Next Slackware Supports HTTP/2

While it has been requested for some time, i found it surprised that finally Patrick agreed to take Slackware to the next level in their next release: support of HTTP/2. Patrick added jansson and nghttp2 as new dependencies and then recompiled curl and httpd to add HTTP/2 support. HTTP/2 has been published as a standard in May 2015 as RFC 7540.

HTTP/2 is backward-compatible with previous version, plus it add more features that focus on improving page load speed and decreasing latency by utilizing:

• Header compression
• Request pipelines
• Multiplexing and concurrency connections
• Server push
• Stream dependencies

It has been a long journey but finally next Slackware will adopt the latest standard while keeping the system still solid, robust, secure, and simple.

HTTP History (Credit by Akamai)