1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub HrozekApache 2.0 STATUS:

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1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub HrozekRelease:

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1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek 2.0a5 : ???

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek 2.0a4 : released June 7, 2000

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek 2.0a3 : released April 28, 2000

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek 2.0a2 : released March 31, 2000

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek 2.0a1 : released March 10, 2000

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub HrozekRELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS:

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek * Win32: Get mod_auth_digest working under win32

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek - APR_HAS_RANDOM should be defined on windows and there is a

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek lib/apr/misc/win32/rand.c which is basically a copy of what

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek mod_auth_digest used to use.

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek * suEXEC doesn't work

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek Status: Manoj has posted an patch to fix this.

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek <19991103003605.A20612@samosa.mindspring.com>

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek * Win32: Enable the Windows MPM to honor max_requests_per_child

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek Status: Bill will fix this.

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek * Win32: Get Apache working on Windows 95/98. The following work

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek (at least) needs to be done:

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek - winnt MPM: Fix 95/98 code paths in the winnt MPM. There is some NT

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek specific code that is still not in NT only code paths

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek - IOL binds to APR sendfile, implemented with TransmitFile, which

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek is not available on 95/98.

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek * Win32: Test access logging with multiple threads. Will the

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek native file I/O calls serialize automagically like the

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek CRT calls or do we need to add region locking each time

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek we access the logs?

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek Status:

2b5518eeaacc6245cfa77ee4a7086f16208060fcJakub Hrozek

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek * Win32: Complete the revamp the service environment and relocation

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek into the WinNT MPM. Changes ServerRoot service registry

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek parameter into ConfigArgs for multiple service startup parameters.

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek Problems to fix in the revamp: -k shutdown/restart are broken,

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek signals are not being acknowledged. Close window and shutdown

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek also seem out of sorts.

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek OtherBill is working on this

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek

1ec4198f38d34a1f82a2db55d8c9782a434fb55fJakub Hrozek * Win32: fix build/run time environment to remove ApacheCore.dll

linkage from ab.exe and htdigest.exe.

* We need a thread-safe resolver, at least on Unix.

Status: The best known candidate would be something from

BIND v9.

Status: Greg asks, "why? doesn't gethostbyname_r() handle this?"

* Modify mod_cgi and mod_cgid to deal with directories. This allows

a lot of directives to be removed from the core.

RELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:

* OS/2: Get loadable modules working again. Requires shared core support

which doesn't appear to be catered for in the current build system.

* OS/2: Make mod_status work for spmt_os2 MPM.

* Build scripts do not recognise AIX 4.2.1 pthreads, so the

pthread MPMs will not build.

* Win32: Reuse accept socket after transmitfile/close

This is not a bug, but would be nice to get this feature in

before ship.

* Win32: Enable the winnt MPM to use the new scoreboard API

* Win32: Implement ap_shm_ functions in APR.

* Win32: Win9x console window still won't play nice with the

close window, logoff and shutdown scenarios.

* Win32: Add a simple hold console open patch (wait for close or

the ESC key, with a nice message) if the server died a bad

death (non-zero exit code) in console mode.

* Platforms that do not support fork (primarily Win32 and AS/400)

Consider introducing HAVE_FORK feature macro. Architect start-up code

that avoids initializing all the modules in the parent process on

platforms that do not support fork.

* Clean the code. There are a lot of places we used APR but didn't

remove the hacks that were required for the cross-platform code in

1.3. We need to make the code look like APR was supposed to be there.

* Go throught the 1.3 Bug DB and research the bugs marked "suspended".

People were told these would be considered for inclusion in Apache 2.0,

it would be nice to actually do so.

* Win32: Migrate the MPM over to use APR thread/process calls. This

would eliminate some code in the Win32 branch that essentially

duplicates what is in APR.

Bill says we need a new procattr, APR_CREATE_SUSPENDED (or

something similar) to direct ap_create_process to create the

process suspended. We also need a call to wake up the suspended

process This may not be able to be implemented everywhere though.

Status:

* Move I/O layering into APR.

* There are still a number of places in the code where we are

loosing error status (i.e. throwing away the error returned by a

system call and replacing it with a generic error code)

* Win32: Implement reliable piped logs on Windows

Status:

* Use APR to get rid of more platform dependancies.

Status: Ryan Bloom <rbb@covalenet.net> is working on this.

