234N/AChanges with Apache 2.5.0
234N/A *) mod_cache: Wrong content type and character set when
234N/A mod_cache serves stale content because of a proxy error.
234N/A PR 53539. [Rainer Jung, Ruediger Pluem]
234N/A *) core: Be less strict when checking whether Content-Type is set to
234N/A or we risk losing data with an appended charset. PR 53698
234N/A *) mod_lua: Decline handling 'lua-script' if the file doesn't exist,
234N/A rather than throwing an internal server error. [Daniel Gruno]
234N/A *) mod_lua: Add functions r:flush and r:sendfile as well as additional
234N/A request information to the request_rec structure. [Daniel Gruno]
234N/A *) mod_lua: Add a server scope for Lua states, which creates a pool of
234N/A states with managable minimum and maximum size. [Daniel Gruno]
234N/A *) core: Add post_perdir_config hook.
234N/A *) mod_lua: Add new directive, LuaMapHandler, for dynamically mapping
234N/A URIs to Lua scripts and functions using regular expressions.
618N/A *) mod_lua: Add new directive LuaCodeCache for controlling in-memory
234N/A caching of lua scripts. [Daniel Gruno]
844N/A - APIs: ap_log_pid(), ap_remove_pid, ap_read_pid()
234N/A - core: the scoreboard (ScoreBoardFile), pid file (PidFile), and
234N/A - mod_lbmethod_heartbeat, mod_heartmonitor: heartbeat storage file
234N/A - mod_ldap: shared memory cache
234N/A - mod_socache_shmcb, mod_socache_dbm: shared memory or dbm for cache
234N/A *) mod_ssl: Add RFC 5878 support. [Ben Laurie]
234N/A *) mod_lua: Add new directive LuaAuthzProvider to allow implementing an
1938N/A authorization provider in lua. [Stefan Fritsch]
234N/A *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS-SRP (Secure Remote Password key exchange
234N/A for TLS, RFC 5054). PR 51075. [Quinn Slack <sqs cs stanford edu>,
234N/A Christophe Renou, Peter Sylvester]
234N/A *) core: Make ap_regcomp() return AP_REG_ESPACE if out of memory. Make
234N/A ap_pregcomp() abort if out of memory. This raises the minimum PCRE
234N/A requirement to version 6.0. PR 53284. [Stefan Fritsch]
234N/A *) suexec: Add --enable-suexec-capabilites support on Linux, to use
*) 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_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]
[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: