Ferron change log

Ferron 1.0.0-beta1

Released in March 2, 2025

Fixed directory listings and some server error pages displaying HTML as plain text
Fixed handling of per-host URL rewriting and non-standard code configuration
Fixed wwwroot configuration property resulting in a redirect loop
Rebranded the web server from “Project Karpacz” to “Ferron”
The directory listings no longer show a return link for the website root directory
The entries in the directory listings are now sorted alphabetically

Released in February 26, 2025

Added automatic TLS through TLS-ALPN-01 ACME challenge
Changed the cryptography provider for Rustls from AWS-LC to ring
Fixed HTTPS server using address-port combinations intended for non-encrypted HTTP server
Fixed Unix socket URL parsing failures for scgi and fcgi modules

Released in February 24, 2025

Added a FastCGI module (fcgi)
Added a SCGI module (scgi)
Added support for Must-Staple marked TLS certificates
The CGI handler now trims CGI error messages
The CGI handler now sanitizes double slashes for checking if the request path is in the “cgi-bin” directory

Released in February 22, 2025

Added a CGI module (cgi)
Decreased the cache TTL for static file serving and trailing slash redirects from 1s to 100ms
Rewritten HTTP status code descriptions
The request handler now uses a Request<BoxBody<Bytes, hyper::Error>> object instead of Request<Incoming> object.

Released in February 20, 2025

Added a caching module (cache)
Added concurrency for the keep-alive connection pool in the rproxy module.
Added support for randomly-distributed load balancing in the rproxy module.
The web server no longer applies host configuration for forward proxy requests.
The web server now adds custom headers before executing response modifying handlers.

Released in February 18, 2025

Added a forward proxy module (fproxy)
Added CONNECT forward proxy request handler support
Added HTTP keep-alive support for reverse proxy module
Added support for HTTP upgrades
Added support for optional built-in modules
Fixed server hang-ups with reverse proxy with high concurrency
Modified parallel_fn function to accept async closures without needing to use Box::pin in the module itself
The error logger struct is now clonable
The reverse proxy module (rproxy) is now an optional reverse proxy module

Released in February 16, 2025

Added a reverse proxy module (rproxy)
Added builder_without_request method for ResponseData builder
Added ServerConfigurationRoot parameter for configuration validation functions
Fixed BadValues error when querying configuration by modules
Implemented parallel function execution (by spawning a Tokio task) in ResponseData
Improved server configuration processing performance
The web server now uses async-channel crate instead of Tokio’s MPSC channel
The web server now uses local_dynamic_tls feature of mimalloc crate to fix module loading issues

Released in February 13, 2025