554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kaisChanges with Apache 2.5.0

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) mod_substitute: Fix line length limitation in case of regexp plus flatten.

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais [Rainer Jung]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) apreq: Content-Length header should be always interpreted as a decimal.

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais Leading 0 could be erroneously considered as an octal value. PR 56598.

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais [Chris Card <ctcard hotmail com>]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) mod_proxy: Now allow for 191 character worker names, with non-fatal

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais errors if name is truncated. PR53218. [Jim Jagielski]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) mod_ssl: Add optional function "ssl_get_tls_cb" to allow support

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais for channel bindings. [Simo Sorce <simo redhat.com>]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) core: Avoid useless warning message when parsing a section guarded by

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais <IfDefine foo> if $(foo) is used within the section.

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais PR 56858 [Christophe Jaillet]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Fix faulty logging of large amounts of stderr from the

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais application. PR 56858. [Manuel Mausz <manuel-asf mausz.at>]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) mod_ratelimit: Drop severity of AH01455 and AH01457 (ap_pass_brigade

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais failed) messages from ERROR to TRACE1. Other filters do not bother

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais re-reporting failures from lower level filters. PR56832. [Eric Covener]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) mod_proxy_http: Proxy responses with error status and

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais "ProxyErrorOverride On" hang until proxy timeout.

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais PR53420 [Rainer Jung]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) mod_proxy_wstunnel: Concurrent websockets messages could be

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais lost or delayed with ProxyWebsocketAsync enabled.

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail.com>]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) core, mod_info: Add compiled and loaded PCRE versions to version

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais number display. [Rainer Jung]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) mpm_winnt: Accept utf-8 (Unicode) service names and descriptions for

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais internationalization. [William Rowe]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) mpm_winnt: Normalize the error and status messages emitted by service.c,

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais the service control interface for Windows. [William Rowe]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) http_protocol: fix logic in ap_method_list_(add|remove) in order:

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais - to correctly reset bits

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais - not to modify the 'method_mask' bitfield unnecessarily

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) mod_authnz_ldap: Return LDAP connections to the pool before the handler

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais is run, instead of waiting until the end of the request. [Eric Covener]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) mod_ldap: Be more conservative with the last-used time for

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais LDAPConnectionPoolTTL. PR54587 [Eric Covener]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) mod_deflate: Don't fail when flushing inflated data to the user-agent

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais and that coincides with the end of stream ("Zlib error flushing inflate

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais buffer"). PR 56196. [Christoph Fausak <christoph fausak glueckkanja.com>]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) mod_proxy: Don't limit the size of the connectable Unix Domain Socket

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais paths. [Christophe Jaillet, Yann Ylavic]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) mod_ssl: dump SSL IO/state for the write side of the connection(s),

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais like reads (level TRACE4). [Yann Ylavic]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) mod_proxy: Shutdown (eg. close notify) the backend connection before

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais closing. [Yann Ylavic]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) mpm_event[opt]: Send the SSL close notify alert when the KeepAliveTimeout

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais expires. PR54998. [Yann Ylavic]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) mod_ssl: Ensure that the SSL close notify alert is flushed to the client.

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais PR54998. [Tim Kosse <tim.kosse filezilla-project.org>, Yann Ylavic]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) mod_log_config: Add GlobalLog to allow a globally defined log to

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais be inherited by virtual hosts that define a CustomLog.

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail.com>]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

d26f52cb0d8bed71e44a80f579ec6e887f5a5294kais *) MPMs: Support SO_REUSEPORT to create multiple duplicated listener

d26f52cb0d8bed71e44a80f579ec6e887f5a5294kais records for scalability. [Yingqi Lu <yingqi.lu@intel.com>,

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais Jeff Trawick, Jim Jagielski]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) mod_proxy_html: support automatic detection of doctype and processing

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais of FPIs. PR56285 [Micha Lenk <micha lenk info>, Nick Kew]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) mod_proxy_html: skip documents shorter than 4 bytes

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais PR 56286 [Micha Lenk <micha lenk info>]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) mod_proxy_fdpass: Fix computation of the size of 'struct sockaddr_un'

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais when passed to 'connect()'.

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais [Graham Dumpleton <grahamd apache org>]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) core: Add ap_mpm_resume_suspended() API to allow a suspended connection

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais to resume. PR56333

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais [Artem <artemciy gmail.com>, Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail.com>]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) core: Add ap_mpm_register_socket_callback_timeout() API. [Eric Covener]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) mod_proxy_wstunnel: Honor ProxyWebsocketIdleTimeout in asynchronous

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais processing mode. [Eric Covener]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) mod_authnz_ldap: Fail explicitly when the filter is too long. Remove

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais unnecessary apr_pstrdup() and strlen(). [Graham Leggett]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) Add the ldap-search option to mod_authnz_ldap, allowing authorization

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais to be based on arbitrary expressions that do not include the username.

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais [Graham Leggett]

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais *) Add the ldap function to the expression API, allowing LDAP filters and

554ff184129088135ad2643c1c9832174a17be88kais distinguished names based on expressions to be escaped correctly to

guard against LDAP injection. [Graham Leggett]

*) Add module mod_ssl_ct, which provides an implementation of Certificate

Transparency (RFC 6962) for httpd. [Jeff Trawick]

*) mod_proxy: Preserve original request headers even if they differ

from the ones to be forwarded to the backend. PR 45387.

[Yann Ylavic]

*) mod_remoteip: Prevent an external proxy from presenting an internal

proxy. PR 55962. [Mike Rumph]

*) mod_ssl: Add hooks to allow other modules to perform processing at

several stages of initialization and connection handling. See

mod_ssl_openssl.h. [Jeff Trawick]

*) mod_proxy_wstunnel: Avoid sending error responses down an upgraded

websockets connection as it is being close down. [Eric Covener]

*) mod_proxy_wstunnel: Allow the administrator to cap the amount

of time a synchronous websockets connection stays idle with

ProxyWebsocketIdleTimeout. [Eric Covener]

*) mod_proxy_wstunnel: Change to opt-in for asynchronous support, adding

directives ProxyWebsocketAsync and ProxyWebsocketAsyncDelay.

[Eric Covener]

*) mod_proxy_wstunnel: Stop leaking websockets backend connections under

event MPM (trunk-only). [Eric Covener]

*) mod_proxy_http: Add detach_backend hook (potentially usable

in other proxy scheme handlers). [Jeff Trawick]

*) mod_deflate: Add DeflateAlterETag to control how the ETag

is modified. The 'NoChange' parameter mimics 2.2.x behavior.

PR 45023, PR 39727. [Eric Covener]

*) mod_rewrite: Add 'BNF' (backreferences-no-plus) flag to RewriteRule to

allow spaces in backreferences to be encoded as %20 instead of '+'.

[Eric Covener]

*) mod_rewrite: Support an optional list of characters to escape in the

argument for the 'B' (escape backreferences) flag. [Eric Covener]

*) mod_ssl: Add SSLOCSPUseRequestNonce directive to control whether or not

OCSP requests should use a nonce to be checked against the responder's

one. PR 56233. [ Yann Ylavic ]

*) mod_dir: Default to 2.2-like behavior and skip execution when method is

neither GET nor POST, such as for DAV requests. PR 54914. [Chris Darroch]

*) mod_rewrite: Rename the handler that does per-directory internal

redirects to "rewrite-redirect-handler" from "redirect-handler" so

it is less ambiguous and less likely to be reused. [Eric Covener]

*) mod_rewrite: Protect against looping with the [N] flag by enforcing a

default limit of 10000 iterations, and allowing each rule to change its

limit. [Eric Covener]

*) mod_ssl: Fix config merging of SSLOCSPEnable and SSLOCSPOverrideResponder.

[Jeff Trawick]

*) Add HttpContentLengthHeadZero and HttpExpectStrict directives.

[Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda inktank com>, Justin Erenkrantz]

*) mod_ssl: Add -t -DDUMP_CA_CERTS option which dumps the filenames of all

configured SSL CA certificates to stdout the same way as DUMP_CERTS does.

[Jan Kaluza]

*) mod_ssl: Don't flush when an EOS is received. Prepares mod_ssl

to support write completion. [Graham Leggett]

*) core: Add parse_errorlog_arg callback to ap_errorlog_provider

to allow providers to check the ErrorLog argument. [Jan Kaluza]

*) mod_cgid: Use the servers Timeout for each read from a CGI script,

allow override with new CGIDRequestTimeout directive. PR43494

[Eric Covener, Toshikuni Fukaya <toshikuni-fukaya cybozu co jp>]

*) core: ensure any abnormal exit is reported to stderr if it's a tty.

PR 55670 [Nick Kew]

*) mod_lua: Let the Inter-VM get/set functions work with a global

shared memory pool instead of a per-process pool. [Daniel Gruno]

*) ldap: Support ldaps when using the Microsoft LDAP SDK.

PR 54626. [Jean-Frederic Clere]

*) mod_proxy: Add ap_connection_reusable() for checking if a connection

is reusable as of this point in processing. [Jeff Trawick]

*) mod_authnz_ldap: Change default value of AuthLDAPMaxSubGroupDepth to 0

to avoid performance problems when subgroups aren't in use. [Eric Covener]

*) mod_syslog: New module implementing syslog ap_error_log provider.

Previously, this code was part of core, now it's in separate module.

[Jan Kaluza]

*) core: Add ap_errorlog_provider to make ErrorLog logging modular. Move

syslog support from core to new mod_syslog. [Jan Kaluza]

*) mod_status, mod_echo: Fix the display of client addresses.

They were truncated to 31 characters which is not enough for IPv6 addresses.

PR 54848 [Bernhard Schmidt <berni birkenwald de>]

*) core: Add ap_log_data(), ap_log_rdata(), etc. for logging buffers.

[Jeff Trawick]

*) mod_unique_id: Use output of the PRNG rather than IP address and

pid, avoiding sleep() call and possible DNS issues at startup,

plus improving randomness for IPv6-only hosts.

[Jan Kaluza <jkaluza redhat.com>]

*) mod_authnz_ldap: Support primitive LDAP servers that do not accept

filters, such as "SDBM-backed LDAP" on z/OS, by allowing a special

filter "none" to be specified in AuthLDAPURL. [Eric Covener]

*) mod_file_cache: mod_file_cache should be able to serve files that

haven't had a Content-Type set via e.g. mod_mime. [Eric Covener]

*) core: merge AllowEncodedSlashes from the base configuration into

virtual hosts. [Eric Covener]

*) AIX: Install DSO's with "cp" instead of "install" in instdso.sh

[Eric Covener]

*) mod_ldap: Don't keep retrying if a new LDAP connection times out.

[Eric Covener]

*) mod_deflate: permit compilation of mod_deflate against a zlib that has

been configured with -D Z_PREFIX, which redefines the token "deflate".

[Eric Covener]

*) mod_auth_digest: Use the secret when generating nonces in all cases and

not only when AuthName is used in .htaccess files (this change may cause

problems if used with round robin load balancers). Don't regenerate the

secret on graceful restarts. PR 54637 [Stefan Fritsch]

*) core: Remove apr_brigade_flatten(), buffering and duplicated code

from the HTTP_IN filter, parse chunks in a single pass with zero copy.

Reduce memory usage by 48 bytes per request. [Graham Leggett]

*) core: Stop the HTTP_IN filter from attempting to write error buckets

to the output filters, which is bogus in the proxy case. Create a

clean mapping from APR codes to HTTP status codes, and use it where

needed. [Graham Leggett]

*) mod_proxy: Ensure network errors detected by the proxy are returned as

504 Gateway Timout as opposed to 502 Bad Gateway, in order to be

compliant with RFC2616 14.9.4 Cache Revalidation and Reload Controls.

