The last Passenger release, 2.2.10, has a bug that causes Apache to freeze when used under moderate load (Phusion say high load but we’ve seen it on quite moderate conditions). We recommend that anyone using Passenger 2.2.10 upgrade to 2.2.11 asap. Ubuntu Hardy packages are now available in our repository.
Phusion released Passenger 2.2.10 this week, fixing some bundler compatibility bugs and a file descriptor bug that could lead to “mysterious crashes”.
We’ve built our Ubuntu Hardy packages for i386 and AMD64 architectures which are now available from the Brightbox apt repository. We’ve also upgraded our librack-ruby packages to 1.1.0.
The Phusion team released Passenger 2.2.9 today, which adds support for Rails 3, the GEM bundler, and fixes a couple of bugs. As usual Brightbox are providing Ubuntu Hardy packages for i386 and AMD64 architectures, available now from the Brightbox apt repository.
This package won’t actually support Rails 3 just yet though as we’ve yet to package and test the librack 1.1.0, which Rails 3 depends on. We’re working on it now and once we’re happy with it we’ll add new packages to our repository as usual.
We’ve just added Caspar Clemens Mierau’s package for the Apache x-sendfile module to our Ubuntu Hardy package repositories, so now it’s trivially easy for Brightbox customers to start using it. We’ve also built an AMD64 version too. Just install the package, enable it and reload Apache:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-xsendfile
sudo a2enmod xsendfile
sudo invoke-rc.d apache reloadPassenger 2.2.6 (quickly followed by 2.2.7) was released last week and we now have i386 and AMD64 Ubuntu Hardy packages available in our repository.
As usual, details on installing the packages from our repository are available on our wiki.
If you’re using Passenger and it’s making you happy, please do consider supporting its development by donating money in the form of an “Enterprise License” direct from Phusion, the company behind it.
Passenger 2.2.4 was released last week and we now have Ubuntu Hardy packages available in our repository.
Passenger 2.2.4 actually is just a small bug fix release for a memory leak in 2.2.3, but obviously brings all the benefits of 2.2.3 too. A huge number of bugs have been fixed, particularly the “Broken Pipe” errors some sites under heavy loads were experiencing.
As usual, details on installing the packages from our repository are available on our wiki.
If you’re using Passenger and it’s making you happy, please do consider supporting its development by donating money in the form of an “Enterprise License” direct from Phusion, the company behind it.
Phusion Passenger 2.1.3 has been released and we’ve updated our Ubuntu packages as usual. Instructions in the usual place on our wiki.
Following Friday’s release of Passenger 2.1.2 by the Phusion folks, we’ve updated our Ubuntu packages. We’ve been testing version 2.1.1 packages for a little while now and they’ve been very stable, supporting both Rails 2.3 and older apps that still depend on Rack 0.4 (such as older Sinatra apps).
The details are on the usual page on our wiki. If you have any problems or need any help, try our forums.
The new packages depend on new versions of the Ruby rack libraries (not the gem), but this is provided in our repository too and will be automatically installed. You need to install the fastthread gem yourself though. Our repository provides a few other useful Hardy packages too.
We are only testing our packages against Ubuntu Hardy right now, but they should install and run fine on newer versions of Ubuntu too.
Remember, for maximum memory savings (and speed improvements) try our Ruby Enterprise Edition packages for Ubuntu Hardy (currently only 32bit packages available).
We’ve just built new versions of our Passenger Ubuntu package. It’s still Passenger 2.0.6, but we tweaked the dependencies so you aren’t forced to use the Apache worker mpm (prefork should work just fine with Passenger).
We’re now also providing 64bit versions of the packages (the source of the 404 errors some of you reported when trying to install the package).
Documentation for the packages in the usual place on the wiki.
More Passenger news coming soon :)
Following the recent 2.0.4 release of the Passenger Rails module for Apache, version 2.0.5 was released today by the Phusion team. We’ve just released new Ubuntu Hardy packages for it. If you’re already using the package from our repository, just apt-get update and upgrade.
Particularly of note, this fixes a deadlock bug using Passenger and global queueing with the Apache worker mpm.
As before, documentation for our packages is available on our Passenger wiki page.
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