# change log

## 2021/10/15 - 1.7.5 “Space-dye Vest” fifth bugfix release

This version includes the following bugfix

* don’t die when a connection is closed before being accepted by gmid (i.e. handle ‘ECONNRESET’)


## 2021/09/24 - 1.7.4 “Space-dye Vest” fourth bugfix release

This version includes the following bugfix:

* fix a possible out-of-bound access when handling a request for a non-existent file in the root directory of a vhost that's matched by the cgi option

and the relative regression test.


## 2021/09/19 - 1.7.3 “Space-dye Vest” third bugfix release

### Improvements

* follows symlinks
* improved documentation and added key generation example (thanks! Anna)

### Bugfix

* fix syslog logging on FreeBSD.  Reported by Karl Jeacle, thanks!
* don't crash if ``-c'' is missing in configtest mode (-n).  Reported by heph, thanks!
* allow fstat64 on linux (needed by glibc on aarch64).  Reported by pine, thanks!


## 2021/07/19 - 1.7.2 “Space-dye Vest” second bugfix release

This version incudes the following bugfix:

* an un-initialized field in the configless code path leads to a crash on the first request.

and the relative regression test.


## 2021/07/11 - 1.7.1 “Space-dye Vest” bugfix release

This version includes two bugfixes:
* use ${MAKE} to recursively call make.
* fix the misleading example in the manpage: macros may not be reserved words


## 2021/07/10 - 1.7 “Space-dye Vest”

Starting from this version gmid doesn't depend on lex anymore, but yacc is still needed.

### New features

* initial fastcgi support!  (it's still young!)
* added user-defined macros, either via ‘-Dname=val’ or directly in the configuration file.
* new ‘include’ keyword to load additional configuration files.
* new ‘env’ rule to define environment vars for CGI scripts.
* new ‘alias’ rule to define hostname aliases for a server.
* allow ‘root’ to be specified per-location block.
* pidfile support with the new ‘-P’ cli flag.
* define ‘TLS_VERSION’, ‘TLS_CIPHER’ and ‘TLS_CIPHER_STRENGTH’ for CGI scripts.

### Improvements

* remove limits on the number of virtual hosts and location blocks that can be defined.
* print the datetime when logging to stderr.
* use ‘text/x-patch’ for ‘.patch’ and ‘.diff’ files.
* sort the auto index alphabetically.
* various improvements to the log management.
* drop the dependency on lex.
* added ‘--help’ as synonym of ‘-h’ and ‘-V’/‘--version‘ to print the version.
* c-like handling of strings in the configuration file: when two or more strings are next to each-others, are automatically joined into a single string.  This is particularly useful with $-macros.

### Bug fixes

* correctly handle CGI scripts that replies with the maxium header length allowed.
* fixed the static target.
* fixed recursive mkdirs for configless mode (i.e. create ‘~/.local/share/gmid’)
* logs sent to syslog now have proper priority (before every message ended up as LOG_CRIT).  Found by Anna “CyberTailor”, thanks!
* ensure ‘%p’ (path) is always absolute in ‘block return’ rules.
* fix automatic certificate generation, it caused problems on some adroid devices.  Found by Gnuserland, thanks!
* document the ‘log’ rule.
* the seccomp filter was reworked and now it's known to work properly on a vast range of architectures (to be more specific: all the architectures supported by alpine linux), see github issue #4.  Prompted and tested by @begss, thanks!
* various improvements to the configure script, notified and fixed by Anna “CyberTailor”, thanks!
* added a timeout to the regression tests.

### Breaking changes

* if duplicate rules are found in the configuration file, an error is now raised instead of silently using only the last value.
* (sort of) ‘gg’ moved to ‘regress’ as it's only used in the regression suite.
* (notice) the “mime "mime-type" "extension"” rule was deprecated and replaced by the new “map "mime-type" to-ext "extension"”.  The ‘mime’ rule will be removed in a future version because its syntax is incompatible with the new string auto-concat mechanism.