LiteSpeed Web ADC
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LiteSpeed Ingress Controller 0.1.23(05-19-2022) New Feature & Bugfixes
- NEW FEATURE Red/Blue and Canary deployments using annotations.
- BUGFIX context_list is properly passed in ZeroConf between Go program and load balancer resulting in contexts now working correctly.
- BUGFIX A missing exact context entry is now correctly added into contexts.
- BUGFIX Use and document vhostPerDomain correctly.
Web ADC 3.1.6(05-11-2022) Security, Improvement & Bugfixes
- SECURITY Address a crash and memory leak in HTTP/3 implementation. current PCI scan.
- IMPROVEMENT Better cache storage cleanup up for purged pages.
- BUGFIX Avoid sending multiple cookie headers in proxy requests to backend.
- BUGFIX Block request header "transfer-encoding: chunked" for HTTP/2 and HTTP/3.
- BUGFIX Better cache vary support for static content.
- BUGFIX Address a few random crashes.
LiteSpeed Ingress Controller 0.1.22(05-06-2022) New Features & Bugfix
- NEW FEATURE WebAdmin interface is now available including Real-Time Stats and template WebADC configuration. Template support provides availability to the Web Application Firewall.
- NEW FEATURE Optional support for configuration port in helm definition (service.ports.config).
- BUGFIX Reduce restarts within health checks.
LiteSpeed Ingress Controller 0.1.21(04-15-2022) New Feature & Bugfix
- NEW FEATURE Support both Nginx and generic Rewrite annotations.
- BUGFIX Correctly support multiple domains for a SSL certificate.
Web ADC 3.1.5(02-24-2022) New Features & Imporvements
- NEW FEATURE Add "Failover" load balancing strategy.
- IMPROVEMENT Add new configuration option to control cache vary for static content.
- IMPROVEMENT Better stale cache purge handling.
- IMPROVEMENT Auto whitelist QUIC.cloud and Jetpack IPs.
- IMPROVEMENT Better backend ping control.
- IMPROVEMENT Detect bot attacks by bad status code.
WHM WebADC ZeroConf 0.7.4(01-18-2022) Refactor
- REFACTOR Remove dependency on Scalar::Util::Numeric.
WHM WebADC ZeroConf 0.7.3(11-15-2021) Bugfix
- BUGFIX Use Cpanel::Binaries::path if available.
Web ADC 3.1.3(11-12-2021) New Features, Imporvements & Bugfixes
- NEW FEATURE Websocket passthrough to backend cluster.
- NEW FEATURE Add websocket proxy target support for rewrite rules.
- IMPROVEMENT Improve HTTP/2 upload throughput.
- IMPROVEMENT Improve HTTP/3 upload throughput.
- IMPROVEMENT Improve HTTP/3 DPLPMTUD support.
- BUGFIX Address HTTP/3 handshake failures.
- BUGFIX Address an HTTP/1.1 request body chunk encoding corner case.
- BUGFIX Throttle unnecessary lscache purges generated by LSCWP.
- BUGFIX Other minor bug fixes and improvements.
WHM WebADC ZeroConf 0.7.2(09-24-2021) New Feature and Update
- NEW FEATURE Add ability to configure max conns for each backend.
- UPDATE Add support for NAT mode.
Web ADC 3.1.2(09-21-2021) Imporvement & Bugfixes
- IMPROVEMENT Make max_conn configurable at vhost level through ZeroConf API.
- BUGFIX Address a few issues with asynchronous mod_security engine.
- BUGFIX Improve load balancing algorithm to distribute load evenly among backends.
- BUGFIX Properly handle POST requests without "Content-Length" header in HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 streams.
- BUGFIX Address a few issues with handling for HTTP/3 backends.
- BUGFIX Cache engine should no longer purge again when serving a cached page with purge headers.
- BUGFIX Other minor bug fixes and improvements.
Web ADC 3.1.1(07-08-2021) Bugfixes
- BUGFIX Address a chrome HTTP/3 connection timeout issue for long running scripts.
- BUGFIX Address a random crash with asynchronous mod_security engine.
- BUGFIX Resolve a problem with purging by URL.
- BUGFIX Address a crash when handling decoded HTTP/2 headers.
- BUGFIX Detect dead HTTP/2 connections during server cooldown.
- BUGFIX Improve request/response header name validation to avoid HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 protocol violations.
- BUGFIX Minor tweaks to HTTP/3 protocol.
Web ADC 3.1(06-07-2021) New Features
- NEW FEATURE HTTP/3 v1 support with with DPLPMTUD, Adaptive congestion control, Delayed ACK, and zero-copy packetization.
- NEW FEATURE Asynchronous mod_security engine.
- NEW FEATURE Cache engine POST request caching capability.
- NEW FEATURE Support for secure websocket backends (wss://).
- NEW FEATURE ModSecurity JSON audit log.
- NEW FEATURE ModSecurity scan response body support.
- NEW FEATURE ModSecurity persistent collection SHM storage.
- NEW FEATURE Server level header manipulation.
Web ADC 3.0.3(03-11-2021) Tuning and Bug Fixes
- TUNING Add LB configurations and ping interval config for ZeroConf.
- TUNING Increase cache object size limit from 10MB to 100MB.
- TUNING Log reason for reCAPTCHA trigger.
- BUGFIX Update lsquic to v2.29 with improved HTTP/3 performance and stability.
- BUGFIX Purge By URL no longer interferes with Purge by Tag with a leading '/'.
- BUGFIX Address random blank cached page caused by conditional fetching of stale cache from backend.
- BUGFIX Address content corruption for ESI includes.
- BUGFIX Use THROTTLE as the default mode for WordPress brute force protection.
- BUGFIX Follow connection close response header for HTTP/1.1 proxy connections.
Web ADC 3.0.2(02-09-2021) Bug Fixes
- BUGFIX Update lsquic to v2.27 with improved HTTP/3 performance and stability.
- BUGFIX Improve WordPress brute force protection with reCAPTCHA.
- BUGFIX Address hanging caused by HTTP/1.1 chunk encoding.
- BUGFIX Correct truncated response body due to ESI + HTTP/2.
- BUGFIX Improve ESI parser to handle improperly escaped ESI directives.
- BUGFIX TLS session ticket timeout now defaults to 1 hour.
- BUGFIX Access logging delay is avoided when AIO logging is enabled.
- BUGFIX Mod_security @rx operator is able to scan multi-line input now.
- BUGFIX $VH_DOMAIN in vhost template configuration is now supported.
- BUGFIX ADDRESS A few minor memory leaks.
Web ADC 3.0.1(10-29-2020) New Features, Improvement and Bug Fixes
- NEW FEATURE Enable ESI combine request for WordPress cache.
- NEW FEATURE Add option to purge cache based on disk space.
- NEW FEATURE Add support for using "X-Real-ip" header for client IP.
- IMPROVEMENT Cache engine now forwards vary value to backend.
- BUGFIX Address various slow memory leaks.
- BUGFIX Address various issues in IETF QUIC (HTTP/3) implementation.
- BUGFIX Address various issues in HTTP/2 implementation.
- BUGFIX Address various issues in HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 client connections to backend.
- BUGFIX Release unneeded resource for firewall controller process.
Web ADC 3.0(06-30-2020) New Features, Tuning, Improvement and Bug Fixes
- NEW FEATURE Support for HTTP/3 drafts 27,28, and 29.
- NEW FEATURE POST request caching support.
- NEW FEATURE End to end HTTP/1, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 load balancing.
- NEW FEATURE New configuration options 'bindIpv6Only', 'reverseDnsLookup', 'verifyGoogleBot', 'forceSecureCookie', 'purgeNoHitTimeout', and 'sslDefaultCiphers'.
- TUNING Complete rewrite of HTTP/2 engine with more efficient header handling when routing requests using HTTP/2 and HTTP/3.
- IMPROVEMENT reCAPTCHA handling now avoids hijacking backend server initiated verification.
- BUGFIX Address bugs in various modules (mod_secuirty, SHM, cache, ESI, and ZeroConf).
Web ADC 3.0 RC3(06-22-2020) New Features and Bug Fixes
- NEW FEATURE HTTP/3 draft 29 support.
- NEW FEATURE POST request caching support.
- NEW FEATURE "Use Client IP in Header" setting can now be set to use the last IP listed in the X-Forwarded-For header. (for servers behind AWS ELB)
- BUGFIX Correct a SHM memory allocation issue.
- BUGFIX Invisible reCAPTCHA now works properly with IE 11 browser.
Web ADC 3.0 RC2(06-09-2020) New Feature, Improvements, and Bug Fixes
- NEW FEATURE Add support for HTTP/3 draft 28.
