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Phusion Passenger is a fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python, Node.js and Meteor. Passenger takes a lot of complexity out of deploying web apps, and adds powerful enterprise-grade features that are useful in production. High-profile companies such as Apple, New York Times, AirBnB, Juniper, American Express, etc are already using it, as well as over 350.000 websites.

Phusion Passenger is under constant maintenance and development. Version 4.0.39 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 crash that could happen if the client disconnects while a chunked response is being sent. Fixes issue #1062.
• In Phusion Passenger Standalone, it is now possible to customize the Nginx configuration file on Heroku. It is now also possible to permanently apply changes to the Nginx configuration file, surviving upgrades. Please refer to the "Advanced configuration" section of the Phusion Passenger Standalone manual for more information.
• The programming language selection menu in passenger-install-apache2-module and passenger-install-nginx-module only works on terminals that support UTF-8 and that have a UTF-8 capable font. To cater to users who cannot meet these requirements (e.g. PuTTY users using any of the default Windows fonts), it is now possible to switch the menu to a plain text mode by pressing ‘!’. Fixes issue #1066.
• Fixed printing UTF-8 characters in log files in Phusion Passenger Standalone.
• It is now possible to dump live backtraces of Python apps through the ‘SIGABRT’ signal.
• Fixed closing of file descriptors on OS X 10.9.
• Fixed compilation of native_support on Rubinius.

Installing or upgrading to 4.0.39

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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