0N/ALast modified at [$Date: 2000/08/01 17:06:20 $]
0N/A 2.0a4 : released June 7, 2000
0N/A 2.0a3 : released April 28, 2000
0N/A 2.0a2 : released March 31, 2000
0N/A 2.0a1 : released March 10, 2000
0N/ARELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS:
0N/A * apachectl not being built or installed
0N/A * Win32: Get mod_auth_digest working under win32
0N/A - APR_HAS_RANDOM should be defined on windows and there is a
0N/A mod_auth_digest used to use.
0N/A * suEXEC doesn't work
0N/A Status: Manoj has posted an patch to fix this.
0N/A <19991103003605.A20612@samosa.mindspring.com>
0N/A * Win32: Enable the Windows MPM to honor max_requests_per_child
0N/A Status: Bill will fix this.
0N/A * Win32: Get Apache working on Windows 95/98. The following work
0N/A (at least) needs to be done:
0N/A - winnt MPM: Fix 95/98 code paths in the winnt MPM. There is some NT
0N/A specific code that is still not in NT only code paths
0N/A - IOL binds to APR sendfile, implemented with TransmitFile, which
0N/A is not available on 95/98.
0N/A * Win32: Test access logging with multiple threads. Will the
0N/A native file I/O calls serialize automagically like the
0N/A CRT calls or do we need to add region locking each time
0N/A * Win32: Complete the revamp the service environment and relocation
0N/A into the WinNT MPM. Changes ServerRoot service registry
0N/A parameter into ConfigArgs for multiple service startup parameters.
0N/A signals are not being acknowledged. Close window and shutdown
0N/A also seem out of sorts.
0N/A OtherBill is working on this
0N/A * We need a thread-safe resolver, at least on Unix.
0N/A Status: The best known candidate would be something from
0N/A Status: Greg asks, "why? doesn't gethostbyname_r() handle this?"
0N/A * Modify mod_cgi and mod_cgid to deal with directories. This allows
0N/A a lot of directives to be removed from the core.
0N/ARELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
0N/A * Create unified scoreboard API and implementation shared across
0N/A * Document mod_file_cache.
0N/A * OS/2: Get loadable modules working again. Requires shared core support
0N/A which doesn't appear to be catered for in the current build system.
0N/A * OS/2: Make mod_status work for spmt_os2 MPM.
0N/A * Build scripts do not recognise AIX 4.2.1 pthreads, so the
0N/A pthread MPMs will not build.
0N/A * Win32: Enable the winnt MPM to use the new scoreboard API
0N/A * Win32: Implement ap_shm_ functions in APR.
0N/A * Win32: Win9x console window still won't play nice with the
0N/A close window, logoff and shutdown scenarios.
0N/A * Win32: Add a simple hold console open patch (wait for close or
0N/A the ESC key, with a nice message) if the server died a bad
0N/A death (non-zero exit code) in console mode.
0N/A * Platforms that do not support fork (primarily Win32 and AS/400)
0N/A Consider introducing HAVE_FORK feature macro. Architect start-up code
0N/A that avoids initializing all the modules in the parent process on
0N/A platforms that do not support fork.
0N/A * Go throught the 1.3 Bug DB and research the bugs marked "suspended".
0N/A People were told these would be considered for inclusion in Apache 2.0,
0N/A it would be nice to actually do so.
0N/A would eliminate some code in the Win32 branch that essentially
0N/A duplicates what is in APR.
0N/A Bill says we need a new procattr, APR_CREATE_SUSPENDED (or
0N/A something similar) to direct ap_create_process to create the
0N/A process suspended. We also need a call to wake up the suspended
0N/A process This may not be able to be implemented everywhere though.
0N/A * There are still a number of places in the code where we are
0N/A loosing error status (
i.e. throwing away the error returned by a
0N/A system call and replacing it with a generic error code)
0N/A * Win32: Implement reliable piped logs on Windows
0N/A * The connection status table is not very efficient. Also, very few stats
0N/A are exported to the connection status table (easy to fix), and mod_status
0N/A * Mass vhosting version of suEXEC.
0N/A * Replace tables with a proper opaque ADT that has pluggable
0N/A implementations (including something like the existing data type,
0N/A plus hash tables for speed, with options for more later).
0N/A Status: fanf is working on this.
0N/A * configuration option to use *DBM
0N/A Status: Greg +1 (volunteers)
0N/A SDBM is used by Perl, mod_dav, mod_sssl, others for basic DBM support.
0N/A Status: Greg +1 (volunteers)
0N/A * Integrate mod_dav.
0N/A Message-id: <20000625173247.M29590@lyra.org>
0N/A Status: works. passes initial regression testing. Joe Orton
0N/A reports success with his "cadaver" tool.
0N/A Some additional items remaining:
0N/A - case_preserved_filename stuff
0N/A - find a new home for ap_text(_header)
0N/A - is it possible to remove the DAV: namespace stuff from util_xml?
0N/A * ap_core_translate() and its use by mod_mmap_static are a bit wonky.
0N/A The function should probably be exposed as a utility function (such
0N/A as ap_translate_url2fs() or ap_validate_fs_url() or something).
0N/A Another approach would be a new hook phase after "translate" which
0N/A would allow mod_mmap_static to munge what the translation has
0N/A Status: Greg +1 (volunteers), Ryan +1
0N/A calls ap_fixup_virutal_hosts(), ap_fini_vhost_config(), and
0N/A ap_sort_hooks() [to reduce the logic in main()]
0N/A * read the config tree just once, and process N times (as necessary)
0N/A * add a version number to ap_initialize() as an extra failsafe against
0N/A (APR) library version skew.
0N/A MsgID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005231712380.31927-100000@nebula.lyra.org>
0N/A Status: Greg +1 (volunteers), Jeff +1, Ryan +1, Tony -0(?)
0N/A * mod_info to use the configuration tree
0N/A * add output filtering
0N/A MsgID: <20000701162857.D29590@lyra.org> (patch)
0N/A MsgID: <20000704025038.V29590@lyra.org> (demo)
0N/A Status: Greg +1, Jim +1(?), Dirk -0, Ryan -0
0N/A MsgID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007072059120.18877-100000@koj.rkbloom.net>
0N/A Status: Dirk +1, Ryan +1, Greg -1
0N/APRs that have been suspended forever waiting for someone to
0N/Aput them into 'the next release':
0N/A * PR#73: mod_log-any
0N/A reporting of referer in error_log
0N/A missing call to "setlocale();"
0N/A * PR#78: mod_include
0N/A Additional status for XBitHack directive
0N/A Questionable performace of mod_dir() with negotiation
0N/A Mod_proxy doesn't allow change of error pages
0N/A Modified PATH environemnt variable is not passed, instead
0N/A Proxy doesn't deliver documents if not connected
0N/A proxy converts ~name to %7Ename when name starts with a dot (.)
0N/A * PR#537: mod_access
0N/A mod_access syntax allows hosts that should be restricted
0N/A * PR#557: mod_auth-any
0N/A ~UserHome directories are not honored in absolute pathname
0N/A requests (.htaccess)
0N/A * PR#573: mod_log-any
0N/A More LogFormat directives
0N/A Proxy FTP Authentication Fails
0N/A * PR#623: mod_include
0N/A A smarter "Last Modified" value for SSI documents (see PR number 600)
0N/A Request of "Options SymLinksIfGroupMatch"
0N/A * PR#697: mod_include
0N/A A security tweak I've been using for a few years for SSI
0N/A Proxy doesn't do links right for OpenVMS files through ftp:
0N/A imap should read <MAP><AREA>*</MAP> too!
0N/A RLimitCPU and RLimitMEM don't apply to all children like they should
0N/A Uses cwd before filling it in, doesn't use syslog
0N/A it is useful to allow specifiction that root-owned symlinks
0N/A should always be followed
0N/A Controlling Access to Remote Proxies would be nice...
0N/A Adding authentication "on the fly" through the proxy module
0N/A * PR#1004: apache-api
0N/A request_config field in request_rec is moderately bogus
0N/A DoS attacks involving memory consumption
0N/A * PR#1050: mod_log-any
0N/A Logging of virtual server to error_log as well
0N/A * PR#1085: mod_proxy
0N/A ProxyRemote make a dead cycle.
0N/A * PR#1117: mod_auth-any
0N/A suexec does not parse arguments to #exec cmd
0N/A * PR#1145: mod_include
0N/A Allow for Last-Modified: without resorting to XBitHack
0N/A insufficent AllowOverrides granularity for autoindexing
0N/A * PR#1158: apache-api
0N/A improvements to child spawning API
0N/A * PR#1166: mod_proxy
0N/A ``nph-'' not honored (no buffering) for ProxyRemote mapping
0N/A Apache cannot handle continuation line in headers
0N/A setlogin() is not called, causing problems with
e.g. identd
0N/A regerror() exists, use it
0N/A where possible use herror()
0N/A * PR#1233: apache-api
0N/A there is no way to keep per-connection per-module state
0N/A Add frame-safe anchor attribute to mod_autoindex links
0N/A CGI scripts running as Apache user: security (suexec etc.)
add allow,
deny/deny,allow warning to mod_access
Need to know "hit-rate" on proxy cache
Selective url-encode of log fields (or maybe a pseudo
I make mod_headers to modify request headers as well as
No HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR set...
ProxyRemote proxy requests fail authentication by firewall
ReadmeName and HeaderName don't allow for server-parsed html.
mod_rewrite forms REQUEST_URI different than mod_cgi does
mod_headers should allow mod_log_config-style formats in
mod_proxy to support persistent conns?
patches to mod_include to allow for file tests
Suggestion for improving authentication modules and core source
code, problem with 401 and ErrorDocument
More Control over autoindex layout
listing of proxy cache content
Allow modules to set user:group for execution.
adding auth_why to conn_rec
pipelined connections are not logged correctly
mod_rewrite doesn't pass Proxy Throughput on internal subrequests
HTTP Server Rebuild Line Needs Changing for the better
mod_status always displays 256 possible connection slots
apache always detaches for normal operation
Make online documentation search link back to my installation
Can not POST to ErrorDocument - Apache/1.3b6
Status module averages are for entire uptime
suexec for general access of user content?
Proposal for TimeZone directive
/server-info doesn't check for the virtual host to list the info
problem specifying ndbm library for build ?with autoconfigure
A small addition to
rotatelogs.c to improve program functionality.
AllowOverride FileInfo is too coarse
TimeOut applies to output of CGI scripts
<IfDenied> directive wanted
CGI's for general use still have to be run as another user
Cache file names in Proxy module
mailto tags and bundling bug report script
Support for System Resource Controller
When will Apache support P3P? Any Plans?
Parent process should remain attached to the terminal for high
availibility system's software check
Propose that Apache recommend $UNIQUE_ID for all "session id"
suggestion: power up your Include directive :)
cannot limit some HTTP methods
No module specific data hook for per-connection data
Configuration file in Japanese
* PR#3191: mod_negotiation
no way to set global quality-of-source (qs) coneg values
* PR#3430: mod_negotiation
Enhancement: MultiViews, Multi-Language Documents
Accessing URL through proxy server corrupts data.
Please add an Apache icon to the systray instead of a DOS window
Some anonymous FTP URLs ask for authentication
BORDER=0 makes Icons look nicer (FancyIndexing)
New ErrorDocumentMatch directive
apache lacks hook for output stream "filter" modules in api
Alternative for win95 users
Need to be able to override shebang line to make CGI scripts
"Files" and "FilesMatch" regexp does not recognize bang as
Please allow CGI env variables (QUERY_STRING, ...) to be logged
Suggestion for better handling of Last-modified headers
mod_cgi prevents handling of OPTIONS requests
mod_autoindex does not generate Last-Modified response headers
The output of CGI scripts appears in the window that apache
Apache header files should have a private name,
e.g. [PATCH] install as service with domain account
AllowOverride should have a 'CheckNone' and 'AllowNone' argument
MIME types for MNG and JNG files need adding to
mime.types and
Status: Waiting for IANA types to be defined
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
* 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 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
* 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
* New directives in the various MPMs and appropriate links from
obsolete directives in
core.html to the MPM documentation.
Status: Ben Laurie has written some hooks documentation
* Changes since 1.3.9 can be more easily seen in the commitlog file
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.
* Mike Abbott's <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com> patches to improve
Status: These were written for 1.3, and are awaiting a port to
* Jim Winstead's <jimw@trainedmonkey.com> patch to add CookieDomain and
other small mod_usertrack features
* Dan Rench's <drench@xnet.com> patch to add allow the errmsg and timefmt
of SSI's to be modified in the config file. Patch is available in
* What do we do about mod_proxy?
* Which MPMs will be included with Apache 2.0?