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Phusion Passenger 2.2.11 released »

Created at: 05.03.2010 12:24, source: Phusion Corporate Blog, tagged: Phusion Passenger

This release fixes a regression that appeared in 2.2.10 which only affects Apache. When under high load, Apache might freeze and stop responding to requests. The regression was caused by an attempt in 2.2.10 to fix various file descriptor passing problems. The fix introduced a race condition in one of the Phusion Passenger components, and since the problem only occurs under certain high-concurrency workloads it escaped our last release testing.

This problem does not affect Nginx; you only have to upgrade if you’re using Apache.

More information about the problem can be found at the following discussion thread: http://groups.google.com/group/phusion-passenger/t/d5bb2f17c8446ea0

How do I upgrade to 2.2.11?

Via a gem

Please install it with the following command:

gem install passenger

Next, run:

passenger-install-apache2-module

Or, if you’re an Nginx user:

passenger-install-nginx-module

Please don’t forget to copy & paste the Apache/Nginx config snippet that the installer gives you.

Via a native Linux package

John Leach from Brightbox has kindly provided an Ubuntu 8.04 package for Phusion Passenger. The package is available from the Brightbox repository which you can find at:

http://apt.brightbox.net

Add the following line to the Third Party Software Sources:

deb http://apt.brightbox.net hardy main

(The simplest way to do that is to create a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ containing the deb instruction, and then run ‘apt-get update’).

Once you’ve done this then you can install Phusion Passenger by running:

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-passenger

-or-

sudo apt-get install nginx-brightbox

(Note that John is currently packaging 2.2.11, so it might take a while before this release shows up in the apt repository.)

Final

Phusion Passenger is provided to the community for free. If you like Phusion Passenger, please consider sending us a donation. Thank you!

Phusion Passenger 2.2.10 released »

Created at: 22.02.2010 14:53, source: Phusion Corporate Blog, tagged: Phusion Passenger

Phusion Passenger is an Apache and Nginx module for deploying Ruby on Rails web applications, and is mainly focused on ease of use and stability.

Recent changes

Phusion Passenger is under constant maintenance and development. We are pleased to announce Phusion Passenger version 2.2.10. This is a bug fix release.

• Fixed some Bundler compatibility problems.
• Fixed some file descriptor passing problems, which previously could lead to mysterious crashes.
• Fixed some compilation problems on newer GCC versions. Issue #430.
• Support #size method in rack.input.

How do I upgrade to 2.2.10?

Via a gem

Please install it with the following command:

gem install passenger

Next, run:

passenger-install-apache2-module

Or, if you’re an Nginx user:

passenger-install-nginx-module

Please don’t forget to copy & paste the Apache/Nginx config snippet that the installer gives you.

Via a native Linux package

John Leach from Brightbox has kindly provided an Ubuntu 8.04 package for Phusion Passenger. The package is available from the Brightbox repository which you can find at:

http://apt.brightbox.net

Add the following line to the Third Party Software Sources:

deb http://apt.brightbox.net hardy main

(The simplest way to do that is to create a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ containing the deb instruction, and then run ‘apt-get update’).

Once you’ve done this then you can install Phusion Passenger by running:

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-passenger

-or-

sudo apt-get install nginx-brightbox

(Note that John is currently packaging 2.2.10, so it might take a while before this release shows up in the apt repository.)

Final

Phusion Passenger is provided to the community for free. If you like Phusion Passenger, please consider sending us a donation. Thank you!

Phusion Passenger 2.2.9 released »

Created at: 08.01.2010 12:53, source: Phusion Corporate Blog, tagged: Phusion Passenger

Phusion Passenger is an Apache and Nginx module for deploying Ruby on Rails web applications, and is mainly focused on ease of use and stability.

Recent changes

Phusion Passenger is under constant maintenance and development. We are pleased to announce Phusion Passenger version 2.2.9. This is a bug fix release.

Fixed compatibility with Rails 3.

Actually, previous Phusion Passenger releases were already compatible with Rails 3, depending on the spawn method that would be invoked. Here’s the story:

Since Phusion Passenger 2.2.8, when the file config.ru exists, Phusion Passenger will treat the app as a Rack app, not as a Rails app. This is in contrast to earlier versions which gave Rails detection more priority than Rack detection. Phusion Passenger loads Rack apps and Rails apps in different ways. The Rails loader was not compatible with Rails 3, which is what we’ve fixed in this release.

That said, a Rails 3 app would have worked out-of-the-box on Phusion Passenger 2.2.8 as well because Rails 3 apps include a config.ru file by default, causing Phusion Passenger 2.2.8 to use the Rack loader. Earlier versions of Phusion Passenger would just completely bail out because they’d use the Rails loader.

With 2.2.9 there are still some caveats:

• Smart spawning (the mechanism with which REE’s 33% memory reduction is implemented) is *not* supported for Rack apps. This means that if you want to utilize smart spawning with Rails 3, then you should remove your config.ru file.
• Rails 3 depends on Rack 1.1.0. You must have Rack 1.1.0 installed as a gem, even if you’ve bundled it with the gem bundler. This is because Phusion Passenger itself depends on Rack.

Both of these caveats are temporary. We have plans to solve both of these properly in the future.

What’s up with the Gem Bundler?

There has been some reports that Phusion Passenger is not compatible with Yehuda Katz’s gem bundler. This might have been true for an earlier version of the gem bundler, but the latest version seems to work fine. Please note that you need to insert the following snippet in config/preinitializer.rb, as instructed by the gem bundler’s README:

require "#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/gems/environment"

The Rails::Boot monkey patching code as posted here does not seem to be required anymore.

