1 Changes with Apache 2.0.43
3 *) Add ap_register_provider/ap_lookup_provider API.
4 [John K. Sterling <john@sterls.com>, Justin Erenkrantz]
6 *) Add -p option to apxs to allow programs to be compiled with apxs.
9 *) Rewrite of aaa modules to an authn/authz model.
10 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Justin Erenkrantz]
12 Changes with Apache 2.0.42
14 *) mod_dav: Check for versioning hooks before using them.
17 Changes with Apache 2.0.41
19 *) The protocol version (eg: HTTP/1.1) in the request line parsing
20 is now case insensitive. [Jim Jagielski]
22 *) Allow AddOutputFilterByType to add multiple filters per directive.
25 *) Remove warnings with Sun's Forte compiler. [Justin Erenkrantz]
27 *) Fixed mod_disk_cache's generation of 304s
28 [Kris Verbeeck <Kris.Verbeeck@ubizen.com>]
30 *) Add support for using fnmatch patterns in the final path
31 segment of an Include statement (eg.. include /foo/bar/*.conf).
32 and remove the noise on stderr during config dir processing.
33 [Joe Orton <jorton@redhat.com>]
35 *) mod_cache: cache_storage.c. Add the hostname and any request
36 args to the key generated for caching. This provides a unique
37 key for each virtual host and for each request with unique
38 args. [Paul J. Reder, args code provided by Kris Verbeeck]
40 *) mod_cache: Do not cache responses to GET requests with query
41 URLs if the origin server does not explicitly provide an
42 Expires header on the response (RFC 2616 Section 13.9)
43 [Kris Verbeeck krisv@be.ubizen.com]
45 *) Fix memory leak in core_output_filter. [Justin Erenkrantz]
47 *) Update OpenSSL detection to work on Darwin.
48 [Sander Temme <sctemme@covalent.net>]
50 *) Update the xslt and css to give the documentation a more
52 [André Malo <nd@perlig.de>, Gernot Winkler <greh@o3media.de>]
54 *) Fix some bucket memory leaks in the chunking code
55 [Joe Schaefer <joe+apache@sunstarsys.com>]
57 *) Add ModMimeUsePathInfo directive. [Justin Erenkrantz]
59 *) mod_cache: added support for caching streamed responses (proxy,
60 CGI, etc) with optional CacheMaxStreamingBuffer setting [Brian Pane]
62 *) Add image/x-icon to httpd.conf PR 10993.
63 [Ian Holsman, Peter Bieringer <pb@bieringer.de>]
65 *) Fix FileETags none operation. PR 12207.
66 [Justin Erenkrantz, Andrew Ho <andrew@tellme.com>]
68 *) Restored the experimental leader/followers MPM to working
69 condition and converted its thread synchronization from
70 mutexes to atomic CAS. [Brian Pane]
72 *) Fix Logic on non-html file removal in mod_deflate
73 [Kris Verbeeck <Kris.Verbeeck@ubizen.com>]
75 *) Fix "ab -g"'s truncated year: the last digit was cut off.
76 [Leon Brocard <acme@astray.com>]
78 *) mod_rewrite can now sets cookies in err_headers, uses the correct
79 expiry date, and can now set the path as well
81 [Ian Holsman / Rob Cromwell <apachechangelog@robcromwell.com>]
83 *) The content-length filter no longer tries to buffer up
84 the entire output of a long-running request before sending
85 anything to the client. [Brian Pane]
87 *) Win32: Lower the default stack size from 1MB to 256K. This will
88 allow around 8000 threads to be started per child process.
89 'EDITBIN /STACK:size apache.exe' can be used to change this
90 value directly in the apache.exe executable.
93 *) Win32: Implement ThreadLimit directive in the Windows MPM.
96 *) Remove CacheOn config directive since it is set but never checked.
97 No sense wasting cycles on unused code. Besides, the only truly
98 bug free code is deleted code. :) [Paul J. Reder]
100 *) BufferLogs are now run-time enabled, and the log_config now has 2 new
101 callbacks to allow a 3rd party module to actually do the writing of the
102 log file [Ian Holsman]
104 *) Correct ISAPIReadAheadBuffer to default to 49152, per mod_isapi docs.
105 [André Malo, Astrid Keßler <kess@kess-net.de>]
107 *) Fix Segfault in mod_cache. [Kris Verbeeck <Kris.Verbeeck@ubizen.com>]
109 *) Fix a null pointer dereference in the merge_env_dir_configs
110 function of the mod_env module. PR 11791
113 *) New option to ServerTokens 'maj[or]'. Only show the major version
114 Also Surfaced this directive in the standard config (default FULL)
117 *) Change mod_rewrite to use apr-util's dbm support for dbm rewrite
118 maps. The dbm type (e.g., ndbm, gdbm) can be specified on the
119 RewriteMap directive. PR 10644 [Jeff Trawick]
121 *) Fixed mod_rewrite's RewriteMap prg: support so that request/response
122 pairs will no longer get out of sync with each other. PR 9534
125 *) Fixes required to get quoted and escaped command args working in
126 mod_ext_filter. PR 11793 [Paul J. Reder]
128 *) mod-proxy: handle proxied responses with no status lines
129 [JD Silvester <jsilves@uwo.ca>, Brett Huttley <brett@huttley.net>]
131 *) Fix bug where environment or command line arguments containing
132 non-ASCII-7 characters would cause the Win32 child process creation
133 to fail. PR 11854 [William Rowe]
135 *) Bug #11213.. make module loading error messages more informative
136 [Ian Darwin <Ian779@darwinsys.com>]
138 *) thread safety & proxy-ftp [Alexey Panchenko alexey@liwest.ru, Ian Holsman]
140 *) mod_disk_cache works much better. This module should still
141 be considered experimental. [Eric Prud'hommeaux]
143 *) Performance improvement for keepalive requests: when setting
144 aside a small file for potential concatenation with the next
145 response on the connection, set aside the file descriptor rather
146 than copying the file into the heap. [Brian Pane]
148 Changes with Apache 2.0.40
150 *) SECURITY: [CAN-2002-0661] Close a very significant security hole that
151 applies only to the Win32, OS2 and Netware platforms. Unix was not
152 affected, Cygwin may be affected. Certain URIs will bypass security
153 and allow users to invoke or access any file depending on the system
154 configuration. Without upgrading, a single .conf change will close
155 the vulnerability. Add the following directive in the global server
156 httpd.conf context before any other Alias or Redirect directives;
157 RedirectMatch 400 "\\\.\."
158 Reported by Auriemma Luigi <bugtest@sitoverde.com>.
161 *) SECURITY: Close a path-revealing exposure in multiview type
162 map negotiation (such as the default error documents) where the
163 module would report the full path of the typemapped .var file when
164 multiple documents or no documents could be served based on the mime
165 negotiation. Reported by Auriemma Luigi <bugtest@sitoverde.com>.
166 [CAN-2002-0654] [William Rowe]
168 *) SECURITY: Close a path-revealing exposure in cgi/cgid when we
169 fail to invoke a script. The modules would report "couldn't create
170 child process /path-to-script/script.pl" revealing the full path
171 of the script. Reported by Jim Race <jrace@qualys.com>.
172 [CAN-2002-0654] [Bill Stoddard]
174 *) Set aside the apr-iconv and apr_xlate() features for the Win32
175 build of 2.0.40 so development can be completed. A patch, from
176 <http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/patches/apply_to_2.0.40/>
177 will be available for those that wish to work with apr-iconv.
180 *) Fix proxy so that it is possible to access ftp: URLs via a proxy
181 chain. [Peter Van Biesen <peter.vanbiesen@vlafo.be>]
183 *) mod-deflate now checks to make sure that 'gzip-only-text/html' is
184 set to 1, so we can exclude things from the general case with
185 browsermatch. [Ian Holsman, Andre Schild <A.Schild@aarboard.ch>]
187 *) Accept multiple leading /'s for requests within the DocumentRoot.
188 PR 10946 [William Rowe, David Shane Holden <dpejesh@yahoo.com>]
190 *) Solved the reports of .pdf byterange failures on Win32 alone.
191 APR's sendfile for the win32 platform collapses header and trailer
192 buffers into a single buffer. However, we destroyed the pointers
193 to the header buffer if a trailer buffer was present. PR 10781
196 *) mod_ext_filter: Add the ability to enable or disable a filter via
197 an environment variable. Add the ability to register a filter of
198 type other than AP_FTYPE_RESOURCE. [Jeff Trawick]
200 *) Restore the ability to specify host names on Listen directives.
201 PR 11030. [Jeff Trawick, David Shane Holden <dpejesh@yahoo.com>]
203 *) When deciding on the default address family for listening sockets,
204 make sure we can actually bind to an AF_INET6 socket before
205 deciding that we should default to AF_INET6. This fixes a startup
206 problem on certain levels of OpenUNIX. PR 10235. [Jeff Trawick]
208 *) Replace usage of atol() to parse strings when we might want a
209 larger-than-long value with apr_atoll(), which returns long long.
210 This allows HTTPD to deal with larger files correctly.
211 [Shantonu Sen <ssen@apple.com>]
213 *) mod_ext_filter: Ignore any content-type parameters when checking if
214 the response should be filtered. Previously, "intype=text/html"
215 wouldn't match something like "text/html;charset=8859_1".
218 *) mod_ext_filter: Set up environment variables for external programs.
219 [Craig Sebenik <craig@netapp.com>]
221 *) Modified the HTTP_IN filter to immediately append the EOS (end of
222 stream) bucket for C-L POST bodies, saving a roundtrip and allowing
223 the caller to determine that no content remains without prefetching
224 additional POST body. [William Rowe]
226 *) Get proxy ftp to work over IPv6. [Shoichi Sakane <sakane@kame.net>]
228 *) Look for OpenSSL libraries in /usr/lib64. [Peter Poeml <poeml@suse.de>]
230 *) Update SuSE layout. [Peter Poeml <poeml@suse.de>]
232 *) Changes to the internationalized error documents:
233 Comment them out in the default config file to make the default
234 install as simple as possible; Correct the english 500 error to
235 be more understandable; Add a Swedish translation.
236 [Thomas Sjogren <thomas@northernsecurity.net>,
237 Erik Abele <erik@codefaktor.de>, Rich Bowen, Joshua Slive]
239 *) Increase the limit on file descriptors per process in apachectl.
242 *) Fix a dependency error when building ApacheMonitor, so that Win32
243 and MSVC now trust that the project is current (when it is).
244 [James Cox <imajes@php.net>]
246 *) mod_ext_filter: don't segfault if content-type is not set. PR 10617.
247 [Arthur P. Smith <apsmith@aps.org>, Jeff Trawick]
249 *) APR-Util Renames pending have been completed [Thom May]
251 *) Performance improvements for the code that reads request
252 headers (ap_rgetline_core() and related functions) [Brian Pane]
254 *) Add a new directive: MaxMemFree. MaxMemFree makes it possible
255 to configure the maximum amount of memory the allocators will
256 hold on to for reuse. Anything over the MaxMemFree threshold
257 will be free()d. This directive is useful when uncommon large
258 peaks occur in memory usage. It should _not_ be used to mask
259 defective modules' memory use. [Sander Striker]
261 *) Fixed the Content-Length filter so that HTTP/1.0 requests to CGI
262 scripts would not result in a truncated response.
263 [Ryan Bloom, Justin Erenkrantz, Cliff Woolley]
265 *) Add a filter_init parameter to the filter registration functions
266 so that a filter can execute arbitrary code before the handlers
267 are invoked. This resolves a problem where mod_include requests
268 would incorrectly return a 304. [Justin Erenkrantz]
270 *) Fix a long-standing bug in 2.0, CGI scripts were being called
271 with relative paths instead of absolute paths. Apache 1.3 used
272 absolute paths for everything except for SuExec, this brings back
273 that standard. [Ryan Bloom]
275 *) Fix infinite loop due to two HTTP_IN filters being present for
276 internally redirected requests. PR 10146. [Justin Erenkrantz]
278 *) Switch conn_rec->keepalive to an enumeration rather than a bitfield.
281 *) Fix mod_ext_filter to look in the main server for filter definitions
282 when running in a vhost if the filter definition is not found in
283 the vhost. PR 10147 [Jeff Trawick]
285 *) Support WinNT CGI invocation through ScriptInterpreterSource
286 'registry' for script interpreter paths and names with non-ascii
287 characters in the executable filepath. [William Rowe]
289 *) Support the -w flag on to keep the Win32 console open on error.
292 *) Normalize the hostname value in the request_rec to all-lowercase
293 [Perry Harrington <pedward@webcom.com>]
295 *) Fix WinNT cgi 500 errors when QUERY_ARGS or other strings include
296 extended characters (non US-ASCII) in non-utf8 format. This brings
297 Win32 back into CGI/1.1 compliance, and leaves charset decoding up
298 to the cgi application itself. [William Rowe]
300 *) Major overhaul of mod_dav, mod_dav_fs and the experimental/cache
301 modules to bring them up to the current apr/apr-util APIs.
304 *) Fix segfault in mod_mem_cache most frequently observed when
305 serving the same file to multiple clients on an MP machine.
308 *) mod_rewrite can now set cookies (RewriteRule (.*) - [CO=name:$1:.domain])
309 [Brian Degenhardt <bmd@mp3.com>, Ian Holsman]
311 *) Fix perchild to work with apachectl by adding -k support to perchild.
312 PR 10074 [Jeff Trawick]
314 *) Fix a silly htpasswd.c logic error that incorrectly reported that
315 both -c and -n had been used. PR 9989 [Cliff Woolley]
317 *) Fixed a mod_include error case in which no HTTP response was sent
318 to the client if an shtml document contained an unterminated SSI
319 directive [Brian Pane]
321 *) Improve ap_get_client_block implementation by using APR-util brigade
322 helper functions and relying on current filter assumptions.
325 Changes with Apache 2.0.39
327 *) Fixed a build problem in htpasswd.c on Win32.
328 [Guenter Knauf <eflash@gmx.net>, Cliff Woolley]
330 Changes with Apache 2.0.38
332 *) Rewrite htpasswd to use APR. The removes the annoying warning about
333 tmpnam being unsafe. [Ryan Bloom]
335 *) We must set the MIME-type for .shtml files to text/html if we want them
336 to be parsed for SSI tags. Add the config for that to the default
337 config file so that it is easier to enable .shtml parsing.
338 [Dave Dyer <ddyer@real-me.net>]
340 *) Fixed a problem with 'make install' on ReliantUnix.
341 [Jean-frederic Clere <jfrederic.clere@fujitsu-siemens.com>]
343 *) Make the default_handler catch all requests that aren't served by
344 another handler. This also gets us to return a 404 if a directory
345 is requested, there is no DirectoryIndex, and mod_autoindex isn't
346 loaded. [Justin Erenkrantz]
348 *) Fixed the handling of nested if-statements in shtml files.
351 *) Allow 'make install DESTDIR=/path'. This allows packagers to install
352 into a directory different from the one that was configured. This
353 also mirrors the root= feature from 1.3. We cannot use prefix=,
354 because both APR and APR-util resolve their installation paths at
355 configuration time. This means that there is no variable prefix
356 to replace. [Andreas Hasenack <andreas@netbank.com.br>]
358 *) AIX 4.3.2 and above: Define SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT.
359 These levels of AIX don't have a thundering herd problem with
360 accept(). [Jeff Trawick]
362 *) prefork MPM: Ignore mutex errors during graceful restart. For
363 certain types of mutexes (particularly SysV semaphores), we
364 should expect to occasionally fail to obtain or release the
365 mutex during restart processing. [Jeff Trawick]
367 *) Fix install-bindist.sh so that it finds any perl instead of just
368 early perl 5.x versions. This is consistent with a build/install
369 from source, and it allows the perl scripts installed by a bindist
370 to work on systems with perl 5.6. [Jeff Trawick]
372 *) Fix apxs so that the makefile created by "apxs -g" works on AIX and
373 Tru64 (and probably some other platforms). [Jeff Trawick]
375 *) Allow CGI scripts to return their Content-Length. This also fixes a
376 hang on HEAD requests seen on certain platforms (such as FreeBSD).
379 *) Added log rotation based on file size to the RotateLog support
380 utility. [Brad Nicholes]
382 *) Fix some casting in mod_rewrite which broke random maps.
383 PR 9770 [Allan Edwards, Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
385 Changes with Apache 2.0.37
387 *) allow POST method over SSL when per-directory client cert
388 authentication is used with 'SSLOptions +OptRenegotiate' enabled
389 and a client cert was found in the ssl session cache.
391 *) 'SSLOptions +OptRengotiate' will use client cert in from the ssl
392 session cache when there is no cert chain in the cache. prior to
393 the fix this situation would result in a FORBIDDEN response and
394 error message "Cannot find peer certificate chain"
397 *) ap_finalize_sub_req_protocol() shouldn't send an EOS bucket if
398 one was already sent. PR 9644 [Jeff Trawick]
400 *) Fix the display of the default name for the mime types config
401 file. PR 9729 [Matthew Brecknell <mbrecknell@orchestream.com>]
403 *) Fix the working directory *for WinNT/2K/XP services only* to
404 change to the Apache directory (one level above the location
405 of Apache.exe, in the case that Apache.exe resides in bin/.)
406 Solves the case of ServerRoot /foo paths where /foo was not
407 on the same drive as /winnt/system32. [William Rowe]
409 *) Make 2.0's "AcceptMutex" startup message now "completely"
410 match how 1.3 does it. [Jim Jagielski]
412 *) Implement a fixed size memory cache using a priority queue
415 *) Fix apxs to allow "apxs -q installbuilddir" and to allow
416 querying certain other variables from config_vars.mk. PR 9316
419 *) Added the "detached" attribute to the cgi_exec_info_t internals
420 so that Win32 and Netware won't create a new window or console
421 for each CGI invoked. PR 8387
422 [Brad Nicholes, William Rowe]
424 *) Consolidated the command line parameters and attributes that are
425 manipulated by the optional function ap_cgi_build_command() in
426 mod_cgi into a single structure.
429 *) Get rid of uninitialized value errors with "apxs -q" on certain
430 variables. [Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org>]
432 *) Fix apxs to allow it to work when the build directory is somewhere
433 besides server-root/build. PR 8453
434 [Jeff Trawick and a host of others]
436 *) Allow ap_discard_request_body to be called multiple times in the
437 same request. Essentially, ap_http_filter keeps track of whether
438 it has sent an EOS bucket up the stack, if so, it will only ever
439 send an EOS bucket for this request.
440 [Ryan Bloom, Justin Erenkrantz, Greg Stein]
442 *) Remove all special mod_ssl URIs. This also fixes the bug where
443 redirecting (.*) will allow an SSL protected page to be viewed
444 without SSL. [Ryan Bloom]
446 *) Fix the binary build install script so that the build logic
447 created by "apxs -g" will work when the user has a binary
448 build. [Jeff Trawick]
450 *) Allow instdso.sh to work with full paths to the shared module.
453 *) NetWare: Enabled CGI functionality and added mod_cgi as a built
454 in module for NetWare [Brad Nicholes]
456 *) Changed cgi and piped log behavior to accept 65536 characters
457 on Win32 (matching Linux) before deadlocking between outputing
458 client stdin, slurping the output from stdout and then the stderr
459 stream. PR 8179 [William Rowe]
461 *) Fixed Win32 wintty.exe support to assure the window title is valid.
462 Elimiates possible gpfault or garbage title without the -t option.
465 *) Rewrite mod_cgi, mod_cgid, and mod_proxy input handling to use
466 brigades and input filters. [Justin Erenkrantz]
468 *) Allow ap_http_filter (HTTP_IN) to return EOS when there is no request
469 body. [Justin Erenkrantz]
471 *) NetWare: Piping log entries through RotateLogs using the
472 CustomLogs directive is finally supported now that we have
473 the pipes and spawning functionality working.
476 *) Detect overflow when reading the hex bytes forming a chunk line.
479 *) Allow RewriteMap prg:'s to take command-line arguments. PR 8464.
480 [James Tait <JTait@wyrddreams.demon.co.uk>]
482 *) Correctly return 413 when an invalid chunk size is given on
483 input. Also modify ap_discard_request_body to not do anything
484 on sub-requests or when the connection will be dropped.
487 *) Fix the TIME_* SSL var lookups to be threadsafe. PR 9469.
490 *) Ensure that apr_brigade_write() flushes in all of the cases that
491 it should to avoid conditions in some modules that could cause
492 large amounts of data to be buffered. [Cliff Woolley]
494 *) Fix problem where mod_cache/mod_disk_cache was incorrectly
495 stripping the content_type from cached responses.
498 *) apachectl passes through any httpd options. Note: apachectl
499 should be used in preference to httpd since it ensures that any
500 appropriate environment variables have been set up.
503 *) Fix the combination of mod_cgid, mod_setuexec, and mod_userdir.
504 PR 7810 [Colm MacCarthaigh <colmmacc@redbrick.dcu.ie>]
506 *) Fix suexec execution of CGI scripts from mod_include.
507 PR 7791, 8291 [Colm MacCarthaigh <colmmacc@redbrick.dcu.ie>]
509 *) Fix segfaults at startup on some platforms when mod_auth_digest,
510 mod_suexec, or mod_ssl were used as DSO's due to the way they
511 were tracking the current init phase since DSO's get completely
512 unloaded and reloaded between phases. PR 9413.
513 [Tsuyoshi Sasamoto <nazonazo@super.win.ne.jp>, Brad Nicholes]
515 *) Fix mod_include's handling of regular expressions in
516 "<!--#if" directives [Julius Gawlas <julius_gawlas@hp.com>]
518 *) Fix the worker MPM deadlock problem [Brian Pane]
520 *) Modify the module documentation to allow for translations.
521 [Yoshiki Hayashi, Joshua Slive]
523 *) Fix a file permissions problem which prevented mod_disk_cache
524 from working on Unix. [Jeff Trawick]
526 *) Add "-k start|restart|graceful|stop" support to httpd for the Unix
527 MPMs. These have semantics very similar to the old apachectl
528 commands of the same name. [Justin Erenkrantz, Jeff Trawick]
530 *) Make sure that the runtime dir is created by make install.
531 PR 9233. [Jeff Trawick]
533 *) Fix an unusual set of ./configure arguments that could cause
534 mod_http to be built as a DSO, which it currently doesn't
536 [Cliff Woolley, Robin Johnson <robbat2@orbis-terrarum.net>]
538 *) Win32: Fix bug in apr_sendfile() that caused incorrect operation
539 of the %X, %b and %B logformat options. PR 8253, 8996.
542 *) If content-encoding is already present, do not run deflate (PR 9222)
543 [Kazuhisa ASADA <kaz@asada.sytes.net>]
545 *) The APLOG_NOERRNO flag to ap_log_[r]error() is now deprecated.
546 It is currently ignored and it will be removed in a future release
547 of Apache. [Jeff Trawick]
549 *) Removed documentation references to the no-longer-supported
550 "make certificate" feature of mod_ssl for Apache 1.3.x. Test
551 certificates, if truly desired, can be generated using openssl
552 commands. PR 8724. [Cliff Woolley]
554 *) Remove SSLLog and SSLLogLevel directives in favor of having
555 mod_ssl use the standard ErrorLog directives. [Justin Erenkrantz]
557 *) OS/390: LIBPATH no longer has to be manually uncommented in
558 envvars to get apachectl to set up httpd properly. [Jeff Trawick]
560 *) mod_isapi: All mod_isapi directives, excluding ISAPICacheFile,
561 may now be specified to the <File/Directory > container, rather
562 than by vhost. [William Rowe]
564 *) mod_isapi: Experimental support for faux async support for ISAPI
565 modules. [William Rowe]
567 *) mod_isapi: Major refactoring of the code to rely on apr internals
568 rather than MS APIs (using our own mod_isapi.h headers for ISAPI
569 symbol definitions.) [William Rowe]
571 *) mod_isapi: Fixed the return string length from GetServerVariable
572 callback, it was not including the trailing null in the consumed
573 buffer size. This was particularly bad for Delphi 6.0 users.
574 PR 8934 [Sebastian Hantsch <sebastian.hantsch@gmx.de>]
576 *) Fixed Win32 builds for Microsoft VisualStudio 7.0 (.net).
579 *) Make apxs look in the correct directory for envvars. It was
580 broken when sbindir != bindir. PR 8869
581 [Andreas Sundström <sunkan@zappa.cx>]
583 *) Fix mod_deflate corruption when using multiple buckets. PR 9014.
584 [Asada Kazuhisa <kaz@asada.sytes.net>]
586 *) Performance enhancements for access logger when using
587 default timestamp formatting [Brian Pane]
589 *) Added EnableMMAP config directive to enable the server
590 administrator to disable memory-mapping of delivered files
591 on a per-directory basis. [Brian Pane]
593 *) Performance enhancements for mod_setenvif [Brian Pane]
595 *) Fix a mod_ssl build problem on OS/390. [Jeff Trawick]
597 *) Fixed If-Modified-Since on Win32, which would give false positives
598 because of the sub-second resolution of file timestamps on that
599 platform. [Cliff Woolley]
601 *) Reverse the hook ordering for mod_userdir and mod_alias so
602 that Alias/ScriptAlias will override Userdir. PR 8841
605 *) Move mod_deflate out of experimental and into filters.
608 *) Get proxy CONNECT basically working. [Jeff Trawick]
610 *) Fix mod_rewrite hang when APR uses SysV Semaphores and
611 RewriteLogLevel is set to anything other than 0. PR: 8143
612 [Aaron Bannert, Cliff Woolley]
614 *) Fix byterange requests from returning 416 when using dynamic data
615 (such as filters like mod_include). [Justin Erenkrantz]
617 *) Allow mod_rewrite's set of "int:" internal RewriteMap functions
618 to be extended by third-party modules via an optional function.
619 [Tahiry Ramanamampanoharana <nomentsoa@hotmail.com>, Cliff Woolley]
621 *) Fix mod_include expression parser's handling of unquoted strings
622 followed immediately by a closing paren. PR 8462. [Brian Pane]
624 *) Remove autom4te.cache in 'make distclean'.
625 [Thom May <thom@planetarytramp.net>]
627 *) Fix generated httpd.conf to respect layout for LoadModule lines.
628 PR 8170. [Thom May <thom@planetarytramp.net>]
630 *) Win32: During a graceful restart, threads in the new process
631 were accessing scoreboard slots still in use by active threads in
632 the the old process. [Bill Stoddard]
634 Changes with Apache 2.0.36
636 *) Fix some minor formatting issues with ab. Part of this is
637 in reference to PR 8544, the rest I noticed while testing
638 the PR fix. [Paul J. Reder]
640 *) Fix a case where an invalid pass phrase is entered and an
641 error message is given, but the prompt is not shown again.
642 This left the user in an ambiguous state. PR 8320 [Paul J. Reder]
644 *) Close sockets on worker MPM when doing a graceless restart.
647 *) Reverted a minor optimization in mod_ssl.c that used the vhost ID
648 as the session id context rather that a MD5 hash of that vhost ID,
649 because it caused very long vhost id's to be unusable with mod_ssl.
650 PR 8572. [Cliff Woolley]
652 *) Fix the link to the description of the CoredumpDirectory
653 directive in the server-wide document. PR 8643. [Jeff Trawick]
655 *) Fixed SHMCB session caching. [Aaron Bannert, Cliff Woolley]
657 *) Synced with remaining changes from mod_ssl 2.8.8-1.3.24:
658 - Avoid SIGBUS on sparc machines with SHMCB session caches
659 - Allow whitespace between the pipe and the name of the
660 program in SSLLog "| /path/to/program". [Cliff Woolley]
662 *) Introduce mod_ext_filter and mod_deflate experimental modules
663 to the Win32 build (zlib sources must be in srclib\zlib.)
666 *) Changes to the worker MPM's queue management and thread
667 synchronization code to reduce mutex contention [Brian Pane]
669 *) Don't install *.in configuration files since we already install
670 *-std.conf files. [Aaron Bannert]
672 *) Many improvements to the threadpool MPM. [Aaron Bannert]
674 *) Fix subreqs that are promoted via fast_redirect from having invalid
675 frec->r structures. This would cause subtle errors later on in
676 request processing such as seen in PR 7966. [Justin Erenkrantz]
678 *) More efficient pool recycling logic for the worker MPM [Brian Pane]
680 *) Modify the worker MPM to not accept() new connections until
681 there is an available worker thread. This prevents queued
682 connections from starving for processing time while long-running
683 connections were hogging all the available threads. [Aaron Bannert]
685 *) Convert the worker MPM's fdqueue from a LIFO back into a FIFO.
688 *) Get basic HTTP proxy working on EBCDIC machines. [Jeff Trawick]
690 *) Allow mod_unique_id to work on systems with no IPv4 address
691 corresponding to their host name. [Jeff Trawick]
693 *) Fix suexec behavior with user directories. PR 7810.
694 [Colm <colmmacc@redbrick.dcu.ie>]
696 *) Reject a blank UserDir directive since it is ambiguous. PR 8472.
699 *) Make mod_mime use case-insensitive matching when examining
700 extensions on all platforms. PR 8223. [Justin Erenkrantz]
702 *) Add an intelligent error message should no proxy submodules be
703 valid to handle a request. PR 8407 [Graham Leggett]
705 *) Major improvements in concurrent processing for AB by enabling
706 non-blocking connect()s and preventing APR from doing blocking
707 read()s. Also implement fatal error checking for apr_recv().
710 *) Fix Win32 NTFS Junctions (symlinks). PR 8014 [William Rowe]
712 *) Fix Win32 'short name' aliases in httpd.conf directives.
713 PR 8009 [William Rowe]
715 *) Fix generation of default httpd.conf when the layout paths are
716 disjoint. PR 7979, 8227. [Justin Erenkrantz]
718 *) Swap downgrade-1.0 and force-response-1.0 conditional checks so
719 that downgraded responses can have force-response. PR 8357.
722 *) Fix perchild MPM so that it can be configured with the move to the
723 experimental directory. [Scott Lamb <slamb@slamb.org>]
725 *) Fix perchild MPM so that it uses ap_gname2id for groups instead of
726 ap_uname2id. [Scott Lamb <slamb@slamb.org>]
728 *) Fix AcceptPathInfo. PR 8234 [Cliff Woolley]
730 *) SECURITY: Added the APLOG_TOCLIENT flag to ap_log_rerror() to
731 explicitly tell the server that warning messages should be sent
732 to the client in addition to being recorded in the error log.
733 Prior to this change, ap_log_rerror() always sent warning
734 messages to the client. In one case, a faulty CGI script caused
735 the server to send a warning message to the client that contained
736 the full path to the CGI script. This could be considered a
737 minor security exposure. [Bill Stoddard]
739 *) mod_autoindex output when SuppressRules was specified would
740 omit the first carriage return so the first item in the list
741 would appear to the right of the column headings instead of
742 underneath them. PR 8016 [David Shane Holden <dpejesh@yahoo.com>]
744 *) Moved the call to apr_mmap_dup outside the error branch so
745 that it would actually get called. This fixes a core dump
746 at init everytime you use the MMapFile directive. PR 8314
749 *) Trigger an error when a LoadModule directive attempts to
750 load a module which is built-in. This is a common error when
751 switching from a DSO build to a static build. [Jeff Trawick]
753 *) Change instdso.sh to use libtool --install everywhere and then
754 clean up some stray files and symlinks that libtool leaves around
755 on some platforms. This gets subversion building properly since
756 it needed a re-link to be performed by libtool at install time,
757 and the old instdso.sh logic to simply cp the DSO didn't handle
758 that requirement. [Sander Striker]
760 *) Allow VPATH builds to succeed when configured from an empty
761 directory. [Thom May <thom@planetarytramp.net>]
763 *) Fix 'control reaches end of non-void function' warning in
764 server/log.c. [Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net>]
766 *) Perchild MPM is now correctly deemed as experimental and is now
767 located in server/mpm/experimental. [Justin Erenkrantz]
769 *) Fix segfault in mod_mem_cache when garabge collecting an expired
770 cache entry. [Bill Stoddard]
772 *) Introduced -E startup_logfile_name option to httpd to allow admins
773 to begin logging errors immediately. This provides Win32 users
774 an alternative to sending startup errors to the event viewer, and
775 allows other daemon tool authors an alternative to logging to stderr.
778 *) Fix subreqs with non-defined Content-Types being served improperly.
781 *) Merge in latest GNU config.guess and config.sub files. PR 7818.
784 *) Move 100 - Continue support to the HTTP_IN filter so that filters
785 are guaranteed to support 100 - Continue logic without any
786 intervention. [Justin Erenkrantz]
788 *) Add HTTP chunked input trailer support. [Justin Erenkrantz]
790 *) Rename and export get_mime_headers as ap_get_mime_headers.
793 *) Allow empty Host: header arguments. PR 7441. [Justin Erenkrantz]
795 *) Properly substitute sbindir as httpd's location in apachectl. PR 7840.
796 [Andreas Hasenack <andreas@netbank.com.br>]
798 *) Allow Win32 shebang scripts to follow the path (or omit the .exe
799 suffix from the shebang command), and allow ScriptInterpreterSource
800 Registry or RegistryStrict to override shebang lines, as 1.3 did.
801 PR 8004 [William Rowe]
803 *) worker MPM: Fix a situation where a child exited without releasing
804 the accept mutex. Depending on the OS and mutex mechanism this
805 could result in a hang. [Jeff Trawick]
807 *) Update the instructions for how to get started with mod_example.
810 *) Fix PidFile to default to rel_runtimedir instead of
811 rel_logfiledir. PR 7841. [Andreas Hasenack <andreas@netbank.com.br>]
813 *) Win32: Fix problem that caused rapid performance degradation
814 when number of connecting clients exceeded ThreadsPerChild.
817 *) Fixed a segfault parsing large SSIs on non-mmap systems.
820 *) Proxy was bombing out every second keepalive request, caused by a
821 stray CRLF before the second response's status line. Proxy now
822 tries to read one more line if it encounters a CRLF where it
823 expected a status. PR 10010 [Graham Leggett]
825 *) Deprecated the apr_lock.h API. Please see the following files
826 for the improved thread and process locking and signaling:
827 apr_proc_mutex.h, apr_thread_mutex.h, apr_thread_rwlock.h,
828 apr_thread_cond.h, and apr_global_mutex.h. [Aaron Bannert]
830 *) Change mod_status to use scoreboard accessor functions so it can
831 be used in any MPM without having to be recompiled.
832 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
834 *) Fix parsing of some AP_DECLARE_DATA declarations so that the filter
835 handle declarations are recognized. This fixes problems loading
836 mod_autoindex on some platforms. [Brian Havard]
838 *) add optional fixup hook to proxy [Daniel Lopez <daniel@covalent.net>]
840 *) Remind the admin about the User and Group directives when we are
841 unable to set permissions on a semaphore. PR 7812 [Jeff Trawick]
843 *) fix possible compilation problem in ssl_engine_kernel.c. PR 7802
846 *) fix possible infinite loop in mod_ssl triggered by certain
847 netscape clients [Doug MacEachern]
849 *) fix ProxyPass when frontend is https and backend is http
852 *) Add DASL support to mod_dav
853 [Sung Kim <hunkim@cse.ucsc.edu>]
855 Changes with Apache 2.0.35
857 *) mod_rewrite: updated to use the new APR global mutex type.
860 *) Fixes for mod_include errors on boundary conditions in which
861 "<!--#" occurs at the very end of a bucket
862 [Paul Reder, Brian Pane]
864 *) worker, prefork, perchild, beos MPMs: Add -DFOREGROUND switch to
865 cause the Apache parent process to run in the foreground (similar to
866 -DNO_DETACH except that it doesn't switch session ids).
869 *) Added support for Posix semaphore mutex locking (AcceptMutex posixsem)
870 for those platforms that support it. If using the default
871 implementation, this is between pthread and sysvsem in priority.
872 This implies it's the new default for Darwin. [Jim Jagielski]
874 *) AIX: Fix the syntax for setting the LDR_CNTRL and AIXTHREAD_SCOPE
875 environment variables in the envvars file. [Jeff Trawick]
877 *) worker MPM: Don't create a listener thread until we have a worker
878 thread. Otherwise, in situations where we'll have to wait a while
879 to take over scoreboard slots from a previous generation, we'll be
880 accepting connections we can't process yet. [Jeff Trawick]
882 *) Allow worker MPM to build on systems without pthread_kill().
883 [Pier Fumagalli, Jeff Trawick]
885 *) Prevent ap_add_output_filters_by_type from being called in
886 ap_set_content_type if the content-type hasn't changed.
889 *) Performance: implemented the bucket allocator made possible by the
890 API change in 2.0.34. [Cliff Woolley]
892 *) Don't allow initialization to succeed if we can't get a socket
893 corresponding to one of the Listen statements. [Jeff Trawick]
895 Changes with Apache 2.0.34
897 *) Allow all Perchild directives to accept either numerical UID/GID
898 or logical user/group names. [Scott Lamb <slamb@slamb.org>]
900 *) Make Perchild compile cleanly and serve pages again. [Ryan Bloom]
902 *) implement ssl proxy to support ProxyPass / https:// and the
903 SSLProxy* directives [Doug MacEachern]
905 *) Update mod_cgid to not do single-byte socket reads for CGI headers
908 *) Made AB's use of the Host: header rfc2616 compliant
909 by Taisuke Yamada <tai@iij.ad.jp> [Dirk-Willem van Gulik].
911 *) The old, legacy (and unused) code in which the scoreboard was totally
912 and completely contained in a file (SCOREBOARD_FILE) has been
913 removed. This does not affect scoreboards which are *mapped* to
914 files using named-shared-memory. [Jim Jagielski]
916 *) Change bucket brigades API to allow a "bucket allocator" to be
917 passed in at certain points. This allows us to implement freelists
918 so that we can stop using malloc/free so frequently.
919 [Cliff Woolley, Brian Pane]
921 *) Add support for macro expansion within the variable names in
922 <!--#echo--> and <!--#set--> directives [Brian Pane]
924 *) Fix some mod_include segfaults [Cliff Woolley, Brian Pane, Brad Nicholes]
926 *) Update the "RedHat" Layout to match Red Hat Linux version 7. PR BZ-7422
929 *) add compat layer to support RSA SSLC 1.x and 2.x in mod_ssl
930 [Jon Travis, John Barbee, William Rowe, Ryan Bloom, Doug MacEachern]
932 *) Add a new parameter to the quick_handler hook to instruct
933 quick handlers to optionally do a lookup rather than actually
934 serve content. This is the first of several changes required fix
935 several problems with how quick handlers work with subrequests.
938 *) worker MPM: Get MaxRequestsPerChild to work again. [Jeff Trawick]
940 *) [APR-related] The ordering of the default accept mutex method has
941 been changed to better match what's done in Apache 1.3. The ordering
942 is now (highest to lowest): pthread -> sysvsem -> fcntl -> flock.
945 *) Ensure that the build/ directory is created when using VPATH.
948 *) Add some popular types to the mime magic file. PR 7730.
949 [Linus Walleij <triad@df.lth.se>, Justin Erenkrantz]
951 *) Remove the single-byte socket reads for CGI headers [Brian Pane]
953 *) When a proxied site was being served, Apache was replacing
954 the original site Server header with it's own, which is not
955 allowed by RFC2616. Fixed. [Graham Leggett]
957 *) Fix a mod_cgid problem that left daemon processes stranded
958 in some server restart scenarios. [Jeff Trawick]
960 *) Added exp_foo and rel_foo variables to config_vars.mk for
961 all Apache and Autoconf path variables (like --sysconfdir,
962 --sbindir, etc). exp_foo is the "expanded" version, which means
963 that all internal variable references have been interpolated.
964 rel_foo is the same as $exp_foo, only relative to $prefix if they
965 share a common path. [Aaron Bannert]
967 *) Fix some restart/terminate problems in the worker MPM. Don't
968 drop connections during graceful restart. [Jeff Trawick]
970 *) Change the header merging behaviour in proxy, as some headers
971 (like Set-Cookie) cannot be unmerged due to stray commas in
972 dates. [Graham Leggett]
974 *) Be more vocal about what AcceptMutex values we allow, to make
975 us closer to how 1.3 does it. [Jim Jagielski]
977 *) Get nph- CGI scripts working again. PRs 8902, 8907, 9983
980 *) Upgraded PCRE library to latest version 3.9 [Brian Pane]
982 *) Add accessor function to set r->content_type. From now on,
983 ap_rset_content_type() should be used to set r->content_type.
984 This change is required to properly implement the
985 AddOutputFilterByType configuration directive.
986 [Bill Stoddard, Sander Striker, Ryan Bloom]
988 *) Add new M_FOO symbols for the WebDAV/DeltaV methods specified by
989 RFC 3253. Improved the method name/number mapping functions.
992 *) remove sock_enable_linger from connection.c [Ian Holsman]
994 *) Fix for virtual host processing where the requested hostname
995 has a '.' at the end (PR 9187) [Ryan Cruse <ryan@estara.com>]
997 *) mod_dav's APIs for REPORT response handling was changed so that
998 providers can generate the content directly into the output filter
999 stack, rather than buffering the response into memory. [Greg Stein]
1001 *) Fix a hang condition with graceful restart and prefork MPM
1002 in the situation where MaxClients is very high but
1003 much fewer servers are actually started at the time of the
1004 restart. [Jeff Trawick]
1006 *) Small performance fixes for mod_include [Brian Pane]
1008 *) Performance improvement for the error logger [Brian Pane]
1010 *) Change configure so that Solaris 8 and above have
1011 SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT defined by default.
1012 according to sun people solaris 8+ doesn't have a thundering
1013 herd problem [Ian Holsman]
1015 *) Allow URIs specifying CGI scripts to include '/' at the end
1016 (e.g., /cgi-bin/printenv/) on AIX and Solaris (and other OSs
1017 which ignore '/' at the end of the names of non-directories).
1018 PR 10138 [Jeff Trawick]
1020 *) implement SSLSessionCache shmht and shmcb based on apr_rmm and
1021 apr_shm. [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli@hp.com>]
1023 *) Fix apxs -g handling. Move config_vars.mk from the top build
1024 directory to the build directory. PR 10163 [Jeff Trawick]
1026 *) Fix some mod_include problems which broke evaluation of some
1027 expressions. PR 10108 [Jeff Trawick]
1029 *) Fix the calculation of request time in mod_status. [Stas Bekman]
1031 *) Fix the calculation of thread_num in the worker score structure.
1034 *) Use apr_atomic operations in managing the mod_mem_cache
1035 cache_objects for SMP scalability. (see USE_ATOMICS
1036 preprocessor directive in mod_file_cache)
1039 *) Add filehandle caching to mod_mem_cache. (see CACHE_FD
1040 preprocessor directive in mod_file_cache)
1043 *) Implement prototype mod_disk_cache for use with mod_cache.
1046 *) Add a missing manualdir entry in the Debian config.layout.
1047 [Thom May <thom@planetarytramp.net>]
1049 *) Stop installing libtool for APR and tell APR where it should place
1050 its copy of libtool (via our installbuildpath layout variable).
1053 *) New directive ProxyIOBufferSize. Sets the size of the buffer used
1054 when reading from a remote HTTP server in proxy. [Graham Leggett]
1056 *) Modify receive/send loop in proxy_http and proxy_ftp so that
1057 should it be necessary, the remote server socket is closed before
1058 transmitting the last buffer (set by ProxyIOBufferSize) to the
1059 client. This prevents the backend server from being forced to hang
1060 around while the last few bytes are transmitted to a slow client.
1061 Fix the case where no error checking was performed on the final
1062 brigade in the loop. [Graham Leggett]
1064 *) Scrap CacheMaxExpireMin and CacheDefaultExpireMin. Change
1065 CacheMaxExpire and CacheDefaultExpire to use seconds rather than
1066 hours. [Graham Leggett, Bill Stoddard]
1068 *) New Directive SSIUndefinedEcho. to change the '(none)' echoed
1069 for a undefined variable. [Ian Holsman]
1071 *) Proxy HTTP and CONNECT: Keep trying other addresses from the DNS
1072 when we can't get a socket in the specified address family. We may
1073 have gotten back an IPv6 address first and yet our system is not
1074 configured to allow IPv6 sockets. [Jeff Trawick]
1076 *) Be more careful about recursively removing CVS directories. Make
1077 sure that we aren't cd'ing to their home directory first. PR: 9993
1078 [Aaron Bannert, James LewisMoss <dres@lewismoss.net>]
1080 *) Add a missing errordir entry in the Debian config.layout. PR: 10067
1081 [Dirk-Jan Faber <dirk-jan@selwerd.nl>, Aaron Bannert,
1082 Thom May <thom@planetarytramp.net>]
1084 *) Rename the filter ordering priorities. The recent filtering fixes
1085 have showcased problems with their usage. Therefore, we need to
1086 rename them to increase the clarity. (CONTENT->RESOURCE,
1087 HTTP_HEADER->CONTENT_SET/PROTOCOL) [Justin Erenkrantz]
1089 Changes with Apache 2.0.33
1091 *) Fix a problem in the new --enable-layout functionality where
1092 it wouldn't allow overrides from variables like --prefix,
1093 --bindir, etc. [Thom May <thom@planetarytramp.net>]
1095 *) Fix a bug in the core input filter for AP_MODE_EXHAUSTIVE. It
1096 no longer hangs around waiting for the socket to close before
1097 returning exhaustive data. [Aaron Bannert]
1099 *) rename apr_exploded_time_t to apr_time_exp_t (as per renames pending)
1100 [Thom May <thom@planetarytramp.net>]
1102 *) Change mod_ssl to always do a full startup/teardown on restarts.
1103 this allows mod_ssl to be added to a server that is already
1104 running and makes it possible to add/change certs/keys after the
1105 server has been started. [Doug MacEachern]
1107 *) Introduce PassPhraseDialog "|/path/to/pipe" mechanism to mod_ssl.
1108 This pipe must be a bidirectional 'console' style relay, which
1109 mod_ssl prints all prompts to the pipe's stdin, and reads the
1110 passphrases from the pipe's stdout. [William Rowe]
1112 *) Fix bug where --sysconfdir and --localstatedir were being
1113 ignored. [Thom May <thom@planetarytramp.net>, Aaron Bannert]
1116 *) Fix --enable-layout to work again. Caution: When specifying
1117 --enable-layout, common arguments like --prefix, --exec-prefix,
1118 etc. will be ignored and the settings from the layout will be
1119 used instead. [Thom May <thom@planetarytramp.net>, Aaron Bannert]
1122 *) New Directive for mod_proxy: ProxyRemoteMatch. This provides
1123 regex pattern matching for the determination of which requests
1124 to use the remote proxy for. [Jim Jagielski]
1126 *) Fix CustomLog bytes-sent with HTTP 0.9. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1128 *) Prevent Apache from ignoring SIGHUP due to some lingering 1.3
1129 cruft in piped logs and rewritemap child processes.
1132 *) All instances of apr_lock_t have been removed and converted
1133 to one of the following new lock APIs: apr_thread_mutex.h,
1134 apr_proc_mutex.h, or apr_global_mutex.h. No new code should
1135 use the apr_lock.h API, as the old API will soon be deprecated.
1138 *) Merged in changes to mod_ssl up through 2.8.7-1.3.23.
1139 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Cliff Woolley]
1141 *) mod-include: make it handle flush'es and fix the 'false-alarm'
1142 [Justin Erenkrantz, Brian Pane, Ian Holsman]
1144 *) ap_get_*_filter_handle() functions to allow 3rd party modules
1145 to lookup filter handles so they can bypass the filter name
1146 lookup when adding filters to a request (via ap_add_*_filter_handle())
1147 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
1149 *) Fix for multiple file buckets on Win32, where the first file
1150 bucket would cause the immediate closure of the socket on any
1151 non-keepalive requests. [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
1153 *) Correct Win32 failure of mmap of a segment beyond start of the
1154 file; fixes large SSL and similar transfers. [William Rowe]
1157 *) Implement apr_proc_detach changes and allow -DNO_DETACH in the
1158 multi-process mode to not "daemonize" while detaching from the
1159 controlling terminal. This is necessary for Apache to work with
1160 process-management tools like AIX's "System Resource Controller"
1161 as well as Dan Bernstein's "daemontools".
1162 [Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com>, Aaron Bannert]
1164 *) Convert mod_auth_digest to use the new apr_global_mutex_t
1165 type. [Aaron Bannert]
1167 *) fix bug in mod-include where it wouldn't send a unmatched
1168 part if it was at the end of a bucket [Ian Holsman]
1170 *) worker MPM: Improve logging of errors with the interface between
1171 the listener thread and worker threads. [Jeff Trawick]
1173 *) Some browsers ignore cookies that have been merged into a
1174 single Set-Cookie header. Set-Cookie and Set-Cookie2 headers
1175 are now unmerged in the http proxy before being sent to the
1176 client. [Graham Leggett]
1178 *) Fix a problem with proxy where each entry of a duplicated
1179 header such as Set-Cookie would overwrite and obliterate the
1180 previous value of the header, resulting in multiple header
1181 values (like cookies) going missing.
1182 [Graham Leggett, Joshua Slive]
1184 *) Add the server-limit and thread-limit values to the scoreboard
1185 for the sake of third-party applications.
1186 [Adam Sussman <myddryn@vishnu.vidya.com>]
1188 *) Fix segfault when proxy recieves an invalid HTTP response [Ian Holsman]
1190 *) OS/390: Get make install to properly copy DSO modules.
1193 *) Win32: Fix bug in mod_status with displaying "Restart Time"
1194 and "Server uptime".
1197 *) Fix IPv6 name-based virtual hosts. [Jeff Trawick]
1199 *) Introduce AddOutputFilterByType directive. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1201 *) Fix DEBUG_CGI support in mod_cgi. PR 9670, 9671.
1202 [David MacKenzie <djm@pix.net>]
1204 *) Fix incorrect check for script_in in mod_cgi. PR 9669.
1205 [David MacKenzie <djm@pix.net>]
1207 *) Fix segfault and display error when SSLMutex file can not be
1208 created. [Adam Sussman <myddryn@vishnu.vidya.com>]
1210 *) Add reference counting to mod_mem_cache cache objects to
1211 better manage removing objects from the cache.
1214 *) Change the verbage on the ScoreBoardFile in our default configs.
1215 Also change the default to be commented out (unspecified) so we
1216 get anonymous shared memory by default. [Aaron Bannert]
1218 *) Implement new ScoreBoardFile directive logic. This affects how
1219 we create the scoreboard's shared memory segment. If the directive
1220 is present, a name-based segment is created. If the directive is
1221 not present, first an anonymous segment is created, and if that
1222 fails, a name-based segment is created from a file of the name
1223 DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD. This gives third-party applications the
1224 ability to access our scoreboard. [Aaron Bannert]
1226 *) Allow mod_deflate to work with non-GET requests and properly send
1227 Content-Lengths. [Sander Striker <striker@apache.org>]
1229 *) Fix ap_directory_merge() to correctly merge configs when there is
1230 no <Directory /> block. [Justin Erenkrantz, William Rowe]
1232 *) Remove spurious debug messsages that are normal under HTTP
1233 keep-alive logic. [Jeff Trawick, Justin Erenkrantz]
1235 *) Fix a bug in mod_cgid that would prevent proper shutdown death
1236 of the cgid process. [Aaron Bannert]
1238 *) Add signal handling back in to the worker MPM for the one_process
1239 (-X, -DDEBUG, -DONE_PROCESS) case. [Aaron Bannert]
1241 *) Performance: Reuse per-connection transaction pools in the
1242 worker MPM, rather than destroying and recreating them. [Brian Pane]
1244 *) Remove all signals from the worker MPM's child process. Instead,
1245 the parent uses the Pipe of Death for all communication with the
1246 child processes. [Ryan Bloom]
1248 Changes with Apache 2.0.32
1250 *) mod_negotiation: ForceLanguagePriority now uses 'Prefer' as the
1251 default if the directive is not specified. This mirrors older
1252 behavior without changes to the httpd.conf. [William Rowe]
1254 *) Win32: solve the win32 service problems in 2.0.31-alpha, by fixing
1255 the service, mpm and logging code, and bugs in apr_file_open_stderr
1256 and apr_file_dup2 functions. Win2K/XP services have no handles
1257 associated for stdin/out/err, which caused unpredictable behavior
1258 in the prior release. [William Rowe, Bill Stoddard]
1260 *) Win32: simplify the Application Event Log messages, since there isn't
1261 likely to be 'more information in the error log' before an error log
1262 has been opened. [William Rowe]
1264 *) Win32: substantial cleanup to the mpm_winnt code for legibility and
1265 to follow the program flow of other MPMs. [Ryan Bloom, William Rowe]
1267 *) Win32: apache -k shutdown now behaves like apache -k stop.
1270 *) Fix prefork to not kill the parent if a child hits a resource shortage
1271 on accept(). [Greg Ames]
1273 *) Fix seg faults that occur when what should be the httpd request line
1274 starts with \r\n followed by garbage. [Greg Ames]
1276 *) Allow statically linked support binaries with the new
1277 --enable-static-support flag, and enable this behavior in
1278 the binbuild script. Also add a new --enable-static-htdbm
1279 flag. [Aaron Bannert]
1281 *) Allow mod_autoindex to serve symlinks if permitted and attempt to
1282 do only one stat() call when generating the directory listings.
1285 *) Fix resolve_symlink to save the original symlink name if known.
1288 *) Be a bit more sane with regard to CanonicalNames. If the user has
1289 specified they want to use the CanonicalName, but they have not
1290 configured a port with the ServerName, then use the same port that
1291 the original request used. [Ryan Bloom and Ken Coar]
1293 *) In core_input_filter, check for an empty brigade after
1294 APR_BRIGADE_NORMALIZE(). Otherwise, we can get segfaults if a
1295 client says it will post some data but we get FIN before any
1296 data arrives. [Jeff Trawick]
1298 *) Not being able to bind to the socket is a fatal error. We should
1299 print an error to the console, and return a non-zero status code.
1300 With these changes, all of the Unix MPMs do that correctly.
1303 *) suexec: Allow HTTPS and SSL_* environment variables to be passed
1304 through to CGI scripts. PR 9163
1305 [Brian Reid <breid@customlogic.com>,
1306 Zvi Har'El <rl@math.technion.ac.il>]
1308 *) binbuild.sh: Make sure that we use the expat from our source
1309 tree so that there aren't any surprises on the target machine.
1312 *) mod_cgid: Add retry logic for when the daemon can't fork fast
1313 enough to keep up with new requests. Start using
1314 HTTP_SERVER_UNAVAILABLE instead of HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR
1315 when we can't talk to the daemon. [Jeff Trawick]
1317 *) apxs: LTFLAGS envvar can override default libtool options. Try
1318 "LTFLAGS=' ' apxs -c mod_foo.c" to see what libtool does under
1319 the covers. [Jeff Trawick]
1321 *) The Location: response header field, used for external
1322 redirect, *must* be an absoluteURI. The Redirect directive
1323 tested for that, but RedirectMatch didn't -- it would allow
1324 almost anything through. Now it will try to turn an abs_path
1325 into an absoluteURI, but it will correctly varf like Redirect
1326 if the final redirection target isn't an absoluteURI. [Ken Coar]
1328 Changes with Apache 2.0.31
1330 *) Create the scoreboard (in the parent) in a global pool context,
1331 so it survives graceful restarts. This fixes a SEGV during
1332 graceful restarts. [Aaron Bannert]
1334 *) Add a timeout option to the proxy code 'ProxyTimeout'
1337 *) FTP directory listings are now always retrieved in ASCII mode.
1338 The FTP proxy properly escapes URI's and HTML in the generated
1339 listing, and escapes the path components when talking to the FTP
1340 server. It is now possible to browse the root directory by using
1341 a url like: ftp://user@host/%2f/ (ported from apache_1.3.24)
1342 Also, the last path component may contain wildcard characters
1343 '*' and '?', and if they do, a directory listing is created instead
1344 of a file retrieval. Example: ftp://user@host/httpd/server/*.c
1347 *) Added single-listener unserialized accept support to the
1348 worker MPM [Brian Pane]
1350 *) New Directive for mod_proxy: 'ProxyPreserveHost'. This passes
1351 the incoming host header through to the proxied server
1352 [Geoff <g.russell@ieee.org>]
1354 *) New Directive Option for ProxyPass. It now can block a location
1355 from being proxied [Jukka Pihl <jukka.pihl@entirem.com>]
1357 *) Don't let the default handler try to serve a raw directory. At
1358 best you get gibberish. Much worse things can happen depending
1359 on the OS. [Jeff Trawick]
1361 *) Change the pre_config hook to return a value. Modules can now emit
1362 an error message and then cause the server to quit gracefully during
1363 startup. This required a bump to the MMN. [Aaron Bannert]
1365 *) Fix some unix socket descriptor leaks in the handler side of
1366 mod_cgid (the part that runs in the server process). Whack a
1367 silly "close(-1)" in the handler too. [Jeff Trawick]
1369 *) Change the pre_mpm hook to return a value, so that scoreboard
1370 init errors percolate up to code that knows how to exit
1371 cleanly. This required a bump to the MMN. [Jeff Trawick]
1373 *) Add the socket back to the conn_rec and remove the create_connection
1374 hook. The create_connection hook had a design flaw that did not
1375 allow creating connections based on vhost info. [Bill Stoddard]
1377 *) Fixed PATH_INFO and QUERY_STRING from mod_negotiation results.
1378 Resolves the common case of using negotation to resolve the request
1379 /script/foo for /script.cgi/foo. [William Rowe]
1381 *) Added new functions ap_add_(input|output)_filter_handle to
1382 allow modules to bypass the usual filter name lookup when
1383 adding hard-coded filters to a request [Brian Pane]
1385 *) caching should now work on subrequests (still very experimental)
1388 *) The Win32 mpm_winnt now has a shared scoreboard. [William Rowe]
1390 *) Change ap_get_brigade prototype to use apr_off_t instead of apr_off_t*.
1393 *) Refactor ap_rgetline so that it does not use an internal brigade.
1394 Change ap_rgetline's prototype to return errors. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1396 *) Remove mod_auth_db. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1398 *) Do not install unnecessary pcre headers like config.h and internal.h.
1399 [Joe Orton <joe@manyfish.co.uk>]
1401 *) Change in quick_hanlder behavior for subrequests. it now passes DONE
1402 (as it does for a normal request). quick_handled sub-requests now work
1403 in mod-include [Ian Holsman]
1405 *) Change SUBREQ_CORE so that it is a 'HTTP_HEADER' filter instead of
1406 'CONTENT' one, as it needs to run AFTER all content headers
1408 *) Rename BeOS MPM directive RequestsPerThread to MaxRequestsPerThread.
1411 *) Split out blocking from the mode in the input filters.
1414 *) Fix a segfault in mod_include. [Justin Erenkrantz, Jeff Trawick]
1416 *) Cause Win32 to capture all child-worker process errors in
1417 Apache to the main server error log, until the child can
1418 open its own error logs. [William Rowe]
1420 *) HPUX 11.*: Do not kill the child process when accept()
1421 returns ENOBUFS on HPUX 11.*. (ported from a 1.3 patch
1422 by [madhusudan_mathihalli@hp.com])
1425 *) Fix a problem in the parsing of the <Proxy foo> directive.
1428 *) rewrite of mod_ssl input filter for better performance and less
1429 memory usage [Doug MacEachern]
1431 *) allow quick_handler to be run on subrequests. [Ian Holsman]
1433 *) mod_dav now asks its provider to place content directly into the
1434 filter stack when handling a GET request. The mod_dav/provider
1435 API has changed, so providers need to be updated. [Greg Stein]
1437 *) Clear the output socket descriptor in unixd_accept() to make sure
1438 we don't supply a bogus socket to the caller if the accept fails.
1439 This caused problems with the worker MPM, which tried to process
1440 the returned socket if it was non-NULL. [Brian Pane]
1442 *) Move a check for an empty brigade to the start of core input filter
1443 to avoid segfaults. [Justin Erenkrantz, Jeff Trawick]
1445 *) Add FileETag directive to allow configurable control of what
1446 data are used to form ETag values for file-based URIs. MMN
1447 bumped to 20020111 because of fields added to the end of
1448 the core_dir_config structure. [Ken Coar]
1450 *) Fix a segfault in mod_rewrite's logging code caused by passing the
1451 wrong config to ap_get_remote_host(). [Jeff Trawick]
1453 *) Allow mod_cgid to work from a binary distribution install by
1454 using 755 for the permissions on the log directory instead of
1457 *) Fixed a segfault that happened during graceful shutdown (or when
1458 the httpd ran out of file descriptors) with the worker MPM [Brian Pane]
1460 *) Split all Win32 modules [excluding the core components mod_core,
1461 mod_so, mod_win32 and the winnt mpm] into individual loadable
1462 modules, so the administrator may individually disable the former
1463 compiled-in modules by simply commenting out their LoadModule
1464 directives. [William Rowe]
1466 *) Saved Win32 module authors and porters many future headaches, by
1467 duplicating the appropriate .h files such as os.h into the include
1468 directory, including in the build tree. [William Rowe]
1470 *) mod_ssl adjustments to help with using toolkits other than OpenSSL:
1471 Use SSL functions/macros instead of directly dereferencing SSL
1472 structures wherever possible.
1473 Add type-casts for the cases where functions return a generic pointer.
1474 Add $SSL/include to configure search path.
1475 [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli@hp.com>]
1477 *) Moved several pointers out of the shared Scoreboard so it is
1478 more portable, and will present the vhost name across server
1479 generation restarts. [William Rowe]
1481 *) Fix SSLPassPhraseDialog exec: and SSLRandomSeed exec:
1484 Changes with Apache 2.0.30
1486 *) Fix the main bug for FreeBSD and threaded MPM's. There are
1487 still issues (see STATUS) but at least the server will now
1488 run without crashing the machine.
1489 [David Reid, Aaron Bannert, Justin Erenkrantz]
1491 *) Fix a typo in mod_deflate's m4 config section.
1492 [albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)]
1494 *) Fix a couple of mod_proxy problems forwarding HTTP connections
1495 and handling CONNECT:
1496 (1) PR #9190 Proxy failed to connect to IPv6 hosts.
1497 (2) Proxy failed to connect when the first IP address returned by
1498 the resolver was unreachable but a secondary IP address was.
1501 *) Fix the module identifer as shown in the docs for various core
1502 modules (e.g., the identifer for mod_log_config was previously
1503 listed as config_log_module). PR #9338
1504 [James Watson <ap2bug@sowega.org>]
1506 *) Fix LimitRequestBody directive by placing it in the HTTP
1507 filter. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1509 *) Fix mod_proxy seg fault when the proxied server returns
1510 an HTTP/0.9 response or a bogus status line.
1513 *) Prevent mod_proxy from truncating one character off the
1514 end of the status line returned from the proxied server.
1515 [Adam Sussman, Bill Stoddard]
1517 *) Eliminate loop in ap_proxy_string_read().
1518 [Adam Sussman, Bill Stoddard]
1520 *) Provide $0..$9 results from mod_include regex parsing.
1523 *) Allow mod-include to look for alternate start & end tags [Ian Holsman]
1525 *) Introduced the ForceLanguagePriority directive, to prevent
1526 returning MULTIPLE_CHOICES or NONE_ACCEPTABLE in some cases,
1527 when using Multiviews. [William Rowe]
1529 *) Fix a problem which prevented mod_cgid and suexec from working
1530 together reliably [Greg Ames]
1532 *) Remove the call to exit() from within mod_auth_digest's post_config
1533 phase. [Aaron Bannert]
1535 *) Fix a problem in mod_auth_digest that could potentially cause
1536 problems with initialized static data on a system that uses DSOs.
1539 *) Fix a segfault in the worker MPM that could happen during
1540 child process exits. [Brian Pane, Aaron Bannert]
1542 *) Allow mod_auth_dbm to handle multiple DBM types [Ian Holsman]
1544 *) Fix matching of vhosts by ip address so we find IPv4
1545 vhost address when target address is v4-mapped form of
1546 that address. [Jeff Trawick]
1548 *) More performance tweaks to the BNDM string-search algorithm
1549 used to find "<!--#" tokens in mod_include [Brian Pane]
1551 *) Miscellaneous small performance fixes: optimized away various
1552 string copy operations and removed large temp buffers from
1553 the stack [Brian Pane]
1555 *) Fixed startup segfault that occurred when a VirtualHost
1556 directive had a port but no address [Brian Pane]
1558 *) Allow htdbm to work with multiple DBM types [Ian Holsman]
1560 *) Win32: Made change to apr_sendfile() to return APR_ENOTIMPL
1561 if oslevel < WINNT. This should fix several problems reported
1562 Against 2.0.28 on Windows 98 [Bill Stoddard]
1564 *) Win32: Fix bug that could cause CGI scripts with QUERY_STRINGS
1565 to fail. [Bill Stoddard]
1567 *) Change core code to allow an MPM to set hard thread/server
1568 limits at startup. prefork, worker, and perchild MPMs now have
1569 directives to set these limits. [Jeff Trawick]
1571 *) Win32: The async AcceptEx() event should be autoreset upon
1572 successful completion of a wait (WaitForSingleObject). This
1573 eliminates a number of spurious
1574 setsockopt(SO_UPDATE_ACCEPT_CONTEXT) failed." messages.
1577 *) Move any load library path environment variables out of
1578 apachectl and into a separate environment variable file which
1579 can be more easily tailored by the admin. The environment
1580 variable file as built by Apache may have additional system-
1581 specific settings. For example, on OS/390 we tailor the heap
1582 settings to allow lots of threads. [Jeff Trawick]
1584 *) Use the new APR pool code to reduce pool-related lock
1585 contention in the worker MPM. [Sander Striker]
1587 *) The POD no longer assumes the child is listening on 127.0.0.1
1588 and now pulls the first hostname in the list of listeners to
1589 perform the dummy connect on. This fixes a bug when the user
1590 had configured the Listen directive for an IP other than
1591 127.0.0.1. This would result in undead children and error
1592 messages such as "Connection refused: connect to listener".
1595 *) The worker MPM now respects the LockFile setting, needed to
1596 avoid locking problems with NFS. [Jeff Trawick]
1598 *) Fix segfault when worker MPM receives SIGHUP.
1599 [Ian Holsman, Aaron Bannert, Justin Erenkrantz]
1601 *) Fix bug that could potentially prevent the perchild MPM from
1602 working with more than one vhost/uid. [Aaron Bannert]
1604 *) Change make install and apxs -i processing of DSO modules to
1605 perform special handling on platforms where libtool doesn't install
1606 mod_foo.so. This fixes some wonkiness on HP-UX, Tru64, and AIX
1607 which prevented standard LoadModule statements from working.
1610 *) Whenever mod_so is enabled (not just when there are DSOs for
1611 our modules), do whatever special magic is required for compiling/
1612 loading third-party modules. This allows third-party DSOs to
1613 be used on an AIX build when there were no built-in modules
1614 built as DSOs. (This should help on OS/390 and BeOS as well.)
1617 *) Allow apxs to be used to build DSOs on AIX without requiring the
1618 user to hard-code the list of import files. (This should help
1619 on OS/390 and BeOS as well.) [Jeff Trawick]
1621 *) Resolved segfault in mod_isapi when configuring with ISAPICacheFile.
1622 PR 8563, 8919 [William Rowe]
1624 *) Get binary builds working when libapr and libaprutil are built
1627 *) Get shared builds of libapr and libaprutil, as well as Apache DSOs,
1628 working on AIX. [Aaron Bannert, Dick Dunbar <RLDunbar@pacbell.net>,
1629 Gary Hook <ghook@us.ibm.com>, Victor Orlikowski, Jeff Trawick]
1631 *) Fix the handling of SSI directives in which the ">" of the
1632 terminating "-->" is the last byte in a file [Brian Pane]
1634 *) Add back in the "suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /path/to/suexec)"
1635 message that we had back in apache-1.3 and still have scattered
1636 throughout our docs. [Aaron Bannert]
1638 *) Prevent the Win32 port from continuing after encountering an
1639 error in the command line args to apache. [William Rowe]
1641 *) On a error in the proxy, make it write a line to the error log
1644 *) Various mod_ssl performance improvements [Doug MacEachern]
1646 Changes with Apache 2.0.29
1648 *) Add buffering in core_output_filter to ensure that long
1649 lists of small buckets don't cause small packet writes.
1650 [Brian Pane, Ryan Bloom]
1652 *) Fix the installation target to make sure that the manual is
1653 installed in the correct location.
1654 [Yoshifumi Hiramatsu <hiramatu@boreas.dti.ne.jp> and
1655 Gomez Henri <hgomez@slib.fr>]
1657 *) Fix the cmd command for mod_include. When we are processing
1658 a cmd command, we do not want to use the r->filename to set
1659 the command name. The command comes from the SSI tag. To do this,
1660 I added a variable to the function that builds the command line
1661 in mod_cgi. This allows the include_cmd function to specify
1662 the command line itself. [Ryan Bloom]
1664 *) Change open_logs hook to return a value, allowing you
1665 to flag a error while opening logs
1666 [Ian Holsman, Doug MacEachern]
1668 *) Change post_config hook to return a value, allowing you
1669 to flag a error post config
1670 [Ian Holsman, Jeff Trawick]
1672 *) Allow SUEXEC_BIN (the path to the suexec binary that is
1673 hard-coded into the server) to be specified to the configure
1674 script by the --with-suexec-bin parameter. [Aaron Bannert]
1676 *) Fix segv in worker MPM following accept on pipe-of-death
1679 *) Add mod_deflate to experimental.
1680 [Ian Holsman, Justin Erenkrantz]
1682 *) Bail out at configure time if an invalid MPM was specified.
1683 [jean-frederic clere <jfrederic.clere@fujitsu-siemens.com>]
1685 *) Prevent segv in ap_note_basic_auth_failure() when no AuthName is
1686 configured [John Sterling <sterling@covalent.net>]
1688 *) Fix apxs to use sbindir. [Henri Gomez <hgomez@slib.fr>]
1690 *) Fix a problem with IPv6 vhosts. PR #8118 [Jeff Trawick]
1692 *) Optimization for the BNDM string-search function in
1693 mod_include. [Brian Pane]
1695 *) Fixed the behavior of the XBitHack directive.
1696 [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>, Cliff Woolley] PR#8804
1698 *) The threaded MPM for Unix has been removed. Use the worker
1699 MPM instead. [various]
1701 *) APR-ize the resolver logic in mod_unique_id. This fixes a bug
1702 in logging the error from a failed DNS lookup. [Jeff Trawick]
1704 *) Added the missing macros AP_INIT_TAKE13 and AP_INIT_TAKE123.
1707 *) Get mod_cgid killed when a MPM exits due to a fatal error.
1710 *) Fix a file descriptor leak in mod_include. When we include a
1711 file, we use a sub-request, but we didn't destroy the sub-request
1712 immediately, instead we waited until the original request was
1713 done. This patch closes the sub-request as soon as the data is
1714 done being generated. [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
1716 *) Allow modules that add sockets to the ap_listeners list to
1717 define the function that should be used to accept on that
1718 socket. Each MPM can define their own function to use for
1719 the accept function with the MPM_ACCEPT_FUNC macro. This
1720 also abstracts out all of the Unix accept error handling
1721 logic, which has become out of synch across Unix MPMs.
1724 *) Fix a bug which would cause the response headers to be omitted
1725 when sending a negotiated ErrorDocument because the required
1726 filters were attached to the wrong request_rec.
1727 [John Sterling <sterling@covalent.net>]
1729 *) Remove commas from the end of the macros that define
1730 directives that are used by MPMs. Prior to this patch,
1731 you would use these macros without commas, which was unlike
1732 the macros for any other directives. Now, the caller provides
1733 the comma rather than the macro providing it. This makes
1734 the macros look more like the rest of the directives.
1735 [Ryan Bloom and Cliff Woolley]
1737 *) Add 'redirect-carefully' environment option to disable sending
1738 redirects under special circumstances. This is helpful for
1739 Microsoft's WebFolders when accessing a directory resource via
1740 DAV methods. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1742 *) Begin to abstract out the underlying transport layer.
1743 The first step is to remove the socket from the conn_rec,
1744 the server now lives in a context that is passed to the
1745 core's input and output filters. This forces us to be very
1746 careful when adding calls that use the socket directly,
1747 because the socket isn't available in most locations.
1750 *) Really reset the MaxClients value in worker and threaded
1751 when the configured value is not a multiple of the number
1752 of threads per child. We said we did previously but we
1753 forgot to. [Jeff Trawick]
1755 *) Add Debian layout. [Daniel Stone <daniel@sfarc.net>]
1757 *) If shared modules are requested and mod_so is not available,
1758 produce a fatal config-time error. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1760 *) Improve http2env's performance by cutting the work it has to
1761 do. [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
1763 *) use new 'apr_hash_merge' function in mod_mime (performance fix)
1764 [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
1766 Changes with Apache 2.0.28
1768 *) Fix infinite loop in mod_cgid.c.
1769 [Dale Ghent <daleg@elemental.org>, Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
1771 *) When no port is given in a "ServerName host" directive, the
1772 server_rec->port is now set to zero, not 80. That allows for
1773 run-time deduction of the correct server port (depending on
1774 SSL/plain, and depending also on the current setting of
1775 UseCanonicalName). This change makes redirections
1776 work, even with https:// connections. As in Apache-1.3, the
1777 connection's actual port number is never used, only the ServerName
1778 setting or the client's Host: setting. Documentation updated
1779 to reflect the change. [Martin Kraemer]
1781 *) Add a '%{note-name}e' argument to mod-headers, which works in
1782 the same way as mod_log_confg. [Ian Holsman]
1784 *) Fix the spelling of the AP_MPMQ_MIN_SPARE_DAEMONS and
1785 AP_MPMQ_MAX_REQUESTS_DAEMON macros in ap_mpm.h and all standard
1786 MPMs. [Cliff Woolley]
1788 *) Introduce htdbm, a user management utility for db/dbm authorization
1789 databases. [Mladen Turk <mturk@mappingsoft.com>]
1791 *) Optimize usage of strlen and strcat in ap_directory_walk.
1792 [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
1794 Changes with Apache 2.0.27
1796 *) Introduce an Apache mod_ssl initial configuration template
1797 (ssl.conf, generated from ssl-std.conf). [Ralf S. Engelschall]
1799 *) Fixed a memory leak in the getline parsing code that could
1800 be triggered by arbitrarily large header lines. Requests
1801 from the core input filter for single lines are now limited
1802 to HUGE_STRING_LEN (8192 bytes). [Aaron Bannert]
1804 *) Fix a truncation bug in how we print the port on the Via: header.
1805 The routine that prints the Via: header now takes a length for
1806 the port string. [Zvi Har'El <rl@math.technion.ac.il>]
1808 *) Some syntax errors in mod_mime_magic's magic file can result
1809 in a 500 error, which previously was unlogged. Now we log the
1810 error. [Jeff Trawick]
1812 *) Add the support/checkgid helper app, which checks the run-time
1813 validity of group identifiers usable in the Group directive.
1816 *) Various --enable-so options have been fixed: --enable-so is
1817 treated as "static"; explicit --enable-so=shared issues an error;
1818 and explicit --enable-so fails with error on systems without
1819 APR_HAS_DSO. [Aaron Bannert]
1821 *) Fix a segfault in the core input filter when the client socket
1822 gets disconnected unexpectedly. [Cliff Woolley]
1824 *) Fix the reporting for child processes that die. This removes
1825 all of the non-portable W* macros from Apache.
1826 [Jeff Trawick and Ryan Bloom]
1828 *) Win32: Track and display "Parent Server Generation:" in
1829 mod_status output. The generation will be bumped at
1830 server graceful restart, when the child process exits
1831 by hitting MaxRequestsPerChild or if the child
1832 process exits abnormally. [Bill Stoddard]
1834 *) Win32: Fix problem where MaxRequestsPerChild directive was
1835 not being picked up in favor of the default. Enable
1836 the parent to start up a new child process immediately upon
1837 the old child starting shutdown.
1840 *) Fix some bungling of the remote port in rfc1413.c so that
1841 IdentityCheck retrieves the proper user id instead of failing
1842 and thus always returning "nobody."
1843 [Dick Streefland <Dick.Streefland@xs4all.nl>]
1845 *) Introduced thread saftey for mod_rewrite's internal cache.
1846 [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
1848 *) Simplified mod_env's directives to behave as most directives are
1849 expected, in that UnsetEnv will not unset a SetEnv and PassEnv
1850 directive following that UnsetEnv within the same container.
1851 Also provides a runtime startup warning if a PassEnv configured
1852 environment value is undefined. [William Rowe]
1854 *) The worker MPM is now completely ported to APR's new lock API. It
1855 uses native APR types for thread mutexes, cross-process mutexes,
1856 and condition variables. [Aaron Bannert]
1858 *) Sync up documentation to remove all references to the now deprecated
1859 Port directive. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1861 *) Moved all ldap modules from the core to httpd-ldap sub-project
1864 *) Exit when we can't listen on any of the configured ports. This
1865 is the same behavior as 1.3, and it avoids having the MPMs to
1866 deal with bogus ap_listen_rec structures. [Jeff Trawick]
1868 *) Cleanup the proxy code that creates a request to the origin
1869 server. This change adds an optional hook, which allows modules
1870 to gain control while the request is created if the proxy module
1871 is loaded. The purpose of this hook is to allow modules to add
1872 input and/or output filters to the request to the origin. While
1873 I was at it, I made the core use this hook, so that proxy request
1874 creation uses some of the code from the core. This can still be
1875 greatly improved, but this is a good start. [Ryan Bloom]
1877 Changes with Apache 2.0.26
1879 *) Port the MaxClients changes from the worker MPM to the threaded
1882 *) Fix mod_proxy so that it handles chunked transfer-encoding and works
1883 with the new input filtering system. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1885 *) Introduce the MultiviewsMatch directive, to allow the operator
1886 to be flexible in recognizing Handlers and Filters filename
1887 extensions as part of the Multiviews matching logic, strict with
1888 MultiviewsMatch NegotiatedOnly to accept only filename extentions
1889 that designate negotiated parameters, (content type, charset, etc.)
1890 or MultiviewsAll for the 1.3 behavior of matching any files, even
1891 if they have unregistered extensions. [William Rowe]
1893 *) Fixed the configure script to add a LoadModule directive to
1894 the default httpd.conf for any module that was compiled
1895 as a DSO. [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
1897 *) rewrite mod_ssl input filtering to work with the new input filtering
1898 system. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1900 *) prefork: Don't segfault when we are able to listen on some but
1901 not all of the configured ports. [Jeff Trawick]
1903 *) Build mod_so even if no core modules are built shared.
1904 [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
1906 *) Introduce ap_directory_walk rewrite (with further optimizations
1907 required) to adapt to the ap_process_request_internal() changes.
1908 Optimized so subrequests and redirects now reuse previous section
1909 merges, until we mismatch with the original directory_walk, and
1910 precomputed r->finfo results will cause directory_walk to skip
1911 the most expensive phases of the function. [William Rowe]
1913 *) Allow ApacheMonitor to connect to and control Apache on other
1914 WinNT/2K machines. [Mladen Turk <mturk@mappingsoft.com>]
1916 *) Remove the Port directive. In it's place, the Listen directive
1917 is now a required directive, which tells Apache what port to
1918 listen on. The ServerName directive has also been extended
1919 to accept an optional port. If the port is specified to the
1920 ServerName, the server will report that port whenever it
1921 reports the port that it is listening on. This change was
1922 made to ease configuration errors that stem from having a Port
1923 directive, and a Listen directive. In that situation, the server
1924 would only listen to the port specified by the Listen command,
1925 which caused a lot of confusion to users. [Ryan Bloom]
1927 *) Added mod_mime_magic, mod_unique_id and mod_vhost_alias to the Win32
1928 build, as loadable modules. [William Rowe]
1930 *) Fix --enable-mods-shared processing. If most is specified,
1931 then all modules that can be compiled as shared modules are.
1932 [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
1934 *) Update the mime.types file to map video/vnd.mpegurl to mxu
1935 and add commonly used audio/x-mpegurl for m3u extensions.
1936 [Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@uni-bonn.de>, Lars Eilebrecht]
1938 *) Eliminate the depreciated r->content_language, in favor of the array
1939 r->content_languages introduced many years ago. Module authors must
1940 substantially overhaul their modules, so this needs to be upgraded
1941 if the module still relied on backwards-brokeness. [William Rowe]
1943 *) Allow configure help strings to work with autoconf 2.50+ and 2.13.
1946 *) Rewrite the input filtering mechanisms to consolidate and reorganize
1947 code. In short, core_input_filter does something now and
1948 ap_http_filter is now only concerned with HTTP. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1950 *) Update the Win32 build to re-absorb mod_proxy and family.
1953 *) Resolved the build failure on Win32 using MSVC 5.0 (without the
1954 current SDK.) [William Rowe]
1956 *) Some style changes to the code that does ProxyErrorOverride. Fixed
1957 config merge behaviour. [Graham Leggett]
1959 *) Allow support programs to be compiled against a static version
1960 of libapr. This allows the smaller support programs to be
1961 relocated. [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
1963 *) Update the mime.types file to the registered media types as
1964 of 2001-09-25, and add mapping for xsl extension [Mark Cox]
1966 *) Fix MaxClients in the Worker MPM, so that it specifies the maximum
1967 number of clients that can connect at the same time, instead of
1968 specifying the maximum number of child processes.
1969 [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
1971 *) Switch proc_pthread AcceptMutex configuration directive to pthread to
1972 be consistent with 1.3. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1974 *) Cache apr_explode_localtime() value for 15 seconds.
1975 [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
1977 *) Fix mod_include to not return ETag or Last-Modified headers.
1978 [Ian Holsman <ianh@cnet.com>]
1980 *) Fix worker MPM's scoreboard logic. [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
1982 *) Eliminate the wasteful run-time conversion of method names from strings
1983 to numbers in places where the methods are known at compile time.
1984 [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
1986 *) Turn the worker MPM's queue into a LIFO. This may
1987 improve cache-hit performance under some conditions.
1988 [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
1990 *) Switch back to SIGUSR1 for graceful restarts on all platforms that
1991 support it. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1993 *) Cleanup the worker MPM. We no longer re-use transaction
1994 pools. This incurs less overhead than shuffling the pools
1995 around so that they can be re-used. Remove one of the
1996 queue's condition variables. We just redefined the API to
1997 state that you can't try to add more stuff than you allocated
1998 segments for. [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
2000 *) Fix SSL VPATH builds [Cody Sherr <csherr@covalent.net>]
2002 *) Fixed persistent connections when a request contains a body.
2005 *) mod_dav uses a new API to speak to the backend provider for dead
2006 property management. [Greg Stein]
2008 *) Remove the Win32 script-processing exception from mod_cgi, and
2009 roll build_command_line/build_argv_list into a unified, overrideable
2010 ap_cgi_build_command optional function. [William Rowe]
2012 *) Rewrite find_start_sequence to use a better search algorithm
2013 to find the start tag. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2015 *) Fix a seg fault in mod_include. When we are generating an
2016 internal redirect, we must set r->uri to "", not a bogus
2017 string, and not NULL. [Ryan Bloom]
2019 *) Optimized location_walk, so subrequests, redirects and second passes
2020 now reuse previous section merges on a <Location > by <Location >
2021 basis, until we mismatch with the original location_walk.
2024 *) Back out the 1.45 change to util_script.c. This change made
2025 us set the environment variable REQUEST_URI to the redirected
2026 URI, instead of the originally requested URI.
2027 [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
2029 *) Make mod_include do lazy evaluation of potentially expensive to
2030 compute variables. [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
2032 *) Fix logging of bytes sent for HEAD requests. %b and %B should
2033 log either - or 0, before this patch, they were both logging
2034 the file size. [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
2036 *) Make mod_include check for BYTE_CHECK_THRESHOLD per bucket rather
2037 than per character. [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
2039 *) Normalize the primary request, redirects and sub-requests to
2040 run the same ap_process_request_internal for consistency in
2041 robustness, behavior and security. [William Rowe]
2043 *) Fix a segfault with mod_include when r->path_info is not set
2044 (which is the case with mod_proxy). [Ian Holsman <ianh@cnet.com>]
2046 *) Add -X functionality back. This indicates to all MPMs and any other
2047 part of Apache that it should run in "debug" mode. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2049 *) Some initial support for the cygwin platform [prefork only].
2050 This is not to be confused with support for the WinNT/Win32
2051 platform, which is the recommended configuration for native
2052 Win32 users. The cygwin platform support is recommended for
2053 cygwin platform users. [Stipe Tolj <tolj@wapme-systems.de>]
2055 *) Changed syntax of Set{Input|Output}Filter. The list of filters
2056 must be semicolon delimited (if more than one filter is given.)
2057 The Set{Input|Output}Filter directive now overrides a parent
2058 container's directive (e.g. SetInputFilter in <Directory /web/foo>
2059 will override any SetInputFilter directive in <Directory /web>.)
2060 This new syntax is more consistent with Add{Input|Output}Filter
2061 directives defined in mod_mime. Also cures a bug in prior releases
2062 where the Set{Input|Output}Filter directive would corrupt the
2063 global configuration if the multiple directives were nested.
2066 *) Cured what's ailed mime for quite some time. If an AddSomething
2067 was given in the configuration (Language, Charset, Handler or
2068 Encoding) Apache would set the content type as given by AddType,
2069 but refused to check the mime.types file if AddType wasn't given
2070 for that specific extension. Setting the AddHandler for .html
2071 without setting the AddType text/html html would cause Apache to
2072 use the default content type. [William Rowe]
2074 *) Added some bulletproofing to memory allocation in the LDAP cache
2075 code. [Graham Leggett]
2077 Changes with Apache 2.0.25
2079 *) Move the installed /manual directory out of the /htdocs/ tree, so
2080 that it can be kept more independently from the remaining document
2081 root. The "Alias /manual ..." already allowed for easy projection
2082 into existing private document trees. [Martin Kraemer]
2084 *) Add specified user attributes to the environment when using
2085 mod_auth_ldap. This allows you to use mod_include to embed specified
2086 user attributes in a page like so:
2087 Hello <!--#echo var="AUTHENTICATE_CN"-->, how are you?
2090 *) Fix a performance problem with the worker MPM. We now create
2091 transaction pools once, and re-use them for each connection.
2092 [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
2094 *) Modfied mod_mime to prevent mod_negotation from serving a multiview
2095 of a 'handler' or 'filter', so that any filename extension that does
2096 not contribute to the negotiated metadata can't be served without
2097 an explicit request. E.g., if the .Z extension is associated with
2098 an unzip filter, the user request somefile.Z.html, mod_negotiation
2099 won't serve it. It can serve somefile.Z.html when somefile.Z is
2100 requested, since the .Z extension is explictly requested, if the
2101 .html extension is associated with ContentType text/html.
2104 *) Introduce the AddInputFilter filter[;filter...] ext [ext...]
2105 and corresponding AddOutputFilter syntax, to insert one or more
2106 filters by mod_mime filename extension processing.
2109 *) Fix a growing connection pool in core_output_filter() for
2110 keepalive requests. [Jeff Trawick]
2112 *) Moved split_and_pass_pretag_buckets back to being a
2113 macro at Ryans's request. Removed the return from it
2114 by setting and returning a return code instead. Updated
2115 the code to check the return code from the macro and
2116 do the right thing. [Paul J. Reder]
2118 *) Fix a segfault when a numeric value was received for Host:.
2121 *) Add a function ap_remove_input_filter. This is to match
2122 up with ap_remove_output_filter. [Ryan Bloom]
2124 *) Clean up location_walk, so that this step performs a minimum
2125 amount of redundant effort (it must be run twice, but it will no
2126 longer reparse all <Location > blocks when the request uri
2127 hadn't changed.) [William Rowe]
2129 *) Eliminate proxy: (and all other 'special') processing from the
2130 ap_directory_walk() phase. Modules that want to use special
2131 walk logic should refer to the mod_proxy map_to_location example,
2132 with it's proxy_walk and proxysection implementation. This makes
2133 either directory_walk flavor much more legible, since that phase
2134 only runs against real <Directory > blocks.
2137 *) SECURITY: Fix a security problem in mod_include which would allow
2138 an SSI document to be passed to the client unparsed.
2139 [Cliff Woolley, Brian Pane]
2141 *) Introduce the map_to_storage hook, which allows modules to bypass
2142 the directory_walk and file_walk for non-file requests. TRACE
2143 shortcut moved to http_protocol.c as APR_HOOK_MIDDLE, and the
2144 directory_walk/file_walk happen as APR_HOOK_VERY_LAST in core.c.
2147 *) Add the ability for mod_include to add the INCLUDES filter
2148 if the file is configured for the server-parsed handler.
2149 This makes the configuration for .shtml files much easier
2150 to understand, and allows mod_include to honor Apache 1.3
2151 config files. Based on Doug MacEachern's patch to PHP
2152 to do the same thing. [Ryan Bloom]
2154 *) force OpenSSL to ignore process local-caching and to always
2155 get/set/delete sessions using mod_ssl's callbacks
2156 [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli@hp.com>,
2157 Geoff Thorpe <geoff@geoffthorpe.net>]
2159 *) Make the worker MPM shutdown and restart cleanly. This also
2160 cleans up some race conditions, and gets the worker using
2161 pools more cleanly. [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
2163 *) Implement CRYPTO_set_locking_callback() in terms of apr_lock
2165 [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli@hp.com>]
2167 *) Fix for mod_include. Ryan's patch to check error
2168 codes put a return in the wrong place. Also, the
2169 include handler return code wasn't being checked.
2170 I don't like macros with returns, so I converted
2171 SPLIT_AND_PASS_PRETAG_BUCKETS into a function.
2172 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
2174 *) fix segv in mod_mime if no AddTypes are configured
2175 [John Sterling <sterling@covalent.net>]
2177 *) Enable ssl client authentication at SSL_accept time
2178 [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli@hp.com>]
2180 *) Fix a segfault in mod_include when the original request has no
2181 associated filename (e.g., we're filtering the error document for
2182 a bad URI). [Jeff Trawick]
2184 *) Fix a storage leak (a strdup() call) in mod_mime_magic. [Jeff Trawick]
2186 *) The prefork and OS/2 MPMs are overwriting the pid file when a second copy
2187 of httpd is started and shuts down due to socket conflict. Moving the
2188 call to ap_log_pid solves the problem.
2190 *) Changed the late-1.3 log_config substitution %c to %X, to log the
2191 status of the closed connection, as it conflicts with the far more
2192 common, historical ssl logging directive %...{var}c. [William Rowe]
2194 *) Added the common error/ tree to the build/install targets
2195 (similar to the common icons/ tree) for the multi-language error
2196 messages that Lars committed earlier. [William Rowe]
2198 *) Added a multi process, multi threaded OS/2 MPM mpmt_os2. [Brian Havard]
2200 *) Added a default commented-out mod_ldap and mod_auth_ldap
2201 configuration to httpd-std.conf and httpd-win.conf
2204 *) Added documentation for mod_ldap and mod_auth_ldap.
2207 *) Enabled negative caching on attribute comparisons in the LDAP cache.
2208 Fixed a problem where the default cache TTL was set in milliseconds
2209 not microseconds causing the cache to time out almost immediately.
2212 *) Fixed all the #if APR_HAS_SHARED_MEMORY checks within the LDAP
2213 module code to follow APR. [Graham Leggett]
2215 *) Fixed LDAP cleanup on graceful restarts. LDAP connections are now
2216 cleaned up when the connection pool pool is cleaned up.
2219 *) Fix a minor issue with Jeff Trawick's mod_include
2220 patch. Without this patch, the code will just allocate
2221 more bytes in get_combined_directive than are needed.
2224 *) Added the LDAP authentication module mod_auth_ldap.
2225 [Dave Carrigan <dave@rudedog.org>, Graham Leggett]
2227 *) Added the LDAP cache and connection pooling module mod_ldap.
2228 [Dave Carrigan <dave@rudedog.org>, Graham Leggett]
2230 *) Fix --enable-modules=all breakage with mod_auth_db and mod_auth_digest
2231 by allowing a module to disable itself if its prerequisites are not
2232 met. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2234 Changes with Apache 2.0.24
2236 *) Fix a couple of issues in mod_include when the tag appeared at
2237 offsets near 8192 in the file being parsed. [Jeff Trawick]
2239 *) Fix an assertion failure in mod_ssl when the keepalive timeout is
2240 reached. [Jeff Trawick]
2242 *) Numerous improvements to the Win32 build system. Introduced command line
2243 builds without requiring .mak files for MSVC 6.0 and later versions.
2244 Improved .dsp file compatibility for both Visual Studio 5.0 and 6.0 users.
2247 *) Assorted corrections and improvements to the winnt_mpm startup code. Better
2248 reporting of uninstalled services and other error conditions, and changed the
2249 default service name to Apache2. [William Rowe]
2251 *) Numerous improvements to the Win32 ApacheMonitor utility, including winnt_mpm
2252 compatibility with existing Apache 1.3 Win32 Apache management utilites.
2253 [Mladen Turk <mturk@mappingsoft.com>, William Rowe]
2255 *) Fixed the segfaults in mod_mime introduced by hash tables in 2.0.20.
2256 [William Rowe, Greg Ames]
2258 *) Rounded out the mod_mime Add/Remove pairs by adding RemoveLanguage
2259 and RemoveCharset directives. [William Rowe]
2261 *) The Unix MPMs other than perchild now allow child server
2262 processes to use the accept mutex when starting as root and
2263 using SysV sems for the accept mutex. Previously, this
2264 combination would lead to fatal errors in the child server
2265 processes. perchild can't use SysV sems because of security
2266 issues. [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames]
2268 *) Added Win32 revision stamp resources to all http binaries
2269 (including modules/ and support/ tools.) PR7322 [William Rowe]
2271 *) Fix ap_rvprintf to support more than 4K of data at one time.
2272 [Cody Sherr <csherr@covalent.net>]
2274 *) We have always used the obsolete/deprecated Netscape syntax
2275 for our tracking cookies; now the CookieStyle directive
2276 allows the Webmaster to choose the Netscape, RFC2109, or
2277 RFC2965 format. The new CookieDomain directive allows the
2278 setting of the cookie's Domain= attribute, too. PR #s 5006,
2279 5023, 5920, 6140 [Ken Coar]
2281 *) Tweak server/Makefile so that the rules for generating exports.c
2282 are compatible with make utilities which don't expand wildcards
2283 in a dependency list (e.g., OS/390 make, certain levels of GNU
2284 make). [Jeff Trawick]
2286 *) Install the SSL headers. [John Sterling <sterling@covalent.net>]
2288 *) Begin to sanitize the MPM configuration directives. Now, all
2289 MPMs use the same functions for all common MPM directives. This
2290 should make it easier to catch all bugs in these directives once.
2291 [Cody Sherr <csherr@covalent.net>]
2293 *) Close a major resource leak. Every time we had issued a
2294 graceful restart, we leaked a socket descriptor.
2297 *) Fix a problem with the new method code. We need to cast
2298 the 1 to an apr_int64_t or it will be treated as a 32-bit
2299 integer, and it will wrap after being shifted 32 times.
2300 [Cody Sherr <csherr@covalent.net> and Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
2302 *) Fix a bug in mod_expires. Previous to this patch, if you
2303 told mod_expires to add 604800 seconds to the last-modified
2304 time, it actually added 604800 usec's to the last-modified time,
2305 so that when looking at the response it looked like nothing
2306 had been done. The root of the problem was that we always compute
2307 time in usec's, but we ask users to input sec's. This means we
2308 need to convert to usec's before using those values.
2311 *) The worker MPM now handles shutdown and restart requests. It
2312 definitely isn't perfect, but we do stop the servers correctly.
2313 The biggest problem right now is that SIGHUP causes the server to
2314 just die. [Ryan Bloom]
2316 Changes with Apache 2.0.23
2318 *) Use the prefork MPM by default on Unix. [various]
2320 *) Added a systray icon monitor application for Win32.
2321 [Mladen Turk <mturk@mappingsoft.com>]
2323 *) mod_rewrite: Fix the line ending on some non-Unix systems for
2324 messages written to the rewrite log.
2325 [Richard Labennett <rlabenn@us.ibm.com>]
2327 *) All mod_autoindex query parsing is now quietly quashed with the
2328 IndexOption IgnoreClient. The IndexOption SuppressColumnSorting
2329 still drops the column sort <a href>'s for the column headers, but
2330 IgnoreClient is required to ignore these Query options entirely.
2333 *) Introduced new mod_autoindex query argument parsing for F=[0|1|2]
2334 to allow the client to select plain, FancyIndexing or HTMLTable
2335 formatting, V=[0|1] to inhibit or enable version sorting, and
2336 P=pattern to return only specific files. The old Query Arguments
2337 were reorganized as C=f for sorting column 'f' (same N, D, S, or M
2338 as before), and O=A|D for ordering ascending or descending.
2341 *) Fixed an error in mod_include's directive parsing routines which
2342 caused #if, #elif, and #else expressions containing backslashes
2343 to be improperly evaluated. [Cliff Woolley]
2345 *) Introduced new mod_autoindex IndexOptions flags: SuppressIcon to
2346 drop the icon column, SuppressRules to drop the <hr> elements,
2347 and HTMLTable to create rudimentary HTML table listings (implies
2348 FancyIndexing). [William Rowe]
2350 *) Re-introduced the mod_autoindex IndexOptions flag TrackModified
2351 from Apache 1.3.15. This is needed for two reasons, first, given
2352 multiple machines within a server farm, ETags and Last-Modified
2353 stamps won't correspond from machine to machine, and second, many
2354 Unixes don't capture changes to the date or time stamp of existing
2355 files, since these don't modify the dirent itself. [William Rowe]
2357 *) Re-introduced the mod_autoindex IndexOptions flag FoldersFirst
2358 and DirectoryWidth options from Apache 1.3.10.
2359 [William Rowe, Ken Coar]
2361 *) Eliminated FancyIndexing directive, deprecated early in Apache
2362 1.3 by the IndexOptions FancyIndexing syntax. [William Rowe]
2364 *) mod_autoindex now excludes any file names that would result in
2365 an error, other than a success or redirect. Also optimized
2366 the parent directory, always included except in the URI '/'.
2369 *) Refactored mod_negotiation and mod_mime to help mod_dir accept
2370 negotiated index pages, and prevent the server from defaulting
2371 to an autoindex of the directory. mod_negotiation will now die
2372 with a 500 Internal Error if it could match some filenames
2373 (e.g. for mod_dir) but none can be served. mod_negotation now
2374 refuses to serve any file with an extention that mod_mime doesn't
2375 recognize, and wasn't part of the request. [William Rowe]
2377 *) Eliminate mod_cgi's handling of .exe files without the .exe file
2378 extension. This is already handled by multiviews, if the admin
2379 wishes to AddHandler .exe or define a content type handler and
2380 associate .exe files with that content type. Multiviews must be
2381 enabled to allow these to be served. [William Rowe]
2383 *) Speed up the server's response to a spike in incoming workload
2384 or restarts by assigning empty scoreboard slots to new processes
2385 when they are available. [Greg Ames]
2387 *) Add a handler to mod_includes.c. This handler is designed to
2388 implement the XbitHack directive. This can't be done with a
2389 fixup, because we need to check the content-type, which is
2390 only available in the handler phase. [Ryan Bloom]
2392 *) Make the includes filter check return codes from filters lower in
2393 the filter chain. If a lower level filter returns an error, then
2394 the request needs to stop immediately. This allows mod_include to
2395 stop parsing data once a lower filter recognizes an error.
2398 *) Add the ability to extend the methods that Apache understands
2399 and have those methods <limit>able in the httpd.conf. It uses
2400 the same bit mask/shifted offset as the original HTTP methods
2401 such as M_GET or M_POST, but expands the total bits from an int to
2402 an ap_int64_t to handle more bits for new request methods than
2403 an int provides. [Cody Sherr <csherr@covalent.net>]
2405 *) Fix broken mod_mime behavior in merging its arguments. Possible
2406 cause of unexplicable crashes introduced in 2.0.20. [William Rowe]
2408 *) Solve many mod_ssl porting issues (too many to detail) with
2409 help from the whole team, but most notably [Ralf S. Engelschall,
2410 Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli@hp.com>,
2411 Doug MacEachern, William Rowe, Cliff Woolley]
2413 *) More stall fixes for the threaded & worker mpm's.
2414 Make mod_status output more accurate. Don't
2415 count workers in processes which aren't actively
2416 serving requests. [Greg Ames]
2418 *) Win32: Get SSI exec cgi tag working. [Bill Stoddard]
2420 *) Add a single listener/multiple worker MPM. This MPM is
2421 definately not fully correct, but it allows us to solve many
2422 of the problems that exist in the threaded MPM. This is a
2423 modified version of the threaded MPM. [Ryan Bloom]
2425 *) Improve content generation throughout Apache, providing closer
2426 compliance with HTML 3.2, HTML 4.01 Transitional and XHTML 1.0
2427 Transitional specifications. [William Rowe]
2429 Changes with Apache 2.0.22
2431 *) Fix a problem where the threaded MPM stalls after restarts or
2432 segfaults. Also prevent multiple active processes from using
2433 the same scoreboard slot. [Greg Ames]
2435 *) Apache/Win32 now fills in the service description with Apache's
2436 server version string, including loaded and advertised modules.
2439 *) Improved support for the Win32 build, to recover gracefully from
2440 missing apr or apr-util directories or the awk interpreter,
2441 create the proper cgi-bin examples, including a test-cgi.bat, and
2442 fix the perl shebang line for printenv.pl, when installing from
2443 the build environment. [William Rowe]
2445 *) Fix a segfault in threaded.c caused by passing uninitialized
2446 apr_thread_t * to apr_thread_join(). [Jeff Trawick]
2448 *) Use new APR number conversion functions to reduce CPU consumption
2449 when setting the content length, and in mod_log_config.
2452 *) Fix problem reported by Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>
2453 where HEAD response headers were being repeated twice for
2454 files greater than 32K bytes (4*AP_MIN_BYTES_TO_WRITE). This
2455 problem in the http_header filter was exposed by the recent rewrite
2456 of the content_length filter. [Taketo Kabe, Bill Stoddard]
2458 *) Fix seg faults in mod_status with ExtendedStatus enabled, after
2459 restarts. A garbage pointer to a vhost's server_rec from the
2460 previous generation was being left around under certain
2461 conditions. [Greg Ames]
2463 *) Fix a cosmetic problem with mod_include. Non-existant SSI vars
2464 used to appear as '(none', without the closing paren.
2465 [Günter Knauf <eflash@gmx.net>]
2467 *) Improve the exports generating awk script. In the past, we had
2468 work around problems in the awk script by avoiding some #if and
2469 #ifdefs. This has bitten us many times in generating the exports.c
2470 file. This improvement allows corrects the header file parsing.
2471 [Sander Striker <striker@apache.org>]
2473 Changes with Apache 2.0.21
2475 *) Resolve the Win32 htpasswd bug, where a file that existed would be
2476 overwritten, regardless of the -c flag.
2477 [William Rowe, Mladen Turk <mladen.turk@mail.inet.hr>]
2479 *) Introduce connection sub-pools into ab. Truncating the lifetime
2480 of these allocations means that ab no longer perpetually grows
2481 its working set, running out of memory on large request attempts.
2484 *) Make scoreboard creation a hook. This allows management
2485 modules to have access to the scoreboard at the time that it is
2486 created, and at every restart request.
2487 [Cody Sherr <csherr@covalent.net>]
2489 *) Changed AP_MPMQ_MAX_DAEMONS to refer to MaxClients and
2490 added an AP_MPMQ_MAX_DAEMON_USED to refer to the highest
2491 daemon index actually used in the scoreboard. I also
2492 updated the pertinent calls. [Paul J. Reder]
2494 *) Win32: Prevent listening sockets from being inherited by
2495 the Apache child process, CGI scripts, rotatelog process
2496 etc. If the Apache child process segfaults, any processes
2497 that the child started are not reaped. Prior to this fix,
2498 these processes inherited the listening sockets which sometimes
2499 prevented the restarted Apache child process from accepting
2500 connections (ie, the server would hang).
2503 *) Provide vhost and request strings when ExtendedStatus is on.
2506 *) Fix some issues with the pod and prefork: check the pod *after*
2507 processing a connection so that a server processing a time-
2508 consuming request bails out as soon as practical; when the
2509 parent process wakes up a server process via connect(), use an
2510 APR timeout on the connect() so that we don't hang for a long
2511 time if there aren't server processes around to do accept().
2512 [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames]
2514 *) Performance improvement to mod_mime.c. find_ct() in mod_mime,
2515 spends a lot of time in apr_table_get calls. Using the default
2516 httpd.conf, the tables for languages and charsets are somewhat
2517 large, so the time spent scanning them on each request is
2518 significant. Replacing the tables with hash tables provides
2519 a nice speedup. [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
2521 *) Add two functions to allow modules to access random parts of the
2522 scoreboard. This allows modules compiled for one MPM to access the
2523 scoreboard, even if it the server was compiled for another MPM.
2524 [Harrie Hazewinkel <harrie@covalent.net>]
2526 Changes with Apache 2.0.20
2528 *) Fix problem in content-length filter where the filter would
2529 buffer all the output from a CGI before sending any bytes
2530 down the filter stack to the network. This problem would cause
2531 significant memory consumption if the CGIs generated
2532 lots of bytes. [Bill Stoddard]
2534 *) Get non-blocking CGI pipe reads working with the bucket brigades.
2537 *) Fix seg fault on Windows when serving files cached with mod_file_cache.
2540 *) Fix a bug in the threaded MPM that would cause it to kill off all
2541 workers immediately after starting if the number of workers started
2542 was above a certain threshold. [Ryan Bloom, Bill Stoddard]
2544 Changes with Apache 2.0.19
2546 *) Fix problem with threaded MPM. The problem was that if each child
2547 process was busy serving a single long-lived request and the server
2548 was sent a graceful restart signal, the server would stop serving
2549 requests. This would happen because each child process would wait to
2550 die until the last thread was done, and the parent wouldn't spawn any
2551 new children until a process died. Now, the parent looks at the fact
2552 that the children are dying gracefully, and starts new children.
2553 Those new children only start enough threads to compliment the number
2554 of threads in the other child process that shares the same spot in
2555 the scoreboard. In this way, we make sure to never go over
2556 MaxClients. [Ryan Bloom]
2558 *) modified mod_negotiation and mod_autoindex to speed up by almost a
2559 factor of two on apr_dir_read()-enhanced platforms, such as Win32
2560 and OS2, by calling ap_sub_request_lookup_dirent() with the results
2561 already provided by apr_dir_read(). [William Rowe]
2563 *) mod_file_cache is now more robust to filtering and serves requests
2564 slightly more efficiently. [Cliff Woolley]
2566 *) Fix problem handling FLUSH bucket in the chunked encoding filter.
2567 Module was calling ap_rwrite() followed by ap_rflush() but the
2568 served content was not being displayed in the browser. Inspection
2569 of the output stream revealed that the first data chunk was
2570 missing the trailing CRLF required by the RFC. [Bill Stoddard]
2572 *) apxs no longer generates ap_send_http_header() in the example handler
2574 *) Fix an ab problem which could cause a divide-by-zero exception
2575 with certain invocations (e.g., ab -k -c 6 -n 100 localhost/).
2576 [Ian Holsman <ianh@cnet.com>]
2578 *) Solve case-insensitive platforms' confusion about negotiated
2579 filenames, allowing files of differnt case to match in choosing
2580 the document to serve. [William Rowe]
2582 *) Fix brokenness when ThreadsPerChild is higher than the built-in
2583 limit. We left ap_threads_per_child at the higher value which
2584 led to segfaults when doing certain scoreboard operations.
2587 *) Fix seg faults and/or missing output from mod_include. The
2588 default_handler was using the subrequest pool for files and
2589 MMAPs, even though the associated APR structures typically
2590 live longer than the subrequest. [Greg Ames]
2592 *) Extend mod_setenvif to support specifying regular expressions
2593 on the SetEnvIf (and SetEnvIfNoCase) directive attribute field.
2594 Example: SetEnvIf ^TS* [a-z].* HAVE_TS
2595 will cause HAVE_TS to be set if any of the request headers begins
2596 with "TS" and has a value that begins with any character in the
2597 set [a-z]. [Bill Stoddard]
2599 *) httpd children now re-bind themselves to a random CPU on
2600 multiprocessor systems on AIX via bindprocessor() in 2.0.
2601 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
2603 *) Fix htdigest. It would go into a loop in getline when adding
2604 a second user. [Bill Stoddard]
2606 *) Win32 platforms now fully support mod_userdir options. [Will Rowe]
2608 *) Automatically generate httpd.exp for AIX.
2609 DSOs now work again on AIX in 2.0
2610 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
2612 *) Add a new request hook, error_log. This phase allows modules
2613 to act on the error log string _after_ it has been written
2614 to the error log. The goal for this hook is to allow monitoring
2615 modules to send the error string to the monitoring agent.
2618 *) Modify mod_echo to make it use filters for input and output.
2619 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
2621 *) Extend mod_headers to support conditional driven Header
2622 add, append and set. Use SetEnvIf to set an envar and conditionally
2623 add/append/set headers based on this envar thusly:
2625 SetEnvIf TSMyHeader value HAVE_TSMyHeader
2626 Header add MyHeader "%t %D" env=HAVE_TSMyHeader
2628 If the request contains header "TSMyHeader: value" then header
2629 MyHeader: "t=xxxxxxxxxx D=yyyy" will be sent on the response.
2632 *) Extend mod_headers to support using format specifiers on Header
2633 add, append and set header values. Two format specifiers are supported:
2635 %t - reports, in UTC microseconds since the epoch, when the
2636 request was received.
2638 %D - reports the time, in microseconds, between when the request was
2639 received and the response sent.
2642 Header add MyHeader "This request served in %D microseconds. %t"
2644 results in a header being added to the response that looks like this:
2646 MyHeader: This request served in D=5438 microseconds. t=991424704447256
2650 *) Fix reset_filter(). We need to be careful how we remove filters.
2651 If we set r->output_filters to NULL, we also have to reset the
2652 connection's filters. [John Sterling]
2654 *) Optimise reset_filter() in http_protocol.c. [Greg Stein]
2656 *) Add a check to ap_die() to make sure the filter stack is sane and
2657 contains the correct basic filters when an error occurs. This fixes
2658 a problem where headers are not being sent on error. [John Sterling]
2660 *) New Header directive 'echo' option. "Header echo regex" will
2661 cause any headers received on the request that match regex to be
2662 echoed to (included in) the response headers.
2665 *) include/ap_compat.h tested and set APR_COMPAT_H instead of AP_COMPAT_H.
2666 This prevented the inclusion of apr_compat.h. PR #7773
2667 [Oleg Broytmann <phd@phd.pp.ru>]
2669 *) Moved util_uri to the apr-util library. This required a bunch of
2670 apr_name changes for the uri utility functions. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2672 *) Move the addition of default AP_HTTP_HTTP_HEADER filters to the
2673 insert_filter phase so that other filters are not bypassed by default.
2676 *) Reimplement mod_headers as an output filter. mod_headers can now
2677 add custom headers to inbound requests using the RequestHeader directive
2678 and to responses using the same old Header directive. [Graham Leggett]
2680 Changes with Apache 2.0.18
2682 *) Fix command-line processing so that if a bad argument is specified
2683 Apache will exit. [Jeff Trawick]
2685 *) Change the make targets and rules to be consistent in all of the
2686 Apache-owned source trees. [Roy Fielding]
2688 *) Fix processing of the TRACE method. Previously we passed bogus
2689 parms to form_header_field() and it overlaid some vhost structures,
2690 resulting in a segfault in check_hostalias().
2691 [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
2693 *) Win32: Add support for reliable piped logs. If the logging process
2694 goes down, Apache will automatically restart it. This function has
2695 been part of Apache on Unix/Linux/BSD since the early v1.3 releases.
2698 *) Do not start piped log processes during the config file
2699 preflight. This change also circumvents a problem on
2700 Windows where the rotatelog processes created during preflight
2701 was not getting cleaned up properly.
2704 *) add "Request Phase Participation" info to mod_info
2707 *) Make first phase changes to the scoreboard data structures in
2708 preparation for the rewriting of the scoreboard per my posted
2709 design notes. [Paul J. Reder]
2711 *) Fix httpd's definition of LTFLAGS to be consistent with that of apr
2712 and apr-util, allow it to be overridden by the configure command-line
2713 (default="--silent") and introduce LT_LDFLAGS to replace what we were
2714 formerly abusing as LTFLAGS. [Roy Fielding]
2716 *) Clean up the reporting of incorrect closing container tags.
2717 [Barrie Slaymaker <barries@slaysys.com>]
2719 *) Simplify the configure process by moving all libtool stuff to APR
2720 and moving hints.m4 inline. [Roy Fielding]
2722 *) Add the AP_DECLARE()/AP_CORE_DECLARE macros on the return types
2723 of functions used by mod_proxy for export in the DLL
2724 [Ian Holsman <IanH@cnet.com>]
2726 *) Prevent a hang when a cgi handled by mod_cgid tries to read a
2727 request body from its stdin but no reqest body is being written to
2728 the cgi. [Jeff Trawick]
2730 *) mod_log_config: %c connection status incorrectly logged
2731 as "-" (non-keepalive) when MaxKeepAliveRequests is set to 0.
2734 *) Get mod_cern_meta working under Windows
2737 *) Create Files, and thus MMAPs, out of the request pool, not the
2738 connection pool. This solves a small resource leak that had us
2739 not closing files until a connection was closed. In order to do
2740 this, at the end of the core_output_filter, we loop through the
2741 brigade and convert any data we have into a single HEAP bucket
2742 that we know will survive clearing the request_rec.
2743 [Ryan Bloom, Justin Erenkrantz <jerenkrantz@ebuilt.com>,
2746 *) Completely revamp configure so that it preserves the standard make
2747 variables CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, LDFLAGS and LIBS by moving
2748 the configure additions to EXTRA_* variables. Also, allow the user
2749 to specify NOTEST_* values for all of the above, which eliminates the
2750 need for THREAD_CPPFLAGS, THREAD_CFLAGS, and OPTIM. Fix the setting
2751 of INCLUDES and EXTRA_INCLUDES. Check flags as they are added to
2752 avoid pointless duplications. Fix the order in which flags are given
2753 on the compile and link lines. Remove obsolete macros APR_DOEXTRA,
2754 AC_ADD_LIBRARY, AC_CHECK_DEFINE, APACHE_PASSTHRU, and APACHE_ONCE.
2755 Added APR_SAVE_THE_ENVIRONMENT and APR_RESTORE_THE_ENVIRONMENT macros.
2756 Renamed AC_TYPE_RLIM_T macro to APACHE_TYPE_RLIM_T. [Roy Fielding]
2758 *) Get mod_tls to compile/work better on Windows. PR #7612
2759 [Bernhard Schrenk <b.schrenk@improx.com>]
2761 *) Fix shutdown/restart hangs in the threaded MPM.
2762 [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames, Ryan Bloom]
2764 *) Removed the keptalive boolean from conn_rec because it is now only
2765 used by a single routine and can be replaced by a local variable.
2766 [Greg Stein, Ryan Bloom, Roy Fielding]
2768 *) Patch prefork to put enough of the signal processing back in so that
2769 signals are all handled properly now. The previous patch fixed the
2770 deadlock race condition, but broke the user directed signal handling.
2771 This fixes it to work the way it did before my previous prefork patch
2772 (primarily, SIGTERM is now working).
2774 *) Change how input filters decide how much data is returned to the
2775 higher filter. We used to use a field in the conn_rec, with this
2776 change, we use an argument to ap_get_brigade to determine how much
2777 data is retrieved. [Ryan Bloom]
2779 *) Fix seg fault at start-up introduced by Ryan's change to enable
2780 modules to specify their own logging tags. mod_log_config
2781 registers an optional function, ap_register_log_handler().
2782 ap_register_log_handler() was being called by http_core before
2783 the directive hash table was created. This patch creates the
2784 directive hash table before ap_register_log_handler() is
2785 registered as an optional function.
2786 [jean-frederic clere <jfrederic.clere@fujitsu-siemens.com>]
2788 *) Add ap_set_int_slot() function
2789 [John K. Sterling <sterling@covalent.net>]
2791 *) Under certain circumstances, Apache did not supply the
2792 right response headers when requiring authentication.
2793 [Gertjan van Wingerde <Gertjan.van.Wingerde@cmg.nl>] PR#7114
2794 (This is a port of the change that went into Apache 1.3.19.)
2796 *) Allow modules to specify their own logging tags. This basically
2797 allows a module to tell mod_log_config that when %x is encountered
2798 a specific function should be called. Currently, x can be any single
2799 character. It may be more useful to make this a string at some point.
2802 Changes with Apache 2.0.17
2804 *) If a higher-level filter handles the the byterange aspects of a
2805 request, then the byterange filter should not try to redo the
2806 work. The most common case of this happening, is a byterange
2807 request going through the proxy, and the origin server handles
2808 the byterange request. The proxy should ignore it.
2809 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>]
2811 *) Changed the threaded mpm to have child_main join to each of the
2812 worker threads to make sure the kids are all gone before child_main
2813 exits after a signal (cleanup from perform_idle_server_maintenance).
2814 This is an extension of Ryans recent commit to make the child_main
2817 *) Add more options to the ap_mpm_query function. This also allows MPMs to
2818 report if their threads are dynamic or static. Finally, this also
2819 implements a new API, ap_show_mpm, which returns the MPM that was
2820 required into the core. [Harrie Hazewinkel <harrie@covalent.net>]
2822 *) Do not install the binaries from the support directory twice.
2823 [jun-ichiro hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>]
2825 *) The ap_f* functions should flush data to the filter that is passed
2826 in, not the the filter after the one passed in.
2827 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
2829 *) Make ab work again by changing its native types to apr types and formats.
2830 [Justin Erenkrantz <jerenkrantz@ebuilt.com>]
2832 *) Move the byterange filter and all of the supporting functions back
2833 to the HTTP module. The byterange filter turned out to be very
2834 HTTP specific, and it belongs in the HTTP module. [Greg Stein]
2836 *) Make clean, distclean, and extraclean consistently according to the
2837 Gnu makefile guidelines. [Justin Erenkrantz <jerenkrantz@ebuilt.com>]
2839 *) Fix errors in the renaming of the apr_threadattr_detach_xxx functions.
2840 This may have been causing problems stopping processes in the threaded
2843 *) Fix content-length in mod_negotiation to a long int representation.
2846 *) Remove BindAddress from the default config file.
2847 [giles@nemeton.com.au]
2849 *) Allow module authors to add a module to their Apache build using
2850 --with-module, without re-running buildconf. The syntax is:
2851 --with-module=module_type:/path/to/module.c
2852 The configure script will copy the module.c file to
2853 modules/module_type, and it will be added to the relevant Makefiles.
2854 currently, this only works for static modules. [Ryan Bloom]
2856 *) Changes required to make prefork clean up idle children properly.
2857 There was a window during which a starting worker deadlocks when
2858 an idle cleanup arrives before it completes init. Apache then keeps
2859 trying to cleanup the same deadlocked worker forever (until higher
2860 pids come along, but it still will never reduce below the deadlocked
2861 pid). Thus the number of children would not reduce to the correct
2862 idle level. [Paul J. Reder]
2864 Changes with Apache 2.0.16
2866 *) Change the default installation directory to /usr/local/apache2,
2867 as now defined by the "Apache" layout in config.layout. [Marc Slemko]
2869 *) OS/2: Added support for building loadable modules as OS/2 DLLs.
2872 *) Get MaxRequestsPerChild working with the Windows MPM.
2875 *) Make generic hooks to work, with mod_generic_hook_import/export
2876 experimental modules. [Ben Laurie, Will Rowe]
2878 *) Fix segfaults for configuration file syntax errors such as
2879 "<Directory>" followed by "</Directory" and
2880 "<Directory>" followed by "</Directoryz>". [Jeff Trawick]
2882 *) Cleanup the --enable-layout option of configure. This makes
2883 us use a consistent location for the config.layout file, and it
2884 makes configure more portable.
2885 [jun-ichiro hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>]
2887 *) Changes to 'ab'; fixed int overrun's, added statistics, output in
2888 csv/gnuplot format, rudimentary ssl support and various other tweaks
2889 to make results more true to what is measured. The upshot of this it
2890 turns out that 'ab' has often underreported the true performance of
2891 apache. Often by a order of magnitude :-) See talk/paper of Sander
2892 Temme at April ApacheCon 2001 for details.
2893 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
2895 *) Clean up mod_cgid's temporary request pool. Besides fixing a
2896 storage leak this ensures that some unnecessary pipes are closed.
2899 *) Performance: Add quick_handler hook. This hook is called at the
2900 very beginning of the request processing before location_walk,
2901 translate_name, etc. This hook is useful for URI keyed content
2902 caches like Mike Abbott's Quick Shortcut Cache.
2905 *) top_module global variable renamed to ap_top_module [Perl]
2907 *) Move ap_set_last_modified to the core. This is a potentially
2908 controversial change, because this is kind of HTTP specific. However
2909 many protocols should be able to take advantage of this kind of
2910 information. I expect that headers will need one more layer of
2911 indirection for multi-protocol work, but this is a small step in
2912 the right direction. [Ryan Bloom]
2914 *) Enable mod_status by default. This matches what Apache 1.3 does.
2917 *) Add a ScriptSock directive to the default config file. This is
2918 only enabled when mod_cgid is used.
2919 [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
2921 Changes with Apache 2.0.15
2923 *) Untangled the buildconf script and eliminated the need for build's
2924 aclocal.m4, generated_lists, build.mk, build2.mk, and a host of other
2925 libtool muck that is now under srclib/apr/build. [Roy Fielding]
2927 *) Win32: Don't accept more connections than we have worker threads
2931 *) Fix bug in the Unix threaded.c MPM that allowed child processes
2932 to fork() new child processes.
2935 *) SECURITY: Fix a major security problem with double-reverse lookup
2936 checking. Previously, a client connecting over IPv4 would not be
2937 matched properly when the server had an IPv6 listening socket.
2938 PR #7407 [Taketo Kabe <kiabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
2940 *) Change the way the beos MPM handles polling to allow it to stop and
2941 restart. Problem was the sockets being polled were being reset by
2942 the select call, so once it had accepted a connection it was no
2943 longer listening on the UDP socket we use for shutdown instructions.
2944 APR needs to be altered, patch on it's way. [David Reid]
2946 *) Empty out the brigade shared by ap_getline()/ap_get_client_block()
2947 on error exit from ap_getline(). Some other code got upset because
2948 the wrong data was in the brigade. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
2950 *) Handle ap_discard_request_body() being called more than once.
2951 [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
2953 *) Get rid of an inadvertent close of file descriptor 2 in
2954 mod_mime_magic. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
2956 *) Add a hook, create_request. This hook allows modules to modify
2957 a request while it is being created. This hook is called for all
2958 request_rec's, main request, sub request, and internal redirect.
2959 When this hook is called, the the r->main, r->prev, r->next
2960 pointers have been set, so modules can determine what kind of
2961 request this is. [Ryan Bloom]
2963 *) Cleanup the build process a bit more. The Apache configure
2964 script no longer creates its own helper scripts, it just
2966 [jean-frederic clere <jfrederic.clere@fujitsu-siemens.com>]
2968 *) Stop the forced downgrade of the connection to HTTP/1.0 for
2969 proxy requests. [Graham Leggett]
2971 *) Avoid using sscanf to determine the HTTP protocol number in
2972 the common case because sscanf is a performance hog. From
2973 Mike Abbot's Accelerating Apache patch number 6.
2974 [Mike Abbot <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com>, Bill Stoddard]
2976 *) SECURITY: Fix a security exposure in mod_access. Previously when
2977 IPv6 listening sockets were used, allow/deny-from-IPv4-address rules
2978 were not evaluated properly (PR #7407). Also, add the ability to
2979 specify IPv6 address strings with optional prefix length on Allow
2980 and Deny. [Jeff Trawick]
2982 *) Enhance rotatelogs so that a UTC offset can be specified, and
2983 the logfile name can be formatted using strftime(3). (Brought
2984 forward from 1.3.) [Ken Coar]
2986 *) Reimplement the Windows MPM (mpm_winnt.c) to eliminate calling
2987 DuplicateHandle on an IOCompletionPort (a practice which
2988 MS "discourages"). The new model does not rely on associating
2989 the completion port with the listening sockets, thus the
2990 completion port can be completely managed within the child
2991 process. A dedicated thread accepts connections off the network,
2992 then calls PostQueuedCompletionStatus() to wake up worker
2993 threads blocked on the completion port.
2996 *) Bring forward the --suexec-umask option which allows the
2997 builder to preset the umask for suexec processes. [Ken Coar]
2999 *) Add a -V flag to suexec, which causes it to display the
3000 compile-time settings with which it was built. (Only
3001 usable by root or the AP_HTTPD_USER username.) [Ken Coar]
3003 *) Mod_include should always unset the content-length if the file is
3004 going to be passed through send_parsed_content. There is no to
3005 determine if the content will change before actually scanning the
3006 entire content. It is far safer to just remove the C-L as long
3007 as we are scanning it. [Ryan Bloom]
3009 *) Make sure Apache sends WWW-Authenticate during a reverse proxy
3010 request and not Proxy-Authenticate.
3011 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>]
3013 Changes with Apache 2.0.14
3015 *) Fix content-length computation. We ONLY compute a content-length if
3016 We are not in a 1.1 request and we cannot chunk, and this is a keepalive
3017 or we already have all the data. [Ryan Bloom]
3019 *) Report unbounded containers in the config file. Previously, a typo
3020 in the </container> directive could result in the rest of the config
3021 file being silently ignored, with undesired defaults used.
3024 *) Make the old_write filter use the ap_f* functions for the buffering.
3027 *) Move more code from the http module into the core server. This
3028 is core code, basically the default handler, the default input
3029 and output filters, and all of the core configuration directives.
3030 All of this code is required in order for the server to work, with or
3031 without HTTP. The server is closer to working without the HTTP
3032 module, although there is still more to do. [Ryan Bloom]
3034 *) Fix a number of SGI compile warnings throughout the server. Fix some
3035 bad parameters to apr_bucket_read(). Fix a bad statement in
3036 ap_method_in_list(). For the mod_rewrite cache use apr_time_t
3037 consistently; we were mixing apr_time_t and time_t in invalid ways
3038 before. In load_file(), call apr_dso_error() instead of
3039 apr_strerror() so that we get a more specific string on some platforms.
3040 PR #6980 [Jeff Trawick]
3042 *) Allow modules to query the MPM about it's execution profile. This
3043 query API can and should be extended in the future, but for now,
3044 max_daemons, and threading or forking is a very good start.
3045 [Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>]
3047 *) Modify mod_include to send blocks of data no larger than 9k.
3048 Without this, mod_include will wait until the whole file is parsed,
3049 or the first tag is found to send any data to the client.
3050 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3052 *) Fix mod_info, so that <Directory> and <Location> directives are
3053 not displayed twice when displaying the current configuration.
3054 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
3056 *) Add config directives to override DEFAULT_ERROR_MSG and
3057 DEFAULT_TIME_FORMAT. This was sent in as PR 6193.
3058 [Dan Rench <drench@xnet.com>]
3060 *) Get mod_info building and loading on Win32. [William Rowe]
3062 *) Begin to move protocol independant functions out of mod_http. The goal
3063 is to have only functions that are HTTP specific in the http directory.
3066 Changes with Apache 2.0.13
3068 *) Don't assume that there will always be multiple calls to the byterange
3069 filter. It is possible that we will need to do byteranges with only
3070 one call to the filter. [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
3072 *) Move the error_bucket definition from the http module to the
3073 core server. Every protocol will need this ability, not just
3076 Changes with Apache 2.0.12
3078 *) Modify mod_file_cache to save pre-formatted strings for
3079 content-length and last-modified headers for performance.
3080 [Mike Abbot <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com>]
3082 *) Namespace protect IOBUFSIZ since it is exposed in the API.
3083 [Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>]
3085 *) Use "Basic" authentication instead of "basic" in ab, as the spec
3086 says we should. [Andre Breiler <andre.breiler@rd.bbc.co.uk>]
3088 *) Fix a seg fault in mod_userdir.c. We used to use the pw structure
3089 without ever filling it out. This fixes PR 7271.
3090 [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp> and
3091 Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
3093 *) Add a couple of GCC attribute tags to printf style functions.
3094 [Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>]
3096 *) Add the correct language tag for interoperation with the Taiwanese
3097 versions of MSIE and Netscape. [Clive Lin <clive@CirX.ORG>] PR#7142
3099 *) Migrate the perchild MPM to use the new apr signal child, and
3100 APR thread functions. [Ryan Bloom]
3102 *) Close one copy of the CGI's stdout before creating the new process.
3103 The CGI will still have stdout, because we have already dup'ed it.
3104 This keeps Apache from waiting forever to send the results of a CGI
3105 process that has forked a long-lived child process.
3106 [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
3108 *) Remove the rest of the pthreads functions from the threaded MPM.
3109 This requires the APR support for a signal thread that was just
3112 *) Make mod_dir use a fixup for sending a redirect to the browser.
3113 Before this, we were using a handler, which doesn't make much
3114 sense, because the handler wasn't generating any data, it would
3115 either return a redirect error code, or DECLINED. This fits the
3116 current hooks better. [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
3118 *) Make the threaded MPM use APR threads instead of pthreads.
3121 *) Get mod_tls to the point where it actually appears to work in all cases.
3124 *) implement --enable-modules and --enable-mods-shared for "all" and
3125 "most". [Greg Stein]
3127 *) Move the threaded MPM to use APR locks instead of pthread locks.
3130 *) Rename mpmt_pthread to threaded. This is more in line with the
3131 fact that mpmt_pthread shouldn't be using pthreads directly, and
3132 it is a smaller name that doesn't tie into anything.
3135 *) Rename the module structures so that the exported symbol matches
3136 the file name, and it is easier to automate the installation
3137 process (generating LoadModule directives from the module filenames).
3140 *) Remove the coalesce filter. With the ap_f* functions, this filter
3141 is no longer needed. [Ryan Bloom]
3143 Changes with Apache 2.0.11
3145 *) Remove the dexter MPM. Perchild is the same basic idea, but it has the
3146 added feature of allowing a uid/gid per child process. If no
3147 uid/gid is specified, then Perchild behaves exactly like dexter.
3150 *) Get perchild building again. [Ryan Bloom]
3152 *) Don't disable threads just because we are using the prefork MPM.
3153 If somebody wants to compile without threads, they must now add
3154 --disable-threads to the configure command line. [Ryan Bloom]
3156 *) Begin to move the calls to update_child_status into common code, so
3157 that each individual MPM does not need to update the scoreboard itself.
3160 *) Allow mod_tls to compile under Unix boxes where openssl has been
3161 installed to the system include files.
3162 [Gomez Henri <new-httpd@slib.fr>]
3164 *) Cleanup the mod_tls configure process. This should remove any need
3165 to hand-edit any files. We require OpenSSL 0.9.6 or later, but
3166 configure doesn't check that yet. [Ryan Bloom]
3168 *) Add a very early prototype of SSL support (in mod_tls.c). It is
3169 vital that you read modules/tls/README before attempting to build
3172 *) Fix a potential seg fault on all platforms. David Reid fixed this
3173 on BEOS, but the problem could happen anywhere, so we don't want
3174 to #ifdef it. [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
3176 *) Add new LogFormat directive, %D, to log time it takes to serve a
3177 request in microseconds. [Bill Stoddard]
3179 *) Change AddInputFilter and AddOutputFilter to SetInputFilter and
3180 SetOutputFilter. This corresponds nicely with the other Set
3181 directives, which operate on containers while the Add* directives
3182 tend to work directly on extensions. [Ryan Bloom]
3184 *) Cleanup the header handling a bit. This uses the apr_brigade_*
3185 functions for the buffering so that we don't need to compute
3186 the length of the headers before we actually create the header
3187 buffer. [Ryan Bloom]
3189 *) Allow filters to buffer data using the ap_f* functions. These have
3190 become macros that resolve directly to apr_brigade_*.
3193 *) Get the Unix MPM's to do a graceful restart again. If we are going
3194 to register a cleanup with ap_cleanup_scoreboard, then we have to
3195 kill the cleanup with the same function, and that function can't be
3196 static. [Ryan Bloom]
3198 *) Install all required header files. Without these, it was not
3199 possible to compile some modules outside of the server.
3202 *) Fix the AliasMatch directive in Apache 2.0. When we brought a patch
3203 forward from 1.3 to 2.0, we missed a single line, which broke regex
3204 aliases. [Ryan Bloom]
3206 *) We have a poor abstraction in the protocol. This is a temporary
3207 hack to fix the bug, but it will need to be fixed for real. If
3208 we find an error while sending out a custom error response, we back
3209 up to the first non-OK request and send the data. Then, when we send
3210 the EOS from finalize_request_protocol, we go to the last request,
3211 to ensure that we aren't sending an EOS to a request that has already
3212 received one. Because the data is sent on a different request than
3213 the EOS, the error text never gets sent down the filter stack. This
3214 fixes the problem by finding the last request, and sending the data
3215 with that request. [Ryan Bloom]
3217 *) Make the server status page show the correct restart time, and
3218 thus the proper uptime. [Ryan Bloom]
3220 *) Move the CGI creation logic from mod_include to mod_cgi(d). This
3221 should reduce the amount of duplicate code that is required to
3222 create CGI processes.
3223 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3225 *) ap_new_connection() closes the socket and returns NULL if a socket
3226 call fails. Usually this is due to a connection which has been
3227 reset. [Jeff Trawick]
3229 *) Move the Apache version information out of httpd.h and into release.h.
3230 This is in preparation for the first tag with the new tag and release
3231 system. [Ryan Bloom]
3233 *) Begin restructuring scoreboard code to enable adding back in
3234 the ability to use IPC other than shared memory.
3235 Get mod_status working on Windows again. [Bill Stoddard]
3237 *) Make mod_status work with 2.0. This will work for prefork,
3238 mpmt_pthread, and dexter. [Ryan Bloom]
3240 *) Correct a typo in httpd.conf.
3241 [Kunihiro Tanaka <tanaka@apache.or.jp>] PR#7154
3243 *) Really fix mod_rewrite map lookups this time. [Tony Finch]
3245 *) Get the correct IP address if ServerName isn't set and we can't
3246 find a fully-qualified domain name at startup.
3247 PR#7170 [Danek Duvall <dduvall@eng.sun.com>]
3249 *) Make mod_cgid work with SuExec. [Ryan Bloom]
3251 *) Adopt apr user/group name features for mod_rewrite. Eliminates some
3252 'extra' stat's for user/group since they should never occur, and now
3253 resolves the SCRIPT_USER and SCRIPT_GROUP, including on WinNT NTFS
3254 volumes. [William Rowe]
3256 *) Adopt apr features to simplify mod_includes. This changes the
3257 behavior of the USER_NAME variable, unknown uid's are now reported
3258 as USER_NAME="<unknown>" rather than the old user#000 result.
3259 WinNT now resolves USER_NAME on NTFS volumes. [William Rowe]
3261 *) Adopt apr features for simplifing mod_userdir, and accept the new
3262 Win32/OS2 exceptions without hiccuping. [William Rowe]
3264 *) Replace configure --with-optim option by using and saving the
3265 environment variable OPTIM instead. This is needed because configure
3266 options do not support multiple flags separated by spaces.
3269 *) Fix some byterange handling. If we get a byte range that looks like
3270 "-999999" where that is past the end of the file, we should return
3271 a PARTIAL CONTENT status code, and return the whole file as one big
3272 byterange. This matches the 1.3 handling now. [Ryan Bloom]
3274 *) Make the error bucket a real meta-data bucket. This means that the
3275 bucket length is 0, and a read returns NULL data. If one of these
3276 buckets is passed down after the headers are sent, this data will
3277 just be ignored. [Greg Stein]
3279 *) The prefork MPM wasn't killing child processes correctly if a restart
3280 signal was received while the process was serving a request. The child
3281 process would become the equivalent of a second parent process. If
3282 we break out of the accept loop, then we need to do die after cleaning
3283 up after ourselves. [Ryan Bloom]
3285 *) Change the Prefork MPM to use SIGWINCH instead of SIGUSR1 for graceful
3286 restarts. [Ryan Bloom]
3288 *) Modify the apr_stat/lstat/getfileinfo calls within apache to use
3289 the most optimal APR_FINFO_wanted bits. This spares Win32 from
3290 performing very expensive owner, group and permission lookups
3291 and allows the server to function until these apr_finfo_t fields
3292 are implemented under Win32. [William Rowe]
3294 *) Support for typedsafe optional functions - that is functions exported by
3295 optional modules, which, therefore, may or may not be present, depending
3296 on configuration. See the experimental modules mod_optional_fn_{ex,im}port
3297 for sample code. [Ben Laurie]
3299 *) filters can now report an HTTP error to the server. This is done
3300 by sending a brigade where the first bucket is an error_bucket.
3301 This bucket is a simple bucket that stores an HTTP error and
3302 a string. Currently the string is not used, but it may be needed
3303 to output an error log. The http_header_filter will find this
3304 bucket, and output the error text, and then return
3305 AP_FILTER_ERROR, which informs the server that the error web page
3306 has already been sent. [Ryan Bloom]
3308 *) If we get an error, then we should remove all filters except for
3309 those critical to serving a web page. This fixes a bug, where
3310 error pages were going through the byterange filter, even though
3311 that made no sense. [Ryan Bloom]
3313 *) Relax the syntax checking of Host: headers in order to support
3314 iDNS. PR#6635 [Tony Finch]
3316 *) Cleanup the byterange filter to use the apr_brigade_partition
3317 and apr_bucket_copy functions. This removes a lot of very messy
3318 code, and hopefully makes this filter more stable.
3321 *) Remove AddModule and ClearModuleList directives. Both of these
3322 directives were used to ensure that modules could be enabled
3323 in the correct order. That requirement is now gone, because
3324 we use hooks to ensure that modules are in the correct order.
3327 *) When SuExec is specified, we need to add it to the list of
3328 targets to be built. If we don't, then any changes to the
3329 configuration won't affect SuExec, unless 'make suexec' is
3330 specifically run. [Ryan Bloom]
3332 *) Cleaned out open_file from mod_file_cache, as apr now accepts
3333 the APR_XTHREAD argument to open a file for consumption by
3334 parallel threads on win32. [William Rowe]
3336 *) Correct a bug in determining when we follow symlinks. The code
3337 expected a stat -1 result, not an apr_status_t positive error.
3338 Also check if the APR_FINFO_USER fields are valid before we
3339 follow the link. [William Rowe]
3341 *) Move initgroupgs, ap_uname2id and ap_gname2id from util.c to
3342 mpm_common.c. These functions are only valid on some platforms,
3343 so they should not be in the main-line code. [Ryan Bloom]
3345 *) Remove ap_chdir_file(). This function is not thread-safe,
3346 and nobody is currently using it. [Ryan Bloom]
3348 *) Do not try to run make depend if there are no .c files in the
3349 current directory, doing so makes `make depend` fail.
3352 *) Update highperformance.conf to work with either prefork or
3353 pthreads mpms. [Greg Ames]
3355 *) Stop checking to see if this is a pipelined request if we know
3356 for a fact that it isn't. Basically, if r->connection->keepalive == 0.
3357 This keeps us from making an extra read call when serving a 1.0
3358 request. [Ryan Bloom and Greg Stein]
3360 *) Fix the handling of variable expansion look-ahead in mod_rewrite,
3361 i.e. syntax like %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER}, and also fix the parsing of
3362 more complicated nested RewriteMap lookups. PR#7087 [Tony Finch]
3364 *) Fix the RFC number mentioned when complaining about a missing
3365 Host: header. PR#7079 [Alexey Toptygin <alexeyt@wam.umd.edu>]
3367 *) Fix an endless loop in ab which occurred when ab was posting
3368 and the server dropped the connection unexpectedly.
3371 *) Fix a segfault while handling request bodies in ap_http_filter().
3372 This problem has been seen with mod_dav usage as well as with
3373 requests where the body was just being discarded. [Jeff Trawick]
3375 *) Some adjustment on the handling and automatic setting (via
3376 hints.m4) of various compilation flags (eg: CFLAGS). Also,
3377 add the capability to specify flags (NOTEST_CFLAGS and
3378 NOTEST_LDFLAGS) which are used to compile Apache, but
3379 not used during the configuration process. Useful for
3380 flags like "-Werror". [Jim Jagielski]
3382 *) Stop using environment variables to force debug mode or
3383 no detach. We now use the -D command line argument to
3384 specify the correct mode. -DONE_PROCESS and -DNO_DETACH.
3385 [Greg Stein, Ryan Bloom]
3387 *) Change handlers to use hooks. [Ben Laurie]
3389 *) Stop returning copies of filenames from both apr_file_t and
3390 apr_dir_t. We pstrdup the filenames that we store in the
3391 actual structures, so we don't need to pstrdup the strings again.
3394 *) mod_cgi: Fix some problems where the wrong error value was being
3395 traced. [Jeff Trawick]
3397 *) EBCDIC: Fix some missing ASCII conversion on some protocol data.
3400 *) Add generic hooks. [Ben Laurie]
3402 *) Use a real pool to dup the error log descriptor. [Ryan Bloom]
3404 *) Fix a segfault caused by mod_ext_filter when the external filter
3405 program does not exist. [Jeff Trawick]
3407 *) Fix an output truncation error when on an HTTP >= 1.0 request an
3408 object of size between DEFAULT_BUCKET_SIZE and AP_MIN_BYTES_TO_WRITE
3409 was served through mod_charset_lite (or anything else that would
3410 create a transient bucket in this size range). ap_bucket_make_heap()
3411 silently failed (fixed), transient_setaside() discovered it, but
3412 ap_save_brigade() ignored it (fixed). [Jeff Trawick]
3414 *) Ignore \r\n or \n when using PEEK mode for input filters. The problem
3415 is that some browsers send extra lines at the end of POST requests, and
3416 we don't want to delay sending data back to the user just because the
3417 browser isn't well behaved. [Ryan Bloom]
3419 *) Get SuEXEC working again. We can't send absolute paths to suExec
3420 because it refuses to execute those programs. SuEXEC also wasn't
3421 always recognizing configuration changes made using the autoconf
3424 *) Allow the buildconf process to find the config.m4 files in the correct
3425 order. Basically, we can now name config.m4 files as config\d\d.m4,
3426 and we will sort them correctly when inserting them into the build
3427 process. [Ryan Bloom]
3429 *) Get mod_cgid to use apr calls for creating the actual CGI process.
3430 This also allows mod_cgid to use ap_os_create_priviledged_process,
3431 thus allowing for SuExec execution from mod_cgid. Currently, we do
3432 not support everything that standard SuExec supports, but at least
3433 it works minimally now. [Ryan Bloom]
3435 *) Allow SuExec to be configured from the ./configure command line.
3438 *) Update some of the docs in README and INSTALL to reflect some of
3439 the changes in Apache 2.0 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
3441 *) If we get EAGAIN returned from the call to apr_sendfile, then we
3442 need to call sendfile again. This gets us serving large files
3443 such as apache_2.0a9.tar.gz on FreeBSD again. [Ryan Bloom]
3445 *) Get the support programs building cleanly again.
3446 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
3448 *) The Apache/Win32 Apache.exe and dll's now live in bin. The
3449 current directory logic now backs up over bin/ to determine the
3450 server root from the Apache.exe path.
3452 *) Apache/Win32 now follows the standard conventions of mod_foo.so
3453 loadable modules, dynamic libs are all named libfoo.dll, and the
3454 makefile.win populates the include, lib and libexec directories.
3456 *) Apache is now IPv6-capable. On systems where APR supports IPv6,
3457 Apache gets IPv6 listening sockets by default. Additionally, the
3458 Listen, NameVirtualHost, and <VirtualHost> directives support IPv6
3459 numeric address strings (e.g., "Listen [fe80::1]:8080").
3462 *) Modify the install directory layout. Modules are now installed in
3463 modules/. Shared libraries should be installed in libraries/, but
3464 we don't have any of those on Unix yet. All install directories
3465 are modifyable at configure time. [Ryan Bloom]
3467 *) Install all header files in the same directory on Unix. [Ryan Bloom]
3469 *) Get the functions in server/linked into the server, regardless of
3470 which modules linked into the server. This uses the same hack
3471 for Apache that we use for APR and apr-util to ensure all of the
3472 necessary functions are linked. As a part of thise, the CHARSET_EBCDIC
3473 was renamed to AP_CHARSET_EBCDIC for namespace protection, and to make
3474 the scripts a bit easier.
