I am glad to announce the first experimental release of imgserve, a universal image daemon for Wikimedia Foundation, it's a Google Summer of Code project mentored by Aryeh Gregor. The intended usage in mediawiki is to migrate all image manipulation work away from Apache servers.

The daemon, written in python, currently only supports image rescaling and svg rasterization operations. Instructions/Requests are sent to the daemon as JSON objects over HTTP, which is handled by an simple embedded HTTP server in the daemon.

To test the daemon, you should follow the install instructions and have all required package installed on your machine. See install instructions at

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/imgserve

Source code is hosted at

http://github.com/wuzhe/imgserve

As a GSOC student, I have learned quite a lot from this project, and am eager to learn more. If you find any bug, or have suggestions, please let me know, thank you.

-- Wu Zhe