2 Changes with Apache 2.5.0
4 *) SECURITY: CVE-2012-2687 (cve.mitre.org)
5 mod_negotiation: Escape filenames in variant list to prevent an
6 possible XSS for a site where untrusted users can upload files to
7 a location with MultiViews enabled. [Niels Heinen <heinenn google.com>]
9 *) mod_lua: Change prototype of vm_construct, to work around gcc bug which
10 causes a segfault. PR 52779. [Dick Snippe <Dick Snippe tech omroep nl>]
12 *) mod_ssl: If exiting during initialization because of a fatal error,
13 log a message to the main error log pointing to the appropriate
14 virtual host error log. [Stefan Fritsch]
16 *) mod_ldap: Treat the "server unavailable" condition as a transient
17 error with all LDAP SDKs. [Filip Valder <filip.valder vsb.cz>]
19 *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS-SRP (Secure Remote Password key exchange
20 for TLS, RFC 5054). PR 51075. [Quinn Slack <sqs cs stanford edu>,
21 Christophe Renou, Peter Sylvester]
23 *) htdbm, htpasswd: Don't crash if crypt() fails (e.g. with FIPS enabled).
24 [Paul Wouters <pwouters redhat.com>, Joe Orton]
26 *) mod_ssl: Add new directive SSLCompression to disable TLS-level
27 compression. PR 53219. [Björn Jacke <bjoern j3e de>, Stefan Fritsch]
29 *) core: Make ap_regcomp() return AP_REG_ESPACE if out of memory. Make
30 ap_pregcomp() abort if out of memory. This raises the minimum PCRE
31 requirement to version 6.0. PR 53284. [Stefan Fritsch]
33 *) apxs: Use LDFLAGS from config_vars.mk in addition to CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS.
36 *) mpm_event: Fix handling of MaxConnectionsPerChild. [Stefan Fritsch]
38 *) suexec: Add --enable-suexec-capabilites support on Linux, to use
39 setuid/setgid capability bits rather than a setuid root binary.
42 *) suexec: Add support for logging to syslog as an alternative to logging
43 to a file; configure --without-suexec-logfile --with-suexec-syslog.
46 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Reduce memory usage in case of many keep-alive requests on
47 one connection. PR 52275. [Naohiro Ooiwa <naohiro ooiwa miraclelinux com>]
49 *) mod_proxy: Use the the same hostname for SNI as for the HTTP request when
50 forwarding to SSL backends. PR 53134.
51 [Michael Weiser <michael weiser.dinsnail.net>, Ruediger Pluem]
53 *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS Next Protocol Negotiation. PR 52210.
54 [Matthew Steele <mdsteele google.com>]
56 *) mod_so: If a filename without slashes is specified for LoadFile or
57 LoadModule and the file cannot be found in the server root directory,
58 try to use the standard dlopen() search path. [Stefan Fritsch]
60 *) various modules, rotatelogs: Replace use of apr_file_write() with
61 apr_file_write_full() to prevent incomplete writes. PR 53131.
62 [Nicolas Viennot <apache viennot biz>, Stefan Fritsch]
64 *) cross-compile: allow to provide CC_FOR_BUILD so that gen_test_char will
65 be compiled by the build compiler instead of the host compiler.
66 Also set CC_FOR_BUILD to 'cc' when cross-compilation is detected.
67 PR 51257. [Guenter Knauf]
69 *) mod_authz_core: Fix parsing of Require arguments in <AuthzProviderAlias>.
70 PR 53048. [Stefan Fritsch]
72 *) core: Fix error handling in ap_scan_script_header_err_brigade() if there
73 is no EOS bucket in the brigade. Fixes segfault with mod_proxy_fcgi.
74 PR 48272. [Stefan Fritsch]
76 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: If there is an error reading the headers from the
77 backend, send an error to the client. PR 52879. [Stefan Fritsch]
79 *) mod_rewrite: Fix RewriteCond integer checks to be parsed correctly.
80 PR 53023. [Axel Reinhold <apache freakout.de>, André Malo]
82 *) Fix MPM DSO load failure on AIX. [Jeff Trawick]
84 *) core: Add the port number to the vhost's name in the scoreboard.
87 *) mpm_event: Don't do a blocking write when starting a lingering close
88 from the listener thread. PR 52229. [Stefan Fritsch]
90 *) core: In maintainer mode, replace apr_palloc with a version that
91 initializes the allocated memory with non-zero values, except if
92 AP_DEBUG_NO_ALLOC_POISON is defined. [Stefan Fritsch]
94 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Don't try a potentially expensive nested groups
95 search before exhausting all AuthLDAPGroupAttribute checks on the
96 current group. PR52464 [Eric Covener]
98 *) mod_policy: Add a new testing module to help server administrators
99 enforce a configurable level of protocol compliance on their
100 servers and application servers behind theirs. [Graham Leggett]
102 *) mod_firehose: Add a new debugging module able to record traffic
103 passing through the server in such a way that connections and/or
104 requests be reconstructed and replayed. [Graham Leggett]
114 [Apache 2.5.0-dev includes those bug fixes and changes with the
115 Apache 2.4.xx tree as documented below, except as noted.]
117 Changes with Apache 2.4.x and later:
119 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/CHANGES?view=markup
121 Changes with Apache 2.2.x and later:
123 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/CHANGES?view=markup
125 Changes with Apache 2.0.x and later:
127 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x/CHANGES?view=markup