UnCommon Web version 0.3.8 - "learning to climb up ice" Released 2005-05-03

This release: improves the documentation; adds a completely new back-end; adds multi-threading support to the mod_lisp back-end; provides a large number of bug fixes and minor improvements.

* Home page

http://common-lisp.net/project/ucw/

* Download

ftp://ftp.common-lisp.net/pub/project/ucw/ucw_0.3.8.tar.gz ftp://ftp.common-lisp.net/pub/project/ucw/ucw_0.3.8.tar.bz2

* Changes (since 0.3.7)

** System

- UCW will now attempt to load asdf system definitions manually if asdf:*central-registry* isn't properly configured. This should make it easier for lisp newbies to start with UCW.

- All the scripts and lisp files required for starting and stopping UCW are now in the bin directory. The unused file src/bin.lisp has been removed.

- The default log level has been turned down to avoid uninformative messages being constantly written to the console.

** RERL

- The Content-Type header is explicitly set in the standard-server's handle-request method.

- HTTP headers are now always passed as strings. Automatic keyword->string conversion has been eliminated.

** Components

- New REDIRECT component.

- New convenience macro initialize-container.

- *debug-on-error* and *inspect-components* are now exported from the UCW package.

** Back-ends

- All back-ends now use the ucw.backend logger, this is much simpler than having each backend have its own logger.

- The mod_lisp backend now supports parsing mime encoded POST data. The current API is not definitive and will change in the near future.

- mod_lisp backend now support multiple worker threads.

- Added httpd backend.

** YACLML/TAL

- <ucw:select :multiple t now works as expected.

- New convenience tags <ucw:text, <ucw:password and <ucw:submit.

- :action attribute now allowed on regular A and INPUT tags in TAL files.

** Documentation

- Added the wiki example.

- Improved users manual.