This is to announce the release of Pound v2.0.4.

Changes in this version:

- fixed small problem in the kill_be() code

- added support for PCRE. If the PCRE package (specifically the
pcreposix library) is installed Pound will use it instead of the regex
functions found in libc. Our testing shows PCRE to be almost an order of
magnitude faster, and the resulting performance improvement is dramatic.

In our testing we saw no problems, but PCRE may not be completely
compatible with regex - so we would really appreciate additional
testing.

The software is at version 2.0.4 (beta quality). Further testing 
(especially under heavy loads), improvements and suggestions are
welcome.[...]

> This is to announce the release of Pound v2.0.4.[...]

I can only compile using PCRE with the attached patch. I  was looking at
the pcre sources and can't find pcreposix_regcomp() in it, only regcomp().

Simon

On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 13:47 +0100, Simon Matter wrote:[...]

They used to be there - with a #define regcomp pcreposix_regcomp in
pcreposix.h. Apparently it changed in newer versions...

We'll fix the autoconf test in the next release. What about some test
results?[...]

On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 13:47 +0100, Simon Matter wrote:[...]

Do patches get stripped off this mailing list?  I'm interested in trying
this but had the same problem... and I don't see Simon's patch.

Regards,
Cliff

> On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 13:47 +0100, Simon Matter wrote:[...][...]

You'll find the patches only in the list archives.

Simon
[...]

On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 08:52 -0800, Cliff Wells wrote:[...]

The mailing list policy is to show attachments in the archive but to
strip them from the mail messages. A result of some past (unintentional)
abuse.

Just click on the link at the bottom of the mail in order to access the
message in the archive and download the attachment you want.[...]

Am Montag, den 20.03.2006, 11:26 +0100 schrieb Robert Segall:[...]

PCRE works fine for us until now, but I suggest adding an enable switch
to configure to disable PCRE support in cases where PCRE is installed on
the system but it is not intended to use it in Pound (regexp
compatibility issues, stability considerations, etc.).

Our RPMs for Fedora Core 4 and CentOS4/RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 have
been upgraded to version 2.0.4 and are compiled with PCRE support now.
They are available through http://naturidentisch.de/packages/
for direct
download, apt and yum.
The SRPMs should recompile on almost any RPM based distro.

Best regards,
// Veit

On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 18:04 +0100, Robert Segall wrote:[...]

Patched and installed.  Looks good so far.

Thanks guys.

Cliff

> On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 13:47 +0100, Simon Matter wrote:[...][...]

I don't have the load to see any difference. However, the updated RPM is
here http://www.invoca.ch/pub/packages/pound/
for those who want to try
it.

Simon