0N/AChanges with Apache 2.5.0
1422N/A *) htpasswd, htdbm: Fix password generation. PR 54735. [Stefan Fritsch]
0N/A *) mod_dav: Improve error handling in dav_method_put(), add new
0N/A dav_join_error() function. PR 54145. [Ben Reser <ben
reser.org>]
0N/A *) mod_auth_digest: Fix crashes if shm initialization failed. [Stefan
919N/A *) mod_cache_disk: CacheMinFileSize and CacheMaxFileSize were always
919N/A using compiled in defaults of 1000000/1 respectively. [Eric Covener]
919N/A *) mod_ldap: LDAP connections used for authentication were not respecting
0N/A LDAPConnectionPoolTimeout. PR 54587
919N/A *) mod_ssl: Quiet FIPS mode weak keys disabled and FIPS not selected emits
919N/A in the error log to debug level. [William Rowe]
919N/A *) core: ap_rgetline_core now pulls from r->proto_input_filters.
919N/A *) mod_proxy_html: process parsed comments immediately.
919N/A Fixes bug where parsed comments may be lost. [Nick Kew]
919N/A *) mod_proxy_html: introduce doctype for HTML 5 [Nick Kew]
0N/A *) mod_proxy_html: fix typo-bug processing "strict" vs "transitional"
0N/A *) core: Fix valgrind warning about uninitialized memory in argument to
0N/A semctl. PR 53690. [Mikhail T. <mi+apache aldan algebra com>]
1124N/A *) core: Add option to add valgrind support. Use it to reduce false positive
967N/A warnings in mod_ssl. [Stefan Fritsch]
1003N/A *) mod_authn_file, mod_authn_dbd, mod_authn_dbm, mod_authn_socache:
1003N/A Cache the result of the most recent password hash verification for every
1003N/A keep-alive connection. This saves some expensive calculations.
1003N/A *) http: Remove support for Request-Range header sent by Navigator 2-3 and
970N/A *) core, http: Extend HttpProtocol with an option to enforce stricter HTTP
970N/A conformance or to only log the found problems. [Stefan Fritsch]
970N/A *) core: Correctly parse an IPv6 literal host specification in an absolute
970N/A URL in the request line. [Stefan Fritsch]
970N/A *) mod_ssl: add support for subjectAltName-based host name checking
970N/A in proxy mode. PR 54030. [Kaspar Brand]
970N/A *) mpm_event: Check that AsyncRequestWorkerFactor is not negative. PR 54254.
970N/A [Jackie Zhang <jackie qq zhang gmail com>]
970N/A *) mod_ssl: Add support for OpenSSL configuration commands [Stephen Henson]
0N/A *) core: Add LogLevelOverride directive that allows to override the
0N/A loglevel for clients from certain IPs. This also works for things
0N/A like the SSL handshake where <If> LogLevel ... </If> is evaluated
0N/A too late. [Stefan Fritsch]
493N/A *) core: Add new directive Warning to issue warnings from a configuration
0N/A file. Both Warning and Error now generate a timestamped log message.
1296N/A *) ap_expr: Add SERVER_PROTOCOL_VERSION, ..._MAJOR, and ..._MINOR
1296N/A variables. [Stefan Fritsch]
1296N/A *) core: New directive RegisterHttpMethod for registering non-standard
1296N/A HTTP methods. [Stefan Fritsch]
1296N/A *) core: New directive HttpProtocol which allows to disable HTTP/0.9
1296N/A *) mod_allowhandlers: New module to forbid specific handlers for specific
1296N/A directories. [Stefan Fritsch]
906N/A *) configure: Fix processing of --disable-FEATURE for various features.
970N/A *) mod_systemd: New module, for integration with systemd on Linux.
970N/A *) mod_cache_socache: New cache implementation backed by mod_socache
970N/A that replaces mod_mem_cache removed from httpd v2.2. [Graham
906N/A *) core: Add dirwalk_stat and pre_htaccess hooks, allowing mpm-itk
906N/A to be used without patches to httpd core. [Jeff Trawick]
1296N/A filters in Lua [Daniel Gruno]
1296N/A *) WinNT MPM: Store pid and generation for each thread in scoreboard
802N/A to allow tracking of threads from exiting children via mod_status
1422N/A or other such mechanisms. [Jeff Trawick]
1296N/A *) mod_lua: Allow scripts handled by the lua-script handler to return
1296N/A a status code to the client (such as a 302 or a 500) [Daniel Gruno]
810N/A *) mod_lua: Decline handling 'lua-script' if the file doesn't exist,
810N/A rather than throwing an internal server error. [Daniel Gruno]
705N/A *) mod_lua: Add functions r:flush and r:sendfile as well as additional
906N/A request information to the request_rec structure. [Daniel Gruno]
906N/A *) mod_lua: Add a server scope for Lua states, which creates a pool of
810N/A states with managable minimum and maximum size. [Daniel Gruno]
970N/A *) core: Add post_perdir_config hook.
970N/A *) mod_lua: Add new directive, LuaMapHandler, for dynamically mapping
970N/A URIs to Lua scripts and functions using regular expressions.
906N/A *) mod_lua: Add new directive LuaCodeCache for controlling in-memory
967N/A caching of lua scripts. [Daniel Gruno]
0N/A - APIs: ap_log_pid(), ap_remove_pid, ap_read_pid()
0N/A - core: the scoreboard (ScoreBoardFile), pid file (PidFile), and
1296N/A - mod_cache: thundering herd lock directory
1296N/A - mod_lbmethod_heartbeat, mod_heartmonitor: heartbeat storage file
1296N/A - mod_ldap: shared memory cache
1296N/A - mod_socache_shmcb, mod_socache_dbm: shared memory or dbm for cache
1296N/A *) mod_ssl: Add RFC 5878 support. [Ben Laurie]
1196N/A *) suexec: Add --enable-suexec-capabilites support on Linux, to use
1196N/A *) suexec: Add support for logging to syslog as an alternative to logging
1130N/A to a file; configure --without-suexec-logfile --with-suexec-syslog.
1130N/A *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS Next Protocol Negotiation. PR 52210.
1196N/A *) cross-compile: allow to provide CC_FOR_BUILD so that gen_test_char will
1196N/A be compiled by the build compiler instead of the host compiler.
1296N/A Also set CC_FOR_BUILD to 'cc' when cross-compilation is detected.
1296N/A *) core: In maintainer mode, replace apr_palloc with a version that
1296N/A initializes the allocated memory with non-zero values, except if
1296N/A AP_DEBUG_NO_ALLOC_POISON is defined. [Stefan Fritsch]
1196N/A *) mod_policy: Add a new testing module to help server administrators
1196N/A enforce a configurable level of protocol compliance on their
1196N/A servers and application servers behind theirs. [Graham Leggett]
906N/A *) mod_firehose: Add a new debugging module able to record traffic
906N/A passing through the server in such a way that connections
and/or 906N/A 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: