1 Changes with Apache 2.0.43
3 *) Fix a mutex problem in mod_ssl session cache support which
4 could lead to an infinite loop. PR 12705
5 [amund.elstad@ergo.no (Amund Elstad), Jeff Trawick]
7 *) Allow POST requests and CGI scripts to work when DAV is enabled
8 on the location. [Ryan Bloom]
10 *) Allow the UserDir directive to accept a list of directories.
11 This matches what Apache 1.3 does. Also add documentation for
12 this feature. [Jay Ball <jay@veggiespam.com>]
14 *) New Module: mod_logio. adds the ability to log bytes sent and
15 received. [Bojan Smojver <bojan@rexursive.com>]
17 *) SuExec needs to use the same default directory as the rest of
18 server, namely /usr/local/apache2.
19 [SangBeom han <sbhan@os.korea.ac.kr>]
21 *) Get mod_auth_ldap to retry connections on LDAP_SERVER_DOWN.
22 [Thomas Bennett <thomas.bennett@eds.com>, Graham Leggett]
24 *) Make sure the contents of the WWW-Authenticate header is
25 passed on a 4xx error by proxy. Previously all headers
26 were dropped, resulting in the browser being unable to
27 authenticate. [Dr Richard Reiner <rreiner@fscinternet.com>,
28 Richard Danielli <rdanielli@fscinternet.com>, Graham Wiseman
29 <gwiseman@fscinternet.com>, David Henderson
30 <dhenderson@fscinternet.com>]
32 *) Make mod_cache's CacheMaxStreamingBuffer directive work
33 properly for virtual hosts that override server-wide mod_cache
34 setttings. [Matthieu Estrade <estrade-m@ifrance.com>]
36 *) Add ap_register_provider/ap_lookup_provider API.
37 [John K. Sterling <john@sterls.com>, Justin Erenkrantz]
39 *) Add -p option to apxs to allow programs to be compiled with apxs.
42 *) Rewrite of aaa modules to an authn/authz model.
43 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Justin Erenkrantz]
45 Changes with Apache 2.0.42
47 *) mod_dav: Check for versioning hooks before using them.
50 Changes with Apache 2.0.41
52 *) The protocol version (eg: HTTP/1.1) in the request line parsing
53 is now case insensitive. [Jim Jagielski]
55 *) Allow AddOutputFilterByType to add multiple filters per directive.
58 *) Remove warnings with Sun's Forte compiler. [Justin Erenkrantz]
60 *) Fixed mod_disk_cache's generation of 304s
61 [Kris Verbeeck <Kris.Verbeeck@ubizen.com>]
63 *) Add support for using fnmatch patterns in the final path
64 segment of an Include statement (eg.. include /foo/bar/*.conf).
65 and remove the noise on stderr during config dir processing.
66 [Joe Orton <jorton@redhat.com>]
68 *) mod_cache: cache_storage.c. Add the hostname and any request
69 args to the key generated for caching. This provides a unique
70 key for each virtual host and for each request with unique
71 args. [Paul J. Reder, args code provided by Kris Verbeeck]
73 *) mod_cache: Do not cache responses to GET requests with query
74 URLs if the origin server does not explicitly provide an
75 Expires header on the response (RFC 2616 Section 13.9)
76 [Kris Verbeeck krisv@be.ubizen.com]
78 *) Fix memory leak in core_output_filter. [Justin Erenkrantz]
80 *) Update OpenSSL detection to work on Darwin.
81 [Sander Temme <sctemme@covalent.net>]
83 *) Update the xslt and css to give the documentation a more
85 [André Malo <nd@perlig.de>, Gernot Winkler <greh@o3media.de>]
87 *) Fix some bucket memory leaks in the chunking code
88 [Joe Schaefer <joe+apache@sunstarsys.com>]
90 *) Add ModMimeUsePathInfo directive. [Justin Erenkrantz]
92 *) mod_cache: added support for caching streamed responses (proxy,
93 CGI, etc) with optional CacheMaxStreamingBuffer setting [Brian Pane]
95 *) Add image/x-icon to httpd.conf PR 10993.
96 [Ian Holsman, Peter Bieringer <pb@bieringer.de>]
98 *) Fix FileETags none operation. PR 12207.
99 [Justin Erenkrantz, Andrew Ho <andrew@tellme.com>]
101 *) Restored the experimental leader/followers MPM to working
102 condition and converted its thread synchronization from
103 mutexes to atomic CAS. [Brian Pane]
105 *) Fix Logic on non-html file removal in mod_deflate
106 [Kris Verbeeck <Kris.Verbeeck@ubizen.com>]
108 *) Fix "ab -g"'s truncated year: the last digit was cut off.
109 [Leon Brocard <acme@astray.com>]
111 *) mod_rewrite can now sets cookies in err_headers, uses the correct
112 expiry date, and can now set the path as well
113 PR 12132,12181,12172.
114 [Ian Holsman / Rob Cromwell <apachechangelog@robcromwell.com>]
116 *) The content-length filter no longer tries to buffer up
117 the entire output of a long-running request before sending
118 anything to the client. [Brian Pane]
120 *) Win32: Lower the default stack size from 1MB to 256K. This will
121 allow around 8000 threads to be started per child process.
122 'EDITBIN /STACK:size apache.exe' can be used to change this
123 value directly in the apache.exe executable.
126 *) Win32: Implement ThreadLimit directive in the Windows MPM.
129 *) Remove CacheOn config directive since it is set but never checked.
130 No sense wasting cycles on unused code. Besides, the only truly
131 bug free code is deleted code. :) [Paul J. Reder]
133 *) BufferLogs are now run-time enabled, and the log_config now has 2 new
134 callbacks to allow a 3rd party module to actually do the writing of the
135 log file [Ian Holsman]
137 *) Correct ISAPIReadAheadBuffer to default to 49152, per mod_isapi docs.
138 [André Malo, Astrid Keßler <kess@kess-net.de>]
140 *) Fix Segfault in mod_cache. [Kris Verbeeck <Kris.Verbeeck@ubizen.com>]
142 *) Fix a null pointer dereference in the merge_env_dir_configs
143 function of the mod_env module. PR 11791
146 *) New option to ServerTokens 'maj[or]'. Only show the major version
147 Also Surfaced this directive in the standard config (default FULL)
150 *) Change mod_rewrite to use apr-util's dbm support for dbm rewrite
151 maps. The dbm type (e.g., ndbm, gdbm) can be specified on the
152 RewriteMap directive. PR 10644 [Jeff Trawick]
154 *) Fixed mod_rewrite's RewriteMap prg: support so that request/response
155 pairs will no longer get out of sync with each other. PR 9534
158 *) Fixes required to get quoted and escaped command args working in
159 mod_ext_filter. PR 11793 [Paul J. Reder]
161 *) mod-proxy: handle proxied responses with no status lines
162 [JD Silvester <jsilves@uwo.ca>, Brett Huttley <brett@huttley.net>]
164 *) Fix bug where environment or command line arguments containing
165 non-ASCII-7 characters would cause the Win32 child process creation
166 to fail. PR 11854 [William Rowe]
168 *) Bug #11213.. make module loading error messages more informative
169 [Ian Darwin <Ian779@darwinsys.com>]
171 *) thread safety & proxy-ftp [Alexey Panchenko alexey@liwest.ru, Ian Holsman]
173 *) mod_disk_cache works much better. This module should still
174 be considered experimental. [Eric Prud'hommeaux]
176 *) Performance improvement for keepalive requests: when setting
177 aside a small file for potential concatenation with the next
178 response on the connection, set aside the file descriptor rather
179 than copying the file into the heap. [Brian Pane]
181 Changes with Apache 2.0.40
183 *) SECURITY: [CAN-2002-0661] Close a very significant security hole that
184 applies only to the Win32, OS2 and Netware platforms. Unix was not
185 affected, Cygwin may be affected. Certain URIs will bypass security
186 and allow users to invoke or access any file depending on the system
187 configuration. Without upgrading, a single .conf change will close
188 the vulnerability. Add the following directive in the global server
189 httpd.conf context before any other Alias or Redirect directives;
190 RedirectMatch 400 "\\\.\."
191 Reported by Auriemma Luigi <bugtest@sitoverde.com>.
194 *) SECURITY: Close a path-revealing exposure in multiview type
195 map negotiation (such as the default error documents) where the
196 module would report the full path of the typemapped .var file when
197 multiple documents or no documents could be served based on the mime
198 negotiation. Reported by Auriemma Luigi <bugtest@sitoverde.com>.
199 [CAN-2002-0654] [William Rowe]
201 *) SECURITY: Close a path-revealing exposure in cgi/cgid when we
202 fail to invoke a script. The modules would report "couldn't create
203 child process /path-to-script/script.pl" revealing the full path
204 of the script. Reported by Jim Race <jrace@qualys.com>.
205 [CAN-2002-0654] [Bill Stoddard]
207 *) Set aside the apr-iconv and apr_xlate() features for the Win32
208 build of 2.0.40 so development can be completed. A patch, from
209 <http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/patches/apply_to_2.0.40/>
210 will be available for those that wish to work with apr-iconv.
213 *) Fix proxy so that it is possible to access ftp: URLs via a proxy
214 chain. [Peter Van Biesen <peter.vanbiesen@vlafo.be>]
216 *) mod-deflate now checks to make sure that 'gzip-only-text/html' is
217 set to 1, so we can exclude things from the general case with
218 browsermatch. [Ian Holsman, Andre Schild <A.Schild@aarboard.ch>]
220 *) Accept multiple leading /'s for requests within the DocumentRoot.
221 PR 10946 [William Rowe, David Shane Holden <dpejesh@yahoo.com>]
223 *) Solved the reports of .pdf byterange failures on Win32 alone.
224 APR's sendfile for the win32 platform collapses header and trailer
225 buffers into a single buffer. However, we destroyed the pointers
226 to the header buffer if a trailer buffer was present. PR 10781
229 *) mod_ext_filter: Add the ability to enable or disable a filter via
230 an environment variable. Add the ability to register a filter of
231 type other than AP_FTYPE_RESOURCE. [Jeff Trawick]
233 *) Restore the ability to specify host names on Listen directives.
234 PR 11030. [Jeff Trawick, David Shane Holden <dpejesh@yahoo.com>]
236 *) When deciding on the default address family for listening sockets,
237 make sure we can actually bind to an AF_INET6 socket before
238 deciding that we should default to AF_INET6. This fixes a startup
239 problem on certain levels of OpenUNIX. PR 10235. [Jeff Trawick]
241 *) Replace usage of atol() to parse strings when we might want a
242 larger-than-long value with apr_atoll(), which returns long long.
243 This allows HTTPD to deal with larger files correctly.
244 [Shantonu Sen <ssen@apple.com>]
246 *) mod_ext_filter: Ignore any content-type parameters when checking if
247 the response should be filtered. Previously, "intype=text/html"
248 wouldn't match something like "text/html;charset=8859_1".
251 *) mod_ext_filter: Set up environment variables for external programs.
252 [Craig Sebenik <craig@netapp.com>]
254 *) Modified the HTTP_IN filter to immediately append the EOS (end of
255 stream) bucket for C-L POST bodies, saving a roundtrip and allowing
256 the caller to determine that no content remains without prefetching
257 additional POST body. [William Rowe]
259 *) Get proxy ftp to work over IPv6. [Shoichi Sakane <sakane@kame.net>]
261 *) Look for OpenSSL libraries in /usr/lib64. [Peter Poeml <poeml@suse.de>]
263 *) Update SuSE layout. [Peter Poeml <poeml@suse.de>]
265 *) Changes to the internationalized error documents:
266 Comment them out in the default config file to make the default
267 install as simple as possible; Correct the english 500 error to
268 be more understandable; Add a Swedish translation.
269 [Thomas Sjogren <thomas@northernsecurity.net>,
270 Erik Abele <erik@codefaktor.de>, Rich Bowen, Joshua Slive]
272 *) Increase the limit on file descriptors per process in apachectl.
275 *) Fix a dependency error when building ApacheMonitor, so that Win32
276 and MSVC now trust that the project is current (when it is).
277 [James Cox <imajes@php.net>]
279 *) mod_ext_filter: don't segfault if content-type is not set. PR 10617.
280 [Arthur P. Smith <apsmith@aps.org>, Jeff Trawick]
282 *) APR-Util Renames pending have been completed [Thom May]
284 *) Performance improvements for the code that reads request
285 headers (ap_rgetline_core() and related functions) [Brian Pane]
287 *) Add a new directive: MaxMemFree. MaxMemFree makes it possible
288 to configure the maximum amount of memory the allocators will
289 hold on to for reuse. Anything over the MaxMemFree threshold
290 will be free()d. This directive is useful when uncommon large
291 peaks occur in memory usage. It should _not_ be used to mask
292 defective modules' memory use. [Sander Striker]
294 *) Fixed the Content-Length filter so that HTTP/1.0 requests to CGI
295 scripts would not result in a truncated response.
296 [Ryan Bloom, Justin Erenkrantz, Cliff Woolley]
298 *) Add a filter_init parameter to the filter registration functions
299 so that a filter can execute arbitrary code before the handlers
300 are invoked. This resolves a problem where mod_include requests
301 would incorrectly return a 304. [Justin Erenkrantz]
303 *) Fix a long-standing bug in 2.0, CGI scripts were being called
304 with relative paths instead of absolute paths. Apache 1.3 used
305 absolute paths for everything except for SuExec, this brings back
306 that standard. [Ryan Bloom]
308 *) Fix infinite loop due to two HTTP_IN filters being present for
309 internally redirected requests. PR 10146. [Justin Erenkrantz]
311 *) Switch conn_rec->keepalive to an enumeration rather than a bitfield.
314 *) Fix mod_ext_filter to look in the main server for filter definitions
315 when running in a vhost if the filter definition is not found in
316 the vhost. PR 10147 [Jeff Trawick]
318 *) Support WinNT CGI invocation through ScriptInterpreterSource
319 'registry' for script interpreter paths and names with non-ascii
320 characters in the executable filepath. [William Rowe]
322 *) Support the -w flag on to keep the Win32 console open on error.
325 *) Normalize the hostname value in the request_rec to all-lowercase
326 [Perry Harrington <pedward@webcom.com>]
328 *) Fix WinNT cgi 500 errors when QUERY_ARGS or other strings include
329 extended characters (non US-ASCII) in non-utf8 format. This brings
330 Win32 back into CGI/1.1 compliance, and leaves charset decoding up
331 to the cgi application itself. [William Rowe]
333 *) Major overhaul of mod_dav, mod_dav_fs and the experimental/cache
334 modules to bring them up to the current apr/apr-util APIs.
337 *) Fix segfault in mod_mem_cache most frequently observed when
338 serving the same file to multiple clients on an MP machine.
341 *) mod_rewrite can now set cookies (RewriteRule (.*) - [CO=name:$1:.domain])
342 [Brian Degenhardt <bmd@mp3.com>, Ian Holsman]
344 *) Fix perchild to work with apachectl by adding -k support to perchild.
345 PR 10074 [Jeff Trawick]
347 *) Fix a silly htpasswd.c logic error that incorrectly reported that
348 both -c and -n had been used. PR 9989 [Cliff Woolley]
350 *) Fixed a mod_include error case in which no HTTP response was sent
351 to the client if an shtml document contained an unterminated SSI
352 directive [Brian Pane]
354 *) Improve ap_get_client_block implementation by using APR-util brigade
355 helper functions and relying on current filter assumptions.
358 Changes with Apache 2.0.39
360 *) Fixed a build problem in htpasswd.c on Win32.
361 [Guenter Knauf <eflash@gmx.net>, Cliff Woolley]
363 Changes with Apache 2.0.38
365 *) Rewrite htpasswd to use APR. The removes the annoying warning about
366 tmpnam being unsafe. [Ryan Bloom]
368 *) We must set the MIME-type for .shtml files to text/html if we want them
369 to be parsed for SSI tags. Add the config for that to the default
370 config file so that it is easier to enable .shtml parsing.
371 [Dave Dyer <ddyer@real-me.net>]
373 *) Fixed a problem with 'make install' on ReliantUnix.
374 [Jean-frederic Clere <jfrederic.clere@fujitsu-siemens.com>]
376 *) Make the default_handler catch all requests that aren't served by
377 another handler. This also gets us to return a 404 if a directory
378 is requested, there is no DirectoryIndex, and mod_autoindex isn't
379 loaded. [Justin Erenkrantz]
381 *) Fixed the handling of nested if-statements in shtml files.
384 *) Allow 'make install DESTDIR=/path'. This allows packagers to install
385 into a directory different from the one that was configured. This
386 also mirrors the root= feature from 1.3. We cannot use prefix=,
387 because both APR and APR-util resolve their installation paths at
388 configuration time. This means that there is no variable prefix
389 to replace. [Andreas Hasenack <andreas@netbank.com.br>]
391 *) AIX 4.3.2 and above: Define SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT.
392 These levels of AIX don't have a thundering herd problem with
393 accept(). [Jeff Trawick]
395 *) prefork MPM: Ignore mutex errors during graceful restart. For
396 certain types of mutexes (particularly SysV semaphores), we
397 should expect to occasionally fail to obtain or release the
398 mutex during restart processing. [Jeff Trawick]
400 *) Fix install-bindist.sh so that it finds any perl instead of just
401 early perl 5.x versions. This is consistent with a build/install
402 from source, and it allows the perl scripts installed by a bindist
403 to work on systems with perl 5.6. [Jeff Trawick]
405 *) Fix apxs so that the makefile created by "apxs -g" works on AIX and
406 Tru64 (and probably some other platforms). [Jeff Trawick]
408 *) Allow CGI scripts to return their Content-Length. This also fixes a
409 hang on HEAD requests seen on certain platforms (such as FreeBSD).
412 *) Added log rotation based on file size to the RotateLog support
413 utility. [Brad Nicholes]
415 *) Fix some casting in mod_rewrite which broke random maps.
416 PR 9770 [Allan Edwards, Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
418 Changes with Apache 2.0.37
420 *) allow POST method over SSL when per-directory client cert
421 authentication is used with 'SSLOptions +OptRenegotiate' enabled
422 and a client cert was found in the ssl session cache.
424 *) 'SSLOptions +OptRengotiate' will use client cert in from the ssl
425 session cache when there is no cert chain in the cache. prior to
426 the fix this situation would result in a FORBIDDEN response and
427 error message "Cannot find peer certificate chain"
430 *) ap_finalize_sub_req_protocol() shouldn't send an EOS bucket if
431 one was already sent. PR 9644 [Jeff Trawick]
433 *) Fix the display of the default name for the mime types config
434 file. PR 9729 [Matthew Brecknell <mbrecknell@orchestream.com>]
436 *) Fix the working directory *for WinNT/2K/XP services only* to
437 change to the Apache directory (one level above the location
438 of Apache.exe, in the case that Apache.exe resides in bin/.)
439 Solves the case of ServerRoot /foo paths where /foo was not
440 on the same drive as /winnt/system32. [William Rowe]
442 *) Make 2.0's "AcceptMutex" startup message now "completely"
443 match how 1.3 does it. [Jim Jagielski]
445 *) Implement a fixed size memory cache using a priority queue
448 *) Fix apxs to allow "apxs -q installbuilddir" and to allow
449 querying certain other variables from config_vars.mk. PR 9316
452 *) Added the "detached" attribute to the cgi_exec_info_t internals
453 so that Win32 and Netware won't create a new window or console
454 for each CGI invoked. PR 8387
455 [Brad Nicholes, William Rowe]
457 *) Consolidated the command line parameters and attributes that are
458 manipulated by the optional function ap_cgi_build_command() in
459 mod_cgi into a single structure.
462 *) Get rid of uninitialized value errors with "apxs -q" on certain
463 variables. [Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org>]
465 *) Fix apxs to allow it to work when the build directory is somewhere
466 besides server-root/build. PR 8453
467 [Jeff Trawick and a host of others]
469 *) Allow ap_discard_request_body to be called multiple times in the
470 same request. Essentially, ap_http_filter keeps track of whether
471 it has sent an EOS bucket up the stack, if so, it will only ever
472 send an EOS bucket for this request.
473 [Ryan Bloom, Justin Erenkrantz, Greg Stein]
475 *) Remove all special mod_ssl URIs. This also fixes the bug where
476 redirecting (.*) will allow an SSL protected page to be viewed
477 without SSL. [Ryan Bloom]
479 *) Fix the binary build install script so that the build logic
480 created by "apxs -g" will work when the user has a binary
481 build. [Jeff Trawick]
483 *) Allow instdso.sh to work with full paths to the shared module.
486 *) NetWare: Enabled CGI functionality and added mod_cgi as a built
487 in module for NetWare [Brad Nicholes]
489 *) Changed cgi and piped log behavior to accept 65536 characters
490 on Win32 (matching Linux) before deadlocking between outputing
491 client stdin, slurping the output from stdout and then the stderr
492 stream. PR 8179 [William Rowe]
494 *) Fixed Win32 wintty.exe support to assure the window title is valid.
495 Elimiates possible gpfault or garbage title without the -t option.
498 *) Rewrite mod_cgi, mod_cgid, and mod_proxy input handling to use
499 brigades and input filters. [Justin Erenkrantz]
501 *) Allow ap_http_filter (HTTP_IN) to return EOS when there is no request
502 body. [Justin Erenkrantz]
504 *) NetWare: Piping log entries through RotateLogs using the
505 CustomLogs directive is finally supported now that we have
506 the pipes and spawning functionality working.
509 *) Detect overflow when reading the hex bytes forming a chunk line.
512 *) Allow RewriteMap prg:'s to take command-line arguments. PR 8464.
513 [James Tait <JTait@wyrddreams.demon.co.uk>]
515 *) Correctly return 413 when an invalid chunk size is given on
516 input. Also modify ap_discard_request_body to not do anything
517 on sub-requests or when the connection will be dropped.
520 *) Fix the TIME_* SSL var lookups to be threadsafe. PR 9469.
523 *) Ensure that apr_brigade_write() flushes in all of the cases that
524 it should to avoid conditions in some modules that could cause
525 large amounts of data to be buffered. [Cliff Woolley]
527 *) Fix problem where mod_cache/mod_disk_cache was incorrectly
528 stripping the content_type from cached responses.
531 *) apachectl passes through any httpd options. Note: apachectl
532 should be used in preference to httpd since it ensures that any
533 appropriate environment variables have been set up.
536 *) Fix the combination of mod_cgid, mod_setuexec, and mod_userdir.
537 PR 7810 [Colm MacCarthaigh <colmmacc@redbrick.dcu.ie>]
539 *) Fix suexec execution of CGI scripts from mod_include.
540 PR 7791, 8291 [Colm MacCarthaigh <colmmacc@redbrick.dcu.ie>]
542 *) Fix segfaults at startup on some platforms when mod_auth_digest,
543 mod_suexec, or mod_ssl were used as DSO's due to the way they
544 were tracking the current init phase since DSO's get completely
545 unloaded and reloaded between phases. PR 9413.
546 [Tsuyoshi Sasamoto <nazonazo@super.win.ne.jp>, Brad Nicholes]
548 *) Fix mod_include's handling of regular expressions in
549 "<!--#if" directives [Julius Gawlas <julius_gawlas@hp.com>]
551 *) Fix the worker MPM deadlock problem [Brian Pane]
553 *) Modify the module documentation to allow for translations.
554 [Yoshiki Hayashi, Joshua Slive]
556 *) Fix a file permissions problem which prevented mod_disk_cache
557 from working on Unix. [Jeff Trawick]
559 *) Add "-k start|restart|graceful|stop" support to httpd for the Unix
560 MPMs. These have semantics very similar to the old apachectl
561 commands of the same name. [Justin Erenkrantz, Jeff Trawick]
563 *) Make sure that the runtime dir is created by make install.
564 PR 9233. [Jeff Trawick]
566 *) Fix an unusual set of ./configure arguments that could cause
567 mod_http to be built as a DSO, which it currently doesn't
569 [Cliff Woolley, Robin Johnson <robbat2@orbis-terrarum.net>]
571 *) Win32: Fix bug in apr_sendfile() that caused incorrect operation
572 of the %X, %b and %B logformat options. PR 8253, 8996.
575 *) If content-encoding is already present, do not run deflate (PR 9222)
576 [Kazuhisa ASADA <kaz@asada.sytes.net>]
578 *) The APLOG_NOERRNO flag to ap_log_[r]error() is now deprecated.
579 It is currently ignored and it will be removed in a future release
580 of Apache. [Jeff Trawick]
582 *) Removed documentation references to the no-longer-supported
583 "make certificate" feature of mod_ssl for Apache 1.3.x. Test
584 certificates, if truly desired, can be generated using openssl
585 commands. PR 8724. [Cliff Woolley]
587 *) Remove SSLLog and SSLLogLevel directives in favor of having
588 mod_ssl use the standard ErrorLog directives. [Justin Erenkrantz]
590 *) OS/390: LIBPATH no longer has to be manually uncommented in
591 envvars to get apachectl to set up httpd properly. [Jeff Trawick]
593 *) mod_isapi: All mod_isapi directives, excluding ISAPICacheFile,
594 may now be specified to the <File/Directory > container, rather
595 than by vhost. [William Rowe]
597 *) mod_isapi: Experimental support for faux async support for ISAPI
598 modules. [William Rowe]
600 *) mod_isapi: Major refactoring of the code to rely on apr internals
601 rather than MS APIs (using our own mod_isapi.h headers for ISAPI
602 symbol definitions.) [William Rowe]
604 *) mod_isapi: Fixed the return string length from GetServerVariable
605 callback, it was not including the trailing null in the consumed
606 buffer size. This was particularly bad for Delphi 6.0 users.
607 PR 8934 [Sebastian Hantsch <sebastian.hantsch@gmx.de>]
609 *) Fixed Win32 builds for Microsoft VisualStudio 7.0 (.net).
612 *) Make apxs look in the correct directory for envvars. It was
613 broken when sbindir != bindir. PR 8869
614 [Andreas Sundström <sunkan@zappa.cx>]
616 *) Fix mod_deflate corruption when using multiple buckets. PR 9014.
617 [Asada Kazuhisa <kaz@asada.sytes.net>]
619 *) Performance enhancements for access logger when using
620 default timestamp formatting [Brian Pane]
622 *) Added EnableMMAP config directive to enable the server
623 administrator to disable memory-mapping of delivered files
624 on a per-directory basis. [Brian Pane]
626 *) Performance enhancements for mod_setenvif [Brian Pane]
628 *) Fix a mod_ssl build problem on OS/390. [Jeff Trawick]
630 *) Fixed If-Modified-Since on Win32, which would give false positives
631 because of the sub-second resolution of file timestamps on that
632 platform. [Cliff Woolley]
634 *) Reverse the hook ordering for mod_userdir and mod_alias so
635 that Alias/ScriptAlias will override Userdir. PR 8841
638 *) Move mod_deflate out of experimental and into filters.
641 *) Get proxy CONNECT basically working. [Jeff Trawick]
643 *) Fix mod_rewrite hang when APR uses SysV Semaphores and
644 RewriteLogLevel is set to anything other than 0. PR: 8143
645 [Aaron Bannert, Cliff Woolley]
647 *) Fix byterange requests from returning 416 when using dynamic data
648 (such as filters like mod_include). [Justin Erenkrantz]
650 *) Allow mod_rewrite's set of "int:" internal RewriteMap functions
651 to be extended by third-party modules via an optional function.
652 [Tahiry Ramanamampanoharana <nomentsoa@hotmail.com>, Cliff Woolley]
654 *) Fix mod_include expression parser's handling of unquoted strings
655 followed immediately by a closing paren. PR 8462. [Brian Pane]
657 *) Remove autom4te.cache in 'make distclean'.
658 [Thom May <thom@planetarytramp.net>]
660 *) Fix generated httpd.conf to respect layout for LoadModule lines.
661 PR 8170. [Thom May <thom@planetarytramp.net>]
663 *) Win32: During a graceful restart, threads in the new process
664 were accessing scoreboard slots still in use by active threads in
665 the the old process. [Bill Stoddard]
667 Changes with Apache 2.0.36
669 *) Fix some minor formatting issues with ab. Part of this is
670 in reference to PR 8544, the rest I noticed while testing
671 the PR fix. [Paul J. Reder]
673 *) Fix a case where an invalid pass phrase is entered and an
674 error message is given, but the prompt is not shown again.
675 This left the user in an ambiguous state. PR 8320 [Paul J. Reder]
677 *) Close sockets on worker MPM when doing a graceless restart.
680 *) Reverted a minor optimization in mod_ssl.c that used the vhost ID
681 as the session id context rather that a MD5 hash of that vhost ID,
682 because it caused very long vhost id's to be unusable with mod_ssl.
683 PR 8572. [Cliff Woolley]
685 *) Fix the link to the description of the CoredumpDirectory
686 directive in the server-wide document. PR 8643. [Jeff Trawick]
688 *) Fixed SHMCB session caching. [Aaron Bannert, Cliff Woolley]
690 *) Synced with remaining changes from mod_ssl 2.8.8-1.3.24:
691 - Avoid SIGBUS on sparc machines with SHMCB session caches
692 - Allow whitespace between the pipe and the name of the
693 program in SSLLog "| /path/to/program". [Cliff Woolley]
695 *) Introduce mod_ext_filter and mod_deflate experimental modules
696 to the Win32 build (zlib sources must be in srclib\zlib.)
699 *) Changes to the worker MPM's queue management and thread
700 synchronization code to reduce mutex contention [Brian Pane]
702 *) Don't install *.in configuration files since we already install
703 *-std.conf files. [Aaron Bannert]
705 *) Many improvements to the threadpool MPM. [Aaron Bannert]
707 *) Fix subreqs that are promoted via fast_redirect from having invalid
708 frec->r structures. This would cause subtle errors later on in
709 request processing such as seen in PR 7966. [Justin Erenkrantz]
711 *) More efficient pool recycling logic for the worker MPM [Brian Pane]
713 *) Modify the worker MPM to not accept() new connections until
714 there is an available worker thread. This prevents queued
715 connections from starving for processing time while long-running
716 connections were hogging all the available threads. [Aaron Bannert]
718 *) Convert the worker MPM's fdqueue from a LIFO back into a FIFO.
721 *) Get basic HTTP proxy working on EBCDIC machines. [Jeff Trawick]
723 *) Allow mod_unique_id to work on systems with no IPv4 address
724 corresponding to their host name. [Jeff Trawick]
726 *) Fix suexec behavior with user directories. PR 7810.
727 [Colm <colmmacc@redbrick.dcu.ie>]
729 *) Reject a blank UserDir directive since it is ambiguous. PR 8472.
732 *) Make mod_mime use case-insensitive matching when examining
733 extensions on all platforms. PR 8223. [Justin Erenkrantz]
735 *) Add an intelligent error message should no proxy submodules be
736 valid to handle a request. PR 8407 [Graham Leggett]
738 *) Major improvements in concurrent processing for AB by enabling
739 non-blocking connect()s and preventing APR from doing blocking
740 read()s. Also implement fatal error checking for apr_recv().
743 *) Fix Win32 NTFS Junctions (symlinks). PR 8014 [William Rowe]
745 *) Fix Win32 'short name' aliases in httpd.conf directives.
746 PR 8009 [William Rowe]
748 *) Fix generation of default httpd.conf when the layout paths are
749 disjoint. PR 7979, 8227. [Justin Erenkrantz]
751 *) Swap downgrade-1.0 and force-response-1.0 conditional checks so
752 that downgraded responses can have force-response. PR 8357.
755 *) Fix perchild MPM so that it can be configured with the move to the
756 experimental directory. [Scott Lamb <slamb@slamb.org>]
758 *) Fix perchild MPM so that it uses ap_gname2id for groups instead of
759 ap_uname2id. [Scott Lamb <slamb@slamb.org>]
761 *) Fix AcceptPathInfo. PR 8234 [Cliff Woolley]
763 *) SECURITY: Added the APLOG_TOCLIENT flag to ap_log_rerror() to
764 explicitly tell the server that warning messages should be sent
765 to the client in addition to being recorded in the error log.
766 Prior to this change, ap_log_rerror() always sent warning
767 messages to the client. In one case, a faulty CGI script caused
768 the server to send a warning message to the client that contained
769 the full path to the CGI script. This could be considered a
770 minor security exposure. [Bill Stoddard]
772 *) mod_autoindex output when SuppressRules was specified would
773 omit the first carriage return so the first item in the list
774 would appear to the right of the column headings instead of
775 underneath them. PR 8016 [David Shane Holden <dpejesh@yahoo.com>]
777 *) Moved the call to apr_mmap_dup outside the error branch so
778 that it would actually get called. This fixes a core dump
779 at init everytime you use the MMapFile directive. PR 8314
782 *) Trigger an error when a LoadModule directive attempts to
783 load a module which is built-in. This is a common error when
784 switching from a DSO build to a static build. [Jeff Trawick]
786 *) Change instdso.sh to use libtool --install everywhere and then
787 clean up some stray files and symlinks that libtool leaves around
788 on some platforms. This gets subversion building properly since
789 it needed a re-link to be performed by libtool at install time,
790 and the old instdso.sh logic to simply cp the DSO didn't handle
791 that requirement. [Sander Striker]
793 *) Allow VPATH builds to succeed when configured from an empty
794 directory. [Thom May <thom@planetarytramp.net>]
796 *) Fix 'control reaches end of non-void function' warning in
797 server/log.c. [Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net>]
799 *) Perchild MPM is now correctly deemed as experimental and is now
800 located in server/mpm/experimental. [Justin Erenkrantz]
802 *) Fix segfault in mod_mem_cache when garabge collecting an expired
803 cache entry. [Bill Stoddard]
805 *) Introduced -E startup_logfile_name option to httpd to allow admins
806 to begin logging errors immediately. This provides Win32 users
807 an alternative to sending startup errors to the event viewer, and
808 allows other daemon tool authors an alternative to logging to stderr.
811 *) Fix subreqs with non-defined Content-Types being served improperly.
814 *) Merge in latest GNU config.guess and config.sub files. PR 7818.
817 *) Move 100 - Continue support to the HTTP_IN filter so that filters
818 are guaranteed to support 100 - Continue logic without any
819 intervention. [Justin Erenkrantz]
821 *) Add HTTP chunked input trailer support. [Justin Erenkrantz]
823 *) Rename and export get_mime_headers as ap_get_mime_headers.
826 *) Allow empty Host: header arguments. PR 7441. [Justin Erenkrantz]
828 *) Properly substitute sbindir as httpd's location in apachectl. PR 7840.
829 [Andreas Hasenack <andreas@netbank.com.br>]
831 *) Allow Win32 shebang scripts to follow the path (or omit the .exe
832 suffix from the shebang command), and allow ScriptInterpreterSource
833 Registry or RegistryStrict to override shebang lines, as 1.3 did.
834 PR 8004 [William Rowe]
836 *) worker MPM: Fix a situation where a child exited without releasing
837 the accept mutex. Depending on the OS and mutex mechanism this
838 could result in a hang. [Jeff Trawick]
840 *) Update the instructions for how to get started with mod_example.
843 *) Fix PidFile to default to rel_runtimedir instead of
844 rel_logfiledir. PR 7841. [Andreas Hasenack <andreas@netbank.com.br>]
846 *) Win32: Fix problem that caused rapid performance degradation
847 when number of connecting clients exceeded ThreadsPerChild.
850 *) Fixed a segfault parsing large SSIs on non-mmap systems.
853 *) Proxy was bombing out every second keepalive request, caused by a
854 stray CRLF before the second response's status line. Proxy now
855 tries to read one more line if it encounters a CRLF where it
856 expected a status. PR 10010 [Graham Leggett]
858 *) Deprecated the apr_lock.h API. Please see the following files
859 for the improved thread and process locking and signaling:
860 apr_proc_mutex.h, apr_thread_mutex.h, apr_thread_rwlock.h,
861 apr_thread_cond.h, and apr_global_mutex.h. [Aaron Bannert]
863 *) Change mod_status to use scoreboard accessor functions so it can
864 be used in any MPM without having to be recompiled.
865 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
867 *) Fix parsing of some AP_DECLARE_DATA declarations so that the filter
868 handle declarations are recognized. This fixes problems loading
869 mod_autoindex on some platforms. [Brian Havard]
871 *) add optional fixup hook to proxy [Daniel Lopez <daniel@covalent.net>]
873 *) Remind the admin about the User and Group directives when we are
874 unable to set permissions on a semaphore. PR 7812 [Jeff Trawick]
876 *) fix possible compilation problem in ssl_engine_kernel.c. PR 7802
879 *) fix possible infinite loop in mod_ssl triggered by certain
880 netscape clients [Doug MacEachern]
882 *) fix ProxyPass when frontend is https and backend is http
885 *) Add DASL support to mod_dav
886 [Sung Kim <hunkim@cse.ucsc.edu>]
888 Changes with Apache 2.0.35
890 *) mod_rewrite: updated to use the new APR global mutex type.
893 *) Fixes for mod_include errors on boundary conditions in which
894 "<!--#" occurs at the very end of a bucket
895 [Paul Reder, Brian Pane]
897 *) worker, prefork, perchild, beos MPMs: Add -DFOREGROUND switch to
898 cause the Apache parent process to run in the foreground (similar to
899 -DNO_DETACH except that it doesn't switch session ids).
902 *) Added support for Posix semaphore mutex locking (AcceptMutex posixsem)
903 for those platforms that support it. If using the default
904 implementation, this is between pthread and sysvsem in priority.
905 This implies it's the new default for Darwin. [Jim Jagielski]
907 *) AIX: Fix the syntax for setting the LDR_CNTRL and AIXTHREAD_SCOPE
908 environment variables in the envvars file. [Jeff Trawick]
910 *) worker MPM: Don't create a listener thread until we have a worker
911 thread. Otherwise, in situations where we'll have to wait a while
912 to take over scoreboard slots from a previous generation, we'll be
913 accepting connections we can't process yet. [Jeff Trawick]
915 *) Allow worker MPM to build on systems without pthread_kill().
916 [Pier Fumagalli, Jeff Trawick]
918 *) Prevent ap_add_output_filters_by_type from being called in
919 ap_set_content_type if the content-type hasn't changed.
922 *) Performance: implemented the bucket allocator made possible by the
923 API change in 2.0.34. [Cliff Woolley]
925 *) Don't allow initialization to succeed if we can't get a socket
926 corresponding to one of the Listen statements. [Jeff Trawick]
928 Changes with Apache 2.0.34
930 *) Allow all Perchild directives to accept either numerical UID/GID
931 or logical user/group names. [Scott Lamb <slamb@slamb.org>]
933 *) Make Perchild compile cleanly and serve pages again. [Ryan Bloom]
935 *) implement ssl proxy to support ProxyPass / https:// and the
936 SSLProxy* directives [Doug MacEachern]
938 *) Update mod_cgid to not do single-byte socket reads for CGI headers
941 *) Made AB's use of the Host: header rfc2616 compliant
942 by Taisuke Yamada <tai@iij.ad.jp> [Dirk-Willem van Gulik].
944 *) The old, legacy (and unused) code in which the scoreboard was totally
945 and completely contained in a file (SCOREBOARD_FILE) has been
946 removed. This does not affect scoreboards which are *mapped* to
947 files using named-shared-memory. [Jim Jagielski]
949 *) Change bucket brigades API to allow a "bucket allocator" to be
950 passed in at certain points. This allows us to implement freelists
951 so that we can stop using malloc/free so frequently.
952 [Cliff Woolley, Brian Pane]
954 *) Add support for macro expansion within the variable names in
955 <!--#echo--> and <!--#set--> directives [Brian Pane]
957 *) Fix some mod_include segfaults [Cliff Woolley, Brian Pane, Brad Nicholes]
959 *) Update the "RedHat" Layout to match Red Hat Linux version 7. PR BZ-7422
962 *) add compat layer to support RSA SSLC 1.x and 2.x in mod_ssl
963 [Jon Travis, John Barbee, William Rowe, Ryan Bloom, Doug MacEachern]
965 *) Add a new parameter to the quick_handler hook to instruct
966 quick handlers to optionally do a lookup rather than actually
967 serve content. This is the first of several changes required fix
968 several problems with how quick handlers work with subrequests.
971 *) worker MPM: Get MaxRequestsPerChild to work again. [Jeff Trawick]
973 *) [APR-related] The ordering of the default accept mutex method has
974 been changed to better match what's done in Apache 1.3. The ordering
975 is now (highest to lowest): pthread -> sysvsem -> fcntl -> flock.
978 *) Ensure that the build/ directory is created when using VPATH.
981 *) Add some popular types to the mime magic file. PR 7730.
982 [Linus Walleij <triad@df.lth.se>, Justin Erenkrantz]
984 *) Remove the single-byte socket reads for CGI headers [Brian Pane]
986 *) When a proxied site was being served, Apache was replacing
987 the original site Server header with it's own, which is not
988 allowed by RFC2616. Fixed. [Graham Leggett]
990 *) Fix a mod_cgid problem that left daemon processes stranded
991 in some server restart scenarios. [Jeff Trawick]
993 *) Added exp_foo and rel_foo variables to config_vars.mk for
994 all Apache and Autoconf path variables (like --sysconfdir,
995 --sbindir, etc). exp_foo is the "expanded" version, which means
996 that all internal variable references have been interpolated.
997 rel_foo is the same as $exp_foo, only relative to $prefix if they
998 share a common path. [Aaron Bannert]
1000 *) Fix some restart/terminate problems in the worker MPM. Don't
1001 drop connections during graceful restart. [Jeff Trawick]
1003 *) Change the header merging behaviour in proxy, as some headers
1004 (like Set-Cookie) cannot be unmerged due to stray commas in
1005 dates. [Graham Leggett]
1007 *) Be more vocal about what AcceptMutex values we allow, to make
1008 us closer to how 1.3 does it. [Jim Jagielski]
1010 *) Get nph- CGI scripts working again. PRs 8902, 8907, 9983
1013 *) Upgraded PCRE library to latest version 3.9 [Brian Pane]
1015 *) Add accessor function to set r->content_type. From now on,
1016 ap_rset_content_type() should be used to set r->content_type.
1017 This change is required to properly implement the
1018 AddOutputFilterByType configuration directive.
1019 [Bill Stoddard, Sander Striker, Ryan Bloom]
1021 *) Add new M_FOO symbols for the WebDAV/DeltaV methods specified by
1022 RFC 3253. Improved the method name/number mapping functions.
1025 *) remove sock_enable_linger from connection.c [Ian Holsman]
1027 *) Fix for virtual host processing where the requested hostname
1028 has a '.' at the end (PR 9187) [Ryan Cruse <ryan@estara.com>]
1030 *) mod_dav's APIs for REPORT response handling was changed so that
1031 providers can generate the content directly into the output filter
1032 stack, rather than buffering the response into memory. [Greg Stein]
1034 *) Fix a hang condition with graceful restart and prefork MPM
1035 in the situation where MaxClients is very high but
1036 much fewer servers are actually started at the time of the
1037 restart. [Jeff Trawick]
1039 *) Small performance fixes for mod_include [Brian Pane]
1041 *) Performance improvement for the error logger [Brian Pane]
1043 *) Change configure so that Solaris 8 and above have
1044 SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT defined by default.
1045 according to sun people solaris 8+ doesn't have a thundering
1046 herd problem [Ian Holsman]
1048 *) Allow URIs specifying CGI scripts to include '/' at the end
1049 (e.g., /cgi-bin/printenv/) on AIX and Solaris (and other OSs
1050 which ignore '/' at the end of the names of non-directories).
1051 PR 10138 [Jeff Trawick]
1053 *) implement SSLSessionCache shmht and shmcb based on apr_rmm and
1054 apr_shm. [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli@hp.com>]
1056 *) Fix apxs -g handling. Move config_vars.mk from the top build
1057 directory to the build directory. PR 10163 [Jeff Trawick]
1059 *) Fix some mod_include problems which broke evaluation of some
1060 expressions. PR 10108 [Jeff Trawick]
1062 *) Fix the calculation of request time in mod_status. [Stas Bekman]
1064 *) Fix the calculation of thread_num in the worker score structure.
1067 *) Use apr_atomic operations in managing the mod_mem_cache
1068 cache_objects for SMP scalability. (see USE_ATOMICS
1069 preprocessor directive in mod_file_cache)
1072 *) Add filehandle caching to mod_mem_cache. (see CACHE_FD
1073 preprocessor directive in mod_file_cache)
1076 *) Implement prototype mod_disk_cache for use with mod_cache.
1079 *) Add a missing manualdir entry in the Debian config.layout.
1080 [Thom May <thom@planetarytramp.net>]
1082 *) Stop installing libtool for APR and tell APR where it should place
1083 its copy of libtool (via our installbuildpath layout variable).
1086 *) New directive ProxyIOBufferSize. Sets the size of the buffer used
1087 when reading from a remote HTTP server in proxy. [Graham Leggett]
1089 *) Modify receive/send loop in proxy_http and proxy_ftp so that
1090 should it be necessary, the remote server socket is closed before
1091 transmitting the last buffer (set by ProxyIOBufferSize) to the
1092 client. This prevents the backend server from being forced to hang
1093 around while the last few bytes are transmitted to a slow client.
1094 Fix the case where no error checking was performed on the final
1095 brigade in the loop. [Graham Leggett]
1097 *) Scrap CacheMaxExpireMin and CacheDefaultExpireMin. Change
1098 CacheMaxExpire and CacheDefaultExpire to use seconds rather than
1099 hours. [Graham Leggett, Bill Stoddard]
1101 *) New Directive SSIUndefinedEcho. to change the '(none)' echoed
1102 for a undefined variable. [Ian Holsman]
1104 *) Proxy HTTP and CONNECT: Keep trying other addresses from the DNS
1105 when we can't get a socket in the specified address family. We may
1106 have gotten back an IPv6 address first and yet our system is not
1107 configured to allow IPv6 sockets. [Jeff Trawick]
1109 *) Be more careful about recursively removing CVS directories. Make
1110 sure that we aren't cd'ing to their home directory first. PR: 9993
1111 [Aaron Bannert, James LewisMoss <dres@lewismoss.net>]
1113 *) Add a missing errordir entry in the Debian config.layout. PR: 10067
1114 [Dirk-Jan Faber <dirk-jan@selwerd.nl>, Aaron Bannert,
1115 Thom May <thom@planetarytramp.net>]
1117 *) Rename the filter ordering priorities. The recent filtering fixes
1118 have showcased problems with their usage. Therefore, we need to
1119 rename them to increase the clarity. (CONTENT->RESOURCE,
1120 HTTP_HEADER->CONTENT_SET/PROTOCOL) [Justin Erenkrantz]
1122 Changes with Apache 2.0.33
1124 *) Fix a problem in the new --enable-layout functionality where
1125 it wouldn't allow overrides from variables like --prefix,
1126 --bindir, etc. [Thom May <thom@planetarytramp.net>]
1128 *) Fix a bug in the core input filter for AP_MODE_EXHAUSTIVE. It
1129 no longer hangs around waiting for the socket to close before
1130 returning exhaustive data. [Aaron Bannert]
1132 *) rename apr_exploded_time_t to apr_time_exp_t (as per renames pending)
1133 [Thom May <thom@planetarytramp.net>]
1135 *) Change mod_ssl to always do a full startup/teardown on restarts.
1136 this allows mod_ssl to be added to a server that is already
1137 running and makes it possible to add/change certs/keys after the
1138 server has been started. [Doug MacEachern]
1140 *) Introduce PassPhraseDialog "|/path/to/pipe" mechanism to mod_ssl.
1141 This pipe must be a bidirectional 'console' style relay, which
1142 mod_ssl prints all prompts to the pipe's stdin, and reads the
1143 passphrases from the pipe's stdout. [William Rowe]
1145 *) Fix bug where --sysconfdir and --localstatedir were being
1146 ignored. [Thom May <thom@planetarytramp.net>, Aaron Bannert]
1149 *) Fix --enable-layout to work again. Caution: When specifying
1150 --enable-layout, common arguments like --prefix, --exec-prefix,
1151 etc. will be ignored and the settings from the layout will be
1152 used instead. [Thom May <thom@planetarytramp.net>, Aaron Bannert]
1155 *) New Directive for mod_proxy: ProxyRemoteMatch. This provides
1156 regex pattern matching for the determination of which requests
1157 to use the remote proxy for. [Jim Jagielski]
1159 *) Fix CustomLog bytes-sent with HTTP 0.9. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1161 *) Prevent Apache from ignoring SIGHUP due to some lingering 1.3
1162 cruft in piped logs and rewritemap child processes.
1165 *) All instances of apr_lock_t have been removed and converted
1166 to one of the following new lock APIs: apr_thread_mutex.h,
1167 apr_proc_mutex.h, or apr_global_mutex.h. No new code should
1168 use the apr_lock.h API, as the old API will soon be deprecated.
1171 *) Merged in changes to mod_ssl up through 2.8.7-1.3.23.
1172 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Cliff Woolley]
1174 *) mod-include: make it handle flush'es and fix the 'false-alarm'
1175 [Justin Erenkrantz, Brian Pane, Ian Holsman]
1177 *) ap_get_*_filter_handle() functions to allow 3rd party modules
1178 to lookup filter handles so they can bypass the filter name
1179 lookup when adding filters to a request (via ap_add_*_filter_handle())
1180 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
1182 *) Fix for multiple file buckets on Win32, where the first file
1183 bucket would cause the immediate closure of the socket on any
1184 non-keepalive requests. [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
1186 *) Correct Win32 failure of mmap of a segment beyond start of the
1187 file; fixes large SSL and similar transfers. [William Rowe]
1190 *) Implement apr_proc_detach changes and allow -DNO_DETACH in the
1191 multi-process mode to not "daemonize" while detaching from the
1192 controlling terminal. This is necessary for Apache to work with
1193 process-management tools like AIX's "System Resource Controller"
1194 as well as Dan Bernstein's "daemontools".
1195 [Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com>, Aaron Bannert]
1197 *) Convert mod_auth_digest to use the new apr_global_mutex_t
1198 type. [Aaron Bannert]
1200 *) fix bug in mod-include where it wouldn't send a unmatched
1201 part if it was at the end of a bucket [Ian Holsman]
1203 *) worker MPM: Improve logging of errors with the interface between
1204 the listener thread and worker threads. [Jeff Trawick]
1206 *) Some browsers ignore cookies that have been merged into a
1207 single Set-Cookie header. Set-Cookie and Set-Cookie2 headers
1208 are now unmerged in the http proxy before being sent to the
1209 client. [Graham Leggett]
1211 *) Fix a problem with proxy where each entry of a duplicated
1212 header such as Set-Cookie would overwrite and obliterate the
1213 previous value of the header, resulting in multiple header
1214 values (like cookies) going missing.
1215 [Graham Leggett, Joshua Slive]
1217 *) Add the server-limit and thread-limit values to the scoreboard
1218 for the sake of third-party applications.
1219 [Adam Sussman <myddryn@vishnu.vidya.com>]
1221 *) Fix segfault when proxy recieves an invalid HTTP response [Ian Holsman]
1223 *) OS/390: Get make install to properly copy DSO modules.
1226 *) Win32: Fix bug in mod_status with displaying "Restart Time"
1227 and "Server uptime".
1230 *) Fix IPv6 name-based virtual hosts. [Jeff Trawick]
1232 *) Introduce AddOutputFilterByType directive. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1234 *) Fix DEBUG_CGI support in mod_cgi. PR 9670, 9671.
1235 [David MacKenzie <djm@pix.net>]
1237 *) Fix incorrect check for script_in in mod_cgi. PR 9669.
1238 [David MacKenzie <djm@pix.net>]
1240 *) Fix segfault and display error when SSLMutex file can not be
1241 created. [Adam Sussman <myddryn@vishnu.vidya.com>]
1243 *) Add reference counting to mod_mem_cache cache objects to
1244 better manage removing objects from the cache.
1247 *) Change the verbage on the ScoreBoardFile in our default configs.
1248 Also change the default to be commented out (unspecified) so we
1249 get anonymous shared memory by default. [Aaron Bannert]
1251 *) Implement new ScoreBoardFile directive logic. This affects how
1252 we create the scoreboard's shared memory segment. If the directive
1253 is present, a name-based segment is created. If the directive is
1254 not present, first an anonymous segment is created, and if that
1255 fails, a name-based segment is created from a file of the name
1256 DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD. This gives third-party applications the
1257 ability to access our scoreboard. [Aaron Bannert]
1259 *) Allow mod_deflate to work with non-GET requests and properly send
1260 Content-Lengths. [Sander Striker <striker@apache.org>]
1262 *) Fix ap_directory_merge() to correctly merge configs when there is
1263 no <Directory /> block. [Justin Erenkrantz, William Rowe]
1265 *) Remove spurious debug messsages that are normal under HTTP
1266 keep-alive logic. [Jeff Trawick, Justin Erenkrantz]
1268 *) Fix a bug in mod_cgid that would prevent proper shutdown death
1269 of the cgid process. [Aaron Bannert]
1271 *) Add signal handling back in to the worker MPM for the one_process
1272 (-X, -DDEBUG, -DONE_PROCESS) case. [Aaron Bannert]
1274 *) Performance: Reuse per-connection transaction pools in the
1275 worker MPM, rather than destroying and recreating them. [Brian Pane]
1277 *) Remove all signals from the worker MPM's child process. Instead,
1278 the parent uses the Pipe of Death for all communication with the
1279 child processes. [Ryan Bloom]
1281 Changes with Apache 2.0.32
1283 *) mod_negotiation: ForceLanguagePriority now uses 'Prefer' as the
1284 default if the directive is not specified. This mirrors older
1285 behavior without changes to the httpd.conf. [William Rowe]
1287 *) Win32: solve the win32 service problems in 2.0.31-alpha, by fixing
1288 the service, mpm and logging code, and bugs in apr_file_open_stderr
1289 and apr_file_dup2 functions. Win2K/XP services have no handles
1290 associated for stdin/out/err, which caused unpredictable behavior
1291 in the prior release. [William Rowe, Bill Stoddard]
1293 *) Win32: simplify the Application Event Log messages, since there isn't
1294 likely to be 'more information in the error log' before an error log
1295 has been opened. [William Rowe]
1297 *) Win32: substantial cleanup to the mpm_winnt code for legibility and
1298 to follow the program flow of other MPMs. [Ryan Bloom, William Rowe]
1300 *) Win32: apache -k shutdown now behaves like apache -k stop.
1303 *) Fix prefork to not kill the parent if a child hits a resource shortage
1304 on accept(). [Greg Ames]
1306 *) Fix seg faults that occur when what should be the httpd request line
1307 starts with \r\n followed by garbage. [Greg Ames]
1309 *) Allow statically linked support binaries with the new
1310 --enable-static-support flag, and enable this behavior in
1311 the binbuild script. Also add a new --enable-static-htdbm
1312 flag. [Aaron Bannert]
1314 *) Allow mod_autoindex to serve symlinks if permitted and attempt to
1315 do only one stat() call when generating the directory listings.
1318 *) Fix resolve_symlink to save the original symlink name if known.
1321 *) Be a bit more sane with regard to CanonicalNames. If the user has
1322 specified they want to use the CanonicalName, but they have not
1323 configured a port with the ServerName, then use the same port that
1324 the original request used. [Ryan Bloom and Ken Coar]
1326 *) In core_input_filter, check for an empty brigade after
1327 APR_BRIGADE_NORMALIZE(). Otherwise, we can get segfaults if a
1328 client says it will post some data but we get FIN before any
1329 data arrives. [Jeff Trawick]
1331 *) Not being able to bind to the socket is a fatal error. We should
1332 print an error to the console, and return a non-zero status code.
1333 With these changes, all of the Unix MPMs do that correctly.
1336 *) suexec: Allow HTTPS and SSL_* environment variables to be passed
1337 through to CGI scripts. PR 9163
1338 [Brian Reid <breid@customlogic.com>,
1339 Zvi Har'El <rl@math.technion.ac.il>]
1341 *) binbuild.sh: Make sure that we use the expat from our source
1342 tree so that there aren't any surprises on the target machine.
1345 *) mod_cgid: Add retry logic for when the daemon can't fork fast
1346 enough to keep up with new requests. Start using
1347 HTTP_SERVER_UNAVAILABLE instead of HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR
1348 when we can't talk to the daemon. [Jeff Trawick]
1350 *) apxs: LTFLAGS envvar can override default libtool options. Try
1351 "LTFLAGS=' ' apxs -c mod_foo.c" to see what libtool does under
1352 the covers. [Jeff Trawick]
1354 *) The Location: response header field, used for external
1355 redirect, *must* be an absoluteURI. The Redirect directive
1356 tested for that, but RedirectMatch didn't -- it would allow
1357 almost anything through. Now it will try to turn an abs_path
1358 into an absoluteURI, but it will correctly varf like Redirect
1359 if the final redirection target isn't an absoluteURI. [Ken Coar]
1361 Changes with Apache 2.0.31
1363 *) Create the scoreboard (in the parent) in a global pool context,
1364 so it survives graceful restarts. This fixes a SEGV during
1365 graceful restarts. [Aaron Bannert]
1367 *) Add a timeout option to the proxy code 'ProxyTimeout'
1370 *) FTP directory listings are now always retrieved in ASCII mode.
1371 The FTP proxy properly escapes URI's and HTML in the generated
1372 listing, and escapes the path components when talking to the FTP
1373 server. It is now possible to browse the root directory by using
1374 a url like: ftp://user@host/%2f/ (ported from apache_1.3.24)
1375 Also, the last path component may contain wildcard characters
1376 '*' and '?', and if they do, a directory listing is created instead
1377 of a file retrieval. Example: ftp://user@host/httpd/server/*.c
1380 *) Added single-listener unserialized accept support to the
1381 worker MPM [Brian Pane]
1383 *) New Directive for mod_proxy: 'ProxyPreserveHost'. This passes
1384 the incoming host header through to the proxied server
1385 [Geoff <g.russell@ieee.org>]
1387 *) New Directive Option for ProxyPass. It now can block a location
1388 from being proxied [Jukka Pihl <jukka.pihl@entirem.com>]
1390 *) Don't let the default handler try to serve a raw directory. At
1391 best you get gibberish. Much worse things can happen depending
1392 on the OS. [Jeff Trawick]
1394 *) Change the pre_config hook to return a value. Modules can now emit
1395 an error message and then cause the server to quit gracefully during
1396 startup. This required a bump to the MMN. [Aaron Bannert]
1398 *) Fix some unix socket descriptor leaks in the handler side of
1399 mod_cgid (the part that runs in the server process). Whack a
1400 silly "close(-1)" in the handler too. [Jeff Trawick]
1402 *) Change the pre_mpm hook to return a value, so that scoreboard
1403 init errors percolate up to code that knows how to exit
1404 cleanly. This required a bump to the MMN. [Jeff Trawick]
1406 *) Add the socket back to the conn_rec and remove the create_connection
1407 hook. The create_connection hook had a design flaw that did not
1408 allow creating connections based on vhost info. [Bill Stoddard]
1410 *) Fixed PATH_INFO and QUERY_STRING from mod_negotiation results.
1411 Resolves the common case of using negotation to resolve the request
1412 /script/foo for /script.cgi/foo. [William Rowe]
1414 *) Added new functions ap_add_(input|output)_filter_handle to
1415 allow modules to bypass the usual filter name lookup when
1416 adding hard-coded filters to a request [Brian Pane]
1418 *) caching should now work on subrequests (still very experimental)
1421 *) The Win32 mpm_winnt now has a shared scoreboard. [William Rowe]
1423 *) Change ap_get_brigade prototype to use apr_off_t instead of apr_off_t*.
1426 *) Refactor ap_rgetline so that it does not use an internal brigade.
1427 Change ap_rgetline's prototype to return errors. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1429 *) Remove mod_auth_db. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1431 *) Do not install unnecessary pcre headers like config.h and internal.h.
1432 [Joe Orton <joe@manyfish.co.uk>]
1434 *) Change in quick_hanlder behavior for subrequests. it now passes DONE
1435 (as it does for a normal request). quick_handled sub-requests now work
1436 in mod-include [Ian Holsman]
1438 *) Change SUBREQ_CORE so that it is a 'HTTP_HEADER' filter instead of
1439 'CONTENT' one, as it needs to run AFTER all content headers
1441 *) Rename BeOS MPM directive RequestsPerThread to MaxRequestsPerThread.
1444 *) Split out blocking from the mode in the input filters.
1447 *) Fix a segfault in mod_include. [Justin Erenkrantz, Jeff Trawick]
1449 *) Cause Win32 to capture all child-worker process errors in
1450 Apache to the main server error log, until the child can
1451 open its own error logs. [William Rowe]
1453 *) HPUX 11.*: Do not kill the child process when accept()
1454 returns ENOBUFS on HPUX 11.*. (ported from a 1.3 patch
1455 by [madhusudan_mathihalli@hp.com])
1458 *) Fix a problem in the parsing of the <Proxy foo> directive.
1461 *) rewrite of mod_ssl input filter for better performance and less
1462 memory usage [Doug MacEachern]
1464 *) allow quick_handler to be run on subrequests. [Ian Holsman]
1466 *) mod_dav now asks its provider to place content directly into the
1467 filter stack when handling a GET request. The mod_dav/provider
1468 API has changed, so providers need to be updated. [Greg Stein]
1470 *) Clear the output socket descriptor in unixd_accept() to make sure
1471 we don't supply a bogus socket to the caller if the accept fails.
1472 This caused problems with the worker MPM, which tried to process
1473 the returned socket if it was non-NULL. [Brian Pane]
1475 *) Move a check for an empty brigade to the start of core input filter
1476 to avoid segfaults. [Justin Erenkrantz, Jeff Trawick]
1478 *) Add FileETag directive to allow configurable control of what
1479 data are used to form ETag values for file-based URIs. MMN
1480 bumped to 20020111 because of fields added to the end of
1481 the core_dir_config structure. [Ken Coar]
1483 *) Fix a segfault in mod_rewrite's logging code caused by passing the
1484 wrong config to ap_get_remote_host(). [Jeff Trawick]
1486 *) Allow mod_cgid to work from a binary distribution install by
1487 using 755 for the permissions on the log directory instead of
1490 *) Fixed a segfault that happened during graceful shutdown (or when
1491 the httpd ran out of file descriptors) with the worker MPM [Brian Pane]
1493 *) Split all Win32 modules [excluding the core components mod_core,
1494 mod_so, mod_win32 and the winnt mpm] into individual loadable
1495 modules, so the administrator may individually disable the former
1496 compiled-in modules by simply commenting out their LoadModule
1497 directives. [William Rowe]
1499 *) Saved Win32 module authors and porters many future headaches, by
1500 duplicating the appropriate .h files such as os.h into the include
1501 directory, including in the build tree. [William Rowe]
1503 *) mod_ssl adjustments to help with using toolkits other than OpenSSL:
1504 Use SSL functions/macros instead of directly dereferencing SSL
1505 structures wherever possible.
1506 Add type-casts for the cases where functions return a generic pointer.
1507 Add $SSL/include to configure search path.
1508 [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli@hp.com>]
1510 *) Moved several pointers out of the shared Scoreboard so it is
1511 more portable, and will present the vhost name across server
1512 generation restarts. [William Rowe]
1514 *) Fix SSLPassPhraseDialog exec: and SSLRandomSeed exec:
1517 Changes with Apache 2.0.30
1519 *) Fix the main bug for FreeBSD and threaded MPM's. There are
1520 still issues (see STATUS) but at least the server will now
1521 run without crashing the machine.
1522 [David Reid, Aaron Bannert, Justin Erenkrantz]
1524 *) Fix a typo in mod_deflate's m4 config section.
1525 [albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)]
1527 *) Fix a couple of mod_proxy problems forwarding HTTP connections
1528 and handling CONNECT:
1529 (1) PR #9190 Proxy failed to connect to IPv6 hosts.
1530 (2) Proxy failed to connect when the first IP address returned by
1531 the resolver was unreachable but a secondary IP address was.
1534 *) Fix the module identifer as shown in the docs for various core
1535 modules (e.g., the identifer for mod_log_config was previously
1536 listed as config_log_module). PR #9338
1537 [James Watson <ap2bug@sowega.org>]
1539 *) Fix LimitRequestBody directive by placing it in the HTTP
1540 filter. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1542 *) Fix mod_proxy seg fault when the proxied server returns
1543 an HTTP/0.9 response or a bogus status line.
1546 *) Prevent mod_proxy from truncating one character off the
1547 end of the status line returned from the proxied server.
1548 [Adam Sussman, Bill Stoddard]
1550 *) Eliminate loop in ap_proxy_string_read().
1551 [Adam Sussman, Bill Stoddard]
1553 *) Provide $0..$9 results from mod_include regex parsing.
1556 *) Allow mod-include to look for alternate start & end tags [Ian Holsman]
1558 *) Introduced the ForceLanguagePriority directive, to prevent
1559 returning MULTIPLE_CHOICES or NONE_ACCEPTABLE in some cases,
1560 when using Multiviews. [William Rowe]
1562 *) Fix a problem which prevented mod_cgid and suexec from working
1563 together reliably [Greg Ames]
1565 *) Remove the call to exit() from within mod_auth_digest's post_config
1566 phase. [Aaron Bannert]
1568 *) Fix a problem in mod_auth_digest that could potentially cause
1569 problems with initialized static data on a system that uses DSOs.
1572 *) Fix a segfault in the worker MPM that could happen during
1573 child process exits. [Brian Pane, Aaron Bannert]
1575 *) Allow mod_auth_dbm to handle multiple DBM types [Ian Holsman]
1577 *) Fix matching of vhosts by ip address so we find IPv4
1578 vhost address when target address is v4-mapped form of
1579 that address. [Jeff Trawick]
1581 *) More performance tweaks to the BNDM string-search algorithm
1582 used to find "<!--#" tokens in mod_include [Brian Pane]
1584 *) Miscellaneous small performance fixes: optimized away various
1585 string copy operations and removed large temp buffers from
1586 the stack [Brian Pane]
1588 *) Fixed startup segfault that occurred when a VirtualHost
1589 directive had a port but no address [Brian Pane]
1591 *) Allow htdbm to work with multiple DBM types [Ian Holsman]
1593 *) Win32: Made change to apr_sendfile() to return APR_ENOTIMPL
1594 if oslevel < WINNT. This should fix several problems reported
1595 Against 2.0.28 on Windows 98 [Bill Stoddard]
1597 *) Win32: Fix bug that could cause CGI scripts with QUERY_STRINGS
1598 to fail. [Bill Stoddard]
1600 *) Change core code to allow an MPM to set hard thread/server
1601 limits at startup. prefork, worker, and perchild MPMs now have
1602 directives to set these limits. [Jeff Trawick]
1604 *) Win32: The async AcceptEx() event should be autoreset upon
1605 successful completion of a wait (WaitForSingleObject). This
1606 eliminates a number of spurious
1607 setsockopt(SO_UPDATE_ACCEPT_CONTEXT) failed." messages.
1610 *) Move any load library path environment variables out of
1611 apachectl and into a separate environment variable file which
1612 can be more easily tailored by the admin. The environment
1613 variable file as built by Apache may have additional system-
1614 specific settings. For example, on OS/390 we tailor the heap
1615 settings to allow lots of threads. [Jeff Trawick]
1617 *) Use the new APR pool code to reduce pool-related lock
1618 contention in the worker MPM. [Sander Striker]
1620 *) The POD no longer assumes the child is listening on 127.0.0.1
1621 and now pulls the first hostname in the list of listeners to
1622 perform the dummy connect on. This fixes a bug when the user
1623 had configured the Listen directive for an IP other than
1624 127.0.0.1. This would result in undead children and error
1625 messages such as "Connection refused: connect to listener".
1628 *) The worker MPM now respects the LockFile setting, needed to
1629 avoid locking problems with NFS. [Jeff Trawick]
1631 *) Fix segfault when worker MPM receives SIGHUP.
1632 [Ian Holsman, Aaron Bannert, Justin Erenkrantz]
1634 *) Fix bug that could potentially prevent the perchild MPM from
1635 working with more than one vhost/uid. [Aaron Bannert]
1637 *) Change make install and apxs -i processing of DSO modules to
1638 perform special handling on platforms where libtool doesn't install
1639 mod_foo.so. This fixes some wonkiness on HP-UX, Tru64, and AIX
1640 which prevented standard LoadModule statements from working.
1643 *) Whenever mod_so is enabled (not just when there are DSOs for
1644 our modules), do whatever special magic is required for compiling/
1645 loading third-party modules. This allows third-party DSOs to
1646 be used on an AIX build when there were no built-in modules
1647 built as DSOs. (This should help on OS/390 and BeOS as well.)
1650 *) Allow apxs to be used to build DSOs on AIX without requiring the
1651 user to hard-code the list of import files. (This should help
1652 on OS/390 and BeOS as well.) [Jeff Trawick]
1654 *) Resolved segfault in mod_isapi when configuring with ISAPICacheFile.
1655 PR 8563, 8919 [William Rowe]
1657 *) Get binary builds working when libapr and libaprutil are built
1660 *) Get shared builds of libapr and libaprutil, as well as Apache DSOs,
1661 working on AIX. [Aaron Bannert, Dick Dunbar <RLDunbar@pacbell.net>,
1662 Gary Hook <ghook@us.ibm.com>, Victor Orlikowski, Jeff Trawick]
1664 *) Fix the handling of SSI directives in which the ">" of the
1665 terminating "-->" is the last byte in a file [Brian Pane]
1667 *) Add back in the "suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /path/to/suexec)"
1668 message that we had back in apache-1.3 and still have scattered
1669 throughout our docs. [Aaron Bannert]
1671 *) Prevent the Win32 port from continuing after encountering an
1672 error in the command line args to apache. [William Rowe]
1674 *) On a error in the proxy, make it write a line to the error log
1677 *) Various mod_ssl performance improvements [Doug MacEachern]
1679 Changes with Apache 2.0.29
1681 *) Add buffering in core_output_filter to ensure that long
1682 lists of small buckets don't cause small packet writes.
1683 [Brian Pane, Ryan Bloom]
1685 *) Fix the installation target to make sure that the manual is
1686 installed in the correct location.
1687 [Yoshifumi Hiramatsu <hiramatu@boreas.dti.ne.jp> and
1688 Gomez Henri <hgomez@slib.fr>]
1690 *) Fix the cmd command for mod_include. When we are processing
1691 a cmd command, we do not want to use the r->filename to set
1692 the command name. The command comes from the SSI tag. To do this,
1693 I added a variable to the function that builds the command line
1694 in mod_cgi. This allows the include_cmd function to specify
1695 the command line itself. [Ryan Bloom]
1697 *) Change open_logs hook to return a value, allowing you
1698 to flag a error while opening logs
1699 [Ian Holsman, Doug MacEachern]
1701 *) Change post_config hook to return a value, allowing you
1702 to flag a error post config
1703 [Ian Holsman, Jeff Trawick]
1705 *) Allow SUEXEC_BIN (the path to the suexec binary that is
1706 hard-coded into the server) to be specified to the configure
1707 script by the --with-suexec-bin parameter. [Aaron Bannert]
1709 *) Fix segv in worker MPM following accept on pipe-of-death
1712 *) Add mod_deflate to experimental.
1713 [Ian Holsman, Justin Erenkrantz]
1715 *) Bail out at configure time if an invalid MPM was specified.
1716 [jean-frederic clere <jfrederic.clere@fujitsu-siemens.com>]
1718 *) Prevent segv in ap_note_basic_auth_failure() when no AuthName is
1719 configured [John Sterling <sterling@covalent.net>]
1721 *) Fix apxs to use sbindir. [Henri Gomez <hgomez@slib.fr>]
1723 *) Fix a problem with IPv6 vhosts. PR #8118 [Jeff Trawick]
1725 *) Optimization for the BNDM string-search function in
1726 mod_include. [Brian Pane]
1728 *) Fixed the behavior of the XBitHack directive.
1729 [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>, Cliff Woolley] PR#8804
1731 *) The threaded MPM for Unix has been removed. Use the worker
1732 MPM instead. [various]
1734 *) APR-ize the resolver logic in mod_unique_id. This fixes a bug
1735 in logging the error from a failed DNS lookup. [Jeff Trawick]
1737 *) Added the missing macros AP_INIT_TAKE13 and AP_INIT_TAKE123.
1740 *) Get mod_cgid killed when a MPM exits due to a fatal error.
1743 *) Fix a file descriptor leak in mod_include. When we include a
1744 file, we use a sub-request, but we didn't destroy the sub-request
1745 immediately, instead we waited until the original request was
1746 done. This patch closes the sub-request as soon as the data is
1747 done being generated. [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
1749 *) Allow modules that add sockets to the ap_listeners list to
1750 define the function that should be used to accept on that
1751 socket. Each MPM can define their own function to use for
1752 the accept function with the MPM_ACCEPT_FUNC macro. This
1753 also abstracts out all of the Unix accept error handling
1754 logic, which has become out of synch across Unix MPMs.
1757 *) Fix a bug which would cause the response headers to be omitted
1758 when sending a negotiated ErrorDocument because the required
1759 filters were attached to the wrong request_rec.
1760 [John Sterling <sterling@covalent.net>]
1762 *) Remove commas from the end of the macros that define
1763 directives that are used by MPMs. Prior to this patch,
1764 you would use these macros without commas, which was unlike
1765 the macros for any other directives. Now, the caller provides
1766 the comma rather than the macro providing it. This makes
1767 the macros look more like the rest of the directives.
1768 [Ryan Bloom and Cliff Woolley]
1770 *) Add 'redirect-carefully' environment option to disable sending
1771 redirects under special circumstances. This is helpful for
1772 Microsoft's WebFolders when accessing a directory resource via
1773 DAV methods. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1775 *) Begin to abstract out the underlying transport layer.
1776 The first step is to remove the socket from the conn_rec,
1777 the server now lives in a context that is passed to the
1778 core's input and output filters. This forces us to be very
1779 careful when adding calls that use the socket directly,
1780 because the socket isn't available in most locations.
1783 *) Really reset the MaxClients value in worker and threaded
1784 when the configured value is not a multiple of the number
1785 of threads per child. We said we did previously but we
1786 forgot to. [Jeff Trawick]
1788 *) Add Debian layout. [Daniel Stone <daniel@sfarc.net>]
1790 *) If shared modules are requested and mod_so is not available,
1791 produce a fatal config-time error. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1793 *) Improve http2env's performance by cutting the work it has to
1794 do. [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
1796 *) use new 'apr_hash_merge' function in mod_mime (performance fix)
1797 [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
1799 Changes with Apache 2.0.28
1801 *) Fix infinite loop in mod_cgid.c.
1802 [Dale Ghent <daleg@elemental.org>, Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
1804 *) When no port is given in a "ServerName host" directive, the
1805 server_rec->port is now set to zero, not 80. That allows for
1806 run-time deduction of the correct server port (depending on
1807 SSL/plain, and depending also on the current setting of
1808 UseCanonicalName). This change makes redirections
1809 work, even with https:// connections. As in Apache-1.3, the
1810 connection's actual port number is never used, only the ServerName
1811 setting or the client's Host: setting. Documentation updated
1812 to reflect the change. [Martin Kraemer]
1814 *) Add a '%{note-name}e' argument to mod-headers, which works in
1815 the same way as mod_log_confg. [Ian Holsman]
1817 *) Fix the spelling of the AP_MPMQ_MIN_SPARE_DAEMONS and
1818 AP_MPMQ_MAX_REQUESTS_DAEMON macros in ap_mpm.h and all standard
1819 MPMs. [Cliff Woolley]
1821 *) Introduce htdbm, a user management utility for db/dbm authorization
1822 databases. [Mladen Turk <mturk@mappingsoft.com>]
1824 *) Optimize usage of strlen and strcat in ap_directory_walk.
1825 [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
1827 Changes with Apache 2.0.27
1829 *) Introduce an Apache mod_ssl initial configuration template
1830 (ssl.conf, generated from ssl-std.conf). [Ralf S. Engelschall]
1832 *) Fixed a memory leak in the getline parsing code that could
1833 be triggered by arbitrarily large header lines. Requests
1834 from the core input filter for single lines are now limited
1835 to HUGE_STRING_LEN (8192 bytes). [Aaron Bannert]
1837 *) Fix a truncation bug in how we print the port on the Via: header.
1838 The routine that prints the Via: header now takes a length for
1839 the port string. [Zvi Har'El <rl@math.technion.ac.il>]
1841 *) Some syntax errors in mod_mime_magic's magic file can result
1842 in a 500 error, which previously was unlogged. Now we log the
1843 error. [Jeff Trawick]
1845 *) Add the support/checkgid helper app, which checks the run-time
1846 validity of group identifiers usable in the Group directive.
1849 *) Various --enable-so options have been fixed: --enable-so is
1850 treated as "static"; explicit --enable-so=shared issues an error;
1851 and explicit --enable-so fails with error on systems without
1852 APR_HAS_DSO. [Aaron Bannert]
1854 *) Fix a segfault in the core input filter when the client socket
1855 gets disconnected unexpectedly. [Cliff Woolley]
1857 *) Fix the reporting for child processes that die. This removes
1858 all of the non-portable W* macros from Apache.
1859 [Jeff Trawick and Ryan Bloom]
1861 *) Win32: Track and display "Parent Server Generation:" in
1862 mod_status output. The generation will be bumped at
1863 server graceful restart, when the child process exits
1864 by hitting MaxRequestsPerChild or if the child
1865 process exits abnormally. [Bill Stoddard]
1867 *) Win32: Fix problem where MaxRequestsPerChild directive was
1868 not being picked up in favor of the default. Enable
1869 the parent to start up a new child process immediately upon
1870 the old child starting shutdown.
1873 *) Fix some bungling of the remote port in rfc1413.c so that
1874 IdentityCheck retrieves the proper user id instead of failing
1875 and thus always returning "nobody."
1876 [Dick Streefland <Dick.Streefland@xs4all.nl>]
1878 *) Introduced thread saftey for mod_rewrite's internal cache.
1879 [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
1881 *) Simplified mod_env's directives to behave as most directives are
1882 expected, in that UnsetEnv will not unset a SetEnv and PassEnv
1883 directive following that UnsetEnv within the same container.
1884 Also provides a runtime startup warning if a PassEnv configured
1885 environment value is undefined. [William Rowe]
1887 *) The worker MPM is now completely ported to APR's new lock API. It
1888 uses native APR types for thread mutexes, cross-process mutexes,
1889 and condition variables. [Aaron Bannert]
1891 *) Sync up documentation to remove all references to the now deprecated
1892 Port directive. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1894 *) Moved all ldap modules from the core to httpd-ldap sub-project
1897 *) Exit when we can't listen on any of the configured ports. This
1898 is the same behavior as 1.3, and it avoids having the MPMs to
1899 deal with bogus ap_listen_rec structures. [Jeff Trawick]
1901 *) Cleanup the proxy code that creates a request to the origin
1902 server. This change adds an optional hook, which allows modules
1903 to gain control while the request is created if the proxy module
1904 is loaded. The purpose of this hook is to allow modules to add
1905 input and/or output filters to the request to the origin. While
1906 I was at it, I made the core use this hook, so that proxy request
1907 creation uses some of the code from the core. This can still be
1908 greatly improved, but this is a good start. [Ryan Bloom]
1910 Changes with Apache 2.0.26
1912 *) Port the MaxClients changes from the worker MPM to the threaded
1915 *) Fix mod_proxy so that it handles chunked transfer-encoding and works
1916 with the new input filtering system. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1918 *) Introduce the MultiviewsMatch directive, to allow the operator
1919 to be flexible in recognizing Handlers and Filters filename
1920 extensions as part of the Multiviews matching logic, strict with
1921 MultiviewsMatch NegotiatedOnly to accept only filename extentions
1922 that designate negotiated parameters, (content type, charset, etc.)
1923 or MultiviewsAll for the 1.3 behavior of matching any files, even
1924 if they have unregistered extensions. [William Rowe]
1926 *) Fixed the configure script to add a LoadModule directive to
1927 the default httpd.conf for any module that was compiled
1928 as a DSO. [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
1930 *) rewrite mod_ssl input filtering to work with the new input filtering
1931 system. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1933 *) prefork: Don't segfault when we are able to listen on some but
1934 not all of the configured ports. [Jeff Trawick]
1936 *) Build mod_so even if no core modules are built shared.
1937 [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
1939 *) Introduce ap_directory_walk rewrite (with further optimizations
1940 required) to adapt to the ap_process_request_internal() changes.
1941 Optimized so subrequests and redirects now reuse previous section
1942 merges, until we mismatch with the original directory_walk, and
1943 precomputed r->finfo results will cause directory_walk to skip
1944 the most expensive phases of the function. [William Rowe]
1946 *) Allow ApacheMonitor to connect to and control Apache on other
1947 WinNT/2K machines. [Mladen Turk <mturk@mappingsoft.com>]
1949 *) Remove the Port directive. In it's place, the Listen directive
1950 is now a required directive, which tells Apache what port to
1951 listen on. The ServerName directive has also been extended
1952 to accept an optional port. If the port is specified to the
1953 ServerName, the server will report that port whenever it
1954 reports the port that it is listening on. This change was
1955 made to ease configuration errors that stem from having a Port
1956 directive, and a Listen directive. In that situation, the server
1957 would only listen to the port specified by the Listen command,
1958 which caused a lot of confusion to users. [Ryan Bloom]
1960 *) Added mod_mime_magic, mod_unique_id and mod_vhost_alias to the Win32
1961 build, as loadable modules. [William Rowe]
1963 *) Fix --enable-mods-shared processing. If most is specified,
1964 then all modules that can be compiled as shared modules are.
1965 [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
1967 *) Update the mime.types file to map video/vnd.mpegurl to mxu
1968 and add commonly used audio/x-mpegurl for m3u extensions.
1969 [Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@uni-bonn.de>, Lars Eilebrecht]
1971 *) Eliminate the depreciated r->content_language, in favor of the array
1972 r->content_languages introduced many years ago. Module authors must
1973 substantially overhaul their modules, so this needs to be upgraded
1974 if the module still relied on backwards-brokeness. [William Rowe]
1976 *) Allow configure help strings to work with autoconf 2.50+ and 2.13.
1979 *) Rewrite the input filtering mechanisms to consolidate and reorganize
1980 code. In short, core_input_filter does something now and
1981 ap_http_filter is now only concerned with HTTP. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1983 *) Update the Win32 build to re-absorb mod_proxy and family.
1986 *) Resolved the build failure on Win32 using MSVC 5.0 (without the
1987 current SDK.) [William Rowe]
1989 *) Some style changes to the code that does ProxyErrorOverride. Fixed
1990 config merge behaviour. [Graham Leggett]
1992 *) Allow support programs to be compiled against a static version
1993 of libapr. This allows the smaller support programs to be
1994 relocated. [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
1996 *) Update the mime.types file to the registered media types as
1997 of 2001-09-25, and add mapping for xsl extension [Mark Cox]
1999 *) Fix MaxClients in the Worker MPM, so that it specifies the maximum
2000 number of clients that can connect at the same time, instead of
2001 specifying the maximum number of child processes.
2002 [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
2004 *) Switch proc_pthread AcceptMutex configuration directive to pthread to
2005 be consistent with 1.3. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2007 *) Cache apr_explode_localtime() value for 15 seconds.
2008 [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
2010 *) Fix mod_include to not return ETag or Last-Modified headers.
2011 [Ian Holsman <ianh@cnet.com>]
2013 *) Fix worker MPM's scoreboard logic. [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
2015 *) Eliminate the wasteful run-time conversion of method names from strings
2016 to numbers in places where the methods are known at compile time.
2017 [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
2019 *) Turn the worker MPM's queue into a LIFO. This may
2020 improve cache-hit performance under some conditions.
2021 [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
2023 *) Switch back to SIGUSR1 for graceful restarts on all platforms that
2024 support it. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2026 *) Cleanup the worker MPM. We no longer re-use transaction
2027 pools. This incurs less overhead than shuffling the pools
2028 around so that they can be re-used. Remove one of the
2029 queue's condition variables. We just redefined the API to
2030 state that you can't try to add more stuff than you allocated
2031 segments for. [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
2033 *) Fix SSL VPATH builds [Cody Sherr <csherr@covalent.net>]
2035 *) Fixed persistent connections when a request contains a body.
2038 *) mod_dav uses a new API to speak to the backend provider for dead
2039 property management. [Greg Stein]
2041 *) Remove the Win32 script-processing exception from mod_cgi, and
2042 roll build_command_line/build_argv_list into a unified, overrideable
2043 ap_cgi_build_command optional function. [William Rowe]
2045 *) Rewrite find_start_sequence to use a better search algorithm
2046 to find the start tag. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2048 *) Fix a seg fault in mod_include. When we are generating an
2049 internal redirect, we must set r->uri to "", not a bogus
2050 string, and not NULL. [Ryan Bloom]
2052 *) Optimized location_walk, so subrequests, redirects and second passes
2053 now reuse previous section merges on a <Location > by <Location >
2054 basis, until we mismatch with the original location_walk.
2057 *) Back out the 1.45 change to util_script.c. This change made
2058 us set the environment variable REQUEST_URI to the redirected
2059 URI, instead of the originally requested URI.
2060 [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
2062 *) Make mod_include do lazy evaluation of potentially expensive to
2063 compute variables. [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
2065 *) Fix logging of bytes sent for HEAD requests. %b and %B should
2066 log either - or 0, before this patch, they were both logging
2067 the file size. [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
2069 *) Make mod_include check for BYTE_CHECK_THRESHOLD per bucket rather
2070 than per character. [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
2072 *) Normalize the primary request, redirects and sub-requests to
2073 run the same ap_process_request_internal for consistency in
2074 robustness, behavior and security. [William Rowe]
2076 *) Fix a segfault with mod_include when r->path_info is not set
2077 (which is the case with mod_proxy). [Ian Holsman <ianh@cnet.com>]
2079 *) Add -X functionality back. This indicates to all MPMs and any other
2080 part of Apache that it should run in "debug" mode. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2082 *) Some initial support for the cygwin platform [prefork only].
2083 This is not to be confused with support for the WinNT/Win32
2084 platform, which is the recommended configuration for native
2085 Win32 users. The cygwin platform support is recommended for
2086 cygwin platform users. [Stipe Tolj <tolj@wapme-systems.de>]
2088 *) Changed syntax of Set{Input|Output}Filter. The list of filters
2089 must be semicolon delimited (if more than one filter is given.)
2090 The Set{Input|Output}Filter directive now overrides a parent
2091 container's directive (e.g. SetInputFilter in <Directory /web/foo>
2092 will override any SetInputFilter directive in <Directory /web>.)
2093 This new syntax is more consistent with Add{Input|Output}Filter
2094 directives defined in mod_mime. Also cures a bug in prior releases
2095 where the Set{Input|Output}Filter directive would corrupt the
2096 global configuration if the multiple directives were nested.
2099 *) Cured what's ailed mime for quite some time. If an AddSomething
2100 was given in the configuration (Language, Charset, Handler or
2101 Encoding) Apache would set the content type as given by AddType,
2102 but refused to check the mime.types file if AddType wasn't given
2103 for that specific extension. Setting the AddHandler for .html
2104 without setting the AddType text/html html would cause Apache to
2105 use the default content type. [William Rowe]
2107 *) Added some bulletproofing to memory allocation in the LDAP cache
2108 code. [Graham Leggett]
2110 Changes with Apache 2.0.25
2112 *) Move the installed /manual directory out of the /htdocs/ tree, so
2113 that it can be kept more independently from the remaining document
2114 root. The "Alias /manual ..." already allowed for easy projection
2115 into existing private document trees. [Martin Kraemer]
2117 *) Add specified user attributes to the environment when using
2118 mod_auth_ldap. This allows you to use mod_include to embed specified
2119 user attributes in a page like so:
2120 Hello <!--#echo var="AUTHENTICATE_CN"-->, how are you?
2123 *) Fix a performance problem with the worker MPM. We now create
2124 transaction pools once, and re-use them for each connection.
2125 [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
2127 *) Modfied mod_mime to prevent mod_negotation from serving a multiview
2128 of a 'handler' or 'filter', so that any filename extension that does
2129 not contribute to the negotiated metadata can't be served without
2130 an explicit request. E.g., if the .Z extension is associated with
2131 an unzip filter, the user request somefile.Z.html, mod_negotiation
2132 won't serve it. It can serve somefile.Z.html when somefile.Z is
2133 requested, since the .Z extension is explictly requested, if the
2134 .html extension is associated with ContentType text/html.
2137 *) Introduce the AddInputFilter filter[;filter...] ext [ext...]
2138 and corresponding AddOutputFilter syntax, to insert one or more
2139 filters by mod_mime filename extension processing.
2142 *) Fix a growing connection pool in core_output_filter() for
2143 keepalive requests. [Jeff Trawick]
2145 *) Moved split_and_pass_pretag_buckets back to being a
2146 macro at Ryans's request. Removed the return from it
2147 by setting and returning a return code instead. Updated
2148 the code to check the return code from the macro and
2149 do the right thing. [Paul J. Reder]
2151 *) Fix a segfault when a numeric value was received for Host:.
2154 *) Add a function ap_remove_input_filter. This is to match
2155 up with ap_remove_output_filter. [Ryan Bloom]
2157 *) Clean up location_walk, so that this step performs a minimum
2158 amount of redundant effort (it must be run twice, but it will no
2159 longer reparse all <Location > blocks when the request uri
2160 hadn't changed.) [William Rowe]
2162 *) Eliminate proxy: (and all other 'special') processing from the
2163 ap_directory_walk() phase. Modules that want to use special
2164 walk logic should refer to the mod_proxy map_to_location example,
2165 with it's proxy_walk and proxysection implementation. This makes
2166 either directory_walk flavor much more legible, since that phase
2167 only runs against real <Directory > blocks.
2170 *) SECURITY: Fix a security problem in mod_include which would allow
2171 an SSI document to be passed to the client unparsed.
2172 [Cliff Woolley, Brian Pane]
2174 *) Introduce the map_to_storage hook, which allows modules to bypass
2175 the directory_walk and file_walk for non-file requests. TRACE
2176 shortcut moved to http_protocol.c as APR_HOOK_MIDDLE, and the
2177 directory_walk/file_walk happen as APR_HOOK_VERY_LAST in core.c.
2180 *) Add the ability for mod_include to add the INCLUDES filter
2181 if the file is configured for the server-parsed handler.
2182 This makes the configuration for .shtml files much easier
2183 to understand, and allows mod_include to honor Apache 1.3
2184 config files. Based on Doug MacEachern's patch to PHP
2185 to do the same thing. [Ryan Bloom]
2187 *) force OpenSSL to ignore process local-caching and to always
2188 get/set/delete sessions using mod_ssl's callbacks
2189 [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli@hp.com>,
2190 Geoff Thorpe <geoff@geoffthorpe.net>]
2192 *) Make the worker MPM shutdown and restart cleanly. This also
2193 cleans up some race conditions, and gets the worker using
2194 pools more cleanly. [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
2196 *) Implement CRYPTO_set_locking_callback() in terms of apr_lock
2198 [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli@hp.com>]
2200 *) Fix for mod_include. Ryan's patch to check error
2201 codes put a return in the wrong place. Also, the
2202 include handler return code wasn't being checked.
2203 I don't like macros with returns, so I converted
2204 SPLIT_AND_PASS_PRETAG_BUCKETS into a function.
2205 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
2207 *) fix segv in mod_mime if no AddTypes are configured
2208 [John Sterling <sterling@covalent.net>]
2210 *) Enable ssl client authentication at SSL_accept time
2211 [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli@hp.com>]
2213 *) Fix a segfault in mod_include when the original request has no
2214 associated filename (e.g., we're filtering the error document for
2215 a bad URI). [Jeff Trawick]
2217 *) Fix a storage leak (a strdup() call) in mod_mime_magic. [Jeff Trawick]
2219 *) The prefork and OS/2 MPMs are overwriting the pid file when a second copy
2220 of httpd is started and shuts down due to socket conflict. Moving the
2221 call to ap_log_pid solves the problem.
2223 *) Changed the late-1.3 log_config substitution %c to %X, to log the
2224 status of the closed connection, as it conflicts with the far more
2225 common, historical ssl logging directive %...{var}c. [William Rowe]
2227 *) Added the common error/ tree to the build/install targets
2228 (similar to the common icons/ tree) for the multi-language error
2229 messages that Lars committed earlier. [William Rowe]
2231 *) Added a multi process, multi threaded OS/2 MPM mpmt_os2. [Brian Havard]
2233 *) Added a default commented-out mod_ldap and mod_auth_ldap
2234 configuration to httpd-std.conf and httpd-win.conf
2237 *) Added documentation for mod_ldap and mod_auth_ldap.
2240 *) Enabled negative caching on attribute comparisons in the LDAP cache.
2241 Fixed a problem where the default cache TTL was set in milliseconds
2242 not microseconds causing the cache to time out almost immediately.
2245 *) Fixed all the #if APR_HAS_SHARED_MEMORY checks within the LDAP
2246 module code to follow APR. [Graham Leggett]
2248 *) Fixed LDAP cleanup on graceful restarts. LDAP connections are now
2249 cleaned up when the connection pool pool is cleaned up.
2252 *) Fix a minor issue with Jeff Trawick's mod_include
2253 patch. Without this patch, the code will just allocate
2254 more bytes in get_combined_directive than are needed.
2257 *) Added the LDAP authentication module mod_auth_ldap.
2258 [Dave Carrigan <dave@rudedog.org>, Graham Leggett]
2260 *) Added the LDAP cache and connection pooling module mod_ldap.
2261 [Dave Carrigan <dave@rudedog.org>, Graham Leggett]
2263 *) Fix --enable-modules=all breakage with mod_auth_db and mod_auth_digest
2264 by allowing a module to disable itself if its prerequisites are not
2265 met. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2267 Changes with Apache 2.0.24
2269 *) Fix a couple of issues in mod_include when the tag appeared at
2270 offsets near 8192 in the file being parsed. [Jeff Trawick]
2272 *) Fix an assertion failure in mod_ssl when the keepalive timeout is
2273 reached. [Jeff Trawick]
2275 *) Numerous improvements to the Win32 build system. Introduced command line
2276 builds without requiring .mak files for MSVC 6.0 and later versions.
2277 Improved .dsp file compatibility for both Visual Studio 5.0 and 6.0 users.
2280 *) Assorted corrections and improvements to the winnt_mpm startup code. Better
2281 reporting of uninstalled services and other error conditions, and changed the
2282 default service name to Apache2. [William Rowe]
2284 *) Numerous improvements to the Win32 ApacheMonitor utility, including winnt_mpm
2285 compatibility with existing Apache 1.3 Win32 Apache management utilites.
2286 [Mladen Turk <mturk@mappingsoft.com>, William Rowe]
2288 *) Fixed the segfaults in mod_mime introduced by hash tables in 2.0.20.
2289 [William Rowe, Greg Ames]
2291 *) Rounded out the mod_mime Add/Remove pairs by adding RemoveLanguage
2292 and RemoveCharset directives. [William Rowe]
2294 *) The Unix MPMs other than perchild now allow child server
2295 processes to use the accept mutex when starting as root and
2296 using SysV sems for the accept mutex. Previously, this
2297 combination would lead to fatal errors in the child server
2298 processes. perchild can't use SysV sems because of security
2299 issues. [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames]
2301 *) Added Win32 revision stamp resources to all http binaries
2302 (including modules/ and support/ tools.) PR7322 [William Rowe]
2304 *) Fix ap_rvprintf to support more than 4K of data at one time.
2305 [Cody Sherr <csherr@covalent.net>]
2307 *) We have always used the obsolete/deprecated Netscape syntax
2308 for our tracking cookies; now the CookieStyle directive
2309 allows the Webmaster to choose the Netscape, RFC2109, or
2310 RFC2965 format. The new CookieDomain directive allows the
2311 setting of the cookie's Domain= attribute, too. PR #s 5006,
2312 5023, 5920, 6140 [Ken Coar]
2314 *) Tweak server/Makefile so that the rules for generating exports.c
2315 are compatible with make utilities which don't expand wildcards
2316 in a dependency list (e.g., OS/390 make, certain levels of GNU
2317 make). [Jeff Trawick]
2319 *) Install the SSL headers. [John Sterling <sterling@covalent.net>]
2321 *) Begin to sanitize the MPM configuration directives. Now, all
2322 MPMs use the same functions for all common MPM directives. This
2323 should make it easier to catch all bugs in these directives once.
2324 [Cody Sherr <csherr@covalent.net>]
2326 *) Close a major resource leak. Every time we had issued a
2327 graceful restart, we leaked a socket descriptor.
2330 *) Fix a problem with the new method code. We need to cast
2331 the 1 to an apr_int64_t or it will be treated as a 32-bit
2332 integer, and it will wrap after being shifted 32 times.
2333 [Cody Sherr <csherr@covalent.net> and Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
2335 *) Fix a bug in mod_expires. Previous to this patch, if you
2336 told mod_expires to add 604800 seconds to the last-modified
2337 time, it actually added 604800 usec's to the last-modified time,
2338 so that when looking at the response it looked like nothing
2339 had been done. The root of the problem was that we always compute
2340 time in usec's, but we ask users to input sec's. This means we
2341 need to convert to usec's before using those values.
2344 *) The worker MPM now handles shutdown and restart requests. It
2345 definitely isn't perfect, but we do stop the servers correctly.
2346 The biggest problem right now is that SIGHUP causes the server to
2347 just die. [Ryan Bloom]
2349 Changes with Apache 2.0.23
2351 *) Use the prefork MPM by default on Unix. [various]
2353 *) Added a systray icon monitor application for Win32.
2354 [Mladen Turk <mturk@mappingsoft.com>]
2356 *) mod_rewrite: Fix the line ending on some non-Unix systems for
2357 messages written to the rewrite log.
2358 [Richard Labennett <rlabenn@us.ibm.com>]
2360 *) All mod_autoindex query parsing is now quietly quashed with the
2361 IndexOption IgnoreClient. The IndexOption SuppressColumnSorting
2362 still drops the column sort <a href>'s for the column headers, but
2363 IgnoreClient is required to ignore these Query options entirely.
2366 *) Introduced new mod_autoindex query argument parsing for F=[0|1|2]
2367 to allow the client to select plain, FancyIndexing or HTMLTable
2368 formatting, V=[0|1] to inhibit or enable version sorting, and
2369 P=pattern to return only specific files. The old Query Arguments
2370 were reorganized as C=f for sorting column 'f' (same N, D, S, or M
2371 as before), and O=A|D for ordering ascending or descending.
2374 *) Fixed an error in mod_include's directive parsing routines which
2375 caused #if, #elif, and #else expressions containing backslashes
2376 to be improperly evaluated. [Cliff Woolley]
2378 *) Introduced new mod_autoindex IndexOptions flags: SuppressIcon to
2379 drop the icon column, SuppressRules to drop the <hr> elements,
2380 and HTMLTable to create rudimentary HTML table listings (implies
2381 FancyIndexing). [William Rowe]
2383 *) Re-introduced the mod_autoindex IndexOptions flag TrackModified
2384 from Apache 1.3.15. This is needed for two reasons, first, given
2385 multiple machines within a server farm, ETags and Last-Modified
2386 stamps won't correspond from machine to machine, and second, many
2387 Unixes don't capture changes to the date or time stamp of existing
2388 files, since these don't modify the dirent itself. [William Rowe]
2390 *) Re-introduced the mod_autoindex IndexOptions flag FoldersFirst
2391 and DirectoryWidth options from Apache 1.3.10.
2392 [William Rowe, Ken Coar]
2394 *) Eliminated FancyIndexing directive, deprecated early in Apache
2395 1.3 by the IndexOptions FancyIndexing syntax. [William Rowe]
2397 *) mod_autoindex now excludes any file names that would result in
2398 an error, other than a success or redirect. Also optimized
2399 the parent directory, always included except in the URI '/'.
2402 *) Refactored mod_negotiation and mod_mime to help mod_dir accept
2403 negotiated index pages, and prevent the server from defaulting
2404 to an autoindex of the directory. mod_negotiation will now die
2405 with a 500 Internal Error if it could match some filenames
2406 (e.g. for mod_dir) but none can be served. mod_negotation now
2407 refuses to serve any file with an extention that mod_mime doesn't
2408 recognize, and wasn't part of the request. [William Rowe]
2410 *) Eliminate mod_cgi's handling of .exe files without the .exe file
2411 extension. This is already handled by multiviews, if the admin
2412 wishes to AddHandler .exe or define a content type handler and
2413 associate .exe files with that content type. Multiviews must be
2414 enabled to allow these to be served. [William Rowe]
2416 *) Speed up the server's response to a spike in incoming workload
2417 or restarts by assigning empty scoreboard slots to new processes
2418 when they are available. [Greg Ames]
2420 *) Add a handler to mod_includes.c. This handler is designed to
2421 implement the XbitHack directive. This can't be done with a
2422 fixup, because we need to check the content-type, which is
2423 only available in the handler phase. [Ryan Bloom]
2425 *) Make the includes filter check return codes from filters lower in
2426 the filter chain. If a lower level filter returns an error, then
2427 the request needs to stop immediately. This allows mod_include to
2428 stop parsing data once a lower filter recognizes an error.
2431 *) Add the ability to extend the methods that Apache understands
2432 and have those methods <limit>able in the httpd.conf. It uses
2433 the same bit mask/shifted offset as the original HTTP methods
2434 such as M_GET or M_POST, but expands the total bits from an int to
2435 an ap_int64_t to handle more bits for new request methods than
2436 an int provides. [Cody Sherr <csherr@covalent.net>]
2438 *) Fix broken mod_mime behavior in merging its arguments. Possible
2439 cause of unexplicable crashes introduced in 2.0.20. [William Rowe]
2441 *) Solve many mod_ssl porting issues (too many to detail) with
2442 help from the whole team, but most notably [Ralf S. Engelschall,
2443 Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli@hp.com>,
2444 Doug MacEachern, William Rowe, Cliff Woolley]
2446 *) More stall fixes for the threaded & worker mpm's.
2447 Make mod_status output more accurate. Don't
2448 count workers in processes which aren't actively
2449 serving requests. [Greg Ames]
2451 *) Win32: Get SSI exec cgi tag working. [Bill Stoddard]
2453 *) Add a single listener/multiple worker MPM. This MPM is
2454 definately not fully correct, but it allows us to solve many
2455 of the problems that exist in the threaded MPM. This is a
2456 modified version of the threaded MPM. [Ryan Bloom]
2458 *) Improve content generation throughout Apache, providing closer
2459 compliance with HTML 3.2, HTML 4.01 Transitional and XHTML 1.0
2460 Transitional specifications. [William Rowe]
2462 Changes with Apache 2.0.22
2464 *) Fix a problem where the threaded MPM stalls after restarts or
2465 segfaults. Also prevent multiple active processes from using
2466 the same scoreboard slot. [Greg Ames]
2468 *) Apache/Win32 now fills in the service description with Apache's
2469 server version string, including loaded and advertised modules.
2472 *) Improved support for the Win32 build, to recover gracefully from
2473 missing apr or apr-util directories or the awk interpreter,
2474 create the proper cgi-bin examples, including a test-cgi.bat, and
2475 fix the perl shebang line for printenv.pl, when installing from
2476 the build environment. [William Rowe]
2478 *) Fix a segfault in threaded.c caused by passing uninitialized
2479 apr_thread_t * to apr_thread_join(). [Jeff Trawick]
2481 *) Use new APR number conversion functions to reduce CPU consumption
2482 when setting the content length, and in mod_log_config.
2485 *) Fix problem reported by Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>
2486 where HEAD response headers were being repeated twice for
2487 files greater than 32K bytes (4*AP_MIN_BYTES_TO_WRITE). This
2488 problem in the http_header filter was exposed by the recent rewrite
2489 of the content_length filter. [Taketo Kabe, Bill Stoddard]
2491 *) Fix seg faults in mod_status with ExtendedStatus enabled, after
2492 restarts. A garbage pointer to a vhost's server_rec from the
2493 previous generation was being left around under certain
2494 conditions. [Greg Ames]
2496 *) Fix a cosmetic problem with mod_include. Non-existant SSI vars
2497 used to appear as '(none', without the closing paren.
2498 [Günter Knauf <eflash@gmx.net>]
2500 *) Improve the exports generating awk script. In the past, we had
2501 work around problems in the awk script by avoiding some #if and
2502 #ifdefs. This has bitten us many times in generating the exports.c
2503 file. This improvement allows corrects the header file parsing.
2504 [Sander Striker <striker@apache.org>]
2506 Changes with Apache 2.0.21
2508 *) Resolve the Win32 htpasswd bug, where a file that existed would be
2509 overwritten, regardless of the -c flag.
2510 [William Rowe, Mladen Turk <mladen.turk@mail.inet.hr>]
2512 *) Introduce connection sub-pools into ab. Truncating the lifetime
2513 of these allocations means that ab no longer perpetually grows
2514 its working set, running out of memory on large request attempts.
2517 *) Make scoreboard creation a hook. This allows management
2518 modules to have access to the scoreboard at the time that it is
2519 created, and at every restart request.
2520 [Cody Sherr <csherr@covalent.net>]
2522 *) Changed AP_MPMQ_MAX_DAEMONS to refer to MaxClients and
2523 added an AP_MPMQ_MAX_DAEMON_USED to refer to the highest
2524 daemon index actually used in the scoreboard. I also
2525 updated the pertinent calls. [Paul J. Reder]
2527 *) Win32: Prevent listening sockets from being inherited by
2528 the Apache child process, CGI scripts, rotatelog process
2529 etc. If the Apache child process segfaults, any processes
2530 that the child started are not reaped. Prior to this fix,
2531 these processes inherited the listening sockets which sometimes
2532 prevented the restarted Apache child process from accepting
2533 connections (ie, the server would hang).
2536 *) Provide vhost and request strings when ExtendedStatus is on.
2539 *) Fix some issues with the pod and prefork: check the pod *after*
2540 processing a connection so that a server processing a time-
2541 consuming request bails out as soon as practical; when the
2542 parent process wakes up a server process via connect(), use an
2543 APR timeout on the connect() so that we don't hang for a long
2544 time if there aren't server processes around to do accept().
2545 [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames]
2547 *) Performance improvement to mod_mime.c. find_ct() in mod_mime,
2548 spends a lot of time in apr_table_get calls. Using the default
2549 httpd.conf, the tables for languages and charsets are somewhat
2550 large, so the time spent scanning them on each request is
2551 significant. Replacing the tables with hash tables provides
2552 a nice speedup. [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
2554 *) Add two functions to allow modules to access random parts of the
2555 scoreboard. This allows modules compiled for one MPM to access the
2556 scoreboard, even if it the server was compiled for another MPM.
2557 [Harrie Hazewinkel <harrie@covalent.net>]
2559 Changes with Apache 2.0.20
2561 *) Fix problem in content-length filter where the filter would
2562 buffer all the output from a CGI before sending any bytes
2563 down the filter stack to the network. This problem would cause
2564 significant memory consumption if the CGIs generated
2565 lots of bytes. [Bill Stoddard]
2567 *) Get non-blocking CGI pipe reads working with the bucket brigades.
2570 *) Fix seg fault on Windows when serving files cached with mod_file_cache.
2573 *) Fix a bug in the threaded MPM that would cause it to kill off all
2574 workers immediately after starting if the number of workers started
2575 was above a certain threshold. [Ryan Bloom, Bill Stoddard]
2577 Changes with Apache 2.0.19
2579 *) Fix problem with threaded MPM. The problem was that if each child
2580 process was busy serving a single long-lived request and the server
2581 was sent a graceful restart signal, the server would stop serving
2582 requests. This would happen because each child process would wait to
2583 die until the last thread was done, and the parent wouldn't spawn any
2584 new children until a process died. Now, the parent looks at the fact
2585 that the children are dying gracefully, and starts new children.
2586 Those new children only start enough threads to compliment the number
2587 of threads in the other child process that shares the same spot in
2588 the scoreboard. In this way, we make sure to never go over
2589 MaxClients. [Ryan Bloom]
2591 *) modified mod_negotiation and mod_autoindex to speed up by almost a
2592 factor of two on apr_dir_read()-enhanced platforms, such as Win32
2593 and OS2, by calling ap_sub_request_lookup_dirent() with the results
2594 already provided by apr_dir_read(). [William Rowe]
2596 *) mod_file_cache is now more robust to filtering and serves requests
2597 slightly more efficiently. [Cliff Woolley]
2599 *) Fix problem handling FLUSH bucket in the chunked encoding filter.
2600 Module was calling ap_rwrite() followed by ap_rflush() but the
2601 served content was not being displayed in the browser. Inspection
2602 of the output stream revealed that the first data chunk was
2603 missing the trailing CRLF required by the RFC. [Bill Stoddard]
2605 *) apxs no longer generates ap_send_http_header() in the example handler
2607 *) Fix an ab problem which could cause a divide-by-zero exception
2608 with certain invocations (e.g., ab -k -c 6 -n 100 localhost/).
2609 [Ian Holsman <ianh@cnet.com>]
2611 *) Solve case-insensitive platforms' confusion about negotiated
2612 filenames, allowing files of differnt case to match in choosing
2613 the document to serve. [William Rowe]
2615 *) Fix brokenness when ThreadsPerChild is higher than the built-in
2616 limit. We left ap_threads_per_child at the higher value which
2617 led to segfaults when doing certain scoreboard operations.
2620 *) Fix seg faults and/or missing output from mod_include. The
2621 default_handler was using the subrequest pool for files and
2622 MMAPs, even though the associated APR structures typically
2623 live longer than the subrequest. [Greg Ames]
2625 *) Extend mod_setenvif to support specifying regular expressions
2626 on the SetEnvIf (and SetEnvIfNoCase) directive attribute field.
2627 Example: SetEnvIf ^TS* [a-z].* HAVE_TS
2628 will cause HAVE_TS to be set if any of the request headers begins
2629 with "TS" and has a value that begins with any character in the
2630 set [a-z]. [Bill Stoddard]
2632 *) httpd children now re-bind themselves to a random CPU on
2633 multiprocessor systems on AIX via bindprocessor() in 2.0.
2634 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
2636 *) Fix htdigest. It would go into a loop in getline when adding
2637 a second user. [Bill Stoddard]
2639 *) Win32 platforms now fully support mod_userdir options. [Will Rowe]
2641 *) Automatically generate httpd.exp for AIX.
2642 DSOs now work again on AIX in 2.0
2643 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
2645 *) Add a new request hook, error_log. This phase allows modules
2646 to act on the error log string _after_ it has been written
2647 to the error log. The goal for this hook is to allow monitoring
2648 modules to send the error string to the monitoring agent.
2651 *) Modify mod_echo to make it use filters for input and output.
2652 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
2654 *) Extend mod_headers to support conditional driven Header
2655 add, append and set. Use SetEnvIf to set an envar and conditionally
2656 add/append/set headers based on this envar thusly:
2658 SetEnvIf TSMyHeader value HAVE_TSMyHeader
2659 Header add MyHeader "%t %D" env=HAVE_TSMyHeader
2661 If the request contains header "TSMyHeader: value" then header
2662 MyHeader: "t=xxxxxxxxxx D=yyyy" will be sent on the response.
2665 *) Extend mod_headers to support using format specifiers on Header
2666 add, append and set header values. Two format specifiers are supported:
2668 %t - reports, in UTC microseconds since the epoch, when the
2669 request was received.
2671 %D - reports the time, in microseconds, between when the request was
2672 received and the response sent.
2675 Header add MyHeader "This request served in %D microseconds. %t"
2677 results in a header being added to the response that looks like this:
2679 MyHeader: This request served in D=5438 microseconds. t=991424704447256
2683 *) Fix reset_filter(). We need to be careful how we remove filters.
2684 If we set r->output_filters to NULL, we also have to reset the
2685 connection's filters. [John Sterling]
2687 *) Optimise reset_filter() in http_protocol.c. [Greg Stein]
2689 *) Add a check to ap_die() to make sure the filter stack is sane and
2690 contains the correct basic filters when an error occurs. This fixes
2691 a problem where headers are not being sent on error. [John Sterling]
2693 *) New Header directive 'echo' option. "Header echo regex" will
2694 cause any headers received on the request that match regex to be
2695 echoed to (included in) the response headers.
2698 *) include/ap_compat.h tested and set APR_COMPAT_H instead of AP_COMPAT_H.
2699 This prevented the inclusion of apr_compat.h. PR #7773
2700 [Oleg Broytmann <phd@phd.pp.ru>]
2702 *) Moved util_uri to the apr-util library. This required a bunch of
2703 apr_name changes for the uri utility functions. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2705 *) Move the addition of default AP_HTTP_HTTP_HEADER filters to the
2706 insert_filter phase so that other filters are not bypassed by default.
2709 *) Reimplement mod_headers as an output filter. mod_headers can now
2710 add custom headers to inbound requests using the RequestHeader directive
2711 and to responses using the same old Header directive. [Graham Leggett]
2713 Changes with Apache 2.0.18
2715 *) Fix command-line processing so that if a bad argument is specified
2716 Apache will exit. [Jeff Trawick]
2718 *) Change the make targets and rules to be consistent in all of the
2719 Apache-owned source trees. [Roy Fielding]
2721 *) Fix processing of the TRACE method. Previously we passed bogus
2722 parms to form_header_field() and it overlaid some vhost structures,
2723 resulting in a segfault in check_hostalias().
2724 [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
2726 *) Win32: Add support for reliable piped logs. If the logging process
2727 goes down, Apache will automatically restart it. This function has
2728 been part of Apache on Unix/Linux/BSD since the early v1.3 releases.
2731 *) Do not start piped log processes during the config file
2732 preflight. This change also circumvents a problem on
2733 Windows where the rotatelog processes created during preflight
2734 was not getting cleaned up properly.
2737 *) add "Request Phase Participation" info to mod_info
2740 *) Make first phase changes to the scoreboard data structures in
2741 preparation for the rewriting of the scoreboard per my posted
2742 design notes. [Paul J. Reder]
2744 *) Fix httpd's definition of LTFLAGS to be consistent with that of apr
2745 and apr-util, allow it to be overridden by the configure command-line
2746 (default="--silent") and introduce LT_LDFLAGS to replace what we were
2747 formerly abusing as LTFLAGS. [Roy Fielding]
2749 *) Clean up the reporting of incorrect closing container tags.
2750 [Barrie Slaymaker <barries@slaysys.com>]
2752 *) Simplify the configure process by moving all libtool stuff to APR
2753 and moving hints.m4 inline. [Roy Fielding]
2755 *) Add the AP_DECLARE()/AP_CORE_DECLARE macros on the return types
2756 of functions used by mod_proxy for export in the DLL
2757 [Ian Holsman <IanH@cnet.com>]
2759 *) Prevent a hang when a cgi handled by mod_cgid tries to read a
2760 request body from its stdin but no reqest body is being written to
2761 the cgi. [Jeff Trawick]
2763 *) mod_log_config: %c connection status incorrectly logged
2764 as "-" (non-keepalive) when MaxKeepAliveRequests is set to 0.
2767 *) Get mod_cern_meta working under Windows
2770 *) Create Files, and thus MMAPs, out of the request pool, not the
2771 connection pool. This solves a small resource leak that had us
2772 not closing files until a connection was closed. In order to do
2773 this, at the end of the core_output_filter, we loop through the
2774 brigade and convert any data we have into a single HEAP bucket
2775 that we know will survive clearing the request_rec.
2776 [Ryan Bloom, Justin Erenkrantz <jerenkrantz@ebuilt.com>,
2779 *) Completely revamp configure so that it preserves the standard make
2780 variables CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, LDFLAGS and LIBS by moving
2781 the configure additions to EXTRA_* variables. Also, allow the user
2782 to specify NOTEST_* values for all of the above, which eliminates the
2783 need for THREAD_CPPFLAGS, THREAD_CFLAGS, and OPTIM. Fix the setting
2784 of INCLUDES and EXTRA_INCLUDES. Check flags as they are added to
2785 avoid pointless duplications. Fix the order in which flags are given
2786 on the compile and link lines. Remove obsolete macros APR_DOEXTRA,
2787 AC_ADD_LIBRARY, AC_CHECK_DEFINE, APACHE_PASSTHRU, and APACHE_ONCE.
2788 Added APR_SAVE_THE_ENVIRONMENT and APR_RESTORE_THE_ENVIRONMENT macros.
2789 Renamed AC_TYPE_RLIM_T macro to APACHE_TYPE_RLIM_T. [Roy Fielding]
2791 *) Get mod_tls to compile/work better on Windows. PR #7612
2792 [Bernhard Schrenk <b.schrenk@improx.com>]
2794 *) Fix shutdown/restart hangs in the threaded MPM.
2795 [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames, Ryan Bloom]
2797 *) Removed the keptalive boolean from conn_rec because it is now only
2798 used by a single routine and can be replaced by a local variable.
2799 [Greg Stein, Ryan Bloom, Roy Fielding]
2801 *) Patch prefork to put enough of the signal processing back in so that
2802 signals are all handled properly now. The previous patch fixed the
2803 deadlock race condition, but broke the user directed signal handling.
2804 This fixes it to work the way it did before my previous prefork patch
2805 (primarily, SIGTERM is now working).
2807 *) Change how input filters decide how much data is returned to the
2808 higher filter. We used to use a field in the conn_rec, with this
2809 change, we use an argument to ap_get_brigade to determine how much
2810 data is retrieved. [Ryan Bloom]
2812 *) Fix seg fault at start-up introduced by Ryan's change to enable
2813 modules to specify their own logging tags. mod_log_config
2814 registers an optional function, ap_register_log_handler().
2815 ap_register_log_handler() was being called by http_core before
2816 the directive hash table was created. This patch creates the
2817 directive hash table before ap_register_log_handler() is
2818 registered as an optional function.
2819 [jean-frederic clere <jfrederic.clere@fujitsu-siemens.com>]
2821 *) Add ap_set_int_slot() function
2822 [John K. Sterling <sterling@covalent.net>]
2824 *) Under certain circumstances, Apache did not supply the
2825 right response headers when requiring authentication.
2826 [Gertjan van Wingerde <Gertjan.van.Wingerde@cmg.nl>] PR#7114
2827 (This is a port of the change that went into Apache 1.3.19.)
2829 *) Allow modules to specify their own logging tags. This basically
2830 allows a module to tell mod_log_config that when %x is encountered
2831 a specific function should be called. Currently, x can be any single
2832 character. It may be more useful to make this a string at some point.
2835 Changes with Apache 2.0.17
2837 *) If a higher-level filter handles the the byterange aspects of a
2838 request, then the byterange filter should not try to redo the
2839 work. The most common case of this happening, is a byterange
2840 request going through the proxy, and the origin server handles
2841 the byterange request. The proxy should ignore it.
2842 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>]
2844 *) Changed the threaded mpm to have child_main join to each of the
2845 worker threads to make sure the kids are all gone before child_main
2846 exits after a signal (cleanup from perform_idle_server_maintenance).
2847 This is an extension of Ryans recent commit to make the child_main
2850 *) Add more options to the ap_mpm_query function. This also allows MPMs to
2851 report if their threads are dynamic or static. Finally, this also
2852 implements a new API, ap_show_mpm, which returns the MPM that was
2853 required into the core. [Harrie Hazewinkel <harrie@covalent.net>]
2855 *) Do not install the binaries from the support directory twice.
2856 [jun-ichiro hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>]
2858 *) The ap_f* functions should flush data to the filter that is passed
2859 in, not the the filter after the one passed in.
2860 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
2862 *) Make ab work again by changing its native types to apr types and formats.
2863 [Justin Erenkrantz <jerenkrantz@ebuilt.com>]
2865 *) Move the byterange filter and all of the supporting functions back
2866 to the HTTP module. The byterange filter turned out to be very
2867 HTTP specific, and it belongs in the HTTP module. [Greg Stein]
2869 *) Make clean, distclean, and extraclean consistently according to the
2870 Gnu makefile guidelines. [Justin Erenkrantz <jerenkrantz@ebuilt.com>]
2872 *) Fix errors in the renaming of the apr_threadattr_detach_xxx functions.
2873 This may have been causing problems stopping processes in the threaded
2876 *) Fix content-length in mod_negotiation to a long int representation.
2879 *) Remove BindAddress from the default config file.
2880 [giles@nemeton.com.au]
2882 *) Allow module authors to add a module to their Apache build using
2883 --with-module, without re-running buildconf. The syntax is:
2884 --with-module=module_type:/path/to/module.c
2885 The configure script will copy the module.c file to
2886 modules/module_type, and it will be added to the relevant Makefiles.
2887 currently, this only works for static modules. [Ryan Bloom]
2889 *) Changes required to make prefork clean up idle children properly.
2890 There was a window during which a starting worker deadlocks when
2891 an idle cleanup arrives before it completes init. Apache then keeps
2892 trying to cleanup the same deadlocked worker forever (until higher
2893 pids come along, but it still will never reduce below the deadlocked
2894 pid). Thus the number of children would not reduce to the correct
2895 idle level. [Paul J. Reder]
2897 Changes with Apache 2.0.16
2899 *) Change the default installation directory to /usr/local/apache2,
2900 as now defined by the "Apache" layout in config.layout. [Marc Slemko]
2902 *) OS/2: Added support for building loadable modules as OS/2 DLLs.
2905 *) Get MaxRequestsPerChild working with the Windows MPM.
2908 *) Make generic hooks to work, with mod_generic_hook_import/export
2909 experimental modules. [Ben Laurie, Will Rowe]
2911 *) Fix segfaults for configuration file syntax errors such as
2912 "<Directory>" followed by "</Directory" and
2913 "<Directory>" followed by "</Directoryz>". [Jeff Trawick]
2915 *) Cleanup the --enable-layout option of configure. This makes
2916 us use a consistent location for the config.layout file, and it
2917 makes configure more portable.
2918 [jun-ichiro hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>]
2920 *) Changes to 'ab'; fixed int overrun's, added statistics, output in
2921 csv/gnuplot format, rudimentary ssl support and various other tweaks
2922 to make results more true to what is measured. The upshot of this it
2923 turns out that 'ab' has often underreported the true performance of
2924 apache. Often by a order of magnitude :-) See talk/paper of Sander
2925 Temme at April ApacheCon 2001 for details.
2926 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
2928 *) Clean up mod_cgid's temporary request pool. Besides fixing a
2929 storage leak this ensures that some unnecessary pipes are closed.
2932 *) Performance: Add quick_handler hook. This hook is called at the
2933 very beginning of the request processing before location_walk,
2934 translate_name, etc. This hook is useful for URI keyed content
2935 caches like Mike Abbott's Quick Shortcut Cache.
2938 *) top_module global variable renamed to ap_top_module [Perl]
2940 *) Move ap_set_last_modified to the core. This is a potentially
2941 controversial change, because this is kind of HTTP specific. However
2942 many protocols should be able to take advantage of this kind of
2943 information. I expect that headers will need one more layer of
2944 indirection for multi-protocol work, but this is a small step in
2945 the right direction. [Ryan Bloom]
2947 *) Enable mod_status by default. This matches what Apache 1.3 does.
2950 *) Add a ScriptSock directive to the default config file. This is
2951 only enabled when mod_cgid is used.
2952 [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
2954 Changes with Apache 2.0.15
2956 *) Untangled the buildconf script and eliminated the need for build's
2957 aclocal.m4, generated_lists, build.mk, build2.mk, and a host of other
2958 libtool muck that is now under srclib/apr/build. [Roy Fielding]
2960 *) Win32: Don't accept more connections than we have worker threads
2964 *) Fix bug in the Unix threaded.c MPM that allowed child processes
2965 to fork() new child processes.
2968 *) SECURITY: Fix a major security problem with double-reverse lookup
2969 checking. Previously, a client connecting over IPv4 would not be
2970 matched properly when the server had an IPv6 listening socket.
2971 PR #7407 [Taketo Kabe <kiabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
2973 *) Change the way the beos MPM handles polling to allow it to stop and
2974 restart. Problem was the sockets being polled were being reset by
2975 the select call, so once it had accepted a connection it was no
2976 longer listening on the UDP socket we use for shutdown instructions.
2977 APR needs to be altered, patch on it's way. [David Reid]
2979 *) Empty out the brigade shared by ap_getline()/ap_get_client_block()
2980 on error exit from ap_getline(). Some other code got upset because
2981 the wrong data was in the brigade. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
2983 *) Handle ap_discard_request_body() being called more than once.
2984 [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
2986 *) Get rid of an inadvertent close of file descriptor 2 in
2987 mod_mime_magic. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
2989 *) Add a hook, create_request. This hook allows modules to modify
2990 a request while it is being created. This hook is called for all
2991 request_rec's, main request, sub request, and internal redirect.
2992 When this hook is called, the the r->main, r->prev, r->next
2993 pointers have been set, so modules can determine what kind of
2994 request this is. [Ryan Bloom]
2996 *) Cleanup the build process a bit more. The Apache configure
2997 script no longer creates its own helper scripts, it just
2999 [jean-frederic clere <jfrederic.clere@fujitsu-siemens.com>]
3001 *) Stop the forced downgrade of the connection to HTTP/1.0 for
3002 proxy requests. [Graham Leggett]
3004 *) Avoid using sscanf to determine the HTTP protocol number in
3005 the common case because sscanf is a performance hog. From
3006 Mike Abbot's Accelerating Apache patch number 6.
3007 [Mike Abbot <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com>, Bill Stoddard]
3009 *) SECURITY: Fix a security exposure in mod_access. Previously when
3010 IPv6 listening sockets were used, allow/deny-from-IPv4-address rules
3011 were not evaluated properly (PR #7407). Also, add the ability to
3012 specify IPv6 address strings with optional prefix length on Allow
3013 and Deny. [Jeff Trawick]
3015 *) Enhance rotatelogs so that a UTC offset can be specified, and
3016 the logfile name can be formatted using strftime(3). (Brought
3017 forward from 1.3.) [Ken Coar]
3019 *) Reimplement the Windows MPM (mpm_winnt.c) to eliminate calling
3020 DuplicateHandle on an IOCompletionPort (a practice which
3021 MS "discourages"). The new model does not rely on associating
3022 the completion port with the listening sockets, thus the
3023 completion port can be completely managed within the child
3024 process. A dedicated thread accepts connections off the network,
3025 then calls PostQueuedCompletionStatus() to wake up worker
3026 threads blocked on the completion port.
3029 *) Bring forward the --suexec-umask option which allows the
3030 builder to preset the umask for suexec processes. [Ken Coar]
3032 *) Add a -V flag to suexec, which causes it to display the
3033 compile-time settings with which it was built. (Only
3034 usable by root or the AP_HTTPD_USER username.) [Ken Coar]
3036 *) Mod_include should always unset the content-length if the file is
3037 going to be passed through send_parsed_content. There is no to
3038 determine if the content will change before actually scanning the
3039 entire content. It is far safer to just remove the C-L as long
3040 as we are scanning it. [Ryan Bloom]
3042 *) Make sure Apache sends WWW-Authenticate during a reverse proxy
3043 request and not Proxy-Authenticate.
3044 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>]
3046 Changes with Apache 2.0.14
3048 *) Fix content-length computation. We ONLY compute a content-length if
3049 We are not in a 1.1 request and we cannot chunk, and this is a keepalive
3050 or we already have all the data. [Ryan Bloom]
3052 *) Report unbounded containers in the config file. Previously, a typo
3053 in the </container> directive could result in the rest of the config
3054 file being silently ignored, with undesired defaults used.
3057 *) Make the old_write filter use the ap_f* functions for the buffering.
3060 *) Move more code from the http module into the core server. This
3061 is core code, basically the default handler, the default input
3062 and output filters, and all of the core configuration directives.
3063 All of this code is required in order for the server to work, with or
3064 without HTTP. The server is closer to working without the HTTP
3065 module, although there is still more to do. [Ryan Bloom]
3067 *) Fix a number of SGI compile warnings throughout the server. Fix some
3068 bad parameters to apr_bucket_read(). Fix a bad statement in
3069 ap_method_in_list(). For the mod_rewrite cache use apr_time_t
3070 consistently; we were mixing apr_time_t and time_t in invalid ways
3071 before. In load_file(), call apr_dso_error() instead of
3072 apr_strerror() so that we get a more specific string on some platforms.
3073 PR #6980 [Jeff Trawick]
3075 *) Allow modules to query the MPM about it's execution profile. This
3076 query API can and should be extended in the future, but for now,
3077 max_daemons, and threading or forking is a very good start.
3078 [Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>]
3080 *) Modify mod_include to send blocks of data no larger than 9k.
3081 Without this, mod_include will wait until the whole file is parsed,
3082 or the first tag is found to send any data to the client.
3083 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3085 *) Fix mod_info, so that <Directory> and <Location> directives are
3086 not displayed twice when displaying the current configuration.
3087 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
3089 *) Add config directives to override DEFAULT_ERROR_MSG and
3090 DEFAULT_TIME_FORMAT. This was sent in as PR 6193.
3091 [Dan Rench <drench@xnet.com>]
3093 *) Get mod_info building and loading on Win32. [William Rowe]
3095 *) Begin to move protocol independant functions out of mod_http. The goal
3096 is to have only functions that are HTTP specific in the http directory.
3099 Changes with Apache 2.0.13
3101 *) Don't assume that there will always be multiple calls to the byterange
3102 filter. It is possible that we will need to do byteranges with only
3103 one call to the filter. [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
3105 *) Move the error_bucket definition from the http module to the
3106 core server. Every protocol will need this ability, not just
3109 Changes with Apache 2.0.12
3111 *) Modify mod_file_cache to save pre-formatted strings for
3112 content-length and last-modified headers for performance.
3113 [Mike Abbot <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com>]
3115 *) Namespace protect IOBUFSIZ since it is exposed in the API.
3116 [Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>]
3118 *) Use "Basic" authentication instead of "basic" in ab, as the spec
3119 says we should. [Andre Breiler <andre.breiler@rd.bbc.co.uk>]
3121 *) Fix a seg fault in mod_userdir.c. We used to use the pw structure
3122 without ever filling it out. This fixes PR 7271.
3123 [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp> and
3124 Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
3126 *) Add a couple of GCC attribute tags to printf style functions.
3127 [Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>]
3129 *) Add the correct language tag for interoperation with the Taiwanese
3130 versions of MSIE and Netscape. [Clive Lin <clive@CirX.ORG>] PR#7142
3132 *) Migrate the perchild MPM to use the new apr signal child, and
3133 APR thread functions. [Ryan Bloom]
3135 *) Close one copy of the CGI's stdout before creating the new process.
3136 The CGI will still have stdout, because we have already dup'ed it.
3137 This keeps Apache from waiting forever to send the results of a CGI
3138 process that has forked a long-lived child process.
3139 [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
3141 *) Remove the rest of the pthreads functions from the threaded MPM.
3142 This requires the APR support for a signal thread that was just
3145 *) Make mod_dir use a fixup for sending a redirect to the browser.
3146 Before this, we were using a handler, which doesn't make much
3147 sense, because the handler wasn't generating any data, it would
3148 either return a redirect error code, or DECLINED. This fits the
3149 current hooks better. [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
3151 *) Make the threaded MPM use APR threads instead of pthreads.
3154 *) Get mod_tls to the point where it actually appears to work in all cases.
3157 *) implement --enable-modules and --enable-mods-shared for "all" and
3158 "most". [Greg Stein]
3160 *) Move the threaded MPM to use APR locks instead of pthread locks.
3163 *) Rename mpmt_pthread to threaded. This is more in line with the
3164 fact that mpmt_pthread shouldn't be using pthreads directly, and
3165 it is a smaller name that doesn't tie into anything.
3168 *) Rename the module structures so that the exported symbol matches
3169 the file name, and it is easier to automate the installation
3170 process (generating LoadModule directives from the module filenames).
3173 *) Remove the coalesce filter. With the ap_f* functions, this filter
3174 is no longer needed. [Ryan Bloom]
3176 Changes with Apache 2.0.11
3178 *) Remove the dexter MPM. Perchild is the same basic idea, but it has the
3179 added feature of allowing a uid/gid per child process. If no
3180 uid/gid is specified, then Perchild behaves exactly like dexter.
3183 *) Get perchild building again. [Ryan Bloom]
3185 *) Don't disable threads just because we are using the prefork MPM.
3186 If somebody wants to compile without threads, they must now add
3187 --disable-threads to the configure command line. [Ryan Bloom]
3189 *) Begin to move the calls to update_child_status into common code, so
3190 that each individual MPM does not need to update the scoreboard itself.
3193 *) Allow mod_tls to compile under Unix boxes where openssl has been
3194 installed to the system include files.
3195 [Gomez Henri <new-httpd@slib.fr>]
3197 *) Cleanup the mod_tls configure process. This should remove any need
3198 to hand-edit any files. We require OpenSSL 0.9.6 or later, but
3199 configure doesn't check that yet. [Ryan Bloom]
3201 *) Add a very early prototype of SSL support (in mod_tls.c). It is
3202 vital that you read modules/tls/README before attempting to build
3205 *) Fix a potential seg fault on all platforms. David Reid fixed this
3206 on BEOS, but the problem could happen anywhere, so we don't want
3207 to #ifdef it. [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
3209 *) Add new LogFormat directive, %D, to log time it takes to serve a
3210 request in microseconds. [Bill Stoddard]
3212 *) Change AddInputFilter and AddOutputFilter to SetInputFilter and
3213 SetOutputFilter. This corresponds nicely with the other Set
3214 directives, which operate on containers while the Add* directives
3215 tend to work directly on extensions. [Ryan Bloom]
3217 *) Cleanup the header handling a bit. This uses the apr_brigade_*
3218 functions for the buffering so that we don't need to compute
3219 the length of the headers before we actually create the header
3220 buffer. [Ryan Bloom]
3222 *) Allow filters to buffer data using the ap_f* functions. These have
3223 become macros that resolve directly to apr_brigade_*.
3226 *) Get the Unix MPM's to do a graceful restart again. If we are going
3227 to register a cleanup with ap_cleanup_scoreboard, then we have to
3228 kill the cleanup with the same function, and that function can't be
3229 static. [Ryan Bloom]
3231 *) Install all required header files. Without these, it was not
3232 possible to compile some modules outside of the server.
3235 *) Fix the AliasMatch directive in Apache 2.0. When we brought a patch
3236 forward from 1.3 to 2.0, we missed a single line, which broke regex
3237 aliases. [Ryan Bloom]
3239 *) We have a poor abstraction in the protocol. This is a temporary
3240 hack to fix the bug, but it will need to be fixed for real. If
3241 we find an error while sending out a custom error response, we back
3242 up to the first non-OK request and send the data. Then, when we send
3243 the EOS from finalize_request_protocol, we go to the last request,
3244 to ensure that we aren't sending an EOS to a request that has already
3245 received one. Because the data is sent on a different request than
3246 the EOS, the error text never gets sent down the filter stack. This
3247 fixes the problem by finding the last request, and sending the data
3248 with that request. [Ryan Bloom]
3250 *) Make the server status page show the correct restart time, and
3251 thus the proper uptime. [Ryan Bloom]
3253 *) Move the CGI creation logic from mod_include to mod_cgi(d). This
3254 should reduce the amount of duplicate code that is required to
3255 create CGI processes.
3256 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3258 *) ap_new_connection() closes the socket and returns NULL if a socket
3259 call fails. Usually this is due to a connection which has been
3260 reset. [Jeff Trawick]
3262 *) Move the Apache version information out of httpd.h and into release.h.
3263 This is in preparation for the first tag with the new tag and release
3264 system. [Ryan Bloom]
3266 *) Begin restructuring scoreboard code to enable adding back in
3267 the ability to use IPC other than shared memory.
3268 Get mod_status working on Windows again. [Bill Stoddard]
3270 *) Make mod_status work with 2.0. This will work for prefork,
3271 mpmt_pthread, and dexter. [Ryan Bloom]
3273 *) Correct a typo in httpd.conf.
3274 [Kunihiro Tanaka <tanaka@apache.or.jp>] PR#7154
3276 *) Really fix mod_rewrite map lookups this time. [Tony Finch]
3278 *) Get the correct IP address if ServerName isn't set and we can't
3279 find a fully-qualified domain name at startup.
3280 PR#7170 [Danek Duvall <dduvall@eng.sun.com>]
3282 *) Make mod_cgid work with SuExec. [Ryan Bloom]
3284 *) Adopt apr user/group name features for mod_rewrite. Eliminates some
3285 'extra' stat's for user/group since they should never occur, and now
3286 resolves the SCRIPT_USER and SCRIPT_GROUP, including on WinNT NTFS
3287 volumes. [William Rowe]
3289 *) Adopt apr features to simplify mod_includes. This changes the
3290 behavior of the USER_NAME variable, unknown uid's are now reported
3291 as USER_NAME="<unknown>" rather than the old user#000 result.
3292 WinNT now resolves USER_NAME on NTFS volumes. [William Rowe]
3294 *) Adopt apr features for simplifing mod_userdir, and accept the new
3295 Win32/OS2 exceptions without hiccuping. [William Rowe]
3297 *) Replace configure --with-optim option by using and saving the
3298 environment variable OPTIM instead. This is needed because configure
3299 options do not support multiple flags separated by spaces.
3302 *) Fix some byterange handling. If we get a byte range that looks like
3303 "-999999" where that is past the end of the file, we should return
3304 a PARTIAL CONTENT status code, and return the whole file as one big
3305 byterange. This matches the 1.3 handling now. [Ryan Bloom]
3307 *) Make the error bucket a real meta-data bucket. This means that the
3308 bucket length is 0, and a read returns NULL data. If one of these
3309 buckets is passed down after the headers are sent, this data will
3310 just be ignored. [Greg Stein]
3312 *) The prefork MPM wasn't killing child processes correctly if a restart
3313 signal was received while the process was serving a request. The child
3314 process would become the equivalent of a second parent process. If
3315 we break out of the accept loop, then we need to do die after cleaning
3316 up after ourselves. [Ryan Bloom]
3318 *) Change the Prefork MPM to use SIGWINCH instead of SIGUSR1 for graceful
3319 restarts. [Ryan Bloom]
3321 *) Modify the apr_stat/lstat/getfileinfo calls within apache to use
3322 the most optimal APR_FINFO_wanted bits. This spares Win32 from
3323 performing very expensive owner, group and permission lookups
3324 and allows the server to function until these apr_finfo_t fields
3325 are implemented under Win32. [William Rowe]
3327 *) Support for typedsafe optional functions - that is functions exported by
3328 optional modules, which, therefore, may or may not be present, depending
3329 on configuration. See the experimental modules mod_optional_fn_{ex,im}port
3330 for sample code. [Ben Laurie]
3332 *) filters can now report an HTTP error to the server. This is done
3333 by sending a brigade where the first bucket is an error_bucket.
3334 This bucket is a simple bucket that stores an HTTP error and
3335 a string. Currently the string is not used, but it may be needed
3336 to output an error log. The http_header_filter will find this
3337 bucket, and output the error text, and then return
3338 AP_FILTER_ERROR, which informs the server that the error web page
3339 has already been sent. [Ryan Bloom]
3341 *) If we get an error, then we should remove all filters except for
3342 those critical to serving a web page. This fixes a bug, where
3343 error pages were going through the byterange filter, even though
3344 that made no sense. [Ryan Bloom]
3346 *) Relax the syntax checking of Host: headers in order to support
3347 iDNS. PR#6635 [Tony Finch]
3349 *) Cleanup the byterange filter to use the apr_brigade_partition
3350 and apr_bucket_copy functions. This removes a lot of very messy
3351 code, and hopefully makes this filter more stable.
3354 *) Remove AddModule and ClearModuleList directives. Both of these
3355 directives were used to ensure that modules could be enabled
3356 in the correct order. That requirement is now gone, because
3357 we use hooks to ensure that modules are in the correct order.
3360 *) When SuExec is specified, we need to add it to the list of
3361 targets to be built. If we don't, then any changes to the
3362 configuration won't affect SuExec, unless 'make suexec' is
3363 specifically run. [Ryan Bloom]
3365 *) Cleaned out open_file from mod_file_cache, as apr now accepts
3366 the APR_XTHREAD argument to open a file for consumption by
3367 parallel threads on win32. [William Rowe]
3369 *) Correct a bug in determining when we follow symlinks. The code
3370 expected a stat -1 result, not an apr_status_t positive error.
3371 Also check if the APR_FINFO_USER fields are valid before we
3372 follow the link. [William Rowe]
3374 *) Move initgroupgs, ap_uname2id and ap_gname2id from util.c to
3375 mpm_common.c. These functions are only valid on some platforms,
3376 so they should not be in the main-line code. [Ryan Bloom]
3378 *) Remove ap_chdir_file(). This function is not thread-safe,
3379 and nobody is currently using it. [Ryan Bloom]
3381 *) Do not try to run make depend if there are no .c files in the
3382 current directory, doing so makes `make depend` fail.
3385 *) Update highperformance.conf to work with either prefork or
3386 pthreads mpms. [Greg Ames]
3388 *) Stop checking to see if this is a pipelined request if we know
3389 for a fact that it isn't. Basically, if r->connection->keepalive == 0.
3390 This keeps us from making an extra read call when serving a 1.0
3391 request. [Ryan Bloom and Greg Stein]
3393 *) Fix the handling of variable expansion look-ahead in mod_rewrite,
3394 i.e. syntax like %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER}, and also fix the parsing of
3395 more complicated nested RewriteMap lookups. PR#7087 [Tony Finch]
3397 *) Fix the RFC number mentioned when complaining about a missing
3398 Host: header. PR#7079 [Alexey Toptygin <alexeyt@wam.umd.edu>]
3400 *) Fix an endless loop in ab which occurred when ab was posting
3401 and the server dropped the connection unexpectedly.
3404 *) Fix a segfault while handling request bodies in ap_http_filter().
3405 This problem has been seen with mod_dav usage as well as with
3406 requests where the body was just being discarded. [Jeff Trawick]
3408 *) Some adjustment on the handling and automatic setting (via
3409 hints.m4) of various compilation flags (eg: CFLAGS). Also,
3410 add the capability to specify flags (NOTEST_CFLAGS and
3411 NOTEST_LDFLAGS) which are used to compile Apache, but
3412 not used during the configuration process. Useful for
3413 flags like "-Werror". [Jim Jagielski]
3415 *) Stop using environment variables to force debug mode or
3416 no detach. We now use the -D command line argument to
3417 specify the correct mode. -DONE_PROCESS and -DNO_DETACH.
3418 [Greg Stein, Ryan Bloom]
3420 *) Change handlers to use hooks. [Ben Laurie]
3422 *) Stop returning copies of filenames from both apr_file_t and
3423 apr_dir_t. We pstrdup the filenames that we store in the
3424 actual structures, so we don't need to pstrdup the strings again.
3427 *) mod_cgi: Fix some problems where the wrong error value was being
3428 traced. [Jeff Trawick]
3430 *) EBCDIC: Fix some missing ASCII conversion on some protocol data.
3433 *) Add generic hooks. [Ben Laurie]
3435 *) Use a real pool to dup the error log descriptor. [Ryan Bloom]
3437 *) Fix a segfault caused by mod_ext_filter when the external filter
3438 program does not exist. [Jeff Trawick]
3440 *) Fix an output truncation error when on an HTTP >= 1.0 request an
3441 object of size between DEFAULT_BUCKET_SIZE and AP_MIN_BYTES_TO_WRITE
3442 was served through mod_charset_lite (or anything else that would
3443 create a transient bucket in this size range). ap_bucket_make_heap()
3444 silently failed (fixed), transient_setaside() discovered it, but
3445 ap_save_brigade() ignored it (fixed). [Jeff Trawick]
3447 *) Ignore \r\n or \n when using PEEK mode for input filters. The problem
3448 is that some browsers send extra lines at the end of POST requests, and
3449 we don't want to delay sending data back to the user just because the
3450 browser isn't well behaved. [Ryan Bloom]
3452 *) Get SuEXEC working again. We can't send absolute paths to suExec
3453 because it refuses to execute those programs. SuEXEC also wasn't
3454 always recognizing configuration changes made using the autoconf
3457 *) Allow the buildconf process to find the config.m4 files in the correct
3458 order. Basically, we can now name config.m4 files as config\d\d.m4,
3459 and we will sort them correctly when inserting them into the build
3460 process. [Ryan Bloom]
3462 *) Get mod_cgid to use apr calls for creating the actual CGI process.
3463 This also allows mod_cgid to use ap_os_create_priviledged_process,
3464 thus allowing for SuExec execution from mod_cgid. Currently, we do
3465 not support everything that standard SuExec supports, but at least
3466 it works minimally now. [Ryan Bloom]
3468 *) Allow SuExec to be configured from the ./configure command line.
3471 *) Update some of the docs in README and INSTALL to reflect some of
3472 the changes in Apache 2.0 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
3474 *) If we get EAGAIN returned from the call to apr_sendfile, then we
3475 need to call sendfile again. This gets us serving large files
3476 such as apache_2.0a9.tar.gz on FreeBSD again. [Ryan Bloom]
3478 *) Get the support programs building cleanly again.
3479 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
3481 *) The Apache/Win32 Apache.exe and dll's now live in bin. The
3482 current directory logic now backs up over bin/ to determine the
3483 server root from the Apache.exe path.
3485 *) Apache/Win32 now follows the standard conventions of mod_foo.so
3486 loadable modules, dynamic libs are all named libfoo.dll, and the
3487 makefile.win populates the include, lib and libexec directories.
3489 *) Apache is now IPv6-capable. On systems where APR supports IPv6,
3490 Apache gets IPv6 listening sockets by default. Additionally, the
3491 Listen, NameVirtualHost, and <VirtualHost> directives support IPv6
3492 numeric address strings (e.g., "Listen [fe80::1]:8080").
3495 *) Modify the install directory layout. Modules are now installed in
3496 modules/. Shared libraries should be installed in libraries/, but
3497 we don't have any of those on Unix yet. All install directories
3498 are modifyable at configure time. [Ryan Bloom]
3500 *) Install all header files in the same directory on Unix. [Ryan Bloom]
3502 *) Get the functions in server/linked into the server, regardless of
3503 which modules linked into the server. This uses the same hack
3504 for Apache that we use for APR and apr-util to ensure all of the
3505 necessary functions are linked. As a part of thise, the CHARSET_EBCDIC
3506 was renamed to AP_CHARSET_EBCDIC for namespace protection, and to make
3507 the scripts a bit easier.
3510 *) Rework the RFC1413 handling to make it thread-safe, use a timeout
3511 on the query, and remove IPv4 dependencies. [Jeff Trawick]
3513 *) Get all of the auth modules to the point that they will install and
3514 be loadable into the server. Our new build/install mechanism expects
3515 that all modules will have a common name format. The auth modules
3516 didn't use that format, so we didn't install them properly.
3519 *) API routines ap_pgethostbyname() and ap_pduphostent() are no longer
3520 available. Use apr_getaddrinfo() instead. [Jeff Trawick]
3522 *) Get "NameVirtualHost *" working in 2.0. [Ryan Bloom]
3524 *) Return HTTP_RANGE_NOT_SATISFIABLE if the every range requested starts
3525 after the end of the response. [Ryan Bloom]
3527 *) Get byterange requests working with responses that do not have a
3528 content-length. Because of the way byterange requests work, we have to
3529 have all of the data before we can actually do the byterange, so we
3530 can compute the content-length in the byterange filter.
3533 *) Get exe CGI's working again on Windows.
3536 *) Get mod_cgid and mod_rewrite to work as DSOs by changing the way
3537 they keep track of whether or not their post config hook has been
3538 called before. Instead of a static variable (which is replaced when
3539 the DSO is loaded a second time), use userdata in the process pool.
3542 Changes with Apache 2.0a9
3544 *) Win32 now requires perl to complete the final install step for users
3545 to build + install on Win32. Makefile.win now rewrites @@ServerRoot@
3546 and installs the conf, htdocs and htdocs/manual directories.
3549 *) Make mod_include use a hash table to associate directive tags with
3550 functions. This allows modules to implement their own SSI tags easily.
3551 The idea is simple enough, a module can insert it's own tag and function
3552 combination into a hash table provided by mod_include. While mod_include
3553 parses an SSI file, when it encounters a tag in the file, it does a
3554 hash lookup to find the function that implements that tag, and passes
3555 all of the relevant data to the function. That function is then
3556 responsible for processing the tag and handing the remaining data back
3557 to mod_include for further processing.
3558 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3560 *) Get rid of ap_new_apr_connection(). ap_new_connection() now has
3561 fewer parameters: the local and remote socket addresses were removed
3562 from the parameter list because all required information is available
3563 via the APR socket. [Jeff Trawick]
3565 *) Distribution directory structure reorganized to reflect a
3566 normal source distribution with external install targets.
3569 *) The MPMs that need multiple segments of shared memory now create
3570 two apr_shmem_t variables, one for each shared memory allocation.
3571 the problem is that we can't determine how much memory will be required
3572 for shared memory allocations once we try to allocate more than one
3573 variable. The MM code automatically aligns the shared memory allocations,
3574 so we end up needing to pad the amount of shared memory we want based
3575 on how many variables will be allocated out of the shared memory segment.
3576 It is just easier to create a second apr_shmem_t variable, and two
3577 shmem memory blocks.
3580 *) Cleanup the export list a bit. This creates a single unified list of
3581 functions exported by APR. The export list is generated at configure
3582 time, and that list is then used to generate the exports.c file.
3583 Because of the way the export list is generated, we only export those
3584 functions that are valid on the platform we are building on.
3587 *) Enable logging the cookie with mod_log_config
3588 [Sander van Zoest <sander@covalent.net>]
3590 *) Fix a segfault in mod_info when it reaches the end of the configuration.
3593 *) Added lib/aputil/ as a placeholder for utility functions which are not
3594 specific to the Apache HTTP Server (but do not make sense with APR).
3595 The first utility is "apu_dbm": a set of functions to work with DBM
3596 files. This first version can be compiled for SDBM or GDBM databases.
3599 *) Complete re-write of mod_include. This makes mod_include a filter that
3600 uses buckets directly. This has now served the FAQ correctly.
3601 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3603 *) Allow modules to specify the first filter in a sub_request when
3604 making the sub_request. This keeps modules from having to change the
3605 output_filter immediately after creating the sub-request, and therefore
3606 skip the sub_req_output_filter. [Ryan Bloom]
3608 *) Update ab to accept URLs with IPv6 literal address strings (in the
3609 format described in RFC 2732), and to build Host header fields in
3610 the same format. This allows IPv6 literal address strings to be
3611 used with ab. This support has been tested against Apache 1.3 with
3612 the KAME patch, but Apache 2.0 does not yet work with this format
3613 of the Host header field. [Jeff Trawick]
3615 *) Accomodate an out-of-space condition in the piped logs and the
3616 rotatelogs.c code, and no longer churn log processes for this
3617 condition. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
3619 *) Add support for partial writes with apr_sendfile() to core_output_filter.
3622 Changes with Apache 2.0a8
3624 *) Add a directive to mod_mime so that filters can be associated with
3628 *) Get multi-views working again. We were setting the path_info
3629 field incorrectly if we couldn't find the specified file.
3632 *) Fix 304 processing. The core should never try to send the headers
3633 down the filter stack. Always, just setup the table in the request
3634 record, and let the header filter convert it to data that is ready
3638 *) More fixes for the proxy. There are still bugs in the proxy code,
3639 but this has now proxied www.yahoo.com and www.ntrnet.net (my ISP)
3643 *) Fix params for apr_getaddrinfo() call in connect proxy handler.
3646 *) APR: Add new apr_getopt_long function to handle long options.
3647 [B. W. Fitzpatrick <fitz@red-bean.com>]
3649 *) APR: Change apr_connect() to take apr_sockaddr_t instead of hostname.
3650 Add generic apr_create_socket(). Add apr_getaddrinfo() for doing
3651 hostname resolution/address string parsing and building
3652 apr_sockaddr_t. Add apr_get_sockaddr() for getting the address
3653 of one of the apr_sockaddr_t structures for a socket. Change
3654 apr_bind() to take apr_sockaddr_t. [David Reid and Jeff Trawick]
3656 *) Remove the BUFF from the HTTP proxy. This is still a bit ugly, but
3657 I have proxied pages with it, cleanup will commence soon.
3660 *) Make the proxy work with filters. This isn't perfect, because we
3661 aren't dealing with the headers properly. [Ryan Bloom]
3663 *) Do not send a content-length iff the C-L is 0 and this is a head
3664 request. [Ryan Bloom]
3666 *) Make cgi-bin work as a regular directory when using mod_vhost_alias
3667 with no VirtualScriptAlias directives. PR#6829 [Tony Finch]
3669 *) Remove BUFF from the PROXY connect handling. [Ryan Bloom]
3671 *) Get the default_handler to stop trying to deal with HEAD requests.
3672 The idea is to let the content-length filter compute the C-L before
3673 we try to send the data. If we can get the C-L correctly, then we
3674 should send it in the HEAD response.
3677 *) The Header filter can now determine if a body should be sent based
3678 on r->header_only. The general idea of this is that if we delay
3679 deciding to send the body, then we might be able to compute the
3680 content-length correctly, which will help caching proxies to cache
3681 our data better. Any handler that doesn't want to try to compute
3682 the content-length can just send an EOS bucket without data and
3683 everything will just work.
3686 *) Add the referer to the error log if one is available.
3687 [Markus Gyger <mgyger@itr.ch>]
3689 *) Mod_info.c has now been ported to Apache 2.0. As a part of this
3690 change, the root of the configuration tree has been exposed to modules
3692 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
3694 *) Get the core_output_filter to use the bucket interface directly.
3695 This keeps us from calling the content-length filter multiple times
3696 for a simple static request.
3699 *) We are sending the content-type correctly now.
3700 [Ryan Bloom and Will Rowe]
3702 *) APR on FreeBSD: Fix a bug in apr_sendfile() which caused us to report
3703 a bogus bytes-sent value when the only thing being sent was trailers
3704 and writev() returned an error (or EAGAIN). [Jeff Trawick]
3706 *) Get SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT working again. This uses the
3707 hints file to determine which platforms define
3708 SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT.
3711 *) APR: add apr_get_home_directory() [Jeff Trawick]
3713 *) Initial import of 1.3-current mod_proxy. [Chuck Murcko]
3715 *) Not all platforms have INADDR_NONE defined by default. Apache
3716 used to make this check and define INADDR_NONE if appropriate,
3717 but APR needs the check too, and I suspect other applications will
3718 as well. APR now defines APR_INADDR_NONE, which is always a valid
3719 value on all platforms.
3720 [Branko Èibej <brane@xbc.nu>]
3722 *) Destroy the pthread mutex in lock_intra_cleanup() for PR#6824.
3723 [Shuichi Kitaguchi <ki@hh.iij4u.or.jp>]
3725 *) Relax the syntax checking of Host: headers in order to support
3726 iDNS. PR#6635 [Tony Finch]
3728 *) When reading from file buckets we convert to an MMAP if it makes
3729 sense. This also simplifies the default handler because the
3730 default handler no longer needs to try to create MMAPs.
3733 *) BUFF has been removed from the main server. The BUFF code will remain
3734 in the code until it has been purged from the proxy module as well.
3737 *) Byteranges have been completely re-written to be a filter. This
3738 has been tested, and I believe it is working correctly, but it could
3739 doesn't work for the Adobe Acrobat plug-in. The output almost matches
3740 the output from 1.3, the only difference being that 1.3 includes
3741 a content-length in the response, and this does not.
3744 *) APR read/write functions and bucket read functions now operate
3745 on unsigned integers, instead of signed ones. It doesn't make
3746 any sense to use signed ints, because we return the error codes,
3747 so if we have an error we should report 0 bytes read or written.
3750 *) Always compute the content length, whether it is sent or not.
3751 The reason for this, is that it allows us to correctly report
3752 the bytes_sent when logging the request. This also simplifies
3753 content-length filter a bit, and fixes the actual byte-reporing
3754 code in mod_log_config.c
3757 *) Remove AP_END_OF_BRIGADE definition. This does not signify what
3758 it says, because it was only used by EOS and FLUSH buckets. Since
3759 neither of those are required at the end of a brigade, this was
3760 really signifying FLUSH_THE_DATA, but that can be determined better
3761 by checking AP_BUCKET_IS_EOS() or AP_BUCKET_IS_FLUSH. EOS and FLUSH
3762 buckets now return a length of 0, which is actually the amount of data
3763 read, so they make more sense.
3766 *) Allow the core_output_filter to save some data past the end of a
3767 request. If we get an EOS bucket, we only send the data if it
3768 makes sense to send it. This allows us to pipeline request
3769 responses. As a part of this, we also need to allocate mmap
3770 buckets out of the connection pool, not the request pool. This
3771 allows the mmap to outlive the request.
3774 *) Make blocking and non-blocking bucket reads work correctly for
3775 sockets and pipes. These are the only bucket types that should
3776 have non-blocking reads, because the other bucket types should
3777 ALWAYS be able to return something immediately.
3780 *) In the Apache/Win32 console window, accept Ctrl+C to stop the
3781 server, but use Ctrl+Break to initiate a graceful restart
3782 instead of duplicating behavior. [John Sterling]
3784 *) Patch mod_autoindex to set the Last-Modified header based on
3785 the directory's mtime, and add the ETag header. [William Rowe]
3787 *) Merge the 1.3 patch to add support for logging query string in
3788 such a way that "%m %U%q %H" is the same as "%r".
3791 *) Port three log methods from mod_log_config 1.3 to 2.0:
3792 CLF compliant '-' byte count, method and protocol.
3795 *) Add a new LogFormat directive, %c, that will log connection
3796 status at the end of the response as follows:
3797 'X' - connection aborted before the response completed.
3798 '+' - connection may be kept-alive by the server.
3799 '-' - connection will be closed by the server.
3802 *) Expand APR for WinNT to fully accept and return utf-8 encoded
3803 Unicode file names and paths for Win32, and tag the Content-Type
3804 from mod_autoindex to reflect that charset if the the feature
3805 macro APR_HAS_UNICODE_FS is true. [William Rowe]
3807 *) Compute the content length (and add appropriate header field) for
3808 the response when no content length is available and we can't use
3809 chunked encoding. [Jeff Trawick]
3811 *) Changed ap_discard_request_body() to use REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK,
3812 so that content input filters get dechunked data when using
3813 the default handler. Also removed REQUEST_CHUNKED_PASS.
3816 *) Add mod_ext_filter as an experimental module. This module allows
3817 the administrator to use external programs as filters. Currently,
3818 only filtering of output is supported. [Jeff Trawick]
3820 *) Most Apache functions work on EBCDIC machines again, as protocol
3821 data is now translated (again). [Jeff Trawick]
3823 *) Introduce ap_xlate_proto_{to|from}_ascii() to clean up some of
3824 the EBCDIC support. They are noops on ASCII machines, so this
3825 type of translation doesn't have to be surrounded by #ifdef
3826 CHARSET_EBCDIC. [Jeff Trawick]
3828 *) Fix mod_include. tag commands work again, and the server will
3829 send the FAQ again. This also allows mod_include to set aside
3830 buckets that include partial buckets.
3831 [Ryan Bloom and David Reid]
3833 *) Add suexec support back. [Manoj Kasichainula]
3835 *) Lingering close now uses the socket directly instead of using
3836 BUFF. This has been tested, but since all we can tell is that it
3837 doesn't fail, this needs to be really hacked on.
3840 *) Allow filters to modify headers and have those headers be sent to
3841 the client. The idea is that we have an http_header filter that
3842 actually sends the headers to the network. This removes the need
3843 for the BUFF to send headers.
3846 *) Charset translation: mod_charset_lite handles translation of
3847 request bodies. Get rid of the xlate version of ap_md5_digest()
3848 since we don't compute digests of filtered (e.g., translated)
3849 response bodies this way anymore. (Note that we don't do it at
3850 all at the present; somebody needs to write a filter to do so.)
3853 *) Input filters and ap_get_brigade() now have a input mode parameter
3854 (blocking, non-blocking, peek) instead of a length parameter.
3857 *) Update the mime.types file to the registered media types as
3858 of 2000-10-19. PR#6613 [Carsten Klapp <carsten.klapp@home.net>,
3861 *) Namespace protect some macros declared in ap_config.h
3864 *) Support HTTP header line folding with input filtering.
3867 *) Mod_include works again. This should still be re-written, but at
3868 least now we can serve an SHTML page again.
3871 *) Begin to remove BUFF from the core. Currently, we keep a pointer
3872 to both the BUFF and the socket in the conn_rec. Functions that
3873 want to use the BUFF can, functions that want to use the socket,
3874 can. They point to the same place.
3877 *) apr_psprintf doesn't understand %lld as a format. Make it %ld.
3878 [Tomas "Ögren" <stric@ing.umu.se>]
3880 *) APR pipes on Unix and Win32 are now cleaned up automatically when the
3881 associated pool goes away. (APR pipes on OS/2 were already had this
3882 logic.) This resolvs a fatal file descriptor leak with CGIs.
3885 *) The final line of the config file was not being read if there was
3886 no \n at the end of it. This was caused by apr_fgets returning
3887 APR_EOF even though we had read valid data. This is solved by
3888 making cfg_getline check the buff that was returned from apr_fgets.
3889 If apr_fgets return APR_EOF, but there was data in the buf, then we
3890 return the buf, otherwise we return NULL.
3893 *) Piped logs work again in the 2.0 series.
3896 *) Restore functionality broken by the mod_rewrite security fix:
3897 rewrite map lookup keys and default values are now expanded
3898 so that the lookup can depend on the requested URI etc.
3899 PR #6671 [Tony Finch]
3901 *) SECURITY: Tighten up the syntax checking of Host: headers to fix a
3902 security bug in some mass virtual hosting configurations
3903 that can allow a remote attacker to retrieve some files
3904 on the system that should be inaccessible. [Tony Finch]
3906 *) Add a pool bucket type. This bucket is used for data allocated out
3907 of a pool. If the pool is cleaned before the bucket is destroyed, then
3908 the data is converted to a heap bucket, allowing it to survive the
3912 *) Add a flush bucket. This allows modules to signal that the filters
3913 should all flush whatever data they currently have. There is no way
3914 to actually force them to do this, so if a filter ignores this bucket,
3915 that's life, but at least we can try with this.
3918 *) Add an output filter for sub-requests. This filter just strips the
3919 EOS bucket so that we don't confuse the main request's core output
3920 filter by sending multiple EOS buckets. This change also makes sub
3921 requests start to send EOS buckets when they are finished.
3924 *) Make ap_bucket_(read|destroy|split|setaside) into macros. Also
3925 makes ap_bucket_destroy a return void, which is okay because it
3926 used to always return APR_SUCCESS, and nobody ever checked its
3927 return value anyway.
3928 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
3930 *) Remove the index into the bucket-type table from the buckets
3931 structure. This has now been replaced with a pointer to the
3932 bucket_type. Also add some macros to test the bucket-type.
3935 *) Renamed all MODULE_EXPORT symbols to AP_MODULE_DECLARE and all symbols
3936 for CORE_EXPORT to AP_CORE_DECLARE (namespace protecting the wrapper)
3937 and retitled API_EXPORT as AP_DECLARE and APR_EXPORT as APR_DECLARE.
3938 All _VAR_ flavors changes to _DATA to be absolutely clear.
3941 *) Add support for /, //, //servername and //server/sharename
3942 parsing of <Directory> blocks under Win32 and OS2.
3943 [Tim Costello, William Rowe, Brian Harvard]
3945 *) Remove the function pointers from the ap_bucket type. They have been
3946 replaced with a global table. Modules are allowed to register bucket
3947 types and use then use those buckets.
3950 *) mod_cgid: In the handler, shut down the Unix socket (only for write)
3951 once we finish writing the request body to the cgi child process;
3952 otherwise, the client doesn't hit EOF on stdin. Small request bodies
3953 worked without this change (for reasons I don't understand), but large
3954 ones didn't. [Jeff Trawick]
3956 *) Remove file bucket specific information from the ap_bucket type.
3957 This has been moved to a file_bucket specific type that hangs off
3958 the data pointer in the ap_bucket type.
3961 *) Input filtering now has a third argument. This is the amount of data
3962 to read from lower filters. This argument can be -1, 0, or a positive
3963 number. -1 means give me all the data you have, I'll deal with it and
3964 let you know if I need more. 0 means give me one line and one line
3965 only. A positive number means I want no more than this much data.
3967 Currently, only 0 and a positive number are implemented. This allows
3968 us to remove the remaining field from the conn_rec structure, which
3972 *) Big cleanup of the input filtering. The goal is that http_filter
3973 understands two conditions, headers and body. It knows where it is
3974 based on c->remaining. If c->remaining is 0, then we are in headers,
3975 and http_filter returns a line at a time. If it is not 0, then we are
3976 in body, and http_filter returns raw data, but only up to c->remaining
3977 bytes. It can return less, but never more.
3978 [Greg Ames, Ryan Bloom, Jeff Trawick]
3980 *) mod_cgi: Write all of the request body to the child, not just what
3981 the kernel would accept on the first write. [Jeff Trawick]
3983 *) Back out the change that moved the brigade from the core_output_filters
3984 ctx to the conn_rec. Since all requests over a given connection
3985 go through the same core_output_filter, the ctx pointer has the
3989 *) Fix another bug in the send_the_file() read/write loop. A partial
3990 send by apr_send would cause unsent data in the read buffer to
3991 get clobbered. Complete making send_the_file handle partial
3992 writes to the network.
3995 *) Fix a couple of type fixes to allow compilation on AIX again
3996 [Victor J. Orlikowski <v.j.orlikowski@gte.net>]
3998 *) Fix bug in send_the_file() which causes offset to be ignored
3999 if there are no headers to send.
4002 *) Handle APR_ENOTIMPL returned from apr_sendfile in the core
4003 filter. Useful for supporting Windows 9* with a binary
4004 compiled on Windows NT.
4007 Changes with Apache 2.0a7
4009 *) Reimplement core_output_filter to buffer/save bucket brigades
4010 across multiple calls to the core_filter. The brigade will be
4011 sent when either MIN_BYTES_TO_SEND or MAX_IOVEC_TO_WRITE
4012 thresholds are hit or the EOS bucket is received.
4015 *) Create experimental filter (buffer_filter) that coalesces bytes
4016 into one large buffer before invoking the next filter in the
4017 chain. This filter is particularly useful with the current
4018 implementation of mod_autoindex when it inserted above the
4019 chunk_filter. mod_autoindex generates a lot of brigades that
4020 containing buckets holding just a few bytes each. The
4021 buffer_filter coalesces these buckets into a single large bucket.
4024 *) Add apr_sendfile() support into the core_output_filter.
4027 *) Add apr_sendv() support into the core_output_filter.
4030 *) Fix mod_log_config so that it compiles cleanly with BUFFERED_LOGS
4031 [Mike Abbott <mja@sgi.com>]
4033 *) Remove ap_send_fb. This is no longer used in Apache, and it doesn't
4034 make much sense, because Apache uses buckets instead of BUFFs now.
4037 *) send_the_file now falls back to a read/write loop on platforms that
4038 do not have sendfile.
4039 [Ryan Bloom and Brian Havard]
4041 *) Install apachectl correctly, and substitute the proper values so
4042 that it works again. [Ryan Bloom]
4044 *) Better(??) handle platforms that lack sendfile().
4047 *) APR now has UUID generation/formatting/parsing support.
4050 *) Begin the http_filter. This is an input filter that understands
4051 the absolute basic amount required to parse an HTTP Request. The
4052 goal is to be able to split headers from request body before passing
4053 the data back to the other filters.
4056 *) Bring forward from 1.3.13 the config directory implementation
4059 *) install apxs if it is created
4062 *) Added APR_IS_STATUS_condition test macros to eliminate canonical error
4063 conversions. [William Rowe]
4065 *) Now that we have ap_add_input_filter(), rename ap_add_filter() to
4066 ap_add_output_filter(). [Jeff Trawick]
4068 *) Multiple build and configuration fixes
4071 -add datadir and localstatedir substitutions
4073 -fix logfilename misspelling
4074 -fix evaluation of installation dir variables and
4075 -replace $foobar by $(foobar) to be usefull in the makefile
4079 -add rules for cross-compiling in rules.mk. Okay, rule to check for
4080 $CC_FOR_BUILD is still missing
4081 -use CHECK_TOOL instead of CHECK_PROG for ranlib
4082 -add missing "AR=@AR@" to severaly Makefile.in's
4083 -cache result for "struct rlimit"
4084 -compile all helper programs with native and cross compiler
4085 and use the native version to generate header file
4086 ["Rüdiger" Kuhlmann <Tadu@gmx.de>]
4088 *) Prepare our autoconf setup for autoconf 2.14a and for cross-
4090 ["Rüdiger" Kuhlmann <Tadu@gmx.de>]
4092 *) Fix a bug where a client which only sends \n to delimit header
4093 lines (netcat) gets a strange looking HTTP_NOT_IMPLEMENTED
4094 message. Start working on ebcdic co-existance with input
4096 [William Rowe, Greg Ames]
4098 *) If mod_so is enabled in the server always create libexec, even
4099 if there are no modules installed in this directory. This is a
4100 requirement for APXS to work correctly.
4103 *) Connection oriented output filters are now stored in the
4104 conn_rec instead of the request_rec. This allows us to add the
4105 output filter in the pre-connection phase instead of the
4106 post_read_request phase, which keeps us from trying to write an
4107 error page before we have a filter to write to the network.
4108 [Ryan Bloom, Jeff Trawick, and Greg Ames]
4110 *) Cleaning up an mmap bucket no longer deletes the mmap. An
4111 mmap can be used across multiple buckets (default_handler with
4112 byte ranges, mod_file_cache, mod_mmap_static), so cleanup of
4113 the mmap itself can't be associated with the bucket.
4116 *) Add .dll caching directive ISAPICacheFile to mod_isapi.
4119 *) Radical surgery to improve mod_isapi support under Win32.
4120 Includes a number of newer ServerSupportFunction calls, support
4121 for ReadClient (in order to retrieve POSTs greater than 48KB),
4122 and general bug fixes to more reliably load ISAPI .dll's and
4123 prevent leaking handle resources. Note: There are still
4124 discrepancies between IIS's and Apache's ServerVariables, and
4125 async calls are still not supported. Additional warnings are
4126 logged to facilitate debugging of unsupported ISAPI calls.
4129 *) Add input filtering to Apache. The basic idea for the input
4130 filters is the same as the ideas for output filters. The biggest
4131 difference is that instead of calling ap_pass_brigade, ap_get_brigade
4132 should be called, and the order of execution for the filter itself is
4133 different. When writing an output filter, a brigade is passed in,
4134 and filters operate directly on that brigade, when done, they call
4135 ap_pass_brigade. Input filters are the exact opposite. Because input
4136 is not a push operation, filters first call ap_get_brigade. When this
4137 function returns, the input filter will be left with a valid brigade.
4138 The input filter should then operate on the brigade, and return.
4141 *) Fix building on BSD/OS using its native make. The build system
4142 falls back to the BSD .include directive on that host platform.
4145 *) Expand dbmmanage to allow -d -m -s -p options for Crypt, MD5,
4146 SHA1 and plaintext password encodings. Make feature tests a
4147 bit more flexible. [William Rowe]
4149 *) Charset translation: mod_charset_lite handles output content
4150 translation in a filter. mod_charset_lite no longer ignores
4151 subrequests. A bunch of cruft related to BUFF's support for
4152 translating request and response bodies was removed.
4155 *) Move the addition of the CORE filter to the post_read_request
4156 hook in http_core.c. This removes the need to add the filter in
4157 multiple places and allows for an SSL module to be added much
4158 simpler. [Ryan Bloom]
4160 *) SECURITY: CVE-2000-0913 (cve.mitre.org)
4161 Fix a security problem that affects certain configurations of
4162 mod_rewrite. If the result of a RewriteRule is a filename that
4163 contains expansion specifiers, especially regexp backreferences
4164 $0..$9 and %0..%9, then it may be possible for an attacker to
4165 access any file on the web server. [Tony Finch]
4167 *) Fix a bug where errors that are detected during early request parsing
4168 don't produce visible HTTP error messages at the browser, because
4169 the core_filter wasn't present. [Greg Ames]
4171 *) Provide apr_socklen_t as a portability aid.
4172 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
4174 *) Overhaul of dbmmanage to allow a groups arg (as in Apache 1.2)
4175 as well as a comment arg to the add, adduser and update cmds.
4176 update allows the user to clear or preserve pw/groups/comment.
4177 Fixed a bug in dbmmanage that prevented the check option from
4178 parsing a password followed by :group... text. Corrected the
4179 seed calcualation for Win32 systems, and added -lsdbm support.
4182 *) Configured mod_auth_dbm to compile with sdbmlib under Win32.
4185 *) Avoid a segfault when parsing .htaccess files. An
4186 uninitialized tree pointer was passed to ap_build_config().
4189 *) Change the way that inet_addr & inet_network are checked for
4190 in APR's configure process to allow BeOS BONE to correctly
4191 find them. With this change BeOS BONE now builds from source
4192 with no problems. [David Reid]
4194 *) Fix a bug in apr_create_process() for Unix. The NULL signifying
4195 the end of the parameters to execve() was stored in the wrong
4196 location, overlaying the storage beyond the newargs[] array and
4197 also passing uninitialized storage to execve(), which would
4198 sometimes fail with EFAULT. [Jeff Trawick]
4200 *) Fix a bug parsing configuration file containers. With a sequence
4201 like this in the config file
4203 <IfModule mod_kilroy.c>
4206 <IfModule mod_lovejoy.c>
4211 the second container would be terminated at the blank line due to
4212 sediment in the buffer from reading the prior </IfModule> and an
4213 error message would be generated for the real </IfModule> for the
4214 second container. Also due to this problem, any two characters
4215 could be used for "</" in the close of a container.
4218 *) ap_add_filter prototype changed to remove the ctx pointer. The
4219 pointer still remains in the filter structure, but it can not be
4220 a part of the ap_add_filter prototype. The reason is that when
4221 the core uses AddFilter to add a filter to the stack it doesn't
4222 know how to allocate the ctx pointer, or even how much memory should
4223 be allocated. The filters will have to be responsible for allocating
4224 the ctx memory when they need it.
4227 *) Add an AddFilter directive. This directive takes a list of filters
4228 that should be activated for the requested resource.
4231 *) apr_snprintf(): Get quad format strings working on OS/390 (and perhaps
4232 some other platforms). [Jeff Trawick]
4234 *) Modify mod_include to be a filter. Currently, it has only been tested
4235 on actual files, but it should work for CGI scripts too.
4238 *) apr_putc(), apr_puts() for Unix: handle buffered files and interrupted
4239 writes. apr_flush() for Unix: handle interrupted writes.
4242 *) NameVirtualHost can now take "*" as an argument instead of
4243 an IP address. This allows you to create a purely name-based
4244 virtual hosting server that does not have any IP addresses in
4245 the configuration file and which ignores the local address
4246 of any connections. PR #5595, PR #4455 [Tony Finch]
4248 *) Fix some compile warnings in mod_mmap_static.c
4249 [Mike Abbott <mja@sgi.com>]
4251 *) Fix chunking problem with CGI scripts. The general problem was that
4252 the CGI modules were adding an EOS bucket and then the core added an
4253 EOS bucket. The chunking filter finalizes the chunked response when it
4254 encounters an EOS bucket. Because two EOS buckets were sent, we
4255 finalized the response twice. The fix is to make sure we only send one
4256 EOS, by utilizing a flag in the request_rec.
4259 *) apr_put_os_file() now sets up the unget byte appropriately on Unix
4260 and Win32. Previously, the first read from an apr_file_t set up via
4261 apr_put_os_file() would return a '\0'. [Jeff Trawick]
4263 *) Mod_cgid now creates a single element bucket brigade, with a pipe
4264 bucket, instead of using BUFF's and ap_r*.
4267 *) APRVARS.in no longer overwrites the EXTRA_LIBS variable.
4268 [Mike Abbott <mja@sgi.com>]
4270 *) Remove ap_bopenf from buff code. This required modifying the file_cache
4271 code to use APR file's directly instead of going through BUFFs.
4274 *) Fix compile break on some platforms for mod_mime_magic.c
4275 [John K. Sterling <sterling@covalent.net>]
4277 *) Fix merging of AddDefaultCharset directive.
4278 PR #5872 (1.3) [Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@imgsrc.co.jp>]
4280 *) Minor revamp of the rlimit sections of code. We now test
4281 explicitly for setrlimit and getrlimit. Also, unixd_set_rlimit()
4282 is now "available" even if the platform doesn't support
4283 the rlimit family (it's just a noop though). [Jim Jagielski]
4285 *) Migrate the pre-selection of which MPM to use for specific
4286 platforms to hints.m4, which contains (or should contain)
4287 all platform specific "hints". [Jim Jagielski]
4289 *) Remove IOLs from Apache. With filtering, IOLs are no longer necessary
4292 *) Add tables with non-string/binary values to APR.
4295 *) Fix some bad calls to ap_log_rerror() in mod_rewrite.
4298 *) Update PCRE to version 3.2. [Ryan Bloom]
4300 *) Change the way buckets' destroy functions are called so that
4301 they can be more directly used when changing the type of a
4302 bucket in place. [Tony Finch]
4304 *) Add generic support for reference-counting the resources used by
4305 buckets, and alter the HEAP and MMAP buckets to use it. Change
4306 the way buckets are initialised to support changing the type of
4307 buckets in place, and use it when setting aside TRANSIENT buckets.
4308 Change the implementation of TRANSIENT buckets so that it can be
4309 mostly shared with IMMORTAL buckets, which are now implemented.
4312 Changes with Apache 2.0a6
4314 *) Add support to Apache and APR for dsos on OS/390. [Greg Ames]
4316 *) Add a chunking filter to Apache. This brings us one step closer
4317 to removing BUFF. [Ryan Bloom]
4319 *) ap_add_filter now adds filters in a LIFO fashion. The first filter
4320 added to the stack is the last filter to be called. [Ryan Bloom]
4322 *) Apache 2.0 has been completely documented using Scandoc. The
4323 docs can be generated by running 'make docs'. [Ryan Bloom]
4325 *) Add filtered I/O to Apache. This is based on bucket brigades,
4326 Currently the buckets still use BUFF under the covers, but that
4327 should change quickly. The only currently written filter is the
4328 core filter which just calls ap_bwrite. [The Apache Group]
4330 *) APR locks on Unix: Let APR_LOCKALL locks work when APR isn't
4331 built with thread support. [Jeff Trawick]
4333 *) Abort configuration if --with-layout was specified and there's
4334 no layout definition file. [Ken Coar]
4336 *) Add support for '--with-port=n' option to configure. [Ken Coar]
4338 *) Add support for extension methods for the Allow response header
4339 field, and an API routine for accessing r->allowed and the
4340 list of extension methods in a unified manner. [Ken Coar]
4342 *) mod_cern_meta: fix broken file reading loop in scan_meta_file().
4343 [Rob Simonson <simo@us.ibm.com>]
4345 *) Get xlate builds working again. The apr renaming in 2.0a5 broke
4346 APACHE_XLATE builds. [Jeff Trawick]
4348 *) A configuration file parsing problem was fixed. When the
4349 configuration file started with an IfModule/IfDefine container,
4350 only the last statement in the container would be retained.
4353 Changes with Apache 2.0a5
4355 *) Perchild is serving pages after passing them to different child
4356 processes. There are still a lot of bugs, but this does work. I
4357 have made requests against the same installation of Apache, and had
4358 different servers use different user IDs to serve the responses.
4359 This change moves to using socketpair instead of an AF_UNIX socket.
4362 *) Perchild MPM still doesn't work perfectly, but it is serving pages.
4363 It can't seem to pass between child processes yet, but I think we
4364 are closer now than before. This moves us back to using Unix
4365 Domain Sockets. [Ryan Bloom]
4367 *) libapr functions and types renamed with apr_ prefix.
4368 #include "apr_compat.h" for 1.3.x backwards compat
4371 *) Fix problems with APR sockaddr handling on Win32. It didn't always
4372 return the right information on the local socket address.
4373 [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls@level8.com>]
4375 *) ap_recv() on Win32: Set bytes-read to 0 on error.
4376 [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls@level8.com>]
4378 *) Add an option to not detach from the controlling terminal without
4379 going into single process mode. This allows for much easier
4380 debugging of the process startup code. [Ryan Bloom]
4382 *) ab: don't use perror() to report the failure of an APR function.
4385 *) Make dexter, mpmt_pthread, and perchild MPMs not destroy the
4386 scoreboard on graceful restarts.
4389 *) Fix segfault/SIGSEGV when running gzip from mod_mime_magic.c.
4390 An invalid ap_proc_t was passed to ap_create_process().
4393 *) Allow modules to register filters. Those filters are still
4394 never called, but this is a step in the right direction.
4395 [Ryan Bloom and Greg Stein]
4397 *) Register the mod_cgid daemon process for cleanup so that it is
4398 killed at termination if it does not die when the parent gets
4399 SIGTERM. This change is to fix occasional problems where the
4400 process stays around. Bugs in similar logic in mod_rewrite and
4401 mod_include were also fixed. [Jeff Trawick]
4403 *) Fix a bug in the time handling. Basically, we were imploding a time
4404 in ap_parseHTTPdate, but it had bogus data in the exploded time format.
4405 Namely, tm_usec and tm_gmtoff were not filled out. ap_implode_time
4406 uses those two fields to adjust the time value. Because of the HTTP
4407 spec, both of those values can be zero'ed out safely. This fixes
4408 the bug correctly. [Ryan Bloom]
4410 *) Fix a couple of place in the Windows code where the wrong error
4411 code was being returned. [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls@level8.com>]
4413 *) Fix POOL_DEBUG (at least for prefork mpm). [Dean Gaudet]
4415 *) Added the APR_EOL_STR macro for platform dependent differences in
4416 logfiles and other raw text (such as all APR files). Fixes logfiles
4417 not terminated with cr/lf sequences in Win32. [William Rowe]
4419 *) Move all strings functions in APR to src/lib/apr/strings and create
4420 apr_strings.h for the prototypes. [Ryan Bloom]
4422 *) APR lock fixes: when using SysV sems, flock(), or fcntl(), be sure
4423 to repeat the syscall until we stop getting EINTR. I noticed a
4424 related problem at termination (SIGTERM) on FreeBSD when using
4425 fcntl(). Apache 1.3 had these new loops too. Also, make the flock()
4426 implementation work properly with child init. Previously, ap_lock()
4427 was essentially a no-op because all children were using different
4428 locks and thus nobody ever blocked. [Jeff Trawick]
4430 *) The htdocs/ tree has been moved out of the CVS source tree into
4431 a separate area for easier development. This has NO EFFECT on
4432 end-users or Apache installations. [Ken Coar]
4434 *) Integrate the mod_dav module for WebDAV protocol handling. This
4435 adds the dav and dav_fs modules, the SDBM library, and additional
4436 XML handling utilities. [Greg Stein]
4438 *) Clean out obsolete names (from httpd.h) for the HTTP Status Codes
4441 *) Update the lib/expat-lite/ library (bring forward changes from
4442 the Apache 1.3 repository). [Greg Stein]
4444 *) If sizeof(long long) == sizeof(long), then prefer long in APR
4445 configure.in. [Dave Hill <ddhill@zk3.dec.com>]
4447 *) Add ap_sendfile for Tru64 Unix. Also, add an error message for
4448 machines where sendfile is detected, but nobody has written ap_sendfile.
4449 [Dave Hill <ddhill@zk3.dec.com>]
4451 *) Compile fixes in mod_mmap_static. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
4453 *) ab would start up more connections than needed, then quit when the
4454 desired number were finished. Also fixed a logic error involving
4455 ab keepalives. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
4457 *) WinNT: Implement non-blocking pipes with timeouts to communicate
4458 with CGIs. Apache 2.0a4 had non-blocking pipes but without
4459 timeouts (i.e, if a timeout was specified, the pipe reverted to
4460 a full blocking pipe). Now the behaviour is more in line with
4461 Unix non-blocking pipes.
4464 *) WinNT: Implement accept socket reuse. Using mod_file_cache to
4465 cache open file handles along with accept socket reuse enables
4466 Apache 2.0 to serve non-keepalive requests for static files at
4467 3x the rate of Apache 1.3.(e.g, Apache 1.3 will serve 400 rps
4468 and Apache 2.0 will serve almost 1200 rps on my system).
4471 *) Merge mod_mmap_static function into mod_file_cache. mod_file_cache
4472 supports two config directives, mmapfile (same behavious as
4473 mod_mmap_static) and cachefile. Use the cachefile directive
4474 to cache open file handles. This directive only works on systems
4475 that have implemented the ap_sendfile API. cachefile works today
4476 on Windows NT, but has not been tested on any flavors of Unix.
4479 *) Cleanup the configuration. With the last few changes the
4480 configuration process automatically:
4481 inherits information about how to build from APR. Allowing
4482 APR to inform Apache that it should or should not use -ldl
4484 Detects which mod_cgi should be used mod_cgi or mod_cgid,
4485 based on the threading model
4487 Apache calls APR's configure process before finishing it's
4488 configuration processing, allowing for more information flow
4493 *) Change Unix and Win32 ap_setsockopt() so that APR_SO_NONBLOCK
4494 with non-zero argument makes the socket non-blocking. BeOS and
4495 OS/2 already worked this way. [Jeff Trawick]
4497 *) ap_close() now calls ap_flush() for buffered files, so write
4498 operations work a whole lot better on buffered files.
4501 *) Fix error messages issued from MPMs which explain where to change
4502 compiled-in limits (e.g., ThreadsPerChild, MaxClients, StartTreads).
4505 *) ap_create_pipe() now leaves pipes in blocking state. (This helps
4506 reduce the number of syscalls on Unix.) ap_set_pipe_timeout() is
4507 now the way that the blocking state of a pipe is manipulated.
4508 ap_block_pipe() is gone. [Jeff Trawick]
4510 *) Correct the problem where the only local host name that the IP stack
4511 can discover are 'undotted' private names. If no fully qualified
4512 domain name can be identified, the default ServerName will be set to
4513 the machine's IP address string. A warning is always provided if the
4514 ServerName not specified, but assumed. Solves PR6215 [William Rowe]
4516 *) Repair problems with config file processing which caused segfault
4517 at init when virtual hosts were defined and which caused ServerName to
4518 be ignored when there was no valid DNS setup. [Jeff Trawick]
4520 *) Removed pointless ap_is_aborted macro function. [Roy Fielding]
4522 *) Add ap_sendfile implementation for AIX
4523 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
4525 *) Repair C++ compatibility in ap_config.h, apr_file_io.h,
4526 apr_network_io.h, and apr_thread_proc.h.
4527 [Tyler J. Brooks <tylerjbrooks@home.com>, Jeff Trawick]
4529 *) Bring the allocation and pool debugging code back into a working
4530 state. This will need to be tested as so far it's only been used on
4533 *) Change configuration command setup to be properly typesafe when in
4534 maintainer mode. Note that this requires a compiler that can initialise
4535 unions. [Ben Laurie]
4537 *) Turn on buffering for config file reads. Part of this was to
4538 repair buffered I/O support in Unix and implement buffered
4539 ap_fgets() for all platforms. [Brian Havard, Jeff Trawick]
4541 *) Win32: Fix problem where UTC offset was not being set correctly
4542 in the access log. Problem reported on news group by Jerry Baker.
4545 *) Fix segfault when reporting this type of syntax error:
4546 "</container> without matching <container> section", where
4547 container is VirtualHost or Directory or whatever.
4550 *) SECURITY: CAN-2000-1204 (cve.mitre.org)
4551 Prevent the source code for CGIs from being revealed when
4552 using mod_vhost_alias and the CGI directory is under the document root
4553 and a user makes a request like http://www.example.com//cgi-bin/cgi
4554 as reported in <news:960999105.344321@ernani.logica.co.uk>
4557 *) Add support for the new Beos NetwOrking Environment (BONE)
4560 *) xlate: ap_xlate_conv_buffer() now tells the caller when the
4561 final input char is incomplete; ap_bwrite_xlate() now handles
4562 incomplete final input chars. [Jeff Trawick]
4564 *) Yet another update to saferead/halfduplex stuff -- need to ensure
4565 that a bhalfduplex call occurs before logging or else DNS and
4566 such can delay the last packet of the response. [Dean Gaudet]
4568 *) Some syscall reduction in APR on unix -- don't seek when setting
4569 up an mmap; and don't fcntl() more than once per socket.
4572 *) When mod_cgid is started as root, the cgi daemon now switches
4573 to the configured User/Group (like other httpd processes)
4574 instead of continuing as root. [Jeff Trawick]
4576 *) The prefork MPM now uses an APR lock for the accept() mutex.
4577 It has not been getting a lock at all recently. httpd -V now
4578 displays APR's selection of the lock mechanism instead of the
4579 symbols previously respected by prefork. [Jeff Trawick]
4581 *) Change the mmap() feature test to check only for existence.
4582 The previous check required features not used by Apache.
4585 *) Fix a couple of bugs in mod_cgid: The cgi arguments were
4586 sometimes mangled. The len parm to accept() was not
4587 initialized, leading sometimes to an endless loop of failed
4588 accept() calls on OS/390 and anywhere else that failed the call
4589 if the len was negative. Use <sys/un.h> for struct sockaddr_un
4590 instead of declaring it ourselves to fix a compilation problem
4591 on Solaris. [Jeff Trawick]
4593 *) Add Resource limiting code back into Apache 2.0. [Ryan Bloom]
4595 *) Fix zombie process problem with mod_cgi. [Jeff Trawick]
4597 *) Port mod_mmap_static to 2.0. Make it go faster. [Greg Ames]
4599 *) Fix storage overlay when loading dsos. Symptom: Apache dies at
4600 initialization if ALLOC_DEBUG is defined; no known symptom
4601 otherwise. [Jeff Trawick]
4603 *) Fix typo in configure script when checking for mod_so. bash
4604 doesn't seem to have a problem but /bin/sh on Solaris does.
4605 Symptom: "./configure: test: unknown operator =="
4608 *) Rebind the Win32 NT and 9x services control into the MPM.
4609 All console, WinNT SCM and Win9x pseudo-service control code is
4610 now wrapped within the WinNT MPM.
4613 *) Make a copy of getenv("PATH") before storing for later use. Some
4614 getenv() implementations use the same storage for successive calls.
4615 CGIs on OS/390 had a bad PATH due to this. [Jeff Trawick]
4617 *) Server Tokens work in 2.0 again. This also propogates the change
4618 to allow just the product name in the server string using
4622 Changes with Apache 2.0a4
4624 *) EBCDIC: Rearrange calls to ap_checkconv() so that most handlers
4625 won't need to call it. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
4627 *) Move pre_config hook call to between configuration read and config
4628 tree walk. This allows all modules to implement pre_config hooks
4629 and know that they will be called at an appropriate time.
4632 *) mod_cgi, mod_cgid: Make ScriptLog directive work again.
4635 *) Add pre-config hooks back to all modules.
4638 *) Fix a SIGSEGV in ap_md5digest(), which is used when you have
4639 ContentDigest enabled and we can't/don't mmap the file.
4642 *) We now report the correct line number for syntax errors in config
4643 files. [Ryan Bloom, Greg Stein, Jeff Trawick]
4645 *) Brought mod_auth_digest up to synch with 1.3, fixed ap_time_t-
4646 related bugs, and changed shmem/locking to use apr API. Shared-mem
4647 is currently disabled, however, because of problems with graceful
4648 restarts. [Ronald Tschalär]
4650 *) Fix corruption of IFS variable in --with-module= handling.
4651 Depending on the user's shell or customization thereof, there
4652 would be errors generating ap_config_auto.h later in the configure
4653 procedure. [Jeff Trawick]
4655 *) mod_cgi: Restore logging of stderr from child process when ScriptLog
4656 isn't used (as in 1.3), except that on Unix it is now logged via
4657 ap_log_rerror() instead of by the child having STDERR_FILENO refer
4658 to the error log. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
4660 *) Add '-D' argument processing for run time configuration defines.
4663 *) Organize http_main.c as independent code, such that no code or
4664 global data is exported from it. WIN32 will dynamically link it
4665 to the server core, so this will prevent mutual dependency.
4668 *) Add separate dynamic linkage tags APR_EXPORT(), APR_EXPORT_NONSTD()
4669 and APR_VAR_EXPORT to correctly resolve apr functions and globals.
4672 *) Add Win9x service execution and Ctrl+C/Ctrl+Break/Shutdown handlers.
4673 [William Rowe, Jan Just Keijser <KEIJSERJJ@logica.com>]
4675 *) Add mod_charset_lite for configuring character set translation.
4678 *) Add '-n' option to htpasswd to make it print its user:pw record
4679 on stdout rather than having to frob a text file. [Ken Coar]
4681 *) Fix saferead. Basically, we flush the output buffer if a read on the
4685 *) APR: Add ap_xlate_get_sb() so that an app can find out whether or not
4686 a conversion is single-byte only. [Jeff Trawick]
4688 *) BEOS: ap_shutdown should return APR_SUCCESS or errno. Note that
4689 the BeOS 5.0 documentation says that shutdown doesn't work yet.
4692 *) Fix some minor errors where pid was being manipulated as an int
4693 instead of the portable pid_t. [Roy Fielding]
4695 *) Fix some error log prints that were printing the pointer to a
4696 structure rather than the pid within the structure.
4697 [Jeff Trawick, Roy Fielding]
4699 *) ab: Fix a command-line processing bug; track bad headers in
4700 err_response; support reading headers up to 2K.
4701 [Ask Bjoern Hansen <ask@valueclick.com>]
4703 *) Fix ap_resolve_env() so that it handles new function added in a prior
4704 alpha (see "Added the capability to do ${ENVVAR} constructs in the
4705 config file.") as well as the constructs used by mod_rewrite.
4706 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
4708 *) Apache 2.0 builds and runs on OS/390. [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames]
4710 *) Change the EBCDIC support in functions for MD5, SHA1, and base 64 to use
4711 APR to perform translation, instead of accessing the hard-coded tables
4712 in 1.3's ebcdic.c. [Jeff Trawick]
4714 *) Fix some bugs (mostly lost 1.3 code) in ab's command-line processing.
4717 *) Add the ability to hook into the config file reading phase. Basically
4718 if a directive is specified EXEC_ON_READ, then when that directive is
4719 read from the config file, the assocaited function is executed. This
4720 should only be used for those directives that must muck with HOW the
4721 server INTERPRETS the config. This should not be used for directives
4722 that re-order or replace items in the config tree. Those changes should
4723 be made in the pre-config step.
4726 *) Add mod_example to the build system.
4729 *) APR: Add ap_xlate_conv_byte() to convert one char between single-
4730 byte character sets. [Jeff Trawick]
4732 *) Pick up various EBCDIC fixes from 1.3 (from Martin
4733 Kraemer and Oliver Reh originally according to the change log).
4736 *) Fix a couple of problems in RFC1413 support (controlled by the
4737 IdentityCheck directive). Apache did not build the request string
4738 properly and more importantly Apache would loop forever if the
4739 would-be ident server dropped the connection before sending a
4740 properly terminated response. [Jeff Trawick]
4742 *) apxs works in 2.0.
4745 *) Reliable piped logs work in 2.0.
4748 *) Introduce a hash table implementation into APR to be used for
4749 replacing tables and other random data structures in Apache.
4752 *) Add some more error reporting to htpasswd in the case of problems
4753 generating or accessing the temporary file. Also, pass in a
4754 buffer if the implementation knows how to use it (i.e., if L_tmpnam
4755 is defined). [Ken Coar]
4757 *) Configure creates config.nice now containing your configure
4758 options. Syntax: ./config.nice [--more-options]
4761 *) Fix various return code problems in APR on Win32. For most of
4762 these, APR was returning APR_EEXIST instead of GetLastError()/
4763 WSAGetLastError(). [Jeff Trawick]
4765 *) Make piped logs work again in version 2.0
4768 *) Add VPATH support to UNIX build system of Apache and APR.
4771 *) Fix ap_tokenize_to_argv to respect the const arguments that are
4775 *) Fix mm's memcpy/memset macros, pointer arithmetic was broken.
4776 Patch submitted to author.
4779 *) Fix mm configuration on Solaris 8 x86 and OS/390. Don't require
4780 /sbin in PATH on FreeBSD (all submitted to rse previously)
4783 *) Fix building Pthread-based MPMs on OpenBSD
4784 [Sascha Schumann] PR#26
4786 *) Fix ap_readdir() problem on systems where d_name[] field in
4787 struct dirent is declared with only one byte. (This problem only
4788 affected multithreaded builds.) This caused a segfault during
4789 pool cleanup with mod_autoindex on Solaris (Solaris 8 x86, at
4790 least). [Jeff Trawick]
4792 *) Fix some make-portability problems on at least Tru64, Irix
4794 [Sascha Schumann] PR#18, PR#39
4796 *) Add ap_sigwait() to support old-style sigwait() on systems
4797 like OS/390 and UnixWare.
4800 *) Add POSIX-thread flags for more platforms.
4803 *) Fix some minor bugs in ap_strerror(). Teach ap_strerror()
4804 (on Unix, at least) to handle resolver errors. Fix a bug in
4805 the definition of APR_ENOMEM so that ap_strerror() can spit
4806 out the correct error message for it.
4809 Changes with Apache 2.0a3
4811 *) mod_so reports ap_os_dso_error() if ap_dso_load() fails
4814 *) API: *HOOK* macros now have an AP_ prefix
4817 *) Win32: Eliminate redundant calls to initialize winsock.
4818 [Tim Costello <timcostello@ozemail.com.au>]
4820 *) Fix bugs initializing ungetchar for pipes.
4821 [Chia-liang Kao <clkao@CirX.ORG>]
4823 *) The ab program in the src/support directory is now portable using
4827 *) Support directory is being compiled when the server is built
4830 *) The configure option --with-program-name has been added to allow
4831 developers to rename the executable at configure time. This also
4832 changes the name of the config files to match the executable's name.
4835 *) mod_autoindex: Add `IndexOptions +VersionSort', to nicely sort filenames
4836 containing version numbers. [Martin Pool]
4838 *) ap_open(..,APR_OS_DEFAULT,..) uses perms 0666 instead of 0777 on
4839 Unix; access_log and error_log now created with these perms; non-
4840 Unix is unaffected [Jeff Trawick]
4842 *) Finished move of ap_md5 routines to apr_md5. Removed ap_md5.h.
4843 Replaced more magic numbers with MD5_DIGESTSIZE.
4844 [William Rowe, Roy Fielding]
4846 *) Win32: Get mod_auth_digest compiling and added to the Windows
4847 build environment. Not tested and I'd be suprised if it
4848 actually works. [Bill Stoddard]
4850 *) Revamp the Win32 make environment. Makefiles have been removed and
4851 Apache.dsw created to bring together all the pieces. Create new file
4852 os/win32/BaseAddr.ref to define module base addresses (to prevent
4853 dll relocation at start-up).
4854 [William Rowe, Greg Marr, Tim Costello, Bill Stoddard]
4856 *) [EBCDIC] Port Paul Gilmartin's CRLF patch from 1.3. This replaces most
4857 of the \015, \012, and \015\012 constants with macros.
4860 *) Add ap_xlate_open() et al for translation of text between different
4861 character sets. The initial implementation requires iconv().
4864 *) More FAQs and answers from comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix.
4865 [Joshua Slive <slive@finance.commerce.ubc.ca>]
4867 *) CGI output is being timed out now.
4870 *) Fix the problem with dieing quietly. dupfile now takes a pool which
4871 is used by the new apr file. There is no reason to create a new file
4872 with the same lifetime as the original file.
4875 *) Win32: Attempt to eliminate dll relocation at start-up by specifying
4876 module base addresses. This will help shooting seg faults
4877 in the field. [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
4879 *) Update Apache on Windows documentation. Add new document
4880 describing how to compile Apache on Windows.
4881 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
4883 *) ap_set_pipe_timeout(), ap_poll(), and APR_SO_TIMEOUT now take
4884 microseconds instead of seconds. Some storage leaks and other
4885 minor bugs in related code were fixed. [Jeff Trawick]
4887 *) Win32: First cut at getting mod_isapi working under 2.0
4888 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
4890 *) First stab at getting mod_auth_digest working under 2.0
4891 quick change summary:
4892 - moved the random byte generation (ap_generate_random_bytes) into APR
4893 - now uses ap_time_t
4894 - compiles and runs on linux
4896 [Brian Martin <bmartin@penguincomputing.com>]
4898 *) Win32: Move the space stripping of physical service names
4899 fix up from Apache 1.3. #include'ing "ap_mpm.h" fixes up an
4900 unresolved symbol. Add dependency checking to the
4901 CreateService call to ensure TCPIP and AFP (winsock) is started
4903 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
4905 *) Win32: Add code to perform latebinding on functions that may
4906 not exist on all levels of Windows where Apache runs. This
4907 is needed to allow Apache to start-up on Win95/98. All calls
4908 to non portable functions should be protected with
4909 ap_oslevel checks to prevent runtime segfaults.
4910 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
4912 *) Fix fallback default values for SHM_R and SHM_W [Martin Kraemer]
4914 *) Get lingering_close() working again. [Dean Gaudet, Jeff Trawick]
4916 *) Win32: Get non-blocking CGI pipe reads working under Windows NT.
4917 This addresses PR 1623. Still need to address timing out runaway
4918 CGI scripts. [Bill Stoddard]
4920 *) Win32: Make ap_stat Windows 95/98 friendly
4921 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
4923 *) Win32: Fix a bug in ap_get_oslevel which causes GetVersionEx() to
4924 always fail. Need to initialise the dwOSVersionInfoSize member of the
4925 OSVERSIONINFO struct before calling GetVersionEx, so GetVersionEx
4928 The patch also enhances ap_get_oslevel (and the associated enum) to
4929 handle selected service packs for NT4, and adds recognition for
4930 Windows 2000. This is useful, eg. if we can recognise NT4 SP2 then
4931 we can use ReadFileScatter and WriteFileGather in readwrite.c.
4932 [Tim Costello <Tim.Costello@BTFinancialgroup.com>]
4934 *) Get mod_rewrite building and running, and mod_status building for Win NT
4935 [Allan Edwards <ake@raleigh.ibm.com>]
4937 *) Patch to port mod_auth_db to the 2.0 api and also to support
4938 Berlekey DB 3.0. It works for me with both Berkeley DB 3.0.55 and
4939 2.7.7. It should work with version 1 as well but I haven't tested it.
4940 [Brian Martin <bmartin@penguincomputing.com>]
4942 *) Get APR DSO code working under Windows. Includes cross platform
4944 [Tim.Costello@BTFinancialgroup.com]
4946 *) Fix some of the Windows APR time functions.
4949 *) FAQ changes related to tidying up historical documents on the web site.
4950 [Joshua Slive <slive@finance.commerce.ubc.ca>]
4952 *) Move Windows DSO code into APR.
4955 *) Eliminate apr_win.h and apr_winconfig.h (and the ugly #ifdefs they cause).
4956 Now, apr.h and apr_config.h are generated from apr.hw and apr_config.hw
4957 at build time. At this point, the server will not compile on Windows because
4958 of the recent DSO commits. Fixing those next.
4959 [Bill Rowe & Bill Stoddard]
4961 *) Added error checking for file I/O APR routines.
4962 [Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>]
4964 *) APR: Don't use the values of resolver error codes for the
4965 corresponding APR error codes. On Unix and Win32, return the
4966 proper APR error code after a resolver error. [Jeff Trawick]
4968 Changes with Apache 2.0a2
4970 *) Renamed the executable back to httpd on all platforms other
4974 *) Allow BeOS to survive restarts, log properly and a few
4975 small things it had problems with due to the way it setup
4976 users and groups. [David Reid]
4978 *) Get mod_rewrite working with APR locks
4979 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
4981 *) Actually remove the sempahore when the lock cleanup routine
4982 is called on BeOS. [David Reid]
4984 *) Clear hook registrations between reads of the config file.
4985 When DSOs are unloaded and re-loaded the old hook pointers may
4986 no longer be valid. This fix eliminates potential segfaults.
4987 [Allan Edwards <ake@raleigh.ibm.com>]
4989 *) Fix a problem with Sigfunc not being defined or bypassed
4990 if sigaction() wasn't found. [Jim Jagielski]
4992 *) Fix the locking mechanism on BSD variants. They now use fcntl
4993 locks. This allows the server to start and serve pages.
4996 *) First cut at getting the Win32 installer to work
4997 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
4999 *) Get htpasswd compiling under Windows
5000 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
5002 *) Change the log message for a bind() failure to show the
5003 interface and port number. [Jeff Trawick]
5005 *) Import the documentation from 1.3.12 and bring parts of it
5006 up-to-date with respect to the changes that have occurred
5010 *) BeOS MPM updated. CGI bug on BeOS fixed. IP addresses
5011 now logged correctly on BeOS.
5014 *) Create one makefile for all Win32 distributions (NT/2000/95/98).
5015 Makefile.win includes the same user interface as the old
5017 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>, Jeff Trawick <trawick@us.ibm.com>]
5019 *) Win32 exec now uses COMSPEC environment string for command
5020 shell path resolution.
5021 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>] PR#3715
5023 *) Win32: ap_connect() was not returning correct error condition
5025 [Allen Prescott <allen@clanprescott.com>]
5027 *) Win32: ap_open() was broken on Win9x because an NT-specific
5028 flag was passed to CreateFile. ap_puts() added an unnecessary
5030 [Jeff Trawick <trawick@us.ibm.com>]
5032 *) Put in Korean and Norwegian index.html pages (2.0 and 1.3)
5033 which where donated by Lee Kuk Hyun and Lorant Czaran. 'Fixed'
5034 confusing ee/et name and made all extensions language/dialect
5035 rather than country reflecting. Changed example files to
5036 explicit reflect the ISO charset and added a few common
5037 ones to the example config [dirkx]
5039 *) Extend external module capability. To use this, you call
5040 configure with --with-module=path/to/mod1,path/to/mod2,etc.
5043 *) Backported the various "default charset" fixes from 1.3.12,
5044 including the AddDefaultCharset directive. [Jim Jagielski]
5046 *) Added the capability to do ${ENVVAR} constructs in the
5047 config file. E.g. 'ServerAdmin ${POSTMASTER}'. As commited
5048 it does this on a line by line basis; i.e. if the envvar
5049 expands to something with spaces you have to protect it
5050 by adding quotes around it (Unless of course you expect it
5051 to contains more than one argument. Alternatively you
5052 can compile it on a per token basis; which is what people
5053 usually expect by setting RESOLVE_ENV_PER_TOKEN. But this
5054 hampers fancier hacks.
5055 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
5057 *) Changed the 'ErrorDocument' syntax in that it NO longer
5058 supports the asymetric
5060 ErrorDocument 301 "Some message
5062 Note the opening " quote, without a closing quote. It now
5063 has either the following syntaxes
5065 ErrorDocument XXX /local/uri
5066 ErrorDocument XXX http://valid/url
5067 ErrorDocument XXX "Some Message"
5069 The recognition heuristic is: if it has a space it
5070 is a message. If it has no spaces and starts with a /
5071 or is a valid URL then treat it that way. Otherwise it
5072 is assumed to be a message.
5074 This breaks backward compatibility but makes live a hell
5075 of a lot easier for GUI's and config file parsers.
5076 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
5078 *) Changed 'CacheNegotiatedDocs' from its present/not-present
5079 syntax into a 'on' or 'off' syntax. As it currently is the
5080 only non nesting token which uses NO_ARGS and thus is an
5081 absolute pain for any config interface automation. This
5082 breaks backward compatibility. [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
5084 *) Add ability to add external modules to the build process. This is
5085 done with --with-module=/path/to/module. Modules can only be added
5086 as static modules at this point.
5089 Changes with Apache 2.0a1
5091 *) Fix FreeBSD 3.3 core dump.
5092 Basically, ap_initialize() needs to get called before
5093 create_process(), since create_process() passes op_on structure
5094 to semop() to get a lock, but op_on isn't initialized until
5095 ap_initialize() calls setup_lock(). Here is a slight
5096 rearrangement to main() which calls ap_initialize() earlier...
5097 [Jeff Trawick <trawick@us.ibm.com>]
5099 *) Enable Apache to use sendfile/TransmitFile API
5100 [Bill Stoddard, David Reid, Paul Reder]
5102 *) Re-Implement Win32 APR network I/O APIs and most of the file I/O
5106 *) Make file I/O and network I/O writev/sendv APIs consistent.
5107 Eliminate use of ap_iovec_t and use Posix struct iovec.
5108 Use seperate variable on ap_writev to set the number of iovecs
5109 passed in and number of bytes written.
5112 *) Adapt file iol to use APR functions. Replaced ap_open_file()
5113 with ap_create_file_iol(). ap_create_file_iol() requires that
5114 the file be opened prior to the call using ap_open().
5117 *) Port mod_include and mod_cgi to 2.0
5118 [Paul Reder, Bill Stoddard]
5120 *) ap_send{,v}, ap_recv, ap_sendfile API clarification --
5121 bytes_read/bytes_written is always valid (never -1). Plus
5122 some fixes to buff.c to correct problems introduced by the
5123 errno => ap_status_t changes a while back. Plus a fix to
5124 chunked encoding introduced right at the beginning of 2.0.
5127 *) Revamped UNIX build system to use autoconf and libtool.
5128 [Manoj Kasichainula, Sascha Schumann]
5130 *) port mod_rewrite to 2.0. [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
5132 *) SECURITY: More rigorous checking of Host: headers to fix security
5133 problems with mass name-based virtual hosting (whether using mod_rewrite
5134 or mod_vhost_alias).
5135 [Ben Hyde, Tony Finch]
5137 *) Add back support for UseCanonicalName in <Directory> containers.
5138 [Manoj Kasichainula]
5140 *) Added APLOG_STARTUP log type. This allows us to write an error
5141 message without any of the date and time information. As a part
5142 of this change, I also removed all of the calls to fprintf(stderr
5143 and replaced them with calls to ap_log_error using APLOG_STARTUP
5144 writing to stderr is no longer portable, because we don't direct
5145 stderr to the error log on all platforms.
5148 *) Convert error logging functions to take errno as an argument.
5149 This makes our error logs more portable, because some Windows API's
5150 don't set errno. This change allows us to still output a valid
5151 message on all of our platforms.
5154 *) mod_mime_magic runs in 2.0-dev now.
5155 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
5157 *) sendfile has been added to APR.
5158 [John Zedlewski <zedlwski@Princeton.EDU>]
5160 *) buff.c has been converted to no longer use errno.
5161 [Manoj Kasichainula]
5163 *) mod_speling runs in 2.0-dev now: a bug in readdir_r handling and
5164 interface adaption to APR functions did it. [Martin Kraemer]
5166 *) Support DSOs properly on 32-bit HP-UX 11.0
5167 [Dilip Khandekar <dilip@cup.hp.com>]
5169 *) Updated MM in APR source tree from version 1.0.8 to 1.0.11
5170 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5172 *) Cleaned APR build environment integration and bootstrap APR
5173 automatically for developers from src/Configure.
5174 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5176 *) Fixed building of src/support/htpasswd.c
5177 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5179 *) When generating the Location: header, mod_speling forgot
5180 to escape the spelling-fixed uri. (Forw-Port from 1.3)
5183 *) Moved mod_auth_digest.c from experimental to standard. [Roy Fielding]
5185 *) Change all pools to APR contexts. This is the first step to
5186 incorporating APR into Apache. [Ryan Bloom]
5188 *) Move "handler not found" warning message to below the check
5189 for a wildcard handler. [Dirk <dirkm@teleport.com>, Roy Fielding]
5190 PR#2584, PR#2751, PR#3349, PR#3436, PR#3548, PR#4384, PR#4795, PR#4807
5192 *) Support line-continuation feature in config.option file and
5193 allow the loading of multiple option sections at once via
5194 ``--with-option=<section1>,<section2>,...''
5195 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5197 *) Rebuilt CVS repository with Apache 1.3.9 as basis. [Roy Fielding]
5199 Changes with Apache MPM
5201 *) Use asynchronous AcceptEx() and a completion port to accept and
5202 dispatch connections to threads in Windows NT/2000.
5205 *) Implement WINNT Win32 MPM from original Win32 code in http_main.c
5208 *) Implement the APACI --with-option facility
5209 (per default used the config.option file).
5210 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5212 *) MPM BEOS port. [David Reid <abb37@dial.pipex.com>]
5214 *) Start to implement module-defined hooks that are a) fast and b) typesafe.
5215 Replace pre_connection module call with a register_hook call and
5216 implement pre_connection as a hook. The intent is that these hooks will
5217 be extended to allow Apache to be multi-protocol, and also to allow the
5218 calling order to be specified on a per-hook/per-module basis.
5221 *) Implement mpm_* methods as "modules". Each method gets its own
5222 subdir in src/modules (eg: src/modules/prefork). Selection
5223 of method uses Rule MPM_METHOD. [Jim Jagielski]
5225 *) Port the hybrid server from the apache-apr repository as
5226 mpm_mpmt_pthread. [Manoj Kasichainula]
5228 *) os/unix/unixd.[ch]: detach, setuid, setgid, stuff which will be common
5229 amongst the unix MPMs.
5231 *) mpm_prefork: throw away all the alarm/timeout crud; and clean up the
5232 signal handling for the new world order. [Dean Gaudet]
5234 *) Crude ap_thread_mutex abstraction so that we get the pthread stuff out
5235 of alloc.c for now. [Dean Gaudet]
5237 *) Handle partial large writes correctly. [Ben Laurie]
5239 *) Eliminate conn_rec's pointer to server. All it knows is the base server
5240 based on IP/port. [Ben Laurie]
5242 *) Port a bunch of modules to the new module structure.
5243 ["Michael H. Voase" <mvoase@midcoast.com.au>]
5245 *) I/O layering and BUFF revamp. See docs/buff.txt. [Dean Gaudet]
5247 *) Basic restructuring to introduce the MPM concept; includes various
5248 changes to the module API... better described by
5249 docs/initial_blurb.txt. [Dean Gaudet]
5251 Changes with Apache pthreads
5253 *) New buff option added: BO_TIMEOUT. It describes the timeout for
5254 buff operations (generally over a network).
5255 [Dean Gaudet, Ryan Bloom, Manoj Kasichainula]
5257 *) Created http_accept abstraction. Added 4 new functions (not exported):
5258 init_accept(), begin_accepting_requests(), get_request(),
5259 stop_accepting_requests() [Bill Stoddard]
5261 *) Fix to ap_rprintf call that allows mod_info to work properly.
5262 [James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>]
5264 *) user and ap_auth_type fields were moved from connection_rec to
5265 request_rec. [Ryan Bloom]
5267 *) Removed the ap_block_alarms and ap_unblock_alarm calls. These aren't
5268 needed in a threaded server.
5270 *) Initial pthread implementation from from Dean's apache-nspr code.
5271 [Bill Stoddard, Ryan Bloom]
5274 Changes with Apache 1.3.9
5276 *) Remove bogus error message when a redirect doesn't set Location.
5277 Instead, use an empty string to avoid coredump if the error message
5278 was supposed to include a location. [Roy Fielding]
5280 *) Don't allow configure to include mod_auth_digest unless it is
5281 explicitly requested, even if the user asked for all modules.
5284 *) Translate module names to dll names for OS/2 so that they are no more
5285 than 8 characters long and have an extension of "dll" instead of "so".
5288 *) Print out pointer to Rule DEV_RANDOM when truerand lib not found.
5289 Fix test-compile check to check for randbyte instead of trand32.
5290 Use ap_base64encode_binary/decode instead of copy in mod_auth_digest.c
5291 and tweak to make Amaya happier. [Ronald Tschalär]
5293 *) Ensure that the installed expat include files are world readable,
5294 just like the other header files. [Martin Kraemer]
5296 *) Fixed generated AddModule adjustments in APACI's `configure' script
5297 in order to allow (new) modules like mod_vhost_alias to be handled
5298 correctly (which was touched by the adjustments for mod_alias).
5299 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5301 *) For binary builds, add -R flag to apachectl to work around the lack of
5302 an absolute path to the ./libexec directory where the libhttp.ep file
5303 is needed for SHARED_CORE architectures. [Randy Terbush]
5305 *) WIN32: Create the CGI script process as DETACHED. This may solve the
5306 problem observed by some Win95/98 users where they get CGI script
5307 output sent to the console. [Bill Stoddard]
5309 *) Fix (re)naming in the uuencode/decode section. The ap/ap_
5310 routines are now called ap_base64* and are 'plain' (i.e., no
5311 pool access or anything clever). Inside util.c the routines acting
5312 like pstrdup are called ap_pbase64encode() and ap_pbase64decode().
5313 The oddly named ap_uuencode(), ap_uudecode() are kept around for
5314 now but deprecated. [dirkx]
5316 *) Clean up the base64 and SHA1 additions and make sure they are
5317 represented in the ApacheCore.def, ApacheCoreOS2.def, and httpd.exp
5318 files. [Roy Fielding]
5320 *) WIN32: Migrate to InstallShield 5.5 and provide a bit more error
5321 checking. Allow compiling on VS 6.0. [Randy Terbush]
5323 *) Fixed assumption of absolute paths in binbuild.sh. [Tony Finch]
5325 *) Use TestCompile to search for the truerand library (rather than blindly
5326 assuming its existence). If it is not found, complain (but do not
5327 exit - yet). [Martin Kraemer]
5329 *) We forgot to add the new exported function names to
5330 src/support/httpd.exp. [Bill Stoddard, Randy Terbush]
5332 *) Add description of -T command-line option to usage().
5333 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5335 *) For "some" platforms (notably, EBCDIC based ones), libos needs to be
5336 searched only AFTER libap has been searched, because libap needs
5337 some symbols from libos. [Martin Kraemer]
5339 *) Fix conflict with original mod_digest related to the symbol of the
5340 module dispatch list (which has to be unique for DSO and follow the
5341 usual conventions for the installation procedure).
5342 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5344 *) Add a dbm-library check for the "usual places" (-ldbm, -lndbm, -ldb)
5345 for other platforms as well. [Martin Kraemer]
5347 *) Make ap_sha1.c compile for EBCDIC platforms: replace remaining LONG
5348 types by AP_LONG and replace reference to renamed variable 'ubuf'
5349 by 'buffer'. [Martin Kraemer]
5351 Changes with Apache 1.3.8 [not released]
5353 *) Flush the output buffer immediately after sending an error or redirect
5354 response, since the result may be needed by the client to abort a
5355 long data transfer or restart a series of pipelined requests.
5356 [Tom Vaughan <tvaughan@aventail.com>, Roy Fielding]
5358 *) PORT: Improved compilation and DSO support on Sequent DYNIX/ptx.
5359 [Ian Turner <iant@sequent.com>] PR#4735
5361 *) Local struct mmap in http_core.c conflicted with system structure
5362 name on DYNIX -- changed to mmap_rec. [Roy Fielding] PR#4735
5364 *) Added updated mod_digest as modules/experimental/mod_auth_digest.
5365 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald@innovation.ch>]
5367 *) Fix a memory leak where the module counts were getting messed
5368 up across restarts. [David Harris <dharris@drh.net>]
5370 *) CIDR addresses such as a.b.c.d/24 where d != 0 weren't handled
5371 properly in mod_access.
5372 ["Paul J. Reder" <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#4770
5374 *) RewriteLock/RewriteMap didn't work properly with virtual hosts.
5375 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su>] PR#3874
5377 *) PORT: Support for compaq/tandem/com.
5378 [Michael Ottati <michael.ottati@compaq.com>, dirkx]
5380 *) Added SHA1 password encryption support to easy migration from
5381 Netscape servers. See support/SHA1 for more information.
5382 Caused the separation of ap_md5.c into md5, sha1 and a general
5383 ap_checkpass.c with just a validate_passwd routine. Added a
5384 couple of flags to support/htpasswd. Some reuse of the to64()
5385 function; hence renamed to ap_to64().
5386 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Clinton Wong <clintdw@netcom.com>]
5388 *) Change for EBCDIC platforms (TPF and BS2000) to correctly deal
5389 with ASCII/EBCDIC conversions in "ident" query.
5390 [David McCreedy <McCreedy@us.ibm.com>]
5392 *) Get rid of redefinition warning on MAC_OS_X_SERVER platform.
5393 Change "Power Macintosh" to Power* so if uname prints "Power Book"
5394 we're still happy on Rhapsody platforms. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
5396 *) Fix SIGSEGV on some systems because the Vary fix below included
5397 a call to table_do with a variable argument list that was not
5398 NULL terminated. Replaced with better implementation. [Roy Fielding]
5400 Changes with Apache 1.3.7 [not released]
5402 *) The "Vary" response header field is now sanitised right before
5403 the header is sent back to the client. Multiple "Vary" fields
5404 are combined, and duplicate tokens (e.g., "Vary: host, host" or
5405 "Vary: host, negotiate, host, accept-language") are reduced to
5406 single instances. This is a better solution than the force-no-vary
5407 one (which is still valid for clients that can't cope with Vary
5408 at all). PR#3118 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Ken Coar]
5410 *) Portability changes for BeOS. [David Reid abb37@dial.pipex.com]
5412 *) Link DSO's with "gcc -shared" instead of "ld -Bshareable" at
5413 least on Linux and FreeBSD for now.
5416 *) Win32: More apache -k restart work. Restarts are now honored
5417 immediately and connections in the listen queue are -not- lost.
5418 This is made possible by the use of the WSADuplicateSocket()
5419 call. The listeners are opened in the parent, duplicated, then
5420 the duplicates are passed to the child. The original listen sockets
5421 are not closed by the parent across a restart, thus the listen queue
5423 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
5425 *) Fix handling of case when a client has sent "Expect: 100-continue"
5426 and we are going to respond with an error, but get stuck waiting to
5427 discard the body in the pointless hope of preserving the connection.
5428 [Roy Fielding, Joe Orton <jeo101@york.ac.uk>] PR#4499, PR#3806
5430 *) Fix 'configure' to work correctly with SysV-based versions of
5431 'tr' (consistent with Configure's use as well). [Jim Jagielski]
5433 *) apxs: Add "-S var=val" option which allows for override of CFG_*
5434 built-in values. Add "-e" option which works like -i but doesn't
5435 install the DSO; useful for editing httpd.conf with apxs. Fix
5436 editing code so that multiple invocations of apxs -a will not
5437 create duplicate LoadModule/AddModule entries; apxs can now be
5438 used to re- enable/disable a module. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
5440 *) Win32: Update the server to use Winsock 2. Specifically, link with
5441 ws2_32.lib rather than wsock32.lib. This gives us access to
5442 WSADuplcateSocket() in addition to some other enhanced comm APIs.
5443 Win 95 users may need to update their TCP/IP stack to pick up
5444 Winsock 2. (See http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/)
5445 [Bill Stoddard stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com]
5447 *) Win32: Redirect CGI script stderr (script debug info) into the
5448 error.log when CGI scripts fail. This makes Apache on Win32
5449 behave more like Unix.
5450 [Bill Stoddard stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com]
5452 *) Fixed `httpd' usage display: -D was missing.
5453 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4614
5455 *) Fix `make r' test procedure in src/regex/: ap_isprint was not found.
5456 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4561, PR#4562
5458 *) OS/2: Fix problem with accept lock semaphores where server would die with
5459 "OS2SEM: Error 105 getting accept lock. Exiting!"
5460 [Brian Havard] PR#4505
5462 *) Add DSO support for DGUX 4.x using gcc. Tested on x86 platforms.
5463 [Randy Terbush <randy@covalent.net>]
5465 *) Add the new mass-vhost module (mod_vhost_alias.c) developed and
5466 used by Demon Internet, Ltd. [Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net>]
5468 *) Better GCC detection for DSO flags under Solaris 2 where the `cc'
5469 command potentially _is_ GCC. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5471 *) Fix apxs build issues on AIX
5472 [Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@raleigh.ibm.com>]
5474 *) DocumentRoot Checking: Under previous versions, when Apache
5475 first started up, it used to do a stat of each DocumentRoot to
5476 see if it existed and was a directory. If not, then an error
5477 message was printed. THIS HAS BEEN DISABLED. If DocumentRoot
5478 does not exist, you will get error messages in error_log. If
5479 the '-t' command line option is used (to check the configuration)
5480 the check of DocumentRoot IS performed. An additional command
5481 line option, '-T', has been added if you want to avoid the
5482 DocumentRoot check even when checking the configuration.
5485 *) Win32: The query switch "apache -S" didn't exit after showing the
5486 vhost settings. That was inconsistent with the other query functions.
5487 [Bill Stoddard - Fixed by Martin on Unix in 1.3.4]
5489 *) Win32: Changed behaviour of apache -k restart.
5490 Previously, the server would drain all connections in the stack's
5491 listen queue before honoring the restart. On a busy server, this
5492 could take hours. Now, a restart is honored almost immediately.
5493 All connections in Apache's queues are handled but connections in
5494 the stack's listen queue are discarded. Restart triggered by
5495 MaxRequestPerChild is unchanged.
5496 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
5498 *) Win32: Eliminated unnecessary call to wait_for_multiple_objects in
5499 the accept loop. Good for a 5% performance boost. Cleaned up
5500 parent/child process management code.
5501 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
5503 *) Added ceiling on file size for memory mapped files.
5504 [John Giannandrea <jg@meer.net>] PR#4122
5506 *) Fix ndbm.h include problems with brain-dead glibc >= 2.1 which
5507 has ndbm.h in a non-standard db1/ subdir. PR#4431, PR#4528
5508 [Henri Gomez <gomez@slib.fr>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
5510 *) Determine AP_BYTE_ORDER for ap_config_auto.h and already
5511 use this at least for Expat. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5513 *) Allow .module files to specify libraries with Lib:.
5516 *) Allow SetEnvIf[NoCase] to test environment variables as well
5517 as header fields and request attributes. [Ken Coar]
5519 *) Fix mod_autoindex's handling of ScanHTMLTitles when file
5520 content-types are "text/html;parameters". PR#4524 [Ken Coar]
5522 *) Remove "mxb" support from mod_negotiation -- it was a draft feature
5523 never accepted into any standard, and it opens up certain DoS
5524 attacks. [Koen Holtman <Koen.Holtman@cern.ch>]
5526 *) TestCompile updated. We can now run programs and output the
5527 results during the Configure process. [ Jim Jagielski]
5529 *) The source is now quad (long long) aware as needed. Specifically,
5530 the Configure process determines the correct size of off_t and
5531 *void. When the OS/platform/compiler supports quads, ap_snprintf()
5532 provides for the 'q' format qualifier (if quads are not available,
5533 'q' is silently "demoted" to long). [Jim Jagielski]
5535 *) When the username or password fed to htpasswd is too long, include the
5536 size limit in the error message. Also report illegal characters
5537 (currently only ':') in the username. Add the size restrictions
5538 to the man page. [Ken Coar]
5540 *) Fixed the configure --without-support option so it doesn't result in
5541 an infinite loop. [Marc Slemko]
5543 *) Piped error logs could cause a segfault if an error occured
5544 during configuration after a restart.
5545 [Aidan Cully <aidan@panix.com>] PR#4456
5547 *) If a "Location" field was stored in r->err_headers_out rather
5548 than r->headers_out, redirect processing wouldn't find it and
5549 the server would core dump on ap_escape_html(NULL). Check both
5550 tables and raise HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR with a log message
5551 if Location isn't set. [Doug MacEachern, Ken Coar]
5553 *) Add RULE_EXPAT, the src/lib/ directory structure, and a modified copy
5554 of the Expat 1.0.2 distribution. [Greg Stein]
5556 *) Replace regexec() calls with calls to a new API stub function
5557 ap_regexec(). This solves problems with DSO modules which use the regex
5558 library. [Jens-Uwe Mager <jum@helios.de>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
5560 *) Add 'Request_Protocol' special keyword to mod_setenvif so that
5561 environment variables can be set according to the protocol version
5562 (e.g., HTTP/0.9 or HTTP/1.1) of the request. [Ken Coar]
5564 *) Add DSO support for OpenStep (Mach 4.2) platform.
5565 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>] PR#3997
5567 *) Fix sed regex for generating ap_config_auto.h in src/Configure.
5568 [Jan Gallo <gallo@pvt.sk>] PR#3690, PR#4373
5570 *) Switch to /bin/sh5 in APACI on Ultrix and friends to avoid problems with
5571 their brain-dead /bin/sh. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4372
5573 *) Better DSO flags recognition on NetBSD platforms using ELF.
5574 [Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>] PR#4310
5576 *) Always log months in english format for %t in mod_log_config.
5577 [Petr Lampa <lampa@fee.vutbr.cz>] PR#4366, 679
5579 *) Support for server-parsed and multiview-determined ReadmeName and
5580 HeaderName files in mod_autoindex. Removed the restriction on
5581 "/"s in ReadmeName and HeaderName directives since the *sub_req*
5582 routines will deal with the access issues. (It's now possible to
5583 have {site|group|project|customer|...} wide readmes and headers.)
5584 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx@rsbx.net>, Ken Coar] PR#1574, 3026, 3529,
5587 *) When stat() fails, don't assume anything about the contents of
5588 the struct stat. [Ed Korthof <ed@bitmechanic.com>]
5590 *) It's OK for a semop to return EINTR, just loop around and try
5591 again. [Dean Gaudet]
5593 *) Fix configuration engine re-entrant hangups, which solve a
5594 handful of problems seen with mod_perl <Perl> configuration sections
5595 [Salvador Ortiz Garcia <sog@msg.com.mx>]
5597 *) Mac OS and Mac OS X Server now use the appropriate custom layout
5598 by default when building with APACI; allow for platform-specific
5599 variable defaults in configure. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
5601 *) Do setgid() before initgroups() in http_main; some platforms
5602 zap the grouplist when setgid() is called. This was fixed in
5603 suexec earlier, but the main httpd code missed the change.
5604 [Rob Saccoccio <robs@InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2579
5606 *) Add recognition of .tgz as a gzipped tarchive.
5607 [Bertrand de Singly <bertrand.de-singly@polytechnique.fr>] PR#2364
5609 *) mod_include's fsize/flastmod should allow only relative paths, just
5610 like "include file". [Jaroslav Benkovsky <benkovsk@pha.pvt.cz>]
5612 *) OS/2: Add support for building loadable modules using DLLs.
5615 *) Add iconsdir, htdocsdir, and cgidir to config.layout.
5618 *) Fix minor but annoying bug with the test for Configuration.tmpl
5619 being newer than Configuration so that it is less likely to fail
5620 when using APACI and shadow sources. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
5622 *) PORT: Add initial support for Mac OS (versions 10.0 and
5623 greater). Use Mac OS X Server layout for now. Clean up dyld code
5624 in unix/os.c, and don't install the dyld error handlers, which
5625 are no longer needed in Mac OS. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
5627 *) Rename Rhapsody layout to "Mac OS X Server". Change install
5628 locations to appropriate ones for user-built (as opposed to
5629 system) installs. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
5631 *) Modify mod_autoindex's handling of AddDescription so that the
5632 behaviour matches the documentation. [Ken Coar] PR#1898, 3072.
5634 *) Add functionality to the install-bindist.sh script created by
5635 binbuild.sh to use tar when copying distribution files to the
5636 serverroot. This allows upgrading an existing installation
5637 without nesting the new distribution in the old.
5639 install-bindist.sh now detects the local perl5 path to install
5640 apxs and dbmmanage with proper path to perl interpreter.
5642 Add an install-binsupport target which copies the source files
5643 for apxs and dbmmanage to bindist to allow these scripts to
5644 be properly installed relative to the destination serverroot.
5645 [Randy Terbush, Covalent Technologies, randy@covalent.net]
5647 *) Fix intermittent SEGV in ap_proxy_cache_error() in
5648 src/modules/proxy_util.c where a NULL filepointer and
5649 temporary filename were closed and unlinked.
5650 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>,
5651 Tim Costello <tjcostel@socs.uts.edu.au>] PR#3178
5653 *) Fix inconsistent error messages reported by mod_proxy.
5654 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>]
5656 *) OS/2: Fix terminating CGIs that aren't compiled by EMX GCC when a
5657 connection is aborted. [Brian Havard]
5659 *) Force the LANG envariable to the known state of "C" so that we
5660 have assurance about how string manipulators (e.g., tr) will
5661 function. [Ken Coar] PR#1630
5663 *) Add a directive to allow customising of the tracking cookie name.
5664 [Ken Coar] PR#2921, 4303
5666 *) Add "force-no-vary" envariable to allow servers to work around
5667 clients that choke on "Vary" fields in the response header.
5668 [Ken Coar, Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@zippy.machaon.ru>] PR#4118
5670 *) Fixed a bug in mod_dir that causes a child process will infinitely
5671 recurse when it attemps to handle a request for a directory wnd the
5672 value of the DirectoryIndex directive is a single dot. Also likely
5673 to happen for anyother values of DirectoryIndex that will map back
5674 to the same directory. The handler now only considers regular files
5675 as being index candidates. No PR#s found.
5676 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx@rsbx.net>]
5678 *) Ease configuration debugging by making TestCompile fall back to
5679 using "make" if the $MAKE variable is unset [Martin Kraemer]
5681 *) Fixed the ServerSignature directive to work as documented.
5682 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx@rsbx.net>] PR#4248
5684 *) Add "opt" (SysV-style) layout to config.layout. [Raymond S Brand
5687 *) Add APACI --without-execstrip option which can be used to disable the
5688 stripping of executables on installation. This is very important for DSO
5689 and debugging situations. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5691 *) Add support for OS/2 (case insenstive filesystem, .exe suffix, etc)
5692 to APACI files and related scripts.
5693 [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4269
5695 *) Add support for standalone mode in TPF
5696 [Joe Moenich <moenich@us.ibm.com>]
5698 *) Fix number of bytes copied by read_connection() in src/support/ab.c
5699 [Jim Cox <jc@superlink.net>] PR#4271
5701 *) Fix special RewriteCond "-s" pattern matching.
5702 [Bob Finch <bob@nas.com>]
5704 *) Fix value quoting in src/Configure script for ap_config_auto.h
5705 [Paul Sutton <paul@awe.com>]
5707 *) Make sure RewriteLock can be used only in the global context, (i.e.
5708 outside of any <VirtualHost> sections) because it's a global facility of
5709 the rewrite engine. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5711 *) Fix the ownership delegation for proxy directory under `make install'.
5712 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5714 *) APACI would not correctly build suexec. [Maria Verina
5715 <mariav@icgeb.trieste.it>] PR#4260
5717 *) mod_mime_magic passed only the first 4k of a file to
5718 uncompress/gzip, but those tools sometimes do not produce
5719 any output unless a sufficient portion of the compressed
5720 file is input. Change to pass the entire file -- but
5721 only read 4k of output.
5722 [Marcin Cieslak <saper@system.pl>] PR#4097
5724 *) "IndexOptions None" generated extra spaces at the end of each
5725 line. [inkling@firstnethou.com] PR#3770
5727 *) The "100 Continue" response wasn't being sent after internal
5728 redirects. [Jose KAHAN <kahan@w3.org>] PR#3910, 3806, 3575
5730 *) When padding the name with spaces for display, mod_autoindex would
5731 count &, <, and > in their escaped width, messing up the display.
5732 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4075, 3758
5734 *) PORT: fixed a compilation problem on NEXT.
5735 [Jacques Distler <distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu>] PR#4130
5737 *) r->request_time wasn't being set properly in certain error conditions.
5738 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4156
5740 *) PORT: deal with UTS compiler error in http_protocol.c
5741 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#4189
5743 *) Add ap_vrprintf() function. [John Tobey <jtobey@banta-im.com>] PR#4246
5745 *) Fix the mod_mime hash table to work properly with locales other
5746 than C. [Dean Gaudet] PR#3427
5748 *) Fix a memory leak which is exacerbated by certain configurations.
5749 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4225
5751 *) Prevent clobbering saved IFS values in APACI. [Jim Jagielski]
5753 *) Fix buffer overflows in ap_uuencode and ap_uudecode pointed out
5754 by "Peter 'Luna' Altberg <peter@altberg.nu>" and PR#3422
5755 [Peter 'Luna' Altberg <peter@altberg.nu>, Ronald Tschalär]
5757 *) Make {Set,Unset,Pass}Env per-directory instead of per-server.
5760 *) Correct an apparent typo: on the Windows and MPE platforms, the
5761 htpasswd utility was limiting passwords to only 8 characters.
5764 *) EBCDIC platforms: David submitted patches for two bugs in the
5765 MD5 digest port for EBCDIC machines:
5766 a) the htdigest utility overwrote the old contents of the digest file
5767 b) the Content-MD5 header value (ContentDigest directive) was wrong
5768 when the returned file was not converted from EBCDIC, but was a
5769 binary (e.g., image file) in the first place.
5770 [David McCreedy <mccreedy@us.ibm.com>]
5772 *) support/htpasswd now permits the password to be specified on the
5773 command line with the '-b' switch. This is useful when passwords
5774 need to be maintained by scripts -- particularly in the Win32
5775 environment. [Ken Coar]
5777 *) Win32: Win32 multiple services patch. Added capability to install and
5778 run multiple copies of apache as individual services.
5781 apache -n apache1 -i -f c:/httpd.conf
5782 Installs apache as service 'apache1' and associates c:/httpd.conf
5785 Starts apache1 service.
5787 Stops apache1 service
5790 apache -n apache2 -i
5791 Installs apache as service 'apache2'. httpd.conf is located under
5792 the default server root (/apache/conf/httpd.conf).
5794 Starts apache2 service.
5797 apache -n apache3 -i -d c:/program files/apache
5798 Install apache as service 'apache3' and sets server root to
5799 c:/program files/apache.
5802 apache -n apache2 -k restart
5803 Restart apache2 service
5805 [Keith Wannamaker, Ken Parzygnat, Bill Stoddard]
5807 *) Correct the signed/unsigned character handling for the MD5 routines;
5808 mismatches were causing compilation problems with gcc -pedantic and
5809 in the TPF cross-compilation. [Ken Coar]
5811 *) OS/2: Rework CGI handling to use spawn*() instead of fork/exec, achieving
5812 a roughly 5 fold speed up. [Brian Havard]
5814 *) proxy ftp: instead of using the hardwired string "text/plain" as
5815 a fallback type for files served by the ftp proxy, use the
5816 ap_default_type() function to determine the configured type.
5817 This allows for special configurations like
5818 <Directory proxy:ftp://some.host>
5819 DefaultType gargle/blurb
5821 Additionally, add the Content-Encoding: header to FTP proxy replies
5822 when the encoding is defined (by the AddEncoding directive).
5823 Because it was missing, it was almost impossible to browse compressed
5824 files using the FTP proxy (works now perfectly in Communicator).
5825 The ftp proxy now also returns the Date: and Server: header lines (if not
5826 much else... This code is "somewhat" broken) like normal requests do.
5829 *) Be more smart in APACI's configure script when determining the UID/GID
5830 for User/Group directives and use the determined UID/GID to initialize
5831 the permissions on the proxycachedir.
5832 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Ralf S. Engelschall]
5834 *) Changed the forking-prior-to-cleanup in the proxy module to first
5835 check wether it actually needs to collect garbage. This reduces
5836 the number of fork()s from one/request to just the odd one an hour.
5837 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
5839 *) Added proxy, auth and header support to src/support/ab.c. Added a
5840 README file to src/support/
5841 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
5843 *) Don't hard-code the path to AWK in --shadow bootstrapping Makefile.
5844 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4050
5846 *) Add support for DSO module compilation on BSD/OS 3.x.
5847 [Randy Terbush, Covalent Technologies]
5849 *) Fix sed-substitutions in `make install': path elements like `httpd/conf'
5850 (for instance from an APACI configure --sysconfdir=/etc/httpd/conf
5851 option) were substituted with $(TARGET).conf, etc. Same for other strings
5852 with dots where the dot wasn't matched as plain text.
5853 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5855 *) PORT: Add support for FreeBSD 4.x [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5857 *) Fix verbose output of APACI configure (option -v)
5858 [Martin Kraemer, Ralf S. Engelschall]
5860 Changes with Apache 1.3.6
5862 *) Removed new PassAllEnv code due to DSO problems. [Lars Eilebrecht]
5864 Changes with Apache 1.3.5 [not released]
5866 *) M_INVALID needed a value within the scope of METHODS so that unknown
5867 methods can be access controlled. [Roy Fielding] PR#3821
5869 *) Added PassAllEnv; makes server's entire environment available
5870 to CGIs and SSIs executed within directive's scope. [Ken Coar]
5872 *) ap_uuencode() always added two trailing '='s and encoding of
5873 8 bit characters on a machine with signed char may produced
5874 incorrect results. Additionally ap_uuencode() should now
5875 work correctly on EBCDIC platforms.
5876 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald@innovation.ch>] PR#3411
5878 *) WIN32: Binary installer now runs the configuration DLL before
5879 the reboot prompt (which is only given if MSVCRT.DLL system
5880 DLL is new or updated). This should avoid the configuration
5881 directory being empty after installation. [Paul Sutton]
5882 PR#3767, 3800, 3827, 3850, 3900, 3953, 3988
5884 *) WIN32: Binary installer now creates Start menu options to start
5885 and stop Apache as a console application and to uninstall
5886 the Apache service on NT. [Paul Sutton] PR#3741
5888 *) WIN32: Apache.exe now contains an icon. [Paul Sutton]
5890 *) PORT: Switch back to using fcntl() locking on Linux -- instabilities
5891 have been reported with flock() locking (probably related to kernel
5892 version). [Dean Gaudet] PR#2723, 3531
5894 *) Using APACI, the main config file (usually httpd.conf) was
5895 not being adjusted as $(TARGET).conf. [Wilfredo Sanchez
5896 <wsanchez@apple.com>]
5898 *) PORT: AIX does not require the SHARED_CODE "hack"
5899 [Ryan Bloom <rbb@raleigh.ibm.com>]
5901 *) Set-Cookie headers were being doubled up for some CGIs by the O(n^2)
5902 avoidance code added in 1.3.3.
5903 [Dean Gaudet, Jeff Lewis <lewis@stanford.edu>] PR#3872
5905 *) ap_isxdigit was somehow neglected when adding the ap_isfoo() macros
5906 for 8-bit safeness. [Dean Gaudet]
5908 *) PORT: Use -fPIC instead of -fpic on Solaris and SunOS for compiling DSOs
5909 because SPARCs have a small machine-specific maximum size for the Global
5910 Offset Table which is often exceeded when compiling one of the larger
5911 third-party modules with Apache. [Peter Urban <Peter.Urban@epfl.ch>] PR#3977
5913 *) Move the directive `ExtendedStatus' in httpd.conf-dist-win _after_ the
5914 DSO/DLL section because it's a directive from mod_status and isn't
5915 available before the DLL of mod_status is loaded.
5916 [Martin POESCHL <mpoeschl@gmx.net>] PR#3936
5918 *) SECURITY: Fix a bug in the calculation of the buffer size for the line
5919 continuation facility in Apache's configuration files which could
5920 lead to a buffer overflow situation.
5921 [Thomas Devanneaux <Thomas.Devanneaux@enst.fr>] PR#3617
5923 *) Make documentation and error messages of APACI's --activate-module=FILE
5924 option more clear. [Jan Wolter <janc@wwnet.net>] PR#3995
5926 *) Fix the gcc version check (for enabling the `inline' facility) to
5927 really support all future gcc versions >= 2.7 until we know more.
5928 [John Tobey <jtobey@banta-im.com>] PR#3983
5930 *) Let APACI's configure script correctly complain for unknown --enable-XXX
5931 and --disable-XXX options. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3958
5933 *) Link the shared core bootstrap program (``Rule SHARED_CORE=yes'') also
5934 against libap.a and use its ap_snprintf() instead of sprintf() to avoid
5935 possible buffer overflows. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5937 *) Remove no longer used non-API function ap_single_module_init().
5938 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5940 *) Add Apple's Mac OS X Server Layout "Rhapsody" to config.layout.
5943 *) Add cgidir, htdocsdir, iconsdir variables to Makefile.tmpl in order
5944 to make platform installations easier. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
5946 *) In configure, do not append the target name to the directory path if
5947 the path already contains "apache". [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5949 *) SIGPIPE is now ignored by the server core. The request write routines
5950 (ap_rputc, ap_rputs, ap_rvputs, ap_rwrite, ap_rprintf, ap_rflush) now
5951 correctly check for output errors and mark the connection as aborted.
5952 Replaced many direct (unchecked) calls to ap_b* routines with the
5953 analogous ap_r* calls. [Roy Fielding]
5955 *) Enhanced mod_rewrite's mapfile handling: The in-core cache for text and
5956 DBM format mapfiles now uses a 4-way hash table with LRU functionality.
5957 Furthermore map lookups for non-existent keys are now cached as well.
5958 Additionally "txt" maps are now parsed with simple string functions
5959 instead of using ap_pregcomp(). As a side effect a bug that prevented
5960 the usage of keys containing the "," character was fixed.
5961 The changes drastically improve the performance when large rewrite maps
5963 [Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.swb.de>, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3160
5965 *) Added ap_sub_req_method_uri() for doing a subrequest with a method
5966 other than GET, and const'd the definition of method in request_rec.
5969 *) Use proper pid_t type for saving PIDs in alloc.c. [John Bley]
5971 *) Replaced use of WIN32 define with HAVE_DRIVE_LETTERS to indicate
5972 when the OS allows a DOS drive letter within pathnames. [Brian Havard]
5974 *) Add %V to mod_log_config, this logs the hostname according to the
5975 UseCanonicalName setting (this is the pre-1.3.4 behaviour of
5976 %v). Useful for mass vhosting. [Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>]
5978 *) Add support for \n and \t to mod_log_config, can be used to produce
5979 more reliable logs with multiline entries. [Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>]
5981 *) Fixed a few compiler nits. [John Bley <jbb6@acpub.duke.edu>]
5983 *) Added informative error messages for failed munmap() and fseek() calls
5984 in http_core.c. [John Bley, Roy Fielding]
5986 *) Added some informative error messages for some failed malloc()
5987 calls. [John Bley <jbb6@acpub.duke.edu>, Jim Jagielski]
5989 *) OS/2 ap_os_canonical_filename()'s behaviour is improved: ap_assert()
5990 is removed. This allows <Directory proxy:*> directives to work and
5991 prevents invalid requests from killing the process.
5992 [Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
5994 *) Reorganised FAQ document.
5995 [Joshua Slive <slive@finance.commerce.ubc.ca>] PR#2497
5997 *) src/support/: The ApacheBench benchmark program was overhauled by
5998 David N. Welton: you can now have it generate an HTML TABLE, presumably
5999 for integration into other HTML sources. David updated the ab man page
6000 as well and added some missing descriptions. Thanks!
6001 [David N. Welton <davidw@prosa.it>]
6003 *) Win32: The filename validity checker now allows filenames containing
6004 characters in the range 0x80 to 0xff (for example accented characters).
6005 [Paul Sutton] PR#3890
6007 *) Added conditional logging based upon environment variables to
6008 mod_log_config. mod_log_referer and mod_log_agent
6009 are now deprecated. [Ken Coar]
6011 *) Allow apache acting as a proxy server to relay the real
6012 reason of a failure to a client rather than the "internal
6013 server error" it does currently. The general exposure mechanism
6014 can be triggered by any module by setting the "verbose-error-to"
6015 note to "*"; this allows more than just proxy errors to be exposed.
6016 [Cliff Skolnick, Roy Fielding, Martin Kraemer] Related to PR#3455, 4086
6018 *) Moved man pages for ab and apachectrl to section 8.
6019 [Wilfredo Sanchez, Roy Fielding]
6021 *) Added -S option to install.sh so that options can be passed to
6022 strip on some platforms. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Wilfredo Sanchez]
6024 *) Tweak modules Makefile generated by Configure so that it handles
6025 the test case of no modules being selected. [chaz@reliant.com]
6027 *) Added a <LimitExcept method ...> sectioning directive that allows
6028 the user to assign authentication control to any HTTP method that
6029 is *not* given in the argument list; i.e., the logical negation
6030 of the <Limit> directive. This is particularly useful for controlling
6031 access on methods unknown to the Apache core, but perhaps known by
6032 some module or CGI script. [Roy Fielding, Tony Finch]
6034 *) Prevent apachectl from complaining if the PIDFILE exists but
6035 does not contain a process id, as might occur if the server is
6036 being rapidly restarted. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
6038 *) Win32: Add global symbols missing from ApacheCore.def. [Carl Olsen]
6040 *) Entity tag comparisons for If-Match and If-None-Match were not being
6041 performed correctly -- weak tags might cause false positives. Also,
6042 strong comparison wasn't properly enforced in all cases.
6043 [Roy Fielding, Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet] PR#2065, 3657
6045 *) OS/2: Supply OS/2 error code instead of errno on semaphore errors.
6048 *) Work around a bug in Lynx regarding its sending "Negotiate: trans"
6049 even though it doesn't understand TCN. [Koen Holtman, Roy Fielding]
6051 *) Added ap_size_list_item(), ap_get_list_item(), and ap_find_list_item()
6052 to util.c for parsing an HTTP header field value to extract the next
6053 list item, taking into account the possible presence of nested comments,
6054 quoted-pairs, and quoted-strings. ap_get_list_item() also removes
6055 insignificant whitespace and lowercases non-quoted tokens.
6056 [Roy Fielding] PR#2065
6058 *) proxy: The various calls to ap_proxyerror() can return HTTP/1.1 status
6059 code different from 500. This allows the proxy to, e.g., return
6060 "403 Forbidden" for ProxyBlock'ed URL's. [Martin Kraemer] Related to PR#3455
6062 *) Fix ordering of language variants for the case where the traditional
6063 negotiation algorithm is being used with multiple language variants
6064 and no Accept-Language. [James Treacy <treacy@debian.org>] PR#3299, 3688
6066 *) Do not round the TCN quality calculation to 5 decimal places,
6067 unlike RFC 2296, because the calculation might need 12 decimal places
6068 to get the right result. [Roy Fielding]
6070 *) Remove unused code to disable transparent negotiation when
6071 negotiating on encoding only, as we now handle encoding too
6072 (though this is nonstandard for TCN), remove charset=ISO-8859-1
6073 fiddle from the fiddle-averse RVSA comparison, and fix bugs in
6074 some debugging statements within mod_negotiation. [Koen Holtman]
6076 *) Fixed a rare memory corruption possibility in mod_dir if the index
6077 file is negotiable and no acceptable variant can be found.
6078 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Martin Kraemer]
6080 *) Win32: Add new config directive, ScriptInterpreterSource, to enable
6081 searching the Win32 registry for script interpreters.
6084 *) Win32: The compiled-in default filename for the error log is now
6085 error.log, which matches the default in the distributed httpd.conf.
6088 *) Win32: Any error messages from -i or -u command line options are now
6089 displayed on the console output rather than sent to the error log.
6090 Also the "Running Apache..." message is not output unless Apache is
6091 going to serve requests. [Paul Sutton]
6093 *) Rework the MD5 authentication scheme to use FreeBSD's algorithm,
6094 and use a private significator ('$apr1$') to mark passwords as
6095 being smashed with our own algorithm. Also abstract the password
6096 checking into a new ap_validate_password() routine. [Ken Coar]
6098 *) Win32: The filename validity checker now allows "COM" but refuses
6099 access to "COM1" through "COM4". This allows filenames such
6100 as "com.name" to be served. [Paul Sutton] PR#3769.
6102 *) BS2000: Adapt to the new ufork() system call interface which will
6103 make subtasking easier on the OSD/POSIX mainframe environment.
6106 *) Add a compatibility define for escape_uri() -> ap_escape_uri() to
6107 ap_compat.h. [David White <david@persimmon.com>] PR#3725
6109 *) Make NDBM file suffix determination for mod_rewrite more accurate, i.e.
6110 use `.db' instead of `.pag' not only for FreeBSD, but also when
6111 the NDBM library looks like Berkeley-DB based.
6112 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3773
6114 *) Add ability to handle DES or MD5 authentication passwords.
6115 [Ryan Bloom <rbb@Raleigh.IBM.Com>]
6117 *) Fix O(n^2) memory consumption in mod_speling. [Dean Gaudet]
6119 *) SECURITY: Avoid some buffer overflow problems when escaping
6120 quoted strings. (This overflow was on the heap and we believe
6121 impossible to exploit.) [Rick Perry <perry@ece.vill.edu>]
6123 *) Let src/Configure be aware of CFLAGS options starting with plus
6124 signs as it's the case for the HP/UX compiler.
6125 [Doug Yatcilla <yatcilda@umdnj.edu>] PR#3681
6127 *) Remove the hard-wire of TAR=tar (we now check for gtar and gnutar first)
6128 and check to see if the tar we wind up with supports '-h'.
6129 [Jim Jagielski] PR#3671
6131 *) A consistent and conservative style for all shell scripts has been
6132 implemented. Basically, all shell string tests use the traditional
6133 hack of 'if [ "x$var" != "x" ]' or 'if [ "x$var" = "xstring" ]'
6134 to protect against bare null variable strings (ie: wrapping both
6135 sides with double quotes and prepending 'x'). 'x' was chosen
6136 because it's more universal and hopefully easier for old shell
6137 prgrammers, as well as being easier to search for in 'vi' (/x\$) :)
6140 *) The status module now prints out both the main server generation as
6141 well as the generation of each process. Also, the vhost info is
6142 printed with '?notable'. [Jim Jagielski]
6144 *) Move src/main/md5c.c to src/ap/ap_md5c.c; it's httpd-neutral
6145 and this makes its functions available to things in src/support.
6148 Changes with Apache 1.3.4
6150 *) Renamed macros status_drops_connection to ap_status_drops_connection
6151 and vestigial scan_script_header to ap_scan_script_header_err,
6152 mostly for aesthetic reasons. [Roy Fielding]
6154 *) The query switch "httpd -S" didn't exit after showing the
6155 vhost settings. That was inconsistent with the other query functions.
6158 *) Moved the MODULE_MAGIC_COOKIE from before the versions and
6159 filename to the end of the STANDARD_MODULE_STUFF. Its
6160 presence at the beginning prevented reporting of the filename
6161 for modules compiled before 1 January 1999. [Ken Coar]
6163 *) SECURITY: ap_os_is_filename_valid() has been added to Win32
6164 to detect and prevent access to special DOS device file names.
6165 [Paul Sutton, Ken Parzygnat]
6167 *) WIN32: Created new makefiles Makefile_win32.txt (normal build)
6168 and Makefile_win32_debug.txt (debug build) that work on Win95.
6169 Run each of the following from the src directory:
6170 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt # compiles normal build
6171 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt install # compiles and installs
6172 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt clean # removes compiled junk
6173 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt # compiles debug build
6174 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt install
6175 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt clean
6178 *) Added binbuild.sh and findprg.sh helpers to make it easier for us
6179 to build binary distributions. [Lars Eilebrecht]
6181 *) IndexOptions SuppressColumnSorting only turned off making
6182 the column headers anchors; you could still change the display
6183 order by manually adding a '?N=A' or similar query string to the
6184 URL. Now SuppressColumnSorting locks in the sort order so
6185 it can't be overridden this way. [Ken Coar]
6187 *) Added IndexOrderDefault directive to supply a default sort order
6188 for FancyIndexed directory listings. [Ken Coar] PR#1699
6190 *) Change the ap_assert macro to a variant that works on all platforms.
6191 [Richard Prinz <richard.prinz@cso.net>] PR#2575
6193 *) Make sure under ELF-based NetBSD (now) and OpenBSD (future) we don't
6194 search for an underscore on dlsym() (as it's already the case
6195 for FreeBSD 3.0). [Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>] PR#2462
6197 *) Small fix for mod_env.html: The module was documented as to be _not_
6198 compiled into Apache per default, although it _IS_ compiled into
6199 Apache per default. [Sim Harbert <sim@mindspring.com>] PR#3572
6201 *) Instead of fixing a bug in the generation procedure for config.status (a
6202 backslash was missing) we remove the bug together with it's complete
6203 context because the special cases of the past can now no longer occur
6204 because of the recent magic for the --with-layout default.
6205 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3590
6207 *) Make top-level Makefile aware of a parallel build procedures (make -j) by
6208 making sure the src/support/ tools are _forced_ to be build last (they
6209 depend on other libraries).
6210 [Markus Theissinger <markus.theissinger@gmx.de>]
6212 *) Fix installation procedure: Now that os-inline.c is actually used (a
6213 recently fixed bug prevented this) we need to also install os-include.c
6214 in addition to os.h into the PREFIX/include/ location or building of
6215 module DSOs with APXS fails. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3527
6217 *) Added MODULE_MAGIC_COOKIE as the first field in a module structure to
6218 allow us to distinguish between a garbled DSO (or even a file which isn't
6219 an Apache module DSO at all) and a DSO which doesn't match the current
6220 Apache API. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3152
6222 *) Two minor enhancements to mod_rewrite: First RewriteRule now also
6223 supports the ``nocase|NC'' flag (as RewriteCond already does for ages) to
6224 match case insensitive (this especially avoids nasty patterns like
6225 `[tT][eE][sS][tT]'). Second two additional internal map functions
6226 `escape' and `unescape' were added which can be used to escape/unescape
6227 to/from hex-encodings in URLs parts (this is especially useful in
6228 combination with map lookups).
6229 [Magnus Bodin, Ian Kallen, Ralf S. Engelschall]
6231 *) Renamed the macro escape_uri() to ap_escape_uri() which was
6232 forgotten (because it was a macro) in the symbol renaming process.
6233 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6235 *) Fix some inconsistencies related to the scopes of directives. The only
6236 user visible change is that the directives `UseCanonicalName' and
6237 `ContentDigest' now use the (more correct) `Options' scope instead of
6238 (less correct) `AuthConfig' scope. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6240 *) Using DSO, the Server token was being mangled. Specifically, the
6241 module's token was being added first before the Apache token. This
6242 has been fixed. [Jim Jagielski]
6244 *) Major overhaul of mod_negotiation.c, part 2.
6245 - properly handle "identity" within Accept-Encoding.
6246 - allow encoded variants in RVSA negotiation and let them appear in
6247 the Alternates field using the non-standard "encoding" tag-list.
6248 - fixed both negotiation algorithms so that an explicitly accepted
6249 encoding is preferred over no encoding if "identity" is not
6250 included within Accept-Encoding.
6251 - added ap_array_pstrcat() to alloc.c for efficient concatenation
6252 of large substring sequences.
6253 - replaced O(n^2) memory hogs in mod_negotiation with ap_array_pstrcat.
6256 *) Major overhaul of mod_negotiation.c, part 1.
6257 - cleanups to mod_negotiation comments and code structure
6258 - made compliant with HTTP/1.1 proposed standard (rfc2068) and added
6259 support for everything in the upcoming HTTP/1.1
6260 revision (draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-06.txt).
6261 - language tag matching also handles tags with more than 2
6263 - empty Accept, Accept-Language, Accept-Charset headers are
6264 processed correctly; previously an empty header would make all
6265 values acceptable instead of unacceptable.
6266 - allowed for q values in Accept-Encoding
6267 - added support for transparent content negotiation (rfc2295 and
6268 rfc2296) (though we do not implement all features in these drafts,
6269 e.g. no feature negotiation). Removed old experimental version.
6270 - implemented 'structured entity tags' for better cache correctness
6271 (structured entity tags ensure that caches which can deal with Vary
6272 will (eventually) be updated if the set of variants on the server
6274 - this involved adding a vlist_validator element to request_rec
6275 - this involved adding the ap_make_etag() function to the global API
6276 - modified guessing of charsets used by Apache negotiation algorithm
6277 to guess 'no charset' if the variant is not a text/* type
6278 - added code to sort multiviews variants into a canonical order so that
6279 negotiation results are consistent across backup/restores and mirrors
6280 - removed possibility of a type map file resolving to another type map
6281 file as its best variant
6282 [Koen Holtman, Roy Fielding, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3451, 3299, 1987
6284 *) RFC2396 allows the syntax http://host:/path (with no port number)
6285 but the proxy disallowed it (ap_proxy_canon_netloc()).
6286 [David Kristol <dmk@bell-labs.com>] PR#3530
6288 *) When modules update/modify the file name in the configfile_t structure,
6289 syntax errors will report the updated name, not the original one.
6290 [Fabien Coelho <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>] PR#3573
6292 *) Correct some filename case assumptions from WIN32 to
6293 CASE_BLIND_FILESYSTEM. [Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
6295 *) For %v log ServerName regardless of the UseCanonicalName
6296 setting (similarly for %p). [Dean Gaudet]
6298 *) Configure was initializing the variables $OSDIR, $INCDIR and $SHELL
6299 rather late (too late for some invocations of TestCompile).
6300 This improves the make environment available to TestCompile and
6301 the *.module scripts. [Martin Kraemer]
6303 *) The hashbang emulation code in ap_execve.c would interpret
6304 #!/hashbang/scripts correctly, but failed to fall back to a
6305 standard shell for scripts which did NOT start with #!
6306 Now SHELL_PATH is started in these cases. [Martin Kraemer]
6308 *) PORT: Added the Cyberguard V2 port [Richard Stagg <stagg@lentil.org>]
6311 *) Update APXS manual page: some -q option arguments were missing
6312 and another was incorrect. [Mark Anderson <mda@discerning.com>] PR#3553
6314 *) Cleanup the command line options: `-?' was documented to show
6315 the usage list but does it with an error because `?' is not a valid
6316 command. OTOH a lot of users expect `-h' to print such a usage list and
6317 instead are annoyed for ages by our huge unreadable list of directives.
6318 So we now changed the command line options this way:
6320 Intent: we need `-L' to be free, and `-R' for the DSO run-time path is
6321 very similar to the popular linker option.
6323 Intent: while -l gives the small list of modules, -L now gives the
6324 large list of directives implemented by these modules. This is also
6325 consistent with -v (short version info) and -V (large version info).
6327 Intent: it's now the expected option ;-)
6328 The manual page was adjusted accordingly.
6329 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2714
6331 *) Fixed problem of fclose() on an unopened file in suexec if LOG_EXEC
6332 wasn't defined. [Rick Franchuk <rickf@transpect.net>]
6334 *) Removed recently introduced bugs and disfigurements in APACI:
6335 o fixed argument line processing: using $args was broken: It was not
6336 initialized and using args="$args $apc_option" and even args="$args
6337 \"$apc_option\"" fails in the second processing round for any arguments
6338 containing whitespaces. The only correct way is to use the construct
6339 "$@" (but not possible here) or iterate _both_ times over the implicit
6340 argument line (no argument to for-loop) which is what we now use.
6341 o make --with-layout=Apache the default without creating
6342 redundancy (copying the --with-layout block in the argument parsing
6343 loop). We achieve this by using the "$@" construct together with the
6344 `set' command to prepend --with-layout=Apache to the command line in
6345 case --with-layout is not used.
6346 o fixed auto-suffix handling now that config.layout exists.
6347 Paths which are auto-suffixed are marked with a trailing plus sign in
6348 config.layout and every path now can be marked this way (not only the
6349 four paths for which we do it currently). Additionally the suffix is
6350 no longer a static one. Instead it's now `/<target>' where <target> is
6351 the argument of the --target option or per default `httpd'.
6352 o allow also tabs (and only spaces) where we match whitespaces
6353 o various fixes and cleanups related to used shell coding style
6354 o made Jim happy by replacing `Written by' with `Initially written by' ;-)
6355 o trimmed output of --help to fit into 80 columns
6356 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6358 *) Added two new core API functions, ap_single_module_configure() and
6359 ap_single_module_init(), which are now used by mod_so to configure a module
6360 after loading. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6362 *) PORT: Add defines for USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT and
6363 SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT to NetBSD/OpenBSD section
6364 of ap_config.h to allow serialized accept for multiport listens.
6365 [Roy Fielding, Curt Sampson] PR#3120
6367 *) PORT: Fixed a misplaced #endif for NetBSD/OpenBSD section
6368 of ap_config.h that would skip several defines if DEFAULT_GROUP
6369 was overridden. [Roy Fielding]
6371 *) PORT: The I86 version of DGUX has support for strncasecmp and
6372 strcasecmp, so allow it in ap_config.h. [Amiel Lee Yee] PR#3247
6374 *) Fix ordering of definitions in ap_config.h so that ap_inline is
6375 defined before it might be used. [Victor Khimenko]
6377 *) PORT: Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for BSDI (v4.0).
6378 [Tom Serkowski <tks@bsdi.com>] PR#3453
6380 *) Make generation of src/Configuration.apaci more robust: It failed to
6381 differenciate between modules when one module name was a postfix of
6382 another (e.g. cgi vs. fastcgi). We now check for mod_XXX, libXXX and even
6383 just XXX (think about totally non-standard names like "apache_ssl", too).
6384 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3380
6386 *) In src/Configure remove the SERVER_SUBVERSION support (already deprecated
6387 since 1.3b7) and make whitespace handling more robust (it failed horrible
6388 when whitespaces were present in the arguments of -D options).
6389 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3240
6391 *) Add APACI --shadow=DIR variant (in addition to --shadow). This now first
6392 creates an external package shadow tree in DIR before the local build
6393 shadow tree is generated under DIR. This way one can have the extracted
6394 Apache distribution tree read-only on NFS or CDROM and still build Apache
6395 from these sources. An automatically triggered VPATH-like mechanism is
6396 provided through the TOP variable, too.
6397 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
6399 *) Fix negotiation so that a Vary response header is correctly
6400 generated when, for a particular dimension, variants only vary
6401 in having or not having a value for that dimension. [Paul Sutton]
6403 *) Fix negotiation so that we prefer an encoded variant over an
6404 unencoded variant if the user-agent explicitly says it can
6405 accept that encoding. Previously we always preferred the unencoded
6407 [Paul Ausbeck <paula@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu>, Paul Sutton] PR#3447
6409 *) Fix APXS tool: query variables LIBS_SHLIB and TARGET were not recognized
6410 and the usage page was inconsistent with the functionality and manpage.
6411 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6413 *) Allow special options -Wc,xxx and -Wl,xxx on APXS compile/link command.
6414 They can occur multiple times and their arguments (`xxx') are passed AS
6415 IS to the compiler/linker command. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6417 *) Fixed possible (but harmless in practice) bug in the DBM lookup
6418 procedure of mod_rewrite: very long keys were truncated.
6419 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6421 *) Added a generic --with-layout=[FILE:]ID option. ID here is a layout
6422 identifier, currently "Apache" and "GNU" are pre-defined in the file
6423 config.layout. Custom layouts are possible by using FILE:ID as the
6424 argument where the layout ID is taken from FILE.
6426 The config.layout file consists of <Layout ID>..</Layout> sections
6427 where inside those sections "path_variable: path_value" pairs can be
6428 specified. These lines are converted to path_variable='path_value'.
6430 *) Add a DefaultLanguage directive so that files missing a language
6431 extension (e.g., .fr, .de) can be labelled as being some other
6432 default language. DefaultLanguage can appear in <Directory> and
6433 <Files> containers as well as .htaccess files. [Paul Sutton]
6436 *) Fix TARGET configuration when configuring and installing using
6437 APACI configure. TARGET now defines the basename of the configuration
6438 file, startup script, manual page, etc. log_error_core() now reports
6439 the server binary name given by argv[0]. TARGET can now also be defined
6440 with --target=TARGET parameter passed to APACI configure.
6441 [Ralf Engelschall, Randy Terbush]
6443 *) mod_include.c:handle_perl() now properly tests for OPT_INCNOEXEC
6444 rather than OPT_INCLUDES [Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>]
6446 *) ap_md5_binary() was using sprintf() rather than a table lookup
6447 to convert binary bytes to hex digits.
6448 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald@innovation.ch>] PR#3409
6450 *) Fix SEGV in TCN negotiation if no variants are acceptable.
6451 [Martin Plechsmid <plechsmi@karlin.mff.cuni.cz>] PR#1987
6453 *) API: ap_exists_config_define() function is now "public" [Doug MacEachern]
6455 *) Fix documentation of `Action' directive: It can activate a CGI script
6456 when either a handler or a MIME content type is triggered by the request.
6457 [Andrew Pimlott <pimlott@math.harvard.edu>] PR#3340
6459 *) Document the `add' command of `dbmmanage' in `dbmmanage.1' manpage.
6460 [David MacKenzie <djm@uu.net>] PR#3394
6462 *) Ignore a "ErrorDocument 401" directive with a full URL and write a
6463 notice to the error log. It is not possible to send a 401 response
6464 and a redirect at the same time. [Lars Eilebrecht]
6466 *) Fallback to native compilers for IRIX-32 platform. It seems that
6467 a gcc 2.8.1 compiled apache is logging client addresses with all
6468 bits set (255.255.255.255). This is the second such problem caused
6469 by gcc 2.8.1 compiler. The first being broken semaphore locking.
6472 *) Updated mime.types to reflect current Internet media types
6473 and include a URL to the registry.
6474 [Manoj Kasichainula, Roy Fielding] PR#2380, 2286, 2246
6476 *) SECURITY: Do a more complete check in mod_include to avoid
6477 an infinite loop of recursive SSI includes. [Marc Slemko] PR#3323
6479 *) Add APACI --suexec-docroot and --suexec-logfile options which can be
6480 used to set the document root directory (DOC_ROOT) and the suexec
6481 logfile (LOG_EXEC), respectively. Additionally the --layout option
6482 was changed to show more information about the suEXEC setup.
6483 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3316, 3357, 3361
6485 *) Added the last two WebDAV status codes of 424 (Failed Dependency)
6486 and 507 (Insufficient Storage) for use by third-party modules.
6489 *) Enabled all of the WebDAV method names for use by third-party
6490 modules, Limit, and Script directives. That includes PATCH,
6491 PROPFIND, PROPPATCH, MKCOL, COPY, MOVE, LOCK, and UNLOCK.
6492 Improved mod_actions.c so that it can use any of the methods
6493 defined in httpd.h. Added ap_method_number_of(method) for
6494 getting the internal method number. [Roy Fielding]
6496 *) PORT: Add a port to the TPF OS. [Joe Moenich <moenich@us.ibm.com> and
6499 *) Fix problems with handling of UNC names (e.g., \\host\path)
6500 on Win32. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@us.ibm.com>]
6502 *) Rework os_canonical_*() on Win32 so it's simpler, more
6503 robust, and works. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@us.ibm.com>]
6504 PR#2555, 2915, 3064, 3232
6506 *) Work around incomplete implementation of strftime on Win32.
6507 [Manoj Kasichainula, Ken Parzygnat <kparz@us.ibm.com>]
6509 *) Move a typedef to fix compile problems on Linux with 1.x kernels.
6510 [Manoj Kasichainula] PR#3177
6512 *) PORT: Add a port to the Concurrent PowerMAX OS. [Tom Horsley
6513 <Tom.Horsley@mail.ccur.com>]
6515 *) WIN32: Log more explicit error messages if spawning an interpreted
6516 script failed, including the command line used to attempt to execute
6517 the interpreter and the Win32 error code returned. [Marc Slemko]
6519 *) Disable sending of error-notes on a 500 (Internal Server Error) response
6520 since it often includes file path info. Enable sending of error-notes
6521 on a 501 (Method Not Implemented). [Roy Fielding] PR#3173
6523 *) http_config.c would respond with 501 (Method Not Implemented) if a
6524 content type handler was specified but could not be found, which
6525 should have been a 500 response. Likewise, mod_proxy.c would responsd
6526 with a 501 if the URI scheme is unrecognized instead of the correct
6527 response of 403 (Forbidden). [Roy Fielding]
6529 *) SECURITY: Eliminate DoS attack when a bad URI path contains what
6530 looks like a printf format escape. [Marc Slemko, Studenten Net Twente]
6532 *) Fix in mod_autoindex: for files where the last modified time stamp was
6533 unavailable, an empty string was printed which was 2 bytes short.
6534 The size and description columns were therefore not aligned correctly.
6535 [Martin Kraemer] (no PR#)
6537 *) Update BS2000 OS code to work with recent versions. Starting with
6538 release A17, the child fork() must be replaced by a _rfork().
6539 (BS2000 only) [Martin Kraemer]
6541 *) Add the actual server_rec structure of the specific Vhost to the
6542 scoreboard file and avoid a string copy (as well as allow some
6543 further future enhancements). [Harrie Hazewinkel
6544 <harrie.hazewinkel@jrc.it>]
6546 *) Add APACI --permute-module=foo:bar option which can be used to
6547 on-the-fly/batch permute the order of two modules (mod_foo and mod_bar)
6548 in the Configuration[.apaci] file. Two special and important variants are
6549 supported for the option argument: first BEGIN:foo which permutes module
6550 mod_foo with the begin of the module list, i.e. it `moves' the module to
6551 the begin of the list (gives it lowest priority). And second foo:END
6552 which permutes mod_foo with the end of the module list, i.e. it `moves'
6553 the module to the end of the list (gives it highest priority).
6554 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6556 *) Fix problem with 'apache -k shutdown' and startup event
6557 synchronisation (Win32). [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>]
6560 *) The config parser wasn't correctly noticing a missing '>'
6561 on container start lines (e.g., it wouldn't spot
6562 "<Directory /" as a syntax error). [Ryan Bloom <rbbloom@us.ibm.com>]
6565 *) Add a 'RemoveHandler' directive which will selectively remove
6566 all handler associations for the specified file extensions.
6567 [Ryan Bloom <rbbloom@us.ibm.com>] PR#1799.
6569 *) Properly handle & allow "nul" and ".*/null" in AccessConfig and
6570 ResourceConfig directives on Win32. Also add a note to the effect
6571 of 'useless User directive ignored on Win32' to the errorlog if
6572 a User directive is encountered on Win32.
6573 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2078, 2303.
6575 *) Fix multiple whitespace handling in imagemaps for mod_imap which was
6576 broken since Apache 1.3.1 where we took out compressing of multiple
6577 spaces in ap_cfg_getline().
6578 [Ivan Richwalski <ivan@seppuku.net>] PR#3249
6580 *) Fix Berkeley-DB/2.x support in mod_auth_db: The data structures were not
6581 initialized correctly and the db_open() call used an invalid mode
6582 parameter. [Ron Klatchko <ron@ckm.ucsf.edu>] PR#3171
6584 *) PORT: DSO support for UnixWare 7
6585 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Ron Record <rr@sco.com>]
6587 *) Merge the contents of the {srm,access}.conf-dist* files into the
6588 httpd.conf-dist* files. The srm and access files now contain
6589 only comments, and httpd.conf has all the combined contents in
6590 a rational order. [Ken Coar]
6592 *) PORT: DSO/ELF support for FreeBSD 3.0.
6593 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Dirk Froemberg <ibex@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>]
6595 *) Add a "default-handler" handler that calls the default_hander()
6596 function which is normally called for static content. This allows
6597 you to override a specific handler. [Marc Slemko]
6599 *) Further simplify checking for absolute paths by replacing an
6600 hard-coded syntax check with a call to a routine we already created to
6601 do this. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2976, 3074
6603 *) Log an error if we encounter a malformed "require" directive
6604 in mod_auth if we know that we know that no other module can
6605 deal with it. [Marc Slemko]
6607 *) Remove ap_private_extern method of hiding conflicting symbols
6608 on the NEXT platform because it is not correct for all versions,
6609 and the versions for which it is correct are unknown.
6610 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
6612 *) Fix inheritance of IndexOptions NameWidth and remove unintended
6613 restriction on +NameWidth, +IconHeight, and +IconWidth. [Ken Coar]
6615 *) Fix per-directory config merging for cases in which a 500 error
6616 is encountered in an .htaccess file somewhere down the tree.
6619 *) Minor performance improvement to ap_escape_html(). [Roy Fielding]
6621 *) Fixed a segmentation violation in mod_proxy when a response is
6622 non-cachable. [Roy Fielding, traced by Doug Bloebaum]. PR#2950, 3056
6624 Changes with Apache 1.3.3
6626 *) Added a complete implementation of the Expect header field as
6627 specified in rev-05 of HTTP/1.1. Disabled the 100 Continue
6628 response when we already know the final status, which is mighty
6629 useful for PUT responses that result in 302 or 401. [Roy Fielding]
6631 *) Remove extra trailing whitespace from the getline results as part
6632 of the protocol processing, which is extra nice because it works
6633 between continuation lines, is almost no cost in the normal case
6634 of no extra whitespace, and saves memory. [Roy Fielding]
6636 *) Added new HTTP status codes and default response bodies from the
6637 revised HTTP/1.1 (307, 416, 417), WebDAV (102, 207, 422, 423), and
6638 HTTP Extension Framework (510) specifications. Did not add the
6639 WebDAV 424 and 425 codes because they are bogus. We don't use any
6640 of these codes yet, but they are now available to 3rd-party modules.
6643 *) Fix a possible race condition between timed-out requests and the
6644 ap_bhalfduplex select that might result in an infinite loop on
6645 platforms that do not validate the descriptor. [Roy Fielding]
6647 *) WIN32: Add "-k shutdown" and "-k restart" options to signal a
6648 running Apache server [Paul Sutton]
6650 *) Fix mod_autoindex bug where directories got a size of "0k" instead
6651 of "-". [Martin Plechsmid <plechsmi@karlin.mff.cuni.cz>, Marc Slemko]
6654 *) PORT: DRS 6000 machine. [Paul Debleecker <pdebleecker@jetair.be>]
6656 *) Add the server signature text (from the core ServerSignature directive)
6657 to the list of envariables available to scripts, SSI, and the like.
6660 *) PORT: Fix sys/resource.h handling for SCO 3.x platform.
6661 [M. Laak <maert@proinv.ee>] PR#3108
6663 *) Fallback from sysconf-based to plain HZ-based `ticks per second'
6664 calculation in mod_status for all systems which don't have POSIX
6665 sysconf() (like UTS 2.1) and not only for the NEXT platform.
6666 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#3055
6668 *) Fix `require ...' directive parsing in mod_auth, mod_auth_dbm and
6669 mod_auth_db by using ap_getword_white() (which uses ap_isspace())
6670 instead of ap_getword(..., ' ') (which parses only according to spaces
6671 but not tabs). [James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>,
6672 Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3105
6674 *) Fix the SERVER_NAME variable under sub-request situations (where
6675 `UseCanonicalName off' is used) like CGI's called from SSI pages or
6676 RewriteCond variables by adopting r->hostname to sub-requests.
6677 [James Grinter <jrg@blodwen.demon.co.uk>] PR#3111
6679 *) Fix stderr redirection under syslog-based error logging situation.
6680 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#3095
6682 *) Document `ErrorLog syslog:facility' variant of error logging.
6683 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#3096
6685 *) Fix http://localhost/ hints in top-level INSTALL document.
6686 [Rob Jenson <robjen@spotch.com>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3088
6688 *) Quote paths in default configuration files. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
6690 *) PORT: Remove extra HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H define for RHAPSODY since
6691 it is now taken care of properly by the header file tests.
6692 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
6694 *) Fix problem with scripts and filehandle inheritance on Win32.
6695 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2884, 2910
6697 *) Win32 name canonicalisation could end up using the server's
6698 working directory to fill in some blanks. [Ken Parzygnat
6699 <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#3001
6701 *) Correct invalid assumption by ap_sub_req_lookup_file() that all
6702 absolute paths begin with "/" -- because they don't on Win32.
6703 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2976, 3074
6705 *) Add [REDIRECT_]VARIANTS environment variable to mod_speling
6706 so that ErrorDocument 300 processors can reformat the list
6707 if desired. [Ken Coar] PR#2859
6709 *) Add +/- incremental prefixes to IndexOptions keywords, and
6710 enable merging of multiple IndexOptions directives. [Ken Coar]
6712 *) PORT: Allow GuessOS to recognize Unixware 7.0.1 [Steve Cameron
6713 <steve.cameron@compaq.com>]
6715 *) Reconstructed the loop through multiple htaccess file names so
6716 that missing files are not confused with unreadable files.
6719 *) The ap_pfopen and ap_pfdopen routines were failing to protect the
6720 errno on an error, which leads to one error being mistaken for
6721 another when reading non-existent .htaccess files.
6724 *) OS/2: The new header tests get things right, need to update
6725 ap_config.h. [Brian Havard]
6727 *) The Perl %ENV hash will now be setup by default when using the
6728 mod_include `perl' command [Doug MacEachern]
6730 *) PORT: Add Pyramid DC/OSx support to configuration mechanism.
6731 [Earle Ake <akee@wpdiss1.wpafb.af.mil>]
6733 *) PORT: Fix sys/resource.h handling for Amdahl's UTS 2.1
6734 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#3054
6736 *) Correct comment in mod_log_config.c about its internals.
6737 [Elf Sternberg <elf@halcyon.com>]
6739 *) Avoid possible line overflow in Configure: Use an awkfile to
6740 handle the creation of modules.c [Jim Jagielski]
6742 Changes with Apache 1.3.2
6744 *) Fix bug in ap_remove_module(), which caused problems for dso's
6745 who were the top_module. [Doug MacEachern]
6747 *) Add support for Berkeley-DB/2.x (in addition to Berkeley-DB/1.x) to
6748 mod_auth_db to both be friendly to users who wants to use this version
6749 and to avoid problems under platforms where only version 2.x is present.
6750 [Dan Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
6752 *) When using ap_log_rerror(), make the error message available to the
6753 *ERROR_NOTES envariables by default. [Ken Coar]
6755 *) BS2000 platform only: get rid of the nasty BS2000AuthFile.
6756 You now must define a BS2000Account name for the server User.
6757 This has fewer security implications than the old approach.
6760 *) Fix SHARED_CORE feature for HPUX platform: We now use extension `.sl'
6761 instead of `.so' and `SHLIB_PATH' instead of `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' on this
6762 platform to make the braindead HPUX linker happy. Notice, for the module
6763 DSOs we don't have to use this, because these are loaded manually (and
6764 not via HPUX' dld). [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2905, PR#2968
6766 *) Remove 64 thread limit on Win32.
6767 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
6769 *) Remove redundant substitutions in top-level Makefile.tmpl.
6770 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6772 *) Fix APACI's `Group' configuration adjustment - especially for Linux
6773 platforms where `nogroup' exists in /etc/group. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6775 *) Make PrintPath work generically instead of having one version
6776 strictly for OS/2. [Jim Jagielski, Brian Havard]
6778 *) Fix the recently introduced C header file checking: We now use the C
6779 pre-processor pass only (and no longer the complete compiler pass) to
6780 determine whether a C header file exists or not. Because only this way
6781 we're safe against inter-header dependencies (which caused horrible
6782 portability problems). The only drawback is that we now have a CPP
6783 configuration variable which has to be determined first (we do a similar
6784 approach as GNU Autoconf does here). When all fails the user still has
6785 the possibility to override it manually via APACI or src/Configuration.
6786 As a fallback for the header check itself we can directly check the
6787 existance of the file under /usr/include, too.
6788 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2777
6790 *) PORT: Added RHAPSODY (Mac OS X Server) support. MAP_TMPFILE defined
6791 as an alternate mechanism for mmap'd shared memory for RHAPSODY.
6792 ap_private_extern defined to hide symbols that conflict with loaded
6793 dynamic libraries on the NEXT and RHAPSODY platforms.
6794 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
6796 *) Delete PID file on clean shutdowns.
6797 [Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com>] PR#2947
6799 *) Fix mod_auth_*.html documents: NSCA -> NCSA
6800 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#2991
6802 *) Fix INSTALL document: www.gnu.ai.mit.edu -> www.gnu.org
6803 [Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>] PR#2994
6805 *) Fix dbmmanage.1 manual page.
6806 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#2992
6808 *) Fix possible buffer overflow situation in suexec.c.
6809 [Jeff Stewart <jws@purdue.edu>] PR#2790
6811 *) Add some more LIBS for the SCO5 platform which are needed for the already
6812 used -lprot. It's actually a bug in SCO5, of course.
6813 [Ronald Record <rr@sco.com>] PR#2533
6815 *) Fix documentation of ProxyPass/ProxyPassReverse according to the
6816 trailing slash problem. [Jon Drukman <jsd@gamespot.com>] PR#2933
6818 *) Remove `-msym' option from LDFLAGS_SHLIB for the Digital UNIX (OSF/1)
6819 platform, because it's only supported under version 4.0 and higher. But
6820 because our GuessOS is still unaware of Digital UNIX versions and the
6821 -msym is just to optimize the DSO statup time a little bit it's safe and
6822 best when we leave it out now. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2969
6824 *) Fix the ap_log_error_old(), ap_log_unixerr() and ap_log_printf()
6825 functions: First all three functions no longer fail on strings containing
6826 "%" chars and second ap_log_printf() no longer does a double-formatting
6827 (instead it directly passes through the message to be formatted to the
6828 real internal formatting function). [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2941
6830 *) Allow "Include" directives anywhere in the server config
6831 files (but not .htaccess files). [Ken Coar] PR#2727
6833 *) The proxy was refusing to serve CONNECT requests except to
6834 port 443 (https://) and 563 (snews://). The new AllowCONNECT
6835 directive allows the configuration of the ports to which a
6836 CONNECT is allowed. [Sameer Parekh, Martin Kraemer]
6838 *) mod_expires will now act on content that is not sent from a file
6839 on disk. Previously it would never add an Expires: header to
6840 any response that did not come from a file on disk; the only
6841 case where it still doesn't (and can't) add one for that type of
6842 content is if you are using a modification date based setting.
6843 [Marc Slemko, Paul Phillips <paulp@go2net.com>]
6845 *) Problems encountered during .htaccess parsing or CGI execution
6846 that lead to a "500 Server Error" condition now provide explanatory
6847 text (in the *ERROR_NOTES envariable) to ErrorDocument 500 scripts.
6850 *) Add NameWidth keyword to IndexOptions directive so that the
6851 width of the filename column is customisable. [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
6854 *) Recognize lowercase _and_ uppercase `uname' results under
6855 SCO OpenServer. [David Coelho <drc@ppt.com>]
6857 *) As duplicate "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" lines within the header seem to be
6858 a common problem of (mis-administrated?) IIS servers, make the apache
6859 proxy immune to these errors (and ignore the duplicates, but log
6860 the fact to error_log). [Martin Kraemer], after the proposal in PR#2914
6862 *) The <IfModule and <IfDefine block starting directives now only
6863 allow exactly one argument. Previously, the optional negation
6864 character '!' could be separated by whitespace without a syntax
6865 error being reported, albeit defeating the IfModule functionality
6866 (enclosed directives would ALWAYS be executed). By using the
6867 stricter syntax, these hard-to-track errors can be avoided.
6870 *) Simplify handling of IndexOptions in mod_autoindex -- and BTW
6871 cause the standalone FancyIndexing directive to logically OR
6872 into any existing IndexOptions settings rather than wiping
6873 them out. [Ken Coar]
6875 *) Changes in ftp proxy: make URL parsing simpler by using the
6877 + Add display of the "current directory" in cases where it's
6878 different from the supplied path (e.g., ftp://user@host/ lives
6879 in /home/user, not in /, therefore clicking on "../" in the
6880 starting directory might send us to /home/).
6881 + When ftp login fails, (esp. when a user name was part of the
6882 URL already), we now return [401 Unauthorized ] to allow the
6883 browser to pop up an authorization dialog. This makes passwords
6884 slightly less visible (they don't appear in the regular log files)
6885 and implements a functionality that other www proxy servers
6889 *) Triggered by the recent "Via:" header changes, the proxy module would
6890 dump core for replies with invalid headers (e.g., duplicate
6891 "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" lines). These errors are now logged and the
6892 core dump is avoided. Also, broken replies are not cached.
6893 [Martin Kraemer] PR#2914
6895 *) new `GprofDir' directive when compiled with -DGPROF, where gprof can
6896 plop gmon.out profile data for each child [Doug MacEachern]
6898 *) Use the construct ``"$@"'' instead of ``$*'' in the generated
6899 config.status script to be immune against arguments with whitespaces.
6900 [Yves Arrouye <yves@apple.com>] PR#2866
6902 *) Replace the inlined information grabbing stuff for the configuration
6903 adjustment feature (no --without-confadjust) with calls to a new helper
6904 script `buildinfo.sh' which is both more flexible and already proofed to
6905 be more robust against platform differences. This mainly fixes the
6906 recently occured ``sed: command garbled: ...'' problems.
6907 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2776, PR#2848
6909 *) Make ab.c again pass ``gcc -Wall -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align
6910 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Winline''
6911 without complains after we recently added the POST feature.
6912 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6914 *) Renamed is_HTTP_xxx() macros to ap_is_HTTP_xxx() name. They are used inside
6915 modules as API functions and we forgot them at the big symbol renaming.
6916 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6918 *) Remove bad reference to non-existing SERVER_VERSION in mod_rewrite.html
6919 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.ORG>] PR#2895
6921 *) Dynamically size the filename column of mod_autoindex output.
6924 *) Add the ability to do POST requests to the ab benchmarking tool.
6925 [Kurt Sussman <kls@best.com>] PR#2871
6927 *) Bump up MAX_ENV_FLAGS in mod_rewrite.h from the too conservatice limit of
6928 5 to 10 because there are some users out there who always have 5 to 8
6929 variables in one RewriteRule and had to patch mod_rewrite.h for every
6930 release. So 15 should be now more than enough, even for them. (I never
6931 needed more than 4 in my RewriteRules ;-)
6932 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6934 *) Make the proxy generate and understand Via: headers
6937 *) Change the proxy to use tables instead of array_headers for
6938 the header lines. [Martin Kraemer]
6940 *) Make sure the config.status file is not overridden when just
6941 ``configure --help'' is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2844
6943 *) Split MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER into _MAJOR/_MINOR numbers. This should
6944 provide a way to trace API changes that add functionality but do
6945 not create a compatibility issue for precompiled modules, etc.
6946 See include/ap_mmn.h for more details. [Randy Terbush]
6948 *) Fix suexec installation under `make install root=xxx' situation.
6949 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6951 *) Extend the output of the -V switch to include the paths of all
6952 compiled-in configuration files, if they were overridden at
6953 compile time, for least astonishment of the user.
6956 *) When READing a request in ExtendedStatus mode, the "old"
6957 vhost, request and client information is not displayed.
6960 *) STATUS is no longer available. Full status information now
6961 run-time configurable using the ExtendedStatus directive.
6964 *) SECURITY: Eliminate O(n^2) space DoS attacks (and other O(n^2)
6965 cpu time attacks) in header parsing. Add ap_overlap_tables(),
6966 a function which can be used to perform bulk update operations
6967 on tables in a more efficient manner. CAN-1999-1199 (cve.mitre.org)
6970 *) SECURITY: Added compile-time and configurable limits for
6971 various aspects of reading a client request to avoid some simple
6972 denial of service attacks, including limits on maximum request-line
6973 size (LimitRequestLine), number of header fields (LimitRequestFields),
6974 and size of any one header field (LimitRequestFieldsize). Also added
6975 a configurable directive LimitRequestBody for limiting the size of the
6976 request message body. [Roy Fielding]
6978 *) Make status module aware of DNS and logging states, even if
6979 STATUS not defined. [Jim Jagielski]
6981 *) Fix a problem with the new OS/2 mutexes. [Brian Havard]
6983 *) Enhance mod_speling so that CheckSpelling can be used in
6984 <Directory> containers and .htaccess files. [Ken Coar]
6986 *) API: new ap_custom_response() function for hooking into the
6987 ErrorDocument mechanism at runtime [Doug MacEachern]
6989 *) API: new ap_uuencode() function [Doug MacEachern]
6991 *) API: scan_script_header_err_core() now "public" and renamed
6992 ap_scan_script_header_err_core() [Doug MacEachern]
6994 *) The 'status' module will now show the process pid's and their
6995 state even without full STATUS accounting. [Jim Jagielski]
6997 *) Restore the client IP address to the error log messages, this
6998 was lost during the transition from 1.2 to 1.3. Add a new
6999 function ap_log_rerror() which takes a request_rec * and
7000 formats it appropriately. [Dean Gaudet] PR#2661
7002 *) Cure ap_cfg_getline() of its nasty habit of compressing internal
7003 whitespace in input lines -- including within quoted strings.
7005 but leading and trailing whitespace should continue to be
7006 stripped [Martin Kraemer]
7008 *) Cleanup of the PrintPath/PrintPathOS2 helper functions. Avoid
7009 the ugly use of an env. variable and use command-line args for
7010 alternate $PATH. Make more like advanced 'type's as well.
7013 *) The IRIXN32 Rule was being ignored. Configure now correctly adds
7014 -n32 only if IRIXN32 says to. [Jim Jagielski, Alain St-Denis
7015 <alain.st-denis@ec.gc.ca>] PR#2736
7017 *) Clean up a warning in mod_proxy. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7019 *) Renamed __EMX__ (internal define of the gcc port under OS/2) to OS2
7020 following the same idea as "MSVC vs WIN32". Additionally the src/os/emx/
7021 directory was renamed to src/os/os2/ for consistency.
7022 [Brian Havard, Ralf S. Engelschall]
7024 *) Add new Rule SHARED_CHAIN which can be used to enable linking of DSO
7025 files (here modules) against other DSO files (here shared libraries).
7026 This is done by determining a subset of LIBS which can be safely used for
7027 linking the DSOs, i.e. PIC libs and shared libs. Currently the rule is
7028 disabled for all platforms to avoid problems with this (experimental)
7029 rule. But we provide it now for those people how ran into problems and
7030 want to came out by forcing linking against DSOs.
7031 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2587
7033 *) Fix suEXEC start message: Has to be of `notice' level to really get
7034 printed together with the standard startup message because the `notice'
7035 level is handled special inside ap_log_error() for startup messages.
7036 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2761 PR#2761 PR#2765
7038 *) Add correct `model' MIME types from RFC2077 to mime.types file.
7039 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2732
7041 *) Fixed examples in mod_rewrite.html document.
7042 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2756
7044 *) Allow ap_read_request errors to propagate through the normal request
7045 handling loop so that the connection can be properly closed with
7046 lingering_close, thus avoiding a potential TCP reset that would
7047 cause the client to miss the HTTP error response. [Roy Fielding]
7049 *) One more portability fix for APACI shadow tree support: Swap order of awk
7050 and sed in top-level configure script to avoid sed fails on some
7051 platforms (for instance SunOS 4.1.3 and NCR SysV) because of the
7052 non-newline-termined output of Awk. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2729
7054 *) PORT: NEC EWS4800 support.
7055 [MATSUURA Takanori <t-matsuu@protein.osaka-u.ac.jp>]
7057 *) Fix a segfault in the proxy on OS/2. [Brian Havard]
7059 *) Fix Win32 part of ap_spawn_child() by providing a reasonable child_info
7060 structure instead of just NULL. This fixes at least the RewriteMap
7061 programs under Win32. [Marco De Michele <mdemichele@tin.it>] PR#2483
7063 *) Add workaround to top-level `configure' script for brain dead
7064 `echo' commands which interpet escape sequences per default.
7065 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2654
7067 *) Make sure that the path to the Perl interpreter is correctly
7068 adjusted under `make install' also for the printenv CGI script.
7069 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2595
7071 *) Update the mod_rewrite.html document to correctly reflect the situation
7072 of the `proxy' (`[P]') feature. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2679
7074 *) Fix `install-includes' sub-target of `install' target in top-level
7075 Makefile.tmpl: The umask+cp approach didn't work as expected (especially
7076 for users which extracted the distribution under 'umask 077'), so replace
7077 it by an explicit cp+chmod approach.
7078 [Richard Lloyd, Curt Sampson, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2656 PR#2626
7080 *) Fix `distclean' and `clean' targets in src/Makefile.tmpl to have same
7081 behavior and to cleanup correctly even under enabled SHARED_CORE rule.
7082 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7084 *) Use a more straight forward and thus less problematic Sed command in
7085 src/helper/mkdir.sh script. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7087 *) Make sure the `configure' scripts doesn't fail when trying to guess the
7088 domainname of the machine and there are multiple `domainname' and
7089 `search' entries in /etc/resolv.conf.
7090 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2710
7092 *) Add note about the SHARED_CORE requirement on some platforms also to the
7093 INSTALL file because a lot of users don't read htdocs/manual/dso.html
7094 first. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2701
7096 *) Fix document "hyperlink" for dso.html in src/Configuration.tmpl
7097 [Knut A.Syed <Knut.Syed@nhh.no>] PR#2674
7099 *) Modify mod_rewrite to update the Vary response field if the URL rewriting
7100 engine does any manipulations or decisions based upon request fields.
7103 *) Document the special APACI behavior for installation paths where
7104 ``/apache'' is appended to paths under some (well defined, of course)
7105 situations to prevent pollution of system locations with Apache files.
7106 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2660
7108 *) Fixed problem with buffered response message not being sent for
7109 the read_request error conditions of URI-too-long (414) and
7110 malformed header fields (400). [Roy Fielding] PR#2646
7112 *) Add support for the Max-Forwards: header line required by RFC2068 for
7113 the TRACE method. This allows apache to TRACE along a chain of proxies
7114 up to a predetermined depth. [Martin Kraemer]
7116 *) Fix SHARED_CORE rule: The CFLAGS_SHLIB variable is no longer doubled
7117 (compilers complained) and the .so.V.R.P filename extension was adjusted
7118 to correctly reflect the 1.3.2 version.
7119 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2644
7121 *) SECURITY: Plug "..." and other canonicalization holes under OS/2.
7124 *) PORT: implement serialized accepts for OS/2. [Brian Havard]
7126 *) mod_include had problems with the fsize and flastmod directives
7127 under WIN32. Fix also avoids the minor security hole of using
7128 ".." paths for fsize and flastmod.
7129 [Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2355
7131 *) Fixed some Makefile dependency problems. [Dean Gaudet]
7133 Changes with Apache 1.3.1
7135 *) Disable the incorrect entry for application/msword in the
7136 mod_mime_magic "magic" file because it also matches other Office
7137 documents. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2608
7139 *) Fix broken RANLIB handling in src/Configure (the entry from
7140 src/Configuration.tmpl was ignored) and additionally force RANLIB to
7141 /bin/true under HP/UX where ranlib exists but is deprecated.
7142 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2627
7144 *) 'apachectl status' failed on some systems.
7145 [Steve VanDevender <stevev@darkwing.uoregon.edu>, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#2613
7147 *) Add new flags for ap_unparse_uri_components() to make it generate
7148 the scheme://sitepart string only, or to omit the query string.
7151 *) WIN32: Canonicalize ServerRoot before checking to see if it
7152 is a valid directory. The failure to do this caused certain
7153 ServerRoot settings (eg. "ServerRoot /apache") to be improperly
7154 rejected. [Marc Slemko]
7156 *) Global renaming of C header files to both get rid of conflicts with third
7157 party packages and to again reach consistency:
7158 1. conf.h -> ap_config.h
7159 2. conf_auto.h -> ap_config_auto.h \ these are now merged
7160 3. ap_config.h -> ap_config_auto.h / in the config process
7161 4. compat.h -> ap_compat.h
7162 5. apctype.h -> ap_ctype.h
7163 Backward compatibility files for conf.h and compat.h were created.
7165 *) mod_mmap_static will no longer take action on requests unless at
7166 least one "mmapfile" directive is present in the configuration.
7167 This experimental module has to do some black magic to operate
7168 inside the current API and thus creates side-effects for other
7169 modules under some circumstances.
7170 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7172 *) Add conservative ticks around more egrep arguments in top-level configure
7173 to avoid problems under brain-dead platforms like Digital UNIX (OSF1).
7174 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2596
7176 *) mod_rewrite created RewriteLock files under the UID of the parent
7177 process, thus the child processes had no write access to the files.
7178 Now a chown() is done on the file to the uid of the children,
7179 if applicable. [Lars Eilebrecht, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2341
7181 *) Autogenerate some HAVE_XXXXX_H defines in conf_auto.h (determined via
7182 TestCompile) instead of defining them manually in conf.h based on less
7183 accurate platform definitions. This way we no longer have to fiddle with
7184 OS-type and/or OS-version identifiers to discover whether a system header
7185 file exists or not. Instead we now directly check for the existence of
7186 those esoteric ones.
7187 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2093, PR#2361, PR#2377, PR#2434,
7188 PR#2524, PR#2525, PR#2533, PR#2569
7190 *) mod_setenvif (BrowserMatch* and friends) will now match a missing
7191 field with "^$". [Ken Coar]
7193 *) Set the RTLD_GLOBAL dlopen mode parameter to allow dynamically loaded
7194 modules to load their own modules dynamically. This improves mod_perl
7195 and mod_php3 when these modules are loaded dynamically into Apache.
7198 *) Cache a proxied request in the event that the client cancels the
7199 transfer, provided that the configured percentage of the file has
7200 already been transfered. It works for HTTP transfers only. The
7201 new configuration directive is called CacheForceCompletion.
7202 [Glen Parker <glenebob@nwlink.com>] PR#2277
7204 *) Add the "<!DOCTYPE HTML" magic cookie used by modern documents (and
7205 required by HTML 3.2 and later) to mod_mime_magic's conf/magic.
7206 [Anna Shergold <anna@inext.co.uk>]
7208 *) Fix yet another signal-based race condition involving nested timers.
7209 Signals suck. [Dean Gaudet]
7211 *) suexec's error messages have been clarified a little bit. [Ken Coar]
7213 *) Clean up some, but perhaps not all, 8-bit character set problems
7214 with config file parsing, and URL parsing. We now define
7215 ap_isdigit(), ap_isupper(), ... which cast to an (unsigned char).
7216 This should work on most modern unixes.
7217 [Dean Gaudet] PR#800, 2282, 2553 (and others)
7219 *) The "handler not found" error was issued in cases where the handler
7220 really did exist, but was just declining to serve the request.
7221 [John Van Essen <jve@gamers.org>] PR#2529
7223 *) Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for SCO5 (OpenServer 5.0.x).
7224 [Ronald Record <rr@sco.com>] PR#2533
7226 *) The APACI libexecdir was not extended with an "apache/" subdir
7227 if the installation prefix didn't already contain "apache", but
7228 it should be because the DSO files are Apache-specific. Now
7229 libexecdir is treated the same way sysconfdir, datadir, localstatedir
7230 and includedir are already treated.
7231 [Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>] PR#2551
7233 *) The <Limit> parsing routine was incorrectly treating methods as
7234 case-insensitive. [Ken Coar]
7236 *) The ap_bprintf() code neglected to test if there was an error on
7237 the connection. ap_bflush() misdiagnosed a failure as a success.
7240 *) add support for #perl arg interpolation in mod_include
7243 *) API: Name changes of table_elts to ap_table_elts, is_table_empty
7244 to ap_is_table_empty and bgetflag to ap_bgetflag. [Ben Laurie]
7246 *) PORT: Add UnixWare 7 support
7247 [Vadim Kostoglodoff <vadim@olly.ru>] PR#2463
7249 *) Fix the Guess-DSO-flags-from-Perl stuff in src/Configure: "perl" was
7250 used instead of "$PERL" which contains the correctly determined Perl
7251 interpreter (important for instance on systems where "perl" and "perl5"
7252 exists, like BSDI or FreeBSD, etc).
7253 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2505
7255 *) Move the initial suEXEC-related startup message from plain
7256 fprintf()/stderr to a delayed ap_log_error()-based one to avoid problems
7257 when Apache is started from inetd (instead of standalone). Under this
7258 situation startup messages on stderr lead to problems (the line is sent
7259 to the client in front of the requested document).
7260 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#871, PR#1318
7262 *) Add a flag so ap_fnmatch() can be used for case-blind pattern matching.
7263 [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
7265 *) WIN32: Don't collapse multiple slashes in PATH_INFO.
7266 [Ben Laurie, Bill Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>] PR#2274
7268 *) WIN32 SECURITY: Eliminate trailing "."s in path components. These are
7269 ignored by the Windows filesystem, and so can be used to bypass security.
7270 [Ben Laurie, Alexei Kosut].
7272 *) We now attempt to dump core when we get SIGILL. [Jim Jagielski]
7274 *) PORT: remove broken test for MAP_FILE in http_main.c.
7275 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
7277 *) PORT: Change support/apachectl to use "kill -0 $pid" to test if the
7278 httpd is running. This should be more portable than figuring out
7279 which of three dozen different versions of "ps" are installed.
7282 *) WIN32: If we can't figure out how to execute a file in a script
7283 directory, bail out of the request with an error message. [W G Stoddard]
7285 *) WIN32 SECURITY: Eliminate directories consisting of three or more dots;
7286 these are treated by Win32 as if they are ".." but are not detected by
7287 other machinery within Apache. This is something of a kludge but
7288 eliminates a security hole. [Manoj Kasichainula, Ben Laurie]
7290 *) Move ap_escape_quotes() from src/ap to src/main/util.c; it uses
7291 pools and thus pollutes libap (until the pool stuff is moved there).
7294 *) IndexIgnore should be case-blind on Win32 (and any other case-aware
7295 but case-insensitive platforms). New #define for this added to conf.h
7296 (CASE_BLIND_FILESYSTEM). [Ken Coar] PR#2455
7298 *) Enable DSO support for OpenBSD in general, not only for 2.x, because it
7299 also works for OpenBSD 1.x. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7301 *) PORT: Fix compilation problem on ARM Linux.
7302 [Sam Kington <sam@illuminated.co.uk>] PR#2443
7304 *) Let APACI's configure script determine some configuration parameters
7305 (Group, Port, ServerAdmin, ServerName) via some intelligent tests to
7306 remove some of the classical hurdles for new users when setting up
7307 Apache. This is done per default because it is useful for the average
7308 user. Package authors can use the --without-confadjust option to disable
7309 these configuration adjustments.
7310 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7312 *) Added an EXTRA_DEPS configuration parameter which can be used
7313 to add an extra Makefile dependency for the httpd target, for instance
7314 to external third-party libraries, etc.
7315 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7317 *) Add <IfDefine>..</IfDefine> sections to the core module (with same spirit
7318 as <IfModule>..</IfModule> sections) which can be used to skip or process
7319 contained commands dependend of ``-D PARAMETER'' options on the command
7320 line. This can be used to achieve logical conditions like <IfDefine
7321 ReverseProxy> instead of physically ones (e.g. <IfModule mod_proxy.c>)
7322 and thus especially can be used for conditionally loading DSO-based
7323 modules via LoadModule, etc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7325 *) PORT: clean up a warning in mod_status for OS/2. [Brian Havard]
7327 *) Make table elements const. This may prevent obscure errors. [Ben Laurie]
7329 *) Fix parsing of FTP `SIZE' responses in proxy module: The newline was not
7330 truncated which forced following HTTP headers to be data in the HTTP
7331 reponse. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Charles Fu <ccwf@bacchus.com>]
7334 *) Portability fix for APACI shadow tree support: Swap order of awk and sed
7335 in top-level configure script to avoid sed fails on some platforms (for
7336 instance SunOS 4.1.3 and NCR SysV) because of the non-newline-termined
7337 output of Awk. [Bill Houle <bhoule@sandiegoca.ncr.com>] PR#2435
7339 *) Improve performance of directory listings (mod_autoindex) by comparing
7340 integer keys (last-modified and size) as integers rather than converting
7341 them to strings first. Also use a set of explicit byte tests rather
7342 than strcmp() to check for parent directory-ness of an entry. Oh, and
7343 make sure the parent directory (if displayed) is *always* listed first
7344 regardless of the sort key. Overall performance winnage should be good
7345 in CPU time, instruction cache, and memory usage, particularly for large
7346 directories. [Ken Coar]
7348 *) Add a tiny but useful goody to APACI's configure script: The generation
7349 of a config.status script (as GNU Autoconf does) which remembers the used
7350 configure command and hence can be used to restore the configuration by
7351 just re-running this script or for remembering the configuration between
7353 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7355 *) Add httpd -t (test) option for running configuration syntax tests only.
7356 If something is broken it complains and exits with a return code
7357 non-equal to 0. This can be used manually by the user to check the Apache
7358 configuration after editing and is also automatically used by apachectl
7359 on (graceful) restart command to make sure Apache doesn't die on restarts
7360 because of a configuration which is now broken since the last (re)start.
7361 This way `apachectl restart' can be used inside cronjobs without having
7362 to expect Apache to be falling down. Additionally the httpd -t can be run
7363 via `apachectl configtest'.
7364 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2393
7366 *) Minor display fix for "install" target of top-level Makefile:
7367 the displayed installation command was incorrect although the
7368 executed command was correct. Now they are in sync.
7369 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2402
7371 *) Correct initialization of variable `allowed_globals' in http_main.c
7372 [Justin Bradford <justin@ukans.edu>] PR#2400
7374 *) Apache would incorrectly downcase the entire Content-Type passed from
7375 CGIs. This affected server-push scripts and such which use
7376 multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary=ThisRandomString.
7377 [Dean Gaudet] PR#2394
7379 *) PORT: QNX update to properly guess 32-bit systems.
7380 [Sean Boudreau <seanb@qnx.com>] PR#2390
7382 *) Make sure the DSO emulation code for HPUX finds the proprietary shl_xxx()
7383 functions which are in libdld under HPUX 9/10.
7384 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2378
7386 *) Make sure the "install" target of the top-level Makefile doesn't break
7387 because of a return code of 1 from an "if" (for instance under braindead
7388 Ultrix the result code of an "if" construct is 1 if the "then" clause
7389 didn't match). [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7391 *) Add an additional "dummy" target to the "$(LIB)" target in generated
7392 modules/xxx/Makefile's to avoid problems with SVR4 Make under "full-DSO"
7393 situation (no libxxx.a built, only mod_xxx.so's) where LIB and OBJS are
7394 empty. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Dean Gaudet, Martin Kraemer]
7396 *) Replace two bad sprintf() calls with ap_snprintf() variants in
7397 mod_rewrite. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7399 *) Fix missing usage description for MetaFiles directive.
7400 [David MacKenzie <djm@va.pubnix.com>] PR#2384
7402 *) mod_log_config wouldn't let vhosts use log formats defined in the
7403 main server. [Christof Damian <damian@mediaconsult.com>] PR#2090
7405 *) mod_usertrack was corrupting the client hostname. As part of the
7406 fix, the cookie values were slightly extended to include the
7407 fully qualified hostname of the client.
7408 [Dean Gaudet] PR#2190, 2229, 2366
7410 *) Fix a typo in pool debugging code. [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
7412 *) mod_unique_id did not work on alpha linux (in general on any
7413 architecture that has 64-bit time_t).
7414 [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
7416 *) PORT: Make SCO 5 (and probably 3) compile again. [Ben Laurie]
7418 *) PORT: NCR MPRAS systems have the same bug with SIGHUP restart that
7419 Solaris systems experience. So define WORKAROUND_SOLARIS_BUG.
7420 [Klaus Weber <kweber@chephren.germany.ncr.com>] PR#1973
7422 *) Change "Options None" to "Options FollowSymLinks" in the
7423 <Directory /> section of the default access.conf-dist
7424 (and -win even though it doesn't matter there). This has better
7425 performance, and more intuitive semantics. [Dean Gaudet]
7427 *) PORT: Updated support for UTS 2.1.2.
7428 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#2320
7430 *) Fix symbol export list (src/support/httpd.exp) after recent
7431 API changes in the child spawning area.
7432 [Jens-Uwe Mager <jum@helios.de>]
7434 *) Workaround for configure script and old `test' commands which do not
7435 support the -x flag (for instance under platforms like Ultrix). This is
7436 solved by another helper script findprg.sh which searches for Perl and
7437 Awk like PrintPath but _via different names_.
7438 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7440 *) Remove the system() call from htpasswd.c, which eliminates a system
7441 dependancy. ["M.D.Parker" <mdpc@netcom.com>] PR#2332
7443 *) PORT: Fix compilation failures on NEXTSTEP.
7444 [Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>] PR#2293, 2316
7446 *) PORT: F_NDELAY is a typo, should have been FNDELAY. There's also
7447 O_NDELAY on various systems. [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#2313
7449 *) PORT: helpers/GuessOS updates for various versions for NCR SVR4.
7450 [juerg schreiner <j.schreiner@zh.ch>,
7451 Bill Houle <Bill.Houle@SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM>] PR#2310
7453 *) Fix recently introduced Win32 child spawning code in mod_rewrite.c which
7454 was broken because of invalid ap_pstrcat() -> strcat() transformation.
7455 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7457 *) Proxy Cache Fixes: account for directory sizes, fork off garbage collection
7458 to continue in background, use predefined types (off_t, size_t, time_t),
7459 log the current cache usage percentage at LogLevel debug
7460 [Martin Kraemer, based on discussion between Dean Gaudet & Dirk vanGulik]
7462 Changes with Apache 1.3.0
7464 *) Using a type map file as a custom error document was not possible.
7465 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#1031
7467 *) Avoid problems with braindead Awks by additionally searching for gawk
7468 and nawk in APACI's configure script.
7469 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2319
7471 *) Rename md5.h to ap_md5.h to avoid conflicts with native MD5 on
7472 some systems. [Randy Terbush]
7474 *) Change usage of perror()+fprintf(stderr,...) in mod_rewrite to
7475 more proper ap_log_error() variants.
7476 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7478 *) Make sure the argument for the --add-module option to APACI's configure
7479 script is of type [path/to/]mod_xxx.c because all calculations inside
7480 configure and src/Configure depend on this.
7481 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2307
7483 *) Changes usage of perror/fprintf to stderr to more proper ap_log_error
7484 in mod_mime, mod_log_referer, mod_log_agent, and mod_log_config.
7487 *) Various OS/2 cleanups ["Brian Havard" <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
7489 *) PORT: QNX needed a #include <sys/mman.h>; and now it uses flock
7490 serialized accept to handle multiple sockets.
7491 [Rob Saccoccio <robs@InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2295, 2296
7493 *) Have NT properly set the directory for CGI scripts
7494 (& other spawned children)
7495 [W G Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>]
7497 *) Propagate environment to CGI scripts correctly in Win32.
7498 [W G Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>] PR#2294
7500 *) Some symbol renaming:
7501 ap_spawn_child_err became ap_spawn_child
7502 ap_spawn_child_err_buff became ap_bspawn_child
7503 spawn_child was obsoleted and moved to compat.h
7506 *) Upgrade the child spawning code in mod_rewrite for the RewriteMap
7507 programs: ap_spawn_child_err() is used and the Win32 case now uses
7508 CreateProcess() instead of a low-level execl() (which caused problems in
7509 the past under Win32).
7510 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7512 *) A few cosmetics and trivial enhancements to APXS to make the
7513 generated Makefile more user friendly. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7515 *) Proxy Fix: The proxy special failure routine ap_proxyerror()
7516 was updated to use the normal apache error processing, thereby allowing
7517 proxy errors to be treated by ErrorDocument's as well. For this
7518 purpose, a new module-to-core communication variable "error-notes"
7519 was introduced; the proxy (and possibly other modules) communicates
7520 its error text using this variable. Its content is copied to a new
7521 cgi-env-var REDIRECT_ERROR_NOTES for use by ErrorDocuments.
7522 The old proxy special error routine ap_proxy_log_uerror()
7523 was replaced by regular ap_log_error() calls, many messages were made
7525 [Martin Kraemer] PR#494, 1259
7527 *) SECURITY: A possible buffer overflow in the ftp proxy was fixed.
7530 *) Transform the configure message "You need root privileges for suEXEC"
7531 from a fatal error into a (more friendly) warning because the building
7532 ("make") of Apache we can allow, of course. Root privileges are needed
7533 only for the installation step ("make install"). So make sure the
7534 user is aware of this fact but let him proceed as long as he can.
7535 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2288
7537 *) Renamed three more functions to common ap_ prefix which we missed at the
7538 Big Symbol Renaming because they're #defines and not real C functions:
7539 is_default_port(), default_port(), http_method().
7540 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7542 *) A zero-length name after a $ in an SSI document should cause
7543 just the $ to be in the expansion. This was broken during the
7544 security fixes in 1.2.5. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1921, 2249
7546 *) Call ap_destroy_sub_req() in ap_add_cgi_vars() to reclaim some
7547 memory. [Rob Saccoccio <robs@InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2252
7549 *) Fix src/support/httpd.exp (DSO export file which is currently only
7550 used under AIX) because of recent changes to function names.
7551 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7553 Changes with Apache 1.3b7
7555 *) Make sure a MIME-type can be forced via a RewriteRule even when no
7556 substitution takes place, for instance via the following rule:
7557 ``RewriteRule ^myscript$ - [T=application/x-httpd-cgi]'' This was often
7558 requested by users in the past to force a single script without a .cgi
7559 extension and outside any cgi-bin dirs to be executed as a CGI program.
7560 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2254
7562 *) A fix for protocol issues surrounding 400, 408, and
7563 414 responses. [Ed Korthof]
7565 *) Ignore MaxRequestsPerChild on WIN32. [Brian Behlendorf]
7567 *) Fix discrepancy in proxy_ftp.c which was causing failures when
7568 trying to connect to certain ftpd's, such as anonftpd.
7569 [Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>]
7571 *) Make mod_rewrite use ap_open_piped_log() for RewriteLog directive's
7572 logfile instead of fiddling around itself with child spawning stuff.
7573 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7575 *) Made RefererIgnore case-insensitive.
7577 *) Mod_log_agent, mod_log_referer now use ap_open_piped_log for piped logs.
7580 *) Replace use of spawn_child with ap_spawn_child_err_buff, to make everything
7581 "safe" under Win32. In: mod_include.c, mod_mime_magic.c
7584 *) Improve RFC1413 support. [Bob Beck <beck@bofh.ucs.ualberta.ca>]
7586 *) Fix support script `dbmmanage': It was unable to handle some sort
7587 of passwords, especially passwords with "0" chars.
7588 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2242
7590 *) WIN32: Clicking on "Last Modified" in a fancy index caused a crash. Fixed.
7591 [Ben Laurie] PR#2238
7593 *) WIN32: CGIs could cause a hang (because of a deadlock in the standard C
7594 library), so CGI handling has been changed to use Win32 native handles
7595 instead of C file descriptors.
7596 [Ben Laurie and Bill Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>] PR#1129, 1607
7598 *) The proxy cache would store an incorrect content-length in the cached
7599 file copy after a cache update. That resulted in repeated fetching
7600 of the original copy instead of using the cached copy.
7601 [Ernst Kloppenburg <kloppen@isr.uni-stuttgart.de>] PR#2094
7603 *) The Makefiles assumed that DSO files are build via $(LD). This
7604 is broken for two reasons: First we never defined at least LD=ld
7605 somewhere to make sure this works (it was silently assumed that most Make
7606 provide a built-in LD definition - ARGL!) and second using the generic LD
7607 variable is not the truth. Instead a special variable named LD_SHLIB is
7608 reasonable because although "ld" is usually the default, the command for
7609 building DSO files can be "libtool" or even "cc" on some systems.
7610 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7612 *) Replace the AddVersionPlatform directive with ServerTokens which
7613 provides for more control over the format of the Server:
7614 header line. SERVER_SUBVERSION is no longer supported;
7615 all module should use the ap_add_version_component()
7616 API function instead. [Jim Jagielski]
7618 *) Support for the NCR MP/RAS 3.0
7619 [John Withers <withers@semi.kcsc.mwr.irs.gov>]
7621 *) The LDFLAGS_SHLIB_EXPORT variable of src/Configuration[.tmpl] was
7622 not retrieved in src/Configure and thus was not useable.
7623 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7625 *) Various Makefile consistency cleanups:
7626 - make OSDIR also automatically be relative to src/ like INCDIR
7627 - SUBDIRS is now generated in src/Makefile only and not in
7628 Makefile.config because it is a local define for this location.
7629 - remove BROKEN_BPRINTF_FLAGS because is it no longer used inside
7630 any Makefile but make sure that at least the "-K inline" is kept in
7632 - update the "depend" targets in Makefile.tmpl files to use $(OSDIR), too.
7633 - updated the dependencies theirself
7634 - removed not existing SHLIB variable from "clean" targets
7635 - replaced SHLIB_OBJS/SHLIBS_OBJ consistently with OBJS_PIC because OBJS
7636 already exists and OBJS_PIC are also just plain objects and have not
7637 directly to do with "shared" things. The only difference is that they
7638 contain PIC. So OBJS_PIC is the more canonical name.
7639 - Updated the Makefile-dependency lines for OBJS_PIC
7640 - Removed the Makefile-dependency line in Configure to avoid double
7642 - replaced ugly xx-so.o/xx.so-o hack with a clean and consistent usage
7643 of xxx.lo as GNU libtool does with its PIC objects
7644 - reduce local complexity in modules Makefile.tmpl by moving the last
7645 existing target "depend" to the generation section in Configure, too.
7646 - removed the historical $(SPACER) which was used in the past together
7647 with BROKEN_BPRINTF_FLAGS to avoid zig-zags in the build process. This
7648 is no longer needed.
7649 - force the build and run of the gen_xxx programs under main/ as the
7650 first step before building the objects because it looks cleaner
7651 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7653 *) WIN32: Make Win32 work again after the /dev/null DoS fix.
7656 *) WIN32: Check for buffer overflows in ap_os_canonical_filename.
7659 *) WIN32: Don't force ISAPI headers to finish with \n.
7660 [Jim Patterson <Jim.Patterson@Cognos.COM>, Ben Laurie] PR#2060
7662 *) When opening "configuration" files (like httpd.conf, htaccess
7663 and htpasswd), Apache will not allow them to be non-/dev/null
7664 device files. This closes a DoS hole. At the same time,
7665 we use ap_pfopen to open these files to handle timeouts.
7666 [Jim Jagielski, Martin Kraemer]
7668 *) Apache will now log the reason its httpd children exit if they exit
7669 due to an unexpected signal. (It requires a new porting define,
7670 SYS_SIGLIST, which if defined should point to a list of text
7671 descriptions of the signals available. See PORTING.) [Dean Gaudet]
7673 *) WIN32: chdir() doesn't make sense in a multithreaded environment
7674 like WIN32. Before, Win32 CGI's could have had sporadic failures
7675 if a chdir call from one thread was made between another chdir call
7676 and a spawn in another thread. So, for now don't chdir for CGI scripts
7677 in WIN32. The current CGI "spec" is unclear as to whether it's
7678 necessary. Long-term fix is to either serialize the chdir/spawn combo
7679 or use WIN32 native calls to spawn a process. This temp fix was
7680 necessary to remove this as a showstopper for 1.3's release.
7683 *) Cleanup the suEXEC support in APACI and make it more safe:
7684 1. Add big fat hint in INSTALL about risks and to read the
7685 htdocs/manual/suexec.html document before using the suexec-related
7687 2. Make sure the user has at least provided one --suexec-xxxx option
7688 (specifies suEXEC parameters) in addition to --enable-suexec option.
7689 If only --enable-suexec is given APACI stops with a hint to INSTALL
7690 and htdocs/manual/suexec.html documents.
7691 3. Provide two additional --suexec-xxxx options to make the suEXEC
7692 configuration complete (especially for package maintainers who else
7693 had to patch the source tree) by providing ways to configure minimal
7694 UID/GID and safe PATH, too.
7695 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7697 *) Cleanup of the `configure --shadow' process:
7698 - make sure the configure script creates its temporary files in the
7699 shadow tree to avoid conflicts with parallel configure runs
7700 - removed unnecessary option "-r" from "rm" call for Makefiles
7701 - make sure the configure scripts creates the shadow-wrapper Makefile
7702 only when no shadow trees already exists
7703 - make sure "make distclean" removes the shadow-wrapper Makefile but only
7704 when no more shadow trees exists
7705 - overhauled mkshadow.sh script: now its more IFS-safe and approx. twice
7706 as fast (in the past it needed 70sec, now it runs just 38sec)
7707 - make sure CVS does not complain about the created files
7708 Makefille.<gnutriple> and directories src.<gnutriple>
7709 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7711 *) Added the ap_add_version_component() API routine and the
7712 AddVersionPlatform core directive. The first allows modules to
7713 declare themselves in the Server response header field value,
7714 augmenting the SERVER_SUBVERSION define in the Configuration file
7715 with run-time settings (more useful in a loadable-module environment).
7716 AddVersionPlatform inserts a comment such as "(UNIX)" or "(Win32)"
7717 into the server version string. [Ken Coar] PR#2056
7719 *) Minor stability tweaks to avoid core dumps in ap_snprintf.
7722 *) Emit the "Accept-Range" header for the default handler.
7723 [Brian Behlendorf] PR#1464
7725 *) Add a note to httpd.conf-dist that apache will on some systems fail
7726 to start when the Group # is set to a negative or large positive value.
7729 *) Make sure the module execution order is correct even when some modules
7730 are loaded under runtime (`LoadModule') via the DSO mechanism:
7731 1. The list of loaded modules is now a dynamically allocated one
7732 and not the original statically list from modules.c
7733 2. The loaded modules are now correctly setup by LoadModule for
7734 later use by the AddModule command.
7735 3. When the DSO mechanism for modules is used APACI's `install'
7736 target now enables all created `LoadModule' lines per default because
7737 this is both already expected by the user _and_ needed to avoid
7738 confusion with the next point and reduces the Makefile.tmpl complexity
7739 4. When the DSO mechanism for modules is used, APACI's `install'
7740 target now additionally makes sure the module list is reconstructed
7741 via a complete `ClearModuleList+AddModule...' entry.
7742 5. The support tool `apxs' now also makes sure an AddModule command
7743 is added in addition to the LoadModule command.
7744 6. The modules.c generation was extended to now contain two
7745 comments to make sure no one is confused by the confusing terminology
7746 of loading/linking (we use load=link+load & link=activate instead of
7747 the obvious load=activate & link=link :-( )
7748 This way now there is no longer a difference under execution time between
7749 statically and dynamically linked modules.
7750 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7752 *) Fix the generated mod_xxx.c from "apxs -g -f xxx" after the
7753 Big Symbol Renaming. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7755 *) Add a comment to mod_example.c showing the format of a FLAG command
7758 *) Standardized the time format in mod_status to match that of other
7759 places in the code (e.g. DATE_GMT). PR#1551
7761 *) Fix handling of %Z in timefmt strings for those platforms with no time
7762 zone information in their tm struct. [Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>]
7765 *) Makes mod_rewrite, mod_log_config, mod_status and the ServerSignature
7766 feature compatible with 'UseCanonicalName off' by changing
7767 r->server->server_hostname to ap_get_server_name(). And I changed some
7768 functions which use r->server->port to use ap_get_server_port() instead,
7769 because if there's no Port directive in the config r->server->port is 0.
7772 *) get/set_module_config are trivial enough to be better off inline. Worth
7773 1.5% performance boost. [Dean Gaudet]
7775 *) Fix off-by-one error in ap_proxy_date_canon() in proxy_util.c
7776 when ensuring 'x' is at least 30-chars big. [Jim Jagielski,
7779 *) [BS2000 security] BS2000 needs an extra authentication to initialize
7780 the task environment to the unprivileged User id. Otherwise CGI scripts
7781 would have a way to gain super user access. [Martin Kraemer]
7783 *) Fix debug log messages for BS2000/OSD: instead of logging the whole
7784 absolute path, only log base name of logging source as is done
7785 in unix. [Martin Kraemer]
7787 *) Ronald Tschalaer's Accept-Encoding patch - preserve the "x-" in
7788 the encoding type from the Accept-Encoding header (if it's there)
7789 and use it in the response, as that's probably what it'll be expecting.
7790 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch]
7792 *) Fix to mod_alias: translate_alias_redir is dealing with
7793 a URI, not a filename, so the check for drive letters for win32
7794 and emx is not necessary. [Dean Gaudet]
7796 *) WIN32: Allow .cmd as an executable extension.
7797 [Kari Likovuori <Kari.Likovuori@mol.fi>] PR#2146
7799 *) Make Apache header files, and some variables, C++ friendly.
7800 [Michael Anderson's <mka@redes.int.com.mx>]
7802 *) Child processes can now "signal" (by exiting with a status
7803 of APEXIT_CHILDFATAL) the parent process to abort and
7804 shutdown the server if the error in the child process was
7805 fatal enough. [Jim Jagielski]
7807 *) mod_autoindex's find_itme() was sensitive to MIME type case.
7808 [Jim Jagielski] PR#2112
7810 *) Make sure the referer_log and agent_log entries in the default httpd.conf
7811 file are also adjusted for the actual relative installation paths.
7812 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2175
7814 *) WIN32: Extensive overhaul of the way UNCs are handled. [Ben Laurie]
7816 *) WIN32: Make roots of filesystems (e.g. c:/) work. [Ben Laurie]
7819 *) PORT: Various porting changes to support AIX 3.2, 4.1.5, 4.2 and 4.3.
7820 Additionally the checks for finding the vendor DSO library were moved
7821 from mod_so.c to Configure because first it needs $PLAT etc. and second
7822 mod_so already uses an abstraction layer and does not fiddle with the
7823 vendor functions itself.
7824 [Jens-Uwe Mager, Ralf S. Engelschall]
7826 *) PORT: Some optimization defines for NetBSD
7827 [Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>] PR#2165
7829 *) PORT: Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for NetBSD.
7830 [Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2158
7832 *) Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for AIX (at least 4.2 but older
7833 AIX variants should work fine, too. Even AIX 3.x should work). This is
7834 accomplished by using the free DSO emulation code from Jens-Uwe Mager
7835 which we put into a os/unix/os-dso-aix.c file.
7836 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7838 *) PORT: Fix compiler warnings under AIX >= 4.2 where the manual pages imply
7839 that we should use NET_SIZE_T == int but the include files force size_t.
7840 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7842 *) Fix two bugs in select() handling in http_main.c.
7845 *) Suppress "error(0)" messages for ap_log_error() when the APLOG_NOERRNO
7846 is unset (as it is in situations like timeouts) where it is unclear
7847 whether errno is set or not. [Martin Kraemer]
7849 *) Just having APACI's localstatedir is too general and not enough for most
7850 of the systems. 1.3b6 again required manual APACI patches by package
7851 maintainers from Red Hat and FreeBSD because for their filesystem layout a
7852 little bit more flexibility in configuring the paths is needed. Hence we
7853 provide three additional configure options (--runtimedir, --logfiledir,
7854 --proxycachedir) which now can be used for more granular adjustments if
7855 --localstatedir is not enough to fit the particular needs. As a nice
7856 side-effect this reduces some subdir fiddling in configure+Makefile.tmpl.
7857 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7859 *) Make the install root for "make install" in APACI's Makefile overrideable
7860 by package authors. This way we are even more friendly to package
7861 maintainers (especially Debian and Red Hat) who build for the real prefix
7862 via "configure --prefix=/<real>" but use a different local prefix via
7863 "make root=/tmp/apache install" for rolling the package without bristling
7864 the target location on their system.
7865 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7867 *) Workaround sed limitations in APACI's configure script by now
7868 substituting in chunks of 50 commands (because for instance HPUX's vendor
7869 sed has a limit of max. 98 commands)
7870 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2136
7872 *) Adding SOCKS5 support and fixing existing SOCKS4 support.
7873 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2140
7875 *) Manually fix some symbols which were not renamed to prefix ap_ in the BIG
7876 RENAMING process because they are defined as pre-processor macros instead
7877 of real functions: bputc, bgetc, piped_log_write_fd, piped_log_read_fd
7878 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7880 *) Workaround braindead AWK's when generating ap_config.h: The split() and
7881 substr() functions cannot be nested under vendor AWK from Solaris 2.6.
7882 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2139
7884 *) Various bugfixes and cleanups for the APACI configure script:
7885 o fix IFS handling for _nested_ situation
7886 o fix Perl interpreter search: take first one found instead of last one
7887 o fix DSO consistency check
7888 o print error messages to stderr instead of stdout
7889 o add install-quiet for --shadow situation to Makefile stub
7890 o reduce complexity by avoiding sed-hacks for rule and module list loops
7891 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7893 *) Fix DEBUG_CGI situation in mod_cgi.c [David MacKenzie] PR#2114
7895 *) Make sure the input field separator (IFS) shell variable is explicitly
7896 initialized correctly before _every_ `for' loop and also restored after
7897 the loops. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7899 *) Make sure that "make install" doesn't overwrite the `mime.types' and
7900 `magic' files from an existing Apache installation. Because people often
7901 customize these for own MIME and content types.
7902 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7904 *) PORT: Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for OpenBSD 2.x
7905 [Peter Galbavy, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2109
7907 *) Fix the path to the ScoreBoardFile in the install-config target, too.
7908 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2105
7910 *) Let "configure" clear out the users parameters (provided as shell
7911 variables) to avoid side-effects in "src/Configure" when the user
7912 exported them (which is not needed, but some users do it).
7913 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2101
7915 *) Provide backward compatibility from some old src/Configuration.tmpl
7916 parameter names to the canonical Autoconf-style shell variable names. For
7917 instance CFLAGS vs. EXTRA_CFLAGS. The EXTRA_xxx variants are accepted now
7918 but a hint message is displayed. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7920 *) Make sure that "make install" doesn't overwrite the DocumentRoot and
7921 CGI scripts from an existing Apache installation.
7922 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Jim Jagielski] PR#2084
7924 *) Make `configure --compat' more "compatible" by first
7925 let the libexecdir default to EPREFIX/libexec instead of EPREFIX/bin and
7926 second by making sure the "avoid-bristling-suffix" /apache is not
7927 appended to sysconfdir, datadir, localstatedir and includedir when
7928 --compat is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Lars Eilebrecht]
7930 *) NeXT required strdup() in support/logresolve.c
7931 [Francisco Tomei <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>] PR#2082
7933 *) AIX required sys/select.h in support/ab.c
7934 [Jens Schleusener <Jens.Schleusener@dlr.de>] PR#2081
7936 *) Fix the path to the MimeMagicFile in the install-config target, too.
7937 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2089
7939 *) PORT: Added HP-UX 11 patches [Jeff Earickson <jaearick@colby.edu>]
7941 *) If you start apache with the -S command line option it will dump
7942 out the parsed vhost settings. This is useful for folks trying
7943 to figure out what is wrong with their vhost configuration.
7944 (Other dumps may be added in the future.) [Dean Gaudet]
7946 *) Add %pA, %pI, and %pp codes to ap_vformatter (and hence ap_bprintf,
7947 ap_snprintf, and ap_psprintf). See include/ap.h for docs.
7950 *) Because /usr/local/apache is the default prefix the ``configure
7951 --compat'' option no longer has to set prefix, again. This way the
7952 --compat option honors a leading --prefix option. [Lars Eilebrecht]
7954 *) PORT: Cast the first argument of dlopen() in ap_os_dso_load()
7955 to `char *' under OSF1 and FreeBSD 2.x where it is defined this way
7956 to avoid "discard const" warnings. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7958 *) If a specific handler is set for a file yet the request still
7959 ends up being handled by the default handler, log an error
7960 message before handling it. This catches things such as trying
7961 to use SSIs without mod_include enabled. [Marc Slemko]
7963 *) Fix error logging for the startup case where ap_log_error() still uses
7964 stderr as the target. Now the default log level is honored here, too.
7965 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7967 *) PORT: Make sure some AWK's don't fail in src/Configure with "string too
7968 long" errors when generating the MODULES entry for src/Makefile
7969 [Ben Hyde, Ralf S. Engelschall]
7971 *) Make sure src/Configure doesn't complain about the old directory
7972 /usr/local/etc/httpd/ when APACI is used. [Lars Eilebrecht]
7974 Changes with Apache 1.3b6
7976 *) PORT: Clean up warnings on Ultrix and HPUX. [Ben Hyde]
7978 *) Adding DSO support for the HP/UX platform by emulating the dlopen-style
7979 interface via the similar but proprietary HP/UX shl_xxx-style system
7980 calls. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7982 *) PORT: Updated UnixWare 2.0.x and 2.1.x entries for DSO support and made
7983 APACI Makefile.tmpl "install" target more robust for sensible UnixWare
7984 Make. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7986 *) ++++ THE BIG SYMBOL RENAMING ++++
7987 To avoid symbol clashes with third-party code compiled into the server,
7988 we globally applied the prefix "ap_" to the following classes of
7990 - Apache provided general functions (e.g., ap_cpystrn)
7991 - Public API functions (e.g., palloc, bgets)
7992 - Private functions which we can't make static (because of
7993 cross-object usage) but should be (e.g., new_connection)
7994 For backward source compatibility a new header file named compat.h was
7995 created which provides defines for the old symbol names and can be used
7996 by third-party module authors.
7999 *) Added dynamic shared object (DSO) support for SVR4-derivates: The
8000 problem under SVR4 is that there is no command flag to force the linker
8001 to export the global symbols of the httpd executable therewith they are
8002 available to the DSO's. Instead of problematic hacks like creating a
8003 dummy.so file (containing dummy references to all global symbols) the
8004 httpd binary is linked against, we use a clean trick stolen from Perl 5:
8005 Placing the Apache core code itself into a DSO library named libhttpd.so.
8006 This way the global symbols _HAVE_ to be exported and thus are available
8007 to any manually loaded DSO's under runtime. To reduce the impact to the
8008 user to null we go even further and create a stub httpd executable which
8009 automatically keeps track of the DSO library loading itself and thus
8010 hides the complete mechanism from the user. Although the generation of
8011 this DSO library is automatically triggered for platforms which
8012 essentially need it (mostly all SVR4-derivates) it can be also enabled
8013 manually via the Rule SHARED_CORE. This can be interesting in the future
8014 where we perhaps exploit this libhttpd.so mechanism for providing nifty
8015 features like graceful upgrades, or whatever.
8016 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Martin Kraemer]
8018 *) Build the libraries before building the rest of the tools. [Ben Hyde]
8020 *) Add "distclean" target to src/-Makefiles to provide "make distclean" also
8021 inside the src subtree (i.e. for non-APACI users). Following GNU Makefile
8022 conventions while "clean" removes only stuff created by "all" targets,
8023 "distclean" additionally removes the stuff from the configuration
8024 process. This way "make distclean" (hence the name) provides a fresh
8025 source tree as it was for distribution.
8026 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8028 *) Allow top-level (APACI) Makefile to break on build errors
8029 the same way the src/ subtree Makefiles breaks on them by replacing the
8030 initial APACI sed-subdir-display-kludge with a more clean
8031 variable-passing-solution: variable SDP can optionally hold the subdir
8032 prefix which is consistently used for displaying the subdir movement.
8033 This way even the top-level Makefile can stop correctly on errors as the
8034 user expects. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8036 *) Fixed ordering of argument checks for RewriteBase directive.
8037 [Todd Eigenschink <eigenstr@mixi.net>] PR#2045
8039 *) Change Win32 IS_MODULE to SHARED_MODULE to match Unix' method of
8040 indicating that a module is being compiled for dynamic loading. Also
8041 remove #define IS_MODULE from modules and add SHARED_MODULE define
8042 to the mak/dsp files. [Alexei Kosut]
8044 *) Reduce logging level of "normal" warning messages to APLOG_INFO,
8045 since we are now logging APLOG_WARNING by default. [Roy Fielding]
8047 *) PORT: OS/2 tweak to deal with multiple .exe targets. [Brian Havard]
8049 *) Add documentation file and src/Configuration.tmpl entry for the
8050 experimental mod_mmap_static module. Because although it is and marked as
8051 an experimental one it is distributed and thus should be documented and
8052 prepared for configuration the same way as all others modules.
8053 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8055 *) Add query (-q) option to apxs support tool to be able to manually query
8056 specific settings from apxs. This is needed for instance when you
8057 manually want to access Apache's header files and you need to assemble
8058 the -I option. Now you can do -I`apxs -q INCLUDEDIR`.
8059 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8061 *) Now src/Configure uses a fallback strategy for the shared object support
8062 on platforms where no explicit information is available: If a Perl
8063 installation exists we ask it about its shared object support and if it's
8064 the dlopen-style one we shamelessly guess the compiler and linker flags
8065 for creating shared objects from Perls knowledge. Of course, the user is
8066 warning about what we are doing and informed that he should send us
8067 the guessed flags when they work. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8069 *) Provide APACI --without-support option to be able to disable the build
8070 and installation of the support tools from the src/support/ area.
8071 Although its useful to have these installed per default we should provide
8072 a way to compile and install without them for backward-compatibility.
8073 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8075 *) Add of the new APache eXtenSion (apxs) support tool for building and
8076 installing modules into an _already installed_ Apache package through the
8077 dynamic shared object (DSO) mechanism [mod_so.c]. The trick here is that
8078 this approach actually doesn't need the Apache source tree. The
8079 (APACI-installed) server package is enough, because this now includes the
8080 Apache C header files (PREFIX/include) and the new APXS tool
8081 (SBINDIR/apxs). The intend is to provide a handy tool for third-party
8082 module authors to build their Apache modules _OUTSIDE_ the Apache source
8083 tree while avoiding them to fiddle around with the totally platform
8084 dependend way of compiling DSO files. The tool supports all ranges of
8085 modules, from trivial ones (single mod_foo.c) to complex ones (like PHP3
8086 which has a mod_php3.c plus a pre-built libmodphp3-so.a) and even can
8087 on-the-fly generate a minimalistic Makefile and sample module for the
8088 first step to provide both a quick success event and to demonstrate the
8089 APXS mechanism to module authors. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8091 *) Fix core dumps in use of CONNECT in proxy.
8092 [Rainer.Scherg@rexroth.de] PR#1326, #1573, #1942
8094 *) Modify the log directives in httpd.conf-dist files to use CustomLog
8095 so that users have examples of how CustomLog can be used.
8098 *) Add the new Apache Autoconf-style Interface (APACI) for the top-level of
8099 the Apache distribution tree. Until Apache 1.3 there was no real
8100 out-of-the-box batch-capable build and installation procedure for the
8101 complete Apache package. This is now provided by a top-level "configure"
8102 script and a corresponding top-level "Makefile.tmpl" file. The goal is
8103 to provide a GNU Autoconf-style frontend which is capable to both drive
8104 the old src/Configure stuff in batch and additionally installs the
8105 package with a GNU-conforming directory layout. Any options from the old
8106 configuration scheme are available plus a lot of new options for flexibly
8107 customizing Apache. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8109 *) The floating point ap_snprintf code wasn't threadsafe.
8110 Had to remove the HAVE_CVT macro in order to do threadsafe
8111 calling of the ?cvt() floating point routines. [Dean Gaudet]
8113 *) PORT: Add the SCO_SV port. [Jim Jagielski] PR#1962
8115 *) PORT: IRIX needs the -n32 flag iff using the 'cc' compiler
8116 [Jim Jagielski] PR#1901
8118 *) BUG: Configure was using TCC and CC inconsistently. Make sure
8119 Configure knows which CC we are using. [Jim Jagielski]
8121 *) "Options +Includes" wasn't correctly merged if "+IncludesNoExec"
8122 was defined in a parent directory. [Lars Eilebrecht]
8124 *) API: ap_snprintf() code mutated into ap_vformatter(), which is
8125 a generic printf-style routine that can call arbitrary output
8126 routines. Use this to replace http_bprintf.c. Add new routines
8127 psprintf(), pvsprintf() which allocate the exact amount of memory
8128 required for a string from a pool. Use psprintf() to clean up
8129 various bits of code which used ap_snprintf()/pstrdup().
8132 *) PORT: HAVE_SNPRINTF doesn't do anything any longer. This is because
8133 ap_snprintf() has different semantics and formatting codes than
8134 snprintf(). [Dean Gaudet]
8136 *) SIGXCPU and SIGXFSZ are now reset to SIG_DFL at boot-time. This
8137 is necessary on at least Solaris where the /etc/rc?.d scripts
8138 are run with these signals ignored, and "SIG_IGN" settings are
8139 maintained across exec().
8140 [Rein Tollevik <reint@sys.sol.no>] PR#2009
8142 *) Fix the check for symbolic links in ``RewriteCond ... -l'': stat() was
8143 used instead of lstat() and thus this flag didn't work as expected.
8144 [Rein Tollevik <reint@sys.sol.no>] PR#2010
8146 *) Fix the proxy pass-through feature of mod_rewrite for the case of
8147 existing QUERY_STRING now that mod_proxy was recently changed because of
8148 the new URL parsing stuff. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8150 *) A few changes to scoreboard definitions which helps gcc generate
8151 better code. [Dean Gaudet]
8153 *) ANSI C doesn't guarantee that "int foo : 2" in a structure will
8154 be a signed bitfield. So mark a few bitfields as signed to
8155 ensure correct code. [Dean Gaudet]
8157 *) The default for HostnameLookups was changed to Off, but there
8158 was a problem and it wasn't taking effect. [Dean Gaudet]
8160 *) PORT: Clean up undefined signals on some platforms (SCO, BeOS).
8163 *) After a SIGHUP the listening sockets in the parent weren't
8164 properly marked for closure on fork().
8165 [Jürgen Keil <jk@tools.de>] PR#2000
8167 *) Allow %2F in two situations: 1) it is in the query part of the URI,
8168 therefore not exposed to %2F -> '/' translations and 2) the request
8169 is a proxy request, so we're not dealing with a local resource anyway.
8170 Without this, the proxy would fail to work for any URL's with
8171 %2f in them (occurs quite often in
8172 http://.../cgi-bin/...?http%3A%2F%2F... references) [Martin Kraemer]
8174 *) Protect against FD_SETSIZE mismatches. [Dean Gaudet]
8176 *) Make the shared object compilation command more portable by avoiding
8177 the direct combination of `-c' & `-o' which is not honored by some
8178 compilers like UnixWare's cc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8180 *) WIN32: the proxy was creating filenames missing the last four
8181 characters. While this normally doesn't stop anything from
8182 working, it can result in extra collisions.
8183 [Tim Costello <tjcostel@socs.uts.edu.au>] PR#1890
8185 *) Now mod_proxy uses the response string (in addition to the response status
8186 code) from the already used FTP SIZE command to setup the Content-Length
8187 header if available. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1183
8189 *) Reanimated the (still undocumented) proxy receive buffer size directive:
8190 Renamed from ReceiveBufferSize to ProxyReceiveBufferSize because the old
8191 name was really too generic, added documentation for this directive to
8192 the mod_proxy.html and corrected the hyperlink to it in the
8193 new_features_1.3.html document. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1348
8195 *) Fix a bug in the src/helpers/fp2rp script and make it a little bit
8196 faster [Martin Kraemer]
8198 *) Make Configure die when you give it an unknown command switch.
8201 *) Add five new and fresh manpages for the support programs: dbmmanage.1,
8202 suexec.8, htdigest.1, rotatelogs.8 and logresolve.8. Now all up-to-date
8203 and per default compiled support programs have manual pages - just to
8204 document our stuff a little bit more and to be able to do really
8205 Unix-like installations ;-) [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8207 *) Major cleanups to the Configure script to make it and its generated
8208 Makefiles again readable and maintainable: add SRCDIR option, removed
8209 INCLUDES_DEPTH[0-2] kludge, cleanup of TARGET option, cleanup of
8210 generated sections, consequently added Makefile headers with inheritance
8211 information, added subdir movement messages for easier following where
8212 the build process currently stays (more verbose then standard Make, less
8213 verbose than GNU make), same style to comments in the Configure script,
8214 added Apache license header, fixed a few bugs, etc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8216 *) Add the new ApacheBench program "ab" to src/support/: This is derived
8217 from the ZeusBench benchmarking program and can be used to determine the
8218 response performance of an Apache installation. This version is
8219 officially licensed with Zeus Technology, Ltd. See the license agreement
8220 statements in <199803171224.NAA24547@en1.engelschall.com> in apache-core.
8221 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8223 *) API: Various core functions that are definately not part of the API
8224 have been made static, and a few have been marked API_EXPORT. Still
8225 more have been marked CORE_EXPORT and are not intended for general
8226 use by modules. [Doug MacEachern, Dean Gaudet]
8228 *) mod_proxy was not clearing the Proxy-Connection header from
8229 requests; now it does. This did not violate any spec, however
8230 causes poor interactions when you are talking to remote proxies.
8231 [Marc Slemko] PR#1741
8233 *) Various cleanups to the command line interface and manual pages.
8234 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8236 *) cfg_getline() was not properly handling lines that did not end
8237 with a line termination character. [Marc Slemko] PR#1869, 1909
8239 *) Performance tweak to mod_log_config. [Dmitry Khrustalev]
8241 *) Clean up some undocumented behavior of mod_setenvif related to
8242 "merging" two SetEnvIf directives when they match the same header
8243 and regex. Document that mod_setenvif will perform comparisons in
8244 the order they appear in the config file. Optimize mod_setenvif by
8245 doing more work at config time rather than at runtime.
8248 *) src/include/ap_config.h now wraps it's #define's with #ifndef/#endif's
8249 to allow for modules to overrule them and to reduce redefinition
8250 warnings [Jim Jagielski]
8252 *) [PORT] For A/UX change the OS-#define for -DAUX to -DAUX3.
8255 *) Making the hard-coded cross-module function call mime_find_ct() (from
8256 mod_proxy to mod_mime) obsolete by making sure the API hook for MIME type
8257 checking is really called even for proxy requests except for URLs with
8258 HTTP schemes (because there we can optimize by not running the type
8259 checking hooks due to the fact that the proxy gets the MIME Content-type
8260 from the remote host later). This change cleans up mod_mime by removing
8261 the ugly export kludge, makes the one-liner file mod_mime.h obsolete, and
8262 especially unbundles mod_proxy and mod_mime. This way they both now can
8263 be compiled as shared objects and are no longer tied together.
8264 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8266 *) util.c cleanup and speedup. [Dean Gaudet]
8268 *) API: Clarification, pstrndup() will always copy n bytes of the source
8269 and NUL terminate at the (n+1)st byte. [Dean Gaudet]
8271 *) Mark module command_rec and handler_rec structures const so that they
8272 end up in the read-only data section (and are friendlier to systems
8273 that don't do optimistic memory allocation on fork()). [Dean Gaudet]
8275 *) Add check to the "Port" directive to make sure the specified
8276 port is in the appropriate range. [Ben Hyde]
8278 *) Performance improvements to invoke_handler().
8279 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su>]
8281 *) Added support for building shared objects even for library-style modules
8282 (which are built from more than one object file). This now provides the
8283 ability to build mod_proxy as a shared object module. Additionally
8284 modules like mod_example are now also supported for shared object
8285 building because the generated Makefiles now no longer assume there is at
8286 least one statically linked module. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8288 *) API: Clarify usage of content_type, handler, content_encoding,
8289 content_language and content_languages fields in request_rec. They
8290 must always be lowercased; and the strings pointed to shouldn't
8291 be modified (you must copy them to modify them). Fix a few bugs
8292 related to this. [Dean Gaudet]
8294 *) API: Clarification: except for RAW_ARGS, all command handlers can
8295 treat the char * parameters as permanent, and modifiable. There
8296 is no need to pstrdup() them. Clean up some needless pstrdup().
8299 *) Now mod_so keeps track of which module shared objects with which names
8300 are loaded and thus avoids multiple loading and unloading and irritating
8301 error_log messages. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8303 *) Prior to the existence of mod_setenv it was necessary to tweak the TZ
8304 environment variable in the apache core. But that tweaking interferes
8305 with mod_setenv. So don't tweak if the user has specified an explicit
8306 TZ variable. [Jay Soffian <jay@cimedia.com>] PR#1888
8308 *) rputs() did not calculate r->sent_bodyct properly.
8309 [Siegmund Stirnweiss <siegst@kat.ina.de>] PR#1900
8311 *) The CGI spec says that REMOTE_HOST should be set to the remote hosts's
8312 name, or left unset if this value is unavailable. Apache was setting
8313 it to the IP address when unavailable.
8314 [Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net>] PR#1925
8316 *) Various improvements to the configuration and build support for compiling
8317 modules as shared objects. Especially Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.1, IRIX and
8318 OSF1 support with GCC and vendor compilers was added. This way shared
8319 object support is now provided out-of-the-box for FreeBSD, Linux,
8320 Solaris, SunOS, IRIX and OSF1. In short: On all major platforms!
8321 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8323 *) Minor cleanup in http_main -- split QNX and OS2 specific "mmap"
8324 scoreboard code into separate #defines -- USE_POSIX_SCOREBOARD
8325 and USE_OS2_SCOREBOARD. [Dean Gaudet]
8327 *) Fix one more special locking problem for RewriteMap programs in
8328 mod_rewrite: According to the documentation of flock(), "Locks are on
8329 files, not file descriptors. That is, file descriptors duplicated
8330 through dup(2) or fork(2) do not result in multiple instances of a lock,
8331 but rather multiple references to a single lock. If a process holding a
8332 lock on a file forks and the child explicitly unlocks the file, the
8333 parent will lose its lock.". To overcome this we have to make sure the
8334 RewriteLock file is opened _AFTER_ the childs were spawned which is now
8335 the case by opening it in the child_init instead of the module_init API
8336 hook. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1029
8338 *) Change to Location and LocationMatch semantics. LocationMatch no
8339 longer lets a single slash match multiple adjacent slashes in the
8340 URL. This change is for consistency with RewriteRule and
8341 AliasMatch. Multiple slashes have meaning in URLs that they do
8342 not have in (some) filesystems. Location on the other hand can
8343 be considered a shorthand for a more complicated regex, and it
8344 does match multiple slashes with a single slash -- which is
8345 also consistent with the Alias directive.
8346 [Dean Gaudet] related PR#1440
8348 *) Fix bug with mod_mime_magic causing certain files, including files
8349 of length 0, to result in no response from the server.
8352 *) The Configure script now generates src/include/ap_config.h which
8353 contains the set of defines used when Apache is compiled on a platform.
8354 This file can then be included by external modules before including
8355 any Apache header files in case they are being built separately from
8356 Apache. Along with this change, a couple of minor changes were
8357 made to make Apache's #defines coexist peacefully with any autoconf
8358 defines an external module might have. [Rasmus Lerdorf]
8360 *) Fix mod_rewrite for the ugly API case where <VirtualHost> sections exist
8361 but without any RewriteXXXXX directives. Here mod_rewrite is given no
8362 chance by the API to initialize its per-server configuration and thus
8363 receives the wrong one from the main server. This is now avoided by
8364 remembering the server together with the config structure while
8365 configuring and later assuming there is no config when we see a
8366 difference between the remembered server and the one calling us.
8367 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1790
8369 *) Fixed the DBM RewriteMap support for mod_rewrite: First the support now
8370 is automatically disabled under configure time when the dbm_xxx functions
8371 are not available. Second, two heavy source code errors in the DBM
8372 support code were fixed. This makes DBM RewriteMap's usable again after
8373 a long time of brokenness. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1696
8375 *) Now all configuration files support Unix-style line-continuation via
8376 the trailing backslash ("\") character. This enables us to write down
8377 complex or just very long directives in a more readable way. The
8378 backslash character has to be really the last character before the
8379 newline and it has not been prefixed by another (escaping) backslash.
8380 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8382 *) When using ProxyPass the ?querystring was not passed correctly.
8383 [Joel Truher <truher@wired.com>]
8385 *) To deal with modules being compiled and [dynamically] linked
8386 at a different time from the core, the SERVER_VERSION and
8387 SERVER_BUILT symbols have been abstracted through the new
8388 API routines apapi_get_server_version() and apapi_get_server_built().
8391 *) WIN32: Preserve trailing slash in canonical path (and hence
8392 in PATH_INFO). [Paul Sutton, Ben Laurie]
8394 *) PORT: USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT has proven unreliable
8395 depending on the rev of Solaris and what mixture of modules
8396 are in use. So it has been disabled, and Solaris is back to
8397 using USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT. Users may experiment with
8398 USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT at their own risk, it may speed
8399 up static content only servers. Or it may fail unpredictably.
8400 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1779, 1854, 1904
8402 *) mod_test_util_uri.c created which tests the logic in util_uri.c.
8405 *) API: Rewrite of absoluteURI handling, and in particular how
8406 absoluteURIs match vhosts. Unless a request is a proxy request, a
8407 "http://host" url is treated as if a similar "Host:" header had been
8408 supplied. This change was made to support future HTTP/1.x protocols
8409 which may require clients to send absoluteURIs for all requests.
8411 In order to achieve this change subtle changes were made to the API. In a
8412 request_rec, r->hostlen has been removed. r->unparsed_uri now exists so
8413 that the unmodified uri can be retrieved easily. r->proxyreq is not set
8414 by the core, modules must set it during the post_read_request or
8415 translate_names phase.
8417 Plus changes to the virtualhost test suite for absoluteURI testing.
8419 This fixes several bugs with the proxy proxying requests to vhosts
8420 managed by the same httpd.
8423 *) API: Cleanup of code in http_vhost.c, and remove vhost matching
8424 code from mod_rewrite. The vhost matching is now performed by a
8425 globally available function matches_request_vhost(). [Dean Gaudet]
8427 *) Reduce memory usage, and speed up ServerAlias support. As a
8428 side-effect users can list multiple ServerAlias directives
8429 and they're all considered.
8430 [Chia-liang Kao <clkao@cirx.org>] PR#1531
8432 *) The "poly" directive in image maps did not include the borders of the
8433 polygon, whereas the "rect" directive does. Fix this inconsistency.
8434 [Konstantin Morshnev <moko@design.ru>] PR#1771
8436 *) Make \\ behave as expected. [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch]
8438 *) Add the `%a' construct to LogFormat and CustomLog to log the client IP
8439 address. [Todd Eigenschink <eigenstr@mixi.net>] PR#1885
8441 *) API: A new source module main/util_uri.c; It contains a routine
8442 parse_uri_components() and friends which breaks a URI into its component
8443 parts. These parts are stored in a uri_components structure called
8444 parsed_uri within each request_rec, and are available to all modules.
8445 Additionally, an unparse routine is supplied which re-assembles the URI
8446 components back to an URI, optionally hiding the username:password@ part
8447 from ftp proxy requests, and other useful routines. Within the structure,
8448 you find on a ready-for-use basis:
8449 scheme; /* scheme ("http"/"ftp"/...) */
8450 hostinfo; /* combined [user[:password]@]host[:port] */
8451 user; /* user name, as in http://user:passwd@host:port/ */
8452 password; /* password, as in http://user:passwd@host:port/ */
8453 hostname; /* hostname from URI (or from Host: header) */
8454 port_str; /* port string (integer representation is in "port") */
8455 path; /* the request path (or "/" if only scheme://host was given) */
8456 query; /* Everything after a '?' in the path, if present */
8457 fragment; /* Trailing "#fragment" string, if present */
8458 This is meant to serve as the platform for *BIG* savings in
8459 code complexity for the proxy module (and maybe the vhost logic).
8462 *) Make all possible meta-construct expansions ($N, %N, %{NAME} and
8463 ${map:key}) available for all location where a string is created in
8464 mod_rewrite rewriting rulesets: 1st arg of RewriteCond, 2nd arg of
8465 RewriteRule and for the [E=NAME:STRING] flag of RewriteRule. This way the
8466 possible expansions are consequently usable at all string creation
8467 locations. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8469 *) Fix initialization of RewriteLogLevel (default now is 0 as documented
8470 and not 1) and the per-virtual-server merging of directives. Now all
8471 directives except `RewriteEngine' and `RewriteOption' are either
8472 completely overridden (default) or completely inherited (when
8473 `RewriteOptions inherit') is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1325
8475 *) Fix `RewriteMap' program lookup in situations where such maps are
8476 defined but disabled (`RewriteEngine off') in per-server context.
8477 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1431
8479 *) Fix bug introduced in 1.3b4-dev, config with no Port setting would cause
8480 server to bind to port 0 rather than 80. [Dean Gaudet]
8482 *) Fix long-standing problem with RewriteMap _programs_ under Unix derivates
8483 (like SunOS and FreeBSD) which don't accept the locking of pipes
8484 directly. A new directive RewriteLock is introduced which can be used to
8485 setup a separate locking file which then is used for synchronization.
8486 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1029
8488 *) WIN32: The server root is obtained from the registry key
8489 HKLM\SOFTWARE\Apache Group\Apache\<version> (version is currently
8490 "1.3 beta"), unless overridden by the -d command line flag. The
8491 value is stored by running "apache -i -d serverroot". [Paul Sutton]
8493 *) Merged os/win32/mod_dll.c into modules/standard/mod_so.c to support
8494 dynamic loading on Win32 and Unix via the same module. [Paul Sutton]
8496 *) Now mod_rewrite no longer makes problematic assumptions on the characters
8497 a username can contain when trying to expand it via /etc/passwd.
8498 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8500 *) The mod_setenvif BrowserMatch backwards compatibility command did not
8501 work properly with spaces in the regex. [Ronald Tschalaer] PR#1825
8503 *) Add new RewriteMap types: First, `rnd' which is equivalent to the `txt'
8504 type but with a special post-processing for the looked-up value: It
8505 parses it into alternatives according to `|' chars and then only one
8506 particular alternative is chosen randomly (this is an essential
8507 functionality needed for balancing between backend-servers when using
8508 Apache as a Reverse Proxy. The looked up value here is a list of
8509 servers). Second, `int' with the built-in maps named `tolower' and
8510 `toupper' which can be used to map URL parts to a fixed case (this is an
8511 essential feature to fix the case of server names when doing mass
8512 virtual-hosting with the help of mod_rewrite instead of using
8513 <VirtualHost> sections). [Ralf S. Engelschall, parts based on code from
8514 Jay Soffian <jay@cimedia.com>] PR#1631
8516 *) Add a new directive to mod_proxy similar to ProxyPass: `ProxyPassReverse'.
8517 This directive lets Apache adjust the URL in Location-headers on HTTP
8518 redirect responses sent by the remote server. This way the virtually
8519 mapped area is no longer left on redirects and thus by-passed which is
8520 especially essential when running Apache as a reverse proxy.
8521 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8523 *) Hide Proxy-Authorization from CGI/SSI/etc just like Authorization is
8524 hidden. [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
8526 *) Apache will, when started with the -X (single process) debugging flag,
8527 honor the SIGINT or SIGQUIT signals again now. This capability got lost
8528 a while ago during OS/2 signal handling changes.
8530 *) [PORT] Work around the fact that NeXT runs on more than the
8531 m68k chips in mod_status [Scott Anguish and Timothy Luoma
8534 *) [PORT] Recognize FreeBSD versions so we can use the OS regex as well
8535 as handling unsigned-chars for FreeBSD v3 and v2 [Andrey Chernov
8536 <ache@nagual.pp.ru> and Jim] PR#1450
8538 *) Use SA_RESETHAND or SA_ONESHOT when installing the coredump handlers.
8539 In particular the handlers could trigger themselves into an infinite
8540 loop if RLimitMem was used with a small amount of memory -- too small
8541 for the signal stack frame to be set up. [Dean Gaudet]
8543 *) Fix problems with absoluteURIs introduced during 1.3b4. [Dean Gaudet,
8544 Alvaro Martinez Echevarria <alvaro@lander.es>]
8546 *) Fix multiple UserDir problem introduced during 1.3b4-dev.
8547 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1850
8549 *) ap_cpystrn() had an off-by-1 error.
8550 [Charles Fu <ccwf@klab.caltech.edu>] PR#1847
8552 *) API: As Ken suggested the check_cmd_context() function and related
8553 defines are non-static now so modules can use 'em. [Martin Kraemer]
8555 *) mod_info would occasionally produce an unpaired <tt> in its
8556 output. Fixed. [Martin Kraemer]
8558 *) By default AIX binds a process (and it's children) to a single
8559 processor. httpd children now unbind themselves from that cpu
8560 and re-bind to one selected at random via bindprocessor()
8563 *) Linux 2.0 and above implement RLIMIT_AS, RLIMIT_DATA has almost no
8564 effect. Work around it by using RLIMIT_AS for the RLimitMEM
8565 directive. [Enrik Berkhan <enrik@inka.de>] PR#1816
8567 *) mod_mime_magic error message should indicate the filename when
8568 reads fail. ["M.D.Parker" <mdpc@netcom.com>] PR#1827
8570 *) Previously Apache would permit </Files> to end <FilesMatch> (and
8571 similary for Location and Directory), now this is diagnosed as an
8572 error. Improve error messages for mismatched sections (<Files>,
8573 <FilesMatch>, <Directory>, <DirectoryMatch>, ...).
8574 [Dean Gaudet, Martin Kraemer]
8576 *) <Files> is not permitted within <Location> (because of the
8577 semantic ordering). [Dean Gaudet] PR#379
8579 *) <Files> with wildcards was broken by the change in wildcard
8580 semantics (* does not match /). To fix this, <Files> now
8581 apply only to the basename of the request filename. This
8582 fixes some other inconsistencies in <Files> semantics
8583 (such as <Files a*b> not working). [Dean Gaudet] PR#1817
8585 *) Removed bogus "dist.tar" target from Makefile.tmpl and make sure
8586 backup files are removed on "clean" target [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8588 *) PORT: Add -lm to LIBS for HPUX. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1639
8590 *) Various errors from select() and accept() in child_main() would
8591 result in an infinite loop. It seems these two tickle kernel
8592 or library bugs occasionally, and result in log spammage and
8593 a generally bad scene. Now the child exits immediately,
8594 which seems to be a good workaround.
8595 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1747, 1107, 588, 1787, 987, 588
8597 *) Cleaned up some race conditions in unix child_main during
8598 initialization. [Dean Gaudet]
8600 *) SECURITY: "UserDir /abspath" without a * in the path would allow
8601 remote users to access "/~.." and bypass access restrictions
8602 (but note /~../.. was handled properly).
8603 [Lauri Jesmin <jesmin@ut.ee>] PR#1701
8605 *) API: os_is_path_absolute() now takes a const char * instead of a char *.
8608 Changes with Apache 1.3b5
8610 *) Source file dependencies in Makefile.tmpl files throughout the
8611 source tree were updated to accurately reflect reality.
8614 *) Preserve the content encoding given by the AddEncoding directive
8615 when the client doesn't otherwise specify an encoding.
8616 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>]
8618 *) Sort out problems with canonical filename handling happening too late.
8619 [Dean Gaudet, Ben Laurie]
8621 Changes with Apache 1.3b4
8623 *) The module structure was modified to include a *dynamic_load_handle
8624 in the STANDARD_MODULE_STUFF portion, and the MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER
8625 has been bumped accordingly. [Paul Sutton]
8627 *) All BrowserMatch directives mentioned in
8628 htdocs/manual/known_client_problems.html are in the default
8629 configuration files. [Lars Eilebrecht]
8631 *) MiNT port update. [Jan Paul Schmidt]
8633 *) HTTP/1.1 requires x-gzip and gzip encodings be treated
8634 equivalent, similarly for x-compress and compress. Apache
8635 now ignores a leading x- when comparing encodings. It also
8636 preserves the encoding the client requests (for example if
8637 it requests x-gzip, then Apache will respond with x-gzip
8638 in the Content-Encoding header).
8639 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>] PR#1772
8641 *) Fix a memory leak on keep-alive connections. [Igor Tatarinov]
8643 *) Added mod_so module to support dynamic loading of modules on Unix
8644 (like mod_dld for Win32). This replaces mod_dld.c. Use SharedModule
8645 instead of AddModule in Configuration to build shared modules
8646 [Sameer Parekh, Paul Sutton]
8648 *) Minor cleanups to r->finfo handling in some modules.
8651 *) Abstract read()/write() to ap_read()/ap_write().
8652 Makes it easier to add other types of IO code such as SFIO.
8655 *) API: Generalize default_port manipulations to make support of
8656 different protocols easier. [Ben Laurie, Randy Terbush]
8658 *) There are many cases where users do not want Apache to form
8659 self-referential urls using the "canonical" ServerName and Port.
8660 The new UseCanonicalName directive (default on), if set to off
8661 will cause Apache to use the client-supplied hostname and port.
8662 API: Part of this change required a change to the construct_url()
8663 prototype; and the addition of get_server_name() and
8665 [Michael Douglass <mikedoug@texas.net>, Dean Gaudet]
8666 PR#315, 459, 485, 1433
8668 *) Yet another rearrangement of the source tree.. now all the common
8669 header files are in the src/include directory. The -Imain -Iap
8670 references in Makefiles have been changed to the simpler -Iinclude
8671 instead. In addition to simplifying the build a little bit, this
8672 also makes it clear when a module is referencing something in a
8673 other than kosher manner (e.g., the proxy including mod_mime.h).
8674 Module-private header files (the proxy, mod_mime, the regex library,
8675 and mod_rewrite) have not been moved to src/include; nor have
8676 the OS-abstraction files. [Ken Coar]
8678 *) Fix a bug where r->hostname didn't have the :port stripped
8679 from it. [Dean Gaudet]
8681 *) Tweaked the headers_out table size, and the subprocess_env
8682 table size guess in rename_original_environment(). Added
8683 MAKE_TABLE_PROFILE which can help discover make_table()
8684 calls that use too small an initial guess, see alloc.c.
8687 *) Options and AllowOverride weren't properly merging in the main
8688 server setting inside vhosts (only an issue when you have no
8689 <Directory> or other section containing an Options that affects
8690 a request). Options +foo or -foo in the main_server wouldn't
8691 affect the main_server's lookup defaults. [Dean Gaudet]
8693 *) Variable 'cwd' was being used pointlessly before being set.
8696 *) r->allowed handling cleaned up in the standard modules.
8699 *) Some case-sensitivity issues cleaned up to be consistent with
8700 RFC2068. [Dean Gaudet]
8702 *) SIGURG doesn't exist everywhere.
8703 [Mark Andrew Heinrich <heinrich@tinderbox.Stanford.EDU>]
8705 *) mod_unique_id was erroneously generating a second unique id when
8706 an internal redirect occured. Such redirects occur, for example,
8707 when processing a DirectoryIndex match. [Dean Gaudet]
8709 *) API: table_add, table_merge, and table_set include implicit pstrdup()
8710 of the key and value. But in many cases this is not required
8711 because the key/value is a constant, or the value has been built
8712 by pstrcat() or other similar means. New routines table_addn,
8713 table_mergen, and table_setn have been added to the API, these
8714 routines do not pstrdup() their arguments. The core code and
8715 standard modules were changed to take advantage of these routines.
8716 The resulting server is up to 20% faster in some situations.
8718 Note that it is easy to get code subtly wrong if you pass a key/value
8719 which is in a pool other than the pool of the table. The only
8720 safe thing to do is to pass key/values which are in the pool of
8721 the table, or in one of the ancestors of the pool of the table.
8722 i.e. if the table is part of a subrequest, a value from the main
8723 request's pool is OK since the subrequest pool is a sub_pool of the
8724 main request's pool (and therefore has a lifespan at most as long as
8725 the main pool). There is debugging code which can detect improper
8726 usage, enabled by defining POOL_DEBUG. See alloc.c for more details.
8727 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su>, Dean Gaudet]
8729 *) More mod_mime_magic cleanup: fewer syscalls; should handle "files"
8730 which don't exist on disk more gracefully; handles vhosts properly.
8731 Update documentation to reflect the code -- if there's no
8732 MimeMagicFile directive then the module is not enabled.
8735 *) PORT: Some older *nix dialects cannot automatically start scripts
8736 which begin with a #! interpreter line (the shell starts the scripts
8737 appropriately on these platforms). Apache now supports starting of
8738 "hashbang-scripts" when the NEED_HASHBANG_EMUL define is set.
8739 [Martin Kraemer, with code from peter@zeus.dialix.oz.au (Peter Wemm)
8742 *) API: "typedef array_header table" removed from alloc.h, folks should
8743 have been writing to use table as if it were an opaque type, but even
8744 some standard modules got this wrong. By changing the definition
8745 to "typedef struct table table" module authors will receive compile
8746 time warnings that they're doing the wrong thing. This change
8747 facilitates future changes with more sophisticated table
8748 structures. Specifically, module authors should be using table_elts()
8749 to get access to an array_header * for the table. [Dean Gaudet]
8751 *) API: Renamed new_connection() to avoid namespace collision with LDAP
8752 library routines. [Ken Coar, Rasmus Lerdorf]
8754 *) WIN32: mod_speling is now available on the Win32 platform.
8757 *) For clarity the following compile time definition was changed:
8759 SAFE_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT -> SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT
8761 Also, for example, HAVE_MMAP would mean to use mmap() scoreboards
8762 and not be a general notice that the OS has mmap(). Now the
8763 HAVE_MMAP/SHMGET #defines strictly are informational that the
8764 OS has that method of shared memory; the type to use for
8765 the scoreboard is a seperate #define (USE_MMAP_SCOREBOARD
8766 and USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD). This allows outside modules to
8767 determine if shared memory is available and allows Apache
8768 to determine the best method to use for the scoreboard.
8771 *) PORT: UnixWare 2.1.2 SMP appears to require USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT,
8772 as do various earlier versions. It should be safe on all versions.
8773 Unixware 1.x appears to have the same SIGHUP bug as solaris does with
8774 the slack code. A few other cleanups for Unixware.
8775 [Tom Hughes <thh@cyberscience.com>] PR#1082, PR#1282, PR#1499, PR#1553
8777 *) PORT: A/UX can handle single-listen accepts without mutex
8778 locking, so we add SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT. [Jim Jagielski]
8780 *) When die() happens we need to eat any request body if one exists.
8781 Otherwise we can't continue with a keepalive session. This shows up
8782 as a POST problem with MSIE 4.0, typically against pages which are
8783 authenticated. [Roy Fielding] PR#1399
8785 *) If you define SECURITY_HOLE_PASS_AUTHORIZATION then the Authorization
8786 header will be passed to CGIs. This is generally a security hole, so
8787 it's not a default. [Marc Slemko] PR#549
8789 *) Fix Y2K problem with date printing in suexec log.
8790 [Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>] PR#1343
8792 *) WIN32 deserves a pid file. [Ben Hyde]
8794 *) suexec errors now include the errno/description. [Marc Slemko] PR#1543
8796 *) PORT: OSF/1 now uses USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT to solve PR#467.
8797 The choice of flock vs. fcntl was made based on timings which showed that
8798 even on non-NFS, non-exported filesystems fcntl() was an order of
8799 magnitude slower. It also uses SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT so
8800 that single socket users will see no difference. [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
8802 *) "File does not exist" error message was erroneously including the
8803 errno. [Marc Slemko]
8805 *) Improve the warning message generated when a client drops the
8806 connection (hits stop button, etc.) during a send. [Roy Fielding]
8808 *) Defining GPROF will disable profiling in the parent and enable it
8809 in the children. If you're profiling under Linux this is pretty much
8810 necessary because SIGPROF is lost across a fork(). [Dean Gaudet]
8812 *) htdigest and htpasswd needed slight tweaks to work on OS/2 and WIN32.
8815 *) The NeXT cc (which is gcc hacked up) doesn't appear to support some
8816 gcc functionality. Work around it.
8817 [Keith Severson <keith@sssd.navy.mil>] PR#1613
8819 *) Some linkers complain when .o files contain no functions.
8820 [Keith Severson <keith@sssd.navy.mil>] PR#1614
8822 *) Some const declarations in mod_imap.c that were added for debugging
8823 purposes caused some compilers heartburn without adding any
8824 significant value, so they've been removed. [Ken Coar]
8826 *) The src/main/*.h header files have had #ifndef wrappers added to
8827 insulate them against duplicate calls if they get included through
8828 multiple paths (e.g., in .c files as well as other .h files).
8831 *) The libap routines now have a header file for their prototypes,
8832 src/ap/ap.h, to ease their use in non-httpd applications. [Ken Coar]
8834 *) mod_autoindex with a plaintext header file would emit the <PRE>
8835 start-tag before the HTML preamble, rather than after the preamble
8836 but before the header file contents. [John Van Essen <jve@gamers.org>]
8839 *) SECURITY: Fix a possible buffer overflow in logresolve. This is
8840 only an issue on systems without a MAXDNAME define or where
8841 the resolver returns domain names longer than MAXDNAME. [Marc Slemko]
8843 *) SECURITY: Eliminate possible buffer overflow in cfg_getline, which
8844 is used to read various types of files such as htaccess and
8845 htpasswd files. [Marc Slemko]
8847 *) SECURITY: Ensure that the buffer returned by ht_time is always
8848 properly null terminated. [Marc Slemko]
8850 *) The "Connection" header could be sent back with multiple "close"
8851 tokens. Not an error, but a waste.
8852 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1683
8854 *) mod_rewrite's RewriteLog should behave like mod_log_config, it
8855 shouldn't force hostname lookups. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1684
8857 *) "basic" auth needs a case-insensitive comparison.
8858 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1666
8860 *) For maximum portability, the environment passed to CGIs should
8861 only contain variables whose names match the regex
8862 /[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]*/. This is now enforced by stamping
8863 underscores over any character outside the regex. This
8864 affects HTTP_* variables, in a way that should be backward
8865 compatible for all the standard headers; and affects variables
8866 set with SetEnv/BrowserMatch and similar directives.
8869 *) mod_speling returned incorrect HREF's when an ambigous match
8870 was found. Noticed by <robinton@amtrash.comlink.de> (Soeren Ziehe)
8871 [robinton@amtrash.comlink.de (Soeren Ziehe), Martin Kraemer]
8873 *) PORT: Apache now compiles & runs on an EBCDIC mainframe
8874 (the Siemens BS2000/OSD family) in the POSIX subsystem
8877 *) PORT: Fix problem killing children when terminating. Allow ^C
8878 to shut down the server. [Brian Havard]
8880 *) pstrdup() is implicit in calls to table_* functions, so there's
8881 no need to do it before calling. Clean up a few cases.
8882 [Marc Slemko, Dean Gaudet]
8884 *) new -C and -c command line arguments
8886 -C "directive" : process directive before reading config files
8887 -c "directive" : process directive after reading config files
8889 httpd -C "PerlModule Apache::httpd_conf"
8890 [Doug MacEachern, Martin Kraemer]
8892 *) WIN32: Fix the execution of CGIs that are scripts and called
8893 with path info that does not have an '=' in.
8894 (eg. http://server/cgi-bin/printenv?foobar)
8895 [Marc Slemko] PR#1591
8897 *) WIN32: Fix a call to os_canonical_filename so it doesn't try to
8898 mess with fake filenames. This fixes proxy caching on
8901 *) SECURITY: General mod_include cleanup, including fixing several
8902 possible buffer overflows and a possible infinite loop.
8903 [Dean Gaudet, Marc Slemko]
8905 *) SECURITY: Numerous changes to mod_imap in a general cleanup
8906 including fixing a possible buffer overflow. [Dean Gaudet]
8908 *) WIN32: overhaul of multithreading code. Shutdowns are now graceful
8909 (connections are not dropped). Code can handle graceful restarts
8910 (but there is as yet no way to signal this to Apache). Various
8911 other cleanups. [Paul Sutton]
8913 *) The aplog_error changes specific to 1.3 introduced a buffer
8914 overrun in the (now legacy) log_printf function. Fixed.
8917 *) mod_digest didn't properly deal with proxy authentication. It
8918 also lacked a case-insensitive comparision of the "Digest"
8919 token. [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>] PR#1599
8921 *) A few cleanups in mod_status for efficiency. [Dean Gaudet]
8923 *) A few cleanups in mod_info to make it thread-safe, and remove an
8924 off-by-5 bug that could hammer \0 on the stack. [Dean Gaudet]
8926 *) no2slash() was O(n^2) in the length of the input. Make it O(n).
8929 *) API: migration from strncpy() to our "enhanced" version called
8930 ap_cpystrn() for performance and functionality reasons.
8931 Located in libap.a. [Jim Jagielski]
8933 *) table_set() and table_unset() did not deal correctly with
8934 multiple occurrences of the same key.
8935 [Stephen Scheck <sscheck@infonex.net>, Ben Laurie] PR#1604
8937 *) The AuthName must now be enclosed in quotes if it is to contain
8938 spaces. [Ken Coar] PR#1195
8940 *) API: new function: ap_escape_quotes(). [Ken Coar] PR#1195
8942 *) WIN32: Work around optimiser bug that killed ISAPI in release
8943 versions. [Ben Laurie] PR#1533
8945 *) PORT: Update the MPE port [Mark Bixby, Jim Jagielski]
8947 *) Interim (slow) fix for p->sub_pool critical sections in
8948 alloc.c (affects win32 only). [Ben Hyde]
8950 *) non-WIN32 was missing destroy_mutex definition. [Ben Hyde]
8952 *) send_fd_length() did not calculate total_bytes_sent properly.
8953 [Ben Reser <breser@regnow.com>] PR#1366
8955 *) The bputc() macro was not properly integrated with the chunking
8956 code; in many cases modules using bputc() could cause completely
8957 bogus chunked output. (Typically this will show up as problems
8958 with Internet Explorer 4.0 reading a page, but other browsers
8959 having no problem.) [Dean Gaudet]
8961 *) Create LARGE_WRITE_THRESHOLD define which determines how many
8962 bytes have to be supplied to bwrite() before it will consider
8963 doing a writev() to assemble multiple buffers in one system
8964 call. This is critical for modules such as mod_include,
8965 mod_autoindex, mod_php3 which all use bputc()/bputs() of smaller
8966 strings in some cases. The result would be extra effort
8967 setting up writev(), and in many cases extra effort building
8968 chunks. The default is 31, it can be overriden at compile
8971 *) Move the gid switching code into the child so that log files
8972 and pid files are opened with the root gid.
8973 [Gregory A Lundberg <lundberg@vr.net>]
8975 *) WIN32: Check for binaries by looking for the executable header
8976 instead of counting control characters.
8977 [Jim Patterson <Jim.Patterson@Cognos.COM>] PR#1340
8979 *) ap_snprintf() moved from main/util_snprintf.c to ap/ap_snprintf.c
8980 so the functionality is available to applications other than the
8981 server itself (like the src/support tools). [Ken Coar]
8983 *) ap_slack() moved out of main/util.c into ap/ap_slack.c as part of
8984 the libap consolidation work. [Ken Coar]
8986 *) ap_snprintf() with a len of 0 behaved like sprintf(). This is not
8987 useful, and isn't what the standards require. Now it returns 0
8988 and writes nothing. [Dean Gaudet]
8990 *) When an error occurs in fcntl() locking suggest the user look up
8991 the docs for LockFile. [Dean Gaudet]
8993 *) Eliminate some dead code from writev_it_all().
8994 [Igor Tatarinov <tatarino@prairie.NoDak.edu>]
8996 *) mod_autoindex had an fread() without checking the result code.
8997 It also wouldn't handle "AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/text.gif text/*"
8998 (note the missing closing paren) properly. [Dean Gaudet]
9000 *) It appears the "257th byte" bug (see
9001 htdocs/manual/misc/known_client_problems.html#257th-byte) can happen
9002 at the 256th byte as well. Fixed. [Dean Gaudet]
9004 *) PORT: Fix mod_mime_magic under OS/2, no support for block devices.
9007 *) Fix memory corruption caused by allocating auth usernames in the
9008 wrong pool. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1500
9010 *) Fix an off-by-1, and an unterminated string error in
9011 mod_mime_magic. [Dean Gaudet]
9013 *) Fix a potential SEGV problem in mod_negotiation when dealing
9014 with type-maps. [Dean Gaudet]
9016 *) Better glibc support under Linux. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1542
9018 *) "RedirectMatch gone /" would cause a SIGSEGV. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1319
9020 *) WIN32: avoid overflows during file canonicalisations.
9021 [malcolm@mgdev.demon.co.uk] PR#1378
9023 *) WIN32: set_file_slot() didn't detect absolute paths. [Ben Laurie]
9026 *) WIN32: mod_status display header didn't match fields. [Ben Laurie]
9028 *) The pthread_mutex_* functions return an error code, and don't
9029 set errno. [Igor Tatarinov <tatarino@prairie.NoDak.edu>]
9031 *) WIN32: Allow spaces to prefix the interpreter in #! lines.
9032 [Ben Laurie] PR#1101
9034 *) WIN32: Cure file leak in CGIs. [Peter Tillemans <pti@net4all.be>] PR#1523
9036 *) proxy_ftp: the directory listings generated by the proxy ftp module
9037 now have a title in which the path components are clickable and allow
9038 quick navigation to the clicked-on directory on the currently listed
9039 ftp server. This also fixes a bug where the ".." directory links would
9040 sometimes refer to the wrong directory. [Martin Kraemer]
9042 *) WIN32: Allocate the correct amount of memory for the scoreboard.
9045 *) WIN32: Only lowercase the part of the path that is real. [Ben Laurie]
9048 *) Fix problems with timeouts in inetd mode and -X mode. [Dean Gaudet]
9050 *) Fix the spurious "(0)unknown error: mmap_handler: mmap failed"
9051 error messages. [Ben Hyde]
9053 Changes with Apache 1.3b3
9055 *) WIN32: Work around brain-damaged spawn calls that can't deal
9056 with spaces and slashes. [Ben Laurie]
9058 *) WIN32: Fix the code so CGIs can use socket calls on Windows.
9059 The problem was that certain undocumented environment variables
9060 needed for sockets to work under Win32 were not being passed.
9061 [Frank Faubert <frank@sane.com>]
9063 *) Add a "-V" command line flag to the httpd binary. This
9064 flag shows some of the defines that Apache was compiled with.
9065 It is useful for debugging purposes. [Martin Kraemer]
9067 *) Start separating the ap_*() routines into their own library, so they
9068 can be used by items in src/support among other things.
9069 [Ken Coar] PR#512, 905, 1252, 1308
9071 *) Give a more informative error when no AuthType is set.
9074 *) Remove strtoul() use from mod_proxy because it isn't available
9075 on all platforms. [Marc Slemko] PR#1214
9077 *) WIN32: Some Win32 systems terminated all responses after 16 kB.
9078 This turns out to be a bug in Winsock - select() doesn't always
9079 return the correct status. [Ben Laurie]
9081 *) Directives owned by http_core can now use the new check_cmd_context()
9082 routine to ensure that they're not being used within a container
9083 (e.g., <Directory>) where they're invalid. [Martin Kraemer]
9085 *) PORT: Recent changes made it necessary to add explicit prototype
9086 for fgetc() and fgets() on SunOS 4.x. [Martin Kraemer, Ben Hyde]
9088 *) It was necessary to distinguish between resources which are
9089 allocated in the parent, for cleanup in the parent, and resources
9090 which are allocated in each child, for cleanup in each child.
9091 A new pool was created which is passed to the module child_init
9092 and child_exit functions; modules are free to register per-child
9093 cleanups there. This fixes a bug with reliable piped logs.
9096 *) mod_autoindex wasn't displaying the ReadmeName file at the bottom
9097 unless it was also doing FancyIndexes, but it displayed the
9098 HeaderName file at the top under all circumstances. It now shows
9099 the ReadmeName file for simple indices, too, as it should.
9102 *) http_core was mmap()ing even in cases where it wasn't going to
9103 read the file. [Ben Hyde <bhyde@gensym.com>]
9105 *) Complete rewrite ;-) of mod_rewrite's URL rewriting engine:
9106 Now the rewriting engine (the heart of mod_rewrite) is organized more
9107 straight-forward, first time well documented and reduced to the really
9108 essential parts. All redundant cases were stripped off and processing now
9109 is the same for both per-server and per-directory context with only a
9110 minimum difference (the prefix stripping in per-dir context). As a
9111 side-effect some subtle restrictions and two recently discovered problems
9112 are gone: Wrong escaping of QUERY_STRING on redirects in per-directory
9113 context and restrictions on the substitution URL on redirects.
9114 Additionally some minor source cleanups were done.
9115 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9117 *) Lars Eilebrecht wrote a whole new set of Apache Vhost Internals
9118 documentation, examples, explanations and caveats. They live in a new
9119 subdirectory htdocs/manual/vhost/. [Lars Eilebrecht <sfx@unix-ag.org>]
9121 *) If ap_slack fails to allocate above the low slack line it's a good
9122 indication that further problems will occur; it's a better indication
9123 than many external libraries give us when we actually run out of
9124 descriptors. So report it to the user once per restart.
9125 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1181
9127 *) Change mod_include and mod_autoindex to use Y2K-safe date formats
9128 by default. [Ken Coar]
9130 *) Add a "SuppressColumnSorting" option to the IndexOptions list,
9131 which will keep the column heading from being links for sorting
9132 the display. [Ken Coar, suggested by Brian Tiemann <btman@pacific.net>]
9135 *) PORT: Update the LynxOS port. [Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>]
9137 *) Fix logic error when issuing a mmap() failed message
9138 with a non-zero MMAP_THRESHOLD.
9139 [David Chambers <davidc@flosun.salk.edu>] PR#1294
9141 *) Preserve handler value on ProxyPass'ed requests by not
9142 calling find_types on a proxy'd request; fixes problems
9143 where some ProxyPass'ed URLs weren't actually passed
9145 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#870
9147 *) Fix a byte ordering problem in mod_access which prevented
9148 the old-style syntax (i.e. "a.b.c." to match a class C)
9149 from working properly. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1248, 1328, 1384
9151 *) Fix problem with USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT not working
9152 properly. Each child needs to open the lockfile instead
9153 of using the passed file-descriptor from the parent.
9154 [Jim Jagielski] PR#1056
9156 *) Fix the error logging in mod_cgi; the recent error log changes
9157 introduced a bug that prevented it from working correctly.
9158 [M.D.Parker] PR#1352
9160 *) Default to USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT on HPUX to properly
9161 handle multiple Listen directives. [Marc Slemko] PR#872
9163 *) Inherit a bugfix to fnmatch.c from FreeBSD sources.
9164 ["[KOI8-R] áÎÄÒÅÊ þÅÒÎÏ×" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>] PR#1311
9166 *) When a configuration parse complained about a bad directive,
9167 the logger would use whatever (unrelated) value was in errno.
9168 errno is now forced to EINVAL first in this case. [Ken Coar]
9170 *) A sed command in the Configure script pushed the edge of POSIXness,
9171 breaking on some systems. [Bhaba R.Misra <system@vt.edu>] PR#1368
9173 *) Solaris >= 2.5 was totally broken due to a mess up using pthread
9174 mutexes. [Roy Fielding, Dean Gaudet]
9176 *) OS/2 Port updated; it should be possible to build OS/2 from the same
9177 sources as Unix now. [Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
9179 *) Fix a year formatting bug in mod_usertrack.
9180 [Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>] PR#1342
9182 *) A mild SIGTERM/SIGALRM race condition was eliminated.
9183 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1211
9185 *) Warn user that default path has changed if /usr/local/etc/httpd
9186 is found on the system. [Lars Eilebrecht]
9188 *) Various mod_mime_magic bug fixes and cleanups: Uncompression
9189 should work, it should work on WIN32, and a few resource
9190 leaks and abort conditions are fixed.
9191 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1205
9193 *) PORT: On AIX 1.x files can't be named '@', fix the proxy cache
9194 to use '%' instead of '@' in its encodings.
9195 [David Schuler <schuld@btv.ibm.com>] PR#1317
9197 *) Improve the warning message generated when the "server is busy".
9198 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1293
9200 *) PORT: All ports which don't otherwise define DEF_WANTHSREGEX will
9201 get Spencer regex by default. This is to avoid having to
9202 discover bugs in operating system libraries. [Dean Gaudet]
9204 *) PORT: "Fix" PR#467 by generating warnings on systems which we have
9205 not been able to get working USE_*_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT settings for.
9206 Document this a bit more in src/PORTING. [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
9208 *) Ensure that one copy of config warnings makes it to the
9209 error_log. [Dean Gaudet]
9211 *) Invent new structure and associated methods to handle config file
9212 reading. Add "custom" hook to use config file cfg_getline() on
9213 something which is not a FILE* [Martin Kraemer]
9215 *) Make single-exe Windows install. [Ben Laurie and Eric Esselink]
9217 *) WIN32: Make CGI work under Win95. [Ben Laurie and Paul Sutton]
9219 *) WIN32: Make index.html and friends work under Win95. [Ben Laurie]
9221 *) PORT: Solaris 2.4 needs Spencer regex, the system regex is broken.
9222 [John Line <jml4@cam.ac.uk>] PR#1321
9224 *) Default pathname has been changed everywhere to /usr/local/apache
9225 [Sameer <sameer@c2.net>]
9227 *) PORT: AIX now uses USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT.
9228 [David Bronder <David-Bronder@uiowa.edu>] PR#849
9230 *) PORT: i386 AIX does not have memmove.
9231 [David Schuler <schuld@btv.ibm.com>] PR#1267
9233 *) PORT: HPUX now defaults to using Spencer regex.
9234 [Philippe Vanhaesendonck <pvanhaes@be.oracle.com>,
9235 Omar Del Rio <al112263@academ01.lag.itesm.mx>] PR#482, 1246
9237 *) PORT: Some versions of NetBSD don't automatically define
9238 __NetBSD__. Workaround by defining NETBSD.
9239 [Chris Craft <ccraft@cncc.cc.co.us>] PR#977
9241 *) PORT: UnixWare 2.x requires -lgen for syslog.
9242 [Hans Snijder <hs@meganet.nl>] PR#1249
9244 *) PORT: ULTRIX appears to not have syslog.
9245 [Lars Eilebrecht <Lars.Eilebrecht@unix-ag.org>]
9247 *) PORT: Basic Gemini port (treat it like unixware212).
9248 ["Pavel Yakovlev (Paul McHacker)" <hac@tomcat.olly.ru>]
9250 *) PORT: All SVR4 systems now use NET_SIZE_T = size_t, and
9251 use USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD.
9254 *) Various improvements in detecting config file errors (missing closing
9255 directives for <Directory>, <Files> etc. blocks, prohibiting global
9256 server settings in <VirtualHost> blocks, flagging unhandled multiple
9257 arguments to <Directory>, <Files> etc.)
9260 *) Add support to suexec wrapper program for mod_unique_id's UNIQUE_ID
9261 variable to provide this one to suexec'd CGIs, too.
9262 [M.D.Parker <mdpc@netcom.com>] PR#1284
9264 *) New support tool: src/support/split-logfile, a sample Perl script which
9265 splits up a combined access log into separate files based on the
9266 name of the virtual host (listed first in the log records by "%v").
9269 Changes with Apache 1.3b2 (there is no 1.3b1)
9271 *) TestCompile was not passing $LIBS [Dean Gaudet]
9273 *) Makefile.tmpl was not using $CFLAGS in the link phase.
9276 *) Add debugging code to alloc.c. Defining ALLOC_DEBUG provides a
9277 rudimentary memory debugger which can be used on live servers with
9278 low impact -- it sets all allocated and freed memory bytes to 0xa5.
9279 Defining ALLOC_USE_MALLOC will cause the alloc code to use malloc()
9280 and free() for each object. This is far more expensive and should
9281 only be used for testing with tools such as Electric Fence and
9282 Purify. See main/alloc.c for more details. [Dean Gaudet]
9284 *) Configure uses a sh trap and didn't set its exitcode properly.
9285 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1159
9287 *) Yet another vhost revamp. Add the NameVirtualHost directive which
9288 explicitly lists the ip:port pairs that are to be used for name-vhosts.
9289 From a given ip:port, regardless what the Host: header is, you can
9290 only reach the vhosts defined on that ip:port. The precedence of
9291 vhosts was reversed to match other precedences in the config --
9292 the earlier vhosts override the later vhosts. All vhost matching was
9293 moved into http_vhost.[ch]. [Dean Gaudet]
9295 *) ap_inline can be used to force inlining. GNUC __attribute__() can
9296 be used for whatever reason is appropriate (i.e. format() warnings
9297 for printf style functions). Both are enabled only with
9298 gcc >= 2.7.x (so that we have fewer support issues with older
9299 versions). [Dean Gaudet]
9301 *) Fix support for Proxy Authentication (we were testing the response
9302 status too early). [Marc Slemko]
9304 *) CoreDumpDirectory directive directs where the core file is
9305 written when a SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, SIGABORT or SIGABRT are
9306 received. [Marc Slemko, Dean Gaudet]
9308 *) PORT: Support for Atari MINT.
9309 [Jan Paul Schmidt <Jan.P.Schmidt@mni.fh-giessen.de>]
9311 *) When booting, apache will now detach itself from stdin, stdout,
9312 and stderr. stderr will not be detached until after the config
9313 files have been read so you will be able to see initial error
9314 messages. After that all errors are logged in the error_log.
9315 This makes it more convenient to start apache via rsh, ssh,
9316 or crontabs. [Dean Gaudet] PR#523
9318 *) mod_proxy was sending HTTP/1.1 responses to ftp requests by mistake.
9319 Also removed the auto-generated link to www.apache.org that was the
9320 source of so many misdirected bug reports. [Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
9322 *) send_fb would not detect aborted connections in some situations.
9325 *) mod_include would use uninitialized data when parsing certain
9326 expressions involving && and ||. [Brian Slesinsky] PR#1139
9328 *) mod_imap should only handle GET methods. [Jay Bloodworth]
9330 *) suexec.c wouldn't build without -DLOG_EXEC. [Jason A. Dour]
9332 *) mod_autoindex improperly counted &escapes; as more than one
9333 character in the description. It also improperly truncated
9334 descriptions that were exactly the maximum length.
9337 *) RedirectMatch was not properly escaping the result (PR#1155). Also
9338 "RedirectMatch /advertiser/(.*) $1" is now permitted.
9341 *) mod_include now uses symbolic names to check for request success
9342 and return HTTP errors, and correctly handles all types of
9343 redirections (previously it only did temporary redirect correctly).
9344 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding]
9346 *) mod_userdir was modifying r->finfo in cases where it wasn't setting
9347 r->filename. Since those two are meant to be in sync with each other
9348 this is a bug. ["Paul B. Henson" <henson@intranet.csupomona.edu>]
9350 *) PORT: Support Unisys SVR4, whose uname returns mostly useless data.
9351 ["Kaufman, Steven E" <Steven.Kaufman@unisys.com>]
9353 *) Inetd mode (which is buggy) uses timeouts without having setup the
9354 jmpbuffer. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1064
9356 *) Work around problem under Linux where a child will start looping
9357 reporting a select error over and over.
9358 [Rick Franchuk <rickf@transpect.net>] PR#1107, 987, 588
9360 *) Fixed error in proxy_util.c when looping through multiple host IP
9361 addresses. [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#974
9363 *) If BUFFERED_LOGS is defined then mod_log_config will do atomic
9364 buffered writes -- that is, it will buffer up to PIPE_BUF (i.e. 4k)
9365 bytes before writing, but it will never split a log entry across a
9366 buffer boundary. [Dean Gaudet]
9368 *) API: the short_score record has been split into two pieces, one which
9369 the parent writes on, and one which the child writes on. As part of
9370 this change the get_scoreboard_info() function was removed, and
9371 scoreboard_image was exported. This change fixes a race condition
9372 in file based scoreboard systems, and speeds up changes involving the
9373 scoreboard in earlier 1.3 development. [Dean Gaudet]
9375 *) API: New register_other_child() API (see http_main.h) which allows
9376 modules to register children with the parent for maintenance. It
9377 is disabled by defining NO_OTHER_CHILD. [Dean Gaudet]
9379 *) API: New piped_log API (see http_log.h) which implements piped logs,
9380 and will use register_other_child to implement reliable piped logs
9381 when it is available. The reliable piped logs part can be disabled
9382 by defining NO_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS. At the moment reliable piped
9383 logs is only available on Unix. [Dean Gaudet]
9385 *) API: set_last_modified() broken into set_last_modified(), set_etag(), and
9386 meets_conditions(). This allows conditional HTTP selection to be
9387 handled separately from the storing of the header fields, and provides
9388 the ability for CGIs to set their own ETags for conditional checking.
9389 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding] PR#895
9391 *) Changes to mod_log_config to allow naming of format strings.
9392 Format nicknames are defined with "LogFormat fmt nickname", and can
9393 be used with "LogFormat nickname" and "CustomLog logtarget nickname".
9396 *) New module, "mod_speling", which can help find files even when
9397 the URL is slightly misspelled. [Martin Kraemer, Alexei Kosut]
9399 *) API: New function child_terminate() triggers the child process to
9400 exit, while allowing the child finish what it needs to for the
9401 current request first.
9402 [Doug MacEachern, Alexei Kosut]
9404 *) Windows now defaults to using full status reports with mod_status.
9405 [Alexei Kosut] PR #1094
9407 *) *Really* disable all mod_rewrite operations if the engine is off.
9408 Some things (like RewriteMaps) were checked/performed even if they
9409 weren't supposed to be. [Ken Coar] PR #991
9411 *) Implement a new timer scheme which eliminates the need to call alarm() all
9412 the time. Instead a counter in the scoreboard for each child is used to
9413 show when the child has made forward progress. The parent samples this
9414 counter every scoreboard maintenance cycle, and issues SIGALRM if no
9415 progress has been made in the timeout period. This reduces the static
9416 request best-case syscall count to 22 from 29. This scheme is only
9417 used by systems with memory-based scoreboards. [Dean Gaudet]
9419 *) The proxy now properly handles CONNECT requests which are sent
9420 to proxy servers when using ProxyRemote. [Marc Slemko] PR#1024
9422 *) A script called apachectl has been added to the support
9423 directory. This script allows you to do things such as
9424 "apachectl start" and "apachectl restart" from the command
9427 *) Modules and core routines are now put into libraries, which
9428 simplifies the link line tremendously (among other advantages).
9431 *) Some of the MD5 names defined in Apache have been renamed to have
9432 an `ap_' prefix to avoid conflicts with routines supplied by
9433 external libraries. [Ken Coar]
9435 *) Removal of mod_auth_msql.c from the distribution. There are many
9436 other options for databases today. Rather than offer one option,
9437 offer none at this time. mod_auth_msql and other SQL database
9438 authentication modules can be found at the Apache Module Registry.
9439 http://modules.apache.org/ It would be nice to offer a generic
9440 mod_auth_sql option in the near future.
9442 *) PORT: BeOS support added [Alexei Kosut]
9444 *) Configure no longer accepts the -make option, since it creates
9445 Makefile on the fly based on Makefile.tmpl and Configuration.
9447 *) Apache now gracefully shuts down when it receives a SIGTERM, instead
9448 of forcibly killing off all its processes and exiting without
9449 cleaning up. [Alexei Kosut]
9451 *) API: A new field in the request_rec, r->mtime, has been added to
9452 avoid gratuitous parsing of date strings. It is intended to hold
9453 the last-modified date of the resource (if applicable). An
9454 update_mtime() routine has also been added to advance it if
9455 appropriate. [Roy Fielding, Ken Coar]
9457 *) SECURITY: If a htaccess file can not be read due to bad permissions,
9458 deny access to the directory with a HTTP_FORBIDDEN. The previous
9459 behavior was to ignore the htaccess file if it could not be read.
9460 This change may make some setups with unreadable htaccess files
9461 stop working. [Marc Slemko] PR#817
9463 *) Add aplog_error() providing a mechanism to define levels of
9464 verbosity to the server error logging. This addition also provides
9465 the ability to log errors using syslogd. Error logging is configurable
9466 on a per-server basis using the LogLevel directive. Conversion
9467 of log_*() in progress. [Randy Terbush]
9469 *) Further enhance aplog_error() to not log filename, line number, and
9470 errno information when it isn't applicable. [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
9472 *) WIN32: Canonicalise filenames under Win32. Short filenames are
9473 converted to long ones. Backslashes are converted to forward
9474 slashes. Case is converted to lower. Parts of URLs that do not
9475 correspond to files are left completely alone. [Ben Laurie]
9477 *) PORT: 2 new OSs added to the list of ports:
9478 Encore's UMAX V: Arieh Markel <amarkel@encore.com>
9479 Acorn RISCiX: Stephen Borrill <sborrill@xemplar.co.uk>
9481 *) Add the server version (SERVER_VERSION macro) to the "server
9482 configured and running" entry in the error_log. Also build an
9483 object file at link-time that contains the current time
9484 (SERVER_BUILT global const char[]), and include that in the
9487 *) Set r->headers_out when sending responses from the proxy.
9488 This fixes things such as the logging of headers sent from
9489 the proxy. [Marc Slemko] PR#659
9491 *) support/httpd_monitor is no longer distributed because the
9492 scoreboard should not be file based if at all possible. Use
9493 mod_status to see current server snapshot.
9495 *) (set_file_slot): New function, allowing auth directives to be
9496 independent of the server root, so the server documents can be
9497 moved to a different directory or machine more easily.
9498 [David J. MacKenzie]
9500 *) If no TransferLog is given explicitly, decline
9501 to log. This supports coexistence with other logging modules,
9502 such as the custom one that UUNET uses. [David J. MacKenzie]
9504 *) Check for titles in server-parsed HTML files.
9505 Ignore leading newlines and returns in titles. The old behavior
9506 of replacing a newline after <title> with a space causes the
9507 title to be misaligned in the listing. [David J. MacKenzie]
9509 *) Change mod_cern_meta to be configurable on a per-directory basis.
9510 [David J. MacKenzie]
9512 *) Add 'Include' directive to allow inclusion of configuration
9513 files within configuration files. [Randy Terbush]
9515 *) Proxy errors on connect() are logged to the error_log (nothing
9516 new); now they include the IP address and port that failed
9517 (*that's* new). [Ken Coar, Marc Slemko] PR#352
9519 *) Various architectures now define USE_MMAP_FILES which causes
9520 the server to use mmap() for static files. There are two
9521 compile-time tunables MMAP_THRESHOLD (minimum number of bytes
9522 required to use mmap(), default is 0), and MMAP_SEGMENT_SIZE (maximum
9523 number of bytes written in one cycle from a single mmap()d object,
9524 default 32768). [Dean Gaudet]
9526 *) API: Added post_read_request API phase which is run right after reading
9527 the request from a client, or right after an internal redirect. It is
9528 useful for modules setting environment variables that depend only on
9529 the headers/contents of the request. It does not run during subrequests
9530 because subrequests inherit pretty much everything from the main
9531 request. [Dean Gaudet]
9533 *) Added mod_unique_id which is used to generate a unique identifier for
9534 each hit, available in the environment variable UNIQUE_ID.
9537 *) init_modules is now called after the error logs have been opened. This
9538 allows modules to emit information messages into the error logs.
9541 *) Fixed proxy-pass-through feature of mod_rewrite; Added error logging
9542 information for case where proxy module is not available. [Marc Slemko]
9544 *) PORT: Apache has need for mutexes to serialize its children around
9545 accept. In prior versions either fcntl file locking or flock file
9546 locking were used. The method is chosen by the definition of
9547 USE_xxx_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT in conf.h. xxx is FCNTL for fcntl(),
9548 and FLOCK for flock(). New options have been added:
9549 - SYSVSEM to use System V style semaphores
9550 - PTHREAD to use POSIX threads (appears to work on Solaris only)
9551 - USLOCK to use IRIX uslock
9552 Based on timing various techniques, the following changes were made
9554 - Linux 2.x uses flock instead of fcntl
9555 - Solaris 2.x uses pthreads
9556 - IRIX uses SysV semaphores -- however multiprocessor IRIX boxes
9557 work far faster if you -DUSE_USLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT
9558 [Dean Gaudet, Pierre-Yves Kerembellec <Pierre-Yves.Kerembellec@vtcom.fr>,
9559 Martijn Koster <m.koster@pobox.com>]
9561 *) PORT: The semantics of accept/select make it very desirable to use
9562 mutexes to serialize accept when multiple Listens are in use. But
9563 in the case where only a single socket is open it is sometimes
9564 redundant to serialize accept(). Not all unixes do a good job with
9565 potentially dozens of children blocked on accept() on the same
9566 socket. It's now possible to define SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT and
9567 the server will avoid serialization when listening on only one socket,
9568 and use serialization when listening on multiple sockets.
9569 [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
9571 *) Configure changes: TestLib replaced by TestCompile, which has
9572 some additional capability (such as doing a sanity check of
9573 the compiler and flags selected); the version of Solaris is now
9574 available via the #define value of SOLARIS2; IRIX n32bit libs
9575 now supported and selectable by new Configuration Rule: IRIXN32;
9576 We no longer default to -O2 optimization. [Jim Jagielski]
9578 *) Updated Configure: Configuration now uses AddModule to specify
9579 module source or binary file location, relative to src directory.
9580 Modules can be dropped into modules/extra, or in their own
9581 directory, and modules can come with a Makefile or Configure can
9582 create one. Modules can add compiler or library information to
9583 generated Makefiles. [Paul Sutton]
9585 *) Source core re-organisation: distributed modules are now in
9586 modules/standard. All other source code is in main. OS-specific
9587 code is in os/{unix,emx,win32} directories. [Paul Sutton]
9589 *) mod_browser has been removed, since it's replaced by mod_setenvif.
9592 *) Fix another long-standing bug in sub_req_lookup_file where it would
9593 happily skip past access checks on subdirectories looked up with
9594 relative paths. (It's used by mod_dir, mod_negotiation,
9595 and mod_include.) [Dean Gaudet]
9597 *) directory_walk optimization to reduce an O(N*M) loop to O(N+M) where
9598 N is the number of <Directory> sections, and M is the number of
9599 components in the filename of an object.
9601 To achieve this optimization the following config changes were made:
9602 - Wildcards (* and ?, not the regex forms) in <Directory>s,
9603 <Files>s, and <Location>s now treat a slash as a special
9604 character. For example "/home/*/public_html" previously would
9605 match "/home/a/andrew/public_html", now it only matches things
9606 like "/home/bob/public_html". This mimics /bin/sh behaviour.
9607 - It's possible now to use [] wildcarding in <Directory>, <Files>
9609 - Regex <Directory>s are applied after all non-regex <Directory>s.
9613 *) Fix a bug introduced in 1.3a1 directory_walk regarding .htaccess files
9614 and corrupted paths. [Dean Gaudet]
9616 *) Enhanced and cleaned up the URL rewriting engine of mod_rewrite:
9617 First the grouped parts of RewriteRule pattern matches (parenthesis!) can
9618 be accessed now via backreferences $1..$9 in RewriteConds test-against
9619 strings in addition to RewriteRules subst string. Second the grouped
9620 parts of RewriteCond pattern matches (parenthesis!) can be accessed now
9621 via backreferences %1..%9 both in following RewriteCond test-against
9622 strings and RewriteRules subst string. This provides maximum flexibility
9623 through the use of backreferences.
9624 Additionally the rewriting engine was cleaned up by putting common
9625 code to the new expand_backrefs_inbuffer() function.
9626 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9628 *) When merging the main server's <Directory> and <Location> sections into
9629 a vhost, put the main server's first and the vhost's second. Otherwise
9630 the vhost can't override the main server. [Dean Gaudet] PR#717
9632 *) The <Directory> code would merge and re-merge the same section after
9633 a match was found, possibly causing problems with some modules.
9636 *) ip-based vhosts are stored and queried using a hashing function, which
9637 has been shown to improve performance on servers with many ip-vhosts.
9638 Some other changes had to be made to accommodate this:
9639 - the * address for vhosts now behaves like _default_
9640 - the matching process now is:
9641 - match an ip-vhost directly via hash (possibly matches main
9643 - if that fails, just pretend it matched the main server
9644 - if so far only the main server has been matched, perform
9645 name-based lookups (ServerName, ServerAlias, ServerPath)
9646 *only on name-based vhosts*
9647 - if they fail, look for _default_ vhosts
9648 [Dean Gaudet, Dave Hankins <dhankins@sugarat.net>]
9650 *) dbmmanage overhaul:
9651 - merge dbmmanage and dbmmanage.new functionality, remove dbmmanage.new
9652 - tie() to AnyDBM_File which will use one of DB_File, NDBM_File or
9653 GDBM_File (-ldb, -lndbm, -lgdbm) (trying each in that order)
9654 - provide better seed for rand
9655 - prompt for password as per getpass(3) (turn off echo, read from
9657 - use "newstyle" crypt based on $Config{osname} ($^O)
9658 - will not add a user if already in database, use new `update' command
9660 - added `check' command to check a users' password
9661 - added `import' command to convert existing password text-files or
9662 dbm files exported with `view'
9663 - more descriptive usage, general cleanup, 'use strict' clean, etc.
9666 *) Added psocket() which is a pool form of socket(), various places within
9667 the proxy weren't properly blocking alarms while registering the cleanup
9668 for its sockets. bclose() now uses pclose() and pclosesocket(). There
9669 was a bug where the client socket was being close()d twice due a still
9670 registered cleanup. [Dean Gaudet]
9672 *) A few cleanups were made to reduce time(), getpid(), and signal() calls.
9675 *) PORT: AIX >= 4.2 requires -lm due to libc changes.
9676 [Jason Venner <jason@idiom.com>] PR#667
9678 *) Enable ``=""'' for RewriteCond directives to match against
9679 the empty string. This is the preferred way instead of ``^$''.
9680 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9682 *) Fixed an infinite loop in mod_imap for references above the server root
9683 [Dean Gaudet] PR#748
9685 *) mod_proxy now has a ReceiveBufferSize directive, similar to
9686 SendBufferSize, so that the TCP window can be set appropriately
9687 for LFNs. [Phillip A. Prindeville]
9689 *) mod_browser has been replaced by the more general mod_setenvif
9690 (courtesy of Paul Sutton). BrowserMatch* directives are still
9691 available, but are now joined by SetEnvIf*, UnSetEnvIf*, and
9692 UnSetEnvIfZero directives. [Ken Coar]
9694 *) "HostnameLookups double" forces double-reverse DNS to succeed in
9695 order for remote_host to be set (for logging, or for the env var
9696 REMOTE_HOST). The old define MAXIMUM_DNS has been deprecated.
9699 *) mod_access overhaul:
9700 - Now understands network/netmask syntax (i.e. 10.1.0.0/255.255.0.0)
9701 and cidr syntax (i.e. 10.1.0.0/16). PR#762
9702 - Critical path was sped up by pre-computing a few things at config time.
9703 - The undocumented syntax "allow user-agents" was removed,
9704 the replacement is "allow from env=foobar" combined with mod_browser.
9705 - When used with hostnames it now forces a double-reverse lookup
9706 no matter what the directory settings are. This double-reverse
9707 doesn't affect any of the other routines that use the remote
9708 hostname. In particular it's still passed to CGIs and the log
9709 without the double-reverse check. Related PR#860.
9712 *) When a large bwrite() occurs (larger than the internal buffer size),
9713 while there is already something in the buffer, apache will combine
9714 the large write and the buffer into a single writev(). (This is
9715 in anticipation of using mmap() for reading files.)
9718 *) In obscure cases where a partial socket write occurred while chunking,
9719 Apache would omit the chunk header/footer on the next block. Cleaned
9720 up other bugs/inconsistencies in error conditions in buff.c. Fixed
9721 a bug where a long pause in DNS lookups could cause the last packet
9722 of a response to be unduly delayed. [Roy Fielding, Dean Gaudet]
9724 *) API: Added child_exit function to module structure. This is called
9725 once per "heavy-weight process" just before a server child exit()'s
9726 e.g. when max_requests_per_child is reached, etc.
9727 [Doug MacEachern, Dean Gaudet]
9729 *) mod_include cleanup showed that handle_else was being used to handle
9730 endif. It didn't cause problems, but it was cleaned up too.
9733 *) mod_cern_meta would attempt to find meta files for the directory itself
9734 in some cases, but not in others. It now avoids it in all cases.
9737 *) mod_mime_magic would core dump if there was a decompression error.
9738 [Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>] PR#904
9740 *) PORT: some variants of DGUX require -lsocket -lnsl
9741 [Alexander L Jones <alex@systems-options.co.uk>] PR#732
9743 *) mod_autoindex now allows sorting of FancyIndexed directory listings
9744 by the various fields (name, size, et cetera), either in ascending
9745 or descending order. Just click on the column header. [Ken Coar]
9747 *) PORT: Various tweaks to eliminate pointer-int casting warnings on 64-bit
9748 CPUs like the Alpha. Apache still stores ints in pointers, but that's
9749 the relatively safe direction. [Dean Gaudet] PR#344
9751 *) PORT: QNX mmap() support for faster/more reliable scoreboard handling.
9752 [Igor N Kovalenko <infoh@mail.wplus.net>] PR#683
9754 *) child_main avoids an unneeded call to select() when there is only one
9755 listening socket. [Dean Gaudet]
9757 *) In the event that the server is starved for idle servers it will
9758 spawn 1, then 2, then 4, ..., then 32 servers each second,
9759 doubling each second. It'll also give a warning in the errorlog
9760 since the most common reason for this is a poor StartServers
9761 setting. The define MAX_SPAWN_RATE can be used to raise/lower
9762 the maximum. [Dean Gaudet]
9764 *) Apache now provides an effectively unbuffered connection for
9765 CGI scripts. This means that data will be sent to the client
9766 as soon as the CGI pauses or stops output; previously, Apache would
9767 buffer the output up to a fixed buffer size before sending, which
9768 could result in the user viewing an empty page until the CGI finished
9769 or output a complete buffer. It is no longer necessary to use an
9770 "nph-" CGI to get unbuffered output. Given that most CGIs are written
9771 in a language that by default does buffering (e.g. perl) this
9772 shouldn't have a detrimental effect on performance.
9774 "nph-" CGIs, which formerly provided a direct socket to the client
9775 without any server post-processing, were not fully compatible with
9776 HTTP/1.1 or SSL support. As such they would have had to implement
9777 the transport details, such as encryption or chunking, in order
9778 to work properly in certain situations. Now, the only difference
9779 between nph and non-nph scripts is "non-parsed headers".
9780 [Dean Gaudet, Sameer Parekh, Roy Fielding]
9782 *) If a BUFF is switched from buffered to unbuffered reading the first
9783 bread() will return whatever remained in the buffer prior to the
9784 switch. [Dean Gaudet]
9786 Changes with Apache 1.3a1
9788 *) Added another Configure helper script: TestLib. It determines
9789 if a specified library exists. [Jim Jagielski]
9791 *) PORT: Allow for use of n32bit libraries under IRIX 6.x
9792 [derived from patch from Jeff Hayes <jhayes@aw.sgi.com>]
9795 *) PORT: Some architectures use size_t for various lengths in network
9796 functions such as accept(), and getsockname(). The definition
9797 NET_SIZE_T is used to control this. [Dean Gaudet]
9799 *) PORT: Linux: Attempt to detect glibc based systems and include crypt.h
9800 and -lcrypt. Test for various db libraries (dbm, ndbm, db) when
9801 mod_auth_dbm or mod_auth_db are included. [Dean Gaudet]
9803 *) PORT: QNX doesn't have initgroups() which support/suexec.c uses.
9804 [Igor N Kovalenko <infoh@mail.wplus.net>]
9806 *) "force-response-1.0" now only applies to requests which are HTTP/1.0 to
9807 begin with. "nokeepalive" now works for HTTP/1.1 clients. Added
9808 "downgrade-1.0" which causes Apache to pretend it received a 1.0.
9809 [Dean Gaudet] related PR#875
9811 *) API: Correct child_init() slot declaration from int to void, to
9812 match the init() declaration. Update mod_example to use the new
9815 *) added transport handle slot (t_handle) to the BUFF structure
9818 *) get_client_block() returns wrong length if policy is
9819 REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK.
9820 [Kenichi Hori <ken@d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#815
9822 *) Support the image map format of FrontPage. For example:
9823 rect /url.hrm 10 20 30 40
9824 ["Chris O'Byrne" <obyrne@iol.ie>] PR#807
9826 *) PORT: -lresolv and -lsocks were in the wrong order for Solaris.
9827 ["Darren O'Shaughnessy" <darren@aaii.oz.au>] PR#846
9829 *) AddModuleInfo directive for mod_info which allows you to annotate
9830 the output of mod_info. ["Lou D. Langholtz" <ldl@usi.utah.edu>]
9832 *) Added NoProxy directive to avoid using ProxyRemote for selected
9833 addresses. Added ProxyDomain directive to cause unqualified
9834 names to be qualified by redirection.
9835 [Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>]
9837 *) Support Proxy Authentication, and don't pass the Proxy-Authorize
9838 header to the remote host in the proxy. [Sameer Parekh and
9841 *) Upgraded mod_rewrite from 3.0.6+ to latest officially available version
9842 3.0.9. This upgrade includes: fixed deadlooping on rewriting to same
9843 URLs, fixed rewritelog(), fixed forced response code handling on
9844 redirects from within .htaccess files, disabled pipe locking under
9845 braindead SunOS 4.1.x, allow env variables to be set even on rules with
9846 no substitution, bugfixed situations where HostnameLookups is off, made
9847 mod_rewrite more thread-safe for NT port and fixed problem when creating
9848 an empty query string via "xxx?".
9849 This update also removes the copyright of Ralf S. Engelschall,
9850 i.e. now mod_rewrite no longer has a shared copyright. Instead is is
9851 exclusively copyrighted by the Apache Group now. This happened because
9852 the author now has gifted mod_rewrite exclusively to the Apache Group and
9853 no longer maintains an external version.
9854 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9856 *) API: Added child_init function to module structure. This is called
9857 once per "heavy-weight process" before any requests are handled.
9858 See http_config.h for more details. [Dean Gaudet]
9860 *) Anonymous_LogEmail was logging on each subrequest.
9861 [Dean Gaudet] PR#421, 868
9863 *) API: Added is_initial_req() which tests if the request being
9864 processed is the initial request, or a subrequest.
9867 *) Extended SSI (mod_include) now handles additional relops for
9868 string comparisons (<, >, <=, and >=). [Bruno Wolff III] PR#41
9870 *) Configure fixed to correctly propagate user-selected options and
9871 settings (such as CC and OPTIM) to Makefiles other than
9872 src/Makefile (notably support/Makefile). [Ken Coar] PR#666, #834
9874 *) IndexOptions SuppressHTMLPreamble now causes the actual HTML of
9875 directory indices to start with the contents of the HeaderName file
9876 if there is one. If there isn't one, the behaviour is unchanged.
9877 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding, Andrey A. Chernov]
9879 *) WIN32: Modules can now be dynamically loaded DLLs using the
9880 LoadModule/LoadFile directives. Note that module DLLs must be
9881 compiled with the multithreaded DLL version of the runtime library.
9882 [Alexei Kosut and Ben Laurie]
9884 *) Automatic indexing removed from mod_dir and placed into mod_autoindex.
9885 This allows the admin to completely remove automatic indexing
9886 from the server, while still supporting the basic functions of
9887 trailing-slash redirects and DirectoryIndex files. Note that if
9888 you're carrying over an old Configuration file and you use directory
9889 indexing then you'll want to add:
9891 Module autoindex_module mod_autoindex.o
9893 before mod_dir in your Configuration. [Dean Gaudet]
9895 *) popendir/pclosedir created to properly protect directory scanning.
9896 [Dean Gaudet] PR#525
9898 *) AliasMatch, ScriptAliasMatch and RedirectMatch directives added,
9899 giving regex support to mod_alias. <DirectoryMatch>, <LocationMatch>
9900 and <FilesMatch> sections added to succeed <DirectoryMatch ~>, etc...
9903 *) The AccessFileName directive can now take more than one filename.
9904 ["Lou D. Langholtz" <ldl@usi.utah.edu>]
9906 *) The new mod_mime_magic can be used to "magically" determine the type
9907 of a file if the extension is unknown. Based on the unix file(1)
9908 command. [Ian Kluft <ikluft@cisco.com>]
9910 *) We now determine and display the time spent processing a
9911 request if desired. [Jim Jagielski]
9913 *) mod_status: PID field of "dead" child slots no longer displays
9914 main httpd process's PID. [Jim Jagielski]
9916 *) Makefile.nt added - to build all the bits from the command line:
9917 nmake -f Makefile.nt
9918 Doesn't yet work properly. [Ben Laurie]
9920 *) Default text of 404 error is now "Not Found" rather than the
9921 potentially misleading "File Not Found". [Ken Coar]
9923 *) CONFIG: "HostnameLookups" now defaults to off because it is far better
9924 for the net if we require people that actually need this data to
9925 enable it. [Linus Torvalds]
9927 *) directory_walk() is an expensive function, keep a little more state to
9928 avoid needless string counting. Add two new functions make_dirstr_parent
9929 and make_dirstr_prefix which replace all existing uses of make_dirstr.
9930 The new functions are a little less general than make_dirstr, but
9931 work more efficiently (less memory, less string counting).
9934 *) EXTRA_LFLAGS was changed to EXTRA_LDFLAGS (and LFLAGS was changed
9935 to LDFLAGS) to avoid complications with lex rules in make files.
9936 [Dean Gaudet] PR#372
9938 *) run_method optimized to avoid needless scanning over NULLs in the
9939 module list. [Dean Gaudet]
9941 *) Revamp of (unix) scoreboard management code such that it avoids
9942 unnecessary traversals of the scoreboard on each hit. This is
9943 particularly important for high volume sites with a large
9944 HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. Some of the previous operations were O(n^2),
9945 and are now O(n). See also SCOREBOARD_MAINTENANCE_INTERVAL in
9946 httpd.h. [Dean Gaudet]
9948 *) In configurations using multiple Listen statements it was possible for
9949 busy sockets to starve other sockets of service. [Dean Gaudet]
9951 *) Added hook so standalone_main can be replaced at compile time
9952 (define STANDALONE_MAIN)
9955 *) Lowest-level read/write functions in buff.c will be replaced with
9956 the SFIO library calls sfread/sfwrite if B_SFIO is defined at
9957 compile time. The default sfio discipline will behave as apache
9958 would without sfio compiled in.
9961 *) Enhance UserDir directive (mod_userdir) to accept a list of
9962 usernames for the 'disable' keyword, and add 'enable user...' to
9963 selectively *en*able userdirs if they're globally disabled.
9966 *) If NETSCAPE_DBM_COMPAT is defined in EXTRA_CFLAGS then Apache
9967 will work with Netscape dbm files. (dbmmanage will probably not
9968 work however.) [Alexander Spohr <aspohr@netmatic.com>] PR#444
9970 *) Add a ListenBacklog directive to control the backlog parameter
9971 passed to listen(). Also change the default to 511 from 512.
9974 *) API: A new handler response DONE which informs apache that the
9975 request has been handled and it can finish off quickly, similar to
9976 how it handles errors. [Rob Hartill]
9978 *) Turn off chunked encoding after sending terminating chunk/footer
9979 so that we can't do it twice by accident. [Roy Fielding]
9981 *) mod_expire also issues Cache-Control: max-age headers.
9984 *) API: Added kill_only_once option for free_proc_chain so that it won't
9985 aggressively try to kill off specific children. For fastcgi.
9986 [Stanley Gambarin <gambarin@OpenMarket.com>]
9988 *) mod_auth deals with extra ':' delimited fields. [Marc Slemko]
9990 *) Added IconHeight and IconWidth to mod_dir's IndexOptions directive.
9991 When used together, these cause mod_dir to emit HEIGHT and WIDTH
9992 attributes in the FancyIndexing IMG tags. [Ken Coar]
9994 *) PORT: Sequent and SONY NEWS-OS support added. [Jim Jagielski]
9996 *) PORT: Added Windows NT support
9997 [Ben Laurie and Ambarish Malpani <ambarish@valicert.com>]
9999 Changes with Apache 1.2.6
10001 *) mod_include when using XBitHack Full would send ETags in addition to
10002 sending Last-Modifieds. This is incorrect HTTP/1.1 behaviour.
10003 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1133
10005 *) SECURITY: When a client connects to a particular port/addr, and
10006 gives a Host: header ensure that the virtual host requested can
10007 actually be reached via that port/addr. [Ed Korthof <ed@organic.com>]
10009 *) Support virtual hosts with wildcard port and/or multiple ports
10010 properly. [Ed Korthof <ed@organic.com>]
10012 *) Fixed some case-sensitivity issues according to RFC2068.
10015 *) Set r->allowed properly in mod_asis.c, mod_dir.c, mod_info.c,
10016 and mod_include.c. [Dean Gaudet]
10018 *) Variable 'cwd' was being used pointlessly before being set.
10021 *) SIGURG doesn't exist on all platforms.
10022 [Mark Andrew Heinrich <heinrich@tinderbox.Stanford.EDU>]
10024 *) When an error occurs during a POST, or other operation with a
10025 request body, the body has to be read from the net before allowing
10026 a keepalive session to continue. [Roy Fielding] PR#1399
10028 *) When an error occurs in fcntl() locking suggest the user look up
10029 the docs for LockFile. [Dean Gaudet]
10031 *) table_set() and table_unset() did not deal correctly with
10032 multiple occurrences of the same key. [Stephen Scheck
10033 <sscheck@infonex.net>, Ben Laurie] PR#1604
10035 *) send_fd_length() did not calculate total_bytes_sent properly in error
10036 cases. [Ben Reser <breser@regnow.com>] PR#1366
10038 *) r->connection->user was allocated in the wrong pool causing corruption
10039 in some cases when used with mod_cern_meta. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1500
10041 *) mod_proxy was sending HTTP/1.1 responses to ftp requests by mistake.
10042 Also removed the auto-generated link to www.apache.org that was the
10043 source of so many misdirected bug reports. [Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
10045 *) Multiple "close" tokens may have been set in the "Connection"
10046 header, not an error, but a waste.
10047 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1683
10049 *) "basic" and "digest" auth tokens should be tested case-insensitive.
10050 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1599, PR#1666
10052 *) It appears the "257th byte" bug (see
10053 htdocs/manual/misc/known_client_problems.html#257th-byte) can happen
10054 at the 256th byte as well. Fixed. [Dean Gaudet]
10056 *) mod_rewrite would not handle %3f properly in some situations.
10059 *) Apache could generate improperly chunked HTTP/1.1 responses when
10060 the bputc() or rputc() functions were used by modules (such as
10061 mod_include). [Dean Gaudet]
10063 *) #ifdef wrap a few #defines in httpd.h to make life easier on
10064 some ports. [Ralf Engelschall]
10066 *) Fix MPE compilation error in mod_usertrack.c. [Mark Bixby]
10068 *) Quote CC='$(CC)' to improve recurse make calls. [Martin Kraemer]
10070 *) Avoid B_ERROR redeclaration on sysvr4 systems. [Martin Kraemer]
10072 Changes with Apache 1.2.5
10074 *) SECURITY: Fix a possible buffer overflow in logresolve. This is
10075 only an issue on systems without a MAXDNAME define or where
10076 the resolver returns domain names longer than MAXDNAME. [Marc Slemko]
10078 *) Fix an improper length in an ap_snprintf call in proxy_date_canon().
10081 *) Fix core dump in the ftp proxy when reading incorrectly formatted
10082 directory listings. [Marc Slemko]
10084 *) SECURITY: Fix possible minor buffer overflow in the proxy cache.
10087 *) SECURITY: Eliminate possible buffer overflow in cfg_getline, which
10088 is used to read various types of files such as htaccess and
10089 htpasswd files. [Marc Slemko]
10091 *) SECURITY: Ensure that the buffer returned by ht_time is always
10092 properly null terminated. [Marc Slemko]
10094 *) SECURITY: General mod_include cleanup, including fixing several
10095 possible buffer overflows and a possible infinite loop. This cleanup
10096 was done against 1.3 code and then backported to 1.2, the result
10097 is a large difference (due to indentation cleanup in 1.3 code).
10098 Users interested in seeing a smaller set of relevant differences
10099 should consider comparing against src/modules/standard/mod_include.c
10100 from the 1.3b3 release. Non-indentation changes to mod_include
10101 between 1.2 and 1.3 were minimal. [Dean Gaudet, Marc Slemko]
10103 *) SECURITY: Numerous changes to mod_imap in a general cleanup
10104 including fixing a possible buffer overflow. This cleanup also
10105 was done with 1.3 code as a basis, see the the previous note
10106 about mod_include. [Dean Gaudet]
10108 *) SECURITY: If a htaccess file can not be read due to bad
10109 permissions, deny access to the directory with a HTTP_FORBIDDEN.
10110 The previous behavior was to ignore the htaccess file if it could not
10111 be read. This change may make some setups with unreadable
10112 htaccess files stop working. PR#817 [Marc Slemko]
10114 *) SECURITY: no2slash() was O(n^2) in the length of the input.
10115 Make it O(n). This inefficiency could be used to mount a denial
10116 of service attack against the Apache server. Thanks to
10117 Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@boss.staszic.waw.pl> for reporting
10118 this. [Dean Gaudet]
10120 *) mod_include used uninitialized data for some uses of && and ||.
10121 [Brian Slesinsky <bslesins@wired.com>] PR#1139
10123 *) mod_imap should decline all non-GET methods.
10124 [Jay Bloodworth <jay@pathways.sde.state.sc.us>]
10126 *) suexec.c wouldn't build without -DLOG_EXEC. [Jason A. Dour]
10128 *) mod_userdir was modifying r->finfo in cases where it wasn't setting
10129 r->filename. Since those two are meant to be in sync with each other
10130 this is a bug. ["Paul B. Henson" <henson@intranet.csupomona.edu>]
10132 *) mod_include did not properly handle all possible redirects from sub-
10133 requests. [Ken Coar]
10135 *) Inetd mode (which is buggy) uses timeouts without having setup the
10136 jmpbuffer. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1064
10138 *) Work around problem under Linux where a child will start looping
10139 reporting a select error over and over.
10140 [Rick Franchuk <rickf@transpect.net>] PR#1107
10142 Changes with Apache 1.2.4
10144 *) The ProxyRemote change in 1.2.3 introduced a bug resulting in the proxy
10145 always making requests with the full-URI instead of just the URI path.
10146 [Marc Slemko, Roy Fielding]
10148 *) Add -lm for AIX versions >= 4.2 to allow Apache to link properly
10149 on this platform. [Marc Slemko]
10151 Changes with Apache 1.2.3
10153 *) The request to a remote proxy was mangled if it was generated as the
10154 result of a ProxyPass directive. URL schemes other than http:// were not
10155 supported when ProxyRemote was used. PR#260, PR#656, PR#699, PR#713,
10156 PR#812 [Lars Eilebrecht]
10158 *) Fixed proxy-pass-through feature of mod_rewrite; Added error logging
10159 information for case where proxy module is not available. [Marc Slemko]
10161 *) Force proxy to always respond as HTTP/1.0, which it was failing to
10162 do for errors and cached responses. [Roy Fielding]
10164 *) PORT: Improved support for ConvexOS 11. [Jeff Venters]
10166 Changes with Apache 1.2.2 [not released]
10168 *) Fixed another long-standing bug in sub_req_lookup_file where it would
10169 happily skip past access checks on subdirectories looked up with relative
10170 paths. (It's used by mod_dir, mod_negotiation, and mod_include.)
10173 *) Add lockfile name to error message printed out when
10174 USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is defined.
10177 *) Enhanced the chunking and error handling inside the buffer functions.
10178 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding]
10180 *) When merging the main server's <Directory> and <Location> sections into
10181 a vhost, put the main server's first and the vhost's second. Otherwise
10182 the vhost can't override the main server. [Dean Gaudet] PR#717
10184 *) The <Directory> code would merge and re-merge the same section after
10185 a match was found, possibly causing problems with some modules.
10188 *) Fixed an infinite loop in mod_imap for references above the server root.
10189 [Dean Gaudet] PR#748
10191 *) mod_include cleanup showed that handle_else was being used to handle
10192 endif. It didn't cause problems, but it was cleaned up too.
10195 *) Last official synchronization of mod_rewrite with author version (because
10196 mod_rewrite is now directly developed by the author at the Apache Group):
10197 o added diff between mod_rewrite 3.0.6+ and 3.0.9
10198 minus WIN32/NT stuff, but plus copyright removement.
10200 - workaround for detecting infinite rewriting loops
10201 - fixed setting of env vars when "-" is used as subst string
10202 - fixed forced response code on redirects (PR#777)
10203 - fixed cases where r->args is ""
10204 - kludge to disable locking on pipes under braindead SunOS
10205 - fix for rewritelog in cases where remote hostname is unknown
10206 - fixed totally damaged request_rec walk-back loop
10207 o remove static from local data and add static to global ones.
10208 o replaced ugly proxy finding stuff by simple
10209 find_linked_module("mod_proxy") call.
10210 o added missing negation char on rewritelog()
10211 o fixed a few comment typos
10212 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10214 *) Anonymous_LogEmail was logging on each subrequest.
10215 [Dean Gaudet] PR#421, PR#868
10217 *) "force-response-1.0" now only applies to requests which are HTTP/1.0 to
10218 begin with. "nokeepalive" now works for HTTP/1.1 clients. Added
10219 "downgrade-1.0" which causes Apache to pretend it received a 1.0.
10220 Additionally mod_browser now triggers during translate_name to workaround
10221 a deficiency in the header_parse phase.
10222 [Dean Gaudet] PR#875
10224 *) get_client_block() returns wrong length if policy is
10225 REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK.
10226 [Kenichi Hori <ken@d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#815
10228 *) Properly treat <files> container like other containers in mod_info.
10229 [Marc Slemko] PR#848
10231 *) The proxy didn't treat the "Host:" keyword of the host header as case-
10232 insensitive. The proxy would corrupt the first line of a response from
10233 an HTTP/0.9 server. [Kenichi Hori <ken@d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#813,814
10235 *) mod_include would log some bogus values occasionally.
10236 [Skip Montanaro <skip@calendar.com>, Marc Slemko] PR#797
10238 *) PORT: The slack fd changes in 1.2.1 introduced a problem with SIGHUP
10239 under Solaris 2.x (up through 2.5.1). It has been fixed.
10240 [Dean Gaudet] PR#832
10242 *) API: In HTTP/1.1, whether or not a request message contains a body
10243 is independent of the request method and based solely on the presence
10244 of a Content-Length or Transfer-Encoding. Therefore, our default
10245 handlers need to be prepared to read a body even if they don't know
10246 what to do with it; otherwise, the body would be mistaken for the
10247 next request on a persistent connection. discard_request_body()
10248 has been added to take care of that. [Roy Fielding] PR#378
10250 *) API: Symbol APACHE_RELEASE provides a numeric form of the Apache
10251 release version number, such that it always increases along the
10252 same lines as our source code branching. [Roy Fielding]
10254 *) Minor oversight on multiple variants fixed. [Paul Sutton] PR#94
10256 Changes with Apache 1.2.1
10258 *) SECURITY: Don't serve file system objects unless they are plain files,
10259 symlinks, or directories. This prevents local users from using pipes
10260 or named sockets to invoke programs for an extremely crude form of
10263 *) SECURITY: HeaderName and ReadmeName were settable in .htaccess and
10264 could contain "../" allowing a local user to "publish" any file on
10265 the system. No slashes are allowed now. [Dean Gaudet]
10267 *) SECURITY: It was possible to violate the symlink Options using mod_dir
10268 (headers, readmes, titles), mod_negotiation (type maps), or
10269 mod_cern_meta (meta files). [Dean Gaudet]
10271 *) SECURITY: Apache will refuse to run as "User root" unless
10272 BIG_SECURITY_HOLE is defined at compile time. [Dean Gaudet]
10274 *) CONFIG: If a symlink pointed to a directory then it would be disallowed
10275 if it contained a .htaccess disallowing symlinks. This is contrary
10276 to the rule that symlink permissions are tested with the symlink
10277 options of the parent directory. [Dean Gaudet] PR#353
10279 *) CONFIG: The LockFile directive can be used to place the serializing
10280 lockfile in any location. It previously defaulted to /usr/tmp/htlock.
10281 [Somehow it took four of us: Randy Terbush, Jim Jagielski, Dean Gaudet,
10284 *) Request processing now retains state of whether or not the request
10285 body has been read, so that internal redirects and subrequests will
10286 not try to read it twice (and block). [Roy Fielding]
10288 *) Add a placeholder in modules/Makefile to avoid errors with certain
10289 makes. [Marc Slemko]
10291 *) QUERY_STRING was unescaped in mod_include, it shouldn't be.
10292 [Dean Gaudet] PR#644
10294 *) mod_include was not properly changing the current directory.
10295 [Marc Slemko] PR#742
10297 *) Attempt to work around problems with third party libraries that do not
10298 handle high numbered descriptors (examples include bind, and
10299 solaris libc). On all systems apache attempts to keep all permanent
10300 descriptors above 15 (called the low slack line). Solaris users
10301 can also benefit from adding -DHIGH_SLACK_LINE=256 to EXTRA_CFLAGS
10302 which keeps all non-FILE * descriptors above 255. On all systems
10303 this should make supporting large numbers of vhosts with many open
10304 log files more feasible. If this causes trouble please report it,
10305 you can disable this workaround by adding -DNO_SLACK to EXTRA_CFLAGS.
10306 [Dean Gaudet] various PRs
10308 *) Related to the last entry, network sockets are now opened before
10309 log files are opened. The only known case where this can cause
10310 problems is under Solaris with many virtualhosts and many Listen
10311 directives. But using -DHIGH_SLACK_LINE=256 described above will
10312 work around this problem. [Dean Gaudet]
10314 *) USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is now default for FreeBSD, A/UX, and
10317 *) Improved unix error response logging. [Marc Slemko]
10319 *) Update mod_rewrite from 3.0.5 to 3.0.6. New ruleflag
10320 QSA=query_string_append. Also fixed a nasty bug in per-dir context:
10321 when a URL http://... was used in conjunction with a special
10322 redirect flag, e.g. R=permanent, the permanent status was lost.
10323 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
10325 *) If an object has multiple variants that are otherwise equal Apache
10326 would prefer the last listed variant rather than the first.
10327 [Paul Sutton] PR#94
10329 *) "make clean" at the top level now removes *.o. [Dean Gaudet] PR#752
10331 *) mod_status dumps core in inetd mode. [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
10334 *) pregsub had an off-by-1 in its error checking code. [Alexei Kosut]
10336 *) PORT: fix rlim_t problems with AIX 4.2. [Marc Slemko] PR#333
10338 *) PORT: Update UnixWare support for 2.1.2.
10339 [Lawrence Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>] PR#511
10341 *) PORT: NonStop-UX [Joachim Schmitz <schmitz_joachim@tandem.com>] PR#327
10343 *) PORT: Update ConvexOS support for 11.5.
10344 [David DeSimone <fox@convex.com>] PR#399
10346 *) PORT: Support for DEC cc compiler under ULTRIX.
10347 ["P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia" <alejolo@ideam.gov.co>] PR#388
10349 *) PORT: Support for Maxion/OS SVR4.2 Real Time Unix. [no name given] PR#383
10351 *) PORT: Workaround for AIX 3.x compiler bug in http_bprintf.c.
10352 [Marc Slemko] PR#725
10354 *) PORT: fix problem compiling http_bprintf.c with gcc under SCO
10355 [Marc Slemko] PR#695
10357 Changes with Apache 1.2
10359 Changes with Apache 1.2b11
10361 *) Fixed open timestamp fd in proxy_cache.c [Chuck Murcko]
10363 *) Added undocumented perl SSI mechanism for -DUSE_PERL_SSI and mod_perl.
10364 [Doug MacEachern, Rob Hartill]
10366 *) Proxy needs to use hard_timeout instead of soft_timeout when it is
10367 reading from one buffer and writing to another, at least until it has
10368 a custom timeout handler. [Roy Fielding and Petr Lampa]
10370 *) Fixed problem on IRIX with servers hanging in IdentityCheck,
10371 apparently due to a mismatch between sigaction and setjmp.
10372 [Roy Fielding] PR#502
10374 *) Log correct status code if we timeout before receiving a request (408)
10375 or if we received a request-line that was too long to process (414).
10376 [Ed Korthof and Roy Fielding] PR#601
10378 *) Virtual hosts with the same ServerName, but on different ports, were
10379 not being selected properly. [Ed Korthof]
10381 *) Added code to return the requested IP address from proxy_host2addr()
10382 if gethostbyaddr() fails due to reverse DNS lookup problems. Original
10383 change submitted by Jozsef Hollosi <hollosi@sbcm.com>.
10384 [Chuck Murcko] PR#614
10386 *) If multiple requests on a single connection are used to retrieve
10387 data from different virtual hosts, the virtual host list would be
10388 scanned starting with the most recently used VH instead of the first,
10389 causing most virtual hosts to be ignored.
10390 [Paul Sutton and Martin Mares] PR#610
10392 *) The OS/2 handling of process group was broken by a porting patch for
10393 MPE, so restored prior code for OS/2. [Roy Fielding and Garey Smiley]
10395 *) Inherit virtual server port from main server if none (or "*") is
10396 given for VirtualHost. [Dean Gaudet] PR#576
10398 *) If the lookup for a DirectoryIndex name with content negotiation
10399 has found matching variants, but none are acceptable, return the
10400 negotiation result if there are no more DirectoryIndex names to lookup.
10401 [Petr Lampa and Roy Fielding]
10403 *) If a soft_timeout occurs after keepalive is set, then the main child
10404 loop would try to read another request even though the connection
10405 has been aborted. [Roy Fielding]
10407 *) Configure changes: Allow for whitespace at the start of a
10408 Module declaration. Also, be more understanding about the
10409 CC=/OPTIM= format in Configuration. Finally, fix compiler
10410 flags if using HP-UX's cc compiler. [Jim Jagielski]
10412 *) Subrequests and internal redirects now inherit the_request from the
10413 original request-line. [Roy Fielding]
10415 *) Test for error conditions before creating output header fields, since
10416 we don't want the error message to include those fields. Likewise,
10417 reset the content_language(s) and content_encoding of the response
10418 before generating or redirecting to an error message, since the new
10419 message will have its own Content-* definitions. [Dean Gaudet]
10421 *) Restored the semantics of headers_out (headers sent only with 200..299
10422 and 304 responses) and err_headers_out (headers sent with all responses).
10423 Avoid the overhead of copying tables if err_headers_out is empty
10424 (the usual case). [Roy Fielding]
10426 *) Fixed a couple places where a check for the default Content-Type was
10427 not properly checking both the value configured by the DefaultType
10428 directive and the DEFAULT_TYPE symbol in httpd.h. Changed the value
10429 of DEFAULT_TYPE to match the documented default (text/plain).
10430 [Dean Gaudet] PR#506
10432 *) Escape the HTML-sensitive characters in the Request-URI that is
10433 output for each child by mod_status. [Dean Gaudet and Ken Coar] PR#501
10435 *) Properly initialize the flock structures used by the mutex locking
10436 around accept() when USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is defined.
10439 *) The method for determining PATH_INFO has been restored to the pre-1.2b
10440 (and NCSA httpd) definition wherein it was the extra path info beyond
10441 the CGI script filename. The environment variable FILEPATH_INFO has
10442 been removed, and instead we supply the original REQUEST_URI to any
10443 script that wants to be Apache-specific and needs the real URI path.
10444 This solves a problem with existing scripts that use extra path info
10445 in the ScriptAlias directive to pass options to the CGI script.
10448 *) The _default_ change in 1.2b10 will change the behaviour on configs
10449 that use multiple Listen statements for listening on multiple ports.
10450 But that change is necessary to make _default_ consistent with other
10451 forms of <VirtualHost>. It requires such configs to be modified
10452 to use <VirtualHost _default_:*>. The documentation has been
10453 updated. [Dean Gaudet] PR#530
10455 *) If an ErrorDocument CGI script is used to respond to an error
10456 generated by another CGI script which has already read the message
10457 body of the request, the server would block trying to read the
10458 message body again. [Rob Hartill]
10460 *) signal() replacement conflicted with a define on QNX (and potentially
10461 other platforms). Fixed. [Ben Laurie] PR#512
10463 Changes with Apache 1.2b10
10465 *) Allow HTTPD_ROOT, SERVER_CONFIG_FILE, DEFAULT_PATH, and SHELL_PATH
10466 to be configured via -D in Configuration. [Dean Gaudet] PR#449
10468 *) <VirtualHost _default_:portnum> didn't work properly. [Dean Gaudet]
10470 *) Added prototype for mktemp() for SUNOS4 [Marc Slemko]
10472 *) In mod_proxy.c, check return values for proxy_host2addr() when reading
10473 config, in case the hostent struct returned is trash.
10474 [Chuck Murcko] PR #491
10476 *) Fixed the fix in 1.2b9 for parsing URL query info into args for CGI
10477 scripts. [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
10479 Changes with Apache 1.2b9 [never announced]
10481 *) Reset the MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER to account for the unsigned port
10482 changes and in anticipation of 1.2 final release. [Roy Fielding]
10484 *) Fix problem with scripts not receiving a SIGPIPE when client drops
10485 the connection (e.g., when user presses Stop). Apache will now stop
10486 trying to send a message body immediately after an error from write.
10487 [Roy Fielding and Nathan Kurz] PR#335
10489 *) Rearrange Configuration.tmpl so that mod_rewrite has higher priority
10490 than mod_alias, and mod_alias has higher priority than mod_proxy;
10491 rearranged other modules to enhance understanding of their purpose
10492 and relative order (and maybe even reduce some overhead).
10493 [Roy Fielding and Sameer Parekh]
10495 *) Fix graceful restart. Eliminate many signal-related race
10496 conditions in both forms of restart, and in SIGTERM. See
10497 htdocs/manual/stopping.html for details on stopping and
10498 restarting the parent. [Dean Gaudet]
10500 *) Fix memory leaks in mod_rewrite, mod_browser, mod_include. Tune
10501 memory allocator to avoid a behaviour that required extra blocks to
10502 be allocated. [Dean Gaudet]
10504 *) Allow suexec to access files relative to current directory but not
10505 above. (Excluding leading / or any .. directory.) [Ken Coar]
10508 *) Fix suexec segfault when group doesn't exist. [Gregory Neil Shapiro]
10509 PR#367, 368, 354, 453
10511 *) Fix the above fix: if suexec is enabled, avoid destroying r->url
10512 while obtaining the /~user and save the username in a separate data
10513 area so that it won't be overwritten by the call to getgrgid(), and
10514 fix some misuse of the pool string allocation functions. Also fixes
10515 a general problem with parsing URL query info into args for CGI scripts.
10516 [Roy Fielding] PR#339, 367, 354, 453
10518 *) Fix IRIX warning about bzero undefined. [Marc Slemko]
10520 *) Fix problem with <Directory proxy:...>. [Martin Kraemer] PR#271
10522 *) Corrected spelling of "authoritative". AuthDBAuthoratative became
10523 AuthDBAuthoritative. [Marc Slemko] PR#420
10525 *) MaxClients should be at least 1. [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#375
10527 *) The default handler now logs invalid methods or URIs (i.e. PUT on an
10528 object that can't be PUT, or FOOBAR for some method FOOBAR that
10529 apache doesn't know about at all). Log 404s that occur in mod_include.
10530 [Paul Sutton, John Van Essen]
10532 *) If a soft timeout (or lingerout) occurs while trying to flush a
10533 buffer or write inside buff.c or fread'ing from a CGI's output,
10534 then the timeout would be ignored. [Roy Fielding] PR#373
10536 *) Work around a bug in Netscape Navigator versions 2.x, 3.x and 4.0b2's
10537 parsing of headers. If the terminating empty-line CRLF occurs starting
10538 at the 256th or 257th byte of output, then Navigator will think a normal
10539 image is invalid. We are guessing that this is because their initial
10540 read of a new request uses a 256 byte buffer. We check the bytes written
10541 so far and, if we are about to tickle the bug, we instead insert a
10542 padding header of eminent bogosity. [Roy Fielding and Dean Gaudet] PR#232
10544 *) Fixed SIGSEGV problem when a DirectoryIndex file is also the source
10545 of an external redirection. [Roy Fielding and Paul Sutton]
10547 *) Configure would create a broken Makefile if the configuration file
10548 contained a commented-out Rule. [Roy Fielding]
10550 *) Promote per_dir_config and subprocess_env from the subrequest to the
10551 main request in mod_negotiation. In particular this fixes a bug
10552 where <Files> sections wouldn't properly apply to negotiated content.
10555 *) Fix a potential deadlock in mod_cgi script_err handling.
10556 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10558 *) rotatelogs zero-pads the logfile names to improve alphabetic sorting.
10559 [Mitchell Blank Jr]
10561 *) Updated mod_rewrite to 3.0.4: Fixes HTTP redirects from within
10562 .htaccess files because the RewriteBase was not replaced correctly.
10563 Updated mod_rewrite to 3.0.5: Fixes problem with rewriting inside
10564 <Directory> sections missing a trailing /. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10566 *) Clean up Linux settings in conf.h by detecting 2.x versus 1.x. For
10567 1.x the settings are those of pre-1.2b8. For 2.x we include
10568 USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD (scoreboard in shared memory rather than file) and
10569 HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H (enable the RLimit commands).
10570 [Dean Gaudet] PR#336, PR#340
10572 *) Redirect did not preserve ?query_strings when present in the client's
10573 request. [Dean Gaudet]
10575 *) Configure was finding non-modules on EXTRA_LIBS. [Frank Cringle] PR#380
10577 *) Use /bin/sh5 on ULTRIX. [P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia] PR#369
10579 *) Add UnixWare compile/install instructions. [Chuck Murcko]
10581 *) Add mod_example (illustration of API techniques). [Ken Coar]
10583 *) Add macro for memmove to conf.h for SUNOS4. [Marc Slemko]
10585 *) Improve handling of directories when filenames have spaces in them.
10588 *) For hosts with multiple IP addresses, try all additional addresses if
10589 necessary to get a connect. Fail only if hostent address list is
10590 exhausted. [Chuck Murcko]
10592 *) More signed/unsigned port fixes. [Dean Gaudet]
10594 *) HARD_SERVER_LIMIT can be defined in the Configuration file now.
10597 Changes with Apache 1.2b8
10599 *) suexec.c doesn't close the log file, allowing CGIs to continue writing
10600 to it. [Marc Slemko]
10602 *) The addition of <Location> and <File> directives made the
10603 sub_req_lookup_simple() function bogus, so we now handle
10604 the special cases directly. [Dean Gaudet]
10606 *) We now try to log where the server is dumping core when a fatal
10607 signal is received. [Ken Coar]
10609 *) Improved lingering_close by adding a special timeout, removing the
10610 spurious log messages, removing the nonblocking settings (they
10611 are not needed with the better timeout), and adding commentary
10612 about the NO_LINGCLOSE and USE_SO_LINGER issues. NO_LINGCLOSE is
10613 now the default for SunOS4, UnixWare, NeXT, and IRIX. [Roy Fielding]
10615 *) Send error messages about setsockopt failures to the server error
10616 log instead of stderr. [Roy Fielding]
10618 *) Fix loopholes in proxy cache expiry vis a vis alarms. [Brian Moore]
10620 *) Stopgap solution for CGI 3-second delay with server-side includes: if
10621 processing a subrequest, allocate memory from r->main->pool instead
10622 of r->pool so that we can avoid waiting for free_proc_chain to cleanup
10623 in the middle of an SSI request. [Dean Gaudet] PR #122
10625 *) Fixed status of response when POST is received for a nonexistent URL
10626 (was sending 405, now 404) and when any method is sent with a
10627 full-URI that doesn't match the server and the server is not acting
10628 as a proxy (was sending 501, now 403). [Roy Fielding]
10630 *) Host port changed to unsigned short. [Ken Coar] PR #276
10632 *) Fix typo in command definition of AuthAuthoritative. [Ken Coar] PR #246
10634 *) Defined USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD for shared memory on Linux. [Dean Gaudet]
10636 *) Report extra info from errno with many errors that cause httpd to exit.
10637 spawn_child, popenf, and pclosef now have valid errno returns in the
10638 event of an error. Correct problems where errno was stomped on
10639 before being reported. [Dean Gaudet]
10641 *) In the proxy, if the cache filesystem was full, garbage_coll() was
10642 never called, and thus the filesystem would remain full indefinitely.
10643 We now also remove incomplete cache files left if the origin server
10644 didn't send a Content-Length header and either the client has aborted
10645 transfer or bwrite() to client has failed. [Petr Lampa]
10647 *) Fixed the handling of module and script-added header fields.
10648 Improved the interface for sending header fields and reduced
10649 the duplication of code between sending okay responses and errors.
10650 We now always send both headers_out and err_headers_out, and
10651 ensure that the server-reserved fields are not being overridden,
10652 while not overriding those that are not reserved. [Roy Fielding]
10654 *) Moved transparent content negotiation fields to err_headers_out
10655 to reflect above changes. [Petr Lampa]
10657 *) Fixed the determination of whether or not we should make the
10658 connection persistent for all of the cases where some other part
10659 of the server has already indicated that we should not. Also
10660 improved the ordering of the test so that chunked encoding will
10661 be set whenever it is desired instead of only when KeepAlive
10662 is enabled. Added persistent connection capability for most error
10663 responses (those that do not indicate a bad input stream) when
10664 accessed by an HTTP/1.1 client. [Roy Fielding]
10666 *) Added missing timeouts for sending header fields, error responses,
10667 and the last chunk of chunked encoding, each of which could have
10668 resulted in a process being stuck in write forever. Using soft_timeout
10669 requires that the sender check for an aborted connection rather than
10670 continuing after an EINTR. Timeouts that used to be initiated before
10671 send_http_header (and never killed) are now initiated only within or
10672 around the routines that actually do the sending, and not allowed to
10673 propagate above the caller. [Roy Fielding]
10675 *) mod_auth_anon required an @ or a . in the email address, not both.
10678 *) per_dir_defaults weren't set correctly until directory_walk for
10679 name-based vhosts. This fixes an obscure bug with the wrong config
10680 info being used for vhosts that share the same ip as the server.
10683 *) Improved generation of modules/Makefile to be more generic for
10684 new module directories. [Ken Coar, Chuck Murcko, Roy Fielding]
10686 *) Generate makefile dependency for Configuration based on the actual
10687 name given when running the Configure process. [Dean Gaudet]
10689 *) Fixed problem with vhost error log not being set prior to
10690 initializing virtual hosts. [Dean Gaudet]
10692 *) Fixed infinite loop when a trailing slash is included after a type map
10693 file URL (extra path info). [Petr Lampa]
10695 *) Fixed server status updating of per-connection counters. [Roy Fielding]
10697 *) Add documentation for DNS issues (reliability and security), and try
10698 to explain the virtual host matching process. [Dean Gaudet]
10700 *) Try to continue gracefully by disabling the vhost if a DNS lookup
10701 fails while parsing the configuration file. [Dean Gaudet]
10703 *) Improved calls to setsockopt. [Roy Fielding]
10705 *) Negotiation changes: Don't output empty content-type in variant list;
10706 Output charset in variant list; Return sooner from handle_multi() if
10707 no variants found; Add handling of '*' wildcard in Accept-Charset.
10708 [Petr Lampa and Paul Sutton]
10710 *) Fixed overlaying of request/sub-request notes and headers in
10711 mod_negotiation. [Dean Gaudet]
10713 *) If two variants' charset quality are equal and one is the default
10714 charset (iso-8859-1), then prefer the variant that was specifically
10715 listed in Accept-Charset instead of the default. [Petr Lampa]
10717 *) Memory allocation problem in push_array() -- it would corrupt memory
10718 when nalloc==0. [Kai Risku <krisku@tf.hut.fi> and Roy Fielding]
10720 *) invoke_handler() doesn't handle mime arguments in content-type
10721 [Petr Lampa] PR#160
10723 *) Reduced IdentityCheck timeout to 30 seconds, as per RFC 1413 minimum.
10726 *) Fixed problem with ErrorDocument not working for virtual hosts
10727 due to one of the performance changes in 1.2b7. [Dean Gaudet]
10729 *) Log an error message if we get a request header that is too long,
10730 since it may indicate a buffer overflow attack. [Marc Slemko]
10732 *) Made is_url() allow "[-.+a-zA-Z0-9]+:" as a valid scheme and
10733 not reject URLs without a double-slash, as per RFC2068 section 3.2.
10734 [Ken Coar] PR #146, #187
10736 *) Added table entry placeholder for new header_parser callback
10737 in all of the distributed modules. [Ken Coar] PR #191
10739 *) Allow for cgi files without the .EXE extension on them under OS/2.
10740 [Garey Smiley] PR #59
10742 *) Fixed error message when resource is not found and URL contains
10743 path info. [Petr Lampa and Dean Gaudet] PR #40
10745 *) Fixed user and server confusion over what should be a virtual host
10746 and what is the main server, resulting in access to something
10747 other than the name defined in the virtualhost directive (but
10748 with the same IP address) failing. [Dean Gaudet]
10750 *) Updated mod_rewrite to version 3.0.2, which: fixes compile error on
10751 AIX; improves the redirection stuff to enable the users to generally
10752 redirect to http, https, gopher and ftp; added TIME variable for
10753 RewriteCond which expands to YYYYMMDDHHMMSS strings and added the
10754 special patterns >STRING, <STRING and =STRING to RewriteCond, which
10755 can be used in conjunction with %{TIME} or other variables to create
10756 time-dependent rewriting rules. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10758 *) bpushfd() no longer notes cleanups for the file descriptors it is handed.
10759 Module authors may need to adjust their code for proper cleanup to take
10760 place (that is, call note_cleanups_for_fd()). This change fixes problems
10761 with file descriptors being erroneously closed when the proxy module was
10762 in use. [Ben Laurie]
10764 *) Fix bug in suexec reintroduced by changes in 1.2b7 which allows
10765 initgroups() to hose the group information needed for later
10766 comparisons. [Randy Terbush]
10768 *) Remove unnecessary call to va_end() in create_argv() which
10769 caused a SEGV on some systems.
10771 *) Use proper MAXHOSTNAMELEN symbol for limiting length of server name.
10774 *) Clear memory allocated for listeners. [Randy Terbush]
10776 *) Improved handling of IP address as a virtualhost address and
10777 introduced "_default_" as a synonym for the default vhost config.
10778 [Dean Gaudet] PR #212
10780 Changes with Apache 1.2b7
10782 *) Port to UXP/DS(V20) [Toshiaki Nomura <nom@yk.fujitsu.co.jp>]
10784 *) unset Content-Length if chunked (RFC-2068) [Petr Lampa]
10786 *) mod_negotiation fixes [Petr Lampa] PR#157, PR#158, PR#159
10787 - replace protocol response numbers with symbols
10788 - save variant-list into main request notes
10789 - free allocated memory from subrequests
10790 - merge notes, headers_out and err_headers_out
10792 *) changed status check mask in proxy_http.c from "HTTP/#.# ### *" to
10793 "HTTP/#.# ###*" to be more lenient about what we accept.
10796 *) more proxy FTP bug fixes:
10797 - Changed send_dir() to remove user/passwd from displayed URL.
10798 - Changed login error messages to be more descriptive.
10799 - remove setting of SO_DEBUG socket option
10800 - Make ftp_getrc() more lenient about multiline responses,
10801 specifically, 230 responses which don't have continuation 230-
10802 on each line). These seem to be all NT FTP servers, and while
10803 perhaps questionable, they appear to be legal by RFC 959.
10804 - Add missing kill_timeout() after transfer to user completes.
10807 *) Fixed problem where a busy server could hang when restarting
10808 after being sent a SIGHUP due to child processes not exiting.
10811 *) Modify mod_include escaping so a '\' only signifies an escaped
10812 character if the next character is one that needs
10813 escaping. [Ben Laurie]
10815 *) Eliminated possible infinite loop in mod_imap when relative URLs are
10816 used with a 'base' directive that does not have a '/' in it.
10817 [Marc Slemko, reported by Onno Witvliet <onno@tc.hsa.nl>]
10819 *) Reduced the default timeout from 1200 seconds to 300, and the
10820 one in the sample configfile from 400 to 300. [Marc Slemko]
10822 *) Stop vbprintf from crashing if given a NULL string pointer;
10823 print (null) instead. [Ken Coar]
10825 *) Don't disable Nagle algorithm if system doesn't have TCP_NODELAY.
10826 [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
10828 *) Fixed problem with mod_cgi-generated internal redirects trying to
10829 read the request message-body twice. [Archie Cobbs and Roy Fielding]
10831 *) Reduced timeout on lingering close, removed possibility of a blocked
10832 read causing the child to hang, and stopped logging of errors if
10833 the socket is not connected (reset by client). [Roy Fielding]
10835 *) Rearranged main child loop to remove duplication of code in
10836 select/accept and keep-alive requests, fixed several bugs regarding
10837 checking scoreboard_image for exit indication and failure to
10838 account for all success conditions and trap all error conditions,
10839 prevented multiple flushes before closing the socket; close the entire
10840 socket buffer instead of just one descriptor, prevent logging of
10841 EPROTO and ECONNABORTED on platforms where supported, and generally
10842 improved readability. [Roy Fielding]
10844 *) Extensive performance improvements. Cleaned up inefficient use of
10845 auto initializers, multiple is_matchexp calls on a static string,
10846 and excessive merging of response_code_strings. [Dean Gaudet]
10848 *) Added double-buffering to mod_include to improve performance on
10849 server-side includes. [Marc Slemko]
10851 *) Several fixes for suexec wrapper. [Randy Terbush]
10852 - Make wrapper work for files on NFS filesystem.
10853 - Fix portability problem of MAXPATHLEN.
10854 - Fix array overrun problem in clean_env().
10855 - Fix allocation of PATH environment variable
10857 *) Removed extraneous blank line is description of mod_status chars.
10860 *) Logging of errors from the call_exec routine simply went nowhere,
10861 since the logfile fd has been closed, so now we send them to stderr.
10862 [Harald T. Alvestrand]
10864 *) Fixed core dump when DocumentRoot is a CGI.
10865 [Ben Laurie, reported by geddis@tesserae.com]
10867 *) Fixed potential file descriptor leak in mod_asis; updated it and
10868 http_core to use pfopen/pfclose instead of fopen/fclose.
10869 [Randy Terbush and Roy Fielding]
10871 *) Fixed handling of unsigned ints in ap_snprintf() on some chips such
10872 as the DEC Alpha which is 64-bit but uses 32-bit ints.
10873 [Dean Gaudet and Ken Coar]
10875 *) Return a 302 response code to the client when sending a redirect
10876 due to a missing trailing '/' on a directory instead of a 301; now
10877 it is cacheable. [Markus Gyger]
10879 *) Fix condition where, if a bad directive occurs in .htaccess, and
10880 sub_request() goes first to this directory, then log_reason() will
10881 SIGSEGV because it doesn't have initialized r->per_dir_config.
10882 [PR#162 from Petr Lampa, fix by Marc Slemko and Dean Gaudet]
10884 *) Fix handling of lang_index in is_variant_better(). This was
10885 causing problems which resulted in the server sending the
10886 wrong language document in some cases. [Petr Lampa]
10888 *) Remove free() from clean_env() in suexec wrapper. This was nuking
10889 the clean environment on some systems.
10891 *) Tweak byteserving code (e.g. serving PDF files) to work around
10892 bugs in Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
10893 Emit Content-Length header when sending multipart/byteranges.
10896 *) Port to HI-UX/WE2. [Nick Maclaren]
10898 *) Port to HP MPE operating system for HP 3000 machines
10899 [Mark Bixby <markb@cccd.edu>]
10901 *) Fixed bug which caused a segmentation fault if only one argument
10902 given to RLimit* directives. [Ed Korthof]
10904 *) Continue persistent connection after 204 or 304 response. [Dean Gaudet]
10906 *) Improved buffered output to the client by delaying the flush decision
10907 until the BUFF code is actually about to read the next request.
10908 This fixes a problem introduced in 1.2b5 with clients that send
10909 an extra CRLF after a POST request. Also improved chunked output
10910 performance by combining writes using writev() and removing as
10911 many bflush() calls as possible. NOTE: Platforms without writev()
10912 must add -DNO_WRITEV to the compiler CFLAGS, either in Configuration
10913 or Configure, unless we have already done so. [Dean Gaudet]
10915 *) Fixed mod_rewrite bug which truncated the rewritten URL [Marc Slemko]
10917 *) Fixed mod_info output corruption bug introduced by buffer overflow
10918 fixes. [Dean Gaudet]
10920 *) Fixed http_protocol to correctly output all HTTP/1.1 headers, including
10921 for the special case of a 304 response. [Paul Sutton]
10923 *) Improved handling of TRACE method by bypassing normal method handling
10924 and header parsing routines; fixed Allow response to always allow TRACE.
10927 *) Fixed compiler warnings in the regex library. [Dean Gaudet]
10929 *) Cleaned-up some of the generated HTML. [Ken Coar]
10931 Changes with Apache 1.2b6
10933 *) Allow whitespace in imagemap mapfile coordinates. [Marc Slemko]
10935 *) Fix typo introduced in fix for potential infinite loop around
10936 accept() in child_main(). This change caused the rev to 1.2b6.
10937 1.2b5 was never a public beta.
10939 Changes with Apache 1.2b5
10941 *) Change KeepAlive semantics (On|Off instead of a number), add
10942 MaxKeepAliveRequests directive. [Alexei Kosut]
10944 *) Various NeXT compilation patches, as well as a change in
10945 regex/regcomp.c since that file also used a NEXT define.
10948 *) Allow * to terminate the end of a directory match in mod_dir.
10949 Allows /~* to match for both /~joe and /~joe/. [David Bronder]
10951 *) Don't call can_exec() if suexec_enabled. Calling this requires
10952 scripts executed by the suexec wrapper to be world executable, which
10953 defeats one of the advantages of running the wrapper. [Randy Terbush]
10955 *) Portability Fix: IRIX complained with 'make clean' about *pure* (removed)
10958 *) Migration from sprintf() to snprintf() to avoid buffer
10959 overflows. [Marc Slemko]
10961 *) Provide portable snprintf() implementation (ap_snprintf)
10962 as well as *cvt family. [Jim Jagielski]
10964 *) Portability Fix: NeXT lacks unistd.h so we wrap it's inclusion
10967 *) Remove mod_fastcgi.c from the distribution. This module appears
10968 to be maintained more through the Open Market channels and should
10969 continue to be easily available at http://www.fastcgi.com/
10971 *) Fixed bug in modules/Makefile that wouldn't allow building in more
10972 than one subdirectory (or cleaning, either). [Jeremy Laidman]
10974 *) mod_info assumed that the config files were relative to ServerRoot.
10977 *) CGI scripts called as an error document resulting from failed
10978 CGI execution would hang waiting for POST'ed data. [Rob Hartill]
10980 *) Log reason when mod_dir returns access HTTP_FORBIDDEN
10983 *) Properly check errno to prevent display of a directory index
10984 when server receives a long enough URL to confuse stat().
10987 *) Several security enhancements to suexec wrapper. It is _highly_
10988 recommended that previously installed versions of the wrapper
10989 be replaced with this version. [Randy Terbush, Jason Dour]
10991 - ~user execution now properly restricted to ~user's home
10992 directory and below.
10993 - execution restricted to UID/GID > 100
10994 - restrict passed environment to known variables
10995 - call setgid() before initgroups() (portability fix)
10996 - remove use of setenv() (portability fix)
10998 *) Add HTTP/1.0 response forcing. [Ben Laurie]
11000 *) Add access control via environment variables. [Ben Laurie]
11002 *) Add rflush() function. [Alexei Kosut]
11004 *) remove duplicate pcalloc() call in new_connection().
11006 *) Fix incorrect comparison which could allow number of children =
11007 MaxClients + 1 if less than HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. Also fix potential
11008 problem if StartServers > HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. [Ed Korthof]
11010 *) Updated support for OSes (MachTen, ULTRIX, Paragon, ISC, OpenBSD
11011 AIX PS/2, CONVEXOS. [Jim Jagielski]
11013 *) Replace instances of inet_ntoa() with inet_addr() for ProxyBlock.
11014 It's more portable. [Martin Kraemer]
11016 *) Replace references to make in Makefile.tmpl with $(MAKE).
11019 *) Add ProxyBlock directive w/IP address caching. Add IP address
11020 caching to NoCache directive as well. ProxyBlock works with all
11021 handlers; NoCache now also works with FTP for anonymous logins.
11022 Still more code cleanup. [Chuck Murcko]
11024 *) Add "header parse" API hook [Ben Laurie]
11026 *) Fix byte ordering problems for REMOTE_PORT [Chuck Murcko]
11028 *) suEXEC wrapper was freeing memory that had not been malloc'ed.
11030 *) Correctly allow access and auth directives in <Files> sections in
11031 server config files. [Alexei Kosut]
11033 *) Fix bug with ServerPath that could cause certain files to be not
11034 found by the server. [Alexei Kosut]
11036 *) Fix handling of ErrorDocument so that it doesn't remove a trailing
11037 double-quote from text and so that it properly checks for unsupported
11038 status codes using the new index_of_response interface. [Roy Fielding]
11040 *) Multiple fixes to the lingering_close code in order to avoid being
11041 interrupted by a stray timeout, to avoid lingering on a connection
11042 that has already been aborted or never really existed, to ensure that
11043 we stop lingering as soon as any error condition is received, and to
11044 prevent being stuck indefinitely if the read blocks. Also improves
11045 reporting of error conditions. [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
11047 *) Fixed initialization of parameter structure for sigaction.
11048 [mgyger@itr.ch, Adrian Filipi-Martin]
11050 *) Fixed reinitializing the parameters before each call to accept and
11051 select, and removed potential for infinite loop in accept.
11052 [Roy Fielding, after useful PR from adrian@virginia.edu]
11054 *) Fixed condition where, if a child fails to fork, the scoreboard would
11055 continue to say SERVER_STARTING forever. Eventually, the main process
11056 would refuse to start new children because count_idle_servers() will
11057 count those SERVER_STARTING entries and will always report that there
11058 are enough idle servers. [Phillip Vandry]
11060 *) Fixed bug in bcwrite regarding failure to account for partial writes.
11061 Avoided calling bflush() when the client is pipelining requests.
11062 Removed unnecessary flushes from http_protocol. [Dean Gaudet]
11064 *) Added description of "." mode in server-status [Jim Jagielski]
11066 Changes with Apache 1.2b4
11068 *) Fix possible race condition in accept_mutex_init() that
11069 could leave a small security hole open allowing files to be
11070 overwritten in cases where the server UID has write permissions.
11073 *) Fix awk compatibilty problem in Configure. [Jim Jagielski]
11075 *) Fix portablity problem in util_script where ARG_MAX may not be
11076 defined for some systems.
11078 *) Add changes to allow compilation on Machten 4.0.3 for PowerPC.
11081 *) OS/2 changes to support an MMAP style scoreboard file and UNIX
11082 style magic #! token for better script portability. [Garey Smiley]
11084 *) Fix bug in suexec wrapper introduced in b3 that would cause failed
11085 execution for ~userdir CGI. [Jason Dour]
11087 *) Fix initgroups() business in suexec wrapper. [Jason Dour]
11089 *) Fix month off by one in suexec wrapper logging.
11091 Changes with Apache 1.2b3:
11093 *) Fix error in mod_cgi which could cause resources not to be properly
11094 freed, or worse. [Dean Gaudet]
11096 *) Fix find_string() NULL pointer dereference. [Howard Fear]
11098 *) Add set_flag_slot() at the request of Dirk and others.
11101 *) Sync mod_rewrite with patch level 10. [Ralf Engelschall]
11103 *) Add changes to improve the error message given for invalid
11104 ServerName parameters. [Dirk vanGulik]
11106 *) Add "Authoritative" directive for Auth modules that don't
11107 currently have it. This gives admin control to assign authoritative
11108 control to an authentication scheme and allow "fall through" for
11109 those authentication modules that aren't "Authoritative" thereby
11110 allowing multiple authentication mechanisms to be chained.
11113 *) Remove requirement for ResourceConfig/AccessConfig if not using
11114 the three config file layout. [Randy Terbush]
11116 *) Add PASV mode to mod_proxy FTP handler. [Chuck Murcko]
11118 *) Changes to suexec wrapper to fix the following problems:
11119 1. symlinked homedirs will kill ~userdirs.
11120 2. initgroups() on Linux 2.0.x clobbers gr->grid.
11121 3. CGI command lines paramters problems
11122 4. pw-pwdir for "docroot check" still the httpd user's pw record.
11123 [Randy Terbush, Jason Dour]
11125 *) Change create_argv() to accept variable arguments. This fixes
11126 a problem where arguments were not getting passed to the CGI via
11127 argv[] when the suexec wrapper was active. [Randy Terbush, Jake Buchholz]
11129 *) Collapse multiple slashes in path URLs to properly apply
11130 handlers defined by <Location>. [Alexei Kosut]
11132 *) Define a sane set of DEFAULT_USER and DEFAULT_GROUP values for AIX.
11134 *) Improve the accuracy of request duration timings by setting
11135 r->request_time in read_request_line() instead of read_request().
11138 *) Reset timeout while reading via get_client_block() in mod_cgi.c
11139 Fixes problem with timed out transfers of large files. [Rasmus Lerdorf]
11141 *) Add the ability to pass different Makefile.tmpl files to Configure
11142 using the -make flag. [Rob Hartill]
11144 *) Fix coredump triggered when sending a SIGHUP to the server caused
11145 by an assertion failure, in turn caused by an uninitialised field in a
11149 *) Add FILEPATH_INFO variable to CGI environment, which is equal to
11150 PATH_INFO from previous versions of Apache (in certain situations,
11151 Apache 1.2's PATH_INFO will be different than 1.1's). [Alexei Kosut]
11152 [later removed in 1.2b11]
11154 *) Add rwrite() function to API to allow for sending strings of
11155 arbitrary length. [Doug MacEachern]
11157 *) Remove rlim_t typedef for NetBSD. Do older versions need this?
11159 *) Defined rlim_t and WANTHSREGEX=yes and fixed waitpid() substitute for
11160 NeXT. [Jim Jagielski]
11162 *) Removed recent modification to promote the status code on internal
11163 redirects, since the correct fix was to change the default log format
11164 in mod_log_config so that it outputs the original status. [Rob Hartill]
11166 Changes with Apache 1.2b2:
11168 *) Update set_signals() to use sigaction() for setting handlers.
11169 This appears to fix a re-entrant problem in the seg_fault()
11170 bus_error() handlers. [Randy Terbush]
11172 *) Changes to allow mod_status compile for OS/2 [Garey Smiley]
11174 *) changes for DEC AXP running OSF/1 v3.0. [Marc Evans]
11176 *) proxy_http.c bugfixes: [Chuck Murcko]
11177 1) fixes possible NULL pointer reference w/NoCache
11178 2) fixes NoCache behavior when using ProxyRemote (ProxyRemote
11179 host would cache nothing if it was in the local domain,
11180 and the local domain was in the NoCache list)
11181 3) Adds Host: header when not available
11182 4) Some code cleanup and clarification
11184 *) mod_include.c bugfixes:
11185 1) Fixed an ommission that caused include variables to not
11186 be parsed in config errmsg directives [Howard Fear]
11187 2) Remove HAVE_POSIX_REGEX cruft [Alexei Kosut]
11188 3) Patch to fix compiler warnings [perrot@lal.in2p3.fr]
11189 4) Allow backslash-escaping to all quoted text
11190 [Ben Yoshino <ben@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu>]
11191 5) Pass variable to command line if not set in XSSI's env
11194 *) Fix infinite loop when processing Content-language lines in
11195 type-map files. [Alexei Kosut]
11197 *) Closed file-globbing hole in test-cgi script. [Brian Behlendorf]
11199 *) Fixed problem in set_[user|group] that prevented CGI execution
11200 for non-virtualhosts when suEXEC was enabled. [Randy Terbush]
11202 *) Added PORTING information file. [Jim Jagielski]
11204 *) Added definitions for S_IWGRP and S_IWOTH to conf.h [Ben Laurie]
11206 *) Changed default group to "nogroup" instead of "nobody" [Randy Terbush]
11208 *) Fixed define typo of FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT where
11209 USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT was intended.
11211 *) Fixed additional uses of 0xffffffff where INADDR_NONE was intended,
11212 which caused problems of systems where socket s_addr is >32bits.
11214 *) Added comment to explain (r->chunked = 1) side-effect in
11215 http_protocol.c [Roy Fielding]
11217 *) Replaced use of index() in mod_expires.c with more appropriate
11218 and portable isdigit() test. [Ben Laurie]
11220 *) Updated Configure for ...
11221 OS/2 (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes, other code changes)
11222 *-dg-dgux* (bad pattern match)
11223 QNX (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes)
11224 *-sunos4* (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes, -DUSEBCOPY)
11226 *-unixware211 (new)
11227 and added some user diagnostic info. [Ben Laurie]
11229 *) In helpers/CutRule, replaced "cut" invocation with "awk" invocation
11230 for better portability. [Jim Jagielski]
11232 *) Updated helpers/GuessOS for ...
11233 SCO 5 (recognize minor releases)
11234 SCO UnixWare (braindamaged uname, whatever-whatever-unixware2)
11235 SCO UnixWare 2.1.1 (requires a separate set of #defines in conf.h)
11236 IRIX64 (-sgi-irix64)
11237 ULTRIX (-unknown-ultrix)
11238 SINIX (-whatever-sysv4)
11239 NCR Unix (-ncr-sysv4)
11240 and fixed something in helpers/PrintPath [Ben Laurie]
11242 Changes with Apache 1.2b1
11244 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_2.html>
11246 Changes with Apache 1.1.1
11248 *) Fixed bug where Cookie module would make two entries in the
11249 logfile for each access [Mark Cox]
11251 *) Fixed bug where Redirect in .htaccess files would cause memory
11252 leak. [Nathan Neulinger]
11254 *) MultiViews now works correctly with AddHandler [Alexei Kosut]
11256 *) Problems with mod_auth_msql fixed [Dirk vanGulik]
11258 *) Fix misspelling of "Anonymous_Authorative" directive in mod_auth_anon.
11260 Changes with Apache 1.1.0
11262 *) Bring NeXT support up to date. [Takaaki Matsumoto]
11264 *) Bring QNX support up to date. [Ben Laurie]
11266 *) Make virtual hosts default to main server keepalive parameters.
11267 [Alexei Kosut, Ben Laurie]
11269 *) Allow ScanHTMLTitles to work with lowercase <title> tags. [Alexei Kosut]
11271 *) Fix missing address family for connect, also remove unreachable statement
11272 in mod_proxy. [Ben Laurie]
11274 *) mod_env now turned on by default in Configuration.tmpl.
11276 *) Bugs which were fixed:
11277 a) yet more mod_proxy bugs [Ben Laurie]
11278 b) CGI works again with inetd [Alexei Kosut]
11279 c) Leading colons were stripped from passwords [osm@interguide.com]
11280 d) Another fix to multi-method Limit problem [jk@tools.de]
11282 Changes with Apache 1.1b4
11284 *) r->bytes_sent variable restored. [Robert Thau]
11286 *) Previously broken multi-method <Limit> parsing fixed. [Robert Thau]
11288 *) More possibly unsecure programs removed from the support directory.
11290 *) More mod_auth_msql authentication improvements.
11292 *) VirtualHosts based on Host: headers no longer conflict with the
11295 *) OS/2 compatibility enhancements. [Gary Smiley]
11297 *) POST now allowed to directory index CGI scripts.
11299 *) Actions now work with files of the default type.
11301 *) Bugs which were fixed:
11302 a) more mod_proxy bugs
11303 b) early termination of inetd requests
11304 c) compile warnings on several systems
11305 d) problems when scripts stop reading output early
11307 Changes with Apache 1.1b3
11309 *) Much of cgi-bin and all of cgi-src has been removed, due to
11310 various security holes found and that we could no longer support
11313 *) The "Set-Cookie" header is now special-cased to not merge multiple
11314 instances, since certain popular browsers can not handle multiple
11315 Set-Cookie instructions in a single header. [Paul Sutton]
11317 *) rprintf() added to buffer code, occurrences of sprintf removed.
11320 *) CONNECT method for proxy module, which means tunneling SSL should work.
11321 (No crypto needed) Also a NoCache config directive.
11323 *) Several API additions: pstrndup(), table_unset() and get_token()
11324 functions now available to modules.
11326 *) mod_imap fixups, in particular Location: headers are now complete
11329 *) New "info" module which reports on installed module set through a
11330 special URL, a la mod_status.
11332 *) "ServerPath" directive added - allows for graceful transition
11333 for Host:-header-based virtual hosts.
11335 *) Anonymous authentication module improvements.
11337 *) MSQL authentication module improvements.
11339 *) Status module design improved - output now table-based. [Ben Laurie]
11341 *) htdigest utility included for use with digest authentication
11344 *) mod_negotiation: Accept values with wildcards to be treated with
11345 less priority than those without wildcards at the same quality
11346 value. [Alexei Kosut]
11348 *) Bugs which were fixed:
11349 a) numerous mod_proxy bugs
11350 b) CGI early-termination bug [Ben Laurie]
11351 c) Keepalives not working with virtual hosts
11352 d) RefererIgnore problems
11353 e) closing fd's twice in mod_include (causing core dumps on
11354 Linux and elsewhere).
11356 Changes with Apache 1.1b2
11359 a) core dumps in mod_digest
11360 b) truncated hostnames/ip address in the logs
11361 c) relative URL's in mod_imap map files
11363 Changes with Apache 1.1b1
11365 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_1.html>
11367 Changes with Apache 1.0.3
11369 *) Internal redirects which occur in mod_dir.c now preserve the
11370 query portion of a request (the bit after the question mark).
11373 *) Escape active characters '<', '>' and '&' in html output in
11374 directory listings, error messages and redirection links.
11377 *) Apache will now work with LynxOS 2.3 and later [Steven Watt]
11379 *) Fix for POSIX compliance in waiting for processes in alloc.c.
11382 *) setsockopt no longer takes a const declared argument [Martijn Koster]
11384 *) Reset timeout timer after each successful fwrite() to the network.
11385 This patch adds a reset_timeout() procedure that is called by
11386 send_fd() to reset the timeout ever time data is written to the net.
11389 *) timeout() signal handler now checks for SIGPIPE and reports
11390 lost connections in a more user friendly way. [Rob Hartill]
11392 *) Location of the "scoreboard" file which used to live in /tmp is
11393 now configurable (for OSes that can't use mmap) via ScoreBoardFile
11394 which works similar to PidFile (in httpd.conf) [Rob Hartill]
11396 *) Include sys/resource.h in the correct place for SunOS4 [Sameer Parekh]
11398 *) the pstrcat call in mod_cookies.c didn't have an ending NULL,
11399 which caused a SEGV with cookies enabled
11401 *) Output warning when MinSpareServers is set to <= 0 and change it to 1
11404 *) Log the UNIX textual error returned by some system calls, in
11405 particular errors from accept() [David Robinson]
11407 *) Add strerror function to util.c for SunOS4 [Randy Terbush]
11409 Changes with Apache 1.0.2
11411 *) patch to get Apache compiled on UnixWare 2.x, recommended as
11412 a temporary measure, pending rewrite of rfc931.c. [Chuck Murcko]
11414 *) Fix get_basic_auth_pw() to set the auth_type of the request.
11417 *) past changes to http_config.c to only use the
11418 setrlimit function on systems defining RLIMIT_NOFILE
11419 broke the feature on SUNOS4. Now defines HAVE_RESOURCE
11420 for SUNOS and prototypes the needed functions.
11422 *) Remove uses of MAX_STRING_LEN/HUGE_STRING_LEN from several routines.
11425 *) Fix use of pointer to scratch memory. [Cliff Skolnick]
11427 *) Merge multiple headers from CGI scripts instead of taking last
11428 one. [David Robinson]
11430 *) Add support for SCO 5. [Ben Laurie]
11432 Changes with Apache 1.0.1
11434 *) Silence mod_log_referer and mod_log_agent if not configured
11437 *) Recursive includes can occur if the client supplies PATH_INFO data
11438 and the server provider uses relative links; as file.html
11439 relative to /doc.shtml/pathinfo is /doc.shtml/file.html. [David Robinson]
11441 *) The replacement for initgroups() did not call {set,end}grent(). This
11442 had two implications: if anything else used getgrent(), then
11443 initgroups() would fail, and it was consuming a file descriptor.
11446 *) On heavily loaded servers it was possible for the scoreboard to get
11447 out of sync with reality, as a result of a race condition.
11448 The observed symptoms are far more Apaches running than should
11449 be, and heavy system loads, generally followed by catastrophic
11450 system failure. [Ben Laurie]
11452 *) Fix typo in license. [David Robinson]
11454 Changes with Apache 1.0.0 23 Nov 1995
11456 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_0.html>
11458 Changes with Apache 0.8.16 05 Nov 1995
11460 *) New man page for 'httpd' added to support directory [David Robinson]
11462 *) .htgroup files can have more than one line giving members for a
11463 given group (each must have the group name in front), for NCSA
11464 back-compatibility [Robert Thau]
11466 *) Mutual exclusion around accept() is on by default for SVR4 systems
11467 generally, since they generally can't handle multiple processes in
11468 accept() on the same socket. This should cure flaky behavior on
11469 a lot of those systems. [David Robinson]
11471 *) AddType, AddEncoding, and AddLanguage directives take multiple
11472 extensions on a single command line [David Robinson]
11474 *) UserDir can be disabled for a given virtual host by saying
11475 "UserDir disabled" in the <VirtualHost> section --- it was a bug
11476 that this didn't work. [David Robinson]
11478 *) Compiles on QNX [Ben Laurie]
11480 *) Corrected parsing of ctime time format [David Robinson]
11482 *) httpd does a perror() before exiting if it can't log its pid
11483 to the PidFile, to make diagnosing the error a bit easier.
11486 *) <!--#include file="..."--> can no longer include files in the
11487 parent directory, for NCSA back-compatibility. [David Robinson]
11489 *) '~' is *not* escaped in URIs generated for directory listings
11492 *) Eliminated compiler warning in the imagemap module [Randy Terbush]
11494 *) Fixed bug involving handling URIs with escaped %-characters
11495 in redirects [David Robinson]
11497 Changes with Apache 0.8.15 14 Oct 1995
11499 *) Switched to new, simpler license
11501 *) Eliminated core dumps with improperly formatted DBM group files [Mark Cox]
11503 *) Don't allow requests for ordinary files to have PATH_INFO [Ben Laurie]
11505 *) Reject paths containing %-escaped '%' or null characters [David Robinson]
11507 *) Correctly handles internal redirects to files with names containing '%'
11510 *) Repunctuated some error messages [Aram Mirzadeh, Andrew Wilson]
11512 *) Use geteuid() rather than getuid() to see if we have root privilege,
11513 so that server correctly resets privilege if run setuid root. [Andrew
11516 *) Handle ftp: and telnet: URLs correctly in imagemaps (built-in module)
11519 *) Fix relative URLs in imagemap files [Randy Terbush]
11521 *) Somewhat better fix for the old "Alias /foo/ /bar/" business
11524 *) Don't repeatedly open the ErrorLog if a bunch of <VirtualHost>
11525 entries all name the same one. [David Robinson]
11527 *) Fix directory listings with filenames containing unusual characters
11530 *) Better URI-escaping for generated URIs in directories with filenames
11531 containing unusual characters [Ben Laurie]
11533 *) Fixed potential FILE* leak in http_main.c [Ben Laurie]
11535 *) Unblock alarms on error return from spawn_child() [David Robinson]
11537 *) Sample Config files have extra note for SCO users [Ben Laurie]
11539 *) Configuration has note for HP-UX users [Rob Hartill]
11541 *) Eliminated some bogus Linux-only #defines in conf.h [Aram Mirzadeh]
11543 *) Nuked bogus #define in httpd.h [David Robinson]
11545 *) Better test for whether a system has setrlimit() [David Robinson]
11547 *) Calls update_child_status() after reopen_scoreboard() [David Robinson]
11549 *) Doesn't send itself SIGHUP on startup when run in the -X debug-only mode
11552 Changes with Apache 0.8.14 19 Sep 1995
11554 *) Compiles on SCO ODT 3.0 [Ben Laurie]
11556 *) AddDescription works (better) [Ben Laurie]
11558 *) Leaves an intelligible error diagnostic when it can't set group
11559 privileges on standalone startup [Andrew Wilson]
11561 *) Compiles on NeXT again --- the 0.8.13 RLIMIT patch was failing on
11562 that machine, which claims to be BSD but does not support RLIMIT.
11565 *) gcc -Wall no longer complains about an unused variable when util.c
11566 is compiled with -DMINIMAL_DNS [Andrew Wilson]
11568 *) Nuked another compiler warning for -Wall on Linux [Aram Mirzadeh]
11570 Changes with Apache 0.8.13 07 Sep 1995
11572 *) Make IndexIgnore *work* (ooops) [Jarkko Torppa]
11574 *) Have built-in imagemap code recognize & honor Point directive [James
11577 *) Generate cleaner directory listings in directories with a mix of
11578 long and short filenames [Rob Hartill]
11580 *) Properly initialize dynamically loaded modules [Royston Shufflebotham]
11582 *) Properly default ServerName for virtual servers [Robert Thau]
11584 *) Rationalize handling of BSD in conf.h and elsewhere [Randy Terbush,
11585 Paul Richards and a cast of thousands...]
11587 *) On self-identified BSD systems (we don't try to guess any more),
11588 allocate a few extra file descriptors per virtual host with setrlimit,
11589 if we can, to avoid running out. [Randy Terbush]
11591 *) Write 22-character lock file name into buffer with enough space
11592 on startup [Konstantin Olchanski]
11594 *) Use archaic setpgrp() interface on NeXT, which requires it [Brian
11597 *) Suppress -Wall warning by casting const away in util.c [Aram Mirzadeh]
11599 *) Suppress -Wall warning by initializing variable in negotiation code
11600 [Tobias Weingartner]
11602 Changes with Apache 0.8.12 31 Aug 1995
11604 *) Doesn't pause three seconds after including a CGI script which is
11605 too slow to die off (this is done by not even trying to kill off
11606 subprocesses, including the SIGTERM/pause/SIGKILL routine, until
11607 after the entire document has been processed). [Robert Thau]
11609 *) Doesn't do SSI if Options Includes is off. (Ooops). [David Robinson]
11611 *) Options IncludesNoExec allows inclusion of at least text/* [Roy Fielding]
11613 *) Allows .htaccess files to override <Directory> sections naming the
11614 same directory [David Robinson]
11616 *) Removed an efficiency hack in sub_req_lookup_uri which was
11617 causing certain extremely marginal cases (e.g., ScriptAlias of a
11618 *particular* index.html file) to fail. [David Robinson]
11620 *) Doesn't log an error when the requested URI requires
11621 authentication, but no auth header line was supplied by the
11622 client; this is a normal condition (the client doesn't no auth is
11623 needed here yet). [Robert Thau]
11625 *) Behaves more sanely when the name server loses its mind [Sean Welch]
11627 *) RFC931 code compiles cleanly on old BSDI releases [Randy Terbush]
11629 *) RFC931 code no longer passes out name of prior clients on current
11630 requests if the current request came from a server that doesn't
11631 do RFC931. [David Robinson]
11633 *) Configuration script accepts "Module" lines with trailing whitespace.
11636 *) Cleaned up compiler warning from mod_access.c [Robert Thau]
11638 *) Cleaned up comments in mod_cgi.c [Robert Thau]
11640 Changes with Apache 0.8.11 24 Aug 1995
11642 *) Wildcard <Directory> specifications work. [Robert Thau]
11644 *) Doesn't loop for buggy CGI on Solaris [Cliff Skolnick]
11646 *) Symlink checks (FollowSymLinks off, or SymLinkIfOwnerMatch) always check
11647 the file being requested itself, in addition to the directories leading
11648 up to it. [Robert Thau]
11650 *) Logs access failures due to symlink checks or invalid client address
11651 in the error log [Roy Fielding, Robert Thau]
11653 *) Symlink checks deal correctly with systems where lstat of
11654 "/path/to/some/link/" follows the link. [Thau, Fielding]
11656 *) Doesn't reset DirectoryIndex to 'index.html' when
11657 other directory options are set in a .htaccess file. [Robert Thau]
11659 *) Clarified init code and nuked bogus warning in mod_access.c
11660 [Florent Guillaume]
11662 *) Corrected several directives in sample srm.conf
11663 --- includes corrections to directory indexing icon-related directives
11664 (using unknown.gif rather than unknown.xbm as the DefaultIcon, doing
11665 icons for encodings right, and turning on AddEncoding by default).
11668 *) Corrected descriptions of args to AddIcon and AddAlt in command table
11671 *) INSTALL & README mention "contributed modules" directory [Brian
11674 *) Fixed English in the license language... "for for" --> "for".
11677 *) Fixed ScriptAlias/Alias interaction by moving ScriptAlias handling to
11678 mod_alias.c, merging it almost completely with handling of Alias, and
11679 adding a 'notes' field to the request_rec which allows the CGI module
11680 to discover whether the Alias module has put this request through
11681 ScriptAlias (which it needs to know for back-compatibility, as the old
11682 NCSA code did not check Options ExecCGI in ScriptAlias directories).
11685 Changes with Apache 0.8.10 18 Aug 1995
11687 *) AllowOverride applies to the named directory, and not just
11688 subdirectories. [David Robinson]
11690 *) Do locking for accept() exclusion (on systems that need it)
11691 using a special file created for the purpose in /usr/tmp, and
11692 not the error log; using the error log causes real problems
11693 if it's NFS-mounted; this is known to be the cause of a whole
11694 lot of "server hang" problems with Solaris. [David Robinson;
11695 thanks to Merten Schumann for help diagnosing the problem].
11697 Changes with Apache 0.8.9 12 Aug 1995
11699 *) Compiles with -DMAXIMUM_DNS ---- ooops! [Henrik Mortensen]
11701 *) Nested includes see environment variables of the including document,
11702 for NCSA bug-compatibility (some sites have standard footer includes
11703 which try to print out the last-modified date). [Eric Hagberg/Robert
11706 *) <!--exec cgi="/some/uri/here"--> always treats the item named by the
11707 URI as a CGI script, even if it would have been treated as something
11708 else if requested directly, for NCSA back-compatibility. (Note that
11709 this means that people who know the name of the script can see the
11710 code just by asking for it). [Robert Thau]
11712 *) New version of dbmmanage script included in support directory as
11715 *) Check if scoreboard file couldn't be opened, and say so, rather
11716 then going insane [David Robinson]
11718 *) POST to CGI works on A/UX [Jim Jagielski]
11720 *) AddIcon and AddAlt commands work properly [Rob Hartill]
11722 *) NCSA server push works properly --- the Arena bug compatibility
11723 workaround, which broke it, is gone (use -DARENA_BUG_WORKAROUND
11724 if you still want the workaround). [Rob Hartill]
11726 *) If client didn't submit any Accept-encodings, ignore encodings in
11727 content negotiation. (NB this will all have to be reworked anyway
11728 for the new HTTP draft). [Florent Guillaume]
11730 *) Don't dump core when trying to log timed-out requests [Jim Jagielski]
11732 *) Really honor CacheNegotiatedDocs [Florent Guillaume]
11734 *) Give Redirect priority over Alias, for NCSA bug compatibility
11737 *) Correctly set PATH_TRANSLATED in all cases from <!--#exec cmd=""-->,
11738 paralleling earlier bug fix for CGI [David Robinson]
11740 *) If DBM auth is improperly configured, report a server error and don't
11743 *) Deleted FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPTS from conf.h entry for A/UX;
11744 it seems to work well enough without it (even in a 10 hits/sec
11745 workout), and the overhead for the locking under A/UX is
11746 alarmingly high (though it is very low on other systems).
11747 [Eric Hagberg, Jim Jagielski]
11749 *) Fixed portability problems with mod_cookies.c [Cliff Skolnick]
11751 *) Further de-Berklize mod_cookies.c; change the bogus #include. [Brian
11752 Behlendorf/Eric Hagberg]
11754 *) More improvements to default Configuration for A/UX [Jim Jagielski]
11756 *) Compiles clean on NEXT [Rob Hartill]
11758 *) Compiles clean on SGI [Robert Thau]
11760 Changes with Apache 0.8.8 08 Aug 1995
11762 *) SunOS library prototypes now never included unless explicitly
11763 requested in the configuration (via -DSUNOS_LIB_PROTOTYPES);
11764 people using GNU libc on SunOS are screwed by prototypes for the
11767 (Those who wish to compile clean with gcc -Wall on a standard
11768 SunOS setup need the prototypes, and may obtain them using
11769 -DSUNOS_LIB_PROTOTYPES. Those wishing to use -Wall on a system
11770 with nonstandard libraries are presumably competent to make their
11773 *) Strips trailing '/' characters off both args to the Alias command,
11774 to make 'Alias /foo/ /bar/' work.
11776 Changes with Apache 0.8.7 03 Aug 1995
11778 *) Don't hang when restarting with a child from 'TransferLog "|..."' running
11779 [reported by David Robinson]
11781 *) Compiles clean on OSF/1 [David Robinson]
11783 *) Added some of the more recent significant changes (AddLanguage stuff,
11784 experimental LogFormat support) to CHANGES file in distribution root
11787 Changes with Apache 0.8.6 02 Aug 1995
11789 *) Deleted Netscape reload workaround --- it's in violation of HTTP specs.
11790 (If you actually wanted a conditional GET which bypassed the cache, you
11791 couldn't get it). [Reported by Roy Fielding]
11793 *) Properly terminate headers on '304 Not Modified' replies to conditional
11794 GETs --- no browser we can find cares much, but the CERN proxy chokes.
11795 [Reported by Cliff Skolnick; fix discovered independently by Rob Hartill]
11797 *) httpd -v doesn't call itself "Shambhala". [Reported by Chuck Murcko]
11799 *) SunOS lib-function prototypes in conf.h conditionalized on __GNUC__,
11800 not __SUNPRO_C (they're needed to quiet gcc -Wall, but acc chokes on 'em,
11801 and older versions don't set the __SUNPRO_C preprocessor variable). On
11802 all other systems, these are never used anyway. [Reported by Mark Cox].
11804 *) Scoreboard file (/tmp/htstatus.*) no longer publically writable.
11806 Changes with Apache 0.8.5 01 Aug 1995
11808 *) Added last-minute configurable log experiment, as optional module
11810 *) Correctly set r->bytes_sent for HTTP/0.9 requests, so they get logged
11811 properly. (One-line fix to http_protocol.c).
11813 *) Work around bogus behavior when reloading from Netscape.
11814 It's Netscape's bug --- for some reason they expect a request with
11815 If-modified-since: to not function as a conditional GET if it also
11816 comes with Pragma: no-cache, which is way out of line with the HTTP
11817 spec (according to Roy Fielding, the redactor).
11819 *) Added parameter to set maximum number of server processes.
11821 *) Added patches to make it work on A/UX. A/UX is *weird*. [Eric Hagberg,
11824 *) IdentityCheck bugfix [Chuck Murcko].
11826 *) Corrected cgi-src/Makefile entry for new imagemap script. [Alexei Kosut]
11828 *) More sample config file corrections; add extension to AddType for
11829 *.asis, move AddType generic description to its proper place, and
11830 fix miscellaneous typos. [ Alexei Kosut ]
11832 *) Deleted the *other* reference to the regents from the Berkeley
11833 legal disclaimer (everyplace).
11835 *) Nuked Shambhala name from src/README; had already cleaned it out
11836 of everywhere else.
11838 Changes with Apache 0.8.4
11840 *) Changes to server-pool management parms --- renamed current
11841 StartServers to MinSpareServers, created separate StartServers
11842 parameter which means what it says, and renamed MaxServers to
11843 MaxSpareServers (though the old name still works, for NCSA 1.4
11844 back-compatibility). The old names were generally regarded as
11845 too confusing. Also altered "docs" in sample config files.
11847 *) More improvements to default config files ---
11848 sample directives (commented out) for XBitHack, BindAddress,
11849 CacheNegotiatedDocs, VirtualHost; decent set of AddLanguage
11850 defaults, AddTypes for send-as-is and imagemap magic types, and
11851 improvements to samples for DirectoryIndex [Alexei Kosut]
11853 *) Yet more improvements to default config files --- changes to
11854 Alexei's sample AddLanguage directives, and sample LanguagePriority
11855 [ Florent Guillaume ]
11857 *) Set config file locations properly if not set in httpd.conf
11860 *) Don't escape URIs in internal redirects multiple times; don't
11861 do that when translating PATH_INFO to PATH_TRANSLATED either.
11864 *) Corrected spelling of "Required" in 401 error reports [Andrew Wilson]
11866 Changes with Apache 0.8.3
11868 *) Edited distribution README to *briefly* summarize installation
11869 procedures, and give a pointer to the INSTALL file in the src/
11872 *) Upgraded imagemap script in cgi-bin to 1.8 version from more
11873 recent NCSA distributions.
11875 *) Bug fix to previous bug fix --- if .htaccess file and <Directory>
11876 exist for the same directory, use both and don't segfault. [Reported
11879 *) Proper makefile dependencies [David Robinson]
11881 *) Note (re)starts in error log --- reported by Rob Hartill.
11883 *) Only call no2slash() after get_path_info() has been done, to
11884 preserve multiple slashes in the PATH_INFO [NCSA compatibility,
11885 reported by Andrew Wilson, though this one is probably a real bug]
11887 *) Fixed mod_imap.c --- relative paths with base_uri referer don't
11888 dump core when Referer is not supplied. [Randy Terbush]
11890 *) Lightly edited sample config files to refer people to our documentation
11891 instead of NCSA's, and to list Rob McCool as *original* author (also
11892 deleted his old, and no doubt non-functional email address). Would be
11893 nice to have examples of new features...
11895 Changes with Apache 0.8.2 19 Jul 1995
11897 *) Added AddLanuage code [Florent Guillaume]
11899 *) Don't say "access forbidden" when a CGI script is not found. [Mark Cox]
11901 *) All sorts of problems when MultiViews finds a directory. It would
11902 be nice if mod_dir.c was robust enough to handle that, but for now,
11903 just punt. [reported by Brian Behlendorf]
11905 *) Wait for all children on restart, to make sure that the old socket
11906 is gone and we can reopen it. [reported by Randy Terbush]
11908 *) Imagemap module is enabled in default Configuration
11910 *) RefererLog and UserAgentLog modules properly default the logfile
11913 *) Mark Cox's mod_cookies added to the distribution as an optional
11914 module (commented out in the default Configuration, and noted as
11915 an experiment, along with mod_dld). [Mark Cox]
11917 *) Compiles on ULTRIX (a continuing battle...). [Robert Thau]
11919 *) Fixed nasty bug in SIGTERM handling [reported by Randy Terbush]
11921 *) Changed "Shambhala" to "Apache" in API docs. [Robert Thau]
11923 *) Added new, toothier legal disclaimer. [Robert Thau; copied from BSD
11926 Changes with Apache 0.8.1
11928 *) New imagemap module [Randy Terbush]
11930 *) Replacement referer log module with NCSA-compatible RefererIgnore
11931 [Matthew Gray again]
11933 *) Don't mung directory listings with very long filenames.
11934 [Florent Guillaume]
11936 Changes with Apache 0.8.0 (nee Shambhala 0.6.2) 16 Jul 1995
11938 *) New config script. See INSTALL for info. [Robert Thau]
11940 *) Scoreboard mechanism for regulating the number of extant server
11941 processes. MaxServers and StartServers defaults are the same as
11942 for NCSA, but the meanings are slightly different. (Actually,
11943 I should probably lower the MaxServers default to 10).
11945 Before asking for a new connection, each server process checks
11946 the number of other servers which are also waiting for a
11947 connection. If there are more than MaxServers, it quietly dies
11948 off. Conversely, every second, the root, or caretaker, process
11949 looks to see how many servers are waiting for a new connection;
11950 if there are fewer than StartServers, it starts a new one. This
11951 does not depend on the number of server processes already extant.
11952 The accounting is arranged through a "scoreboard" file, named
11953 /tmp/htstatus.*, on which each process has an independent file
11954 descriptor (they need to seek without interference).
11956 The end effect is that MaxServers is the maximum number of
11957 servers on an *inactive* server machine, but more will be forked
11958 off to handle unusually heavy loads (or unusually slow clients);
11959 these will die off when they are no longer needed --- without
11960 reverting to the overhead of full forking operation. There is a
11961 hard maximum of 150 server processes compiled in, largely to
11962 avoid forking out of control and dragging the machine down.
11963 (This is arguably too high).
11965 In my server endurance tests, this mechanism did not appear to
11966 impose any significant overhead, even after I forced it to put the
11967 scoreboard file on a normal filesystem (which might have more
11968 overhead than tmpfs). [Robert Thau]
11970 *) Set HTTP_FOO variables for SSI <!--#exec cmd-->s, not just CGI scripts.
11973 *) Read .htaccess files even in directory with <Directory> section.
11974 (Former incompatibility noted on mailing list, now fixed). [Robert
11977 *) "HEAD /" gives the client a "Bad Request" error message, rather
11978 than trying to send no body *and* no headers. [Cliff Skolnick].
11980 *) Don't produce double error reports for some very obscure cases
11981 mainly involving auth configuration (the "all modules decline to
11982 handle" case which is a sure sign of a server bug in most cases,
11983 but also happens when authentication is badly misconfigured).
11986 *) Moved FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT defines into conf.h (that's what
11987 it's *for*, and this sort of thing really shouldn't be cluttering
11988 up the Makefile). [Robert Thau]
11990 *) Incidental code cleanups in http_main.c --- stop dragging
11991 sa_client around; just declare it where used. [Robert Thau]
11993 *) Another acc-related fix. (It doesn't like const char
11994 in some places...). [Mark Cox]
11996 Changes with Shambhala 0.6.1 13 Jul 1995
11998 *) Fixed auth_name-related typos in http_core.c [Brian Behlendorf]
11999 Also, fixed auth typo in http_protocol.c unmasked by this fix.
12001 *) Compiles clean with acc on SunOS [Paul Sutton]
12003 *) Reordered modules in modules.c so that Redirect takes priority
12004 over ScriptAlias, for NCSA bug-compatibility [Rob Hartill] ---
12005 believe it or not, he has an actual site with a ScriptAlias and
12006 a Redirect declared for the *exact same directory*. Even *my*
12007 compatibility fetish wouldn't motivate me to fix this if the fix
12008 required any effort, but it doesn't, so what the hey.
12010 *) Fixed to properly default several server_rec fields for virtual
12011 servers from the corresponding fields in the main server_rec.
12012 [Cliff Skolnick --- 'port' was a particular irritant].
12014 *) No longer kills off nph- child processes before they are
12015 finished sending output. [Matthew Gray]
12017 Changes with Shambhala 0.6.0 10 Jul 1995
12019 *) Two styles of timeout --- hard and soft. soft_timeout()s just put
12020 the connection to the client in an "aborted" state, but otherwise
12021 allow whatever handlers are running to clean up. hard_timeout()s
12022 abort the request in progress completely; anything not tied to some
12023 resource pool cleanup will leak. They're still around because I
12024 haven't yet come up with a more elegant way of handling
12025 timeouts when talking to something that isn't the client. The
12026 default_handler and the dir_handler now use soft timeouts, largely
12027 so I can test the feature. [Robert Thau]
12029 *) TransferLog "| my_postprocessor ..." seems to be there. Note that
12030 the case of log handlers dying prematurely is probably handled VERY
12031 gracelessly at this point, and if the logger stops reading input,
12032 the server will hang. (It is known to correctly restart the
12033 logging process on server restart; this is (should be!) going through
12034 the same SIGTERM/pause/SIGKILL routine used to ding an errant CGI
12035 script). [Robert Thau]
12037 *) asis files supported (new module). [Robert Thau]
12039 *) IdentityCheck code is compiled in, but has not been tested. (I
12040 don't know anyone who runs identd). [Robert Thau]
12042 *) PATH_INFO and PATH_TRANSLATED are not set unless some real PATH_INFO
12043 came in with the request, for NCSA bug-compatibility. [Robert Thau]
12045 *) Don't leak the DIR * on HEAD request for a directory. [Robert Thau]
12047 *) Deleted the block_alarms() stuff from dbm_auth; no longer necessary,
12048 as timeouts are not in scope. [Robert Thau]
12050 *) quoted-string args in config files now handled correctly (doesn't drop
12051 the last character). [Robert Thau; reported by Randy Terbush]
12053 *) Fixed silly typo in http_main.c which was suddenly fatal in HP-UX.
12054 How the hell did it ever work? [Robert Thau; reported by Rob Hartill]
12056 *) mod_core.c --- default_type returns DEFAULT_TYPE (the compile-time
12057 default default type); the former default default behavior when all
12058 type-checkers defaulted had been a core dump. [Paul Sutton]
12060 *) Copy filenames out of the struct dirent when indexing
12061 directories. (On Linux, readdir() returns a pointer to the same
12062 memory area every time). Fix is in mod_dir.c. [Paul Sutton]
12064 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.3 [not released]
12066 *) Default response handler notes "file not found" in the error log,
12067 if the file was not found. [Cliff Skolnick].
12069 *) Another Cliff bug --- "GET /~user" now properly redirects (the userdir
12070 code no longer sets up bogus PATH_INFO which fakes out the directory
12071 handler). [Cliff Skolnick]
12073 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.2 06 Jul 1995
12075 *) Changes to http_main.c --- root server no longer plays silly
12076 games with SIGCHLD, and so now detects and replaces dying
12077 children. Child processes just die on SIGTERM, without taking
12078 the whole process group with them. Potential problem --- if any
12079 child process refuses to die, we hang in restart.
12080 MaxRequestsPerChild may still not work, but it certainly works
12081 better than it did before this! [Robert Thau]
12083 *) mod_dir.c bug fixes: ReadmeName and HeaderName
12084 work (or work better, at least); over-long description lines
12085 properly terminated. [Mark Cox]
12087 *) http_request.c now calls unescape_url() more places where it
12088 should [Paul Sutton].
12090 *) More directory handling bugs (reported by Cox)
12091 Parent Directory link is now set correctly. [Robert Thau]
12093 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.1 04 Jul 1995
12095 *) Generalized cleanup interface in alloc.c --- any function can be
12096 registered with alloc.c as a cleanup for a resource pool;
12097 tracking of files and file descriptors has been reimplemented in
12098 terms of this interface, so I can give it some sort of a test.
12101 *) More changes in alloc.c --- new cleanup_for_exec() function,
12102 which tracks down and closes all file descriptors which have been
12103 registered with the alloc.c machinery before the server exec()s a
12104 child process for CGI or <!--#exec-->. CGI children now get
12105 started with exactly three file descriptors open. Hopefully,
12106 this cures the problem Rob H. was having with overly persistent
12107 CGI connections. [Robert Thau]
12109 *) Mutual exclusion around the accept() in child_main() --- this is
12110 required on at least SGI, Solaris and Linux, and is #ifdef'ed in
12111 by default on those systems only (-DFCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT).
12112 This uses fcntl(F_SETLK,...) on the error log descriptor because
12113 flock() on that descriptor won't work on systems which have BSD
12114 flock() semantics, including (I think) Linux 1.3 and Solaris.
12116 This does work on SunOS (when the server is idle, only one
12117 process in the pool is waiting on accept()); it *ought* to work
12118 on the other systems. [Robert Thau]
12120 *) FreeBSD and BSDI portability tweaks [Chuck Murcko]
12122 *) sizeof(*sa_client) bugfix from [Rob Hartill]
12124 *) pstrdup(..., NULL) returns NULL, [Randy Terbush]
12126 *) block_alarms() to avoid leaking the DBM* in dbm auth (this should
12127 be unnecessary if I go to the revised timeout-handling scheme).
12130 *) For NCSA bug-compatibility, set QUERY_STRING env var (to a null
12131 string) even if none came in with the request. [Robert Thau]
12133 *) CHANGES file added to distribution ;-).
12135 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.5
12137 *) mod_dld --- early dynamic loading support [rst]
12138 *) Add wildcard content handlers for XBITHACK; default_hander now
12139 invoked with that mechanism (as a handler hanging off mod_core) [rst]
12140 *) XBITHACK supported as a wildcard content-handler, and
12141 configurable at run-time (not just at compile time, as in the
12142 "patchy server" releases) [rst]
12144 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.4 30 Jun 1995
12146 *) Fixed basic thinkos in mod_dbm_auth.c [rst, reported by Mark Cox]
12147 *) Handle Addtype x/y .z [rst, reported by Cox]
12149 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.3
12151 *) Fixed very dumb bug in mod_alias; "Alias" and "Redirect" are not
12152 synonymous [rst, terbush]
12154 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.1 28 Jun 1995
12156 *) First-cut virtual host implementation; some refit in the config
12157 reading code, and log management, was necessary to support this [rst]
12158 *) Sub-pool machinery, originally added to avoid excessive storage
12159 allocation on listings of large directories (which turned out to
12160 be the problem that the 0.3 storage accounting was added to
12161 find). Subrequests and mod_dir changed to use subpools. [rst]
12162 *) More memory debugging --- free list consistency checks. [rst]
12163 *) Added err_headers to request_rec, with support elsewhere [rst]
12164 *) Other fixes to minor bugs in mod_dir and mod_includes [rst, terbush]
12166 Changes with Shambhala 0.3 19 Jun 1995
12168 *) Switch ONE_PROCESS to a runtime command-line option (-X)
12169 *) Don't compile in mod_ai_backcompat by default
12170 *) Switch name of server from Apache to Shambhala in Makefile
12171 *) Add some accounting routines to track memory usage in the pools,
12174 Changes with Shambhala 0.2
12176 *) Set DOCUMENT_ROOT CGI variable
12177 *) Add single-process debugging, as a compile-time option (ONE_PROCESS)
12178 *) Add critical section protection to handling of cleanup structures
12180 *) Significant code reorg within the server core to group related
12181 functions together [rst]
12182 *) Correctly handle clients that hang up before sending any request
12184 *) Replace dying child processes. [rst]
12186 Changes with Shambhala 0.1 12 Jun 1995
12188 Major rewrite of the pre-existing "patchy server" codebase, by
12189 Robert Thau (rst). Significant portions of the server code, such
12190 as configuration-file handling and HTTP authentication support,
12191 were ripped out and rewritten from scratch. Code that was not
12192 completely rewritten was significantly altered.
12194 Major changes with this release include:
12196 *) Introduction of the module API; in request handling, the central
12197 machinery just dispatches to various modules, which actually do
12198 most of the work. Configuration handling is similar --- modules
12199 declare their own commands, and the central machinery just
12200 dispatches to them.
12202 API features from shambhala/0.1 were substantially unchanged in
12203 Apache 1.0 and 1.1. (1.0 API features not yet present in this
12204 release, such as wildcard handlers and subpools, were added in
12205 subsequent Shambhala releases, and were also generally rst's
12208 *) This release included the following modules:
12210 mod_access (access control --- allow and deny directives),
12211 mod_alias (Alias and Redirect commands),
12212 mod_auth (straight HTTP authentication, based on flat-files)
12213 mod_auth_dbm (same, with dbm files)
12214 mod_cgi (CGI scripts and, in this release, ScriptAlias)
12215 mod_common_log (CLF access logs; later renamed mod_log_common)
12216 mod_dir (directory indexing)
12217 mod_include (server-side includes)
12218 mod_mime (AddType directives)
12219 mod_negotiation (content negotiation)
12220 mod_userdir (support for users' public_html directories)
12222 It also included a mod_ai_backcompat, which was a private hack
12223 for back-compatibility with rst's own AI-lab servers.
12225 All of these modules were substantially complete, and functional
12226 or nearly so (a few, which implemented features not in use at
12227 Thau's site, required patches of a few lines).
12229 *) sub-request machinery, to allow modules to determine how other
12230 modules would assign MIME types to a given file, or optionally
12231 serve its content (this is heavily used by mod_dir, mod_include
12232 and mod_negotiation).
12234 *) Resource pool system for keeping track of memory allocated and
12235 files opened in service of a particular request. Much of the
12236 code in the modules (when they weren't rewrites) was adjusted to
12237 replace a pervasive convention of using fixed-size buffers on
12238 the stack with an equally pervasive convention of using memory
12239 allocated with palloc().
12241 *) Reorganization of data structures associated with a given
12242 request to eliminate use of global variables and the troublesome
12243 unmunge_name function (used in NCSA and early Apache releases to
12244 attempt to determine the URI which mapped to a given filename
12245 --- a difficult proposition, given that it is easy to produce
12246 setups in which multiple URIs map to the same file).
12248 *) Source files renamed and rearranged
12250 *) Very simple pre-forking behavior --- parent process forked off a
12251 fixed number of children, and then just waited for SIGHUP.
12253 *) Other more minor changes too numerous to list.
12255 This release included modified versions of a lot of code from the
12256 Apache 0.6.4 public release, plus an early pre-forking patch
12257 codeveloped by Robert Thau and Rob Hartill.
12259 Changes with Apache 0.7.3 20 Jun 1995
12261 *) There were a bunch of changes between Apache 0.6.4 and 0.7.3 that
12262 were incorporated by Rob Hartill on the main branch while Robert Thau
12263 worked on the Shambhala rewrite above. Most were merged into the
12264 Shambala architecture after Apache 0.8.0.
12266 Changes with Apache 0.6.4 13 May 1995
12268 *) Patches by Rob Hartill, Cliff Skolnick, Randy Terbush, Robert Thau,
12271 Changes with Apache 0.5.1 10 Apr 1995
12273 Changes with Apache 0.4 02 Apr 1995
12275 *) Patches by Brian Behlendorf, Andrew Wilson, Robert Thau,
12278 Changes with Apache 0.3 24 Mar 1995
12280 *) Patches by Robert Thau, David Robinson, Rob Hartill, and
12283 Changes with Apache 0.2 18 Mar 1995
12285 *) Based on NCSA httpd 1.3 by Rob McCool and patches by CERT,
12286 Roy Fielding, Robert Thau, Nicolas Pioch, David Robinson,
12287 Brian Behlendorf, Rob Hartill, and Cliff Skolnick.
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