- IMPROVEMENT Enhance HTTP/2 performance.
- IMPROVEMENT Enhance cache engine purge by URL implementation.
- BUGFIX Squash some minor proxy header handling bugs.
- BUGFIX Prevent output corruption by ESI engine.
- BUGFIX No longer force cache revalidation when caching a static entry.
Web ADC 3.0 RC1(05-22-2020) Major New Features, Major Improvements, and Bug Fixes
- MAJOR NEW FEATURE Added support for HTTP/2 proxy backend.
- NEW FEATURE Added new configuration options 'bindIpv6Only', 'reverseDnsLookup', 'verifyGoogleBot', 'forceSecureCookie', 'purgeNoHitTimeout', and 'sslDefaultCiphers'.
- MAJOR IMPROVEMENT Refactored and optimized to HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 engines.
- IMPROVEMENT Improved automatic cache storage cleanup.
- BUGFIX Fixed repeated refreshing in cache stale refresh logic.
- BUGFIX Fixed a cache response by MIME type bug.
- BUGFIX Fixed various minor bugs in mod_security engine.
- BUGFIX Fixed minor bugs in HTTP/3 engine.
WHM Web ADC ZeroConf 0.7(05-20-2020) New Feature and Update
- NEW FEATURE Add Cluster IPs for server-wide and per-domain cluster configurations.
- UPDATE Add hooks for SSL installation and cPanel addon/sub/parked domains.
Web ADC 2.7(03-30-2020) New Features and Update
- NEW FEATURE Made mod_security engine fully asynchronous.
- NEW FEATURE Added support for transparent proxies.
- UPDATE Updated HTTP/3 support to h3-27.
Web ADC 2.6.1(03-25-2020) New Features, Securities,Tuning, Bugfixes
- NEW FEATURE Support QUIC/HTTP3 versions up to Q050, h3-25, h3-27
- NEW FEATURE set X_SPDY environment for IETF QUIC connection.
- NEW FEATURE allow using cluster name in PROXY target URL. It has a higher priority than proxy worker.
- NEW FEATURE allow rewrite rule to update Proxy-Host without using PROXY action.
- SECURITY Improve access security for Web Admin. current PCI scan.
- SECURITY Disable TLS 1.1 for the default setting. current PCI scan.
- TUNING Set RBL DNS cache to 60 seconds.
- BUGFIX Fix a bug where Quic Client connections did not work with multiple backends.
- BUGFIX Fix bugs that could cause the Mod Security engine to hang.
- BUGFIX Fix bugs in the ModSecurity configuration parser.
- BUGFIX Tune various Mod Security variables to be more accurate.
- BUGFIX Fix bugs in query string decoding.
- BUGFIX Fix memory leak in Replication logic.
- BUGFIX Fix a bug that caused Font files to not be cached.
- BUGFIX Fix a bug in the ESI handler that caused the ESI requests to hang.
WHM Web ADC ZeroConf 0.6(01-07-2020) Bugfix
- BUGFIX Switch to use Cpanel::Binaries::get_binary_location.
Web ADC 2.6(10-24-2019) New Feature, Improvement
- NEW FEATURE Updated HTTP/3 with draft 23 support.
- NEW FEATURE Added BBR congestion control for HTTP/3, QUIC.
- NEW FEATURE Added HTTP/3 and QUIC proxy client for HTTPS proxy backends.
- IMPROVEMENT HTTP/2 performance improvements.
- IMPROVEMENT Asynchronous mod_security offloading with multi-threading.
WHM Web ADC ZeroConf 0.5(08-21-2019) New Feature & Bugfix
- NEW FEATURE Add logic to check for VHost Templates within configurations.
- BUGFIX Early builds of cPanel 82 has the URL::Encode module missing. Change to use the Encode core module instead.
Web ADC 2.5.1(08-15-2019) Security, New Feature, Improvement & BugFix
- SECURITY Addressed recent HTTP/2 DoS advisories. Fixed CVE-2019-9516 "0-Length Headers Leak" vulnerability. Completely blocks unaffected attacks: CVE-2019-9511 "Data Dribble", CVE-2019-9512 "Ping Flood", CVE-2019-9513 "Resource Loop", CVE-2019-9514 "Reset Flood", CVE-2019-9515 "Settings Flood", CVE-2019-9517 "Internal Data Buffering", and CVE-2019-9518 "Empty Frames Flood".
