132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsfChanges with Apache 2.5.0

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf *) mod_auth_basic: Add AuthBasicUseDigestAlgorithm directive to

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf allow migration of passwords from digest to basic authentication.

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf [Chris Darroch]

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf *) core: Add util_fcgi.h and associated definitions and support

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf routines for FastCGI, based largely on mod_proxy_fcgi.

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf [Jeff Trawick]

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf *) core: Add ap_log_data(), ap_log_rdata(), etc. for logging buffers.

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf [Jeff Trawick]

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf *) ab: Fix potential buffer overflows when processing the T and X

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf command-line options. PR 55360.

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf [Mike Rumph <mike.rumph oracle.com>]

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf *) mod_unique_id: Use output of the PRNG rather than IP address and

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf pid, avoiding sleep() call and possible DNS issues at startup,

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf plus improving randomness for IPv6-only hosts.

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf [Jan Kaluza <jkaluza redhat.com>]

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf *) core: Log a message at TRACE1 when the client aborts a connection.

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf [Eric Covener]

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf *) mod_authnz_ldap: Support primitive LDAP servers that do not accept

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf filters, such as "SDBM-backed LDAP" on z/OS, by allowing a special

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf filter "none" to be specified in AuthLDAPURL. [Eric Covener]

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf *) mod_file_cache: mod_file_cache should be able to serve files that

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf haven't had a Content-Type set via e.g. mod_mime. [Eric Covener]

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf *) core: merge AllowEncodedSlashes from the base configuration into

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf virtual hosts. [Eric Covener]

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132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf *) mod_headers: Add 'setifempty' command to Header and RequestHeader.

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf [Eric Covener]

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf *) AIX: Install DSO's with "cp" instead of "install" in instdso.sh

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf [Eric Covener]

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf *) mod_ldap: Retry transient LDAP connection errors when they occur

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf during the authorization stage.

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf [Eric Covener]

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf *) mod_ldap: Don't keep retrying if a new LDAP connection times out.

a6fc6b44b7f8ad7390864b3555341d3abf867f7end [Eric Covener]

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf *) mod_deflate: permit compilation of mod_deflate against a zlib that has

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf been configured with -D Z_PREFIX, which redefines the token "deflate".

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf [Eric Covener]

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf *) mod_socache_shmcb.c: Remove arbitrary restriction on shared memory size

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf previously limited to 64MB. [Jens Låås <jelaas gmail.com>]

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf *) mod_auth_digest: Use the secret when generating nonces in all cases and

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf not only when AuthName is used in .htaccess files (this change may cause

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf problems if used with round robin load balancers). Don't regenerate the

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf secret on graceful restarts. PR 54637 [Stefan Fritsch]

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf *) ab: Add a new -l parameter in order not to check the length of the responses.

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf This can be usefull with dynamic pages.

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf PR9945, PR27888, PR42040 [<ccikrs1 cranbrook edu>]

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf *) mod_logio: new format-specifier %C (combined) which is the sum of received

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf and sent byte counts.

1f1b6bf13313fdd14a45e52e553d3ff28689b717coar PR54015 [Christophe Jaillet]

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf *) core: Remove apr_brigade_flatten(), buffering and duplicated code

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf from the HTTP_IN filter, parse chunks in a single pass with zero copy.

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf Reduce memory usage by 48 bytes per request. [Graham Leggett]

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf *) core: Stop the HTTP_IN filter from attempting to write error buckets

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf to the output filters, which is bogus in the proxy case. Create a

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf clean mapping from APR codes to HTTP status codes, and use it where

132ee6ac1c26d6e8953836316ba50734eefab47bsf needed. [Graham Leggett]

*) mod_proxy: Ensure network errors detected by the proxy are returned as

504 Gateway Timout as opposed to 502 Bad Gateway, in order to be

compliant with RFC2616 14.9.4 Cache Revalidation and Reload Controls.

*) mod_dav: mod_dav overrides dav_fs response on PUT failure. PR 35981

[Basant Kumar Kukreja <basant.kukreja sun.com>, Alejandro Alvarez

<alejandro.alvarez.ayllon cern.ch>]

*) core, mod_ssl: Lift the restriction that prevents mod_ssl taking

full advantage of the event MPM. Enable the ability for a module

to reverse the sense of a poll event from a read to a write or vice

versa. [Graham Leggett]

*) mod_ldap: LDAP connections used for authentication were not respecting

LDAPConnectionPoolTimeout. PR 54587

*) core: ap_rgetline_core now pulls from r->proto_input_filters.

*) mod_proxy_html: process parsed comments immediately.

Fixes bug where parsed comments may be lost. [Nick Kew]

*) mod_proxy_html: introduce doctype for HTML 5 [Nick Kew]

*) mod_proxy_html: fix typo-bug processing "strict" vs "transitional"

HTML/XHTML [Nick Kew]

*) core: Add option to add valgrind support. Use it to reduce false positive

warnings in mod_ssl. [Stefan Fritsch]

*) mod_authn_file, mod_authn_dbd, mod_authn_dbm, mod_authn_socache:

Cache the result of the most recent password hash verification for every

keep-alive connection. This saves some expensive calculations.

[Stefan Fritsch]

*) http: Remove support for Request-Range header sent by Navigator 2-3 and

MSIE 3. [Stefan Fritsch]

*) core, http: Extend HttpProtocol with an option to enforce stricter HTTP

conformance or to only log the found problems. [Stefan Fritsch]

*) core: Correctly parse an IPv6 literal host specification in an absolute

URL in the request line. [Stefan Fritsch]

*) mod_ssl: Add support for OpenSSL configuration commands [Stephen Henson]

*) EventOpt MPM

*) 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.

[Fabien Coelho]

*) 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]

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

[Jan Kaluza <jkaluza redhat.com>]

*) core: Add pre_htaccess hook, allowing mpm-itk

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

*) 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]

*) 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_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

[Jeff Trawick]

*) 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>]

*) 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.]

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