The Big Friendly Errorpage How we redesigned the friendly errorpage to be easy to understand for non-developers, while at the same time providing developers with a wealth of information that is easy to navigate.
Passenger 5.3.1: crash + spawn hotfix Hotfix release for two regressions in 5.3.0, causing a Passenger crash or failure to start the app.
Passenger 5.3.0: Ubuntu 18.04, Nginx 1.14, per-app logging, spawn error page Passenger 5.3: a new Passenger series with support for the latest Nginx, Ubuntu, an overhauled error page and the option to separate logfiles per application (no breaking changes).
Passenger 5.2.3: macOS compilation fix, full $TMPDIR support Passenger 5.2.3 solves a macOS compilation issue and makes it possible to run on a read-only filesystem with a custom /tmp dir. There's also a few minor fixes.
Passenger 5.2.0: deterministic config, Ruby 2.5, fixed license warning All new configuration handling to prevent errors. Increased the minor version due to a few breaking changes in the Apache config. False logging alarm about our licensing server fixed. Ruby 2.5 compatibility.
How waiting in line for your webapp just got nicer Help! Load spikes! Sometimes there is temporarily more traffic than expected (yay!), or maybe you're affected by a third-party dependency slowdown (boo!). Learn how to optimize user experience in these situations.
Passenger 5.1.12: Ubuntu 17.10, Nginx 1.12.2, new queue limit feature, fixes Version 5.1.12 of the Passenger application server for Ruby, Node.js, Meteor and Python has been released. Besides keeping up to date with Ubuntu, Nginx and other software updates, we've fixed a number of minor issues, a
Passenger 5.1.11: support for High Sierra, HTTP/2, new features & fixes Version 5.1.11 of the Passenger application server for Ruby, Node.js, Meteor and Python has been released. We urgently advise upgrading to fix an arbitrary file read vulnerability that we announced earlier today in a sec
Security advisory [CVE-2017-16355]: arbitrary file read vulnerability The cPanel Security Team discovered a vulnerability in Passenger that allows users to list the contents of arbitrary files on the system. CVE-2017-16355 has been assigned to this issue. Affected use-cases Arbitrary file
Passenger 5.1.8: Nginx 1.12.1, webpacker, fixes Version 5.1.8 of the Passenger application server for Ruby, Node.js, Meteor and Python has been released. We have built a few minor improvements and fixes, like improved logging, faster serving of Webpacker assets and a
Passenger 5.1.6: new packages for Zesty, Debian Stretch, Nginx Version 5.1.6 of the Passenger application server for Ruby, Node.js, Meteor and Python has been released. It features updated packages to cover an Nginx security issue. We also supply a dynamic version of the Passenger N
Passenger 5.1.5: security robustness fix, internal improvements Version 5.1.5 of the Passenger application server for Ruby, Node.js, Meteor and Python has been released. We've eliminated an Apache configuration pitfall that, if enabled, could inadvertently allow users (who have acces
Passenger is NGINX Plus Certified! We are happy to announce that we have partnered with NGINX, Inc. and Passenger is officially certified under the NGINX Plus Certified Module Program. In 2016, NGINX Inc. introduced dynamic modules, which make life easier
Passenger 5.1.2: minor fixes + Homebrew tap Version 5.1.2 of the Passenger application server for Ruby, Node.js, Meteor and Python has been released. It fixes a specific use case on macOS where the new Passenger security update check would fail, as well as some ot
Passenger 5.1: a new milestone in robustness, security and efficiency It’s been a little over a year-and-a-half since we released the first version of Passenger 5, the application server for Ruby, Python, Node.js and Meteor. It brought a large amount of major improvements. Since then we ha
Passenger 5.0.29: Ubuntu 16.04 packages, Nginx 1.10.1, Docker logging improvements Version 5.0.29 of the Phusion Passenger application server for Ruby, Node.js, Meteor and Python has been released. It's also available through apt on Ubuntu 16.04 now, and packaged with Nginx 1.10.1. We've added logging
Xcode 7.3.1 fixes build & remote code execution When Apple released version 7.3.0 of Xcode, Passenger users on OSX started experiencing a crash issue after compiling Passenger. Version 7.3.1 no longer exhibits this issue, and also updates git to remove two remote code
