phusion/passenger release-6.0.3

Release 6.0.3

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Add and option to specify the spawn dir during startup, which is specifically useful for CageFS users. Contributed by @plmnikulin. Closes GH-2145.

• Apache: PassengerSpawnDir
• Nginx: passenger_spawn_dir

[Nginx] Bumps the preferred Nginx version to 1.17.3 (previously 1.15.8).

[Nginx] The preferred PCRE version is now 8.43 (previously 8.42).

Adds Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco" packages, and removes Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic" and Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" packages.

Changes minimum supported macOS version to 10.12 Sierra.

Improves container detection and fixes a compilation warning in GCC 8+. Closes GH-2186.

Allowed externally specifying an app instance to send a request to. Contributed by Mark R. James (@mrj).

Fixed an incompatibility with sending requests to specific app instances, when using the rails web-console gem. Contributed by Mark R. James (@mrj).

Fixed a regression (introduced in 5.1.9) where some hooks were not called. Closes GH-2103. Contributed by Mark R. James (@mrj).

Fixes compilation with clang 8 (latest macOS update) by updating vendored boost library from 1.67 to 1.69.

Reverts a regression intruduced in 6.0.2 where Passenger would crash if it had to use the disk backed response cache. Closes GH-2189.

[Nginx] Adds an option passenger_buffer_upload to allow buffering uploaded data in Passenger before forwarding it to the app. As a workaround for apps that cannot handle chunked data.

[Enterprise] When using deferred port binding, no longer binds port if all apps do not start up.

Updated various library versions used in precompiled binaries (used for e.g. gem installs):

• PCRE 8.43 (was 8.42)
• Curl 7.65.1 (was 7.64.0)
• ccache 3.7.3 (was 3.6)
• Git 2.22.0 (was 2.20.1)
• OpenSSL 1.0.2s (was 1.0.2q)
• RubyGems 3.0.6 (was 3.0.2)
• GnuPG 2.2.16 (was 2.2.13)
• libgcrypt 1.8.5 (was 1.8.4)
• libgpg_error 1.36 (was 1.35)
• libiconv 1.16 (was 1.15)
• Ruby:
  • 2.4.5 -> 2.4.6
  • 2.5.3 -> 2.5.5
  • 2.6.1 -> 2.6.3