SkunkWeb 3.4b3

[Jacob Smullyan]

SkunkWeb 3.4b3 has been released.

What It Is
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SkunkWeb is a configurable, extensible, scalable and robust
high-performance multi-process Python web application server with a
powerful templating system that encourages component based design.  It
is known to work on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, HPUX 11, MacOS X, and
Cygwin.  

SkunkWeb includes services to provide, among other things, url
rewriting, database connection caching, product distribution, remote
component calls, usertracking, authorization, and persistent cgi. It
can be used with its builtin standalone web server, with apache using
the mod_skunkweb module, or with apache or another web server using a
scgi, fastcgi, or cgi connector. 

SkunkWeb was created by Drew Csillag, and is maintained by him and
me (Jacob Smullyan).

What Is New
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This release features many performance and feature enhancements,
including:
   * Configuration variable lookups are now *much* faster.
   * swpython (a Python interpreter which loads the SkunkWeb environment) 
     can now be used in shebangs for shell scripts.
   * now works on HPUX 11.
   * many enhancements to the standalone web server (httpd service),
     including support for byte-range requests, Etag headers and gzip 
     compression. 
   * works with Python 2.3.

Resources
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Latest release: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/skunkweb/skunkweb-3.4b3.tar.gz
Home page: http://skunkweb.sourceforge.net/
Sourceforge project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/skunkweb/
Online documentation: http://skunkweb.sourceforge.net/docs.html
Mailing list: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=32756
Two recent articles about SkunkWeb (by JS): http://opensourcedigest.com/

Cheers,

Jacob Smullyan