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H1 ALIGN="CENTER">Overview of New Features in Apache 2.0</
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STRONG>Unix Threading</
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DD>On Unix systems with POSIX threads support, Apache can now run in a
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STRONG>New Build System</
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DD>The build system has been rewritten from scratch to be based on
7102N/A autoconf and libtool. This makes Apache's configuration system more
7102N/A similar to that of other packages.
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STRONG>Multiprotocol Support</
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DD>Apache now has some of the infrastructure in place to support serving
246N/A multiple protocols. mod_echo has been written as an example.
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STRONG>Better support for non-Unix platforms</
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DD>Apache 2.0 should be faster and more stable on non-Unix platforms such
5786N/A as BeOS, OS/2, and Windows. With the introduction of platform-specific
246N/A multiprocessing modules and the Apache Portable Runtime, these
246N/A platforms can now avoid using POSIX-emulation functions that are
618N/A sometimes buggy and always hurt performance.
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STRONG>New API</
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DD>The API for modules has changed significantly for 2.0. Many of the
313N/A module-ordering problems from 1.3 should be gone, since 2.0 does much
1258N/A of this automatically now. Also, new calls have been added that should
246N/A allow modules to do more without requiring patching of the core Apache