0N/AAPACHE 2.0 STATUS: -*-text-*-
0N/ALast modified at [$Date: 2001/01/21 17:51:08 $]
0N/A 2.0b1 : Scheduled to release End of January, 2001
0N/A rbb volunteers to be RM
0N/A 2.0a9 : released December 12, 2000
0N/A 2.0a8 : released November 20, 2000
0N/A 2.0a7 : released October 8, 2000
0N/A 2.0a6 : released August 18, 2000
0N/A 2.0a5 : released August 4, 2000
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 * Generic Hooks are absolutely wrong in linkage, they are declared as
0N/A exported from APU, but actually exported from modules. This needs
0N/A heavy fixup, which Bill will do on the plane tommorow. The actual
0N/A 'Apache' declaration is in Apache's files, with the 'explicit linkage'
182N/A flavor in apr-util. (Unless you folks will finally buckle and accept
182N/A the linkspec in hook declarations. I'm not holding my breath.)
8N/A Status: patch brought forward from 1.3.14
240N/A WIN32 and OS2 need review [William Rowe, Brian Harvard]
701N/A * Error messages are filtered according to the needs of the original
701N/A URI. Nothing ensures that they are translated on EBCDIC machines
701N/A and *not* translated on ASCII machines.
590N/A * Win32: Enable the Windows MPM to honor max_requests_per_child
416N/A Status: FirstBill will fix this?
186N/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 - Document warning that OSR2 is required (for Crypt functions, in
715N/A * Win32: Test access logging with multiple threads. Will the
715N/A native file I/O calls serialize automagically like the
0N/A CRT calls or do we need to add region locking each time
456N/A * Win32: Complete the revamp the service environment and relocation
590N/A into the WinNT MPM. Changes ServerRoot service registry
664N/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 and will finish over the weekend.
0N/A * We need a thread-safe resolver, at least on Unix.
772N/A Status: The best known candidate would be something from
773N/A Status: Greg asks, "why? doesn't gethostbyname_r() handle this?"
772N/A * The AddInputFilter and AddOutputFilter directives do not allow the
772N/A administrator to remove or reorder filters. Once a filter is added
772N/A in a container, it is present in any subcontainers. It can only be
772N/A added to the filter chain after any filters specified in enclosing
772N/A * remove the --disable-shared from the subdir config of APR(UTIL)
772N/A before the final release. (in fact, it might even be nice to
772N/A Note: we need to do a "make install" for APR(UTIL) so the shared
772N/A libraries can be installed properly. We could also use that
715N/A point to install include files (rather than have Apache
772N/A know everything that needs to be installed from the
0N/A sub-packages). The original impetus for doing the
0N/A disable-shared was because the shared lib wasn't getting
0N/A installed and a "make clean" in aprutil would make Apache
0N/A * users who want to install third-party modules into the Apache
0N/A source tree (for static linking) need to have autoconf and
0N/A libtool installed. This is because the module needs to have its
0N/A config.m4 incorporated into ./configure, which means "buildconf"
0N/A Note: This is in part because we have removed the "extra" directory.
772N/A file that allowed people to add external modules by
772N/A specifying --with-module on the configure line.
772N/ARELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
772N/A * Mod_autoindex is still causing too many buckets and too many bucket
772N/A brigades to be created. We need to improve the way the old ap_r*
772N/A functions interact with buckets. This is being tabled until after
84N/A * The directives to setup output filters need to be re-visited. These
87N/A directives aren't consistent with what we already have, and they don't
87N/A always make good sense.
84N/A Status: rbb volunteers.
176N/A * Create unified scoreboard API and implementation shared across
176N/A * Document mod_file_cache.
84N/A * OS/2: Get loadable modules working again. Requires shared core support
84N/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.
25N/A * Win32: Enable the winnt MPM to use the new scoreboard API
0N/A * Win32: Win9x console window still won't play nice with the
0N/A close window, logoff and shutdown scenarios.
615N/A Status: OtherBill will move the patch forward from 1.3.15, once we
772N/A get our other Win9x issues solved.
25N/A * Win32: Add a simple hold console open patch (wait for close or
767N/A the ESC key, with a nice message) if the server died a bad
767N/A death (non-zero exit code) in console mode.
767N/A Status: OtherBill is bringing forward same ugly hack from 1.3.13
772N/A * Platforms that do not support fork (primarily Win32 and AS/400)
767N/A Architect start-up code that avoids initializing all the modules
767N/A in the parent process on platforms that do not support fork.
25N/A would eliminate some code in the Win32 branch that essentially
25N/A duplicates what is in APR.
50N/A * There are still a number of places in the code where we are
0N/A losing 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
543N/A * Mass vhosting version of suEXEC.
353N/A the dbmmanage employs the first-matched dbm format. This is not
543N/A necessarily the library that Apache was built with. Aught to
0N/A rewrite dbmmanage upon installation to bin/ with the proper library
0N/A * use apu_dbm in mod_auth_dbm
0N/A Status: Greg +1 (low-priority volunteer)
0N/A Some additional items remaining:
0N/A - case_preserved_filename stuff
256N/A (use the new canonical name stuff?)
290N/A - find a new home for ap_text(_header)
703N/A - is it possible to remove the DAV: namespace stuff from util_xml?
703N/A * ap_core_translate() and its use by mod_mmap_static and mod_file_cache
703N/A are a bit wonky. The function should probably be exposed as a utility
703N/A function (such as ap_translate_url2fs() or ap_validate_fs_url() or
703N/A something). Another approach would be a new hook phase after
703N/A "translate" which would allow the module to munge what the
703N/A translation has decided to do.
703N/A Status: Greg +1 (volunteers), Ryan +1
93N/A calls ap_fixup_virutal_hosts(), ap_fini_vhost_config(), and
93N/A ap_sort_hooks() [to reduce the logic in main()]
93N/A * read the config tree just once, and process N times (as necessary)
93N/A * (possibly) use UUIDs in mod_unique_id
and/or mod_usertrack
93N/A * (possibly) port the bug fix for PR 6942 (segv when LoadModule is put
93N/A into a VirtualHost container) to 2.0.
290N/A * the LTFLAGS = -export-dynamic in the
config.m4 is wrong. it is getting
435N/A added multiple times during the config process. The -export-dynamic
176N/A building Apache modules).
176N/A * toss the AddModule directive. we add all prelinked modules
176N/A automatically, and the LoadModule directive now implies
93N/A AddModule. so... there is no point to it any more.
93N/A RBB says: We do not add all prelinked modules back after
664N/A a clear module list. If we remove AddModule, we
314N/A also need to remove ClearModuleList, because
317N/A it wouldn't make any sense.
460N/APRs that have been suspended forever waiting for someone to
664N/Aput them into 'the next release':
314N/A missing call to "setlocale();"
590N/A Additional status for XBitHack directive
314N/A Questionable performace of mod_dir() with negotiation
314N/A Mod_proxy doesn't allow change of error pages
664N/A Modified PATH environemnt variable is not passed, instead
460N/A Proxy doesn't deliver documents if not connected
317N/A proxy converts ~name to %7Ename when name starts with a dot (.)
314N/A mod_access syntax allows hosts that should be restricted
314N/A ~UserHome directories are not honored in absolute pathname
590N/A More LogFormat directives
191N/A Proxy FTP Authentication Fails
11N/A * PR#623: mod_include
11N/A A smarter "Last Modified" value for SSI documents (see PR number 600)
99N/A Request of "Options SymLinksIfGroupMatch"
664N/A A security tweak I've been using for a few years for SSI
58N/A * PR#700: mod_proxy
664N/A Proxy doesn't do links right for OpenVMS files through ftp:
203N/A imap should read <MAP><AREA>*</MAP> too!
590N/A RLimitCPU and RLimitMEM don't apply to all children like they should
203N/A Uses cwd before filling it in, doesn't use syslog
517N/A it is useful to allow specifiction that root-owned symlinks
590N/A should always be followed
517N/A Controlling Access to Remote Proxies would be nice...
590N/A Adding authentication "on the fly" through the proxy module
203N/A request_config field in request_rec is moderately bogus
668N/A DoS attacks involving memory consumption
668N/A Logging of virtual server to error_log as well
668N/A ProxyRemote make a dead cycle.
668N/A * PR#1117: mod_auth-any
668N/A suexec does not parse arguments to #exec cmd
668N/A Allow for Last-Modified: without resorting to XBitHack
668N/A insufficent AllowOverrides granularity for autoindexing
668N/A improvements to child spawning API
668N/A ``nph-'' not honored (no buffering) for ProxyRemote mapping
668N/A Apache cannot handle continuation line in headers
772N/A setlogin() is not called, causing problems with
e.g. identd
240N/A regerror() exists, use it
543N/A there is no way to keep per-connection per-module state
543N/A Add frame-safe anchor attribute to mod_autoindex links
543N/A CGI scripts running as Apache user: security (suexec etc.)
543N/A Need to know "hit-rate" on proxy cache
701N/A Selective url-encode of log fields (or maybe a pseudo
771N/A I make mod_headers to modify request headers as well as
701N/A No HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR set...
701N/A ProxyRemote proxy requests fail authentication by firewall
701N/A * PR#1574: mod_autoindex
701N/A ReadmeName and HeaderName don't allow for server-parsed html.
543N/A mod_rewrite forms REQUEST_URI different than mod_cgi does
203N/A mod_headers should allow mod_log_config-style formats in
772N/A mod_proxy to support persistent conns?
543N/A patches to mod_include to allow for file tests
240N/A * PR#1809: mod_auth-any
240N/A Suggestion for improving authentication modules and core source
240N/A code, problem with 401 and ErrorDocument
772N/A * PR#1855: mod_autoindex
772N/A More Control over autoindex layout
543N/A listing of proxy cache content
578N/A Allow modules to set user:group for execution.
588N/A adding auth_why to conn_rec
771N/A pipelined connections are not logged correctly
651N/A mod_rewrite doesn't pass Proxy Throughput on internal subrequests
651N/A HTTP Server Rebuild Line Needs Changing for the better
772N/A mod_status always displays 256 possible connection slots
771N/A * PR#2221: documentation
771N/A Make online documentation search link back to my installation
771N/A Can not POST to ErrorDocument - Apache/1.3b6
771N/A patterns in ProxyRemote
771N/A Status module averages are for entire uptime
771N/A suexec for general access of user content?
651N/A Proposal for TimeZone directive
543N/A /server-info doesn't check for the virtual host to list the info
590N/A problem specifying ndbm library for build ?with autoconfigure
543N/A AllowOverride FileInfo is too coarse
664N/A TimeOut applies to output of CGI scripts
664N/A <IfDenied> directive wanted
693N/A CGI's for general use still have to be run as another user
693N/A Cache file names in Proxy module
693N/A in global and <Virtual>.
693N/A mailto tags and bundling bug report script
0N/A Support for System Resource Controller
When will Apache support P3P? Any Plans?
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
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
[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.
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.
* Jon Travis's <jtravis@covalent.net> patch to deal with thread-safe
issues with inet_ntoa. See message <20001201163220.A12827@covalent.net>
Status: This is being set aside until the IPv6 work is finished
so that we know exactly what is required.
* Martin Sojka <msojka@gmx.de>'s patch to add error reporting for failed
htpasswd actions due to a full /tmp volume (other programs may have
* 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?