3477 *) Rework the RFC1413 handling to make it thread-safe, use a timeout
3478 on the query, and remove IPv4 dependencies. [Jeff Trawick]
3480 *) Get all of the auth modules to the point that they will install and
3481 be loadable into the server. Our new build/install mechanism expects
3482 that all modules will have a common name format. The auth modules
3483 didn't use that format, so we didn't install them properly.
3486 *) API routines ap_pgethostbyname() and ap_pduphostent() are no longer
3487 available. Use apr_getaddrinfo() instead. [Jeff Trawick]
3489 *) Get "NameVirtualHost *" working in 2.0. [Ryan Bloom]
3491 *) Return HTTP_RANGE_NOT_SATISFIABLE if the every range requested starts
3492 after the end of the response. [Ryan Bloom]
3494 *) Get byterange requests working with responses that do not have a
3495 content-length. Because of the way byterange requests work, we have to
3496 have all of the data before we can actually do the byterange, so we
3497 can compute the content-length in the byterange filter.
3500 *) Get exe CGI's working again on Windows.
3503 *) Get mod_cgid and mod_rewrite to work as DSOs by changing the way
3504 they keep track of whether or not their post config hook has been
3505 called before. Instead of a static variable (which is replaced when
3506 the DSO is loaded a second time), use userdata in the process pool.
3509 Changes with Apache 2.0a9
3511 *) Win32 now requires perl to complete the final install step for users
3512 to build + install on Win32. Makefile.win now rewrites @@ServerRoot@
3513 and installs the conf, htdocs and htdocs/manual directories.
3516 *) Make mod_include use a hash table to associate directive tags with
3517 functions. This allows modules to implement their own SSI tags easily.
3518 The idea is simple enough, a module can insert it's own tag and function
3519 combination into a hash table provided by mod_include. While mod_include
3520 parses an SSI file, when it encounters a tag in the file, it does a
3521 hash lookup to find the function that implements that tag, and passes
3522 all of the relevant data to the function. That function is then
3523 responsible for processing the tag and handing the remaining data back
3524 to mod_include for further processing.
3525 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3527 *) Get rid of ap_new_apr_connection(). ap_new_connection() now has
3528 fewer parameters: the local and remote socket addresses were removed
3529 from the parameter list because all required information is available
3530 via the APR socket. [Jeff Trawick]
3532 *) Distribution directory structure reorganized to reflect a
3533 normal source distribution with external install targets.
3536 *) The MPMs that need multiple segments of shared memory now create
3537 two apr_shmem_t variables, one for each shared memory allocation.
3538 the problem is that we can't determine how much memory will be required
3539 for shared memory allocations once we try to allocate more than one
3540 variable. The MM code automatically aligns the shared memory allocations,
3541 so we end up needing to pad the amount of shared memory we want based
3542 on how many variables will be allocated out of the shared memory segment.
3543 It is just easier to create a second apr_shmem_t variable, and two
3544 shmem memory blocks.
3547 *) Cleanup the export list a bit. This creates a single unified list of
3548 functions exported by APR. The export list is generated at configure
3549 time, and that list is then used to generate the exports.c file.
3550 Because of the way the export list is generated, we only export those
3551 functions that are valid on the platform we are building on.
3554 *) Enable logging the cookie with mod_log_config
3555 [Sander van Zoest <sander@covalent.net>]
3557 *) Fix a segfault in mod_info when it reaches the end of the configuration.
3560 *) Added lib/aputil/ as a placeholder for utility functions which are not
3561 specific to the Apache HTTP Server (but do not make sense with APR).
3562 The first utility is "apu_dbm": a set of functions to work with DBM
3563 files. This first version can be compiled for SDBM or GDBM databases.
3566 *) Complete re-write of mod_include. This makes mod_include a filter that
3567 uses buckets directly. This has now served the FAQ correctly.
3568 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3570 *) Allow modules to specify the first filter in a sub_request when
3571 making the sub_request. This keeps modules from having to change the
3572 output_filter immediately after creating the sub-request, and therefore
3573 skip the sub_req_output_filter. [Ryan Bloom]
3575 *) Update ab to accept URLs with IPv6 literal address strings (in the
3576 format described in RFC 2732), and to build Host header fields in
3577 the same format. This allows IPv6 literal address strings to be
3578 used with ab. This support has been tested against Apache 1.3 with
3579 the KAME patch, but Apache 2.0 does not yet work with this format
3580 of the Host header field. [Jeff Trawick]
3582 *) Accomodate an out-of-space condition in the piped logs and the
3583 rotatelogs.c code, and no longer churn log processes for this
3584 condition. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
3586 *) Add support for partial writes with apr_sendfile() to core_output_filter.
3589 Changes with Apache 2.0a8
3591 *) Add a directive to mod_mime so that filters can be associated with
3595 *) Get multi-views working again. We were setting the path_info
3596 field incorrectly if we couldn't find the specified file.
3599 *) Fix 304 processing. The core should never try to send the headers
3600 down the filter stack. Always, just setup the table in the request
3601 record, and let the header filter convert it to data that is ready
3605 *) More fixes for the proxy. There are still bugs in the proxy code,
3606 but this has now proxied www.yahoo.com and www.ntrnet.net (my ISP)
3610 *) Fix params for apr_getaddrinfo() call in connect proxy handler.
3613 *) APR: Add new apr_getopt_long function to handle long options.
3614 [B. W. Fitzpatrick <fitz@red-bean.com>]
3616 *) APR: Change apr_connect() to take apr_sockaddr_t instead of hostname.
3617 Add generic apr_create_socket(). Add apr_getaddrinfo() for doing
3618 hostname resolution/address string parsing and building
3619 apr_sockaddr_t. Add apr_get_sockaddr() for getting the address
3620 of one of the apr_sockaddr_t structures for a socket. Change
3621 apr_bind() to take apr_sockaddr_t. [David Reid and Jeff Trawick]
3623 *) Remove the BUFF from the HTTP proxy. This is still a bit ugly, but
3624 I have proxied pages with it, cleanup will commence soon.
3627 *) Make the proxy work with filters. This isn't perfect, because we
3628 aren't dealing with the headers properly. [Ryan Bloom]
3630 *) Do not send a content-length iff the C-L is 0 and this is a head
3631 request. [Ryan Bloom]
3633 *) Make cgi-bin work as a regular directory when using mod_vhost_alias
3634 with no VirtualScriptAlias directives. PR#6829 [Tony Finch]
3636 *) Remove BUFF from the PROXY connect handling. [Ryan Bloom]
3638 *) Get the default_handler to stop trying to deal with HEAD requests.
3639 The idea is to let the content-length filter compute the C-L before
3640 we try to send the data. If we can get the C-L correctly, then we
3641 should send it in the HEAD response.
3644 *) The Header filter can now determine if a body should be sent based
3645 on r->header_only. The general idea of this is that if we delay
3646 deciding to send the body, then we might be able to compute the
3647 content-length correctly, which will help caching proxies to cache
3648 our data better. Any handler that doesn't want to try to compute
3649 the content-length can just send an EOS bucket without data and
3650 everything will just work.
3653 *) Add the referer to the error log if one is available.
3654 [Markus Gyger <mgyger@itr.ch>]
3656 *) Mod_info.c has now been ported to Apache 2.0. As a part of this
3657 change, the root of the configuration tree has been exposed to modules
3659 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
3661 *) Get the core_output_filter to use the bucket interface directly.
3662 This keeps us from calling the content-length filter multiple times
3663 for a simple static request.
3666 *) We are sending the content-type correctly now.
3667 [Ryan Bloom and Will Rowe]
3669 *) APR on FreeBSD: Fix a bug in apr_sendfile() which caused us to report
3670 a bogus bytes-sent value when the only thing being sent was trailers
3671 and writev() returned an error (or EAGAIN). [Jeff Trawick]
3673 *) Get SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT working again. This uses the
3674 hints file to determine which platforms define
3675 SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT.
3678 *) APR: add apr_get_home_directory() [Jeff Trawick]
3680 *) Initial import of 1.3-current mod_proxy. [Chuck Murcko]
3682 *) Not all platforms have INADDR_NONE defined by default. Apache
3683 used to make this check and define INADDR_NONE if appropriate,
3684 but APR needs the check too, and I suspect other applications will
3685 as well. APR now defines APR_INADDR_NONE, which is always a valid
3686 value on all platforms.
3687 [Branko Èibej <brane@xbc.nu>]
3689 *) Destroy the pthread mutex in lock_intra_cleanup() for PR#6824.
3690 [Shuichi Kitaguchi <ki@hh.iij4u.or.jp>]
3692 *) Relax the syntax checking of Host: headers in order to support
3693 iDNS. PR#6635 [Tony Finch]
3695 *) When reading from file buckets we convert to an MMAP if it makes
3696 sense. This also simplifies the default handler because the
3697 default handler no longer needs to try to create MMAPs.
3700 *) BUFF has been removed from the main server. The BUFF code will remain
3701 in the code until it has been purged from the proxy module as well.
3704 *) Byteranges have been completely re-written to be a filter. This
3705 has been tested, and I believe it is working correctly, but it could
3706 doesn't work for the Adobe Acrobat plug-in. The output almost matches
3707 the output from 1.3, the only difference being that 1.3 includes
3708 a content-length in the response, and this does not.
3711 *) APR read/write functions and bucket read functions now operate
3712 on unsigned integers, instead of signed ones. It doesn't make
3713 any sense to use signed ints, because we return the error codes,
3714 so if we have an error we should report 0 bytes read or written.
3717 *) Always compute the content length, whether it is sent or not.
3718 The reason for this, is that it allows us to correctly report
3719 the bytes_sent when logging the request. This also simplifies
3720 content-length filter a bit, and fixes the actual byte-reporing
3721 code in mod_log_config.c
3724 *) Remove AP_END_OF_BRIGADE definition. This does not signify what
3725 it says, because it was only used by EOS and FLUSH buckets. Since
3726 neither of those are required at the end of a brigade, this was
3727 really signifying FLUSH_THE_DATA, but that can be determined better
3728 by checking AP_BUCKET_IS_EOS() or AP_BUCKET_IS_FLUSH. EOS and FLUSH
3729 buckets now return a length of 0, which is actually the amount of data
3730 read, so they make more sense.
3733 *) Allow the core_output_filter to save some data past the end of a
3734 request. If we get an EOS bucket, we only send the data if it
3735 makes sense to send it. This allows us to pipeline request
3736 responses. As a part of this, we also need to allocate mmap
3737 buckets out of the connection pool, not the request pool. This
3738 allows the mmap to outlive the request.
3741 *) Make blocking and non-blocking bucket reads work correctly for
3742 sockets and pipes. These are the only bucket types that should
3743 have non-blocking reads, because the other bucket types should
3744 ALWAYS be able to return something immediately.
3747 *) In the Apache/Win32 console window, accept Ctrl+C to stop the
3748 server, but use Ctrl+Break to initiate a graceful restart
3749 instead of duplicating behavior. [John Sterling]
3751 *) Patch mod_autoindex to set the Last-Modified header based on
3752 the directory's mtime, and add the ETag header. [William Rowe]
3754 *) Merge the 1.3 patch to add support for logging query string in
3755 such a way that "%m %U%q %H" is the same as "%r".
3758 *) Port three log methods from mod_log_config 1.3 to 2.0:
3759 CLF compliant '-' byte count, method and protocol.
3762 *) Add a new LogFormat directive, %c, that will log connection
3763 status at the end of the response as follows:
3764 'X' - connection aborted before the response completed.
3765 '+' - connection may be kept-alive by the server.
3766 '-' - connection will be closed by the server.
3769 *) Expand APR for WinNT to fully accept and return utf-8 encoded
3770 Unicode file names and paths for Win32, and tag the Content-Type
3771 from mod_autoindex to reflect that charset if the the feature
3772 macro APR_HAS_UNICODE_FS is true. [William Rowe]
3774 *) Compute the content length (and add appropriate header field) for
3775 the response when no content length is available and we can't use
3776 chunked encoding. [Jeff Trawick]
3778 *) Changed ap_discard_request_body() to use REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK,
3779 so that content input filters get dechunked data when using
3780 the default handler. Also removed REQUEST_CHUNKED_PASS.
3783 *) Add mod_ext_filter as an experimental module. This module allows
3784 the administrator to use external programs as filters. Currently,
3785 only filtering of output is supported. [Jeff Trawick]
3787 *) Most Apache functions work on EBCDIC machines again, as protocol
3788 data is now translated (again). [Jeff Trawick]
3790 *) Introduce ap_xlate_proto_{to|from}_ascii() to clean up some of
3791 the EBCDIC support. They are noops on ASCII machines, so this
3792 type of translation doesn't have to be surrounded by #ifdef
3793 CHARSET_EBCDIC. [Jeff Trawick]
3795 *) Fix mod_include. tag commands work again, and the server will
3796 send the FAQ again. This also allows mod_include to set aside
3797 buckets that include partial buckets.
3798 [Ryan Bloom and David Reid]
3800 *) Add suexec support back. [Manoj Kasichainula]
3802 *) Lingering close now uses the socket directly instead of using
3803 BUFF. This has been tested, but since all we can tell is that it
3804 doesn't fail, this needs to be really hacked on.
3807 *) Allow filters to modify headers and have those headers be sent to
3808 the client. The idea is that we have an http_header filter that
3809 actually sends the headers to the network. This removes the need
3810 for the BUFF to send headers.
3813 *) Charset translation: mod_charset_lite handles translation of
3814 request bodies. Get rid of the xlate version of ap_md5_digest()
3815 since we don't compute digests of filtered (e.g., translated)
3816 response bodies this way anymore. (Note that we don't do it at
3817 all at the present; somebody needs to write a filter to do so.)
3820 *) Input filters and ap_get_brigade() now have a input mode parameter
3821 (blocking, non-blocking, peek) instead of a length parameter.
3824 *) Update the mime.types file to the registered media types as
3825 of 2000-10-19. PR#6613 [Carsten Klapp <carsten.klapp@home.net>,
3828 *) Namespace protect some macros declared in ap_config.h
3831 *) Support HTTP header line folding with input filtering.
3834 *) Mod_include works again. This should still be re-written, but at
3835 least now we can serve an SHTML page again.
3838 *) Begin to remove BUFF from the core. Currently, we keep a pointer
3839 to both the BUFF and the socket in the conn_rec. Functions that
3840 want to use the BUFF can, functions that want to use the socket,
3841 can. They point to the same place.
3844 *) apr_psprintf doesn't understand %lld as a format. Make it %ld.
3845 [Tomas "Ögren" <stric@ing.umu.se>]
3847 *) APR pipes on Unix and Win32 are now cleaned up automatically when the
3848 associated pool goes away. (APR pipes on OS/2 were already had this
3849 logic.) This resolvs a fatal file descriptor leak with CGIs.
3852 *) The final line of the config file was not being read if there was
3853 no \n at the end of it. This was caused by apr_fgets returning
3854 APR_EOF even though we had read valid data. This is solved by
3855 making cfg_getline check the buff that was returned from apr_fgets.
3856 If apr_fgets return APR_EOF, but there was data in the buf, then we
3857 return the buf, otherwise we return NULL.
3860 *) Piped logs work again in the 2.0 series.
3863 *) Restore functionality broken by the mod_rewrite security fix:
3864 rewrite map lookup keys and default values are now expanded
3865 so that the lookup can depend on the requested URI etc.
3866 PR #6671 [Tony Finch]
3868 *) SECURITY: Tighten up the syntax checking of Host: headers to fix a
3869 security bug in some mass virtual hosting configurations
3870 that can allow a remote attacker to retrieve some files
3871 on the system that should be inaccessible. [Tony Finch]
3873 *) Add a pool bucket type. This bucket is used for data allocated out
3874 of a pool. If the pool is cleaned before the bucket is destroyed, then
3875 the data is converted to a heap bucket, allowing it to survive the
3879 *) Add a flush bucket. This allows modules to signal that the filters
3880 should all flush whatever data they currently have. There is no way
3881 to actually force them to do this, so if a filter ignores this bucket,
3882 that's life, but at least we can try with this.
3885 *) Add an output filter for sub-requests. This filter just strips the
3886 EOS bucket so that we don't confuse the main request's core output
3887 filter by sending multiple EOS buckets. This change also makes sub
3888 requests start to send EOS buckets when they are finished.
3891 *) Make ap_bucket_(read|destroy|split|setaside) into macros. Also
3892 makes ap_bucket_destroy a return void, which is okay because it
3893 used to always return APR_SUCCESS, and nobody ever checked its
3894 return value anyway.
3895 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
3897 *) Remove the index into the bucket-type table from the buckets
3898 structure. This has now been replaced with a pointer to the
3899 bucket_type. Also add some macros to test the bucket-type.
3902 *) Renamed all MODULE_EXPORT symbols to AP_MODULE_DECLARE and all symbols
3903 for CORE_EXPORT to AP_CORE_DECLARE (namespace protecting the wrapper)
3904 and retitled API_EXPORT as AP_DECLARE and APR_EXPORT as APR_DECLARE.
3905 All _VAR_ flavors changes to _DATA to be absolutely clear.
3908 *) Add support for /, //, //servername and //server/sharename
3909 parsing of <Directory> blocks under Win32 and OS2.
3910 [Tim Costello, William Rowe, Brian Harvard]
3912 *) Remove the function pointers from the ap_bucket type. They have been
3913 replaced with a global table. Modules are allowed to register bucket
3914 types and use then use those buckets.
3917 *) mod_cgid: In the handler, shut down the Unix socket (only for write)
3918 once we finish writing the request body to the cgi child process;
3919 otherwise, the client doesn't hit EOF on stdin. Small request bodies
3920 worked without this change (for reasons I don't understand), but large
3921 ones didn't. [Jeff Trawick]
3923 *) Remove file bucket specific information from the ap_bucket type.
3924 This has been moved to a file_bucket specific type that hangs off
3925 the data pointer in the ap_bucket type.
3928 *) Input filtering now has a third argument. This is the amount of data
3929 to read from lower filters. This argument can be -1, 0, or a positive
3930 number. -1 means give me all the data you have, I'll deal with it and
3931 let you know if I need more. 0 means give me one line and one line
3932 only. A positive number means I want no more than this much data.
3934 Currently, only 0 and a positive number are implemented. This allows
3935 us to remove the remaining field from the conn_rec structure, which
3939 *) Big cleanup of the input filtering. The goal is that http_filter
3940 understands two conditions, headers and body. It knows where it is
3941 based on c->remaining. If c->remaining is 0, then we are in headers,
3942 and http_filter returns a line at a time. If it is not 0, then we are
3943 in body, and http_filter returns raw data, but only up to c->remaining
3944 bytes. It can return less, but never more.
3945 [Greg Ames, Ryan Bloom, Jeff Trawick]
3947 *) mod_cgi: Write all of the request body to the child, not just what
3948 the kernel would accept on the first write. [Jeff Trawick]
3950 *) Back out the change that moved the brigade from the core_output_filters
3951 ctx to the conn_rec. Since all requests over a given connection
3952 go through the same core_output_filter, the ctx pointer has the
3956 *) Fix another bug in the send_the_file() read/write loop. A partial
3957 send by apr_send would cause unsent data in the read buffer to
3958 get clobbered. Complete making send_the_file handle partial
3959 writes to the network.
3962 *) Fix a couple of type fixes to allow compilation on AIX again
3963 [Victor J. Orlikowski <v.j.orlikowski@gte.net>]
3965 *) Fix bug in send_the_file() which causes offset to be ignored
3966 if there are no headers to send.
3969 *) Handle APR_ENOTIMPL returned from apr_sendfile in the core
3970 filter. Useful for supporting Windows 9* with a binary
3971 compiled on Windows NT.
3974 Changes with Apache 2.0a7
3976 *) Reimplement core_output_filter to buffer/save bucket brigades
3977 across multiple calls to the core_filter. The brigade will be
3978 sent when either MIN_BYTES_TO_SEND or MAX_IOVEC_TO_WRITE
3979 thresholds are hit or the EOS bucket is received.
3982 *) Create experimental filter (buffer_filter) that coalesces bytes
3983 into one large buffer before invoking the next filter in the
3984 chain. This filter is particularly useful with the current
3985 implementation of mod_autoindex when it inserted above the
3986 chunk_filter. mod_autoindex generates a lot of brigades that
3987 containing buckets holding just a few bytes each. The
3988 buffer_filter coalesces these buckets into a single large bucket.
3991 *) Add apr_sendfile() support into the core_output_filter.
3994 *) Add apr_sendv() support into the core_output_filter.
3997 *) Fix mod_log_config so that it compiles cleanly with BUFFERED_LOGS
3998 [Mike Abbott <mja@sgi.com>]
4000 *) Remove ap_send_fb. This is no longer used in Apache, and it doesn't
4001 make much sense, because Apache uses buckets instead of BUFFs now.
4004 *) send_the_file now falls back to a read/write loop on platforms that
4005 do not have sendfile.
4006 [Ryan Bloom and Brian Havard]
4008 *) Install apachectl correctly, and substitute the proper values so
4009 that it works again. [Ryan Bloom]
4011 *) Better(??) handle platforms that lack sendfile().
4014 *) APR now has UUID generation/formatting/parsing support.
4017 *) Begin the http_filter. This is an input filter that understands
4018 the absolute basic amount required to parse an HTTP Request. The
4019 goal is to be able to split headers from request body before passing
4020 the data back to the other filters.
4023 *) Bring forward from 1.3.13 the config directory implementation
4026 *) install apxs if it is created
4029 *) Added APR_IS_STATUS_condition test macros to eliminate canonical error
4030 conversions. [William Rowe]
4032 *) Now that we have ap_add_input_filter(), rename ap_add_filter() to
4033 ap_add_output_filter(). [Jeff Trawick]
4035 *) Multiple build and configuration fixes
4038 -add datadir and localstatedir substitutions
4040 -fix logfilename misspelling
4041 -fix evaluation of installation dir variables and
4042 -replace $foobar by $(foobar) to be usefull in the makefile
4046 -add rules for cross-compiling in rules.mk. Okay, rule to check for
4047 $CC_FOR_BUILD is still missing
4048 -use CHECK_TOOL instead of CHECK_PROG for ranlib
4049 -add missing "AR=@AR@" to severaly Makefile.in's
4050 -cache result for "struct rlimit"
4051 -compile all helper programs with native and cross compiler
4052 and use the native version to generate header file
4053 ["Rüdiger" Kuhlmann <Tadu@gmx.de>]
4055 *) Prepare our autoconf setup for autoconf 2.14a and for cross-
4057 ["Rüdiger" Kuhlmann <Tadu@gmx.de>]
4059 *) Fix a bug where a client which only sends \n to delimit header
4060 lines (netcat) gets a strange looking HTTP_NOT_IMPLEMENTED
4061 message. Start working on ebcdic co-existance with input
4063 [William Rowe, Greg Ames]
4065 *) If mod_so is enabled in the server always create libexec, even
4066 if there are no modules installed in this directory. This is a
4067 requirement for APXS to work correctly.
4070 *) Connection oriented output filters are now stored in the
4071 conn_rec instead of the request_rec. This allows us to add the
4072 output filter in the pre-connection phase instead of the
4073 post_read_request phase, which keeps us from trying to write an
4074 error page before we have a filter to write to the network.
4075 [Ryan Bloom, Jeff Trawick, and Greg Ames]
4077 *) Cleaning up an mmap bucket no longer deletes the mmap. An
4078 mmap can be used across multiple buckets (default_handler with
4079 byte ranges, mod_file_cache, mod_mmap_static), so cleanup of
4080 the mmap itself can't be associated with the bucket.
4083 *) Add .dll caching directive ISAPICacheFile to mod_isapi.
4086 *) Radical surgery to improve mod_isapi support under Win32.
4087 Includes a number of newer ServerSupportFunction calls, support
4088 for ReadClient (in order to retrieve POSTs greater than 48KB),
4089 and general bug fixes to more reliably load ISAPI .dll's and
4090 prevent leaking handle resources. Note: There are still
4091 discrepancies between IIS's and Apache's ServerVariables, and
4092 async calls are still not supported. Additional warnings are
4093 logged to facilitate debugging of unsupported ISAPI calls.
4096 *) Add input filtering to Apache. The basic idea for the input
4097 filters is the same as the ideas for output filters. The biggest
4098 difference is that instead of calling ap_pass_brigade, ap_get_brigade
4099 should be called, and the order of execution for the filter itself is
4100 different. When writing an output filter, a brigade is passed in,
4101 and filters operate directly on that brigade, when done, they call
4102 ap_pass_brigade. Input filters are the exact opposite. Because input
4103 is not a push operation, filters first call ap_get_brigade. When this
4104 function returns, the input filter will be left with a valid brigade.
4105 The input filter should then operate on the brigade, and return.
4108 *) Fix building on BSD/OS using its native make. The build system
4109 falls back to the BSD .include directive on that host platform.
4112 *) Expand dbmmanage to allow -d -m -s -p options for Crypt, MD5,
4113 SHA1 and plaintext password encodings. Make feature tests a
4114 bit more flexible. [William Rowe]
4116 *) Charset translation: mod_charset_lite handles output content
4117 translation in a filter. mod_charset_lite no longer ignores
4118 subrequests. A bunch of cruft related to BUFF's support for
4119 translating request and response bodies was removed.
4122 *) Move the addition of the CORE filter to the post_read_request
4123 hook in http_core.c. This removes the need to add the filter in
4124 multiple places and allows for an SSL module to be added much
4125 simpler. [Ryan Bloom]
4127 *) SECURITY: CVE-2000-0913 (cve.mitre.org)
4128 Fix a security problem that affects certain configurations of
4129 mod_rewrite. If the result of a RewriteRule is a filename that
4130 contains expansion specifiers, especially regexp backreferences
4131 $0..$9 and %0..%9, then it may be possible for an attacker to
4132 access any file on the web server. [Tony Finch]
4134 *) Fix a bug where errors that are detected during early request parsing
4135 don't produce visible HTTP error messages at the browser, because
4136 the core_filter wasn't present. [Greg Ames]
4138 *) Provide apr_socklen_t as a portability aid.
4139 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
4141 *) Overhaul of dbmmanage to allow a groups arg (as in Apache 1.2)
4142 as well as a comment arg to the add, adduser and update cmds.
4143 update allows the user to clear or preserve pw/groups/comment.
4144 Fixed a bug in dbmmanage that prevented the check option from
4145 parsing a password followed by :group... text. Corrected the
4146 seed calcualation for Win32 systems, and added -lsdbm support.
4149 *) Configured mod_auth_dbm to compile with sdbmlib under Win32.
4152 *) Avoid a segfault when parsing .htaccess files. An
4153 uninitialized tree pointer was passed to ap_build_config().
4156 *) Change the way that inet_addr & inet_network are checked for
4157 in APR's configure process to allow BeOS BONE to correctly
4158 find them. With this change BeOS BONE now builds from source
4159 with no problems. [David Reid]
4161 *) Fix a bug in apr_create_process() for Unix. The NULL signifying
4162 the end of the parameters to execve() was stored in the wrong
4163 location, overlaying the storage beyond the newargs[] array and
4164 also passing uninitialized storage to execve(), which would
4165 sometimes fail with EFAULT. [Jeff Trawick]
4167 *) Fix a bug parsing configuration file containers. With a sequence
4168 like this in the config file
4170 <IfModule mod_kilroy.c>
4173 <IfModule mod_lovejoy.c>
4178 the second container would be terminated at the blank line due to
4179 sediment in the buffer from reading the prior </IfModule> and an
4180 error message would be generated for the real </IfModule> for the
4181 second container. Also due to this problem, any two characters
4182 could be used for "</" in the close of a container.
4185 *) ap_add_filter prototype changed to remove the ctx pointer. The
4186 pointer still remains in the filter structure, but it can not be
4187 a part of the ap_add_filter prototype. The reason is that when
4188 the core uses AddFilter to add a filter to the stack it doesn't
4189 know how to allocate the ctx pointer, or even how much memory should
4190 be allocated. The filters will have to be responsible for allocating
4191 the ctx memory when they need it.
4194 *) Add an AddFilter directive. This directive takes a list of filters
4195 that should be activated for the requested resource.
4198 *) apr_snprintf(): Get quad format strings working on OS/390 (and perhaps
4199 some other platforms). [Jeff Trawick]
4201 *) Modify mod_include to be a filter. Currently, it has only been tested
4202 on actual files, but it should work for CGI scripts too.
4205 *) apr_putc(), apr_puts() for Unix: handle buffered files and interrupted
4206 writes. apr_flush() for Unix: handle interrupted writes.
4209 *) NameVirtualHost can now take "*" as an argument instead of
4210 an IP address. This allows you to create a purely name-based
4211 virtual hosting server that does not have any IP addresses in
4212 the configuration file and which ignores the local address
4213 of any connections. PR #5595, PR #4455 [Tony Finch]
4215 *) Fix some compile warnings in mod_mmap_static.c
4216 [Mike Abbott <mja@sgi.com>]
4218 *) Fix chunking problem with CGI scripts. The general problem was that
4219 the CGI modules were adding an EOS bucket and then the core added an
4220 EOS bucket. The chunking filter finalizes the chunked response when it
4221 encounters an EOS bucket. Because two EOS buckets were sent, we
4222 finalized the response twice. The fix is to make sure we only send one
4223 EOS, by utilizing a flag in the request_rec.
4226 *) apr_put_os_file() now sets up the unget byte appropriately on Unix
4227 and Win32. Previously, the first read from an apr_file_t set up via
4228 apr_put_os_file() would return a '\0'. [Jeff Trawick]
4230 *) Mod_cgid now creates a single element bucket brigade, with a pipe
4231 bucket, instead of using BUFF's and ap_r*.
4234 *) APRVARS.in no longer overwrites the EXTRA_LIBS variable.
4235 [Mike Abbott <mja@sgi.com>]
4237 *) Remove ap_bopenf from buff code. This required modifying the file_cache
4238 code to use APR file's directly instead of going through BUFFs.
4241 *) Fix compile break on some platforms for mod_mime_magic.c
4242 [John K. Sterling <sterling@covalent.net>]
4244 *) Fix merging of AddDefaultCharset directive.
4245 PR #5872 (1.3) [Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@imgsrc.co.jp>]
4247 *) Minor revamp of the rlimit sections of code. We now test
4248 explicitly for setrlimit and getrlimit. Also, unixd_set_rlimit()
4249 is now "available" even if the platform doesn't support
4250 the rlimit family (it's just a noop though). [Jim Jagielski]
4252 *) Migrate the pre-selection of which MPM to use for specific
4253 platforms to hints.m4, which contains (or should contain)
4254 all platform specific "hints". [Jim Jagielski]
4256 *) Remove IOLs from Apache. With filtering, IOLs are no longer necessary
4259 *) Add tables with non-string/binary values to APR.
4262 *) Fix some bad calls to ap_log_rerror() in mod_rewrite.
4265 *) Update PCRE to version 3.2. [Ryan Bloom]
4267 *) Change the way buckets' destroy functions are called so that
4268 they can be more directly used when changing the type of a
4269 bucket in place. [Tony Finch]
4271 *) Add generic support for reference-counting the resources used by
4272 buckets, and alter the HEAP and MMAP buckets to use it. Change
4273 the way buckets are initialised to support changing the type of
4274 buckets in place, and use it when setting aside TRANSIENT buckets.
4275 Change the implementation of TRANSIENT buckets so that it can be
4276 mostly shared with IMMORTAL buckets, which are now implemented.
4279 Changes with Apache 2.0a6
4281 *) Add support to Apache and APR for dsos on OS/390. [Greg Ames]
4283 *) Add a chunking filter to Apache. This brings us one step closer
4284 to removing BUFF. [Ryan Bloom]
4286 *) ap_add_filter now adds filters in a LIFO fashion. The first filter
4287 added to the stack is the last filter to be called. [Ryan Bloom]
4289 *) Apache 2.0 has been completely documented using Scandoc. The
4290 docs can be generated by running 'make docs'. [Ryan Bloom]
4292 *) Add filtered I/O to Apache. This is based on bucket brigades,
4293 Currently the buckets still use BUFF under the covers, but that
4294 should change quickly. The only currently written filter is the
4295 core filter which just calls ap_bwrite. [The Apache Group]
4297 *) APR locks on Unix: Let APR_LOCKALL locks work when APR isn't
4298 built with thread support. [Jeff Trawick]
4300 *) Abort configuration if --with-layout was specified and there's
4301 no layout definition file. [Ken Coar]
4303 *) Add support for '--with-port=n' option to configure. [Ken Coar]
4305 *) Add support for extension methods for the Allow response header
4306 field, and an API routine for accessing r->allowed and the
4307 list of extension methods in a unified manner. [Ken Coar]
4309 *) mod_cern_meta: fix broken file reading loop in scan_meta_file().
4310 [Rob Simonson <simo@us.ibm.com>]
4312 *) Get xlate builds working again. The apr renaming in 2.0a5 broke
4313 APACHE_XLATE builds. [Jeff Trawick]
4315 *) A configuration file parsing problem was fixed. When the
4316 configuration file started with an IfModule/IfDefine container,
4317 only the last statement in the container would be retained.
4320 Changes with Apache 2.0a5
4322 *) Perchild is serving pages after passing them to different child
4323 processes. There are still a lot of bugs, but this does work. I
4324 have made requests against the same installation of Apache, and had
4325 different servers use different user IDs to serve the responses.
4326 This change moves to using socketpair instead of an AF_UNIX socket.
4329 *) Perchild MPM still doesn't work perfectly, but it is serving pages.
4330 It can't seem to pass between child processes yet, but I think we
4331 are closer now than before. This moves us back to using Unix
4332 Domain Sockets. [Ryan Bloom]
4334 *) libapr functions and types renamed with apr_ prefix.
4335 #include "apr_compat.h" for 1.3.x backwards compat
4338 *) Fix problems with APR sockaddr handling on Win32. It didn't always
4339 return the right information on the local socket address.
4340 [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls@level8.com>]
4342 *) ap_recv() on Win32: Set bytes-read to 0 on error.
4343 [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls@level8.com>]
4345 *) Add an option to not detach from the controlling terminal without
4346 going into single process mode. This allows for much easier
4347 debugging of the process startup code. [Ryan Bloom]
4349 *) ab: don't use perror() to report the failure of an APR function.
4352 *) Make dexter, mpmt_pthread, and perchild MPMs not destroy the
4353 scoreboard on graceful restarts.
4356 *) Fix segfault/SIGSEGV when running gzip from mod_mime_magic.c.
4357 An invalid ap_proc_t was passed to ap_create_process().
4360 *) Allow modules to register filters. Those filters are still
4361 never called, but this is a step in the right direction.
4362 [Ryan Bloom and Greg Stein]
4364 *) Register the mod_cgid daemon process for cleanup so that it is
4365 killed at termination if it does not die when the parent gets
4366 SIGTERM. This change is to fix occasional problems where the
4367 process stays around. Bugs in similar logic in mod_rewrite and
4368 mod_include were also fixed. [Jeff Trawick]
4370 *) Fix a bug in the time handling. Basically, we were imploding a time
4371 in ap_parseHTTPdate, but it had bogus data in the exploded time format.
