The cherokee team just relased version 0.6.0, as higlights:

• Web based admin interface (cherokee-admin, USE=admin)
• 20% 25% faster
• Load balancing
• Recover mechanism
• More authentication modules
• New documentation system
• Theme support

The new ebuild is already in portage including cherokee-admin and cherokee-guardian. The configuration is totally different so you need to create a new one using cherokee-admin or use /usr/share/doc/cherokee-0.6.0/contrib/05to06.py to export your old config (doesn’t wokrs 100%).