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Silent but effective, a new release of Nitro has been unleashed upon the world. Curiously, this release includes Mongrel, a replacement for WEBrick, the traditional, pure-Ruby, embeddable servlet container that is distributed with Rails. According to some informal benchmarks, Mongrel is capable of performing up to 1700% faster than WEBrick.

Will our conically-adorned, moustached friend’s fears come true, or will the community step up to maintain our languishing friend. Only time will tell!