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New features

• Add support for using AI/LLMs (Ollama) from Lua.
• Add support for .prompt files that contains a content-type, a model name, a blank line and a prompt. See README.md for more information.
• Make it possible to clear the AI cache with ClearCache().

Tutorials and example code

• Add a simple tutorial (TUTORIAL.md).
• Update the React jsonfile example.
• Update the TODO list example to the latest version of React.
• Update the React + JSX + database example.

Various

• Make small changes to the built-in themes.
• Minor changes to the alg2docker script.
• Combine several build and run scripts related to docker.
• Require Go 1.21 or later, mostly because of the QUIC dependency.
• Update CI configuration.
• Update the year in the license file.
• Add the loopvar feature to the dockerfiles.
• Use LABEL maintainer in the Dockerfiles.
• Remove some unused code.
• Update dependencies.

• Compile with Go 1.21.5 which has "security fixes to the go command, and the net/http and path/filepath packages, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, the go command, the runtime, and the crypto/rand, net, os, and syscall packages." See the Go issue tracker for more details.
• Also display images when viewing a local Markdown document with algernon -m.
• Fix a typo in the moonscript sample (thanks @testwill).
• Minor improvements to the Makefile and to the form/registration example.
• Update documentation, ref #141, (thanks for reporting @ptman).
• Update dependencies.
• Fix a test.

Usability

• Add a newline to the help output (thanks @arimal199).
• Let the servedir Lua function check the given arguments.

Security updates

• Compile with Go 1.21 + update the http2 dependency, ref CVE-2023-39325

Dependencies

• Use the orsinium-labs/enum package for an enum in logo_unix.go.
• Remove deprecated bmizerany/assert.
• Update all dependencies.

Performance

• Use the dkorunic/betteralign utility to align struct fields.
• Enable profile-guided optimization (new feature in Go 1.21).

General

• Improve the alg2docker and benchmark scripts.
• Use the GOEXPERIMENT=loopvar feature.
• Update the GitHub action for Homebrew.
• Update CI configuration.
• Require Go 1.20 or Go 1.21.
• Build the release binaries with Go 1.21.

• Support Go 1.21 and drop support for Go 1.19 (thanks @stefanb).
• Enable QUIC support for non-x86_64 macOS, like M1 and M2.
• Fix an issue when building with -tags=trace, for benchmarking.
• Update the welcome.sh script with regard to ulimit and sysctl kern.maxfiles detection.
• Improve the --help output and the REPL help.
• Let the style for the "Welcome" page be slightly more welcoming.
• Improve the Makefile.
• Some minor changes to the code.
• Adjust the example server config.
• Update dependencies.

• Remove a duplicate word from the README.md file (thanks Philipp Gillé / @philippgille).
• Serve Algernon web applications (.alg files) from memory if /dev/shm is writable, ref #132 (thanks Dialga / @Dialga).
• Switch from github.com/xyproto/env to github.com/xyproto/env/v2.
• Serve .json files a tiny bit faster.
• Update dependencies.

• Switch from blackfriday to gomarkdown/markdown.
• Add a simple example that uses the markdown function.
• Update the CI configuration.
• Update dependencies.
• Update documentation.

• Compile the release binaries with Go 1.20.4.
• Add a close() function, ref #124 (thanks Malcolm Ke Win / @diyism).
• Add a shell linter to the CI configuration, ref #120 (thanks Jan Macku / @jamacku).
• Support reverse proxies, ref #131 (thanks Mohamed Abdel Maksoud / @mohamed--abdel-maksoud).
• Look for handler.lua in parent directories, ref #95, #112 and #130 (thanks Giulio Lunati / @giuliolunati).
• Add initial support for JWT tokens.
• Use os and ioinstead of the deprecated ioutil package.
• Use any instead of interface{}.
• Use the new unix build constraint.
• Use strings.ReplaceAll and bytes.ReplaceAll.
• Use simpleredis/v2.
• Use math.Round.
• Add an ulimit check to the welcome.sh script that also works on macOS Ventura.
• Format/lint the code with gofumpt, golint and staticcheck.
• Use the betteralign tool, to improve struct field alignment.
• Make the code debug/tracing/profiling features optional at compile time, using build tags.
• Fix a typo in one of the examples.
• Update the CI configuration.
• Update dependencies.
• Update documentation.

• Compile the release binaries with Go 1.19.
• Improve the documentation (thanks Matt Mc / @tooolbox ).
• Add support for Teal together with a Teal sample (thanks Matt Mc / @tooolbox).
• Fix an issue with how Lua tables were pretty printed in the REPL.
• Fix an issue with conversion from Lua tables to JSON, ref #107, #108 (thanks @linkerlin).
• Fix an issue with the generated directory listing pages, where %2F would appear in the URL instead of /, ref #117.
• Follow the advice of these utilities: go fmt, golint, staticcheck and to some extent fieldalignment.
• Update dependencies.

• Add a flag for serving domains with CertMagic and Let's Encrypt
• Add a flag for redirecting from HTTP to HTTPS
• Use req.Context since CloseNotifier has been deprecated
• Switch to Go 1.18
• Switch from the MIT license to BSD-3
• Fix double drawn frames around syntax highlighted code in Markdown documents
• URL encode links when listing directories
• Use the same directory as the pongo2 template when importing macros, ref #84
• Let plugins continue to run if an optional argument is passed in, ref #64 (otherwise close them)
• Switch from jvatic/goja-babel to wvanw/esbuild, ref #77 (#91)
• Improve JSX-related error messages
• Use yuin/gopher-lua and yuin/gluamapper
• Use a context when running Lua functions and use the background context when creating the Lua pool
• Update the alg2docker and benchmark scripts
• Update the --help output
• Fix a typo in the "single.alg" example Algernon application
• Update example service and Dockerfiles
• Add a base URL flag for the directory listing (#90 ?)
• Follow the advice of the "fieldalignment" and "staticcheck" utilies
• Fix the serve2 function so that the registration form example works
• Update tests, dependencies, examples and documentation

Changes from last release

• Fix a typo in the documentation (thanks Felix Yan)
• Add support for simple MSSQL queries, ref #57
• Improve MSSQL support (thanks Matt Mc)
• Improvements to table mappings in Lua, including changes to gluamapper (thanks Matt Mc)
• Support headers in buffered responses, ref #75 (thanks Matt Mc)
• Improvements to the file upload functionality (thanks Matt Mc)
• Various minor fixes and improvements (thanks Matt Mc)
• Add three new repl commands: pwd, serverdir and serverfile
• Add nicer help output for built-in commands to the repl
• Add a ServerDir function for the server configuration Lua script
• Fix wasm mimetype issue, ref #82
• Fix the Babl plugin configuration after updating the Babl dependency
• Various improvements to the samples and to the "Welcome" page
• Follow the advice of go vet, golint and staticcheck
• Support Go 1.16 and Go 1.17 only, for now
• Downgrade fsnotify to v1.4.9 so that building with GOOS=freebsd works again
• Update CI configuration
• Update dependencies
• Update documentation