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14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan HuntChanges with Apache 2.5.0
0c27b3fe77ac1d5094ba3521e8142d9e7973133fMark Andrews *) htpasswd, htdbm: Optionally read passwords from stdin, as more
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson secure alternative to -b. PR 40243. [Adomas Paltanavicius <adomas
0c27b3fe77ac1d5094ba3521e8142d9e7973133fMark Andrews paltanavicius gmail com>, Stefan Fritsch]
0c27b3fe77ac1d5094ba3521e8142d9e7973133fMark Andrews *) htpasswd, htdbm: Add support for bcrypt algorithm (requires
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson apr-util 1.5 or higher). PR 49288. [Stefan Fritsch]
14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt *) htpasswd, htdbm: Put full 48bit of entropy into salt, improve
83a28ca274521e15086fc39febde507bcc4e145eMark Andrews error handling. Add some of htpasswd's improvements to htdbm,
14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt e.g. warn if password is truncated by crypt(). [Stefan Fritsch]
14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt *) ab: add TLS1.1/TLS1.2 options to -f switch, and adapt output
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein to more accurately report the negotiated protocol. PR 53916.
14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt [Nicolás Pernas Maradei <nico emutex com>, Kaspar Brand]
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein *) mod_systemd: New module, for integration with systemd on Linux.
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein [Jan Kaluza <jkaluza redhat.com>]
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein *) core: ErrorDocument now works for requests without a Host header.
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein PR 48357. [Jeff Trawick]
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein *) --with-module: Fix failure to integrate them into some existing
86b0285d7e65601645db4090d62ee6cb63abad6cAndreas Gustafsson module directories. PR 40097. [Jeff Trawick]
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein *) mod_headers: New params: %l for load averages, %i for an
194e2dfffa6a167b8eef0ad11864026b423a1c30Mark Andrews idle percentage rating of httpd, and %b for a busy percentage
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein rating. [Jim Jagielski]
c1a883f2e04d94e99c433b1f6cfd0c0338f4ed85Mark Andrews *) core: New functions to obtain load parameters: ap_get_sload()
938440694b33cd752e9e4b71a526368b4811c177Tinderbox User and ap_get_loadavg(). [Jim Jagielski]
0c27b3fe77ac1d5094ba3521e8142d9e7973133fMark Andrews *) mod_cache_socache: New cache implementation backed by mod_socache
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein that replaces mod_mem_cache removed from httpd v2.2. [Graham
86b0285d7e65601645db4090d62ee6cb63abad6cAndreas Gustafsson *) mod_auth_form: Support the expr parser in the
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein AuthFormLoginRequiredLocation, AuthFormLoginSuccessLocation and
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein AuthFormLogoutLocation directives. [Graham Leggett]
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein *) core: Add dirwalk_stat and pre_htaccess hooks, allowing mpm-itk
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein to be used without patches to httpd core. [Jeff Trawick]
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein *) mod_proxy: Allow for persistence of local changes (via the
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein balancer-manager) between graceful and normal restarts.
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein [Jim Jagielski]
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein *) mod_slotmem: New provider function, fgrab(), which forces an
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein allocation of a slot. [Jim Jagielski]
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein *) mod_proxy_balancer: The nonce is only derived from the UUID iff
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein not set via the 'nonce' balancer param. [Jim Jagielski]
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson *) mod_lua: Add LuaInputFilter/LuaOutputFilter for creating content
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson filters in Lua [Daniel Gruno]
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson *) core: Apply length limit when logging Status header values.
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson [Jeff Trawick, Chris Darroch]
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein *) mod_ssl: Match wildcard SSL certificate names in proxy mode.
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson PR 53006. [Joe Orton]
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson *) WinNT MPM: Store pid and generation for each thread in scoreboard
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson to allow tracking of threads from exiting children via mod_status
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein or other such mechanisms. [Jeff Trawick]
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein *) mod_ssl: Catch missing or mismatched client cert/key pairs with
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson SSLProxyMachineCertificateFile/Path directives. PR 52212.
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein [Keith Burdis <keith burdis.org>, Joe Orton]
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson *) mod_lua: Allow scripts handled by the lua-script handler to return
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein a status code to the client (such as a 302 or a 500) [Daniel Gruno]
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein *) mod_proxy_ajp: Fix crash in packet dump code when logging
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein with LogLevel trace7 or trace8. PR 53730. [Rainer Jung]
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein *) mod_cache: Wrong content type and character set when
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson mod_cache serves stale content because of a proxy error.
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson PR 53539. [Rainer Jung, Ruediger Pluem]
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein *) mod_lua: Decline handling 'lua-script' if the file doesn't exist,
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson rather than throwing an internal server error. [Daniel Gruno]
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson *) mod_lua: Add functions r:flush and r:sendfile as well as additional
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson request information to the request_rec structure. [Daniel Gruno]
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein *) mod_lua: Add a server scope for Lua states, which creates a pool of
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson states with managable minimum and maximum size. [Daniel Gruno]
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson *) core: Add post_perdir_config hook.
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson [Steinar Gunderson <sgunderson bigfoot.com>]
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein *) mod_lua: Add new directive, LuaMapHandler, for dynamically mapping
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson URIs to Lua scripts and functions using regular expressions.
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein [Daniel Gruno]
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson *) mod_lua: Add new directive LuaCodeCache for controlling in-memory
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein caching of lua scripts. [Daniel Gruno]
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein *) The following now respect DefaultRuntimeDir/DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR:
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein - APIs: ap_log_pid(), ap_remove_pid, ap_read_pid()
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein - core: the scoreboard (ScoreBoardFile), pid file (PidFile), and
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein mutexes (Mutex)
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson - mod_lbmethod_heartbeat, mod_heartmonitor: heartbeat storage file
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein - mod_ldap: shared memory cache
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson - mod_socache_shmcb, mod_socache_dbm: shared memory or dbm for cache
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson [Jeff Trawick]
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein *) mod_ssl: Add RFC 5878 support. [Ben Laurie]
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS-SRP (Secure Remote Password key exchange
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein for TLS, RFC 5054). PR 51075. [Quinn Slack <sqs cs stanford edu>,
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein Christophe Renou, Peter Sylvester]
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein *) core: Make ap_regcomp() return AP_REG_ESPACE if out of memory. Make
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson ap_pregcomp() abort if out of memory. This raises the minimum PCRE
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein requirement to version 6.0. PR 53284. [Stefan Fritsch]
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson *) suexec: Add --enable-suexec-capabilites support on Linux, to use
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein setuid/setgid capability bits rather than a setuid root binary.
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein *) suexec: Add support for logging to syslog as an alternative to logging
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein to a file; configure --without-suexec-logfile --with-suexec-syslog.
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS Next Protocol Negotiation. PR 52210.
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson [Matthew Steele <mdsteele google.com>]
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein *) various modules, rotatelogs: Replace use of apr_file_write() with
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson apr_file_write_full() to prevent incomplete writes. PR 53131.
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein [Nicolas Viennot <apache viennot biz>, Stefan Fritsch]
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson *) cross-compile: allow to provide CC_FOR_BUILD so that gen_test_char will
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein be compiled by the build compiler instead of the host compiler.
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein Also set CC_FOR_BUILD to 'cc' when cross-compilation is detected.
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson PR 51257. [Guenter Knauf]
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson *) core: In maintainer mode, replace apr_palloc with a version that
14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt initializes the allocated memory with non-zero values, except if
30eec077db2bdcb6f2a0dc388a3cdde2ede75ec1Mark Andrews AP_DEBUG_NO_ALLOC_POISON is defined. [Stefan Fritsch]
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein *) mod_policy: Add a new testing module to help server administrators
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein enforce a configurable level of protocol compliance on their
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein servers and application servers behind theirs. [Graham Leggett]
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein *) mod_firehose: Add a new debugging module able to record traffic
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein passing through the server in such a way that connections and/or
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein requests be reconstructed and replayed. [Graham Leggett]
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein *) mod_noloris
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein *) Simple MPM
8eea877894ea5bcf5cdd9ca124a8601ad421d753Andreas Gustafsson [Apache 2.5.0-dev includes those bug fixes and changes with the
8eea877894ea5bcf5cdd9ca124a8601ad421d753Andreas Gustafsson Apache 2.4.xx tree as documented below, except as noted.]
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas GustafssonChanges with Apache 2.4.x and later:
ddccd5811feff696ba460dabfb666ce61040f545Andreas Gustafsson *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/CHANGES?view=markup
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob AusteinChanges with Apache 2.2.x and later:
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob Austein *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/CHANGES?view=markup
268a4475065fe6a8cd7cc707820982cf5e98f430Rob AusteinChanges with Apache 2.0.x and later: