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90255d8098793fec454acbf2c67d4911dd5a7e83Christian Maeder -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
90255d8098793fec454acbf2c67d4911dd5a7e83Christian MaederChanges with Apache 2.5.0
7fc94f7c677e280e09b834c5bfcf0411aed1f842Christian Maeder *) mod_systemd: New module, for integration with systemd on Linux.
97018cf5fa25b494adffd7e9b4e87320dae6bf47Christian Maeder [Jan Kaluza <jkaluza redhat.com>]
3f69b6948966979163bdfe8331c38833d5d90ecdChristian Maeder *) core: ErrorDocument now works for requests without a Host header.
90255d8098793fec454acbf2c67d4911dd5a7e83Christian Maeder PR 48357. [Jeff Trawick]
90255d8098793fec454acbf2c67d4911dd5a7e83Christian Maeder *) --with-module: Fix failure to integrate them into some existing
e6d40133bc9f858308654afb1262b8b483ec5922Till Mossakowski module directories. PR 40097. [Jeff Trawick]
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder *) mod_headers: New params: %l for load averages, %i for an
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder idle percentage rating of httpd, and %b for a busy percentage
2eb84fc82d3ffa9116bc471fda3742bd9e5a24bbChristian Maeder rating. [Jim Jagielski]
e14842b97369d292f0c18e08c4f8bd025764d4b1Christian Maeder *) core: New functions to obtain load parameters: ap_get_sload()
ec2db3a0102875c71d3fccb5531dd21410890976Christian Maeder and ap_get_loadavg(). [Jim Jagielski]
35db0960aa2e2a13652381c756fae5fb2b27213bChristian Maeder *) mod_cache_socache: New cache implementation backed by mod_socache
0cb5f9c8582ad87ceef1c16b5d92347ae0878019Christian Maeder that replaces mod_mem_cache removed from httpd v2.2. [Graham
90255d8098793fec454acbf2c67d4911dd5a7e83Christian Maeder *) mod_auth_form: Support the expr parser in the
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder AuthFormLoginRequiredLocation, AuthFormLoginSuccessLocation and
e14842b97369d292f0c18e08c4f8bd025764d4b1Christian Maeder AuthFormLogoutLocation directives. [Graham Leggett]
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder *) core: Add dirwalk_stat and pre_htaccess hooks, allowing mpm-itk
7fc94f7c677e280e09b834c5bfcf0411aed1f842Christian Maeder to be used without patches to httpd core. [Jeff Trawick]
ec2db3a0102875c71d3fccb5531dd21410890976Christian Maeder *) mod_proxy: Allow for persistence of local changes (via the
ec2db3a0102875c71d3fccb5531dd21410890976Christian Maeder balancer-manager) between graceful and normal restarts.
ec2db3a0102875c71d3fccb5531dd21410890976Christian Maeder [Jim Jagielski]
7fc94f7c677e280e09b834c5bfcf0411aed1f842Christian Maeder *) mod_slotmem: New provider function, fgrab(), which forces an
e14842b97369d292f0c18e08c4f8bd025764d4b1Christian Maeder allocation of a slot. [Jim Jagielski]
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder *) mod_proxy_balancer: The nonce is only derived from the UUID iff
90255d8098793fec454acbf2c67d4911dd5a7e83Christian Maeder not set via the 'nonce' balancer param. [Jim Jagielski]
e14842b97369d292f0c18e08c4f8bd025764d4b1Christian Maeder *) mod_lua: Add LuaInputFilter/LuaOutputFilter for creating content
e14842b97369d292f0c18e08c4f8bd025764d4b1Christian Maeder filters in Lua [Daniel Gruno]
e14842b97369d292f0c18e08c4f8bd025764d4b1Christian Maeder *) core: Apply length limit when logging Status header values.
e14842b97369d292f0c18e08c4f8bd025764d4b1Christian Maeder [Jeff Trawick, Chris Darroch]
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder *) mod_ssl: Match wildcard SSL certificate names in proxy mode.
90255d8098793fec454acbf2c67d4911dd5a7e83Christian Maeder PR 53006. [Joe Orton]
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder *) WinNT MPM: Store pid and generation for each thread in scoreboard
7fc94f7c677e280e09b834c5bfcf0411aed1f842Christian Maeder to allow tracking of threads from exiting children via mod_status
e14842b97369d292f0c18e08c4f8bd025764d4b1Christian Maeder or other such mechanisms. [Jeff Trawick]
7fc94f7c677e280e09b834c5bfcf0411aed1f842Christian Maeder *) mod_ssl: Catch missing or mismatched client cert/key pairs with
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder SSLProxyMachineCertificateFile/Path directives. PR 52212.
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder [Keith Burdis <keith burdis.org>, Joe Orton]
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder *) mod_lua: Allow scripts handled by the lua-script handler to return
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder a status code to the client (such as a 302 or a 500) [Daniel Gruno]
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder *) mod_proxy_ajp: Fix crash in packet dump code when logging
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder with LogLevel trace7 or trace8. PR 53730. [Rainer Jung]
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder *) mod_cache: Wrong content type and character set when
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder mod_cache serves stale content because of a proxy error.
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder PR 53539. [Rainer Jung, Ruediger Pluem]
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder *) mod_lua: Decline handling 'lua-script' if the file doesn't exist,
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder rather than throwing an internal server error. [Daniel Gruno]
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder *) mod_lua: Add functions r:flush and r:sendfile as well as additional
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder request information to the request_rec structure. [Daniel Gruno]
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder *) mod_lua: Add a server scope for Lua states, which creates a pool of
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder states with managable minimum and maximum size. [Daniel Gruno]
e5b663d2ddf12070038a92aa8e6b597a9cca7687Christian Maeder *) core: Add post_perdir_config hook.
e5b663d2ddf12070038a92aa8e6b597a9cca7687Christian Maeder [Steinar Gunderson <sgunderson bigfoot.com>]
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder *) mod_lua: Add new directive, LuaMapHandler, for dynamically mapping
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder URIs to Lua scripts and functions using regular expressions.
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder [Daniel Gruno]
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder *) mod_lua: Add new directive LuaCodeCache for controlling in-memory
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder caching of lua scripts. [Daniel Gruno]
90255d8098793fec454acbf2c67d4911dd5a7e83Christian Maeder *) The following now respect DefaultRuntimeDir/DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR:
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder - APIs: ap_log_pid(), ap_remove_pid, ap_read_pid()
e510c0b71a70d5c1e05e8132b438d8ee889a7dadChristian Maeder - core: the scoreboard (ScoreBoardFile), pid file (PidFile), and
e510c0b71a70d5c1e05e8132b438d8ee889a7dadChristian Maeder mutexes (Mutex)
e510c0b71a70d5c1e05e8132b438d8ee889a7dadChristian Maeder - mod_lbmethod_heartbeat, mod_heartmonitor: heartbeat storage file
e510c0b71a70d5c1e05e8132b438d8ee889a7dadChristian Maeder - mod_ldap: shared memory cache
e510c0b71a70d5c1e05e8132b438d8ee889a7dadChristian Maeder - mod_socache_shmcb, mod_socache_dbm: shared memory or dbm for cache
e510c0b71a70d5c1e05e8132b438d8ee889a7dadChristian Maeder [Jeff Trawick]
e510c0b71a70d5c1e05e8132b438d8ee889a7dadChristian Maeder *) mod_ssl: Add RFC 5878 support. [Ben Laurie]
e83ed59502a681713982f25c559aae77a4145734Christian Maeder *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS-SRP (Secure Remote Password key exchange
e83ed59502a681713982f25c559aae77a4145734Christian Maeder for TLS, RFC 5054). PR 51075. [Quinn Slack <sqs cs stanford edu>,
ec2db3a0102875c71d3fccb5531dd21410890976Christian Maeder Christophe Renou, Peter Sylvester]
e510c0b71a70d5c1e05e8132b438d8ee889a7dadChristian Maeder *) core: Make ap_regcomp() return AP_REG_ESPACE if out of memory. Make
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder ap_pregcomp() abort if out of memory. This raises the minimum PCRE
ec2db3a0102875c71d3fccb5531dd21410890976Christian Maeder requirement to version 6.0. PR 53284. [Stefan Fritsch]
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder *) suexec: Add --enable-suexec-capabilites support on Linux, to use
7fc94f7c677e280e09b834c5bfcf0411aed1f842Christian Maeder setuid/setgid capability bits rather than a setuid root binary.
ec2db3a0102875c71d3fccb5531dd21410890976Christian Maeder *) suexec: Add support for logging to syslog as an alternative to logging
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder to a file; configure --without-suexec-logfile --with-suexec-syslog.
158196f73dca970c3541c1f31680ac50a28a6ec9Christian Maeder *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS Next Protocol Negotiation. PR 52210.
ec2db3a0102875c71d3fccb5531dd21410890976Christian Maeder [Matthew Steele <mdsteele google.com>]
158196f73dca970c3541c1f31680ac50a28a6ec9Christian Maeder *) various modules, rotatelogs: Replace use of apr_file_write() with
158196f73dca970c3541c1f31680ac50a28a6ec9Christian Maeder apr_file_write_full() to prevent incomplete writes. PR 53131.
158196f73dca970c3541c1f31680ac50a28a6ec9Christian Maeder [Nicolas Viennot <apache viennot biz>, Stefan Fritsch]
7fc94f7c677e280e09b834c5bfcf0411aed1f842Christian Maeder *) cross-compile: allow to provide CC_FOR_BUILD so that gen_test_char will
0cb5f9c8582ad87ceef1c16b5d92347ae0878019Christian Maeder be compiled by the build compiler instead of the host compiler.
ec2db3a0102875c71d3fccb5531dd21410890976Christian Maeder Also set CC_FOR_BUILD to 'cc' when cross-compilation is detected.
ec2db3a0102875c71d3fccb5531dd21410890976Christian Maeder PR 51257. [Guenter Knauf]
ec2db3a0102875c71d3fccb5531dd21410890976Christian Maeder *) core: In maintainer mode, replace apr_palloc with a version that
ec2db3a0102875c71d3fccb5531dd21410890976Christian Maeder initializes the allocated memory with non-zero values, except if
ec2db3a0102875c71d3fccb5531dd21410890976Christian Maeder AP_DEBUG_NO_ALLOC_POISON is defined. [Stefan Fritsch]
90255d8098793fec454acbf2c67d4911dd5a7e83Christian Maeder *) mod_policy: Add a new testing module to help server administrators
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder enforce a configurable level of protocol compliance on their
7fc94f7c677e280e09b834c5bfcf0411aed1f842Christian Maeder servers and application servers behind theirs. [Graham Leggett]
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder *) mod_firehose: Add a new debugging module able to record traffic
7fc94f7c677e280e09b834c5bfcf0411aed1f842Christian Maeder passing through the server in such a way that connections and/or
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder requests be reconstructed and replayed. [Graham Leggett]
7fc94f7c677e280e09b834c5bfcf0411aed1f842Christian Maeder *) mod_noloris
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder *) Simple MPM
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder [Apache 2.5.0-dev includes those bug fixes and changes with the
7fc94f7c677e280e09b834c5bfcf0411aed1f842Christian Maeder Apache 2.4.xx tree as documented below, except as noted.]
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian MaederChanges with Apache 2.4.x and later:
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/CHANGES?view=markup
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian MaederChanges with Apache 2.2.x and later:
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian Maeder *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/CHANGES?view=markup
9929f81562adecc8aafaefb14a0159afcf4a3351Christian MaederChanges with Apache 2.0.x and later: