Passenger 6.0.12

Version 6.0.12 of the Passenger application server has been released. This release adds Debian 11 Bullseye and Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri support.

Passenger 6 introduced Generic Language Support, or: the ability to support any and all arbitrary apps.

Updates & improvements

[Debian] Fix compilation on 32 bit arm. Contributed by Antonio Terceiro.
[Debian] Add Bullseye Debian packages.
Add formatted error messages to responses. Contributed by Mohammad Aboelnour.
Fixes for running under WSL 1. Contributed by Luke Pearce. Closes GH-2036.
Upgrades Boost to 1.77. To go along with 32 bit arm fix.
[MacOS] Fixes autodetection of openssl lib on Apple Silicon. Contributed by Taketo Takashima. Closes GH-2389.
Reconnect to mongoid databases after fork, like we do for ActiveRecord. Contributed by Mohammad Aboelnour.
[Ubuntu] add missing apache name in instance registry dir detection.
[Ubuntu] replace hirsute apt packages with impish.
[Nginx] add new config option to choose the status code returned when application spawning fails. (passenger_spawn_exception_status_code).
Updated various library versions used in precompiled binaries (used for e.g. gem installs):

ccache: 4.4.1 → 4.4.2
cmake: 3.21.2 → 3.21.4
curl: 7.78.0 → 7.79.1
git: 2.33.0 → 2.33.1
gnupg: 2.3.2 → 2.3.3
rubygems: 3.2.27 → 3.2.30
s3cmd: 2.1.0 → 2.2.0

Installing 6.0.12

Please see the installation guide for advice on getting started with Passenger. Coming from a language other than Ruby, Python, Meteor or Node? Even if we didn't write a specific tutorial for your language, we made a generic guide that shows you the steps.