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1.8.x Release Notes

This page summarizes notable changes in the 1.8 minor series. Patch-level releases are listed below.

1.8.9​

Parallel execution for Lua features and filters​

  • Features and Filters now execute in parallel. Nauthilus waits for all scripts to complete and aggregates their results; if any script requests action, enforcement is applied. See the notes in the Lua API introduction for details about concurrency and aggregation behavior.
  • Status messages from concurrent scripts are merged using a "first non-empty wins" policy. See Builtin.status_message_set for concurrency notes.

References:

  • Lua API overview: /docs/lua-api/introduction
  • Builtin API: /docs/lua-api/builtin

In-process Lua Cache API​

  • New process-wide cache module for Lua to store data across requests with optional TTLs.
  • Thread-safe operations, lazy and background cleanup of expired entries.

References:

  • Cache API: /docs/lua-api/cache

1.8.8​

Redis pipelining support​

  • Added nauthilus_redis.redis_pipeline to batch multiple Redis commands in a single round-trip, reducing latency and improving throughput for bulk operations.

References:

  • Redis API: /docs/lua-api/redis

1.8.5​

HTTP response API (initial)​

  • Introduced nauthilus_http_response to set/modify HTTP response headers from Lua.
  • Note: Setting status code and writing a response body were added later in 1.9.0; additional helpers arrived in 1.9.2.

References:

  • HTTP response API: /docs/lua-api/http-response

1.8.2​

Password utilities​

  • Added nauthilus_password.generate_password_hash to generate the short, Redis-compatible password hash used server-side (for correlation/logging). See Password API for caveats and examples.

References:

  • Password API: /docs/lua-api/password

1.8.0​

Removal of experimental Neural Network feature​

  • The experimental machine learning based brute-force detection and related Lua API (nauthilus_neural) were removed.
  • Configuration references to the neural network feature are no longer applicable.

References:

  • Neural API (deprecated notice): /docs/lua-api/neural
  • Configuration overview: /docs/configuration/index

Other 1.8.x releases​

Maintenance and minor improvements.