792N/AChanges with Apache 2.5.0
792N/A *) mod_ssl: Add support for OpenSSL configuration commands [Stephen Henson]
919N/A *) mod_proxy_balancer: Improve output
919N/A PR 52478 [Danijel <dt-ng rbfh de>]
919N/A *) core: Add LogLevelOverride directive that allows to override the
919N/A loglevel for clients from certain IPs. This also works for things
919N/A like the SSL handshake where <If> LogLevel ... </If> is evaluated
919N/A too late. [Stefan Fritsch]
919N/A *) core: Add new directive Warning to issue warnings from a configuration
919N/A file. Both Warning and Error now generate a timestamped log message.
919N/A *) mod_status: Print out list of times since a Vhost was last used.
919N/A *) ap_expr: Add SERVER_PROTOCOL_VERSION, ..._MAJOR, and ..._MINOR
919N/A variables. [Stefan Fritsch]
792N/A *) core: New directive RegisterHttpMethod for registering non-standard
792N/A HTTP methods. [Stefan Fritsch]
792N/A *) mod_xml2enc: Fix problems with charset conversion altering the
792N/A Content-Length. [Micha Lenk <micha lenk info>]
970N/A *) core: New directive HttpProtocol which allows to disable HTTP/0.9
970N/A support. [Stefan Fritsch]
792N/A *) mod_allowhandlers: New module to forbid specific handlers for specific
792N/A directories. [Stefan Fritsch]
911N/A *) core: Be more correct about rejecting directives that cannot work in <If>
911N/A sections. [Stefan Fritsch]
911N/A *) core: Fix directives like LogLevel that need to know if they are invoked
792N/A *) mod_cache_disk: Resolve errors while revalidating disk-cached files on
792N/A *) mod_proxy_ftp: Fix segfaults on IPv4 requests to hosts with DNS AAAA records.
792N/A PR 40841. [Andrew Rucker Jones <arjones simultan dyndns org>,
792N/A <ast domdv de>, Jim Jagielski]
792N/A *) ap_expr: Add req_novary function that allows HTTP header lookups
792N/A without adding the name to the Vary header. [Stefan Fritsch]
792N/A *) configure: Fix processing of --disable-FEATURE for various features.
792N/A *) mod_systemd: New module, for integration with systemd on Linux.
792N/A *) --with-module: Fix failure to integrate them into some existing
792N/A module directories. PR 40097. [Jeff Trawick]
792N/A *) mod_cache_socache: New cache implementation backed by mod_socache
792N/A that replaces mod_mem_cache removed from httpd v2.2. [Graham
792N/A *) core: Add dirwalk_stat and pre_htaccess hooks, allowing mpm-itk
792N/A to be used without patches to httpd core. [Jeff Trawick]
792N/A *) mod_proxy: Allow for persistence of local changes (via the
792N/A balancer-manager) between graceful and normal restarts.
851N/A *) mod_slotmem: New provider function, fgrab(), which forces an
792N/A allocation of a slot. [Jim Jagielski]
792N/A filters in Lua [Daniel Gruno]
792N/A *) WinNT MPM: Store pid and generation for each thread in scoreboard
792N/A to allow tracking of threads from exiting children via mod_status
792N/A or other such mechanisms. [Jeff Trawick]
792N/A *) mod_ssl: Catch missing or mismatched client
cert/key pairs with
792N/A *) mod_lua: Allow scripts handled by the lua-script handler to return
792N/A a status code to the client (such as a 302 or a 500) [Daniel Gruno]
792N/A *) mod_lua: Decline handling 'lua-script' if the file doesn't exist,
792N/A rather than throwing an internal server error. [Daniel Gruno]
792N/A *) mod_lua: Add functions r:flush and r:sendfile as well as additional
792N/A request information to the request_rec structure. [Daniel Gruno]
792N/A *) mod_lua: Add a server scope for Lua states, which creates a pool of
792N/A states with managable minimum and maximum size. [Daniel Gruno]
792N/A *) core: Add post_perdir_config hook.
792N/A *) mod_lua: Add new directive, LuaMapHandler, for dynamically mapping
792N/A URIs to Lua scripts and functions using regular expressions.
792N/A *) mod_lua: Add new directive LuaCodeCache for controlling in-memory
792N/A caching of lua scripts. [Daniel Gruno]
792N/A - APIs: ap_log_pid(), ap_remove_pid, ap_read_pid()
792N/A - core: the scoreboard (ScoreBoardFile), pid file (PidFile), and
792N/A - mod_cache: thundering herd lock directory
792N/A - mod_lbmethod_heartbeat, mod_heartmonitor: heartbeat storage file
967N/A - mod_ldap: shared memory cache
792N/A - mod_socache_shmcb, mod_socache_dbm: shared memory or dbm for cache
967N/A *) mod_ssl: Add RFC 5878 support. [Ben Laurie]
792N/A *) suexec: Add --enable-suexec-capabilites support on Linux, to use
792N/A *) suexec: Add support for logging to syslog as an alternative to logging
to a file; configure --without-suexec-logfile --with-suexec-syslog.
*) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS Next Protocol Negotiation. PR 52210.
*) various modules, rotatelogs: Replace use of apr_file_write() with
apr_file_write_full() to prevent incomplete writes. PR 53131.
[Nicolas Viennot <apache viennot biz>, Stefan Fritsch]
*) cross-compile: allow to provide CC_FOR_BUILD so that gen_test_char will
be compiled by the build compiler instead of the host compiler.
Also set CC_FOR_BUILD to 'cc' when cross-compilation is detected.
PR 51257. [Guenter Knauf]
*) core: In maintainer mode, replace apr_palloc with a version that
initializes the allocated memory with non-zero values, except if
AP_DEBUG_NO_ALLOC_POISON is defined. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_policy: Add a new testing module to help server administrators
enforce a configurable level of protocol compliance on their
servers and application servers behind theirs. [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_firehose: Add a new debugging module able to record traffic
passing through the server in such a way that connections
and/or requests be reconstructed and replayed. [Graham Leggett]
[Apache 2.5.0-dev includes those bug fixes and changes with the
Apache
2.4.xx tree as documented below, except as noted.]
Changes with Apache
2.4.x and later:
Changes with Apache
2.2.x and later:
Changes with Apache
2.0.x and later: