6.5.0 - Sky's Version

They say good things come to wait, and you've all had to wait a long time for 6.5.0 because @nateberkopec had another daughter: Sky!

• Features

  • Print RUBY_DESCRIPTION when Puma starts ([#3407])
  • Set the worker process count automatically when using WEB_CONCURRENCY=auto ([#3439], [#3437])
  • Mark as ractor-safe ([#3486], [#3422])
  • Add option enable_keep_alives. true (the default) mimics existing behavior, but now you can use false to disable keepalive to reduce queue tail latency ([#3496])
  • Add parameters to Puma methods to allow CI to change ENV in isolation ([#3485])
  • Add ssl_ciphersuites option for TLSv1.3 ciphers ([#3359], [#3343])
  • You can now use --threads 5 or threads 5 to config max/min threads with a single number (used to need to say 5:5) ([#3309])
  • Option to turn off systemd plugin ([#3425], [#3424])
  • Add on_stopped hook ([#3411], [#3380])

• Bugfixes

  • Handle blank environment variables when loading config ([#3539])
  • lib/rack/handler/puma.rb - fix for rackup v1.0.1, adjust Gemfile ([#3532], [#3531])
  • null_io.rb - add external_encoding, set_encoding, binmode, binmode? ([#3214])
  • Implement NullIO#seek and #pos to mimic IO ([#3468])
  • add support in rack handler & fix regression in binder for linux abstract namespace sockets ([#3508])
  • Use actual thread local for Puma::Server.current. ([#3360])
  • client.rb - fix request chunked body handling ([#3338], [#3337])
  • Properly handle two requests seen in the initial buffer ([#3332])
  • Fix response repeated status line when request is invalid or errors are raised ([#3308], [#3307])
  • Fix child processes not being reaped when Process.detach used ([#3314], [#3313])

• JRuby

  • Make HTTP length constants configurable ([#3518])
  • Fixup jruby_restart.rb & launcher.rb to work with ARM64 macOS JRuby ([#3467])

• Performance

  • Avoid checking if all workers reached timeout unless idle timeout is configured ([#3341])
  • Request body - increase read size to 64 kB ([#3548])
  • single mode skip wait_for_less_busy_worker ([#3325])

• Refactor

  • A ton of CI/test improvements by @MSP-Greg, as usual.
  • Add ThreadPool#stats and adjust Server#stats to use it ([#3527])
  • normalize whitespace in worker stats string ([#3513])
  • rack/handler/puma.rb - ssl - use start_with?, add test ([#3510])
  • extconf.rb - add logging for OpenSSL versions ([#3370])
  • Lazily require Puma::Rack::Builder ([#3340])
  • Refactor: Constantize worker pipe request types ([#3318])

• Docs

  • stats.md improvements ([#3514])
  • control_cli.rb: Harmonize help message with bin/puma ([#3434])
  • dsl.rb: Clarify a callback's argument ([#3435])
  • lib/rack/handler/puma.rb - relocate and fixup module comment ([#3495])