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Changes with Apache 2.5.0
*) mod_lua: Add functions r:flush and r:sendfile as well as additional
request information to the request_rec structure. [Daniel Gruno]
*) mod_rewrite: Fix crash with dbd RewriteMaps. PR 53663. [Mikhail T.
<mi apache aldan algebra com>]
*) mod_lua: Add a server scope for Lua states, which creates a pool of
states with managable minimum and maximum size. [Daniel Gruno]
*) htpasswd: Use correct file mode for checking if file is writable.
PR 45923. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Add post_perdir_config hook.
[Steinar Gunderson <sgunderson bigfoot.com>]
*) mod_lua: Add new directive, LuaMapHandler, for dynamically mapping
URIs to Lua scripts and functions using regular expressions.
[Daniel Gruno]
*) mod_lua: Add new directive LuaCodeCache for controlling in-memory
caching of lua scripts. [Daniel Gruno]
*) The following now respect DefaultRuntimeDir/DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR:
- APIs: ap_log_pid(), ap_remove_pid, ap_read_pid()
- core: the scoreboard (ScoreBoardFile) and pid file (PidFile)
- mod_lbmethod_heartbeat, mod_heartmonitor: heartbeat storage file
[Jeff Trawick]
*) mod_ssl: Add RFC 5878 support. [Ben Laurie]
*) mod_lua: Add new directive LuaAuthzProvider to allow implementing an
authorization provider in lua. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS-SRP (Secure Remote Password key exchange
for TLS, RFC 5054). PR 51075. [Quinn Slack <sqs cs stanford edu>,
Christophe Renou, Peter Sylvester]
*) core: Make ap_regcomp() return AP_REG_ESPACE if out of memory. Make
ap_pregcomp() abort if out of memory. This raises the minimum PCRE
requirement to version 6.0. PR 53284. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) 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>]
*) 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_authnz_ldap: Don't try a potentially expensive nested groups
search before exhausting all AuthLDAPGroupAttribute checks on the
current group. PR52464 [Eric Covener]
*) 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:
Changes with Apache 2.2.x and later:
Changes with Apache 2.0.x and later: