Overview
Gunicorn 24.0, released on January 23, 2025, introduces an experimental ASGI worker for serving ASGI applications natively.
Main Features
ASGI worker beta
The new ASGI worker allows Gunicorn to serve FastAPI, Starlette, or other ASGI frameworks directly without needing Uvicorn.
python
# ASGI worker beta
# gunicorn --worker-class asgi --workers 4 app:app
# gunicorn.conf.py
bind = '0.0.0.0:8000'
workers = 4
worker_class = 'asgi' # new beta worker
timeout = 120