Timeline

December 19th, 2009 - TrustLeap's Forum is now available

The long-awaited G-WAN Forum is now online, thanks to JohnnyOpcode!

December 4th, 2009 - G-WAN Linux/Win32 features are now on par

Notes regarding G-WAN/1.0.5 on Linux:

  - SIGSEGV/SIGFPE no longer stop G-WAN -they log a crash dump;
  - tuned the 'Lorenz waterwheel' for Linux (giving more scalability).

To come soon: connection handlers, a maintenance script, and library samples.

November 30th, 2009 - G-WAN for Linux publicly released!

G-WAN is faster on Linux than on Windows.

Notes regarding G-WAN/1.0.5 on Linux:

  - SIGSEGV and SIGFPE signals are not (yet) blocked -this is a bit tricky;
  - timeouts are not fully tested -but they work at least for trivial tests;
  - far-too-slow and idle-for-too-long connections are properly closed.

Notes regarding G-WAN/1.0.5 on Windows:

  - a bit of code-cleaning took place (thanks Linux), more to come soon.

Next step: Solaris. After that, G-WAN's serious features will be implemented.

September 9th, 2009 - Minor update

Changes implemented in G-WAN/1.0.4:

  - removed more branching, resulting in more speed (yes, again);
  - fixed duplicate timeouts on Windows Server 2003/2008 platforms;
  - helped to save Windows from itself with long-lasting TCP connections
    (they tried it at 4:49am with journalists -just in case it had worked?).

G-WAN is faster and faster -despite more features!

August 26th, 2009.

Changes implemented in G-WAN/1.0.3:

  - enhanced the 'Lorenz waterwheel' (even more speed & scalability);
  - removed more branching, resulting in even more speed than before;
  - implemented an 'anti-flooding' check, protecting system resources;
  - finally found how to make timeouts work with IO completion ports
    (now idle and [much too] slow connections are cut when needed).

Keep tuned!

August 15th, 2009 - One Month and half.

Changes implemented in G-WAN/1.0.2:

  - implemented a 'Lorenz waterwheel'-inspired logic for scalability & speed;
  - added support for real-time cache updates -without speed penalty;
    (no more G-WAN stop/restart to reload updated docs/servlets);
  - added support for the If-Not-Match header field (ETag's companion);
  - different log files are created for each new day, keeping files smaller;
  - local time offsets in the access.log file time-stamps use daylight savings;
  - too short requests receive '400:Bad Request' rather than '404:Not Found';
  - restored support for absolute URIs (disabled by too stringent checks).

Thank you for your feedback!

July 7th, 2009 - First Week.

Changes implemented in G-WAN/1.0.1:

  - added the missing 'errors.css' file to the /www/imgs sub-folder;
  - added support for the (requested) response headers' ETag field;
  - fixed a couple of gwan/access/error log files format glitches;
  - added support for DLL libraries to extend servlet functionalities.

    (this will be documented later: it lets you use the DLL calls of
    all the available system/commercial libraries without having to
    create interfaces for G-WAN)

More to come soon!