We have finally released Cherokee "Shake well before using" 0.6.0!

A huge amount of work has been put on this release. It has taken us more than two years to complete it. There are too many changes to be listed here; as a summary, the most important improvements over the previous Cherokee 0.5 series are:

• Administration Interface: You will not need to edit a text file in order to configure the web server any longer! A user friendly web interface will assist you to set up your site.
• 20% to 25% faster Even if our previous Cherokee releases perform very well, Cherokee 0.6 is even faster!
• Load balancing support has been added. It can distribute load between multiple FastCGI, SCGI and HTTP servers from within the web server.
• The authentication support has been improved by adding new modules for validation against MySQL and LDAP servers.
• A new documentation system has been integrated, which has allowed the developer team to significantly improve the user documentation.
• This is the safest version of Cherokee ever. A new recovery mechanism has been integrated to ensure that the server will always be up and running.
• Looks nicer: new themes and icon sets have been included.

The source tarball is already available for download.

Links: documentation, mailing list, bug tracker and svn.