Several users have contacted us recently inquiring about the state of Abyss Web Server and its future.
The short answer:
ABYSS WEB SERVER IS STILL ALIVE and we are still committed to its development.
The long answer:
We have never ceased supporting Abyss Web Server. All support requests which reached support@aprelium.com or priority@aprelium.com have been replied to. It seems that some of you have not got replies from us on an occasion or two. All our apologies for that. A timestamp of their outgoing emails may help us understand what was wrong with the receipt of their messages.
We have continued to update aprelium.com with new PHP releases. The whole site was upgraded late 2015 with a new responsive design to make it readable with mobile phones and tablets.
We recognize that we've been absent from the forums which seemed abandoned. Actually, spam has challenged us several times. Its volume and its "quality" (irony - spammers are always inventing new ways to fool us and look legit) made this place unmanageable in quite a long time. The problem is now partially solved, but we may require some help from you to better moderate and accept new users from now on.
The last public version of Abyss Web Server was released on November 2014. A newer version 2.10 was in the works and planned for June 2015. It has been powering our Web sites since July 2015 and we provided it to a few of our close partners who bundle Abyss Web Server with their products. But it was never broadly published.
Version 2.11 is almost ready and it is already powering this site. Its preview will be made available for those who request it next week. We hope to make it public by the end of March 2016. Version 2.11 adds several new improvements mainly: SNI support (virtual hosting of HTTPS sites on the same IP), SHA-2 SSL certificates support/generation, HTTP/1.1 reverse-proxy and a console with a responsive design to make it accessible on mobiles/tablets as well as normal computers.
We are still committed to the development of Abyss Web Server. Not only is it a central piece in our product portfolio but it is also important to many of our partners who built products or services based on it. You (Customers of X2 and users of X1) are also very important to us and we greatly value your support and your loyalty to our software.
Our development team is already working on the new generation of Abyss Web Server, which will include the latest HTTP/2 and make integration with new Web technologies easier. We hope you'll be among the first to give it a try when it will leave our R&D facility.