4372 Namely, tm_usec and tm_gmtoff were not filled out. ap_implode_time
4373 uses those two fields to adjust the time value. Because of the HTTP
4374 spec, both of those values can be zero'ed out safely. This fixes
4375 the bug correctly. [Ryan Bloom]
4377 *) Fix a couple of place in the Windows code where the wrong error
4378 code was being returned. [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls@level8.com>]
4380 *) Fix POOL_DEBUG (at least for prefork mpm). [Dean Gaudet]
4382 *) Added the APR_EOL_STR macro for platform dependent differences in
4383 logfiles and other raw text (such as all APR files). Fixes logfiles
4384 not terminated with cr/lf sequences in Win32. [William Rowe]
4386 *) Move all strings functions in APR to src/lib/apr/strings and create
4387 apr_strings.h for the prototypes. [Ryan Bloom]
4389 *) APR lock fixes: when using SysV sems, flock(), or fcntl(), be sure
4390 to repeat the syscall until we stop getting EINTR. I noticed a
4391 related problem at termination (SIGTERM) on FreeBSD when using
4392 fcntl(). Apache 1.3 had these new loops too. Also, make the flock()
4393 implementation work properly with child init. Previously, ap_lock()
4394 was essentially a no-op because all children were using different
4395 locks and thus nobody ever blocked. [Jeff Trawick]
4397 *) The htdocs/ tree has been moved out of the CVS source tree into
4398 a separate area for easier development. This has NO EFFECT on
4399 end-users or Apache installations. [Ken Coar]
4401 *) Integrate the mod_dav module for WebDAV protocol handling. This
4402 adds the dav and dav_fs modules, the SDBM library, and additional
4403 XML handling utilities. [Greg Stein]
4405 *) Clean out obsolete names (from httpd.h) for the HTTP Status Codes
4408 *) Update the lib/expat-lite/ library (bring forward changes from
4409 the Apache 1.3 repository). [Greg Stein]
4411 *) If sizeof(long long) == sizeof(long), then prefer long in APR
4412 configure.in. [Dave Hill <ddhill@zk3.dec.com>]
4414 *) Add ap_sendfile for Tru64 Unix. Also, add an error message for
4415 machines where sendfile is detected, but nobody has written ap_sendfile.
4416 [Dave Hill <ddhill@zk3.dec.com>]
4418 *) Compile fixes in mod_mmap_static. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
4420 *) ab would start up more connections than needed, then quit when the
4421 desired number were finished. Also fixed a logic error involving
4422 ab keepalives. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
4424 *) WinNT: Implement non-blocking pipes with timeouts to communicate
4425 with CGIs. Apache 2.0a4 had non-blocking pipes but without
4426 timeouts (i.e, if a timeout was specified, the pipe reverted to
4427 a full blocking pipe). Now the behaviour is more in line with
4428 Unix non-blocking pipes.
4431 *) WinNT: Implement accept socket reuse. Using mod_file_cache to
4432 cache open file handles along with accept socket reuse enables
4433 Apache 2.0 to serve non-keepalive requests for static files at
4434 3x the rate of Apache 1.3.(e.g, Apache 1.3 will serve 400 rps
4435 and Apache 2.0 will serve almost 1200 rps on my system).
4438 *) Merge mod_mmap_static function into mod_file_cache. mod_file_cache
4439 supports two config directives, mmapfile (same behavious as
4440 mod_mmap_static) and cachefile. Use the cachefile directive
4441 to cache open file handles. This directive only works on systems
4442 that have implemented the ap_sendfile API. cachefile works today
4443 on Windows NT, but has not been tested on any flavors of Unix.
4446 *) Cleanup the configuration. With the last few changes the
4447 configuration process automatically:
4448 inherits information about how to build from APR. Allowing
4449 APR to inform Apache that it should or should not use -ldl
4451 Detects which mod_cgi should be used mod_cgi or mod_cgid,
4452 based on the threading model
4454 Apache calls APR's configure process before finishing it's
4455 configuration processing, allowing for more information flow
4460 *) Change Unix and Win32 ap_setsockopt() so that APR_SO_NONBLOCK
4461 with non-zero argument makes the socket non-blocking. BeOS and
4462 OS/2 already worked this way. [Jeff Trawick]
4464 *) ap_close() now calls ap_flush() for buffered files, so write
4465 operations work a whole lot better on buffered files.
4468 *) Fix error messages issued from MPMs which explain where to change
4469 compiled-in limits (e.g., ThreadsPerChild, MaxClients, StartTreads).
4472 *) ap_create_pipe() now leaves pipes in blocking state. (This helps
4473 reduce the number of syscalls on Unix.) ap_set_pipe_timeout() is
4474 now the way that the blocking state of a pipe is manipulated.
4475 ap_block_pipe() is gone. [Jeff Trawick]
4477 *) Correct the problem where the only local host name that the IP stack
4478 can discover are 'undotted' private names. If no fully qualified
4479 domain name can be identified, the default ServerName will be set to
4480 the machine's IP address string. A warning is always provided if the
4481 ServerName not specified, but assumed. Solves PR6215 [William Rowe]
4483 *) Repair problems with config file processing which caused segfault
4484 at init when virtual hosts were defined and which caused ServerName to
4485 be ignored when there was no valid DNS setup. [Jeff Trawick]
4487 *) Removed pointless ap_is_aborted macro function. [Roy Fielding]
4489 *) Add ap_sendfile implementation for AIX
4490 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
4492 *) Repair C++ compatibility in ap_config.h, apr_file_io.h,
4493 apr_network_io.h, and apr_thread_proc.h.
4494 [Tyler J. Brooks <tylerjbrooks@home.com>, Jeff Trawick]
4496 *) Bring the allocation and pool debugging code back into a working
4497 state. This will need to be tested as so far it's only been used on
4500 *) Change configuration command setup to be properly typesafe when in
4501 maintainer mode. Note that this requires a compiler that can initialise
4502 unions. [Ben Laurie]
4504 *) Turn on buffering for config file reads. Part of this was to
4505 repair buffered I/O support in Unix and implement buffered
4506 ap_fgets() for all platforms. [Brian Havard, Jeff Trawick]
4508 *) Win32: Fix problem where UTC offset was not being set correctly
4509 in the access log. Problem reported on news group by Jerry Baker.
4512 *) Fix segfault when reporting this type of syntax error:
4513 "</container> without matching <container> section", where
4514 container is VirtualHost or Directory or whatever.
4517 *) SECURITY: CAN-2000-1204 (cve.mitre.org)
4518 Prevent the source code for CGIs from being revealed when
4519 using mod_vhost_alias and the CGI directory is under the document root
4520 and a user makes a request like http://www.example.com//cgi-bin/cgi
4521 as reported in <news:960999105.344321@ernani.logica.co.uk>
4524 *) Add support for the new Beos NetwOrking Environment (BONE)
4527 *) xlate: ap_xlate_conv_buffer() now tells the caller when the
4528 final input char is incomplete; ap_bwrite_xlate() now handles
4529 incomplete final input chars. [Jeff Trawick]
4531 *) Yet another update to saferead/halfduplex stuff -- need to ensure
4532 that a bhalfduplex call occurs before logging or else DNS and
4533 such can delay the last packet of the response. [Dean Gaudet]
4535 *) Some syscall reduction in APR on unix -- don't seek when setting
4536 up an mmap; and don't fcntl() more than once per socket.
4539 *) When mod_cgid is started as root, the cgi daemon now switches
4540 to the configured User/Group (like other httpd processes)
4541 instead of continuing as root. [Jeff Trawick]
4543 *) The prefork MPM now uses an APR lock for the accept() mutex.
4544 It has not been getting a lock at all recently. httpd -V now
4545 displays APR's selection of the lock mechanism instead of the
4546 symbols previously respected by prefork. [Jeff Trawick]
4548 *) Change the mmap() feature test to check only for existence.
4549 The previous check required features not used by Apache.
4552 *) Fix a couple of bugs in mod_cgid: The cgi arguments were
4553 sometimes mangled. The len parm to accept() was not
4554 initialized, leading sometimes to an endless loop of failed
4555 accept() calls on OS/390 and anywhere else that failed the call
4556 if the len was negative. Use <sys/un.h> for struct sockaddr_un
4557 instead of declaring it ourselves to fix a compilation problem
4558 on Solaris. [Jeff Trawick]
4560 *) Add Resource limiting code back into Apache 2.0. [Ryan Bloom]
4562 *) Fix zombie process problem with mod_cgi. [Jeff Trawick]
4564 *) Port mod_mmap_static to 2.0. Make it go faster. [Greg Ames]
4566 *) Fix storage overlay when loading dsos. Symptom: Apache dies at
4567 initialization if ALLOC_DEBUG is defined; no known symptom
4568 otherwise. [Jeff Trawick]
4570 *) Fix typo in configure script when checking for mod_so. bash
4571 doesn't seem to have a problem but /bin/sh on Solaris does.
4572 Symptom: "./configure: test: unknown operator =="
4575 *) Rebind the Win32 NT and 9x services control into the MPM.
4576 All console, WinNT SCM and Win9x pseudo-service control code is
4577 now wrapped within the WinNT MPM.
4580 *) Make a copy of getenv("PATH") before storing for later use. Some
4581 getenv() implementations use the same storage for successive calls.
4582 CGIs on OS/390 had a bad PATH due to this. [Jeff Trawick]
4584 *) Server Tokens work in 2.0 again. This also propogates the change
4585 to allow just the product name in the server string using
4589 Changes with Apache 2.0a4
4591 *) EBCDIC: Rearrange calls to ap_checkconv() so that most handlers
4592 won't need to call it. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
4594 *) Move pre_config hook call to between configuration read and config
4595 tree walk. This allows all modules to implement pre_config hooks
4596 and know that they will be called at an appropriate time.
4599 *) mod_cgi, mod_cgid: Make ScriptLog directive work again.
4602 *) Add pre-config hooks back to all modules.
4605 *) Fix a SIGSEGV in ap_md5digest(), which is used when you have
4606 ContentDigest enabled and we can't/don't mmap the file.
4609 *) We now report the correct line number for syntax errors in config
4610 files. [Ryan Bloom, Greg Stein, Jeff Trawick]
4612 *) Brought mod_auth_digest up to synch with 1.3, fixed ap_time_t-
4613 related bugs, and changed shmem/locking to use apr API. Shared-mem
4614 is currently disabled, however, because of problems with graceful
4615 restarts. [Ronald Tschalär]
4617 *) Fix corruption of IFS variable in --with-module= handling.
4618 Depending on the user's shell or customization thereof, there
4619 would be errors generating ap_config_auto.h later in the configure
4620 procedure. [Jeff Trawick]
4622 *) mod_cgi: Restore logging of stderr from child process when ScriptLog
4623 isn't used (as in 1.3), except that on Unix it is now logged via
4624 ap_log_rerror() instead of by the child having STDERR_FILENO refer
4625 to the error log. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
4627 *) Add '-D' argument processing for run time configuration defines.
4630 *) Organize http_main.c as independent code, such that no code or
4631 global data is exported from it. WIN32 will dynamically link it
4632 to the server core, so this will prevent mutual dependency.
4635 *) Add separate dynamic linkage tags APR_EXPORT(), APR_EXPORT_NONSTD()
4636 and APR_VAR_EXPORT to correctly resolve apr functions and globals.
4639 *) Add Win9x service execution and Ctrl+C/Ctrl+Break/Shutdown handlers.
4640 [William Rowe, Jan Just Keijser <KEIJSERJJ@logica.com>]
4642 *) Add mod_charset_lite for configuring character set translation.
4645 *) Add '-n' option to htpasswd to make it print its user:pw record
4646 on stdout rather than having to frob a text file. [Ken Coar]
4648 *) Fix saferead. Basically, we flush the output buffer if a read on the
4652 *) APR: Add ap_xlate_get_sb() so that an app can find out whether or not
4653 a conversion is single-byte only. [Jeff Trawick]
4655 *) BEOS: ap_shutdown should return APR_SUCCESS or errno. Note that
4656 the BeOS 5.0 documentation says that shutdown doesn't work yet.
4659 *) Fix some minor errors where pid was being manipulated as an int
4660 instead of the portable pid_t. [Roy Fielding]
4662 *) Fix some error log prints that were printing the pointer to a
4663 structure rather than the pid within the structure.
4664 [Jeff Trawick, Roy Fielding]
4666 *) ab: Fix a command-line processing bug; track bad headers in
4667 err_response; support reading headers up to 2K.
4668 [Ask Bjoern Hansen <ask@valueclick.com>]
4670 *) Fix ap_resolve_env() so that it handles new function added in a prior
4671 alpha (see "Added the capability to do ${ENVVAR} constructs in the
4672 config file.") as well as the constructs used by mod_rewrite.
4673 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
4675 *) Apache 2.0 builds and runs on OS/390. [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames]
4677 *) Change the EBCDIC support in functions for MD5, SHA1, and base 64 to use
4678 APR to perform translation, instead of accessing the hard-coded tables
4679 in 1.3's ebcdic.c. [Jeff Trawick]
4681 *) Fix some bugs (mostly lost 1.3 code) in ab's command-line processing.
4684 *) Add the ability to hook into the config file reading phase. Basically
4685 if a directive is specified EXEC_ON_READ, then when that directive is
4686 read from the config file, the assocaited function is executed. This
4687 should only be used for those directives that must muck with HOW the
4688 server INTERPRETS the config. This should not be used for directives
4689 that re-order or replace items in the config tree. Those changes should
4690 be made in the pre-config step.
4693 *) Add mod_example to the build system.
4696 *) APR: Add ap_xlate_conv_byte() to convert one char between single-
4697 byte character sets. [Jeff Trawick]
4699 *) Pick up various EBCDIC fixes from 1.3 (from Martin
4700 Kraemer and Oliver Reh originally according to the change log).
4703 *) Fix a couple of problems in RFC1413 support (controlled by the
4704 IdentityCheck directive). Apache did not build the request string
4705 properly and more importantly Apache would loop forever if the
4706 would-be ident server dropped the connection before sending a
4707 properly terminated response. [Jeff Trawick]
4709 *) apxs works in 2.0.
4712 *) Reliable piped logs work in 2.0.
4715 *) Introduce a hash table implementation into APR to be used for
4716 replacing tables and other random data structures in Apache.
4719 *) Add some more error reporting to htpasswd in the case of problems
4720 generating or accessing the temporary file. Also, pass in a
4721 buffer if the implementation knows how to use it (i.e., if L_tmpnam
4722 is defined). [Ken Coar]
4724 *) Configure creates config.nice now containing your configure
4725 options. Syntax: ./config.nice [--more-options]
4728 *) Fix various return code problems in APR on Win32. For most of
4729 these, APR was returning APR_EEXIST instead of GetLastError()/
4730 WSAGetLastError(). [Jeff Trawick]
4732 *) Make piped logs work again in version 2.0
4735 *) Add VPATH support to UNIX build system of Apache and APR.
4738 *) Fix ap_tokenize_to_argv to respect the const arguments that are
4742 *) Fix mm's memcpy/memset macros, pointer arithmetic was broken.
4743 Patch submitted to author.
4746 *) Fix mm configuration on Solaris 8 x86 and OS/390. Don't require
4747 /sbin in PATH on FreeBSD (all submitted to rse previously)
4750 *) Fix building Pthread-based MPMs on OpenBSD
4751 [Sascha Schumann] PR#26
4753 *) Fix ap_readdir() problem on systems where d_name[] field in
4754 struct dirent is declared with only one byte. (This problem only
4755 affected multithreaded builds.) This caused a segfault during
4756 pool cleanup with mod_autoindex on Solaris (Solaris 8 x86, at
4757 least). [Jeff Trawick]
4759 *) Fix some make-portability problems on at least Tru64, Irix
4761 [Sascha Schumann] PR#18, PR#39
4763 *) Add ap_sigwait() to support old-style sigwait() on systems
4764 like OS/390 and UnixWare.
4767 *) Add POSIX-thread flags for more platforms.
4770 *) Fix some minor bugs in ap_strerror(). Teach ap_strerror()
4771 (on Unix, at least) to handle resolver errors. Fix a bug in
4772 the definition of APR_ENOMEM so that ap_strerror() can spit
4773 out the correct error message for it.
4776 Changes with Apache 2.0a3
4778 *) mod_so reports ap_os_dso_error() if ap_dso_load() fails
4781 *) API: *HOOK* macros now have an AP_ prefix
4784 *) Win32: Eliminate redundant calls to initialize winsock.
4785 [Tim Costello <timcostello@ozemail.com.au>]
4787 *) Fix bugs initializing ungetchar for pipes.
4788 [Chia-liang Kao <clkao@CirX.ORG>]
4790 *) The ab program in the src/support directory is now portable using
4794 *) Support directory is being compiled when the server is built
4797 *) The configure option --with-program-name has been added to allow
4798 developers to rename the executable at configure time. This also
4799 changes the name of the config files to match the executable's name.
4802 *) mod_autoindex: Add `IndexOptions +VersionSort', to nicely sort filenames
4803 containing version numbers. [Martin Pool]
4805 *) ap_open(..,APR_OS_DEFAULT,..) uses perms 0666 instead of 0777 on
4806 Unix; access_log and error_log now created with these perms; non-
4807 Unix is unaffected [Jeff Trawick]
4809 *) Finished move of ap_md5 routines to apr_md5. Removed ap_md5.h.
4810 Replaced more magic numbers with MD5_DIGESTSIZE.
4811 [William Rowe, Roy Fielding]
4813 *) Win32: Get mod_auth_digest compiling and added to the Windows
4814 build environment. Not tested and I'd be suprised if it
4815 actually works. [Bill Stoddard]
4817 *) Revamp the Win32 make environment. Makefiles have been removed and
4818 Apache.dsw created to bring together all the pieces. Create new file
4819 os/win32/BaseAddr.ref to define module base addresses (to prevent
4820 dll relocation at start-up).
4821 [William Rowe, Greg Marr, Tim Costello, Bill Stoddard]
4823 *) [EBCDIC] Port Paul Gilmartin's CRLF patch from 1.3. This replaces most
4824 of the \015, \012, and \015\012 constants with macros.
4827 *) Add ap_xlate_open() et al for translation of text between different
4828 character sets. The initial implementation requires iconv().
4831 *) More FAQs and answers from comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix.
4832 [Joshua Slive <slive@finance.commerce.ubc.ca>]
4834 *) CGI output is being timed out now.
4837 *) Fix the problem with dieing quietly. dupfile now takes a pool which
4838 is used by the new apr file. There is no reason to create a new file
4839 with the same lifetime as the original file.
4842 *) Win32: Attempt to eliminate dll relocation at start-up by specifying
4843 module base addresses. This will help shooting seg faults
4844 in the field. [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
4846 *) Update Apache on Windows documentation. Add new document
4847 describing how to compile Apache on Windows.
4848 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
4850 *) ap_set_pipe_timeout(), ap_poll(), and APR_SO_TIMEOUT now take
4851 microseconds instead of seconds. Some storage leaks and other
4852 minor bugs in related code were fixed. [Jeff Trawick]
4854 *) Win32: First cut at getting mod_isapi working under 2.0
4855 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
4857 *) First stab at getting mod_auth_digest working under 2.0
4858 quick change summary:
4859 - moved the random byte generation (ap_generate_random_bytes) into APR
4860 - now uses ap_time_t
4861 - compiles and runs on linux
4863 [Brian Martin <bmartin@penguincomputing.com>]
4865 *) Win32: Move the space stripping of physical service names
4866 fix up from Apache 1.3. #include'ing "ap_mpm.h" fixes up an
4867 unresolved symbol. Add dependency checking to the
4868 CreateService call to ensure TCPIP and AFP (winsock) is started
4870 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
4872 *) Win32: Add code to perform latebinding on functions that may
4873 not exist on all levels of Windows where Apache runs. This
4874 is needed to allow Apache to start-up on Win95/98. All calls
4875 to non portable functions should be protected with
4876 ap_oslevel checks to prevent runtime segfaults.
4877 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
4879 *) Fix fallback default values for SHM_R and SHM_W [Martin Kraemer]
4881 *) Get lingering_close() working again. [Dean Gaudet, Jeff Trawick]
4883 *) Win32: Get non-blocking CGI pipe reads working under Windows NT.
4884 This addresses PR 1623. Still need to address timing out runaway
4885 CGI scripts. [Bill Stoddard]
4887 *) Win32: Make ap_stat Windows 95/98 friendly
4888 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
4890 *) Win32: Fix a bug in ap_get_oslevel which causes GetVersionEx() to
4891 always fail. Need to initialise the dwOSVersionInfoSize member of the
4892 OSVERSIONINFO struct before calling GetVersionEx, so GetVersionEx
4895 The patch also enhances ap_get_oslevel (and the associated enum) to
4896 handle selected service packs for NT4, and adds recognition for
4897 Windows 2000. This is useful, eg. if we can recognise NT4 SP2 then
4898 we can use ReadFileScatter and WriteFileGather in readwrite.c.
4899 [Tim Costello <Tim.Costello@BTFinancialgroup.com>]
4901 *) Get mod_rewrite building and running, and mod_status building for Win NT
4902 [Allan Edwards <ake@raleigh.ibm.com>]
4904 *) Patch to port mod_auth_db to the 2.0 api and also to support
4905 Berlekey DB 3.0. It works for me with both Berkeley DB 3.0.55 and
4906 2.7.7. It should work with version 1 as well but I haven't tested it.
4907 [Brian Martin <bmartin@penguincomputing.com>]
4909 *) Get APR DSO code working under Windows. Includes cross platform
4911 [Tim.Costello@BTFinancialgroup.com]
4913 *) Fix some of the Windows APR time functions.
4916 *) FAQ changes related to tidying up historical documents on the web site.
4917 [Joshua Slive <slive@finance.commerce.ubc.ca>]
4919 *) Move Windows DSO code into APR.
4922 *) Eliminate apr_win.h and apr_winconfig.h (and the ugly #ifdefs they cause).
4923 Now, apr.h and apr_config.h are generated from apr.hw and apr_config.hw
4924 at build time. At this point, the server will not compile on Windows because
4925 of the recent DSO commits. Fixing those next.
4926 [Bill Rowe & Bill Stoddard]
4928 *) Added error checking for file I/O APR routines.
4929 [Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>]
4931 *) APR: Don't use the values of resolver error codes for the
4932 corresponding APR error codes. On Unix and Win32, return the
4933 proper APR error code after a resolver error. [Jeff Trawick]
4935 Changes with Apache 2.0a2
4937 *) Renamed the executable back to httpd on all platforms other
4941 *) Allow BeOS to survive restarts, log properly and a few
4942 small things it had problems with due to the way it setup
4943 users and groups. [David Reid]
4945 *) Get mod_rewrite working with APR locks
4946 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
4948 *) Actually remove the sempahore when the lock cleanup routine
4949 is called on BeOS. [David Reid]
4951 *) Clear hook registrations between reads of the config file.
4952 When DSOs are unloaded and re-loaded the old hook pointers may
4953 no longer be valid. This fix eliminates potential segfaults.
4954 [Allan Edwards <ake@raleigh.ibm.com>]
4956 *) Fix a problem with Sigfunc not being defined or bypassed
4957 if sigaction() wasn't found. [Jim Jagielski]
4959 *) Fix the locking mechanism on BSD variants. They now use fcntl
4960 locks. This allows the server to start and serve pages.
4963 *) First cut at getting the Win32 installer to work
4964 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
4966 *) Get htpasswd compiling under Windows
4967 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
4969 *) Change the log message for a bind() failure to show the
4970 interface and port number. [Jeff Trawick]
4972 *) Import the documentation from 1.3.12 and bring parts of it
4973 up-to-date with respect to the changes that have occurred
4977 *) BeOS MPM updated. CGI bug on BeOS fixed. IP addresses
4978 now logged correctly on BeOS.
4981 *) Create one makefile for all Win32 distributions (NT/2000/95/98).
4982 Makefile.win includes the same user interface as the old
4984 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>, Jeff Trawick <trawick@us.ibm.com>]
4986 *) Win32 exec now uses COMSPEC environment string for command
4987 shell path resolution.
4988 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>] PR#3715
4990 *) Win32: ap_connect() was not returning correct error condition
4992 [Allen Prescott <allen@clanprescott.com>]
4994 *) Win32: ap_open() was broken on Win9x because an NT-specific
4995 flag was passed to CreateFile. ap_puts() added an unnecessary
4997 [Jeff Trawick <trawick@us.ibm.com>]
4999 *) Put in Korean and Norwegian index.html pages (2.0 and 1.3)
5000 which where donated by Lee Kuk Hyun and Lorant Czaran. 'Fixed'
5001 confusing ee/et name and made all extensions language/dialect
5002 rather than country reflecting. Changed example files to
5003 explicit reflect the ISO charset and added a few common
5004 ones to the example config [dirkx]
5006 *) Extend external module capability. To use this, you call
5007 configure with --with-module=path/to/mod1,path/to/mod2,etc.
5010 *) Backported the various "default charset" fixes from 1.3.12,
5011 including the AddDefaultCharset directive. [Jim Jagielski]
5013 *) Added the capability to do ${ENVVAR} constructs in the
5014 config file. E.g. 'ServerAdmin ${POSTMASTER}'. As commited
5015 it does this on a line by line basis; i.e. if the envvar
5016 expands to something with spaces you have to protect it
5017 by adding quotes around it (Unless of course you expect it
5018 to contains more than one argument. Alternatively you
5019 can compile it on a per token basis; which is what people
5020 usually expect by setting RESOLVE_ENV_PER_TOKEN. But this
5021 hampers fancier hacks.
5022 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
5024 *) Changed the 'ErrorDocument' syntax in that it NO longer
5025 supports the asymetric
5027 ErrorDocument 301 "Some message
5029 Note the opening " quote, without a closing quote. It now
5030 has either the following syntaxes
5032 ErrorDocument XXX /local/uri
5033 ErrorDocument XXX http://valid/url
5034 ErrorDocument XXX "Some Message"
5036 The recognition heuristic is: if it has a space it
5037 is a message. If it has no spaces and starts with a /
5038 or is a valid URL then treat it that way. Otherwise it
5039 is assumed to be a message.
5041 This breaks backward compatibility but makes live a hell
5042 of a lot easier for GUI's and config file parsers.
5043 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
5045 *) Changed 'CacheNegotiatedDocs' from its present/not-present
5046 syntax into a 'on' or 'off' syntax. As it currently is the
5047 only non nesting token which uses NO_ARGS and thus is an
5048 absolute pain for any config interface automation. This
5049 breaks backward compatibility. [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
5051 *) Add ability to add external modules to the build process. This is
5052 done with --with-module=/path/to/module. Modules can only be added
5053 as static modules at this point.
5056 Changes with Apache 2.0a1
5058 *) Fix FreeBSD 3.3 core dump.
5059 Basically, ap_initialize() needs to get called before
5060 create_process(), since create_process() passes op_on structure
5061 to semop() to get a lock, but op_on isn't initialized until
5062 ap_initialize() calls setup_lock(). Here is a slight
5063 rearrangement to main() which calls ap_initialize() earlier...
5064 [Jeff Trawick <trawick@us.ibm.com>]
5066 *) Enable Apache to use sendfile/TransmitFile API
5067 [Bill Stoddard, David Reid, Paul Reder]
5069 *) Re-Implement Win32 APR network I/O APIs and most of the file I/O
5073 *) Make file I/O and network I/O writev/sendv APIs consistent.
5074 Eliminate use of ap_iovec_t and use Posix struct iovec.
5075 Use seperate variable on ap_writev to set the number of iovecs
5076 passed in and number of bytes written.
5079 *) Adapt file iol to use APR functions. Replaced ap_open_file()
5080 with ap_create_file_iol(). ap_create_file_iol() requires that
5081 the file be opened prior to the call using ap_open().
5084 *) Port mod_include and mod_cgi to 2.0
5085 [Paul Reder, Bill Stoddard]
5087 *) ap_send{,v}, ap_recv, ap_sendfile API clarification --
5088 bytes_read/bytes_written is always valid (never -1). Plus
5089 some fixes to buff.c to correct problems introduced by the
5090 errno => ap_status_t changes a while back. Plus a fix to
5091 chunked encoding introduced right at the beginning of 2.0.
5094 *) Revamped UNIX build system to use autoconf and libtool.
5095 [Manoj Kasichainula, Sascha Schumann]
5097 *) port mod_rewrite to 2.0. [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
5099 *) SECURITY: More rigorous checking of Host: headers to fix security
5100 problems with mass name-based virtual hosting (whether using mod_rewrite
5101 or mod_vhost_alias).
5102 [Ben Hyde, Tony Finch]
5104 *) Add back support for UseCanonicalName in <Directory> containers.
5105 [Manoj Kasichainula]
5107 *) Added APLOG_STARTUP log type. This allows us to write an error
5108 message without any of the date and time information. As a part
5109 of this change, I also removed all of the calls to fprintf(stderr
5110 and replaced them with calls to ap_log_error using APLOG_STARTUP
5111 writing to stderr is no longer portable, because we don't direct
5112 stderr to the error log on all platforms.
5115 *) Convert error logging functions to take errno as an argument.
5116 This makes our error logs more portable, because some Windows API's
5117 don't set errno. This change allows us to still output a valid
5118 message on all of our platforms.
5121 *) mod_mime_magic runs in 2.0-dev now.
5122 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
5124 *) sendfile has been added to APR.
5125 [John Zedlewski <zedlwski@Princeton.EDU>]
5127 *) buff.c has been converted to no longer use errno.
5128 [Manoj Kasichainula]
5130 *) mod_speling runs in 2.0-dev now: a bug in readdir_r handling and
5131 interface adaption to APR functions did it. [Martin Kraemer]
5133 *) Support DSOs properly on 32-bit HP-UX 11.0
5134 [Dilip Khandekar <dilip@cup.hp.com>]
5136 *) Updated MM in APR source tree from version 1.0.8 to 1.0.11
5137 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5139 *) Cleaned APR build environment integration and bootstrap APR
5140 automatically for developers from src/Configure.
5141 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5143 *) Fixed building of src/support/htpasswd.c
5144 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5146 *) When generating the Location: header, mod_speling forgot
5147 to escape the spelling-fixed uri. (Forw-Port from 1.3)
5150 *) Moved mod_auth_digest.c from experimental to standard. [Roy Fielding]
5152 *) Change all pools to APR contexts. This is the first step to
5153 incorporating APR into Apache. [Ryan Bloom]
5155 *) Move "handler not found" warning message to below the check
5156 for a wildcard handler. [Dirk <dirkm@teleport.com>, Roy Fielding]
5157 PR#2584, PR#2751, PR#3349, PR#3436, PR#3548, PR#4384, PR#4795, PR#4807
5159 *) Support line-continuation feature in config.option file and
5160 allow the loading of multiple option sections at once via
5161 ``--with-option=<section1>,<section2>,...''
5162 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5164 *) Rebuilt CVS repository with Apache 1.3.9 as basis. [Roy Fielding]
5166 Changes with Apache MPM
5168 *) Use asynchronous AcceptEx() and a completion port to accept and
5169 dispatch connections to threads in Windows NT/2000.
5172 *) Implement WINNT Win32 MPM from original Win32 code in http_main.c
5175 *) Implement the APACI --with-option facility
5176 (per default used the config.option file).
5177 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5179 *) MPM BEOS port. [David Reid <abb37@dial.pipex.com>]
5181 *) Start to implement module-defined hooks that are a) fast and b) typesafe.
5182 Replace pre_connection module call with a register_hook call and
5183 implement pre_connection as a hook. The intent is that these hooks will
5184 be extended to allow Apache to be multi-protocol, and also to allow the
5185 calling order to be specified on a per-hook/per-module basis.
5188 *) Implement mpm_* methods as "modules". Each method gets its own
5189 subdir in src/modules (eg: src/modules/prefork). Selection
5190 of method uses Rule MPM_METHOD. [Jim Jagielski]
5192 *) Port the hybrid server from the apache-apr repository as
5193 mpm_mpmt_pthread. [Manoj Kasichainula]
5195 *) os/unix/unixd.[ch]: detach, setuid, setgid, stuff which will be common
5196 amongst the unix MPMs.
5198 *) mpm_prefork: throw away all the alarm/timeout crud; and clean up the
5199 signal handling for the new world order. [Dean Gaudet]
5201 *) Crude ap_thread_mutex abstraction so that we get the pthread stuff out
5202 of alloc.c for now. [Dean Gaudet]
5204 *) Handle partial large writes correctly. [Ben Laurie]
5206 *) Eliminate conn_rec's pointer to server. All it knows is the base server
5207 based on IP/port. [Ben Laurie]
5209 *) Port a bunch of modules to the new module structure.
5210 ["Michael H. Voase" <mvoase@midcoast.com.au>]
5212 *) I/O layering and BUFF revamp. See docs/buff.txt. [Dean Gaudet]
5214 *) Basic restructuring to introduce the MPM concept; includes various
5215 changes to the module API... better described by
5216 docs/initial_blurb.txt. [Dean Gaudet]
5218 Changes with Apache pthreads
5220 *) New buff option added: BO_TIMEOUT. It describes the timeout for
5221 buff operations (generally over a network).
5222 [Dean Gaudet, Ryan Bloom, Manoj Kasichainula]
5224 *) Created http_accept abstraction. Added 4 new functions (not exported):
5225 init_accept(), begin_accepting_requests(), get_request(),
5226 stop_accepting_requests() [Bill Stoddard]
5228 *) Fix to ap_rprintf call that allows mod_info to work properly.
5229 [James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>]
5231 *) user and ap_auth_type fields were moved from connection_rec to
5232 request_rec. [Ryan Bloom]
5234 *) Removed the ap_block_alarms and ap_unblock_alarm calls. These aren't
5235 needed in a threaded server.
5237 *) Initial pthread implementation from from Dean's apache-nspr code.
5238 [Bill Stoddard, Ryan Bloom]
5241 Changes with Apache 1.3.9
5243 *) Remove bogus error message when a redirect doesn't set Location.
5244 Instead, use an empty string to avoid coredump if the error message
5245 was supposed to include a location. [Roy Fielding]
5247 *) Don't allow configure to include mod_auth_digest unless it is
5248 explicitly requested, even if the user asked for all modules.
5251 *) Translate module names to dll names for OS/2 so that they are no more
5252 than 8 characters long and have an extension of "dll" instead of "so".
5255 *) Print out pointer to Rule DEV_RANDOM when truerand lib not found.
5256 Fix test-compile check to check for randbyte instead of trand32.
5257 Use ap_base64encode_binary/decode instead of copy in mod_auth_digest.c
5258 and tweak to make Amaya happier. [Ronald Tschalär]
5260 *) Ensure that the installed expat include files are world readable,
5261 just like the other header files. [Martin Kraemer]
5263 *) Fixed generated AddModule adjustments in APACI's `configure' script
5264 in order to allow (new) modules like mod_vhost_alias to be handled
5265 correctly (which was touched by the adjustments for mod_alias).
5266 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5268 *) For binary builds, add -R flag to apachectl to work around the lack of
5269 an absolute path to the ./libexec directory where the libhttp.ep file
5270 is needed for SHARED_CORE architectures. [Randy Terbush]
5272 *) WIN32: Create the CGI script process as DETACHED. This may solve the
5273 problem observed by some Win95/98 users where they get CGI script
5274 output sent to the console. [Bill Stoddard]
5276 *) Fix (re)naming in the uuencode/decode section. The ap/ap_
5277 routines are now called ap_base64* and are 'plain' (i.e., no
5278 pool access or anything clever). Inside util.c the routines acting
5279 like pstrdup are called ap_pbase64encode() and ap_pbase64decode().
5280 The oddly named ap_uuencode(), ap_uudecode() are kept around for
5281 now but deprecated. [dirkx]
5283 *) Clean up the base64 and SHA1 additions and make sure they are
5284 represented in the ApacheCore.def, ApacheCoreOS2.def, and httpd.exp
5285 files. [Roy Fielding]
5287 *) WIN32: Migrate to InstallShield 5.5 and provide a bit more error
5288 checking. Allow compiling on VS 6.0. [Randy Terbush]
5290 *) Fixed assumption of absolute paths in binbuild.sh. [Tony Finch]
5292 *) Use TestCompile to search for the truerand library (rather than blindly
5293 assuming its existence). If it is not found, complain (but do not
5294 exit - yet). [Martin Kraemer]
5296 *) We forgot to add the new exported function names to
5297 src/support/httpd.exp. [Bill Stoddard, Randy Terbush]
5299 *) Add description of -T command-line option to usage().
5300 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5302 *) For "some" platforms (notably, EBCDIC based ones), libos needs to be
5303 searched only AFTER libap has been searched, because libap needs
5304 some symbols from libos. [Martin Kraemer]
5306 *) Fix conflict with original mod_digest related to the symbol of the
5307 module dispatch list (which has to be unique for DSO and follow the
5308 usual conventions for the installation procedure).
5309 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5311 *) Add a dbm-library check for the "usual places" (-ldbm, -lndbm, -ldb)
5312 for other platforms as well. [Martin Kraemer]
5314 *) Make ap_sha1.c compile for EBCDIC platforms: replace remaining LONG
5315 types by AP_LONG and replace reference to renamed variable 'ubuf'
5316 by 'buffer'. [Martin Kraemer]
5318 Changes with Apache 1.3.8 [not released]
5320 *) Flush the output buffer immediately after sending an error or redirect
5321 response, since the result may be needed by the client to abort a
5322 long data transfer or restart a series of pipelined requests.
5323 [Tom Vaughan <tvaughan@aventail.com>, Roy Fielding]
5325 *) PORT: Improved compilation and DSO support on Sequent DYNIX/ptx.
5326 [Ian Turner <iant@sequent.com>] PR#4735
5328 *) Local struct mmap in http_core.c conflicted with system structure
5329 name on DYNIX -- changed to mmap_rec. [Roy Fielding] PR#4735
5331 *) Added updated mod_digest as modules/experimental/mod_auth_digest.
5332 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald@innovation.ch>]
5334 *) Fix a memory leak where the module counts were getting messed
5335 up across restarts. [David Harris <dharris@drh.net>]
5337 *) CIDR addresses such as a.b.c.d/24 where d != 0 weren't handled
5338 properly in mod_access.
5339 ["Paul J. Reder" <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#4770
5341 *) RewriteLock/RewriteMap didn't work properly with virtual hosts.
5342 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su>] PR#3874
5344 *) PORT: Support for compaq/tandem/com.
5345 [Michael Ottati <michael.ottati@compaq.com>, dirkx]
5347 *) Added SHA1 password encryption support to easy migration from
5348 Netscape servers. See support/SHA1 for more information.
5349 Caused the separation of ap_md5.c into md5, sha1 and a general
5350 ap_checkpass.c with just a validate_passwd routine. Added a
5351 couple of flags to support/htpasswd. Some reuse of the to64()
5352 function; hence renamed to ap_to64().
5353 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Clinton Wong <clintdw@netcom.com>]
5355 *) Change for EBCDIC platforms (TPF and BS2000) to correctly deal
5356 with ASCII/EBCDIC conversions in "ident" query.
5357 [David McCreedy <McCreedy@us.ibm.com>]
5359 *) Get rid of redefinition warning on MAC_OS_X_SERVER platform.
5360 Change "Power Macintosh" to Power* so if uname prints "Power Book"
5361 we're still happy on Rhapsody platforms. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
5363 *) Fix SIGSEGV on some systems because the Vary fix below included
5364 a call to table_do with a variable argument list that was not
5365 NULL terminated. Replaced with better implementation. [Roy Fielding]
5367 Changes with Apache 1.3.7 [not released]
5369 *) The "Vary" response header field is now sanitised right before
5370 the header is sent back to the client. Multiple "Vary" fields
5371 are combined, and duplicate tokens (e.g., "Vary: host, host" or
5372 "Vary: host, negotiate, host, accept-language") are reduced to
5373 single instances. This is a better solution than the force-no-vary
5374 one (which is still valid for clients that can't cope with Vary
5375 at all). PR#3118 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Ken Coar]
5377 *) Portability changes for BeOS. [David Reid abb37@dial.pipex.com]
5379 *) Link DSO's with "gcc -shared" instead of "ld -Bshareable" at
5380 least on Linux and FreeBSD for now.
5383 *) Win32: More apache -k restart work. Restarts are now honored
5384 immediately and connections in the listen queue are -not- lost.
5385 This is made possible by the use of the WSADuplicateSocket()
5386 call. The listeners are opened in the parent, duplicated, then
5387 the duplicates are passed to the child. The original listen sockets
5388 are not closed by the parent across a restart, thus the listen queue
5390 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
5392 *) Fix handling of case when a client has sent "Expect: 100-continue"
5393 and we are going to respond with an error, but get stuck waiting to
5394 discard the body in the pointless hope of preserving the connection.
5395 [Roy Fielding, Joe Orton <jeo101@york.ac.uk>] PR#4499, PR#3806
5397 *) Fix 'configure' to work correctly with SysV-based versions of
5398 'tr' (consistent with Configure's use as well). [Jim Jagielski]
5400 *) apxs: Add "-S var=val" option which allows for override of CFG_*
5401 built-in values. Add "-e" option which works like -i but doesn't
5402 install the DSO; useful for editing httpd.conf with apxs. Fix
5403 editing code so that multiple invocations of apxs -a will not
5404 create duplicate LoadModule/AddModule entries; apxs can now be
5405 used to re- enable/disable a module. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
5407 *) Win32: Update the server to use Winsock 2. Specifically, link with
5408 ws2_32.lib rather than wsock32.lib. This gives us access to
5409 WSADuplcateSocket() in addition to some other enhanced comm APIs.
5410 Win 95 users may need to update their TCP/IP stack to pick up
5411 Winsock 2. (See http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/)
5412 [Bill Stoddard stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com]
5414 *) Win32: Redirect CGI script stderr (script debug info) into the
5415 error.log when CGI scripts fail. This makes Apache on Win32
5416 behave more like Unix.
5417 [Bill Stoddard stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com]
5419 *) Fixed `httpd' usage display: -D was missing.
5420 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4614
5422 *) Fix `make r' test procedure in src/regex/: ap_isprint was not found.
5423 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4561, PR#4562
5425 *) OS/2: Fix problem with accept lock semaphores where server would die with
5426 "OS2SEM: Error 105 getting accept lock. Exiting!"
5427 [Brian Havard] PR#4505
5429 *) Add DSO support for DGUX 4.x using gcc. Tested on x86 platforms.
5430 [Randy Terbush <randy@covalent.net>]
5432 *) Add the new mass-vhost module (mod_vhost_alias.c) developed and
5433 used by Demon Internet, Ltd. [Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net>]
5435 *) Better GCC detection for DSO flags under Solaris 2 where the `cc'
5436 command potentially _is_ GCC. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5438 *) Fix apxs build issues on AIX
5439 [Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@raleigh.ibm.com>]
5441 *) DocumentRoot Checking: Under previous versions, when Apache
5442 first started up, it used to do a stat of each DocumentRoot to
5443 see if it existed and was a directory. If not, then an error
5444 message was printed. THIS HAS BEEN DISABLED. If DocumentRoot
5445 does not exist, you will get error messages in error_log. If
5446 the '-t' command line option is used (to check the configuration)
5447 the check of DocumentRoot IS performed. An additional command
5448 line option, '-T', has been added if you want to avoid the
5449 DocumentRoot check even when checking the configuration.
5452 *) Win32: The query switch "apache -S" didn't exit after showing the
5453 vhost settings. That was inconsistent with the other query functions.
5454 [Bill Stoddard - Fixed by Martin on Unix in 1.3.4]
5456 *) Win32: Changed behaviour of apache -k restart.
5457 Previously, the server would drain all connections in the stack's
5458 listen queue before honoring the restart. On a busy server, this
5459 could take hours. Now, a restart is honored almost immediately.
5460 All connections in Apache's queues are handled but connections in
5461 the stack's listen queue are discarded. Restart triggered by
5462 MaxRequestPerChild is unchanged.
5463 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
5465 *) Win32: Eliminated unnecessary call to wait_for_multiple_objects in
5466 the accept loop. Good for a 5% performance boost. Cleaned up
5467 parent/child process management code.
5468 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
5470 *) Added ceiling on file size for memory mapped files.
5471 [John Giannandrea <jg@meer.net>] PR#4122
5473 *) Fix ndbm.h include problems with brain-dead glibc >= 2.1 which
5474 has ndbm.h in a non-standard db1/ subdir. PR#4431, PR#4528
5475 [Henri Gomez <gomez@slib.fr>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
5477 *) Determine AP_BYTE_ORDER for ap_config_auto.h and already
5478 use this at least for Expat. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5480 *) Allow .module files to specify libraries with Lib:.
5483 *) Allow SetEnvIf[NoCase] to test environment variables as well
5484 as header fields and request attributes. [Ken Coar]
5486 *) Fix mod_autoindex's handling of ScanHTMLTitles when file
5487 content-types are "text/html;parameters". PR#4524 [Ken Coar]
5489 *) Remove "mxb" support from mod_negotiation -- it was a draft feature
5490 never accepted into any standard, and it opens up certain DoS
5491 attacks. [Koen Holtman <Koen.Holtman@cern.ch>]
5493 *) TestCompile updated. We can now run programs and output the
5494 results during the Configure process. [ Jim Jagielski]
5496 *) The source is now quad (long long) aware as needed. Specifically,
5497 the Configure process determines the correct size of off_t and
5498 *void. When the OS/platform/compiler supports quads, ap_snprintf()
5499 provides for the 'q' format qualifier (if quads are not available,
5500 'q' is silently "demoted" to long). [Jim Jagielski]
5502 *) When the username or password fed to htpasswd is too long, include the
5503 size limit in the error message. Also report illegal characters
5504 (currently only ':') in the username. Add the size restrictions
5505 to the man page. [Ken Coar]
5507 *) Fixed the configure --without-support option so it doesn't result in
5508 an infinite loop. [Marc Slemko]
5510 *) Piped error logs could cause a segfault if an error occured
5511 during configuration after a restart.
5512 [Aidan Cully <aidan@panix.com>] PR#4456
5514 *) If a "Location" field was stored in r->err_headers_out rather
5515 than r->headers_out, redirect processing wouldn't find it and
5516 the server would core dump on ap_escape_html(NULL). Check both
5517 tables and raise HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR with a log message
5518 if Location isn't set. [Doug MacEachern, Ken Coar]
5520 *) Add RULE_EXPAT, the src/lib/ directory structure, and a modified copy
5521 of the Expat 1.0.2 distribution. [Greg Stein]
5523 *) Replace regexec() calls with calls to a new API stub function
5524 ap_regexec(). This solves problems with DSO modules which use the regex
5525 library. [Jens-Uwe Mager <jum@helios.de>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
5527 *) Add 'Request_Protocol' special keyword to mod_setenvif so that
5528 environment variables can be set according to the protocol version
5529 (e.g., HTTP/0.9 or HTTP/1.1) of the request. [Ken Coar]
5531 *) Add DSO support for OpenStep (Mach 4.2) platform.
5532 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>] PR#3997
5534 *) Fix sed regex for generating ap_config_auto.h in src/Configure.
5535 [Jan Gallo <gallo@pvt.sk>] PR#3690, PR#4373
5537 *) Switch to /bin/sh5 in APACI on Ultrix and friends to avoid problems with
5538 their brain-dead /bin/sh. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4372
5540 *) Better DSO flags recognition on NetBSD platforms using ELF.
5541 [Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>] PR#4310
5543 *) Always log months in english format for %t in mod_log_config.
5544 [Petr Lampa <lampa@fee.vutbr.cz>] PR#4366, 679
5546 *) Support for server-parsed and multiview-determined ReadmeName and
5547 HeaderName files in mod_autoindex. Removed the restriction on
5548 "/"s in ReadmeName and HeaderName directives since the *sub_req*
5549 routines will deal with the access issues. (It's now possible to
5550 have {site|group|project|customer|...} wide readmes and headers.)
5551 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx@rsbx.net>, Ken Coar] PR#1574, 3026, 3529,
5554 *) When stat() fails, don't assume anything about the contents of
5555 the struct stat. [Ed Korthof <ed@bitmechanic.com>]
5557 *) It's OK for a semop to return EINTR, just loop around and try
5558 again. [Dean Gaudet]
5560 *) Fix configuration engine re-entrant hangups, which solve a
5561 handful of problems seen with mod_perl <Perl> configuration sections
5562 [Salvador Ortiz Garcia <sog@msg.com.mx>]
5564 *) Mac OS and Mac OS X Server now use the appropriate custom layout
5565 by default when building with APACI; allow for platform-specific
5566 variable defaults in configure. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
5568 *) Do setgid() before initgroups() in http_main; some platforms
5569 zap the grouplist when setgid() is called. This was fixed in
5570 suexec earlier, but the main httpd code missed the change.
5571 [Rob Saccoccio <robs@InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2579
5573 *) Add recognition of .tgz as a gzipped tarchive.
5574 [Bertrand de Singly <bertrand.de-singly@polytechnique.fr>] PR#2364
5576 *) mod_include's fsize/flastmod should allow only relative paths, just
5577 like "include file". [Jaroslav Benkovsky <benkovsk@pha.pvt.cz>]
5579 *) OS/2: Add support for building loadable modules using DLLs.
5582 *) Add iconsdir, htdocsdir, and cgidir to config.layout.
5585 *) Fix minor but annoying bug with the test for Configuration.tmpl
5586 being newer than Configuration so that it is less likely to fail
5587 when using APACI and shadow sources. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
5589 *) PORT: Add initial support for Mac OS (versions 10.0 and
5590 greater). Use Mac OS X Server layout for now. Clean up dyld code
5591 in unix/os.c, and don't install the dyld error handlers, which
5592 are no longer needed in Mac OS. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
5594 *) Rename Rhapsody layout to "Mac OS X Server". Change install
5595 locations to appropriate ones for user-built (as opposed to
5596 system) installs. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
5598 *) Modify mod_autoindex's handling of AddDescription so that the
5599 behaviour matches the documentation. [Ken Coar] PR#1898, 3072.
5601 *) Add functionality to the install-bindist.sh script created by
5602 binbuild.sh to use tar when copying distribution files to the
5603 serverroot. This allows upgrading an existing installation
5604 without nesting the new distribution in the old.
5606 install-bindist.sh now detects the local perl5 path to install
5607 apxs and dbmmanage with proper path to perl interpreter.
5609 Add an install-binsupport target which copies the source files
5610 for apxs and dbmmanage to bindist to allow these scripts to
5611 be properly installed relative to the destination serverroot.
5612 [Randy Terbush, Covalent Technologies, randy@covalent.net]
5614 *) Fix intermittent SEGV in ap_proxy_cache_error() in
5615 src/modules/proxy_util.c where a NULL filepointer and
5616 temporary filename were closed and unlinked.
5617 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>,
5618 Tim Costello <tjcostel@socs.uts.edu.au>] PR#3178
5620 *) Fix inconsistent error messages reported by mod_proxy.
5621 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>]
5623 *) OS/2: Fix terminating CGIs that aren't compiled by EMX GCC when a
5624 connection is aborted. [Brian Havard]
5626 *) Force the LANG envariable to the known state of "C" so that we
5627 have assurance about how string manipulators (e.g., tr) will
5628 function. [Ken Coar] PR#1630
5630 *) Add a directive to allow customising of the tracking cookie name.
5631 [Ken Coar] PR#2921, 4303
5633 *) Add "force-no-vary" envariable to allow servers to work around
5634 clients that choke on "Vary" fields in the response header.
5635 [Ken Coar, Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@zippy.machaon.ru>] PR#4118
5637 *) Fixed a bug in mod_dir that causes a child process will infinitely
5638 recurse when it attemps to handle a request for a directory wnd the
5639 value of the DirectoryIndex directive is a single dot. Also likely
5640 to happen for anyother values of DirectoryIndex that will map back
5641 to the same directory. The handler now only considers regular files
5642 as being index candidates. No PR#s found.
5643 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx@rsbx.net>]
5645 *) Ease configuration debugging by making TestCompile fall back to
5646 using "make" if the $MAKE variable is unset [Martin Kraemer]
5648 *) Fixed the ServerSignature directive to work as documented.
5649 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx@rsbx.net>] PR#4248
5651 *) Add "opt" (SysV-style) layout to config.layout. [Raymond S Brand
5654 *) Add APACI --without-execstrip option which can be used to disable the
5655 stripping of executables on installation. This is very important for DSO
5656 and debugging situations. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5658 *) Add support for OS/2 (case insenstive filesystem, .exe suffix, etc)
5659 to APACI files and related scripts.
5660 [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4269
5662 *) Add support for standalone mode in TPF
5663 [Joe Moenich <moenich@us.ibm.com>]
5665 *) Fix number of bytes copied by read_connection() in src/support/ab.c
5666 [Jim Cox <jc@superlink.net>] PR#4271
5668 *) Fix special RewriteCond "-s" pattern matching.
5669 [Bob Finch <bob@nas.com>]
5671 *) Fix value quoting in src/Configure script for ap_config_auto.h
5672 [Paul Sutton <paul@awe.com>]
5674 *) Make sure RewriteLock can be used only in the global context, (i.e.
5675 outside of any <VirtualHost> sections) because it's a global facility of
5676 the rewrite engine. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5678 *) Fix the ownership delegation for proxy directory under `make install'.
5679 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5681 *) APACI would not correctly build suexec. [Maria Verina
5682 <mariav@icgeb.trieste.it>] PR#4260
5684 *) mod_mime_magic passed only the first 4k of a file to
5685 uncompress/gzip, but those tools sometimes do not produce
5686 any output unless a sufficient portion of the compressed
5687 file is input. Change to pass the entire file -- but
5688 only read 4k of output.
5689 [Marcin Cieslak <saper@system.pl>] PR#4097
5691 *) "IndexOptions None" generated extra spaces at the end of each
5692 line. [inkling@firstnethou.com] PR#3770
5694 *) The "100 Continue" response wasn't being sent after internal
5695 redirects. [Jose KAHAN <kahan@w3.org>] PR#3910, 3806, 3575
5697 *) When padding the name with spaces for display, mod_autoindex would
5698 count &, <, and > in their escaped width, messing up the display.
5699 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4075, 3758
5701 *) PORT: fixed a compilation problem on NEXT.
5702 [Jacques Distler <distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu>] PR#4130
5704 *) r->request_time wasn't being set properly in certain error conditions.
5705 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4156
5707 *) PORT: deal with UTS compiler error in http_protocol.c
5708 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#4189
5710 *) Add ap_vrprintf() function. [John Tobey <jtobey@banta-im.com>] PR#4246
5712 *) Fix the mod_mime hash table to work properly with locales other
5713 than C. [Dean Gaudet] PR#3427
5715 *) Fix a memory leak which is exacerbated by certain configurations.
5716 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4225
5718 *) Prevent clobbering saved IFS values in APACI. [Jim Jagielski]
5720 *) Fix buffer overflows in ap_uuencode and ap_uudecode pointed out
5721 by "Peter 'Luna' Altberg <peter@altberg.nu>" and PR#3422
5722 [Peter 'Luna' Altberg <peter@altberg.nu>, Ronald Tschalär]
5724 *) Make {Set,Unset,Pass}Env per-directory instead of per-server.
5727 *) Correct an apparent typo: on the Windows and MPE platforms, the
5728 htpasswd utility was limiting passwords to only 8 characters.
5731 *) EBCDIC platforms: David submitted patches for two bugs in the
5732 MD5 digest port for EBCDIC machines:
5733 a) the htdigest utility overwrote the old contents of the digest file
5734 b) the Content-MD5 header value (ContentDigest directive) was wrong
5735 when the returned file was not converted from EBCDIC, but was a
5736 binary (e.g., image file) in the first place.
5737 [David McCreedy <mccreedy@us.ibm.com>]
5739 *) support/htpasswd now permits the password to be specified on the
5740 command line with the '-b' switch. This is useful when passwords
5741 need to be maintained by scripts -- particularly in the Win32
5742 environment. [Ken Coar]
5744 *) Win32: Win32 multiple services patch. Added capability to install and
5745 run multiple copies of apache as individual services.
5748 apache -n apache1 -i -f c:/httpd.conf
5749 Installs apache as service 'apache1' and associates c:/httpd.conf
5752 Starts apache1 service.
5754 Stops apache1 service
5757 apache -n apache2 -i
5758 Installs apache as service 'apache2'. httpd.conf is located under
5759 the default server root (/apache/conf/httpd.conf).
5761 Starts apache2 service.
5764 apache -n apache3 -i -d c:/program files/apache
5765 Install apache as service 'apache3' and sets server root to
5766 c:/program files/apache.
5769 apache -n apache2 -k restart
5770 Restart apache2 service
5772 [Keith Wannamaker, Ken Parzygnat, Bill Stoddard]
5774 *) Correct the signed/unsigned character handling for the MD5 routines;
5775 mismatches were causing compilation problems with gcc -pedantic and
5776 in the TPF cross-compilation. [Ken Coar]
5778 *) OS/2: Rework CGI handling to use spawn*() instead of fork/exec, achieving
5779 a roughly 5 fold speed up. [Brian Havard]
5781 *) proxy ftp: instead of using the hardwired string "text/plain" as
5782 a fallback type for files served by the ftp proxy, use the
5783 ap_default_type() function to determine the configured type.
5784 This allows for special configurations like
5785 <Directory proxy:ftp://some.host>
5786 DefaultType gargle/blurb
5788 Additionally, add the Content-Encoding: header to FTP proxy replies
5789 when the encoding is defined (by the AddEncoding directive).
5790 Because it was missing, it was almost impossible to browse compressed
5791 files using the FTP proxy (works now perfectly in Communicator).
5792 The ftp proxy now also returns the Date: and Server: header lines (if not
5793 much else... This code is "somewhat" broken) like normal requests do.
5796 *) Be more smart in APACI's configure script when determining the UID/GID
5797 for User/Group directives and use the determined UID/GID to initialize
5798 the permissions on the proxycachedir.
5799 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Ralf S. Engelschall]
5801 *) Changed the forking-prior-to-cleanup in the proxy module to first
5802 check wether it actually needs to collect garbage. This reduces
5803 the number of fork()s from one/request to just the odd one an hour.
5804 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
5806 *) Added proxy, auth and header support to src/support/ab.c. Added a
5807 README file to src/support/
5808 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
5810 *) Don't hard-code the path to AWK in --shadow bootstrapping Makefile.
5811 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4050
5813 *) Add support for DSO module compilation on BSD/OS 3.x.
5814 [Randy Terbush, Covalent Technologies]
5816 *) Fix sed-substitutions in `make install': path elements like `httpd/conf'
5817 (for instance from an APACI configure --sysconfdir=/etc/httpd/conf
5818 option) were substituted with $(TARGET).conf, etc. Same for other strings
5819 with dots where the dot wasn't matched as plain text.
5820 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5822 *) PORT: Add support for FreeBSD 4.x [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5824 *) Fix verbose output of APACI configure (option -v)
5825 [Martin Kraemer, Ralf S. Engelschall]
5827 Changes with Apache 1.3.6
5829 *) Removed new PassAllEnv code due to DSO problems. [Lars Eilebrecht]
5831 Changes with Apache 1.3.5 [not released]
5833 *) M_INVALID needed a value within the scope of METHODS so that unknown
5834 methods can be access controlled. [Roy Fielding] PR#3821
5836 *) Added PassAllEnv; makes server's entire environment available
5837 to CGIs and SSIs executed within directive's scope. [Ken Coar]
5839 *) ap_uuencode() always added two trailing '='s and encoding of
5840 8 bit characters on a machine with signed char may produced
5841 incorrect results. Additionally ap_uuencode() should now
5842 work correctly on EBCDIC platforms.
5843 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald@innovation.ch>] PR#3411
5845 *) WIN32: Binary installer now runs the configuration DLL before
5846 the reboot prompt (which is only given if MSVCRT.DLL system
5847 DLL is new or updated). This should avoid the configuration
5848 directory being empty after installation. [Paul Sutton]
5849 PR#3767, 3800, 3827, 3850, 3900, 3953, 3988
5851 *) WIN32: Binary installer now creates Start menu options to start
5852 and stop Apache as a console application and to uninstall
5853 the Apache service on NT. [Paul Sutton] PR#3741
5855 *) WIN32: Apache.exe now contains an icon. [Paul Sutton]
5857 *) PORT: Switch back to using fcntl() locking on Linux -- instabilities
5858 have been reported with flock() locking (probably related to kernel
5859 version). [Dean Gaudet] PR#2723, 3531
5861 *) Using APACI, the main config file (usually httpd.conf) was
5862 not being adjusted as $(TARGET).conf. [Wilfredo Sanchez
5863 <wsanchez@apple.com>]
5865 *) PORT: AIX does not require the SHARED_CODE "hack"
5866 [Ryan Bloom <rbb@raleigh.ibm.com>]
5868 *) Set-Cookie headers were being doubled up for some CGIs by the O(n^2)
5869 avoidance code added in 1.3.3.
5870 [Dean Gaudet, Jeff Lewis <lewis@stanford.edu>] PR#3872
5872 *) ap_isxdigit was somehow neglected when adding the ap_isfoo() macros
5873 for 8-bit safeness. [Dean Gaudet]
5875 *) PORT: Use -fPIC instead of -fpic on Solaris and SunOS for compiling DSOs
5876 because SPARCs have a small machine-specific maximum size for the Global
5877 Offset Table which is often exceeded when compiling one of the larger
5878 third-party modules with Apache. [Peter Urban <Peter.Urban@epfl.ch>] PR#3977
5880 *) Move the directive `ExtendedStatus' in httpd.conf-dist-win _after_ the
5881 DSO/DLL section because it's a directive from mod_status and isn't
5882 available before the DLL of mod_status is loaded.
5883 [Martin POESCHL <mpoeschl@gmx.net>] PR#3936
5885 *) SECURITY: Fix a bug in the calculation of the buffer size for the line
5886 continuation facility in Apache's configuration files which could
5887 lead to a buffer overflow situation.
5888 [Thomas Devanneaux <Thomas.Devanneaux@enst.fr>] PR#3617
5890 *) Make documentation and error messages of APACI's --activate-module=FILE
5891 option more clear. [Jan Wolter <janc@wwnet.net>] PR#3995
5893 *) Fix the gcc version check (for enabling the `inline' facility) to
5894 really support all future gcc versions >= 2.7 until we know more.
5895 [John Tobey <jtobey@banta-im.com>] PR#3983
5897 *) Let APACI's configure script correctly complain for unknown --enable-XXX
5898 and --disable-XXX options. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3958
5900 *) Link the shared core bootstrap program (``Rule SHARED_CORE=yes'') also
5901 against libap.a and use its ap_snprintf() instead of sprintf() to avoid
5902 possible buffer overflows. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5904 *) Remove no longer used non-API function ap_single_module_init().
5905 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5907 *) Add Apple's Mac OS X Server Layout "Rhapsody" to config.layout.
5910 *) Add cgidir, htdocsdir, iconsdir variables to Makefile.tmpl in order
5911 to make platform installations easier. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
5913 *) In configure, do not append the target name to the directory path if
5914 the path already contains "apache". [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5916 *) SIGPIPE is now ignored by the server core. The request write routines
5917 (ap_rputc, ap_rputs, ap_rvputs, ap_rwrite, ap_rprintf, ap_rflush) now
5918 correctly check for output errors and mark the connection as aborted.
5919 Replaced many direct (unchecked) calls to ap_b* routines with the
5920 analogous ap_r* calls. [Roy Fielding]
5922 *) Enhanced mod_rewrite's mapfile handling: The in-core cache for text and
5923 DBM format mapfiles now uses a 4-way hash table with LRU functionality.
5924 Furthermore map lookups for non-existent keys are now cached as well.
5925 Additionally "txt" maps are now parsed with simple string functions
5926 instead of using ap_pregcomp(). As a side effect a bug that prevented
5927 the usage of keys containing the "," character was fixed.
5928 The changes drastically improve the performance when large rewrite maps
5930 [Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.swb.de>, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3160
5932 *) Added ap_sub_req_method_uri() for doing a subrequest with a method
5933 other than GET, and const'd the definition of method in request_rec.
5936 *) Use proper pid_t type for saving PIDs in alloc.c. [John Bley]
5938 *) Replaced use of WIN32 define with HAVE_DRIVE_LETTERS to indicate
5939 when the OS allows a DOS drive letter within pathnames. [Brian Havard]
5941 *) Add %V to mod_log_config, this logs the hostname according to the
5942 UseCanonicalName setting (this is the pre-1.3.4 behaviour of
5943 %v). Useful for mass vhosting. [Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>]
5945 *) Add support for \n and \t to mod_log_config, can be used to produce
5946 more reliable logs with multiline entries. [Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>]
5948 *) Fixed a few compiler nits. [John Bley <jbb6@acpub.duke.edu>]
5950 *) Added informative error messages for failed munmap() and fseek() calls
5951 in http_core.c. [John Bley, Roy Fielding]
5953 *) Added some informative error messages for some failed malloc()
5954 calls. [John Bley <jbb6@acpub.duke.edu>, Jim Jagielski]
5956 *) OS/2 ap_os_canonical_filename()'s behaviour is improved: ap_assert()
5957 is removed. This allows <Directory proxy:*> directives to work and
5958 prevents invalid requests from killing the process.
5959 [Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
5961 *) Reorganised FAQ document.
5962 [Joshua Slive <slive@finance.commerce.ubc.ca>] PR#2497
5964 *) src/support/: The ApacheBench benchmark program was overhauled by
5965 David N. Welton: you can now have it generate an HTML TABLE, presumably
5966 for integration into other HTML sources. David updated the ab man page
5967 as well and added some missing descriptions. Thanks!
5968 [David N. Welton <davidw@prosa.it>]
5970 *) Win32: The filename validity checker now allows filenames containing
5971 characters in the range 0x80 to 0xff (for example accented characters).
5972 [Paul Sutton] PR#3890
5974 *) Added conditional logging based upon environment variables to
5975 mod_log_config. mod_log_referer and mod_log_agent
5976 are now deprecated. [Ken Coar]
5978 *) Allow apache acting as a proxy server to relay the real
5979 reason of a failure to a client rather than the "internal
5980 server error" it does currently. The general exposure mechanism
5981 can be triggered by any module by setting the "verbose-error-to"
5982 note to "*"; this allows more than just proxy errors to be exposed.
5983 [Cliff Skolnick, Roy Fielding, Martin Kraemer] Related to PR#3455, 4086
5985 *) Moved man pages for ab and apachectrl to section 8.
5986 [Wilfredo Sanchez, Roy Fielding]
5988 *) Added -S option to install.sh so that options can be passed to
5989 strip on some platforms. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Wilfredo Sanchez]
5991 *) Tweak modules Makefile generated by Configure so that it handles
5992 the test case of no modules being selected. [chaz@reliant.com]
5994 *) Added a <LimitExcept method ...> sectioning directive that allows
5995 the user to assign authentication control to any HTTP method that
5996 is *not* given in the argument list; i.e., the logical negation
5997 of the <Limit> directive. This is particularly useful for controlling
5998 access on methods unknown to the Apache core, but perhaps known by
5999 some module or CGI script. [Roy Fielding, Tony Finch]
6001 *) Prevent apachectl from complaining if the PIDFILE exists but
6002 does not contain a process id, as might occur if the server is
6003 being rapidly restarted. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
6005 *) Win32: Add global symbols missing from ApacheCore.def. [Carl Olsen]
6007 *) Entity tag comparisons for If-Match and If-None-Match were not being
6008 performed correctly -- weak tags might cause false positives. Also,
6009 strong comparison wasn't properly enforced in all cases.
6010 [Roy Fielding, Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet] PR#2065, 3657
6012 *) OS/2: Supply OS/2 error code instead of errno on semaphore errors.
6015 *) Work around a bug in Lynx regarding its sending "Negotiate: trans"
6016 even though it doesn't understand TCN. [Koen Holtman, Roy Fielding]
6018 *) Added ap_size_list_item(), ap_get_list_item(), and ap_find_list_item()
6019 to util.c for parsing an HTTP header field value to extract the next
6020 list item, taking into account the possible presence of nested comments,
6021 quoted-pairs, and quoted-strings. ap_get_list_item() also removes
6022 insignificant whitespace and lowercases non-quoted tokens.
6023 [Roy Fielding] PR#2065
6025 *) proxy: The various calls to ap_proxyerror() can return HTTP/1.1 status
6026 code different from 500. This allows the proxy to, e.g., return
6027 "403 Forbidden" for ProxyBlock'ed URL's. [Martin Kraemer] Related to PR#3455
6029 *) Fix ordering of language variants for the case where the traditional
6030 negotiation algorithm is being used with multiple language variants
6031 and no Accept-Language. [James Treacy <treacy@debian.org>] PR#3299, 3688
6033 *) Do not round the TCN quality calculation to 5 decimal places,
6034 unlike RFC 2296, because the calculation might need 12 decimal places
6035 to get the right result. [Roy Fielding]
6037 *) Remove unused code to disable transparent negotiation when
6038 negotiating on encoding only, as we now handle encoding too
6039 (though this is nonstandard for TCN), remove charset=ISO-8859-1
6040 fiddle from the fiddle-averse RVSA comparison, and fix bugs in
6041 some debugging statements within mod_negotiation. [Koen Holtman]
6043 *) Fixed a rare memory corruption possibility in mod_dir if the index
6044 file is negotiable and no acceptable variant can be found.
6045 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Martin Kraemer]
6047 *) Win32: Add new config directive, ScriptInterpreterSource, to enable
6048 searching the Win32 registry for script interpreters.
6051 *) Win32: The compiled-in default filename for the error log is now
6052 error.log, which matches the default in the distributed httpd.conf.
6055 *) Win32: Any error messages from -i or -u command line options are now
6056 displayed on the console output rather than sent to the error log.
6057 Also the "Running Apache..." message is not output unless Apache is
6058 going to serve requests. [Paul Sutton]
6060 *) Rework the MD5 authentication scheme to use FreeBSD's algorithm,
6061 and use a private significator ('$apr1$') to mark passwords as
6062 being smashed with our own algorithm. Also abstract the password
6063 checking into a new ap_validate_password() routine. [Ken Coar]
6065 *) Win32: The filename validity checker now allows "COM" but refuses
6066 access to "COM1" through "COM4". This allows filenames such
6067 as "com.name" to be served. [Paul Sutton] PR#3769.
6069 *) BS2000: Adapt to the new ufork() system call interface which will
6070 make subtasking easier on the OSD/POSIX mainframe environment.
6073 *) Add a compatibility define for escape_uri() -> ap_escape_uri() to
6074 ap_compat.h. [David White <david@persimmon.com>] PR#3725
6076 *) Make NDBM file suffix determination for mod_rewrite more accurate, i.e.
6077 use `.db' instead of `.pag' not only for FreeBSD, but also when
6078 the NDBM library looks like Berkeley-DB based.
6079 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3773
6081 *) Add ability to handle DES or MD5 authentication passwords.
6082 [Ryan Bloom <rbb@Raleigh.IBM.Com>]
6084 *) Fix O(n^2) memory consumption in mod_speling. [Dean Gaudet]
6086 *) SECURITY: Avoid some buffer overflow problems when escaping
6087 quoted strings. (This overflow was on the heap and we believe
6088 impossible to exploit.) [Rick Perry <perry@ece.vill.edu>]
6090 *) Let src/Configure be aware of CFLAGS options starting with plus
6091 signs as it's the case for the HP/UX compiler.
6092 [Doug Yatcilla <yatcilda@umdnj.edu>] PR#3681
6094 *) Remove the hard-wire of TAR=tar (we now check for gtar and gnutar first)
6095 and check to see if the tar we wind up with supports '-h'.
6096 [Jim Jagielski] PR#3671
6098 *) A consistent and conservative style for all shell scripts has been
6099 implemented. Basically, all shell string tests use the traditional
6100 hack of 'if [ "x$var" != "x" ]' or 'if [ "x$var" = "xstring" ]'
6101 to protect against bare null variable strings (ie: wrapping both
6102 sides with double quotes and prepending 'x'). 'x' was chosen
6103 because it's more universal and hopefully easier for old shell
6104 prgrammers, as well as being easier to search for in 'vi' (/x\$) :)
6107 *) The status module now prints out both the main server generation as
6108 well as the generation of each process. Also, the vhost info is
6109 printed with '?notable'. [Jim Jagielski]
6111 *) Move src/main/md5c.c to src/ap/ap_md5c.c; it's httpd-neutral
6112 and this makes its functions available to things in src/support.
6115 Changes with Apache 1.3.4
6117 *) Renamed macros status_drops_connection to ap_status_drops_connection
6118 and vestigial scan_script_header to ap_scan_script_header_err,
6119 mostly for aesthetic reasons. [Roy Fielding]
6121 *) The query switch "httpd -S" didn't exit after showing the
6122 vhost settings. That was inconsistent with the other query functions.
6125 *) Moved the MODULE_MAGIC_COOKIE from before the versions and
6126 filename to the end of the STANDARD_MODULE_STUFF. Its
6127 presence at the beginning prevented reporting of the filename
6128 for modules compiled before 1 January 1999. [Ken Coar]
6130 *) SECURITY: ap_os_is_filename_valid() has been added to Win32
6131 to detect and prevent access to special DOS device file names.
