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83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjimChanges with Apache 2.5.0
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_proxy: Add ap_connection_reusable() for checking if a connection
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim is reusable as of this point in processing. [Jeff Trawick]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_ssl: drop support for export-grade ciphers with ephemeral RSA
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim keys, and unconditionally disable aNULL, eNULL and EXP ciphers
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim (not overridable via SSLCipherSuite). [Kaspar Brand]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) Suppress formatting of startup messages written to the console when
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim ErrorLogFormat is used. [Jeff Trawick]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_authnz_ldap: Change default value of AuthLDAPMaxSubGroupDepth to 0
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim to avoid performance problems when subgroups aren't in use. [Eric Covener]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_syslog: New module implementing syslog ap_error_log provider.
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim Previously, this code was part of core, now it's in separate module.
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim [Jan Kaluza]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) core: Add ap_errorlog_provider to make ErrorLog logging modular. Move
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim syslog support from core to new mod_syslog. [Jan Kaluza]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Handle reading protocol data that is split between
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim packets. [Jeff Trawick]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Remove 64K limit on encoded length of all envvars.
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim An individual envvar with an encoded length of more than 16K will be
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim omitted. [Jeff Trawick]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) core: draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-23 corrections regarding
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim TE/CL conflicts. [Yann Ylavic <ylavic.dev gmail com>, Jim Jagielski]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Use apr_socket_timeout_get instead of hard-coded
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim 30 seconds timeout. [Jan Kaluza]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) WinNT MPM: If ap_run_pre_connection() fails or sets c->aborted, don't
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim save the socket for reuse by the next worker as if it were an
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim APR_SO_DISCONNECTED socket. Restores 2.2 behavior. [Eric Covener]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_cache: Avoid a crash with strcmp() when the hostname is not provided.
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim [Graham Leggett]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_lua: Add rudimentary support for WebSocket interaction. This is
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim currently request-bound and only supports the WS protocol. [Daniel Gruno]
5bfaaf573bacb45c1cf290ce85ecc676587e8a64jim *) mod_lua: Add getcookie/setcookie for reading/writing HTTP cookies
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim [Daniel Gruno]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) WinNT MPM: Don't crash during child process initialization if the
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim Listen protocol is unrecognized. [Jeff Trawick]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_lua: Add a logging hook for modifying/skipping logs. [Daniel Gruno]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_status, mod_echo: Fix the display of client addresses.
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim They were truncated to 31 characters which is not enough for IPv6 addresses.
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim PR 54848 [Bernhard Schmidt <berni birkenwald de>]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_lua: If the first yield() of a LuaOutputFilter returns a string, it should
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim be prefixed to the response as documented. [Eric Covener]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_lua: Remove ETAG, Content-Length, and Content-MD5 when a LuaOutputFilter
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim is configured without mod_filter. [Eric Covener]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_lua: Register LuaOutputFilter scripts as changing the content and
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim content-length by default, when run my mod_filter. Previously,
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim growing or shrinking a response that started with Content-Length set
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim would require mod_filter and FilterProtocol change=yes. [Eric Covnener]
5bfaaf573bacb45c1cf290ce85ecc676587e8a64jim *) mod_lua: Return a 500 error if a LuaHook* script doesn't return a
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim numeric return code. [Eric Covener]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) Add experimental cmake-based build system for Windows. [Jeff Trawick,
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim Tom Donovan]
5bfaaf573bacb45c1cf290ce85ecc676587e8a64jim *) mod_authnz_fcgi: New module to enable FastCGI authorizer
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim applications to authenticate and/or authorize clients.
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim [Jeff Trawick]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_auth_basic: Add AuthBasicUseDigestAlgorithm directive to
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim allow migration of passwords from digest to basic authentication.
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim [Chris Darroch]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) core: Add util_fcgi.h and associated definitions and support
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim routines for FastCGI, based largely on mod_proxy_fcgi.
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim [Jeff Trawick]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) core: Add ap_log_data(), ap_log_rdata(), etc. for logging buffers.
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim [Jeff Trawick]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_unique_id: Use output of the PRNG rather than IP address and
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim pid, avoiding sleep() call and possible DNS issues at startup,
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim plus improving randomness for IPv6-only hosts.
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim [Jan Kaluza <jkaluza redhat.com>]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_authnz_ldap: Support primitive LDAP servers that do not accept
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim filters, such as "SDBM-backed LDAP" on z/OS, by allowing a special
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim filter "none" to be specified in AuthLDAPURL. [Eric Covener]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_file_cache: mod_file_cache should be able to serve files that
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim haven't had a Content-Type set via e.g. mod_mime. [Eric Covener]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) core: merge AllowEncodedSlashes from the base configuration into
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim virtual hosts. [Eric Covener]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) AIX: Install DSO's with "cp" instead of "install" in instdso.sh
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim [Eric Covener]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_ldap: Don't keep retrying if a new LDAP connection times out.
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim [Eric Covener]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_deflate: permit compilation of mod_deflate against a zlib that has
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim been configured with -D Z_PREFIX, which redefines the token "deflate".
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim [Eric Covener]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_socache_shmcb.c: Remove arbitrary restriction on shared memory size
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim previously limited to 64MB. [Jens Låås <jelaas gmail.com>]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_auth_digest: Use the secret when generating nonces in all cases and
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim not only when AuthName is used in .htaccess files (this change may cause
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim problems if used with round robin load balancers). Don't regenerate the
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim secret on graceful restarts. PR 54637 [Stefan Fritsch]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) ab: Add a new -l parameter in order not to check the length of the responses.
185aa71728867671e105178b4c66fbc22b65ae26sf This can be usefull with dynamic pages.
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim PR9945, PR27888, PR42040 [<ccikrs1 cranbrook edu>]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_logio: new format-specifier %C (combined) which is the sum of received
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim and sent byte counts.
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim PR54015 [Christophe Jaillet]
e6061cf1962bb4bcce89c2bdce375398d614be6asf *) core: Remove apr_brigade_flatten(), buffering and duplicated code
e6061cf1962bb4bcce89c2bdce375398d614be6asf from the HTTP_IN filter, parse chunks in a single pass with zero copy.
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim Reduce memory usage by 48 bytes per request. [Graham Leggett]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) core: Stop the HTTP_IN filter from attempting to write error buckets
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim to the output filters, which is bogus in the proxy case. Create a
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim clean mapping from APR codes to HTTP status codes, and use it where
5bfaaf573bacb45c1cf290ce85ecc676587e8a64jim needed. [Graham Leggett]
185aa71728867671e105178b4c66fbc22b65ae26sf *) mod_proxy: Ensure network errors detected by the proxy are returned as
e6061cf1962bb4bcce89c2bdce375398d614be6asf 504 Gateway Timout as opposed to 502 Bad Gateway, in order to be
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim compliant with RFC2616 14.9.4 Cache Revalidation and Reload Controls.
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_dav: mod_dav overrides dav_fs response on PUT failure. PR 35981
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim [Basant Kumar Kukreja <basant.kukreja sun.com>, Alejandro Alvarez
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) core, mod_ssl: Enable the ability for a module to reverse the sense of
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim a poll event from a read to a write or vice versa. This is a step on
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim the way to allow mod_ssl taking full advantage of the event MPM.
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim [Graham Leggett]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_ldap: LDAP connections used for authentication were not respecting
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim LDAPConnectionPoolTimeout. PR 54587
185aa71728867671e105178b4c66fbc22b65ae26sf *) core: ap_rgetline_core now pulls from r->proto_input_filters.
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_proxy_html: process parsed comments immediately.
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim Fixes bug where parsed comments may be lost. [Nick Kew]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_proxy_html: introduce doctype for HTML 5 [Nick Kew]
e6061cf1962bb4bcce89c2bdce375398d614be6asf *) mod_proxy_html: fix typo-bug processing "strict" vs "transitional"
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) core: Add option to add valgrind support. Use it to reduce false positive
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim warnings in mod_ssl. [Stefan Fritsch]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_authn_file, mod_authn_dbd, mod_authn_dbm, mod_authn_socache:
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim Cache the result of the most recent password hash verification for every
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim keep-alive connection. This saves some expensive calculations.
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim [Stefan Fritsch]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) http: Remove support for Request-Range header sent by Navigator 2-3 and
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim MSIE 3. [Stefan Fritsch]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) core, http: Extend HttpProtocol with an option to enforce stricter HTTP
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim conformance or to only log the found problems. [Stefan Fritsch]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) core: Correctly parse an IPv6 literal host specification in an absolute
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim URL in the request line. [Stefan Fritsch]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_ssl: Add support for OpenSSL configuration commands [Stephen Henson]
e6061cf1962bb4bcce89c2bdce375398d614be6asf *) EventOpt MPM
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) core: Add LogLevelOverride directive that allows to override the
c659b85c58d3bd150dafc8cb6819acba2af6c2f1jim loglevel for clients from certain IPs. This also works for things
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim like the SSL handshake where <If> LogLevel ... </If> is evaluated
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim too late. [Stefan Fritsch]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) core: Add new directive Warning to issue warnings from a configuration
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim file. Both Warning and Error now generate a timestamped log message.
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim [Fabien Coelho]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) ap_expr: Add SERVER_PROTOCOL_VERSION, ..._MAJOR, and ..._MINOR
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim variables. [Stefan Fritsch]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) core: New directive RegisterHttpMethod for registering non-standard
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim HTTP methods. [Stefan Fritsch]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) core: New directive HttpProtocol which allows to disable HTTP/0.9
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim support. [Stefan Fritsch]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_allowhandlers: New module to forbid specific handlers for specific
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim directories. [Stefan Fritsch]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) mod_systemd: New module, for integration with systemd on Linux.
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim [Jan Kaluza <jkaluza redhat.com>]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) WinNT MPM: Store pid and generation for each thread in scoreboard
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim to allow tracking of threads from exiting children via mod_status
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim or other such mechanisms. [Jeff Trawick]
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim *) The following now respect DefaultRuntimeDir/DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR:
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim - APIs: ap_log_pid(), ap_remove_pid, ap_read_pid()
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim - core: the scoreboard (ScoreBoardFile), pid file (PidFile), and
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim mutexes (Mutex)
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim - mod_cache: thundering herd lock directory
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim - mod_lbmethod_heartbeat, mod_heartmonitor: heartbeat storage file
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim - mod_ldap: shared memory cache
83c89da783ba8bdaef50ec1912443f7fad3556acjim - mod_socache_shmcb, mod_socache_dbm: shared memory or dbm for cache
setuid/setgid capability bits rather than a setuid root binary.
[Matthew Steele <mdsteele google.com>]
passing through the server in such a way that connections and/or
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: