Changelog - 2013 — Gunicorn 21.0.0 documentation

# Changelog - 2013

## 18.0 / 2013-08-26

- new: add `-e/--env` command line argument to pass an environment variables to gunicorn

- new: add `--chdir` command line argument to specified directory before apps loading. - new: add wsgi.file_wrapper support in async workers

- new: add `--paste` command line argument to set the paster config file

- deprecated: the command `gunicorn_django` is now deprecated. You should now run your application with the WSGI interface installed with your project (see https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/howto/deployment/wsgi/gunicorn/) for more infos.

- deprecated: the command `gunicorn_paste` is deprecated. You now should use the new `--paste` argument to set the configuration file of your paster application.

- fix: Removes unmatched leading quote from the beginning of the default access log format string

- fix: null timeout

- fix: gevent worker

- fix: don’t reload the paster app when using pserve

- fix: after closing for error do not keep alive the connection

- fix: responses 1xx, 204 and 304 should not force the connection to be closed

## 17.5 / 2013-07-03

- new: add signals documentation

- new: add post_worker_init hook for workers

- new: try to use gunicorn.conf.py in current folder as the default config file.

- fix graceful timeout with the Eventlet worker

- fix: don’t raise an error when closing the socket if already closed

- fix: fix –settings parameter for django application and try to find the django settings when using the `gunicorn` command.

- fix: give the initial global_conf to paster application

- fix: fix ‘Expect: 100-continue’ support on Python 3

### New versioning:

With this release, the versioning of Gunicorn is changing. Gunicorn is stable since a long time and there is no point to release a “1.0” now. It should have been done since a long time. 0.17 really meant it was the 17th stable version. From the beginning we have only 2 kind of releases:

major release: releases with major changes or huge features added services releases: fixes and minor features added So from now we will apply the following versioning `<major>.<service>`. For example `17.5` is a service release.

## 0.17.4 / 2013-04-24

- fix unix socket address parsing

## 0.17.3 / 2013-04-23

- add systemd sockets support

- add `python -m gunicorn.app.wsgiapp` support

- improve logger class inheritance

- exit when the config file isn’t found

- add the -R option to enable stdio inheritance in daemon mode

- don’t close file descriptors > 3 in daemon mode

- improve STDOUT/STDERR logging

- fix pythonpath option

- fix pidfile creation on Python 3

- fix gevent worker exit

- fix ipv6 detection when the platform isn’t supporting it

## 0.17.2 / 2013-01-07

- optimize readline

- make imports errors more visible when loading an app or a logging class

- fix tornado worker: don’t pass ssl options if there are none

- fix PEP3333: accept only bytetrings in the response body

- fix support on CYGWIN platforms

## 0.17.1 / 2013-01-05

- add syslog facility name setting

- fix `--version` command line argument

- fix wsgi url_scheme for https