2 Changes with Apache 2.5.0
4 *) httxt2dbm: Correct length computation for the 'value' stored in the DBM file
5 PR 47650 [jon buckybox com]
7 *) mod_ssl: Add support for OpenSSL configuration commands [Stephen Henson]
11 *) mod_proxy_balancer: Improve output
12 PR 52478 [Danijel <dt-ng rbfh de>]
14 *) core: Add LogLevelOverride directive that allows to override the
15 loglevel for clients from certain IPs. This also works for things
16 like the SSL handshake where <If> LogLevel ... </If> is evaluated
17 too late. [Stefan Fritsch]
19 *) core: Add new directive Warning to issue warnings from a configuration
20 file. Both Warning and Error now generate a timestamped log message.
23 *) mod_status: Print out list of times since a Vhost was last used.
26 *) ap_expr: Add SERVER_PROTOCOL_VERSION, ..._MAJOR, and ..._MINOR
27 variables. [Stefan Fritsch]
29 *) core: New directive RegisterHttpMethod for registering non-standard
30 HTTP methods. [Stefan Fritsch]
32 *) mod_xml2enc: Fix problems with charset conversion altering the
33 Content-Length. [Micha Lenk <micha lenk info>]
35 *) core: New directive HttpProtocol which allows to disable HTTP/0.9
36 support. [Stefan Fritsch]
38 *) mod_allowhandlers: New module to forbid specific handlers for specific
39 directories. [Stefan Fritsch]
41 *) core: Be more correct about rejecting directives that cannot work in <If>
42 sections. [Stefan Fritsch]
44 *) core: Fix directives like LogLevel that need to know if they are invoked
45 at virtual host context or in Directory/Files/Location/If sections to
46 work properly in If sections that are not in a Directory/Files/Location.
49 *) configure: Fix processing of --disable-FEATURE for various features.
52 *) mod_systemd: New module, for integration with systemd on Linux.
53 [Jan Kaluza <jkaluza redhat.com>]
55 *) --with-module: Fix failure to integrate them into some existing
56 module directories. PR 40097. [Jeff Trawick]
58 *) mod_cache_socache: New cache implementation backed by mod_socache
59 that replaces mod_mem_cache removed from httpd v2.2. [Graham
62 *) core: Add dirwalk_stat and pre_htaccess hooks, allowing mpm-itk
63 to be used without patches to httpd core. [Jeff Trawick]
65 *) mod_proxy: Allow for persistence of local changes (via the
66 balancer-manager) between graceful and normal restarts.
69 *) mod_lua: Add LuaInputFilter/LuaOutputFilter for creating content
70 filters in Lua [Daniel Gruno]
72 *) WinNT MPM: Store pid and generation for each thread in scoreboard
73 to allow tracking of threads from exiting children via mod_status
74 or other such mechanisms. [Jeff Trawick]
76 *) mod_ssl: Catch missing or mismatched client cert/key pairs with
77 SSLProxyMachineCertificateFile/Path directives. PR 52212.
78 [Keith Burdis <keith burdis.org>, Joe Orton]
80 *) mod_lua: Allow scripts handled by the lua-script handler to return
81 a status code to the client (such as a 302 or a 500) [Daniel Gruno]
83 *) mod_lua: Decline handling 'lua-script' if the file doesn't exist,
84 rather than throwing an internal server error. [Daniel Gruno]
86 *) mod_lua: Add functions r:flush and r:sendfile as well as additional
87 request information to the request_rec structure. [Daniel Gruno]
89 *) mod_lua: Add a server scope for Lua states, which creates a pool of
90 states with managable minimum and maximum size. [Daniel Gruno]
92 *) core: Add post_perdir_config hook.
93 [Steinar Gunderson <sgunderson bigfoot.com>]
95 *) mod_lua: Add new directive, LuaMapHandler, for dynamically mapping
96 URIs to Lua scripts and functions using regular expressions.
99 *) mod_lua: Add new directive LuaCodeCache for controlling in-memory
100 caching of lua scripts. [Daniel Gruno]
102 *) The following now respect DefaultRuntimeDir/DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR:
103 - APIs: ap_log_pid(), ap_remove_pid, ap_read_pid()
104 - core: the scoreboard (ScoreBoardFile), pid file (PidFile), and
106 - mod_cache: thundering herd lock directory
107 - mod_lbmethod_heartbeat, mod_heartmonitor: heartbeat storage file
108 - mod_ldap: shared memory cache
109 - mod_socache_shmcb, mod_socache_dbm: shared memory or dbm for cache
112 *) mod_ssl: Add RFC 5878 support. [Ben Laurie]
114 *) suexec: Add --enable-suexec-capabilites support on Linux, to use
115 setuid/setgid capability bits rather than a setuid root binary.
118 *) suexec: Add support for logging to syslog as an alternative to logging
119 to a file; configure --without-suexec-logfile --with-suexec-syslog.
122 *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS Next Protocol Negotiation. PR 52210.
123 [Matthew Steele <mdsteele google.com>]
125 *) various modules, rotatelogs: Replace use of apr_file_write() with
126 apr_file_write_full() to prevent incomplete writes. PR 53131.
127 [Nicolas Viennot <apache viennot biz>, Stefan Fritsch]
129 *) cross-compile: allow to provide CC_FOR_BUILD so that gen_test_char will
130 be compiled by the build compiler instead of the host compiler.
131 Also set CC_FOR_BUILD to 'cc' when cross-compilation is detected.
132 PR 51257. [Guenter Knauf]
134 *) core: In maintainer mode, replace apr_palloc with a version that
135 initializes the allocated memory with non-zero values, except if
136 AP_DEBUG_NO_ALLOC_POISON is defined. [Stefan Fritsch]
138 *) mod_policy: Add a new testing module to help server administrators
139 enforce a configurable level of protocol compliance on their
140 servers and application servers behind theirs. [Graham Leggett]
142 *) mod_firehose: Add a new debugging module able to record traffic
143 passing through the server in such a way that connections and/or
144 requests be reconstructed and replayed. [Graham Leggett]
154 [Apache 2.5.0-dev includes those bug fixes and changes with the
155 Apache 2.4.xx tree as documented below, except as noted.]
157 Changes with Apache 2.4.x and later:
159 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/CHANGES?view=markup
161 Changes with Apache 2.2.x and later:
163 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/CHANGES?view=markup
165 Changes with Apache 2.0.x and later:
167 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x/CHANGES?view=markup