Lightstreamer Server 4.0.1 Released

A new update to Lightstreamer Server 4.0 is available for download.
The new version is 4.0.1 build 1513.1.3.

This release fixes a bug introduced with Lightstreamer 4.0 that affects HTTPS connections. Under some circumstances, when very large control requests are sent (usually due to very long item and field names, combined with high numbers of subscriptions) the underlying TLS/SSL connection may break.

Patch Release Available

We recently released an update to the latest distribution of Lightstreamer (codename Duomo, which contains Server 4.0 and HTML Client 5.0).

Such update, which is available from the usual download page, contains two changes:

Push Technology, Comet, and WebSockets: 10 years of history from Lightstreamer's perspective

By Alessandro Alinone (originally published on Comet Daily)

More than ten years have passed since the creation of Lightstreamer. Now that Lightstreamer 4.0 is generally available, it is a good moment to look back at what happened in the history of Push/Comet and to share a short analysis of the current trends from Lightstreamer’s perspective.