STATUS revision 8bed76428f56e5c643174a2d6807c3f18016af5c
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manojApache 2.0 STATUS:
8bed76428f56e5c643174a2d6807c3f18016af5cbjhLast modified at [$Date: 2000/05/29 09:41:57 $]
2deb319e6b3de239f45c16a3e9e836d44f1f7108rbb 2.0a4 : vague plans to release mid-May
2deb319e6b3de239f45c16a3e9e836d44f1f7108rbb 2.0a3 : released April 28, 2000
bd929c73ef04789b7183b840d8db6e01d03a4d86rbb 2.0a2 : released March 31, 2000
70f6f32765cfaadd6da8de6f0fea97ddd72d8fadmanoj 2.0a1 : released March 10, 2000
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manojRELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS:
f28466227fec298258b3f134dcc8cb795e44c3d7rbb * Saferead does not work on Win32
91a71946d0fb28c0866139edef3dd59f36ba5b9cstoddard * Win32: Get mod_auth_digest working under win32
91a71946d0fb28c0866139edef3dd59f36ba5b9cstoddard - APR_HAS_RANDOM should be defined on windows and there is a
91a71946d0fb28c0866139edef3dd59f36ba5b9cstoddard lib/apr/misc/win32/rand.c which is basically a copy of what
91a71946d0fb28c0866139edef3dd59f36ba5b9cstoddard mod_auth_digest used to use.
bd929c73ef04789b7183b840d8db6e01d03a4d86rbb * Re-work configuration for top level Apache. Work should start with
bd929c73ef04789b7183b840d8db6e01d03a4d86rbb trying to clean the autoconf stuff. If and only if this proves
bd929c73ef04789b7183b840d8db6e01d03a4d86rbb impossible to do (very unlikely), autoconf should be removed and we
bd929c73ef04789b7183b840d8db6e01d03a4d86rbb will roll our own config implementation.
632b0b53511f3bb9c32aa2869fbc73ee35081b38rbb NOTE: When this is implemented, it would be really nice if the
632b0b53511f3bb9c32aa2869fbc73ee35081b38rbb default cgi module on Unix with a threaded MPM is the cgid
632b0b53511f3bb9c32aa2869fbc73ee35081b38rbb module. This should be override-able of course.
bd929c73ef04789b7183b840d8db6e01d03a4d86rbb Status: Jim Jagielski is looking into this.
211bf1d44f4653bf753a15740cd5ebbf330b6e93manoj * Put back resource limit code
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * suEXEC doesn't work
369edcdd0a9c5516c61e736ec2a6fc8fb0d92fe2manoj Status: Manoj has posted an patch to fix this.
369edcdd0a9c5516c61e736ec2a6fc8fb0d92fe2manoj <19991103003605.A20612@samosa.mindspring.com>
85cbdc16ac57fa68ce1358a308269abcd417f4d9stoddard * Win32: Enable the Windows MPM to honor max_requests_per_child
85cbdc16ac57fa68ce1358a308269abcd417f4d9stoddard Status: Bill will fix this.
d208bda4a893cc81ed5d3ed1cdd7d706e012bd42stoddard * Win32: Get Apache working on Windows 95/98. The following work
d208bda4a893cc81ed5d3ed1cdd7d706e012bd42stoddard (at least) needs to be done:
d208bda4a893cc81ed5d3ed1cdd7d706e012bd42stoddard - winnt MPM: Fix 95/98 code paths in the winnt MPM. There is some NT
d208bda4a893cc81ed5d3ed1cdd7d706e012bd42stoddard specific code that is still not in NT only code paths
d208bda4a893cc81ed5d3ed1cdd7d706e012bd42stoddard - APR sendfile uses TransmitFile which is not available on
d208bda4a893cc81ed5d3ed1cdd7d706e012bd42stoddard - ap_stat uses GetFileAttributeEx which is not available on
75960f20f88dad6bc67892c711c429946063d133stoddard * Win32: Test access logging with multiple threads. Will the
75960f20f88dad6bc67892c711c429946063d133stoddard native file I/O calls serialize automagically like the
75960f20f88dad6bc67892c711c429946063d133stoddard CRT calls or do we need to add region locking each time
75960f20f88dad6bc67892c711c429946063d133stoddard we access the logs?
a9e07e4f90adcc7bc768db3055431c3dcd560cd1manoj * We need a thread-safe resolver, at least on Unix.
f6a6245816cd866361da8c576b1f47c7a54b6610fanf Status: The best known candidate would be something from
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manojRELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
8bed76428f56e5c643174a2d6807c3f18016af5cbjh * OS/2: Get loadable modules working again. Requires shared core support
8bed76428f56e5c643174a2d6807c3f18016af5cbjh which doesn't appear to be catered for in the current build system.
8bed76428f56e5c643174a2d6807c3f18016af5cbjh * OS/2: Make mod_status work for spmt_os2 MPM.
cfc020d6d6fc9b31d8945915e65a8787a796eb73stoddard * Build scripts do not recognise AIX 4.2.1 pthreads, so the
cfc020d6d6fc9b31d8945915e65a8787a796eb73stoddard pthread MPMs will not build.
f824925ac58ff729289c017235eeb3bdd21ec3a2stoddard * Win32: Reuse accept socket after transmitfile/close
f824925ac58ff729289c017235eeb3bdd21ec3a2stoddard This is not a bug, but would be nice to get this feature in
f824925ac58ff729289c017235eeb3bdd21ec3a2stoddard before ship.
2aae6faee508221efbeaba5547ca79b7a20ef047stoddard * Win32: Enable the winnt MPM to use the new scoreboard API
670734c2ee137c587411795c6f82566c9d3729b7coar * Win32: Graceful restart of a service is broken (code does shutdown
670734c2ee137c587411795c6f82566c9d3729b7coar then start)
a5ed555df952c85bc1b179f5981e8a6c54ba16e6stoddard * Platforms that do not support fork (primarily Win32 and AS/400)
a5ed555df952c85bc1b179f5981e8a6c54ba16e6stoddard Consider introducing HAVE_FORK feature macro. Architect start-up code
a5ed555df952c85bc1b179f5981e8a6c54ba16e6stoddard that avoids initializing all the modules in the parent process on
a5ed555df952c85bc1b179f5981e8a6c54ba16e6stoddard platforms that do not support fork.
56ca30c968906053ae61acb218420667bb58d996rbb * Clean the code. There are a lot of places we used APR but didn't
56ca30c968906053ae61acb218420667bb58d996rbb remove the hacks that were required for the cross-platform code in
56ca30c968906053ae61acb218420667bb58d996rbb 1.3. We need to make the code look like APR was supposed to be there.
70f6f32765cfaadd6da8de6f0fea97ddd72d8fadmanoj * Go throught the 1.3 Bug DB and research the bugs marked "suspended".
70f6f32765cfaadd6da8de6f0fea97ddd72d8fadmanoj People were told these would be considered for inclusion in Apache 2.0,
70f6f32765cfaadd6da8de6f0fea97ddd72d8fadmanoj it would be nice to actually do so.
0bff2f28ef945280c17099c142126178a78e1e54manoj * Win32: Migrate the MPM over to use APR thread/process calls. This
0bff2f28ef945280c17099c142126178a78e1e54manoj would eliminate some code in the Win32 branch that essentially
0bff2f28ef945280c17099c142126178a78e1e54manoj duplicates what is in APR.
1e585ba09ea32272e63c4c39c35491e975d21d98stoddard Bill says we need a new procattr, APR_CREATE_SUSPENDED (or
1e585ba09ea32272e63c4c39c35491e975d21d98stoddard something similar) to direct ap_create_process to create the
1e585ba09ea32272e63c4c39c35491e975d21d98stoddard process suspended. We also need a call to wake up the suspended
1e585ba09ea32272e63c4c39c35491e975d21d98stoddard process This may not be able to be implemented everywhere though.
9c09943bad734ebd5c7cc10bd6d63b75c4c6e056stoddard * Move I/O layering into APR.
0bff2f28ef945280c17099c142126178a78e1e54manoj * There are still a number of places in the code where we are
0bff2f28ef945280c17099c142126178a78e1e54manoj loosing error status (i.e. throwing away the error returned by a
0bff2f28ef945280c17099c142126178a78e1e54manoj system call and replacing it with a generic error code)
75960f20f88dad6bc67892c711c429946063d133stoddard * Win32: Implement reliable piped logs on Windows
aa1faea36e4ae357bc603a2337b6adc54f5daec1manoj * Switch to autoconf, et al. for configuration.
f03d292915be9977eaf74e9be7b0404aec226f84manoj Status: Manoj has placed an initial version into the 2.0
f03d292915be9977eaf74e9be7b0404aec226f84manoj repository. Todos include:
aa1faea36e4ae357bc603a2337b6adc54f5daec1manoj * Use APR to get rid of more platform dependancies.
bd929c73ef04789b7183b840d8db6e01d03a4d86rbb Status: Ryan Bloom <rbb@covalenet.net> is working on this.