* The connection status table is not very efficient. Also, very few stats

are exported to the connection status table (easy to fix), and mod_status

is ugly.

* Mass vhosting version of suEXEC.

* Replace tables with a proper opaque ADT that has pluggable

implementations (including something like the existing data type,

plus hash tables for speed, with options for more later).

Status: fanf is working on this.

* configuration option to use *DBM

Status: Greg +1 (volunteers)

* add SDBM into src/lib/sdbm/ as a default/fallback DBM implementation.

SDBM is used by Perl, mod_dav, mod_sssl, others for basic DBM support.

Status: Greg +1 (volunteers)

* Integrate mod_dav.

Message-id: <20000625173247.M29590@lyra.org>

Status: in process. (it compiles/links, but doesn't work yet)

- APR does not provide a couple needed things: chmod()

and ap_finfo_t.st_dev.

- APR-ization of the dav/fs/ stuff

- case_preserved_filename stuff

- turn dav/fs/ into a true module; remove existing config hackery

* ap_core_translate() and its use by mod_mmap_static are a bit wonky.

The function should probably be exposed as a utility function (such

as ap_translate_url2fs() or ap_validate_fs_url() or something).

Another approach would be a new hook phase after "translate" which

would allow mod_mmap_static to munge what the translation has

decided to do.

Status: Greg +1 (volunteers), Ryan +1

* Go through ap_config.h and namespace-protect the symbols (e.g. USE_*).

Some symbols can/should move to mpm_common.h where possible.

* Explore use of a post-config hook for the code in http_main.c which

calls ap_fixup_virutal_hosts(), ap_fini_vhost_config(), and

ap_sort_hooks() [to reduce the logic in main()]

* read the config tree just once, and process N times (as necessary)

* add a version number to ap_initialize() as an extra failsafe against

(APR) library version skew.

MsgID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005231712380.31927-100000@nebula.lyra.org>

Status: Greg +1 (volunteers), Jeff +1, Ryan +1, Tony -0(?)

* mod_info to use the configuration tree

* add output filtering. there are a couple variants for this.

- The "link-based" variant is ready to go:

MsgID: <20000627044436.N29590@lyra.org> (patch)

MsgID: <20000627053302.O29590@lyra.org> (demo usage)

Status: Greg +1, Jim +1

Other bugs that need fixing:

* MaxRequestsPerChild measures connections, not requests.

Until someone has a better way, we'll probably just rename it

"MaxConnectionsPerChild".

* Regex containers don't work in an intutive way

Status: No one has come up with an efficient way to fix this

behavior. Dean has suggested getting rid of regex containers

completely.

* SIGSEGV on Linux (glibc 2.1.2) isn't caught properly by a

sigwaiting thread. We need to work around this, perhaps unless

there is hope soon for a fixed glibc.

* The mod_cgid daemon process isn't always cleaned up when httpd

gets SIGTERM. Jeff thinks it may be as simple as registering

the daemon process for cleanup with the proper pool, but he hasn't

looked at it in enough detail.

* The MM library is built as static and shared library. This should

be set up to build only the required version.

Other features that need writing:

* Finish infrastructure in core for async MPMs

Status: post 2.0

* TODO in source -- just do an egrep on "TODO" and see what's there

Documentation that needs writing:

* Mod_status docs are needed.

* The concept of MPMs, especially if we ship more than one MPM for a

given platform

* New directives in the various MPMs and appropriate links from

obsolete directives in core.html to the MPM documentation.

* Revise manual/stopping.html and the last part of

manual/misc/perf-tuning.html to take account of the MPMs.

* API documentation

Status: Ben Laurie has written some hooks documentation

(apache-2.0/htdocs/hooks.html)

* Changes since 1.3.9 can be more easily seen in the commitlog file

dev.apache.org:/home/cvs/CVSROOT/commitlogs/apache-2.0

which includes some of Roy's comments when the changes were

committed in rough change-sets by purpose. Note that the commitlog

does not show the contents of new files until later.

* mod_dav documentation (once integrated)

Available Patches:

* Mike Abbott's <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com> patches to improve

performance

Status: These were written for 1.3, and are awaiting a port to

2.0

* Jim Winstead's <jimw@trainedmonkey.com> patch to add CookieDomain and

other small mod_usertrack features

Open issues:

* What do we do about mod_proxy?

* Which MPMs will be included with Apache 2.0?

* Is conf/highperformance.conf-dist obsolete? It looks obsolete.