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Lower latencies during deploys in new releases of Phusion Passenger

Applications hosted by Phusion Passenger now benefit from lower latencies and lower resource usage during deployments and restarts. Over the last couple of releases, Phusion has worked with one of our wonderful customers

Passenger 6.0.24

Version 6.0.24 of the Passenger application server has been released. This release adds packages for Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular), and improves rolling restart performance.

Passenger 6.0.23

Version 6.0.23 of the Passenger application server has been released. This release adds Ubuntu 24.04 Noble packages, improves Rack3 compatibility, and adds the ability to set a custom error page in place of the Passenger

Passenger 6.0.22

Version 6.0.22 of the Passenger application server has been released. This release fixes a couple issues with 6.0.21.

Passenger 6.0.21

Version 6.0.21 of the Passenger application server has been released. This release switches the RPMs to Nginx 1.24 on EL9 distros (RHEL, Rocky, Alma), and removes Ubuntu Mantic (23.10) packages, the addition of Ubuntu noble (24.04LTS) packages is delayed due to an upstream bug.

Passenger 6.0.20

Version 6.0.20 of the Passenger application server has been released. This release fixed an issue that prevented the Ubuntu 23.10 mantic packages from being published, addressed some forwards compatibility issues in Python and Ruby and hardened our builtin http parser against request smuggling.

Passenger 6.0.19

Version 6.0.19 of the Passenger application server has been released. This release rounded out our support for arm64 (also called aarch64) by adding el8 & 9 aarch64 rpms and prebuilt generic arm64 binaries for RubyGems installs of Passenger.

Passenger 6.0.18

Version 6.0.18 of the Passenger application server has been released. This release changes the Nginx rpm we build against to the newest module stream, this affects EL8 and EL9 distributions, special 1-time upgrade instructions are provided.

Passenger 6.0.17

Version 6.0.17 of the Passenger application server has been released. This release adds support for Ruby 3.2.0, and bumps the preferred Nginx to 1.22.1.

Passenger 6.0.16

Version 6.0.16 of the Passenger application server has been released. This release fixes availability of Enterprise Linux 9 (RHEL, Rocky, Alma) packages, and adds ARM64 packages for Debian and Ubuntu distros.

Passenger 6.0.15

Version 6.0.15 of the Passenger application server has been released. This release adds Enterprise Linux 9 (RHEL, Rocky, Alma) packages, and improves Solaris support.

Passenger 6.0.14

Version 6.0.14 of the Passenger application server has been released. This release adds Ubuntu 22.04 "Jammy" packages, and removes Ubuntu 21.10 "Impish" packages. Passenger 6 introduced Generic Langua

Passenger 6.0.13

Version 6.0.13 of the Passenger application server has been released. This release adds Rocky Linux and Alma Linux support, as well as FreeBSD 13.

Log4J Bulletin: Passenger not affected

TL:DR; Passenger is not affected. Passenger has no components written in Java and thus does not use log4j. As such, it is not affected by the log4j vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-45046 & CVE-2021-44228, or any subsequentl

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 suppor

Passenger 6.0.11

Version 6.0.11 of the Passenger application server has been released. This release fixes compatibility with old versions of GCC, as well as CentOS Stream.

Passenger 6.0.10

Version 6.0.10 of the Passenger application server has been released. This release fixes compatibility with the CentOS 7 EPEL nginx package. Passenger 6 introduced Generic Language Support, or: the ability to support any

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