Hi all,

The Snap team is pleased to announce the release of Snap 0.2.8.

Changes since 0.2.7

Improvements:

• Changed the way that snap-server handles its thread table in the libev backend. The old code was causing blackhole/lock contention on the shared table; we switched to a new concurrent hash map container type, which improved performance on the “PONG” benchmark from ~16k req/s to about ~22k req/s on mightybyte’s machine (a >35% improvement!).

Changes in behaviour:

• When POST bodies come in with Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded, Snap auto-parses them for you, entering the POST parameters into its parameter map. This was preventing a wai backend for Snap, because wai expects to be able to read the POST body itself. We’ve changed snap-server so that the POST body is still automagically processed, but you can still re-read the raw bytes if you want to. This means parsing POST bodies twice for wai handlers, but it at least makes writing a wai adapter for Snap possible.