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Changelog

Changes from 1.17.1 to 1.17.2

  • Use net/http instead of fasthttp for serving regular HTTP to make the flush() function work again.
  • Add support for SQLite using https://github.com/terminar/permissionsqlite.
  • Skip empty <h1></h1> tags.
  • Make it possible to clear all cache with a USR1 signal.
  • Add a new Markdown theme named setconf.
  • Add three new samples.
  • Minor performance improvements.
  • Some refactoring and cleanup.
  • Update documentation.
  • Update dependencies.

Changes from 1.17.0 to 1.17.1

  • Patch the pingcap/tidb dependency so that Algernon still compiles for ARM 6 and ARM 7.
  • Add the oc:distance() Lua method for finding the distance between two LLM prompts.
  • Let the embeddedDistance Lua function take a 3rd argument: euclidean, manhattan, chebyshev, hamming or cosine.
  • Improve the image description example.
  • Improve how images are served when serving a single Markdown document.
  • Fix the double opening of the browser when both -m and -o are specified.
  • Also cache .webp images, if caching of images is enabled.
  • Update dependencies.
  • Update documentation.

Changes from 1.16.0 to 1.17.0

  • Add three Ollama-related functions: base64EncodeFile, describeImage and embeddedDistance.
  • Add an example for uploading and describing images with Ollama and the llava-llama3 model.
  • Add a base64 method to UploadedFile objects.
  • Update the Teal example.
  • Improve the "pretty error page" that appears if there is an error in a Lua script.
  • Let some variables be constants instead.
  • Avoid using runtime.GOOS and detect most features at compile time instead.
  • Use two atomic.Bool variables instead of a mutex for keeping track of how data is being served.
  • Import logrus as "logrus" instead of as "log".
  • Use strconf.FormatInt instead of fmt.Sprintf whenever possible.
  • Use github.com/pkg/browser for opening URLs in a browser.
  • Fix an issue with inserting JS into HTML.
  • Serve HTTP with `fasthttp´ (ref #4)
  • Improve how favicons are handled.
  • Make it possible to ignore files in a directory listing (ref #149).
  • Add a sanhtml function for sanitizing HTML.
  • Add experimental support for mathematical formulas in Markdown using MathJax (ref #150).
  • Add an example that renders mathematical formulas.
  • Remove GOEXPERIMENT=loopvar since it is no longer needed.
  • Follow the advice of golint.
  • Update documentation.
  • Update dependencies.

Changes from 1.15.5 to 1.16.0

  • Make it possible to clear the AI cache with ClearCache().
  • Add support for using AI/LLMs (Ollama) from Lua.
  • Add support for .prompt files that contains a content-type, a model name, a blank line and a prompt.
  • Make small changes to the built-in themes.
  • Update CI configuration.
  • Require Go 1.21 or later, mostly because of the QUIC dependency.
  • Update the year in the license file.
  • Minor changes to the alg2docker script.
  • Update the react jsonfile example.
  • Update the TODO list example to the latest version of React.
  • Update the React + JSX + database example.
  • Add the loopvar feature to the dockerfiles.
  • Use LABEL maintainer in the Dockerfiles.
  • Combine several build and run scripts related to docker.
  • Add a simple tutorial.
  • Remove some unused code.
  • Update documentation.
  • Update dependencies.

Changes from 1.15.4 to 1.15.5

  • Make the Makefile clearer.
  • Update the form/registration example.
  • Update dependencies.

Changes from 1.15.3 to 1.15.4

  • Improve field alignment using dkorunic/betteralign.
  • Update dependencies.

Changes from 1.15.2 to 1.15.3

  • Set GOEXPERIMENT=loopvar and adjust the build flags.
  • Enable profile-guided optimization.
  • Update the benchmark script.
  • Check the arguments for the servedir Lua function.
  • Update the GH action for Homebrew.
  • Make the prefixmatch tests pass.
  • Remove the github.com/bmizerany/assert dependency.
  • Update the CI configuration.
  • Move two functions to github.com/xyproto/files.
  • Minor changes to the welcome script.
  • Minor changes to a test.
  • Minor changes to the Teal example.
  • Update dependencies.

Changes from 1.15.1 to 1.15.2

  • Serve .json files a tiny bit faster.
  • Serve Algernon web applications (.alg files) from memory, ref #132 (thanks Dialga / @Dialga).
  • Remove a duplicate word from the README.md file (thanks Philipp Gillé / @philippgille).
  • Update dependencies.

Changes from 1.15.0 to 1.15.1

  • Switch from blackfriday to gomarkdown/markdown.
  • Add a simple example that uses the markdown function.
  • Update the CI configuration.
  • Update dependencies.
  • Update documentation.

Changes from 1.14.0 to 1.15.0

  • Compile the release binaries with Go 1.20.4.
  • Add a close() function, ref #124 (thanks Malcolm Ke Win / @diyism).
  • Add a shell linter to the CI configuration, ref #120 (thanks Jan Macku / @jamacku).
  • Support reverse proxies, ref #131 (thanks Mohamed Abdel Maksoud / @mohamed--abdel-maksoud).
  • Look for handler.lua in parent directories, ref #95, #112 and #130 (thanks Giulio Lunati / @giuliolunati).
  • Add initial support for JWT tokens.
  • Use os and ioinstead of the deprecated ioutil package.
  • Use any instead of interface{}.
  • Use the new unix build constraint.
  • Use strings.ReplaceAll and bytes.ReplaceAll.
  • Use simpleredis/v2.
  • Use math.Round.
  • Add an ulimit check to the welcome.sh script that also works on macOS Ventura.
  • Format/lint the code with gofumpt, golint and staticcheck.
  • Use the betteralign tool, to improve struct field alignment.
  • Make the code debug/tracing/profiling features optional at compile time, using build tags.
  • Fix a typo in one of the examples.
  • Update the CI configuration.
  • Update dependencies.
  • Update documentation.

Changes from 1.13.0 to 1.14.0

  • Compile the release binaries with Go 1.19.
  • Improve the documentation (thanks Matt Mc / @tooolbox ).
  • Add support for Teal together with a Teal sample (thanks Matt Mc / @tooolbox).
  • Fix an issue with how Lua tables were pretty printed in the REPL.
  • Fix an issue with conversion from Lua tables to JSON, ref #107, #108 (thanks @linkerlin).
  • Fix an issue with the generated directory listing pages, where %2F would appear in the URL instead of /, ref #117.
  • Follow the advice of these utilities: go fmt, golint, staticcheck and to some extent fieldalignment.
  • Update dependencies.

Changes from 1.12.14 to 1.13.0

  • Add a flag for serving domains with CertMagic and Let's Encrypt
  • Add a flag for redirecting from HTTP to HTTPS
  • Use req.Context since CloseNotifier has been deprecated
  • Switch to Go 1.18
  • Switch from the MIT license to BSD-3
  • Fix double drawn frames around syntax highlighted code in Markdown documents
  • URL encode links when listing directories
  • Use the same directory as the pongo2 template when importing macros, ref #84
  • Let plugins continue to run if an optional argument is passed in, ref #64 (otherwise close them)
  • Switch from jvatic/goja-babel to wvanw/esbuild, ref #77 (#91)
  • Improve JSX-related error messages
  • Use yuin/gopher-lua and yuin/gluamapper
  • Use a context when running Lua functions and use the background context when creating the Lua pool
  • Update the alg2docker and benchmark scripts
  • Update the --help output
  • Fix a typo in the "single.alg" example Algernon application
  • Update example service and Dockerfiles
  • Add a base URL flag for the directory listing (#90 ?)
  • Follow the advice of the "fieldalignment" and "staticcheck" utilies
  • Fix the serve2 function so that the registration form example works
  • Update tests, dependencies, examples and documentation

Changes from 1.12.13 to 1.12.14

  • Downgrade fsnotify to v1.4.9 so that building with GOOS=freebsd works again

Changes from 1.12.12 to 1.12.13

  • Fix a typo in the documentation (thanks Felix Yan)
  • Add support for simple MSSQL queries, ref #57
  • Improve MSSQL support (thanks Matt Mc)
  • Improvements to table mappings in Lua, including changes to gluamapper (thanks Matt Mc)
  • Support headers in buffered responses, ref #75 (thanks Matt Mc)
  • Improvements to the file upload functionality (thanks Matt Mc)
  • Various minor fixes and improvements (thanks Matt Mc)
  • Add three new repl commands: pwd, serverdir and serverfile
  • Add nicer help output for built-in commands to the repl
  • Add a ServerDir function for the server configuration Lua script
  • Fix wasm mimetype issue, ref #82
  • Fix the Babl plugin configuration after updating the Babl dependency
  • Various improvements to the samples and to the "Welcome" page
  • Follow the advice of go vet, golint and staticcheck
  • Support Go 1.16 and Go 1.17 only, for now
  • Update CI configuration
  • Update dependencies
  • Update documentation

Changes from 1.12.11 to 1.12.12

  • Only include QUIC support on supported platforms. This should let Algernon build for the Apple M1 CPU.

Changes from 1.12.10 to 1.12.11

  • Remove OpenBSD support while waiting for pkg/term to support it.

Changes from 1.12.9 to 1.12.10

  • Use a specific commit of pkg/term so that it also compiles for FreeBSD.

Changes from 1.12.8 to 1.12.9

  • Improve the man page.
  • Minor improvements for the help and completion functionality in the REPL.
  • Let several algernon --lua instances not use the same temporary database.
  • Let .mk, .ts and .tsx be served as text/plain;charset=utf-8.
  • Initial support for rendering .frm and .form files written in SimpleForm.
  • Fix for making it possible to use . together with --autorefresh.
  • Minor fixes to the docker example files.
  • Correct a typo in a comment (thanks Felix Yan).
  • Update the Travis CI configuration (thanks Rui Chen).
  • Follow the advice of the very useful staticcheck utility.
  • Update documentation.
  • Update dependencies.

Changes from 1.12.7 to 1.12.8

  • Update documentation.
  • Improve CI config and Homebrew release process (thanks Rui Chen!).
  • Update supplied systemd configuration.
  • Remove mentions of nacl.
  • Remove the mitchellh/colorstring dependency.
  • Update dependencies.
  • Use algernon_history.txt as the REPL history filename on Windows.
  • Don't output raw color codes on Windows, use ANSI colors or disable the color.
  • Remove symlinks from the "welcome" sample.
  • Update the release script to also build with GOARM=7 for Raspberry Pi 2, 3 and 4.

Changes from 1.12.6 to 1.12.7

  • Issues with bolt db, simplebolt and gccgo are resolved. Algernon now also supports gccgo.
  • Now requires Go 1.11 or later.
  • Respect TMPDIR, for improved Termux support.
  • Fix issue #42, when --dir is used together with a trailing slash.
  • Don't force the use of the bolt database when in development mode.
  • Update dependencies.

Changes from 1.12.5 to 1.12.6

  • Now using a fork of the quic package, since there were build issues with it (could not build with gccgo and issue #41).
  • Updated dependencies.
  • There are still issues with compiling simplebolt with gccgo, which is why Algernon can not be compiled with gccgo in a way where simplebolt works, yet. This is related to different behavior between go and gccgo and will be worked around in simplebolt. See: golang/go#36430
  • The autorefresh feature (-a or --autorefresh) may now follow symlinks to diretories, to make the ./welcome.sh script and example more user-friendly when live editing for instance samples/greetings/index.md.
  • The file-search backend of the autofresh feature is now also concurrent.
  • Tested with the latest version of Go (1.13.5) on 64-bit Arch Linux.

Changes from 1.12.4 to 1.12.5

  • Tested with Go 1.13.
  • Adds support for PostgreSQL queries with the PQ function, from Lua.
  • Updated dependencies, especially with QUIC and HTTP/2 in mind.
  • Updated the JSX sample to use the latest version of React.
  • The static executable for Linux is now built with -trimpath.
  • New HTTP client functionality from Lua, using GET or HTTPClient.
  • CookieSecret and SetCookieSecret can now be used to get and set the secure cookie secret from Lua, or it can be set with the --cookiesecret flag.

Changes from 1.12.3 to 1.12.4

  • Fix #26, an issue with using Lua tables together with Pongo2 and the serve2 function.
  • Update dependencies.
  • Improved help function on the Lua prompt.
  • Support the IGNOREEOF environment variable.
  • Update documentation.

Changes from 1.12.2 to 1.12.3

  • Fix #25, where an attack with vegeta could make Algernon crash.
  • Update dependencies (boltdb has a new home, TLS 1.3 has further improvements).

Changes from 1.12.0 to 1.12.2

  • Update dependencies.
  • Better output to stdout when loading configuration files (lists the names of all loaded configuration files).
  • A timestamp is added to the command line output when starting Algernon.
  • Slightly modified console text colors.
  • Minor changes to recognized filename extensions.
  • Update documentation to mention welcome.sh (fixes issue #23).
  • Minor updates to javascript libraries used by two of the samples.
  • Improved support for streaming large files (fixes issue #13).
  • Added two new flags:
    • --timeout=N for setting a timeout in seconds, when serving large files (but there is range support, so if a download times out, the client can continue where it left).
    • --largesize=N for setting a threshold for when a file is too large to be read into memory (the default is 42 MiB).

Changes from 1.11.0 to 1.12.0

  • Favicon support when serving Markdown files.
  • More minimal --lua mode.
  • Using the new strings.Builder in Go.
  • Better Markdown keyword handling.
  • Update vendored dependencies.
  • Include transmitted bytes in the access log.
  • Detect style.css in addition to style.gcss.
  • Better Markdown checkbox support.
  • Some refactoring and linting.

Changes from 1.10.1 to 1.11.0

  • Using the go mod system that came with Go 1.11.
  • Experimental support for simple logging to a NCSA and/or a Combined access log, with two new commandline flags.
  • Minor improvements to the help text and status messages.
  • No external resources are required by Algernon, not even external fonts, ref #17.
  • Refactoring: moved the event server to the recwatch package.
  • Remove an unneeded space when setting Content-Type.
  • Better keyword handling in Markdown documents.
  • Set a mimetype for configuration files starting with a ..
  • Add a flag for clearing the default path prefixes used by the permissions subsystem.
  • Update test script.
  • Minor changes to documentation and samples.

Changes from 1.10 to 1.10.1

  • Workaround for a problem with the MINGW64 terminal + readline, on Windows.
  • Let Lua handlers also configure the server.
  • Release the Windows executable together with the samples.

Changes from 1.9 to 1.10

  • Syntax highlighting by using chroma instead of highlight.js.
  • No external dependencies, ref issue #17.
  • Add a mode for only using the Lua REPL with -l or --lua.
  • New logo for the webpage, and new ANSI banner on the command line.
  • Minor fix for closing </head> tags.
  • Update vendored dependencies.

Changes from 1.8 to 1.9

  • Improve error messages.
  • Better support for giving a single Lua fila with handlers as an argument.
  • Update documentation and samples.
  • Add list:json() to make it easier to return JSON from a List. See samples/react_db.
  • Better handling of opening documents in the browser if no certs are given.
  • Update the default handling of files (view/download) based on mime type or extension.
  • Add support for "go tool trace".
  • Update vendored dependencies.

Changes from 1.7 to 1.8

  • Fix an issue with curl + algernon that was not present with wget + algernon, related to HTTP headers and compression.
  • Some refactoring and linting of the code.
  • Less strict HTTP headers by default.
  • Update vendored dependencies.

Changes from 1.6 to 1.7

  • Experimental support for the QUIC protocol (HTTP over UDP, faster than HTTP/2).
  • Improvements toward compiling Algernon with GCC (gcc-go).
  • Update HyperApp support and samples to work with the latest version (0.15.1).
  • Update dockerfiles and scripts.
  • Add "material" and "neon" themes.
  • Updated the documentation.
  • Add support for .algernon files for configuring directory listings (set a theme and title).
  • Support for having a port number as the only argument.
  • Add a --nodb flag, for not using any database backend (same as --boltdb=/dev/null).
  • Some refactoring.
  • Update vendored dependencies.

Changes from 1.5.1 to 1.6

  • Fix for excessive memory usage when serving and caching large files. Needs more testing.
  • Should now be possible to compile with gccgo.
  • Revert the refactoring to a separate "kinnian" package, for easier development and dependency handling.
  • Update vendored dependencies.

Changes from 1.5 to 1.5.1

  • Add the .hyper.js and .hyper.jsx extensions for HyperApp applications
  • Style HyperApp applications if no style/theme/style.gcss is provided
  • Also support HyperApp applications when using the --theme=... flag
  • Add the hprint Lua function, for combining HyperApp and Lua

Changes from 1.4.5 to 1.5

  • Switch JSX rendering engine to one that uses goja
  • Add support for HyperApp JSX apps with the .happ or .hyper extension

Changes from 1.4.4 to 1.4.5

  • Performance improvements when rendering Markdown and directory listings
  • Refactoring out code to the kinnian package
  • Update samples.
  • Update vendored dependencies.

Changes from 1.4.3 to 1.4.4

  • Refactor code into packages.
  • Update tests and documentation.

Changes from 1.4.2 to 1.4.3

  • Update dependencies and the dependency configuration.

Changes from 1.4.1 to 1.4.2

  • Minor improvements to the code.
  • Minor improvements to the documentation.
  • Update dependencies.

Changes from 1.4 to 1.4.1

  • Update the Markdown styling: tables, colors and <code> tags
  • Split out file caching to a separate package: datablock
  • Add an example for structuring a web site.
  • Add a Lua preload() function, for caching files before they are needed.
  • Let the Lua render() and serve() functions take an optional filename.
  • Fallback for the log filename.
  • Add -V flag for "verbose".
  • Add --ctrld flag for having to press ctrl-d twice to exit the REPL.
  • Use BoltDB by default instead of Redis.
  • Add script for testing functionality (HTTP server + curl) that is ran by the CI system.
  • Fix issue when running some .alg files.
  • Refactor.

Changes from 1.3.2 to 1.4

  • Improve autocomplete in the REPL.
  • Only add syntax highlighting to rendered HTML when needed.
  • Some refactoring: made the code simpler.
  • Move error checks before defer statements whenever possible.
  • Set headers so that browsers will download the most common binary formats instead of displaying them.
  • Update vendored dependencies.

Changes from 1.3.1 to 1.3.2

  • Remove the dependency on readline. No external C dependencies left.
  • The beginnings of better completion in the REPL.
  • Update dependencies using Glide.

Changes from 1.3 to 1.3.1

  • Less strict headers when using the auto-refresh feature.

Changes from 1.2.1 to 1.3

  • Support for streaming large files (HTTP range).
  • Minor improvements to the samples.

Changes from 1.2 to 1.2.1

  • Improve the REPL and the pprint function.
  • Fix a race issue when setting up a handle function from Lua.
  • Add a "Host" header to the header table.

Changes from 1.1 to 1.2

  • Add support for SCSS (Sass).
  • Fix the Pongo2 + Lua data race issue with a Mutex.
  • Vendor all dependencies and add a Glide YAML file.
  • Render * [ ], * [x] and * [X] in Markdown as checkboxes.
  • Add support for different images per Markdown theme, using the replace_with_theme keyword.
  • Add support for custom CSS from Markdown, using the css keyword.
  • Add another built-in Markdown theme: redbox.
  • Remove unused variables.

Changes from 1.0 to 1.1

General

  • Tested with Go 1.7
  • Added PostgreSQL >= 9.1 support (with the HSTORE feature).
  • Added two built-in themes for error pages, directory listings and Markdown.
  • Added a --theme flag for selecting a theme.
  • Added a --nocache flag for disabling caching.
  • Added default HTTP headers, for security.
  • Algernon servers now get A+ at https://securityheaders.io/.
  • Added a --noheader flag for disabling security-related HTTP headers.
  • Switched back to the official pongo2 repo after a pull request was merged.

Lua

  • Added a pprint function for slightly prettier printing.
  • Added a ppstr function for slightly prettier printing, but to a string.
  • Let redirect take an optional HTTP status code.
  • Added a permanent_redirect function which only takes an URL.
  • Let dofile search the directory of the Lua file that is running.
  • Fixed an issue with returning HTTP status codes from Lua in Debug mode.
  • Renamed toJSON to just JSON. Both are still present and still work.

Markdown

  • Can now select a built-in theme with theme:.
  • Can now select the highlight.js theme with code_style:.

REPL

  • More graceful shutdown upon SIGHUP on Linux.

Deployment

  • Minor improvements to the alg2docker script.

Samples and documentation

  • Fixed several minor typos.
  • Added an URL location check in the "bob" sample.

1.0

  • Release.