b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrinChanges with Apache 2.5.0

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin *) mod_proxy: Add ability to configure the sticky session separator.

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin PR 53893. [<inu inusasha de>, Jim Jagielski]

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin *) mod_proxy_ftp: Fix segfaults on IPv4 requests to hosts with DNS AAAA records.

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin PR 40841. [Andrew Rucker Jones <arjones simultan dyndns org>,

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin <ast domdv de>, Jim Jagielski]

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin *) ap_expr: Add req_novary function that allows HTTP header lookups

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin without adding the name to the Vary header. [Stefan Fritsch]

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin *) mod_ssl: Change default for SSLCompression to off, as compression

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin causes security issues in most setups. (The so called "CRIME" attack).

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin [Stefan Fritsch]

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin *) syslog logging: Remove stray ", referer" at the end of some messages.

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin [Jeff Trawick]

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin *) configure: Fix processing of --disable-FEATURE for various features.

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin [Jeff Trawick]

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin *) "Iterate" directives: Report an error if no arguments are provided.

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin [Jeff Trawick]

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin *) htpasswd, htdbm: Optionally read passwords from stdin, as more

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin secure alternative to -b. PR 40243. [Adomas Paltanavicius <adomas

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin paltanavicius gmail com>, Stefan Fritsch]

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin *) htpasswd, htdbm: Add support for bcrypt algorithm (requires

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin apr-util 1.5 or higher). PR 49288. [Stefan Fritsch]

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin *) htpasswd, htdbm: Put full 48bit of entropy into salt, improve

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin error handling. Add some of htpasswd's improvements to htdbm,

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin e.g. warn if password is truncated by crypt(). [Stefan Fritsch]

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin *) ab: add TLS1.1/TLS1.2 options to -f switch, and adapt output

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin to more accurately report the negotiated protocol. PR 53916.

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin [Nicolás Pernas Maradei <nico emutex com>, Kaspar Brand]

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin *) mod_systemd: New module, for integration with systemd on Linux.

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin [Jan Kaluza <jkaluza redhat.com>]

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin *) core: ErrorDocument now works for requests without a Host header.

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin PR 48357. [Jeff Trawick]

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin *) --with-module: Fix failure to integrate them into some existing

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin module directories. PR 40097. [Jeff Trawick]

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin *) mod_headers: New params: %l for load averages, %i for an

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin idle percentage rating of httpd, and %b for a busy percentage

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin rating. [Jim Jagielski]

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin *) core: New functions to obtain load parameters: ap_get_sload()

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin and ap_get_loadavg(). [Jim Jagielski]

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin *) mod_cache_socache: New cache implementation backed by mod_socache

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin that replaces mod_mem_cache removed from httpd v2.2. [Graham

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin Leggett]

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin *) mod_auth_form: Support the expr parser in the

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin AuthFormLoginRequiredLocation, AuthFormLoginSuccessLocation and

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin AuthFormLogoutLocation directives. [Graham Leggett]

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin *) core: Add dirwalk_stat and pre_htaccess hooks, allowing mpm-itk

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin to be used without patches to httpd core. [Jeff Trawick]

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin *) mod_proxy: Allow for persistence of local changes (via the

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin balancer-manager) between graceful and normal restarts.

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin [Jim Jagielski]

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin *) mod_slotmem: New provider function, fgrab(), which forces an

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin allocation of a slot. [Jim Jagielski]

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin *) mod_proxy_balancer: The nonce is only derived from the UUID iff

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin not set via the 'nonce' balancer param. [Jim Jagielski]

b45c2b86612fd10c2b08965bb99e66a3c0e43480minfrin

*) mod_lua: Add LuaInputFilter/LuaOutputFilter for creating content

filters in Lua [Daniel Gruno]

*) core: Apply length limit when logging Status header values.

[Jeff Trawick, Chris Darroch]

*) mod_ssl: Match wildcard SSL certificate names in proxy mode.

PR 53006. [Joe Orton]

*) 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]

*) mod_ssl: Catch missing or mismatched client cert/key pairs with

SSLProxyMachineCertificateFile/Path directives. PR 52212.

[Keith Burdis <keith burdis.org>, Joe Orton]

*) mod_lua: Allow scripts handled by the lua-script handler to return

a status code to the client (such as a 302 or a 500) [Daniel Gruno]

*) mod_proxy_ajp: Fix crash in packet dump code when logging

with LogLevel trace7 or trace8. PR 53730. [Rainer Jung]

*) mod_cache: Wrong content type and character set when

mod_cache serves stale content because of a proxy error.

PR 53539. [Rainer Jung, Ruediger Pluem]

*) mod_lua: Decline handling 'lua-script' if the file doesn't exist,

rather than throwing an internal server error. [Daniel Gruno]

*) mod_lua: Add functions r:flush and r:sendfile as well as additional

request information to the request_rec structure. [Daniel Gruno]

*) mod_lua: Add a server scope for Lua states, which creates a pool of

states with managable minimum and maximum size. [Daniel Gruno]

*) 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), pid file (PidFile), and

mutexes (Mutex)

- 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]

*) mod_ssl: Add RFC 5878 support. [Ben Laurie]

*) 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_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