5616N/A *) mod_dav: Do not segfault on PROPFIND with a zero length DBM.
5616N/A *) mod_dav: Do not fail PROPPATCH when prop namespace is not known.
5616N/A *) mod_dav: When a PROPPATCH attempts to remove a non-existent dead
5616N/A property on a resource for which there is no dead property in the same
5616N/A namespace httpd segfaults. PR 52559 [Diego Santa Cruz
5616N/A *) mod_dav: PROPPATCH delete (svn propdel) silently discards errors.
5616N/A *) mod_dav: Ensure URI is correctly uriencoded on return. PR 54611
5616N/A *) mod_dav: Sending a If or If-Match header with an invalid ETag doesn't
5616N/A result in a 412 Precondition Failed. PR 54610 [Timothy Wood
5616N/A *) mod_dav: Make sure that when we prepare an If URL for Etag comparison,
5616N/A *) core, mod_ssl: Lift the restriction that prevents mod_ssl taking
5616N/A full advantage of the event MPM. Enable the ability for a module
5616N/A to reverse the sense of a poll event from a read to a write or vice
5616N/A *) htpasswd: Add -v option to verify a password. [Stefan Fritsch]
5616N/A *) htpasswd, htdbm: Fix password generation. PR 54735. [Stefan Fritsch]
5616N/A *) mod_dav: Improve error handling in dav_method_put(), add new
5616N/A *) mod_auth_digest: Fix crashes if shm initialization failed. [Stefan
5616N/A *) mod_ldap: LDAP connections used for authentication were not respecting
5616N/A LDAPConnectionPoolTimeout. PR 54587
5634N/A *) core: ap_rgetline_core now pulls from r->proto_input_filters.
5634N/A *) mod_proxy_html: process parsed comments immediately.
5634N/A Fixes bug where parsed comments may be lost. [Nick Kew]
5634N/A *) mod_proxy_html: introduce doctype for HTML 5 [Nick Kew]
5634N/A *) mod_proxy_html: fix typo-bug processing "strict" vs "transitional"
5616N/A *) core: Add option to add valgrind support. Use it to reduce false positive
5616N/A warnings in mod_ssl. [Stefan Fritsch]
5616N/A *) mod_authn_file, mod_authn_dbd, mod_authn_dbm, mod_authn_socache:
5616N/A Cache the result of the most recent password hash verification for every
5616N/A keep-alive connection. This saves some expensive calculations.
5616N/A *) http: Remove support for Request-Range header sent by Navigator 2-3 and
5616N/A *) core, http: Extend HttpProtocol with an option to enforce stricter HTTP
5616N/A conformance or to only log the found problems. [Stefan Fritsch]
5616N/A *) core: Correctly parse an IPv6 literal host specification in an absolute
5616N/A URL in the request line. [Stefan Fritsch]
5616N/A *) mod_ssl: add support for subjectAltName-based host name checking
5616N/A in proxy mode. PR 54030. [Kaspar Brand]
5616N/A *) mpm_event: Check that AsyncRequestWorkerFactor is not negative. PR 54254.
5616N/A [Jackie Zhang <jackie qq zhang gmail com>]
5616N/A *) mod_ssl: Add support for OpenSSL configuration commands [Stephen Henson]
*) core: Add LogLevelOverride directive that allows to override the
loglevel for clients from certain IPs. This also works for things
like the SSL handshake where <If> LogLevel ... </If> is evaluated
too late. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: Add new directive Warning to issue warnings from a configuration
file. Both Warning and Error now generate a timestamped log message.
*) ap_expr: Add SERVER_PROTOCOL_VERSION, ..._MAJOR, and ..._MINOR
variables. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: New directive RegisterHttpMethod for registering non-standard
HTTP methods. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: New directive HttpProtocol which allows to disable HTTP/0.9
support. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_allowhandlers: New module to forbid specific handlers for specific
directories. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) configure: Fix processing of --disable-FEATURE for various features.
*) mod_systemd: New module, for integration with systemd on Linux.
*) mod_cache_socache: New cache implementation backed by mod_socache
that replaces mod_mem_cache removed from httpd v2.2. [Graham
*) core: Add dirwalk_stat and pre_htaccess hooks, allowing mpm-itk
to be used without patches to httpd core. [Jeff Trawick]
filters in Lua [Daniel Gruno]
*) 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
*) 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_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.
*) mod_lua: Add new directive, LuaMapHandler, for dynamically mapping
URIs to Lua scripts and functions using regular expressions.
*) mod_lua: Add new directive LuaCodeCache for controlling in-memory
caching of lua scripts. [Daniel Gruno]
- APIs: ap_log_pid(), ap_remove_pid, ap_read_pid()
- core: the scoreboard (ScoreBoardFile), pid file (PidFile), and
- mod_cache: thundering herd lock directory
- 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
*) 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.
*) 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]
[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: