Algernon 1.15.0

• Compile the release binaries with Go 1.20.4.
• Add a close() function, ref #124 (thanks Malcolm Ke Win / @diyism).
• Add a shell linter to the CI configuration, ref #120 (thanks Jan Macku / @jamacku).
• Support reverse proxies, ref #131 (thanks Mohamed Abdel Maksoud / @mohamed--abdel-maksoud).
• Look for handler.lua in parent directories, ref #95, #112 and #130 (thanks Giulio Lunati / @giuliolunati).
• Add initial support for JWT tokens.
• Use os and ioinstead of the deprecated ioutil package.
• Use any instead of interface{}.
• Use the new unix build constraint.
• Use strings.ReplaceAll and bytes.ReplaceAll.
• Use simpleredis/v2.
• Use math.Round.
• Add an ulimit check to the welcome.sh script that also works on macOS Ventura.
• Format/lint the code with gofumpt, golint and staticcheck.
• Use the betteralign tool, to improve struct field alignment.
• Make the code debug/tracing/profiling features optional at compile time, using build tags.
• Fix a typo in one of the examples.
• Update the CI configuration.
• Update dependencies.
• Update documentation.

Algernon 1.14.0

• Compile the release binaries with Go 1.19.
• Improve the documentation (thanks Matt Mc / @tooolbox ).
• Add support for Teal together with a Teal sample (thanks Matt Mc / @tooolbox).
• Fix an issue with how Lua tables were pretty printed in the REPL.
• Fix an issue with conversion from Lua tables to JSON, ref #107, #108 (thanks @linkerlin).
• Fix an issue with the generated directory listing pages, where %2F would appear in the URL instead of /, ref #117.
• Follow the advice of these utilities: go fmt, golint, staticcheck and to some extent fieldalignment.
• Update dependencies.

Algernon 1.13.0

• Add a flag for serving domains with CertMagic and Let's Encrypt
• Add a flag for redirecting from HTTP to HTTPS
• Use req.Context since CloseNotifier has been deprecated
• Switch to Go 1.18
• Switch from the MIT license to BSD-3
• Fix double drawn frames around syntax highlighted code in Markdown documents
• URL encode links when listing directories
• Use the same directory as the pongo2 template when importing macros, ref #84
• Let plugins continue to run if an optional argument is passed in, ref #64 (otherwise close them)
• Switch from jvatic/goja-babel to wvanw/esbuild, ref #77 (#91)
• Improve JSX-related error messages
• Use yuin/gopher-lua and yuin/gluamapper
• Use a context when running Lua functions and use the background context when creating the Lua pool
• Update the alg2docker and benchmark scripts
• Update the --help output
• Fix a typo in the "single.alg" example Algernon application
• Update example service and Dockerfiles
• Add a base URL flag for the directory listing (#90 ?)
• Follow the advice of the "fieldalignment" and "staticcheck" utilies
• Fix the serve2 function so that the registration form example works
• Update tests, dependencies, examples and documentation

Algernon 1.12.14

Changes from last release

• Fix a typo in the documentation (thanks Felix Yan)
• Add support for simple MSSQL queries, ref #57
• Improve MSSQL support (thanks Matt Mc)
• Improvements to table mappings in Lua, including changes to gluamapper (thanks Matt Mc)
• Support headers in buffered responses, ref #75 (thanks Matt Mc)
• Improvements to the file upload functionality (thanks Matt Mc)
• Various minor fixes and improvements (thanks Matt Mc)
• Add three new repl commands: pwd, serverdir and serverfile
• Add nicer help output for built-in commands to the repl
• Add a ServerDir function for the server configuration Lua script
• Fix wasm mimetype issue, ref #82
• Fix the Babl plugin configuration after updating the Babl dependency
• Various improvements to the samples and to the "Welcome" page
• Follow the advice of go vet, golint and staticcheck
• Support Go 1.16 and Go 1.17 only, for now
• Downgrade fsnotify to v1.4.9 so that building with GOOS=freebsd works again
• Update CI configuration
• Update dependencies
• Update documentation

Algernon 1.12.12

• Support the Apple M1 CPU by not including QUIC-support for darwin+arm64. See #49 for more info.

The *_nocgo.* archives are built with CGO_ENABLED=0 and Go 1.16.

Algernon 1.12.11

• Improve the man page.
• Minor improvements for the help and completion functionality in the REPL.
• Let several algernon --lua instances not use the same temporary database.
• Let .mk, .ts and .tsx be served as text/plain;charset=utf-8.
• Initial support for rendering .frm and .form files written in SimpleForm.
• Fix for making it possible to use . together with --autorefresh.
• Minor fixes to the docker example files.
• Correct a typo in a comment (thanks Felix Yan).
• Update the Travis CI configuration (thanks Rui Chen).
• Follow the advice of the very useful staticcheck utility.
• Remove OpenBSD support while waiting for pkg/term to support it.
• Use a specific commit of pkg/term so that Algernon also compiles for FreeBSD.
• Update documentation.
• Update dependencies.

Patch release

• Improve CI config and Homebrew release process (thanks Rui Chen!).
• Update supplied systemd configuration.
• Remove mentions of nacl.
• Remove the mitchellh/colorstring dependency.
• Use algernon_history.txt as the REPL history filename on Windows.
• Don't output raw color codes on Windows, use ANSI colors or disable the color.
• Remove symlinks from the "welcome" sample.
• Update the release script to also build with GOARM=7 for Raspberry Pi 2, 3 and 4.
• Update dependencies.
• Update documentation.

Patch release with updated dependencies

• Issues with Bolt db, simplebolt and gccgo are resolved. Algernon now also supports gccgo.
• Algernon requires Go 1.11 or later.
• Respect TMPDIR, for improved Termux support.
• Fix issue #42, when --dir is used together with a trailing slash.
• Don't force the use of the bolt database when in development mode.
• Update dependencies.

The Windows and OpenBSD releases does not compile anymore. I want to look into that at some point.

Patch release with updated dependencies

• Now using a fork of the quic package, since there were build issues with it (could not build with gccgo and issue #41).
• Updated dependencies.
• There are still issues with compiling simplebolt with gccgo, which is why Algernon can not be compiled with gccgo in a way where simplebolt works, yet. This is related to different behavior between go and gccgo and will be worked around in simplebolt. See: golang/go#36430
• The autorefresh feature (-a or --autorefresh) may now follow symlinks to diretories, to make the ./welcome.sh script and example more user-friendly when live editing for instance samples/greetings/index.md.
• The file-search backend of the autofresh feature is now also concurrent.
• Tested with the latest version of Go (1.13.5) on 64-bit Arch Linux.

Patch release with updated dependencies

• Built with Go 1.13 (d9b13233378668a4fd24ac5d044e9d550cd2a8be)
• Adds support for PostgreSQL queries with the PQ function, from Lua.
• Updated dependencies, especially with QUIC and HTTP/2 in mind.
• Updated the JSX sample to use the latest version of React.
• The static executable for Linux is now built with -trimpath.
• New HTTP client functionality from Lua, using GET or HTTPClient.
• CookieSecret and SetCookieSecret can now be used to get and set the secure cookie secret from Lua, or it can be set with the --cookiesecret flag.