2 Changes with Apache 2.5.0
6 *) mod_proxy_balancer: Improve output
7 PR 52478 [Danijel <dt-ng rbfh de>]
9 *) core: Add LogLevelOverride directive that allows to override the
10 loglevel for clients from certain IPs. This also works for things
11 like the SSL handshake where <If> LogLevel ... </If> is evaluated
12 too late. [Stefan Fritsch]
14 *) core: Add new directive Warning to issue warnings from a configuration
15 file. Both Warning and Error now generate a timestamped log message.
18 *) mod_status: Print out list of times since a Vhost was last used.
21 *) ap_expr: Add SERVER_PROTOCOL_VERSION, ..._MAJOR, and ..._MINOR
22 variables. [Stefan Fritsch]
24 *) core: New directive RegisterHttpMethod for registering non-standard
25 HTTP methods. [Stefan Fritsch]
27 *) mod_xml2enc: Fix problems with charset conversion altering the
28 Content-Length. [Micha Lenk <micha lenk info>]
30 *) core: New directive HttpProtocol which allows to disable HTTP/0.9
31 support. [Stefan Fritsch]
33 *) mod_allowhandlers: New module to forbid specific handlers for specific
34 directories. [Stefan Fritsch]
36 *) core: Be more correct about rejecting directives that cannot work in <If>
37 sections. [Stefan Fritsch]
39 *) core: Fix directives like LogLevel that need to know if they are invoked
40 at virtual host context or in Directory/Files/Location/If sections to
41 work properly in If sections that are not in a Directory/Files/Location.
44 *) mod_cache_disk: Resolve errors while revalidating disk-cached files on
45 Windows ("...rename tempfile to datafile failed..."). PR 38827
48 *) mod_proxy_ftp: Fix segfaults on IPv4 requests to hosts with DNS AAAA records.
49 PR 40841. [Andrew Rucker Jones <arjones simultan dyndns org>,
50 <ast domdv de>, Jim Jagielski]
52 *) ap_expr: Add req_novary function that allows HTTP header lookups
53 without adding the name to the Vary header. [Stefan Fritsch]
55 *) configure: Fix processing of --disable-FEATURE for various features.
58 *) mod_systemd: New module, for integration with systemd on Linux.
59 [Jan Kaluza <jkaluza redhat.com>]
61 *) --with-module: Fix failure to integrate them into some existing
62 module directories. PR 40097. [Jeff Trawick]
64 *) mod_cache_socache: New cache implementation backed by mod_socache
65 that replaces mod_mem_cache removed from httpd v2.2. [Graham
68 *) core: Add dirwalk_stat and pre_htaccess hooks, allowing mpm-itk
69 to be used without patches to httpd core. [Jeff Trawick]
71 *) mod_proxy: Allow for persistence of local changes (via the
72 balancer-manager) between graceful and normal restarts.
75 *) mod_slotmem: New provider function, fgrab(), which forces an
76 allocation of a slot. [Jim Jagielski]
78 *) mod_lua: Add LuaInputFilter/LuaOutputFilter for creating content
79 filters in Lua [Daniel Gruno]
81 *) WinNT MPM: Store pid and generation for each thread in scoreboard
82 to allow tracking of threads from exiting children via mod_status
83 or other such mechanisms. [Jeff Trawick]
85 *) mod_ssl: Catch missing or mismatched client cert/key pairs with
86 SSLProxyMachineCertificateFile/Path directives. PR 52212.
87 [Keith Burdis <keith burdis.org>, Joe Orton]
89 *) mod_lua: Allow scripts handled by the lua-script handler to return
90 a status code to the client (such as a 302 or a 500) [Daniel Gruno]
92 *) mod_lua: Decline handling 'lua-script' if the file doesn't exist,
93 rather than throwing an internal server error. [Daniel Gruno]
95 *) mod_lua: Add functions r:flush and r:sendfile as well as additional
96 request information to the request_rec structure. [Daniel Gruno]
98 *) mod_lua: Add a server scope for Lua states, which creates a pool of
99 states with managable minimum and maximum size. [Daniel Gruno]
101 *) core: Add post_perdir_config hook.
102 [Steinar Gunderson <sgunderson bigfoot.com>]
104 *) mod_lua: Add new directive, LuaMapHandler, for dynamically mapping
105 URIs to Lua scripts and functions using regular expressions.
108 *) mod_lua: Add new directive LuaCodeCache for controlling in-memory
109 caching of lua scripts. [Daniel Gruno]
111 *) The following now respect DefaultRuntimeDir/DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR:
112 - APIs: ap_log_pid(), ap_remove_pid, ap_read_pid()
113 - core: the scoreboard (ScoreBoardFile), pid file (PidFile), and
115 - mod_cache: thundering herd lock directory
116 - mod_lbmethod_heartbeat, mod_heartmonitor: heartbeat storage file
117 - mod_ldap: shared memory cache
118 - mod_socache_shmcb, mod_socache_dbm: shared memory or dbm for cache
121 *) mod_ssl: Add RFC 5878 support. [Ben Laurie]
123 *) suexec: Add --enable-suexec-capabilites support on Linux, to use
124 setuid/setgid capability bits rather than a setuid root binary.
127 *) suexec: Add support for logging to syslog as an alternative to logging
128 to a file; configure --without-suexec-logfile --with-suexec-syslog.
131 *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS Next Protocol Negotiation. PR 52210.
132 [Matthew Steele <mdsteele google.com>]
134 *) various modules, rotatelogs: Replace use of apr_file_write() with
135 apr_file_write_full() to prevent incomplete writes. PR 53131.
136 [Nicolas Viennot <apache viennot biz>, Stefan Fritsch]
138 *) cross-compile: allow to provide CC_FOR_BUILD so that gen_test_char will
139 be compiled by the build compiler instead of the host compiler.
140 Also set CC_FOR_BUILD to 'cc' when cross-compilation is detected.
141 PR 51257. [Guenter Knauf]
143 *) core: In maintainer mode, replace apr_palloc with a version that
144 initializes the allocated memory with non-zero values, except if
145 AP_DEBUG_NO_ALLOC_POISON is defined. [Stefan Fritsch]
147 *) mod_policy: Add a new testing module to help server administrators
148 enforce a configurable level of protocol compliance on their
149 servers and application servers behind theirs. [Graham Leggett]
151 *) mod_firehose: Add a new debugging module able to record traffic
152 passing through the server in such a way that connections and/or
153 requests be reconstructed and replayed. [Graham Leggett]
163 [Apache 2.5.0-dev includes those bug fixes and changes with the
164 Apache 2.4.xx tree as documented below, except as noted.]
166 Changes with Apache 2.4.x and later:
168 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/CHANGES?view=markup
170 Changes with Apache 2.2.x and later:
172 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/CHANGES?view=markup
174 Changes with Apache 2.0.x and later:
176 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x/CHANGES?view=markup