1 Changes with Apache 2.0.41
4 Changes with Apache 2.0.40
6 *) SECURITY: [CAN-2002-0661] Close a very significant security hole that
7 applies only to the Win32, OS2 and Netware platforms. Unix was not
8 affected, Cygwin may be affected. Certain URIs will bypass security
9 and allow users to invoke or access any file depending on the system
10 configuration. Without upgrading, a single .conf change will close
11 the vulnerability. Add the following directive in the global server
12 httpd.conf context before any other Alias or Redirect directives;
13 RedirectMatch 400 "\\\.\."
14 Reported by Auriemma Luigi <bugtest@sitoverde.com>.
17 *) SECURITY: Close a path-revealing exposure in multiview type
18 map negotiation (such as the default error documents) where the
19 module would report the full path of the typemapped .var file when
20 multiple documents or no documents could be served based on the mime
21 negotiation. Reported by Auriemma Luigi <bugtest@sitoverde.com>.
22 [CAN-2002-0654] [William Rowe]
24 *) SECURITY: Close a path-revealing exposure in cgi/cgid when we
25 fail to invoke a script. The modules would report "couldn't create
26 child process /path-to-script/script.pl" revealing the full path
27 of the script. Reported by Jim Race <jrace@qualys.com>.
28 [CAN-2002-0654] [Bill Stoddard]
30 *) Set aside the apr-iconv and apr_xlate() features for the Win32
31 build of 2.0.40 so development can be completed. A patch, from
32 <http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/patches/apply_to_2.0.40/>
33 will be available for those that wish to work with apr-iconv.
36 *) Fix proxy so that it is possible to access ftp: URLs via a proxy
37 chain. [Peter Van Biesen <peter.vanbiesen@vlafo.be>]
39 *) mod-deflate now checks to make sure that 'gzip-only-text/html' is
40 set to 1, so we can exclude things from the general case with
41 browsermatch. [Ian Holsman, Andre Schild <A.Schild@aarboard.ch>]
43 *) Accept multiple leading /'s for requests within the DocumentRoot.
44 PR 10946 [William Rowe, David Shane Holden <dpejesh@yahoo.com>]
46 *) Solved the reports of .pdf byterange failures on Win32 alone.
47 APR's sendfile for the win32 platform collapses header and trailer
48 buffers into a single buffer. However, we destroyed the pointers
49 to the header buffer if a trailer buffer was present. PR 10781
52 *) mod_ext_filter: Add the ability to enable or disable a filter via
53 an environment variable. Add the ability to register a filter of
54 type other than AP_FTYPE_RESOURCE. [Jeff Trawick]
56 *) Restore the ability to specify host names on Listen directives.
57 PR 11030. [Jeff Trawick, David Shane Holden <dpejesh@yahoo.com>]
59 *) When deciding on the default address family for listening sockets,
60 make sure we can actually bind to an AF_INET6 socket before
61 deciding that we should default to AF_INET6. This fixes a startup
62 problem on certain levels of OpenUNIX. PR 10235. [Jeff Trawick]
64 *) Replace usage of atol() to parse strings when we might want a
65 larger-than-long value with apr_atoll(), which returns long long.
66 This allows HTTPD to deal with larger files correctly.
67 [Shantonu Sen <ssen@apple.com>]
69 *) mod_ext_filter: Ignore any content-type parameters when checking if
70 the response should be filtered. Previously, "intype=text/html"
71 wouldn't match something like "text/html;charset=8859_1".
74 *) mod_ext_filter: Set up environment variables for external programs.
75 [Craig Sebenik <craig@netapp.com>]
77 *) Modified the HTTP_IN filter to immediately append the EOS (end of
78 stream) bucket for C-L POST bodies, saving a roundtrip and allowing
79 the caller to determine that no content remains without prefetching
80 additional POST body. [William Rowe]
82 *) Get proxy ftp to work over IPv6. [Shoichi Sakane <sakane@kame.net>]
84 *) Look for OpenSSL libraries in /usr/lib64. [Peter Poeml <poeml@suse.de>]
86 *) Update SuSE layout. [Peter Poeml <poeml@suse.de>]
88 *) Changes to the internationalized error documents:
89 Comment them out in the default config file to make the default
90 install as simple as possible; Correct the english 500 error to
91 be more understandable; Add a Swedish translation.
92 [Thomas Sjogren <thomas@northernsecurity.net>,
93 Erik Abele <erik@codefaktor.de>, Rich Bowen, Joshua Slive]
95 *) Increase the limit on file descriptors per process in apachectl.
98 *) Fix a dependency error when building ApacheMonitor, so that Win32
99 and MSVC now trust that the project is current (when it is).
100 [James Cox <imajes@php.net>]
102 *) mod_ext_filter: don't segfault if content-type is not set. PR 10617.
103 [Arthur P. Smith <apsmith@aps.org>, Jeff Trawick]
105 *) APR-Util Renames pending have been completed [Thom May]
107 *) Performance improvements for the code that reads request
108 headers (ap_rgetline_core() and related functions) [Brian Pane]
110 *) Add a new directive: MaxMemFree. MaxMemFree makes it possible
111 to configure the maximum amount of memory the allocators will
112 hold on to for reuse. Anything over the MaxMemFree threshold
113 will be free()d. This directive is useful when uncommon large
114 peaks occur in memory usage. It should _not_ be used to mask
115 defective modules' memory use. [Sander Striker]
117 *) Fixed the Content-Length filter so that HTTP/1.0 requests to CGI
118 scripts would not result in a truncated response.
119 [Ryan Bloom, Justin Erenkrantz, Cliff Woolley]
121 *) Add a filter_init parameter to the filter registration functions
122 so that a filter can execute arbitrary code before the handlers
123 are invoked. This resolves a problem where mod_include requests
124 would incorrectly return a 304. [Justin Erenkrantz]
126 *) Fix a long-standing bug in 2.0, CGI scripts were being called
127 with relative paths instead of absolute paths. Apache 1.3 used
128 absolute paths for everything except for SuExec, this brings back
129 that standard. [Ryan Bloom]
131 *) Fix infinite loop due to two HTTP_IN filters being present for
132 internally redirected requests. PR 10146. [Justin Erenkrantz]
134 *) Switch conn_rec->keepalive to an enumeration rather than a bitfield.
137 *) Fix mod_ext_filter to look in the main server for filter definitions
138 when running in a vhost if the filter definition is not found in
139 the vhost. PR 10147 [Jeff Trawick]
141 *) Support WinNT CGI invocation through ScriptInterpreterSource
142 'registry' for script interpreter paths and names with non-ascii
143 characters in the executable filepath. [William Rowe]
145 *) Support the -w flag on to keep the Win32 console open on error.
148 *) Normalize the hostname value in the request_rec to all-lowercase
149 [Perry Harrington <pedward@webcom.com>]
151 *) Fix WinNT cgi 500 errors when QUERY_ARGS or other strings include
152 extended characters (non US-ASCII) in non-utf8 format. This brings
153 Win32 back into CGI/1.1 compliance, and leaves charset decoding up
154 to the cgi application itself. [William Rowe]
156 *) Major overhaul of mod_dav, mod_dav_fs and the experimental/cache
157 modules to bring them up to the current apr/apr-util APIs.
160 *) Fix segfault in mod_mem_cache most frequently observed when
161 serving the same file to multiple clients on an MP machine.
164 *) mod_rewrite can now set cookies (RewriteRule (.*) - [CO=name:$1:.domain])
165 [Brian Degenhardt <bmd@mp3.com>, Ian Holsman]
167 *) Fix perchild to work with apachectl by adding -k support to perchild.
168 PR 10074 [Jeff Trawick]
170 *) Fix a silly htpasswd.c logic error that incorrectly reported that
171 both -c and -n had been used. PR 9989 [Cliff Woolley]
173 *) Fixed a mod_include error case in which no HTTP response was sent
174 to the client if an shtml document contained an unterminated SSI
175 directive [Brian Pane]
177 *) Improve ap_get_client_block implementation by using APR-util brigade
178 helper functions and relying on current filter assumptions.
181 Changes with Apache 2.0.39
183 *) Fixed a build problem in htpasswd.c on Win32.
184 [Guenter Knauf <eflash@gmx.net>, Cliff Woolley]
186 Changes with Apache 2.0.38
188 *) Rewrite htpasswd to use APR. The removes the annoying warning about
189 tmpnam being unsafe. [Ryan Bloom]
191 *) We must set the MIME-type for .shtml files to text/html if we want them
192 to be parsed for SSI tags. Add the config for that to the default
193 config file so that it is easier to enable .shtml parsing.
194 [Dave Dyer <ddyer@real-me.net>]
196 *) Fixed a problem with 'make install' on ReliantUnix.
197 [Jean-frederic Clere <jfrederic.clere@fujitsu-siemens.com>]
199 *) Make the default_handler catch all requests that aren't served by
200 another handler. This also gets us to return a 404 if a directory
201 is requested, there is no DirectoryIndex, and mod_autoindex isn't
202 loaded. [Justin Erenkrantz]
204 *) Fixed the handling of nested if-statements in shtml files.
207 *) Allow 'make install DESTDIR=/path'. This allows packagers to install
208 into a directory different from the one that was configured. This
209 also mirrors the root= feature from 1.3. We cannot use prefix=,
210 because both APR and APR-util resolve their installation paths at
211 configuration time. This means that there is no variable prefix
212 to replace. [Andreas Hasenack <andreas@netbank.com.br>]
214 *) AIX 4.3.2 and above: Define SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT.
215 These levels of AIX don't have a thundering herd problem with
216 accept(). [Jeff Trawick]
218 *) prefork MPM: Ignore mutex errors during graceful restart. For
219 certain types of mutexes (particularly SysV semaphores), we
220 should expect to occasionally fail to obtain or release the
221 mutex during restart processing. [Jeff Trawick]
223 *) Fix install-bindist.sh so that it finds any perl instead of just
224 early perl 5.x versions. This is consistent with a build/install
225 from source, and it allows the perl scripts installed by a bindist
226 to work on systems with perl 5.6. [Jeff Trawick]
228 *) Fix apxs so that the makefile created by "apxs -g" works on AIX and
229 Tru64 (and probably some other platforms). [Jeff Trawick]
231 *) Allow CGI scripts to return their Content-Length. This also fixes a
232 hang on HEAD requests seen on certain platforms (such as FreeBSD).
235 *) Added log rotation based on file size to the RotateLog support
236 utility. [Brad Nicholes]
238 *) Fix some casting in mod_rewrite which broke random maps.
239 PR 9770 [Allan Edwards, Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
241 Changes with Apache 2.0.37
243 *) allow POST method over SSL when per-directory client cert
244 authentication is used with 'SSLOptions +OptRenegotiate' enabled
245 and a client cert was found in the ssl session cache.
247 *) 'SSLOptions +OptRengotiate' will use client cert in from the ssl
248 session cache when there is no cert chain in the cache. prior to
249 the fix this situation would result in a FORBIDDEN response and
250 error message "Cannot find peer certificate chain"
253 *) ap_finalize_sub_req_protocol() shouldn't send an EOS bucket if
254 one was already sent. PR 9644 [Jeff Trawick]
256 *) Fix the display of the default name for the mime types config
257 file. PR 9729 [Matthew Brecknell <mbrecknell@orchestream.com>]
259 *) Fix the working directory *for WinNT/2K/XP services only* to
260 change to the Apache directory (one level above the location
261 of Apache.exe, in the case that Apache.exe resides in bin/.)
262 Solves the case of ServerRoot /foo paths where /foo was not
263 on the same drive as /winnt/system32. [William Rowe]
265 *) Make 2.0's "AcceptMutex" startup message now "completely"
266 match how 1.3 does it. [Jim Jagielski]
268 *) Implement a fixed size memory cache using a priority queue
271 *) Fix apxs to allow "apxs -q installbuilddir" and to allow
272 querying certain other variables from config_vars.mk. PR 9316
275 *) Added the "detached" attribute to the cgi_exec_info_t internals
276 so that Win32 and Netware won't create a new window or console
277 for each CGI invoked. PR 8387
278 [Brad Nicholes, William Rowe]
280 *) Consolidated the command line parameters and attributes that are
281 manipulated by the optional function ap_cgi_build_command() in
282 mod_cgi into a single structure.
285 *) Get rid of uninitialized value errors with "apxs -q" on certain
286 variables. [Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org>]
288 *) Fix apxs to allow it to work when the build directory is somewhere
289 besides server-root/build. PR 8453
290 [Jeff Trawick and a host of others]
292 *) Allow ap_discard_request_body to be called multiple times in the
293 same request. Essentially, ap_http_filter keeps track of whether
294 it has sent an EOS bucket up the stack, if so, it will only ever
295 send an EOS bucket for this request.
296 [Ryan Bloom, Justin Erenkrantz, Greg Stein]
298 *) Remove all special mod_ssl URIs. This also fixes the bug where
299 redirecting (.*) will allow an SSL protected page to be viewed
300 without SSL. [Ryan Bloom]
302 *) Fix the binary build install script so that the build logic
303 created by "apxs -g" will work when the user has a binary
304 build. [Jeff Trawick]
306 *) Allow instdso.sh to work with full paths to the shared module.
309 *) NetWare: Enabled CGI functionality and added mod_cgi as a built
310 in module for NetWare [Brad Nicholes]
312 *) Changed cgi and piped log behavior to accept 65536 characters
313 on Win32 (matching Linux) before deadlocking between outputing
314 client stdin, slurping the output from stdout and then the stderr
315 stream. PR 8179 [William Rowe]
317 *) Fixed Win32 wintty.exe support to assure the window title is valid.
318 Elimiates possible gpfault or garbage title without the -t option.
321 *) Rewrite mod_cgi, mod_cgid, and mod_proxy input handling to use
322 brigades and input filters. [Justin Erenkrantz]
324 *) Allow ap_http_filter (HTTP_IN) to return EOS when there is no request
325 body. [Justin Erenkrantz]
327 *) NetWare: Piping log entries through RotateLogs using the
328 CustomLogs directive is finally supported now that we have
329 the pipes and spawning functionality working.
332 *) Detect overflow when reading the hex bytes forming a chunk line.
335 *) Allow RewriteMap prg:'s to take command-line arguments. PR 8464.
336 [James Tait <JTait@wyrddreams.demon.co.uk>]
338 *) Correctly return 413 when an invalid chunk size is given on
339 input. Also modify ap_discard_request_body to not do anything
340 on sub-requests or when the connection will be dropped.
343 *) Fix the TIME_* SSL var lookups to be threadsafe. PR 9469.
346 *) Ensure that apr_brigade_write() flushes in all of the cases that
347 it should to avoid conditions in some modules that could cause
348 large amounts of data to be buffered. [Cliff Woolley]
350 *) Fix problem where mod_cache/mod_disk_cache was incorrectly
351 stripping the content_type from cached responses.
354 *) apachectl passes through any httpd options. Note: apachectl
355 should be used in preference to httpd since it ensures that any
356 appropriate environment variables have been set up.
359 *) Fix the combination of mod_cgid, mod_setuexec, and mod_userdir.
360 PR 7810 [Colm MacCarthaigh <colmmacc@redbrick.dcu.ie>]
362 *) Fix suexec execution of CGI scripts from mod_include.
363 PR 7791, 8291 [Colm MacCarthaigh <colmmacc@redbrick.dcu.ie>]
365 *) Fix segfaults at startup on some platforms when mod_auth_digest,
366 mod_suexec, or mod_ssl were used as DSO's due to the way they
367 were tracking the current init phase since DSO's get completely
368 unloaded and reloaded between phases. PR 9413.
369 [Tsuyoshi Sasamoto <nazonazo@super.win.ne.jp>, Brad Nicholes]
371 *) Fix mod_include's handling of regular expressions in
372 "<!--#if" directives [Julius Gawlas <julius_gawlas@hp.com>]
374 *) Fix the worker MPM deadlock problem [Brian Pane]
376 *) Modify the module documentation to allow for translations.
377 [Yoshiki Hayashi, Joshua Slive]
379 *) Fix a file permissions problem which prevented mod_disk_cache
380 from working on Unix. [Jeff Trawick]
382 *) Add "-k start|restart|graceful|stop" support to httpd for the Unix
383 MPMs. These have semantics very similar to the old apachectl
384 commands of the same name. [Justin Erenkrantz, Jeff Trawick]
386 *) Make sure that the runtime dir is created by make install.
387 PR 9233. [Jeff Trawick]
389 *) Fix an unusual set of ./configure arguments that could cause
390 mod_http to be built as a DSO, which it currently doesn't
392 [Cliff Woolley, Robin Johnson <robbat2@orbis-terrarum.net>]
394 *) Win32: Fix bug in apr_sendfile() that caused incorrect operation
395 of the %X, %b and %B logformat options. PR 8253, 8996.
398 *) If content-encoding is already present, do not run deflate (PR 9222)
399 [Kazuhisa ASADA <kaz@asada.sytes.net>]
401 *) The APLOG_NOERRNO flag to ap_log_[r]error() is now deprecated.
402 It is currently ignored and it will be removed in a future release
403 of Apache. [Jeff Trawick]
405 *) Removed documentation references to the no-longer-supported
406 "make certificate" feature of mod_ssl for Apache 1.3.x. Test
407 certificates, if truly desired, can be generated using openssl
408 commands. PR 8724. [Cliff Woolley]
410 *) Remove SSLLog and SSLLogLevel directives in favor of having
411 mod_ssl use the standard ErrorLog directives. [Justin Erenkrantz]
413 *) OS/390: LIBPATH no longer has to be manually uncommented in
414 envvars to get apachectl to set up httpd properly. [Jeff Trawick]
416 *) mod_isapi: All mod_isapi directives, excluding ISAPICacheFile,
417 may now be specified to the <File/Directory > container, rather
418 than by vhost. [William Rowe]
420 *) mod_isapi: Experimental support for faux async support for ISAPI
421 modules. [William Rowe]
423 *) mod_isapi: Major refactoring of the code to rely on apr internals
424 rather than MS APIs (using our own mod_isapi.h headers for ISAPI
425 symbol definitions.) [William Rowe]
427 *) mod_isapi: Fixed the return string length from GetServerVariable
428 callback, it was not including the trailing null in the consumed
429 buffer size. This was particularly bad for Delphi 6.0 users.
430 PR 8934 [Sebastian Hantsch <sebastian.hantsch@gmx.de>]
432 *) Fixed Win32 builds for Microsoft VisualStudio 7.0 (.net).
435 *) Make apxs look in the correct directory for envvars. It was
436 broken when sbindir != bindir. PR 8869
437 [Andreas Sundström <sunkan@zappa.cx>]
439 *) Fix mod_deflate corruption when using multiple buckets. PR 9014.
440 [Asada Kazuhisa <kaz@asada.sytes.net>]
442 *) Performance enhancements for access logger when using
443 default timestamp formatting [Brian Pane]
445 *) Added EnableMMAP config directive to enable the server
446 administrator to disable memory-mapping of delivered files
447 on a per-directory basis. [Brian Pane]
449 *) Performance enhancements for mod_setenvif [Brian Pane]
451 *) Fix a mod_ssl build problem on OS/390. [Jeff Trawick]
453 *) Fixed If-Modified-Since on Win32, which would give false positives
454 because of the sub-second resolution of file timestamps on that
455 platform. [Cliff Woolley]
457 *) Reverse the hook ordering for mod_userdir and mod_alias so
458 that Alias/ScriptAlias will override Userdir. PR 8841
461 *) Move mod_deflate out of experimental and into filters.
464 *) Get proxy CONNECT basically working. [Jeff Trawick]
466 *) Fix mod_rewrite hang when APR uses SysV Semaphores and
467 RewriteLogLevel is set to anything other than 0. PR: 8143
468 [Aaron Bannert, Cliff Woolley]
470 *) Fix byterange requests from returning 416 when using dynamic data
471 (such as filters like mod_include). [Justin Erenkrantz]
473 *) Allow mod_rewrite's set of "int:" internal RewriteMap functions
474 to be extended by third-party modules via an optional function.
475 [Tahiry Ramanamampanoharana <nomentsoa@hotmail.com>, Cliff Woolley]
477 *) Fix mod_include expression parser's handling of unquoted strings
478 followed immediately by a closing paren. PR 8462. [Brian Pane]
480 *) Remove autom4te.cache in 'make distclean'.
481 [Thom May <thom@planetarytramp.net>]
483 *) Fix generated httpd.conf to respect layout for LoadModule lines.
484 PR 8170. [Thom May <thom@planetarytramp.net>]
486 *) Win32: During a graceful restart, threads in the new process
487 were accessing scoreboard slots still in use by active threads in
488 the the old process. [Bill Stoddard]
490 Changes with Apache 2.0.36
492 *) Fix some minor formatting issues with ab. Part of this is
493 in reference to PR 8544, the rest I noticed while testing
494 the PR fix. [Paul J. Reder]
496 *) Fix a case where an invalid pass phrase is entered and an
497 error message is given, but the prompt is not shown again.
498 This left the user in an ambiguous state. PR 8320 [Paul J. Reder]
500 *) Close sockets on worker MPM when doing a graceless restart.
503 *) Reverted a minor optimization in mod_ssl.c that used the vhost ID
504 as the session id context rather that a MD5 hash of that vhost ID,
505 because it caused very long vhost id's to be unusable with mod_ssl.
506 PR 8572. [Cliff Woolley]
508 *) Fix the link to the description of the CoredumpDirectory
509 directive in the server-wide document. PR 8643. [Jeff Trawick]
511 *) Fixed SHMCB session caching. [Aaron Bannert, Cliff Woolley]
513 *) Synced with remaining changes from mod_ssl 2.8.8-1.3.24:
514 - Avoid SIGBUS on sparc machines with SHMCB session caches
515 - Allow whitespace between the pipe and the name of the
516 program in SSLLog "| /path/to/program". [Cliff Woolley]
518 *) Introduce mod_ext_filter and mod_deflate experimental modules
519 to the Win32 build (zlib sources must be in srclib\zlib.)
522 *) Changes to the worker MPM's queue management and thread
523 synchronization code to reduce mutex contention [Brian Pane]
525 *) Don't install *.in configuration files since we already install
526 *-std.conf files. [Aaron Bannert]
528 *) Many improvements to the threadpool MPM. [Aaron Bannert]
530 *) Fix subreqs that are promoted via fast_redirect from having invalid
531 frec->r structures. This would cause subtle errors later on in
532 request processing such as seen in PR 7966. [Justin Erenkrantz]
534 *) More efficient pool recycling logic for the worker MPM [Brian Pane]
536 *) Modify the worker MPM to not accept() new connections until
537 there is an available worker thread. This prevents queued
538 connections from starving for processing time while long-running
539 connections were hogging all the available threads. [Aaron Bannert]
541 *) Convert the worker MPM's fdqueue from a LIFO back into a FIFO.
544 *) Get basic HTTP proxy working on EBCDIC machines. [Jeff Trawick]
546 *) Allow mod_unique_id to work on systems with no IPv4 address
547 corresponding to their host name. [Jeff Trawick]
549 *) Fix suexec behavior with user directories. PR 7810.
550 [Colm <colmmacc@redbrick.dcu.ie>]
552 *) Reject a blank UserDir directive since it is ambiguous. PR 8472.
555 *) Make mod_mime use case-insensitive matching when examining
556 extensions on all platforms. PR 8223. [Justin Erenkrantz]
558 *) Add an intelligent error message should no proxy submodules be
559 valid to handle a request. PR 8407 [Graham Leggett]
561 *) Major improvements in concurrent processing for AB by enabling
562 non-blocking connect()s and preventing APR from doing blocking
563 read()s. Also implement fatal error checking for apr_recv().
566 *) Fix Win32 NTFS Junctions (symlinks). PR 8014 [William Rowe]
568 *) Fix Win32 'short name' aliases in httpd.conf directives.
569 PR 8009 [William Rowe]
571 *) Fix generation of default httpd.conf when the layout paths are
572 disjoint. PR 7979, 8227. [Justin Erenkrantz]
574 *) Swap downgrade-1.0 and force-response-1.0 conditional checks so
575 that downgraded responses can have force-response. PR 8357.
578 *) Fix perchild MPM so that it can be configured with the move to the
579 experimental directory. [Scott Lamb <slamb@slamb.org>]
581 *) Fix perchild MPM so that it uses ap_gname2id for groups instead of
582 ap_uname2id. [Scott Lamb <slamb@slamb.org>]
584 *) Fix AcceptPathInfo. PR 8234 [Cliff Woolley]
586 *) SECURITY: Added the APLOG_TOCLIENT flag to ap_log_rerror() to
587 explicitly tell the server that warning messages should be sent
588 to the client in addition to being recorded in the error log.
589 Prior to this change, ap_log_rerror() always sent warning
590 messages to the client. In one case, a faulty CGI script caused
591 the server to send a warning message to the client that contained
592 the full path to the CGI script. This could be considered a
593 minor security exposure. [Bill Stoddard]
595 *) mod_autoindex output when SuppressRules was specified would
596 omit the first carriage return so the first item in the list
597 would appear to the right of the column headings instead of
598 underneath them. PR 8016 [David Shane Holden <dpejesh@yahoo.com>]
600 *) Moved the call to apr_mmap_dup outside the error branch so
601 that it would actually get called. This fixes a core dump
602 at init everytime you use the MMapFile directive. PR 8314
605 *) Trigger an error when a LoadModule directive attempts to
606 load a module which is built-in. This is a common error when
607 switching from a DSO build to a static build. [Jeff Trawick]
609 *) Change instdso.sh to use libtool --install everywhere and then
610 clean up some stray files and symlinks that libtool leaves around
611 on some platforms. This gets subversion building properly since
612 it needed a re-link to be performed by libtool at install time,
613 and the old instdso.sh logic to simply cp the DSO didn't handle
614 that requirement. [Sander Striker]
616 *) Allow VPATH builds to succeed when configured from an empty
617 directory. [Thom May <thom@planetarytramp.net>]
619 *) Fix 'control reaches end of non-void function' warning in
620 server/log.c. [Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net>]
622 *) Perchild MPM is now correctly deemed as experimental and is now
623 located in server/mpm/experimental. [Justin Erenkrantz]
625 *) Fix segfault in mod_mem_cache when garabge collecting an expired
626 cache entry. [Bill Stoddard]
628 *) Introduced -E startup_logfile_name option to httpd to allow admins
629 to begin logging errors immediately. This provides Win32 users
630 an alternative to sending startup errors to the event viewer, and
631 allows other daemon tool authors an alternative to logging to stderr.
634 *) Fix subreqs with non-defined Content-Types being served improperly.
637 *) Merge in latest GNU config.guess and config.sub files. PR 7818.
640 *) Move 100 - Continue support to the HTTP_IN filter so that filters
641 are guaranteed to support 100 - Continue logic without any
642 intervention. [Justin Erenkrantz]
644 *) Add HTTP chunked input trailer support. [Justin Erenkrantz]
646 *) Rename and export get_mime_headers as ap_get_mime_headers.
649 *) Allow empty Host: header arguments. PR 7441. [Justin Erenkrantz]
651 *) Properly substitute sbindir as httpd's location in apachectl. PR 7840.
652 [Andreas Hasenack <andreas@netbank.com.br>]
654 *) Allow Win32 shebang scripts to follow the path (or omit the .exe
655 suffix from the shebang command), and allow ScriptInterpreterSource
656 Registry or RegistryStrict to override shebang lines, as 1.3 did.
657 PR 8004 [William Rowe]
659 *) worker MPM: Fix a situation where a child exited without releasing
660 the accept mutex. Depending on the OS and mutex mechanism this
661 could result in a hang. [Jeff Trawick]
663 *) Update the instructions for how to get started with mod_example.
666 *) Fix PidFile to default to rel_runtimedir instead of
667 rel_logfiledir. PR 7841. [Andreas Hasenack <andreas@netbank.com.br>]
669 *) Win32: Fix problem that caused rapid performance degradation
670 when number of connecting clients exceeded ThreadsPerChild.
673 *) Fixed a segfault parsing large SSIs on non-mmap systems.
676 *) Proxy was bombing out every second keepalive request, caused by a
677 stray CRLF before the second response's status line. Proxy now
678 tries to read one more line if it encounters a CRLF where it
679 expected a status. PR 10010 [Graham Leggett]
681 *) Deprecated the apr_lock.h API. Please see the following files
682 for the improved thread and process locking and signaling:
683 apr_proc_mutex.h, apr_thread_mutex.h, apr_thread_rwlock.h,
684 apr_thread_cond.h, and apr_global_mutex.h. [Aaron Bannert]
686 *) Change mod_status to use scoreboard accessor functions so it can
687 be used in any MPM without having to be recompiled.
688 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
690 *) Fix parsing of some AP_DECLARE_DATA declarations so that the filter
691 handle declarations are recognized. This fixes problems loading
692 mod_autoindex on some platforms. [Brian Havard]
694 *) add optional fixup hook to proxy [Daniel Lopez <daniel@covalent.net>]
696 *) Remind the admin about the User and Group directives when we are
697 unable to set permissions on a semaphore. PR 7812 [Jeff Trawick]
699 *) fix possible compilation problem in ssl_engine_kernel.c. PR 7802
702 *) fix possible infinite loop in mod_ssl triggered by certain
703 netscape clients [Doug MacEachern]
705 *) fix ProxyPass when frontend is https and backend is http
708 *) Add DASL support to mod_dav
709 [Sung Kim <hunkim@cse.ucsc.edu>]
711 Changes with Apache 2.0.35
713 *) mod_rewrite: updated to use the new APR global mutex type.
716 *) Fixes for mod_include errors on boundary conditions in which
717 "<!--#" occurs at the very end of a bucket
718 [Paul Reder, Brian Pane]
720 *) worker, prefork, perchild, beos MPMs: Add -DFOREGROUND switch to
721 cause the Apache parent process to run in the foreground (similar to
722 -DNO_DETACH except that it doesn't switch session ids).
725 *) Added support for Posix semaphore mutex locking (AcceptMutex posixsem)
726 for those platforms that support it. If using the default
727 implementation, this is between pthread and sysvsem in priority.
728 This implies it's the new default for Darwin. [Jim Jagielski]
730 *) AIX: Fix the syntax for setting the LDR_CNTRL and AIXTHREAD_SCOPE
731 environment variables in the envvars file. [Jeff Trawick]
733 *) worker MPM: Don't create a listener thread until we have a worker
734 thread. Otherwise, in situations where we'll have to wait a while
735 to take over scoreboard slots from a previous generation, we'll be
736 accepting connections we can't process yet. [Jeff Trawick]
738 *) Allow worker MPM to build on systems without pthread_kill().
739 [Pier Fumagalli, Jeff Trawick]
741 *) Prevent ap_add_output_filters_by_type from being called in
742 ap_set_content_type if the content-type hasn't changed.
745 *) Performance: implemented the bucket allocator made possible by the
746 API change in 2.0.34. [Cliff Woolley]
748 *) Don't allow initialization to succeed if we can't get a socket
749 corresponding to one of the Listen statements. [Jeff Trawick]
751 Changes with Apache 2.0.34
753 *) Allow all Perchild directives to accept either numerical UID/GID
754 or logical user/group names. [Scott Lamb <slamb@slamb.org>]
756 *) Make Perchild compile cleanly and serve pages again. [Ryan Bloom]
758 *) implement ssl proxy to support ProxyPass / https:// and the
759 SSLProxy* directives [Doug MacEachern]
761 *) Update mod_cgid to not do single-byte socket reads for CGI headers
764 *) Made AB's use of the Host: header rfc2616 compliant
765 by Taisuke Yamada <tai@iij.ad.jp> [Dirk-Willem van Gulik].
767 *) The old, legacy (and unused) code in which the scoreboard was totally
768 and completely contained in a file (SCOREBOARD_FILE) has been
769 removed. This does not affect scoreboards which are *mapped* to
770 files using named-shared-memory. [Jim Jagielski]
772 *) Change bucket brigades API to allow a "bucket allocator" to be
773 passed in at certain points. This allows us to implement freelists
774 so that we can stop using malloc/free so frequently.
775 [Cliff Woolley, Brian Pane]
777 *) Add support for macro expansion within the variable names in
778 <!--#echo--> and <!--#set--> directives [Brian Pane]
780 *) Fix some mod_include segfaults [Cliff Woolley, Brian Pane, Brad Nicholes]
782 *) Update the "RedHat" Layout to match Red Hat Linux version 7. PR BZ-7422
785 *) add compat layer to support RSA SSLC 1.x and 2.x in mod_ssl
786 [Jon Travis, John Barbee, William Rowe, Ryan Bloom, Doug MacEachern]
788 *) Add a new parameter to the quick_handler hook to instruct
789 quick handlers to optionally do a lookup rather than actually
790 serve content. This is the first of several changes required fix
791 several problems with how quick handlers work with subrequests.
794 *) worker MPM: Get MaxRequestsPerChild to work again. [Jeff Trawick]
796 *) [APR-related] The ordering of the default accept mutex method has
797 been changed to better match what's done in Apache 1.3. The ordering
798 is now (highest to lowest): pthread -> sysvsem -> fcntl -> flock.
801 *) Ensure that the build/ directory is created when using VPATH.
804 *) Add some popular types to the mime magic file. PR 7730.
805 [Linus Walleij <triad@df.lth.se>, Justin Erenkrantz]
807 *) Remove the single-byte socket reads for CGI headers [Brian Pane]
809 *) When a proxied site was being served, Apache was replacing
810 the original site Server header with it's own, which is not
811 allowed by RFC2616. Fixed. [Graham Leggett]
813 *) Fix a mod_cgid problem that left daemon processes stranded
814 in some server restart scenarios. [Jeff Trawick]
816 *) Added exp_foo and rel_foo variables to config_vars.mk for
817 all Apache and Autoconf path variables (like --sysconfdir,
818 --sbindir, etc). exp_foo is the "expanded" version, which means
819 that all internal variable references have been interpolated.
820 rel_foo is the same as $exp_foo, only relative to $prefix if they
821 share a common path. [Aaron Bannert]
823 *) Fix some restart/terminate problems in the worker MPM. Don't
824 drop connections during graceful restart. [Jeff Trawick]
826 *) Change the header merging behaviour in proxy, as some headers
827 (like Set-Cookie) cannot be unmerged due to stray commas in
828 dates. [Graham Leggett]
830 *) Be more vocal about what AcceptMutex values we allow, to make
831 us closer to how 1.3 does it. [Jim Jagielski]
833 *) Get nph- CGI scripts working again. PRs 8902, 8907, 9983
836 *) Upgraded PCRE library to latest version 3.9 [Brian Pane]
838 *) Add accessor function to set r->content_type. From now on,
839 ap_rset_content_type() should be used to set r->content_type.
840 This change is required to properly implement the
841 AddOutputFilterByType configuration directive.
842 [Bill Stoddard, Sander Striker, Ryan Bloom]
844 *) Add new M_FOO symbols for the WebDAV/DeltaV methods specified by
845 RFC 3253. Improved the method name/number mapping functions.
848 *) remove sock_enable_linger from connection.c [Ian Holsman]
850 *) Fix for virtual host processing where the requested hostname
851 has a '.' at the end (PR 9187) [Ryan Cruse <ryan@estara.com>]
853 *) mod_dav's APIs for REPORT response handling was changed so that
854 providers can generate the content directly into the output filter
855 stack, rather than buffering the response into memory. [Greg Stein]
857 *) Fix a hang condition with graceful restart and prefork MPM
858 in the situation where MaxClients is very high but
859 much fewer servers are actually started at the time of the
860 restart. [Jeff Trawick]
862 *) Small performance fixes for mod_include [Brian Pane]
864 *) Performance improvement for the error logger [Brian Pane]
866 *) Change configure so that Solaris 8 and above have
867 SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT defined by default.
868 according to sun people solaris 8+ doesn't have a thundering
869 herd problem [Ian Holsman]
871 *) Allow URIs specifying CGI scripts to include '/' at the end
872 (e.g., /cgi-bin/printenv/) on AIX and Solaris (and other OSs
873 which ignore '/' at the end of the names of non-directories).
874 PR 10138 [Jeff Trawick]
876 *) implement SSLSessionCache shmht and shmcb based on apr_rmm and
877 apr_shm. [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli@hp.com>]
879 *) Fix apxs -g handling. Move config_vars.mk from the top build
880 directory to the build directory. PR 10163 [Jeff Trawick]
882 *) Fix some mod_include problems which broke evaluation of some
883 expressions. PR 10108 [Jeff Trawick]
885 *) Fix the calculation of request time in mod_status. [Stas Bekman]
887 *) Fix the calculation of thread_num in the worker score structure.
890 *) Use apr_atomic operations in managing the mod_mem_cache
891 cache_objects for SMP scalability. (see USE_ATOMICS
892 preprocessor directive in mod_file_cache)
895 *) Add filehandle caching to mod_mem_cache. (see CACHE_FD
896 preprocessor directive in mod_file_cache)
899 *) Implement prototype mod_disk_cache for use with mod_cache.
902 *) Add a missing manualdir entry in the Debian config.layout.
903 [Thom May <thom@planetarytramp.net>]
905 *) Stop installing libtool for APR and tell APR where it should place
906 its copy of libtool (via our installbuildpath layout variable).
909 *) New directive ProxyIOBufferSize. Sets the size of the buffer used
910 when reading from a remote HTTP server in proxy. [Graham Leggett]
912 *) Modify receive/send loop in proxy_http and proxy_ftp so that
913 should it be necessary, the remote server socket is closed before
914 transmitting the last buffer (set by ProxyIOBufferSize) to the
915 client. This prevents the backend server from being forced to hang
916 around while the last few bytes are transmitted to a slow client.
917 Fix the case where no error checking was performed on the final
918 brigade in the loop. [Graham Leggett]
920 *) Scrap CacheMaxExpireMin and CacheDefaultExpireMin. Change
921 CacheMaxExpire and CacheDefaultExpire to use seconds rather than
922 hours. [Graham Leggett, Bill Stoddard]
924 *) New Directive SSIUndefinedEcho. to change the '(none)' echoed
925 for a undefined variable. [Ian Holsman]
927 *) Proxy HTTP and CONNECT: Keep trying other addresses from the DNS
928 when we can't get a socket in the specified address family. We may
929 have gotten back an IPv6 address first and yet our system is not
930 configured to allow IPv6 sockets. [Jeff Trawick]
932 *) Be more careful about recursively removing CVS directories. Make
933 sure that we aren't cd'ing to their home directory first. PR: 9993
934 [Aaron Bannert, James LewisMoss <dres@lewismoss.net>]
936 *) Add a missing errordir entry in the Debian config.layout. PR: 10067
937 [Dirk-Jan Faber <dirk-jan@selwerd.nl>, Aaron Bannert,
938 Thom May <thom@planetarytramp.net>]
940 *) Rename the filter ordering priorities. The recent filtering fixes
941 have showcased problems with their usage. Therefore, we need to
942 rename them to increase the clarity. (CONTENT->RESOURCE,
943 HTTP_HEADER->CONTENT_SET/PROTOCOL) [Justin Erenkrantz]
945 Changes with Apache 2.0.33
947 *) Fix a problem in the new --enable-layout functionality where
948 it wouldn't allow overrides from variables like --prefix,
949 --bindir, etc. [Thom May <thom@planetarytramp.net>]
951 *) Fix a bug in the core input filter for AP_MODE_EXHAUSTIVE. It
952 no longer hangs around waiting for the socket to close before
953 returning exhaustive data. [Aaron Bannert]
955 *) rename apr_exploded_time_t to apr_time_exp_t (as per renames pending)
956 [Thom May <thom@planetarytramp.net>]
958 *) Change mod_ssl to always do a full startup/teardown on restarts.
959 this allows mod_ssl to be added to a server that is already
960 running and makes it possible to add/change certs/keys after the
961 server has been started. [Doug MacEachern]
963 *) Introduce PassPhraseDialog "|/path/to/pipe" mechanism to mod_ssl.
964 This pipe must be a bidirectional 'console' style relay, which
965 mod_ssl prints all prompts to the pipe's stdin, and reads the
966 passphrases from the pipe's stdout. [William Rowe]
968 *) Fix bug where --sysconfdir and --localstatedir were being
969 ignored. [Thom May <thom@planetarytramp.net>, Aaron Bannert]
972 *) Fix --enable-layout to work again. Caution: When specifying
973 --enable-layout, common arguments like --prefix, --exec-prefix,
974 etc. will be ignored and the settings from the layout will be
975 used instead. [Thom May <thom@planetarytramp.net>, Aaron Bannert]
978 *) New Directive for mod_proxy: ProxyRemoteMatch. This provides
979 regex pattern matching for the determination of which requests
980 to use the remote proxy for. [Jim Jagielski]
982 *) Fix CustomLog bytes-sent with HTTP 0.9. [Justin Erenkrantz]
984 *) Prevent Apache from ignoring SIGHUP due to some lingering 1.3
985 cruft in piped logs and rewritemap child processes.
988 *) All instances of apr_lock_t have been removed and converted
989 to one of the following new lock APIs: apr_thread_mutex.h,
990 apr_proc_mutex.h, or apr_global_mutex.h. No new code should
991 use the apr_lock.h API, as the old API will soon be deprecated.
994 *) Merged in changes to mod_ssl up through 2.8.7-1.3.23.
995 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Cliff Woolley]
997 *) mod-include: make it handle flush'es and fix the 'false-alarm'
998 [Justin Erenkrantz, Brian Pane, Ian Holsman]
1000 *) ap_get_*_filter_handle() functions to allow 3rd party modules
1001 to lookup filter handles so they can bypass the filter name
1002 lookup when adding filters to a request (via ap_add_*_filter_handle())
1003 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
1005 *) Fix for multiple file buckets on Win32, where the first file
1006 bucket would cause the immediate closure of the socket on any
1007 non-keepalive requests. [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
1009 *) Correct Win32 failure of mmap of a segment beyond start of the
1010 file; fixes large SSL and similar transfers. [William Rowe]
1013 *) Implement apr_proc_detach changes and allow -DNO_DETACH in the
1014 multi-process mode to not "daemonize" while detaching from the
1015 controlling terminal. This is necessary for Apache to work with
1016 process-management tools like AIX's "System Resource Controller"
1017 as well as Dan Bernstein's "daemontools".
1018 [Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com>, Aaron Bannert]
1020 *) Convert mod_auth_digest to use the new apr_global_mutex_t
1021 type. [Aaron Bannert]
1023 *) fix bug in mod-include where it wouldn't send a unmatched
1024 part if it was at the end of a bucket [Ian Holsman]
1026 *) worker MPM: Improve logging of errors with the interface between
1027 the listener thread and worker threads. [Jeff Trawick]
1029 *) Some browsers ignore cookies that have been merged into a
1030 single Set-Cookie header. Set-Cookie and Set-Cookie2 headers
1031 are now unmerged in the http proxy before being sent to the
1032 client. [Graham Leggett]
1034 *) Fix a problem with proxy where each entry of a duplicated
1035 header such as Set-Cookie would overwrite and obliterate the
1036 previous value of the header, resulting in multiple header
1037 values (like cookies) going missing.
1038 [Graham Leggett, Joshua Slive]
1040 *) Add the server-limit and thread-limit values to the scoreboard
1041 for the sake of third-party applications.
1042 [Adam Sussman <myddryn@vishnu.vidya.com>]
1044 *) Fix segfault when proxy recieves an invalid HTTP response [Ian Holsman]
1046 *) OS/390: Get make install to properly copy DSO modules.
1049 *) Win32: Fix bug in mod_status with displaying "Restart Time"
1050 and "Server uptime".
1053 *) Fix IPv6 name-based virtual hosts. [Jeff Trawick]
1055 *) Introduce AddOutputFilterByType directive. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1057 *) Fix DEBUG_CGI support in mod_cgi. PR 9670, 9671.
1058 [David MacKenzie <djm@pix.net>]
1060 *) Fix incorrect check for script_in in mod_cgi. PR 9669.
1061 [David MacKenzie <djm@pix.net>]
1063 *) Fix segfault and display error when SSLMutex file can not be
1064 created. [Adam Sussman <myddryn@vishnu.vidya.com>]
1066 *) Add reference counting to mod_mem_cache cache objects to
1067 better manage removing objects from the cache.
1070 *) Change the verbage on the ScoreBoardFile in our default configs.
1071 Also change the default to be commented out (unspecified) so we
1072 get anonymous shared memory by default. [Aaron Bannert]
1074 *) Implement new ScoreBoardFile directive logic. This affects how
1075 we create the scoreboard's shared memory segment. If the directive
1076 is present, a name-based segment is created. If the directive is
1077 not present, first an anonymous segment is created, and if that
1078 fails, a name-based segment is created from a file of the name
1079 DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD. This gives third-party applications the
1080 ability to access our scoreboard. [Aaron Bannert]
1082 *) Allow mod_deflate to work with non-GET requests and properly send
1083 Content-Lengths. [Sander Striker <striker@apache.org>]
1085 *) Fix ap_directory_merge() to correctly merge configs when there is
1086 no <Directory /> block. [Justin Erenkrantz, William Rowe]
1088 *) Remove spurious debug messsages that are normal under HTTP
1089 keep-alive logic. [Jeff Trawick, Justin Erenkrantz]
1091 *) Fix a bug in mod_cgid that would prevent proper shutdown death
1092 of the cgid process. [Aaron Bannert]
1094 *) Add signal handling back in to the worker MPM for the one_process
1095 (-X, -DDEBUG, -DONE_PROCESS) case. [Aaron Bannert]
1097 *) Performance: Reuse per-connection transaction pools in the
1098 worker MPM, rather than destroying and recreating them. [Brian Pane]
1100 *) Remove all signals from the worker MPM's child process. Instead,
1101 the parent uses the Pipe of Death for all communication with the
1102 child processes. [Ryan Bloom]
1104 Changes with Apache 2.0.32
1106 *) mod_negotiation: ForceLanguagePriority now uses 'Prefer' as the
1107 default if the directive is not specified. This mirrors older
1108 behavior without changes to the httpd.conf. [William Rowe]
1110 *) Win32: solve the win32 service problems in 2.0.31-alpha, by fixing
1111 the service, mpm and logging code, and bugs in apr_file_open_stderr
1112 and apr_file_dup2 functions. Win2K/XP services have no handles
1113 associated for stdin/out/err, which caused unpredictable behavior
1114 in the prior release. [William Rowe, Bill Stoddard]
1116 *) Win32: simplify the Application Event Log messages, since there isn't
1117 likely to be 'more information in the error log' before an error log
1118 has been opened. [William Rowe]
1120 *) Win32: substantial cleanup to the mpm_winnt code for legibility and
1121 to follow the program flow of other MPMs. [Ryan Bloom, William Rowe]
1123 *) Win32: apache -k shutdown now behaves like apache -k stop.
1126 *) Fix prefork to not kill the parent if a child hits a resource shortage
1127 on accept(). [Greg Ames]
1129 *) Fix seg faults that occur when what should be the httpd request line
1130 starts with \r\n followed by garbage. [Greg Ames]
1132 *) Allow statically linked support binaries with the new
1133 --enable-static-support flag, and enable this behavior in
1134 the binbuild script. Also add a new --enable-static-htdbm
1135 flag. [Aaron Bannert]
1137 *) Allow mod_autoindex to serve symlinks if permitted and attempt to
1138 do only one stat() call when generating the directory listings.
1141 *) Fix resolve_symlink to save the original symlink name if known.
1144 *) Be a bit more sane with regard to CanonicalNames. If the user has
1145 specified they want to use the CanonicalName, but they have not
1146 configured a port with the ServerName, then use the same port that
1147 the original request used. [Ryan Bloom and Ken Coar]
1149 *) In core_input_filter, check for an empty brigade after
1150 APR_BRIGADE_NORMALIZE(). Otherwise, we can get segfaults if a
1151 client says it will post some data but we get FIN before any
1152 data arrives. [Jeff Trawick]
1154 *) Not being able to bind to the socket is a fatal error. We should
1155 print an error to the console, and return a non-zero status code.
1156 With these changes, all of the Unix MPMs do that correctly.
1159 *) suexec: Allow HTTPS and SSL_* environment variables to be passed
1160 through to CGI scripts. PR 9163
1161 [Brian Reid <breid@customlogic.com>,
1162 Zvi Har'El <rl@math.technion.ac.il>]
1164 *) binbuild.sh: Make sure that we use the expat from our source
1165 tree so that there aren't any surprises on the target machine.
1168 *) mod_cgid: Add retry logic for when the daemon can't fork fast
1169 enough to keep up with new requests. Start using
1170 HTTP_SERVER_UNAVAILABLE instead of HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR
1171 when we can't talk to the daemon. [Jeff Trawick]
1173 *) apxs: LTFLAGS envvar can override default libtool options. Try
1174 "LTFLAGS=' ' apxs -c mod_foo.c" to see what libtool does under
1175 the covers. [Jeff Trawick]
1177 *) The Location: response header field, used for external
1178 redirect, *must* be an absoluteURI. The Redirect directive
1179 tested for that, but RedirectMatch didn't -- it would allow
1180 almost anything through. Now it will try to turn an abs_path
1181 into an absoluteURI, but it will correctly varf like Redirect
1182 if the final redirection target isn't an absoluteURI. [Ken Coar]
1184 Changes with Apache 2.0.31
1186 *) Create the scoreboard (in the parent) in a global pool context,
1187 so it survives graceful restarts. This fixes a SEGV during
1188 graceful restarts. [Aaron Bannert]
1190 *) Add a timeout option to the proxy code 'ProxyTimeout'
1193 *) FTP directory listings are now always retrieved in ASCII mode.
1194 The FTP proxy properly escapes URI's and HTML in the generated
1195 listing, and escapes the path components when talking to the FTP
1196 server. It is now possible to browse the root directory by using
1197 a url like: ftp://user@host/%2f/ (ported from apache_1.3.24)
1198 Also, the last path component may contain wildcard characters
1199 '*' and '?', and if they do, a directory listing is created instead
1200 of a file retrieval. Example: ftp://user@host/httpd/server/*.c
1203 *) Added single-listener unserialized accept support to the
1204 worker MPM [Brian Pane]
1206 *) New Directive for mod_proxy: 'ProxyPreserveHost'. This passes
1207 the incoming host header through to the proxied server
1208 [Geoff <g.russell@ieee.org>]
1210 *) New Directive Option for ProxyPass. It now can block a location
1211 from being proxied [Jukka Pihl <jukka.pihl@entirem.com>]
1213 *) Don't let the default handler try to serve a raw directory. At
1214 best you get gibberish. Much worse things can happen depending
1215 on the OS. [Jeff Trawick]
1217 *) Change the pre_config hook to return a value. Modules can now emit
1218 an error message and then cause the server to quit gracefully during
1219 startup. This required a bump to the MMN. [Aaron Bannert]
1221 *) Fix some unix socket descriptor leaks in the handler side of
1222 mod_cgid (the part that runs in the server process). Whack a
1223 silly "close(-1)" in the handler too. [Jeff Trawick]
1225 *) Change the pre_mpm hook to return a value, so that scoreboard
1226 init errors percolate up to code that knows how to exit
1227 cleanly. This required a bump to the MMN. [Jeff Trawick]
1229 *) Add the socket back to the conn_rec and remove the create_connection
1230 hook. The create_connection hook had a design flaw that did not
1231 allow creating connections based on vhost info. [Bill Stoddard]
1233 *) Fixed PATH_INFO and QUERY_STRING from mod_negotiation results.
1234 Resolves the common case of using negotation to resolve the request
1235 /script/foo for /script.cgi/foo. [William Rowe]
1237 *) Added new functions ap_add_(input|output)_filter_handle to
1238 allow modules to bypass the usual filter name lookup when
1239 adding hard-coded filters to a request [Brian Pane]
1241 *) caching should now work on subrequests (still very experimental)
1244 *) The Win32 mpm_winnt now has a shared scoreboard. [William Rowe]
1246 *) Change ap_get_brigade prototype to use apr_off_t instead of apr_off_t*.
1249 *) Refactor ap_rgetline so that it does not use an internal brigade.
1250 Change ap_rgetline's prototype to return errors. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1252 *) Remove mod_auth_db. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1254 *) Do not install unnecessary pcre headers like config.h and internal.h.
1255 [Joe Orton <joe@manyfish.co.uk>]
1257 *) Change in quick_hanlder behavior for subrequests. it now passes DONE
1258 (as it does for a normal request). quick_handled sub-requests now work
1259 in mod-include [Ian Holsman]
1261 *) Change SUBREQ_CORE so that it is a 'HTTP_HEADER' filter instead of
1262 'CONTENT' one, as it needs to run AFTER all content headers
1264 *) Rename BeOS MPM directive RequestsPerThread to MaxRequestsPerThread.
1267 *) Split out blocking from the mode in the input filters.
1270 *) Fix a segfault in mod_include. [Justin Erenkrantz, Jeff Trawick]
1272 *) Cause Win32 to capture all child-worker process errors in
1273 Apache to the main server error log, until the child can
1274 open its own error logs. [William Rowe]
1276 *) HPUX 11.*: Do not kill the child process when accept()
1277 returns ENOBUFS on HPUX 11.*. (ported from a 1.3 patch
1278 by [madhusudan_mathihalli@hp.com])
1281 *) Fix a problem in the parsing of the <Proxy foo> directive.
1284 *) rewrite of mod_ssl input filter for better performance and less
1285 memory usage [Doug MacEachern]
1287 *) allow quick_handler to be run on subrequests. [Ian Holsman]
1289 *) mod_dav now asks its provider to place content directly into the
1290 filter stack when handling a GET request. The mod_dav/provider
1291 API has changed, so providers need to be updated. [Greg Stein]
1293 *) Clear the output socket descriptor in unixd_accept() to make sure
1294 we don't supply a bogus socket to the caller if the accept fails.
1295 This caused problems with the worker MPM, which tried to process
1296 the returned socket if it was non-NULL. [Brian Pane]
1298 *) Move a check for an empty brigade to the start of core input filter
1299 to avoid segfaults. [Justin Erenkrantz, Jeff Trawick]
1301 *) Add FileETag directive to allow configurable control of what
1302 data are used to form ETag values for file-based URIs. MMN
1303 bumped to 20020111 because of fields added to the end of
1304 the core_dir_config structure. [Ken Coar]
1306 *) Fix a segfault in mod_rewrite's logging code caused by passing the
1307 wrong config to ap_get_remote_host(). [Jeff Trawick]
1309 *) Allow mod_cgid to work from a binary distribution install by
1310 using 755 for the permissions on the log directory instead of
1313 *) Fixed a segfault that happened during graceful shutdown (or when
1314 the httpd ran out of file descriptors) with the worker MPM [Brian Pane]
1316 *) Split all Win32 modules [excluding the core components mod_core,
1317 mod_so, mod_win32 and the winnt mpm] into individual loadable
1318 modules, so the administrator may individually disable the former
1319 compiled-in modules by simply commenting out their LoadModule
1320 directives. [William Rowe]
1322 *) Saved Win32 module authors and porters many future headaches, by
1323 duplicating the appropriate .h files such as os.h into the include
1324 directory, including in the build tree. [William Rowe]
1326 *) mod_ssl adjustments to help with using toolkits other than OpenSSL:
1327 Use SSL functions/macros instead of directly dereferencing SSL
1328 structures wherever possible.
1329 Add type-casts for the cases where functions return a generic pointer.
1330 Add $SSL/include to configure search path.
1331 [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli@hp.com>]
1333 *) Moved several pointers out of the shared Scoreboard so it is
1334 more portable, and will present the vhost name across server
1335 generation restarts. [William Rowe]
1337 *) Fix SSLPassPhraseDialog exec: and SSLRandomSeed exec:
1340 Changes with Apache 2.0.30
1342 *) Fix the main bug for FreeBSD and threaded MPM's. There are
1343 still issues (see STATUS) but at least the server will now
1344 run without crashing the machine.
1345 [David Reid, Aaron Bannert, Justin Erenkrantz]
1347 *) Fix a typo in mod_deflate's m4 config section.
1348 [albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)]
1350 *) Fix a couple of mod_proxy problems forwarding HTTP connections
1351 and handling CONNECT:
1352 (1) PR #9190 Proxy failed to connect to IPv6 hosts.
1353 (2) Proxy failed to connect when the first IP address returned by
1354 the resolver was unreachable but a secondary IP address was.
1357 *) Fix the module identifer as shown in the docs for various core
1358 modules (e.g., the identifer for mod_log_config was previously
1359 listed as config_log_module). PR #9338
1360 [James Watson <ap2bug@sowega.org>]
1362 *) Fix LimitRequestBody directive by placing it in the HTTP
1363 filter. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1365 *) Fix mod_proxy seg fault when the proxied server returns
1366 an HTTP/0.9 response or a bogus status line.
1369 *) Prevent mod_proxy from truncating one character off the
1370 end of the status line returned from the proxied server.
1371 [Adam Sussman, Bill Stoddard]
1373 *) Eliminate loop in ap_proxy_string_read().
1374 [Adam Sussman, Bill Stoddard]
1376 *) Provide $0..$9 results from mod_include regex parsing.
1379 *) Allow mod-include to look for alternate start & end tags [Ian Holsman]
1381 *) Introduced the ForceLanguagePriority directive, to prevent
1382 returning MULTIPLE_CHOICES or NONE_ACCEPTABLE in some cases,
1383 when using Multiviews. [William Rowe]
1385 *) Fix a problem which prevented mod_cgid and suexec from working
1386 together reliably [Greg Ames]
1388 *) Remove the call to exit() from within mod_auth_digest's post_config
1389 phase. [Aaron Bannert]
1391 *) Fix a problem in mod_auth_digest that could potentially cause
1392 problems with initialized static data on a system that uses DSOs.
1395 *) Fix a segfault in the worker MPM that could happen during
1396 child process exits. [Brian Pane, Aaron Bannert]
1398 *) Allow mod_auth_dbm to handle multiple DBM types [Ian Holsman]
1400 *) Fix matching of vhosts by ip address so we find IPv4
1401 vhost address when target address is v4-mapped form of
1402 that address. [Jeff Trawick]
1404 *) More performance tweaks to the BNDM string-search algorithm
1405 used to find "<!--#" tokens in mod_include [Brian Pane]
1407 *) Miscellaneous small performance fixes: optimized away various
1408 string copy operations and removed large temp buffers from
1409 the stack [Brian Pane]
1411 *) Fixed startup segfault that occurred when a VirtualHost
1412 directive had a port but no address [Brian Pane]
1414 *) Allow htdbm to work with multiple DBM types [Ian Holsman]
1416 *) Win32: Made change to apr_sendfile() to return APR_ENOTIMPL
1417 if oslevel < WINNT. This should fix several problems reported
1418 Against 2.0.28 on Windows 98 [Bill Stoddard]
1420 *) Win32: Fix bug that could cause CGI scripts with QUERY_STRINGS
1421 to fail. [Bill Stoddard]
1423 *) Change core code to allow an MPM to set hard thread/server
1424 limits at startup. prefork, worker, and perchild MPMs now have
1425 directives to set these limits. [Jeff Trawick]
1427 *) Win32: The async AcceptEx() event should be autoreset upon
1428 successful completion of a wait (WaitForSingleObject). This
1429 eliminates a number of spurious
1430 setsockopt(SO_UPDATE_ACCEPT_CONTEXT) failed." messages.
1433 *) Move any load library path environment variables out of
1434 apachectl and into a separate environment variable file which
1435 can be more easily tailored by the admin. The environment
1436 variable file as built by Apache may have additional system-
1437 specific settings. For example, on OS/390 we tailor the heap
1438 settings to allow lots of threads. [Jeff Trawick]
1440 *) Use the new APR pool code to reduce pool-related lock
1441 contention in the worker MPM. [Sander Striker]
1443 *) The POD no longer assumes the child is listening on 127.0.0.1
1444 and now pulls the first hostname in the list of listeners to
1445 perform the dummy connect on. This fixes a bug when the user
1446 had configured the Listen directive for an IP other than
1447 127.0.0.1. This would result in undead children and error
1448 messages such as "Connection refused: connect to listener".
1451 *) The worker MPM now respects the LockFile setting, needed to
1452 avoid locking problems with NFS. [Jeff Trawick]
1454 *) Fix segfault when worker MPM receives SIGHUP.
1455 [Ian Holsman, Aaron Bannert, Justin Erenkrantz]
1457 *) Fix bug that could potentially prevent the perchild MPM from
1458 working with more than one vhost/uid. [Aaron Bannert]
1460 *) Change make install and apxs -i processing of DSO modules to
1461 perform special handling on platforms where libtool doesn't install
1462 mod_foo.so. This fixes some wonkiness on HP-UX, Tru64, and AIX
1463 which prevented standard LoadModule statements from working.
1466 *) Whenever mod_so is enabled (not just when there are DSOs for
1467 our modules), do whatever special magic is required for compiling/
1468 loading third-party modules. This allows third-party DSOs to
1469 be used on an AIX build when there were no built-in modules
1470 built as DSOs. (This should help on OS/390 and BeOS as well.)
1473 *) Allow apxs to be used to build DSOs on AIX without requiring the
1474 user to hard-code the list of import files. (This should help
1475 on OS/390 and BeOS as well.) [Jeff Trawick]
1477 *) Resolved segfault in mod_isapi when configuring with ISAPICacheFile.
1478 PR 8563, 8919 [William Rowe]
1480 *) Get binary builds working when libapr and libaprutil are built
1483 *) Get shared builds of libapr and libaprutil, as well as Apache DSOs,
1484 working on AIX. [Aaron Bannert, Dick Dunbar <RLDunbar@pacbell.net>,
1485 Gary Hook <ghook@us.ibm.com>, Victor Orlikowski, Jeff Trawick]
1487 *) Fix the handling of SSI directives in which the ">" of the
1488 terminating "-->" is the last byte in a file [Brian Pane]
1490 *) Add back in the "suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /path/to/suexec)"
1491 message that we had back in apache-1.3 and still have scattered
1492 throughout our docs. [Aaron Bannert]
1494 *) Prevent the Win32 port from continuing after encountering an
1495 error in the command line args to apache. [William Rowe]
1497 *) On a error in the proxy, make it write a line to the error log
1500 *) Various mod_ssl performance improvements [Doug MacEachern]
1502 Changes with Apache 2.0.29
1504 *) Add buffering in core_output_filter to ensure that long
1505 lists of small buckets don't cause small packet writes.
1506 [Brian Pane, Ryan Bloom]
1508 *) Fix the installation target to make sure that the manual is
1509 installed in the correct location.
1510 [Yoshifumi Hiramatsu <hiramatu@boreas.dti.ne.jp> and
1511 Gomez Henri <hgomez@slib.fr>]
1513 *) Fix the cmd command for mod_include. When we are processing
1514 a cmd command, we do not want to use the r->filename to set
1515 the command name. The command comes from the SSI tag. To do this,
1516 I added a variable to the function that builds the command line
1517 in mod_cgi. This allows the include_cmd function to specify
1518 the command line itself. [Ryan Bloom]
1520 *) Change open_logs hook to return a value, allowing you
1521 to flag a error while opening logs
1522 [Ian Holsman, Doug MacEachern]
1524 *) Change post_config hook to return a value, allowing you
1525 to flag a error post config
1526 [Ian Holsman, Jeff Trawick]
1528 *) Allow SUEXEC_BIN (the path to the suexec binary that is
1529 hard-coded into the server) to be specified to the configure
1530 script by the --with-suexec-bin parameter. [Aaron Bannert]
1532 *) Fix segv in worker MPM following accept on pipe-of-death
1535 *) Add mod_deflate to experimental.
1536 [Ian Holsman, Justin Erenkrantz]
1538 *) Bail out at configure time if an invalid MPM was specified.
1539 [jean-frederic clere <jfrederic.clere@fujitsu-siemens.com>]
1541 *) Prevent segv in ap_note_basic_auth_failure() when no AuthName is
1542 configured [John Sterling <sterling@covalent.net>]
1544 *) Fix apxs to use sbindir. [Henri Gomez <hgomez@slib.fr>]
1546 *) Fix a problem with IPv6 vhosts. PR #8118 [Jeff Trawick]
1548 *) Optimization for the BNDM string-search function in
1549 mod_include. [Brian Pane]
1551 *) Fixed the behavior of the XBitHack directive.
1552 [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>, Cliff Woolley] PR#8804
1554 *) The threaded MPM for Unix has been removed. Use the worker
1555 MPM instead. [various]
1557 *) APR-ize the resolver logic in mod_unique_id. This fixes a bug
1558 in logging the error from a failed DNS lookup. [Jeff Trawick]
1560 *) Added the missing macros AP_INIT_TAKE13 and AP_INIT_TAKE123.
1563 *) Get mod_cgid killed when a MPM exits due to a fatal error.
1566 *) Fix a file descriptor leak in mod_include. When we include a
1567 file, we use a sub-request, but we didn't destroy the sub-request
1568 immediately, instead we waited until the original request was
1569 done. This patch closes the sub-request as soon as the data is
1570 done being generated. [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
1572 *) Allow modules that add sockets to the ap_listeners list to
1573 define the function that should be used to accept on that
1574 socket. Each MPM can define their own function to use for
1575 the accept function with the MPM_ACCEPT_FUNC macro. This
1576 also abstracts out all of the Unix accept error handling
1577 logic, which has become out of synch across Unix MPMs.
1580 *) Fix a bug which would cause the response headers to be omitted
1581 when sending a negotiated ErrorDocument because the required
1582 filters were attached to the wrong request_rec.
1583 [John Sterling <sterling@covalent.net>]
1585 *) Remove commas from the end of the macros that define
1586 directives that are used by MPMs. Prior to this patch,
1587 you would use these macros without commas, which was unlike
1588 the macros for any other directives. Now, the caller provides
1589 the comma rather than the macro providing it. This makes
1590 the macros look more like the rest of the directives.
1591 [Ryan Bloom and Cliff Woolley]
1593 *) Add 'redirect-carefully' environment option to disable sending
1594 redirects under special circumstances. This is helpful for
1595 Microsoft's WebFolders when accessing a directory resource via
1596 DAV methods. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1598 *) Begin to abstract out the underlying transport layer.
1599 The first step is to remove the socket from the conn_rec,
1600 the server now lives in a context that is passed to the
1601 core's input and output filters. This forces us to be very
1602 careful when adding calls that use the socket directly,
1603 because the socket isn't available in most locations.
1606 *) Really reset the MaxClients value in worker and threaded
1607 when the configured value is not a multiple of the number
1608 of threads per child. We said we did previously but we
1609 forgot to. [Jeff Trawick]
1611 *) Add Debian layout. [Daniel Stone <daniel@sfarc.net>]
1613 *) If shared modules are requested and mod_so is not available,
1614 produce a fatal config-time error. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1616 *) Improve http2env's performance by cutting the work it has to
1617 do. [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
1619 *) use new 'apr_hash_merge' function in mod_mime (performance fix)
1620 [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
1622 Changes with Apache 2.0.28
1624 *) Fix infinite loop in mod_cgid.c.
1625 [Dale Ghent <daleg@elemental.org>, Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
1627 *) When no port is given in a "ServerName host" directive, the
1628 server_rec->port is now set to zero, not 80. That allows for
1629 run-time deduction of the correct server port (depending on
1630 SSL/plain, and depending also on the current setting of
1631 UseCanonicalName). This change makes redirections
1632 work, even with https:// connections. As in Apache-1.3, the
1633 connection's actual port number is never used, only the ServerName
1634 setting or the client's Host: setting. Documentation updated
1635 to reflect the change. [Martin Kraemer]
1637 *) Add a '%{note-name}e' argument to mod-headers, which works in
1638 the same way as mod_log_confg. [Ian Holsman]
1640 *) Fix the spelling of the AP_MPMQ_MIN_SPARE_DAEMONS and
1641 AP_MPMQ_MAX_REQUESTS_DAEMON macros in ap_mpm.h and all standard
1642 MPMs. [Cliff Woolley]
1644 *) Introduce htdbm, a user management utility for db/dbm authorization
1645 databases. [Mladen Turk <mturk@mappingsoft.com>]
1647 *) Optimize usage of strlen and strcat in ap_directory_walk.
1648 [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
1650 Changes with Apache 2.0.27
1652 *) Introduce an Apache mod_ssl initial configuration template
1653 (ssl.conf, generated from ssl-std.conf). [Ralf S. Engelschall]
1655 *) Fixed a memory leak in the getline parsing code that could
1656 be triggered by arbitrarily large header lines. Requests
1657 from the core input filter for single lines are now limited
1658 to HUGE_STRING_LEN (8192 bytes). [Aaron Bannert]
1660 *) Fix a truncation bug in how we print the port on the Via: header.
1661 The routine that prints the Via: header now takes a length for
1662 the port string. [Zvi Har'El <rl@math.technion.ac.il>]
1664 *) Some syntax errors in mod_mime_magic's magic file can result
1665 in a 500 error, which previously was unlogged. Now we log the
1666 error. [Jeff Trawick]
1668 *) Add the support/checkgid helper app, which checks the run-time
1669 validity of group identifiers usable in the Group directive.
1672 *) Various --enable-so options have been fixed: --enable-so is
1673 treated as "static"; explicit --enable-so=shared issues an error;
1674 and explicit --enable-so fails with error on systems without
1675 APR_HAS_DSO. [Aaron Bannert]
1677 *) Fix a segfault in the core input filter when the client socket
1678 gets disconnected unexpectedly. [Cliff Woolley]
1680 *) Fix the reporting for child processes that die. This removes
1681 all of the non-portable W* macros from Apache.
1682 [Jeff Trawick and Ryan Bloom]
1684 *) Win32: Track and display "Parent Server Generation:" in
1685 mod_status output. The generation will be bumped at
1686 server graceful restart, when the child process exits
1687 by hitting MaxRequestsPerChild or if the child
1688 process exits abnormally. [Bill Stoddard]
1690 *) Win32: Fix problem where MaxRequestsPerChild directive was
1691 not being picked up in favor of the default. Enable
1692 the parent to start up a new child process immediately upon
1693 the old child starting shutdown.
1696 *) Fix some bungling of the remote port in rfc1413.c so that
1697 IdentityCheck retrieves the proper user id instead of failing
1698 and thus always returning "nobody."
1699 [Dick Streefland <Dick.Streefland@xs4all.nl>]
1701 *) Introduced thread saftey for mod_rewrite's internal cache.
1702 [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
1704 *) Simplified mod_env's directives to behave as most directives are
1705 expected, in that UnsetEnv will not unset a SetEnv and PassEnv
1706 directive following that UnsetEnv within the same container.
1707 Also provides a runtime startup warning if a PassEnv configured
1708 environment value is undefined. [William Rowe]
1710 *) The worker MPM is now completely ported to APR's new lock API. It
1711 uses native APR types for thread mutexes, cross-process mutexes,
1712 and condition variables. [Aaron Bannert]
1714 *) Sync up documentation to remove all references to the now deprecated
1715 Port directive. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1717 *) Moved all ldap modules from the core to httpd-ldap sub-project
1720 *) Exit when we can't listen on any of the configured ports. This
1721 is the same behavior as 1.3, and it avoids having the MPMs to
1722 deal with bogus ap_listen_rec structures. [Jeff Trawick]
1724 *) Cleanup the proxy code that creates a request to the origin
1725 server. This change adds an optional hook, which allows modules
1726 to gain control while the request is created if the proxy module
1727 is loaded. The purpose of this hook is to allow modules to add
1728 input and/or output filters to the request to the origin. While
1729 I was at it, I made the core use this hook, so that proxy request
1730 creation uses some of the code from the core. This can still be
1731 greatly improved, but this is a good start. [Ryan Bloom]
1733 Changes with Apache 2.0.26
1735 *) Port the MaxClients changes from the worker MPM to the threaded
1738 *) Fix mod_proxy so that it handles chunked transfer-encoding and works
1739 with the new input filtering system. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1741 *) Introduce the MultiviewsMatch directive, to allow the operator
1742 to be flexible in recognizing Handlers and Filters filename
1743 extensions as part of the Multiviews matching logic, strict with
1744 MultiviewsMatch NegotiatedOnly to accept only filename extentions
1745 that designate negotiated parameters, (content type, charset, etc.)
1746 or MultiviewsAll for the 1.3 behavior of matching any files, even
1747 if they have unregistered extensions. [William Rowe]
1749 *) Fixed the configure script to add a LoadModule directive to
1750 the default httpd.conf for any module that was compiled
1751 as a DSO. [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
1753 *) rewrite mod_ssl input filtering to work with the new input filtering
1754 system. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1756 *) prefork: Don't segfault when we are able to listen on some but
1757 not all of the configured ports. [Jeff Trawick]
1759 *) Build mod_so even if no core modules are built shared.
1760 [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
1762 *) Introduce ap_directory_walk rewrite (with further optimizations
1763 required) to adapt to the ap_process_request_internal() changes.
1764 Optimized so subrequests and redirects now reuse previous section
1765 merges, until we mismatch with the original directory_walk, and
1766 precomputed r->finfo results will cause directory_walk to skip
1767 the most expensive phases of the function. [William Rowe]
1769 *) Allow ApacheMonitor to connect to and control Apache on other
1770 WinNT/2K machines. [Mladen Turk <mturk@mappingsoft.com>]
1772 *) Remove the Port directive. In it's place, the Listen directive
1773 is now a required directive, which tells Apache what port to
1774 listen on. The ServerName directive has also been extended
1775 to accept an optional port. If the port is specified to the
1776 ServerName, the server will report that port whenever it
1777 reports the port that it is listening on. This change was
1778 made to ease configuration errors that stem from having a Port
1779 directive, and a Listen directive. In that situation, the server
1780 would only listen to the port specified by the Listen command,
1781 which caused a lot of confusion to users. [Ryan Bloom]
1783 *) Added mod_mime_magic, mod_unique_id and mod_vhost_alias to the Win32
1784 build, as loadable modules. [William Rowe]
1786 *) Fix --enable-mods-shared processing. If most is specified,
1787 then all modules that can be compiled as shared modules are.
1788 [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
1790 *) Update the mime.types file to map video/vnd.mpegurl to mxu
1791 and add commonly used audio/x-mpegurl for m3u extensions.
1792 [Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@uni-bonn.de>, Lars Eilebrecht]
1794 *) Eliminate the depreciated r->content_language, in favor of the array
1795 r->content_languages introduced many years ago. Module authors must
1796 substantially overhaul their modules, so this needs to be upgraded
1797 if the module still relied on backwards-brokeness. [William Rowe]
1799 *) Allow configure help strings to work with autoconf 2.50+ and 2.13.
1802 *) Rewrite the input filtering mechanisms to consolidate and reorganize
1803 code. In short, core_input_filter does something now and
1804 ap_http_filter is now only concerned with HTTP. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1806 *) Update the Win32 build to re-absorb mod_proxy and family.
1809 *) Resolved the build failure on Win32 using MSVC 5.0 (without the
1810 current SDK.) [William Rowe]
1812 *) Some style changes to the code that does ProxyErrorOverride. Fixed
1813 config merge behaviour. [Graham Leggett]
1815 *) Allow support programs to be compiled against a static version
1816 of libapr. This allows the smaller support programs to be
1817 relocated. [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
1819 *) Update the mime.types file to the registered media types as
1820 of 2001-09-25, and add mapping for xsl extension [Mark Cox]
1822 *) Fix MaxClients in the Worker MPM, so that it specifies the maximum
1823 number of clients that can connect at the same time, instead of
1824 specifying the maximum number of child processes.
1825 [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
1827 *) Switch proc_pthread AcceptMutex configuration directive to pthread to
1828 be consistent with 1.3. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1830 *) Cache apr_explode_localtime() value for 15 seconds.
1831 [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
1833 *) Fix mod_include to not return ETag or Last-Modified headers.
1834 [Ian Holsman <ianh@cnet.com>]
1836 *) Fix worker MPM's scoreboard logic. [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
1838 *) Eliminate the wasteful run-time conversion of method names from strings
1839 to numbers in places where the methods are known at compile time.
1840 [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
1842 *) Turn the worker MPM's queue into a LIFO. This may
1843 improve cache-hit performance under some conditions.
1844 [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
1846 *) Switch back to SIGUSR1 for graceful restarts on all platforms that
1847 support it. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1849 *) Cleanup the worker MPM. We no longer re-use transaction
1850 pools. This incurs less overhead than shuffling the pools
1851 around so that they can be re-used. Remove one of the
1852 queue's condition variables. We just redefined the API to
1853 state that you can't try to add more stuff than you allocated
1854 segments for. [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
1856 *) Fix SSL VPATH builds [Cody Sherr <csherr@covalent.net>]
1858 *) Fixed persistent connections when a request contains a body.
1861 *) mod_dav uses a new API to speak to the backend provider for dead
1862 property management. [Greg Stein]
1864 *) Remove the Win32 script-processing exception from mod_cgi, and
1865 roll build_command_line/build_argv_list into a unified, overrideable
1866 ap_cgi_build_command optional function. [William Rowe]
1868 *) Rewrite find_start_sequence to use a better search algorithm
1869 to find the start tag. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1871 *) Fix a seg fault in mod_include. When we are generating an
1872 internal redirect, we must set r->uri to "", not a bogus
1873 string, and not NULL. [Ryan Bloom]
1875 *) Optimized location_walk, so subrequests, redirects and second passes
1876 now reuse previous section merges on a <Location > by <Location >
1877 basis, until we mismatch with the original location_walk.
1880 *) Back out the 1.45 change to util_script.c. This change made
1881 us set the environment variable REQUEST_URI to the redirected
1882 URI, instead of the originally requested URI.
1883 [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
1885 *) Make mod_include do lazy evaluation of potentially expensive to
1886 compute variables. [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
1888 *) Fix logging of bytes sent for HEAD requests. %b and %B should
1889 log either - or 0, before this patch, they were both logging
1890 the file size. [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
1892 *) Make mod_include check for BYTE_CHECK_THRESHOLD per bucket rather
1893 than per character. [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
1895 *) Normalize the primary request, redirects and sub-requests to
1896 run the same ap_process_request_internal for consistency in
1897 robustness, behavior and security. [William Rowe]
1899 *) Fix a segfault with mod_include when r->path_info is not set
1900 (which is the case with mod_proxy). [Ian Holsman <ianh@cnet.com>]
1902 *) Add -X functionality back. This indicates to all MPMs and any other
1903 part of Apache that it should run in "debug" mode. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1905 *) Some initial support for the cygwin platform [prefork only].
1906 This is not to be confused with support for the WinNT/Win32
1907 platform, which is the recommended configuration for native
1908 Win32 users. The cygwin platform support is recommended for
1909 cygwin platform users. [Stipe Tolj <tolj@wapme-systems.de>]
1911 *) Changed syntax of Set{Input|Output}Filter. The list of filters
1912 must be semicolon delimited (if more than one filter is given.)
1913 The Set{Input|Output}Filter directive now overrides a parent
1914 container's directive (e.g. SetInputFilter in <Directory /web/foo>
1915 will override any SetInputFilter directive in <Directory /web>.)
1916 This new syntax is more consistent with Add{Input|Output}Filter
1917 directives defined in mod_mime. Also cures a bug in prior releases
1918 where the Set{Input|Output}Filter directive would corrupt the
1919 global configuration if the multiple directives were nested.
1922 *) Cured what's ailed mime for quite some time. If an AddSomething
1923 was given in the configuration (Language, Charset, Handler or
1924 Encoding) Apache would set the content type as given by AddType,
1925 but refused to check the mime.types file if AddType wasn't given
1926 for that specific extension. Setting the AddHandler for .html
1927 without setting the AddType text/html html would cause Apache to
1928 use the default content type. [William Rowe]
1930 *) Added some bulletproofing to memory allocation in the LDAP cache
1931 code. [Graham Leggett]
1933 Changes with Apache 2.0.25
1935 *) Move the installed /manual directory out of the /htdocs/ tree, so
1936 that it can be kept more independently from the remaining document
1937 root. The "Alias /manual ..." already allowed for easy projection
1938 into existing private document trees. [Martin Kraemer]
1940 *) Add specified user attributes to the environment when using
1941 mod_auth_ldap. This allows you to use mod_include to embed specified
1942 user attributes in a page like so:
1943 Hello <!--#echo var="AUTHENTICATE_CN"-->, how are you?
1946 *) Fix a performance problem with the worker MPM. We now create
1947 transaction pools once, and re-use them for each connection.
1948 [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
1950 *) Modfied mod_mime to prevent mod_negotation from serving a multiview
1951 of a 'handler' or 'filter', so that any filename extension that does
1952 not contribute to the negotiated metadata can't be served without
1953 an explicit request. E.g., if the .Z extension is associated with
1954 an unzip filter, the user request somefile.Z.html, mod_negotiation
1955 won't serve it. It can serve somefile.Z.html when somefile.Z is
1956 requested, since the .Z extension is explictly requested, if the
1957 .html extension is associated with ContentType text/html.
1960 *) Introduce the AddInputFilter filter[;filter...] ext [ext...]
1961 and corresponding AddOutputFilter syntax, to insert one or more
1962 filters by mod_mime filename extension processing.
1965 *) Fix a growing connection pool in core_output_filter() for
1966 keepalive requests. [Jeff Trawick]
1968 *) Moved split_and_pass_pretag_buckets back to being a
1969 macro at Ryans's request. Removed the return from it
1970 by setting and returning a return code instead. Updated
1971 the code to check the return code from the macro and
1972 do the right thing. [Paul J. Reder]
1974 *) Fix a segfault when a numeric value was received for Host:.
1977 *) Add a function ap_remove_input_filter. This is to match
1978 up with ap_remove_output_filter. [Ryan Bloom]
1980 *) Clean up location_walk, so that this step performs a minimum
1981 amount of redundant effort (it must be run twice, but it will no
1982 longer reparse all <Location > blocks when the request uri
1983 hadn't changed.) [William Rowe]
1985 *) Eliminate proxy: (and all other 'special') processing from the
1986 ap_directory_walk() phase. Modules that want to use special
1987 walk logic should refer to the mod_proxy map_to_location example,
1988 with it's proxy_walk and proxysection implementation. This makes
1989 either directory_walk flavor much more legible, since that phase
1990 only runs against real <Directory > blocks.
1993 *) SECURITY: Fix a security problem in mod_include which would allow
1994 an SSI document to be passed to the client unparsed.
1995 [Cliff Woolley, Brian Pane]
1997 *) Introduce the map_to_storage hook, which allows modules to bypass
1998 the directory_walk and file_walk for non-file requests. TRACE
1999 shortcut moved to http_protocol.c as APR_HOOK_MIDDLE, and the
2000 directory_walk/file_walk happen as APR_HOOK_VERY_LAST in core.c.
2003 *) Add the ability for mod_include to add the INCLUDES filter
2004 if the file is configured for the server-parsed handler.
2005 This makes the configuration for .shtml files much easier
2006 to understand, and allows mod_include to honor Apache 1.3
2007 config files. Based on Doug MacEachern's patch to PHP
2008 to do the same thing. [Ryan Bloom]
2010 *) force OpenSSL to ignore process local-caching and to always
2011 get/set/delete sessions using mod_ssl's callbacks
2012 [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli@hp.com>,
2013 Geoff Thorpe <geoff@geoffthorpe.net>]
2015 *) Make the worker MPM shutdown and restart cleanly. This also
2016 cleans up some race conditions, and gets the worker using
2017 pools more cleanly. [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
2019 *) Implement CRYPTO_set_locking_callback() in terms of apr_lock
2021 [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli@hp.com>]
2023 *) Fix for mod_include. Ryan's patch to check error
2024 codes put a return in the wrong place. Also, the
2025 include handler return code wasn't being checked.
2026 I don't like macros with returns, so I converted
2027 SPLIT_AND_PASS_PRETAG_BUCKETS into a function.
2028 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
2030 *) fix segv in mod_mime if no AddTypes are configured
2031 [John Sterling <sterling@covalent.net>]
2033 *) Enable ssl client authentication at SSL_accept time
2034 [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli@hp.com>]
2036 *) Fix a segfault in mod_include when the original request has no
2037 associated filename (e.g., we're filtering the error document for
2038 a bad URI). [Jeff Trawick]
2040 *) Fix a storage leak (a strdup() call) in mod_mime_magic. [Jeff Trawick]
2042 *) The prefork and OS/2 MPMs are overwriting the pid file when a second copy
2043 of httpd is started and shuts down due to socket conflict. Moving the
2044 call to ap_log_pid solves the problem.
2046 *) Changed the late-1.3 log_config substitution %c to %X, to log the
2047 status of the closed connection, as it conflicts with the far more
2048 common, historical ssl logging directive %...{var}c. [William Rowe]
2050 *) Added the common error/ tree to the build/install targets
2051 (similar to the common icons/ tree) for the multi-language error
2052 messages that Lars committed earlier. [William Rowe]
2054 *) Added a multi process, multi threaded OS/2 MPM mpmt_os2. [Brian Havard]
2056 *) Added a default commented-out mod_ldap and mod_auth_ldap
2057 configuration to httpd-std.conf and httpd-win.conf
2060 *) Added documentation for mod_ldap and mod_auth_ldap.
2063 *) Enabled negative caching on attribute comparisons in the LDAP cache.
2064 Fixed a problem where the default cache TTL was set in milliseconds
2065 not microseconds causing the cache to time out almost immediately.
2068 *) Fixed all the #if APR_HAS_SHARED_MEMORY checks within the LDAP
2069 module code to follow APR. [Graham Leggett]
2071 *) Fixed LDAP cleanup on graceful restarts. LDAP connections are now
2072 cleaned up when the connection pool pool is cleaned up.
2075 *) Fix a minor issue with Jeff Trawick's mod_include
2076 patch. Without this patch, the code will just allocate
2077 more bytes in get_combined_directive than are needed.
2080 *) Added the LDAP authentication module mod_auth_ldap.
2081 [Dave Carrigan <dave@rudedog.org>, Graham Leggett]
2083 *) Added the LDAP cache and connection pooling module mod_ldap.
2084 [Dave Carrigan <dave@rudedog.org>, Graham Leggett]
2086 *) Fix --enable-modules=all breakage with mod_auth_db and mod_auth_digest
2087 by allowing a module to disable itself if its prerequisites are not
2088 met. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2090 Changes with Apache 2.0.24
2092 *) Fix a couple of issues in mod_include when the tag appeared at
2093 offsets near 8192 in the file being parsed. [Jeff Trawick]
2095 *) Fix an assertion failure in mod_ssl when the keepalive timeout is
2096 reached. [Jeff Trawick]
2098 *) Numerous improvements to the Win32 build system. Introduced command line
2099 builds without requiring .mak files for MSVC 6.0 and later versions.
2100 Improved .dsp file compatibility for both Visual Studio 5.0 and 6.0 users.
2103 *) Assorted corrections and improvements to the winnt_mpm startup code. Better
2104 reporting of uninstalled services and other error conditions, and changed the
2105 default service name to Apache2. [William Rowe]
2107 *) Numerous improvements to the Win32 ApacheMonitor utility, including winnt_mpm
2108 compatibility with existing Apache 1.3 Win32 Apache management utilites.
2109 [Mladen Turk <mturk@mappingsoft.com>, William Rowe]
2111 *) Fixed the segfaults in mod_mime introduced by hash tables in 2.0.20.
2112 [William Rowe, Greg Ames]
2114 *) Rounded out the mod_mime Add/Remove pairs by adding RemoveLanguage
2115 and RemoveCharset directives. [William Rowe]
2117 *) The Unix MPMs other than perchild now allow child server
2118 processes to use the accept mutex when starting as root and
2119 using SysV sems for the accept mutex. Previously, this
2120 combination would lead to fatal errors in the child server
2121 processes. perchild can't use SysV sems because of security
2122 issues. [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames]
2124 *) Added Win32 revision stamp resources to all http binaries
2125 (including modules/ and support/ tools.) PR7322 [William Rowe]
2127 *) Fix ap_rvprintf to support more than 4K of data at one time.
2128 [Cody Sherr <csherr@covalent.net>]
2130 *) We have always used the obsolete/deprecated Netscape syntax
2131 for our tracking cookies; now the CookieStyle directive
2132 allows the Webmaster to choose the Netscape, RFC2109, or
2133 RFC2965 format. The new CookieDomain directive allows the
2134 setting of the cookie's Domain= attribute, too. PR #s 5006,
2135 5023, 5920, 6140 [Ken Coar]
2137 *) Tweak server/Makefile so that the rules for generating exports.c
2138 are compatible with make utilities which don't expand wildcards
2139 in a dependency list (e.g., OS/390 make, certain levels of GNU
2140 make). [Jeff Trawick]
2142 *) Install the SSL headers. [John Sterling <sterling@covalent.net>]
2144 *) Begin to sanitize the MPM configuration directives. Now, all
2145 MPMs use the same functions for all common MPM directives. This
2146 should make it easier to catch all bugs in these directives once.
2147 [Cody Sherr <csherr@covalent.net>]
2149 *) Close a major resource leak. Every time we had issued a
2150 graceful restart, we leaked a socket descriptor.
2153 *) Fix a problem with the new method code. We need to cast
2154 the 1 to an apr_int64_t or it will be treated as a 32-bit
2155 integer, and it will wrap after being shifted 32 times.
2156 [Cody Sherr <csherr@covalent.net> and Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
2158 *) Fix a bug in mod_expires. Previous to this patch, if you
2159 told mod_expires to add 604800 seconds to the last-modified
2160 time, it actually added 604800 usec's to the last-modified time,
2161 so that when looking at the response it looked like nothing
2162 had been done. The root of the problem was that we always compute
2163 time in usec's, but we ask users to input sec's. This means we
2164 need to convert to usec's before using those values.
2167 *) The worker MPM now handles shutdown and restart requests. It
2168 definitely isn't perfect, but we do stop the servers correctly.
2169 The biggest problem right now is that SIGHUP causes the server to
2170 just die. [Ryan Bloom]
2172 Changes with Apache 2.0.23
2174 *) Use the prefork MPM by default on Unix. [various]
2176 *) Added a systray icon monitor application for Win32.
2177 [Mladen Turk <mturk@mappingsoft.com>]
2179 *) mod_rewrite: Fix the line ending on some non-Unix systems for
2180 messages written to the rewrite log.
2181 [Richard Labennett <rlabenn@us.ibm.com>]
2183 *) All mod_autoindex query parsing is now quietly quashed with the
2184 IndexOption IgnoreClient. The IndexOption SuppressColumnSorting
2185 still drops the column sort <a href>'s for the column headers, but
2186 IgnoreClient is required to ignore these Query options entirely.
2189 *) Introduced new mod_autoindex query argument parsing for F=[0|1|2]
2190 to allow the client to select plain, FancyIndexing or HTMLTable
2191 formatting, V=[0|1] to inhibit or enable version sorting, and
2192 P=pattern to return only specific files. The old Query Arguments
2193 were reorganized as C=f for sorting column 'f' (same N, D, S, or M
2194 as before), and O=A|D for ordering ascending or descending.
2197 *) Fixed an error in mod_include's directive parsing routines which
2198 caused #if, #elif, and #else expressions containing backslashes
2199 to be improperly evaluated. [Cliff Woolley]
2201 *) Introduced new mod_autoindex IndexOptions flags: SuppressIcon to
2202 drop the icon column, SuppressRules to drop the <hr> elements,
2203 and HTMLTable to create rudimentary HTML table listings (implies
2204 FancyIndexing). [William Rowe]
2206 *) Re-introduced the mod_autoindex IndexOptions flag TrackModified
2207 from Apache 1.3.15. This is needed for two reasons, first, given
2208 multiple machines within a server farm, ETags and Last-Modified
2209 stamps won't correspond from machine to machine, and second, many
2210 Unixes don't capture changes to the date or time stamp of existing
2211 files, since these don't modify the dirent itself. [William Rowe]
2213 *) Re-introduced the mod_autoindex IndexOptions flag FoldersFirst
2214 and DirectoryWidth options from Apache 1.3.10.
2215 [William Rowe, Ken Coar]
2217 *) Eliminated FancyIndexing directive, deprecated early in Apache
2218 1.3 by the IndexOptions FancyIndexing syntax. [William Rowe]
2220 *) mod_autoindex now excludes any file names that would result in
2221 an error, other than a success or redirect. Also optimized
2222 the parent directory, always included except in the URI '/'.
2225 *) Refactored mod_negotiation and mod_mime to help mod_dir accept
2226 negotiated index pages, and prevent the server from defaulting
2227 to an autoindex of the directory. mod_negotiation will now die
2228 with a 500 Internal Error if it could match some filenames
2229 (e.g. for mod_dir) but none can be served. mod_negotation now
2230 refuses to serve any file with an extention that mod_mime doesn't
2231 recognize, and wasn't part of the request. [William Rowe]
2233 *) Eliminate mod_cgi's handling of .exe files without the .exe file
2234 extension. This is already handled by multiviews, if the admin
2235 wishes to AddHandler .exe or define a content type handler and
2236 associate .exe files with that content type. Multiviews must be
2237 enabled to allow these to be served. [William Rowe]
2239 *) Speed up the server's response to a spike in incoming workload
2240 or restarts by assigning empty scoreboard slots to new processes
2241 when they are available. [Greg Ames]
2243 *) Add a handler to mod_includes.c. This handler is designed to
2244 implement the XbitHack directive. This can't be done with a
2245 fixup, because we need to check the content-type, which is
2246 only available in the handler phase. [Ryan Bloom]
2248 *) Make the includes filter check return codes from filters lower in
2249 the filter chain. If a lower level filter returns an error, then
2250 the request needs to stop immediately. This allows mod_include to
2251 stop parsing data once a lower filter recognizes an error.
2254 *) Add the ability to extend the methods that Apache understands
2255 and have those methods <limit>able in the httpd.conf. It uses
2256 the same bit mask/shifted offset as the original HTTP methods
2257 such as M_GET or M_POST, but expands the total bits from an int to
2258 an ap_int64_t to handle more bits for new request methods than
2259 an int provides. [Cody Sherr <csherr@covalent.net>]
2261 *) Fix broken mod_mime behavior in merging its arguments. Possible
2262 cause of unexplicable crashes introduced in 2.0.20. [William Rowe]
2264 *) Solve many mod_ssl porting issues (too many to detail) with
2265 help from the whole team, but most notably [Ralf S. Engelschall,
2266 Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli@hp.com>,
2267 Doug MacEachern, William Rowe, Cliff Woolley]
2269 *) More stall fixes for the threaded & worker mpm's.
2270 Make mod_status output more accurate. Don't
2271 count workers in processes which aren't actively
2272 serving requests. [Greg Ames]
2274 *) Win32: Get SSI exec cgi tag working. [Bill Stoddard]
2276 *) Add a single listener/multiple worker MPM. This MPM is
2277 definately not fully correct, but it allows us to solve many
2278 of the problems that exist in the threaded MPM. This is a
2279 modified version of the threaded MPM. [Ryan Bloom]
2281 *) Improve content generation throughout Apache, providing closer
2282 compliance with HTML 3.2, HTML 4.01 Transitional and XHTML 1.0
2283 Transitional specifications. [William Rowe]
2285 Changes with Apache 2.0.22
2287 *) Fix a problem where the threaded MPM stalls after restarts or
2288 segfaults. Also prevent multiple active processes from using
2289 the same scoreboard slot. [Greg Ames]
2291 *) Apache/Win32 now fills in the service description with Apache's
2292 server version string, including loaded and advertised modules.
2295 *) Improved support for the Win32 build, to recover gracefully from
2296 missing apr or apr-util directories or the awk interpreter,
2297 create the proper cgi-bin examples, including a test-cgi.bat, and
2298 fix the perl shebang line for printenv.pl, when installing from
2299 the build environment. [William Rowe]
2301 *) Fix a segfault in threaded.c caused by passing uninitialized
2302 apr_thread_t * to apr_thread_join(). [Jeff Trawick]
2304 *) Use new APR number conversion functions to reduce CPU consumption
2305 when setting the content length, and in mod_log_config.
2308 *) Fix problem reported by Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>
2309 where HEAD response headers were being repeated twice for
2310 files greater than 32K bytes (4*AP_MIN_BYTES_TO_WRITE). This
2311 problem in the http_header filter was exposed by the recent rewrite
2312 of the content_length filter. [Taketo Kabe, Bill Stoddard]
2314 *) Fix seg faults in mod_status with ExtendedStatus enabled, after
2315 restarts. A garbage pointer to a vhost's server_rec from the
2316 previous generation was being left around under certain
2317 conditions. [Greg Ames]
2319 *) Fix a cosmetic problem with mod_include. Non-existant SSI vars
2320 used to appear as '(none', without the closing paren.
2321 [Günter Knauf <eflash@gmx.net>]
2323 *) Improve the exports generating awk script. In the past, we had
2324 work around problems in the awk script by avoiding some #if and
2325 #ifdefs. This has bitten us many times in generating the exports.c
2326 file. This improvement allows corrects the header file parsing.
2327 [Sander Striker <striker@apache.org>]
2329 Changes with Apache 2.0.21
2331 *) Resolve the Win32 htpasswd bug, where a file that existed would be
2332 overwritten, regardless of the -c flag.
2333 [William Rowe, Mladen Turk <mladen.turk@mail.inet.hr>]
2335 *) Introduce connection sub-pools into ab. Truncating the lifetime
2336 of these allocations means that ab no longer perpetually grows
2337 its working set, running out of memory on large request attempts.
2340 *) Make scoreboard creation a hook. This allows management
2341 modules to have access to the scoreboard at the time that it is
2342 created, and at every restart request.
2343 [Cody Sherr <csherr@covalent.net>]
2345 *) Changed AP_MPMQ_MAX_DAEMONS to refer to MaxClients and
2346 added an AP_MPMQ_MAX_DAEMON_USED to refer to the highest
2347 daemon index actually used in the scoreboard. I also
2348 updated the pertinent calls. [Paul J. Reder]
2350 *) Win32: Prevent listening sockets from being inherited by
2351 the Apache child process, CGI scripts, rotatelog process
2352 etc. If the Apache child process segfaults, any processes
2353 that the child started are not reaped. Prior to this fix,
2354 these processes inherited the listening sockets which sometimes
2355 prevented the restarted Apache child process from accepting
2356 connections (ie, the server would hang).
2359 *) Provide vhost and request strings when ExtendedStatus is on.
2362 *) Fix some issues with the pod and prefork: check the pod *after*
2363 processing a connection so that a server processing a time-
2364 consuming request bails out as soon as practical; when the
2365 parent process wakes up a server process via connect(), use an
2366 APR timeout on the connect() so that we don't hang for a long
2367 time if there aren't server processes around to do accept().
2368 [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames]
2370 *) Performance improvement to mod_mime.c. find_ct() in mod_mime,
2371 spends a lot of time in apr_table_get calls. Using the default
2372 httpd.conf, the tables for languages and charsets are somewhat
2373 large, so the time spent scanning them on each request is
2374 significant. Replacing the tables with hash tables provides
2375 a nice speedup. [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
2377 *) Add two functions to allow modules to access random parts of the
2378 scoreboard. This allows modules compiled for one MPM to access the
2379 scoreboard, even if it the server was compiled for another MPM.
2380 [Harrie Hazewinkel <harrie@covalent.net>]
2382 Changes with Apache 2.0.20
2384 *) Fix problem in content-length filter where the filter would
2385 buffer all the output from a CGI before sending any bytes
2386 down the filter stack to the network. This problem would cause
2387 significant memory consumption if the CGIs generated
2388 lots of bytes. [Bill Stoddard]
2390 *) Get non-blocking CGI pipe reads working with the bucket brigades.
2393 *) Fix seg fault on Windows when serving files cached with mod_file_cache.
2396 *) Fix a bug in the threaded MPM that would cause it to kill off all
2397 workers immediately after starting if the number of workers started
2398 was above a certain threshold. [Ryan Bloom, Bill Stoddard]
2400 Changes with Apache 2.0.19
2402 *) Fix problem with threaded MPM. The problem was that if each child
2403 process was busy serving a single long-lived request and the server
2404 was sent a graceful restart signal, the server would stop serving
2405 requests. This would happen because each child process would wait to
2406 die until the last thread was done, and the parent wouldn't spawn any
2407 new children until a process died. Now, the parent looks at the fact
2408 that the children are dying gracefully, and starts new children.
2409 Those new children only start enough threads to compliment the number
2410 of threads in the other child process that shares the same spot in
2411 the scoreboard. In this way, we make sure to never go over
2412 MaxClients. [Ryan Bloom]
2414 *) modified mod_negotiation and mod_autoindex to speed up by almost a
2415 factor of two on apr_dir_read()-enhanced platforms, such as Win32
2416 and OS2, by calling ap_sub_request_lookup_dirent() with the results
2417 already provided by apr_dir_read(). [William Rowe]
2419 *) mod_file_cache is now more robust to filtering and serves requests
2420 slightly more efficiently. [Cliff Woolley]
2422 *) Fix problem handling FLUSH bucket in the chunked encoding filter.
2423 Module was calling ap_rwrite() followed by ap_rflush() but the
2424 served content was not being displayed in the browser. Inspection
2425 of the output stream revealed that the first data chunk was
2426 missing the trailing CRLF required by the RFC. [Bill Stoddard]
2428 *) apxs no longer generates ap_send_http_header() in the example handler
2430 *) Fix an ab problem which could cause a divide-by-zero exception
2431 with certain invocations (e.g., ab -k -c 6 -n 100 localhost/).
2432 [Ian Holsman <ianh@cnet.com>]
2434 *) Solve case-insensitive platforms' confusion about negotiated
2435 filenames, allowing files of differnt case to match in choosing
2436 the document to serve. [William Rowe]
2438 *) Fix brokenness when ThreadsPerChild is higher than the built-in
2439 limit. We left ap_threads_per_child at the higher value which
2440 led to segfaults when doing certain scoreboard operations.
2443 *) Fix seg faults and/or missing output from mod_include. The
2444 default_handler was using the subrequest pool for files and
2445 MMAPs, even though the associated APR structures typically
2446 live longer than the subrequest. [Greg Ames]
2448 *) Extend mod_setenvif to support specifying regular expressions
2449 on the SetEnvIf (and SetEnvIfNoCase) directive attribute field.
2450 Example: SetEnvIf ^TS* [a-z].* HAVE_TS
2451 will cause HAVE_TS to be set if any of the request headers begins
2452 with "TS" and has a value that begins with any character in the
2453 set [a-z]. [Bill Stoddard]
2455 *) httpd children now re-bind themselves to a random CPU on
2456 multiprocessor systems on AIX via bindprocessor() in 2.0.
2457 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
2459 *) Fix htdigest. It would go into a loop in getline when adding
2460 a second user. [Bill Stoddard]
2462 *) Win32 platforms now fully support mod_userdir options. [Will Rowe]
2464 *) Automatically generate httpd.exp for AIX.
2465 DSOs now work again on AIX in 2.0
2466 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
2468 *) Add a new request hook, error_log. This phase allows modules
2469 to act on the error log string _after_ it has been written
2470 to the error log. The goal for this hook is to allow monitoring
2471 modules to send the error string to the monitoring agent.
2474 *) Modify mod_echo to make it use filters for input and output.
2475 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
2477 *) Extend mod_headers to support conditional driven Header
2478 add, append and set. Use SetEnvIf to set an envar and conditionally
2479 add/append/set headers based on this envar thusly:
2481 SetEnvIf TSMyHeader value HAVE_TSMyHeader
2482 Header add MyHeader "%t %D" env=HAVE_TSMyHeader
2484 If the request contains header "TSMyHeader: value" then header
2485 MyHeader: "t=xxxxxxxxxx D=yyyy" will be sent on the response.
2488 *) Extend mod_headers to support using format specifiers on Header
2489 add, append and set header values. Two format specifiers are supported:
2491 %t - reports, in UTC microseconds since the epoch, when the
2492 request was received.
2494 %D - reports the time, in microseconds, between when the request was
2495 received and the response sent.
2498 Header add MyHeader "This request served in %D microseconds. %t"
2500 results in a header being added to the response that looks like this:
2502 MyHeader: This request served in D=5438 microseconds. t=991424704447256
2506 *) Fix reset_filter(). We need to be careful how we remove filters.
2507 If we set r->output_filters to NULL, we also have to reset the
2508 connection's filters. [John Sterling]
2510 *) Optimise reset_filter() in http_protocol.c. [Greg Stein]
2512 *) Add a check to ap_die() to make sure the filter stack is sane and
2513 contains the correct basic filters when an error occurs. This fixes
2514 a problem where headers are not being sent on error. [John Sterling]
2516 *) New Header directive 'echo' option. "Header echo regex" will
2517 cause any headers received on the request that match regex to be
2518 echoed to (included in) the response headers.
2521 *) include/ap_compat.h tested and set APR_COMPAT_H instead of AP_COMPAT_H.
2522 This prevented the inclusion of apr_compat.h. PR #7773
2523 [Oleg Broytmann <phd@phd.pp.ru>]
2525 *) Moved util_uri to the apr-util library. This required a bunch of
2526 apr_name changes for the uri utility functions. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2528 *) Move the addition of default AP_HTTP_HTTP_HEADER filters to the
2529 insert_filter phase so that other filters are not bypassed by default.
2532 *) Reimplement mod_headers as an output filter. mod_headers can now
2533 add custom headers to inbound requests using the RequestHeader directive
2534 and to responses using the same old Header directive. [Graham Leggett]
2536 Changes with Apache 2.0.18
2538 *) Fix command-line processing so that if a bad argument is specified
2539 Apache will exit. [Jeff Trawick]
2541 *) Change the make targets and rules to be consistent in all of the
2542 Apache-owned source trees. [Roy Fielding]
2544 *) Fix processing of the TRACE method. Previously we passed bogus
2545 parms to form_header_field() and it overlaid some vhost structures,
2546 resulting in a segfault in check_hostalias().
2547 [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
2549 *) Win32: Add support for reliable piped logs. If the logging process
2550 goes down, Apache will automatically restart it. This function has
2551 been part of Apache on Unix/Linux/BSD since the early v1.3 releases.
2554 *) Do not start piped log processes during the config file
2555 preflight. This change also circumvents a problem on
2556 Windows where the rotatelog processes created during preflight
2557 was not getting cleaned up properly.
2560 *) add "Request Phase Participation" info to mod_info
2563 *) Make first phase changes to the scoreboard data structures in
2564 preparation for the rewriting of the scoreboard per my posted
2565 design notes. [Paul J. Reder]
2567 *) Fix httpd's definition of LTFLAGS to be consistent with that of apr
2568 and apr-util, allow it to be overridden by the configure command-line
2569 (default="--silent") and introduce LT_LDFLAGS to replace what we were
2570 formerly abusing as LTFLAGS. [Roy Fielding]
2572 *) Clean up the reporting of incorrect closing container tags.
2573 [Barrie Slaymaker <barries@slaysys.com>]
2575 *) Simplify the configure process by moving all libtool stuff to APR
2576 and moving hints.m4 inline. [Roy Fielding]
2578 *) Add the AP_DECLARE()/AP_CORE_DECLARE macros on the return types
2579 of functions used by mod_proxy for export in the DLL
2580 [Ian Holsman <IanH@cnet.com>]
2582 *) Prevent a hang when a cgi handled by mod_cgid tries to read a
2583 request body from its stdin but no reqest body is being written to
2584 the cgi. [Jeff Trawick]
2586 *) mod_log_config: %c connection status incorrectly logged
2587 as "-" (non-keepalive) when MaxKeepAliveRequests is set to 0.
2590 *) Get mod_cern_meta working under Windows
2593 *) Create Files, and thus MMAPs, out of the request pool, not the
2594 connection pool. This solves a small resource leak that had us
2595 not closing files until a connection was closed. In order to do
2596 this, at the end of the core_output_filter, we loop through the
2597 brigade and convert any data we have into a single HEAP bucket
2598 that we know will survive clearing the request_rec.
2599 [Ryan Bloom, Justin Erenkrantz <jerenkrantz@ebuilt.com>,
2602 *) Completely revamp configure so that it preserves the standard make
2603 variables CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, LDFLAGS and LIBS by moving
2604 the configure additions to EXTRA_* variables. Also, allow the user
2605 to specify NOTEST_* values for all of the above, which eliminates the
2606 need for THREAD_CPPFLAGS, THREAD_CFLAGS, and OPTIM. Fix the setting
2607 of INCLUDES and EXTRA_INCLUDES. Check flags as they are added to
2608 avoid pointless duplications. Fix the order in which flags are given
2609 on the compile and link lines. Remove obsolete macros APR_DOEXTRA,
2610 AC_ADD_LIBRARY, AC_CHECK_DEFINE, APACHE_PASSTHRU, and APACHE_ONCE.
2611 Added APR_SAVE_THE_ENVIRONMENT and APR_RESTORE_THE_ENVIRONMENT macros.
2612 Renamed AC_TYPE_RLIM_T macro to APACHE_TYPE_RLIM_T. [Roy Fielding]
2614 *) Get mod_tls to compile/work better on Windows. PR #7612
2615 [Bernhard Schrenk <b.schrenk@improx.com>]
2617 *) Fix shutdown/restart hangs in the threaded MPM.
2618 [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames, Ryan Bloom]
2620 *) Removed the keptalive boolean from conn_rec because it is now only
2621 used by a single routine and can be replaced by a local variable.
2622 [Greg Stein, Ryan Bloom, Roy Fielding]
2624 *) Patch prefork to put enough of the signal processing back in so that
2625 signals are all handled properly now. The previous patch fixed the
2626 deadlock race condition, but broke the user directed signal handling.
2627 This fixes it to work the way it did before my previous prefork patch
2628 (primarily, SIGTERM is now working).
2630 *) Change how input filters decide how much data is returned to the
2631 higher filter. We used to use a field in the conn_rec, with this
2632 change, we use an argument to ap_get_brigade to determine how much
2633 data is retrieved. [Ryan Bloom]
2635 *) Fix seg fault at start-up introduced by Ryan's change to enable
2636 modules to specify their own logging tags. mod_log_config
2637 registers an optional function, ap_register_log_handler().
2638 ap_register_log_handler() was being called by http_core before
2639 the directive hash table was created. This patch creates the
2640 directive hash table before ap_register_log_handler() is
2641 registered as an optional function.
2642 [jean-frederic clere <jfrederic.clere@fujitsu-siemens.com>]
2644 *) Add ap_set_int_slot() function
2645 [John K. Sterling <sterling@covalent.net>]
2647 *) Under certain circumstances, Apache did not supply the
2648 right response headers when requiring authentication.
2649 [Gertjan van Wingerde <Gertjan.van.Wingerde@cmg.nl>] PR#7114
2650 (This is a port of the change that went into Apache 1.3.19.)
2652 *) Allow modules to specify their own logging tags. This basically
2653 allows a module to tell mod_log_config that when %x is encountered
2654 a specific function should be called. Currently, x can be any single
2655 character. It may be more useful to make this a string at some point.
2658 Changes with Apache 2.0.17
2660 *) If a higher-level filter handles the the byterange aspects of a
2661 request, then the byterange filter should not try to redo the
2662 work. The most common case of this happening, is a byterange
2663 request going through the proxy, and the origin server handles
2664 the byterange request. The proxy should ignore it.
2665 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>]
2667 *) Changed the threaded mpm to have child_main join to each of the
2668 worker threads to make sure the kids are all gone before child_main
2669 exits after a signal (cleanup from perform_idle_server_maintenance).
2670 This is an extension of Ryans recent commit to make the child_main
2673 *) Add more options to the ap_mpm_query function. This also allows MPMs to
2674 report if their threads are dynamic or static. Finally, this also
2675 implements a new API, ap_show_mpm, which returns the MPM that was
2676 required into the core. [Harrie Hazewinkel <harrie@covalent.net>]
2678 *) Do not install the binaries from the support directory twice.
2679 [jun-ichiro hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>]
2681 *) The ap_f* functions should flush data to the filter that is passed
2682 in, not the the filter after the one passed in.
2683 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
2685 *) Make ab work again by changing its native types to apr types and formats.
2686 [Justin Erenkrantz <jerenkrantz@ebuilt.com>]
2688 *) Move the byterange filter and all of the supporting functions back
2689 to the HTTP module. The byterange filter turned out to be very
2690 HTTP specific, and it belongs in the HTTP module. [Greg Stein]
2692 *) Make clean, distclean, and extraclean consistently according to the
2693 Gnu makefile guidelines. [Justin Erenkrantz <jerenkrantz@ebuilt.com>]
2695 *) Fix errors in the renaming of the apr_threadattr_detach_xxx functions.
2696 This may have been causing problems stopping processes in the threaded
2699 *) Fix content-length in mod_negotiation to a long int representation.
2702 *) Remove BindAddress from the default config file.
2703 [giles@nemeton.com.au]
2705 *) Allow module authors to add a module to their Apache build using
2706 --with-module, without re-running buildconf. The syntax is:
2707 --with-module=module_type:/path/to/module.c
2708 The configure script will copy the module.c file to
2709 modules/module_type, and it will be added to the relevant Makefiles.
2710 currently, this only works for static modules. [Ryan Bloom]
2712 *) Changes required to make prefork clean up idle children properly.
2713 There was a window during which a starting worker deadlocks when
2714 an idle cleanup arrives before it completes init. Apache then keeps
2715 trying to cleanup the same deadlocked worker forever (until higher
2716 pids come along, but it still will never reduce below the deadlocked
2717 pid). Thus the number of children would not reduce to the correct
2718 idle level. [Paul J. Reder]
2720 Changes with Apache 2.0.16
2722 *) Change the default installation directory to /usr/local/apache2,
2723 as now defined by the "Apache" layout in config.layout. [Marc Slemko]
2725 *) OS/2: Added support for building loadable modules as OS/2 DLLs.
2728 *) Get MaxRequestsPerChild working with the Windows MPM.
2731 *) Make generic hooks to work, with mod_generic_hook_import/export
2732 experimental modules. [Ben Laurie, Will Rowe]
2734 *) Fix segfaults for configuration file syntax errors such as
2735 "<Directory>" followed by "</Directory" and
2736 "<Directory>" followed by "</Directoryz>". [Jeff Trawick]
2738 *) Cleanup the --enable-layout option of configure. This makes
2739 us use a consistent location for the config.layout file, and it
2740 makes configure more portable.
2741 [jun-ichiro hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>]
2743 *) Changes to 'ab'; fixed int overrun's, added statistics, output in
2744 csv/gnuplot format, rudimentary ssl support and various other tweaks
2745 to make results more true to what is measured. The upshot of this it
2746 turns out that 'ab' has often underreported the true performance of
2747 apache. Often by a order of magnitude :-) See talk/paper of Sander
2748 Temme at April ApacheCon 2001 for details.
2749 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
2751 *) Clean up mod_cgid's temporary request pool. Besides fixing a
2752 storage leak this ensures that some unnecessary pipes are closed.
2755 *) Performance: Add quick_handler hook. This hook is called at the
2756 very beginning of the request processing before location_walk,
2757 translate_name, etc. This hook is useful for URI keyed content
2758 caches like Mike Abbott's Quick Shortcut Cache.
2761 *) top_module global variable renamed to ap_top_module [Perl]
2763 *) Move ap_set_last_modified to the core. This is a potentially
2764 controversial change, because this is kind of HTTP specific. However
2765 many protocols should be able to take advantage of this kind of
2766 information. I expect that headers will need one more layer of
2767 indirection for multi-protocol work, but this is a small step in
2768 the right direction. [Ryan Bloom]
2770 *) Enable mod_status by default. This matches what Apache 1.3 does.
2773 *) Add a ScriptSock directive to the default config file. This is
2774 only enabled when mod_cgid is used.
2775 [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
2777 Changes with Apache 2.0.15
2779 *) Untangled the buildconf script and eliminated the need for build's
2780 aclocal.m4, generated_lists, build.mk, build2.mk, and a host of other
2781 libtool muck that is now under srclib/apr/build. [Roy Fielding]
2783 *) Win32: Don't accept more connections than we have worker threads
2787 *) Fix bug in the Unix threaded.c MPM that allowed child processes
2788 to fork() new child processes.
2791 *) SECURITY: Fix a major security problem with double-reverse lookup
2792 checking. Previously, a client connecting over IPv4 would not be
2793 matched properly when the server had an IPv6 listening socket.
2794 PR #7407 [Taketo Kabe <kiabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
2796 *) Change the way the beos MPM handles polling to allow it to stop and
2797 restart. Problem was the sockets being polled were being reset by
2798 the select call, so once it had accepted a connection it was no
2799 longer listening on the UDP socket we use for shutdown instructions.
2800 APR needs to be altered, patch on it's way. [David Reid]
2802 *) Empty out the brigade shared by ap_getline()/ap_get_client_block()
2803 on error exit from ap_getline(). Some other code got upset because
2804 the wrong data was in the brigade. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
2806 *) Handle ap_discard_request_body() being called more than once.
2807 [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
2809 *) Get rid of an inadvertent close of file descriptor 2 in
2810 mod_mime_magic. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
2812 *) Add a hook, create_request. This hook allows modules to modify
2813 a request while it is being created. This hook is called for all
2814 request_rec's, main request, sub request, and internal redirect.
2815 When this hook is called, the the r->main, r->prev, r->next
2816 pointers have been set, so modules can determine what kind of
2817 request this is. [Ryan Bloom]
2819 *) Cleanup the build process a bit more. The Apache configure
2820 script no longer creates its own helper scripts, it just
2822 [jean-frederic clere <jfrederic.clere@fujitsu-siemens.com>]
2824 *) Stop the forced downgrade of the connection to HTTP/1.0 for
2825 proxy requests. [Graham Leggett]
2827 *) Avoid using sscanf to determine the HTTP protocol number in
2828 the common case because sscanf is a performance hog. From
2829 Mike Abbot's Accelerating Apache patch number 6.
2830 [Mike Abbot <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com>, Bill Stoddard]
2832 *) SECURITY: Fix a security exposure in mod_access. Previously when
2833 IPv6 listening sockets were used, allow/deny-from-IPv4-address rules
2834 were not evaluated properly (PR #7407). Also, add the ability to
2835 specify IPv6 address strings with optional prefix length on Allow
2836 and Deny. [Jeff Trawick]
2838 *) Enhance rotatelogs so that a UTC offset can be specified, and
2839 the logfile name can be formatted using strftime(3). (Brought
2840 forward from 1.3.) [Ken Coar]
2842 *) Reimplement the Windows MPM (mpm_winnt.c) to eliminate calling
2843 DuplicateHandle on an IOCompletionPort (a practice which
2844 MS "discourages"). The new model does not rely on associating
2845 the completion port with the listening sockets, thus the
2846 completion port can be completely managed within the child
2847 process. A dedicated thread accepts connections off the network,
2848 then calls PostQueuedCompletionStatus() to wake up worker
2849 threads blocked on the completion port.
2852 *) Bring forward the --suexec-umask option which allows the
2853 builder to preset the umask for suexec processes. [Ken Coar]
2855 *) Add a -V flag to suexec, which causes it to display the
2856 compile-time settings with which it was built. (Only
2857 usable by root or the AP_HTTPD_USER username.) [Ken Coar]
2859 *) Mod_include should always unset the content-length if the file is
2860 going to be passed through send_parsed_content. There is no to
2861 determine if the content will change before actually scanning the
2862 entire content. It is far safer to just remove the C-L as long
2863 as we are scanning it. [Ryan Bloom]
2865 *) Make sure Apache sends WWW-Authenticate during a reverse proxy
2866 request and not Proxy-Authenticate.
2867 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>]
2869 Changes with Apache 2.0.14
2871 *) Fix content-length computation. We ONLY compute a content-length if
2872 We are not in a 1.1 request and we cannot chunk, and this is a keepalive
2873 or we already have all the data. [Ryan Bloom]
2875 *) Report unbounded containers in the config file. Previously, a typo
2876 in the </container> directive could result in the rest of the config
2877 file being silently ignored, with undesired defaults used.
2880 *) Make the old_write filter use the ap_f* functions for the buffering.
2883 *) Move more code from the http module into the core server. This
2884 is core code, basically the default handler, the default input
2885 and output filters, and all of the core configuration directives.
2886 All of this code is required in order for the server to work, with or
2887 without HTTP. The server is closer to working without the HTTP
2888 module, although there is still more to do. [Ryan Bloom]
2890 *) Fix a number of SGI compile warnings throughout the server. Fix some
2891 bad parameters to apr_bucket_read(). Fix a bad statement in
2892 ap_method_in_list(). For the mod_rewrite cache use apr_time_t
2893 consistently; we were mixing apr_time_t and time_t in invalid ways
2894 before. In load_file(), call apr_dso_error() instead of
2895 apr_strerror() so that we get a more specific string on some platforms.
2896 PR #6980 [Jeff Trawick]
2898 *) Allow modules to query the MPM about it's execution profile. This
2899 query API can and should be extended in the future, but for now,
2900 max_daemons, and threading or forking is a very good start.
2901 [Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>]
2903 *) Modify mod_include to send blocks of data no larger than 9k.
2904 Without this, mod_include will wait until the whole file is parsed,
2905 or the first tag is found to send any data to the client.
2906 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
2908 *) Fix mod_info, so that <Directory> and <Location> directives are
2909 not displayed twice when displaying the current configuration.
2910 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
2912 *) Add config directives to override DEFAULT_ERROR_MSG and
2913 DEFAULT_TIME_FORMAT. This was sent in as PR 6193.
2914 [Dan Rench <drench@xnet.com>]
2916 *) Get mod_info building and loading on Win32. [William Rowe]
2918 *) Begin to move protocol independant functions out of mod_http. The goal
2919 is to have only functions that are HTTP specific in the http directory.
2922 Changes with Apache 2.0.13
2924 *) Don't assume that there will always be multiple calls to the byterange
2925 filter. It is possible that we will need to do byteranges with only
2926 one call to the filter. [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
2928 *) Move the error_bucket definition from the http module to the
2929 core server. Every protocol will need this ability, not just
2932 Changes with Apache 2.0.12
2934 *) Modify mod_file_cache to save pre-formatted strings for
2935 content-length and last-modified headers for performance.
2936 [Mike Abbot <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com>]
2938 *) Namespace protect IOBUFSIZ since it is exposed in the API.
2939 [Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>]
2941 *) Use "Basic" authentication instead of "basic" in ab, as the spec
2942 says we should. [Andre Breiler <andre.breiler@rd.bbc.co.uk>]
2944 *) Fix a seg fault in mod_userdir.c. We used to use the pw structure
2945 without ever filling it out. This fixes PR 7271.
2946 [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp> and
2947 Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
2949 *) Add a couple of GCC attribute tags to printf style functions.
2950 [Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>]
2952 *) Add the correct language tag for interoperation with the Taiwanese
2953 versions of MSIE and Netscape. [Clive Lin <clive@CirX.ORG>] PR#7142
2955 *) Migrate the perchild MPM to use the new apr signal child, and
2956 APR thread functions. [Ryan Bloom]
2958 *) Close one copy of the CGI's stdout before creating the new process.
2959 The CGI will still have stdout, because we have already dup'ed it.
2960 This keeps Apache from waiting forever to send the results of a CGI
2961 process that has forked a long-lived child process.
2962 [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
2964 *) Remove the rest of the pthreads functions from the threaded MPM.
2965 This requires the APR support for a signal thread that was just
2968 *) Make mod_dir use a fixup for sending a redirect to the browser.
2969 Before this, we were using a handler, which doesn't make much
2970 sense, because the handler wasn't generating any data, it would
2971 either return a redirect error code, or DECLINED. This fits the
2972 current hooks better. [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
2974 *) Make the threaded MPM use APR threads instead of pthreads.
2977 *) Get mod_tls to the point where it actually appears to work in all cases.
2980 *) implement --enable-modules and --enable-mods-shared for "all" and
2981 "most". [Greg Stein]
2983 *) Move the threaded MPM to use APR locks instead of pthread locks.
2986 *) Rename mpmt_pthread to threaded. This is more in line with the
2987 fact that mpmt_pthread shouldn't be using pthreads directly, and
2988 it is a smaller name that doesn't tie into anything.
2991 *) Rename the module structures so that the exported symbol matches
2992 the file name, and it is easier to automate the installation
2993 process (generating LoadModule directives from the module filenames).
2996 *) Remove the coalesce filter. With the ap_f* functions, this filter
2997 is no longer needed. [Ryan Bloom]
2999 Changes with Apache 2.0.11
3001 *) Remove the dexter MPM. Perchild is the same basic idea, but it has the
3002 added feature of allowing a uid/gid per child process. If no
3003 uid/gid is specified, then Perchild behaves exactly like dexter.
3006 *) Get perchild building again. [Ryan Bloom]
3008 *) Don't disable threads just because we are using the prefork MPM.
3009 If somebody wants to compile without threads, they must now add
3010 --disable-threads to the configure command line. [Ryan Bloom]
3012 *) Begin to move the calls to update_child_status into common code, so
3013 that each individual MPM does not need to update the scoreboard itself.
3016 *) Allow mod_tls to compile under Unix boxes where openssl has been
3017 installed to the system include files.
3018 [Gomez Henri <new-httpd@slib.fr>]
3020 *) Cleanup the mod_tls configure process. This should remove any need
3021 to hand-edit any files. We require OpenSSL 0.9.6 or later, but
3022 configure doesn't check that yet. [Ryan Bloom]
3024 *) Add a very early prototype of SSL support (in mod_tls.c). It is
3025 vital that you read modules/tls/README before attempting to build
3028 *) Fix a potential seg fault on all platforms. David Reid fixed this
3029 on BEOS, but the problem could happen anywhere, so we don't want
3030 to #ifdef it. [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
3032 *) Add new LogFormat directive, %D, to log time it takes to serve a
3033 request in microseconds. [Bill Stoddard]
3035 *) Change AddInputFilter and AddOutputFilter to SetInputFilter and
3036 SetOutputFilter. This corresponds nicely with the other Set
3037 directives, which operate on containers while the Add* directives
3038 tend to work directly on extensions. [Ryan Bloom]
3040 *) Cleanup the header handling a bit. This uses the apr_brigade_*
3041 functions for the buffering so that we don't need to compute
3042 the length of the headers before we actually create the header
3043 buffer. [Ryan Bloom]
3045 *) Allow filters to buffer data using the ap_f* functions. These have
3046 become macros that resolve directly to apr_brigade_*.
3049 *) Get the Unix MPM's to do a graceful restart again. If we are going
3050 to register a cleanup with ap_cleanup_scoreboard, then we have to
3051 kill the cleanup with the same function, and that function can't be
3052 static. [Ryan Bloom]
3054 *) Install all required header files. Without these, it was not
3055 possible to compile some modules outside of the server.
3058 *) Fix the AliasMatch directive in Apache 2.0. When we brought a patch
3059 forward from 1.3 to 2.0, we missed a single line, which broke regex
3060 aliases. [Ryan Bloom]
3062 *) We have a poor abstraction in the protocol. This is a temporary
3063 hack to fix the bug, but it will need to be fixed for real. If
3064 we find an error while sending out a custom error response, we back
3065 up to the first non-OK request and send the data. Then, when we send
3066 the EOS from finalize_request_protocol, we go to the last request,
3067 to ensure that we aren't sending an EOS to a request that has already
3068 received one. Because the data is sent on a different request than
3069 the EOS, the error text never gets sent down the filter stack. This
3070 fixes the problem by finding the last request, and sending the data
3071 with that request. [Ryan Bloom]
3073 *) Make the server status page show the correct restart time, and
3074 thus the proper uptime. [Ryan Bloom]
3076 *) Move the CGI creation logic from mod_include to mod_cgi(d). This
3077 should reduce the amount of duplicate code that is required to
3078 create CGI processes.
3079 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3081 *) ap_new_connection() closes the socket and returns NULL if a socket
3082 call fails. Usually this is due to a connection which has been
3083 reset. [Jeff Trawick]
3085 *) Move the Apache version information out of httpd.h and into release.h.
3086 This is in preparation for the first tag with the new tag and release
3087 system. [Ryan Bloom]
3089 *) Begin restructuring scoreboard code to enable adding back in
3090 the ability to use IPC other than shared memory.
3091 Get mod_status working on Windows again. [Bill Stoddard]
3093 *) Make mod_status work with 2.0. This will work for prefork,
3094 mpmt_pthread, and dexter. [Ryan Bloom]
3096 *) Correct a typo in httpd.conf.
3097 [Kunihiro Tanaka <tanaka@apache.or.jp>] PR#7154
3099 *) Really fix mod_rewrite map lookups this time. [Tony Finch]
3101 *) Get the correct IP address if ServerName isn't set and we can't
3102 find a fully-qualified domain name at startup.
3103 PR#7170 [Danek Duvall <dduvall@eng.sun.com>]
3105 *) Make mod_cgid work with SuExec. [Ryan Bloom]
3107 *) Adopt apr user/group name features for mod_rewrite. Eliminates some
3108 'extra' stat's for user/group since they should never occur, and now
3109 resolves the SCRIPT_USER and SCRIPT_GROUP, including on WinNT NTFS
3110 volumes. [William Rowe]
3112 *) Adopt apr features to simplify mod_includes. This changes the
3113 behavior of the USER_NAME variable, unknown uid's are now reported
3114 as USER_NAME="<unknown>" rather than the old user#000 result.
3115 WinNT now resolves USER_NAME on NTFS volumes. [William Rowe]
3117 *) Adopt apr features for simplifing mod_userdir, and accept the new
3118 Win32/OS2 exceptions without hiccuping. [William Rowe]
3120 *) Replace configure --with-optim option by using and saving the
3121 environment variable OPTIM instead. This is needed because configure
3122 options do not support multiple flags separated by spaces.
3125 *) Fix some byterange handling. If we get a byte range that looks like
3126 "-999999" where that is past the end of the file, we should return
3127 a PARTIAL CONTENT status code, and return the whole file as one big
3128 byterange. This matches the 1.3 handling now. [Ryan Bloom]
3130 *) Make the error bucket a real meta-data bucket. This means that the
3131 bucket length is 0, and a read returns NULL data. If one of these
3132 buckets is passed down after the headers are sent, this data will
3133 just be ignored. [Greg Stein]
3135 *) The prefork MPM wasn't killing child processes correctly if a restart
3136 signal was received while the process was serving a request. The child
3137 process would become the equivalent of a second parent process. If
3138 we break out of the accept loop, then we need to do die after cleaning
3139 up after ourselves. [Ryan Bloom]
3141 *) Change the Prefork MPM to use SIGWINCH instead of SIGUSR1 for graceful
3142 restarts. [Ryan Bloom]
3144 *) Modify the apr_stat/lstat/getfileinfo calls within apache to use
3145 the most optimal APR_FINFO_wanted bits. This spares Win32 from
3146 performing very expensive owner, group and permission lookups
3147 and allows the server to function until these apr_finfo_t fields
3148 are implemented under Win32. [William Rowe]
3150 *) Support for typedsafe optional functions - that is functions exported by
3151 optional modules, which, therefore, may or may not be present, depending
3152 on configuration. See the experimental modules mod_optional_fn_{ex,im}port
3153 for sample code. [Ben Laurie]
3155 *) filters can now report an HTTP error to the server. This is done
3156 by sending a brigade where the first bucket is an error_bucket.
3157 This bucket is a simple bucket that stores an HTTP error and
3158 a string. Currently the string is not used, but it may be needed
3159 to output an error log. The http_header_filter will find this
3160 bucket, and output the error text, and then return
3161 AP_FILTER_ERROR, which informs the server that the error web page
3162 has already been sent. [Ryan Bloom]
3164 *) If we get an error, then we should remove all filters except for
3165 those critical to serving a web page. This fixes a bug, where
3166 error pages were going through the byterange filter, even though
3167 that made no sense. [Ryan Bloom]
3169 *) Relax the syntax checking of Host: headers in order to support
3170 iDNS. PR#6635 [Tony Finch]
3172 *) Cleanup the byterange filter to use the apr_brigade_partition
3173 and apr_bucket_copy functions. This removes a lot of very messy
3174 code, and hopefully makes this filter more stable.
3177 *) Remove AddModule and ClearModuleList directives. Both of these
3178 directives were used to ensure that modules could be enabled
3179 in the correct order. That requirement is now gone, because
3180 we use hooks to ensure that modules are in the correct order.
3183 *) When SuExec is specified, we need to add it to the list of
3184 targets to be built. If we don't, then any changes to the
3185 configuration won't affect SuExec, unless 'make suexec' is
3186 specifically run. [Ryan Bloom]
3188 *) Cleaned out open_file from mod_file_cache, as apr now accepts
3189 the APR_XTHREAD argument to open a file for consumption by
3190 parallel threads on win32. [William Rowe]
3192 *) Correct a bug in determining when we follow symlinks. The code
3193 expected a stat -1 result, not an apr_status_t positive error.
3194 Also check if the APR_FINFO_USER fields are valid before we
3195 follow the link. [William Rowe]
3197 *) Move initgroupgs, ap_uname2id and ap_gname2id from util.c to
3198 mpm_common.c. These functions are only valid on some platforms,
3199 so they should not be in the main-line code. [Ryan Bloom]
3201 *) Remove ap_chdir_file(). This function is not thread-safe,
3202 and nobody is currently using it. [Ryan Bloom]
3204 *) Do not try to run make depend if there are no .c files in the
3205 current directory, doing so makes `make depend` fail.
3208 *) Update highperformance.conf to work with either prefork or
3209 pthreads mpms. [Greg Ames]
3211 *) Stop checking to see if this is a pipelined request if we know
3212 for a fact that it isn't. Basically, if r->connection->keepalive == 0.
3213 This keeps us from making an extra read call when serving a 1.0
3214 request. [Ryan Bloom and Greg Stein]
3216 *) Fix the handling of variable expansion look-ahead in mod_rewrite,
3217 i.e. syntax like %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER}, and also fix the parsing of
3218 more complicated nested RewriteMap lookups. PR#7087 [Tony Finch]
3220 *) Fix the RFC number mentioned when complaining about a missing
3221 Host: header. PR#7079 [Alexey Toptygin <alexeyt@wam.umd.edu>]
3223 *) Fix an endless loop in ab which occurred when ab was posting
3224 and the server dropped the connection unexpectedly.
3227 *) Fix a segfault while handling request bodies in ap_http_filter().
3228 This problem has been seen with mod_dav usage as well as with
3229 requests where the body was just being discarded. [Jeff Trawick]
3231 *) Some adjustment on the handling and automatic setting (via
3232 hints.m4) of various compilation flags (eg: CFLAGS). Also,
3233 add the capability to specify flags (NOTEST_CFLAGS and
3234 NOTEST_LDFLAGS) which are used to compile Apache, but
3235 not used during the configuration process. Useful for
3236 flags like "-Werror". [Jim Jagielski]
3238 *) Stop using environment variables to force debug mode or
3239 no detach. We now use the -D command line argument to
3240 specify the correct mode. -DONE_PROCESS and -DNO_DETACH.
3241 [Greg Stein, Ryan Bloom]
3243 *) Change handlers to use hooks. [Ben Laurie]
3245 *) Stop returning copies of filenames from both apr_file_t and
3246 apr_dir_t. We pstrdup the filenames that we store in the
3247 actual structures, so we don't need to pstrdup the strings again.
3250 *) mod_cgi: Fix some problems where the wrong error value was being
3251 traced. [Jeff Trawick]
3253 *) EBCDIC: Fix some missing ASCII conversion on some protocol data.
3256 *) Add generic hooks. [Ben Laurie]
3258 *) Use a real pool to dup the error log descriptor. [Ryan Bloom]
3260 *) Fix a segfault caused by mod_ext_filter when the external filter
3261 program does not exist. [Jeff Trawick]
3263 *) Fix an output truncation error when on an HTTP >= 1.0 request an
3264 object of size between DEFAULT_BUCKET_SIZE and AP_MIN_BYTES_TO_WRITE
3265 was served through mod_charset_lite (or anything else that would
3266 create a transient bucket in this size range). ap_bucket_make_heap()
3267 silently failed (fixed), transient_setaside() discovered it, but
3268 ap_save_brigade() ignored it (fixed). [Jeff Trawick]
3270 *) Ignore \r\n or \n when using PEEK mode for input filters. The problem
3271 is that some browsers send extra lines at the end of POST requests, and
3272 we don't want to delay sending data back to the user just because the
3273 browser isn't well behaved. [Ryan Bloom]
3275 *) Get SuEXEC working again. We can't send absolute paths to suExec
3276 because it refuses to execute those programs. SuEXEC also wasn't
3277 always recognizing configuration changes made using the autoconf
3280 *) Allow the buildconf process to find the config.m4 files in the correct
3281 order. Basically, we can now name config.m4 files as config\d\d.m4,
3282 and we will sort them correctly when inserting them into the build
3283 process. [Ryan Bloom]
3285 *) Get mod_cgid to use apr calls for creating the actual CGI process.
3286 This also allows mod_cgid to use ap_os_create_priviledged_process,
3287 thus allowing for SuExec execution from mod_cgid. Currently, we do
3288 not support everything that standard SuExec supports, but at least
3289 it works minimally now. [Ryan Bloom]
3291 *) Allow SuExec to be configured from the ./configure command line.
3294 *) Update some of the docs in README and INSTALL to reflect some of
3295 the changes in Apache 2.0 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
3297 *) If we get EAGAIN returned from the call to apr_sendfile, then we
3298 need to call sendfile again. This gets us serving large files
3299 such as apache_2.0a9.tar.gz on FreeBSD again. [Ryan Bloom]
3301 *) Get the support programs building cleanly again.
3302 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
3304 *) The Apache/Win32 Apache.exe and dll's now live in bin. The
3305 current directory logic now backs up over bin/ to determine the
3306 server root from the Apache.exe path.
3308 *) Apache/Win32 now follows the standard conventions of mod_foo.so
3309 loadable modules, dynamic libs are all named libfoo.dll, and the
3310 makefile.win populates the include, lib and libexec directories.
3312 *) Apache is now IPv6-capable. On systems where APR supports IPv6,
3313 Apache gets IPv6 listening sockets by default. Additionally, the
3314 Listen, NameVirtualHost, and <VirtualHost> directives support IPv6
3315 numeric address strings (e.g., "Listen [fe80::1]:8080").
3318 *) Modify the install directory layout. Modules are now installed in
3319 modules/. Shared libraries should be installed in libraries/, but
3320 we don't have any of those on Unix yet. All install directories
3321 are modifyable at configure time. [Ryan Bloom]
3323 *) Install all header files in the same directory on Unix. [Ryan Bloom]
3325 *) Get the functions in server/linked into the server, regardless of
3326 which modules linked into the server. This uses the same hack
3327 for Apache that we use for APR and apr-util to ensure all of the
3328 necessary functions are linked. As a part of thise, the CHARSET_EBCDIC
3329 was renamed to AP_CHARSET_EBCDIC for namespace protection, and to make
3330 the scripts a bit easier.
3333 *) Rework the RFC1413 handling to make it thread-safe, use a timeout
3334 on the query, and remove IPv4 dependencies. [Jeff Trawick]
3336 *) Get all of the auth modules to the point that they will install and
3337 be loadable into the server. Our new build/install mechanism expects
3338 that all modules will have a common name format. The auth modules
3339 didn't use that format, so we didn't install them properly.
3342 *) API routines ap_pgethostbyname() and ap_pduphostent() are no longer
3343 available. Use apr_getaddrinfo() instead. [Jeff Trawick]
3345 *) Get "NameVirtualHost *" working in 2.0. [Ryan Bloom]
3347 *) Return HTTP_RANGE_NOT_SATISFIABLE if the every range requested starts
3348 after the end of the response. [Ryan Bloom]
3350 *) Get byterange requests working with responses that do not have a
3351 content-length. Because of the way byterange requests work, we have to
3352 have all of the data before we can actually do the byterange, so we
3353 can compute the content-length in the byterange filter.
3356 *) Get exe CGI's working again on Windows.
3359 *) Get mod_cgid and mod_rewrite to work as DSOs by changing the way
3360 they keep track of whether or not their post config hook has been
3361 called before. Instead of a static variable (which is replaced when
3362 the DSO is loaded a second time), use userdata in the process pool.
3365 Changes with Apache 2.0a9
3367 *) Win32 now requires perl to complete the final install step for users
3368 to build + install on Win32. Makefile.win now rewrites @@ServerRoot@
3369 and installs the conf, htdocs and htdocs/manual directories.
3372 *) Make mod_include use a hash table to associate directive tags with
3373 functions. This allows modules to implement their own SSI tags easily.
3374 The idea is simple enough, a module can insert it's own tag and function
3375 combination into a hash table provided by mod_include. While mod_include
3376 parses an SSI file, when it encounters a tag in the file, it does a
3377 hash lookup to find the function that implements that tag, and passes
3378 all of the relevant data to the function. That function is then
3379 responsible for processing the tag and handing the remaining data back
3380 to mod_include for further processing.
3381 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3383 *) Get rid of ap_new_apr_connection(). ap_new_connection() now has
3384 fewer parameters: the local and remote socket addresses were removed
3385 from the parameter list because all required information is available
3386 via the APR socket. [Jeff Trawick]
3388 *) Distribution directory structure reorganized to reflect a
3389 normal source distribution with external install targets.
3392 *) The MPMs that need multiple segments of shared memory now create
3393 two apr_shmem_t variables, one for each shared memory allocation.
3394 the problem is that we can't determine how much memory will be required
3395 for shared memory allocations once we try to allocate more than one
3396 variable. The MM code automatically aligns the shared memory allocations,
3397 so we end up needing to pad the amount of shared memory we want based
3398 on how many variables will be allocated out of the shared memory segment.
3399 It is just easier to create a second apr_shmem_t variable, and two
3400 shmem memory blocks.
3403 *) Cleanup the export list a bit. This creates a single unified list of
3404 functions exported by APR. The export list is generated at configure
3405 time, and that list is then used to generate the exports.c file.
3406 Because of the way the export list is generated, we only export those
3407 functions that are valid on the platform we are building on.
3410 *) Enable logging the cookie with mod_log_config
3411 [Sander van Zoest <sander@covalent.net>]
3413 *) Fix a segfault in mod_info when it reaches the end of the configuration.
3416 *) Added lib/aputil/ as a placeholder for utility functions which are not
3417 specific to the Apache HTTP Server (but do not make sense with APR).
3418 The first utility is "apu_dbm": a set of functions to work with DBM
3419 files. This first version can be compiled for SDBM or GDBM databases.
3422 *) Complete re-write of mod_include. This makes mod_include a filter that
3423 uses buckets directly. This has now served the FAQ correctly.
3424 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3426 *) Allow modules to specify the first filter in a sub_request when
3427 making the sub_request. This keeps modules from having to change the
3428 output_filter immediately after creating the sub-request, and therefore
3429 skip the sub_req_output_filter. [Ryan Bloom]
3431 *) Update ab to accept URLs with IPv6 literal address strings (in the
3432 format described in RFC 2732), and to build Host header fields in
3433 the same format. This allows IPv6 literal address strings to be
3434 used with ab. This support has been tested against Apache 1.3 with
3435 the KAME patch, but Apache 2.0 does not yet work with this format
3436 of the Host header field. [Jeff Trawick]
3438 *) Accomodate an out-of-space condition in the piped logs and the
3439 rotatelogs.c code, and no longer churn log processes for this
3440 condition. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
3442 *) Add support for partial writes with apr_sendfile() to core_output_filter.
3445 Changes with Apache 2.0a8
3447 *) Add a directive to mod_mime so that filters can be associated with
3451 *) Get multi-views working again. We were setting the path_info
3452 field incorrectly if we couldn't find the specified file.
3455 *) Fix 304 processing. The core should never try to send the headers
3456 down the filter stack. Always, just setup the table in the request
3457 record, and let the header filter convert it to data that is ready
3461 *) More fixes for the proxy. There are still bugs in the proxy code,
3462 but this has now proxied www.yahoo.com and www.ntrnet.net (my ISP)
3466 *) Fix params for apr_getaddrinfo() call in connect proxy handler.
3469 *) APR: Add new apr_getopt_long function to handle long options.
3470 [B. W. Fitzpatrick <fitz@red-bean.com>]
3472 *) APR: Change apr_connect() to take apr_sockaddr_t instead of hostname.
3473 Add generic apr_create_socket(). Add apr_getaddrinfo() for doing
3474 hostname resolution/address string parsing and building
3475 apr_sockaddr_t. Add apr_get_sockaddr() for getting the address
3476 of one of the apr_sockaddr_t structures for a socket. Change
3477 apr_bind() to take apr_sockaddr_t. [David Reid and Jeff Trawick]
3479 *) Remove the BUFF from the HTTP proxy. This is still a bit ugly, but
3480 I have proxied pages with it, cleanup will commence soon.
3483 *) Make the proxy work with filters. This isn't perfect, because we
3484 aren't dealing with the headers properly. [Ryan Bloom]
3486 *) Do not send a content-length iff the C-L is 0 and this is a head
3487 request. [Ryan Bloom]
3489 *) Make cgi-bin work as a regular directory when using mod_vhost_alias
3490 with no VirtualScriptAlias directives. PR#6829 [Tony Finch]
3492 *) Remove BUFF from the PROXY connect handling. [Ryan Bloom]
3494 *) Get the default_handler to stop trying to deal with HEAD requests.
3495 The idea is to let the content-length filter compute the C-L before
3496 we try to send the data. If we can get the C-L correctly, then we
3497 should send it in the HEAD response.
3500 *) The Header filter can now determine if a body should be sent based
3501 on r->header_only. The general idea of this is that if we delay
3502 deciding to send the body, then we might be able to compute the
3503 content-length correctly, which will help caching proxies to cache
3504 our data better. Any handler that doesn't want to try to compute
3505 the content-length can just send an EOS bucket without data and
3506 everything will just work.
3509 *) Add the referer to the error log if one is available.
3510 [Markus Gyger <mgyger@itr.ch>]
3512 *) Mod_info.c has now been ported to Apache 2.0. As a part of this
3513 change, the root of the configuration tree has been exposed to modules
3515 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
3517 *) Get the core_output_filter to use the bucket interface directly.
3518 This keeps us from calling the content-length filter multiple times
3519 for a simple static request.
3522 *) We are sending the content-type correctly now.
3523 [Ryan Bloom and Will Rowe]
3525 *) APR on FreeBSD: Fix a bug in apr_sendfile() which caused us to report
3526 a bogus bytes-sent value when the only thing being sent was trailers
3527 and writev() returned an error (or EAGAIN). [Jeff Trawick]
3529 *) Get SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT working again. This uses the
3530 hints file to determine which platforms define
3531 SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT.
3534 *) APR: add apr_get_home_directory() [Jeff Trawick]
3536 *) Initial import of 1.3-current mod_proxy. [Chuck Murcko]
3538 *) Not all platforms have INADDR_NONE defined by default. Apache
3539 used to make this check and define INADDR_NONE if appropriate,
3540 but APR needs the check too, and I suspect other applications will
3541 as well. APR now defines APR_INADDR_NONE, which is always a valid
3542 value on all platforms.
3543 [Branko Èibej <brane@xbc.nu>]
3545 *) Destroy the pthread mutex in lock_intra_cleanup() for PR#6824.
3546 [Shuichi Kitaguchi <ki@hh.iij4u.or.jp>]
3548 *) Relax the syntax checking of Host: headers in order to support
3549 iDNS. PR#6635 [Tony Finch]
3551 *) When reading from file buckets we convert to an MMAP if it makes
3552 sense. This also simplifies the default handler because the
3553 default handler no longer needs to try to create MMAPs.
3556 *) BUFF has been removed from the main server. The BUFF code will remain
3557 in the code until it has been purged from the proxy module as well.
3560 *) Byteranges have been completely re-written to be a filter. This
3561 has been tested, and I believe it is working correctly, but it could
3562 doesn't work for the Adobe Acrobat plug-in. The output almost matches
3563 the output from 1.3, the only difference being that 1.3 includes
3564 a content-length in the response, and this does not.
3567 *) APR read/write functions and bucket read functions now operate
3568 on unsigned integers, instead of signed ones. It doesn't make
3569 any sense to use signed ints, because we return the error codes,
3570 so if we have an error we should report 0 bytes read or written.
3573 *) Always compute the content length, whether it is sent or not.
3574 The reason for this, is that it allows us to correctly report
3575 the bytes_sent when logging the request. This also simplifies
3576 content-length filter a bit, and fixes the actual byte-reporing
3577 code in mod_log_config.c
3580 *) Remove AP_END_OF_BRIGADE definition. This does not signify what
3581 it says, because it was only used by EOS and FLUSH buckets. Since
3582 neither of those are required at the end of a brigade, this was
3583 really signifying FLUSH_THE_DATA, but that can be determined better
3584 by checking AP_BUCKET_IS_EOS() or AP_BUCKET_IS_FLUSH. EOS and FLUSH
3585 buckets now return a length of 0, which is actually the amount of data
3586 read, so they make more sense.
3589 *) Allow the core_output_filter to save some data past the end of a
3590 request. If we get an EOS bucket, we only send the data if it
3591 makes sense to send it. This allows us to pipeline request
3592 responses. As a part of this, we also need to allocate mmap
3593 buckets out of the connection pool, not the request pool. This
3594 allows the mmap to outlive the request.
3597 *) Make blocking and non-blocking bucket reads work correctly for
3598 sockets and pipes. These are the only bucket types that should
3599 have non-blocking reads, because the other bucket types should
3600 ALWAYS be able to return something immediately.
3603 *) In the Apache/Win32 console window, accept Ctrl+C to stop the
3604 server, but use Ctrl+Break to initiate a graceful restart
3605 instead of duplicating behavior. [John Sterling]
3607 *) Patch mod_autoindex to set the Last-Modified header based on
3608 the directory's mtime, and add the ETag header. [William Rowe]
3610 *) Merge the 1.3 patch to add support for logging query string in
3611 such a way that "%m %U%q %H" is the same as "%r".
3614 *) Port three log methods from mod_log_config 1.3 to 2.0:
3615 CLF compliant '-' byte count, method and protocol.
3618 *) Add a new LogFormat directive, %c, that will log connection
3619 status at the end of the response as follows:
3620 'X' - connection aborted before the response completed.
3621 '+' - connection may be kept-alive by the server.
3622 '-' - connection will be closed by the server.
3625 *) Expand APR for WinNT to fully accept and return utf-8 encoded
3626 Unicode file names and paths for Win32, and tag the Content-Type
3627 from mod_autoindex to reflect that charset if the the feature
3628 macro APR_HAS_UNICODE_FS is true. [William Rowe]
3630 *) Compute the content length (and add appropriate header field) for
3631 the response when no content length is available and we can't use
3632 chunked encoding. [Jeff Trawick]
3634 *) Changed ap_discard_request_body() to use REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK,
3635 so that content input filters get dechunked data when using
3636 the default handler. Also removed REQUEST_CHUNKED_PASS.
3639 *) Add mod_ext_filter as an experimental module. This module allows
3640 the administrator to use external programs as filters. Currently,
3641 only filtering of output is supported. [Jeff Trawick]
3643 *) Most Apache functions work on EBCDIC machines again, as protocol
3644 data is now translated (again). [Jeff Trawick]
3646 *) Introduce ap_xlate_proto_{to|from}_ascii() to clean up some of
3647 the EBCDIC support. They are noops on ASCII machines, so this
3648 type of translation doesn't have to be surrounded by #ifdef
3649 CHARSET_EBCDIC. [Jeff Trawick]
3651 *) Fix mod_include. tag commands work again, and the server will
3652 send the FAQ again. This also allows mod_include to set aside
3653 buckets that include partial buckets.
3654 [Ryan Bloom and David Reid]
3656 *) Add suexec support back. [Manoj Kasichainula]
3658 *) Lingering close now uses the socket directly instead of using
3659 BUFF. This has been tested, but since all we can tell is that it
3660 doesn't fail, this needs to be really hacked on.
3663 *) Allow filters to modify headers and have those headers be sent to
3664 the client. The idea is that we have an http_header filter that
3665 actually sends the headers to the network. This removes the need
3666 for the BUFF to send headers.
3669 *) Charset translation: mod_charset_lite handles translation of
3670 request bodies. Get rid of the xlate version of ap_md5_digest()
3671 since we don't compute digests of filtered (e.g., translated)
3672 response bodies this way anymore. (Note that we don't do it at
3673 all at the present; somebody needs to write a filter to do so.)
3676 *) Input filters and ap_get_brigade() now have a input mode parameter
3677 (blocking, non-blocking, peek) instead of a length parameter.
3680 *) Update the mime.types file to the registered media types as
3681 of 2000-10-19. PR#6613 [Carsten Klapp <carsten.klapp@home.net>,
3684 *) Namespace protect some macros declared in ap_config.h
3687 *) Support HTTP header line folding with input filtering.
3690 *) Mod_include works again. This should still be re-written, but at
3691 least now we can serve an SHTML page again.
3694 *) Begin to remove BUFF from the core. Currently, we keep a pointer
3695 to both the BUFF and the socket in the conn_rec. Functions that
3696 want to use the BUFF can, functions that want to use the socket,
3697 can. They point to the same place.
3700 *) apr_psprintf doesn't understand %lld as a format. Make it %ld.
3701 [Tomas "Ögren" <stric@ing.umu.se>]
3703 *) APR pipes on Unix and Win32 are now cleaned up automatically when the
3704 associated pool goes away. (APR pipes on OS/2 were already had this
3705 logic.) This resolvs a fatal file descriptor leak with CGIs.
3708 *) The final line of the config file was not being read if there was
3709 no \n at the end of it. This was caused by apr_fgets returning
3710 APR_EOF even though we had read valid data. This is solved by
3711 making cfg_getline check the buff that was returned from apr_fgets.
3712 If apr_fgets return APR_EOF, but there was data in the buf, then we
3713 return the buf, otherwise we return NULL.
3716 *) Piped logs work again in the 2.0 series.
3719 *) Restore functionality broken by the mod_rewrite security fix:
3720 rewrite map lookup keys and default values are now expanded
3721 so that the lookup can depend on the requested URI etc.
3722 PR #6671 [Tony Finch]
3724 *) SECURITY: Tighten up the syntax checking of Host: headers to fix a
3725 security bug in some mass virtual hosting configurations
3726 that can allow a remote attacker to retrieve some files
3727 on the system that should be inaccessible. [Tony Finch]
3729 *) Add a pool bucket type. This bucket is used for data allocated out
3730 of a pool. If the pool is cleaned before the bucket is destroyed, then
3731 the data is converted to a heap bucket, allowing it to survive the
3735 *) Add a flush bucket. This allows modules to signal that the filters
3736 should all flush whatever data they currently have. There is no way
3737 to actually force them to do this, so if a filter ignores this bucket,
3738 that's life, but at least we can try with this.
3741 *) Add an output filter for sub-requests. This filter just strips the
3742 EOS bucket so that we don't confuse the main request's core output
3743 filter by sending multiple EOS buckets. This change also makes sub
3744 requests start to send EOS buckets when they are finished.
3747 *) Make ap_bucket_(read|destroy|split|setaside) into macros. Also
3748 makes ap_bucket_destroy a return void, which is okay because it
3749 used to always return APR_SUCCESS, and nobody ever checked its
3750 return value anyway.
3751 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
3753 *) Remove the index into the bucket-type table from the buckets
3754 structure. This has now been replaced with a pointer to the
3755 bucket_type. Also add some macros to test the bucket-type.
3758 *) Renamed all MODULE_EXPORT symbols to AP_MODULE_DECLARE and all symbols
3759 for CORE_EXPORT to AP_CORE_DECLARE (namespace protecting the wrapper)
3760 and retitled API_EXPORT as AP_DECLARE and APR_EXPORT as APR_DECLARE.
3761 All _VAR_ flavors changes to _DATA to be absolutely clear.
3764 *) Add support for /, //, //servername and //server/sharename
3765 parsing of <Directory> blocks under Win32 and OS2.
3766 [Tim Costello, William Rowe, Brian Harvard]
3768 *) Remove the function pointers from the ap_bucket type. They have been
3769 replaced with a global table. Modules are allowed to register bucket
3770 types and use then use those buckets.
3773 *) mod_cgid: In the handler, shut down the Unix socket (only for write)
3774 once we finish writing the request body to the cgi child process;
3775 otherwise, the client doesn't hit EOF on stdin. Small request bodies
3776 worked without this change (for reasons I don't understand), but large
3777 ones didn't. [Jeff Trawick]
3779 *) Remove file bucket specific information from the ap_bucket type.
3780 This has been moved to a file_bucket specific type that hangs off
3781 the data pointer in the ap_bucket type.
3784 *) Input filtering now has a third argument. This is the amount of data
3785 to read from lower filters. This argument can be -1, 0, or a positive
3786 number. -1 means give me all the data you have, I'll deal with it and
3787 let you know if I need more. 0 means give me one line and one line
3788 only. A positive number means I want no more than this much data.
3790 Currently, only 0 and a positive number are implemented. This allows
3791 us to remove the remaining field from the conn_rec structure, which
3795 *) Big cleanup of the input filtering. The goal is that http_filter
3796 understands two conditions, headers and body. It knows where it is
3797 based on c->remaining. If c->remaining is 0, then we are in headers,
3798 and http_filter returns a line at a time. If it is not 0, then we are
3799 in body, and http_filter returns raw data, but only up to c->remaining
3800 bytes. It can return less, but never more.
3801 [Greg Ames, Ryan Bloom, Jeff Trawick]
3803 *) mod_cgi: Write all of the request body to the child, not just what
3804 the kernel would accept on the first write. [Jeff Trawick]
3806 *) Back out the change that moved the brigade from the core_output_filters
3807 ctx to the conn_rec. Since all requests over a given connection
3808 go through the same core_output_filter, the ctx pointer has the
3812 *) Fix another bug in the send_the_file() read/write loop. A partial
3813 send by apr_send would cause unsent data in the read buffer to
3814 get clobbered. Complete making send_the_file handle partial
3815 writes to the network.
3818 *) Fix a couple of type fixes to allow compilation on AIX again
3819 [Victor J. Orlikowski <v.j.orlikowski@gte.net>]
3821 *) Fix bug in send_the_file() which causes offset to be ignored
3822 if there are no headers to send.
3825 *) Handle APR_ENOTIMPL returned from apr_sendfile in the core
3826 filter. Useful for supporting Windows 9* with a binary
3827 compiled on Windows NT.
3830 Changes with Apache 2.0a7
3832 *) Reimplement core_output_filter to buffer/save bucket brigades
3833 across multiple calls to the core_filter. The brigade will be
3834 sent when either MIN_BYTES_TO_SEND or MAX_IOVEC_TO_WRITE
3835 thresholds are hit or the EOS bucket is received.
3838 *) Create experimental filter (buffer_filter) that coalesces bytes
3839 into one large buffer before invoking the next filter in the
3840 chain. This filter is particularly useful with the current
3841 implementation of mod_autoindex when it inserted above the
3842 chunk_filter. mod_autoindex generates a lot of brigades that
3843 containing buckets holding just a few bytes each. The
3844 buffer_filter coalesces these buckets into a single large bucket.
3847 *) Add apr_sendfile() support into the core_output_filter.
3850 *) Add apr_sendv() support into the core_output_filter.
3853 *) Fix mod_log_config so that it compiles cleanly with BUFFERED_LOGS
3854 [Mike Abbott <mja@sgi.com>]
3856 *) Remove ap_send_fb. This is no longer used in Apache, and it doesn't
3857 make much sense, because Apache uses buckets instead of BUFFs now.
3860 *) send_the_file now falls back to a read/write loop on platforms that
3861 do not have sendfile.
3862 [Ryan Bloom and Brian Havard]
3864 *) Install apachectl correctly, and substitute the proper values so
3865 that it works again. [Ryan Bloom]
3867 *) Better(??) handle platforms that lack sendfile().
3870 *) APR now has UUID generation/formatting/parsing support.
3873 *) Begin the http_filter. This is an input filter that understands
3874 the absolute basic amount required to parse an HTTP Request. The
3875 goal is to be able to split headers from request body before passing
3876 the data back to the other filters.
3879 *) Bring forward from 1.3.13 the config directory implementation
3882 *) install apxs if it is created
3885 *) Added APR_IS_STATUS_condition test macros to eliminate canonical error
3886 conversions. [William Rowe]
3888 *) Now that we have ap_add_input_filter(), rename ap_add_filter() to
3889 ap_add_output_filter(). [Jeff Trawick]
3891 *) Multiple build and configuration fixes
3894 -add datadir and localstatedir substitutions
3896 -fix logfilename misspelling
3897 -fix evaluation of installation dir variables and
3898 -replace $foobar by $(foobar) to be usefull in the makefile
3902 -add rules for cross-compiling in rules.mk. Okay, rule to check for
3903 $CC_FOR_BUILD is still missing
3904 -use CHECK_TOOL instead of CHECK_PROG for ranlib
3905 -add missing "AR=@AR@" to severaly Makefile.in's
3906 -cache result for "struct rlimit"
3907 -compile all helper programs with native and cross compiler
3908 and use the native version to generate header file
3909 ["Rüdiger" Kuhlmann <Tadu@gmx.de>]
3911 *) Prepare our autoconf setup for autoconf 2.14a and for cross-
3913 ["Rüdiger" Kuhlmann <Tadu@gmx.de>]
3915 *) Fix a bug where a client which only sends \n to delimit header
3916 lines (netcat) gets a strange looking HTTP_NOT_IMPLEMENTED
3917 message. Start working on ebcdic co-existance with input
3919 [William Rowe, Greg Ames]
3921 *) If mod_so is enabled in the server always create libexec, even
3922 if there are no modules installed in this directory. This is a
3923 requirement for APXS to work correctly.
3926 *) Connection oriented output filters are now stored in the
3927 conn_rec instead of the request_rec. This allows us to add the
3928 output filter in the pre-connection phase instead of the
3929 post_read_request phase, which keeps us from trying to write an
3930 error page before we have a filter to write to the network.
3931 [Ryan Bloom, Jeff Trawick, and Greg Ames]
3933 *) Cleaning up an mmap bucket no longer deletes the mmap. An
3934 mmap can be used across multiple buckets (default_handler with
3935 byte ranges, mod_file_cache, mod_mmap_static), so cleanup of
3936 the mmap itself can't be associated with the bucket.
3939 *) Add .dll caching directive ISAPICacheFile to mod_isapi.
3942 *) Radical surgery to improve mod_isapi support under Win32.
3943 Includes a number of newer ServerSupportFunction calls, support
3944 for ReadClient (in order to retrieve POSTs greater than 48KB),
3945 and general bug fixes to more reliably load ISAPI .dll's and
3946 prevent leaking handle resources. Note: There are still
3947 discrepancies between IIS's and Apache's ServerVariables, and
3948 async calls are still not supported. Additional warnings are
3949 logged to facilitate debugging of unsupported ISAPI calls.
3952 *) Add input filtering to Apache. The basic idea for the input
3953 filters is the same as the ideas for output filters. The biggest
3954 difference is that instead of calling ap_pass_brigade, ap_get_brigade
3955 should be called, and the order of execution for the filter itself is
3956 different. When writing an output filter, a brigade is passed in,
3957 and filters operate directly on that brigade, when done, they call
3958 ap_pass_brigade. Input filters are the exact opposite. Because input
3959 is not a push operation, filters first call ap_get_brigade. When this
3960 function returns, the input filter will be left with a valid brigade.
3961 The input filter should then operate on the brigade, and return.
3964 *) Fix building on BSD/OS using its native make. The build system
3965 falls back to the BSD .include directive on that host platform.
3968 *) Expand dbmmanage to allow -d -m -s -p options for Crypt, MD5,
3969 SHA1 and plaintext password encodings. Make feature tests a
3970 bit more flexible. [William Rowe]
3972 *) Charset translation: mod_charset_lite handles output content
3973 translation in a filter. mod_charset_lite no longer ignores
3974 subrequests. A bunch of cruft related to BUFF's support for
3975 translating request and response bodies was removed.
3978 *) Move the addition of the CORE filter to the post_read_request
3979 hook in http_core.c. This removes the need to add the filter in
3980 multiple places and allows for an SSL module to be added much
3981 simpler. [Ryan Bloom]
3983 *) SECURITY: CVE-2000-0913 (cve.mitre.org)
3984 Fix a security problem that affects certain configurations of
3985 mod_rewrite. If the result of a RewriteRule is a filename that
3986 contains expansion specifiers, especially regexp backreferences
3987 $0..$9 and %0..%9, then it may be possible for an attacker to
3988 access any file on the web server. [Tony Finch]
3990 *) Fix a bug where errors that are detected during early request parsing
3991 don't produce visible HTTP error messages at the browser, because
3992 the core_filter wasn't present. [Greg Ames]
3994 *) Provide apr_socklen_t as a portability aid.
3995 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
3997 *) Overhaul of dbmmanage to allow a groups arg (as in Apache 1.2)
3998 as well as a comment arg to the add, adduser and update cmds.
3999 update allows the user to clear or preserve pw/groups/comment.
4000 Fixed a bug in dbmmanage that prevented the check option from
4001 parsing a password followed by :group... text. Corrected the
4002 seed calcualation for Win32 systems, and added -lsdbm support.
4005 *) Configured mod_auth_dbm to compile with sdbmlib under Win32.
4008 *) Avoid a segfault when parsing .htaccess files. An
4009 uninitialized tree pointer was passed to ap_build_config().
4012 *) Change the way that inet_addr & inet_network are checked for
4013 in APR's configure process to allow BeOS BONE to correctly
4014 find them. With this change BeOS BONE now builds from source
4015 with no problems. [David Reid]
4017 *) Fix a bug in apr_create_process() for Unix. The NULL signifying
4018 the end of the parameters to execve() was stored in the wrong
4019 location, overlaying the storage beyond the newargs[] array and
4020 also passing uninitialized storage to execve(), which would
4021 sometimes fail with EFAULT. [Jeff Trawick]
4023 *) Fix a bug parsing configuration file containers. With a sequence
4024 like this in the config file
4026 <IfModule mod_kilroy.c>
4029 <IfModule mod_lovejoy.c>
4034 the second container would be terminated at the blank line due to
4035 sediment in the buffer from reading the prior </IfModule> and an
4036 error message would be generated for the real </IfModule> for the
4037 second container. Also due to this problem, any two characters
4038 could be used for "</" in the close of a container.
4041 *) ap_add_filter prototype changed to remove the ctx pointer. The
4042 pointer still remains in the filter structure, but it can not be
4043 a part of the ap_add_filter prototype. The reason is that when
4044 the core uses AddFilter to add a filter to the stack it doesn't
4045 know how to allocate the ctx pointer, or even how much memory should
4046 be allocated. The filters will have to be responsible for allocating
4047 the ctx memory when they need it.
4050 *) Add an AddFilter directive. This directive takes a list of filters
4051 that should be activated for the requested resource.
4054 *) apr_snprintf(): Get quad format strings working on OS/390 (and perhaps
4055 some other platforms). [Jeff Trawick]
4057 *) Modify mod_include to be a filter. Currently, it has only been tested
4058 on actual files, but it should work for CGI scripts too.
4061 *) apr_putc(), apr_puts() for Unix: handle buffered files and interrupted
4062 writes. apr_flush() for Unix: handle interrupted writes.
4065 *) NameVirtualHost can now take "*" as an argument instead of
4066 an IP address. This allows you to create a purely name-based
4067 virtual hosting server that does not have any IP addresses in
4068 the configuration file and which ignores the local address
4069 of any connections. PR #5595, PR #4455 [Tony Finch]
4071 *) Fix some compile warnings in mod_mmap_static.c
4072 [Mike Abbott <mja@sgi.com>]
4074 *) Fix chunking problem with CGI scripts. The general problem was that
4075 the CGI modules were adding an EOS bucket and then the core added an
4076 EOS bucket. The chunking filter finalizes the chunked response when it
4077 encounters an EOS bucket. Because two EOS buckets were sent, we
4078 finalized the response twice. The fix is to make sure we only send one
4079 EOS, by utilizing a flag in the request_rec.
4082 *) apr_put_os_file() now sets up the unget byte appropriately on Unix
4083 and Win32. Previously, the first read from an apr_file_t set up via
4084 apr_put_os_file() would return a '\0'. [Jeff Trawick]
4086 *) Mod_cgid now creates a single element bucket brigade, with a pipe
4087 bucket, instead of using BUFF's and ap_r*.
4090 *) APRVARS.in no longer overwrites the EXTRA_LIBS variable.
4091 [Mike Abbott <mja@sgi.com>]
4093 *) Remove ap_bopenf from buff code. This required modifying the file_cache
4094 code to use APR file's directly instead of going through BUFFs.
4097 *) Fix compile break on some platforms for mod_mime_magic.c
4098 [John K. Sterling <sterling@covalent.net>]
4100 *) Fix merging of AddDefaultCharset directive.
4101 PR #5872 (1.3) [Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@imgsrc.co.jp>]
4103 *) Minor revamp of the rlimit sections of code. We now test
4104 explicitly for setrlimit and getrlimit. Also, unixd_set_rlimit()
4105 is now "available" even if the platform doesn't support
4106 the rlimit family (it's just a noop though). [Jim Jagielski]
4108 *) Migrate the pre-selection of which MPM to use for specific
4109 platforms to hints.m4, which contains (or should contain)
4110 all platform specific "hints". [Jim Jagielski]
4112 *) Remove IOLs from Apache. With filtering, IOLs are no longer necessary
4115 *) Add tables with non-string/binary values to APR.
4118 *) Fix some bad calls to ap_log_rerror() in mod_rewrite.
4121 *) Update PCRE to version 3.2. [Ryan Bloom]
4123 *) Change the way buckets' destroy functions are called so that
4124 they can be more directly used when changing the type of a
4125 bucket in place. [Tony Finch]
4127 *) Add generic support for reference-counting the resources used by
4128 buckets, and alter the HEAP and MMAP buckets to use it. Change
4129 the way buckets are initialised to support changing the type of
4130 buckets in place, and use it when setting aside TRANSIENT buckets.
4131 Change the implementation of TRANSIENT buckets so that it can be
4132 mostly shared with IMMORTAL buckets, which are now implemented.
4135 Changes with Apache 2.0a6
4137 *) Add support to Apache and APR for dsos on OS/390. [Greg Ames]
4139 *) Add a chunking filter to Apache. This brings us one step closer
4140 to removing BUFF. [Ryan Bloom]
4142 *) ap_add_filter now adds filters in a LIFO fashion. The first filter
4143 added to the stack is the last filter to be called. [Ryan Bloom]
4145 *) Apache 2.0 has been completely documented using Scandoc. The
4146 docs can be generated by running 'make docs'. [Ryan Bloom]
4148 *) Add filtered I/O to Apache. This is based on bucket brigades,
4149 Currently the buckets still use BUFF under the covers, but that
4150 should change quickly. The only currently written filter is the
4151 core filter which just calls ap_bwrite. [The Apache Group]
4153 *) APR locks on Unix: Let APR_LOCKALL locks work when APR isn't
4154 built with thread support. [Jeff Trawick]
4156 *) Abort configuration if --with-layout was specified and there's
4157 no layout definition file. [Ken Coar]
4159 *) Add support for '--with-port=n' option to configure. [Ken Coar]
4161 *) Add support for extension methods for the Allow response header
4162 field, and an API routine for accessing r->allowed and the
4163 list of extension methods in a unified manner. [Ken Coar]
4165 *) mod_cern_meta: fix broken file reading loop in scan_meta_file().
4166 [Rob Simonson <simo@us.ibm.com>]
4168 *) Get xlate builds working again. The apr renaming in 2.0a5 broke
4169 APACHE_XLATE builds. [Jeff Trawick]
4171 *) A configuration file parsing problem was fixed. When the
4172 configuration file started with an IfModule/IfDefine container,
4173 only the last statement in the container would be retained.
4176 Changes with Apache 2.0a5
4178 *) Perchild is serving pages after passing them to different child
4179 processes. There are still a lot of bugs, but this does work. I
4180 have made requests against the same installation of Apache, and had
4181 different servers use different user IDs to serve the responses.
4182 This change moves to using socketpair instead of an AF_UNIX socket.
4185 *) Perchild MPM still doesn't work perfectly, but it is serving pages.
4186 It can't seem to pass between child processes yet, but I think we
4187 are closer now than before. This moves us back to using Unix
4188 Domain Sockets. [Ryan Bloom]
4190 *) libapr functions and types renamed with apr_ prefix.
4191 #include "apr_compat.h" for 1.3.x backwards compat
4194 *) Fix problems with APR sockaddr handling on Win32. It didn't always
4195 return the right information on the local socket address.
4196 [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls@level8.com>]
4198 *) ap_recv() on Win32: Set bytes-read to 0 on error.
4199 [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls@level8.com>]
4201 *) Add an option to not detach from the controlling terminal without
4202 going into single process mode. This allows for much easier
4203 debugging of the process startup code. [Ryan Bloom]
4205 *) ab: don't use perror() to report the failure of an APR function.
4208 *) Make dexter, mpmt_pthread, and perchild MPMs not destroy the
4209 scoreboard on graceful restarts.
4212 *) Fix segfault/SIGSEGV when running gzip from mod_mime_magic.c.
4213 An invalid ap_proc_t was passed to ap_create_process().
4216 *) Allow modules to register filters. Those filters are still
4217 never called, but this is a step in the right direction.
4218 [Ryan Bloom and Greg Stein]
4220 *) Register the mod_cgid daemon process for cleanup so that it is
4221 killed at termination if it does not die when the parent gets
4222 SIGTERM. This change is to fix occasional problems where the
4223 process stays around. Bugs in similar logic in mod_rewrite and
4224 mod_include were also fixed. [Jeff Trawick]
4226 *) Fix a bug in the time handling. Basically, we were imploding a time
4227 in ap_parseHTTPdate, but it had bogus data in the exploded time format.
4228 Namely, tm_usec and tm_gmtoff were not filled out. ap_implode_time
4229 uses those two fields to adjust the time value. Because of the HTTP
4230 spec, both of those values can be zero'ed out safely. This fixes
4231 the bug correctly. [Ryan Bloom]
4233 *) Fix a couple of place in the Windows code where the wrong error
4234 code was being returned. [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls@level8.com>]
4236 *) Fix POOL_DEBUG (at least for prefork mpm). [Dean Gaudet]
4238 *) Added the APR_EOL_STR macro for platform dependent differences in
4239 logfiles and other raw text (such as all APR files). Fixes logfiles
4240 not terminated with cr/lf sequences in Win32. [William Rowe]
4242 *) Move all strings functions in APR to src/lib/apr/strings and create
4243 apr_strings.h for the prototypes. [Ryan Bloom]
4245 *) APR lock fixes: when using SysV sems, flock(), or fcntl(), be sure
4246 to repeat the syscall until we stop getting EINTR. I noticed a
4247 related problem at termination (SIGTERM) on FreeBSD when using
4248 fcntl(). Apache 1.3 had these new loops too. Also, make the flock()
4249 implementation work properly with child init. Previously, ap_lock()
4250 was essentially a no-op because all children were using different
4251 locks and thus nobody ever blocked. [Jeff Trawick]
4253 *) The htdocs/ tree has been moved out of the CVS source tree into
4254 a separate area for easier development. This has NO EFFECT on
4255 end-users or Apache installations. [Ken Coar]
4257 *) Integrate the mod_dav module for WebDAV protocol handling. This
4258 adds the dav and dav_fs modules, the SDBM library, and additional
4259 XML handling utilities. [Greg Stein]
4261 *) Clean out obsolete names (from httpd.h) for the HTTP Status Codes
4264 *) Update the lib/expat-lite/ library (bring forward changes from
4265 the Apache 1.3 repository). [Greg Stein]
4267 *) If sizeof(long long) == sizeof(long), then prefer long in APR
4268 configure.in. [Dave Hill <ddhill@zk3.dec.com>]
4270 *) Add ap_sendfile for Tru64 Unix. Also, add an error message for
4271 machines where sendfile is detected, but nobody has written ap_sendfile.
4272 [Dave Hill <ddhill@zk3.dec.com>]
4274 *) Compile fixes in mod_mmap_static. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
4276 *) ab would start up more connections than needed, then quit when the
4277 desired number were finished. Also fixed a logic error involving
4278 ab keepalives. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
4280 *) WinNT: Implement non-blocking pipes with timeouts to communicate
4281 with CGIs. Apache 2.0a4 had non-blocking pipes but without
4282 timeouts (i.e, if a timeout was specified, the pipe reverted to
4283 a full blocking pipe). Now the behaviour is more in line with
4284 Unix non-blocking pipes.
4287 *) WinNT: Implement accept socket reuse. Using mod_file_cache to
4288 cache open file handles along with accept socket reuse enables
4289 Apache 2.0 to serve non-keepalive requests for static files at
4290 3x the rate of Apache 1.3.(e.g, Apache 1.3 will serve 400 rps
4291 and Apache 2.0 will serve almost 1200 rps on my system).
4294 *) Merge mod_mmap_static function into mod_file_cache. mod_file_cache
4295 supports two config directives, mmapfile (same behavious as
4296 mod_mmap_static) and cachefile. Use the cachefile directive
4297 to cache open file handles. This directive only works on systems
4298 that have implemented the ap_sendfile API. cachefile works today
4299 on Windows NT, but has not been tested on any flavors of Unix.
4302 *) Cleanup the configuration. With the last few changes the
4303 configuration process automatically:
4304 inherits information about how to build from APR. Allowing
4305 APR to inform Apache that it should or should not use -ldl
4307 Detects which mod_cgi should be used mod_cgi or mod_cgid,
4308 based on the threading model
4310 Apache calls APR's configure process before finishing it's
4311 configuration processing, allowing for more information flow
4316 *) Change Unix and Win32 ap_setsockopt() so that APR_SO_NONBLOCK
4317 with non-zero argument makes the socket non-blocking. BeOS and
4318 OS/2 already worked this way. [Jeff Trawick]
4320 *) ap_close() now calls ap_flush() for buffered files, so write
4321 operations work a whole lot better on buffered files.
4324 *) Fix error messages issued from MPMs which explain where to change
4325 compiled-in limits (e.g., ThreadsPerChild, MaxClients, StartTreads).
4328 *) ap_create_pipe() now leaves pipes in blocking state. (This helps
4329 reduce the number of syscalls on Unix.) ap_set_pipe_timeout() is
4330 now the way that the blocking state of a pipe is manipulated.
4331 ap_block_pipe() is gone. [Jeff Trawick]
4333 *) Correct the problem where the only local host name that the IP stack
4334 can discover are 'undotted' private names. If no fully qualified
4335 domain name can be identified, the default ServerName will be set to
4336 the machine's IP address string. A warning is always provided if the
4337 ServerName not specified, but assumed. Solves PR6215 [William Rowe]
4339 *) Repair problems with config file processing which caused segfault
4340 at init when virtual hosts were defined and which caused ServerName to
4341 be ignored when there was no valid DNS setup. [Jeff Trawick]
4343 *) Removed pointless ap_is_aborted macro function. [Roy Fielding]
4345 *) Add ap_sendfile implementation for AIX
4346 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
4348 *) Repair C++ compatibility in ap_config.h, apr_file_io.h,
4349 apr_network_io.h, and apr_thread_proc.h.
4350 [Tyler J. Brooks <tylerjbrooks@home.com>, Jeff Trawick]
4352 *) Bring the allocation and pool debugging code back into a working
4353 state. This will need to be tested as so far it's only been used on
4356 *) Change configuration command setup to be properly typesafe when in
4357 maintainer mode. Note that this requires a compiler that can initialise
4358 unions. [Ben Laurie]
4360 *) Turn on buffering for config file reads. Part of this was to
4361 repair buffered I/O support in Unix and implement buffered
4362 ap_fgets() for all platforms. [Brian Havard, Jeff Trawick]
4364 *) Win32: Fix problem where UTC offset was not being set correctly
4365 in the access log. Problem reported on news group by Jerry Baker.
4368 *) Fix segfault when reporting this type of syntax error:
4369 "</container> without matching <container> section", where
4370 container is VirtualHost or Directory or whatever.
4373 *) SECURITY: CAN-2000-1204 (cve.mitre.org)
4374 Prevent the source code for CGIs from being revealed when
4375 using mod_vhost_alias and the CGI directory is under the document root
4376 and a user makes a request like http://www.example.com//cgi-bin/cgi
4377 as reported in <news:960999105.344321@ernani.logica.co.uk>
4380 *) Add support for the new Beos NetwOrking Environment (BONE)
4383 *) xlate: ap_xlate_conv_buffer() now tells the caller when the
4384 final input char is incomplete; ap_bwrite_xlate() now handles
4385 incomplete final input chars. [Jeff Trawick]
4387 *) Yet another update to saferead/halfduplex stuff -- need to ensure
4388 that a bhalfduplex call occurs before logging or else DNS and
4389 such can delay the last packet of the response. [Dean Gaudet]
4391 *) Some syscall reduction in APR on unix -- don't seek when setting
4392 up an mmap; and don't fcntl() more than once per socket.
4395 *) When mod_cgid is started as root, the cgi daemon now switches
4396 to the configured User/Group (like other httpd processes)
4397 instead of continuing as root. [Jeff Trawick]
4399 *) The prefork MPM now uses an APR lock for the accept() mutex.
4400 It has not been getting a lock at all recently. httpd -V now
4401 displays APR's selection of the lock mechanism instead of the
4402 symbols previously respected by prefork. [Jeff Trawick]
4404 *) Change the mmap() feature test to check only for existence.
4405 The previous check required features not used by Apache.
4408 *) Fix a couple of bugs in mod_cgid: The cgi arguments were
4409 sometimes mangled. The len parm to accept() was not
4410 initialized, leading sometimes to an endless loop of failed
4411 accept() calls on OS/390 and anywhere else that failed the call
4412 if the len was negative. Use <sys/un.h> for struct sockaddr_un
4413 instead of declaring it ourselves to fix a compilation problem
4414 on Solaris. [Jeff Trawick]
4416 *) Add Resource limiting code back into Apache 2.0. [Ryan Bloom]
4418 *) Fix zombie process problem with mod_cgi. [Jeff Trawick]
4420 *) Port mod_mmap_static to 2.0. Make it go faster. [Greg Ames]
4422 *) Fix storage overlay when loading dsos. Symptom: Apache dies at
4423 initialization if ALLOC_DEBUG is defined; no known symptom
4424 otherwise. [Jeff Trawick]
4426 *) Fix typo in configure script when checking for mod_so. bash
4427 doesn't seem to have a problem but /bin/sh on Solaris does.
4428 Symptom: "./configure: test: unknown operator =="
4431 *) Rebind the Win32 NT and 9x services control into the MPM.
4432 All console, WinNT SCM and Win9x pseudo-service control code is
4433 now wrapped within the WinNT MPM.
4436 *) Make a copy of getenv("PATH") before storing for later use. Some
4437 getenv() implementations use the same storage for successive calls.
4438 CGIs on OS/390 had a bad PATH due to this. [Jeff Trawick]
4440 *) Server Tokens work in 2.0 again. This also propogates the change
4441 to allow just the product name in the server string using
4445 Changes with Apache 2.0a4
4447 *) EBCDIC: Rearrange calls to ap_checkconv() so that most handlers
4448 won't need to call it. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
4450 *) Move pre_config hook call to between configuration read and config
4451 tree walk. This allows all modules to implement pre_config hooks
4452 and know that they will be called at an appropriate time.
4455 *) mod_cgi, mod_cgid: Make ScriptLog directive work again.
4458 *) Add pre-config hooks back to all modules.
4461 *) Fix a SIGSEGV in ap_md5digest(), which is used when you have
4462 ContentDigest enabled and we can't/don't mmap the file.
4465 *) We now report the correct line number for syntax errors in config
4466 files. [Ryan Bloom, Greg Stein, Jeff Trawick]
4468 *) Brought mod_auth_digest up to synch with 1.3, fixed ap_time_t-
4469 related bugs, and changed shmem/locking to use apr API. Shared-mem
4470 is currently disabled, however, because of problems with graceful
4471 restarts. [Ronald Tschalär]
4473 *) Fix corruption of IFS variable in --with-module= handling.
4474 Depending on the user's shell or customization thereof, there
4475 would be errors generating ap_config_auto.h later in the configure
4476 procedure. [Jeff Trawick]
4478 *) mod_cgi: Restore logging of stderr from child process when ScriptLog
4479 isn't used (as in 1.3), except that on Unix it is now logged via
4480 ap_log_rerror() instead of by the child having STDERR_FILENO refer
4481 to the error log. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
4483 *) Add '-D' argument processing for run time configuration defines.
4486 *) Organize http_main.c as independent code, such that no code or
4487 global data is exported from it. WIN32 will dynamically link it
4488 to the server core, so this will prevent mutual dependency.
4491 *) Add separate dynamic linkage tags APR_EXPORT(), APR_EXPORT_NONSTD()
4492 and APR_VAR_EXPORT to correctly resolve apr functions and globals.
4495 *) Add Win9x service execution and Ctrl+C/Ctrl+Break/Shutdown handlers.
4496 [William Rowe, Jan Just Keijser <KEIJSERJJ@logica.com>]
4498 *) Add mod_charset_lite for configuring character set translation.
4501 *) Add '-n' option to htpasswd to make it print its user:pw record
4502 on stdout rather than having to frob a text file. [Ken Coar]
4504 *) Fix saferead. Basically, we flush the output buffer if a read on the
4508 *) APR: Add ap_xlate_get_sb() so that an app can find out whether or not
4509 a conversion is single-byte only. [Jeff Trawick]
4511 *) BEOS: ap_shutdown should return APR_SUCCESS or errno. Note that
4512 the BeOS 5.0 documentation says that shutdown doesn't work yet.
4515 *) Fix some minor errors where pid was being manipulated as an int
4516 instead of the portable pid_t. [Roy Fielding]
4518 *) Fix some error log prints that were printing the pointer to a
4519 structure rather than the pid within the structure.
4520 [Jeff Trawick, Roy Fielding]
4522 *) ab: Fix a command-line processing bug; track bad headers in
4523 err_response; support reading headers up to 2K.
4524 [Ask Bjoern Hansen <ask@valueclick.com>]
4526 *) Fix ap_resolve_env() so that it handles new function added in a prior
4527 alpha (see "Added the capability to do ${ENVVAR} constructs in the
4528 config file.") as well as the constructs used by mod_rewrite.
4529 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
4531 *) Apache 2.0 builds and runs on OS/390. [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames]
4533 *) Change the EBCDIC support in functions for MD5, SHA1, and base 64 to use
4534 APR to perform translation, instead of accessing the hard-coded tables
4535 in 1.3's ebcdic.c. [Jeff Trawick]
4537 *) Fix some bugs (mostly lost 1.3 code) in ab's command-line processing.
4540 *) Add the ability to hook into the config file reading phase. Basically
4541 if a directive is specified EXEC_ON_READ, then when that directive is
4542 read from the config file, the assocaited function is executed. This
4543 should only be used for those directives that must muck with HOW the
4544 server INTERPRETS the config. This should not be used for directives
4545 that re-order or replace items in the config tree. Those changes should
4546 be made in the pre-config step.
4549 *) Add mod_example to the build system.
4552 *) APR: Add ap_xlate_conv_byte() to convert one char between single-
4553 byte character sets. [Jeff Trawick]
4555 *) Pick up various EBCDIC fixes from 1.3 (from Martin
4556 Kraemer and Oliver Reh originally according to the change log).
4559 *) Fix a couple of problems in RFC1413 support (controlled by the
4560 IdentityCheck directive). Apache did not build the request string
4561 properly and more importantly Apache would loop forever if the
4562 would-be ident server dropped the connection before sending a
4563 properly terminated response. [Jeff Trawick]
4565 *) apxs works in 2.0.
4568 *) Reliable piped logs work in 2.0.
4571 *) Introduce a hash table implementation into APR to be used for
4572 replacing tables and other random data structures in Apache.
4575 *) Add some more error reporting to htpasswd in the case of problems
4576 generating or accessing the temporary file. Also, pass in a
4577 buffer if the implementation knows how to use it (i.e., if L_tmpnam
4578 is defined). [Ken Coar]
4580 *) Configure creates config.nice now containing your configure
4581 options. Syntax: ./config.nice [--more-options]
4584 *) Fix various return code problems in APR on Win32. For most of
4585 these, APR was returning APR_EEXIST instead of GetLastError()/
4586 WSAGetLastError(). [Jeff Trawick]
4588 *) Make piped logs work again in version 2.0
4591 *) Add VPATH support to UNIX build system of Apache and APR.
4594 *) Fix ap_tokenize_to_argv to respect the const arguments that are
4598 *) Fix mm's memcpy/memset macros, pointer arithmetic was broken.
4599 Patch submitted to author.
4602 *) Fix mm configuration on Solaris 8 x86 and OS/390. Don't require
4603 /sbin in PATH on FreeBSD (all submitted to rse previously)
4606 *) Fix building Pthread-based MPMs on OpenBSD
4607 [Sascha Schumann] PR#26
4609 *) Fix ap_readdir() problem on systems where d_name[] field in
4610 struct dirent is declared with only one byte. (This problem only
4611 affected multithreaded builds.) This caused a segfault during
4612 pool cleanup with mod_autoindex on Solaris (Solaris 8 x86, at
4613 least). [Jeff Trawick]
4615 *) Fix some make-portability problems on at least Tru64, Irix
4617 [Sascha Schumann] PR#18, PR#39
4619 *) Add ap_sigwait() to support old-style sigwait() on systems
4620 like OS/390 and UnixWare.
4623 *) Add POSIX-thread flags for more platforms.
4626 *) Fix some minor bugs in ap_strerror(). Teach ap_strerror()
4627 (on Unix, at least) to handle resolver errors. Fix a bug in
4628 the definition of APR_ENOMEM so that ap_strerror() can spit
4629 out the correct error message for it.
4632 Changes with Apache 2.0a3
4634 *) mod_so reports ap_os_dso_error() if ap_dso_load() fails
4637 *) API: *HOOK* macros now have an AP_ prefix
4640 *) Win32: Eliminate redundant calls to initialize winsock.
4641 [Tim Costello <timcostello@ozemail.com.au>]
4643 *) Fix bugs initializing ungetchar for pipes.
4644 [Chia-liang Kao <clkao@CirX.ORG>]
4646 *) The ab program in the src/support directory is now portable using
4650 *) Support directory is being compiled when the server is built
4653 *) The configure option --with-program-name has been added to allow
4654 developers to rename the executable at configure time. This also
4655 changes the name of the config files to match the executable's name.
4658 *) mod_autoindex: Add `IndexOptions +VersionSort', to nicely sort filenames
4659 containing version numbers. [Martin Pool]
4661 *) ap_open(..,APR_OS_DEFAULT,..) uses perms 0666 instead of 0777 on
4662 Unix; access_log and error_log now created with these perms; non-
4663 Unix is unaffected [Jeff Trawick]
4665 *) Finished move of ap_md5 routines to apr_md5. Removed ap_md5.h.
4666 Replaced more magic numbers with MD5_DIGESTSIZE.
4667 [William Rowe, Roy Fielding]
4669 *) Win32: Get mod_auth_digest compiling and added to the Windows
4670 build environment. Not tested and I'd be suprised if it
4671 actually works. [Bill Stoddard]
4673 *) Revamp the Win32 make environment. Makefiles have been removed and
4674 Apache.dsw created to bring together all the pieces. Create new file
4675 os/win32/BaseAddr.ref to define module base addresses (to prevent
4676 dll relocation at start-up).
4677 [William Rowe, Greg Marr, Tim Costello, Bill Stoddard]
4679 *) [EBCDIC] Port Paul Gilmartin's CRLF patch from 1.3. This replaces most
4680 of the \015, \012, and \015\012 constants with macros.
4683 *) Add ap_xlate_open() et al for translation of text between different
4684 character sets. The initial implementation requires iconv().
4687 *) More FAQs and answers from comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix.
4688 [Joshua Slive <slive@finance.commerce.ubc.ca>]
4690 *) CGI output is being timed out now.
4693 *) Fix the problem with dieing quietly. dupfile now takes a pool which
4694 is used by the new apr file. There is no reason to create a new file
4695 with the same lifetime as the original file.
4698 *) Win32: Attempt to eliminate dll relocation at start-up by specifying
4699 module base addresses. This will help shooting seg faults
4700 in the field. [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
4702 *) Update Apache on Windows documentation. Add new document
4703 describing how to compile Apache on Windows.
4704 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
4706 *) ap_set_pipe_timeout(), ap_poll(), and APR_SO_TIMEOUT now take
4707 microseconds instead of seconds. Some storage leaks and other
4708 minor bugs in related code were fixed. [Jeff Trawick]
4710 *) Win32: First cut at getting mod_isapi working under 2.0
4711 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
4713 *) First stab at getting mod_auth_digest working under 2.0
4714 quick change summary:
4715 - moved the random byte generation (ap_generate_random_bytes) into APR
4716 - now uses ap_time_t
4717 - compiles and runs on linux
4719 [Brian Martin <bmartin@penguincomputing.com>]
4721 *) Win32: Move the space stripping of physical service names
4722 fix up from Apache 1.3. #include'ing "ap_mpm.h" fixes up an
4723 unresolved symbol. Add dependency checking to the
4724 CreateService call to ensure TCPIP and AFP (winsock) is started
4726 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
4728 *) Win32: Add code to perform latebinding on functions that may
4729 not exist on all levels of Windows where Apache runs. This
4730 is needed to allow Apache to start-up on Win95/98. All calls
4731 to non portable functions should be protected with
4732 ap_oslevel checks to prevent runtime segfaults.
4733 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
4735 *) Fix fallback default values for SHM_R and SHM_W [Martin Kraemer]
4737 *) Get lingering_close() working again. [Dean Gaudet, Jeff Trawick]
4739 *) Win32: Get non-blocking CGI pipe reads working under Windows NT.
4740 This addresses PR 1623. Still need to address timing out runaway
4741 CGI scripts. [Bill Stoddard]
4743 *) Win32: Make ap_stat Windows 95/98 friendly
4744 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
4746 *) Win32: Fix a bug in ap_get_oslevel which causes GetVersionEx() to
4747 always fail. Need to initialise the dwOSVersionInfoSize member of the
4748 OSVERSIONINFO struct before calling GetVersionEx, so GetVersionEx
4751 The patch also enhances ap_get_oslevel (and the associated enum) to
4752 handle selected service packs for NT4, and adds recognition for
4753 Windows 2000. This is useful, eg. if we can recognise NT4 SP2 then
4754 we can use ReadFileScatter and WriteFileGather in readwrite.c.
4755 [Tim Costello <Tim.Costello@BTFinancialgroup.com>]
4757 *) Get mod_rewrite building and running, and mod_status building for Win NT
4758 [Allan Edwards <ake@raleigh.ibm.com>]
4760 *) Patch to port mod_auth_db to the 2.0 api and also to support
4761 Berlekey DB 3.0. It works for me with both Berkeley DB 3.0.55 and
4762 2.7.7. It should work with version 1 as well but I haven't tested it.
4763 [Brian Martin <bmartin@penguincomputing.com>]
4765 *) Get APR DSO code working under Windows. Includes cross platform
4767 [Tim.Costello@BTFinancialgroup.com]
4769 *) Fix some of the Windows APR time functions.
4772 *) FAQ changes related to tidying up historical documents on the web site.
4773 [Joshua Slive <slive@finance.commerce.ubc.ca>]
4775 *) Move Windows DSO code into APR.
4778 *) Eliminate apr_win.h and apr_winconfig.h (and the ugly #ifdefs they cause).
4779 Now, apr.h and apr_config.h are generated from apr.hw and apr_config.hw
4780 at build time. At this point, the server will not compile on Windows because
4781 of the recent DSO commits. Fixing those next.
4782 [Bill Rowe & Bill Stoddard]
4784 *) Added error checking for file I/O APR routines.
4785 [Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>]
4787 *) APR: Don't use the values of resolver error codes for the
4788 corresponding APR error codes. On Unix and Win32, return the
4789 proper APR error code after a resolver error. [Jeff Trawick]
4791 Changes with Apache 2.0a2
4793 *) Renamed the executable back to httpd on all platforms other
4797 *) Allow BeOS to survive restarts, log properly and a few
4798 small things it had problems with due to the way it setup
4799 users and groups. [David Reid]
4801 *) Get mod_rewrite working with APR locks
4802 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
4804 *) Actually remove the sempahore when the lock cleanup routine
4805 is called on BeOS. [David Reid]
4807 *) Clear hook registrations between reads of the config file.
4808 When DSOs are unloaded and re-loaded the old hook pointers may
4809 no longer be valid. This fix eliminates potential segfaults.
4810 [Allan Edwards <ake@raleigh.ibm.com>]
4812 *) Fix a problem with Sigfunc not being defined or bypassed
4813 if sigaction() wasn't found. [Jim Jagielski]
4815 *) Fix the locking mechanism on BSD variants. They now use fcntl
4816 locks. This allows the server to start and serve pages.
4819 *) First cut at getting the Win32 installer to work
4820 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
4822 *) Get htpasswd compiling under Windows
4823 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
4825 *) Change the log message for a bind() failure to show the
4826 interface and port number. [Jeff Trawick]
4828 *) Import the documentation from 1.3.12 and bring parts of it
4829 up-to-date with respect to the changes that have occurred
4833 *) BeOS MPM updated. CGI bug on BeOS fixed. IP addresses
4834 now logged correctly on BeOS.
4837 *) Create one makefile for all Win32 distributions (NT/2000/95/98).
4838 Makefile.win includes the same user interface as the old
4840 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>, Jeff Trawick <trawick@us.ibm.com>]
4842 *) Win32 exec now uses COMSPEC environment string for command
4843 shell path resolution.
4844 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>] PR#3715
4846 *) Win32: ap_connect() was not returning correct error condition
4848 [Allen Prescott <allen@clanprescott.com>]
4850 *) Win32: ap_open() was broken on Win9x because an NT-specific
4851 flag was passed to CreateFile. ap_puts() added an unnecessary
4853 [Jeff Trawick <trawick@us.ibm.com>]
4855 *) Put in Korean and Norwegian index.html pages (2.0 and 1.3)
4856 which where donated by Lee Kuk Hyun and Lorant Czaran. 'Fixed'
4857 confusing ee/et name and made all extensions language/dialect
4858 rather than country reflecting. Changed example files to
4859 explicit reflect the ISO charset and added a few common
4860 ones to the example config [dirkx]
4862 *) Extend external module capability. To use this, you call
4863 configure with --with-module=path/to/mod1,path/to/mod2,etc.
4866 *) Backported the various "default charset" fixes from 1.3.12,
4867 including the AddDefaultCharset directive. [Jim Jagielski]
4869 *) Added the capability to do ${ENVVAR} constructs in the
4870 config file. E.g. 'ServerAdmin ${POSTMASTER}'. As commited
4871 it does this on a line by line basis; i.e. if the envvar
4872 expands to something with spaces you have to protect it
4873 by adding quotes around it (Unless of course you expect it
4874 to contains more than one argument. Alternatively you
4875 can compile it on a per token basis; which is what people
4876 usually expect by setting RESOLVE_ENV_PER_TOKEN. But this
4877 hampers fancier hacks.
4878 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
4880 *) Changed the 'ErrorDocument' syntax in that it NO longer
4881 supports the asymetric
4883 ErrorDocument 301 "Some message
4885 Note the opening " quote, without a closing quote. It now
4886 has either the following syntaxes
4888 ErrorDocument XXX /local/uri
4889 ErrorDocument XXX http://valid/url
4890 ErrorDocument XXX "Some Message"
4892 The recognition heuristic is: if it has a space it
4893 is a message. If it has no spaces and starts with a /
4894 or is a valid URL then treat it that way. Otherwise it
4895 is assumed to be a message.
4897 This breaks backward compatibility but makes live a hell
4898 of a lot easier for GUI's and config file parsers.
4899 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
4901 *) Changed 'CacheNegotiatedDocs' from its present/not-present
4902 syntax into a 'on' or 'off' syntax. As it currently is the
4903 only non nesting token which uses NO_ARGS and thus is an
4904 absolute pain for any config interface automation. This
4905 breaks backward compatibility. [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
4907 *) Add ability to add external modules to the build process. This is
4908 done with --with-module=/path/to/module. Modules can only be added
4909 as static modules at this point.
4912 Changes with Apache 2.0a1
4914 *) Fix FreeBSD 3.3 core dump.
4915 Basically, ap_initialize() needs to get called before
4916 create_process(), since create_process() passes op_on structure
4917 to semop() to get a lock, but op_on isn't initialized until
4918 ap_initialize() calls setup_lock(). Here is a slight
4919 rearrangement to main() which calls ap_initialize() earlier...
4920 [Jeff Trawick <trawick@us.ibm.com>]
4922 *) Enable Apache to use sendfile/TransmitFile API
4923 [Bill Stoddard, David Reid, Paul Reder]
4925 *) Re-Implement Win32 APR network I/O APIs and most of the file I/O
4929 *) Make file I/O and network I/O writev/sendv APIs consistent.
4930 Eliminate use of ap_iovec_t and use Posix struct iovec.
4931 Use seperate variable on ap_writev to set the number of iovecs
4932 passed in and number of bytes written.
4935 *) Adapt file iol to use APR functions. Replaced ap_open_file()
4936 with ap_create_file_iol(). ap_create_file_iol() requires that
4937 the file be opened prior to the call using ap_open().
4940 *) Port mod_include and mod_cgi to 2.0
4941 [Paul Reder, Bill Stoddard]
4943 *) ap_send{,v}, ap_recv, ap_sendfile API clarification --
4944 bytes_read/bytes_written is always valid (never -1). Plus
4945 some fixes to buff.c to correct problems introduced by the
4946 errno => ap_status_t changes a while back. Plus a fix to
4947 chunked encoding introduced right at the beginning of 2.0.
4950 *) Revamped UNIX build system to use autoconf and libtool.
4951 [Manoj Kasichainula, Sascha Schumann]
4953 *) port mod_rewrite to 2.0. [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
4955 *) SECURITY: More rigorous checking of Host: headers to fix security
4956 problems with mass name-based virtual hosting (whether using mod_rewrite
4957 or mod_vhost_alias).
4958 [Ben Hyde, Tony Finch]
4960 *) Add back support for UseCanonicalName in <Directory> containers.
4961 [Manoj Kasichainula]
4963 *) Added APLOG_STARTUP log type. This allows us to write an error
4964 message without any of the date and time information. As a part
4965 of this change, I also removed all of the calls to fprintf(stderr
4966 and replaced them with calls to ap_log_error using APLOG_STARTUP
4967 writing to stderr is no longer portable, because we don't direct
4968 stderr to the error log on all platforms.
4971 *) Convert error logging functions to take errno as an argument.
4972 This makes our error logs more portable, because some Windows API's
4973 don't set errno. This change allows us to still output a valid
4974 message on all of our platforms.
4977 *) mod_mime_magic runs in 2.0-dev now.
4978 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
4980 *) sendfile has been added to APR.
4981 [John Zedlewski <zedlwski@Princeton.EDU>]
4983 *) buff.c has been converted to no longer use errno.
4984 [Manoj Kasichainula]
4986 *) mod_speling runs in 2.0-dev now: a bug in readdir_r handling and
4987 interface adaption to APR functions did it. [Martin Kraemer]
4989 *) Support DSOs properly on 32-bit HP-UX 11.0
4990 [Dilip Khandekar <dilip@cup.hp.com>]
4992 *) Updated MM in APR source tree from version 1.0.8 to 1.0.11
4993 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4995 *) Cleaned APR build environment integration and bootstrap APR
4996 automatically for developers from src/Configure.
4997 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4999 *) Fixed building of src/support/htpasswd.c
5000 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5002 *) When generating the Location: header, mod_speling forgot
5003 to escape the spelling-fixed uri. (Forw-Port from 1.3)
5006 *) Moved mod_auth_digest.c from experimental to standard. [Roy Fielding]
5008 *) Change all pools to APR contexts. This is the first step to
5009 incorporating APR into Apache. [Ryan Bloom]
5011 *) Move "handler not found" warning message to below the check
5012 for a wildcard handler. [Dirk <dirkm@teleport.com>, Roy Fielding]
5013 PR#2584, PR#2751, PR#3349, PR#3436, PR#3548, PR#4384, PR#4795, PR#4807
5015 *) Support line-continuation feature in config.option file and
5016 allow the loading of multiple option sections at once via
5017 ``--with-option=<section1>,<section2>,...''
5018 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5020 *) Rebuilt CVS repository with Apache 1.3.9 as basis. [Roy Fielding]
5022 Changes with Apache MPM
5024 *) Use asynchronous AcceptEx() and a completion port to accept and
5025 dispatch connections to threads in Windows NT/2000.
5028 *) Implement WINNT Win32 MPM from original Win32 code in http_main.c
5031 *) Implement the APACI --with-option facility
5032 (per default used the config.option file).
5033 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5035 *) MPM BEOS port. [David Reid <abb37@dial.pipex.com>]
5037 *) Start to implement module-defined hooks that are a) fast and b) typesafe.
5038 Replace pre_connection module call with a register_hook call and
5039 implement pre_connection as a hook. The intent is that these hooks will
5040 be extended to allow Apache to be multi-protocol, and also to allow the
5041 calling order to be specified on a per-hook/per-module basis.
5044 *) Implement mpm_* methods as "modules". Each method gets its own
5045 subdir in src/modules (eg: src/modules/prefork). Selection
5046 of method uses Rule MPM_METHOD. [Jim Jagielski]
5048 *) Port the hybrid server from the apache-apr repository as
5049 mpm_mpmt_pthread. [Manoj Kasichainula]
5051 *) os/unix/unixd.[ch]: detach, setuid, setgid, stuff which will be common
5052 amongst the unix MPMs.
5054 *) mpm_prefork: throw away all the alarm/timeout crud; and clean up the
5055 signal handling for the new world order. [Dean Gaudet]
5057 *) Crude ap_thread_mutex abstraction so that we get the pthread stuff out
5058 of alloc.c for now. [Dean Gaudet]
5060 *) Handle partial large writes correctly. [Ben Laurie]
5062 *) Eliminate conn_rec's pointer to server. All it knows is the base server
5063 based on IP/port. [Ben Laurie]
5065 *) Port a bunch of modules to the new module structure.
5066 ["Michael H. Voase" <mvoase@midcoast.com.au>]
5068 *) I/O layering and BUFF revamp. See docs/buff.txt. [Dean Gaudet]
5070 *) Basic restructuring to introduce the MPM concept; includes various
5071 changes to the module API... better described by
5072 docs/initial_blurb.txt. [Dean Gaudet]
5074 Changes with Apache pthreads
5076 *) New buff option added: BO_TIMEOUT. It describes the timeout for
5077 buff operations (generally over a network).
5078 [Dean Gaudet, Ryan Bloom, Manoj Kasichainula]
5080 *) Created http_accept abstraction. Added 4 new functions (not exported):
5081 init_accept(), begin_accepting_requests(), get_request(),
5082 stop_accepting_requests() [Bill Stoddard]
5084 *) Fix to ap_rprintf call that allows mod_info to work properly.
5085 [James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>]
5087 *) user and ap_auth_type fields were moved from connection_rec to
5088 request_rec. [Ryan Bloom]
5090 *) Removed the ap_block_alarms and ap_unblock_alarm calls. These aren't
5091 needed in a threaded server.
5093 *) Initial pthread implementation from from Dean's apache-nspr code.
5094 [Bill Stoddard, Ryan Bloom]
5097 Changes with Apache 1.3.9
5099 *) Remove bogus error message when a redirect doesn't set Location.
5100 Instead, use an empty string to avoid coredump if the error message
5101 was supposed to include a location. [Roy Fielding]
5103 *) Don't allow configure to include mod_auth_digest unless it is
5104 explicitly requested, even if the user asked for all modules.
5107 *) Translate module names to dll names for OS/2 so that they are no more
5108 than 8 characters long and have an extension of "dll" instead of "so".
5111 *) Print out pointer to Rule DEV_RANDOM when truerand lib not found.
5112 Fix test-compile check to check for randbyte instead of trand32.
5113 Use ap_base64encode_binary/decode instead of copy in mod_auth_digest.c
5114 and tweak to make Amaya happier. [Ronald Tschalär]
5116 *) Ensure that the installed expat include files are world readable,
5117 just like the other header files. [Martin Kraemer]
5119 *) Fixed generated AddModule adjustments in APACI's `configure' script
5120 in order to allow (new) modules like mod_vhost_alias to be handled
5121 correctly (which was touched by the adjustments for mod_alias).
5122 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5124 *) For binary builds, add -R flag to apachectl to work around the lack of
5125 an absolute path to the ./libexec directory where the libhttp.ep file
5126 is needed for SHARED_CORE architectures. [Randy Terbush]
5128 *) WIN32: Create the CGI script process as DETACHED. This may solve the
5129 problem observed by some Win95/98 users where they get CGI script
5130 output sent to the console. [Bill Stoddard]
5132 *) Fix (re)naming in the uuencode/decode section. The ap/ap_
5133 routines are now called ap_base64* and are 'plain' (i.e., no
5134 pool access or anything clever). Inside util.c the routines acting
5135 like pstrdup are called ap_pbase64encode() and ap_pbase64decode().
5136 The oddly named ap_uuencode(), ap_uudecode() are kept around for
5137 now but deprecated. [dirkx]
5139 *) Clean up the base64 and SHA1 additions and make sure they are
5140 represented in the ApacheCore.def, ApacheCoreOS2.def, and httpd.exp
5141 files. [Roy Fielding]
5143 *) WIN32: Migrate to InstallShield 5.5 and provide a bit more error
5144 checking. Allow compiling on VS 6.0. [Randy Terbush]
5146 *) Fixed assumption of absolute paths in binbuild.sh. [Tony Finch]
5148 *) Use TestCompile to search for the truerand library (rather than blindly
5149 assuming its existence). If it is not found, complain (but do not
5150 exit - yet). [Martin Kraemer]
5152 *) We forgot to add the new exported function names to
5153 src/support/httpd.exp. [Bill Stoddard, Randy Terbush]
5155 *) Add description of -T command-line option to usage().
5156 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5158 *) For "some" platforms (notably, EBCDIC based ones), libos needs to be
5159 searched only AFTER libap has been searched, because libap needs
5160 some symbols from libos. [Martin Kraemer]
5162 *) Fix conflict with original mod_digest related to the symbol of the
5163 module dispatch list (which has to be unique for DSO and follow the
5164 usual conventions for the installation procedure).
5165 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5167 *) Add a dbm-library check for the "usual places" (-ldbm, -lndbm, -ldb)
5168 for other platforms as well. [Martin Kraemer]
5170 *) Make ap_sha1.c compile for EBCDIC platforms: replace remaining LONG
5171 types by AP_LONG and replace reference to renamed variable 'ubuf'
5172 by 'buffer'. [Martin Kraemer]
5174 Changes with Apache 1.3.8 [not released]
5176 *) Flush the output buffer immediately after sending an error or redirect
5177 response, since the result may be needed by the client to abort a
5178 long data transfer or restart a series of pipelined requests.
5179 [Tom Vaughan <tvaughan@aventail.com>, Roy Fielding]
5181 *) PORT: Improved compilation and DSO support on Sequent DYNIX/ptx.
5182 [Ian Turner <iant@sequent.com>] PR#4735
5184 *) Local struct mmap in http_core.c conflicted with system structure
5185 name on DYNIX -- changed to mmap_rec. [Roy Fielding] PR#4735
5187 *) Added updated mod_digest as modules/experimental/mod_auth_digest.
5188 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald@innovation.ch>]
5190 *) Fix a memory leak where the module counts were getting messed
5191 up across restarts. [David Harris <dharris@drh.net>]
5193 *) CIDR addresses such as a.b.c.d/24 where d != 0 weren't handled
5194 properly in mod_access.
5195 ["Paul J. Reder" <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#4770
5197 *) RewriteLock/RewriteMap didn't work properly with virtual hosts.
5198 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su>] PR#3874
5200 *) PORT: Support for compaq/tandem/com.
5201 [Michael Ottati <michael.ottati@compaq.com>, dirkx]
5203 *) Added SHA1 password encryption support to easy migration from
5204 Netscape servers. See support/SHA1 for more information.
5205 Caused the separation of ap_md5.c into md5, sha1 and a general
5206 ap_checkpass.c with just a validate_passwd routine. Added a
5207 couple of flags to support/htpasswd. Some reuse of the to64()
5208 function; hence renamed to ap_to64().
5209 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Clinton Wong <clintdw@netcom.com>]
5211 *) Change for EBCDIC platforms (TPF and BS2000) to correctly deal
5212 with ASCII/EBCDIC conversions in "ident" query.
5213 [David McCreedy <McCreedy@us.ibm.com>]
5215 *) Get rid of redefinition warning on MAC_OS_X_SERVER platform.
5216 Change "Power Macintosh" to Power* so if uname prints "Power Book"
5217 we're still happy on Rhapsody platforms. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
5219 *) Fix SIGSEGV on some systems because the Vary fix below included
5220 a call to table_do with a variable argument list that was not
5221 NULL terminated. Replaced with better implementation. [Roy Fielding]
5223 Changes with Apache 1.3.7 [not released]
5225 *) The "Vary" response header field is now sanitised right before
5226 the header is sent back to the client. Multiple "Vary" fields
5227 are combined, and duplicate tokens (e.g., "Vary: host, host" or
5228 "Vary: host, negotiate, host, accept-language") are reduced to
5229 single instances. This is a better solution than the force-no-vary
5230 one (which is still valid for clients that can't cope with Vary
5231 at all). PR#3118 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Ken Coar]
5233 *) Portability changes for BeOS. [David Reid abb37@dial.pipex.com]
5235 *) Link DSO's with "gcc -shared" instead of "ld -Bshareable" at
5236 least on Linux and FreeBSD for now.
5239 *) Win32: More apache -k restart work. Restarts are now honored
5240 immediately and connections in the listen queue are -not- lost.
5241 This is made possible by the use of the WSADuplicateSocket()
5242 call. The listeners are opened in the parent, duplicated, then
5243 the duplicates are passed to the child. The original listen sockets
5244 are not closed by the parent across a restart, thus the listen queue
5246 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
5248 *) Fix handling of case when a client has sent "Expect: 100-continue"
5249 and we are going to respond with an error, but get stuck waiting to
5250 discard the body in the pointless hope of preserving the connection.
5251 [Roy Fielding, Joe Orton <jeo101@york.ac.uk>] PR#4499, PR#3806
5253 *) Fix 'configure' to work correctly with SysV-based versions of
5254 'tr' (consistent with Configure's use as well). [Jim Jagielski]
5256 *) apxs: Add "-S var=val" option which allows for override of CFG_*
5257 built-in values. Add "-e" option which works like -i but doesn't
5258 install the DSO; useful for editing httpd.conf with apxs. Fix
5259 editing code so that multiple invocations of apxs -a will not
5260 create duplicate LoadModule/AddModule entries; apxs can now be
5261 used to re- enable/disable a module. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
5263 *) Win32: Update the server to use Winsock 2. Specifically, link with
5264 ws2_32.lib rather than wsock32.lib. This gives us access to
5265 WSADuplcateSocket() in addition to some other enhanced comm APIs.
5266 Win 95 users may need to update their TCP/IP stack to pick up
5267 Winsock 2. (See http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/)
5268 [Bill Stoddard stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com]
5270 *) Win32: Redirect CGI script stderr (script debug info) into the
5271 error.log when CGI scripts fail. This makes Apache on Win32
5272 behave more like Unix.
5273 [Bill Stoddard stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com]
5275 *) Fixed `httpd' usage display: -D was missing.
5276 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4614
5278 *) Fix `make r' test procedure in src/regex/: ap_isprint was not found.
5279 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4561, PR#4562
5281 *) OS/2: Fix problem with accept lock semaphores where server would die with
5282 "OS2SEM: Error 105 getting accept lock. Exiting!"
5283 [Brian Havard] PR#4505
5285 *) Add DSO support for DGUX 4.x using gcc. Tested on x86 platforms.
5286 [Randy Terbush <randy@covalent.net>]
5288 *) Add the new mass-vhost module (mod_vhost_alias.c) developed and
5289 used by Demon Internet, Ltd. [Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net>]
5291 *) Better GCC detection for DSO flags under Solaris 2 where the `cc'
5292 command potentially _is_ GCC. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5294 *) Fix apxs build issues on AIX
5295 [Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@raleigh.ibm.com>]
5297 *) DocumentRoot Checking: Under previous versions, when Apache
5298 first started up, it used to do a stat of each DocumentRoot to
5299 see if it existed and was a directory. If not, then an error
5300 message was printed. THIS HAS BEEN DISABLED. If DocumentRoot
5301 does not exist, you will get error messages in error_log. If
5302 the '-t' command line option is used (to check the configuration)
5303 the check of DocumentRoot IS performed. An additional command
5304 line option, '-T', has been added if you want to avoid the
5305 DocumentRoot check even when checking the configuration.
5308 *) Win32: The query switch "apache -S" didn't exit after showing the
5309 vhost settings. That was inconsistent with the other query functions.
5310 [Bill Stoddard - Fixed by Martin on Unix in 1.3.4]
5312 *) Win32: Changed behaviour of apache -k restart.
5313 Previously, the server would drain all connections in the stack's
5314 listen queue before honoring the restart. On a busy server, this
5315 could take hours. Now, a restart is honored almost immediately.
5316 All connections in Apache's queues are handled but connections in
5317 the stack's listen queue are discarded. Restart triggered by
5318 MaxRequestPerChild is unchanged.
5319 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
5321 *) Win32: Eliminated unnecessary call to wait_for_multiple_objects in
5322 the accept loop. Good for a 5% performance boost. Cleaned up
5323 parent/child process management code.
5324 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
5326 *) Added ceiling on file size for memory mapped files.
5327 [John Giannandrea <jg@meer.net>] PR#4122
5329 *) Fix ndbm.h include problems with brain-dead glibc >= 2.1 which
5330 has ndbm.h in a non-standard db1/ subdir. PR#4431, PR#4528
5331 [Henri Gomez <gomez@slib.fr>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
5333 *) Determine AP_BYTE_ORDER for ap_config_auto.h and already
5334 use this at least for Expat. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5336 *) Allow .module files to specify libraries with Lib:.
5339 *) Allow SetEnvIf[NoCase] to test environment variables as well
5340 as header fields and request attributes. [Ken Coar]
5342 *) Fix mod_autoindex's handling of ScanHTMLTitles when file
5343 content-types are "text/html;parameters". PR#4524 [Ken Coar]
5345 *) Remove "mxb" support from mod_negotiation -- it was a draft feature
5346 never accepted into any standard, and it opens up certain DoS
5347 attacks. [Koen Holtman <Koen.Holtman@cern.ch>]
5349 *) TestCompile updated. We can now run programs and output the
5350 results during the Configure process. [ Jim Jagielski]
5352 *) The source is now quad (long long) aware as needed. Specifically,
5353 the Configure process determines the correct size of off_t and
5354 *void. When the OS/platform/compiler supports quads, ap_snprintf()
5355 provides for the 'q' format qualifier (if quads are not available,
5356 'q' is silently "demoted" to long). [Jim Jagielski]
5358 *) When the username or password fed to htpasswd is too long, include the
5359 size limit in the error message. Also report illegal characters
5360 (currently only ':') in the username. Add the size restrictions
5361 to the man page. [Ken Coar]
5363 *) Fixed the configure --without-support option so it doesn't result in
5364 an infinite loop. [Marc Slemko]
5366 *) Piped error logs could cause a segfault if an error occured
5367 during configuration after a restart.
5368 [Aidan Cully <aidan@panix.com>] PR#4456
5370 *) If a "Location" field was stored in r->err_headers_out rather
5371 than r->headers_out, redirect processing wouldn't find it and
5372 the server would core dump on ap_escape_html(NULL). Check both
5373 tables and raise HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR with a log message
5374 if Location isn't set. [Doug MacEachern, Ken Coar]
5376 *) Add RULE_EXPAT, the src/lib/ directory structure, and a modified copy
5377 of the Expat 1.0.2 distribution. [Greg Stein]
5379 *) Replace regexec() calls with calls to a new API stub function
5380 ap_regexec(). This solves problems with DSO modules which use the regex
5381 library. [Jens-Uwe Mager <jum@helios.de>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
5383 *) Add 'Request_Protocol' special keyword to mod_setenvif so that
5384 environment variables can be set according to the protocol version
5385 (e.g., HTTP/0.9 or HTTP/1.1) of the request. [Ken Coar]
5387 *) Add DSO support for OpenStep (Mach 4.2) platform.
5388 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>] PR#3997
5390 *) Fix sed regex for generating ap_config_auto.h in src/Configure.
5391 [Jan Gallo <gallo@pvt.sk>] PR#3690, PR#4373
5393 *) Switch to /bin/sh5 in APACI on Ultrix and friends to avoid problems with
5394 their brain-dead /bin/sh. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4372
5396 *) Better DSO flags recognition on NetBSD platforms using ELF.
5397 [Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>] PR#4310
5399 *) Always log months in english format for %t in mod_log_config.
5400 [Petr Lampa <lampa@fee.vutbr.cz>] PR#4366, 679
5402 *) Support for server-parsed and multiview-determined ReadmeName and
5403 HeaderName files in mod_autoindex. Removed the restriction on
5404 "/"s in ReadmeName and HeaderName directives since the *sub_req*
5405 routines will deal with the access issues. (It's now possible to
5406 have {site|group|project|customer|...} wide readmes and headers.)
5407 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx@rsbx.net>, Ken Coar] PR#1574, 3026, 3529,
5410 *) When stat() fails, don't assume anything about the contents of
5411 the struct stat. [Ed Korthof <ed@bitmechanic.com>]
5413 *) It's OK for a semop to return EINTR, just loop around and try
5414 again. [Dean Gaudet]
5416 *) Fix configuration engine re-entrant hangups, which solve a
5417 handful of problems seen with mod_perl <Perl> configuration sections
5418 [Salvador Ortiz Garcia <sog@msg.com.mx>]
5420 *) Mac OS and Mac OS X Server now use the appropriate custom layout
5421 by default when building with APACI; allow for platform-specific
5422 variable defaults in configure. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
5424 *) Do setgid() before initgroups() in http_main; some platforms
5425 zap the grouplist when setgid() is called. This was fixed in
5426 suexec earlier, but the main httpd code missed the change.
5427 [Rob Saccoccio <robs@InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2579
5429 *) Add recognition of .tgz as a gzipped tarchive.
5430 [Bertrand de Singly <bertrand.de-singly@polytechnique.fr>] PR#2364
5432 *) mod_include's fsize/flastmod should allow only relative paths, just
5433 like "include file". [Jaroslav Benkovsky <benkovsk@pha.pvt.cz>]
5435 *) OS/2: Add support for building loadable modules using DLLs.
5438 *) Add iconsdir, htdocsdir, and cgidir to config.layout.
5441 *) Fix minor but annoying bug with the test for Configuration.tmpl
5442 being newer than Configuration so that it is less likely to fail
5443 when using APACI and shadow sources. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
5445 *) PORT: Add initial support for Mac OS (versions 10.0 and
5446 greater). Use Mac OS X Server layout for now. Clean up dyld code
5447 in unix/os.c, and don't install the dyld error handlers, which
5448 are no longer needed in Mac OS. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
5450 *) Rename Rhapsody layout to "Mac OS X Server". Change install
5451 locations to appropriate ones for user-built (as opposed to
5452 system) installs. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
5454 *) Modify mod_autoindex's handling of AddDescription so that the
5455 behaviour matches the documentation. [Ken Coar] PR#1898, 3072.
5457 *) Add functionality to the install-bindist.sh script created by
5458 binbuild.sh to use tar when copying distribution files to the
5459 serverroot. This allows upgrading an existing installation
5460 without nesting the new distribution in the old.
5462 install-bindist.sh now detects the local perl5 path to install
5463 apxs and dbmmanage with proper path to perl interpreter.
5465 Add an install-binsupport target which copies the source files
5466 for apxs and dbmmanage to bindist to allow these scripts to
5467 be properly installed relative to the destination serverroot.
5468 [Randy Terbush, Covalent Technologies, randy@covalent.net]
5470 *) Fix intermittent SEGV in ap_proxy_cache_error() in
5471 src/modules/proxy_util.c where a NULL filepointer and
5472 temporary filename were closed and unlinked.
5473 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>,
5474 Tim Costello <tjcostel@socs.uts.edu.au>] PR#3178
5476 *) Fix inconsistent error messages reported by mod_proxy.
5477 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>]
5479 *) OS/2: Fix terminating CGIs that aren't compiled by EMX GCC when a
5480 connection is aborted. [Brian Havard]
5482 *) Force the LANG envariable to the known state of "C" so that we
5483 have assurance about how string manipulators (e.g., tr) will
5484 function. [Ken Coar] PR#1630
5486 *) Add a directive to allow customising of the tracking cookie name.
5487 [Ken Coar] PR#2921, 4303
5489 *) Add "force-no-vary" envariable to allow servers to work around
5490 clients that choke on "Vary" fields in the response header.
5491 [Ken Coar, Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@zippy.machaon.ru>] PR#4118
5493 *) Fixed a bug in mod_dir that causes a child process will infinitely
5494 recurse when it attemps to handle a request for a directory wnd the
5495 value of the DirectoryIndex directive is a single dot. Also likely
5496 to happen for anyother values of DirectoryIndex that will map back
5497 to the same directory. The handler now only considers regular files
5498 as being index candidates. No PR#s found.
5499 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx@rsbx.net>]
5501 *) Ease configuration debugging by making TestCompile fall back to
5502 using "make" if the $MAKE variable is unset [Martin Kraemer]
5504 *) Fixed the ServerSignature directive to work as documented.
5505 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx@rsbx.net>] PR#4248
5507 *) Add "opt" (SysV-style) layout to config.layout. [Raymond S Brand
5510 *) Add APACI --without-execstrip option which can be used to disable the
5511 stripping of executables on installation. This is very important for DSO
5512 and debugging situations. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5514 *) Add support for OS/2 (case insenstive filesystem, .exe suffix, etc)
5515 to APACI files and related scripts.
5516 [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4269
5518 *) Add support for standalone mode in TPF
5519 [Joe Moenich <moenich@us.ibm.com>]
5521 *) Fix number of bytes copied by read_connection() in src/support/ab.c
5522 [Jim Cox <jc@superlink.net>] PR#4271
5524 *) Fix special RewriteCond "-s" pattern matching.
5525 [Bob Finch <bob@nas.com>]
5527 *) Fix value quoting in src/Configure script for ap_config_auto.h
5528 [Paul Sutton <paul@awe.com>]
5530 *) Make sure RewriteLock can be used only in the global context, (i.e.
5531 outside of any <VirtualHost> sections) because it's a global facility of
5532 the rewrite engine. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5534 *) Fix the ownership delegation for proxy directory under `make install'.
5535 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5537 *) APACI would not correctly build suexec. [Maria Verina
5538 <mariav@icgeb.trieste.it>] PR#4260
5540 *) mod_mime_magic passed only the first 4k of a file to
5541 uncompress/gzip, but those tools sometimes do not produce
5542 any output unless a sufficient portion of the compressed
5543 file is input. Change to pass the entire file -- but
5544 only read 4k of output.
5545 [Marcin Cieslak <saper@system.pl>] PR#4097
5547 *) "IndexOptions None" generated extra spaces at the end of each
5548 line. [inkling@firstnethou.com] PR#3770
5550 *) The "100 Continue" response wasn't being sent after internal
5551 redirects. [Jose KAHAN <kahan@w3.org>] PR#3910, 3806, 3575
5553 *) When padding the name with spaces for display, mod_autoindex would
5554 count &, <, and > in their escaped width, messing up the display.
5555 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4075, 3758
5557 *) PORT: fixed a compilation problem on NEXT.
5558 [Jacques Distler <distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu>] PR#4130
5560 *) r->request_time wasn't being set properly in certain error conditions.
5561 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4156
5563 *) PORT: deal with UTS compiler error in http_protocol.c
5564 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#4189
5566 *) Add ap_vrprintf() function. [John Tobey <jtobey@banta-im.com>] PR#4246
5568 *) Fix the mod_mime hash table to work properly with locales other
5569 than C. [Dean Gaudet] PR#3427
5571 *) Fix a memory leak which is exacerbated by certain configurations.
5572 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4225
5574 *) Prevent clobbering saved IFS values in APACI. [Jim Jagielski]
5576 *) Fix buffer overflows in ap_uuencode and ap_uudecode pointed out
5577 by "Peter 'Luna' Altberg <peter@altberg.nu>" and PR#3422
5578 [Peter 'Luna' Altberg <peter@altberg.nu>, Ronald Tschalär]
5580 *) Make {Set,Unset,Pass}Env per-directory instead of per-server.
5583 *) Correct an apparent typo: on the Windows and MPE platforms, the
5584 htpasswd utility was limiting passwords to only 8 characters.
5587 *) EBCDIC platforms: David submitted patches for two bugs in the
5588 MD5 digest port for EBCDIC machines:
5589 a) the htdigest utility overwrote the old contents of the digest file
5590 b) the Content-MD5 header value (ContentDigest directive) was wrong
5591 when the returned file was not converted from EBCDIC, but was a
5592 binary (e.g., image file) in the first place.
5593 [David McCreedy <mccreedy@us.ibm.com>]
5595 *) support/htpasswd now permits the password to be specified on the
5596 command line with the '-b' switch. This is useful when passwords
5597 need to be maintained by scripts -- particularly in the Win32
5598 environment. [Ken Coar]
5600 *) Win32: Win32 multiple services patch. Added capability to install and
5601 run multiple copies of apache as individual services.
5604 apache -n apache1 -i -f c:/httpd.conf
5605 Installs apache as service 'apache1' and associates c:/httpd.conf
5608 Starts apache1 service.
5610 Stops apache1 service
5613 apache -n apache2 -i
5614 Installs apache as service 'apache2'. httpd.conf is located under
5615 the default server root (/apache/conf/httpd.conf).
5617 Starts apache2 service.
5620 apache -n apache3 -i -d c:/program files/apache
5621 Install apache as service 'apache3' and sets server root to
5622 c:/program files/apache.
5625 apache -n apache2 -k restart
5626 Restart apache2 service
5628 [Keith Wannamaker, Ken Parzygnat, Bill Stoddard]
5630 *) Correct the signed/unsigned character handling for the MD5 routines;
5631 mismatches were causing compilation problems with gcc -pedantic and
5632 in the TPF cross-compilation. [Ken Coar]
5634 *) OS/2: Rework CGI handling to use spawn*() instead of fork/exec, achieving
5635 a roughly 5 fold speed up. [Brian Havard]
5637 *) proxy ftp: instead of using the hardwired string "text/plain" as
5638 a fallback type for files served by the ftp proxy, use the
5639 ap_default_type() function to determine the configured type.
5640 This allows for special configurations like
5641 <Directory proxy:ftp://some.host>
5642 DefaultType gargle/blurb
5644 Additionally, add the Content-Encoding: header to FTP proxy replies
5645 when the encoding is defined (by the AddEncoding directive).
5646 Because it was missing, it was almost impossible to browse compressed
5647 files using the FTP proxy (works now perfectly in Communicator).
5648 The ftp proxy now also returns the Date: and Server: header lines (if not
5649 much else... This code is "somewhat" broken) like normal requests do.
5652 *) Be more smart in APACI's configure script when determining the UID/GID
5653 for User/Group directives and use the determined UID/GID to initialize
5654 the permissions on the proxycachedir.
5655 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Ralf S. Engelschall]
5657 *) Changed the forking-prior-to-cleanup in the proxy module to first
5658 check wether it actually needs to collect garbage. This reduces
5659 the number of fork()s from one/request to just the odd one an hour.
5660 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
5662 *) Added proxy, auth and header support to src/support/ab.c. Added a
5663 README file to src/support/
5664 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
5666 *) Don't hard-code the path to AWK in --shadow bootstrapping Makefile.
5667 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4050
5669 *) Add support for DSO module compilation on BSD/OS 3.x.
5670 [Randy Terbush, Covalent Technologies]
5672 *) Fix sed-substitutions in `make install': path elements like `httpd/conf'
5673 (for instance from an APACI configure --sysconfdir=/etc/httpd/conf
5674 option) were substituted with $(TARGET).conf, etc. Same for other strings
5675 with dots where the dot wasn't matched as plain text.
5676 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5678 *) PORT: Add support for FreeBSD 4.x [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5680 *) Fix verbose output of APACI configure (option -v)
5681 [Martin Kraemer, Ralf S. Engelschall]
5683 Changes with Apache 1.3.6
5685 *) Removed new PassAllEnv code due to DSO problems. [Lars Eilebrecht]
5687 Changes with Apache 1.3.5 [not released]
5689 *) M_INVALID needed a value within the scope of METHODS so that unknown
5690 methods can be access controlled. [Roy Fielding] PR#3821
5692 *) Added PassAllEnv; makes server's entire environment available
5693 to CGIs and SSIs executed within directive's scope. [Ken Coar]
5695 *) ap_uuencode() always added two trailing '='s and encoding of
5696 8 bit characters on a machine with signed char may produced
5697 incorrect results. Additionally ap_uuencode() should now
5698 work correctly on EBCDIC platforms.
5699 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald@innovation.ch>] PR#3411
5701 *) WIN32: Binary installer now runs the configuration DLL before
5702 the reboot prompt (which is only given if MSVCRT.DLL system
5703 DLL is new or updated). This should avoid the configuration
5704 directory being empty after installation. [Paul Sutton]
5705 PR#3767, 3800, 3827, 3850, 3900, 3953, 3988
5707 *) WIN32: Binary installer now creates Start menu options to start
5708 and stop Apache as a console application and to uninstall
5709 the Apache service on NT. [Paul Sutton] PR#3741
5711 *) WIN32: Apache.exe now contains an icon. [Paul Sutton]
5713 *) PORT: Switch back to using fcntl() locking on Linux -- instabilities
5714 have been reported with flock() locking (probably related to kernel
5715 version). [Dean Gaudet] PR#2723, 3531
5717 *) Using APACI, the main config file (usually httpd.conf) was
5718 not being adjusted as $(TARGET).conf. [Wilfredo Sanchez
5719 <wsanchez@apple.com>]
5721 *) PORT: AIX does not require the SHARED_CODE "hack"
5722 [Ryan Bloom <rbb@raleigh.ibm.com>]
5724 *) Set-Cookie headers were being doubled up for some CGIs by the O(n^2)
5725 avoidance code added in 1.3.3.
5726 [Dean Gaudet, Jeff Lewis <lewis@stanford.edu>] PR#3872
5728 *) ap_isxdigit was somehow neglected when adding the ap_isfoo() macros
5729 for 8-bit safeness. [Dean Gaudet]
5731 *) PORT: Use -fPIC instead of -fpic on Solaris and SunOS for compiling DSOs
5732 because SPARCs have a small machine-specific maximum size for the Global
5733 Offset Table which is often exceeded when compiling one of the larger
5734 third-party modules with Apache. [Peter Urban <Peter.Urban@epfl.ch>] PR#3977
5736 *) Move the directive `ExtendedStatus' in httpd.conf-dist-win _after_ the
5737 DSO/DLL section because it's a directive from mod_status and isn't
5738 available before the DLL of mod_status is loaded.
5739 [Martin POESCHL <mpoeschl@gmx.net>] PR#3936
5741 *) SECURITY: Fix a bug in the calculation of the buffer size for the line
5742 continuation facility in Apache's configuration files which could
5743 lead to a buffer overflow situation.
5744 [Thomas Devanneaux <Thomas.Devanneaux@enst.fr>] PR#3617
5746 *) Make documentation and error messages of APACI's --activate-module=FILE
5747 option more clear. [Jan Wolter <janc@wwnet.net>] PR#3995
5749 *) Fix the gcc version check (for enabling the `inline' facility) to
5750 really support all future gcc versions >= 2.7 until we know more.
5751 [John Tobey <jtobey@banta-im.com>] PR#3983
5753 *) Let APACI's configure script correctly complain for unknown --enable-XXX
5754 and --disable-XXX options. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3958
5756 *) Link the shared core bootstrap program (``Rule SHARED_CORE=yes'') also
5757 against libap.a and use its ap_snprintf() instead of sprintf() to avoid
5758 possible buffer overflows. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5760 *) Remove no longer used non-API function ap_single_module_init().
5761 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5763 *) Add Apple's Mac OS X Server Layout "Rhapsody" to config.layout.
5766 *) Add cgidir, htdocsdir, iconsdir variables to Makefile.tmpl in order
5767 to make platform installations easier. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
5769 *) In configure, do not append the target name to the directory path if
5770 the path already contains "apache". [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5772 *) SIGPIPE is now ignored by the server core. The request write routines
5773 (ap_rputc, ap_rputs, ap_rvputs, ap_rwrite, ap_rprintf, ap_rflush) now
5774 correctly check for output errors and mark the connection as aborted.
5775 Replaced many direct (unchecked) calls to ap_b* routines with the
5776 analogous ap_r* calls. [Roy Fielding]
5778 *) Enhanced mod_rewrite's mapfile handling: The in-core cache for text and
5779 DBM format mapfiles now uses a 4-way hash table with LRU functionality.
5780 Furthermore map lookups for non-existent keys are now cached as well.
5781 Additionally "txt" maps are now parsed with simple string functions
5782 instead of using ap_pregcomp(). As a side effect a bug that prevented
5783 the usage of keys containing the "," character was fixed.
5784 The changes drastically improve the performance when large rewrite maps
5786 [Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.swb.de>, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3160
5788 *) Added ap_sub_req_method_uri() for doing a subrequest with a method
5789 other than GET, and const'd the definition of method in request_rec.
5792 *) Use proper pid_t type for saving PIDs in alloc.c. [John Bley]
5794 *) Replaced use of WIN32 define with HAVE_DRIVE_LETTERS to indicate
5795 when the OS allows a DOS drive letter within pathnames. [Brian Havard]
5797 *) Add %V to mod_log_config, this logs the hostname according to the
5798 UseCanonicalName setting (this is the pre-1.3.4 behaviour of
5799 %v). Useful for mass vhosting. [Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>]
5801 *) Add support for \n and \t to mod_log_config, can be used to produce
5802 more reliable logs with multiline entries. [Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>]
5804 *) Fixed a few compiler nits. [John Bley <jbb6@acpub.duke.edu>]
5806 *) Added informative error messages for failed munmap() and fseek() calls
5807 in http_core.c. [John Bley, Roy Fielding]
5809 *) Added some informative error messages for some failed malloc()
5810 calls. [John Bley <jbb6@acpub.duke.edu>, Jim Jagielski]
5812 *) OS/2 ap_os_canonical_filename()'s behaviour is improved: ap_assert()
5813 is removed. This allows <Directory proxy:*> directives to work and
5814 prevents invalid requests from killing the process.
5815 [Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
5817 *) Reorganised FAQ document.
5818 [Joshua Slive <slive@finance.commerce.ubc.ca>] PR#2497
5820 *) src/support/: The ApacheBench benchmark program was overhauled by
5821 David N. Welton: you can now have it generate an HTML TABLE, presumably
5822 for integration into other HTML sources. David updated the ab man page
5823 as well and added some missing descriptions. Thanks!
5824 [David N. Welton <davidw@prosa.it>]
5826 *) Win32: The filename validity checker now allows filenames containing
5827 characters in the range 0x80 to 0xff (for example accented characters).
5828 [Paul Sutton] PR#3890
5830 *) Added conditional logging based upon environment variables to
5831 mod_log_config. mod_log_referer and mod_log_agent
5832 are now deprecated. [Ken Coar]
5834 *) Allow apache acting as a proxy server to relay the real
5835 reason of a failure to a client rather than the "internal
5836 server error" it does currently. The general exposure mechanism
5837 can be triggered by any module by setting the "verbose-error-to"
5838 note to "*"; this allows more than just proxy errors to be exposed.
5839 [Cliff Skolnick, Roy Fielding, Martin Kraemer] Related to PR#3455, 4086
5841 *) Moved man pages for ab and apachectrl to section 8.
5842 [Wilfredo Sanchez, Roy Fielding]
5844 *) Added -S option to install.sh so that options can be passed to
5845 strip on some platforms. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Wilfredo Sanchez]
5847 *) Tweak modules Makefile generated by Configure so that it handles
5848 the test case of no modules being selected. [chaz@reliant.com]
5850 *) Added a <LimitExcept method ...> sectioning directive that allows
5851 the user to assign authentication control to any HTTP method that
5852 is *not* given in the argument list; i.e., the logical negation
5853 of the <Limit> directive. This is particularly useful for controlling
5854 access on methods unknown to the Apache core, but perhaps known by
5855 some module or CGI script. [Roy Fielding, Tony Finch]
5857 *) Prevent apachectl from complaining if the PIDFILE exists but
5858 does not contain a process id, as might occur if the server is
5859 being rapidly restarted. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
5861 *) Win32: Add global symbols missing from ApacheCore.def. [Carl Olsen]
5863 *) Entity tag comparisons for If-Match and If-None-Match were not being
5864 performed correctly -- weak tags might cause false positives. Also,
5865 strong comparison wasn't properly enforced in all cases.
5866 [Roy Fielding, Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet] PR#2065, 3657
5868 *) OS/2: Supply OS/2 error code instead of errno on semaphore errors.
5871 *) Work around a bug in Lynx regarding its sending "Negotiate: trans"
5872 even though it doesn't understand TCN. [Koen Holtman, Roy Fielding]
5874 *) Added ap_size_list_item(), ap_get_list_item(), and ap_find_list_item()
5875 to util.c for parsing an HTTP header field value to extract the next
5876 list item, taking into account the possible presence of nested comments,
5877 quoted-pairs, and quoted-strings. ap_get_list_item() also removes
5878 insignificant whitespace and lowercases non-quoted tokens.
5879 [Roy Fielding] PR#2065
5881 *) proxy: The various calls to ap_proxyerror() can return HTTP/1.1 status
5882 code different from 500. This allows the proxy to, e.g., return
5883 "403 Forbidden" for ProxyBlock'ed URL's. [Martin Kraemer] Related to PR#3455
5885 *) Fix ordering of language variants for the case where the traditional
5886 negotiation algorithm is being used with multiple language variants
5887 and no Accept-Language. [James Treacy <treacy@debian.org>] PR#3299, 3688
5889 *) Do not round the TCN quality calculation to 5 decimal places,
5890 unlike RFC 2296, because the calculation might need 12 decimal places
5891 to get the right result. [Roy Fielding]
5893 *) Remove unused code to disable transparent negotiation when
5894 negotiating on encoding only, as we now handle encoding too
5895 (though this is nonstandard for TCN), remove charset=ISO-8859-1
5896 fiddle from the fiddle-averse RVSA comparison, and fix bugs in
5897 some debugging statements within mod_negotiation. [Koen Holtman]
5899 *) Fixed a rare memory corruption possibility in mod_dir if the index
5900 file is negotiable and no acceptable variant can be found.
5901 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Martin Kraemer]
5903 *) Win32: Add new config directive, ScriptInterpreterSource, to enable
5904 searching the Win32 registry for script interpreters.
5907 *) Win32: The compiled-in default filename for the error log is now
5908 error.log, which matches the default in the distributed httpd.conf.
5911 *) Win32: Any error messages from -i or -u command line options are now
5912 displayed on the console output rather than sent to the error log.
5913 Also the "Running Apache..." message is not output unless Apache is
5914 going to serve requests. [Paul Sutton]
5916 *) Rework the MD5 authentication scheme to use FreeBSD's algorithm,
5917 and use a private significator ('$apr1$') to mark passwords as
5918 being smashed with our own algorithm. Also abstract the password
5919 checking into a new ap_validate_password() routine. [Ken Coar]
5921 *) Win32: The filename validity checker now allows "COM" but refuses
5922 access to "COM1" through "COM4". This allows filenames such
5923 as "com.name" to be served. [Paul Sutton] PR#3769.
5925 *) BS2000: Adapt to the new ufork() system call interface which will
5926 make subtasking easier on the OSD/POSIX mainframe environment.
5929 *) Add a compatibility define for escape_uri() -> ap_escape_uri() to
5930 ap_compat.h. [David White <david@persimmon.com>] PR#3725
5932 *) Make NDBM file suffix determination for mod_rewrite more accurate, i.e.
5933 use `.db' instead of `.pag' not only for FreeBSD, but also when
5934 the NDBM library looks like Berkeley-DB based.
5935 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3773
5937 *) Add ability to handle DES or MD5 authentication passwords.
5938 [Ryan Bloom <rbb@Raleigh.IBM.Com>]
5940 *) Fix O(n^2) memory consumption in mod_speling. [Dean Gaudet]
5942 *) SECURITY: Avoid some buffer overflow problems when escaping
5943 quoted strings. (This overflow was on the heap and we believe
5944 impossible to exploit.) [Rick Perry <perry@ece.vill.edu>]
5946 *) Let src/Configure be aware of CFLAGS options starting with plus
5947 signs as it's the case for the HP/UX compiler.
5948 [Doug Yatcilla <yatcilda@umdnj.edu>] PR#3681
5950 *) Remove the hard-wire of TAR=tar (we now check for gtar and gnutar first)
5951 and check to see if the tar we wind up with supports '-h'.
5952 [Jim Jagielski] PR#3671
5954 *) A consistent and conservative style for all shell scripts has been
5955 implemented. Basically, all shell string tests use the traditional
5956 hack of 'if [ "x$var" != "x" ]' or 'if [ "x$var" = "xstring" ]'
5957 to protect against bare null variable strings (ie: wrapping both
5958 sides with double quotes and prepending 'x'). 'x' was chosen
5959 because it's more universal and hopefully easier for old shell
5960 prgrammers, as well as being easier to search for in 'vi' (/x\$) :)
5963 *) The status module now prints out both the main server generation as
5964 well as the generation of each process. Also, the vhost info is
5965 printed with '?notable'. [Jim Jagielski]
5967 *) Move src/main/md5c.c to src/ap/ap_md5c.c; it's httpd-neutral
5968 and this makes its functions available to things in src/support.
5971 Changes with Apache 1.3.4
5973 *) Renamed macros status_drops_connection to ap_status_drops_connection
5974 and vestigial scan_script_header to ap_scan_script_header_err,
5975 mostly for aesthetic reasons. [Roy Fielding]
5977 *) The query switch "httpd -S" didn't exit after showing the
5978 vhost settings. That was inconsistent with the other query functions.
5981 *) Moved the MODULE_MAGIC_COOKIE from before the versions and
5982 filename to the end of the STANDARD_MODULE_STUFF. Its
5983 presence at the beginning prevented reporting of the filename
5984 for modules compiled before 1 January 1999. [Ken Coar]
5986 *) SECURITY: ap_os_is_filename_valid() has been added to Win32
5987 to detect and prevent access to special DOS device file names.
5988 [Paul Sutton, Ken Parzygnat]
5990 *) WIN32: Created new makefiles Makefile_win32.txt (normal build)
5991 and Makefile_win32_debug.txt (debug build) that work on Win95.
5992 Run each of the following from the src directory:
5993 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt # compiles normal build
5994 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt install # compiles and installs
5995 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt clean # removes compiled junk
5996 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt # compiles debug build
5997 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt install
5998 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt clean
6001 *) Added binbuild.sh and findprg.sh helpers to make it easier for us
6002 to build binary distributions. [Lars Eilebrecht]
6004 *) IndexOptions SuppressColumnSorting only turned off making
6005 the column headers anchors; you could still change the display
6006 order by manually adding a '?N=A' or similar query string to the
6007 URL. Now SuppressColumnSorting locks in the sort order so
6008 it can't be overridden this way. [Ken Coar]
6010 *) Added IndexOrderDefault directive to supply a default sort order
6011 for FancyIndexed directory listings. [Ken Coar] PR#1699
6013 *) Change the ap_assert macro to a variant that works on all platforms.
6014 [Richard Prinz <richard.prinz@cso.net>] PR#2575
6016 *) Make sure under ELF-based NetBSD (now) and OpenBSD (future) we don't
6017 search for an underscore on dlsym() (as it's already the case
6018 for FreeBSD 3.0). [Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>] PR#2462
6020 *) Small fix for mod_env.html: The module was documented as to be _not_
6021 compiled into Apache per default, although it _IS_ compiled into
6022 Apache per default. [Sim Harbert <sim@mindspring.com>] PR#3572
6024 *) Instead of fixing a bug in the generation procedure for config.status (a
6025 backslash was missing) we remove the bug together with it's complete
6026 context because the special cases of the past can now no longer occur
6027 because of the recent magic for the --with-layout default.
6028 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3590
6030 *) Make top-level Makefile aware of a parallel build procedures (make -j) by
6031 making sure the src/support/ tools are _forced_ to be build last (they
6032 depend on other libraries).
6033 [Markus Theissinger <markus.theissinger@gmx.de>]
6035 *) Fix installation procedure: Now that os-inline.c is actually used (a
6036 recently fixed bug prevented this) we need to also install os-include.c
6037 in addition to os.h into the PREFIX/include/ location or building of
6038 module DSOs with APXS fails. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3527
6040 *) Added MODULE_MAGIC_COOKIE as the first field in a module structure to
6041 allow us to distinguish between a garbled DSO (or even a file which isn't
6042 an Apache module DSO at all) and a DSO which doesn't match the current
6043 Apache API. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3152
6045 *) Two minor enhancements to mod_rewrite: First RewriteRule now also
6046 supports the ``nocase|NC'' flag (as RewriteCond already does for ages) to
6047 match case insensitive (this especially avoids nasty patterns like
6048 `[tT][eE][sS][tT]'). Second two additional internal map functions
6049 `escape' and `unescape' were added which can be used to escape/unescape
6050 to/from hex-encodings in URLs parts (this is especially useful in
6051 combination with map lookups).
6052 [Magnus Bodin, Ian Kallen, Ralf S. Engelschall]
6054 *) Renamed the macro escape_uri() to ap_escape_uri() which was
6055 forgotten (because it was a macro) in the symbol renaming process.
6056 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6058 *) Fix some inconsistencies related to the scopes of directives. The only
6059 user visible change is that the directives `UseCanonicalName' and
6060 `ContentDigest' now use the (more correct) `Options' scope instead of
6061 (less correct) `AuthConfig' scope. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6063 *) Using DSO, the Server token was being mangled. Specifically, the
6064 module's token was being added first before the Apache token. This
6065 has been fixed. [Jim Jagielski]
6067 *) Major overhaul of mod_negotiation.c, part 2.
6068 - properly handle "identity" within Accept-Encoding.
6069 - allow encoded variants in RVSA negotiation and let them appear in
6070 the Alternates field using the non-standard "encoding" tag-list.
6071 - fixed both negotiation algorithms so that an explicitly accepted
6072 encoding is preferred over no encoding if "identity" is not
6073 included within Accept-Encoding.
6074 - added ap_array_pstrcat() to alloc.c for efficient concatenation
6075 of large substring sequences.
6076 - replaced O(n^2) memory hogs in mod_negotiation with ap_array_pstrcat.
6079 *) Major overhaul of mod_negotiation.c, part 1.
6080 - cleanups to mod_negotiation comments and code structure
6081 - made compliant with HTTP/1.1 proposed standard (rfc2068) and added
6082 support for everything in the upcoming HTTP/1.1
6083 revision (draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-06.txt).
6084 - language tag matching also handles tags with more than 2
6086 - empty Accept, Accept-Language, Accept-Charset headers are
6087 processed correctly; previously an empty header would make all
6088 values acceptable instead of unacceptable.
6089 - allowed for q values in Accept-Encoding
6090 - added support for transparent content negotiation (rfc2295 and
6091 rfc2296) (though we do not implement all features in these drafts,
6092 e.g. no feature negotiation). Removed old experimental version.
6093 - implemented 'structured entity tags' for better cache correctness
6094 (structured entity tags ensure that caches which can deal with Vary
6095 will (eventually) be updated if the set of variants on the server
6097 - this involved adding a vlist_validator element to request_rec
6098 - this involved adding the ap_make_etag() function to the global API
6099 - modified guessing of charsets used by Apache negotiation algorithm
6100 to guess 'no charset' if the variant is not a text/* type
6101 - added code to sort multiviews variants into a canonical order so that
6102 negotiation results are consistent across backup/restores and mirrors
6103 - removed possibility of a type map file resolving to another type map
6104 file as its best variant
6105 [Koen Holtman, Roy Fielding, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3451, 3299, 1987
6107 *) RFC2396 allows the syntax http://host:/path (with no port number)
6108 but the proxy disallowed it (ap_proxy_canon_netloc()).
6109 [David Kristol <dmk@bell-labs.com>] PR#3530
6111 *) When modules update/modify the file name in the configfile_t structure,
6112 syntax errors will report the updated name, not the original one.
6113 [Fabien Coelho <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>] PR#3573
6115 *) Correct some filename case assumptions from WIN32 to
6116 CASE_BLIND_FILESYSTEM. [Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
6118 *) For %v log ServerName regardless of the UseCanonicalName
6119 setting (similarly for %p). [Dean Gaudet]
6121 *) Configure was initializing the variables $OSDIR, $INCDIR and $SHELL
6122 rather late (too late for some invocations of TestCompile).
6123 This improves the make environment available to TestCompile and
6124 the *.module scripts. [Martin Kraemer]
6126 *) The hashbang emulation code in ap_execve.c would interpret
6127 #!/hashbang/scripts correctly, but failed to fall back to a
6128 standard shell for scripts which did NOT start with #!
6129 Now SHELL_PATH is started in these cases. [Martin Kraemer]
6131 *) PORT: Added the Cyberguard V2 port [Richard Stagg <stagg@lentil.org>]
6134 *) Update APXS manual page: some -q option arguments were missing
6135 and another was incorrect. [Mark Anderson <mda@discerning.com>] PR#3553
6137 *) Cleanup the command line options: `-?' was documented to show
6138 the usage list but does it with an error because `?' is not a valid
6139 command. OTOH a lot of users expect `-h' to print such a usage list and
6140 instead are annoyed for ages by our huge unreadable list of directives.
6141 So we now changed the command line options this way:
6143 Intent: we need `-L' to be free, and `-R' for the DSO run-time path is
6144 very similar to the popular linker option.
6146 Intent: while -l gives the small list of modules, -L now gives the
6147 large list of directives implemented by these modules. This is also
6148 consistent with -v (short version info) and -V (large version info).
6150 Intent: it's now the expected option ;-)
6151 The manual page was adjusted accordingly.
6152 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2714
6154 *) Fixed problem of fclose() on an unopened file in suexec if LOG_EXEC
6155 wasn't defined. [Rick Franchuk <rickf@transpect.net>]
6157 *) Removed recently introduced bugs and disfigurements in APACI:
6158 o fixed argument line processing: using $args was broken: It was not
6159 initialized and using args="$args $apc_option" and even args="$args
6160 \"$apc_option\"" fails in the second processing round for any arguments
6161 containing whitespaces. The only correct way is to use the construct
6162 "$@" (but not possible here) or iterate _both_ times over the implicit
6163 argument line (no argument to for-loop) which is what we now use.
6164 o make --with-layout=Apache the default without creating
6165 redundancy (copying the --with-layout block in the argument parsing
6166 loop). We achieve this by using the "$@" construct together with the
6167 `set' command to prepend --with-layout=Apache to the command line in
6168 case --with-layout is not used.
6169 o fixed auto-suffix handling now that config.layout exists.
6170 Paths which are auto-suffixed are marked with a trailing plus sign in
6171 config.layout and every path now can be marked this way (not only the
6172 four paths for which we do it currently). Additionally the suffix is
6173 no longer a static one. Instead it's now `/<target>' where <target> is
6174 the argument of the --target option or per default `httpd'.
6175 o allow also tabs (and only spaces) where we match whitespaces
6176 o various fixes and cleanups related to used shell coding style
6177 o made Jim happy by replacing `Written by' with `Initially written by' ;-)
6178 o trimmed output of --help to fit into 80 columns
6179 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6181 *) Added two new core API functions, ap_single_module_configure() and
6182 ap_single_module_init(), which are now used by mod_so to configure a module
6183 after loading. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6185 *) PORT: Add defines for USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT and
6186 SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT to NetBSD/OpenBSD section
6187 of ap_config.h to allow serialized accept for multiport listens.
6188 [Roy Fielding, Curt Sampson] PR#3120
6190 *) PORT: Fixed a misplaced #endif for NetBSD/OpenBSD section
6191 of ap_config.h that would skip several defines if DEFAULT_GROUP
6192 was overridden. [Roy Fielding]
6194 *) PORT: The I86 version of DGUX has support for strncasecmp and
6195 strcasecmp, so allow it in ap_config.h. [Amiel Lee Yee] PR#3247
6197 *) Fix ordering of definitions in ap_config.h so that ap_inline is
6198 defined before it might be used. [Victor Khimenko]
6200 *) PORT: Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for BSDI (v4.0).
6201 [Tom Serkowski <tks@bsdi.com>] PR#3453
6203 *) Make generation of src/Configuration.apaci more robust: It failed to
6204 differenciate between modules when one module name was a postfix of
6205 another (e.g. cgi vs. fastcgi). We now check for mod_XXX, libXXX and even
6206 just XXX (think about totally non-standard names like "apache_ssl", too).
6207 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3380
6209 *) In src/Configure remove the SERVER_SUBVERSION support (already deprecated
6210 since 1.3b7) and make whitespace handling more robust (it failed horrible
6211 when whitespaces were present in the arguments of -D options).
6212 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3240
6214 *) Add APACI --shadow=DIR variant (in addition to --shadow). This now first
6215 creates an external package shadow tree in DIR before the local build
6216 shadow tree is generated under DIR. This way one can have the extracted
6217 Apache distribution tree read-only on NFS or CDROM and still build Apache
6218 from these sources. An automatically triggered VPATH-like mechanism is
6219 provided through the TOP variable, too.
6220 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
6222 *) Fix negotiation so that a Vary response header is correctly
6223 generated when, for a particular dimension, variants only vary
6224 in having or not having a value for that dimension. [Paul Sutton]
6226 *) Fix negotiation so that we prefer an encoded variant over an
6227 unencoded variant if the user-agent explicitly says it can
6228 accept that encoding. Previously we always preferred the unencoded
6230 [Paul Ausbeck <paula@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu>, Paul Sutton] PR#3447
6232 *) Fix APXS tool: query variables LIBS_SHLIB and TARGET were not recognized
6233 and the usage page was inconsistent with the functionality and manpage.
6234 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6236 *) Allow special options -Wc,xxx and -Wl,xxx on APXS compile/link command.
6237 They can occur multiple times and their arguments (`xxx') are passed AS
6238 IS to the compiler/linker command. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6240 *) Fixed possible (but harmless in practice) bug in the DBM lookup
6241 procedure of mod_rewrite: very long keys were truncated.
6242 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6244 *) Added a generic --with-layout=[FILE:]ID option. ID here is a layout
6245 identifier, currently "Apache" and "GNU" are pre-defined in the file
6246 config.layout. Custom layouts are possible by using FILE:ID as the
6247 argument where the layout ID is taken from FILE.
6249 The config.layout file consists of <Layout ID>..</Layout> sections
6250 where inside those sections "path_variable: path_value" pairs can be
6251 specified. These lines are converted to path_variable='path_value'.
6253 *) Add a DefaultLanguage directive so that files missing a language
6254 extension (e.g., .fr, .de) can be labelled as being some other
6255 default language. DefaultLanguage can appear in <Directory> and
6256 <Files> containers as well as .htaccess files. [Paul Sutton]
6259 *) Fix TARGET configuration when configuring and installing using
6260 APACI configure. TARGET now defines the basename of the configuration
6261 file, startup script, manual page, etc. log_error_core() now reports
6262 the server binary name given by argv[0]. TARGET can now also be defined
6263 with --target=TARGET parameter passed to APACI configure.
6264 [Ralf Engelschall, Randy Terbush]
6266 *) mod_include.c:handle_perl() now properly tests for OPT_INCNOEXEC
6267 rather than OPT_INCLUDES [Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>]
6269 *) ap_md5_binary() was using sprintf() rather than a table lookup
6270 to convert binary bytes to hex digits.
6271 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald@innovation.ch>] PR#3409
6273 *) Fix SEGV in TCN negotiation if no variants are acceptable.
6274 [Martin Plechsmid <plechsmi@karlin.mff.cuni.cz>] PR#1987
6276 *) API: ap_exists_config_define() function is now "public" [Doug MacEachern]
6278 *) Fix documentation of `Action' directive: It can activate a CGI script
6279 when either a handler or a MIME content type is triggered by the request.
6280 [Andrew Pimlott <pimlott@math.harvard.edu>] PR#3340
6282 *) Document the `add' command of `dbmmanage' in `dbmmanage.1' manpage.
6283 [David MacKenzie <djm@uu.net>] PR#3394
6285 *) Ignore a "ErrorDocument 401" directive with a full URL and write a
6286 notice to the error log. It is not possible to send a 401 response
6287 and a redirect at the same time. [Lars Eilebrecht]
6289 *) Fallback to native compilers for IRIX-32 platform. It seems that
6290 a gcc 2.8.1 compiled apache is logging client addresses with all
6291 bits set (255.255.255.255). This is the second such problem caused
6292 by gcc 2.8.1 compiler. The first being broken semaphore locking.
6295 *) Updated mime.types to reflect current Internet media types
6296 and include a URL to the registry.
6297 [Manoj Kasichainula, Roy Fielding] PR#2380, 2286, 2246
6299 *) SECURITY: Do a more complete check in mod_include to avoid
6300 an infinite loop of recursive SSI includes. [Marc Slemko] PR#3323
6302 *) Add APACI --suexec-docroot and --suexec-logfile options which can be
6303 used to set the document root directory (DOC_ROOT) and the suexec
6304 logfile (LOG_EXEC), respectively. Additionally the --layout option
6305 was changed to show more information about the suEXEC setup.
6306 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3316, 3357, 3361
6308 *) Added the last two WebDAV status codes of 424 (Failed Dependency)
6309 and 507 (Insufficient Storage) for use by third-party modules.
6312 *) Enabled all of the WebDAV method names for use by third-party
6313 modules, Limit, and Script directives. That includes PATCH,
6314 PROPFIND, PROPPATCH, MKCOL, COPY, MOVE, LOCK, and UNLOCK.
6315 Improved mod_actions.c so that it can use any of the methods
6316 defined in httpd.h. Added ap_method_number_of(method) for
6317 getting the internal method number. [Roy Fielding]
6319 *) PORT: Add a port to the TPF OS. [Joe Moenich <moenich@us.ibm.com> and
6322 *) Fix problems with handling of UNC names (e.g., \\host\path)
6323 on Win32. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@us.ibm.com>]
6325 *) Rework os_canonical_*() on Win32 so it's simpler, more
6326 robust, and works. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@us.ibm.com>]
6327 PR#2555, 2915, 3064, 3232
6329 *) Work around incomplete implementation of strftime on Win32.
6330 [Manoj Kasichainula, Ken Parzygnat <kparz@us.ibm.com>]
6332 *) Move a typedef to fix compile problems on Linux with 1.x kernels.
6333 [Manoj Kasichainula] PR#3177
6335 *) PORT: Add a port to the Concurrent PowerMAX OS. [Tom Horsley
6336 <Tom.Horsley@mail.ccur.com>]
6338 *) WIN32: Log more explicit error messages if spawning an interpreted
6339 script failed, including the command line used to attempt to execute
6340 the interpreter and the Win32 error code returned. [Marc Slemko]
6342 *) Disable sending of error-notes on a 500 (Internal Server Error) response
6343 since it often includes file path info. Enable sending of error-notes
6344 on a 501 (Method Not Implemented). [Roy Fielding] PR#3173
6346 *) http_config.c would respond with 501 (Method Not Implemented) if a
6347 content type handler was specified but could not be found, which
6348 should have been a 500 response. Likewise, mod_proxy.c would responsd
6349 with a 501 if the URI scheme is unrecognized instead of the correct
6350 response of 403 (Forbidden). [Roy Fielding]
6352 *) SECURITY: Eliminate DoS attack when a bad URI path contains what
6353 looks like a printf format escape. [Marc Slemko, Studenten Net Twente]
6355 *) Fix in mod_autoindex: for files where the last modified time stamp was
6356 unavailable, an empty string was printed which was 2 bytes short.
6357 The size and description columns were therefore not aligned correctly.
6358 [Martin Kraemer] (no PR#)
6360 *) Update BS2000 OS code to work with recent versions. Starting with
6361 release A17, the child fork() must be replaced by a _rfork().
6362 (BS2000 only) [Martin Kraemer]
6364 *) Add the actual server_rec structure of the specific Vhost to the
6365 scoreboard file and avoid a string copy (as well as allow some
6366 further future enhancements). [Harrie Hazewinkel
6367 <harrie.hazewinkel@jrc.it>]
6369 *) Add APACI --permute-module=foo:bar option which can be used to
6370 on-the-fly/batch permute the order of two modules (mod_foo and mod_bar)
6371 in the Configuration[.apaci] file. Two special and important variants are
6372 supported for the option argument: first BEGIN:foo which permutes module
6373 mod_foo with the begin of the module list, i.e. it `moves' the module to
6374 the begin of the list (gives it lowest priority). And second foo:END
6375 which permutes mod_foo with the end of the module list, i.e. it `moves'
6376 the module to the end of the list (gives it highest priority).
6377 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6379 *) Fix problem with 'apache -k shutdown' and startup event
6380 synchronisation (Win32). [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>]
6383 *) The config parser wasn't correctly noticing a missing '>'
6384 on container start lines (e.g., it wouldn't spot
6385 "<Directory /" as a syntax error). [Ryan Bloom <rbbloom@us.ibm.com>]
6388 *) Add a 'RemoveHandler' directive which will selectively remove
6389 all handler associations for the specified file extensions.
6390 [Ryan Bloom <rbbloom@us.ibm.com>] PR#1799.
6392 *) Properly handle & allow "nul" and ".*/null" in AccessConfig and
6393 ResourceConfig directives on Win32. Also add a note to the effect
6394 of 'useless User directive ignored on Win32' to the errorlog if
6395 a User directive is encountered on Win32.
6396 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2078, 2303.
6398 *) Fix multiple whitespace handling in imagemaps for mod_imap which was
6399 broken since Apache 1.3.1 where we took out compressing of multiple
6400 spaces in ap_cfg_getline().
6401 [Ivan Richwalski <ivan@seppuku.net>] PR#3249
6403 *) Fix Berkeley-DB/2.x support in mod_auth_db: The data structures were not
6404 initialized correctly and the db_open() call used an invalid mode
6405 parameter. [Ron Klatchko <ron@ckm.ucsf.edu>] PR#3171
6407 *) PORT: DSO support for UnixWare 7
6408 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Ron Record <rr@sco.com>]
6410 *) Merge the contents of the {srm,access}.conf-dist* files into the
6411 httpd.conf-dist* files. The srm and access files now contain
6412 only comments, and httpd.conf has all the combined contents in
6413 a rational order. [Ken Coar]
6415 *) PORT: DSO/ELF support for FreeBSD 3.0.
6416 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Dirk Froemberg <ibex@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>]
6418 *) Add a "default-handler" handler that calls the default_hander()
6419 function which is normally called for static content. This allows
6420 you to override a specific handler. [Marc Slemko]
6422 *) Further simplify checking for absolute paths by replacing an
6423 hard-coded syntax check with a call to a routine we already created to
6424 do this. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2976, 3074
6426 *) Log an error if we encounter a malformed "require" directive
6427 in mod_auth if we know that we know that no other module can
6428 deal with it. [Marc Slemko]
6430 *) Remove ap_private_extern method of hiding conflicting symbols
6431 on the NEXT platform because it is not correct for all versions,
6432 and the versions for which it is correct are unknown.
6433 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
6435 *) Fix inheritance of IndexOptions NameWidth and remove unintended
6436 restriction on +NameWidth, +IconHeight, and +IconWidth. [Ken Coar]
6438 *) Fix per-directory config merging for cases in which a 500 error
6439 is encountered in an .htaccess file somewhere down the tree.
6442 *) Minor performance improvement to ap_escape_html(). [Roy Fielding]
6444 *) Fixed a segmentation violation in mod_proxy when a response is
6445 non-cachable. [Roy Fielding, traced by Doug Bloebaum]. PR#2950, 3056
6447 Changes with Apache 1.3.3
6449 *) Added a complete implementation of the Expect header field as
6450 specified in rev-05 of HTTP/1.1. Disabled the 100 Continue
6451 response when we already know the final status, which is mighty
6452 useful for PUT responses that result in 302 or 401. [Roy Fielding]
6454 *) Remove extra trailing whitespace from the getline results as part
6455 of the protocol processing, which is extra nice because it works
6456 between continuation lines, is almost no cost in the normal case
6457 of no extra whitespace, and saves memory. [Roy Fielding]
6459 *) Added new HTTP status codes and default response bodies from the
6460 revised HTTP/1.1 (307, 416, 417), WebDAV (102, 207, 422, 423), and
6461 HTTP Extension Framework (510) specifications. Did not add the
6462 WebDAV 424 and 425 codes because they are bogus. We don't use any
6463 of these codes yet, but they are now available to 3rd-party modules.
6466 *) Fix a possible race condition between timed-out requests and the
6467 ap_bhalfduplex select that might result in an infinite loop on
6468 platforms that do not validate the descriptor. [Roy Fielding]
6470 *) WIN32: Add "-k shutdown" and "-k restart" options to signal a
6471 running Apache server [Paul Sutton]
6473 *) Fix mod_autoindex bug where directories got a size of "0k" instead
6474 of "-". [Martin Plechsmid <plechsmi@karlin.mff.cuni.cz>, Marc Slemko]
6477 *) PORT: DRS 6000 machine. [Paul Debleecker <pdebleecker@jetair.be>]
6479 *) Add the server signature text (from the core ServerSignature directive)
6480 to the list of envariables available to scripts, SSI, and the like.
6483 *) PORT: Fix sys/resource.h handling for SCO 3.x platform.
6484 [M. Laak <maert@proinv.ee>] PR#3108
6486 *) Fallback from sysconf-based to plain HZ-based `ticks per second'
6487 calculation in mod_status for all systems which don't have POSIX
6488 sysconf() (like UTS 2.1) and not only for the NEXT platform.
6489 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#3055
6491 *) Fix `require ...' directive parsing in mod_auth, mod_auth_dbm and
6492 mod_auth_db by using ap_getword_white() (which uses ap_isspace())
6493 instead of ap_getword(..., ' ') (which parses only according to spaces
6494 but not tabs). [James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>,
6495 Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3105
6497 *) Fix the SERVER_NAME variable under sub-request situations (where
6498 `UseCanonicalName off' is used) like CGI's called from SSI pages or
6499 RewriteCond variables by adopting r->hostname to sub-requests.
6500 [James Grinter <jrg@blodwen.demon.co.uk>] PR#3111
6502 *) Fix stderr redirection under syslog-based error logging situation.
6503 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#3095
6505 *) Document `ErrorLog syslog:facility' variant of error logging.
6506 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#3096
6508 *) Fix http://localhost/ hints in top-level INSTALL document.
6509 [Rob Jenson <robjen@spotch.com>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3088
6511 *) Quote paths in default configuration files. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
6513 *) PORT: Remove extra HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H define for RHAPSODY since
6514 it is now taken care of properly by the header file tests.
6515 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
6517 *) Fix problem with scripts and filehandle inheritance on Win32.
6518 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2884, 2910
6520 *) Win32 name canonicalisation could end up using the server's
6521 working directory to fill in some blanks. [Ken Parzygnat
6522 <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#3001
6524 *) Correct invalid assumption by ap_sub_req_lookup_file() that all
6525 absolute paths begin with "/" -- because they don't on Win32.
6526 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2976, 3074
6528 *) Add [REDIRECT_]VARIANTS environment variable to mod_speling
6529 so that ErrorDocument 300 processors can reformat the list
6530 if desired. [Ken Coar] PR#2859
6532 *) Add +/- incremental prefixes to IndexOptions keywords, and
6533 enable merging of multiple IndexOptions directives. [Ken Coar]
6535 *) PORT: Allow GuessOS to recognize Unixware 7.0.1 [Steve Cameron
6536 <steve.cameron@compaq.com>]
6538 *) Reconstructed the loop through multiple htaccess file names so
6539 that missing files are not confused with unreadable files.
6542 *) The ap_pfopen and ap_pfdopen routines were failing to protect the
6543 errno on an error, which leads to one error being mistaken for
6544 another when reading non-existent .htaccess files.
6547 *) OS/2: The new header tests get things right, need to update
6548 ap_config.h. [Brian Havard]
6550 *) The Perl %ENV hash will now be setup by default when using the
6551 mod_include `perl' command [Doug MacEachern]
6553 *) PORT: Add Pyramid DC/OSx support to configuration mechanism.
6554 [Earle Ake <akee@wpdiss1.wpafb.af.mil>]
6556 *) PORT: Fix sys/resource.h handling for Amdahl's UTS 2.1
6557 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#3054
6559 *) Correct comment in mod_log_config.c about its internals.
6560 [Elf Sternberg <elf@halcyon.com>]
6562 *) Avoid possible line overflow in Configure: Use an awkfile to
6563 handle the creation of modules.c [Jim Jagielski]
6565 Changes with Apache 1.3.2
6567 *) Fix bug in ap_remove_module(), which caused problems for dso's
6568 who were the top_module. [Doug MacEachern]
6570 *) Add support for Berkeley-DB/2.x (in addition to Berkeley-DB/1.x) to
6571 mod_auth_db to both be friendly to users who wants to use this version
6572 and to avoid problems under platforms where only version 2.x is present.
6573 [Dan Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
6575 *) When using ap_log_rerror(), make the error message available to the
6576 *ERROR_NOTES envariables by default. [Ken Coar]
6578 *) BS2000 platform only: get rid of the nasty BS2000AuthFile.
6579 You now must define a BS2000Account name for the server User.
6580 This has fewer security implications than the old approach.
6583 *) Fix SHARED_CORE feature for HPUX platform: We now use extension `.sl'
6584 instead of `.so' and `SHLIB_PATH' instead of `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' on this
6585 platform to make the braindead HPUX linker happy. Notice, for the module
6586 DSOs we don't have to use this, because these are loaded manually (and
6587 not via HPUX' dld). [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2905, PR#2968
6589 *) Remove 64 thread limit on Win32.
6590 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
6592 *) Remove redundant substitutions in top-level Makefile.tmpl.
6593 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6595 *) Fix APACI's `Group' configuration adjustment - especially for Linux
6596 platforms where `nogroup' exists in /etc/group. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6598 *) Make PrintPath work generically instead of having one version
6599 strictly for OS/2. [Jim Jagielski, Brian Havard]
6601 *) Fix the recently introduced C header file checking: We now use the C
6602 pre-processor pass only (and no longer the complete compiler pass) to
6603 determine whether a C header file exists or not. Because only this way
6604 we're safe against inter-header dependencies (which caused horrible
6605 portability problems). The only drawback is that we now have a CPP
6606 configuration variable which has to be determined first (we do a similar
6607 approach as GNU Autoconf does here). When all fails the user still has
6608 the possibility to override it manually via APACI or src/Configuration.
6609 As a fallback for the header check itself we can directly check the
6610 existance of the file under /usr/include, too.
6611 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2777
6613 *) PORT: Added RHAPSODY (Mac OS X Server) support. MAP_TMPFILE defined
6614 as an alternate mechanism for mmap'd shared memory for RHAPSODY.
6615 ap_private_extern defined to hide symbols that conflict with loaded
6616 dynamic libraries on the NEXT and RHAPSODY platforms.
6617 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
6619 *) Delete PID file on clean shutdowns.
6620 [Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com>] PR#2947
6622 *) Fix mod_auth_*.html documents: NSCA -> NCSA
6623 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#2991
6625 *) Fix INSTALL document: www.gnu.ai.mit.edu -> www.gnu.org
6626 [Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>] PR#2994
6628 *) Fix dbmmanage.1 manual page.
6629 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#2992
6631 *) Fix possible buffer overflow situation in suexec.c.
6632 [Jeff Stewart <jws@purdue.edu>] PR#2790
6634 *) Add some more LIBS for the SCO5 platform which are needed for the already
6635 used -lprot. It's actually a bug in SCO5, of course.
6636 [Ronald Record <rr@sco.com>] PR#2533
6638 *) Fix documentation of ProxyPass/ProxyPassReverse according to the
6639 trailing slash problem. [Jon Drukman <jsd@gamespot.com>] PR#2933
6641 *) Remove `-msym' option from LDFLAGS_SHLIB for the Digital UNIX (OSF/1)
6642 platform, because it's only supported under version 4.0 and higher. But
6643 because our GuessOS is still unaware of Digital UNIX versions and the
6644 -msym is just to optimize the DSO statup time a little bit it's safe and
6645 best when we leave it out now. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2969
6647 *) Fix the ap_log_error_old(), ap_log_unixerr() and ap_log_printf()
6648 functions: First all three functions no longer fail on strings containing
6649 "%" chars and second ap_log_printf() no longer does a double-formatting
6650 (instead it directly passes through the message to be formatted to the
6651 real internal formatting function). [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2941
6653 *) Allow "Include" directives anywhere in the server config
6654 files (but not .htaccess files). [Ken Coar] PR#2727
6656 *) The proxy was refusing to serve CONNECT requests except to
6657 port 443 (https://) and 563 (snews://). The new AllowCONNECT
6658 directive allows the configuration of the ports to which a
6659 CONNECT is allowed. [Sameer Parekh, Martin Kraemer]
6661 *) mod_expires will now act on content that is not sent from a file
6662 on disk. Previously it would never add an Expires: header to
6663 any response that did not come from a file on disk; the only
6664 case where it still doesn't (and can't) add one for that type of
6665 content is if you are using a modification date based setting.
6666 [Marc Slemko, Paul Phillips <paulp@go2net.com>]
6668 *) Problems encountered during .htaccess parsing or CGI execution
6669 that lead to a "500 Server Error" condition now provide explanatory
6670 text (in the *ERROR_NOTES envariable) to ErrorDocument 500 scripts.
6673 *) Add NameWidth keyword to IndexOptions directive so that the
6674 width of the filename column is customisable. [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
6677 *) Recognize lowercase _and_ uppercase `uname' results under
6678 SCO OpenServer. [David Coelho <drc@ppt.com>]
6680 *) As duplicate "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" lines within the header seem to be
6681 a common problem of (mis-administrated?) IIS servers, make the apache
6682 proxy immune to these errors (and ignore the duplicates, but log
6683 the fact to error_log). [Martin Kraemer], after the proposal in PR#2914
6685 *) The <IfModule and <IfDefine block starting directives now only
6686 allow exactly one argument. Previously, the optional negation
6687 character '!' could be separated by whitespace without a syntax
6688 error being reported, albeit defeating the IfModule functionality
6689 (enclosed directives would ALWAYS be executed). By using the
6690 stricter syntax, these hard-to-track errors can be avoided.
6693 *) Simplify handling of IndexOptions in mod_autoindex -- and BTW
6694 cause the standalone FancyIndexing directive to logically OR
6695 into any existing IndexOptions settings rather than wiping
6696 them out. [Ken Coar]
6698 *) Changes in ftp proxy: make URL parsing simpler by using the
6700 + Add display of the "current directory" in cases where it's
6701 different from the supplied path (e.g., ftp://user@host/ lives
6702 in /home/user, not in /, therefore clicking on "../" in the
6703 starting directory might send us to /home/).
6704 + When ftp login fails, (esp. when a user name was part of the
6705 URL already), we now return [401 Unauthorized ] to allow the
6706 browser to pop up an authorization dialog. This makes passwords
6707 slightly less visible (they don't appear in the regular log files)
6708 and implements a functionality that other www proxy servers
6712 *) Triggered by the recent "Via:" header changes, the proxy module would
6713 dump core for replies with invalid headers (e.g., duplicate
6714 "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" lines). These errors are now logged and the
6715 core dump is avoided. Also, broken replies are not cached.
6716 [Martin Kraemer] PR#2914
6718 *) new `GprofDir' directive when compiled with -DGPROF, where gprof can
6719 plop gmon.out profile data for each child [Doug MacEachern]
6721 *) Use the construct ``"$@"'' instead of ``$*'' in the generated
6722 config.status script to be immune against arguments with whitespaces.
6723 [Yves Arrouye <yves@apple.com>] PR#2866
6725 *) Replace the inlined information grabbing stuff for the configuration
6726 adjustment feature (no --without-confadjust) with calls to a new helper
6727 script `buildinfo.sh' which is both more flexible and already proofed to
6728 be more robust against platform differences. This mainly fixes the
6729 recently occured ``sed: command garbled: ...'' problems.
6730 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2776, PR#2848
6732 *) Make ab.c again pass ``gcc -Wall -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align
6733 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Winline''
6734 without complains after we recently added the POST feature.
6735 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6737 *) Renamed is_HTTP_xxx() macros to ap_is_HTTP_xxx() name. They are used inside
6738 modules as API functions and we forgot them at the big symbol renaming.
6739 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6741 *) Remove bad reference to non-existing SERVER_VERSION in mod_rewrite.html
6742 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.ORG>] PR#2895
6744 *) Dynamically size the filename column of mod_autoindex output.
6747 *) Add the ability to do POST requests to the ab benchmarking tool.
6748 [Kurt Sussman <kls@best.com>] PR#2871
6750 *) Bump up MAX_ENV_FLAGS in mod_rewrite.h from the too conservatice limit of
6751 5 to 10 because there are some users out there who always have 5 to 8
6752 variables in one RewriteRule and had to patch mod_rewrite.h for every
6753 release. So 15 should be now more than enough, even for them. (I never
6754 needed more than 4 in my RewriteRules ;-)
6755 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6757 *) Make the proxy generate and understand Via: headers
6760 *) Change the proxy to use tables instead of array_headers for
6761 the header lines. [Martin Kraemer]
6763 *) Make sure the config.status file is not overridden when just
6764 ``configure --help'' is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2844
6766 *) Split MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER into _MAJOR/_MINOR numbers. This should
6767 provide a way to trace API changes that add functionality but do
6768 not create a compatibility issue for precompiled modules, etc.
6769 See include/ap_mmn.h for more details. [Randy Terbush]
6771 *) Fix suexec installation under `make install root=xxx' situation.
6772 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6774 *) Extend the output of the -V switch to include the paths of all
6775 compiled-in configuration files, if they were overridden at
6776 compile time, for least astonishment of the user.
6779 *) When READing a request in ExtendedStatus mode, the "old"
6780 vhost, request and client information is not displayed.
6783 *) STATUS is no longer available. Full status information now
6784 run-time configurable using the ExtendedStatus directive.
6787 *) SECURITY: Eliminate O(n^2) space DoS attacks (and other O(n^2)
6788 cpu time attacks) in header parsing. Add ap_overlap_tables(),
6789 a function which can be used to perform bulk update operations
6790 on tables in a more efficient manner. CAN-1999-1199 (cve.mitre.org)
6793 *) SECURITY: Added compile-time and configurable limits for
6794 various aspects of reading a client request to avoid some simple
6795 denial of service attacks, including limits on maximum request-line
6796 size (LimitRequestLine), number of header fields (LimitRequestFields),
6797 and size of any one header field (LimitRequestFieldsize). Also added
6798 a configurable directive LimitRequestBody for limiting the size of the
6799 request message body. [Roy Fielding]
6801 *) Make status module aware of DNS and logging states, even if
6802 STATUS not defined. [Jim Jagielski]
6804 *) Fix a problem with the new OS/2 mutexes. [Brian Havard]
6806 *) Enhance mod_speling so that CheckSpelling can be used in
6807 <Directory> containers and .htaccess files. [Ken Coar]
6809 *) API: new ap_custom_response() function for hooking into the
6810 ErrorDocument mechanism at runtime [Doug MacEachern]
6812 *) API: new ap_uuencode() function [Doug MacEachern]
6814 *) API: scan_script_header_err_core() now "public" and renamed
6815 ap_scan_script_header_err_core() [Doug MacEachern]
6817 *) The 'status' module will now show the process pid's and their
6818 state even without full STATUS accounting. [Jim Jagielski]
6820 *) Restore the client IP address to the error log messages, this
6821 was lost during the transition from 1.2 to 1.3. Add a new
6822 function ap_log_rerror() which takes a request_rec * and
6823 formats it appropriately. [Dean Gaudet] PR#2661
6825 *) Cure ap_cfg_getline() of its nasty habit of compressing internal
6826 whitespace in input lines -- including within quoted strings.
6828 but leading and trailing whitespace should continue to be
6829 stripped [Martin Kraemer]
6831 *) Cleanup of the PrintPath/PrintPathOS2 helper functions. Avoid
6832 the ugly use of an env. variable and use command-line args for
6833 alternate $PATH. Make more like advanced 'type's as well.
6836 *) The IRIXN32 Rule was being ignored. Configure now correctly adds
6837 -n32 only if IRIXN32 says to. [Jim Jagielski, Alain St-Denis
6838 <alain.st-denis@ec.gc.ca>] PR#2736
6840 *) Clean up a warning in mod_proxy. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6842 *) Renamed __EMX__ (internal define of the gcc port under OS/2) to OS2
6843 following the same idea as "MSVC vs WIN32". Additionally the src/os/emx/
6844 directory was renamed to src/os/os2/ for consistency.
6845 [Brian Havard, Ralf S. Engelschall]
6847 *) Add new Rule SHARED_CHAIN which can be used to enable linking of DSO
6848 files (here modules) against other DSO files (here shared libraries).
6849 This is done by determining a subset of LIBS which can be safely used for
6850 linking the DSOs, i.e. PIC libs and shared libs. Currently the rule is
6851 disabled for all platforms to avoid problems with this (experimental)
6852 rule. But we provide it now for those people how ran into problems and
6853 want to came out by forcing linking against DSOs.
6854 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2587
6856 *) Fix suEXEC start message: Has to be of `notice' level to really get
6857 printed together with the standard startup message because the `notice'
6858 level is handled special inside ap_log_error() for startup messages.
6859 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2761 PR#2761 PR#2765
6861 *) Add correct `model' MIME types from RFC2077 to mime.types file.
6862 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2732
6864 *) Fixed examples in mod_rewrite.html document.
6865 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2756
6867 *) Allow ap_read_request errors to propagate through the normal request
6868 handling loop so that the connection can be properly closed with
6869 lingering_close, thus avoiding a potential TCP reset that would
6870 cause the client to miss the HTTP error response. [Roy Fielding]
6872 *) One more portability fix for APACI shadow tree support: Swap order of awk
6873 and sed in top-level configure script to avoid sed fails on some
6874 platforms (for instance SunOS 4.1.3 and NCR SysV) because of the
6875 non-newline-termined output of Awk. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2729
6877 *) PORT: NEC EWS4800 support.
6878 [MATSUURA Takanori <t-matsuu@protein.osaka-u.ac.jp>]
6880 *) Fix a segfault in the proxy on OS/2. [Brian Havard]
6882 *) Fix Win32 part of ap_spawn_child() by providing a reasonable child_info
6883 structure instead of just NULL. This fixes at least the RewriteMap
6884 programs under Win32. [Marco De Michele <mdemichele@tin.it>] PR#2483
6886 *) Add workaround to top-level `configure' script for brain dead
6887 `echo' commands which interpet escape sequences per default.
6888 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2654
6890 *) Make sure that the path to the Perl interpreter is correctly
6891 adjusted under `make install' also for the printenv CGI script.
6892 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2595
6894 *) Update the mod_rewrite.html document to correctly reflect the situation
6895 of the `proxy' (`[P]') feature. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2679
6897 *) Fix `install-includes' sub-target of `install' target in top-level
6898 Makefile.tmpl: The umask+cp approach didn't work as expected (especially
6899 for users which extracted the distribution under 'umask 077'), so replace
6900 it by an explicit cp+chmod approach.
6901 [Richard Lloyd, Curt Sampson, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2656 PR#2626
6903 *) Fix `distclean' and `clean' targets in src/Makefile.tmpl to have same
6904 behavior and to cleanup correctly even under enabled SHARED_CORE rule.
6905 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6907 *) Use a more straight forward and thus less problematic Sed command in
6908 src/helper/mkdir.sh script. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6910 *) Make sure the `configure' scripts doesn't fail when trying to guess the
6911 domainname of the machine and there are multiple `domainname' and
6912 `search' entries in /etc/resolv.conf.
6913 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2710
6915 *) Add note about the SHARED_CORE requirement on some platforms also to the
6916 INSTALL file because a lot of users don't read htdocs/manual/dso.html
6917 first. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2701
6919 *) Fix document "hyperlink" for dso.html in src/Configuration.tmpl
6920 [Knut A.Syed <Knut.Syed@nhh.no>] PR#2674
6922 *) Modify mod_rewrite to update the Vary response field if the URL rewriting
6923 engine does any manipulations or decisions based upon request fields.
6926 *) Document the special APACI behavior for installation paths where
6927 ``/apache'' is appended to paths under some (well defined, of course)
6928 situations to prevent pollution of system locations with Apache files.
6929 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2660
6931 *) Fixed problem with buffered response message not being sent for
6932 the read_request error conditions of URI-too-long (414) and
6933 malformed header fields (400). [Roy Fielding] PR#2646
6935 *) Add support for the Max-Forwards: header line required by RFC2068 for
6936 the TRACE method. This allows apache to TRACE along a chain of proxies
6937 up to a predetermined depth. [Martin Kraemer]
6939 *) Fix SHARED_CORE rule: The CFLAGS_SHLIB variable is no longer doubled
6940 (compilers complained) and the .so.V.R.P filename extension was adjusted
6941 to correctly reflect the 1.3.2 version.
6942 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2644
6944 *) SECURITY: Plug "..." and other canonicalization holes under OS/2.
6947 *) PORT: implement serialized accepts for OS/2. [Brian Havard]
6949 *) mod_include had problems with the fsize and flastmod directives
6950 under WIN32. Fix also avoids the minor security hole of using
6951 ".." paths for fsize and flastmod.
6952 [Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2355
6954 *) Fixed some Makefile dependency problems. [Dean Gaudet]
6956 Changes with Apache 1.3.1
6958 *) Disable the incorrect entry for application/msword in the
6959 mod_mime_magic "magic" file because it also matches other Office
6960 documents. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2608
6962 *) Fix broken RANLIB handling in src/Configure (the entry from
6963 src/Configuration.tmpl was ignored) and additionally force RANLIB to
6964 /bin/true under HP/UX where ranlib exists but is deprecated.
6965 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2627
6967 *) 'apachectl status' failed on some systems.
6968 [Steve VanDevender <stevev@darkwing.uoregon.edu>, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#2613
6970 *) Add new flags for ap_unparse_uri_components() to make it generate
6971 the scheme://sitepart string only, or to omit the query string.
6974 *) WIN32: Canonicalize ServerRoot before checking to see if it
6975 is a valid directory. The failure to do this caused certain
6976 ServerRoot settings (eg. "ServerRoot /apache") to be improperly
6977 rejected. [Marc Slemko]
6979 *) Global renaming of C header files to both get rid of conflicts with third
6980 party packages and to again reach consistency:
6981 1. conf.h -> ap_config.h
6982 2. conf_auto.h -> ap_config_auto.h \ these are now merged
6983 3. ap_config.h -> ap_config_auto.h / in the config process
6984 4. compat.h -> ap_compat.h
6985 5. apctype.h -> ap_ctype.h
6986 Backward compatibility files for conf.h and compat.h were created.
6988 *) mod_mmap_static will no longer take action on requests unless at
6989 least one "mmapfile" directive is present in the configuration.
6990 This experimental module has to do some black magic to operate
6991 inside the current API and thus creates side-effects for other
6992 modules under some circumstances.
6993 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6995 *) Add conservative ticks around more egrep arguments in top-level configure
6996 to avoid problems under brain-dead platforms like Digital UNIX (OSF1).
6997 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2596
6999 *) mod_rewrite created RewriteLock files under the UID of the parent
7000 process, thus the child processes had no write access to the files.
7001 Now a chown() is done on the file to the uid of the children,
7002 if applicable. [Lars Eilebrecht, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2341
7004 *) Autogenerate some HAVE_XXXXX_H defines in conf_auto.h (determined via
7005 TestCompile) instead of defining them manually in conf.h based on less
7006 accurate platform definitions. This way we no longer have to fiddle with
7007 OS-type and/or OS-version identifiers to discover whether a system header
7008 file exists or not. Instead we now directly check for the existence of
7009 those esoteric ones.
7010 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2093, PR#2361, PR#2377, PR#2434,
7011 PR#2524, PR#2525, PR#2533, PR#2569
7013 *) mod_setenvif (BrowserMatch* and friends) will now match a missing
7014 field with "^$". [Ken Coar]
7016 *) Set the RTLD_GLOBAL dlopen mode parameter to allow dynamically loaded
7017 modules to load their own modules dynamically. This improves mod_perl
7018 and mod_php3 when these modules are loaded dynamically into Apache.
7021 *) Cache a proxied request in the event that the client cancels the
7022 transfer, provided that the configured percentage of the file has
7023 already been transfered. It works for HTTP transfers only. The
7024 new configuration directive is called CacheForceCompletion.
7025 [Glen Parker <glenebob@nwlink.com>] PR#2277
7027 *) Add the "<!DOCTYPE HTML" magic cookie used by modern documents (and
7028 required by HTML 3.2 and later) to mod_mime_magic's conf/magic.
7029 [Anna Shergold <anna@inext.co.uk>]
7031 *) Fix yet another signal-based race condition involving nested timers.
7032 Signals suck. [Dean Gaudet]
7034 *) suexec's error messages have been clarified a little bit. [Ken Coar]
7036 *) Clean up some, but perhaps not all, 8-bit character set problems
7037 with config file parsing, and URL parsing. We now define
7038 ap_isdigit(), ap_isupper(), ... which cast to an (unsigned char).
7039 This should work on most modern unixes.
7040 [Dean Gaudet] PR#800, 2282, 2553 (and others)
7042 *) The "handler not found" error was issued in cases where the handler
7043 really did exist, but was just declining to serve the request.
7044 [John Van Essen <jve@gamers.org>] PR#2529
7046 *) Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for SCO5 (OpenServer 5.0.x).
7047 [Ronald Record <rr@sco.com>] PR#2533
7049 *) The APACI libexecdir was not extended with an "apache/" subdir
7050 if the installation prefix didn't already contain "apache", but
7051 it should be because the DSO files are Apache-specific. Now
7052 libexecdir is treated the same way sysconfdir, datadir, localstatedir
7053 and includedir are already treated.
7054 [Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>] PR#2551
7056 *) The <Limit> parsing routine was incorrectly treating methods as
7057 case-insensitive. [Ken Coar]
7059 *) The ap_bprintf() code neglected to test if there was an error on
7060 the connection. ap_bflush() misdiagnosed a failure as a success.
7063 *) add support for #perl arg interpolation in mod_include
7066 *) API: Name changes of table_elts to ap_table_elts, is_table_empty
7067 to ap_is_table_empty and bgetflag to ap_bgetflag. [Ben Laurie]
7069 *) PORT: Add UnixWare 7 support
7070 [Vadim Kostoglodoff <vadim@olly.ru>] PR#2463
7072 *) Fix the Guess-DSO-flags-from-Perl stuff in src/Configure: "perl" was
7073 used instead of "$PERL" which contains the correctly determined Perl
7074 interpreter (important for instance on systems where "perl" and "perl5"
7075 exists, like BSDI or FreeBSD, etc).
7076 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2505
7078 *) Move the initial suEXEC-related startup message from plain
7079 fprintf()/stderr to a delayed ap_log_error()-based one to avoid problems
7080 when Apache is started from inetd (instead of standalone). Under this
7081 situation startup messages on stderr lead to problems (the line is sent
7082 to the client in front of the requested document).
7083 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#871, PR#1318
7085 *) Add a flag so ap_fnmatch() can be used for case-blind pattern matching.
7086 [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
7088 *) WIN32: Don't collapse multiple slashes in PATH_INFO.
7089 [Ben Laurie, Bill Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>] PR#2274
7091 *) WIN32 SECURITY: Eliminate trailing "."s in path components. These are
7092 ignored by the Windows filesystem, and so can be used to bypass security.
7093 [Ben Laurie, Alexei Kosut].
7095 *) We now attempt to dump core when we get SIGILL. [Jim Jagielski]
7097 *) PORT: remove broken test for MAP_FILE in http_main.c.
7098 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
7100 *) PORT: Change support/apachectl to use "kill -0 $pid" to test if the
7101 httpd is running. This should be more portable than figuring out
7102 which of three dozen different versions of "ps" are installed.
7105 *) WIN32: If we can't figure out how to execute a file in a script
7106 directory, bail out of the request with an error message. [W G Stoddard]
7108 *) WIN32 SECURITY: Eliminate directories consisting of three or more dots;
7109 these are treated by Win32 as if they are ".." but are not detected by
7110 other machinery within Apache. This is something of a kludge but
7111 eliminates a security hole. [Manoj Kasichainula, Ben Laurie]
7113 *) Move ap_escape_quotes() from src/ap to src/main/util.c; it uses
7114 pools and thus pollutes libap (until the pool stuff is moved there).
7117 *) IndexIgnore should be case-blind on Win32 (and any other case-aware
7118 but case-insensitive platforms). New #define for this added to conf.h
7119 (CASE_BLIND_FILESYSTEM). [Ken Coar] PR#2455
7121 *) Enable DSO support for OpenBSD in general, not only for 2.x, because it
7122 also works for OpenBSD 1.x. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7124 *) PORT: Fix compilation problem on ARM Linux.
7125 [Sam Kington <sam@illuminated.co.uk>] PR#2443
7127 *) Let APACI's configure script determine some configuration parameters
7128 (Group, Port, ServerAdmin, ServerName) via some intelligent tests to
7129 remove some of the classical hurdles for new users when setting up
7130 Apache. This is done per default because it is useful for the average
7131 user. Package authors can use the --without-confadjust option to disable
7132 these configuration adjustments.
7133 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7135 *) Added an EXTRA_DEPS configuration parameter which can be used
7136 to add an extra Makefile dependency for the httpd target, for instance
7137 to external third-party libraries, etc.
7138 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7140 *) Add <IfDefine>..</IfDefine> sections to the core module (with same spirit
7141 as <IfModule>..</IfModule> sections) which can be used to skip or process
7142 contained commands dependend of ``-D PARAMETER'' options on the command
7143 line. This can be used to achieve logical conditions like <IfDefine
7144 ReverseProxy> instead of physically ones (e.g. <IfModule mod_proxy.c>)
7145 and thus especially can be used for conditionally loading DSO-based
7146 modules via LoadModule, etc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7148 *) PORT: clean up a warning in mod_status for OS/2. [Brian Havard]
7150 *) Make table elements const. This may prevent obscure errors. [Ben Laurie]
7152 *) Fix parsing of FTP `SIZE' responses in proxy module: The newline was not
7153 truncated which forced following HTTP headers to be data in the HTTP
7154 reponse. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Charles Fu <ccwf@bacchus.com>]
7157 *) Portability fix for APACI shadow tree support: Swap order of awk and sed
7158 in top-level configure script to avoid sed fails on some platforms (for
7159 instance SunOS 4.1.3 and NCR SysV) because of the non-newline-termined
7160 output of Awk. [Bill Houle <bhoule@sandiegoca.ncr.com>] PR#2435
7162 *) Improve performance of directory listings (mod_autoindex) by comparing
7163 integer keys (last-modified and size) as integers rather than converting
7164 them to strings first. Also use a set of explicit byte tests rather
7165 than strcmp() to check for parent directory-ness of an entry. Oh, and
7166 make sure the parent directory (if displayed) is *always* listed first
7167 regardless of the sort key. Overall performance winnage should be good
7168 in CPU time, instruction cache, and memory usage, particularly for large
7169 directories. [Ken Coar]
7171 *) Add a tiny but useful goody to APACI's configure script: The generation
7172 of a config.status script (as GNU Autoconf does) which remembers the used
7173 configure command and hence can be used to restore the configuration by
7174 just re-running this script or for remembering the configuration between
7176 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7178 *) Add httpd -t (test) option for running configuration syntax tests only.
7179 If something is broken it complains and exits with a return code
7180 non-equal to 0. This can be used manually by the user to check the Apache
7181 configuration after editing and is also automatically used by apachectl
7182 on (graceful) restart command to make sure Apache doesn't die on restarts
7183 because of a configuration which is now broken since the last (re)start.
7184 This way `apachectl restart' can be used inside cronjobs without having
7185 to expect Apache to be falling down. Additionally the httpd -t can be run
7186 via `apachectl configtest'.
7187 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2393
7189 *) Minor display fix for "install" target of top-level Makefile:
7190 the displayed installation command was incorrect although the
7191 executed command was correct. Now they are in sync.
7192 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2402
7194 *) Correct initialization of variable `allowed_globals' in http_main.c
7195 [Justin Bradford <justin@ukans.edu>] PR#2400
7197 *) Apache would incorrectly downcase the entire Content-Type passed from
7198 CGIs. This affected server-push scripts and such which use
7199 multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary=ThisRandomString.
7200 [Dean Gaudet] PR#2394
7202 *) PORT: QNX update to properly guess 32-bit systems.
7203 [Sean Boudreau <seanb@qnx.com>] PR#2390
7205 *) Make sure the DSO emulation code for HPUX finds the proprietary shl_xxx()
7206 functions which are in libdld under HPUX 9/10.
7207 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2378
7209 *) Make sure the "install" target of the top-level Makefile doesn't break
7210 because of a return code of 1 from an "if" (for instance under braindead
7211 Ultrix the result code of an "if" construct is 1 if the "then" clause
7212 didn't match). [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7214 *) Add an additional "dummy" target to the "$(LIB)" target in generated
7215 modules/xxx/Makefile's to avoid problems with SVR4 Make under "full-DSO"
7216 situation (no libxxx.a built, only mod_xxx.so's) where LIB and OBJS are
7217 empty. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Dean Gaudet, Martin Kraemer]
7219 *) Replace two bad sprintf() calls with ap_snprintf() variants in
7220 mod_rewrite. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7222 *) Fix missing usage description for MetaFiles directive.
7223 [David MacKenzie <djm@va.pubnix.com>] PR#2384
7225 *) mod_log_config wouldn't let vhosts use log formats defined in the
7226 main server. [Christof Damian <damian@mediaconsult.com>] PR#2090
7228 *) mod_usertrack was corrupting the client hostname. As part of the
7229 fix, the cookie values were slightly extended to include the
7230 fully qualified hostname of the client.
7231 [Dean Gaudet] PR#2190, 2229, 2366
7233 *) Fix a typo in pool debugging code. [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
7235 *) mod_unique_id did not work on alpha linux (in general on any
7236 architecture that has 64-bit time_t).
7237 [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
7239 *) PORT: Make SCO 5 (and probably 3) compile again. [Ben Laurie]
7241 *) PORT: NCR MPRAS systems have the same bug with SIGHUP restart that
7242 Solaris systems experience. So define WORKAROUND_SOLARIS_BUG.
7243 [Klaus Weber <kweber@chephren.germany.ncr.com>] PR#1973
7245 *) Change "Options None" to "Options FollowSymLinks" in the
7246 <Directory /> section of the default access.conf-dist
7247 (and -win even though it doesn't matter there). This has better
7248 performance, and more intuitive semantics. [Dean Gaudet]
7250 *) PORT: Updated support for UTS 2.1.2.
7251 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#2320
7253 *) Fix symbol export list (src/support/httpd.exp) after recent
7254 API changes in the child spawning area.
7255 [Jens-Uwe Mager <jum@helios.de>]
7257 *) Workaround for configure script and old `test' commands which do not
7258 support the -x flag (for instance under platforms like Ultrix). This is
7259 solved by another helper script findprg.sh which searches for Perl and
7260 Awk like PrintPath but _via different names_.
7261 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7263 *) Remove the system() call from htpasswd.c, which eliminates a system
7264 dependancy. ["M.D.Parker" <mdpc@netcom.com>] PR#2332
7266 *) PORT: Fix compilation failures on NEXTSTEP.
7267 [Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>] PR#2293, 2316
7269 *) PORT: F_NDELAY is a typo, should have been FNDELAY. There's also
7270 O_NDELAY on various systems. [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#2313
7272 *) PORT: helpers/GuessOS updates for various versions for NCR SVR4.
7273 [juerg schreiner <j.schreiner@zh.ch>,
7274 Bill Houle <Bill.Houle@SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM>] PR#2310
7276 *) Fix recently introduced Win32 child spawning code in mod_rewrite.c which
7277 was broken because of invalid ap_pstrcat() -> strcat() transformation.
7278 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7280 *) Proxy Cache Fixes: account for directory sizes, fork off garbage collection
7281 to continue in background, use predefined types (off_t, size_t, time_t),
7282 log the current cache usage percentage at LogLevel debug
7283 [Martin Kraemer, based on discussion between Dean Gaudet & Dirk vanGulik]
7285 Changes with Apache 1.3.0
7287 *) Using a type map file as a custom error document was not possible.
7288 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#1031
7290 *) Avoid problems with braindead Awks by additionally searching for gawk
7291 and nawk in APACI's configure script.
7292 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2319
7294 *) Rename md5.h to ap_md5.h to avoid conflicts with native MD5 on
7295 some systems. [Randy Terbush]
7297 *) Change usage of perror()+fprintf(stderr,...) in mod_rewrite to
7298 more proper ap_log_error() variants.
7299 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7301 *) Make sure the argument for the --add-module option to APACI's configure
7302 script is of type [path/to/]mod_xxx.c because all calculations inside
7303 configure and src/Configure depend on this.
7304 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2307
7306 *) Changes usage of perror/fprintf to stderr to more proper ap_log_error
7307 in mod_mime, mod_log_referer, mod_log_agent, and mod_log_config.
7310 *) Various OS/2 cleanups ["Brian Havard" <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
7312 *) PORT: QNX needed a #include <sys/mman.h>; and now it uses flock
7313 serialized accept to handle multiple sockets.
7314 [Rob Saccoccio <robs@InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2295, 2296
7316 *) Have NT properly set the directory for CGI scripts
7317 (& other spawned children)
7318 [W G Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>]
7320 *) Propagate environment to CGI scripts correctly in Win32.
7321 [W G Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>] PR#2294
7323 *) Some symbol renaming:
7324 ap_spawn_child_err became ap_spawn_child
7325 ap_spawn_child_err_buff became ap_bspawn_child
7326 spawn_child was obsoleted and moved to compat.h
7329 *) Upgrade the child spawning code in mod_rewrite for the RewriteMap
7330 programs: ap_spawn_child_err() is used and the Win32 case now uses
7331 CreateProcess() instead of a low-level execl() (which caused problems in
7332 the past under Win32).
7333 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7335 *) A few cosmetics and trivial enhancements to APXS to make the
7336 generated Makefile more user friendly. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7338 *) Proxy Fix: The proxy special failure routine ap_proxyerror()
7339 was updated to use the normal apache error processing, thereby allowing
7340 proxy errors to be treated by ErrorDocument's as well. For this
7341 purpose, a new module-to-core communication variable "error-notes"
7342 was introduced; the proxy (and possibly other modules) communicates
7343 its error text using this variable. Its content is copied to a new
7344 cgi-env-var REDIRECT_ERROR_NOTES for use by ErrorDocuments.
7345 The old proxy special error routine ap_proxy_log_uerror()
7346 was replaced by regular ap_log_error() calls, many messages were made
7348 [Martin Kraemer] PR#494, 1259
7350 *) SECURITY: A possible buffer overflow in the ftp proxy was fixed.
7353 *) Transform the configure message "You need root privileges for suEXEC"
7354 from a fatal error into a (more friendly) warning because the building
7355 ("make") of Apache we can allow, of course. Root privileges are needed
7356 only for the installation step ("make install"). So make sure the
7357 user is aware of this fact but let him proceed as long as he can.
7358 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2288
7360 *) Renamed three more functions to common ap_ prefix which we missed at the
7361 Big Symbol Renaming because they're #defines and not real C functions:
7362 is_default_port(), default_port(), http_method().
7363 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7365 *) A zero-length name after a $ in an SSI document should cause
7366 just the $ to be in the expansion. This was broken during the
7367 security fixes in 1.2.5. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1921, 2249
7369 *) Call ap_destroy_sub_req() in ap_add_cgi_vars() to reclaim some
7370 memory. [Rob Saccoccio <robs@InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2252
7372 *) Fix src/support/httpd.exp (DSO export file which is currently only
7373 used under AIX) because of recent changes to function names.
7374 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7376 Changes with Apache 1.3b7
7378 *) Make sure a MIME-type can be forced via a RewriteRule even when no
7379 substitution takes place, for instance via the following rule:
7380 ``RewriteRule ^myscript$ - [T=application/x-httpd-cgi]'' This was often
7381 requested by users in the past to force a single script without a .cgi
7382 extension and outside any cgi-bin dirs to be executed as a CGI program.
7383 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2254
7385 *) A fix for protocol issues surrounding 400, 408, and
7386 414 responses. [Ed Korthof]
7388 *) Ignore MaxRequestsPerChild on WIN32. [Brian Behlendorf]
7390 *) Fix discrepancy in proxy_ftp.c which was causing failures when
7391 trying to connect to certain ftpd's, such as anonftpd.
7392 [Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>]
7394 *) Make mod_rewrite use ap_open_piped_log() for RewriteLog directive's
7395 logfile instead of fiddling around itself with child spawning stuff.
7396 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7398 *) Made RefererIgnore case-insensitive.
7400 *) Mod_log_agent, mod_log_referer now use ap_open_piped_log for piped logs.
7403 *) Replace use of spawn_child with ap_spawn_child_err_buff, to make everything
7404 "safe" under Win32. In: mod_include.c, mod_mime_magic.c
7407 *) Improve RFC1413 support. [Bob Beck <beck@bofh.ucs.ualberta.ca>]
7409 *) Fix support script `dbmmanage': It was unable to handle some sort
7410 of passwords, especially passwords with "0" chars.
7411 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2242
7413 *) WIN32: Clicking on "Last Modified" in a fancy index caused a crash. Fixed.
7414 [Ben Laurie] PR#2238
7416 *) WIN32: CGIs could cause a hang (because of a deadlock in the standard C
7417 library), so CGI handling has been changed to use Win32 native handles
7418 instead of C file descriptors.
7419 [Ben Laurie and Bill Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>] PR#1129, 1607
7421 *) The proxy cache would store an incorrect content-length in the cached
7422 file copy after a cache update. That resulted in repeated fetching
7423 of the original copy instead of using the cached copy.
7424 [Ernst Kloppenburg <kloppen@isr.uni-stuttgart.de>] PR#2094
7426 *) The Makefiles assumed that DSO files are build via $(LD). This
7427 is broken for two reasons: First we never defined at least LD=ld
7428 somewhere to make sure this works (it was silently assumed that most Make
7429 provide a built-in LD definition - ARGL!) and second using the generic LD
7430 variable is not the truth. Instead a special variable named LD_SHLIB is
7431 reasonable because although "ld" is usually the default, the command for
7432 building DSO files can be "libtool" or even "cc" on some systems.
7433 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7435 *) Replace the AddVersionPlatform directive with ServerTokens which
7436 provides for more control over the format of the Server:
7437 header line. SERVER_SUBVERSION is no longer supported;
7438 all module should use the ap_add_version_component()
7439 API function instead. [Jim Jagielski]
7441 *) Support for the NCR MP/RAS 3.0
7442 [John Withers <withers@semi.kcsc.mwr.irs.gov>]
7444 *) The LDFLAGS_SHLIB_EXPORT variable of src/Configuration[.tmpl] was
7445 not retrieved in src/Configure and thus was not useable.
7446 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7448 *) Various Makefile consistency cleanups:
7449 - make OSDIR also automatically be relative to src/ like INCDIR
7450 - SUBDIRS is now generated in src/Makefile only and not in
7451 Makefile.config because it is a local define for this location.
7452 - remove BROKEN_BPRINTF_FLAGS because is it no longer used inside
7453 any Makefile but make sure that at least the "-K inline" is kept in
7455 - update the "depend" targets in Makefile.tmpl files to use $(OSDIR), too.
7456 - updated the dependencies theirself
7457 - removed not existing SHLIB variable from "clean" targets
7458 - replaced SHLIB_OBJS/SHLIBS_OBJ consistently with OBJS_PIC because OBJS
7459 already exists and OBJS_PIC are also just plain objects and have not
7460 directly to do with "shared" things. The only difference is that they
7461 contain PIC. So OBJS_PIC is the more canonical name.
7462 - Updated the Makefile-dependency lines for OBJS_PIC
7463 - Removed the Makefile-dependency line in Configure to avoid double
7465 - replaced ugly xx-so.o/xx.so-o hack with a clean and consistent usage
7466 of xxx.lo as GNU libtool does with its PIC objects
7467 - reduce local complexity in modules Makefile.tmpl by moving the last
7468 existing target "depend" to the generation section in Configure, too.
7469 - removed the historical $(SPACER) which was used in the past together
7470 with BROKEN_BPRINTF_FLAGS to avoid zig-zags in the build process. This
7471 is no longer needed.
7472 - force the build and run of the gen_xxx programs under main/ as the
7473 first step before building the objects because it looks cleaner
7474 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7476 *) WIN32: Make Win32 work again after the /dev/null DoS fix.
7479 *) WIN32: Check for buffer overflows in ap_os_canonical_filename.
7482 *) WIN32: Don't force ISAPI headers to finish with \n.
7483 [Jim Patterson <Jim.Patterson@Cognos.COM>, Ben Laurie] PR#2060
7485 *) When opening "configuration" files (like httpd.conf, htaccess
7486 and htpasswd), Apache will not allow them to be non-/dev/null
7487 device files. This closes a DoS hole. At the same time,
7488 we use ap_pfopen to open these files to handle timeouts.
7489 [Jim Jagielski, Martin Kraemer]
7491 *) Apache will now log the reason its httpd children exit if they exit
7492 due to an unexpected signal. (It requires a new porting define,
7493 SYS_SIGLIST, which if defined should point to a list of text
7494 descriptions of the signals available. See PORTING.) [Dean Gaudet]
7496 *) WIN32: chdir() doesn't make sense in a multithreaded environment
7497 like WIN32. Before, Win32 CGI's could have had sporadic failures
7498 if a chdir call from one thread was made between another chdir call
7499 and a spawn in another thread. So, for now don't chdir for CGI scripts
7500 in WIN32. The current CGI "spec" is unclear as to whether it's
7501 necessary. Long-term fix is to either serialize the chdir/spawn combo
7502 or use WIN32 native calls to spawn a process. This temp fix was
7503 necessary to remove this as a showstopper for 1.3's release.
7506 *) Cleanup the suEXEC support in APACI and make it more safe:
7507 1. Add big fat hint in INSTALL about risks and to read the
7508 htdocs/manual/suexec.html document before using the suexec-related
7510 2. Make sure the user has at least provided one --suexec-xxxx option
7511 (specifies suEXEC parameters) in addition to --enable-suexec option.
7512 If only --enable-suexec is given APACI stops with a hint to INSTALL
7513 and htdocs/manual/suexec.html documents.
7514 3. Provide two additional --suexec-xxxx options to make the suEXEC
7515 configuration complete (especially for package maintainers who else
7516 had to patch the source tree) by providing ways to configure minimal
7517 UID/GID and safe PATH, too.
7518 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7520 *) Cleanup of the `configure --shadow' process:
7521 - make sure the configure script creates its temporary files in the
7522 shadow tree to avoid conflicts with parallel configure runs
7523 - removed unnecessary option "-r" from "rm" call for Makefiles
7524 - make sure the configure scripts creates the shadow-wrapper Makefile
7525 only when no shadow trees already exists
7526 - make sure "make distclean" removes the shadow-wrapper Makefile but only
7527 when no more shadow trees exists
7528 - overhauled mkshadow.sh script: now its more IFS-safe and approx. twice
7529 as fast (in the past it needed 70sec, now it runs just 38sec)
7530 - make sure CVS does not complain about the created files
7531 Makefille.<gnutriple> and directories src.<gnutriple>
7532 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7534 *) Added the ap_add_version_component() API routine and the
7535 AddVersionPlatform core directive. The first allows modules to
7536 declare themselves in the Server response header field value,
7537 augmenting the SERVER_SUBVERSION define in the Configuration file
7538 with run-time settings (more useful in a loadable-module environment).
7539 AddVersionPlatform inserts a comment such as "(UNIX)" or "(Win32)"
7540 into the server version string. [Ken Coar] PR#2056
7542 *) Minor stability tweaks to avoid core dumps in ap_snprintf.
7545 *) Emit the "Accept-Range" header for the default handler.
7546 [Brian Behlendorf] PR#1464
7548 *) Add a note to httpd.conf-dist that apache will on some systems fail
7549 to start when the Group # is set to a negative or large positive value.
7552 *) Make sure the module execution order is correct even when some modules
7553 are loaded under runtime (`LoadModule') via the DSO mechanism:
7554 1. The list of loaded modules is now a dynamically allocated one
7555 and not the original statically list from modules.c
7556 2. The loaded modules are now correctly setup by LoadModule for
7557 later use by the AddModule command.
7558 3. When the DSO mechanism for modules is used APACI's `install'
7559 target now enables all created `LoadModule' lines per default because
7560 this is both already expected by the user _and_ needed to avoid
7561 confusion with the next point and reduces the Makefile.tmpl complexity
7562 4. When the DSO mechanism for modules is used, APACI's `install'
7563 target now additionally makes sure the module list is reconstructed
7564 via a complete `ClearModuleList+AddModule...' entry.
7565 5. The support tool `apxs' now also makes sure an AddModule command
7566 is added in addition to the LoadModule command.
7567 6. The modules.c generation was extended to now contain two
7568 comments to make sure no one is confused by the confusing terminology
7569 of loading/linking (we use load=link+load & link=activate instead of
7570 the obvious load=activate & link=link :-( )
7571 This way now there is no longer a difference under execution time between
7572 statically and dynamically linked modules.
7573 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7575 *) Fix the generated mod_xxx.c from "apxs -g -f xxx" after the
7576 Big Symbol Renaming. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7578 *) Add a comment to mod_example.c showing the format of a FLAG command
7581 *) Standardized the time format in mod_status to match that of other
7582 places in the code (e.g. DATE_GMT). PR#1551
7584 *) Fix handling of %Z in timefmt strings for those platforms with no time
7585 zone information in their tm struct. [Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>]
7588 *) Makes mod_rewrite, mod_log_config, mod_status and the ServerSignature
7589 feature compatible with 'UseCanonicalName off' by changing
7590 r->server->server_hostname to ap_get_server_name(). And I changed some
7591 functions which use r->server->port to use ap_get_server_port() instead,
7592 because if there's no Port directive in the config r->server->port is 0.
7595 *) get/set_module_config are trivial enough to be better off inline. Worth
7596 1.5% performance boost. [Dean Gaudet]
7598 *) Fix off-by-one error in ap_proxy_date_canon() in proxy_util.c
7599 when ensuring 'x' is at least 30-chars big. [Jim Jagielski,
7602 *) [BS2000 security] BS2000 needs an extra authentication to initialize
7603 the task environment to the unprivileged User id. Otherwise CGI scripts
7604 would have a way to gain super user access. [Martin Kraemer]
7606 *) Fix debug log messages for BS2000/OSD: instead of logging the whole
7607 absolute path, only log base name of logging source as is done
7608 in unix. [Martin Kraemer]
7610 *) Ronald Tschalaer's Accept-Encoding patch - preserve the "x-" in
7611 the encoding type from the Accept-Encoding header (if it's there)
7612 and use it in the response, as that's probably what it'll be expecting.
7613 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch]
7615 *) Fix to mod_alias: translate_alias_redir is dealing with
7616 a URI, not a filename, so the check for drive letters for win32
7617 and emx is not necessary. [Dean Gaudet]
7619 *) WIN32: Allow .cmd as an executable extension.
7620 [Kari Likovuori <Kari.Likovuori@mol.fi>] PR#2146
7622 *) Make Apache header files, and some variables, C++ friendly.
7623 [Michael Anderson's <mka@redes.int.com.mx>]
7625 *) Child processes can now "signal" (by exiting with a status
7626 of APEXIT_CHILDFATAL) the parent process to abort and
7627 shutdown the server if the error in the child process was
7628 fatal enough. [Jim Jagielski]
7630 *) mod_autoindex's find_itme() was sensitive to MIME type case.
7631 [Jim Jagielski] PR#2112
7633 *) Make sure the referer_log and agent_log entries in the default httpd.conf
7634 file are also adjusted for the actual relative installation paths.
7635 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2175
7637 *) WIN32: Extensive overhaul of the way UNCs are handled. [Ben Laurie]
7639 *) WIN32: Make roots of filesystems (e.g. c:/) work. [Ben Laurie]
7642 *) PORT: Various porting changes to support AIX 3.2, 4.1.5, 4.2 and 4.3.
7643 Additionally the checks for finding the vendor DSO library were moved
7644 from mod_so.c to Configure because first it needs $PLAT etc. and second
7645 mod_so already uses an abstraction layer and does not fiddle with the
7646 vendor functions itself.
7647 [Jens-Uwe Mager, Ralf S. Engelschall]
7649 *) PORT: Some optimization defines for NetBSD
7650 [Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>] PR#2165
7652 *) PORT: Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for NetBSD.
7653 [Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2158
7655 *) Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for AIX (at least 4.2 but older
7656 AIX variants should work fine, too. Even AIX 3.x should work). This is
7657 accomplished by using the free DSO emulation code from Jens-Uwe Mager
7658 which we put into a os/unix/os-dso-aix.c file.
7659 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7661 *) PORT: Fix compiler warnings under AIX >= 4.2 where the manual pages imply
7662 that we should use NET_SIZE_T == int but the include files force size_t.
7663 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7665 *) Fix two bugs in select() handling in http_main.c.
7668 *) Suppress "error(0)" messages for ap_log_error() when the APLOG_NOERRNO
7669 is unset (as it is in situations like timeouts) where it is unclear
7670 whether errno is set or not. [Martin Kraemer]
7672 *) Just having APACI's localstatedir is too general and not enough for most
7673 of the systems. 1.3b6 again required manual APACI patches by package
7674 maintainers from Red Hat and FreeBSD because for their filesystem layout a
7675 little bit more flexibility in configuring the paths is needed. Hence we
7676 provide three additional configure options (--runtimedir, --logfiledir,
7677 --proxycachedir) which now can be used for more granular adjustments if
7678 --localstatedir is not enough to fit the particular needs. As a nice
7679 side-effect this reduces some subdir fiddling in configure+Makefile.tmpl.
7680 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7682 *) Make the install root for "make install" in APACI's Makefile overrideable
7683 by package authors. This way we are even more friendly to package
7684 maintainers (especially Debian and Red Hat) who build for the real prefix
7685 via "configure --prefix=/<real>" but use a different local prefix via
7686 "make root=/tmp/apache install" for rolling the package without bristling
7687 the target location on their system.
7688 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7690 *) Workaround sed limitations in APACI's configure script by now
7691 substituting in chunks of 50 commands (because for instance HPUX's vendor
7692 sed has a limit of max. 98 commands)
7693 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2136
7695 *) Adding SOCKS5 support and fixing existing SOCKS4 support.
7696 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2140
7698 *) Manually fix some symbols which were not renamed to prefix ap_ in the BIG
7699 RENAMING process because they are defined as pre-processor macros instead
7700 of real functions: bputc, bgetc, piped_log_write_fd, piped_log_read_fd
7701 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7703 *) Workaround braindead AWK's when generating ap_config.h: The split() and
7704 substr() functions cannot be nested under vendor AWK from Solaris 2.6.
7705 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2139
7707 *) Various bugfixes and cleanups for the APACI configure script:
7708 o fix IFS handling for _nested_ situation
7709 o fix Perl interpreter search: take first one found instead of last one
7710 o fix DSO consistency check
7711 o print error messages to stderr instead of stdout
7712 o add install-quiet for --shadow situation to Makefile stub
7713 o reduce complexity by avoiding sed-hacks for rule and module list loops
7714 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7716 *) Fix DEBUG_CGI situation in mod_cgi.c [David MacKenzie] PR#2114
7718 *) Make sure the input field separator (IFS) shell variable is explicitly
7719 initialized correctly before _every_ `for' loop and also restored after
7720 the loops. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7722 *) Make sure that "make install" doesn't overwrite the `mime.types' and
7723 `magic' files from an existing Apache installation. Because people often
7724 customize these for own MIME and content types.
7725 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7727 *) PORT: Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for OpenBSD 2.x
7728 [Peter Galbavy, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2109
7730 *) Fix the path to the ScoreBoardFile in the install-config target, too.
7731 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2105
7733 *) Let "configure" clear out the users parameters (provided as shell
7734 variables) to avoid side-effects in "src/Configure" when the user
7735 exported them (which is not needed, but some users do it).
7736 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2101
7738 *) Provide backward compatibility from some old src/Configuration.tmpl
7739 parameter names to the canonical Autoconf-style shell variable names. For
7740 instance CFLAGS vs. EXTRA_CFLAGS. The EXTRA_xxx variants are accepted now
7741 but a hint message is displayed. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7743 *) Make sure that "make install" doesn't overwrite the DocumentRoot and
7744 CGI scripts from an existing Apache installation.
7745 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Jim Jagielski] PR#2084
7747 *) Make `configure --compat' more "compatible" by first
7748 let the libexecdir default to EPREFIX/libexec instead of EPREFIX/bin and
7749 second by making sure the "avoid-bristling-suffix" /apache is not
7750 appended to sysconfdir, datadir, localstatedir and includedir when
7751 --compat is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Lars Eilebrecht]
7753 *) NeXT required strdup() in support/logresolve.c
7754 [Francisco Tomei <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>] PR#2082
7756 *) AIX required sys/select.h in support/ab.c
7757 [Jens Schleusener <Jens.Schleusener@dlr.de>] PR#2081
7759 *) Fix the path to the MimeMagicFile in the install-config target, too.
7760 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2089
7762 *) PORT: Added HP-UX 11 patches [Jeff Earickson <jaearick@colby.edu>]
7764 *) If you start apache with the -S command line option it will dump
7765 out the parsed vhost settings. This is useful for folks trying
7766 to figure out what is wrong with their vhost configuration.
7767 (Other dumps may be added in the future.) [Dean Gaudet]
7769 *) Add %pA, %pI, and %pp codes to ap_vformatter (and hence ap_bprintf,
7770 ap_snprintf, and ap_psprintf). See include/ap.h for docs.
7773 *) Because /usr/local/apache is the default prefix the ``configure
7774 --compat'' option no longer has to set prefix, again. This way the
7775 --compat option honors a leading --prefix option. [Lars Eilebrecht]
7777 *) PORT: Cast the first argument of dlopen() in ap_os_dso_load()
7778 to `char *' under OSF1 and FreeBSD 2.x where it is defined this way
7779 to avoid "discard const" warnings. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7781 *) If a specific handler is set for a file yet the request still
7782 ends up being handled by the default handler, log an error
7783 message before handling it. This catches things such as trying
7784 to use SSIs without mod_include enabled. [Marc Slemko]
7786 *) Fix error logging for the startup case where ap_log_error() still uses
7787 stderr as the target. Now the default log level is honored here, too.
7788 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7790 *) PORT: Make sure some AWK's don't fail in src/Configure with "string too
7791 long" errors when generating the MODULES entry for src/Makefile
7792 [Ben Hyde, Ralf S. Engelschall]
7794 *) Make sure src/Configure doesn't complain about the old directory
7795 /usr/local/etc/httpd/ when APACI is used. [Lars Eilebrecht]
7797 Changes with Apache 1.3b6
7799 *) PORT: Clean up warnings on Ultrix and HPUX. [Ben Hyde]
7801 *) Adding DSO support for the HP/UX platform by emulating the dlopen-style
7802 interface via the similar but proprietary HP/UX shl_xxx-style system
7803 calls. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7805 *) PORT: Updated UnixWare 2.0.x and 2.1.x entries for DSO support and made
7806 APACI Makefile.tmpl "install" target more robust for sensible UnixWare
7807 Make. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7809 *) ++++ THE BIG SYMBOL RENAMING ++++
7810 To avoid symbol clashes with third-party code compiled into the server,
7811 we globally applied the prefix "ap_" to the following classes of
7813 - Apache provided general functions (e.g., ap_cpystrn)
7814 - Public API functions (e.g., palloc, bgets)
7815 - Private functions which we can't make static (because of
7816 cross-object usage) but should be (e.g., new_connection)
7817 For backward source compatibility a new header file named compat.h was
7818 created which provides defines for the old symbol names and can be used
7819 by third-party module authors.
7822 *) Added dynamic shared object (DSO) support for SVR4-derivates: The
7823 problem under SVR4 is that there is no command flag to force the linker
7824 to export the global symbols of the httpd executable therewith they are
7825 available to the DSO's. Instead of problematic hacks like creating a
7826 dummy.so file (containing dummy references to all global symbols) the
7827 httpd binary is linked against, we use a clean trick stolen from Perl 5:
7828 Placing the Apache core code itself into a DSO library named libhttpd.so.
7829 This way the global symbols _HAVE_ to be exported and thus are available
7830 to any manually loaded DSO's under runtime. To reduce the impact to the
7831 user to null we go even further and create a stub httpd executable which
7832 automatically keeps track of the DSO library loading itself and thus
7833 hides the complete mechanism from the user. Although the generation of
7834 this DSO library is automatically triggered for platforms which
7835 essentially need it (mostly all SVR4-derivates) it can be also enabled
7836 manually via the Rule SHARED_CORE. This can be interesting in the future
7837 where we perhaps exploit this libhttpd.so mechanism for providing nifty
7838 features like graceful upgrades, or whatever.
7839 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Martin Kraemer]
7841 *) Build the libraries before building the rest of the tools. [Ben Hyde]
7843 *) Add "distclean" target to src/-Makefiles to provide "make distclean" also
7844 inside the src subtree (i.e. for non-APACI users). Following GNU Makefile
7845 conventions while "clean" removes only stuff created by "all" targets,
7846 "distclean" additionally removes the stuff from the configuration
7847 process. This way "make distclean" (hence the name) provides a fresh
7848 source tree as it was for distribution.
7849 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7851 *) Allow top-level (APACI) Makefile to break on build errors
7852 the same way the src/ subtree Makefiles breaks on them by replacing the
7853 initial APACI sed-subdir-display-kludge with a more clean
7854 variable-passing-solution: variable SDP can optionally hold the subdir
7855 prefix which is consistently used for displaying the subdir movement.
7856 This way even the top-level Makefile can stop correctly on errors as the
7857 user expects. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7859 *) Fixed ordering of argument checks for RewriteBase directive.
7860 [Todd Eigenschink <eigenstr@mixi.net>] PR#2045
7862 *) Change Win32 IS_MODULE to SHARED_MODULE to match Unix' method of
7863 indicating that a module is being compiled for dynamic loading. Also
7864 remove #define IS_MODULE from modules and add SHARED_MODULE define
7865 to the mak/dsp files. [Alexei Kosut]
7867 *) Reduce logging level of "normal" warning messages to APLOG_INFO,
7868 since we are now logging APLOG_WARNING by default. [Roy Fielding]
7870 *) PORT: OS/2 tweak to deal with multiple .exe targets. [Brian Havard]
7872 *) Add documentation file and src/Configuration.tmpl entry for the
7873 experimental mod_mmap_static module. Because although it is and marked as
7874 an experimental one it is distributed and thus should be documented and
7875 prepared for configuration the same way as all others modules.
7876 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7878 *) Add query (-q) option to apxs support tool to be able to manually query
7879 specific settings from apxs. This is needed for instance when you
7880 manually want to access Apache's header files and you need to assemble
7881 the -I option. Now you can do -I`apxs -q INCLUDEDIR`.
7882 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7884 *) Now src/Configure uses a fallback strategy for the shared object support
7885 on platforms where no explicit information is available: If a Perl
7886 installation exists we ask it about its shared object support and if it's
7887 the dlopen-style one we shamelessly guess the compiler and linker flags
7888 for creating shared objects from Perls knowledge. Of course, the user is
7889 warning about what we are doing and informed that he should send us
7890 the guessed flags when they work. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7892 *) Provide APACI --without-support option to be able to disable the build
7893 and installation of the support tools from the src/support/ area.
7894 Although its useful to have these installed per default we should provide
7895 a way to compile and install without them for backward-compatibility.
7896 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7898 *) Add of the new APache eXtenSion (apxs) support tool for building and
7899 installing modules into an _already installed_ Apache package through the
7900 dynamic shared object (DSO) mechanism [mod_so.c]. The trick here is that
7901 this approach actually doesn't need the Apache source tree. The
7902 (APACI-installed) server package is enough, because this now includes the
7903 Apache C header files (PREFIX/include) and the new APXS tool
7904 (SBINDIR/apxs). The intend is to provide a handy tool for third-party
7905 module authors to build their Apache modules _OUTSIDE_ the Apache source
7906 tree while avoiding them to fiddle around with the totally platform
7907 dependend way of compiling DSO files. The tool supports all ranges of
7908 modules, from trivial ones (single mod_foo.c) to complex ones (like PHP3
7909 which has a mod_php3.c plus a pre-built libmodphp3-so.a) and even can
7910 on-the-fly generate a minimalistic Makefile and sample module for the
7911 first step to provide both a quick success event and to demonstrate the
7912 APXS mechanism to module authors. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7914 *) Fix core dumps in use of CONNECT in proxy.
7915 [Rainer.Scherg@rexroth.de] PR#1326, #1573, #1942
7917 *) Modify the log directives in httpd.conf-dist files to use CustomLog
7918 so that users have examples of how CustomLog can be used.
7921 *) Add the new Apache Autoconf-style Interface (APACI) for the top-level of
7922 the Apache distribution tree. Until Apache 1.3 there was no real
7923 out-of-the-box batch-capable build and installation procedure for the
7924 complete Apache package. This is now provided by a top-level "configure"
7925 script and a corresponding top-level "Makefile.tmpl" file. The goal is
7926 to provide a GNU Autoconf-style frontend which is capable to both drive
7927 the old src/Configure stuff in batch and additionally installs the
7928 package with a GNU-conforming directory layout. Any options from the old
7929 configuration scheme are available plus a lot of new options for flexibly
7930 customizing Apache. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7932 *) The floating point ap_snprintf code wasn't threadsafe.
7933 Had to remove the HAVE_CVT macro in order to do threadsafe
7934 calling of the ?cvt() floating point routines. [Dean Gaudet]
7936 *) PORT: Add the SCO_SV port. [Jim Jagielski] PR#1962
7938 *) PORT: IRIX needs the -n32 flag iff using the 'cc' compiler
7939 [Jim Jagielski] PR#1901
7941 *) BUG: Configure was using TCC and CC inconsistently. Make sure
7942 Configure knows which CC we are using. [Jim Jagielski]
7944 *) "Options +Includes" wasn't correctly merged if "+IncludesNoExec"
7945 was defined in a parent directory. [Lars Eilebrecht]
7947 *) API: ap_snprintf() code mutated into ap_vformatter(), which is
7948 a generic printf-style routine that can call arbitrary output
7949 routines. Use this to replace http_bprintf.c. Add new routines
7950 psprintf(), pvsprintf() which allocate the exact amount of memory
7951 required for a string from a pool. Use psprintf() to clean up
7952 various bits of code which used ap_snprintf()/pstrdup().
7955 *) PORT: HAVE_SNPRINTF doesn't do anything any longer. This is because
7956 ap_snprintf() has different semantics and formatting codes than
7957 snprintf(). [Dean Gaudet]
7959 *) SIGXCPU and SIGXFSZ are now reset to SIG_DFL at boot-time. This
7960 is necessary on at least Solaris where the /etc/rc?.d scripts
7961 are run with these signals ignored, and "SIG_IGN" settings are
7962 maintained across exec().
7963 [Rein Tollevik <reint@sys.sol.no>] PR#2009
7965 *) Fix the check for symbolic links in ``RewriteCond ... -l'': stat() was
7966 used instead of lstat() and thus this flag didn't work as expected.
7967 [Rein Tollevik <reint@sys.sol.no>] PR#2010
7969 *) Fix the proxy pass-through feature of mod_rewrite for the case of
7970 existing QUERY_STRING now that mod_proxy was recently changed because of
7971 the new URL parsing stuff. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7973 *) A few changes to scoreboard definitions which helps gcc generate
7974 better code. [Dean Gaudet]
7976 *) ANSI C doesn't guarantee that "int foo : 2" in a structure will
7977 be a signed bitfield. So mark a few bitfields as signed to
7978 ensure correct code. [Dean Gaudet]
7980 *) The default for HostnameLookups was changed to Off, but there
7981 was a problem and it wasn't taking effect. [Dean Gaudet]
7983 *) PORT: Clean up undefined signals on some platforms (SCO, BeOS).
7986 *) After a SIGHUP the listening sockets in the parent weren't
7987 properly marked for closure on fork().
7988 [Jürgen Keil <jk@tools.de>] PR#2000
7990 *) Allow %2F in two situations: 1) it is in the query part of the URI,
7991 therefore not exposed to %2F -> '/' translations and 2) the request
7992 is a proxy request, so we're not dealing with a local resource anyway.
7993 Without this, the proxy would fail to work for any URL's with
7994 %2f in them (occurs quite often in
7995 http://.../cgi-bin/...?http%3A%2F%2F... references) [Martin Kraemer]
7997 *) Protect against FD_SETSIZE mismatches. [Dean Gaudet]
7999 *) Make the shared object compilation command more portable by avoiding
8000 the direct combination of `-c' & `-o' which is not honored by some
8001 compilers like UnixWare's cc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8003 *) WIN32: the proxy was creating filenames missing the last four
8004 characters. While this normally doesn't stop anything from
8005 working, it can result in extra collisions.
8006 [Tim Costello <tjcostel@socs.uts.edu.au>] PR#1890
8008 *) Now mod_proxy uses the response string (in addition to the response status
8009 code) from the already used FTP SIZE command to setup the Content-Length
8010 header if available. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1183
8012 *) Reanimated the (still undocumented) proxy receive buffer size directive:
8013 Renamed from ReceiveBufferSize to ProxyReceiveBufferSize because the old
8014 name was really too generic, added documentation for this directive to
8015 the mod_proxy.html and corrected the hyperlink to it in the
8016 new_features_1.3.html document. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1348
8018 *) Fix a bug in the src/helpers/fp2rp script and make it a little bit
8019 faster [Martin Kraemer]
8021 *) Make Configure die when you give it an unknown command switch.
8024 *) Add five new and fresh manpages for the support programs: dbmmanage.1,
8025 suexec.8, htdigest.1, rotatelogs.8 and logresolve.8. Now all up-to-date
8026 and per default compiled support programs have manual pages - just to
8027 document our stuff a little bit more and to be able to do really
8028 Unix-like installations ;-) [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8030 *) Major cleanups to the Configure script to make it and its generated
8031 Makefiles again readable and maintainable: add SRCDIR option, removed
8032 INCLUDES_DEPTH[0-2] kludge, cleanup of TARGET option, cleanup of
8033 generated sections, consequently added Makefile headers with inheritance
8034 information, added subdir movement messages for easier following where
8035 the build process currently stays (more verbose then standard Make, less
8036 verbose than GNU make), same style to comments in the Configure script,
8037 added Apache license header, fixed a few bugs, etc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8039 *) Add the new ApacheBench program "ab" to src/support/: This is derived
8040 from the ZeusBench benchmarking program and can be used to determine the
8041 response performance of an Apache installation. This version is
8042 officially licensed with Zeus Technology, Ltd. See the license agreement
8043 statements in <199803171224.NAA24547@en1.engelschall.com> in apache-core.
8044 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8046 *) API: Various core functions that are definately not part of the API
8047 have been made static, and a few have been marked API_EXPORT. Still
8048 more have been marked CORE_EXPORT and are not intended for general
8049 use by modules. [Doug MacEachern, Dean Gaudet]
8051 *) mod_proxy was not clearing the Proxy-Connection header from
8052 requests; now it does. This did not violate any spec, however
8053 causes poor interactions when you are talking to remote proxies.
8054 [Marc Slemko] PR#1741
8056 *) Various cleanups to the command line interface and manual pages.
8057 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8059 *) cfg_getline() was not properly handling lines that did not end
8060 with a line termination character. [Marc Slemko] PR#1869, 1909
8062 *) Performance tweak to mod_log_config. [Dmitry Khrustalev]
8064 *) Clean up some undocumented behavior of mod_setenvif related to
8065 "merging" two SetEnvIf directives when they match the same header
8066 and regex. Document that mod_setenvif will perform comparisons in
8067 the order they appear in the config file. Optimize mod_setenvif by
8068 doing more work at config time rather than at runtime.
8071 *) src/include/ap_config.h now wraps it's #define's with #ifndef/#endif's
8072 to allow for modules to overrule them and to reduce redefinition
8073 warnings [Jim Jagielski]
8075 *) [PORT] For A/UX change the OS-#define for -DAUX to -DAUX3.
8078 *) Making the hard-coded cross-module function call mime_find_ct() (from
8079 mod_proxy to mod_mime) obsolete by making sure the API hook for MIME type
8080 checking is really called even for proxy requests except for URLs with
8081 HTTP schemes (because there we can optimize by not running the type
8082 checking hooks due to the fact that the proxy gets the MIME Content-type
8083 from the remote host later). This change cleans up mod_mime by removing
8084 the ugly export kludge, makes the one-liner file mod_mime.h obsolete, and
8085 especially unbundles mod_proxy and mod_mime. This way they both now can
8086 be compiled as shared objects and are no longer tied together.
8087 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8089 *) util.c cleanup and speedup. [Dean Gaudet]
8091 *) API: Clarification, pstrndup() will always copy n bytes of the source
8092 and NUL terminate at the (n+1)st byte. [Dean Gaudet]
8094 *) Mark module command_rec and handler_rec structures const so that they
8095 end up in the read-only data section (and are friendlier to systems
8096 that don't do optimistic memory allocation on fork()). [Dean Gaudet]
8098 *) Add check to the "Port" directive to make sure the specified
8099 port is in the appropriate range. [Ben Hyde]
8101 *) Performance improvements to invoke_handler().
8102 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su>]
8104 *) Added support for building shared objects even for library-style modules
8105 (which are built from more than one object file). This now provides the
8106 ability to build mod_proxy as a shared object module. Additionally
8107 modules like mod_example are now also supported for shared object
8108 building because the generated Makefiles now no longer assume there is at
8109 least one statically linked module. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8111 *) API: Clarify usage of content_type, handler, content_encoding,
8112 content_language and content_languages fields in request_rec. They
8113 must always be lowercased; and the strings pointed to shouldn't
8114 be modified (you must copy them to modify them). Fix a few bugs
8115 related to this. [Dean Gaudet]
8117 *) API: Clarification: except for RAW_ARGS, all command handlers can
8118 treat the char * parameters as permanent, and modifiable. There
8119 is no need to pstrdup() them. Clean up some needless pstrdup().
8122 *) Now mod_so keeps track of which module shared objects with which names
8123 are loaded and thus avoids multiple loading and unloading and irritating
8124 error_log messages. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8126 *) Prior to the existence of mod_setenv it was necessary to tweak the TZ
8127 environment variable in the apache core. But that tweaking interferes
8128 with mod_setenv. So don't tweak if the user has specified an explicit
8129 TZ variable. [Jay Soffian <jay@cimedia.com>] PR#1888
8131 *) rputs() did not calculate r->sent_bodyct properly.
8132 [Siegmund Stirnweiss <siegst@kat.ina.de>] PR#1900
8134 *) The CGI spec says that REMOTE_HOST should be set to the remote hosts's
8135 name, or left unset if this value is unavailable. Apache was setting
8136 it to the IP address when unavailable.
8137 [Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net>] PR#1925
8139 *) Various improvements to the configuration and build support for compiling
8140 modules as shared objects. Especially Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.1, IRIX and
8141 OSF1 support with GCC and vendor compilers was added. This way shared
8142 object support is now provided out-of-the-box for FreeBSD, Linux,
8143 Solaris, SunOS, IRIX and OSF1. In short: On all major platforms!
8144 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8146 *) Minor cleanup in http_main -- split QNX and OS2 specific "mmap"
8147 scoreboard code into separate #defines -- USE_POSIX_SCOREBOARD
8148 and USE_OS2_SCOREBOARD. [Dean Gaudet]
8150 *) Fix one more special locking problem for RewriteMap programs in
8151 mod_rewrite: According to the documentation of flock(), "Locks are on
8152 files, not file descriptors. That is, file descriptors duplicated
8153 through dup(2) or fork(2) do not result in multiple instances of a lock,
8154 but rather multiple references to a single lock. If a process holding a
8155 lock on a file forks and the child explicitly unlocks the file, the
8156 parent will lose its lock.". To overcome this we have to make sure the
8157 RewriteLock file is opened _AFTER_ the childs were spawned which is now
8158 the case by opening it in the child_init instead of the module_init API
8159 hook. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1029
8161 *) Change to Location and LocationMatch semantics. LocationMatch no
8162 longer lets a single slash match multiple adjacent slashes in the
8163 URL. This change is for consistency with RewriteRule and
8164 AliasMatch. Multiple slashes have meaning in URLs that they do
8165 not have in (some) filesystems. Location on the other hand can
8166 be considered a shorthand for a more complicated regex, and it
8167 does match multiple slashes with a single slash -- which is
8168 also consistent with the Alias directive.
8169 [Dean Gaudet] related PR#1440
8171 *) Fix bug with mod_mime_magic causing certain files, including files
8172 of length 0, to result in no response from the server.
8175 *) The Configure script now generates src/include/ap_config.h which
8176 contains the set of defines used when Apache is compiled on a platform.
8177 This file can then be included by external modules before including
8178 any Apache header files in case they are being built separately from
8179 Apache. Along with this change, a couple of minor changes were
8180 made to make Apache's #defines coexist peacefully with any autoconf
8181 defines an external module might have. [Rasmus Lerdorf]
8183 *) Fix mod_rewrite for the ugly API case where <VirtualHost> sections exist
8184 but without any RewriteXXXXX directives. Here mod_rewrite is given no
8185 chance by the API to initialize its per-server configuration and thus
8186 receives the wrong one from the main server. This is now avoided by
8187 remembering the server together with the config structure while
8188 configuring and later assuming there is no config when we see a
8189 difference between the remembered server and the one calling us.
8190 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1790
8192 *) Fixed the DBM RewriteMap support for mod_rewrite: First the support now
8193 is automatically disabled under configure time when the dbm_xxx functions
8194 are not available. Second, two heavy source code errors in the DBM
8195 support code were fixed. This makes DBM RewriteMap's usable again after
8196 a long time of brokenness. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1696
8198 *) Now all configuration files support Unix-style line-continuation via
8199 the trailing backslash ("\") character. This enables us to write down
8200 complex or just very long directives in a more readable way. The
8201 backslash character has to be really the last character before the
8202 newline and it has not been prefixed by another (escaping) backslash.
8203 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8205 *) When using ProxyPass the ?querystring was not passed correctly.
8206 [Joel Truher <truher@wired.com>]
8208 *) To deal with modules being compiled and [dynamically] linked
8209 at a different time from the core, the SERVER_VERSION and
8210 SERVER_BUILT symbols have been abstracted through the new
8211 API routines apapi_get_server_version() and apapi_get_server_built().
8214 *) WIN32: Preserve trailing slash in canonical path (and hence
8215 in PATH_INFO). [Paul Sutton, Ben Laurie]
8217 *) PORT: USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT has proven unreliable
8218 depending on the rev of Solaris and what mixture of modules
8219 are in use. So it has been disabled, and Solaris is back to
8220 using USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT. Users may experiment with
8221 USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT at their own risk, it may speed
8222 up static content only servers. Or it may fail unpredictably.
8223 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1779, 1854, 1904
8225 *) mod_test_util_uri.c created which tests the logic in util_uri.c.
8228 *) API: Rewrite of absoluteURI handling, and in particular how
8229 absoluteURIs match vhosts. Unless a request is a proxy request, a
8230 "http://host" url is treated as if a similar "Host:" header had been
8231 supplied. This change was made to support future HTTP/1.x protocols
8232 which may require clients to send absoluteURIs for all requests.
8234 In order to achieve this change subtle changes were made to the API. In a
8235 request_rec, r->hostlen has been removed. r->unparsed_uri now exists so
8236 that the unmodified uri can be retrieved easily. r->proxyreq is not set
8237 by the core, modules must set it during the post_read_request or
8238 translate_names phase.
8240 Plus changes to the virtualhost test suite for absoluteURI testing.
8242 This fixes several bugs with the proxy proxying requests to vhosts
8243 managed by the same httpd.
8246 *) API: Cleanup of code in http_vhost.c, and remove vhost matching
8247 code from mod_rewrite. The vhost matching is now performed by a
8248 globally available function matches_request_vhost(). [Dean Gaudet]
8250 *) Reduce memory usage, and speed up ServerAlias support. As a
8251 side-effect users can list multiple ServerAlias directives
8252 and they're all considered.
8253 [Chia-liang Kao <clkao@cirx.org>] PR#1531
8255 *) The "poly" directive in image maps did not include the borders of the
8256 polygon, whereas the "rect" directive does. Fix this inconsistency.
8257 [Konstantin Morshnev <moko@design.ru>] PR#1771
8259 *) Make \\ behave as expected. [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch]
8261 *) Add the `%a' construct to LogFormat and CustomLog to log the client IP
8262 address. [Todd Eigenschink <eigenstr@mixi.net>] PR#1885
8264 *) API: A new source module main/util_uri.c; It contains a routine
8265 parse_uri_components() and friends which breaks a URI into its component
8266 parts. These parts are stored in a uri_components structure called
8267 parsed_uri within each request_rec, and are available to all modules.
8268 Additionally, an unparse routine is supplied which re-assembles the URI
8269 components back to an URI, optionally hiding the username:password@ part
8270 from ftp proxy requests, and other useful routines. Within the structure,
8271 you find on a ready-for-use basis:
8272 scheme; /* scheme ("http"/"ftp"/...) */
8273 hostinfo; /* combined [user[:password]@]host[:port] */
8274 user; /* user name, as in http://user:passwd@host:port/ */
8275 password; /* password, as in http://user:passwd@host:port/ */
8276 hostname; /* hostname from URI (or from Host: header) */
8277 port_str; /* port string (integer representation is in "port") */
8278 path; /* the request path (or "/" if only scheme://host was given) */
8279 query; /* Everything after a '?' in the path, if present */
8280 fragment; /* Trailing "#fragment" string, if present */
8281 This is meant to serve as the platform for *BIG* savings in
8282 code complexity for the proxy module (and maybe the vhost logic).
8285 *) Make all possible meta-construct expansions ($N, %N, %{NAME} and
8286 ${map:key}) available for all location where a string is created in
8287 mod_rewrite rewriting rulesets: 1st arg of RewriteCond, 2nd arg of
8288 RewriteRule and for the [E=NAME:STRING] flag of RewriteRule. This way the
8289 possible expansions are consequently usable at all string creation
8290 locations. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8292 *) Fix initialization of RewriteLogLevel (default now is 0 as documented
8293 and not 1) and the per-virtual-server merging of directives. Now all
8294 directives except `RewriteEngine' and `RewriteOption' are either
8295 completely overridden (default) or completely inherited (when
8296 `RewriteOptions inherit') is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1325
8298 *) Fix `RewriteMap' program lookup in situations where such maps are
8299 defined but disabled (`RewriteEngine off') in per-server context.
8300 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1431
8302 *) Fix bug introduced in 1.3b4-dev, config with no Port setting would cause
8303 server to bind to port 0 rather than 80. [Dean Gaudet]
8305 *) Fix long-standing problem with RewriteMap _programs_ under Unix derivates
8306 (like SunOS and FreeBSD) which don't accept the locking of pipes
8307 directly. A new directive RewriteLock is introduced which can be used to
8308 setup a separate locking file which then is used for synchronization.
8309 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1029
8311 *) WIN32: The server root is obtained from the registry key
8312 HKLM\SOFTWARE\Apache Group\Apache\<version> (version is currently
8313 "1.3 beta"), unless overridden by the -d command line flag. The
8314 value is stored by running "apache -i -d serverroot". [Paul Sutton]
8316 *) Merged os/win32/mod_dll.c into modules/standard/mod_so.c to support
8317 dynamic loading on Win32 and Unix via the same module. [Paul Sutton]
8319 *) Now mod_rewrite no longer makes problematic assumptions on the characters
8320 a username can contain when trying to expand it via /etc/passwd.
8321 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8323 *) The mod_setenvif BrowserMatch backwards compatibility command did not
8324 work properly with spaces in the regex. [Ronald Tschalaer] PR#1825
8326 *) Add new RewriteMap types: First, `rnd' which is equivalent to the `txt'
8327 type but with a special post-processing for the looked-up value: It
8328 parses it into alternatives according to `|' chars and then only one
8329 particular alternative is chosen randomly (this is an essential
8330 functionality needed for balancing between backend-servers when using
8331 Apache as a Reverse Proxy. The looked up value here is a list of
8332 servers). Second, `int' with the built-in maps named `tolower' and
8333 `toupper' which can be used to map URL parts to a fixed case (this is an
8334 essential feature to fix the case of server names when doing mass
8335 virtual-hosting with the help of mod_rewrite instead of using
8336 <VirtualHost> sections). [Ralf S. Engelschall, parts based on code from
8337 Jay Soffian <jay@cimedia.com>] PR#1631
8339 *) Add a new directive to mod_proxy similar to ProxyPass: `ProxyPassReverse'.
8340 This directive lets Apache adjust the URL in Location-headers on HTTP
8341 redirect responses sent by the remote server. This way the virtually
8342 mapped area is no longer left on redirects and thus by-passed which is
8343 especially essential when running Apache as a reverse proxy.
8344 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8346 *) Hide Proxy-Authorization from CGI/SSI/etc just like Authorization is
8347 hidden. [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
8349 *) Apache will, when started with the -X (single process) debugging flag,
8350 honor the SIGINT or SIGQUIT signals again now. This capability got lost
8351 a while ago during OS/2 signal handling changes.
8353 *) [PORT] Work around the fact that NeXT runs on more than the
8354 m68k chips in mod_status [Scott Anguish and Timothy Luoma
8357 *) [PORT] Recognize FreeBSD versions so we can use the OS regex as well
8358 as handling unsigned-chars for FreeBSD v3 and v2 [Andrey Chernov
8359 <ache@nagual.pp.ru> and Jim] PR#1450
8361 *) Use SA_RESETHAND or SA_ONESHOT when installing the coredump handlers.
8362 In particular the handlers could trigger themselves into an infinite
8363 loop if RLimitMem was used with a small amount of memory -- too small
8364 for the signal stack frame to be set up. [Dean Gaudet]
8366 *) Fix problems with absoluteURIs introduced during 1.3b4. [Dean Gaudet,
8367 Alvaro Martinez Echevarria <alvaro@lander.es>]
8369 *) Fix multiple UserDir problem introduced during 1.3b4-dev.
8370 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1850
8372 *) ap_cpystrn() had an off-by-1 error.
8373 [Charles Fu <ccwf@klab.caltech.edu>] PR#1847
8375 *) API: As Ken suggested the check_cmd_context() function and related
8376 defines are non-static now so modules can use 'em. [Martin Kraemer]
8378 *) mod_info would occasionally produce an unpaired <tt> in its
8379 output. Fixed. [Martin Kraemer]
8381 *) By default AIX binds a process (and it's children) to a single
8382 processor. httpd children now unbind themselves from that cpu
8383 and re-bind to one selected at random via bindprocessor()
8386 *) Linux 2.0 and above implement RLIMIT_AS, RLIMIT_DATA has almost no
8387 effect. Work around it by using RLIMIT_AS for the RLimitMEM
8388 directive. [Enrik Berkhan <enrik@inka.de>] PR#1816
8390 *) mod_mime_magic error message should indicate the filename when
8391 reads fail. ["M.D.Parker" <mdpc@netcom.com>] PR#1827
8393 *) Previously Apache would permit </Files> to end <FilesMatch> (and
8394 similary for Location and Directory), now this is diagnosed as an
8395 error. Improve error messages for mismatched sections (<Files>,
8396 <FilesMatch>, <Directory>, <DirectoryMatch>, ...).
8397 [Dean Gaudet, Martin Kraemer]
8399 *) <Files> is not permitted within <Location> (because of the
8400 semantic ordering). [Dean Gaudet] PR#379
8402 *) <Files> with wildcards was broken by the change in wildcard
8403 semantics (* does not match /). To fix this, <Files> now
8404 apply only to the basename of the request filename. This
8405 fixes some other inconsistencies in <Files> semantics
8406 (such as <Files a*b> not working). [Dean Gaudet] PR#1817
8408 *) Removed bogus "dist.tar" target from Makefile.tmpl and make sure
8409 backup files are removed on "clean" target [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8411 *) PORT: Add -lm to LIBS for HPUX. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1639
8413 *) Various errors from select() and accept() in child_main() would
8414 result in an infinite loop. It seems these two tickle kernel
8415 or library bugs occasionally, and result in log spammage and
8416 a generally bad scene. Now the child exits immediately,
8417 which seems to be a good workaround.
8418 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1747, 1107, 588, 1787, 987, 588
8420 *) Cleaned up some race conditions in unix child_main during
8421 initialization. [Dean Gaudet]
8423 *) SECURITY: "UserDir /abspath" without a * in the path would allow
8424 remote users to access "/~.." and bypass access restrictions
8425 (but note /~../.. was handled properly).
8426 [Lauri Jesmin <jesmin@ut.ee>] PR#1701
8428 *) API: os_is_path_absolute() now takes a const char * instead of a char *.
8431 Changes with Apache 1.3b5
8433 *) Source file dependencies in Makefile.tmpl files throughout the
8434 source tree were updated to accurately reflect reality.
8437 *) Preserve the content encoding given by the AddEncoding directive
8438 when the client doesn't otherwise specify an encoding.
8439 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>]
8441 *) Sort out problems with canonical filename handling happening too late.
8442 [Dean Gaudet, Ben Laurie]
8444 Changes with Apache 1.3b4
8446 *) The module structure was modified to include a *dynamic_load_handle
8447 in the STANDARD_MODULE_STUFF portion, and the MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER
8448 has been bumped accordingly. [Paul Sutton]
8450 *) All BrowserMatch directives mentioned in
8451 htdocs/manual/known_client_problems.html are in the default
8452 configuration files. [Lars Eilebrecht]
8454 *) MiNT port update. [Jan Paul Schmidt]
8456 *) HTTP/1.1 requires x-gzip and gzip encodings be treated
8457 equivalent, similarly for x-compress and compress. Apache
8458 now ignores a leading x- when comparing encodings. It also
8459 preserves the encoding the client requests (for example if
8460 it requests x-gzip, then Apache will respond with x-gzip
8461 in the Content-Encoding header).
8462 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>] PR#1772
8464 *) Fix a memory leak on keep-alive connections. [Igor Tatarinov]
8466 *) Added mod_so module to support dynamic loading of modules on Unix
8467 (like mod_dld for Win32). This replaces mod_dld.c. Use SharedModule
8468 instead of AddModule in Configuration to build shared modules
8469 [Sameer Parekh, Paul Sutton]
8471 *) Minor cleanups to r->finfo handling in some modules.
8474 *) Abstract read()/write() to ap_read()/ap_write().
8475 Makes it easier to add other types of IO code such as SFIO.
8478 *) API: Generalize default_port manipulations to make support of
8479 different protocols easier. [Ben Laurie, Randy Terbush]
8481 *) There are many cases where users do not want Apache to form
8482 self-referential urls using the "canonical" ServerName and Port.
8483 The new UseCanonicalName directive (default on), if set to off
8484 will cause Apache to use the client-supplied hostname and port.
8485 API: Part of this change required a change to the construct_url()
8486 prototype; and the addition of get_server_name() and
8488 [Michael Douglass <mikedoug@texas.net>, Dean Gaudet]
8489 PR#315, 459, 485, 1433
8491 *) Yet another rearrangement of the source tree.. now all the common
8492 header files are in the src/include directory. The -Imain -Iap
8493 references in Makefiles have been changed to the simpler -Iinclude
8494 instead. In addition to simplifying the build a little bit, this
8495 also makes it clear when a module is referencing something in a
8496 other than kosher manner (e.g., the proxy including mod_mime.h).
8497 Module-private header files (the proxy, mod_mime, the regex library,
8498 and mod_rewrite) have not been moved to src/include; nor have
8499 the OS-abstraction files. [Ken Coar]
8501 *) Fix a bug where r->hostname didn't have the :port stripped
8502 from it. [Dean Gaudet]
8504 *) Tweaked the headers_out table size, and the subprocess_env
8505 table size guess in rename_original_environment(). Added
8506 MAKE_TABLE_PROFILE which can help discover make_table()
8507 calls that use too small an initial guess, see alloc.c.
8510 *) Options and AllowOverride weren't properly merging in the main
8511 server setting inside vhosts (only an issue when you have no
8512 <Directory> or other section containing an Options that affects
8513 a request). Options +foo or -foo in the main_server wouldn't
8514 affect the main_server's lookup defaults. [Dean Gaudet]
8516 *) Variable 'cwd' was being used pointlessly before being set.
8519 *) r->allowed handling cleaned up in the standard modules.
8522 *) Some case-sensitivity issues cleaned up to be consistent with
8523 RFC2068. [Dean Gaudet]
8525 *) SIGURG doesn't exist everywhere.
8526 [Mark Andrew Heinrich <heinrich@tinderbox.Stanford.EDU>]
8528 *) mod_unique_id was erroneously generating a second unique id when
8529 an internal redirect occured. Such redirects occur, for example,
8530 when processing a DirectoryIndex match. [Dean Gaudet]
8532 *) API: table_add, table_merge, and table_set include implicit pstrdup()
8533 of the key and value. But in many cases this is not required
8534 because the key/value is a constant, or the value has been built
8535 by pstrcat() or other similar means. New routines table_addn,
8536 table_mergen, and table_setn have been added to the API, these
8537 routines do not pstrdup() their arguments. The core code and
8538 standard modules were changed to take advantage of these routines.
8539 The resulting server is up to 20% faster in some situations.
8541 Note that it is easy to get code subtly wrong if you pass a key/value
8542 which is in a pool other than the pool of the table. The only
8543 safe thing to do is to pass key/values which are in the pool of
8544 the table, or in one of the ancestors of the pool of the table.
8545 i.e. if the table is part of a subrequest, a value from the main
8546 request's pool is OK since the subrequest pool is a sub_pool of the
8547 main request's pool (and therefore has a lifespan at most as long as
8548 the main pool). There is debugging code which can detect improper
8549 usage, enabled by defining POOL_DEBUG. See alloc.c for more details.
8550 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su>, Dean Gaudet]
8552 *) More mod_mime_magic cleanup: fewer syscalls; should handle "files"
8553 which don't exist on disk more gracefully; handles vhosts properly.
8554 Update documentation to reflect the code -- if there's no
8555 MimeMagicFile directive then the module is not enabled.
8558 *) PORT: Some older *nix dialects cannot automatically start scripts
8559 which begin with a #! interpreter line (the shell starts the scripts
8560 appropriately on these platforms). Apache now supports starting of
8561 "hashbang-scripts" when the NEED_HASHBANG_EMUL define is set.
8562 [Martin Kraemer, with code from peter@zeus.dialix.oz.au (Peter Wemm)
8565 *) API: "typedef array_header table" removed from alloc.h, folks should
8566 have been writing to use table as if it were an opaque type, but even
8567 some standard modules got this wrong. By changing the definition
8568 to "typedef struct table table" module authors will receive compile
8569 time warnings that they're doing the wrong thing. This change
8570 facilitates future changes with more sophisticated table
8571 structures. Specifically, module authors should be using table_elts()
8572 to get access to an array_header * for the table. [Dean Gaudet]
8574 *) API: Renamed new_connection() to avoid namespace collision with LDAP
8575 library routines. [Ken Coar, Rasmus Lerdorf]
8577 *) WIN32: mod_speling is now available on the Win32 platform.
8580 *) For clarity the following compile time definition was changed:
8582 SAFE_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT -> SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT
8584 Also, for example, HAVE_MMAP would mean to use mmap() scoreboards
8585 and not be a general notice that the OS has mmap(). Now the
8586 HAVE_MMAP/SHMGET #defines strictly are informational that the
8587 OS has that method of shared memory; the type to use for
8588 the scoreboard is a seperate #define (USE_MMAP_SCOREBOARD
8589 and USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD). This allows outside modules to
8590 determine if shared memory is available and allows Apache
8591 to determine the best method to use for the scoreboard.
8594 *) PORT: UnixWare 2.1.2 SMP appears to require USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT,
8595 as do various earlier versions. It should be safe on all versions.
8596 Unixware 1.x appears to have the same SIGHUP bug as solaris does with
8597 the slack code. A few other cleanups for Unixware.
8598 [Tom Hughes <thh@cyberscience.com>] PR#1082, PR#1282, PR#1499, PR#1553
8600 *) PORT: A/UX can handle single-listen accepts without mutex
8601 locking, so we add SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT. [Jim Jagielski]
8603 *) When die() happens we need to eat any request body if one exists.
8604 Otherwise we can't continue with a keepalive session. This shows up
8605 as a POST problem with MSIE 4.0, typically against pages which are
8606 authenticated. [Roy Fielding] PR#1399
8608 *) If you define SECURITY_HOLE_PASS_AUTHORIZATION then the Authorization
8609 header will be passed to CGIs. This is generally a security hole, so
8610 it's not a default. [Marc Slemko] PR#549
8612 *) Fix Y2K problem with date printing in suexec log.
8613 [Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>] PR#1343
8615 *) WIN32 deserves a pid file. [Ben Hyde]
8617 *) suexec errors now include the errno/description. [Marc Slemko] PR#1543
8619 *) PORT: OSF/1 now uses USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT to solve PR#467.
8620 The choice of flock vs. fcntl was made based on timings which showed that
8621 even on non-NFS, non-exported filesystems fcntl() was an order of
8622 magnitude slower. It also uses SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT so
8623 that single socket users will see no difference. [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
8625 *) "File does not exist" error message was erroneously including the
8626 errno. [Marc Slemko]
8628 *) Improve the warning message generated when a client drops the
8629 connection (hits stop button, etc.) during a send. [Roy Fielding]
8631 *) Defining GPROF will disable profiling in the parent and enable it
8632 in the children. If you're profiling under Linux this is pretty much
8633 necessary because SIGPROF is lost across a fork(). [Dean Gaudet]
8635 *) htdigest and htpasswd needed slight tweaks to work on OS/2 and WIN32.
8638 *) The NeXT cc (which is gcc hacked up) doesn't appear to support some
8639 gcc functionality. Work around it.
8640 [Keith Severson <keith@sssd.navy.mil>] PR#1613
8642 *) Some linkers complain when .o files contain no functions.
8643 [Keith Severson <keith@sssd.navy.mil>] PR#1614
8645 *) Some const declarations in mod_imap.c that were added for debugging
8646 purposes caused some compilers heartburn without adding any
8647 significant value, so they've been removed. [Ken Coar]
8649 *) The src/main/*.h header files have had #ifndef wrappers added to
8650 insulate them against duplicate calls if they get included through
8651 multiple paths (e.g., in .c files as well as other .h files).
8654 *) The libap routines now have a header file for their prototypes,
8655 src/ap/ap.h, to ease their use in non-httpd applications. [Ken Coar]
8657 *) mod_autoindex with a plaintext header file would emit the <PRE>
8658 start-tag before the HTML preamble, rather than after the preamble
8659 but before the header file contents. [John Van Essen <jve@gamers.org>]
8662 *) SECURITY: Fix a possible buffer overflow in logresolve. This is
8663 only an issue on systems without a MAXDNAME define or where
8664 the resolver returns domain names longer than MAXDNAME. [Marc Slemko]
8666 *) SECURITY: Eliminate possible buffer overflow in cfg_getline, which
8667 is used to read various types of files such as htaccess and
8668 htpasswd files. [Marc Slemko]
8670 *) SECURITY: Ensure that the buffer returned by ht_time is always
8671 properly null terminated. [Marc Slemko]
8673 *) The "Connection" header could be sent back with multiple "close"
8674 tokens. Not an error, but a waste.
8675 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1683
8677 *) mod_rewrite's RewriteLog should behave like mod_log_config, it
8678 shouldn't force hostname lookups. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1684
8680 *) "basic" auth needs a case-insensitive comparison.
8681 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1666
8683 *) For maximum portability, the environment passed to CGIs should
8684 only contain variables whose names match the regex
8685 /[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]*/. This is now enforced by stamping
8686 underscores over any character outside the regex. This
8687 affects HTTP_* variables, in a way that should be backward
8688 compatible for all the standard headers; and affects variables
8689 set with SetEnv/BrowserMatch and similar directives.
8692 *) mod_speling returned incorrect HREF's when an ambigous match
8693 was found. Noticed by <robinton@amtrash.comlink.de> (Soeren Ziehe)
8694 [robinton@amtrash.comlink.de (Soeren Ziehe), Martin Kraemer]
8696 *) PORT: Apache now compiles & runs on an EBCDIC mainframe
8697 (the Siemens BS2000/OSD family) in the POSIX subsystem
8700 *) PORT: Fix problem killing children when terminating. Allow ^C
8701 to shut down the server. [Brian Havard]
8703 *) pstrdup() is implicit in calls to table_* functions, so there's
8704 no need to do it before calling. Clean up a few cases.
8705 [Marc Slemko, Dean Gaudet]
8707 *) new -C and -c command line arguments
8709 -C "directive" : process directive before reading config files
8710 -c "directive" : process directive after reading config files
8712 httpd -C "PerlModule Apache::httpd_conf"
8713 [Doug MacEachern, Martin Kraemer]
8715 *) WIN32: Fix the execution of CGIs that are scripts and called
8716 with path info that does not have an '=' in.
8717 (eg. http://server/cgi-bin/printenv?foobar)
8718 [Marc Slemko] PR#1591
8720 *) WIN32: Fix a call to os_canonical_filename so it doesn't try to
8721 mess with fake filenames. This fixes proxy caching on
8724 *) SECURITY: General mod_include cleanup, including fixing several
8725 possible buffer overflows and a possible infinite loop.
8726 [Dean Gaudet, Marc Slemko]
8728 *) SECURITY: Numerous changes to mod_imap in a general cleanup
8729 including fixing a possible buffer overflow. [Dean Gaudet]
8731 *) WIN32: overhaul of multithreading code. Shutdowns are now graceful
8732 (connections are not dropped). Code can handle graceful restarts
8733 (but there is as yet no way to signal this to Apache). Various
8734 other cleanups. [Paul Sutton]
8736 *) The aplog_error changes specific to 1.3 introduced a buffer
8737 overrun in the (now legacy) log_printf function. Fixed.
8740 *) mod_digest didn't properly deal with proxy authentication. It
8741 also lacked a case-insensitive comparision of the "Digest"
8742 token. [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>] PR#1599
8744 *) A few cleanups in mod_status for efficiency. [Dean Gaudet]
8746 *) A few cleanups in mod_info to make it thread-safe, and remove an
8747 off-by-5 bug that could hammer \0 on the stack. [Dean Gaudet]
8749 *) no2slash() was O(n^2) in the length of the input. Make it O(n).
8752 *) API: migration from strncpy() to our "enhanced" version called
8753 ap_cpystrn() for performance and functionality reasons.
8754 Located in libap.a. [Jim Jagielski]
8756 *) table_set() and table_unset() did not deal correctly with
8757 multiple occurrences of the same key.
8758 [Stephen Scheck <sscheck@infonex.net>, Ben Laurie] PR#1604
8760 *) The AuthName must now be enclosed in quotes if it is to contain
8761 spaces. [Ken Coar] PR#1195
8763 *) API: new function: ap_escape_quotes(). [Ken Coar] PR#1195
8765 *) WIN32: Work around optimiser bug that killed ISAPI in release
8766 versions. [Ben Laurie] PR#1533
8768 *) PORT: Update the MPE port [Mark Bixby, Jim Jagielski]
8770 *) Interim (slow) fix for p->sub_pool critical sections in
8771 alloc.c (affects win32 only). [Ben Hyde]
8773 *) non-WIN32 was missing destroy_mutex definition. [Ben Hyde]
8775 *) send_fd_length() did not calculate total_bytes_sent properly.
8776 [Ben Reser <breser@regnow.com>] PR#1366
8778 *) The bputc() macro was not properly integrated with the chunking
8779 code; in many cases modules using bputc() could cause completely
8780 bogus chunked output. (Typically this will show up as problems
8781 with Internet Explorer 4.0 reading a page, but other browsers
8782 having no problem.) [Dean Gaudet]
8784 *) Create LARGE_WRITE_THRESHOLD define which determines how many
8785 bytes have to be supplied to bwrite() before it will consider
8786 doing a writev() to assemble multiple buffers in one system
8787 call. This is critical for modules such as mod_include,
8788 mod_autoindex, mod_php3 which all use bputc()/bputs() of smaller
8789 strings in some cases. The result would be extra effort
8790 setting up writev(), and in many cases extra effort building
8791 chunks. The default is 31, it can be overriden at compile
8794 *) Move the gid switching code into the child so that log files
8795 and pid files are opened with the root gid.
8796 [Gregory A Lundberg <lundberg@vr.net>]
8798 *) WIN32: Check for binaries by looking for the executable header
8799 instead of counting control characters.
8800 [Jim Patterson <Jim.Patterson@Cognos.COM>] PR#1340
8802 *) ap_snprintf() moved from main/util_snprintf.c to ap/ap_snprintf.c
8803 so the functionality is available to applications other than the
8804 server itself (like the src/support tools). [Ken Coar]
8806 *) ap_slack() moved out of main/util.c into ap/ap_slack.c as part of
8807 the libap consolidation work. [Ken Coar]
8809 *) ap_snprintf() with a len of 0 behaved like sprintf(). This is not
8810 useful, and isn't what the standards require. Now it returns 0
8811 and writes nothing. [Dean Gaudet]
8813 *) When an error occurs in fcntl() locking suggest the user look up
8814 the docs for LockFile. [Dean Gaudet]
8816 *) Eliminate some dead code from writev_it_all().
8817 [Igor Tatarinov <tatarino@prairie.NoDak.edu>]
8819 *) mod_autoindex had an fread() without checking the result code.
8820 It also wouldn't handle "AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/text.gif text/*"
8821 (note the missing closing paren) properly. [Dean Gaudet]
8823 *) It appears the "257th byte" bug (see
8824 htdocs/manual/misc/known_client_problems.html#257th-byte) can happen
8825 at the 256th byte as well. Fixed. [Dean Gaudet]
8827 *) PORT: Fix mod_mime_magic under OS/2, no support for block devices.
8830 *) Fix memory corruption caused by allocating auth usernames in the
8831 wrong pool. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1500
8833 *) Fix an off-by-1, and an unterminated string error in
8834 mod_mime_magic. [Dean Gaudet]
8836 *) Fix a potential SEGV problem in mod_negotiation when dealing
8837 with type-maps. [Dean Gaudet]
8839 *) Better glibc support under Linux. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1542
8841 *) "RedirectMatch gone /" would cause a SIGSEGV. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1319
8843 *) WIN32: avoid overflows during file canonicalisations.
8844 [malcolm@mgdev.demon.co.uk] PR#1378
8846 *) WIN32: set_file_slot() didn't detect absolute paths. [Ben Laurie]
8849 *) WIN32: mod_status display header didn't match fields. [Ben Laurie]
8851 *) The pthread_mutex_* functions return an error code, and don't
8852 set errno. [Igor Tatarinov <tatarino@prairie.NoDak.edu>]
8854 *) WIN32: Allow spaces to prefix the interpreter in #! lines.
8855 [Ben Laurie] PR#1101
8857 *) WIN32: Cure file leak in CGIs. [Peter Tillemans <pti@net4all.be>] PR#1523
8859 *) proxy_ftp: the directory listings generated by the proxy ftp module
8860 now have a title in which the path components are clickable and allow
8861 quick navigation to the clicked-on directory on the currently listed
8862 ftp server. This also fixes a bug where the ".." directory links would
8863 sometimes refer to the wrong directory. [Martin Kraemer]
8865 *) WIN32: Allocate the correct amount of memory for the scoreboard.
8868 *) WIN32: Only lowercase the part of the path that is real. [Ben Laurie]
8871 *) Fix problems with timeouts in inetd mode and -X mode. [Dean Gaudet]
8873 *) Fix the spurious "(0)unknown error: mmap_handler: mmap failed"
8874 error messages. [Ben Hyde]
8876 Changes with Apache 1.3b3
8878 *) WIN32: Work around brain-damaged spawn calls that can't deal
8879 with spaces and slashes. [Ben Laurie]
8881 *) WIN32: Fix the code so CGIs can use socket calls on Windows.
8882 The problem was that certain undocumented environment variables
8883 needed for sockets to work under Win32 were not being passed.
8884 [Frank Faubert <frank@sane.com>]
8886 *) Add a "-V" command line flag to the httpd binary. This
8887 flag shows some of the defines that Apache was compiled with.
8888 It is useful for debugging purposes. [Martin Kraemer]
8890 *) Start separating the ap_*() routines into their own library, so they
8891 can be used by items in src/support among other things.
8892 [Ken Coar] PR#512, 905, 1252, 1308
8894 *) Give a more informative error when no AuthType is set.
8897 *) Remove strtoul() use from mod_proxy because it isn't available
8898 on all platforms. [Marc Slemko] PR#1214
8900 *) WIN32: Some Win32 systems terminated all responses after 16 kB.
8901 This turns out to be a bug in Winsock - select() doesn't always
8902 return the correct status. [Ben Laurie]
8904 *) Directives owned by http_core can now use the new check_cmd_context()
8905 routine to ensure that they're not being used within a container
8906 (e.g., <Directory>) where they're invalid. [Martin Kraemer]
8908 *) PORT: Recent changes made it necessary to add explicit prototype
8909 for fgetc() and fgets() on SunOS 4.x. [Martin Kraemer, Ben Hyde]
8911 *) It was necessary to distinguish between resources which are
8912 allocated in the parent, for cleanup in the parent, and resources
8913 which are allocated in each child, for cleanup in each child.
8914 A new pool was created which is passed to the module child_init
8915 and child_exit functions; modules are free to register per-child
8916 cleanups there. This fixes a bug with reliable piped logs.
8919 *) mod_autoindex wasn't displaying the ReadmeName file at the bottom
8920 unless it was also doing FancyIndexes, but it displayed the
8921 HeaderName file at the top under all circumstances. It now shows
8922 the ReadmeName file for simple indices, too, as it should.
8925 *) http_core was mmap()ing even in cases where it wasn't going to
8926 read the file. [Ben Hyde <bhyde@gensym.com>]
8928 *) Complete rewrite ;-) of mod_rewrite's URL rewriting engine:
8929 Now the rewriting engine (the heart of mod_rewrite) is organized more
8930 straight-forward, first time well documented and reduced to the really
8931 essential parts. All redundant cases were stripped off and processing now
8932 is the same for both per-server and per-directory context with only a
8933 minimum difference (the prefix stripping in per-dir context). As a
8934 side-effect some subtle restrictions and two recently discovered problems
8935 are gone: Wrong escaping of QUERY_STRING on redirects in per-directory
8936 context and restrictions on the substitution URL on redirects.
8937 Additionally some minor source cleanups were done.
8938 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8940 *) Lars Eilebrecht wrote a whole new set of Apache Vhost Internals
8941 documentation, examples, explanations and caveats. They live in a new
8942 subdirectory htdocs/manual/vhost/. [Lars Eilebrecht <sfx@unix-ag.org>]
8944 *) If ap_slack fails to allocate above the low slack line it's a good
8945 indication that further problems will occur; it's a better indication
8946 than many external libraries give us when we actually run out of
8947 descriptors. So report it to the user once per restart.
8948 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1181
8950 *) Change mod_include and mod_autoindex to use Y2K-safe date formats
8951 by default. [Ken Coar]
8953 *) Add a "SuppressColumnSorting" option to the IndexOptions list,
8954 which will keep the column heading from being links for sorting
8955 the display. [Ken Coar, suggested by Brian Tiemann <btman@pacific.net>]
8958 *) PORT: Update the LynxOS port. [Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>]
8960 *) Fix logic error when issuing a mmap() failed message
8961 with a non-zero MMAP_THRESHOLD.
8962 [David Chambers <davidc@flosun.salk.edu>] PR#1294
8964 *) Preserve handler value on ProxyPass'ed requests by not
8965 calling find_types on a proxy'd request; fixes problems
8966 where some ProxyPass'ed URLs weren't actually passed
8968 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#870
8970 *) Fix a byte ordering problem in mod_access which prevented
8971 the old-style syntax (i.e. "a.b.c." to match a class C)
8972 from working properly. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1248, 1328, 1384
8974 *) Fix problem with USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT not working
8975 properly. Each child needs to open the lockfile instead
8976 of using the passed file-descriptor from the parent.
8977 [Jim Jagielski] PR#1056
8979 *) Fix the error logging in mod_cgi; the recent error log changes
8980 introduced a bug that prevented it from working correctly.
8981 [M.D.Parker] PR#1352
8983 *) Default to USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT on HPUX to properly
8984 handle multiple Listen directives. [Marc Slemko] PR#872
8986 *) Inherit a bugfix to fnmatch.c from FreeBSD sources.
8987 ["[KOI8-R] áÎÄÒÅÊ þÅÒÎÏ×" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>] PR#1311
8989 *) When a configuration parse complained about a bad directive,
8990 the logger would use whatever (unrelated) value was in errno.
8991 errno is now forced to EINVAL first in this case. [Ken Coar]
8993 *) A sed command in the Configure script pushed the edge of POSIXness,
8994 breaking on some systems. [Bhaba R.Misra <system@vt.edu>] PR#1368
8996 *) Solaris >= 2.5 was totally broken due to a mess up using pthread
8997 mutexes. [Roy Fielding, Dean Gaudet]
8999 *) OS/2 Port updated; it should be possible to build OS/2 from the same
9000 sources as Unix now. [Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
9002 *) Fix a year formatting bug in mod_usertrack.
9003 [Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>] PR#1342
9005 *) A mild SIGTERM/SIGALRM race condition was eliminated.
9006 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1211
9008 *) Warn user that default path has changed if /usr/local/etc/httpd
9009 is found on the system. [Lars Eilebrecht]
9011 *) Various mod_mime_magic bug fixes and cleanups: Uncompression
9012 should work, it should work on WIN32, and a few resource
9013 leaks and abort conditions are fixed.
9014 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1205
9016 *) PORT: On AIX 1.x files can't be named '@', fix the proxy cache
9017 to use '%' instead of '@' in its encodings.
9018 [David Schuler <schuld@btv.ibm.com>] PR#1317
9020 *) Improve the warning message generated when the "server is busy".
9021 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1293
9023 *) PORT: All ports which don't otherwise define DEF_WANTHSREGEX will
9024 get Spencer regex by default. This is to avoid having to
9025 discover bugs in operating system libraries. [Dean Gaudet]
9027 *) PORT: "Fix" PR#467 by generating warnings on systems which we have
9028 not been able to get working USE_*_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT settings for.
9029 Document this a bit more in src/PORTING. [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
9031 *) Ensure that one copy of config warnings makes it to the
9032 error_log. [Dean Gaudet]
9034 *) Invent new structure and associated methods to handle config file
9035 reading. Add "custom" hook to use config file cfg_getline() on
9036 something which is not a FILE* [Martin Kraemer]
9038 *) Make single-exe Windows install. [Ben Laurie and Eric Esselink]
9040 *) WIN32: Make CGI work under Win95. [Ben Laurie and Paul Sutton]
9042 *) WIN32: Make index.html and friends work under Win95. [Ben Laurie]
9044 *) PORT: Solaris 2.4 needs Spencer regex, the system regex is broken.
9045 [John Line <jml4@cam.ac.uk>] PR#1321
9047 *) Default pathname has been changed everywhere to /usr/local/apache
9048 [Sameer <sameer@c2.net>]
9050 *) PORT: AIX now uses USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT.
9051 [David Bronder <David-Bronder@uiowa.edu>] PR#849
9053 *) PORT: i386 AIX does not have memmove.
9054 [David Schuler <schuld@btv.ibm.com>] PR#1267
9056 *) PORT: HPUX now defaults to using Spencer regex.
9057 [Philippe Vanhaesendonck <pvanhaes@be.oracle.com>,
9058 Omar Del Rio <al112263@academ01.lag.itesm.mx>] PR#482, 1246
9060 *) PORT: Some versions of NetBSD don't automatically define
9061 __NetBSD__. Workaround by defining NETBSD.
9062 [Chris Craft <ccraft@cncc.cc.co.us>] PR#977
9064 *) PORT: UnixWare 2.x requires -lgen for syslog.
