatically decompresses and serves the content in memory-
389 efficient chunks. Only a few hundred bytes of heap are needed
390 to serve any size file from inside the zip. See README.coding.md
391
392 - RAW file descriptors may now be adopted into the lws event loop,
393 independent of event backend (including poll service).
394 See README.coding.md
395
396 - RAW server socket descriptors may now be enabled on the vhost if
397 the first thing sent on the connection is not a valid http method.
398 The user code can associate these with a specific protocol per
399 vhost, and RAW-specific callbacks appear there for creation, rx,
400 writable and close. See libwebsockets-test-server-v2.0 for an example.
401 See README.coding.md
402
403 - RAW client connections are now possible using the method "RAW".
404 After connection, the socket is associated to the protocol
405 named in the client connection info and RAW-specific callbacks
406 appear there for creation, rx, writable and close.
407 See libwebsockets-test-client (with raw://) for an example.
408 See README.coding.md
409
410
Andy Green73557502016-10-06 21:48:20 +0800411v2.1.0
412======
413
414Major new features
415
416 - Support POST arguments, including multipart and file attachment
417
418 - Move most of lwsws into lws, make the stub CC0
419
420 - Add loopback test plugin to confirm client ws / http coexistence
421
422 - Integrate lwsws testing on Appveyor (ie, windows)
423
424 - Introduce helpers for sql, urlencode and urldecode sanitation
425
426 - Introduce LWS_CALLBACK_HTTP_BIND_PROTOCOL / DROP_PROTOCOL that
427 are compatible with http:/1.1 pipelining and different plugins
428 owning different parts of the URL space
429
430 - lwsgs - Generic Sessions plugin supports serverside sessions,
431 cookies, hashed logins, forgot password etc
432
433 - Added APIs for sending email to SMTP servers
434
435 - Messageboard example plugin for lwsgs
436
437 - Automatic PING sending at fixed intervals and close if no response
438
439 - Change default header limit in ah to 4096 (from 1024)
440
441 - Add SNI matching for wildcards if no specific wildcard vhost name match
442
443 - Convert docs to Doxygen
444
445 - ESP8266 support ^^
446
Enno Boland7731a3e2016-05-05 22:08:41 +0200447Fixes
448-----
449
Andy Green73557502016-10-06 21:48:20 +0800450See git log v2.0.0..
Enno Boland7731a3e2016-05-05 22:08:41 +0200451
Andy Greenfb8be052016-05-12 19:39:29 +0800452
Enno Boland7731a3e2016-05-05 22:08:41 +0200453
Andy Green55006432016-05-05 09:40:18 +0800454v2.0.0
455======
456
457Summary
458-------
459
460 - There are only api additions, the api is compatible with v1.7.x. But
461 there is necessarily an soname bump to 8.
462
463 - If you are using lws client, you mainly need to be aware the option
464 LWS_SERVER_OPTION_DO_SSL_GLOBAL_INIT is needed at context-creation time
465 if you will use SSL.
466
467 - If you are using lws for serving, the above is also true but there are
468 many new features to simplify your code (and life). There is a
469 summany online here
470
471 https://libwebsockets.org/lws-2.0-new-features.html
472
473 but basically the keywords are vhosts, mounts and plugins. You can now
474 do the web serving part from lws without any user callback code at all.
475 See ./test-server/test-server-v2.0.c for an example, it has no user
476 code for ws either since it uses the protocol plugins... that one C file
477 is all that is needed to do the whole test server function.
478
479 You now have the option to use a small generic ws-capable webserver
480 "lwsws" and write your ws part as a plugin. That eliminates even
481 cut-and-pasting the test server code and offers more configurable
482 features like control over http cacheability in JSON.
483
484
Andy Green0c3cc2e2016-02-20 09:12:52 +0800485Fixes
486-----
487
Andy Green55006432016-05-05 09:40:18 +0800488These are already in 1.7.x series
489
Andy Green0c3cc2e2016-02-20 09:12:52 +08004901) MAJOR (Windows-only) fix assert firing
491
4922) MAJOR http:/1.1 connections handled by lws_return_http_status() did not
493get sent a content-length resulting in the link hanging until the peer closed
494it. attack.sh updated to add a test for this.
495
Andy Green26d42492016-02-24 12:40:21 +08004963) MINOR An error about hdr struct in _lws_ws_related is corrected, it's not
497known to affect anything until after it was fixed
498
Andy Green5c0bcf42016-02-24 21:27:46 +08004994) MINOR During the close shutdown wait state introduced at v1.7, if something
500requests callback on writeable for the socket it will busywait until the
501socket closes
502
Andy Greendbfbbb42016-02-24 20:58:19 +08005035) MAJOR Although the test server has done it for a few versions already, it
504is now required for the user code to explicitly call
505
506 if (lws_http_transaction_completed(wsi))
507 return -1;
508
509when it finishes replying to a transaction in http. Previously the library
510did it for you, but that disallowed large, long transfers with multiple
511trips around the event loop (and cgi...).
512
Andy Green4ba798d2016-02-25 21:50:49 +08005136) MAJOR connections on ah waiting list that closed did not get removed from
514the waiting list...
515
Andy Green83af28a2016-02-28 10:55:31 +08005167) MAJOR since we added the ability to hold an ah across http keepalive
517transactions where more headers had already arrived, we broke the ability
518to tell if more headers had arrived. Result was if the browser didn't
519close the keepalive, we retained ah for the lifetime of the keepalive,
520using up the pool.
521
Andy Green442e1c82016-02-29 10:10:42 +08005228) MAJOR windows-only-POLLHUP was not coming
523
Andy Green4f5ebec2016-03-09 23:13:31 +08005249) Client should not send ext hdr if no exts
Andy Greendbfbbb42016-02-24 20:58:19 +0800525
Andy Green0c3cc2e2016-02-20 09:12:52 +0800526Changes
527-------
528
5291) MINOR test-server gained some new switches
530
531 -C <file> use external SSL cert file
532 -K <file> use external SSL key file
533 -A <file> use external SSL CA cert file
534
535 -u <uid> set effective uid
536 -g <gid> set effective gid
537
538together you can use them like this to have the test-server work with the
539usual purchased SSL certs from an official CA.
540
541 --ssl -C your.crt -K your.key -A your.cer -u 99 -g 99
542
5432) MINOR the OpenSSL magic to setup ECDH cipher usage is implemented in the
544library, and the ciphers restricted to use ECDH only.
545Using this, the lws test server can score an A at SSLLABS test
546
5473) MINOR STS (SSL always) header is added to the test server if you use --ssl. With
548that, we score A+ at SSLLABS test
549
5504) MINOR daemonize function (disabled at cmake by default) is updated to work
551with systemd
552
5535) MINOR example systemd .service file now provided for test server
554(not installed by default)
555
Andy Green0ad1a6e2016-02-20 14:05:55 +08005566) test server html is updated with tabs and a new live server monitoring
557feature. Input sanitization added to the js.
558
Andy Green2d8d35a2016-02-29 14:19:16 +08005597) client connections attempted when no ah is free no longer fail, they are
560just deferred until an ah becomes available.
561
Andy Greena661ee52016-02-29 13:18:30 +08005628) The test client pays attention to if you give it an http:/ or https://
563protocol string to its argument in URL format. If so, it stays in http[s]
564client mode and doesn't upgrade to ws[s], allowing you to do generic http client
Andy Green5c8906e2016-03-13 16:44:19 +0800565operations. Receiving transfer-encoding: chunked is supported.
Andy Greena661ee52016-02-29 13:18:30 +0800566
Andy Green1e5a9ad2016-03-20 11:59:53 +08005679) If you enable -DLWS_WITH_HTTP_PROXY=1 at cmake, the test server has a
568new URI path http://localhost:7681/proxytest If you visit here, a client
569connection to http://example.com:80 is spawned, and the results piped on
570to your original connection.
571
57210) Also with LWS_WITH_HTTP_PROXY enabled at cmake, lws wants to link to an
573additional library, "libhubbub". This allows lws to do html rewriting on the
574fly, adjusting proxied urls in a lightweight and fast way.
Andy Greenfb5f33b2016-03-01 07:19:01 +0800575
Andy Greenc6fd3602016-03-23 09:22:11 +080057611) There's a new context creation flag LWS_SERVER_OPTION_DO_SSL_GLOBAL_INIT,
577this is included automatically if you give any other SSL-related option flag.
578If you give no SSL-related option flag, nor this one directly, then even
579though SSL support may be compiled in, it is never initialized nor used for the
580whole lifetime of the lws context.
581
582Conversely in order to prepare the context to use SSL, even though, eg, you
583are not listening on SSL but will use SSL client connections later, you must
584give this flag explicitly to make sure SSL is initialized.
585
Andy Green2d8d35a2016-02-29 14:19:16 +0800586
Andy Greend7fddad2016-02-18 20:36:55 +0800587User API additions
588------------------
589
Andy Green0c3cc2e2016-02-20 09:12:52 +08005901) MINOR APIBREAK There's a new member in struct lws_context_creation_info, ecdh_curve,
Andy Greend7fddad2016-02-18 20:36:55 +0800591which lets you set the name of the ECDH curve OpenSSL should use. By
592default (if you leave ecdh_curve NULL) it will use "prime256v1"
593
Andy Green51d9afa2016-02-24 11:05:56 +08005942) MINOR NEWAPI It was already possible to adopt a foreign socket that had not
595been read from using lws_adopt_socket() since v1.7. Now you can adopt a
596partially-used socket if you don't need SSL, by passing it what you read
597so it can drain that before reading from the socket.
598
599LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN struct lws *
600lws_adopt_socket_readbuf(struct lws_context *context, lws_sockfd_type accept_fd,
601 const char *readbuf, size_t len);
Andy Greend7fddad2016-02-18 20:36:55 +0800602
Andy Green6a8099b2016-02-21 21:25:48 +08006033) MINOR NEWAPI CGI type "network io" subprocess execution is now possible from
604a simple api.
605
606LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int
Andy Green1a138852016-03-20 11:55:25 +0800607lws_cgi(struct lws *wsi, char * const *exec_array, int script_uri_path_len,
608 int timeout_secs);
Andy Green6a8099b2016-02-21 21:25:48 +0800609
610LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int
611lws_cgi_kill(struct lws *wsi);
612
613To use it, you must first set the cmake option
614
615$ cmake .. -DLWS_WITH_CGI=1
616
617See test-server-http.c and test server path
618
619http://localhost:7681/cgitest
620
621stdin gets http body, you can test it with wget
622
623$ echo hello > hello.txt
624$ wget http://localhost:7681/cgitest --post-file=hello.txt -O- --quiet
625lwstest script
626read="hello"
627
Andy Green1a138852016-03-20 11:55:25 +0800628The test script returns text/html table showing /proc/meminfo. But the cgi
629support is complete enough to run cgit cgi.
630
Andy Greend61bed32016-02-25 15:01:55 +08006314) There is a helper api for forming logging timestamps
632
633LWS_VISIBLE int
634lwsl_timestamp(int level, char *p, int len)
635
636this generates this kind of timestamp for use as logging preamble
637
638lwsts[13116]: [2016/01/25 14:52:52:8386] NOTICE: Initial logging level 7
639
Andy Greena661ee52016-02-29 13:18:30 +08006405) struct lws_client_connect_info has a new member
641
642 const char *method
643
644If it's NULL, then everything happens as before, lws_client_connect_via_info()
645makes a ws or wss connection to the address given.
646
647If you set method to a valid http method like "GET", though, then this method
648is used and the connection remains in http[s], it's not upgraded to ws[s].
649
650So with this, you can perform http[s] client operations as well as ws[s] ones.
651
652There are 4 new related callbacks
653
654 LWS_CALLBACK_ESTABLISHED_CLIENT_HTTP = 44,
655 LWS_CALLBACK_CLOSED_CLIENT_HTTP = 45,
656 LWS_CALLBACK_RECEIVE_CLIENT_HTTP = 46,
657 LWS_CALLBACK_COMPLETED_CLIENT_HTTP = 47,
Andy Green6a8099b2016-02-21 21:25:48 +0800658
Andy Green494418a2016-03-02 09:17:22 +08006596) struct lws_client_connect_info has a new member
660
661 const char *parent_wsi
662
663if non-NULL, the client wsi is set to be a child of parent_wsi. This ensures
664if parent_wsi closes, then the client child is closed just before.
665
Andy Green0f9904f2016-03-17 15:26:49 +08006667) If you're using SSL, there's a new context creation-time option flag
667LWS_SERVER_OPTION_REDIRECT_HTTP_TO_HTTPS. If you give this, non-ssl
668connections to the server listen port are accepted and receive a 301
669redirect to / on the same host and port using https://
670
Andy Greenc5376b12016-04-08 09:45:49 +08006718) User code may set per-connection extension options now, using a new api
672"lws_set_extension_option()".
673
674This should be called from the ESTABLISHED callback like this
675
676 lws_set_extension_option(wsi, "permessage-deflate",
677 "rx_buf_size", "12"); /* 1 << 12 */
678
679If the extension is not active (missing or not negotiated for the
680connection, or extensions are disabled on the library) the call is
681just returns -1. Otherwise the connection's extension has its
682named option changed.
683
684The extension may decide to alter or disallow the change, in the
685example above permessage-deflate restricts the size of his rx
686output buffer also considering the protocol's rx_buf_size member.
687
688
Andy Greencd0c6962016-03-28 10:12:37 +0800689New application lwsws
690---------------------
691
692A libwebsockets-based general webserver is built by default now, lwsws.
693
694It's configured by JSON, by default in
695
696 /etc/lwsws/conf
697
698which contains global lws context settings like this
699
700{
701 "global": {
702 "uid": "99",
703 "gid": "99",
704 "interface": "eth0",
705 "count-threads": "1"
706 }
707}
708
709 /etc/lwsws/conf.d/*
710
711which contains zero or more files describing vhosts, like this
712
713{
714 "vhosts": [
715 { "name": "warmcat.com",
716 "port": "443",
717 "host-ssl-key": "/etc/pki/tls/private/warmcat.com.key",
718 "host-ssl-cert": "/etc/pki/tls/certs/warmcat.com.crt",
719 "host-ssl-ca": "/etc/pki/tls/certs/warmcat.com.cer",
720 "mounts": [
721 { "/": [
722 { "home": "file:///var/www/warmcat.com" },
723 { "default": "index.html" }
724 ]
725 }
726 ]
727 }
728 ]
729}
730
731
Andy Green0c3cc2e2016-02-20 09:12:52 +0800732
Andy Green9c60ed92016-02-16 12:32:18 +0800733v1.7.0
734======
735
Andy Green67112662016-01-11 11:34:01 +0800736Extension Changes
737-----------------
738
7391) There is now a "permessage-deflate" / RFC7692 implementation. It's very
740similar to "deflate-frame" we have offered for a long while; deflate-frame is
741now provided as an alias of permessage-deflate.
742
743The main differences are that the new permessage-deflate implementation:
744
745 - properly performs streaming respecting input and output buffer limits. The
746 old deflate-frame implementation could only work on complete deflate input
747 and produce complete inflate output for each frame. The new implementation
748 only mallocs buffers at initialization.
749
750 - goes around the event loop after each input package is processed allowing
751 interleaved output processing. The RX flow control api can be used to
752 force compressed input processing to match the rate of compressed output
753 processing (test--echo shows an example of how to do this).
754
755 - when being "deflate-frame" for compatibility he uses the same default zlib
756 settings as the old "deflate-frame", but instead of exponentially increasing
757 malloc allocations until the whole output will fit, he observes the default
758 input and output chunking buffer sizes of "permessage-deflate", that's
759 1024 in and 1024 out at a time.
760
7612) deflate-stream has been disabled for many versions (for over a year) and is
762now removed. Browsers are now standardizing on "permessage-deflate" / RFC7692
763
7643) struct lws_extension is simplified, and lws extensions now have a public
765api (their callback) for use in user code to compose extensions and options
766the user code wants. lws_get_internal_exts() is deprecated but kept around
767as a NOP. The changes allow one extension implementation to go by different
768names and allows the user client code to control option offers per-ext.
769
770The test client and server are updated to use the new way. If you use
771the old way it should still work, but extensions will be disabled until you
772update your code.
773
774Extensions are now responsible for allocating and per-instance private struct
775at instance construction time and freeing it when the instance is destroyed.
776Not needing to know the size means the extension's struct can be opaque
777to user code.
778
779
Andy Green3df58002015-12-25 12:44:12 +0800780User api additions
781------------------
782
Andy Green200a6a22016-02-15 20:36:02 +08007831) The info struct gained three new members
Andy Green3df58002015-12-25 12:44:12 +0800784
785 - max_http_header_data: 0 for default (1024) or set the maximum amount of known
786 http header payload that lws can deal with. Payload in unknown http
787 headers is dropped silently. If for some reason you need to send huge
788 cookies or other HTTP-level headers, you can now increase this at context-
789 creation time.
790
791 - max_http_header_pool: 0 for default (16) or set the maximum amount of http
792 headers that can be tracked by lws in this context. For the server, if
793 the header pool is completely in use then accepts on the listen socket
794 are disabled until one becomes free. For the client, if you simultaneously
795 have pending connects for more than this number of client connections,
796 additional connects will fail until some of the pending connections timeout
797 or complete.
798
Andy Green200a6a22016-02-15 20:36:02 +0800799 - timeout_secs: 0 for default (currently 20s), or set the library's
800 network activity timeout to the given number of seconds
801
Andy Green3df58002015-12-25 12:44:12 +0800802HTTP header processing in lws only exists until just after the first main
803callback after the HTTP handshake... for ws connections that is ESTABLISHED and
804for HTTP connections the HTTP callback.
805
806So these settings are not related to the maximum number of simultaneous
Andy Green3246ebb2015-12-26 12:03:06 +0800807connections, but the number of HTTP handshakes that may be expected or ongoing,
Andy Green3df58002015-12-25 12:44:12 +0800808or have just completed, at one time. The reason it's useful is it changes the
809memory allocation for header processing to be one-time at context creation
810instead of every time there is a new connection, and gives you control over
811the peak allocation.
812
813Setting max_http_header_pool to 1 is fine it will just queue incoming
814connections before the accept as necessary, you can still have as many
Andy Green5b85e392015-12-26 13:23:11 +0800815simultaneous post-header connections as you like. Since the http header
816processing is completed and the allocation released after ESTABLISHED or the
817HTTP callback, even with a pool of 1 many connections can be handled rapidly.
818
Andy Green066a7a12015-12-26 15:47:06 +08008192) There is a new callback that allows the user code to get acccess to the
820optional close code + aux data that may have been sent by the peer.
821
822LWS_CALLBACK_WS_PEER_INITIATED_CLOSE:
823 The peer has sent an unsolicited Close WS packet. @in and
824 @len are the optional close code (first 2 bytes, network
825 order) and the optional additional information which is not
826 defined in the standard, and may be a string or non-human-
827 readble data.
828 If you return 0 lws will echo the close and then close the
Andy Green67112662016-01-11 11:34:01 +0800829 connection. If you return nonzero lws will just close the
830 connection.
Andy Green066a7a12015-12-26 15:47:06 +0800831
832As usual not handling it does the right thing, if you're not interested in it
833just ignore it.
834
835The test server has "open and close" testing buttons at the bottom, if you
836open and close that connection, on close it will send a close code 3000 decimal
837and the string "Bye!" as the aux data.
838
839The test server dumb-increment callback handles this callback reason and prints
840
841lwsts[15714]: LWS_CALLBACK_WS_PEER_INITIATED_CLOSE: len 6
842lwsts[15714]: 0: 0x0B
843lwsts[15714]: 1: 0xB8
844lwsts[15714]: 2: 0x42
845lwsts[15714]: 3: 0x79
846lwsts[15714]: 4: 0x65
847lwsts[15714]: 5: 0x21
848
Andy Green1fb95e82015-12-26 17:20:34 +08008493) There is a new API to allow the user code to control the content of the
850close frame sent when about to return nonzero from the user callback to
851indicate the connection should close.
852
853/**
854 * lws_close_reason - Set reason and aux data to send with Close packet
855 * If you are going to return nonzero from the callback
856 * requesting the connection to close, you can optionally
857 * call this to set the reason the peer will be told if
858 * possible.
859 *
860 * @wsi: The websocket connection to set the close reason on
861 * @status: A valid close status from websocket standard
862 * @buf: NULL or buffer containing up to 124 bytes of auxiliary data
863 * @len: Length of data in @buf to send
864 */
865LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN void
866lws_close_reason(struct lws *wsi, enum lws_close_status status,
867 unsigned char *buf, size_t len);
868
869An extra button is added to the "open and close" test server page that requests
870that the test server close the connection from his end.
871
872The test server code will do so by
873
874 lws_close_reason(wsi, LWS_CLOSE_STATUS_GOINGAWAY,
875 (unsigned char *)"seeya", 5);
876 return -1;
877
878The browser shows the close code and reason he received
879
880websocket connection CLOSED, code: 1001, reason: seeya
881
Vijay Khurdiyae73d4462016-01-15 16:21:51 +08008824) There's a new context creation time option flag
Andy Green44a7f652015-12-29 11:20:09 +0800883
884LWS_SERVER_OPTION_VALIDATE_UTF8
885
886if you set it in info->options, then TEXT and CLOSE frames will get checked to
887confirm that they contain valid UTF-8. If they don't, the connection will get
888closed by lws.
889
Vijay Khurdiyae73d4462016-01-15 16:21:51 +08008905) ECDH Certs are now supported. Enable the CMake option
891
892cmake .. -DLWS_SSL_SERVER_WITH_ECDH_CERT=1
893
894**and** the info->options flag
895
Andy Greenff696482016-02-17 07:46:27 +0800896LWS_SERVER_OPTION_SSL_ECDH
Vijay Khurdiyae73d4462016-01-15 16:21:51 +0800897
898to build in support and select it at runtime.
899
Andy Greenff696482016-02-17 07:46:27 +08009006) There's a new api lws_parse_uri() that simplifies chopping up
Andy Green809d69a2016-01-14 11:37:56 +0800901https://xxx:yyy/zzz uris into parts nicely. The test client now uses this
Andy Greend3a55052016-01-19 03:34:24 +0800902to allow proper uris as well as the old address style.
903
9047) SMP support is integrated into LWS without any internal threading. It's
905very simple to use, libwebsockets-test-server-pthread shows how to do it,
906use -j <n> argument there to control the number of service threads up to 32.
907
908Two new members are added to the info struct
909
910 unsigned int count_threads;
911 unsigned int fd_limit_per_thread;
912
913leave them at the default 0 to get the normal singlethreaded service loop.
914
915Set count_threads to n to tell lws you will have n simultaneous service threads
916operating on the context.
917
918There is still a single listen socket on one port, no matter how many
919service threads.
920
921When a connection is made, it is accepted by the service thread with the least
922connections active to perform load balancing.
923
924The user code is responsible for spawning n threads running the service loop
925associated to a specific tsi (Thread Service Index, 0 .. n - 1). See
926the libwebsockets-test-server-pthread for how to do.
927
928If you leave fd_limit_per_thread at 0, then the process limit of fds is shared
929between the service threads; if you process was allowed 1024 fds overall then
930each thread is limited to 1024 / n.
931
932You can set fd_limit_per_thread to a nonzero number to control this manually, eg
933the overall supported fd limit is less than the process allowance.
934
935You can control the context basic data allocation for multithreading from Cmake
936using -DLWS_MAX_SMP=, if not given it's set to 32. The serv_buf allocation
937for the threads (currently 4096) is made at runtime only for active threads.
938
939Because lws will limit the requested number of actual threads supported
940according to LWS_MAX_SMP, there is an api lws_get_count_threads(context) to
941discover how many threads were actually allowed when the context was created.
942
943It's required to implement locking in the user code in the same way that
944libwebsockets-test-server-pthread does it, for the FD locking callbacks.
945
Andy Greenba119e92016-01-26 21:40:32 +0800946If LWS_MAX_SMP=1, then there is no code related to pthreads compiled in the
947library. If more than 1, a small amount of pthread mutex code is built into
948the library.
Andy Green809d69a2016-01-14 11:37:56 +0800949
Andy Greenba119e92016-01-26 21:40:32 +08009508) New API
951
952LWS_VISIBLE struct lws *
953lws_adopt_socket(struct lws_context *context, lws_sockfd_type accept_fd)
954
955allows foreign sockets accepted by non-lws code to be adopted by lws as if they
956had just been accepted by lws' own listen socket.
Andy Green3df58002015-12-25 12:44:12 +0800957
Danomi Czaski4e9c7f32016-01-28 09:40:53 +08009589) X-Real-IP: header has been added as WSI_TOKEN_HTTP_X_REAL_IP
959
Andy Green86ed65f2016-02-14 09:27:41 +080096010) Libuv support is added, there are new related user apis
961
962typedef void (lws_uv_signal_cb_t)(uv_loop_t *l, uv_signal_t *w, int revents);
963
964LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int
965lws_uv_sigint_cfg(struct lws_context *context, int use_uv_sigint,
966 lws_uv_signal_cb_t *cb);
967
968LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int
969lws_uv_initloop(struct lws_context *context, uv_loop_t *loop, int tsi);
970
971LWS_VISIBLE void
972lws_uv_sigint_cb(uv_loop_t *loop, uv_signal_t *watcher, int revents);
973
974and CMAKE option
975
976LWS_WITH_LIBUV
977
Danomi Czaski4e9c7f32016-01-28 09:40:53 +0800978
Andy Green3246ebb2015-12-26 12:03:06 +0800979User api changes
980----------------
981
9821) LWS_SEND_BUFFER_POST_PADDING is now 0 and deprecated. You can remove it; if
983you still use it, obviously it does nothing. Old binary code with nonzero
984LWS_SEND_BUFFER_POST_PADDING is perfectly compatible, the old code just
Andy Green5b85e392015-12-26 13:23:11 +0800985allocated a buffer bigger than the library is going to use.
Andy Green3246ebb2015-12-26 12:03:06 +0800986
Andy Green5b85e392015-12-26 13:23:11 +0800987The example apps no longer use LWS_SEND_BUFFER_POST_PADDING.
Andy Green3246ebb2015-12-26 12:03:06 +0800988
Andy Green4e2ac762015-12-26 20:26:11 +0800989The only path who made use of it was sending with LWS_WRITE_CLOSE --->
Andy Green3246ebb2015-12-26 12:03:06 +0800990
Andy Green1fb95e82015-12-26 17:20:34 +08009912) Because of lws_close_reason() formalizing handling close frames,
992LWS_WRITE_CLOSE is removed from libwebsockets.h. It was only of use to send
993close frames...close frame content should be managed using lws_close_reason()
994now.
995
Andy Green44a7f652015-12-29 11:20:09 +08009963) We check for invalid CLOSE codes and complain about protocol violation in
997our close code. But it changes little since we were in the middle of closing
998anyway.
999
10004) zero-length RX frames and zero length TX frames are now allowed.
1001
10025) Pings and close used to be limited to 124 bytes, the correct limit is 125
1003so that is now also allowed.
Andy Green3246ebb2015-12-26 12:03:06 +08001004
Steffen Vogelf9267172016-02-09 07:19:15 +010010056) LWS_PRE is provided as a synonym for LWS_SEND_BUFFER_PRE_PADDING, either is
Andy Green67112662016-01-11 11:34:01 +08001006valid to use now.
1007
10087) There's generic support for RFC7462 style extension options built into the
1009library now. As a consequence, a field "options" is added to lws_extension.
1010It can be NULL if there are no options on the extension. Extension internal
1011info is part of the public abi because extensions may be implemented outside
1012the library.
1013
Danomi Czaski4e9c7f32016-01-28 09:40:53 +080010148) WSI_TOKEN_PROXY enum was accidentally defined to collide with another token
1015of value 73. That's now corrected and WSI_TOKEN_PROXY moved to his own place at
101677.
1017
Andy Green86ed65f2016-02-14 09:27:41 +080010189) With the addition of libuv support, libev is not the only event loop
1019library in town and his api names must be elaborated with _ev_
1020
1021 Callback typedef: lws_signal_cb ---> lws_ev_signal_cb_t
1022 lws_sigint_cfg --> lws_ev_sigint_cfg
1023 lws_initloop --> lws_ev_initloop
1024 lws_sigint_cb --> lws_ev_sigint_cb
1025
102610) Libev support is made compatible with multithreaded service,
1027lws_ev_initloop (was lws_initloop) gets an extra argument for the
1028thread service index (use 0 if you will just have 1 service thread).
1029
1030LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int
Andy Greenff696482016-02-17 07:46:27 +08001031lws_ev_initloop(struct lws_context *context, ev_loop_t *loop, int tsi);
Andy Green86ed65f2016-02-14 09:27:41 +08001032
Andy Green3df58002015-12-25 12:44:12 +08001033
Andy Greenaef3dc42016-05-06 07:45:19 +08001034(for earlier changelogs, see the tagged releases)