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0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay SieversChanges with Apache 2.5.0
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers *) mod_proxy_http: Honour special value 0 (unlimited) of LimitRequestBody
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers PR 54435. [Pavel Mateja <pavel netsafe.cz>]
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers *) mod_lua: Add bindings for apr_dbd/mod_dbd database access
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers [Daniel Gruno]
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers *) mod_authn_file, mod_authn_dbd, mod_authn_dbm, mod_authn_socache:
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers Cache the result of the most recent password hash verification for every
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers keep-alive connection. This saves some expensive calculations.
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers [Stefan Fritsch]
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers *) http: Remove support for Request-Range header sent by Navigator 2-3 and
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers MSIE 3. [Stefan Fritsch]
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers *) core, http: Extend HttpProtocol with an option to enforce stricter HTTP
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers conformance or to only log the found problems. [Stefan Fritsch]
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers *) core: Correctly parse an IPv6 literal host specification in an absolute
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers URL in the request line. [Stefan Fritsch]
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers *) mod_ssl: add support for subjectAltName-based host name checking
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers in proxy mode. PR 54030. [Kaspar Brand]
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers *) mpm_event: Check that AsyncRequestWorkerFactor is not negative. PR 54254.
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers [Jackie Zhang <jackie qq zhang gmail com>]
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers *) mod_ssl: Add support for OpenSSL configuration commands [Stephen Henson]
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers *) EventOpt MPM
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers *) mod_proxy_balancer: Improve output
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers PR 52478 [Danijel <dt-ng rbfh de>]
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers *) core: Add LogLevelOverride directive that allows to override the
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers loglevel for clients from certain IPs. This also works for things
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers like the SSL handshake where <If> LogLevel ... </If> is evaluated
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers too late. [Stefan Fritsch]
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers *) core: Add new directive Warning to issue warnings from a configuration
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers file. Both Warning and Error now generate a timestamped log message.
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers [Fabien Coelho]
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers *) mod_status: Print out list of times since a Vhost was last used.
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers [Jim Jagielski]
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers *) ap_expr: Add SERVER_PROTOCOL_VERSION, ..._MAJOR, and ..._MINOR
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers variables. [Stefan Fritsch]
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers *) core: New directive RegisterHttpMethod for registering non-standard
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers HTTP methods. [Stefan Fritsch]
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers *) core: New directive HttpProtocol which allows to disable HTTP/0.9
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers support. [Stefan Fritsch]
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers *) mod_allowhandlers: New module to forbid specific handlers for specific
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers directories. [Stefan Fritsch]
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers *) configure: Fix processing of --disable-FEATURE for various features.
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers [Jeff Trawick]
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers *) mod_systemd: New module, for integration with systemd on Linux.
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers [Jan Kaluza <jkaluza redhat.com>]
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers *) --with-module: Fix failure to integrate them into some existing
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers module directories. PR 40097. [Jeff Trawick]
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers *) mod_cache_socache: New cache implementation backed by mod_socache
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers that replaces mod_mem_cache removed from httpd v2.2. [Graham
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers *) core: Add dirwalk_stat and pre_htaccess hooks, allowing mpm-itk
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers to be used without patches to httpd core. [Jeff Trawick]
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers *) mod_proxy: Allow for persistence of local changes (via the
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers balancer-manager) between graceful and normal restarts.
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers [Jim Jagielski]
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers *) mod_lua: Add LuaInputFilter/LuaOutputFilter for creating content
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers filters in Lua [Daniel Gruno]
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers *) WinNT MPM: Store pid and generation for each thread in scoreboard
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers to allow tracking of threads from exiting children via mod_status
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers or other such mechanisms. [Jeff Trawick]
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers *) mod_ssl: Catch missing or mismatched client cert/key pairs with
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers SSLProxyMachineCertificateFile/Path directives. PR 52212.
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers [Keith Burdis <keith burdis.org>, Joe Orton]
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers *) mod_lua: Allow scripts handled by the lua-script handler to return
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers a status code to the client (such as a 302 or a 500) [Daniel Gruno]
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers *) mod_lua: Decline handling 'lua-script' if the file doesn't exist,
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers rather than throwing an internal server error. [Daniel Gruno]
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers *) mod_lua: Add functions r:flush and r:sendfile as well as additional
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers request information to the request_rec structure. [Daniel Gruno]
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers *) mod_lua: Add a server scope for Lua states, which creates a pool of
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers states with managable minimum and maximum size. [Daniel Gruno]
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers *) core: Add post_perdir_config hook.
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers [Steinar Gunderson <sgunderson bigfoot.com>]
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers *) mod_lua: Add new directive, LuaMapHandler, for dynamically mapping
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers URIs to Lua scripts and functions using regular expressions.
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers [Daniel Gruno]
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers *) mod_lua: Add new directive LuaCodeCache for controlling in-memory
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers caching of lua scripts. [Daniel Gruno]
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers *) The following now respect DefaultRuntimeDir/DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR:
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers - APIs: ap_log_pid(), ap_remove_pid, ap_read_pid()
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers - core: the scoreboard (ScoreBoardFile), pid file (PidFile), and
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers mutexes (Mutex)
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers - mod_cache: thundering herd lock directory
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers - mod_lbmethod_heartbeat, mod_heartmonitor: heartbeat storage file
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers - mod_ldap: shared memory cache
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers - mod_socache_shmcb, mod_socache_dbm: shared memory or dbm for cache
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers [Jeff Trawick]
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers *) mod_ssl: Add RFC 5878 support. [Ben Laurie]
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers *) suexec: Add --enable-suexec-capabilites support on Linux, to use
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers setuid/setgid capability bits rather than a setuid root binary.
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers *) suexec: Add support for logging to syslog as an alternative to logging
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers to a file; configure --without-suexec-logfile --with-suexec-syslog.
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS Next Protocol Negotiation. PR 52210.
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers [Matthew Steele <mdsteele google.com>]
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers *) cross-compile: allow to provide CC_FOR_BUILD so that gen_test_char will
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers be compiled by the build compiler instead of the host compiler.
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers Also set CC_FOR_BUILD to 'cc' when cross-compilation is detected.
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers PR 51257. [Guenter Knauf]
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers *) core: In maintainer mode, replace apr_palloc with a version that
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers initializes the allocated memory with non-zero values, except if
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers AP_DEBUG_NO_ALLOC_POISON is defined. [Stefan Fritsch]
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers *) mod_policy: Add a new testing module to help server administrators
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers enforce a configurable level of protocol compliance on their
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers servers and application servers behind theirs. [Graham Leggett]
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers *) mod_firehose: Add a new debugging module able to record traffic
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers passing through the server in such a way that connections and/or
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers requests be reconstructed and replayed. [Graham Leggett]
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers *) mod_noloris
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers *) Simple MPM
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers [Apache 2.5.0-dev includes those bug fixes and changes with the
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers Apache 2.4.xx tree as documented below, except as noted.]
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay SieversChanges with Apache 2.4.x and later:
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay Sievers *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/CHANGES?view=markup
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay SieversChanges with Apache 2.2.x and later:
0c959b39175b126fdb70ae00de37ca6d9c8ca3a1Kay Sievers *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/CHANGES?view=markup
aedc2eddd16e48d468e6ad0aea2caf00c7d37365Kay SieversChanges with Apache 2.0.x and later: