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| March 22 2025 |
Web server software
lighttpd web server releases version 1.4.78
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| February 19 2025 |
Web server software
Mongoose web server releases version 7.17
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| February 5 2025 |
Web server software
Nginx web server releases version 1.26.3
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| January 23 2025 |
Web server software
Apache HTTP Server releases its latest stable version 2.4.63
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| 2024 |
Client Hints
Over 75% of web users were using browsers that supported Client Hints, indicating widespread adoption of this HTTP protocol extension.
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| July 1 2024 |
ModSecurity
Scheduled End-of-Life (EOL) of Trustwave support for ModSecurity, with maintenance transferred to the open-source community.
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| June 13 2024 |
Web server software
Hiawatha web server releases version 11.6
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| June 2 2024 |
Web server software
Caddy web server releases version 2.8.4
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| May 2024 |
Client Hints
Researchers from the Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences conducted a study examining the adoption of Client Hints, finding low overall website adoption but noting significant access to Client Hints data by known tracking third-party domains.
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| 2023 |
Client Hints
A joint study by KU Leuven and Radboud University examined the top 100,000 websites and found that most accesses of Client Hints were primarily used by JavaScript tracking and advertising code, raising privacy concerns.
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| October 16 2023 |
Web server software
Apache Tomcat releases version 10.1.15
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| September 19 2023 |
Web server software
IBM HTTP Server releases version 9.0.5.17
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| May 23 2023 |
HTTP/3
Nginx released version 1.25.0 with HTTP/3 support.
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| May 18 2023 |
Web server software
BusyBox httpd releases version 1.36.1
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| March 2023 |
HTTP/3
Safari enables HTTP/3 in version 16.4, with Apple testing the support on some users.
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| February 2023 |
Client Hints
Completed the deprecation of user-agent strings, finalizing the transition to Client Hints.
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| February 2023 |
HTTP/3
Binary packages of nginx with HTTP/3 support were released.
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| September 20 2022 |
HTTP/3
Caddy web server v2.6.0 was released with HTTP/3 enabled by default.
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| June 2022 |
HTTP
A batch of RFCs (Request for Comments) was published, which deprecated previous HTTP documentation and introduced minor changes, including semantic refactoring and updates to documents covering HTTP Semantics, HTTP Caching, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, QPACK field compression, and an Extensible Prioritization Scheme.
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| June 6 2022 |
HTTP/3
IETF published HTTP/3 as a Proposed Standard.
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| May 31 2022 |
HTTP/3
HAProxy released version 2.6 with support for HTTP/3 over QUIC.
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| February 13 2022 |
Web server software
GlassFish releases version 6.2.5
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| 2021 |
Client Hints
The Client Hints specification was upgraded to the status of an experimental request for comment (RFC).
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| 2021 |
HTTP/3
QUIC protocol was officially introduced
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| August 1 2021 |
ModSecurity
Trustwave Holdings announces the End-of-Sale (EOS) of Trustwave support for ModSecurity.
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| June 23 2021 | The web's source code was auctioned by Sotheby's in London as a non-fungible token (NFT) by Tim Berners-Lee, selling for US$5,434,500. |
| June 7 2021 |
HTTP/3
LiteSpeed Web Server (and OpenLiteSpeed) 6.0.2 was released, becoming the first version to enable HTTP/3 by default.
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| May 2021 |
HTTP/3
Mozilla Firefox started supporting HTTP/3
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| April 2021 |
HTTP/3
Mozilla Firefox started enabling HTTP/3 by default in Firefox 88.
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| April 2021 |
HTTP/3
Firefox enables HTTP/3 by default in version 88.
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| 2020 |
Zope
Zope 5 was released, marking a significant update to the open-source server software framework.
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| 2020 |
Client Hints
Google announced their intention to deprecate user-agent (UA) declaration by browsers, proposing Client Hints as a privacy-preserving alternative.
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| September 2020 |
HTTP/3
Safari first implements HTTP/3 in stable build 14.0, with the feature disabled by default.
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| August 2020 |
Client Hints
Chrome browser implemented support for Client Hints, marking a significant milestone in the adoption of this HTTP protocol extension.
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| June 2020 |
HTTP/3
Nginx released a technology preview of its web server with HTTP/3 support.
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| April 2020 |
HTTP/3
Chrome enables HTTP/3 by default in version 87, marking its first default implementation.
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| April 2020 |
HTTP/3
Edge enables HTTP/3 by default in version 87.
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| April 2020 |
HTTP/3
Chromium and its derived browsers (Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Samsung Internet, and Opera) began supporting HTTP/3
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| April 8 2020 |
HTTP/3
Apple added experimental support for HTTP/3 to Safari Technology Preview.
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| January 2020 |
HTTP/3
Firefox first implements HTTP/3 in stable build 72.0.1, with the feature disabled by default.
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| 2019 |
Client Hints
Brave raised privacy concerns about the initial Client Hints proposal.
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| December 2019 |
HTTP/3
Chrome and Edge first implement HTTP/3 in stable builds (version 79), with HTTP/3 disabled by default. Both browsers implement earlier drafts of QUIC protocol.
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| November 2019 | Launched the Contract for the Web campaign at the Internet Governance Forum in Berlin to prevent misuse of the web. |
| November 2019 |
HTTP/3
Mozilla Firefox added support for HTTP/3 through a feature flag.
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| September 2019 |
HTTP/3
Google added support for HTTP/3 to Chrome Canary build, initially disabled by a feature flag.
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| October 28 2018 |
HTTP/3
Mark Nottingham, Chair of the IETF HTTP and QUIC Working Groups, proposed renaming HTTP-over-QUIC to HTTP/3 to clarify its identity as a separate protocol binding.
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| September 30 2018 | Announced his open-source startup Inrupt to fuel the Solid project, aimed at giving users more control over their personal data. |
| January 2018 |
ModSecurity
libmodsecurity (ModSecurity version 3.0) is announced for public use, with support for Nginx and Apache connectors.
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| 2017 |
ModSecurity
The second edition of the ModSecurity handbook is released, written by Christian Folini and Ivan Ristić, covering ModSecurity up to version 2.9.2.
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| 2016 | Receives the Turing Award 'for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale'. |
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