302dc1f7b3feee23a91ad8f3cf3cb2edd95a557bmanoj * The connection status table is not very efficient. Also, very few stats
302dc1f7b3feee23a91ad8f3cf3cb2edd95a557bmanoj are exported to the connection status table (easy to fix), and mod_status
ff849e4163ed879288f0df15f78b6c9d278ec804fanf * Optimise the name-based <VirtualHost> implementation so that it uses
ff849e4163ed879288f0df15f78b6c9d278ec804fanf a hash table instead of a linear linked list scan.
ff849e4163ed879288f0df15f78b6c9d278ec804fanf * Mass vhosting version of suEXEC.
df4a7c143b27b489dd2d865bb3f6668c8420b3a9fanf * Provide a sane API for handling the request's environment variables.
c03566fa0156d3a1500a42e4fe539e3e0fc8a11dgstein * configuration option to use *DBM
c03566fa0156d3a1500a42e4fe539e3e0fc8a11dgstein Status: Greg +1 (volunteers)
c03566fa0156d3a1500a42e4fe539e3e0fc8a11dgstein * add SDBM into src/lib/sdbm/ as a default/fallback DBM implementation.
c03566fa0156d3a1500a42e4fe539e3e0fc8a11dgstein SDBM is used by Perl, mod_dav, mod_sssl, others for basic DBM support.
c03566fa0156d3a1500a42e4fe539e3e0fc8a11dgstein Status: Greg +1 (volunteers)
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manojOther bugs that need fixing:
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * MaxRequestsPerChild measures connections, not requests.
d5defd5a0c5cdbaf74b85939484dc2b6c8317d19manoj Until someone has a better way, we'll probably just rename it
d5defd5a0c5cdbaf74b85939484dc2b6c8317d19manoj "MaxConnectionsPerChild".
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * Regex containers don't work in an intutive way
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj Status: No one has come up with an efficient way to fix this
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj behavior. Dean has suggested getting rid of regex containers
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj completely.
0bff2f28ef945280c17099c142126178a78e1e54manoj * SIGSEGV on Linux (glibc 2.1.2) isn't caught properly by a
0bff2f28ef945280c17099c142126178a78e1e54manoj sigwaiting thread. We need to work around this, perhaps unless
0bff2f28ef945280c17099c142126178a78e1e54manoj there is hope soon for a fixed glibc.
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manojOther features that need writing:
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * Finish infrastructure in core for async MPMs
40a5b7189dbbb28e107bf008ee625f2f0142c2ccdgaudet Status: post 2.0
dbf0c7bef06259486cd2748a2d0e82f27e099d6efielding * TODO in source -- just do an egrep on "TODO" and see what's there
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manojDocumentation that needs writing:
bd929c73ef04789b7183b840d8db6e01d03a4d86rbb * Mod_status docs are needed.
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * The concept of MPMs, especially if we ship more than one MPM for a
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj given platform
f6a6245816cd866361da8c576b1f47c7a54b6610fanf * New directives in the various MPMs and appropriate links from
f6a6245816cd866361da8c576b1f47c7a54b6610fanf obsolete directives in core.html to the MPM documentation.
f6a6245816cd866361da8c576b1f47c7a54b6610fanf * Revise manual/stopping.html and the last part of
f6a6245816cd866361da8c576b1f47c7a54b6610fanf manual/misc/perf-tuning.html to take account of the MPMs.
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * API documentation
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj Status: Ben Laurie has written some hooks documentation
d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding * Changes since 1.3.9 can be more easily seen in the commitlog file
d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding dev.apache.org:/home/cvs/CVSROOT/commitlogs/apache-2.0
d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding which includes some of Roy's comments when the changes were
d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding committed in rough change-sets by purpose. Note that the commitlog
d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding does not show the contents of new files until later.
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manojAvailable Patches:
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * Mike Abbott's <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com> patches to improve
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj performance
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj Status: These were written for 1.3, and are awaiting a port to
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manojOpen issues:
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * What do we do about mod_proxy?
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * Which MPMs will be included with Apache 2.0?
d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding * Is conf/highperformance.conf-dist obsolete? It looks obsolete.