Version 0.5.0-rc.3 (Mar 23, 2023)

Major Features and Improvements

Added a max_blocking configuration parameter.

The parameter sets a limit on the number of threads used by blocking tasks.
Added an ip_header "real IP" header configuration parameter.

The parameter allows modifying the header that Rocket attempts to use to retrieve the "real IP" address of the client via Request methods like Request::client_ip(). Additionally, the change allows disabling the use of any such header entirely.
A pool() method is emitted by rocket_sync_db_pools for code-generated pools.

The method returns an opaque reference to a type that can be used to retrieve pooled connections outside of a request handling context.
Raw binary form field data can be retrieved using the &[u8] form guard.
Data guards are now eligible sentinels.

General Improvements

Final launch messages are now always logged, irrespective of profile.
Only functions that return Rocket<Build> are now #[must_use], not all Rocket<P>.
Fixed mismatched form field names in errors under certain conditions in FromForm derive.
The FromForm derive now collects all errors that occur.
Data pools are now gracefully shutdown in rocket_sync_db_pools.
Added Metadata::render() in rocket_dyn_templates for direct template rendering.
Rocket salvages more information from malformed requests for error catchers.
The cookie secure feature is now properly conditionally enabled.
Data before encapsulation boundaries in TLS keys is allowed and ignored.
Support for TLS keys in SEC1 format was added.
Rocket now warns when a known secret key is configured.
A panic that could occur on shutdown in rocket_sync_db_pools was fixed.

Known Media Types

Added MP3: audio/mpeg.
Added CBZ: application/vnd.comicbook+zip, extension .cbz.
Added CBR: application/vnd.comicbook-rar, extension .cbr.
Added RAR: application/vnd.rar, extension .rar.
Added EPUB: application/epub+zip, extension .epub.
Added OPF: application/oebps-package+xml, extension .opf.
Added XHTML: application/xhtml+xml, extension .xhtml.

Trait Implementations

Implemented Responder for Box<T: Responder + Sized>.
Implemented FromForm for Arc<T>.
Implemented Fairing for Arc<dyn Fairing>.

Updated Dependencies

Updated syn to 2.
Updated diesel to 2.0.
Updated sqlx to 0.6.
Updated notify to 5.0.
Updated criterion to 0.4.
Updated deadpool-redis to 0.11.
Updated normpath from to 1.
Updated cookie to 0.17.
Replaced atty with is-terminal.

Infrastructure

UI tests are now allowed to fail by the CI to avoid false negatives.
Fixed many typos, errors, and broken links throughout docs and examples.
The GitHub CI workflow was updated to use maintained actions.

Version 0.5.0-rc.2 (May 09, 2022)

Major Features and Improvements

Introduced rocket_db_pools for asynchronous database pooling.
Introduced support for mutual TLS and client Certificates.
Added a local_cache_once! macro for request-local storage.
Added a v0.4 to v0.5 migration guide and FAQ to Rocket's website.
Introduced shutdown fairings.

Breaking Changes

Hash impls for MediaType and ContentType no longer consider media type parameters.
TLS config values are only available when the tls feature is enabled.
MediaType::with_params() and ContentType::with_params() are now builder methods.
Content-Type content responder type names are now prefixed with Raw.
The content::Plain responder is now called content::RawText.
The content::Custom<T> responder was removed in favor of (ContentType, T).
TLS config structs are now only available when the tls feature is enabled.
Removed CookieJar::get_private_pending() in favor of CookieJar::get_pending().
The local_cache! macro accepts fewer types. Use local_cache_once! as appropriate.
When requested, the FromForm implementations of Vec and Maps are now properly lenient.
To concord with browsers, the [ and ] characters are now accepted in URI paths.
The [ and ] characters are no longer encoded by uri!.
Rocket::launch() allows Rocket recovery by returning the instance after shutdown.
ErrorKind::Runtime was removed; ErrorKind::Shutdown was added.

General Improvements

Rocket is now #[must_use].
Support for HTTP/2 can be disabled by disabling the default http2 crate feature.
Added rocket::execute() for executing Rocket's launch() future.
Added the context! macro to rocket_dyn_templates for ad-hoc template contexts.
The time crate is re-exported from the crate root.
The FromForm, Responder, and UriDisplay derives now fully support generics.
Added helper functions to serde submodules.
The Shield HSTS preload header now includes includeSubdomains.
Logging ignores write! errors if stdout disappears, preventing panics.
Added Client::terminate() to run graceful shutdown in testing.
Shutdown now terminates the async runtime, never the process.

HTTP

Introduced Host and the &Host request guard.
Added Markdown (text/markdown) as a known media type.
Added RawStr::percent_encode_bytes().
NODELAY is now enabled on all connections by default.
The TLS implementation handles handshakes off the main task, improving DoS resistance.

Request

Added Request::host() to retrieve the client-requested host.

Trait Implementations

Arc<T>, Box<T> where T: Responder now implement Responder.
Method implements Serialize and Deserialize.
MediaType and ContentType implement Eq.

Updated Dependencies

The time dependency was updated to 0.3.
The handlebars dependency was updated to 4.0.
The memcache dependency was updated to 0.16.
The rustls dependency was updated to 0.20.

Infrastructure

Rocket now uses the 2021 edition of Rust.

Version 0.5.0-rc.1 (Jun 09, 2021)

Major Features and Improvements

This release introduces the following major features and improvements:

Support for compilation on Rust's stable release channel.
A rewritten, fully asynchronous core with support for async/await.
Feature-complete forms support including multipart, collections, ad-hoc validation, and context.
Sentinels: automatic verification of application state at start-up to prevent runtime errors.
Graceful shutdown with configurable signaling, grace periods, notification via Shutdown.
An entirely new, flexible and robust configuration system based on Figment.
Typed asynchronous streams and Server-Sent Events with generator syntax.
Automatic support for HTTP/2 including h2 ALPN.
Graduation of json, msgpack, and uuid rocket_contrib features into core.
An automatically enabled Shield: security and privacy headers for all responses.
Type-system enforced incoming data limits to mitigate memory-based DoS attacks.
Compile-time URI literals via a fully revamped uri! macro.
Full support for UTF-8 characters in routes and catchers.
Precise detection of unmanaged state and missing database, template fairings with sentinels.
Typed build phases with strict application-level guarantees.
Ignorable segments: wildcard route matching with no typing restrictions.
First-class support for serde for built-in guards and types.
New application launch attributes: #[launch] and #[rocket::main].
Default catchers via #[catch(default)], which handle any status code.
Catcher scoping to narrow the scope of a catcher to a URI prefix.
Built-in libraries and support for asynchronous testing.
A TempFile data and form guard for automatic uploading to a temporary file.
A Capped<T> data and form guard which enables detecting truncation due to data limits.
Support for dynamic and static prefixing and suffixing of route URIs in uri!.
Support for custom config profiles and automatic typed config extraction.
Rewritten, zero-copy, RFC compliant URI parsers with support for URI-References.
Multi-segment parameters (<param..>) which match zero segments.
A [request::local_cache!] macro for request-local storage of non-uniquely typed values.
A CookieJar without "one-at-a-time" limitations.
Singleton fairings with replacement and guaranteed uniqueness.
Data limit declaration in SI units: "2 MiB", 2.mebibytes().
Optimistic responding even when data is left unread or limits are exceeded.
Fully decoded borrowed strings as dynamic parameters, form and data guards.
Borrowed byte slices as data and form guards.
Fail-fast behavior for misconfigured secrets, file serving paths.
Support for generics and custom generic bounds in #[derive(Responder)].
Default ranking colors, which prevent more routing collisions automatically.
Improved error logging with suggestions when common errors are detected.
Completely rewritten examples including a new real-time chat application.

Support for Rust Stable

As a result of support for Rust stable (Rust 2021 Edition and beyond), the #![feature(..)] crate attribute is no longer required for Rocket applications. The complete canonical example with a single hello route becomes:

#[macro_use] extern crate rocket;

#[get("/<name>/<age>")]
fn hello(name: &str, age: u8) -> String {
    format!("Hello, {} year old named {}!", age, name)
}

#[launch]
fn rocket() -> _ {
    rocket::build().mount("/hello", routes![hello])
}

See a diff of the changes from v0.4.

- #![feature(proc_macro_hygiene, decl_macro)]
-
 #[macro_use] extern crate rocket;

 #[get("/<name>/<age>")]
- fn hello(name: String, age: u8) -> String {
+ fn hello(name: &str, age: u8) -> String {
     format!("Hello, {} year old named {}!", age, name)
}

- fn main() {
-     rocket::ignite().mount("/hello", routes![hello]).launch();
- }
+ #[launch]
+ fn rocket() -> _ {
+     rocket::build().mount("/hello", routes![hello])
+ }

Breaking Changes

This release includes many breaking changes. The most significant changes are listed below.

Silent Changes

These changes are invisible to the compiler and will not yield errors or warnings at compile-time. We strongly advise all application authors to review this list carefully.

Blocking I/O (long running compute, synchronous sleep(), Mutex, RwLock, etc.) may prevent the server from making progress and should be avoided, replaced with an async variant, or performed in a worker thread. This is a consequence of Rust's cooperative async multitasking. For details, see the new multitasking section of the guide.
ROCKET_ENV is now ROCKET_PROFILE. A warning is emitted a launch time if the former is set.
The default profile for debug builds is now debug, not dev.
The default profile for release builds is now release, not prod.
ROCKET_LOG is now ROCKET_LOG_LEVEL. A warning is emitted a launch time if the former is set.
ROCKET_ADDRESS accepts only IP addresses, no longer resolves hostnames like localhost.
ROCKET_CLI_COLORS accepts booleans true, false in place of strings "on", "off".
It is a launch-time error if secrets is enabled in non-debug profiles without a configured secret_key.
A misconfigured template_dir is reported as an error at launch time.
FileServer::new() fails immediately if the provided directory does not exist.
Catcher collisions result in a launch failure as opposed to a warning.
Default ranks now range from -12 to -1. There is no breaking change if only code generated routes are used. Manually configured routes with negative ranks may collide or be considered in a different order than before.
The order of execution of path and query guards relative to each other is now unspecified.
URIs beginning with : are properly recognized as invalid and rejected.
URI normalization now normalizes the query part as well.
The Segments iterator now returns percent-decoded &strs.
Forms are now parsed leniently by the Form guard. Use Strict for the previous behavior.
The Option<T> form guard defaults to None instead of the default value for T.
When data limits are exceeded, a 413 Payload Too Large status is returned to the client.
The default catcher now returns JSON when the client indicates preference via the Accept header.
Empty boolean form values parse as true: the query string ?f is the same as ?f=true.
Created<R> does not automatically send an ETag header if R: Hash. Use Created::tagged_body instead.
FileServer now forwards when a file is not found instead of failing with 404 Not Found.
Shield is enabled by default. You may need to disable or change policies if your application depends on typically insecure browser features or if you wish to opt-in to different policies than the defaults.
CookieJar get()s do not return cookies added during request handling. See CookieJar#pending.

Contrib Graduation

The rocket_contrib crate has been deprecated and should no longer be used.
Several features previously in rocket_contrib were merged into rocket itself:
- json, msgpack, and uuid are now features of rocket.
- Moved rocket_contrib::json to rocket::serde::json.
- Moved rocket_contrib::msgpack to rocket::serde::msgpack.
- Moved rocket_contrib::uuid to rocket::serde::uuid.
- Moved rocket_contrib::helmet to rocket::shield. Shield is enabled by default.
- Moved rocket_contrib::serve to rocket::fs, StaticFiles to rocket::fs::FileServer.
- Removed the now unnecessary Uuid and JsonValue wrapper types.
- Removed headers in Shield that are no longer respected by browsers.
The remaining features from rocket_contrib are now provided by separate crates:
- Replaced rocket_contrib::templates with rocket_dyn_templates.
- Replaced rocket_contrib::databases with rocket_sync_db_pools and rocket_db_pools.
- These crates are versioned and released independently of rocket.
- rocket_contrib::databases::DbError is now rocket_sync_db_pools::Error.
- Removed redis, mongodb, and mysql integrations which have upstream async drivers.
- The #[database] attribute generates an async run() method instead of Deref implementations.

General

Rocket is now generic over a phase marker:
- APIs operate on Rocket<Build>, Rocket<Ignite>, Rocket<Orbit>, or Rocket<P: Phase> as needed.
- The phase marker statically enforces state transitions in Build, Ignite, Orbit order.
- rocket::ignite() is now rocket::build(), returns a Rocket<Build>.
- Rocket::ignite() transitions to the Ignite phase. This is run automatically on launch as needed.
- Ignition finalizes configuration, runs ignite fairings, and verifies sentinels.
- Rocket::launch() transitions into the Orbit phase and starts the server.
- Methods like Request::rocket() that refer to a live Rocket instance return an &Rocket<Orbit>.
Fairings have been reorganized and restructured for async:
- Replaced attach fairings with ignite fairings. Unlike attach fairings, which ran immediately at the time of attachment, ignite fairings are run when transitioning into the Ignite phase.
- Replaced launch fairings with liftoff fairings. liftoff fairings are always run, even in local clients, after the server begins listening and the concrete port is known.
Introduced a new configuration system based on Figment:
- The concept of "environments" is replaced with "profiles".
- ROCKET_ENV is superseded by ROCKET_PROFILE.
- ROCKET_LOG is superseded by ROCKET_LOG_LEVEL.
- Profile names can now be arbitrarily chosen. The dev, stage, and prod profiles carry no special meaning.
- The debug and release profiles are the default profiles for the debug and release compilation profiles.
- A new specially recognized default profile specifies defaults for all profiles.
- The global profile has highest precedence, followed by the selected profile, followed by default.
- Added support for limits specified in SI units: "1 MiB".
- Renamed LoggingLevel to LogLevel.
- Inlined error variants into the Error structure.
- Changed the type of workers to usize from u16.
- Changed accepted values for keep_alive: it is disabled with 0, not false or off.
- Disabled the secrets feature (for private cookies) by default.
- Removed APIs related to "extras". Typed values can be extracted from the configured Figment.
- Removed ConfigBuilder: all fields of Config are public with constructors for each field type.
Many functions, traits, and trait bounds have been modified for async:
- FromRequest, Fairing, catcher::Handler, route::Handler, and FromData use #[async_trait].
- NamedFile::open is now an async function.
- Added Request::local_cache_async() for use in async request guards.
- Unsized Response bodies must be AsyncRead instead of Read.
- Automatically sized Response bodies must be AsyncSeek instead of Seek.
- The local module is split into two: rocket::local::asynchronous and rocket::local::blocking.
Functionality and features requiring Rust nightly were removed:
- Removed the Try implementation on Outcome which allowed using ? with Outcomes. The recommended replacement is the rocket::outcome::try_outcome! macro or the various combinator functions on Outcome.
- Result<T, E> implements Responder only when both T and E implement Responder. The new Debug wrapping responder replaces Result<T: Responder, E: Debug>.
- APIs which used the ! type to now use std::convert::Infallible.
Rocket::register() now takes a base path to scope catchers under as its first argument.
ErrorKind::Collision has been renamed to ErrorKind::Collisions.

Routing and URIs

In #[route(GET, path = "...")], path is now uri: #[route(GET, uri = "...")].
Multi-segment paths (/<p..>) now match zero or more segments.
Codegen improvements preclude identically named routes and modules in the same namespace.
A route URI like (/<a>/<p..>) now collides with (/<a>), requires a rank to resolve.
All catcher related types and traits moved to rocket::catcher.
All route related types and traits moved to rocket::route.
URI formatting types and traits moved to rocket::http::uri::fmt.
T no longer converts to Option<T> or Result<T, _> for uri! query parameters.
For optional query parameters, uri! requires using a wrapped value or _.
&RawStr no longer implements FromParam: use &str instead.
Percent-decoding is performed before calling FromParam implementations.
RawStr::url_decode() and RawStr::url_decode_lossy() allocate as necessary, return Cow.
RawStr::from_str() was replaced with RawStr::new().
Origin::segments() was replaced with Origin.path().segments().
Origin::path() and Origin::query() return &RawStr instead of &str.
The type of Route::name is now Option<Cow<'static, str>>.
Route::set_uri was replaced with Route::map_base().
Route::uri() returns a new RouteUri type.
Route::base was removed in favor of Route.uri().base().

Data and Forms

Data now has a lifetime: Data<'r>.
Data::open() indelibly requires a data limit.
Removed FromDataSimple. Use FromData and local_cache! or local_cache_once!.
All DataStream APIs require limits and return Capped<T> types.
Form types and traits were moved from rocket::request to rocket::form.
Removed FromQuery. Dynamic query parameters (#[get("/?<param>")]) use FromForm instead.
Replaced FromFormValue with FromFormField. All T: FromFormField implement FromForm.
Form field values are percent-decoded before calling FromFormField implementations.
Renamed the #[form(field = ...)] attribute to #[field(name = ...)].

Request Guards

Renamed Cookies to CookieJar. Its methods take &self.
Renamed Flash.name to Flash.kind, Flash.msg to Flash.message.
Replaced Request::get_param() with Request::param().
Replaced Request::get_segments() to Request::segments().
Replaced Request::get_query_value() with Request::query_value().
Replaced Segments::into_path_buf() with Segments::to_path_buf().
Replaced Segments and QuerySegments with Segments<Path> and Segments<Query>.
Flash constructors to take Into<String> instead of AsRef<str>.
The State<'_, T> request guard is now &State<T>.
Removed a lifetime from FromRequest: FromRequest<'r>.
Removed a lifetime from FlashMessage: FlashMessage<'_>.
Removed all State reexports except rocket::State.

Responders

Moved NamedFile to rocket::fs::NamedFile
Replaced Content with content::Custom.
Response::body and Response::body_mut are now infallible methods.
Renamed ResponseBuilder to Builder.
Removed direct Response body reading methods. Use methods on r.body_mut() instead.
Removed inaccurate "chunked body" types and variants.
Removed Responder impl for Response. Prefer custom responders with #[derive(Responder)].
Removed the unused reason phrase from Status.

General Improvements

In addition to new features and major improvements, Rocket saw the following improvements:

General

Added support for raw identifiers in the FromForm derive, #[route] macros, and uri!.
Added support for uncased derived form fields: #[field(name = uncased(...))].
Added support for default form field values: #[field(default = expr())].
Added support for multiple #[field] attributes on struct fields.
Added support for base16-encoded (a.k.a. hex-encoded) secret keys.
Added Config::ident for configuring or removing the global Server header.
Added Rocket::figment() and Rocket::catchers().
Added LocalRequest::json() and LocalResponse::json().
Added LocalRequest::msgpack() and LocalResponse::msgpack().
Added support for use m::route; routes![route] instead of needing routes![m::route].
Added support for hierarchical data limits: a limit of a/b/c falls back to a/b then a.
Added LocalRequest::inner_mut(). LocalRequest implements DerefMut to Request.
Added support for ECDSA and EdDSA TLS keys.
Added associated constants in Config for all config parameter names.
Added ErrorKind::Config to represent errors in configuration at runtime.
Added rocket::fairing::Result type alias, returned by Fairing::on_ignite().
All guard failures are logged at runtime.
Rocket::mount() now accepts a base value of any type that implements TryInto<Origin<'_>>.
The default error catcher's HTML has been compacted.
The default error catcher returns JSON if requested by the client.
Panics in routes or catchers are caught and forwarded to 500 error catcher.
A detailed warning is emitted if a route or catcher panics.
Emoji characters are no longer output on Windows.
Fixed Error to not panic if a panic is already in progress.
Introduced Reference and Asterisk URI types.
Added support to UriDisplayQuery for C-like enums.
The UriDisplayQuery derive now recognizes the #[field] attribute for field renaming.
Client method builders accept TryInto<Origin> allowing a uri!() to be used directly.
Redirect now accepts a TryFrom<Reference>, allowing fragment parts.

HTTP

Added support for HTTP/2, enabled by default via the http2 crate feature.
Added AVIF (image/avif) as a known media type.
Added EventStream (text/event-stream) as a known media type.
Added a const constructor for MediaType.
Added aliases Text, Bytes for the Plain, Binary media types, respectively.
Introduced RawStrBuf, an owned RawStr.
Added many new "pattern" methods to RawStr.
Added RawStr::percent_encode() and RawStr::strip().
Added support for unencoded query characters in URIs that are frequently sent by browsers.

Request

Added support for all UTF-8 characters in route paths.
Added support for percent-encoded : in socket or IP address values in FromFormValue.
Added Request::rocket() to access the active Rocket instance.
Request::uri() now returns an &Origin<'r> instead of &Origin<'_>.
Request::accept(), Request::content_type() reflect changes to Accept, Content-Type.
Json<T>, MsgPack<T> accept T: Deserialize, not only T: DeserializeOwned.
Diesel SQLite connections in rocket_sync_db_pools use better defaults.
The default number of workers for synchronous database pools is now workers * 4.

Response

Added Template::try_custom() for fallible template engine customization.
Manually registered templates can now be rendered with Template::render().
Added support for the X-DNS-Prefetch-Control header to Shield.
Added support for manually-set expires values for private cookies.
Added support for type generics and custom generic bounds to #[derive(Responder)].
The Server header is only set if one isn't already set.
Accurate Content-Length headers are sent even for partially read Bodys.

Trait Implementations

Implemented Clone for State.
Implemented Copy and Clone for fairing::Info.
Implemented Debug for Rocket and Client.
Implemented Default for Status (returns Status::Ok).
Implemented PartialEq, Eq, Hash, PartialOrd, and Ord for Status.
Implemented Eq, Hash, and PartialEq<&str> for Origin.
Implemented PartialEq<Cow<'_, RawStr>>> for RawStr.
Implemented std::error::Error for Error.
Implemented Deref and DerefMut for LocalRequest (to Request).
Implemented DerefMut for Form, LenientForm.
Implemented From<T> for Json<T>, MsgPack<T>.
Implemented TryFrom<String> and TryFrom<&str> for Origin.
Implemented TryFrom<Uri> for each of the specific URI variants.
Implemented FromRequest for &Config.
Implemented FromRequest for IpAddr.
Implemented FromParam for PathBuf
Implemented FromParam, FromData, and FromForm for &str.
Implemented FromForm for Json<T>, MsgPack<T>.
Implemented FromFormField for Cow and Capped<Cow>>
Implemented Responder for tokio::fs::File.
Implemented Responder for (ContentType, R) where R: Responder.
Implemented Responder for (Status, R) where R: Responder which overrides R's status.
Implemented Responder for std::io::Error (behaves as Debug<std::io::Error>).
Implemented Responder for Either<T, E>, equivalently to Result<T, E>.
Implemented Serialize for Flash.
Implemented Serialize, Deserialize, UriDisplay and FromUriParam for uuid::Uuid
Implemented Serialize, Deserialize for RawStr.
Implemented Serialize, Deserialize for all URI types.

Updated Dependencies

The serde dependency was introduced (1.0).
The futures dependency was introduced (0.3).
The state dependency was updated to 0.5.
The time dependency was updated to 0.2.
The binascii dependency was introduced (0.1).
The ref-cast dependency was introduced (1.0).
The atomic dependency was introduced (0.5).
The parking_lot dependency was introduced (0.11).
The ubtye dependency was introduced (0.10).
The figment dependency was introduced (0.10).
The rand dependency was introduced (0.8).
The either dependency was introduced (1.0).
The pin-project-lite dependency was introduced (0.2).
The indexmap dependency was introduced (1.0).
The tempfile dependency was introduced (3.0).
The async-trait dependency was introduced (0.1).
The async-stream dependency was introduced (0.3).
The multer dependency was introduced (2.0).
The tokio dependency was introduced (1.6.1).
The tokio-util dependency was introduced (0.6).
The tokio-stream dependency was introduced (0.1.6).
The bytes dependency was introduced (1.0).
The rmp-serde dependency was updated to 0.15.
The uuid dependency was updated to 0.8.
The tera dependency was updated to 1.10.
The handlebars dependency was updated to 3.0.
The normpath dependency was introduced (0.3).
The postgres dependency was updated to 0.19.
The rusqlite dependency was updated to 0.25.
The r2d2_sqlite dependency was updated to 0.18.
The memcache dependency was updated to 0.15.

Infrastructure

Rocket now uses the 2018 edition of Rust.
Added visible use statements to examples in the guide.
Split examples into a separate workspace from the non-example crates.
Updated documentation for all changes.
Fixed many typos, errors, and broken links throughout documentation and examples.
Improved the general robustness of macros, and the quality and frequency of error messages.
Benchmarks now use criterion and datasets extracted from real-world projects.
Fixed the SPDX license expressions in Cargo.toml files.
Added support to test.sh for a + flag (e.g. +stable) to pass to cargo.
Added support to test.sh for extra flags to be passed on to cargo.
Migrated CI to Github Actions.

Version 0.4.10 (May 21, 2021)

Core

[3276b8] Removed used of unsafe in Origin::parse_owned(), fixing a soundness issue.

Version 0.4.9 (May 19, 2021)

Core

[#1645, f2a56f] Fixed Try impl FromResidual<Result> for Outcome.

Version 0.4.8 (May 18, 2021)

Core

[#1548, 93e88b0] Fixed an issue that prevented compilation under Windows Subsystem for Linux v1.
Updated Outcome Try implementation to v2 in latest nightly.
Minimum required rustc is 1.54.0-nightly (2021-05-18).

Internal

Updated base64 dependency to 0.13.

Version 0.4.7 (Feb 09, 2021)

Core

[#1534, 2059a6] Fixed a low-severity, minimal impact soundness issue in uri::Formatter.

Version 0.4.6 (Nov 09, 2020)

Core

[86bd7c] Added default and configurable read/write timeouts: read_timeout and write_timeout.
[c24a96] Added the sse feature, which enables flushing by returning io::ErrorKind::WouldBlock.

Docs

Fixed broken doc links in contrib.
Fixed database library versions in contrib docs.

Internal

Updated source code for Rust 2018.
UI tests now use trybuild instead of compiletest-rs.

Version 0.4.5 (May 30, 2020)

Core

[#1312, 89150f] Fixed a low-severity, minimal impact soundness issue in LocalRequest::clone().
[#1263, 376f74] Fixed a cookie serialization issue that led to incorrect cookie deserialization in certain cases.
Removed dependency on ring for private cookies and thus Rocket, by default.
Added Origin::map_path() for manipulating Origin paths.
Added handler::Outcome::from_or_forward().
Added Options::NormalizeDirs option to StaticFiles.
Improved accessibility of default error HTML.

Docs

Fixed various typos.

Version 0.4.4 (Mar 09, 2020)

Core

Removed use of unsupported cfg(debug_assertions) in Cargo.toml, allowing for builds on latest nightlies.

Docs

Fixed various broken links.

Version 0.4.3 (Feb 29, 2020)

Core

Added a new Debug 500 Responder that Debug-prints its contents on response.
Specialization on Result was deprecated. Debug can be used in place of non-Responder errors.
Fixed an issue that resulted in cookies not being set on error responses.
Various Debug implementations on Rocket types now respect formatting options.
Added Responders for various HTTP status codes: NoContent, Unauthorized, Forbidden, and Conflict.
FromParam is implemented for NonZero core types.

Codegen

Docs for Rocket-generated macros are now hidden.
Generated code now works even when prelude imports like Some, Ok, and Err are shadowed.
Error messages referring to responder types in routes now point to the type correctly.

Docs

All code examples in the guide are now tested and guaranteed to compile.
All macros are documented in the core crate; rocket_codegen makes no appearances.

Infrastructure

CI was moved from Travis to Azure Pipelines; Windows support is tested.
Rocket's chat moved to Matrix and Freenode.

Version 0.4.2 (Jun 28, 2019)

Core

Replaced use of FnBox with Box<dyn FnOnce>.
Removed the stable feature gates try_from and transpose_result.
Derive macros are reexported alongside their respective traits.
Minimum required rustc is 1.35.0-nightly (2019-04-05).

Codegen

JsonValue now implements FromIterator.
non_snake_case errors are silenced in generated code.
Minimum required rustc is 1.33.0-nightly (2019-01-03).

Contrib

Allow setting custom ranks on StaticFiles via StaticFiles::rank().
MsgPack correctly sets a MessagePack Content-Type on responses.

Docs

Fixed typos across rustdocs and guide.
Documented library versions in contrib database documentation.

Infrastructure

Updated internal dependencies to their latest versions.

Version 0.4.1 (May 11, 2019)

Core

Rocket's default Server HTTP header no longer overrides a user-set header.
Fixed encoding and decoding of certain URI characters.

Codegen

Compiler diagnostic information is more reliably produced.

Contrib

Database pool types now implement DerefMut.
Added support for memcache connection pools.
Stopped depending on default features from core.

Docs

Fixed many typos across the rustdocs and guide.
Added guide documentation on mounting more than one route at once.

Infrastructure

Testing no longer requires "bootstrapping".
Removed deprecated isatty dependency in favor of atty.

Version 0.4.0 (Dec 06, 2018)

New Features

This release includes the following new features:

Introduced Typed URIs.
Introduced ORM agnostic database support.
Introduced Request-Local State.
Introduced mountable static-file serving via StaticFiles.
Introduced automatic live template reloading.
Introduced custom stateful handlers via Handler.
Introduced transforming data guards via FromData::transform().
Introduced revamped query string handling.
Introduced the SpaceHelmet security and privacy headers fairing.
Private cookies are gated behind a private-cookies default feature.
Added derive for FromFormValue.
Added derive for Responder.
Added Template::custom() for customizing templating engines including registering filters and helpers.
Cookies are automatically tracked and propagated by Client.
Private cookies can be added to local requests with LocalRequest::private_cookie().
Release builds default to the production environment.
Keep-alive can be configured via the keep_alive configuration parameter.
Allow CLI colors and emoji to be disabled with ROCKET_CLI_COLORS=off.
Route format accepts shorthands such as json and html.
Implemented Responder for Status.
Added Response::cookies() for retrieving response cookies.
All logging is disabled when log is set to off.
Added Metadata guard for retrieving templating information.
The Uri type parses URIs according to RFC 7230 into one of Origin, Absolute, or Authority.
Added Outcome::and_then(), Outcome::failure_then(), and Outcome::forward_then().
Implemented Responder for &[u8].
Any T: Into<Vec<Route>> can be mount()ed.
Default rankings range from -6 to -1, differentiating on static query strings.
Added Request::get_query_value() for retrieving a query value by key.
Applications can launch without a working directory.
Added State::from() for constructing State values.

Codegen Rewrite

The rocket_codegen crate has been entirely rewritten using to-be-stable procedural macro APIs. We expect nightly breakages to drop dramatically, likely to zero, as a result. The new prelude import for Rocket applications is:

- #![feature(plugin)]
- #![plugin(rocket_codegen)]
+ #![feature(proc_macro_hygiene, decl_macro)]

- extern crate rocket;
+ #[macro_use] extern crate rocket;

The rocket_codegen crate should not be a direct dependency. Remove it from your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
- rocket = "0.3"
+ rocket = "0.4"
- rocket_codegen = "0.3"

Breaking Changes

This release includes many breaking changes. These changes are listed below along with a short note about how to handle the breaking change in existing applications when applicable.

Route and catcher attributes respect function privacy.

To mount a route or register a catcher outside of the module it is declared, ensure that the handler function is marked pub or crate.
Query handling syntax has been completely revamped.

A query parameter of <param> is now <param..>. Consider whether your application benefits from the revamped query string handling.
The #[error] attribute and errors! macro were removed.

Use #[catch] and catchers! instead.
Rocket::catch() was renamed to Rocket::register().

Change calls of the form .catch(errors![..]) to .register(catchers![..]).
The #[catch] attribute only accepts functions with 0 or 1 argument.

Ensure the argument to the catcher, if any, is of type &Request.
json! returns a JsonValue, no longer needs wrapping.

Change instances of Json(json!(..)) to json! and change the corresponding type to JsonValue.
All environments default to port 8000.

Manually configure a port of 80 for the stage and production environments for the previous behavior.
Release builds default to the production environment.

Manually set the environment to debug with ROCKET_ENV=debug for the previous behavior.
Form and LenientForm lost a lifetime parameter, get() method.

Change a type of Form<'a, T<'a>> to Form<T> or Form<T<'a>>. Form<T> and LenientForm<T> now implement Deref<Target = T>, allowing for calls to .get() to be removed.
ring was updated to 0.13.

Ensure all transitive dependencies to ring refer to version 0.13.
Uri was largely replaced by Origin.

In general, replace the type Uri with Origin. The base and uri fields of Route are now of type Origin. The &Uri guard is now &Origin. Request::uri() now returns an Origin.
All items in rocket_contrib are namespaced behind modules.
- Json is now json::Json
- MsgPack is now msgpack::MsgPack
- MsgPackError is now msgpack::Error
- Template is now templates::Template
- UUID is now uuid::Uuid
- Value is replaced by json::JsonValue
TLS certificates require the subjectAltName extension.

Ensure that your TLS certificates contain the subjectAltName extension with a value set to your domain.
Route paths, mount points, and LocalRequest URIs are strictly checked.

Ensure your mount points are absolute paths with no parameters, ensure your route paths are absolute paths with proper parameter syntax, and ensure that paths passed to LocalRequest are valid.
Template::show() takes an &Rocket, doesn't accept a root.

Use client.rocket() to get a reference to an instance of Rocket when testing. Use Template::render() in routes.
Request::remote() returns the actual remote IP, doesn't rewrite.

Use Request::real_ip() or Request::client_ip() to retrieve the IP address from the "X-Real-IP" header if it is present.
Bind variant was added to LaunchErrorKind.

Ensure matches on LaunchErrorKind include or ignore the Bind variant.
Cookies are automatically tracked and propagated by Client.

For the previous behavior, construct a Client with Client::untracked().
UUID was renamed to Uuid.

Use Uuid instead of UUID.
LocalRequest::cloned_dispatch() was removed.

Chain calls to .clone().dispatch() for the previous behavior.
Redirect constructors take a generic type of T: TryInto<Uri<'static>>.

A call to a Redirect constructor with a non-'static &str of the form Redirect::to(string) should become Redirect::to(string.to_string()), heap-allocating the string before being passed to the constructor.
The FromData impl for Form and LenientForm now return an error of type FormDataError.

On non-I/O errors, the form string is stored in the variant as an &'f str.
Missing variant was added to ConfigError.

Ensure matches on ConfigError include or ignore the Missing variant.
The FromData impl for Json now returns an error of type JsonError.

The previous SerdeError is now the .1 member of the JsonError enum. Match and destruct the variant for the previous behavior.
FromData is now emulated by FromDataSimple.

Change implementations, not uses, of FromData to FromDataSimple. Consider whether your implementation could benefit from transformations.
FormItems iterates over values of type FormItem.

Map using .map(|item| item.key_value()) for the previous behavior.
LaunchErrorKind::Collision contains a vector of the colliding routes.

Destruct using LaunchErrorKind::Collision(..) to ignore the vector.
Request::get_param() and Request::get_segments() are indexed by segment, not dynamic parameter.

Modify the n argument in calls to these functions appropriately.
Method-based route attributes no longer accept a keyed path parameter.

Change an attribute of the form #[get(path = "..")] to #[get("..")].
Json and MsgPack data guards no longer reject requests with an unexpected Content-Type

To approximate the previous behavior, add a format = "json" route parameter when using Json or format = "msgpack" when using MsgPack.
Implemented Responder for Status. Removed Failure, status::NoContent, and status::Reset responders.

Replace uses of Failure(status) with status directly. Replace status::NoContent with Status::NoContent. Replace status::Reset with Status::ResetContent.
Config::root() returns an Option<&Path> instead of an &Path.

For the previous behavior, use config.root().unwrap().
Status::new() is no longer const.

Construct a Status directly.
Config constructors return a Config instead of a Result<Config>.
ConfigError::BadCWD, Config.config_path were removed.
Json no longer has a default value for its type parameter.
Using data on a non-payload method route is a warning instead of error.
The raw_form_string method of Form and LenientForm was removed.
Various impossible Error associated types are now set to !.
All AdHoc constructors require a name as the first parameter.
The top-level Error type was removed.

General Improvements

In addition to new features, Rocket saw the following improvements:

Log messages now refer to routes by name.
Collision errors on launch name the colliding routes.
Launch fairing failures refer to the failing fairing by name.
The default 403 catcher now references authorization, not authentication.
Private cookies are set to HttpOnly and are given an expiration date of 1 week by default.
A Tera templates example was added.
All macros, derives, and attributes are individually documented in rocket_codegen.
Invalid client requests receive a response of 400 instead of 500.
Response bodies are reliably stripped on HEAD requests.
Added a default catcher for 504: Gateway Timeout.
Configuration information is logged in all environments.
Use of unsafe was reduced from 9 to 2 in core library.
FormItems now parses empty keys and values as well as keys without values.
Added Config::active() as a shorthand for Config::new(Environment::active()?).
Address/port binding errors at launch are detected and explicitly emitted.
Flash cookies are cleared only after they are inspected.
Sync bound on AdHoc::on_attach(), AdHoc::on_launch() was removed.
AdHoc::on_attach(), AdHoc::on_launch() accept an FnOnce.
Added Config::root_relative() for retrieving paths relative to the configuration file.
Added Config::tls_enabled() for determining whether TLS is actively enabled.
ASCII color codes are not emitted on versions of Windows that do not support them.
Added FLAC (audio/flac), Icon (image/x-icon), WEBA (audio/webm), TIFF (image/tiff), AAC (audio/aac), Calendar (text/calendar), MPEG (video/mpeg), TAR (application/x-tar), GZIP (application/gzip), MOV (video/quicktime), MP4 (video/mp4), ZIP (application/zip) as known media types.
Added .weba (WEBA), .ogv (OGG), .mp4 (MP4), .mpeg4 (MP4), .aac (AAC), .ics (Calendar), .bin (Binary), .mpg (MPEG), .mpeg (MPEG), .tar (TAR), .gz (GZIP), .tif (TIFF), .tiff (TIFF), .mov (MOV) as known extensions.
Interaction between route attributes and declarative macros has been improved.
Generated code now logs through logging infrastructures as opposed to using println!.
Routing has been optimized by caching routing metadata.
Form and LenientForm can be publicly constructed.
Console coloring uses default terminal colors instead of white.
Console coloring is consistent across all messages.
i128 and u128 now implement FromParam, FromFormValue.
The base64 dependency was updated to 0.10.
The log dependency was updated to 0.4.
The handlebars dependency was updated to 1.0.
The tera dependency was updated to 0.11.
The uuid dependency was updated to 0.7.
The rustls dependency was updated to 0.14.
The cookie dependency was updated to 0.11.

Infrastructure

All documentation is versioned.
Previous, current, and development versions of all documentation are hosted.
The repository was reorganized with top-level directories of core and contrib.
The http module was split into its own rocket_http crate. This is an internal change only.
All uses of unsafe are documented with informal proofs of correctness.

Version 0.3.16 (Aug 24, 2018)

Codegen

Codegen was updated for 2018-08-23 nightly.
Minimum required rustc is 1.30.0-nightly 2018-08-23.

Core

Force close only the read end of connections. This allows responses to be sent even when the client transmits more data than expected.

Docs

Add details on retrieving configuration extras to guide.

Version 0.3.15 (Jul 16, 2018)

Codegen

The #[catch] decorator and catchers! macro were introduced, replacing #[error] and errors!.
The #[error] decorator and errors! macro were deprecated.
Codegen was updated for 2018-07-15 nightly.
Minimum required rustc is 1.29.0-nightly 2018-07-15.

Version 0.3.14 (Jun 22, 2018)

Codegen

Codegen was updated for 2018-06-22 nightly.
Minimum required rustc is 1.28.0-nightly 2018-06-22.

Version 0.3.13 (Jun 16, 2018)

Codegen

Codegen was updated for 2018-06-12 nightly.
Minimum required rustc is 1.28.0-nightly 2018-06-12.

Version 0.3.12 (May 31, 2018)

Codegen

Codegen was updated for 2018-05-30 nightly.
Minimum required rustc is 1.28.0-nightly 2018-05-30.

Version 0.3.11 (May 19, 2018)

Core

Core was updated for 2018-05-18 nightly.

Infrastructure

Fixed injection of dependencies for codegen compile-fail tests.

Version 0.3.10 (May 05, 2018)

Core

Fixed parsing of nested TOML structures in config environment variables.

Codegen

Codegen was updated for 2018-05-03 nightly.
Minimum required rustc is 1.27.0-nightly 2018-05-04.

Contrib

Contrib was updated for 2018-05-03 nightly.

Docs

Fixed database pool type in state guide.

Version 0.3.9 (Apr 26, 2018)

Core

Core was updated for 2018-04-26 nightly.
Minimum required rustc is 1.27.0-nightly 2018-04-26.
Managed state retrieval cost was reduced to an unsynchronized HashMap lookup.

Codegen

Codegen was updated for 2018-04-26 nightly.
Minimum required rustc is 1.27.0-nightly 2018-04-26.

Contrib

A 512-byte buffer is preallocated when deserializing JSON, improving performance.

Docs

Fixed various typos in rustdocs and guide.

Version 0.3.8 (Apr 07, 2018)

Codegen

Codegen was updated for 2018-04-06 nightly.
Minimum required rustc is 1.27.0-nightly 2018-04-06.

Version 0.3.7 (Apr 03, 2018)

Core

Fixed a bug where incoming request URIs would match routes with the same path prefix and suffix and ignore the rest.
Added known media types for WASM, WEBM, OGG, and WAV.
Fixed fragment URI parsing.

Codegen

Codegen was updated for 2018-04-03 nightly.
Minimum required rustc is 1.27.0-nightly 2018-04-03.

Contrib

JSON data is read eagerly, improving deserialization performance.

Docs

Database example and docs were updated for Diesel 1.1.
Removed outdated README performance section.
Fixed various typos in rustdocs and guide.

Infrastructure

Removed gates for stabilized features: iterator_for_each, i128_type, conservative_impl_trait, never_type.
Travis now tests in both debug and release mode.

Version 0.3.6 (Jan 12, 2018)

Core

Rocket.state() method was added to retrieve managed state from Rocket instances.
Nested calls to Rocket.attach() are now handled correctly.
JSON API (application/vnd.api+json) is now a known media type.
Uncached markers for ContentType and Accept headers are properly preserved on Request.clone().
Minimum required rustc is 1.25.0-nightly 2018-01-12.

Codegen

Codegen was updated for 2017-12-22 nightly.
Minimum required rustc is 1.24.0-nightly 2017-12-22.

Docs

Fixed typo in state guide: ~~simple~~ simply.
Database example and docs were updated for Diesel 1.0.

Infrastructure

Shell scripts now use git grep instead of egrep for faster searching.

Version 0.3.5 (Dec 18, 2017)

Codegen

Codegen was updated for 2017-12-17 nightly.
Minimum required rustc is 1.24.0-nightly 2017-12-17.

Version 0.3.4 (Dec 14, 2017)

Core

NamedFile's Responder implementation now uses a sized body when the file's length is known.
#[repr(C)] is used on str wrappers to guarantee correct structure layout across platforms.
A status::BadRequest Responder was added.

Codegen

Codegen was updated for 2017-12-13 nightly.
Minimum required rustc is 1.24.0-nightly 2017-12-13.

Docs

The rustdoc html_root_url now points to the correct address.
Fixed typo in fairings guide: ~~event~~ events.
Fixed typo in Outcome docs: ~~users~~ Users.

Version 0.3.3 (Sep 25, 2017)

Core

Config's Debug implementation now respects formatting options.
Cow<str> now implements FromParam.
Vec<u8> now implements Responder.
Added a Binary media type for application/octet-stream.
Empty fairing collections are no longer logged.
Emojis are no longer emitted to non-terminals.
Minimum required rustc is 1.22.0-nightly 2017-09-13.

Codegen

Improved "missing argument in handler" compile-time error message.
Codegen was updated for 2017-09-25 nightly.
Minimum required rustc is 1.22.0-nightly 2017-09-25.

Docs

Fixed typos in site overview: by be, ~~Reponder~~ Responder.
Markdown indenting was adjusted for CommonMark.

Infrastructure

Shell scripts handle paths with spaces.

Version 0.3.2 (Aug 15, 2017)

Core

Added conversion methods from and to Box<UncasedStr>.

Codegen

Lints were removed due to compiler instability. Lints will likely return as a separate rocket_lints crate.

Version 0.3.1 (Aug 11, 2017)

Core

Added support for ASCII colors on modern Windows consoles.
Form field renames can now include any valid characters, not just idents.

Codegen

Ignored named route parameters are now allowed (_ident).
Fixed issue where certain paths would cause a lint assert! to fail (#367).
Lints were updated for 2017-08-10 nightly.
Minimum required rustc is 1.21.0-nightly (2017-08-10).

Contrib

Tera errors that were previously skipped internally are now emitted.

Documentation

Typos were fixed across the board.

Version 0.3.0 (Jul 14, 2017)

New Features

This release includes the following new features:

Fairings, Rocket's structure middleware, were introduced.
Native TLS support was introduced.
Private cookies were introduced.
A MsgPack type has been added to contrib for simple consumption and returning of MessagePack data.
Launch failures (LaunchError) from Rocket::launch() are now returned for inspection without panicking.
Routes without query parameters now match requests with or without query parameters.
Default rankings range from -4 to -1, preferring static paths and routes with query string matches.
A native Accept header structure was added.
The Accept request header can be retrieved via Request::accept().
Incoming form fields can be renamed via a new #[form(field = "name")] structure field attribute.
All active routes can be retrieved via Rocket::routes().
Response::body_string() was added to retrieve the response body as a String.
Response::body_bytes() was added to retrieve the response body as a Vec<u8>.
Response::content_type() was added to easily retrieve the Content-Type header of a response.
Size limits on incoming data are now configurable.
Request::limits() was added to retrieve incoming data limits.
Responders may dynamically adjust their response based on the incoming request.
Request::guard() was added for simple retrieval of request guards.
Request::route() was added to retrieve the active route, if any.
&Route is now a request guard.
The base mount path of a Route can be retrieved via Route::base or Route::base().
Cookies supports private (authenticated encryption) cookies, encrypted with the secret_key config key.
Config::{development, staging, production} constructors were added for Config.
Config::get_datetime() was added to retrieve an extra as a Datetime.
Forms can be now parsed leniently via the new LenientForm data guard.
The ? operator can now be used with Outcome.
Quoted string, array, and table based configuration parameters can be set via environment variables.
Log coloring is disabled when stdout is not a TTY.
FromForm is implemented for Option<T: FromForm>, Result<T: FromForm, T::Error>.
The NotFound responder was added for simple 404 response construction.

Breaking Changes

This release includes many breaking changes. These changes are listed below along with a short note about how to handle the breaking change in existing applications.

session_key was renamed to secret_key, requires a 256-bit base64 key

It's unlikely that session_key was previously used. If it was, rename session_key to secret_key. Generate a random 256-bit base64 key using a tool like openssl: openssl rand -base64 32.
The &Cookies request guard has been removed in favor of Cookies

Change &Cookies in a request guard position to Cookies.
Rocket::launch() now returns a LaunchError, doesn't panic.

For the old behavior, suffix a call to .launch() with a semicolon: .launch();.
Routes without query parameters match requests with or without query parameters.

There is no workaround, but this change may allow manual ranks from routes to be removed.
The format route attribute on non-payload requests matches against the Accept header.

Excepting a custom request guard, there is no workaround. Previously, format always matched against the Content-Type header, regardless of whether the request method indicated a payload or not.
A type of &str can no longer be used in form structures or parameters.

Use the new &RawStr type instead.
ContentType is no longer a request guard.

Use &ContentType instead.
Request::content_type() returns &ContentType instead of ContentType.

Use .clone() on &ContentType if a type of ContentType is required.
Response::header_values() was removed. Response::headers() now returns an &HeaderMap.

A call to Response::headers() can be replaced with Response::headers().iter(). A call to Response::header_values(name) can be replaced with Response::headers().get(name).
Route collisions result in a hard error and panic.

There is no workaround. Previously, route collisions were a warning.
The IntoOutcome trait has been expanded and made more flexible.

There is no workaround. IntoOutcome::into_outcome() now takes a Failure value to use. IntoOutcome::or_forward() was added to return a Forward outcome if self indicates an error.
The 'testing' feature was removed.

Remove features = ["testing"] from Cargo.toml. Use the new local module for testing.
serde was updated to 1.0.

There is no workaround. Ensure all dependencies rely on serde 1.0.
config::active() was removed.

Use Rocket::config() to retrieve the configuration before launch. If needed, use managed state to store config information for later use.
The Responder trait has changed.

Responder::respond(self) was removed in favor of Responder::respond_to(self, &Request). Responders may dynamically adjust their response based on the incoming request.
Outcome::of(Responder) was removed while Outcome::from(&Request, Responder) was added.

Use Outcome::from(..) instead of Outcome::of(..).
Usage of templates requires Template::fairing() to be attached.

Call .attach(Template::fairing()) on the application's Rocket instance before launching.
The Display implementation of Template was removed.

Use Template::show() to render a template directly.
Request::new() is no longer exported.

There is no workaround.
The FromForm trait has changed.

Responder::from_form_items(&mut FormItems) was removed in favor of Responder::from_form(&mut FormItems, bool). The second parameter indicates whether parsing should be strict (if true) or lenient (if false).
LoggingLevel was removed as a root reexport.

It can now be imported from rocket::config::LoggingLevel.
An Io variant was added to ConfigError.

Ensure matches on ConfigError include an Io variant.
ContentType::from_extension() returns an Option<ContentType>.

For the old behavior, use .unwrap_or(ContentType::Any).
The IntoValue config trait was removed in favor of Into<Value>.

There is no workaround. Use Into<Value> as necessary.
The rocket_contrib::JSON type has been renamed to rocket_contrib::Json.

Use Json instead of JSON.
All structs in the content module use TitleCase names.

Use Json, Xml, Html, and Css instead of JSON, XML, HTML, and CSS, respectively.

General Improvements

In addition to new features, Rocket saw the following improvements:

"Rocket" is now capitalized in the Server HTTP header.
The generic parameter of rocket_contrib::Json defaults to json::Value.
The trailing '...' in the launch message was removed.
The launch message prints regardless of the config environment.
For debugging, FromData is implemented for Vec<u8> and String.
The port displayed on launch is the port resolved, not the one configured.
The uuid dependency was updated to 0.5.
The base64 dependency was updated to 0.6.
The toml dependency was updated to 0.4.
The handlebars dependency was updated to 0.27.
The tera dependency was updated to 0.10.
yansi is now used for all terminal coloring.
The dev rustc release channel is supported during builds.
Config is now exported from the root.
Request implements Clone and Debug.
The workers config parameter now defaults to num_cpus * 2.
Console logging for table-based config values is improved.
PartialOrd, Ord, and Hash are now implemented for State.
The format of a request is always logged when available.
Route matching on format now functions as documented.

Infrastructure

All examples include a test suite.
The master branch now uses a -dev version number.

Version 0.2.8 (Jun 01, 2017)

Codegen

Lints were updated for 2017-06-01 nightly.
Minimum required rustc is 1.19.0-nightly (2017-06-01).

Version 0.2.7 (May 26, 2017)

Codegen

Codegen was updated for 2017-05-26 nightly.

Version 0.2.6 (Apr 17, 2017)

Codegen

Allow k and v to be used as fields in FromForm structures by avoiding identifier collisions (#265).

Version 0.2.5 (Apr 16, 2017)

Codegen

Lints were updated for 2017-04-15 nightly.
Minimum required rustc is 1.18.0-nightly (2017-04-15).

Version 0.2.4 (Mar 30, 2017)

Codegen

Codegen was updated for 2017-03-30 nightly.
Minimum required rustc is 1.18.0-nightly (2017-03-30).

Version 0.2.3 (Mar 22, 2017)

Fixes

Multiple header values for the same header name are now properly preserved (#223).

Core

The get_slice and get_table methods were added to Config.
The pub_restricted feature has been stabilized!

Codegen

Lints were updated for 2017-03-20 nightly.
Minimum required rustc is 1.17.0-nightly (2017-03-22).

Infrastructure

The test script now denies trailing whitespace.

Version 0.2.2 (Feb 26, 2017)

Codegen

Lints were updated for 2017-02-25 and 2017-02-26 nightlies.
Minimum required rustc is 1.17.0-nightly (2017-02-26).

Version 0.2.1 (Feb 24, 2017)

Core Fixes

Flash cookie deletion functions as expected regardless of the path.
config properly accepts IPv6 addresses.
Multiple Set-Cookie headers are properly set.

Core Improvements

Display and Error were implemented for ConfigError.
webp, ttf, otf, woff, and woff2 were added as known content types.
Routes are presorted for faster routing.
into_bytes and into_inner methods were added to Body.

Codegen

Fixed unmanaged_state lint so that it works with prefilled type aliases.

Contrib

Better errors are emitted on Tera template parse errors.

Documentation

Fixed typos in manage and JSON docs.

Infrastructure

Updated doctests for latest Cargo nightly.

Version 0.2.0 (Feb 06, 2017)

Detailed release notes for v0.2 can also be found on rocket.rs.

New Features

This release includes the following new features:

Introduced managed state.
Added lints that warn on unmanaged state and unmounted routes.
Added the ability to set configuration parameters via environment variables.
Config structures can be built via ConfigBuilder, which follows the builder pattern.
Logging can be enabled or disabled on custom configuration via a second parameter to the Rocket::custom method.
name and value methods were added to Header to retrieve the name and value of a header.
A new configuration parameter, workers, can be used to set the number of threads Rocket uses.
The address of the remote connection is available via Request.remote(). Request preprocessing overrides remote IP with value from the X-Real-IP header, if present.
During testing, the remote address can be set via MockRequest.remote().
The SocketAddr request guard retrieves the remote address.
A UUID type has been added to contrib.
rocket and rocket_codegen will refuse to build with an incompatible nightly version and emit nice error messages.
Major performance and usability improvements were upstreamed to the cookie crate, including the addition of a CookieBuilder.
When a checkbox isn't present in a form, bool types in a FromForm structure will parse as false.
The FormItems iterator can be queried for a complete parse via completed and exhausted.
Routes for OPTIONS requests can be declared via the options decorator.
Strings can be percent-encoded via URI::percent_encode().

Breaking Changes

This release includes several breaking changes. These changes are listed below along with a short note about how to handle the breaking change in existing applications.

Rocket::custom takes two parameters, the first being Config by value.

A call in v0.1 of the form Rocket::custom(&config) is now Rocket::custom(config, false).
Tera templates are named without their extension.

A templated named name.html.tera is now simply name.
JSON unwrap method has been renamed to into_inner.

A call to .unwrap() should be changed to .into_inner().
The map! macro was removed in favor of the json! macro.

A call of the form map!{ "a" => b } can be written as: json!({ "a": b }).
The hyper::SetCookie header is no longer exported.

Use the Cookie type as an Into<Header> type directly.
The Content-Type for String is now text/plain.

Use content::HTML<String> for HTML-based String responses.
Request.content_type() returns an Option<ContentType>.

Use .unwrap_or(ContentType::Any) to get the old behavior.
The ContentType request guard forwards when the request has no Content-Type header.

Use an Option<ContentType> and .unwrap_or(ContentType::Any) for the old behavior.
A Rocket instance must be declared before a MockRequest.

Change the order of the rocket::ignite() and MockRequest::new() calls.
A route with format specified only matches requests with the same format.

Previously, a route with a format would match requests without a format specified. There is no workaround to this change; simply specify formats when required.
FormItems can no longer be constructed directly.

Instead of constructing as FormItems(string), construct as FormItems::from(string).
from_from_string(&str) in FromForm removed in favor of from_form_items(&mut FormItems).

Most implementation should be using FormItems internally; simply use the passed in FormItems. In other cases, the form string can be retrieved via the inner_str method of FormItems.
Config::{set, default_for} are deprecated.

Use the set_{param} methods instead of set, and new or build in place of default_for.
Route paths must be absolute.

Prepend a / to convert a relative path into an absolute one.
Route paths cannot contain empty segments.

Remove any empty segments, including trailing ones, from a route path.

Bug Fixes

A couple of bugs were fixed in this release:

Handlebars partials were not properly registered (#122).
Rocket::custom did not set the custom configuration as the active configuration.
Route path segments containing more than one dynamic parameter were allowed.

General Improvements

In addition to new features, Rocket saw the following smaller improvements:

Rocket no longer overwrites a catcher's response status.
The port Config type is now a proper u16.
Clippy issues injected by codegen are resolved.
Handlebars was updated to 0.25.
The PartialEq implementation of Config doesn't consider the path or secret key.
Hyper dependency updated to 0.10.
The Error type for JSON as FromData has been exposed as SerdeError.
SVG was added as a known Content-Type.
Serde was updated to 0.9.
Form parse failure now results in a 422 error code.
Tera has been updated to 0.7.
pub(crate) is used throughout to enforce visibility rules.
Query parameters in routes (/path?<param>) are now logged.
Routes with and without query parameters no longer collide.

Infrastructure

Testing was parallelized, resulting in 3x faster Travis builds.

Version 0.1.6 (Jan 26, 2017)

Infrastructure

Hyper version pinned to 0.9.14 due to upstream non-semver breaking change.

Version 0.1.5 (Jan 14, 2017)

Core

Fixed security checks in FromSegments implementation for PathBuf.

Infrastructure

proc_macro feature removed from examples due to stability.

Version 0.1.4 (Jan 4, 2017)

Core

Header names are treated as case-preserving.

Codegen

Minimum supported nightly is 2017-01-03.

Version 0.1.3 (Dec 31, 2016)

Core

Typo in Outcome formatting fixed (Succcess -> Success).
Added ContentType::CSV.
Dynamic segments parameters are properly resolved, even when mounted.
Request methods are only overridden via _method field on POST.
Form value Strings are properly decoded.

Codegen

The _method field is now properly ignored in FromForm derivation.
Unknown Content-Types in format no longer result in an error.
Deriving FromForm no longer results in a deprecation warning.
Codegen will refuse to build with incompatible rustc, presenting error message and suggestion.
Added head as a valid decorator for HEAD requests.
Added route(OPTIONS) as a valid decorator for OPTIONS requests.

Contrib

Templates with the .tera extension are properly autoescaped.
Nested template names are properly resolved on Windows.
Template implements Display.
Tera dependency updated to version 0.6.

Docs

Todo example requirements clarified in its README.

Testing

Tests added for config, optional_result, optional_redirect, and query_params examples.
Testing script checks for and disallows tab characters.

Infrastructure

New script (bump_version.sh) automates version bumps.
Config script emits error when readlink/readpath support is bad.
Travis badge points to public builds.

Version 0.1.2 (Dec 24, 2016)

Codegen

Fix get_raw_segments index argument in route codegen (#41).
Segments params (<param..>) respect prefixes.

Contrib

Fix nested template name resolution (#42).

Infrastructure

New script (publish.sh) automates publishing to crates.io.
New script (bump_version.sh) automates version bumps.

Version 0.1.1 (Dec 23, 2016)

Core

NamedFile Responder lost its body in the shuffle; it's back!

Version 0.1.0 (Dec 23, 2016)

This is the first public release of Rocket!

Breaking

All of the mentions to hyper types in core Rocket types are no more. Rocket now implements its own Request and Response types.

ContentType uses associated constants instead of static methods.
StatusCode removed in favor of new Status type.
Response type alias superseded by Response type.
Responder::respond no longer takes in hyper type.
Responder::respond returns Response, takes self by move.
Handler returns Outcome instead of Response type alias.
ErrorHandler returns Result.
All Hyper* types were moved to unprefixed versions in hyper::.
MockRequest::dispatch now returns a Response type.
URIBuf removed in favor of unified URI.
Rocket panics when an illegal, dynamic mount point is used.

Core

Rocket handles HEAD requests automatically.
New Response and ResponseBuilder types.
New Request, Header, Status, and ContentType types.

Testing

MockRequest allows any type of header.
MockRequest allows cookies.

Codegen

Debug output disabled by default.
The ROCKET_CODEGEN_DEBUG environment variables enables codegen logging.

Version 0.0.11 (Dec 11, 2016)

Streaming Requests

All incoming request data is now streamed. This resulted in a major change to the Rocket APIs. They are summarized through the following API changes:

The form route parameter has been removed.
The data route parameter has been introduced.
Forms are now handled via the data parameter and Form type.
Removed the data parameter from Request.
Added FromData conversion trait and default implementation.
FromData is used to automatically derive the data parameter.
Responders are now final: they cannot forward to other requests.
Responders may only forward to catchers.

Breaking

Request uri parameter is private. Use uri() method instead.
form module moved under request module.
response::data was renamed to response::content.
Introduced Outcome with Success, Failure, and Forward variants.
outcome module moved to top-level.
Response is now a type alias to Outcome.
Empty Responder was removed.
StatusResponder removed in favor of response::status module.

Codegen

Error handlers can now take 0, 1, or 2 parameters.
FromForm derive now works on empty structs.
Lifetimes are now properly stripped in code generation.
Any valid ident is now allowed in single-parameter route parameters.

Core

Route is now cloneable.
Request no longer has any lifetime parameters.
Handler type now includes a Data parameter.
http module is public.
Responder implemented for () type as an empty response.
Add config::get() for global config access.
Introduced testing module.
Rocket.toml allows global configuration via [global] table.

Docs

Added a raw_upload example.
Added a pastebin example.
Documented all public APIs.

Testing

Now building and running tests with --all-features flag.
Added appveyor config for Windows CI testing.

Version 0.0.10 (Oct 03, 2016)

Breaking

Remove Rocket::new in favor of ignite method.
Remove Rocket::mount_and_launch in favor of chaining mount(..).launch().
mount and catch take Rocket type by value.
All types related to HTTP have been moved into http module.
Template::render in contrib now takes context by reference.

Core

Rocket now parses option Rocket.toml for configuration, defaulting to sane values.
ROCKET_ENV environment variable can be used to specify running environment.

Docs

Document ContentType.
Document Request.
Add script that builds docs.

Testing

Scripts can now be run from any directory.
Cache Cargo directories in Travis for faster testing.
Check that library version numbers match in testing script.

Version 0.0.9 (Sep 29, 2016)

Breaking

Rename response::data_type to response::data.

Core

Rocket interprets _method field in forms as the incoming request's method.
Add Outcome::Bad to signify responses that failed internally.
Add a NamedFile Responder type that uses a file's extension for the response's content type.
Add a Stream Responder for streaming responses.

Contrib

Introduce the contrib crate.
Add JSON support via JSON, which implements FromRequest and Responder.
Add templating support via Template which implements Responder.

Docs

Initial guide-like documentation.
Add documentation, testing, and contributing sections to README.

Testing

Add a significant number of codegen tests.

Files

CHANGELOG.md

Latest commit

History

CHANGELOG.md

File metadata and controls

Version 0.5.0-rc.3 (Mar 23, 2023)

Major Features and Improvements

General Improvements

Known Media Types

Trait Implementations

Updated Dependencies

Infrastructure

Version 0.5.0-rc.2 (May 09, 2022)

Major Features and Improvements

Breaking Changes

General Improvements

HTTP

Request

Trait Implementations

Updated Dependencies

Infrastructure

Version 0.5.0-rc.1 (Jun 09, 2021)

Major Features and Improvements

Support for Rust Stable

Breaking Changes

Silent Changes

Contrib Graduation

General

Routing and URIs

Data and Forms

Request Guards

Responders

General Improvements

General

HTTP

Request

Response

Trait Implementations

Updated Dependencies

Infrastructure

Version 0.4.10 (May 21, 2021)

Core

Version 0.4.9 (May 19, 2021)

Core

Version 0.4.8 (May 18, 2021)

Core

Internal

Version 0.4.7 (Feb 09, 2021)

Core

Version 0.4.6 (Nov 09, 2020)

Core

Docs

Internal

Version 0.4.5 (May 30, 2020)

Core

Docs

Version 0.4.4 (Mar 09, 2020)

Core

Docs

Version 0.4.3 (Feb 29, 2020)

Core

Codegen

Docs

Infrastructure

Version 0.4.2 (Jun 28, 2019)

Core

Codegen

Contrib

Docs

Infrastructure

Version 0.4.1 (May 11, 2019)

Core

Codegen

Contrib

Docs

Infrastructure

Version 0.4.0 (Dec 06, 2018)

New Features

Codegen Rewrite