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From: Christian Neukirchen on 13 Jun 2010 14:00
Hello,

Today we are proud to announce the release of Rack 1.2.

= Rack, a modular Ruby webserver interface

Rack provides a minimal, modular and adaptable interface for developing
web applications in Ruby. By wrapping HTTP requests and responses in
the simplest way possible, it unifies and distills the API for web
servers, web frameworks, and software in between (the so-called
middleware) into a single method call.

The exact details of this are described in the Rack specification,
which all Rack applications should conform to.

== Changes

* June 13th, 2010: Tenth public release 1.2.0.
* Removed Camping adapter: Camping 2.0 supports Rack as-is
* Removed parsing of quoted values
* Add Request.trace? and Request.options?
* Add mime-type for .webm and .htc
* Fix HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR
* Various multipart fixes
* Switch test suite to bacon

== Where can I get it?

You can download Rack 1.2 at

http://chneukirchen.org/releases/rack-1.2.0.tar.gz
http://rubyforge.org/projects/rack

Alternatively, you can checkout from the development repository with:

git clone git://github.com/rack/rack.git
cd rack && git checkout rack-1.2 # for this release

== Supported web servers

The included *handlers* connect all kinds of web servers to Rack:
* Mongrel
* EventedMongrel
* SwiftipliedMongrel
* WEBrick
* FCGI
* CGI
* SCGI
* LiteSpeed
* Thin

These web servers include Rack handlers in their distributions:
* Ebb
* Fuzed
* Glassfish v3
* Phusion Passenger (which is mod_rack for Apache and for nginx)
* Rainbows!
* Unicorn
* Zbatery

Any valid Rack app will run the same on all these handlers, without
changing anything.

== Supported web frameworks

These frameworks include Rack adapters in their distributions:
* Camping
* Coset
* Halcyon
* Mack
* Maveric
* Merb
* Racktools::SimpleApplication
* Ramaze
* Ruby on Rails
* Rum
* Sinatra
* Sin
* Vintage
* Waves
* Wee
* ... and many others.

Current links to these projects can be found at
http://wiki.ramaze.net/Home#other-frameworks

== rack-contrib

The plethora of useful middleware created the need for a project that
collects fresh Rack middleware. rack-contrib includes a variety of
add-on components for Rack and it is easy to contribute new modules.

* http://github.com/rack/rack-contrib

== Installing with RubyGems

A Gem of Rack is available at gemcutter.org. You can install it with:

gem install rack

I also provide a local mirror of the gems (and development snapshots)
at my site:

gem install rack --source http://chneukirchen.org/releases/gems/

== Contact

Please post bugs, suggestions and patches to
the bug tracker at <http://github.com/rack/rack/issues>.

Mailing list archives are available at
<http://groups.google.com/group/rack-devel>.

Git repository (send Git patches to the mailing list):
* http://github.com/rack/rack
* http://git.vuxu.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=rack-github.git

You are also welcome to join the #rack channel on irc.freenode.net.

== Thanks

The Rack Core Team, consisting of

* Christian Neukirchen (chneukirchen)
* James Tucker (raggi)
* Josh Peek (josh)
* Michael Fellinger (manveru)
* Ryan Tomayko (rtomayko)
* Scytrin dai Kinthra (scytrin)

would like to thank:

* Adrian Madrid, for the LiteSpeed handler.
* Christoffer Sawicki, for the first Rails adapter and Rack::Deflater.
* Tim Fletcher, for the HTTP authentication code.
* Luc Heinrich for the Cookie sessions, the static file handler and bugfixes.
* Armin Ronacher, for the logo and racktools.
* Alex Beregszaszi, Alexander Kahn, Anil Wadghule, Aredridel, Ben
Alpert, Dan Kubb, Daniel Roethlisberger, Matt Todd, Tom Robinson,
Phil Hagelberg, S. Brent Faulkner, Bosko Milekic, Daniel Rodríguez
Troitiño, Genki Takiuchi, Geoffrey Grosenbach, Julien Sanchez, Kamal
Fariz Mahyuddin, Masayoshi Takahashi, Patrick Aljordm, Mig, Kazuhiro
Nishiyama, Jon Bardin, Konstantin Haase, Larry Siden, Matias
Korhonen, Sam Ruby, Simon Chiang, Tim Connor, Timur Batyrshin, and
Zach Brock for bug fixing and other improvements.
* Eric Wong, Hongli Lai, Jeremy Kemper for their continuous support
and API improvements.
* Yehuda Katz and Carl Lerche for refactoring rackup.
* Brian Candler, for Rack::ContentType.
* Graham Batty, for improved handler loading.
* Stephen Bannasch, for bug reports and documentation.
* Gary Wright, for proposing a better Rack::Response interface.
* Jonathan Buch, for improvements regarding Rack::Response.
* Armin Röhrl, for tracking down bugs in the Cookie generator.
* Alexander Kellett for testing the Gem and reviewing the announcement.
* Marcus Rückert, for help with configuring and debugging lighttpd.
* The WSGI team for the well-done and documented work they've done and
Rack builds up on.
* All bug reporters and patch contributers not mentioned above.

== Copyright

Copyright (C) 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Christian Neukirchen <http://purl.org/net/chneukirchen>

Rack is freely distributable under the terms of an MIT-style license.

== Links

Rack:: <http://rack.rubyforge.org/>
Rack's Rubyforge project:: <http://rubyforge.org/projects/rack>
Official Rack repositories:: <http://github.com/rack>
rack-devel mailing list:: <http://groups.google.com/group/rack-devel>

Happy hacking and have a nice day,
Christian Neukirchen
on behalf of the Rack Core Team.

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