Site update for the 0.3.12 pre-release.

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+h1. Commercial Sponsorship
+
+Mongrel is a free open source web server and will always remain that way, but
+that doesn't mean that companies don't help to make it better.
+
+Mongrel now has sponsorship from "EastMedia":http://www.eastmedia.com
+in partnership with "VeriSign":http://www.verisign.com/ to make Mongrel 
+fast and stable enough for enterprise class loads (meaning "gigantic", 
+not "Java style").  Their sponsorship has made it possible to get large 
+pools of test servers, payment to myself for work done, and a real 
+application to use Mongrel on.  Everyone should toss out a thanks 
+to them since this may mean I'll get to work on Mongrel full time 
+in the near future and it will raise the quality of Ruby application 
+hosting in general.  Not to mention the fact that they are letting all 
+of my Mongrel work stay LGPL licensed and open source.  
+
+Other companies benefiting from Ruby should take this as an example.  I 
+can think of quite a few things (Ruby 1.9 and a real virtual machine are 
+just two) that need some serious commercial cash to get them in gear.  If 
+you're making cash off Ruby consider hiring a developer part-time, 
+full-time, or posting a bounty for something you need as well as the 
+community needs.  There's no better time for enlightened self-interest than now.
+
+The kind folks at "railsmachine.net":http://railsmachine.com/ have also donated 
+three VPS accounts for testing various installations on their hosting service.  
+They plan to use Mongrel as the default hosting setup in the very near future.
+
+
 h1. The People Who Made It Possible
 
 There's quite a few people who either directly or indirectly helped to

doc/site/src/default.template

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         <h4>NEWS</h4>
 
         <dl>
+
+          <dt>Mar-27-2006</dt>
+          <dd>
+            <h5><a href="{relocatable: news.html}">Mongrel 0.3.12 -- Pre-Release</a></h5>
+
+            <p>A pre-release of the 0.3.12 Mongrel which suppot tons of functionality, so it 
+	    needs more testing than normal.  Read the news for changes and install instructions.</p>
+	      <a href="{relocatable: news.html}"><img src="{relocatable: images/li4.gif}" alt="more" /><br /></a></p>
+          </dd>
+
           <dt>Mar-15-2006</dt>
           <dd>
             <h5><a href="{relocatable: news.html}">Mongrel 0.3.11 -- Edge Rails Compliant</a></h5>
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 	      <a href="{relocatable: news.html}"><img src="{relocatable: images/li4.gif}" alt="more" /><br /></a></p>
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-
-          <dt>Feb-16-2006</dt>
-          <dd>
-            <h5><a href="{relocatable: news.html}">Mongrel 0.3.4 -- Win32 Baby</a></h5>
-
-            <p>CGI cleanups getting closer to full Rails support.  Win32 pre-built gems
-	    available.</p>
-	      <a href="http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1306" title="Downloads">Download</a>
-	      <a href="{relocatable: news.html}"><img src="{relocatable: images/li4.gif}" alt="more" /><br /></a></p>
-          </dd>
-
-
         </dl>
       </div>
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doc/site/src/news.page

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 h1. Latest News
 
+h2. Mar-27:   Mongrel 0.3.12 -- Pre-Release
+
+This release is a little different as it's larger than previous releases and
+therefore needs to have more testing before I put it on the regular gem
+servers.  People interested in testing will install using:
+
+ $ gem uninstall mongrel
+ $ gem uninstall gem_plugin
+ $ gem install mongrel --source=http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/releases/
+
+Windows people may need to uninstall their services and re-install them.  Please let me 
+know if this happens to you.  Otherwise test this with your apps and tell me how it works.
+
+Adventurous people on FreeBSD or Linux (maybe Solaris) might want to do "gem install sendfile"
+as well to see if they get faster static file serving.  Worked for me on FreeBSD no problems.
+
+This release features an insane number of changes, too frequent to mention
+in just this little new snippet, but here's the big ones:
+
+* A more complete "Mongrel::Configurator":http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/rdoc/classes/Mongrel/Configurator.html and "Mongrel::Rails::RailsConfigurator":http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/rdoc/classes/Mongrel/Rails/RailsConfigurator.html
+* The mongrel_rails script is implemented using the new Configurator scheme and works much better.
+* Win32 start-up scripts are adapted to the new setup but not using the Configurator.
+* You can pass a config file to mongrel_rails start and it will load that (command line options override).
+* Graceful restart works more reliably (not in Win32 since it uses services).
+* Reload works better and doesn't break the restart.
+* More logging of the start-up process.
+* There is a wicked nice debugging framework that logs object counts, open files, and request params.  Try mongrel_rails start -B and look in log/mongrel_debug.
+* The Rails specific components are now in Mongrel::Rails modules.
+* More examples using the Mongrel::Configurator.
+* Dramatic speed improvements on FreeBSD, especially if you install the ruby18-nopthreads version.
+* Slight speed improvements on Mac OSX.
+* Platforms that can install "ruby-sendfile":http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-sendfile will get an estimated 20% speed boost in static file serving.  This is currently FreeBSD, Linux, and Solaris.
+* Lots of little bug fixes and minor speed tweaks.
+
+I'm holding the official 0.3.12 release until after Rails 1.1 is officially released so I can test it.
+
+Please do the install process and try out your applications for me.  I'll be posting some hand
+
 h2. Mar-15:   Mongrel 0.3.11 -- Edge Rails Compliant
 
 The main thing with this release is that it works with edge Rails