v2.9.1

What's new?

• Fixed a vulnerability introduced by mapstructure which, although it wasn't able to be triggered in this project, it was still generating false positive warnings to some users.
• Fixed some CSS paths in the directory listing mode
• Add additional tests for ETags
• Minor improvements and updates

What's Changed

• Fix custom CSS path joining by @patrickdappollonio in #193
• Fix CORS documentation grammar by @patrickdappollonio in #194
• Fix custom-404-code help text typo by @patrickdappollonio in #195
• Add ETag middleware tests by @patrickdappollonio in #196
• Fix README typo by @patrickdappollonio in #198
• Bump github.com/go-chi/chi/v5 from 5.2.1 to 5.2.2 in the go_modules group by @dependabot[bot] in #199
• Bump github.com/go-viper/mapstructure/v2 from 2.2.1 to 2.3.0 in the go_modules group by @dependabot[bot] in #200
• Bump Go versions and GitHub Actions versions. by @patrickdappollonio in #219

Full Changelog: v2.9.0...v2.9.1

v2.9.0

What's Changed

• Bump github.com/yuin/goldmark from 1.7.11 to 1.7.12 by @dependabot in #186
• Fix extension selection. by @patrickdappollonio in #188
• Bump golangci/golangci-lint-action from 7 to 8 by @dependabot in #182
• Fix 500 Internal Server Error on empty files. by @patrickdappollonio in #189
• Fix rendering all markdown by default. by @patrickdappollonio in #190

Full Changelog: v2.8.1...v2.9.0

v2.8.1

What's Changed

• Add custom output formats. by @patrickdappollonio in #185

Full Changelog: v2.8.0...v2.8.1

v2.8.0

What's Changed

• Allow forcing the download of specific file extensions. by @patrickdappollonio in #184

Full Changelog: v2.7.0...v2.8.0

v2.7.0

What's new?

This release includes support for GitHub-style admonitions, like:

Note

This is a note admonition.

Try them in http-server!

What's Changed

• Bump github.com/yuin/goldmark from 1.7.10 to 1.7.11 by @dependabot in #179
• Add footnotes. Update MermaidJS to version 11.6.0. by @patrickdappollonio in #180
• Add Github-style admonitions. by @patrickdappollonio in #181

Full Changelog: v2.6.0...v2.7.0

v2.6.0

TL;DR

• Upgraded MermaidJS to version 11.4.1.
• Added an option to render as HTML every markdown file (either .md or .markdown) with --render-all-markdown
  • This mode also supports hiding all files just so you can show the markdown file itself with no extra content.
• Fixed an issue where username and passwords from basic authentication would not work if there were special characters in them
• Fixed an issue where the banner feature and the CSS used for it would render inappropriately
• Fixed an issue where usernames or password could not have special characters; this was an unintended effect
• Fixed a CVE in jwt-go by upgrading to the latest version available

What's Changed

• Create a GitHub action to create a sample site. by @patrickdappollonio in #143
• Clean up http-server tree structure. Fixes CSS in banner. by @patrickdappollonio in #147
• Allow hiding files in markdown mode. by @patrickdappollonio in #149
• Add docker compose example. by @patrickdappollonio in #161
• Add support for full charset for username and password. by @patrickdappollonio in #176
• Enable support for rendering all markdown files. by @patrickdappollonio in #175
• Add support for custom CSS by @patrickdappollonio in #174
• Upgrade jwt-go to the newest version. Fixes CVE-2025-30204. by @patrickdappollonio in #177
• Add new label for stale issues and PRs by @patrickdappollonio in #178

Updated dependencies

• Bump github.com/spf13/pflag from 1.0.5 to 1.0.6 by @dependabot in #148
• Bump MermaidJS to version 11.4.1 by @patrickdappollonio in #150
• Bump github.com/spf13/viper from 1.19.0 to 1.20.0 by @dependabot in #157
• Bump github.com/klauspost/compress from 1.17.11 to 1.18.0 by @dependabot in #155
• Bump github.com/go-playground/validator/v10 from 10.24.0 to 10.25.0 by @dependabot in #152
• Bump github.com/spf13/cobra from 1.8.1 to 1.9.1 by @dependabot in #153
• Bump golang.org/x/net from 0.34.0 to 0.36.0 in the go_modules group by @dependabot in #156
• Bump github.com/spf13/viper from 1.20.0 to 1.20.1 by @dependabot in #163
• Bump github.com/go-playground/validator/v10 from 10.25.0 to 10.26.0 by @dependabot in #165
• Bump github.com/yuin/goldmark from 1.7.8 to 1.7.10 by @dependabot in #171
• Bump golang.org/x/net from 0.36.0 to 0.38.0 in the go_modules group by @dependabot in #172

Full Changelog: v2.5.3...v2.6.0

v2.5.3

What's Changed

• Bump github.com/go-playground/validator/v10 from 10.22.1 to 10.23.0 by @dependabot in #137
• Bump github.com/go-chi/chi/v5 from 5.1.0 to 5.2.0 by @dependabot in #138
• Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.21.0 to 0.31.0 in the go_modules group by @dependabot in #139
• Update README with Homebrew tap. by @patrickdappollonio in #141

Full Changelog: v2.5.2...v2.5.3

v2.5.2

This update includes better handling of GOMAXPROCS, the limiter for Go runtime to perform operations such as garbage collection and goroutine parallelization.

In Layman's terms, this means that http-server now is more friendly to Kubernetes and other container environment deployments that impose limits (CPU/Memory) to http-server by properly detecting the values provided while in containerized mode.

This is automatically transparent to users and, before this patch, resource contention with the offset between the container's knowledge of limits and the actual limits being different would potentially yield less RPS handling.

Try it out and provide your feedback, it's always welcomed!

What's Changed

• Add support for appropriate GOMAXPROCS that's aware of Kubernetes limits. by @patrickdappollonio in #136

Full Changelog: v2.5.1...v2.5.2

v2.5.1

From this release forward, http-server will only generate etags for files smaller than 5 Megabytes (5 * 1024 * 1024). This value is configurable, and using a smaller value will use less RAM.

What's Changed

• Bump github.com/klauspost/compress from 1.17.10 to 1.17.11 by @dependabot in #130
• Bump github.com/yuin/goldmark from 1.7.4 to 1.7.8 by @dependabot in #133
• Enable etag generation on smaller files only. by @patrickdappollonio in #135

Full Changelog: v2.5.0...v2.5.1

v2.5.0

Many thanks to @muse-sisay for adding support for custom 404 handling and solving a longstanding feature request from 2021! (#7).

What's Changed

• Add support for custom status codes in "serveFile". by @patrickdappollonio in #128
• Add support for custom 404 error pages by @muse-sisay in #126
• Update documentation on README by @patrickdappollonio in #129

New Contributors

• @muse-sisay made their first contribution in #126

Full Changelog: v2.4.0...v2.5.0