2 Changes with Apache 2.5.0
4 *) suexec: Add --enable-suexec-capabilites support on Linux, to use
5 setuid/setgid capability bits rather than a setuid root binary.
8 *) suexec: Add support for logging to syslog as an alternative to
9 logging to a file; use --without-suexec-logfile --with-suexec-syslog.
12 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Reduce memory usage in case of many keep-alive requests on
13 one connection. PR 52275. [Naohiro Ooiwa <naohiro ooiwa miraclelinux com>]
15 *) mod_proxy: Use the the same hostname for SNI as for the HTTP request when
16 forwarding to SSL backends. PR 53134.
17 [Michael Weiser <michael weiser.dinsnail.net>, Ruediger Pluem]
19 *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS Next Protocol Negotiation. PR 52210.
20 [Matthew Steele <mdsteele google.com>]
22 *) mod_so: If a filename without slashes is specified for LoadFile or
23 LoadModule and the file cannot be found in the server root directory,
24 try to use the standard dlopen() search path. [Stefan Fritsch]
26 *) various modules, rotatelogs: Replace use of apr_file_write() with
27 apr_file_write_full() to prevent incomplete writes. PR 53131.
28 [Nicolas Viennot <apache viennot biz>, Stefan Fritsch]
30 *) core: Fix segfault in logging if r->useragent_addr or c->client_addr is
31 unset. [Stefan Fritsch]
33 *) cross-compile: allow to provide CC_FOR_BUILD so that gen_test_char will
34 be compiled by the build compiler instead of the host compiler.
35 Also set CC_FOR_BUILD to 'cc' when cross-compilation is detected.
36 PR 51257. [Guenter Knauf]
38 *) mod_ssl: Send the error message for speaking http to an https port using
39 HTTP/1.0 instead of HTTP/0.9, and omit the link that may be wrong when
40 using SNI. PR 50823. [Stefan Fritsch]
42 *) mod_authz_core: Fix parsing of Require arguments in <AuthzProviderAlias>.
43 PR 53048. [Stefan Fritsch]
45 *) core: Fix error handling in ap_scan_script_header_err_brigade() if there
46 is no EOS bucket in the brigade. Fixes segfault with mod_proxy_fcgi.
47 PR 48272. [Stefan Fritsch]
49 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: If there is an error reading the headers from the
50 backend, send an error to the client. PR 52879. [Stefan Fritsch]
52 *) mod_rewrite: Fix RewriteCond integer checks to be parsed correctly.
53 PR 53023. [Axel Reinhold <apache freakout.de>, André Malo]
55 *) mod_proxy: Add the forcerecovery balancer parameter that determines if
56 recovery for balancer workers is enforced. [Ruediger Pluem]
58 *) mod_proxy: Correctly set up reverse proxy worker. PR 52935.
59 [Petter Berntsen <petterb gmail.com>]
61 *) core: Add filesystem paths to access denied / access failed messages
62 AH00035 and AH00036. [Eric Covener]
64 *) Fix MPM DSO load failure on AIX. [Jeff Trawick]
66 *) core: Add the port number to the vhost's name in the scoreboard.
69 *) mpm_event: Don't do a blocking write when starting a lingering close
70 from the listener thread. PR 52229. [Stefan Fritsch]
72 *) core: In maintainer mode, replace apr_palloc with a version that
73 initializes the allocated memory with non-zero values, except if
74 AP_DEBUG_NO_ALLOC_POISON is defined. [Stefan Fritsch]
76 *) mod_log_config: Check during config test that directories for access logs
77 exist. PR 29941. [Stefan Fritsch]
79 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Don't try a potentially expensive nested groups
80 search before exhausting all AuthLDAPGroupAttribute checks on the
81 current group. PR52464 [Eric Covener]
83 *) mod_policy: Add a new testing module to help server administrators
84 enforce a configurable level of protocol compliance on their
85 servers and application servers behind theirs. [Graham Leggett]
87 *) mod_firehose: Add a new debugging module able to record traffic
88 passing through the server in such a way that connections and/or
89 requests be reconstructed and replayed. [Graham Leggett]
91 *) Event MPM: Reduce locking by using a lock free circular queue.
101 [Apache 2.5.0-dev includes those bug fixes and changes with the
102 Apache 2.4.xx tree as documented below, except as noted.]
104 Changes with Apache 2.4.x and later:
106 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/CHANGES?view=markup
108 Changes with Apache 2.2.x and later:
110 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/CHANGES?view=markup
112 Changes with Apache 2.0.x and later:
114 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x/CHANGES?view=markup