1516N/AAPACHE 2.0 STATUS: -*-text-*-
539N/ALast modified at [$Date: 2001/03/04 17:44:07 $]
539N/A 2.0b1 : Scheduled to release End of January, 2001
539N/A rbb volunteers to be RM
539N/A 2.0a9 : released December 12, 2000
539N/A 2.0a8 : released November 20, 2000
539N/A 2.0a7 : released October 8, 2000
539N/A 2.0a6 : released August 18, 2000
539N/A 2.0a5 : released August 4, 2000
539N/A 2.0a4 : released June 7, 2000
539N/A 2.0a3 : released April 28, 2000
539N/A 2.0a2 : released March 31, 2000
539N/A 2.0a1 : released March 10, 2000
539N/A * Generic Hooks are absolutely wrong in linkage, they are declared as
926N/A exported from APU, but actually exported from modules. This needs
2649N/A heavy fixup, which Bill will do on the plane tommorow. The actual
926N/A 'Apache' declaration is in Apache's files, with the 'explicit linkage'
539N/A flavor in apr-util. (Unless you folks will finally buckle and accept
539N/A the linkspec in hook declarations. I'm not holding my breath.)
1715N/A Status: patch brought forward from 1.3.14
539N/A WIN32 and OS2 need review [William Rowe, Brian Harvard]
732N/A * Win32: Enable the Windows MPM to honor max_requests_per_child
2135N/A Status: FirstBill will fix this?
539N/A * Win32: Get Apache working on Windows 95/98. The following work
2135N/A (at least) needs to be done:
539N/A - winnt MPM: Fix 95/98 code paths in the winnt MPM. There is some NT
2649N/A specific code that is still not in NT only code paths
1895N/A - IOL binds to APR sendfile, implemented with TransmitFile, which
539N/A - Document warning that OSR2 is required (for Crypt functions, in
539N/A * Win32: Test access logging with multiple threads. Will the
539N/A native file I/O calls serialize automagically like the
539N/A CRT calls or do we need to add region locking each time
716N/A * Win32: Complete the revamp the service environment and relocation
716N/A into the WinNT MPM. Changes ServerRoot service registry
716N/A parameter into ConfigArgs for multiple service startup parameters.
716N/A signals are not being acknowledged. Close window and shutdown
716N/A also seem out of sorts.
716N/A OtherBill is working on this and will finish over the weekend.
2154N/A * We need a thread-safe resolver, at least on Unix.
2154N/A Status: The best known candidate would be something from
2154N/A Status: Greg asks, "why? doesn't gethostbyname_r() handle this?"
1715N/A * The AddInputFilter and AddOutputFilter directives do not allow the
2154N/A administrator to remove or reorder filters. Once a filter is added
2154N/A in a container, it is present in any subcontainers. It can only be
539N/A added to the filter chain after any filters specified in enclosing
539N/A * remove the --disable-shared from the subdir config of APR(UTIL)
539N/A before the final release. (in fact, it might even be nice to
539N/A Note: we need to do a "make install" for APR(UTIL) so the shared
2028N/A libraries can be installed properly. We could also use that
1895N/A point to install include files (rather than have Apache
539N/A know everything that needs to be installed from the
1895N/A sub-packages). The original impetus for doing the
2135N/A disable-shared was because the shared lib wasn't getting
2135N/A installed and a "make clean" in aprutil would make Apache
2154N/A * users who want to install third-party modules into the Apache
2154N/A source tree (for static linking) need to have autoconf and
2135N/A libtool installed. This is because the module needs to have its
539N/A Note: This is in part because we have removed the "extra" directory.
539N/A file that allowed people to add external modules by
539N/A specifying --with-module on the configure line.
539N/A * ap_vrprintf() needs to handle more than 4K
1889N/A * mod_dir should normally redirect ALL directory requests which do
1889N/A not include a trailing slash on the URI. However, if a "notes"
539N/A flag is set (say, via BrowserMatch), this behavior will be
2135N/A disabled for non-GET requests.
2524N/A MsgId: <20010227104646.E2297@lyra.org>
2524N/A MsgId: <3A9C0097.9C83F07C@Golux.Com>
2135N/A * The old_write filter needs to use ap_f* functions for the buffering.
2135N/ARELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
539N/A * mod_include doesn't stream data when there are no SSI tags in
539N/A a file. If the OS doesn't have MMAP, this means that the entire
539N/A file is read into memory before we send it down the filter
539N/A stack. The includes_filter should only ever parse about 9K of
539N/A data at one time, so that we always look like we are streaming
2069N/A will allow us to error out if a threaded MPM is chosen on a
2089N/A platform that doesn't support threads.
2154N/A * OS/2: Get loadable modules working again. Requires shared core support
2154N/A which doesn't appear to be catered for in the current build system.
539N/A * OS/2: Make mod_status work for spmt_os2 MPM.
539N/A * Win32: Enable the winnt MPM to use the new scoreboard API
539N/A * Win32: Win9x console window still won't play nice with the
926N/A close window, logoff and shutdown scenarios.
926N/A Status: OtherBill will move the patch forward from 1.3.15, once we
926N/A get our other Win9x issues solved.
2154N/A * Win32: Add a simple hold console open patch (wait for close or
539N/A the ESC key, with a nice message) if the server died a bad
539N/A death (non-zero exit code) in console mode.
2154N/A Status: OtherBill is bringing forward same ugly hack from 1.3.13
2154N/A * Platforms that do not support fork (primarily Win32 and AS/400)
2154N/A Architect start-up code that avoids initializing all the modules
2154N/A in the parent process on platforms that do not support fork.
539N/A would eliminate some code in the Win32 branch that essentially
539N/A duplicates what is in APR.
539N/A * There are still a number of places in the code where we are
2135N/A losing error status (
i.e. throwing away the error returned by a
539N/A system call and replacing it with a generic error code)
539N/A * Win32: Implement reliable piped logs on Windows
565N/A * Mass vhosting version of suEXEC.
539N/A the dbmmanage employs the first-matched dbm format. This is not
2154N/A necessarily the library that Apache was built with. Aught to
539N/A rewrite dbmmanage upon installation to bin/ with the proper library
565N/A * use apu_dbm in mod_auth_dbm
565N/A Status: Greg +1 (low-priority volunteer)
2069N/A Some additional items remaining:
2069N/A - case_preserved_filename stuff
2069N/A (use the new canonical name stuff?)
2069N/A - find a new home for ap_text(_header)
2069N/A - is it possible to remove the DAV: namespace stuff from util_xml?
2069N/A * ap_core_translate() and its use by mod_mmap_static and mod_file_cache
2069N/A are a bit wonky. The function should probably be exposed as a utility
2069N/A function (such as ap_translate_url2fs() or ap_validate_fs_url() or
2069N/A something). Another approach would be a new hook phase after
2069N/A "translate" which would allow the module to munge what the
539N/A translation has decided to do.
539N/A Status: Greg +1 (volunteers), Ryan +1
539N/A calls ap_fixup_virutal_hosts(), ap_fini_vhost_config(), and
539N/A ap_sort_hooks() [to reduce the logic in main()]
539N/A * read the config tree just once, and process N times (as necessary)
539N/A * (possibly) use UUIDs in mod_unique_id
and/or mod_usertrack
996N/A * (possibly) port the bug fix for PR 6942 (segv when LoadModule is put
716N/A into a VirtualHost container) to 2.0.
716N/A * the LTFLAGS = -export-dynamic in the
config.m4 is wrong. it is getting
716N/A added multiple times during the config process. The -export-dynamic
716N/A building Apache modules).
716N/A * APR-ize resolver stuff in mod_unique_id (Jeff volunteers)
2135N/APRs that have been suspended forever waiting for someone to
2135N/Aput them into 'the next release':
716N/A missing call to "setlocale();"
732N/A Additional status for XBitHack directive
1895N/A Questionable performace of mod_dir() with negotiation
716N/A Mod_proxy doesn't allow change of error pages
716N/A Modified PATH environemnt variable is not passed, instead
716N/A Proxy doesn't deliver documents if not connected
716N/A proxy converts ~name to %7Ename when name starts with a dot (.)
996N/A mod_access syntax allows hosts that should be restricted
732N/A ~UserHome directories are not honored in absolute pathname
732N/A More LogFormat directives
732N/A Proxy FTP Authentication Fails
732N/A A smarter "Last Modified" value for SSI documents (see PR number 600)
732N/A Request of "Options SymLinksIfGroupMatch"
1102N/A A security tweak I've been using for a few years for SSI
1102N/A Proxy doesn't do links right for OpenVMS files through ftp:
1102N/A imap should read <MAP><AREA>*</MAP> too!
1102N/A RLimitCPU and RLimitMEM don't apply to all children like they should
1102N/A Uses cwd before filling it in, doesn't use syslog
1102N/A it is useful to allow specifiction that root-owned symlinks
1102N/A Controlling Access to Remote Proxies would be nice...
1102N/A Adding authentication "on the fly" through the proxy module
1102N/A request_config field in request_rec is moderately bogus
1102N/A DoS attacks involving memory consumption
1102N/A Logging of virtual server to error_log as well
1102N/A ProxyRemote make a dead cycle.
1102N/A suexec does not parse arguments to #exec cmd
1889N/A Allow for Last-Modified: without resorting to XBitHack
1889N/A insufficent AllowOverrides granularity for autoindexing
1889N/A improvements to child spawning API
1889N/A ``nph-'' not honored (no buffering) for ProxyRemote mapping
1889N/A Apache cannot handle continuation line in headers
1889N/A setlogin() is not called, causing problems with
e.g. identd
2135N/A there is no way to keep per-connection per-module state
2135N/A Add frame-safe anchor attribute to mod_autoindex links
2135N/A CGI scripts running as Apache user: security (suexec etc.)
2135N/A Need to know "hit-rate" on proxy cache
2135N/A Selective url-encode of log fields (or maybe a pseudo
2135N/A I make mod_headers to modify request headers as well as
2135N/A No HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR set...
2135N/A ProxyRemote proxy requests fail authentication by firewall
2135N/A ReadmeName and HeaderName don't allow for server-parsed html.
2135N/A mod_rewrite forms REQUEST_URI different than mod_cgi does
2135N/A mod_headers should allow mod_log_config-style formats in
2135N/A mod_proxy to support persistent conns?
2135N/A patches to mod_include to allow for file tests
2135N/A Suggestion for improving authentication modules and core source
2135N/A code, problem with 401 and ErrorDocument
2135N/A More Control over autoindex layout
2135N/A listing of proxy cache content
2135N/A Allow modules to set user:group for execution.
2135N/A adding auth_why to conn_rec
2135N/A pipelined connections are not logged correctly
2135N/A mod_rewrite doesn't pass Proxy Throughput on internal subrequests
2135N/A HTTP Server Rebuild Line Needs Changing for the better
2135N/A mod_status always displays 256 possible connection slots
2135N/A Make online documentation search link back to my installation
2135N/A Can not POST to ErrorDocument - Apache/1.3b6
2135N/A Status module averages are for entire uptime
2135N/A suexec for general access of user content?
2135N/A Proposal for TimeZone directive
2135N/A /server-info doesn't check for the virtual host to list the info
2135N/A problem specifying ndbm library for build ?with autoconfigure
2135N/A AllowOverride FileInfo is too coarse
2135N/A TimeOut applies to output of CGI scripts
2135N/A <IfDenied> directive wanted
2135N/A CGI's for general use still have to be run as another user
2135N/A Cache file names in Proxy module
2135N/A mailto tags and bundling bug report script
2135N/A Support for System Resource Controller
2135N/A When will Apache support P3P? Any Plans?
2135N/A Propose that Apache recommend $UNIQUE_ID for all "session id"
1102N/A suggestion: power up your Include directive :)
2154N/A cannot limit some HTTP methods
2649N/A No module specific data hook for per-connection data
2649N/A Configuration file in Japanese
2649N/A no way to set global quality-of-source (qs) coneg values
2649N/A Enhancement: MultiViews, Multi-Language Documents
2649N/A 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.
needed. Apache 1.3 just never stashed "multipart" into
r->content_type. We should probably follow suit since the
byterange stuff doesn't want the rest of the code to see the
multipart content-type; the other code should still think it is
dealing with the <orig_ct> stuff.
Status: Greg volunteers to investigate (esp. since he was most
likely the one to break it :-)
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?