Fixed support for ActiveRecord subclasses that connect to another database.

ActiveRecord subclasses that connect to a database other than the default one did not have their connection correctly cleared after forking. This can result in weird errors along the lines of "Lost connection to MySQL server during query". Issue #429.

[Nginx] Fixed PCRE URL.

passenger-install-nginx-module downloads PCRE 7.8 if PCRE is not already installed. However PCRE 7.8 has been removed from their FTP server, so we’ve updated the URL to point to the latest version, 8.0.

How do I upgrade to 2.2.9?

Via a gem

Please install it with the following command:

gem install passenger

Next, run:

passenger-install-apache2-module

Or, if you’re an Nginx user:

passenger-install-nginx-module

Please don’t forget to copy & paste the Apache/Nginx config snippet that the installer gives you.

Via a native Linux package

John Leach from Brightbox has kindly provided an Ubuntu 8.04 package for Phusion Passenger. The package is available from the Brightbox repository which you can find at:

http://apt.brightbox.net

Add the following line to the Third Party Software Sources:

deb http://apt.brightbox.net hardy main

(The simplest way to do that is to create a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ containing the deb instruction, and then run ‘apt-get update’).

Once you’ve done this then you can install Phusion Passenger by running:

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-passenger

-or-

sudo apt-get install nginx-brightbox

(Note that John is currently packaging 2.2.9, so it might take a while before this release shows up in the apt repository.)

Final

Phusion Passenger is provided to the community for free. If you like Phusion Passenger, please consider sending us a donation. Thank you!

Phusion Passenger 2.2.8 released »

Created at: 16.12.2009 09:39, source: Phusion Corporate Blog, tagged: Phusion Passenger

Phusion Passenger is an Apache and Nginx module for deploying Ruby on Rails web applications, and is mainly focused on ease of use and stability.

Recent changes

Phusion Passenger is under constant maintenance and development. We are pleased to announce Phusion Passenger version 2.2.8. This is a bug fix release.

[Nginx] Fixed some signal handling problems.

Restarting Nginx on OS X with SIGHUP can sometimes take a long time or even fail completely. This is because of some signal handling problems, which have now been fixed.

[Nginx] Added OpenSSL as dependency.

OpenSSL is required in order to install Nginx, but this was not checked by passenger-install-nginx-module. As a result, passenger-install-nginx-module fails on e.g. out-of-the-box Ubuntu installations until the user manually installs OpenSSL. Issue #422.

[Nginx] Fixed support for internal redirects and subrequests.

It is now possible to, for example, point X-Accel-Redirects to Phusion Passenger-served URLs. Patch contributed by W. Andrew Loe III: issue #433.

[Apache] Fixed a GnuTLS compatibility issue

mod_gnutls can cause Phusion Passenger to crash because of an unchecked NULL pointer. This problem has now been fixed: issue #391.

Fixed thread creation issue on Intel Itanium platforms.

This fixes issue #427.

Fixed compilation problems on Linux running on the Renesas SH4 CPU.

Patch contributed by iwamatsu: issue #428.

The Rack library has been unvendored.

The original reason for vendoring was to work around broken Rails applications that explicitly specify Rack as a gem dependency. We’ve found a better workaround that does not require vendoring Rack. This also fixes a compatibility problem with Rails 3, because Rails 3 depends on a newer Rack version than the one we had vendored. Issue #432.

Fixed compatibility with Ruby 1.9.1 patchlevel >= 152

Ruby 1.9.1 patchlevel >= 152 has a bug in its tempfile library. If you’ve seen an error message along the lines of

*** Exception IOError in Passenger RequestHandler (closed stream)

then this is a Ruby bug at work. This bug has been fixed in Ruby 1.9.2, but Ruby 1.9.1 still contains this bug. We’ve added a workaround so that the bug is not triggered with this Ruby version. Issue #432.

How do I upgrade to 2.2.8?

Via a gem

Please install it with the following command:

gem install passenger

Next, run:

passenger-install-apache2-module

Or, if you’re an Nginx user:

passenger-install-nginx-module

Please don’t forget to copy & paste the Apache/Nginx config snippet that the installer gives you.

Via a native Linux package

John Leach from Brightbox has kindly provided an Ubuntu 8.04 package for Phusion Passenger. The package is available from the Brightbox repository which you can find at:

http://apt.brightbox.net

Add the following line to the Third Party Software Sources:

deb http://apt.brightbox.net hardy main

(The simplest way to do that is to create a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ containing the deb instruction, and then run ‘apt-get update’).

Once you’ve done this then you can install Phusion Passenger by running:

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-passenger

-or-

sudo apt-get install nginx-brightbox

(Note that John is currently packaging 2.2.8, so it might take a while before this release shows up in the apt repository.)

Final

Phusion Passenger is provided to the community for free. If you like Phusion Passenger, please consider sending us a donation. Thank you!

Phusion Passenger 2.2.7 released »

Created at: 18.11.2009 19:33, source: Phusion Corporate Blog, tagged: Phusion Passenger

Sorry, I made a mistake while releasing 2.2.6. In the past few days we’ve closed about 30 issues in our issue tracker, but in the mids of it I forgot to remove a single line of debugging code in passenger-install-apache2-module, causing it not to compile the Apache module. I’ve just released 2.2.7 which fixes this problem, and it should be indexed by RubyForge any time now. Our apologies again for the inconvenience.