3853N/A *) mod_session_dbd: fix a segmentation fault in the function dbd_remove.
3853N/A PR 53452. [<rebanerebane gmail com>, Reimo Rebane]
3853N/A *) core: New directive RegisterHttpMethod for registering non-standard
3853N/A HTTP methods. [Stefan Fritsch]
3853N/A *) mod_xml2enc: Fix problems with charset conversion altering the
3853N/A Content-Length. [Micha Lenk <micha lenk info>]
3853N/A *) core: New directive HttpProtocol which allows to disable HTTP/0.9
3853N/A *) mod_allowhandlers: New module to forbid specific handlers for specific
3853N/A directories. [Stefan Fritsch]
3853N/A *) core: Be more correct about rejecting directives that cannot work in <If>
3853N/A *) core: Fix directives like LogLevel that need to know if they are invoked
3853N/A *) mod_cache_disk: Resolve errors while revalidating disk-cached files on
3853N/A *) mod_proxy: Add ability to configure the sticky session separator.
3853N/A PR 53893. [<inu inusasha de>, Jim Jagielski]
3853N/A *) mod_proxy_ftp: Fix segfaults on IPv4 requests to hosts with DNS AAAA records.
3853N/A PR 40841. [Andrew Rucker Jones <arjones simultan dyndns org>,
3853N/A <ast domdv de>, Jim Jagielski]
3853N/A *) ap_expr: Add req_novary function that allows HTTP header lookups
3853N/A without adding the name to the Vary header. [Stefan Fritsch]
3853N/A *) mod_ssl: Change default for SSLCompression to off, as compression
3853N/A causes security issues in most setups. (The so called "CRIME" attack).
3853N/A *) syslog logging: Remove stray ", referer" at the end of some messages.
3853N/A *) configure: Fix processing of --disable-FEATURE for various features.
3853N/A *) "Iterate" directives: Report an error if no arguments are provided.
3853N/A *) htpasswd, htdbm: Optionally read passwords from stdin, as more
3853N/A secure alternative to -b. PR 40243. [Adomas Paltanavicius <adomas
3853N/A paltanavicius gmail com>, Stefan Fritsch]
3853N/A *) htpasswd, htdbm: Add support for bcrypt algorithm (requires
3853N/A apr-util 1.5 or higher). PR 49288. [Stefan Fritsch]
3853N/A *) htpasswd, htdbm: Put full 48bit of entropy into salt, improve
3853N/A error handling. Add some of htpasswd's improvements to htdbm,
3853N/A e.g. warn if password is truncated by crypt(). [Stefan Fritsch]
3853N/A to more accurately report the negotiated protocol. PR 53916.
3853N/A [Nicolás Pernas Maradei <nico emutex com>, Kaspar Brand]
3853N/A *) mod_systemd: New module, for integration with systemd on Linux.
3853N/A *) core: ErrorDocument now works for requests without a Host header.
5061N/A *) --with-module: Fix failure to integrate them into some existing
3853N/A module directories. PR 40097. [Jeff Trawick]
3853N/A *) mod_headers: New params: %l for load averages, %i for an
3853N/A idle percentage rating of httpd, and %b for a busy percentage
3853N/A *) core: New functions to obtain load parameters: ap_get_sload()
3853N/A and ap_get_loadavg(). [Jim Jagielski]
3853N/A *) mod_cache_socache: New cache implementation backed by mod_socache
3853N/A that replaces mod_mem_cache removed from httpd v2.2. [Graham
3853N/A *) mod_auth_form: Support the expr parser in the
3853N/A AuthFormLoginRequiredLocation, AuthFormLoginSuccessLocation and
3853N/A AuthFormLogoutLocation directives. [Graham Leggett]
5035N/A *) core: Add dirwalk_stat and pre_htaccess hooks, allowing mpm-itk
3853N/A to be used without patches to httpd core. [Jeff Trawick]
3853N/A *) mod_proxy: Allow for persistence of local changes (via the
3853N/A balancer-manager) between graceful and normal restarts.
3853N/A *) mod_slotmem: New provider function, fgrab(), which forces an
3853N/A allocation of a slot. [Jim Jagielski]
3853N/A *) mod_proxy_balancer: The nonce is only derived from the UUID iff
3853N/A not set via the 'nonce' balancer param. [Jim Jagielski]
3853N/A filters in Lua [Daniel Gruno]
3853N/A *) core: Apply length limit when logging Status header values.
3853N/A [Jeff Trawick, Chris Darroch]
3853N/A *) mod_ssl: Match wildcard SSL certificate names in proxy mode.
3853N/A *) WinNT MPM: Store pid and generation for each thread in scoreboard
3853N/A to allow tracking of threads from exiting children via mod_status
3853N/A or other such mechanisms. [Jeff Trawick]
3853N/A *) mod_lua: Allow scripts handled by the lua-script handler to return
3853N/A a status code to the client (such as a 302 or a 500) [Daniel Gruno]
3853N/A *) mod_proxy_ajp: Fix crash in packet dump code when logging
3853N/A with LogLevel trace7 or trace8. PR 53730. [Rainer Jung]
3853N/A *) mod_cache: Wrong content type and character set when
3853N/A mod_cache serves stale content because of a proxy error.
3853N/A PR 53539. [Rainer Jung, Ruediger Pluem]
3853N/A *) mod_lua: Decline handling 'lua-script' if the file doesn't exist,
3853N/A rather than throwing an internal server error. [Daniel Gruno]
3853N/A *) mod_lua: Add functions r:flush and r:sendfile as well as additional
3853N/A request information to the request_rec structure. [Daniel Gruno]
3853N/A *) mod_lua: Add a server scope for Lua states, which creates a pool of
3853N/A states with managable minimum and maximum size. [Daniel Gruno]
3853N/A *) core: Add post_perdir_config hook.
3853N/A *) mod_lua: Add new directive, LuaMapHandler, for dynamically mapping
3853N/A URIs to Lua scripts and functions using regular expressions.
3853N/A *) mod_lua: Add new directive LuaCodeCache for controlling in-memory
3853N/A caching of lua scripts. [Daniel Gruno]
3853N/A - APIs: ap_log_pid(), ap_remove_pid, ap_read_pid()
3853N/A - core: the scoreboard (ScoreBoardFile), pid file (PidFile), and
3853N/A - mod_cache: thundering herd lock directory
3853N/A - mod_lbmethod_heartbeat, mod_heartmonitor: heartbeat storage file
3853N/A - mod_ldap: shared memory cache
3853N/A - mod_socache_shmcb, mod_socache_dbm: shared memory or dbm for cache
3853N/A *) mod_ssl: Add RFC 5878 support. [Ben Laurie]
3853N/A *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS-SRP (Secure Remote Password key exchange
3853N/A for TLS, RFC 5054). PR 51075. [Quinn Slack <sqs cs stanford edu>,
3853N/A Christophe Renou, Peter Sylvester]
3853N/A *) core: Make ap_regcomp() return AP_REG_ESPACE if out of memory. Make
3853N/A ap_pregcomp() abort if out of memory. This raises the minimum PCRE
3853N/A requirement to version 6.0. PR 53284. [Stefan Fritsch]
3853N/A *) suexec: Add --enable-suexec-capabilites support on Linux, to use
3853N/A *) suexec: Add support for logging to syslog as an alternative to logging
3853N/A to a file; configure --without-suexec-logfile --with-suexec-syslog.
3853N/A *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS Next Protocol Negotiation. PR 52210.
3853N/A *) various modules, rotatelogs: Replace use of apr_file_write() with
3853N/A apr_file_write_full() to prevent incomplete writes. PR 53131.
3853N/A [Nicolas Viennot <apache viennot biz>, Stefan Fritsch]
3853N/A *) cross-compile: allow to provide CC_FOR_BUILD so that gen_test_char will
3853N/A be compiled by the build compiler instead of the host compiler.
3853N/A Also set CC_FOR_BUILD to 'cc' when cross-compilation is detected.
3853N/A *) core: In maintainer mode, replace apr_palloc with a version that
3853N/A initializes the allocated memory with non-zero values, except if
3853N/A AP_DEBUG_NO_ALLOC_POISON is defined. [Stefan Fritsch]
3853N/A *) mod_policy: Add a new testing module to help server administrators
3853N/A enforce a configurable level of protocol compliance on their
3853N/A servers and application servers behind theirs. [Graham Leggett]
3853N/A *) mod_firehose: Add a new debugging module able to record traffic
3853N/A passing through the server in such a way that connections
and/or 3853N/A requests be reconstructed and replayed. [Graham Leggett]
3853N/A [Apache 2.5.0-dev includes those bug fixes and changes with the
3853N/A Apache
2.4.xx tree as documented below, except as noted.]