Release 6.0.3

• Add and option to specify the spawn dir during startup, which is specifically useful for CageFS users. Contributed by @plmnikulin. Closes GH-2145.

  • Apache: PassengerSpawnDir
  • Nginx: passenger_spawn_dir

• [Nginx] Bumps the preferred Nginx version to 1.17.3 (previously 1.15.8).

• [Nginx] The preferred PCRE version is now 8.43 (previously 8.42).

• Adds Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco" packages, and removes Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic" and Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" packages.

• Changes minimum supported macOS version to 10.12 Sierra.

• Improves container detection and fixes a compilation warning in GCC 8+. Closes GH-2186.

• Allowed externally specifying an app instance to send a request to. Contributed by Mark R. James (@mrj).

• Fixed an incompatibility with sending requests to specific app instances, when using the rails web-console gem. Contributed by Mark R. James (@mrj).

• Fixed a regression (introduced in 5.1.9) where some hooks were not called. Closes GH-2103. Contributed by Mark R. James (@mrj).

• Fixes compilation with clang 8 (latest macOS update) by updating vendored boost library from 1.67 to 1.69.

• Reverts a regression intruduced in 6.0.2 where Passenger would crash if it had to use the disk backed response cache. Closes GH-2189.

• [Nginx] Adds an option passenger_buffer_upload to allow buffering uploaded data in Passenger before forwarding it to the app. As a workaround for apps that cannot handle chunked data.

• [Enterprise] When using deferred port binding, no longer binds port if all apps do not start up.

• Updated various library versions used in precompiled binaries (used for e.g. gem installs):

  • PCRE 8.43 (was 8.42)
  • Curl 7.65.1 (was 7.64.0)
  • ccache 3.7.3 (was 3.6)
  • Git 2.22.0 (was 2.20.1)
  • OpenSSL 1.0.2s (was 1.0.2q)
  • RubyGems 3.0.6 (was 3.0.2)
  • GnuPG 2.2.16 (was 2.2.13)
  • libgcrypt 1.8.5 (was 1.8.4)
  • libgpg_error 1.36 (was 1.35)
  • libiconv 1.16 (was 1.15)
  • Ruby:
    • 2.4.5 -> 2.4.6
    • 2.5.3 -> 2.5.5
    • 2.6.1 -> 2.6.3

Release 6.0.2

• Allow compilation to work when Apple messed up their system ruby headers.

• Only try to read pid 1's /proc files as root, in container detection. Closes GH-2168.

• Add an option to disable prefixing application logs with "App PID stdout": PassengerDisableLogPrefix (Apache) / passenger_disable_log_prefix (Nginx). Closes GH-1915.

• Add support for identifying the Passenger instance by PID. Closes GH-2146. Contributed by Saverio Miroddi (@saveriomiroddi).

• [Ruby] Made Passenger more resiliant to Rack bugs. Closes GH-2150.

• [Nginx] Do not touch Nginx's proxy_temp_path var in Passenger's nginx modules. Closes GH-2075. Contributed by Roman Berestnikov-Sivolov (@ROMB).

• Updated Ruby versions used in precompiled binaries (used for e.g. gem installs) to include 2.6.1.

• Updated various library versions used in precompiled binaries (used for e.g. gem installs):

  • Curl: 7.64.0 (was: 7.63.0)
  • Ruby: 2.6.1 (was: 2.6.0)
  • RubyGems 3.0.2 (was: 3.0.1)
  • ccache 3.6 (was: 3.5)
  • GnuPG 2.2.13 (was: 2.2.12)
  • libassuan 2.5.3 (was: 2.5.2)
  • libgpg_error 1.35 (was: 1.33)

Release 6.0.1

• Adds Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic" packages.

• Skips trying to set oom score in LXC container environments. Closes GH-2143.

• Fixes an issue during the GLS startup handshake where ephemeral ports could be exhausted. Closes GH-2144.

• Updated Ruby versions used in precompiled binaries (used for e.g. gem installs) to include 2.5.3, and 2.4.5 (removed: 2.4.4).

• Bumps the preferred Nginx version to 1.15.8.

• Updated various library versions used in precompiled binaries (used for e.g. gem installs):

  • Curl: 7.62.0 -> 7.63.0
  • Git: 2.19.2 -> 2.20.1
  • Gnupg: 2.2.11 -> 2.2.12
  • libassuan: 2.5.1 -> 2.5.2
  • libgpg_error: 1.32 -> 1.33
  • Ruby: 2.4.4 -> 2.4.5, + 2.5.3
  • RubyGems: 2.7.6 -> 3.0.1

Release 6.0.0

• Introduces support for all programming languages. Yes that's right... Java, Elixir, Go — Passenger now supports them all! This effort is called "generic language support".

• Bumps the preferred Nginx version to 1.15.7.

• Introduces anonymous usage telemetry, which helps us improve Passenger. Please read the docs on what data is collected and how to disable this.

• [Nginx] Introduces a new option "passenger_request_buffering on|off", to allow disabling request body buffering. This is only supported in Nginx >= 1.15.3. Closes GH-2121.

• Updated various library versions used in precompiled binaries (used for e.g. gem installs):

  • OpenSSL: 1.0.2q (was: 1.0.2p)
  • libcurl: 7.62.0 (was: 7.61.1)
  • Ruby: 2.3.8 (was: 2.3.7)

Release 5.3.7

• Fixes package installation issues on Ubuntu 18.04. These issues were caused by an update released by Ubuntu on the nginx-common package. Closes GH-2122, GH-2140.
• Fixes compilation problems and warnings with GCC 8.2. Tested on Alpine Linux edge 2018-11-05. Closes GH-2139.
• Fixes compatibility with libcurl 7.62.0. Contributed by Po-Chuan Hsieh (@sunpoet).
• Changes minimum supported macOS version to 10.11 El Capitan.
• Removes packages for Ubuntu 17.10 Artful.

Release 5.3.6

• Fixes smart spawning. A regression in 5.3.5 (due to a refactoring) made it so that Passenger only used the direct spawning method. This issue was mostly noticeable in the form of increased process spawning times between 5.3.4 and 5.3.5.
• Fixes Passenger Core and application processes staying on the Watchdog's OOM score (unkillable). Closes GH-2105.
• Fixes "mach_vm_map failed" warnings on macOS >= High Sierra. These warnings were harmless, but annoying. Closes GH-2101.
• Fixes passenger-config compile-agent compilation with optimizations. The optimization flags were not properly passed to the compiler.
• Fixes a crash that could occur when HTTP clients send a chunked transfer-encoding body containing a chunk larger than 429496729 bytes.
• Improves detection of the system Apache's include headers on macOS High Sierra and later.
• Fixes RVM gemset detection on RVM 1.29.
• No longer supplies precompiled Ruby extensions for Ruby 1.9.3 and 2.0.0. When running Ruby 1.9.3 and 2.0.0, Passenger will attempt to compile from source instead.

Release 5.3.5

• Fixes Ubuntu 18.04 package installation problems due to Nginx version mismatch. Closes GH-2122.

• Improves usability of crash reports. Crash reports are no longer dumped in one big chunk to stderr. Instead, they are now dumped into multiple files, making it easy to inspect relevant reports.

• Fixes some crashes that only occur with log level 7.

• Downloads binaries from the newly-introduced Github mirror. This improves the reliability of binary downloads.

• Updated various library versions used in precompiled binaries (used for e.g. gem installs):

  • OpenSSL: 1.0.2p (was: 1.0.2o)
  • libcurl: 7.61.1 (was: 7.60.0)

Version 5.3.4

• Fixes a crash during startup on FreeBSD 11.2 and recent OpenBSD versions due to C++11 compatibility issues in the code. Closes GH-2097.
• Updates Boost to version 1.67.0.
• [Apache] Fixes the handling of HTTP requests with chunked bodies in combination with PassengerBufferUploads off. Closes GH-2102.