9065 [Hans Snijder <hs@meganet.nl>] PR#1249
9067 *) PORT: ULTRIX appears to not have syslog.
9068 [Lars Eilebrecht <Lars.Eilebrecht@unix-ag.org>]
9070 *) PORT: Basic Gemini port (treat it like unixware212).
9071 ["Pavel Yakovlev (Paul McHacker)" <hac@tomcat.olly.ru>]
9073 *) PORT: All SVR4 systems now use NET_SIZE_T = size_t, and
9074 use USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD.
9077 *) Various improvements in detecting config file errors (missing closing
9078 directives for <Directory>, <Files> etc. blocks, prohibiting global
9079 server settings in <VirtualHost> blocks, flagging unhandled multiple
9080 arguments to <Directory>, <Files> etc.)
9083 *) Add support to suexec wrapper program for mod_unique_id's UNIQUE_ID
9084 variable to provide this one to suexec'd CGIs, too.
9085 [M.D.Parker <mdpc@netcom.com>] PR#1284
9087 *) New support tool: src/support/split-logfile, a sample Perl script which
9088 splits up a combined access log into separate files based on the
9089 name of the virtual host (listed first in the log records by "%v").
9092 Changes with Apache 1.3b2 (there is no 1.3b1)
9094 *) TestCompile was not passing $LIBS [Dean Gaudet]
9096 *) Makefile.tmpl was not using $CFLAGS in the link phase.
9099 *) Add debugging code to alloc.c. Defining ALLOC_DEBUG provides a
9100 rudimentary memory debugger which can be used on live servers with
9101 low impact -- it sets all allocated and freed memory bytes to 0xa5.
9102 Defining ALLOC_USE_MALLOC will cause the alloc code to use malloc()
9103 and free() for each object. This is far more expensive and should
9104 only be used for testing with tools such as Electric Fence and
9105 Purify. See main/alloc.c for more details. [Dean Gaudet]
9107 *) Configure uses a sh trap and didn't set its exitcode properly.
9108 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1159
9110 *) Yet another vhost revamp. Add the NameVirtualHost directive which
9111 explicitly lists the ip:port pairs that are to be used for name-vhosts.
9112 From a given ip:port, regardless what the Host: header is, you can
9113 only reach the vhosts defined on that ip:port. The precedence of
9114 vhosts was reversed to match other precedences in the config --
9115 the earlier vhosts override the later vhosts. All vhost matching was
9116 moved into http_vhost.[ch]. [Dean Gaudet]
9118 *) ap_inline can be used to force inlining. GNUC __attribute__() can
9119 be used for whatever reason is appropriate (i.e. format() warnings
9120 for printf style functions). Both are enabled only with
9121 gcc >= 2.7.x (so that we have fewer support issues with older
9122 versions). [Dean Gaudet]
9124 *) Fix support for Proxy Authentication (we were testing the response
9125 status too early). [Marc Slemko]
9127 *) CoreDumpDirectory directive directs where the core file is
9128 written when a SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, SIGABORT or SIGABRT are
9129 received. [Marc Slemko, Dean Gaudet]
9131 *) PORT: Support for Atari MINT.
9132 [Jan Paul Schmidt <Jan.P.Schmidt@mni.fh-giessen.de>]
9134 *) When booting, apache will now detach itself from stdin, stdout,
9135 and stderr. stderr will not be detached until after the config
9136 files have been read so you will be able to see initial error
9137 messages. After that all errors are logged in the error_log.
9138 This makes it more convenient to start apache via rsh, ssh,
9139 or crontabs. [Dean Gaudet] PR#523
9141 *) mod_proxy was sending HTTP/1.1 responses to ftp requests by mistake.
9142 Also removed the auto-generated link to www.apache.org that was the
9143 source of so many misdirected bug reports. [Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
9145 *) send_fb would not detect aborted connections in some situations.
9148 *) mod_include would use uninitialized data when parsing certain
9149 expressions involving && and ||. [Brian Slesinsky] PR#1139
9151 *) mod_imap should only handle GET methods. [Jay Bloodworth]
9153 *) suexec.c wouldn't build without -DLOG_EXEC. [Jason A. Dour]
9155 *) mod_autoindex improperly counted &escapes; as more than one
9156 character in the description. It also improperly truncated
9157 descriptions that were exactly the maximum length.
9160 *) RedirectMatch was not properly escaping the result (PR#1155). Also
9161 "RedirectMatch /advertiser/(.*) $1" is now permitted.
9164 *) mod_include now uses symbolic names to check for request success
9165 and return HTTP errors, and correctly handles all types of
9166 redirections (previously it only did temporary redirect correctly).
9167 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding]
9169 *) mod_userdir was modifying r->finfo in cases where it wasn't setting
9170 r->filename. Since those two are meant to be in sync with each other
9171 this is a bug. ["Paul B. Henson" <henson@intranet.csupomona.edu>]
9173 *) PORT: Support Unisys SVR4, whose uname returns mostly useless data.
9174 ["Kaufman, Steven E" <Steven.Kaufman@unisys.com>]
9176 *) Inetd mode (which is buggy) uses timeouts without having setup the
9177 jmpbuffer. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1064
9179 *) Work around problem under Linux where a child will start looping
9180 reporting a select error over and over.
9181 [Rick Franchuk <rickf@transpect.net>] PR#1107, 987, 588
9183 *) Fixed error in proxy_util.c when looping through multiple host IP
9184 addresses. [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#974
9186 *) If BUFFERED_LOGS is defined then mod_log_config will do atomic
9187 buffered writes -- that is, it will buffer up to PIPE_BUF (i.e. 4k)
9188 bytes before writing, but it will never split a log entry across a
9189 buffer boundary. [Dean Gaudet]
9191 *) API: the short_score record has been split into two pieces, one which
9192 the parent writes on, and one which the child writes on. As part of
9193 this change the get_scoreboard_info() function was removed, and
9194 scoreboard_image was exported. This change fixes a race condition
9195 in file based scoreboard systems, and speeds up changes involving the
9196 scoreboard in earlier 1.3 development. [Dean Gaudet]
9198 *) API: New register_other_child() API (see http_main.h) which allows
9199 modules to register children with the parent for maintenance. It
9200 is disabled by defining NO_OTHER_CHILD. [Dean Gaudet]
9202 *) API: New piped_log API (see http_log.h) which implements piped logs,
9203 and will use register_other_child to implement reliable piped logs
9204 when it is available. The reliable piped logs part can be disabled
9205 by defining NO_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS. At the moment reliable piped
9206 logs is only available on Unix. [Dean Gaudet]
9208 *) API: set_last_modified() broken into set_last_modified(), set_etag(), and
9209 meets_conditions(). This allows conditional HTTP selection to be
9210 handled separately from the storing of the header fields, and provides
9211 the ability for CGIs to set their own ETags for conditional checking.
9212 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding] PR#895
9214 *) Changes to mod_log_config to allow naming of format strings.
9215 Format nicknames are defined with "LogFormat fmt nickname", and can
9216 be used with "LogFormat nickname" and "CustomLog logtarget nickname".
9219 *) New module, "mod_speling", which can help find files even when
9220 the URL is slightly misspelled. [Martin Kraemer, Alexei Kosut]
9222 *) API: New function child_terminate() triggers the child process to
9223 exit, while allowing the child finish what it needs to for the
9224 current request first.
9225 [Doug MacEachern, Alexei Kosut]
9227 *) Windows now defaults to using full status reports with mod_status.
9228 [Alexei Kosut] PR #1094
9230 *) *Really* disable all mod_rewrite operations if the engine is off.
9231 Some things (like RewriteMaps) were checked/performed even if they
9232 weren't supposed to be. [Ken Coar] PR #991
9234 *) Implement a new timer scheme which eliminates the need to call alarm() all
9235 the time. Instead a counter in the scoreboard for each child is used to
9236 show when the child has made forward progress. The parent samples this
9237 counter every scoreboard maintenance cycle, and issues SIGALRM if no
9238 progress has been made in the timeout period. This reduces the static
9239 request best-case syscall count to 22 from 29. This scheme is only
9240 used by systems with memory-based scoreboards. [Dean Gaudet]
9242 *) The proxy now properly handles CONNECT requests which are sent
9243 to proxy servers when using ProxyRemote. [Marc Slemko] PR#1024
9245 *) A script called apachectl has been added to the support
9246 directory. This script allows you to do things such as
9247 "apachectl start" and "apachectl restart" from the command
9250 *) Modules and core routines are now put into libraries, which
9251 simplifies the link line tremendously (among other advantages).
9254 *) Some of the MD5 names defined in Apache have been renamed to have
9255 an `ap_' prefix to avoid conflicts with routines supplied by
9256 external libraries. [Ken Coar]
9258 *) Removal of mod_auth_msql.c from the distribution. There are many
9259 other options for databases today. Rather than offer one option,
9260 offer none at this time. mod_auth_msql and other SQL database
9261 authentication modules can be found at the Apache Module Registry.
9262 http://modules.apache.org/ It would be nice to offer a generic
9263 mod_auth_sql option in the near future.
9265 *) PORT: BeOS support added [Alexei Kosut]
9267 *) Configure no longer accepts the -make option, since it creates
9268 Makefile on the fly based on Makefile.tmpl and Configuration.
9270 *) Apache now gracefully shuts down when it receives a SIGTERM, instead
9271 of forcibly killing off all its processes and exiting without
9272 cleaning up. [Alexei Kosut]
9274 *) API: A new field in the request_rec, r->mtime, has been added to
9275 avoid gratuitous parsing of date strings. It is intended to hold
9276 the last-modified date of the resource (if applicable). An
9277 update_mtime() routine has also been added to advance it if
9278 appropriate. [Roy Fielding, Ken Coar]
9280 *) SECURITY: If a htaccess file can not be read due to bad permissions,
9281 deny access to the directory with a HTTP_FORBIDDEN. The previous
9282 behavior was to ignore the htaccess file if it could not be read.
9283 This change may make some setups with unreadable htaccess files
9284 stop working. [Marc Slemko] PR#817
9286 *) Add aplog_error() providing a mechanism to define levels of
9287 verbosity to the server error logging. This addition also provides
9288 the ability to log errors using syslogd. Error logging is configurable
9289 on a per-server basis using the LogLevel directive. Conversion
9290 of log_*() in progress. [Randy Terbush]
9292 *) Further enhance aplog_error() to not log filename, line number, and
9293 errno information when it isn't applicable. [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
9295 *) WIN32: Canonicalise filenames under Win32. Short filenames are
9296 converted to long ones. Backslashes are converted to forward
9297 slashes. Case is converted to lower. Parts of URLs that do not
9298 correspond to files are left completely alone. [Ben Laurie]
9300 *) PORT: 2 new OSs added to the list of ports:
9301 Encore's UMAX V: Arieh Markel <amarkel@encore.com>
9302 Acorn RISCiX: Stephen Borrill <sborrill@xemplar.co.uk>
9304 *) Add the server version (SERVER_VERSION macro) to the "server
9305 configured and running" entry in the error_log. Also build an
9306 object file at link-time that contains the current time
9307 (SERVER_BUILT global const char[]), and include that in the
9310 *) Set r->headers_out when sending responses from the proxy.
9311 This fixes things such as the logging of headers sent from
9312 the proxy. [Marc Slemko] PR#659
9314 *) support/httpd_monitor is no longer distributed because the
9315 scoreboard should not be file based if at all possible. Use
9316 mod_status to see current server snapshot.
9318 *) (set_file_slot): New function, allowing auth directives to be
9319 independent of the server root, so the server documents can be
9320 moved to a different directory or machine more easily.
9321 [David J. MacKenzie]
9323 *) If no TransferLog is given explicitly, decline
9324 to log. This supports coexistence with other logging modules,
9325 such as the custom one that UUNET uses. [David J. MacKenzie]
9327 *) Check for titles in server-parsed HTML files.
9328 Ignore leading newlines and returns in titles. The old behavior
9329 of replacing a newline after <title> with a space causes the
9330 title to be misaligned in the listing. [David J. MacKenzie]
9332 *) Change mod_cern_meta to be configurable on a per-directory basis.
9333 [David J. MacKenzie]
9335 *) Add 'Include' directive to allow inclusion of configuration
9336 files within configuration files. [Randy Terbush]
9338 *) Proxy errors on connect() are logged to the error_log (nothing
9339 new); now they include the IP address and port that failed
9340 (*that's* new). [Ken Coar, Marc Slemko] PR#352
9342 *) Various architectures now define USE_MMAP_FILES which causes
9343 the server to use mmap() for static files. There are two
9344 compile-time tunables MMAP_THRESHOLD (minimum number of bytes
9345 required to use mmap(), default is 0), and MMAP_SEGMENT_SIZE (maximum
9346 number of bytes written in one cycle from a single mmap()d object,
9347 default 32768). [Dean Gaudet]
9349 *) API: Added post_read_request API phase which is run right after reading
9350 the request from a client, or right after an internal redirect. It is
9351 useful for modules setting environment variables that depend only on
9352 the headers/contents of the request. It does not run during subrequests
9353 because subrequests inherit pretty much everything from the main
9354 request. [Dean Gaudet]
9356 *) Added mod_unique_id which is used to generate a unique identifier for
9357 each hit, available in the environment variable UNIQUE_ID.
9360 *) init_modules is now called after the error logs have been opened. This
9361 allows modules to emit information messages into the error logs.
9364 *) Fixed proxy-pass-through feature of mod_rewrite; Added error logging
9365 information for case where proxy module is not available. [Marc Slemko]
9367 *) PORT: Apache has need for mutexes to serialize its children around
9368 accept. In prior versions either fcntl file locking or flock file
9369 locking were used. The method is chosen by the definition of
9370 USE_xxx_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT in conf.h. xxx is FCNTL for fcntl(),
9371 and FLOCK for flock(). New options have been added:
9372 - SYSVSEM to use System V style semaphores
9373 - PTHREAD to use POSIX threads (appears to work on Solaris only)
9374 - USLOCK to use IRIX uslock
9375 Based on timing various techniques, the following changes were made
9377 - Linux 2.x uses flock instead of fcntl
9378 - Solaris 2.x uses pthreads
9379 - IRIX uses SysV semaphores -- however multiprocessor IRIX boxes
9380 work far faster if you -DUSE_USLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT
9381 [Dean Gaudet, Pierre-Yves Kerembellec <Pierre-Yves.Kerembellec@vtcom.fr>,
9382 Martijn Koster <m.koster@pobox.com>]
9384 *) PORT: The semantics of accept/select make it very desirable to use
9385 mutexes to serialize accept when multiple Listens are in use. But
9386 in the case where only a single socket is open it is sometimes
9387 redundant to serialize accept(). Not all unixes do a good job with
9388 potentially dozens of children blocked on accept() on the same
9389 socket. It's now possible to define SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT and
9390 the server will avoid serialization when listening on only one socket,
9391 and use serialization when listening on multiple sockets.
9392 [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
9394 *) Configure changes: TestLib replaced by TestCompile, which has
9395 some additional capability (such as doing a sanity check of
9396 the compiler and flags selected); the version of Solaris is now
9397 available via the #define value of SOLARIS2; IRIX n32bit libs
9398 now supported and selectable by new Configuration Rule: IRIXN32;
9399 We no longer default to -O2 optimization. [Jim Jagielski]
9401 *) Updated Configure: Configuration now uses AddModule to specify
9402 module source or binary file location, relative to src directory.
9403 Modules can be dropped into modules/extra, or in their own
9404 directory, and modules can come with a Makefile or Configure can
9405 create one. Modules can add compiler or library information to
9406 generated Makefiles. [Paul Sutton]
9408 *) Source core re-organisation: distributed modules are now in
9409 modules/standard. All other source code is in main. OS-specific
9410 code is in os/{unix,emx,win32} directories. [Paul Sutton]
9412 *) mod_browser has been removed, since it's replaced by mod_setenvif.
9415 *) Fix another long-standing bug in sub_req_lookup_file where it would
9416 happily skip past access checks on subdirectories looked up with
9417 relative paths. (It's used by mod_dir, mod_negotiation,
9418 and mod_include.) [Dean Gaudet]
9420 *) directory_walk optimization to reduce an O(N*M) loop to O(N+M) where
9421 N is the number of <Directory> sections, and M is the number of
9422 components in the filename of an object.
9424 To achieve this optimization the following config changes were made:
9425 - Wildcards (* and ?, not the regex forms) in <Directory>s,
9426 <Files>s, and <Location>s now treat a slash as a special
9427 character. For example "/home/*/public_html" previously would
9428 match "/home/a/andrew/public_html", now it only matches things
9429 like "/home/bob/public_html". This mimics /bin/sh behaviour.
9430 - It's possible now to use [] wildcarding in <Directory>, <Files>
9432 - Regex <Directory>s are applied after all non-regex <Directory>s.
9436 *) Fix a bug introduced in 1.3a1 directory_walk regarding .htaccess files
9437 and corrupted paths. [Dean Gaudet]
9439 *) Enhanced and cleaned up the URL rewriting engine of mod_rewrite:
9440 First the grouped parts of RewriteRule pattern matches (parenthesis!) can
9441 be accessed now via backreferences $1..$9 in RewriteConds test-against
9442 strings in addition to RewriteRules subst string. Second the grouped
9443 parts of RewriteCond pattern matches (parenthesis!) can be accessed now
9444 via backreferences %1..%9 both in following RewriteCond test-against
9445 strings and RewriteRules subst string. This provides maximum flexibility
9446 through the use of backreferences.
9447 Additionally the rewriting engine was cleaned up by putting common
9448 code to the new expand_backrefs_inbuffer() function.
9449 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9451 *) When merging the main server's <Directory> and <Location> sections into
9452 a vhost, put the main server's first and the vhost's second. Otherwise
9453 the vhost can't override the main server. [Dean Gaudet] PR#717
9455 *) The <Directory> code would merge and re-merge the same section after
9456 a match was found, possibly causing problems with some modules.
9459 *) ip-based vhosts are stored and queried using a hashing function, which
9460 has been shown to improve performance on servers with many ip-vhosts.
9461 Some other changes had to be made to accommodate this:
9462 - the * address for vhosts now behaves like _default_
9463 - the matching process now is:
9464 - match an ip-vhost directly via hash (possibly matches main
9466 - if that fails, just pretend it matched the main server
9467 - if so far only the main server has been matched, perform
9468 name-based lookups (ServerName, ServerAlias, ServerPath)
9469 *only on name-based vhosts*
9470 - if they fail, look for _default_ vhosts
9471 [Dean Gaudet, Dave Hankins <dhankins@sugarat.net>]
9473 *) dbmmanage overhaul:
9474 - merge dbmmanage and dbmmanage.new functionality, remove dbmmanage.new
9475 - tie() to AnyDBM_File which will use one of DB_File, NDBM_File or
9476 GDBM_File (-ldb, -lndbm, -lgdbm) (trying each in that order)
9477 - provide better seed for rand
9478 - prompt for password as per getpass(3) (turn off echo, read from
9480 - use "newstyle" crypt based on $Config{osname} ($^O)
9481 - will not add a user if already in database, use new `update' command
9483 - added `check' command to check a users' password
9484 - added `import' command to convert existing password text-files or
9485 dbm files exported with `view'
9486 - more descriptive usage, general cleanup, 'use strict' clean, etc.
9489 *) Added psocket() which is a pool form of socket(), various places within
9490 the proxy weren't properly blocking alarms while registering the cleanup
9491 for its sockets. bclose() now uses pclose() and pclosesocket(). There
9492 was a bug where the client socket was being close()d twice due a still
9493 registered cleanup. [Dean Gaudet]
9495 *) A few cleanups were made to reduce time(), getpid(), and signal() calls.
9498 *) PORT: AIX >= 4.2 requires -lm due to libc changes.
9499 [Jason Venner <jason@idiom.com>] PR#667
9501 *) Enable ``=""'' for RewriteCond directives to match against
9502 the empty string. This is the preferred way instead of ``^$''.
9503 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9505 *) Fixed an infinite loop in mod_imap for references above the server root
9506 [Dean Gaudet] PR#748
9508 *) mod_proxy now has a ReceiveBufferSize directive, similar to
9509 SendBufferSize, so that the TCP window can be set appropriately
9510 for LFNs. [Phillip A. Prindeville]
9512 *) mod_browser has been replaced by the more general mod_setenvif
9513 (courtesy of Paul Sutton). BrowserMatch* directives are still
9514 available, but are now joined by SetEnvIf*, UnSetEnvIf*, and
9515 UnSetEnvIfZero directives. [Ken Coar]
9517 *) "HostnameLookups double" forces double-reverse DNS to succeed in
9518 order for remote_host to be set (for logging, or for the env var
9519 REMOTE_HOST). The old define MAXIMUM_DNS has been deprecated.
9522 *) mod_access overhaul:
9523 - Now understands network/netmask syntax (i.e. 10.1.0.0/255.255.0.0)
9524 and cidr syntax (i.e. 10.1.0.0/16). PR#762
9525 - Critical path was sped up by pre-computing a few things at config time.
9526 - The undocumented syntax "allow user-agents" was removed,
9527 the replacement is "allow from env=foobar" combined with mod_browser.
9528 - When used with hostnames it now forces a double-reverse lookup
9529 no matter what the directory settings are. This double-reverse
9530 doesn't affect any of the other routines that use the remote
9531 hostname. In particular it's still passed to CGIs and the log
9532 without the double-reverse check. Related PR#860.
9535 *) When a large bwrite() occurs (larger than the internal buffer size),
9536 while there is already something in the buffer, apache will combine
9537 the large write and the buffer into a single writev(). (This is
9538 in anticipation of using mmap() for reading files.)
9541 *) In obscure cases where a partial socket write occurred while chunking,
9542 Apache would omit the chunk header/footer on the next block. Cleaned
9543 up other bugs/inconsistencies in error conditions in buff.c. Fixed
9544 a bug where a long pause in DNS lookups could cause the last packet
9545 of a response to be unduly delayed. [Roy Fielding, Dean Gaudet]
9547 *) API: Added child_exit function to module structure. This is called
9548 once per "heavy-weight process" just before a server child exit()'s
9549 e.g. when max_requests_per_child is reached, etc.
9550 [Doug MacEachern, Dean Gaudet]
9552 *) mod_include cleanup showed that handle_else was being used to handle
9553 endif. It didn't cause problems, but it was cleaned up too.
9556 *) mod_cern_meta would attempt to find meta files for the directory itself
9557 in some cases, but not in others. It now avoids it in all cases.
9560 *) mod_mime_magic would core dump if there was a decompression error.
9561 [Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>] PR#904
9563 *) PORT: some variants of DGUX require -lsocket -lnsl
9564 [Alexander L Jones <alex@systems-options.co.uk>] PR#732
9566 *) mod_autoindex now allows sorting of FancyIndexed directory listings
9567 by the various fields (name, size, et cetera), either in ascending
9568 or descending order. Just click on the column header. [Ken Coar]
9570 *) PORT: Various tweaks to eliminate pointer-int casting warnings on 64-bit
9571 CPUs like the Alpha. Apache still stores ints in pointers, but that's
9572 the relatively safe direction. [Dean Gaudet] PR#344
9574 *) PORT: QNX mmap() support for faster/more reliable scoreboard handling.
9575 [Igor N Kovalenko <infoh@mail.wplus.net>] PR#683
9577 *) child_main avoids an unneeded call to select() when there is only one
9578 listening socket. [Dean Gaudet]
9580 *) In the event that the server is starved for idle servers it will
9581 spawn 1, then 2, then 4, ..., then 32 servers each second,
9582 doubling each second. It'll also give a warning in the errorlog
9583 since the most common reason for this is a poor StartServers
9584 setting. The define MAX_SPAWN_RATE can be used to raise/lower
9585 the maximum. [Dean Gaudet]
9587 *) Apache now provides an effectively unbuffered connection for
9588 CGI scripts. This means that data will be sent to the client
9589 as soon as the CGI pauses or stops output; previously, Apache would
9590 buffer the output up to a fixed buffer size before sending, which
9591 could result in the user viewing an empty page until the CGI finished
9592 or output a complete buffer. It is no longer necessary to use an
9593 "nph-" CGI to get unbuffered output. Given that most CGIs are written
9594 in a language that by default does buffering (e.g. perl) this
9595 shouldn't have a detrimental effect on performance.
9597 "nph-" CGIs, which formerly provided a direct socket to the client
9598 without any server post-processing, were not fully compatible with
9599 HTTP/1.1 or SSL support. As such they would have had to implement
9600 the transport details, such as encryption or chunking, in order
9601 to work properly in certain situations. Now, the only difference
9602 between nph and non-nph scripts is "non-parsed headers".
9603 [Dean Gaudet, Sameer Parekh, Roy Fielding]
9605 *) If a BUFF is switched from buffered to unbuffered reading the first
9606 bread() will return whatever remained in the buffer prior to the
9607 switch. [Dean Gaudet]
9609 Changes with Apache 1.3a1
9611 *) Added another Configure helper script: TestLib. It determines
9612 if a specified library exists. [Jim Jagielski]
9614 *) PORT: Allow for use of n32bit libraries under IRIX 6.x
9615 [derived from patch from Jeff Hayes <jhayes@aw.sgi.com>]
9618 *) PORT: Some architectures use size_t for various lengths in network
9619 functions such as accept(), and getsockname(). The definition
9620 NET_SIZE_T is used to control this. [Dean Gaudet]
9622 *) PORT: Linux: Attempt to detect glibc based systems and include crypt.h
9623 and -lcrypt. Test for various db libraries (dbm, ndbm, db) when
9624 mod_auth_dbm or mod_auth_db are included. [Dean Gaudet]
9626 *) PORT: QNX doesn't have initgroups() which support/suexec.c uses.
9627 [Igor N Kovalenko <infoh@mail.wplus.net>]
9629 *) "force-response-1.0" now only applies to requests which are HTTP/1.0 to
9630 begin with. "nokeepalive" now works for HTTP/1.1 clients. Added
9631 "downgrade-1.0" which causes Apache to pretend it received a 1.0.
9632 [Dean Gaudet] related PR#875
9634 *) API: Correct child_init() slot declaration from int to void, to
9635 match the init() declaration. Update mod_example to use the new
9638 *) added transport handle slot (t_handle) to the BUFF structure
9641 *) get_client_block() returns wrong length if policy is
9642 REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK.
9643 [Kenichi Hori <ken@d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#815
9645 *) Support the image map format of FrontPage. For example:
9646 rect /url.hrm 10 20 30 40
9647 ["Chris O'Byrne" <obyrne@iol.ie>] PR#807
9649 *) PORT: -lresolv and -lsocks were in the wrong order for Solaris.
9650 ["Darren O'Shaughnessy" <darren@aaii.oz.au>] PR#846
9652 *) AddModuleInfo directive for mod_info which allows you to annotate
9653 the output of mod_info. ["Lou D. Langholtz" <ldl@usi.utah.edu>]
9655 *) Added NoProxy directive to avoid using ProxyRemote for selected
9656 addresses. Added ProxyDomain directive to cause unqualified
9657 names to be qualified by redirection.
9658 [Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>]
9660 *) Support Proxy Authentication, and don't pass the Proxy-Authorize
9661 header to the remote host in the proxy. [Sameer Parekh and
9664 *) Upgraded mod_rewrite from 3.0.6+ to latest officially available version
9665 3.0.9. This upgrade includes: fixed deadlooping on rewriting to same
9666 URLs, fixed rewritelog(), fixed forced response code handling on
9667 redirects from within .htaccess files, disabled pipe locking under
9668 braindead SunOS 4.1.x, allow env variables to be set even on rules with
9669 no substitution, bugfixed situations where HostnameLookups is off, made
9670 mod_rewrite more thread-safe for NT port and fixed problem when creating
9671 an empty query string via "xxx?".
9672 This update also removes the copyright of Ralf S. Engelschall,
9673 i.e. now mod_rewrite no longer has a shared copyright. Instead is is
9674 exclusively copyrighted by the Apache Group now. This happened because
9675 the author now has gifted mod_rewrite exclusively to the Apache Group and
9676 no longer maintains an external version.
9677 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9679 *) API: Added child_init function to module structure. This is called
9680 once per "heavy-weight process" before any requests are handled.
9681 See http_config.h for more details. [Dean Gaudet]
9683 *) Anonymous_LogEmail was logging on each subrequest.
9684 [Dean Gaudet] PR#421, 868
9686 *) API: Added is_initial_req() which tests if the request being
9687 processed is the initial request, or a subrequest.
9690 *) Extended SSI (mod_include) now handles additional relops for
9691 string comparisons (<, >, <=, and >=). [Bruno Wolff III] PR#41
9693 *) Configure fixed to correctly propagate user-selected options and
9694 settings (such as CC and OPTIM) to Makefiles other than
9695 src/Makefile (notably support/Makefile). [Ken Coar] PR#666, #834
9697 *) IndexOptions SuppressHTMLPreamble now causes the actual HTML of
9698 directory indices to start with the contents of the HeaderName file
9699 if there is one. If there isn't one, the behaviour is unchanged.
9700 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding, Andrey A. Chernov]
9702 *) WIN32: Modules can now be dynamically loaded DLLs using the
9703 LoadModule/LoadFile directives. Note that module DLLs must be
9704 compiled with the multithreaded DLL version of the runtime library.
9705 [Alexei Kosut and Ben Laurie]
9707 *) Automatic indexing removed from mod_dir and placed into mod_autoindex.
9708 This allows the admin to completely remove automatic indexing
9709 from the server, while still supporting the basic functions of
9710 trailing-slash redirects and DirectoryIndex files. Note that if
9711 you're carrying over an old Configuration file and you use directory
9712 indexing then you'll want to add:
9714 Module autoindex_module mod_autoindex.o
9716 before mod_dir in your Configuration. [Dean Gaudet]
9718 *) popendir/pclosedir created to properly protect directory scanning.
9719 [Dean Gaudet] PR#525
9721 *) AliasMatch, ScriptAliasMatch and RedirectMatch directives added,
9722 giving regex support to mod_alias. <DirectoryMatch>, <LocationMatch>
9723 and <FilesMatch> sections added to succeed <DirectoryMatch ~>, etc...
9726 *) The AccessFileName directive can now take more than one filename.
9727 ["Lou D. Langholtz" <ldl@usi.utah.edu>]
9729 *) The new mod_mime_magic can be used to "magically" determine the type
9730 of a file if the extension is unknown. Based on the unix file(1)
9731 command. [Ian Kluft <ikluft@cisco.com>]
9733 *) We now determine and display the time spent processing a
9734 request if desired. [Jim Jagielski]
9736 *) mod_status: PID field of "dead" child slots no longer displays
9737 main httpd process's PID. [Jim Jagielski]
9739 *) Makefile.nt added - to build all the bits from the command line:
9740 nmake -f Makefile.nt
9741 Doesn't yet work properly. [Ben Laurie]
9743 *) Default text of 404 error is now "Not Found" rather than the
9744 potentially misleading "File Not Found". [Ken Coar]
9746 *) CONFIG: "HostnameLookups" now defaults to off because it is far better
9747 for the net if we require people that actually need this data to
9748 enable it. [Linus Torvalds]
9750 *) directory_walk() is an expensive function, keep a little more state to
9751 avoid needless string counting. Add two new functions make_dirstr_parent
9752 and make_dirstr_prefix which replace all existing uses of make_dirstr.
9753 The new functions are a little less general than make_dirstr, but
9754 work more efficiently (less memory, less string counting).
9757 *) EXTRA_LFLAGS was changed to EXTRA_LDFLAGS (and LFLAGS was changed
9758 to LDFLAGS) to avoid complications with lex rules in make files.
9759 [Dean Gaudet] PR#372
9761 *) run_method optimized to avoid needless scanning over NULLs in the
9762 module list. [Dean Gaudet]
9764 *) Revamp of (unix) scoreboard management code such that it avoids
9765 unnecessary traversals of the scoreboard on each hit. This is
9766 particularly important for high volume sites with a large
9767 HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. Some of the previous operations were O(n^2),
9768 and are now O(n). See also SCOREBOARD_MAINTENANCE_INTERVAL in
9769 httpd.h. [Dean Gaudet]
9771 *) In configurations using multiple Listen statements it was possible for
9772 busy sockets to starve other sockets of service. [Dean Gaudet]
9774 *) Added hook so standalone_main can be replaced at compile time
9775 (define STANDALONE_MAIN)
9778 *) Lowest-level read/write functions in buff.c will be replaced with
9779 the SFIO library calls sfread/sfwrite if B_SFIO is defined at
9780 compile time. The default sfio discipline will behave as apache
9781 would without sfio compiled in.
9784 *) Enhance UserDir directive (mod_userdir) to accept a list of
9785 usernames for the 'disable' keyword, and add 'enable user...' to
9786 selectively *en*able userdirs if they're globally disabled.
9789 *) If NETSCAPE_DBM_COMPAT is defined in EXTRA_CFLAGS then Apache
9790 will work with Netscape dbm files. (dbmmanage will probably not
9791 work however.) [Alexander Spohr <aspohr@netmatic.com>] PR#444
9793 *) Add a ListenBacklog directive to control the backlog parameter
9794 passed to listen(). Also change the default to 511 from 512.
9797 *) API: A new handler response DONE which informs apache that the
9798 request has been handled and it can finish off quickly, similar to
9799 how it handles errors. [Rob Hartill]
9801 *) Turn off chunked encoding after sending terminating chunk/footer
9802 so that we can't do it twice by accident. [Roy Fielding]
9804 *) mod_expire also issues Cache-Control: max-age headers.
9807 *) API: Added kill_only_once option for free_proc_chain so that it won't
9808 aggressively try to kill off specific children. For fastcgi.
9809 [Stanley Gambarin <gambarin@OpenMarket.com>]
9811 *) mod_auth deals with extra ':' delimited fields. [Marc Slemko]
9813 *) Added IconHeight and IconWidth to mod_dir's IndexOptions directive.
9814 When used together, these cause mod_dir to emit HEIGHT and WIDTH
9815 attributes in the FancyIndexing IMG tags. [Ken Coar]
9817 *) PORT: Sequent and SONY NEWS-OS support added. [Jim Jagielski]
9819 *) PORT: Added Windows NT support
9820 [Ben Laurie and Ambarish Malpani <ambarish@valicert.com>]
9822 Changes with Apache 1.2.6
9824 *) mod_include when using XBitHack Full would send ETags in addition to
9825 sending Last-Modifieds. This is incorrect HTTP/1.1 behaviour.
9826 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1133
9828 *) SECURITY: When a client connects to a particular port/addr, and
9829 gives a Host: header ensure that the virtual host requested can
9830 actually be reached via that port/addr. [Ed Korthof <ed@organic.com>]
9832 *) Support virtual hosts with wildcard port and/or multiple ports
9833 properly. [Ed Korthof <ed@organic.com>]
9835 *) Fixed some case-sensitivity issues according to RFC2068.
9838 *) Set r->allowed properly in mod_asis.c, mod_dir.c, mod_info.c,
9839 and mod_include.c. [Dean Gaudet]
9841 *) Variable 'cwd' was being used pointlessly before being set.
9844 *) SIGURG doesn't exist on all platforms.
9845 [Mark Andrew Heinrich <heinrich@tinderbox.Stanford.EDU>]
9847 *) When an error occurs during a POST, or other operation with a
9848 request body, the body has to be read from the net before allowing
9849 a keepalive session to continue. [Roy Fielding] PR#1399
9851 *) When an error occurs in fcntl() locking suggest the user look up
9852 the docs for LockFile. [Dean Gaudet]
9854 *) table_set() and table_unset() did not deal correctly with
9855 multiple occurrences of the same key. [Stephen Scheck
9856 <sscheck@infonex.net>, Ben Laurie] PR#1604
9858 *) send_fd_length() did not calculate total_bytes_sent properly in error
9859 cases. [Ben Reser <breser@regnow.com>] PR#1366
9861 *) r->connection->user was allocated in the wrong pool causing corruption
9862 in some cases when used with mod_cern_meta. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1500
9864 *) mod_proxy was sending HTTP/1.1 responses to ftp requests by mistake.
9865 Also removed the auto-generated link to www.apache.org that was the
9866 source of so many misdirected bug reports. [Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
9868 *) Multiple "close" tokens may have been set in the "Connection"
9869 header, not an error, but a waste.
9870 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1683
9872 *) "basic" and "digest" auth tokens should be tested case-insensitive.
9873 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1599, PR#1666
9875 *) It appears the "257th byte" bug (see
9876 htdocs/manual/misc/known_client_problems.html#257th-byte) can happen
9877 at the 256th byte as well. Fixed. [Dean Gaudet]
9879 *) mod_rewrite would not handle %3f properly in some situations.
9882 *) Apache could generate improperly chunked HTTP/1.1 responses when
9883 the bputc() or rputc() functions were used by modules (such as
9884 mod_include). [Dean Gaudet]
9886 *) #ifdef wrap a few #defines in httpd.h to make life easier on
9887 some ports. [Ralf Engelschall]
9889 *) Fix MPE compilation error in mod_usertrack.c. [Mark Bixby]
9891 *) Quote CC='$(CC)' to improve recurse make calls. [Martin Kraemer]
9893 *) Avoid B_ERROR redeclaration on sysvr4 systems. [Martin Kraemer]
9895 Changes with Apache 1.2.5
9897 *) SECURITY: Fix a possible buffer overflow in logresolve. This is
9898 only an issue on systems without a MAXDNAME define or where
9899 the resolver returns domain names longer than MAXDNAME. [Marc Slemko]
9901 *) Fix an improper length in an ap_snprintf call in proxy_date_canon().
9904 *) Fix core dump in the ftp proxy when reading incorrectly formatted
9905 directory listings. [Marc Slemko]
9907 *) SECURITY: Fix possible minor buffer overflow in the proxy cache.
9910 *) SECURITY: Eliminate possible buffer overflow in cfg_getline, which
9911 is used to read various types of files such as htaccess and
9912 htpasswd files. [Marc Slemko]
9914 *) SECURITY: Ensure that the buffer returned by ht_time is always
9915 properly null terminated. [Marc Slemko]
9917 *) SECURITY: General mod_include cleanup, including fixing several
9918 possible buffer overflows and a possible infinite loop. This cleanup
9919 was done against 1.3 code and then backported to 1.2, the result
9920 is a large difference (due to indentation cleanup in 1.3 code).
9921 Users interested in seeing a smaller set of relevant differences
9922 should consider comparing against src/modules/standard/mod_include.c
9923 from the 1.3b3 release. Non-indentation changes to mod_include
9924 between 1.2 and 1.3 were minimal. [Dean Gaudet, Marc Slemko]
9926 *) SECURITY: Numerous changes to mod_imap in a general cleanup
9927 including fixing a possible buffer overflow. This cleanup also
9928 was done with 1.3 code as a basis, see the the previous note
9929 about mod_include. [Dean Gaudet]
9931 *) SECURITY: If a htaccess file can not be read due to bad
9932 permissions, deny access to the directory with a HTTP_FORBIDDEN.
9933 The previous behavior was to ignore the htaccess file if it could not
9934 be read. This change may make some setups with unreadable
9935 htaccess files stop working. PR#817 [Marc Slemko]
9937 *) SECURITY: no2slash() was O(n^2) in the length of the input.
9938 Make it O(n). This inefficiency could be used to mount a denial
9939 of service attack against the Apache server. Thanks to
9940 Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@boss.staszic.waw.pl> for reporting
9943 *) mod_include used uninitialized data for some uses of && and ||.
9944 [Brian Slesinsky <bslesins@wired.com>] PR#1139
9946 *) mod_imap should decline all non-GET methods.
9947 [Jay Bloodworth <jay@pathways.sde.state.sc.us>]
9949 *) suexec.c wouldn't build without -DLOG_EXEC. [Jason A. Dour]
9951 *) mod_userdir was modifying r->finfo in cases where it wasn't setting
9952 r->filename. Since those two are meant to be in sync with each other
9953 this is a bug. ["Paul B. Henson" <henson@intranet.csupomona.edu>]
9955 *) mod_include did not properly handle all possible redirects from sub-
9956 requests. [Ken Coar]
9958 *) Inetd mode (which is buggy) uses timeouts without having setup the
9959 jmpbuffer. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1064
9961 *) Work around problem under Linux where a child will start looping
9962 reporting a select error over and over.
9963 [Rick Franchuk <rickf@transpect.net>] PR#1107
9965 Changes with Apache 1.2.4
9967 *) The ProxyRemote change in 1.2.3 introduced a bug resulting in the proxy
9968 always making requests with the full-URI instead of just the URI path.
9969 [Marc Slemko, Roy Fielding]
9971 *) Add -lm for AIX versions >= 4.2 to allow Apache to link properly
9972 on this platform. [Marc Slemko]
9974 Changes with Apache 1.2.3
9976 *) The request to a remote proxy was mangled if it was generated as the
9977 result of a ProxyPass directive. URL schemes other than http:// were not
9978 supported when ProxyRemote was used. PR#260, PR#656, PR#699, PR#713,
9979 PR#812 [Lars Eilebrecht]
9981 *) Fixed proxy-pass-through feature of mod_rewrite; Added error logging
9982 information for case where proxy module is not available. [Marc Slemko]
9984 *) Force proxy to always respond as HTTP/1.0, which it was failing to
9985 do for errors and cached responses. [Roy Fielding]
9987 *) PORT: Improved support for ConvexOS 11. [Jeff Venters]
9989 Changes with Apache 1.2.2 [not released]
9991 *) Fixed another long-standing bug in sub_req_lookup_file where it would
9992 happily skip past access checks on subdirectories looked up with relative
9993 paths. (It's used by mod_dir, mod_negotiation, and mod_include.)
9996 *) Add lockfile name to error message printed out when
9997 USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is defined.
10000 *) Enhanced the chunking and error handling inside the buffer functions.
10001 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding]
10003 *) When merging the main server's <Directory> and <Location> sections into
10004 a vhost, put the main server's first and the vhost's second. Otherwise
10005 the vhost can't override the main server. [Dean Gaudet] PR#717
10007 *) The <Directory> code would merge and re-merge the same section after
10008 a match was found, possibly causing problems with some modules.
10011 *) Fixed an infinite loop in mod_imap for references above the server root.
10012 [Dean Gaudet] PR#748
10014 *) mod_include cleanup showed that handle_else was being used to handle
10015 endif. It didn't cause problems, but it was cleaned up too.
10018 *) Last official synchronization of mod_rewrite with author version (because
10019 mod_rewrite is now directly developed by the author at the Apache Group):
10020 o added diff between mod_rewrite 3.0.6+ and 3.0.9
10021 minus WIN32/NT stuff, but plus copyright removement.
10023 - workaround for detecting infinite rewriting loops
10024 - fixed setting of env vars when "-" is used as subst string
10025 - fixed forced response code on redirects (PR#777)
10026 - fixed cases where r->args is ""
10027 - kludge to disable locking on pipes under braindead SunOS
10028 - fix for rewritelog in cases where remote hostname is unknown
10029 - fixed totally damaged request_rec walk-back loop
10030 o remove static from local data and add static to global ones.
10031 o replaced ugly proxy finding stuff by simple
10032 find_linked_module("mod_proxy") call.
10033 o added missing negation char on rewritelog()
10034 o fixed a few comment typos
10035 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10037 *) Anonymous_LogEmail was logging on each subrequest.
10038 [Dean Gaudet] PR#421, PR#868
10040 *) "force-response-1.0" now only applies to requests which are HTTP/1.0 to
10041 begin with. "nokeepalive" now works for HTTP/1.1 clients. Added
10042 "downgrade-1.0" which causes Apache to pretend it received a 1.0.
10043 Additionally mod_browser now triggers during translate_name to workaround
10044 a deficiency in the header_parse phase.
10045 [Dean Gaudet] PR#875
10047 *) get_client_block() returns wrong length if policy is
10048 REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK.
10049 [Kenichi Hori <ken@d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#815
10051 *) Properly treat <files> container like other containers in mod_info.
10052 [Marc Slemko] PR#848
10054 *) The proxy didn't treat the "Host:" keyword of the host header as case-
10055 insensitive. The proxy would corrupt the first line of a response from
10056 an HTTP/0.9 server. [Kenichi Hori <ken@d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#813,814
10058 *) mod_include would log some bogus values occasionally.
10059 [Skip Montanaro <skip@calendar.com>, Marc Slemko] PR#797
10061 *) PORT: The slack fd changes in 1.2.1 introduced a problem with SIGHUP
10062 under Solaris 2.x (up through 2.5.1). It has been fixed.
10063 [Dean Gaudet] PR#832
10065 *) API: In HTTP/1.1, whether or not a request message contains a body
10066 is independent of the request method and based solely on the presence
10067 of a Content-Length or Transfer-Encoding. Therefore, our default
10068 handlers need to be prepared to read a body even if they don't know
10069 what to do with it; otherwise, the body would be mistaken for the
10070 next request on a persistent connection. discard_request_body()
10071 has been added to take care of that. [Roy Fielding] PR#378
10073 *) API: Symbol APACHE_RELEASE provides a numeric form of the Apache
10074 release version number, such that it always increases along the
10075 same lines as our source code branching. [Roy Fielding]
10077 *) Minor oversight on multiple variants fixed. [Paul Sutton] PR#94
10079 Changes with Apache 1.2.1
10081 *) SECURITY: Don't serve file system objects unless they are plain files,
10082 symlinks, or directories. This prevents local users from using pipes
10083 or named sockets to invoke programs for an extremely crude form of
10086 *) SECURITY: HeaderName and ReadmeName were settable in .htaccess and
10087 could contain "../" allowing a local user to "publish" any file on
10088 the system. No slashes are allowed now. [Dean Gaudet]
10090 *) SECURITY: It was possible to violate the symlink Options using mod_dir
10091 (headers, readmes, titles), mod_negotiation (type maps), or
10092 mod_cern_meta (meta files). [Dean Gaudet]
10094 *) SECURITY: Apache will refuse to run as "User root" unless
10095 BIG_SECURITY_HOLE is defined at compile time. [Dean Gaudet]
10097 *) CONFIG: If a symlink pointed to a directory then it would be disallowed
10098 if it contained a .htaccess disallowing symlinks. This is contrary
10099 to the rule that symlink permissions are tested with the symlink
10100 options of the parent directory. [Dean Gaudet] PR#353
10102 *) CONFIG: The LockFile directive can be used to place the serializing
10103 lockfile in any location. It previously defaulted to /usr/tmp/htlock.
10104 [Somehow it took four of us: Randy Terbush, Jim Jagielski, Dean Gaudet,
10107 *) Request processing now retains state of whether or not the request
10108 body has been read, so that internal redirects and subrequests will
10109 not try to read it twice (and block). [Roy Fielding]
10111 *) Add a placeholder in modules/Makefile to avoid errors with certain
10112 makes. [Marc Slemko]
10114 *) QUERY_STRING was unescaped in mod_include, it shouldn't be.
10115 [Dean Gaudet] PR#644
10117 *) mod_include was not properly changing the current directory.
10118 [Marc Slemko] PR#742
10120 *) Attempt to work around problems with third party libraries that do not
10121 handle high numbered descriptors (examples include bind, and
10122 solaris libc). On all systems apache attempts to keep all permanent
10123 descriptors above 15 (called the low slack line). Solaris users
10124 can also benefit from adding -DHIGH_SLACK_LINE=256 to EXTRA_CFLAGS
10125 which keeps all non-FILE * descriptors above 255. On all systems
10126 this should make supporting large numbers of vhosts with many open
10127 log files more feasible. If this causes trouble please report it,
10128 you can disable this workaround by adding -DNO_SLACK to EXTRA_CFLAGS.
10129 [Dean Gaudet] various PRs
10131 *) Related to the last entry, network sockets are now opened before
10132 log files are opened. The only known case where this can cause
10133 problems is under Solaris with many virtualhosts and many Listen
10134 directives. But using -DHIGH_SLACK_LINE=256 described above will
10135 work around this problem. [Dean Gaudet]
10137 *) USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is now default for FreeBSD, A/UX, and
10140 *) Improved unix error response logging. [Marc Slemko]
10142 *) Update mod_rewrite from 3.0.5 to 3.0.6. New ruleflag
10143 QSA=query_string_append. Also fixed a nasty bug in per-dir context:
10144 when a URL http://... was used in conjunction with a special
10145 redirect flag, e.g. R=permanent, the permanent status was lost.
10146 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
10148 *) If an object has multiple variants that are otherwise equal Apache
10149 would prefer the last listed variant rather than the first.
10150 [Paul Sutton] PR#94
10152 *) "make clean" at the top level now removes *.o. [Dean Gaudet] PR#752
10154 *) mod_status dumps core in inetd mode. [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
10157 *) pregsub had an off-by-1 in its error checking code. [Alexei Kosut]
10159 *) PORT: fix rlim_t problems with AIX 4.2. [Marc Slemko] PR#333
10161 *) PORT: Update UnixWare support for 2.1.2.
10162 [Lawrence Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>] PR#511
10164 *) PORT: NonStop-UX [Joachim Schmitz <schmitz_joachim@tandem.com>] PR#327
10166 *) PORT: Update ConvexOS support for 11.5.
10167 [David DeSimone <fox@convex.com>] PR#399
10169 *) PORT: Support for DEC cc compiler under ULTRIX.
10170 ["P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia" <alejolo@ideam.gov.co>] PR#388
10172 *) PORT: Support for Maxion/OS SVR4.2 Real Time Unix. [no name given] PR#383
10174 *) PORT: Workaround for AIX 3.x compiler bug in http_bprintf.c.
10175 [Marc Slemko] PR#725
10177 *) PORT: fix problem compiling http_bprintf.c with gcc under SCO
10178 [Marc Slemko] PR#695
10180 Changes with Apache 1.2
10182 Changes with Apache 1.2b11
10184 *) Fixed open timestamp fd in proxy_cache.c [Chuck Murcko]
10186 *) Added undocumented perl SSI mechanism for -DUSE_PERL_SSI and mod_perl.
10187 [Doug MacEachern, Rob Hartill]
10189 *) Proxy needs to use hard_timeout instead of soft_timeout when it is
10190 reading from one buffer and writing to another, at least until it has
10191 a custom timeout handler. [Roy Fielding and Petr Lampa]
10193 *) Fixed problem on IRIX with servers hanging in IdentityCheck,
10194 apparently due to a mismatch between sigaction and setjmp.
10195 [Roy Fielding] PR#502
10197 *) Log correct status code if we timeout before receiving a request (408)
10198 or if we received a request-line that was too long to process (414).
10199 [Ed Korthof and Roy Fielding] PR#601
10201 *) Virtual hosts with the same ServerName, but on different ports, were
10202 not being selected properly. [Ed Korthof]
10204 *) Added code to return the requested IP address from proxy_host2addr()
10205 if gethostbyaddr() fails due to reverse DNS lookup problems. Original
10206 change submitted by Jozsef Hollosi <hollosi@sbcm.com>.
10207 [Chuck Murcko] PR#614
10209 *) If multiple requests on a single connection are used to retrieve
10210 data from different virtual hosts, the virtual host list would be
10211 scanned starting with the most recently used VH instead of the first,
10212 causing most virtual hosts to be ignored.
10213 [Paul Sutton and Martin Mares] PR#610
10215 *) The OS/2 handling of process group was broken by a porting patch for
10216 MPE, so restored prior code for OS/2. [Roy Fielding and Garey Smiley]
10218 *) Inherit virtual server port from main server if none (or "*") is
10219 given for VirtualHost. [Dean Gaudet] PR#576
10221 *) If the lookup for a DirectoryIndex name with content negotiation
10222 has found matching variants, but none are acceptable, return the
10223 negotiation result if there are no more DirectoryIndex names to lookup.
10224 [Petr Lampa and Roy Fielding]
10226 *) If a soft_timeout occurs after keepalive is set, then the main child
10227 loop would try to read another request even though the connection
10228 has been aborted. [Roy Fielding]
10230 *) Configure changes: Allow for whitespace at the start of a
10231 Module declaration. Also, be more understanding about the
10232 CC=/OPTIM= format in Configuration. Finally, fix compiler
10233 flags if using HP-UX's cc compiler. [Jim Jagielski]
10235 *) Subrequests and internal redirects now inherit the_request from the
10236 original request-line. [Roy Fielding]
10238 *) Test for error conditions before creating output header fields, since
10239 we don't want the error message to include those fields. Likewise,
10240 reset the content_language(s) and content_encoding of the response
10241 before generating or redirecting to an error message, since the new
10242 message will have its own Content-* definitions. [Dean Gaudet]
10244 *) Restored the semantics of headers_out (headers sent only with 200..299
10245 and 304 responses) and err_headers_out (headers sent with all responses).
10246 Avoid the overhead of copying tables if err_headers_out is empty
10247 (the usual case). [Roy Fielding]
10249 *) Fixed a couple places where a check for the default Content-Type was
10250 not properly checking both the value configured by the DefaultType
10251 directive and the DEFAULT_TYPE symbol in httpd.h. Changed the value
10252 of DEFAULT_TYPE to match the documented default (text/plain).
10253 [Dean Gaudet] PR#506
10255 *) Escape the HTML-sensitive characters in the Request-URI that is
10256 output for each child by mod_status. [Dean Gaudet and Ken Coar] PR#501
10258 *) Properly initialize the flock structures used by the mutex locking
10259 around accept() when USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is defined.
10262 *) The method for determining PATH_INFO has been restored to the pre-1.2b
10263 (and NCSA httpd) definition wherein it was the extra path info beyond
10264 the CGI script filename. The environment variable FILEPATH_INFO has
10265 been removed, and instead we supply the original REQUEST_URI to any
10266 script that wants to be Apache-specific and needs the real URI path.
10267 This solves a problem with existing scripts that use extra path info
10268 in the ScriptAlias directive to pass options to the CGI script.
10271 *) The _default_ change in 1.2b10 will change the behaviour on configs
10272 that use multiple Listen statements for listening on multiple ports.
10273 But that change is necessary to make _default_ consistent with other
10274 forms of <VirtualHost>. It requires such configs to be modified
10275 to use <VirtualHost _default_:*>. The documentation has been
10276 updated. [Dean Gaudet] PR#530
10278 *) If an ErrorDocument CGI script is used to respond to an error
10279 generated by another CGI script which has already read the message
10280 body of the request, the server would block trying to read the
10281 message body again. [Rob Hartill]
10283 *) signal() replacement conflicted with a define on QNX (and potentially
10284 other platforms). Fixed. [Ben Laurie] PR#512
10286 Changes with Apache 1.2b10
10288 *) Allow HTTPD_ROOT, SERVER_CONFIG_FILE, DEFAULT_PATH, and SHELL_PATH
10289 to be configured via -D in Configuration. [Dean Gaudet] PR#449
10291 *) <VirtualHost _default_:portnum> didn't work properly. [Dean Gaudet]
10293 *) Added prototype for mktemp() for SUNOS4 [Marc Slemko]
10295 *) In mod_proxy.c, check return values for proxy_host2addr() when reading
10296 config, in case the hostent struct returned is trash.
10297 [Chuck Murcko] PR #491
10299 *) Fixed the fix in 1.2b9 for parsing URL query info into args for CGI
10300 scripts. [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
10302 Changes with Apache 1.2b9 [never announced]
10304 *) Reset the MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER to account for the unsigned port
10305 changes and in anticipation of 1.2 final release. [Roy Fielding]
10307 *) Fix problem with scripts not receiving a SIGPIPE when client drops
10308 the connection (e.g., when user presses Stop). Apache will now stop
10309 trying to send a message body immediately after an error from write.
10310 [Roy Fielding and Nathan Kurz] PR#335
10312 *) Rearrange Configuration.tmpl so that mod_rewrite has higher priority
10313 than mod_alias, and mod_alias has higher priority than mod_proxy;
10314 rearranged other modules to enhance understanding of their purpose
10315 and relative order (and maybe even reduce some overhead).
10316 [Roy Fielding and Sameer Parekh]
10318 *) Fix graceful restart. Eliminate many signal-related race
10319 conditions in both forms of restart, and in SIGTERM. See
10320 htdocs/manual/stopping.html for details on stopping and
10321 restarting the parent. [Dean Gaudet]
10323 *) Fix memory leaks in mod_rewrite, mod_browser, mod_include. Tune
10324 memory allocator to avoid a behaviour that required extra blocks to
10325 be allocated. [Dean Gaudet]
10327 *) Allow suexec to access files relative to current directory but not
10328 above. (Excluding leading / or any .. directory.) [Ken Coar]
10331 *) Fix suexec segfault when group doesn't exist. [Gregory Neil Shapiro]
10332 PR#367, 368, 354, 453
10334 *) Fix the above fix: if suexec is enabled, avoid destroying r->url
10335 while obtaining the /~user and save the username in a separate data
10336 area so that it won't be overwritten by the call to getgrgid(), and
10337 fix some misuse of the pool string allocation functions. Also fixes
10338 a general problem with parsing URL query info into args for CGI scripts.
10339 [Roy Fielding] PR#339, 367, 354, 453
10341 *) Fix IRIX warning about bzero undefined. [Marc Slemko]
10343 *) Fix problem with <Directory proxy:...>. [Martin Kraemer] PR#271
10345 *) Corrected spelling of "authoritative". AuthDBAuthoratative became
10346 AuthDBAuthoritative. [Marc Slemko] PR#420
10348 *) MaxClients should be at least 1. [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#375
10350 *) The default handler now logs invalid methods or URIs (i.e. PUT on an
10351 object that can't be PUT, or FOOBAR for some method FOOBAR that
10352 apache doesn't know about at all). Log 404s that occur in mod_include.
10353 [Paul Sutton, John Van Essen]
10355 *) If a soft timeout (or lingerout) occurs while trying to flush a
10356 buffer or write inside buff.c or fread'ing from a CGI's output,
10357 then the timeout would be ignored. [Roy Fielding] PR#373
10359 *) Work around a bug in Netscape Navigator versions 2.x, 3.x and 4.0b2's
10360 parsing of headers. If the terminating empty-line CRLF occurs starting
10361 at the 256th or 257th byte of output, then Navigator will think a normal
10362 image is invalid. We are guessing that this is because their initial
10363 read of a new request uses a 256 byte buffer. We check the bytes written
10364 so far and, if we are about to tickle the bug, we instead insert a
10365 padding header of eminent bogosity. [Roy Fielding and Dean Gaudet] PR#232
10367 *) Fixed SIGSEGV problem when a DirectoryIndex file is also the source
10368 of an external redirection. [Roy Fielding and Paul Sutton]
10370 *) Configure would create a broken Makefile if the configuration file
10371 contained a commented-out Rule. [Roy Fielding]
10373 *) Promote per_dir_config and subprocess_env from the subrequest to the
10374 main request in mod_negotiation. In particular this fixes a bug
10375 where <Files> sections wouldn't properly apply to negotiated content.
10378 *) Fix a potential deadlock in mod_cgi script_err handling.
10379 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10381 *) rotatelogs zero-pads the logfile names to improve alphabetic sorting.
10382 [Mitchell Blank Jr]
10384 *) Updated mod_rewrite to 3.0.4: Fixes HTTP redirects from within
10385 .htaccess files because the RewriteBase was not replaced correctly.
10386 Updated mod_rewrite to 3.0.5: Fixes problem with rewriting inside
10387 <Directory> sections missing a trailing /. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10389 *) Clean up Linux settings in conf.h by detecting 2.x versus 1.x. For
10390 1.x the settings are those of pre-1.2b8. For 2.x we include
10391 USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD (scoreboard in shared memory rather than file) and
10392 HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H (enable the RLimit commands).
10393 [Dean Gaudet] PR#336, PR#340
10395 *) Redirect did not preserve ?query_strings when present in the client's
10396 request. [Dean Gaudet]
10398 *) Configure was finding non-modules on EXTRA_LIBS. [Frank Cringle] PR#380
10400 *) Use /bin/sh5 on ULTRIX. [P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia] PR#369
10402 *) Add UnixWare compile/install instructions. [Chuck Murcko]
10404 *) Add mod_example (illustration of API techniques). [Ken Coar]
10406 *) Add macro for memmove to conf.h for SUNOS4. [Marc Slemko]
10408 *) Improve handling of directories when filenames have spaces in them.
10411 *) For hosts with multiple IP addresses, try all additional addresses if
10412 necessary to get a connect. Fail only if hostent address list is
10413 exhausted. [Chuck Murcko]
10415 *) More signed/unsigned port fixes. [Dean Gaudet]
10417 *) HARD_SERVER_LIMIT can be defined in the Configuration file now.
10420 Changes with Apache 1.2b8
10422 *) suexec.c doesn't close the log file, allowing CGIs to continue writing
10423 to it. [Marc Slemko]
10425 *) The addition of <Location> and <File> directives made the
10426 sub_req_lookup_simple() function bogus, so we now handle
10427 the special cases directly. [Dean Gaudet]
10429 *) We now try to log where the server is dumping core when a fatal
10430 signal is received. [Ken Coar]
10432 *) Improved lingering_close by adding a special timeout, removing the
10433 spurious log messages, removing the nonblocking settings (they
10434 are not needed with the better timeout), and adding commentary
10435 about the NO_LINGCLOSE and USE_SO_LINGER issues. NO_LINGCLOSE is
10436 now the default for SunOS4, UnixWare, NeXT, and IRIX. [Roy Fielding]
10438 *) Send error messages about setsockopt failures to the server error
10439 log instead of stderr. [Roy Fielding]
10441 *) Fix loopholes in proxy cache expiry vis a vis alarms. [Brian Moore]
10443 *) Stopgap solution for CGI 3-second delay with server-side includes: if
10444 processing a subrequest, allocate memory from r->main->pool instead
10445 of r->pool so that we can avoid waiting for free_proc_chain to cleanup
10446 in the middle of an SSI request. [Dean Gaudet] PR #122
10448 *) Fixed status of response when POST is received for a nonexistent URL
10449 (was sending 405, now 404) and when any method is sent with a
10450 full-URI that doesn't match the server and the server is not acting
10451 as a proxy (was sending 501, now 403). [Roy Fielding]
10453 *) Host port changed to unsigned short. [Ken Coar] PR #276
10455 *) Fix typo in command definition of AuthAuthoritative. [Ken Coar] PR #246
10457 *) Defined USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD for shared memory on Linux. [Dean Gaudet]
10459 *) Report extra info from errno with many errors that cause httpd to exit.
10460 spawn_child, popenf, and pclosef now have valid errno returns in the
10461 event of an error. Correct problems where errno was stomped on
10462 before being reported. [Dean Gaudet]
10464 *) In the proxy, if the cache filesystem was full, garbage_coll() was
10465 never called, and thus the filesystem would remain full indefinitely.
10466 We now also remove incomplete cache files left if the origin server
10467 didn't send a Content-Length header and either the client has aborted
10468 transfer or bwrite() to client has failed. [Petr Lampa]
10470 *) Fixed the handling of module and script-added header fields.
10471 Improved the interface for sending header fields and reduced
10472 the duplication of code between sending okay responses and errors.
10473 We now always send both headers_out and err_headers_out, and
10474 ensure that the server-reserved fields are not being overridden,
10475 while not overriding those that are not reserved. [Roy Fielding]
10477 *) Moved transparent content negotiation fields to err_headers_out
10478 to reflect above changes. [Petr Lampa]
10480 *) Fixed the determination of whether or not we should make the
10481 connection persistent for all of the cases where some other part
10482 of the server has already indicated that we should not. Also
10483 improved the ordering of the test so that chunked encoding will
10484 be set whenever it is desired instead of only when KeepAlive
10485 is enabled. Added persistent connection capability for most error
10486 responses (those that do not indicate a bad input stream) when
10487 accessed by an HTTP/1.1 client. [Roy Fielding]
10489 *) Added missing timeouts for sending header fields, error responses,
10490 and the last chunk of chunked encoding, each of which could have
10491 resulted in a process being stuck in write forever. Using soft_timeout
10492 requires that the sender check for an aborted connection rather than
10493 continuing after an EINTR. Timeouts that used to be initiated before
10494 send_http_header (and never killed) are now initiated only within or
10495 around the routines that actually do the sending, and not allowed to
10496 propagate above the caller. [Roy Fielding]
10498 *) mod_auth_anon required an @ or a . in the email address, not both.
10501 *) per_dir_defaults weren't set correctly until directory_walk for
10502 name-based vhosts. This fixes an obscure bug with the wrong config
10503 info being used for vhosts that share the same ip as the server.
10506 *) Improved generation of modules/Makefile to be more generic for
10507 new module directories. [Ken Coar, Chuck Murcko, Roy Fielding]
10509 *) Generate makefile dependency for Configuration based on the actual
10510 name given when running the Configure process. [Dean Gaudet]
10512 *) Fixed problem with vhost error log not being set prior to
10513 initializing virtual hosts. [Dean Gaudet]
10515 *) Fixed infinite loop when a trailing slash is included after a type map
10516 file URL (extra path info). [Petr Lampa]
10518 *) Fixed server status updating of per-connection counters. [Roy Fielding]
10520 *) Add documentation for DNS issues (reliability and security), and try
10521 to explain the virtual host matching process. [Dean Gaudet]
10523 *) Try to continue gracefully by disabling the vhost if a DNS lookup
10524 fails while parsing the configuration file. [Dean Gaudet]
10526 *) Improved calls to setsockopt. [Roy Fielding]
10528 *) Negotiation changes: Don't output empty content-type in variant list;
10529 Output charset in variant list; Return sooner from handle_multi() if
10530 no variants found; Add handling of '*' wildcard in Accept-Charset.
10531 [Petr Lampa and Paul Sutton]
10533 *) Fixed overlaying of request/sub-request notes and headers in
10534 mod_negotiation. [Dean Gaudet]
10536 *) If two variants' charset quality are equal and one is the default
10537 charset (iso-8859-1), then prefer the variant that was specifically
10538 listed in Accept-Charset instead of the default. [Petr Lampa]
10540 *) Memory allocation problem in push_array() -- it would corrupt memory
10541 when nalloc==0. [Kai Risku <krisku@tf.hut.fi> and Roy Fielding]
10543 *) invoke_handler() doesn't handle mime arguments in content-type
10544 [Petr Lampa] PR#160
10546 *) Reduced IdentityCheck timeout to 30 seconds, as per RFC 1413 minimum.
10549 *) Fixed problem with ErrorDocument not working for virtual hosts
10550 due to one of the performance changes in 1.2b7. [Dean Gaudet]
10552 *) Log an error message if we get a request header that is too long,
10553 since it may indicate a buffer overflow attack. [Marc Slemko]
10555 *) Made is_url() allow "[-.+a-zA-Z0-9]+:" as a valid scheme and
10556 not reject URLs without a double-slash, as per RFC2068 section 3.2.
10557 [Ken Coar] PR #146, #187
10559 *) Added table entry placeholder for new header_parser callback
10560 in all of the distributed modules. [Ken Coar] PR #191
10562 *) Allow for cgi files without the .EXE extension on them under OS/2.
10563 [Garey Smiley] PR #59
10565 *) Fixed error message when resource is not found and URL contains
10566 path info. [Petr Lampa and Dean Gaudet] PR #40
10568 *) Fixed user and server confusion over what should be a virtual host
10569 and what is the main server, resulting in access to something
10570 other than the name defined in the virtualhost directive (but
10571 with the same IP address) failing. [Dean Gaudet]
10573 *) Updated mod_rewrite to version 3.0.2, which: fixes compile error on
10574 AIX; improves the redirection stuff to enable the users to generally
10575 redirect to http, https, gopher and ftp; added TIME variable for
10576 RewriteCond which expands to YYYYMMDDHHMMSS strings and added the
10577 special patterns >STRING, <STRING and =STRING to RewriteCond, which
10578 can be used in conjunction with %{TIME} or other variables to create
10579 time-dependent rewriting rules. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10581 *) bpushfd() no longer notes cleanups for the file descriptors it is handed.
10582 Module authors may need to adjust their code for proper cleanup to take
10583 place (that is, call note_cleanups_for_fd()). This change fixes problems
10584 with file descriptors being erroneously closed when the proxy module was
10585 in use. [Ben Laurie]
10587 *) Fix bug in suexec reintroduced by changes in 1.2b7 which allows
10588 initgroups() to hose the group information needed for later
10589 comparisons. [Randy Terbush]
10591 *) Remove unnecessary call to va_end() in create_argv() which
10592 caused a SEGV on some systems.
10594 *) Use proper MAXHOSTNAMELEN symbol for limiting length of server name.
10597 *) Clear memory allocated for listeners. [Randy Terbush]
10599 *) Improved handling of IP address as a virtualhost address and
10600 introduced "_default_" as a synonym for the default vhost config.
10601 [Dean Gaudet] PR #212
10603 Changes with Apache 1.2b7
10605 *) Port to UXP/DS(V20) [Toshiaki Nomura <nom@yk.fujitsu.co.jp>]
10607 *) unset Content-Length if chunked (RFC-2068) [Petr Lampa]
10609 *) mod_negotiation fixes [Petr Lampa] PR#157, PR#158, PR#159
10610 - replace protocol response numbers with symbols
10611 - save variant-list into main request notes
10612 - free allocated memory from subrequests
10613 - merge notes, headers_out and err_headers_out
10615 *) changed status check mask in proxy_http.c from "HTTP/#.# ### *" to
10616 "HTTP/#.# ###*" to be more lenient about what we accept.
10619 *) more proxy FTP bug fixes:
10620 - Changed send_dir() to remove user/passwd from displayed URL.
10621 - Changed login error messages to be more descriptive.
10622 - remove setting of SO_DEBUG socket option
10623 - Make ftp_getrc() more lenient about multiline responses,
10624 specifically, 230 responses which don't have continuation 230-
10625 on each line). These seem to be all NT FTP servers, and while
10626 perhaps questionable, they appear to be legal by RFC 959.
10627 - Add missing kill_timeout() after transfer to user completes.
10630 *) Fixed problem where a busy server could hang when restarting
10631 after being sent a SIGHUP due to child processes not exiting.
10634 *) Modify mod_include escaping so a '\' only signifies an escaped
10635 character if the next character is one that needs
10636 escaping. [Ben Laurie]
10638 *) Eliminated possible infinite loop in mod_imap when relative URLs are
10639 used with a 'base' directive that does not have a '/' in it.
10640 [Marc Slemko, reported by Onno Witvliet <onno@tc.hsa.nl>]
10642 *) Reduced the default timeout from 1200 seconds to 300, and the
10643 one in the sample configfile from 400 to 300. [Marc Slemko]
10645 *) Stop vbprintf from crashing if given a NULL string pointer;
10646 print (null) instead. [Ken Coar]
10648 *) Don't disable Nagle algorithm if system doesn't have TCP_NODELAY.
10649 [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
10651 *) Fixed problem with mod_cgi-generated internal redirects trying to
10652 read the request message-body twice. [Archie Cobbs and Roy Fielding]
10654 *) Reduced timeout on lingering close, removed possibility of a blocked
10655 read causing the child to hang, and stopped logging of errors if
10656 the socket is not connected (reset by client). [Roy Fielding]
10658 *) Rearranged main child loop to remove duplication of code in
10659 select/accept and keep-alive requests, fixed several bugs regarding
10660 checking scoreboard_image for exit indication and failure to
10661 account for all success conditions and trap all error conditions,
10662 prevented multiple flushes before closing the socket; close the entire
10663 socket buffer instead of just one descriptor, prevent logging of
10664 EPROTO and ECONNABORTED on platforms where supported, and generally
10665 improved readability. [Roy Fielding]
10667 *) Extensive performance improvements. Cleaned up inefficient use of
10668 auto initializers, multiple is_matchexp calls on a static string,
10669 and excessive merging of response_code_strings. [Dean Gaudet]
10671 *) Added double-buffering to mod_include to improve performance on
10672 server-side includes. [Marc Slemko]
10674 *) Several fixes for suexec wrapper. [Randy Terbush]
10675 - Make wrapper work for files on NFS filesystem.
10676 - Fix portability problem of MAXPATHLEN.
10677 - Fix array overrun problem in clean_env().
10678 - Fix allocation of PATH environment variable
10680 *) Removed extraneous blank line is description of mod_status chars.
10683 *) Logging of errors from the call_exec routine simply went nowhere,
10684 since the logfile fd has been closed, so now we send them to stderr.
10685 [Harald T. Alvestrand]
10687 *) Fixed core dump when DocumentRoot is a CGI.
10688 [Ben Laurie, reported by geddis@tesserae.com]
10690 *) Fixed potential file descriptor leak in mod_asis; updated it and
10691 http_core to use pfopen/pfclose instead of fopen/fclose.
10692 [Randy Terbush and Roy Fielding]
10694 *) Fixed handling of unsigned ints in ap_snprintf() on some chips such
10695 as the DEC Alpha which is 64-bit but uses 32-bit ints.
10696 [Dean Gaudet and Ken Coar]
10698 *) Return a 302 response code to the client when sending a redirect
10699 due to a missing trailing '/' on a directory instead of a 301; now
10700 it is cacheable. [Markus Gyger]
10702 *) Fix condition where, if a bad directive occurs in .htaccess, and
10703 sub_request() goes first to this directory, then log_reason() will
10704 SIGSEGV because it doesn't have initialized r->per_dir_config.
10705 [PR#162 from Petr Lampa, fix by Marc Slemko and Dean Gaudet]
10707 *) Fix handling of lang_index in is_variant_better(). This was
10708 causing problems which resulted in the server sending the
10709 wrong language document in some cases. [Petr Lampa]
10711 *) Remove free() from clean_env() in suexec wrapper. This was nuking
10712 the clean environment on some systems.
10714 *) Tweak byteserving code (e.g. serving PDF files) to work around
10715 bugs in Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
10716 Emit Content-Length header when sending multipart/byteranges.
10719 *) Port to HI-UX/WE2. [Nick Maclaren]
10721 *) Port to HP MPE operating system for HP 3000 machines
10722 [Mark Bixby <markb@cccd.edu>]
10724 *) Fixed bug which caused a segmentation fault if only one argument
10725 given to RLimit* directives. [Ed Korthof]
10727 *) Continue persistent connection after 204 or 304 response. [Dean Gaudet]
10729 *) Improved buffered output to the client by delaying the flush decision
10730 until the BUFF code is actually about to read the next request.
10731 This fixes a problem introduced in 1.2b5 with clients that send
10732 an extra CRLF after a POST request. Also improved chunked output
10733 performance by combining writes using writev() and removing as
10734 many bflush() calls as possible. NOTE: Platforms without writev()
10735 must add -DNO_WRITEV to the compiler CFLAGS, either in Configuration
10736 or Configure, unless we have already done so. [Dean Gaudet]
10738 *) Fixed mod_rewrite bug which truncated the rewritten URL [Marc Slemko]
10740 *) Fixed mod_info output corruption bug introduced by buffer overflow
10741 fixes. [Dean Gaudet]
10743 *) Fixed http_protocol to correctly output all HTTP/1.1 headers, including
10744 for the special case of a 304 response. [Paul Sutton]
10746 *) Improved handling of TRACE method by bypassing normal method handling
10747 and header parsing routines; fixed Allow response to always allow TRACE.
10750 *) Fixed compiler warnings in the regex library. [Dean Gaudet]
10752 *) Cleaned-up some of the generated HTML. [Ken Coar]
10754 Changes with Apache 1.2b6
10756 *) Allow whitespace in imagemap mapfile coordinates. [Marc Slemko]
10758 *) Fix typo introduced in fix for potential infinite loop around
10759 accept() in child_main(). This change caused the rev to 1.2b6.
10760 1.2b5 was never a public beta.
10762 Changes with Apache 1.2b5
10764 *) Change KeepAlive semantics (On|Off instead of a number), add
10765 MaxKeepAliveRequests directive. [Alexei Kosut]
10767 *) Various NeXT compilation patches, as well as a change in
10768 regex/regcomp.c since that file also used a NEXT define.
10771 *) Allow * to terminate the end of a directory match in mod_dir.
10772 Allows /~* to match for both /~joe and /~joe/. [David Bronder]
10774 *) Don't call can_exec() if suexec_enabled. Calling this requires
10775 scripts executed by the suexec wrapper to be world executable, which
10776 defeats one of the advantages of running the wrapper. [Randy Terbush]
10778 *) Portability Fix: IRIX complained with 'make clean' about *pure* (removed)
10781 *) Migration from sprintf() to snprintf() to avoid buffer
10782 overflows. [Marc Slemko]
10784 *) Provide portable snprintf() implementation (ap_snprintf)
10785 as well as *cvt family. [Jim Jagielski]
10787 *) Portability Fix: NeXT lacks unistd.h so we wrap it's inclusion
10790 *) Remove mod_fastcgi.c from the distribution. This module appears
10791 to be maintained more through the Open Market channels and should
10792 continue to be easily available at http://www.fastcgi.com/
10794 *) Fixed bug in modules/Makefile that wouldn't allow building in more
10795 than one subdirectory (or cleaning, either). [Jeremy Laidman]
10797 *) mod_info assumed that the config files were relative to ServerRoot.
10800 *) CGI scripts called as an error document resulting from failed
10801 CGI execution would hang waiting for POST'ed data. [Rob Hartill]
10803 *) Log reason when mod_dir returns access HTTP_FORBIDDEN
10806 *) Properly check errno to prevent display of a directory index
10807 when server receives a long enough URL to confuse stat().
10810 *) Several security enhancements to suexec wrapper. It is _highly_
10811 recommended that previously installed versions of the wrapper
10812 be replaced with this version. [Randy Terbush, Jason Dour]
10814 - ~user execution now properly restricted to ~user's home
10815 directory and below.
10816 - execution restricted to UID/GID > 100
10817 - restrict passed environment to known variables
10818 - call setgid() before initgroups() (portability fix)
10819 - remove use of setenv() (portability fix)
10821 *) Add HTTP/1.0 response forcing. [Ben Laurie]
10823 *) Add access control via environment variables. [Ben Laurie]
10825 *) Add rflush() function. [Alexei Kosut]
10827 *) remove duplicate pcalloc() call in new_connection().
10829 *) Fix incorrect comparison which could allow number of children =
10830 MaxClients + 1 if less than HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. Also fix potential
10831 problem if StartServers > HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. [Ed Korthof]
10833 *) Updated support for OSes (MachTen, ULTRIX, Paragon, ISC, OpenBSD
10834 AIX PS/2, CONVEXOS. [Jim Jagielski]
10836 *) Replace instances of inet_ntoa() with inet_addr() for ProxyBlock.
10837 It's more portable. [Martin Kraemer]
10839 *) Replace references to make in Makefile.tmpl with $(MAKE).
10842 *) Add ProxyBlock directive w/IP address caching. Add IP address
10843 caching to NoCache directive as well. ProxyBlock works with all
10844 handlers; NoCache now also works with FTP for anonymous logins.
10845 Still more code cleanup. [Chuck Murcko]
10847 *) Add "header parse" API hook [Ben Laurie]
10849 *) Fix byte ordering problems for REMOTE_PORT [Chuck Murcko]
10851 *) suEXEC wrapper was freeing memory that had not been malloc'ed.
10853 *) Correctly allow access and auth directives in <Files> sections in
10854 server config files. [Alexei Kosut]
10856 *) Fix bug with ServerPath that could cause certain files to be not
10857 found by the server. [Alexei Kosut]
10859 *) Fix handling of ErrorDocument so that it doesn't remove a trailing
10860 double-quote from text and so that it properly checks for unsupported
10861 status codes using the new index_of_response interface. [Roy Fielding]
10863 *) Multiple fixes to the lingering_close code in order to avoid being
10864 interrupted by a stray timeout, to avoid lingering on a connection
10865 that has already been aborted or never really existed, to ensure that
10866 we stop lingering as soon as any error condition is received, and to
10867 prevent being stuck indefinitely if the read blocks. Also improves
10868 reporting of error conditions. [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
10870 *) Fixed initialization of parameter structure for sigaction.
10871 [mgyger@itr.ch, Adrian Filipi-Martin]
10873 *) Fixed reinitializing the parameters before each call to accept and
10874 select, and removed potential for infinite loop in accept.
10875 [Roy Fielding, after useful PR from adrian@virginia.edu]
10877 *) Fixed condition where, if a child fails to fork, the scoreboard would
10878 continue to say SERVER_STARTING forever. Eventually, the main process
10879 would refuse to start new children because count_idle_servers() will
10880 count those SERVER_STARTING entries and will always report that there
10881 are enough idle servers. [Phillip Vandry]
10883 *) Fixed bug in bcwrite regarding failure to account for partial writes.
10884 Avoided calling bflush() when the client is pipelining requests.
10885 Removed unnecessary flushes from http_protocol. [Dean Gaudet]
10887 *) Added description of "." mode in server-status [Jim Jagielski]
10889 Changes with Apache 1.2b4
10891 *) Fix possible race condition in accept_mutex_init() that
10892 could leave a small security hole open allowing files to be
10893 overwritten in cases where the server UID has write permissions.
10896 *) Fix awk compatibilty problem in Configure. [Jim Jagielski]
10898 *) Fix portablity problem in util_script where ARG_MAX may not be
10899 defined for some systems.
10901 *) Add changes to allow compilation on Machten 4.0.3 for PowerPC.
10904 *) OS/2 changes to support an MMAP style scoreboard file and UNIX
10905 style magic #! token for better script portability. [Garey Smiley]
10907 *) Fix bug in suexec wrapper introduced in b3 that would cause failed
10908 execution for ~userdir CGI. [Jason Dour]
10910 *) Fix initgroups() business in suexec wrapper. [Jason Dour]
10912 *) Fix month off by one in suexec wrapper logging.
10914 Changes with Apache 1.2b3:
10916 *) Fix error in mod_cgi which could cause resources not to be properly
10917 freed, or worse. [Dean Gaudet]
10919 *) Fix find_string() NULL pointer dereference. [Howard Fear]
10921 *) Add set_flag_slot() at the request of Dirk and others.
10924 *) Sync mod_rewrite with patch level 10. [Ralf Engelschall]
10926 *) Add changes to improve the error message given for invalid
10927 ServerName parameters. [Dirk vanGulik]
10929 *) Add "Authoritative" directive for Auth modules that don't
10930 currently have it. This gives admin control to assign authoritative
10931 control to an authentication scheme and allow "fall through" for
10932 those authentication modules that aren't "Authoritative" thereby
10933 allowing multiple authentication mechanisms to be chained.
10936 *) Remove requirement for ResourceConfig/AccessConfig if not using
10937 the three config file layout. [Randy Terbush]
10939 *) Add PASV mode to mod_proxy FTP handler. [Chuck Murcko]
10941 *) Changes to suexec wrapper to fix the following problems:
10942 1. symlinked homedirs will kill ~userdirs.
10943 2. initgroups() on Linux 2.0.x clobbers gr->grid.
10944 3. CGI command lines paramters problems
10945 4. pw-pwdir for "docroot check" still the httpd user's pw record.
10946 [Randy Terbush, Jason Dour]
10948 *) Change create_argv() to accept variable arguments. This fixes
10949 a problem where arguments were not getting passed to the CGI via
10950 argv[] when the suexec wrapper was active. [Randy Terbush, Jake Buchholz]
10952 *) Collapse multiple slashes in path URLs to properly apply
10953 handlers defined by <Location>. [Alexei Kosut]
10955 *) Define a sane set of DEFAULT_USER and DEFAULT_GROUP values for AIX.
10957 *) Improve the accuracy of request duration timings by setting
10958 r->request_time in read_request_line() instead of read_request().
10961 *) Reset timeout while reading via get_client_block() in mod_cgi.c
10962 Fixes problem with timed out transfers of large files. [Rasmus Lerdorf]
10964 *) Add the ability to pass different Makefile.tmpl files to Configure
10965 using the -make flag. [Rob Hartill]
10967 *) Fix coredump triggered when sending a SIGHUP to the server caused
10968 by an assertion failure, in turn caused by an uninitialised field in a
10972 *) Add FILEPATH_INFO variable to CGI environment, which is equal to
10973 PATH_INFO from previous versions of Apache (in certain situations,
10974 Apache 1.2's PATH_INFO will be different than 1.1's). [Alexei Kosut]
10975 [later removed in 1.2b11]
10977 *) Add rwrite() function to API to allow for sending strings of
10978 arbitrary length. [Doug MacEachern]
10980 *) Remove rlim_t typedef for NetBSD. Do older versions need this?
10982 *) Defined rlim_t and WANTHSREGEX=yes and fixed waitpid() substitute for
10983 NeXT. [Jim Jagielski]
10985 *) Removed recent modification to promote the status code on internal
10986 redirects, since the correct fix was to change the default log format
10987 in mod_log_config so that it outputs the original status. [Rob Hartill]
10989 Changes with Apache 1.2b2:
10991 *) Update set_signals() to use sigaction() for setting handlers.
10992 This appears to fix a re-entrant problem in the seg_fault()
10993 bus_error() handlers. [Randy Terbush]
10995 *) Changes to allow mod_status compile for OS/2 [Garey Smiley]
10997 *) changes for DEC AXP running OSF/1 v3.0. [Marc Evans]
10999 *) proxy_http.c bugfixes: [Chuck Murcko]
11000 1) fixes possible NULL pointer reference w/NoCache
11001 2) fixes NoCache behavior when using ProxyRemote (ProxyRemote
11002 host would cache nothing if it was in the local domain,
11003 and the local domain was in the NoCache list)
11004 3) Adds Host: header when not available
11005 4) Some code cleanup and clarification
11007 *) mod_include.c bugfixes:
11008 1) Fixed an ommission that caused include variables to not
11009 be parsed in config errmsg directives [Howard Fear]
11010 2) Remove HAVE_POSIX_REGEX cruft [Alexei Kosut]
11011 3) Patch to fix compiler warnings [perrot@lal.in2p3.fr]
11012 4) Allow backslash-escaping to all quoted text
11013 [Ben Yoshino <ben@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu>]
11014 5) Pass variable to command line if not set in XSSI's env
11017 *) Fix infinite loop when processing Content-language lines in
11018 type-map files. [Alexei Kosut]
11020 *) Closed file-globbing hole in test-cgi script. [Brian Behlendorf]
11022 *) Fixed problem in set_[user|group] that prevented CGI execution
11023 for non-virtualhosts when suEXEC was enabled. [Randy Terbush]
11025 *) Added PORTING information file. [Jim Jagielski]
11027 *) Added definitions for S_IWGRP and S_IWOTH to conf.h [Ben Laurie]
11029 *) Changed default group to "nogroup" instead of "nobody" [Randy Terbush]
11031 *) Fixed define typo of FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT where
11032 USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT was intended.
11034 *) Fixed additional uses of 0xffffffff where INADDR_NONE was intended,
11035 which caused problems of systems where socket s_addr is >32bits.
11037 *) Added comment to explain (r->chunked = 1) side-effect in
11038 http_protocol.c [Roy Fielding]
11040 *) Replaced use of index() in mod_expires.c with more appropriate
11041 and portable isdigit() test. [Ben Laurie]
11043 *) Updated Configure for ...
11044 OS/2 (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes, other code changes)
11045 *-dg-dgux* (bad pattern match)
11046 QNX (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes)
11047 *-sunos4* (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes, -DUSEBCOPY)
11049 *-unixware211 (new)
11050 and added some user diagnostic info. [Ben Laurie]
11052 *) In helpers/CutRule, replaced "cut" invocation with "awk" invocation
11053 for better portability. [Jim Jagielski]
11055 *) Updated helpers/GuessOS for ...
11056 SCO 5 (recognize minor releases)
11057 SCO UnixWare (braindamaged uname, whatever-whatever-unixware2)
11058 SCO UnixWare 2.1.1 (requires a separate set of #defines in conf.h)
11059 IRIX64 (-sgi-irix64)
11060 ULTRIX (-unknown-ultrix)
11061 SINIX (-whatever-sysv4)
11062 NCR Unix (-ncr-sysv4)
11063 and fixed something in helpers/PrintPath [Ben Laurie]
11065 Changes with Apache 1.2b1
11067 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_2.html>
11069 Changes with Apache 1.1.1
11071 *) Fixed bug where Cookie module would make two entries in the
11072 logfile for each access [Mark Cox]
11074 *) Fixed bug where Redirect in .htaccess files would cause memory
11075 leak. [Nathan Neulinger]
11077 *) MultiViews now works correctly with AddHandler [Alexei Kosut]
11079 *) Problems with mod_auth_msql fixed [Dirk vanGulik]
11081 *) Fix misspelling of "Anonymous_Authorative" directive in mod_auth_anon.
11083 Changes with Apache 1.1.0
11085 *) Bring NeXT support up to date. [Takaaki Matsumoto]
11087 *) Bring QNX support up to date. [Ben Laurie]
11089 *) Make virtual hosts default to main server keepalive parameters.
11090 [Alexei Kosut, Ben Laurie]
11092 *) Allow ScanHTMLTitles to work with lowercase <title> tags. [Alexei Kosut]
11094 *) Fix missing address family for connect, also remove unreachable statement
11095 in mod_proxy. [Ben Laurie]
11097 *) mod_env now turned on by default in Configuration.tmpl.
11099 *) Bugs which were fixed:
11100 a) yet more mod_proxy bugs [Ben Laurie]
11101 b) CGI works again with inetd [Alexei Kosut]
11102 c) Leading colons were stripped from passwords [osm@interguide.com]
11103 d) Another fix to multi-method Limit problem [jk@tools.de]
11105 Changes with Apache 1.1b4
11107 *) r->bytes_sent variable restored. [Robert Thau]
11109 *) Previously broken multi-method <Limit> parsing fixed. [Robert Thau]
11111 *) More possibly unsecure programs removed from the support directory.
11113 *) More mod_auth_msql authentication improvements.
11115 *) VirtualHosts based on Host: headers no longer conflict with the
11118 *) OS/2 compatibility enhancements. [Gary Smiley]
11120 *) POST now allowed to directory index CGI scripts.
11122 *) Actions now work with files of the default type.
11124 *) Bugs which were fixed:
11125 a) more mod_proxy bugs
11126 b) early termination of inetd requests
11127 c) compile warnings on several systems
11128 d) problems when scripts stop reading output early
11130 Changes with Apache 1.1b3
11132 *) Much of cgi-bin and all of cgi-src has been removed, due to
11133 various security holes found and that we could no longer support
11136 *) The "Set-Cookie" header is now special-cased to not merge multiple
11137 instances, since certain popular browsers can not handle multiple
11138 Set-Cookie instructions in a single header. [Paul Sutton]
11140 *) rprintf() added to buffer code, occurrences of sprintf removed.
11143 *) CONNECT method for proxy module, which means tunneling SSL should work.
11144 (No crypto needed) Also a NoCache config directive.
11146 *) Several API additions: pstrndup(), table_unset() and get_token()
11147 functions now available to modules.
11149 *) mod_imap fixups, in particular Location: headers are now complete
11152 *) New "info" module which reports on installed module set through a
11153 special URL, a la mod_status.
11155 *) "ServerPath" directive added - allows for graceful transition
11156 for Host:-header-based virtual hosts.
11158 *) Anonymous authentication module improvements.
11160 *) MSQL authentication module improvements.
11162 *) Status module design improved - output now table-based. [Ben Laurie]
11164 *) htdigest utility included for use with digest authentication
11167 *) mod_negotiation: Accept values with wildcards to be treated with
11168 less priority than those without wildcards at the same quality
11169 value. [Alexei Kosut]
11171 *) Bugs which were fixed:
11172 a) numerous mod_proxy bugs
11173 b) CGI early-termination bug [Ben Laurie]
11174 c) Keepalives not working with virtual hosts
11175 d) RefererIgnore problems
11176 e) closing fd's twice in mod_include (causing core dumps on
11177 Linux and elsewhere).
11179 Changes with Apache 1.1b2
11182 a) core dumps in mod_digest
11183 b) truncated hostnames/ip address in the logs
11184 c) relative URL's in mod_imap map files
11186 Changes with Apache 1.1b1
11188 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_1.html>
11190 Changes with Apache 1.0.3
11192 *) Internal redirects which occur in mod_dir.c now preserve the
11193 query portion of a request (the bit after the question mark).
11196 *) Escape active characters '<', '>' and '&' in html output in
11197 directory listings, error messages and redirection links.
11200 *) Apache will now work with LynxOS 2.3 and later [Steven Watt]
11202 *) Fix for POSIX compliance in waiting for processes in alloc.c.
11205 *) setsockopt no longer takes a const declared argument [Martijn Koster]
11207 *) Reset timeout timer after each successful fwrite() to the network.
11208 This patch adds a reset_timeout() procedure that is called by
11209 send_fd() to reset the timeout ever time data is written to the net.
11212 *) timeout() signal handler now checks for SIGPIPE and reports
11213 lost connections in a more user friendly way. [Rob Hartill]
11215 *) Location of the "scoreboard" file which used to live in /tmp is
11216 now configurable (for OSes that can't use mmap) via ScoreBoardFile
11217 which works similar to PidFile (in httpd.conf) [Rob Hartill]
11219 *) Include sys/resource.h in the correct place for SunOS4 [Sameer Parekh]
11221 *) the pstrcat call in mod_cookies.c didn't have an ending NULL,
11222 which caused a SEGV with cookies enabled
11224 *) Output warning when MinSpareServers is set to <= 0 and change it to 1
11227 *) Log the UNIX textual error returned by some system calls, in
11228 particular errors from accept() [David Robinson]
11230 *) Add strerror function to util.c for SunOS4 [Randy Terbush]
11232 Changes with Apache 1.0.2
11234 *) patch to get Apache compiled on UnixWare 2.x, recommended as
11235 a temporary measure, pending rewrite of rfc931.c. [Chuck Murcko]
11237 *) Fix get_basic_auth_pw() to set the auth_type of the request.
11240 *) past changes to http_config.c to only use the
11241 setrlimit function on systems defining RLIMIT_NOFILE
11242 broke the feature on SUNOS4. Now defines HAVE_RESOURCE
11243 for SUNOS and prototypes the needed functions.
11245 *) Remove uses of MAX_STRING_LEN/HUGE_STRING_LEN from several routines.
11248 *) Fix use of pointer to scratch memory. [Cliff Skolnick]
11250 *) Merge multiple headers from CGI scripts instead of taking last
11251 one. [David Robinson]
11253 *) Add support for SCO 5. [Ben Laurie]
11255 Changes with Apache 1.0.1
11257 *) Silence mod_log_referer and mod_log_agent if not configured
11260 *) Recursive includes can occur if the client supplies PATH_INFO data
11261 and the server provider uses relative links; as file.html
11262 relative to /doc.shtml/pathinfo is /doc.shtml/file.html. [David Robinson]
11264 *) The replacement for initgroups() did not call {set,end}grent(). This
11265 had two implications: if anything else used getgrent(), then
11266 initgroups() would fail, and it was consuming a file descriptor.
11269 *) On heavily loaded servers it was possible for the scoreboard to get
11270 out of sync with reality, as a result of a race condition.
11271 The observed symptoms are far more Apaches running than should
11272 be, and heavy system loads, generally followed by catastrophic
11273 system failure. [Ben Laurie]
11275 *) Fix typo in license. [David Robinson]
11277 Changes with Apache 1.0.0 23 Nov 1995
11279 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_0.html>
11281 Changes with Apache 0.8.16 05 Nov 1995
11283 *) New man page for 'httpd' added to support directory [David Robinson]
11285 *) .htgroup files can have more than one line giving members for a
11286 given group (each must have the group name in front), for NCSA
11287 back-compatibility [Robert Thau]
11289 *) Mutual exclusion around accept() is on by default for SVR4 systems
11290 generally, since they generally can't handle multiple processes in
11291 accept() on the same socket. This should cure flaky behavior on
11292 a lot of those systems. [David Robinson]
11294 *) AddType, AddEncoding, and AddLanguage directives take multiple
11295 extensions on a single command line [David Robinson]
11297 *) UserDir can be disabled for a given virtual host by saying
11298 "UserDir disabled" in the <VirtualHost> section --- it was a bug
11299 that this didn't work. [David Robinson]
11301 *) Compiles on QNX [Ben Laurie]
11303 *) Corrected parsing of ctime time format [David Robinson]
11305 *) httpd does a perror() before exiting if it can't log its pid
11306 to the PidFile, to make diagnosing the error a bit easier.
11309 *) <!--#include file="..."--> can no longer include files in the
11310 parent directory, for NCSA back-compatibility. [David Robinson]
11312 *) '~' is *not* escaped in URIs generated for directory listings
11315 *) Eliminated compiler warning in the imagemap module [Randy Terbush]
11317 *) Fixed bug involving handling URIs with escaped %-characters
11318 in redirects [David Robinson]
11320 Changes with Apache 0.8.15 14 Oct 1995
11322 *) Switched to new, simpler license
11324 *) Eliminated core dumps with improperly formatted DBM group files [Mark Cox]
11326 *) Don't allow requests for ordinary files to have PATH_INFO [Ben Laurie]
11328 *) Reject paths containing %-escaped '%' or null characters [David Robinson]
11330 *) Correctly handles internal redirects to files with names containing '%'
11333 *) Repunctuated some error messages [Aram Mirzadeh, Andrew Wilson]
11335 *) Use geteuid() rather than getuid() to see if we have root privilege,
11336 so that server correctly resets privilege if run setuid root. [Andrew
11339 *) Handle ftp: and telnet: URLs correctly in imagemaps (built-in module)
11342 *) Fix relative URLs in imagemap files [Randy Terbush]
11344 *) Somewhat better fix for the old "Alias /foo/ /bar/" business
11347 *) Don't repeatedly open the ErrorLog if a bunch of <VirtualHost>
11348 entries all name the same one. [David Robinson]
11350 *) Fix directory listings with filenames containing unusual characters
11353 *) Better URI-escaping for generated URIs in directories with filenames
11354 containing unusual characters [Ben Laurie]
11356 *) Fixed potential FILE* leak in http_main.c [Ben Laurie]
11358 *) Unblock alarms on error return from spawn_child() [David Robinson]
11360 *) Sample Config files have extra note for SCO users [Ben Laurie]
11362 *) Configuration has note for HP-UX users [Rob Hartill]
11364 *) Eliminated some bogus Linux-only #defines in conf.h [Aram Mirzadeh]
11366 *) Nuked bogus #define in httpd.h [David Robinson]
11368 *) Better test for whether a system has setrlimit() [David Robinson]
11370 *) Calls update_child_status() after reopen_scoreboard() [David Robinson]
11372 *) Doesn't send itself SIGHUP on startup when run in the -X debug-only mode
11375 Changes with Apache 0.8.14 19 Sep 1995
11377 *) Compiles on SCO ODT 3.0 [Ben Laurie]
11379 *) AddDescription works (better) [Ben Laurie]
11381 *) Leaves an intelligible error diagnostic when it can't set group
11382 privileges on standalone startup [Andrew Wilson]
11384 *) Compiles on NeXT again --- the 0.8.13 RLIMIT patch was failing on
11385 that machine, which claims to be BSD but does not support RLIMIT.
11388 *) gcc -Wall no longer complains about an unused variable when util.c
11389 is compiled with -DMINIMAL_DNS [Andrew Wilson]
11391 *) Nuked another compiler warning for -Wall on Linux [Aram Mirzadeh]
11393 Changes with Apache 0.8.13 07 Sep 1995
11395 *) Make IndexIgnore *work* (ooops) [Jarkko Torppa]
11397 *) Have built-in imagemap code recognize & honor Point directive [James
11400 *) Generate cleaner directory listings in directories with a mix of
11401 long and short filenames [Rob Hartill]
11403 *) Properly initialize dynamically loaded modules [Royston Shufflebotham]
11405 *) Properly default ServerName for virtual servers [Robert Thau]
11407 *) Rationalize handling of BSD in conf.h and elsewhere [Randy Terbush,
11408 Paul Richards and a cast of thousands...]
11410 *) On self-identified BSD systems (we don't try to guess any more),
11411 allocate a few extra file descriptors per virtual host with setrlimit,
11412 if we can, to avoid running out. [Randy Terbush]
11414 *) Write 22-character lock file name into buffer with enough space
11415 on startup [Konstantin Olchanski]
11417 *) Use archaic setpgrp() interface on NeXT, which requires it [Brian
11420 *) Suppress -Wall warning by casting const away in util.c [Aram Mirzadeh]
11422 *) Suppress -Wall warning by initializing variable in negotiation code
11423 [Tobias Weingartner]
11425 Changes with Apache 0.8.12 31 Aug 1995
11427 *) Doesn't pause three seconds after including a CGI script which is
11428 too slow to die off (this is done by not even trying to kill off
11429 subprocesses, including the SIGTERM/pause/SIGKILL routine, until
11430 after the entire document has been processed). [Robert Thau]
11432 *) Doesn't do SSI if Options Includes is off. (Ooops). [David Robinson]
11434 *) Options IncludesNoExec allows inclusion of at least text/* [Roy Fielding]
11436 *) Allows .htaccess files to override <Directory> sections naming the
11437 same directory [David Robinson]
11439 *) Removed an efficiency hack in sub_req_lookup_uri which was
11440 causing certain extremely marginal cases (e.g., ScriptAlias of a
11441 *particular* index.html file) to fail. [David Robinson]
11443 *) Doesn't log an error when the requested URI requires
11444 authentication, but no auth header line was supplied by the
11445 client; this is a normal condition (the client doesn't no auth is
11446 needed here yet). [Robert Thau]
11448 *) Behaves more sanely when the name server loses its mind [Sean Welch]
11450 *) RFC931 code compiles cleanly on old BSDI releases [Randy Terbush]
11452 *) RFC931 code no longer passes out name of prior clients on current
11453 requests if the current request came from a server that doesn't
11454 do RFC931. [David Robinson]
11456 *) Configuration script accepts "Module" lines with trailing whitespace.
11459 *) Cleaned up compiler warning from mod_access.c [Robert Thau]
11461 *) Cleaned up comments in mod_cgi.c [Robert Thau]
11463 Changes with Apache 0.8.11 24 Aug 1995
11465 *) Wildcard <Directory> specifications work. [Robert Thau]
11467 *) Doesn't loop for buggy CGI on Solaris [Cliff Skolnick]
11469 *) Symlink checks (FollowSymLinks off, or SymLinkIfOwnerMatch) always check
11470 the file being requested itself, in addition to the directories leading
11471 up to it. [Robert Thau]
11473 *) Logs access failures due to symlink checks or invalid client address
11474 in the error log [Roy Fielding, Robert Thau]
11476 *) Symlink checks deal correctly with systems where lstat of
11477 "/path/to/some/link/" follows the link. [Thau, Fielding]
11479 *) Doesn't reset DirectoryIndex to 'index.html' when
11480 other directory options are set in a .htaccess file. [Robert Thau]
11482 *) Clarified init code and nuked bogus warning in mod_access.c
11483 [Florent Guillaume]
11485 *) Corrected several directives in sample srm.conf
11486 --- includes corrections to directory indexing icon-related directives
11487 (using unknown.gif rather than unknown.xbm as the DefaultIcon, doing
11488 icons for encodings right, and turning on AddEncoding by default).
11491 *) Corrected descriptions of args to AddIcon and AddAlt in command table
11494 *) INSTALL & README mention "contributed modules" directory [Brian
11497 *) Fixed English in the license language... "for for" --> "for".
11500 *) Fixed ScriptAlias/Alias interaction by moving ScriptAlias handling to
11501 mod_alias.c, merging it almost completely with handling of Alias, and
11502 adding a 'notes' field to the request_rec which allows the CGI module
11503 to discover whether the Alias module has put this request through
11504 ScriptAlias (which it needs to know for back-compatibility, as the old
11505 NCSA code did not check Options ExecCGI in ScriptAlias directories).
11508 Changes with Apache 0.8.10 18 Aug 1995
11510 *) AllowOverride applies to the named directory, and not just
11511 subdirectories. [David Robinson]
11513 *) Do locking for accept() exclusion (on systems that need it)
11514 using a special file created for the purpose in /usr/tmp, and
11515 not the error log; using the error log causes real problems
11516 if it's NFS-mounted; this is known to be the cause of a whole
11517 lot of "server hang" problems with Solaris. [David Robinson;
11518 thanks to Merten Schumann for help diagnosing the problem].
11520 Changes with Apache 0.8.9 12 Aug 1995
11522 *) Compiles with -DMAXIMUM_DNS ---- ooops! [Henrik Mortensen]
11524 *) Nested includes see environment variables of the including document,
11525 for NCSA bug-compatibility (some sites have standard footer includes
11526 which try to print out the last-modified date). [Eric Hagberg/Robert
11529 *) <!--exec cgi="/some/uri/here"--> always treats the item named by the
11530 URI as a CGI script, even if it would have been treated as something
11531 else if requested directly, for NCSA back-compatibility. (Note that
11532 this means that people who know the name of the script can see the
11533 code just by asking for it). [Robert Thau]
11535 *) New version of dbmmanage script included in support directory as
11538 *) Check if scoreboard file couldn't be opened, and say so, rather
11539 then going insane [David Robinson]
11541 *) POST to CGI works on A/UX [Jim Jagielski]
11543 *) AddIcon and AddAlt commands work properly [Rob Hartill]
11545 *) NCSA server push works properly --- the Arena bug compatibility
11546 workaround, which broke it, is gone (use -DARENA_BUG_WORKAROUND
11547 if you still want the workaround). [Rob Hartill]
11549 *) If client didn't submit any Accept-encodings, ignore encodings in
11550 content negotiation. (NB this will all have to be reworked anyway
11551 for the new HTTP draft). [Florent Guillaume]
11553 *) Don't dump core when trying to log timed-out requests [Jim Jagielski]
11555 *) Really honor CacheNegotiatedDocs [Florent Guillaume]
11557 *) Give Redirect priority over Alias, for NCSA bug compatibility
11560 *) Correctly set PATH_TRANSLATED in all cases from <!--#exec cmd=""-->,
11561 paralleling earlier bug fix for CGI [David Robinson]
11563 *) If DBM auth is improperly configured, report a server error and don't
11566 *) Deleted FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPTS from conf.h entry for A/UX;
11567 it seems to work well enough without it (even in a 10 hits/sec
11568 workout), and the overhead for the locking under A/UX is
11569 alarmingly high (though it is very low on other systems).
11570 [Eric Hagberg, Jim Jagielski]
11572 *) Fixed portability problems with mod_cookies.c [Cliff Skolnick]
11574 *) Further de-Berklize mod_cookies.c; change the bogus #include. [Brian
11575 Behlendorf/Eric Hagberg]
11577 *) More improvements to default Configuration for A/UX [Jim Jagielski]
11579 *) Compiles clean on NEXT [Rob Hartill]
11581 *) Compiles clean on SGI [Robert Thau]
11583 Changes with Apache 0.8.8 08 Aug 1995
11585 *) SunOS library prototypes now never included unless explicitly
11586 requested in the configuration (via -DSUNOS_LIB_PROTOTYPES);
11587 people using GNU libc on SunOS are screwed by prototypes for the
11590 (Those who wish to compile clean with gcc -Wall on a standard
11591 SunOS setup need the prototypes, and may obtain them using
11592 -DSUNOS_LIB_PROTOTYPES. Those wishing to use -Wall on a system
11593 with nonstandard libraries are presumably competent to make their
11596 *) Strips trailing '/' characters off both args to the Alias command,
11597 to make 'Alias /foo/ /bar/' work.
11599 Changes with Apache 0.8.7 03 Aug 1995
11601 *) Don't hang when restarting with a child from 'TransferLog "|..."' running
11602 [reported by David Robinson]
11604 *) Compiles clean on OSF/1 [David Robinson]
11606 *) Added some of the more recent significant changes (AddLanguage stuff,
11607 experimental LogFormat support) to CHANGES file in distribution root
11610 Changes with Apache 0.8.6 02 Aug 1995
11612 *) Deleted Netscape reload workaround --- it's in violation of HTTP specs.
11613 (If you actually wanted a conditional GET which bypassed the cache, you
11614 couldn't get it). [Reported by Roy Fielding]
11616 *) Properly terminate headers on '304 Not Modified' replies to conditional
11617 GETs --- no browser we can find cares much, but the CERN proxy chokes.
11618 [Reported by Cliff Skolnick; fix discovered independently by Rob Hartill]
11620 *) httpd -v doesn't call itself "Shambhala". [Reported by Chuck Murcko]
11622 *) SunOS lib-function prototypes in conf.h conditionalized on __GNUC__,
11623 not __SUNPRO_C (they're needed to quiet gcc -Wall, but acc chokes on 'em,
11624 and older versions don't set the __SUNPRO_C preprocessor variable). On
11625 all other systems, these are never used anyway. [Reported by Mark Cox].
11627 *) Scoreboard file (/tmp/htstatus.*) no longer publically writable.
11629 Changes with Apache 0.8.5 01 Aug 1995
11631 *) Added last-minute configurable log experiment, as optional module
11633 *) Correctly set r->bytes_sent for HTTP/0.9 requests, so they get logged
11634 properly. (One-line fix to http_protocol.c).
11636 *) Work around bogus behavior when reloading from Netscape.
11637 It's Netscape's bug --- for some reason they expect a request with
11638 If-modified-since: to not function as a conditional GET if it also
11639 comes with Pragma: no-cache, which is way out of line with the HTTP
11640 spec (according to Roy Fielding, the redactor).
11642 *) Added parameter to set maximum number of server processes.
11644 *) Added patches to make it work on A/UX. A/UX is *weird*. [Eric Hagberg,
11647 *) IdentityCheck bugfix [Chuck Murcko].
11649 *) Corrected cgi-src/Makefile entry for new imagemap script. [Alexei Kosut]
11651 *) More sample config file corrections; add extension to AddType for
11652 *.asis, move AddType generic description to its proper place, and
11653 fix miscellaneous typos. [ Alexei Kosut ]
11655 *) Deleted the *other* reference to the regents from the Berkeley
11656 legal disclaimer (everyplace).
11658 *) Nuked Shambhala name from src/README; had already cleaned it out
11659 of everywhere else.
11661 Changes with Apache 0.8.4
11663 *) Changes to server-pool management parms --- renamed current
11664 StartServers to MinSpareServers, created separate StartServers
11665 parameter which means what it says, and renamed MaxServers to
11666 MaxSpareServers (though the old name still works, for NCSA 1.4
11667 back-compatibility). The old names were generally regarded as
11668 too confusing. Also altered "docs" in sample config files.
11670 *) More improvements to default config files ---
11671 sample directives (commented out) for XBitHack, BindAddress,
11672 CacheNegotiatedDocs, VirtualHost; decent set of AddLanguage
11673 defaults, AddTypes for send-as-is and imagemap magic types, and
11674 improvements to samples for DirectoryIndex [Alexei Kosut]
11676 *) Yet more improvements to default config files --- changes to
11677 Alexei's sample AddLanguage directives, and sample LanguagePriority
11678 [ Florent Guillaume ]
11680 *) Set config file locations properly if not set in httpd.conf
11683 *) Don't escape URIs in internal redirects multiple times; don't
11684 do that when translating PATH_INFO to PATH_TRANSLATED either.
11687 *) Corrected spelling of "Required" in 401 error reports [Andrew Wilson]
11689 Changes with Apache 0.8.3
11691 *) Edited distribution README to *briefly* summarize installation
11692 procedures, and give a pointer to the INSTALL file in the src/
11695 *) Upgraded imagemap script in cgi-bin to 1.8 version from more
11696 recent NCSA distributions.
11698 *) Bug fix to previous bug fix --- if .htaccess file and <Directory>
11699 exist for the same directory, use both and don't segfault. [Reported
11702 *) Proper makefile dependencies [David Robinson]
11704 *) Note (re)starts in error log --- reported by Rob Hartill.
11706 *) Only call no2slash() after get_path_info() has been done, to
11707 preserve multiple slashes in the PATH_INFO [NCSA compatibility,
11708 reported by Andrew Wilson, though this one is probably a real bug]
11710 *) Fixed mod_imap.c --- relative paths with base_uri referer don't
11711 dump core when Referer is not supplied. [Randy Terbush]
11713 *) Lightly edited sample config files to refer people to our documentation
11714 instead of NCSA's, and to list Rob McCool as *original* author (also
11715 deleted his old, and no doubt non-functional email address). Would be
11716 nice to have examples of new features...
11718 Changes with Apache 0.8.2 19 Jul 1995
11720 *) Added AddLanuage code [Florent Guillaume]
11722 *) Don't say "access forbidden" when a CGI script is not found. [Mark Cox]
11724 *) All sorts of problems when MultiViews finds a directory. It would
11725 be nice if mod_dir.c was robust enough to handle that, but for now,
11726 just punt. [reported by Brian Behlendorf]
11728 *) Wait for all children on restart, to make sure that the old socket
11729 is gone and we can reopen it. [reported by Randy Terbush]
11731 *) Imagemap module is enabled in default Configuration
11733 *) RefererLog and UserAgentLog modules properly default the logfile
11736 *) Mark Cox's mod_cookies added to the distribution as an optional
11737 module (commented out in the default Configuration, and noted as
11738 an experiment, along with mod_dld). [Mark Cox]
11740 *) Compiles on ULTRIX (a continuing battle...). [Robert Thau]
11742 *) Fixed nasty bug in SIGTERM handling [reported by Randy Terbush]
11744 *) Changed "Shambhala" to "Apache" in API docs. [Robert Thau]
11746 *) Added new, toothier legal disclaimer. [Robert Thau; copied from BSD
11749 Changes with Apache 0.8.1
11751 *) New imagemap module [Randy Terbush]
11753 *) Replacement referer log module with NCSA-compatible RefererIgnore
11754 [Matthew Gray again]
11756 *) Don't mung directory listings with very long filenames.
11757 [Florent Guillaume]
11759 Changes with Apache 0.8.0 (nee Shambhala 0.6.2) 16 Jul 1995
11761 *) New config script. See INSTALL for info. [Robert Thau]
11763 *) Scoreboard mechanism for regulating the number of extant server
11764 processes. MaxServers and StartServers defaults are the same as
11765 for NCSA, but the meanings are slightly different. (Actually,
11766 I should probably lower the MaxServers default to 10).
11768 Before asking for a new connection, each server process checks
11769 the number of other servers which are also waiting for a
11770 connection. If there are more than MaxServers, it quietly dies
11771 off. Conversely, every second, the root, or caretaker, process
11772 looks to see how many servers are waiting for a new connection;
11773 if there are fewer than StartServers, it starts a new one. This
11774 does not depend on the number of server processes already extant.
11775 The accounting is arranged through a "scoreboard" file, named
11776 /tmp/htstatus.*, on which each process has an independent file
11777 descriptor (they need to seek without interference).
11779 The end effect is that MaxServers is the maximum number of
11780 servers on an *inactive* server machine, but more will be forked
11781 off to handle unusually heavy loads (or unusually slow clients);
11782 these will die off when they are no longer needed --- without
11783 reverting to the overhead of full forking operation. There is a
11784 hard maximum of 150 server processes compiled in, largely to
11785 avoid forking out of control and dragging the machine down.
11786 (This is arguably too high).
11788 In my server endurance tests, this mechanism did not appear to
11789 impose any significant overhead, even after I forced it to put the
11790 scoreboard file on a normal filesystem (which might have more
11791 overhead than tmpfs). [Robert Thau]
11793 *) Set HTTP_FOO variables for SSI <!--#exec cmd-->s, not just CGI scripts.
11796 *) Read .htaccess files even in directory with <Directory> section.
11797 (Former incompatibility noted on mailing list, now fixed). [Robert
11800 *) "HEAD /" gives the client a "Bad Request" error message, rather
11801 than trying to send no body *and* no headers. [Cliff Skolnick].
11803 *) Don't produce double error reports for some very obscure cases
11804 mainly involving auth configuration (the "all modules decline to
11805 handle" case which is a sure sign of a server bug in most cases,
11806 but also happens when authentication is badly misconfigured).
11809 *) Moved FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT defines into conf.h (that's what
11810 it's *for*, and this sort of thing really shouldn't be cluttering
11811 up the Makefile). [Robert Thau]
11813 *) Incidental code cleanups in http_main.c --- stop dragging
11814 sa_client around; just declare it where used. [Robert Thau]
11816 *) Another acc-related fix. (It doesn't like const char
11817 in some places...). [Mark Cox]
11819 Changes with Shambhala 0.6.1 13 Jul 1995
11821 *) Fixed auth_name-related typos in http_core.c [Brian Behlendorf]
11822 Also, fixed auth typo in http_protocol.c unmasked by this fix.
11824 *) Compiles clean with acc on SunOS [Paul Sutton]
11826 *) Reordered modules in modules.c so that Redirect takes priority
11827 over ScriptAlias, for NCSA bug-compatibility [Rob Hartill] ---
11828 believe it or not, he has an actual site with a ScriptAlias and
11829 a Redirect declared for the *exact same directory*. Even *my*
11830 compatibility fetish wouldn't motivate me to fix this if the fix
11831 required any effort, but it doesn't, so what the hey.
11833 *) Fixed to properly default several server_rec fields for virtual
11834 servers from the corresponding fields in the main server_rec.
11835 [Cliff Skolnick --- 'port' was a particular irritant].
11837 *) No longer kills off nph- child processes before they are
11838 finished sending output. [Matthew Gray]
11840 Changes with Shambhala 0.6.0 10 Jul 1995
11842 *) Two styles of timeout --- hard and soft. soft_timeout()s just put
11843 the connection to the client in an "aborted" state, but otherwise
11844 allow whatever handlers are running to clean up. hard_timeout()s
11845 abort the request in progress completely; anything not tied to some
11846 resource pool cleanup will leak. They're still around because I
11847 haven't yet come up with a more elegant way of handling
11848 timeouts when talking to something that isn't the client. The
11849 default_handler and the dir_handler now use soft timeouts, largely
11850 so I can test the feature. [Robert Thau]
11852 *) TransferLog "| my_postprocessor ..." seems to be there. Note that
11853 the case of log handlers dying prematurely is probably handled VERY
11854 gracelessly at this point, and if the logger stops reading input,
11855 the server will hang. (It is known to correctly restart the
11856 logging process on server restart; this is (should be!) going through
11857 the same SIGTERM/pause/SIGKILL routine used to ding an errant CGI
11858 script). [Robert Thau]
11860 *) asis files supported (new module). [Robert Thau]
11862 *) IdentityCheck code is compiled in, but has not been tested. (I
11863 don't know anyone who runs identd). [Robert Thau]
11865 *) PATH_INFO and PATH_TRANSLATED are not set unless some real PATH_INFO
11866 came in with the request, for NCSA bug-compatibility. [Robert Thau]
11868 *) Don't leak the DIR * on HEAD request for a directory. [Robert Thau]
11870 *) Deleted the block_alarms() stuff from dbm_auth; no longer necessary,
11871 as timeouts are not in scope. [Robert Thau]
11873 *) quoted-string args in config files now handled correctly (doesn't drop
11874 the last character). [Robert Thau; reported by Randy Terbush]
11876 *) Fixed silly typo in http_main.c which was suddenly fatal in HP-UX.
11877 How the hell did it ever work? [Robert Thau; reported by Rob Hartill]
11879 *) mod_core.c --- default_type returns DEFAULT_TYPE (the compile-time
11880 default default type); the former default default behavior when all
11881 type-checkers defaulted had been a core dump. [Paul Sutton]
11883 *) Copy filenames out of the struct dirent when indexing
11884 directories. (On Linux, readdir() returns a pointer to the same
11885 memory area every time). Fix is in mod_dir.c. [Paul Sutton]
11887 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.3 [not released]
11889 *) Default response handler notes "file not found" in the error log,
11890 if the file was not found. [Cliff Skolnick].
11892 *) Another Cliff bug --- "GET /~user" now properly redirects (the userdir
11893 code no longer sets up bogus PATH_INFO which fakes out the directory
11894 handler). [Cliff Skolnick]
11896 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.2 06 Jul 1995
11898 *) Changes to http_main.c --- root server no longer plays silly
11899 games with SIGCHLD, and so now detects and replaces dying
11900 children. Child processes just die on SIGTERM, without taking
11901 the whole process group with them. Potential problem --- if any
11902 child process refuses to die, we hang in restart.
11903 MaxRequestsPerChild may still not work, but it certainly works
11904 better than it did before this! [Robert Thau]
11906 *) mod_dir.c bug fixes: ReadmeName and HeaderName
11907 work (or work better, at least); over-long description lines
11908 properly terminated. [Mark Cox]
11910 *) http_request.c now calls unescape_url() more places where it
11911 should [Paul Sutton].
11913 *) More directory handling bugs (reported by Cox)
11914 Parent Directory link is now set correctly. [Robert Thau]
11916 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.1 04 Jul 1995
11918 *) Generalized cleanup interface in alloc.c --- any function can be
11919 registered with alloc.c as a cleanup for a resource pool;
11920 tracking of files and file descriptors has been reimplemented in
11921 terms of this interface, so I can give it some sort of a test.
11924 *) More changes in alloc.c --- new cleanup_for_exec() function,
11925 which tracks down and closes all file descriptors which have been
11926 registered with the alloc.c machinery before the server exec()s a
11927 child process for CGI or <!--#exec-->. CGI children now get
11928 started with exactly three file descriptors open. Hopefully,
11929 this cures the problem Rob H. was having with overly persistent
11930 CGI connections. [Robert Thau]
11932 *) Mutual exclusion around the accept() in child_main() --- this is
11933 required on at least SGI, Solaris and Linux, and is #ifdef'ed in
11934 by default on those systems only (-DFCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT).
11935 This uses fcntl(F_SETLK,...) on the error log descriptor because
11936 flock() on that descriptor won't work on systems which have BSD
11937 flock() semantics, including (I think) Linux 1.3 and Solaris.
11939 This does work on SunOS (when the server is idle, only one
11940 process in the pool is waiting on accept()); it *ought* to work
11941 on the other systems. [Robert Thau]
11943 *) FreeBSD and BSDI portability tweaks [Chuck Murcko]
11945 *) sizeof(*sa_client) bugfix from [Rob Hartill]
11947 *) pstrdup(..., NULL) returns NULL, [Randy Terbush]
11949 *) block_alarms() to avoid leaking the DBM* in dbm auth (this should
11950 be unnecessary if I go to the revised timeout-handling scheme).
11953 *) For NCSA bug-compatibility, set QUERY_STRING env var (to a null
11954 string) even if none came in with the request. [Robert Thau]
11956 *) CHANGES file added to distribution ;-).
11958 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.5
11960 *) mod_dld --- early dynamic loading support [rst]
11961 *) Add wildcard content handlers for XBITHACK; default_hander now
11962 invoked with that mechanism (as a handler hanging off mod_core) [rst]
11963 *) XBITHACK supported as a wildcard content-handler, and
11964 configurable at run-time (not just at compile time, as in the
11965 "patchy server" releases) [rst]
11967 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.4 30 Jun 1995
11969 *) Fixed basic thinkos in mod_dbm_auth.c [rst, reported by Mark Cox]
11970 *) Handle Addtype x/y .z [rst, reported by Cox]
11972 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.3
11974 *) Fixed very dumb bug in mod_alias; "Alias" and "Redirect" are not
11975 synonymous [rst, terbush]
11977 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.1 28 Jun 1995
11979 *) First-cut virtual host implementation; some refit in the config
11980 reading code, and log management, was necessary to support this [rst]
11981 *) Sub-pool machinery, originally added to avoid excessive storage
11982 allocation on listings of large directories (which turned out to
11983 be the problem that the 0.3 storage accounting was added to
11984 find). Subrequests and mod_dir changed to use subpools. [rst]
11985 *) More memory debugging --- free list consistency checks. [rst]
11986 *) Added err_headers to request_rec, with support elsewhere [rst]
11987 *) Other fixes to minor bugs in mod_dir and mod_includes [rst, terbush]
11989 Changes with Shambhala 0.3 19 Jun 1995
11991 *) Switch ONE_PROCESS to a runtime command-line option (-X)
11992 *) Don't compile in mod_ai_backcompat by default
11993 *) Switch name of server from Apache to Shambhala in Makefile
11994 *) Add some accounting routines to track memory usage in the pools,
11997 Changes with Shambhala 0.2
11999 *) Set DOCUMENT_ROOT CGI variable
12000 *) Add single-process debugging, as a compile-time option (ONE_PROCESS)
12001 *) Add critical section protection to handling of cleanup structures
12003 *) Significant code reorg within the server core to group related
12004 functions together [rst]
12005 *) Correctly handle clients that hang up before sending any request
12007 *) Replace dying child processes. [rst]
12009 Changes with Shambhala 0.1 12 Jun 1995
12011 Major rewrite of the pre-existing "patchy server" codebase, by
12012 Robert Thau (rst). Significant portions of the server code, such
12013 as configuration-file handling and HTTP authentication support,
12014 were ripped out and rewritten from scratch. Code that was not
12015 completely rewritten was significantly altered.
12017 Major changes with this release include:
12019 *) Introduction of the module API; in request handling, the central
12020 machinery just dispatches to various modules, which actually do
12021 most of the work. Configuration handling is similar --- modules
12022 declare their own commands, and the central machinery just
12023 dispatches to them.
12025 API features from shambhala/0.1 were substantially unchanged in
12026 Apache 1.0 and 1.1. (1.0 API features not yet present in this
12027 release, such as wildcard handlers and subpools, were added in
12028 subsequent Shambhala releases, and were also generally rst's
12031 *) This release included the following modules:
12033 mod_access (access control --- allow and deny directives),
12034 mod_alias (Alias and Redirect commands),
12035 mod_auth (straight HTTP authentication, based on flat-files)
12036 mod_auth_dbm (same, with dbm files)
12037 mod_cgi (CGI scripts and, in this release, ScriptAlias)
12038 mod_common_log (CLF access logs; later renamed mod_log_common)
12039 mod_dir (directory indexing)
12040 mod_include (server-side includes)
12041 mod_mime (AddType directives)
12042 mod_negotiation (content negotiation)
12043 mod_userdir (support for users' public_html directories)
12045 It also included a mod_ai_backcompat, which was a private hack
12046 for back-compatibility with rst's own AI-lab servers.
12048 All of these modules were substantially complete, and functional
12049 or nearly so (a few, which implemented features not in use at
12050 Thau's site, required patches of a few lines).
12052 *) sub-request machinery, to allow modules to determine how other
12053 modules would assign MIME types to a given file, or optionally
12054 serve its content (this is heavily used by mod_dir, mod_include
12055 and mod_negotiation).
12057 *) Resource pool system for keeping track of memory allocated and
12058 files opened in service of a particular request. Much of the
12059 code in the modules (when they weren't rewrites) was adjusted to
12060 replace a pervasive convention of using fixed-size buffers on
12061 the stack with an equally pervasive convention of using memory
12062 allocated with palloc().
12064 *) Reorganization of data structures associated with a given
12065 request to eliminate use of global variables and the troublesome
12066 unmunge_name function (used in NCSA and early Apache releases to
12067 attempt to determine the URI which mapped to a given filename
12068 --- a difficult proposition, given that it is easy to produce
12069 setups in which multiple URIs map to the same file).
12071 *) Source files renamed and rearranged
12073 *) Very simple pre-forking behavior --- parent process forked off a
12074 fixed number of children, and then just waited for SIGHUP.
12076 *) Other more minor changes too numerous to list.
12078 This release included modified versions of a lot of code from the
12079 Apache 0.6.4 public release, plus an early pre-forking patch
12080 codeveloped by Robert Thau and Rob Hartill.
12082 Changes with Apache 0.7.3 20 Jun 1995
12084 *) There were a bunch of changes between Apache 0.6.4 and 0.7.3 that
12085 were incorporated by Rob Hartill on the main branch while Robert Thau
12086 worked on the Shambhala rewrite above. Most were merged into the
12087 Shambala architecture after Apache 0.8.0.
12089 Changes with Apache 0.6.4 13 May 1995
12091 *) Patches by Rob Hartill, Cliff Skolnick, Randy Terbush, Robert Thau,
12094 Changes with Apache 0.5.1 10 Apr 1995
12096 Changes with Apache 0.4 02 Apr 1995
12098 *) Patches by Brian Behlendorf, Andrew Wilson, Robert Thau,
12101 Changes with Apache 0.3 24 Mar 1995
12103 *) Patches by Robert Thau, David Robinson, Rob Hartill, and
12106 Changes with Apache 0.2 18 Mar 1995
12108 *) Based on NCSA httpd 1.3 by Rob McCool and patches by CERT,
12109 Roy Fielding, Robert Thau, Nicolas Pioch, David Robinson,
12110 Brian Behlendorf, Rob Hartill, and Cliff Skolnick.
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