actix-files

• Remove the experimental experimental-io-uring crate feature and its implementation, including the NamedFile::open_async() method.
• Add support for passing multiple root directories to Files::new.
• Add Files::try_compressed() to support serving pre-compressed static files.
• Fix handling of Range: bytes=0-.
• Fix panic in Files when use_hidden_files() is enabled and request paths contain . segments.
• Fix NamedFile panic when serving files with pre-UNIX epoch modification times.
• Fix invalid Content-Encoding: identity header in NamedFile range responses.

• Remove the experimental experimental-io-uring crate feature and its implementation, including the NamedFile::open_async() method.
• Add support for passing multiple root directories to Files::new.
• Add Files::try_compressed() to support serving pre-compressed static files.
• Fix handling of Range: bytes=0-.
• Fix panic in Files when use_hidden_files() is enabled and request paths contain . segments.
• Fix NamedFile panic when serving files with pre-UNIX epoch modification times.
• Fix invalid Content-Encoding: identity header in NamedFile range responses.

Security Notice

We addressed 2 vulnerabilities in this release:

• Do not panic with empty Range header.
• Avoid serving CWD on invalid Files::new inputs.

We encourage updating your actix-files version as soon as possible.

Other changes

• Minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) is now 1.88.
• PathBufWrap & UriSegmentError made public. #3694

• Correct derive_more dependency feature requirements.

• Add Files::with_permanent_redirect() method.
• Change default redirect status code to 307 Temporary Redirect.

• Add {Files, NamedFile}::read_mode_threshold() methods to allow faster synchronous reads of small files.
• Minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) is now 1.75.

• Update tokio-uring dependency to 0.4.
• Minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) is now 1.72.

• Fix handling of special characters in filenames.

• Fix handling of newlines in filenames.
• Minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) is now 1.68 due to transitive time dependency.

• Allow partial range responses for video content to start streaming sooner. #2817
• Minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) is now 1.57 due to transitive time dependency.

• Add NamedFile::{modified, metadata, content_type, content_disposition, encoding}() getters. #2021
• Update tokio-uring dependency to 0.3.
• Audio files now use Content-Disposition: inline instead of attachment. #2645
• Minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) is now 1.56 due to transitive hashbrown dependency.

• No significant changes since 0.6.0-beta.16.

• No significant changes since 0.6.0-beta.15.

• No significant changes since 0.6.0-beta.14.

• The prefer_utf8 option introduced in 0.4.0 is now true by default. #2583

• The Files service now rejects requests with URL paths that include %2F (decoded: /). #2398
• The Files service now correctly decodes %25 in the URL path to % for the file path. #2398
• Minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) is now 1.54.

• No significant changes since 0.6.0-beta.11.

• No significant changes since 0.6.0-beta.10.

• No significant changes since 0.6.0-beta.9.

• Add crate feature experimental-io-uring, enabling async file I/O to be utilized. This feature is only available on Linux OSes with recent kernel versions. This feature is semver-exempt. #2408
• Add NamedFile::open_async. #2408
• Fix 304 Not Modified responses to omit the Content-Length header, as per the spec. #2453
• The Responder impl for NamedFile now has a boxed future associated type. #2408
• The Service impl for NamedFileService now has a boxed future associated type. #2408
• Add impl Clone for FilesService. #2408

• Minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) is now 1.52.

• Minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) is now 1.51.

• Added Files::path_filter(). #2274
• Files::show_files_listing() can now be used with Files::index_file() to show files listing as a fallback when the index file is not found. #2228

• NamedFile now implements ServiceFactory and HttpServiceFactory making it much more useful in routing. For example, it can be used directly as a default service. #2135
• For symbolic links, Content-Disposition header no longer shows the filename of the original file. #2156
• Files::redirect_to_slash_directory() now works as expected when used with Files::show_files_listing(). #2225
• application/{javascript, json, wasm} mime type now have inline disposition by default. #2257

• Add support for .guard in Files to selectively filter Files services. #2046

• No notable changes.

• Fix If-Modified-Since and If-Unmodified-Since to not compare using sub-second timestamps. #1887
• Replace v_htmlescape with askama_escape. #1953

• HttpRange::parse now has its own error type.
• Update bytes to 1.0. #1813

• Optionally support hidden files/directories. #1811

• Clarify order of parameters in Files::new and improve docs.

• Add Files::prefer_utf8 option that adds UTF-8 charset on certain response types. #1714

• No significant changes from 0.3.0-beta.1.

• Update v_htmlescape to 0.10
• Update actix-web and actix-http dependencies to beta.1

• Update actix-web and actix-http dependencies to alpha
• Fix some typos in the docs
• Bump minimum supported Rust version to 1.40
• Support sending Content-Length when Content-Range is specified #1384

• Add .put() and .sput() methods

• Use the same format for file URLs regardless of platforms

• Add license files

• Fix BodyEncoding trait import #1220

• Update awc and actix-http deps

• Migrate to std::future

• Add an additional filename* param in the Content-Disposition header of actix_files::NamedFile to be more compatible. (#1151)

• Add option to redirect to a slash-ended path Files #1132

• Bump up mime_guess crate version to 2.0.1
• Bump up percent-encoding crate version to 2.1
• Allow user defined request guards for Files #1113

• Allow to disable Content-Disposition header #686

• Do not set Content-Length header, let actix-http set it #930

• Content-Length is 0 for NamedFile HEAD request #914
• Fix ring dependency from actix-web default features for #741

• Static files are incorrectly served as both chunked and with length #812

• Always make new connection for http client

• NamedFile last-modified check always fails due to nano-seconds in file modified date #820

• No changes

• Update actix-web to beta.4

• Update actix-web to alpha6

• Update actix-web to alpha4

• Add default handler support

• Added TestServerRuntime::load_body() method
• Update actix-http and awc libraries

• Initial impl