Unit 0.3 Beta Release Available Now
Unit 0.3 Beta Release Available Now On Dec 28th, we released the third beta version of NGINX Unit, the new dynamic web and application server. In this blog post, we will review and discuss the latest changes in detail. If you have Unit 0.2 installed from our package repositories, upgrade using your package manager. If you are performing a fresh installation, see the installation documentation for details: https://unit.nginx.org/installation/. (We now provide pre-built packages for more operating systems.) HTTP Keep-Alive HTTP persistent connections, or HTTP keep-alive, is the technology used to keep TCP connections open between requests. This reduces latency and improves the performance of the web site. NGINX Unit now uses keep-alive connections by default. You don’t have to configure anything on the Unit side to have this enabled. Keep-alive functionality is managed by the HTTP headers Connection and Keep-Alive. [ more… ]