*) mod_dav: mod_dav overrides dav_fs response on PUT failure. PR 35981

[Basant Kumar Kukreja <basant.kukreja sun.com>, Alejandro Alvarez

<alejandro.alvarez.ayllon cern.ch>]

*) mod_ldap: LDAP connections used for authentication were not respecting

LDAPConnectionPoolTimeout. PR 54587

*) core: ap_rgetline_core now pulls from r->proto_input_filters.

*) mod_proxy_html: process parsed comments immediately.

Fixes bug where parsed comments may be lost. [Nick Kew]

*) mod_proxy_html: introduce doctype for HTML 5 [Nick Kew]

*) mod_proxy_html: fix typo-bug processing "strict" vs "transitional"

HTML/XHTML [Nick Kew]

*) core: Add option to add valgrind support. Use it to reduce false positive

warnings in mod_ssl. [Stefan Fritsch]

*) mod_authn_file, mod_authn_dbd, mod_authn_dbm, mod_authn_socache:

Cache the result of the most recent password hash verification for every

keep-alive connection. This saves some expensive calculations.

[Stefan Fritsch]

*) http: Remove support for Request-Range header sent by Navigator 2-3 and

MSIE 3. [Stefan Fritsch]

*) core, http: Extend HttpProtocol with an option to enforce stricter HTTP

conformance or to only log the found problems. [Stefan Fritsch]

*) core: Correctly parse an IPv6 literal host specification in an absolute

URL in the request line. [Stefan Fritsch]

*) EventOpt MPM

*) core: Add LogLevelOverride directive that allows to override the

loglevel for clients from certain IPs. This also works for things

like the SSL handshake where <If> LogLevel ... </If> is evaluated

too late. [Stefan Fritsch]

*) core: Add new directive Warning to issue warnings from a configuration

file. Both Warning and Error now generate a timestamped log message.

[Fabien Coelho]

*) ap_expr: Add SERVER_PROTOCOL_VERSION, ..._MAJOR, and ..._MINOR

variables. [Stefan Fritsch]

*) core: New directive RegisterHttpMethod for registering non-standard

HTTP methods. [Stefan Fritsch]

*) core: New directive HttpProtocol which allows to disable HTTP/0.9

support. [Stefan Fritsch]

*) mod_allowhandlers: New module to forbid specific handlers for specific

directories. [Stefan Fritsch]

*) mod_systemd: New module, for integration with systemd on Linux.

[Jan Kaluza <jkaluza redhat.com>]

*) WinNT MPM: Store pid and generation for each thread in scoreboard

to allow tracking of threads from exiting children via mod_status

or other such mechanisms. [Jeff Trawick]

*) The following now respect DefaultRuntimeDir/DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR:

- APIs: ap_log_pid(), ap_remove_pid, ap_read_pid()

- core: the scoreboard (ScoreBoardFile), pid file (PidFile), and

mutexes (Mutex)

- mod_cache: thundering herd lock directory

- mod_lbmethod_heartbeat, mod_heartmonitor: heartbeat storage file

- mod_ldap: shared memory cache

- mod_socache_shmcb, mod_socache_dbm: shared memory or dbm for cache

[Jeff Trawick]

*) suexec: Add --enable-suexec-capabilites support on Linux, to use

setuid/setgid capability bits rather than a setuid root binary.

[Joe Orton]

*) suexec: Add support for logging to syslog as an alternative to logging

to a file; configure --without-suexec-logfile --with-suexec-syslog.

[Joe Orton]

*) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS Next Protocol Negotiation. PR 52210.

[Matthew Steele <mdsteele google.com>]

*) 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]

*) mod_noloris

*) APREQ

*) Simple MPM

*) mod_serf

[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:

*) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/CHANGES?view=markup

Changes with Apache 2.2.x and later:

*) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/CHANGES?view=markup

Changes with Apache 2.0.x and later:

*) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x/CHANGES?view=markup