- NEW FEATURE Updated HTTP/3 support to Internet Draft 22.
- IMPROVEMENT reCAPTCHA engine has been improved to reduce false positives.
- BUGFIX Fixed a regression that affected the handling of HEAD requests.
Web ADC 2.5(07-30-2019) New Features, & Improvements
- MAJOR NEW FEATURE Added support for experimental HTTP/3 draft 20.
- NEW FEATURE HTTPS handshake offloading improves HTTPS handshake speed and avoids clogging the server's main event loop.
- NEW FEATURE SO_REUSEPORT support improves multi-worker scalability for high traffic deployments.
- NEW FEATURE HTTPS certificate compression reduces the size of HTTPS handshake exchange data.
- NEW FEATURE Added support for Q046 in QUIC engine.
- NEW FEATURE Added smart anti-DDoS protection for attacks targeting QUIC UDP port.
- IMPROVEMENT More reliable HA replication.
- IMPROVEMENT Bug fixes and enhancement to ZeroConf API.
WHM Web ADC ZeroConf(01-07-2019) New Features
- NEW FEATURE Introduce Force Update SSL - forces Web ADC to update to new SSL certificates.
Web ADC 2.4(01-03-2019) New Features, Major Improvements, & Bug Fixes
- NEW FEATURE QUIC 044 support.
- NEW FEATURE QUIC proxy backend support for backend communication through QUIC.
- NEW FEATURE New load balancing strategy: LB_ST_FASTER_RESP.
- NEW FEATURE Recaptcha verification for DDoS attack mitigation.
- NEW FEATURE Intelligent Botnet detection and blocking through firewall.
- MAJOR IMPROVEMENT HTTP/2 performance has been improved with a better header compression/decompression work flow.
- BUGFIX All bug fixes from ADC v2.3 incremental builds included.
Web ADC 2.3(08-09-2018)Feature Enhancements & Bug Fixes
- MAJOR NEW FEATURE Added dynamic BROTLI compression.
- IMPROVEMENT Improved QUIC engine with Google QUIC v43 support, improved performance.
- IMPROVEMENT Improved HA/Replication support.
- IMPROVEMENT Improved ZeroConf support.
- IMPROVEMENT Improved cache engine with automatically static assets caching and updating.
- IMPROVEMENT Added MaxmindDB support.
- IMPROVEMENT Improved HTTP/2 performance.
- IMPROVEMENT Added TLSv1.3 draft 28 support.
Web ADC 2.2(05-09-2018)Feature Enhancements & Bug Fixes
- NEW FEATURE Easy cluster management with ZeroConfig API and cPanel integration.
- IMPROVEMENT QUIC engine has been improved with better performance and scalability.
- IMPROVEMENT PageSpeed support has been improved.
- IMPROVEMENT mod_security engine has been improved with better performance and compatibility.
- BUGFIX Fixed a bug that sometimes caused IPv6 listeners to be unable to restart.
Web ADC 2.1.3(03-02-2018)Improvements & Bug Fixes
- IMPROVEMENT Improved QUIC engine performance and download speeds.
- BUGFIX Fixed a bug that caused a file descriptor leak in the cache engine.
- BUGFIX Fixed an SHM corruption bug.
- BUGFIX Fixed a bug that caused a file descriptor leak when SecRemoteRule was used.
- BUGFIX Fixed a bug that sometimes caused IPv6 listeners to be unable to restart.
Web ADC 2.1.2(12-21-2017)Feature enhancements
- NEW FEATURE Improved cache engine with capability to selectively drop certain query string value pairs.
- NEW FEATURE Built-in WordPress brute force protection.
- NEW FEATURE Added capability to modify response headers through context level configuration.
- IMPROVEMENT Improved QUIC engine performance.
Web ADC 2.1(7-11-2017)Major Feature enhancements
- MAJOR NEW FEATURE Added QUIC support, compatible with Q035, Q037.
- NEW FEATURE Switched from OpenSSL to BoringSSL with TLSv1.3 support.
- NEW FEATURE Added TCP_FASTOPN support.
- NEW FEATURE The ZeroConfig API supports direct, automated thirdparty management of Web ADC configuration.
- NEW FEATURE Added support for IP2Location to convert IP to geographic location.
- NEW FEATURE Added support for SecRemoteRules and improved performance of mod_security engine.
Web ADC 2.1RC1(6-13-2017)Major Feature enhancements
- MAJOR NEW FEATURE Added QUIC support, compatible with Q035, Q037.
- NEW FEATURE Switched from OpenSSL to BoringSSL with TLSv13 support.
- NEW FEATURE Added TCP_FASTOPN support.
Web ADC 2.0.2(2-1-2017) Major Feature enhancements, Security updates, Bug Fixes
- SECURITY Removed DES-CBC3-SHA from default cipher suite to avoid failing current PCI scan.
- SECURITY Upgrade bundled OpenSSL library to 1.0.2k.
- IMPROVEMENT Improved mod_security log messages to use variable values.
- BUGFIX Fixed a bug in SHM hash table that caused data corruption and infinite looping.
- BUGFIX Fixed a bug in cache object replication that caused long delays for graceful restart.
- BUGFIX Minor bug fixes in HTTP/2, the ESI cache engine, and the mod_security engine.
Web ADC 2.0.1(11-10-2016)Major Feature enhancements, Bug Fixes
- MAJOR IMPROVEMENT Improved LiteMage first page load speed for new visitors by avoiding going through the backend.
- IMPROVEMENT Improved cache purging capability: private cache entries can now be purged with public tags and multiple cache purge response headers are accepted.
- BUGFIX Improved server stability with minor bug fixes.
Web ADC 2.0(06-22-2016)Feature enhancements
- Added PageSpeed support
- Added Magento LiteMage support
- Improved cache engine
- Improved server stability
- Upgraded bundled OpenSSL to 1.0.2h
Web ADC 2.0RC3(01-29-2016)Feature enhancements
- Improved WebAdmin real-time statistics.
- Improved HA replication.
- Improved stateful session tracking.
- Improved server stability.
- Upgraded bundled OpenSSL to 1.0.2f.
Web ADC 2.0RC2(11-19-2015)Feature enhancements and minor Bug Fixes
- Improvements to session data replication.
- Improvements to mod_security engine.
- Minor bug fixes.
Web ADC 2.0RC1(10-14-2015)Major Feature enhancements
- Added HTTP/2 support.
- Added High Availablity support through integration with Keepalived/CARP and session data replication.
- Added Page Cache support.
- Updated ModSecurity engine to support @rbl and @inspectfile operators.
- Added Multi-worker processes support with shared internal states to take advantage of multi-CPU/core SMP servers.
- Added shared SSL session cache and SSL ticket synchronization.
- Added Multi-Certificate support to use RSA, DSA, and ECC certificates for the same domain.
- Added SSL SNI mass hosting configuration.
Web ADC 1.8(10-16-2014)Security patch and Feature enhancements
- Upgraded OpenSSL to 1.0.1j to address vulnerabilities in 1.0.1i.
- SSLv3 turned off by default for HTTPS virtual hosts.
- Added support for TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2.
- Ended Solaris, FreeBSD 4/5, and Mac OSX support.
Web ADC 1.7(1-8-2010)Feature enhancements and minor Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug in WebAdmin console that cannot save certain configuration.
- Show blocked IP in WebAdmin console.
- Linked against OpenSSL to 0.9.8l.
- Added TCP_CORK to minimize packet segmentations.
Web ADC 1.6(1-28-2009)Minor Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug that causes HEAD request take long time to finish.
- Pass through 'deflate' response body.
Web ADC 1.5(12-10-2008)Minor Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug that causes server process to crash when one of the backend node failed to respond to ping request.
- Blank response header from backend server will be ignored.
Web ADC 1.4(10-1-2008)Feature enhancements and minor Bug Fixes
- IP to geo location feature has been updated to match new changes in Apache mod_geoip.
- Special care has been added to handle 1xx response from proxied back-end web servers.
- Fixed a bug that cause Web ADC not to reload license key after the key being updated.
Web ADC 1.3(6-30-2008)Minor Bug Fixes
- A bug that affects updating monthly lease license key has been fixed.
- A bug in request filter has been fixed.
Web ADC 1.2(5-19-2008)Feature enhancements and minor Bug Fixes
- Automated license management has been added.
- Minor bug fixes in the HTTP engine core.
Web ADC 1.1(12-17-2007)Feature enhancements and minor Bug Fixes
- Various bug has been fixed in the core HTTP engine.
- network throughput has been fine tuned.
- Many new features from the web server branch has been added.