News
As every Cherokee release goes by, our user base goes up and up. At the beggining, every new project has to slowly struggle to gain momentum until it finally reaches a critical mass and goes mainstream.
It seems those times are over for us. Cherokee's user base is in constant growth, the Community is stronger than ever, a lot of sites are buzzing about us and it doesn't look like our development speed will be getting slower any time soon. Ah, and release date for 0.99.25 is getting closer and closer.
Make sure to check it out as soon as it's out, because the new features will sure make your life easier. We promise!
We have come a long way since our previous stable release. Two new features have been implemented, at the same time that a number of minor bugs were fixed up. This release support Traffic Shaping and Video Streaming, both very demanded features for a modern web site. Give it a try while it is still hot!
At last. Huge step forward in the numbering version. We have come to realize that Cherokee has experienced huge stability, performance and feature leaps, and with 0.98 we intend to make it stick. Try it out and you will not be disapointed with the fastest web server there is.
After merging some small fixes from trunk to the stable branch, we've already reached 0.11.5. Here is the last announcement.
The winners of the Asus EeePC contest have been chosen! We've been a bit late, but we finally managed to double the prizes. Thanks to all the contributors. You've done an amazing job! Read the official anouncement.
This release addresses some issues from the stable branch. Here is the official note.
Murphy did it again. A last minute bug had to appear just after releasing 0.11. Luckily our community keeps getting bigger and these things can be swiftly detected and fixed.
Great news! The new Cherokee release is out in the wild. It ships a couple of new handlers: SSI support and, finally, a state of the art Reverse Proxy. It also fixes previous issues and comes with lots of new documentation. Try it out while it's still hot!
Great news everybody! Things are going well for the Cherokee Project Community. The latest arrival is Cherokee Polska. From the main branch, we sincerely welcome our Polish partners.
Bug fixing release for the stable branch. We detected a possible configuration bug just a couple of days after the release, and just to play it safe we decided to fix things in record time. Enjoy!
Release day! The Cherokee Community gets more active by the day and the number of requests for enhancements increases steadily. Another Cherokee release had to come to life to provide the features and service deserved by our users. Download it today!
Another quick-fix release. Some fixes from trunk have been backported.
A cache problem was reported for some cases, so 0.9.2 is being released to deal with that. Since this is a stability enhancement you are encouraged to upgrade.
Cherokee 0.9.1 is a bug fixing release. Upgrading is recommended for all the Cherokee 0.9 users.
The newest release is hitting the streets today! Cherokee 0.9.0 comes with yet another performance boost. Not only it's performing better than every previous release. It's performing better than the rest of direct competitors. We hope to make detailed benchmarks in the following days. Stay tuned!!!
We're organizing a contest to improve Cherokee. The best contribution will recieve an EeePC as prize, courtesy of one of our sponsors.
Check out the full anouncement in our mailing list archives for more details.
- To be eligible, the contribution must be accepted by the project.
- Your entry must be submitted to contest at cherokee-project.com by October 30th 23:59 PST.
- The winner will be announced on November 1st.
This release, 0.8.0 "Hard as a rock", ships a whole lot of important improvements; this is the best Cherokee web server version so far. The overall performance has been improved while a number of interesting features have been added:
Cherokee:
- Brand new I/O cache: much faster
- HUGE FastCGI performance improvement (PHP, for instance)
- Graceful restart (upgrade the server binary w/o downtime)
- Transfer-Encoding 'Chunked' support
- X-Sendfile support
- Deflate encoding support
- New GeoIP rule module
- Cherokee-guardian support one-time operations
- Added sendfile() support on OS X
- Added TCP_CORK support on OS X
- A number of tracing goodies have been added
- The server knows how to handle overload state
- Keep-alive management has been improved
- The nn handler has became an error handler
- 3xx replies can be Keep-Alive now
Documentation:
- Major documentation enhancement
- Added missing man pages
Administration interface:
- Show only available modules
- The SCGI internal communication port is dynamic
- Virtual Servers can be renamed and cloned
- Virtual Servers have an evaluation order now
- Configuration changes are send automatically
Thanks to our old and incompetent registar some moron stole our domain name, and hence, we have been forced to move to another one.
We knew that the previous domain name was kind of cryptic and hard to remember, so even if we've had to migrate everything (services, website, etc) in a quite precipitated way, I suppose that it might end up being something positive for the project in the short/medium term.
So, please welcome: http://www.cherokee-project.com :-)
A few days ago, I was interviewed for the Euskadi Digital station on the Cherokee project.
It is great to see how more are more people are interested in the project, big sites switching to Cherokee, the project community growing, and as in this case, non IT people learning about the project from the mass media.
The interview is available on-line, you can either download the MP3 file (6,5 Mb) or listen it right now:
.. ah, by the way, it is in Spanish.
Today, Yahoo.es news portal published an interview with me on Cherokee. It basically covers the Cherokee project targets as well as a few personal questions
The original version in Spanish is here, and this is an English translation.
Today, Tiscali's technology portal published an interview with me on Cherokee. It basically covers the Cherokee project targets as well as a few personal questions
The original version in Spanish is here, and this is an English translation.
Yesterday, I was interviewed for the Canal Sur Radio station on the Cherokee project.
I have to say, it is wonderful to see how the popularity of the project grows each day. It is great to see so many people switching to Cherokee.. after these years of work on the project that is the best possible reward! :-)
The interview is available on-line:
- Cana Sur Radio on Cherokee: MP3, about 2,2Mb (10min)
- The full program: "Aviso para Navegantes", Jan 10th 2006: MP3, 14Mb (60min)
.. ah, by the way, it is in Spanish.
EL PAIS (2006-01-06) on Cherokee!! :-)
The article is also on-line (in Spanish): "Un madrileño crea el servidor de 'web' libre Cherokee".
EL PAIS is the biggest non-free Spanish newspaper. I guess it is printing more than 2,000,000 newspapers per day.
I'm glad to announce that the Cherokee bounty hunting program is now ready and running.
This initiative provides a number of tasks we would like to get done in the future releases. Each task has an associated prize. If you implement any of them, you will earn the bounty. Isn't it a wonderful way to have fun and earn money at the same time?
This is an initiative we are going to keep running on the Cherokee project. As long as your contributions help to improve the project quality and its diffusion, we will try to pay you back!
I would like to thank DynDNS for supporting this initiative.
