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Phusion Passenger is a fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js. It works by integrating into Apache and Nginx and turning them into a fully-featured application server. It has high-profile users such as New York Times, AirBnB, Juniper, Motorola, etc, and comes with many features that make your life easier and your application perform better.

Phusion Passenger is under constant maintenance and development. Version 4.0.20 is a bugfix release.

Phusion Passenger also has an Enterprise version which comes with a wide array of additional features. By buying Phusion Passenger Enterprise you will directly sponsor the development of the open source version.

Recent changes

• Fixed a bug in Phusion Passenger Standalone’s daemon mode. When in daemon mode, the Nginx temporary directory was deleted prematurely, causing some POST requests to fail. This was a regression that was introduced in 4.0.15 as part of an optimization.
• Fixed compilation problems on Solaris 10 with Sun Studio 12.3.
• Improved detection of RVM problems.
• It is now possible to log the request method to Union Station.
• Introduced a new option, `PassengerLoadShellEnvvars` (Apache) and `passenger_load_shell_envvars` (Nginx). This allows enabling or disabling the loading of bashrc before spawning the application.
• [Enterprise] Fixed a packaging problem which caused the flying-passenger executable not to be properly included in the bin path.
• [Enterprise] Fixed a race condition which sometimes causes the Flying Passenger socket to be deleted after a restart. Fixes issue #939.
• [Enterprise] The `byebug` gem is now supported for debugging on Ruby 2.0. The byebug gem requires a patch before this works.

Installing or upgrading to 4.0.20

OS X	Debian	Ubuntu
Heroku	Ruby gem	Tarball

Final

Phusion Passenger’s core is open source. Please fork or watch us on Github. 🙂

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