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Phusion Passenger v6.0.5 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-05-29 // almost 4 years ago

    ⚡️ [Enterprise] Fixed a regression (introduced in 5.0.0) where Flying Passenger could not update the Passenger configuration. Closes GH-1554.

    ➕ Adds Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal" packages, and removes Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco" packages.

    ➕ Adds RHEL / CentOS 8 packages.

    📦 [Nginx] Converts CentOS 7 packages to provide a dynamic module instead of a full Nginx install.

    🛠 Fixes the encoding name for xml output from the passenger-status --show=xml command. Closes GH-2248.

    ➕ Adds the 'etc' gem as an explicit dependency. Closes GH-2124.

    ➕ Adds a user agent to the passenger pre-spawn script. Closes GH-1534.

    🛠 Fixes a compilation issue on FreeBSD. Closes GH-2240.

    🛠 Fixes an issue where rack bodies may not be processed correctly.

    👌 Improves the database reconnection speed in forked processes. closes GH-2253.

    [Nginx] Adds a config option passenger_temp_path to set the path used for the disk backed response cache. Re-Closes GH-2075.

    [Apache] Protects the path info and script name passed to the app from modifications done by mod_security. Closes GH-2198.

    Ensures baseuri is set per request, even if config is loaded from cache. Closes GH-2117.

    👉 Make temp dir toucher cleanup code more resilient to permissions issues.

    [Nginx] Bumps the preferred Nginx version to 1.18.0 (previously 1.17.3).

    [Nginx] The preferred PCRE version is now 8.44 (previously 8.43).

    ✂ Removed deprecated rubyforge gemspec property. Contributed by @olleolleolle.

    ➕ Adds an option for specifying the attributes on the sticky session cookie:

    • Apache: PassengerStickySessionsCookieAttributes "SameSite=Lax; Secure;"
    • Nginx: passenger_sticky_sessions_cookie_attributes "SameSite=Lax; Secure;"

    - Standalone: --sticky-sessions-cookie-attributes "SameSite=Lax; Secure;"

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

    • ccache 3.7.9 (was 3.7.3)
    • Curl 7.69.1 (was 7.66.0)
    • Git 2.26.2 (was 2.23.0)
    • GnuPG 2.2.20 (was 2.2.17)
    • libgpg_error 1.37 (was 1.36)
    • OpenSSL 1.0.2u (was 1.0.2t)
    • PCRE 8.44 (was 8.43)
    • s3cmd 2.1.0 (was 2.0.2)
    • RubyGems 3.0.8 (was 3.0.6)

    • Rubies:

      • 2.4.6 -> 2.4.10
      • 2.5.5 -> 2.5.8
      • 2.6.3 -> 2.6.6
      • 2.7.1