6132 [Paul Sutton, Ken Parzygnat]
6134 *) WIN32: Created new makefiles Makefile_win32.txt (normal build)
6135 and Makefile_win32_debug.txt (debug build) that work on Win95.
6136 Run each of the following from the src directory:
6137 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt # compiles normal build
6138 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt install # compiles and installs
6139 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt clean # removes compiled junk
6140 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt # compiles debug build
6141 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt install
6142 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt clean
6145 *) Added binbuild.sh and findprg.sh helpers to make it easier for us
6146 to build binary distributions. [Lars Eilebrecht]
6148 *) IndexOptions SuppressColumnSorting only turned off making
6149 the column headers anchors; you could still change the display
6150 order by manually adding a '?N=A' or similar query string to the
6151 URL. Now SuppressColumnSorting locks in the sort order so
6152 it can't be overridden this way. [Ken Coar]
6154 *) Added IndexOrderDefault directive to supply a default sort order
6155 for FancyIndexed directory listings. [Ken Coar] PR#1699
6157 *) Change the ap_assert macro to a variant that works on all platforms.
6158 [Richard Prinz <richard.prinz@cso.net>] PR#2575
6160 *) Make sure under ELF-based NetBSD (now) and OpenBSD (future) we don't
6161 search for an underscore on dlsym() (as it's already the case
6162 for FreeBSD 3.0). [Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>] PR#2462
6164 *) Small fix for mod_env.html: The module was documented as to be _not_
6165 compiled into Apache per default, although it _IS_ compiled into
6166 Apache per default. [Sim Harbert <sim@mindspring.com>] PR#3572
6168 *) Instead of fixing a bug in the generation procedure for config.status (a
6169 backslash was missing) we remove the bug together with it's complete
6170 context because the special cases of the past can now no longer occur
6171 because of the recent magic for the --with-layout default.
6172 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3590
6174 *) Make top-level Makefile aware of a parallel build procedures (make -j) by
6175 making sure the src/support/ tools are _forced_ to be build last (they
6176 depend on other libraries).
6177 [Markus Theissinger <markus.theissinger@gmx.de>]
6179 *) Fix installation procedure: Now that os-inline.c is actually used (a
6180 recently fixed bug prevented this) we need to also install os-include.c
6181 in addition to os.h into the PREFIX/include/ location or building of
6182 module DSOs with APXS fails. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3527
6184 *) Added MODULE_MAGIC_COOKIE as the first field in a module structure to
6185 allow us to distinguish between a garbled DSO (or even a file which isn't
6186 an Apache module DSO at all) and a DSO which doesn't match the current
6187 Apache API. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3152
6189 *) Two minor enhancements to mod_rewrite: First RewriteRule now also
6190 supports the ``nocase|NC'' flag (as RewriteCond already does for ages) to
6191 match case insensitive (this especially avoids nasty patterns like
6192 `[tT][eE][sS][tT]'). Second two additional internal map functions
6193 `escape' and `unescape' were added which can be used to escape/unescape
6194 to/from hex-encodings in URLs parts (this is especially useful in
6195 combination with map lookups).
6196 [Magnus Bodin, Ian Kallen, Ralf S. Engelschall]
6198 *) Renamed the macro escape_uri() to ap_escape_uri() which was
6199 forgotten (because it was a macro) in the symbol renaming process.
6200 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6202 *) Fix some inconsistencies related to the scopes of directives. The only
6203 user visible change is that the directives `UseCanonicalName' and
6204 `ContentDigest' now use the (more correct) `Options' scope instead of
6205 (less correct) `AuthConfig' scope. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6207 *) Using DSO, the Server token was being mangled. Specifically, the
6208 module's token was being added first before the Apache token. This
6209 has been fixed. [Jim Jagielski]
6211 *) Major overhaul of mod_negotiation.c, part 2.
6212 - properly handle "identity" within Accept-Encoding.
6213 - allow encoded variants in RVSA negotiation and let them appear in
6214 the Alternates field using the non-standard "encoding" tag-list.
6215 - fixed both negotiation algorithms so that an explicitly accepted
6216 encoding is preferred over no encoding if "identity" is not
6217 included within Accept-Encoding.
6218 - added ap_array_pstrcat() to alloc.c for efficient concatenation
6219 of large substring sequences.
6220 - replaced O(n^2) memory hogs in mod_negotiation with ap_array_pstrcat.
6223 *) Major overhaul of mod_negotiation.c, part 1.
6224 - cleanups to mod_negotiation comments and code structure
6225 - made compliant with HTTP/1.1 proposed standard (rfc2068) and added
6226 support for everything in the upcoming HTTP/1.1
6227 revision (draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-06.txt).
6228 - language tag matching also handles tags with more than 2
6230 - empty Accept, Accept-Language, Accept-Charset headers are
6231 processed correctly; previously an empty header would make all
6232 values acceptable instead of unacceptable.
6233 - allowed for q values in Accept-Encoding
6234 - added support for transparent content negotiation (rfc2295 and
6235 rfc2296) (though we do not implement all features in these drafts,
6236 e.g. no feature negotiation). Removed old experimental version.
6237 - implemented 'structured entity tags' for better cache correctness
6238 (structured entity tags ensure that caches which can deal with Vary
6239 will (eventually) be updated if the set of variants on the server
6241 - this involved adding a vlist_validator element to request_rec
6242 - this involved adding the ap_make_etag() function to the global API
6243 - modified guessing of charsets used by Apache negotiation algorithm
6244 to guess 'no charset' if the variant is not a text/* type
6245 - added code to sort multiviews variants into a canonical order so that
6246 negotiation results are consistent across backup/restores and mirrors
6247 - removed possibility of a type map file resolving to another type map
6248 file as its best variant
6249 [Koen Holtman, Roy Fielding, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3451, 3299, 1987
6251 *) RFC2396 allows the syntax http://host:/path (with no port number)
6252 but the proxy disallowed it (ap_proxy_canon_netloc()).
6253 [David Kristol <dmk@bell-labs.com>] PR#3530
6255 *) When modules update/modify the file name in the configfile_t structure,
6256 syntax errors will report the updated name, not the original one.
6257 [Fabien Coelho <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>] PR#3573
6259 *) Correct some filename case assumptions from WIN32 to
6260 CASE_BLIND_FILESYSTEM. [Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
6262 *) For %v log ServerName regardless of the UseCanonicalName
6263 setting (similarly for %p). [Dean Gaudet]
6265 *) Configure was initializing the variables $OSDIR, $INCDIR and $SHELL
6266 rather late (too late for some invocations of TestCompile).
6267 This improves the make environment available to TestCompile and
6268 the *.module scripts. [Martin Kraemer]
6270 *) The hashbang emulation code in ap_execve.c would interpret
6271 #!/hashbang/scripts correctly, but failed to fall back to a
6272 standard shell for scripts which did NOT start with #!
6273 Now SHELL_PATH is started in these cases. [Martin Kraemer]
6275 *) PORT: Added the Cyberguard V2 port [Richard Stagg <stagg@lentil.org>]
6278 *) Update APXS manual page: some -q option arguments were missing
6279 and another was incorrect. [Mark Anderson <mda@discerning.com>] PR#3553
6281 *) Cleanup the command line options: `-?' was documented to show
6282 the usage list but does it with an error because `?' is not a valid
6283 command. OTOH a lot of users expect `-h' to print such a usage list and
6284 instead are annoyed for ages by our huge unreadable list of directives.
6285 So we now changed the command line options this way:
6287 Intent: we need `-L' to be free, and `-R' for the DSO run-time path is
6288 very similar to the popular linker option.
6290 Intent: while -l gives the small list of modules, -L now gives the
6291 large list of directives implemented by these modules. This is also
6292 consistent with -v (short version info) and -V (large version info).
6294 Intent: it's now the expected option ;-)
6295 The manual page was adjusted accordingly.
6296 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2714
6298 *) Fixed problem of fclose() on an unopened file in suexec if LOG_EXEC
6299 wasn't defined. [Rick Franchuk <rickf@transpect.net>]
6301 *) Removed recently introduced bugs and disfigurements in APACI:
6302 o fixed argument line processing: using $args was broken: It was not
6303 initialized and using args="$args $apc_option" and even args="$args
6304 \"$apc_option\"" fails in the second processing round for any arguments
6305 containing whitespaces. The only correct way is to use the construct
6306 "$@" (but not possible here) or iterate _both_ times over the implicit
6307 argument line (no argument to for-loop) which is what we now use.
6308 o make --with-layout=Apache the default without creating
6309 redundancy (copying the --with-layout block in the argument parsing
6310 loop). We achieve this by using the "$@" construct together with the
6311 `set' command to prepend --with-layout=Apache to the command line in
6312 case --with-layout is not used.
6313 o fixed auto-suffix handling now that config.layout exists.
6314 Paths which are auto-suffixed are marked with a trailing plus sign in
6315 config.layout and every path now can be marked this way (not only the
6316 four paths for which we do it currently). Additionally the suffix is
6317 no longer a static one. Instead it's now `/<target>' where <target> is
6318 the argument of the --target option or per default `httpd'.
6319 o allow also tabs (and only spaces) where we match whitespaces
6320 o various fixes and cleanups related to used shell coding style
6321 o made Jim happy by replacing `Written by' with `Initially written by' ;-)
6322 o trimmed output of --help to fit into 80 columns
6323 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6325 *) Added two new core API functions, ap_single_module_configure() and
6326 ap_single_module_init(), which are now used by mod_so to configure a module
6327 after loading. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6329 *) PORT: Add defines for USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT and
6330 SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT to NetBSD/OpenBSD section
6331 of ap_config.h to allow serialized accept for multiport listens.
6332 [Roy Fielding, Curt Sampson] PR#3120
6334 *) PORT: Fixed a misplaced #endif for NetBSD/OpenBSD section
6335 of ap_config.h that would skip several defines if DEFAULT_GROUP
6336 was overridden. [Roy Fielding]
6338 *) PORT: The I86 version of DGUX has support for strncasecmp and
6339 strcasecmp, so allow it in ap_config.h. [Amiel Lee Yee] PR#3247
6341 *) Fix ordering of definitions in ap_config.h so that ap_inline is
6342 defined before it might be used. [Victor Khimenko]
6344 *) PORT: Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for BSDI (v4.0).
6345 [Tom Serkowski <tks@bsdi.com>] PR#3453
6347 *) Make generation of src/Configuration.apaci more robust: It failed to
6348 differenciate between modules when one module name was a postfix of
6349 another (e.g. cgi vs. fastcgi). We now check for mod_XXX, libXXX and even
6350 just XXX (think about totally non-standard names like "apache_ssl", too).
6351 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3380
6353 *) In src/Configure remove the SERVER_SUBVERSION support (already deprecated
6354 since 1.3b7) and make whitespace handling more robust (it failed horrible
6355 when whitespaces were present in the arguments of -D options).
6356 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3240
6358 *) Add APACI --shadow=DIR variant (in addition to --shadow). This now first
6359 creates an external package shadow tree in DIR before the local build
6360 shadow tree is generated under DIR. This way one can have the extracted
6361 Apache distribution tree read-only on NFS or CDROM and still build Apache
6362 from these sources. An automatically triggered VPATH-like mechanism is
6363 provided through the TOP variable, too.
6364 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
6366 *) Fix negotiation so that a Vary response header is correctly
6367 generated when, for a particular dimension, variants only vary
6368 in having or not having a value for that dimension. [Paul Sutton]
6370 *) Fix negotiation so that we prefer an encoded variant over an
6371 unencoded variant if the user-agent explicitly says it can
6372 accept that encoding. Previously we always preferred the unencoded
6374 [Paul Ausbeck <paula@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu>, Paul Sutton] PR#3447
6376 *) Fix APXS tool: query variables LIBS_SHLIB and TARGET were not recognized
6377 and the usage page was inconsistent with the functionality and manpage.
6378 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6380 *) Allow special options -Wc,xxx and -Wl,xxx on APXS compile/link command.
6381 They can occur multiple times and their arguments (`xxx') are passed AS
6382 IS to the compiler/linker command. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6384 *) Fixed possible (but harmless in practice) bug in the DBM lookup
6385 procedure of mod_rewrite: very long keys were truncated.
6386 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6388 *) Added a generic --with-layout=[FILE:]ID option. ID here is a layout
6389 identifier, currently "Apache" and "GNU" are pre-defined in the file
6390 config.layout. Custom layouts are possible by using FILE:ID as the
6391 argument where the layout ID is taken from FILE.
6393 The config.layout file consists of <Layout ID>..</Layout> sections
6394 where inside those sections "path_variable: path_value" pairs can be
6395 specified. These lines are converted to path_variable='path_value'.
6397 *) Add a DefaultLanguage directive so that files missing a language
6398 extension (e.g., .fr, .de) can be labelled as being some other
6399 default language. DefaultLanguage can appear in <Directory> and
6400 <Files> containers as well as .htaccess files. [Paul Sutton]
6403 *) Fix TARGET configuration when configuring and installing using
6404 APACI configure. TARGET now defines the basename of the configuration
6405 file, startup script, manual page, etc. log_error_core() now reports
6406 the server binary name given by argv[0]. TARGET can now also be defined
6407 with --target=TARGET parameter passed to APACI configure.
6408 [Ralf Engelschall, Randy Terbush]
6410 *) mod_include.c:handle_perl() now properly tests for OPT_INCNOEXEC
6411 rather than OPT_INCLUDES [Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>]
6413 *) ap_md5_binary() was using sprintf() rather than a table lookup
6414 to convert binary bytes to hex digits.
6415 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald@innovation.ch>] PR#3409
6417 *) Fix SEGV in TCN negotiation if no variants are acceptable.
6418 [Martin Plechsmid <plechsmi@karlin.mff.cuni.cz>] PR#1987
6420 *) API: ap_exists_config_define() function is now "public" [Doug MacEachern]
6422 *) Fix documentation of `Action' directive: It can activate a CGI script
6423 when either a handler or a MIME content type is triggered by the request.
6424 [Andrew Pimlott <pimlott@math.harvard.edu>] PR#3340
6426 *) Document the `add' command of `dbmmanage' in `dbmmanage.1' manpage.
6427 [David MacKenzie <djm@uu.net>] PR#3394
6429 *) Ignore a "ErrorDocument 401" directive with a full URL and write a
6430 notice to the error log. It is not possible to send a 401 response
6431 and a redirect at the same time. [Lars Eilebrecht]
6433 *) Fallback to native compilers for IRIX-32 platform. It seems that
6434 a gcc 2.8.1 compiled apache is logging client addresses with all
6435 bits set (255.255.255.255). This is the second such problem caused
6436 by gcc 2.8.1 compiler. The first being broken semaphore locking.
6439 *) Updated mime.types to reflect current Internet media types
6440 and include a URL to the registry.
6441 [Manoj Kasichainula, Roy Fielding] PR#2380, 2286, 2246
6443 *) SECURITY: Do a more complete check in mod_include to avoid
6444 an infinite loop of recursive SSI includes. [Marc Slemko] PR#3323
6446 *) Add APACI --suexec-docroot and --suexec-logfile options which can be
6447 used to set the document root directory (DOC_ROOT) and the suexec
6448 logfile (LOG_EXEC), respectively. Additionally the --layout option
6449 was changed to show more information about the suEXEC setup.
6450 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3316, 3357, 3361
6452 *) Added the last two WebDAV status codes of 424 (Failed Dependency)
6453 and 507 (Insufficient Storage) for use by third-party modules.
6456 *) Enabled all of the WebDAV method names for use by third-party
6457 modules, Limit, and Script directives. That includes PATCH,
6458 PROPFIND, PROPPATCH, MKCOL, COPY, MOVE, LOCK, and UNLOCK.
6459 Improved mod_actions.c so that it can use any of the methods
6460 defined in httpd.h. Added ap_method_number_of(method) for
6461 getting the internal method number. [Roy Fielding]
6463 *) PORT: Add a port to the TPF OS. [Joe Moenich <moenich@us.ibm.com> and
6466 *) Fix problems with handling of UNC names (e.g., \\host\path)
6467 on Win32. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@us.ibm.com>]
6469 *) Rework os_canonical_*() on Win32 so it's simpler, more
6470 robust, and works. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@us.ibm.com>]
6471 PR#2555, 2915, 3064, 3232
6473 *) Work around incomplete implementation of strftime on Win32.
6474 [Manoj Kasichainula, Ken Parzygnat <kparz@us.ibm.com>]
6476 *) Move a typedef to fix compile problems on Linux with 1.x kernels.
6477 [Manoj Kasichainula] PR#3177
6479 *) PORT: Add a port to the Concurrent PowerMAX OS. [Tom Horsley
6480 <Tom.Horsley@mail.ccur.com>]
6482 *) WIN32: Log more explicit error messages if spawning an interpreted
6483 script failed, including the command line used to attempt to execute
6484 the interpreter and the Win32 error code returned. [Marc Slemko]
6486 *) Disable sending of error-notes on a 500 (Internal Server Error) response
6487 since it often includes file path info. Enable sending of error-notes
6488 on a 501 (Method Not Implemented). [Roy Fielding] PR#3173
6490 *) http_config.c would respond with 501 (Method Not Implemented) if a
6491 content type handler was specified but could not be found, which
6492 should have been a 500 response. Likewise, mod_proxy.c would responsd
6493 with a 501 if the URI scheme is unrecognized instead of the correct
6494 response of 403 (Forbidden). [Roy Fielding]
6496 *) SECURITY: Eliminate DoS attack when a bad URI path contains what
6497 looks like a printf format escape. [Marc Slemko, Studenten Net Twente]
6499 *) Fix in mod_autoindex: for files where the last modified time stamp was
6500 unavailable, an empty string was printed which was 2 bytes short.
6501 The size and description columns were therefore not aligned correctly.
6502 [Martin Kraemer] (no PR#)
6504 *) Update BS2000 OS code to work with recent versions. Starting with
6505 release A17, the child fork() must be replaced by a _rfork().
6506 (BS2000 only) [Martin Kraemer]
6508 *) Add the actual server_rec structure of the specific Vhost to the
6509 scoreboard file and avoid a string copy (as well as allow some
6510 further future enhancements). [Harrie Hazewinkel
6511 <harrie.hazewinkel@jrc.it>]
6513 *) Add APACI --permute-module=foo:bar option which can be used to
6514 on-the-fly/batch permute the order of two modules (mod_foo and mod_bar)
6515 in the Configuration[.apaci] file. Two special and important variants are
6516 supported for the option argument: first BEGIN:foo which permutes module
6517 mod_foo with the begin of the module list, i.e. it `moves' the module to
6518 the begin of the list (gives it lowest priority). And second foo:END
6519 which permutes mod_foo with the end of the module list, i.e. it `moves'
6520 the module to the end of the list (gives it highest priority).
6521 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6523 *) Fix problem with 'apache -k shutdown' and startup event
6524 synchronisation (Win32). [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>]
6527 *) The config parser wasn't correctly noticing a missing '>'
6528 on container start lines (e.g., it wouldn't spot
6529 "<Directory /" as a syntax error). [Ryan Bloom <rbbloom@us.ibm.com>]
6532 *) Add a 'RemoveHandler' directive which will selectively remove
6533 all handler associations for the specified file extensions.
6534 [Ryan Bloom <rbbloom@us.ibm.com>] PR#1799.
6536 *) Properly handle & allow "nul" and ".*/null" in AccessConfig and
6537 ResourceConfig directives on Win32. Also add a note to the effect
6538 of 'useless User directive ignored on Win32' to the errorlog if
6539 a User directive is encountered on Win32.
6540 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2078, 2303.
6542 *) Fix multiple whitespace handling in imagemaps for mod_imap which was
6543 broken since Apache 1.3.1 where we took out compressing of multiple
6544 spaces in ap_cfg_getline().
6545 [Ivan Richwalski <ivan@seppuku.net>] PR#3249
6547 *) Fix Berkeley-DB/2.x support in mod_auth_db: The data structures were not
6548 initialized correctly and the db_open() call used an invalid mode
6549 parameter. [Ron Klatchko <ron@ckm.ucsf.edu>] PR#3171
6551 *) PORT: DSO support for UnixWare 7
6552 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Ron Record <rr@sco.com>]
6554 *) Merge the contents of the {srm,access}.conf-dist* files into the
6555 httpd.conf-dist* files. The srm and access files now contain
6556 only comments, and httpd.conf has all the combined contents in
6557 a rational order. [Ken Coar]
6559 *) PORT: DSO/ELF support for FreeBSD 3.0.
6560 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Dirk Froemberg <ibex@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>]
6562 *) Add a "default-handler" handler that calls the default_hander()
6563 function which is normally called for static content. This allows
6564 you to override a specific handler. [Marc Slemko]
6566 *) Further simplify checking for absolute paths by replacing an
6567 hard-coded syntax check with a call to a routine we already created to
6568 do this. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2976, 3074
6570 *) Log an error if we encounter a malformed "require" directive
6571 in mod_auth if we know that we know that no other module can
6572 deal with it. [Marc Slemko]
6574 *) Remove ap_private_extern method of hiding conflicting symbols
6575 on the NEXT platform because it is not correct for all versions,
6576 and the versions for which it is correct are unknown.
6577 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
6579 *) Fix inheritance of IndexOptions NameWidth and remove unintended
6580 restriction on +NameWidth, +IconHeight, and +IconWidth. [Ken Coar]
6582 *) Fix per-directory config merging for cases in which a 500 error
6583 is encountered in an .htaccess file somewhere down the tree.
6586 *) Minor performance improvement to ap_escape_html(). [Roy Fielding]
6588 *) Fixed a segmentation violation in mod_proxy when a response is
6589 non-cachable. [Roy Fielding, traced by Doug Bloebaum]. PR#2950, 3056
6591 Changes with Apache 1.3.3
6593 *) Added a complete implementation of the Expect header field as
6594 specified in rev-05 of HTTP/1.1. Disabled the 100 Continue
6595 response when we already know the final status, which is mighty
6596 useful for PUT responses that result in 302 or 401. [Roy Fielding]
6598 *) Remove extra trailing whitespace from the getline results as part
6599 of the protocol processing, which is extra nice because it works
6600 between continuation lines, is almost no cost in the normal case
6601 of no extra whitespace, and saves memory. [Roy Fielding]
6603 *) Added new HTTP status codes and default response bodies from the
6604 revised HTTP/1.1 (307, 416, 417), WebDAV (102, 207, 422, 423), and
6605 HTTP Extension Framework (510) specifications. Did not add the
6606 WebDAV 424 and 425 codes because they are bogus. We don't use any
6607 of these codes yet, but they are now available to 3rd-party modules.
6610 *) Fix a possible race condition between timed-out requests and the
6611 ap_bhalfduplex select that might result in an infinite loop on
6612 platforms that do not validate the descriptor. [Roy Fielding]
6614 *) WIN32: Add "-k shutdown" and "-k restart" options to signal a
6615 running Apache server [Paul Sutton]
6617 *) Fix mod_autoindex bug where directories got a size of "0k" instead
6618 of "-". [Martin Plechsmid <plechsmi@karlin.mff.cuni.cz>, Marc Slemko]
6621 *) PORT: DRS 6000 machine. [Paul Debleecker <pdebleecker@jetair.be>]
6623 *) Add the server signature text (from the core ServerSignature directive)
6624 to the list of envariables available to scripts, SSI, and the like.
6627 *) PORT: Fix sys/resource.h handling for SCO 3.x platform.
6628 [M. Laak <maert@proinv.ee>] PR#3108
6630 *) Fallback from sysconf-based to plain HZ-based `ticks per second'
6631 calculation in mod_status for all systems which don't have POSIX
6632 sysconf() (like UTS 2.1) and not only for the NEXT platform.
6633 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#3055
6635 *) Fix `require ...' directive parsing in mod_auth, mod_auth_dbm and
6636 mod_auth_db by using ap_getword_white() (which uses ap_isspace())
6637 instead of ap_getword(..., ' ') (which parses only according to spaces
6638 but not tabs). [James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>,
6639 Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3105
6641 *) Fix the SERVER_NAME variable under sub-request situations (where
6642 `UseCanonicalName off' is used) like CGI's called from SSI pages or
6643 RewriteCond variables by adopting r->hostname to sub-requests.
6644 [James Grinter <jrg@blodwen.demon.co.uk>] PR#3111
6646 *) Fix stderr redirection under syslog-based error logging situation.
6647 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#3095
6649 *) Document `ErrorLog syslog:facility' variant of error logging.
6650 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#3096
6652 *) Fix http://localhost/ hints in top-level INSTALL document.
6653 [Rob Jenson <robjen@spotch.com>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3088
6655 *) Quote paths in default configuration files. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
6657 *) PORT: Remove extra HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H define for RHAPSODY since
6658 it is now taken care of properly by the header file tests.
6659 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
6661 *) Fix problem with scripts and filehandle inheritance on Win32.
6662 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2884, 2910
6664 *) Win32 name canonicalisation could end up using the server's
6665 working directory to fill in some blanks. [Ken Parzygnat
6666 <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#3001
6668 *) Correct invalid assumption by ap_sub_req_lookup_file() that all
6669 absolute paths begin with "/" -- because they don't on Win32.
6670 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2976, 3074
6672 *) Add [REDIRECT_]VARIANTS environment variable to mod_speling
6673 so that ErrorDocument 300 processors can reformat the list
6674 if desired. [Ken Coar] PR#2859
6676 *) Add +/- incremental prefixes to IndexOptions keywords, and
6677 enable merging of multiple IndexOptions directives. [Ken Coar]
6679 *) PORT: Allow GuessOS to recognize Unixware 7.0.1 [Steve Cameron
6680 <steve.cameron@compaq.com>]
6682 *) Reconstructed the loop through multiple htaccess file names so
6683 that missing files are not confused with unreadable files.
6686 *) The ap_pfopen and ap_pfdopen routines were failing to protect the
6687 errno on an error, which leads to one error being mistaken for
6688 another when reading non-existent .htaccess files.
6691 *) OS/2: The new header tests get things right, need to update
6692 ap_config.h. [Brian Havard]
6694 *) The Perl %ENV hash will now be setup by default when using the
6695 mod_include `perl' command [Doug MacEachern]
6697 *) PORT: Add Pyramid DC/OSx support to configuration mechanism.
6698 [Earle Ake <akee@wpdiss1.wpafb.af.mil>]
6700 *) PORT: Fix sys/resource.h handling for Amdahl's UTS 2.1
6701 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#3054
6703 *) Correct comment in mod_log_config.c about its internals.
6704 [Elf Sternberg <elf@halcyon.com>]
6706 *) Avoid possible line overflow in Configure: Use an awkfile to
6707 handle the creation of modules.c [Jim Jagielski]
6709 Changes with Apache 1.3.2
6711 *) Fix bug in ap_remove_module(), which caused problems for dso's
6712 who were the top_module. [Doug MacEachern]
6714 *) Add support for Berkeley-DB/2.x (in addition to Berkeley-DB/1.x) to
6715 mod_auth_db to both be friendly to users who wants to use this version
6716 and to avoid problems under platforms where only version 2.x is present.
6717 [Dan Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
6719 *) When using ap_log_rerror(), make the error message available to the
6720 *ERROR_NOTES envariables by default. [Ken Coar]
6722 *) BS2000 platform only: get rid of the nasty BS2000AuthFile.
6723 You now must define a BS2000Account name for the server User.
6724 This has fewer security implications than the old approach.
6727 *) Fix SHARED_CORE feature for HPUX platform: We now use extension `.sl'
6728 instead of `.so' and `SHLIB_PATH' instead of `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' on this
6729 platform to make the braindead HPUX linker happy. Notice, for the module
6730 DSOs we don't have to use this, because these are loaded manually (and
6731 not via HPUX' dld). [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2905, PR#2968
6733 *) Remove 64 thread limit on Win32.
6734 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
6736 *) Remove redundant substitutions in top-level Makefile.tmpl.
6737 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6739 *) Fix APACI's `Group' configuration adjustment - especially for Linux
6740 platforms where `nogroup' exists in /etc/group. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6742 *) Make PrintPath work generically instead of having one version
6743 strictly for OS/2. [Jim Jagielski, Brian Havard]
6745 *) Fix the recently introduced C header file checking: We now use the C
6746 pre-processor pass only (and no longer the complete compiler pass) to
6747 determine whether a C header file exists or not. Because only this way
6748 we're safe against inter-header dependencies (which caused horrible
6749 portability problems). The only drawback is that we now have a CPP
6750 configuration variable which has to be determined first (we do a similar
6751 approach as GNU Autoconf does here). When all fails the user still has
6752 the possibility to override it manually via APACI or src/Configuration.
6753 As a fallback for the header check itself we can directly check the
6754 existance of the file under /usr/include, too.
6755 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2777
6757 *) PORT: Added RHAPSODY (Mac OS X Server) support. MAP_TMPFILE defined
6758 as an alternate mechanism for mmap'd shared memory for RHAPSODY.
6759 ap_private_extern defined to hide symbols that conflict with loaded
6760 dynamic libraries on the NEXT and RHAPSODY platforms.
6761 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
6763 *) Delete PID file on clean shutdowns.
6764 [Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com>] PR#2947
6766 *) Fix mod_auth_*.html documents: NSCA -> NCSA
6767 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#2991
6769 *) Fix INSTALL document: www.gnu.ai.mit.edu -> www.gnu.org
6770 [Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>] PR#2994
6772 *) Fix dbmmanage.1 manual page.
6773 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#2992
6775 *) Fix possible buffer overflow situation in suexec.c.
6776 [Jeff Stewart <jws@purdue.edu>] PR#2790
6778 *) Add some more LIBS for the SCO5 platform which are needed for the already
6779 used -lprot. It's actually a bug in SCO5, of course.
6780 [Ronald Record <rr@sco.com>] PR#2533
6782 *) Fix documentation of ProxyPass/ProxyPassReverse according to the
6783 trailing slash problem. [Jon Drukman <jsd@gamespot.com>] PR#2933
6785 *) Remove `-msym' option from LDFLAGS_SHLIB for the Digital UNIX (OSF/1)
6786 platform, because it's only supported under version 4.0 and higher. But
6787 because our GuessOS is still unaware of Digital UNIX versions and the
6788 -msym is just to optimize the DSO statup time a little bit it's safe and
6789 best when we leave it out now. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2969
6791 *) Fix the ap_log_error_old(), ap_log_unixerr() and ap_log_printf()
6792 functions: First all three functions no longer fail on strings containing
6793 "%" chars and second ap_log_printf() no longer does a double-formatting
6794 (instead it directly passes through the message to be formatted to the
6795 real internal formatting function). [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2941
6797 *) Allow "Include" directives anywhere in the server config
6798 files (but not .htaccess files). [Ken Coar] PR#2727
6800 *) The proxy was refusing to serve CONNECT requests except to
6801 port 443 (https://) and 563 (snews://). The new AllowCONNECT
6802 directive allows the configuration of the ports to which a
6803 CONNECT is allowed. [Sameer Parekh, Martin Kraemer]
6805 *) mod_expires will now act on content that is not sent from a file
6806 on disk. Previously it would never add an Expires: header to
6807 any response that did not come from a file on disk; the only
6808 case where it still doesn't (and can't) add one for that type of
6809 content is if you are using a modification date based setting.
6810 [Marc Slemko, Paul Phillips <paulp@go2net.com>]
6812 *) Problems encountered during .htaccess parsing or CGI execution
6813 that lead to a "500 Server Error" condition now provide explanatory
6814 text (in the *ERROR_NOTES envariable) to ErrorDocument 500 scripts.
6817 *) Add NameWidth keyword to IndexOptions directive so that the
6818 width of the filename column is customisable. [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
6821 *) Recognize lowercase _and_ uppercase `uname' results under
6822 SCO OpenServer. [David Coelho <drc@ppt.com>]
6824 *) As duplicate "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" lines within the header seem to be
6825 a common problem of (mis-administrated?) IIS servers, make the apache
6826 proxy immune to these errors (and ignore the duplicates, but log
6827 the fact to error_log). [Martin Kraemer], after the proposal in PR#2914
6829 *) The <IfModule and <IfDefine block starting directives now only
6830 allow exactly one argument. Previously, the optional negation
6831 character '!' could be separated by whitespace without a syntax
6832 error being reported, albeit defeating the IfModule functionality
6833 (enclosed directives would ALWAYS be executed). By using the
6834 stricter syntax, these hard-to-track errors can be avoided.
6837 *) Simplify handling of IndexOptions in mod_autoindex -- and BTW
6838 cause the standalone FancyIndexing directive to logically OR
6839 into any existing IndexOptions settings rather than wiping
6840 them out. [Ken Coar]
6842 *) Changes in ftp proxy: make URL parsing simpler by using the
6844 + Add display of the "current directory" in cases where it's
6845 different from the supplied path (e.g., ftp://user@host/ lives
6846 in /home/user, not in /, therefore clicking on "../" in the
6847 starting directory might send us to /home/).
6848 + When ftp login fails, (esp. when a user name was part of the
6849 URL already), we now return [401 Unauthorized ] to allow the
6850 browser to pop up an authorization dialog. This makes passwords
6851 slightly less visible (they don't appear in the regular log files)
6852 and implements a functionality that other www proxy servers
6856 *) Triggered by the recent "Via:" header changes, the proxy module would
6857 dump core for replies with invalid headers (e.g., duplicate
6858 "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" lines). These errors are now logged and the
6859 core dump is avoided. Also, broken replies are not cached.
6860 [Martin Kraemer] PR#2914
6862 *) new `GprofDir' directive when compiled with -DGPROF, where gprof can
6863 plop gmon.out profile data for each child [Doug MacEachern]
6865 *) Use the construct ``"$@"'' instead of ``$*'' in the generated
6866 config.status script to be immune against arguments with whitespaces.
6867 [Yves Arrouye <yves@apple.com>] PR#2866
6869 *) Replace the inlined information grabbing stuff for the configuration
6870 adjustment feature (no --without-confadjust) with calls to a new helper
6871 script `buildinfo.sh' which is both more flexible and already proofed to
6872 be more robust against platform differences. This mainly fixes the
6873 recently occured ``sed: command garbled: ...'' problems.
6874 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2776, PR#2848
6876 *) Make ab.c again pass ``gcc -Wall -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align
6877 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Winline''
6878 without complains after we recently added the POST feature.
6879 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6881 *) Renamed is_HTTP_xxx() macros to ap_is_HTTP_xxx() name. They are used inside
6882 modules as API functions and we forgot them at the big symbol renaming.
6883 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6885 *) Remove bad reference to non-existing SERVER_VERSION in mod_rewrite.html
6886 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.ORG>] PR#2895
6888 *) Dynamically size the filename column of mod_autoindex output.
6891 *) Add the ability to do POST requests to the ab benchmarking tool.
6892 [Kurt Sussman <kls@best.com>] PR#2871
6894 *) Bump up MAX_ENV_FLAGS in mod_rewrite.h from the too conservatice limit of
6895 5 to 10 because there are some users out there who always have 5 to 8
6896 variables in one RewriteRule and had to patch mod_rewrite.h for every
6897 release. So 15 should be now more than enough, even for them. (I never
6898 needed more than 4 in my RewriteRules ;-)
6899 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6901 *) Make the proxy generate and understand Via: headers
6904 *) Change the proxy to use tables instead of array_headers for
6905 the header lines. [Martin Kraemer]
6907 *) Make sure the config.status file is not overridden when just
6908 ``configure --help'' is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2844
6910 *) Split MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER into _MAJOR/_MINOR numbers. This should
6911 provide a way to trace API changes that add functionality but do
6912 not create a compatibility issue for precompiled modules, etc.
6913 See include/ap_mmn.h for more details. [Randy Terbush]
6915 *) Fix suexec installation under `make install root=xxx' situation.
6916 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6918 *) Extend the output of the -V switch to include the paths of all
6919 compiled-in configuration files, if they were overridden at
6920 compile time, for least astonishment of the user.
6923 *) When READing a request in ExtendedStatus mode, the "old"
6924 vhost, request and client information is not displayed.
6927 *) STATUS is no longer available. Full status information now
6928 run-time configurable using the ExtendedStatus directive.
6931 *) SECURITY: Eliminate O(n^2) space DoS attacks (and other O(n^2)
6932 cpu time attacks) in header parsing. Add ap_overlap_tables(),
6933 a function which can be used to perform bulk update operations
6934 on tables in a more efficient manner. CAN-1999-1199 (cve.mitre.org)
6937 *) SECURITY: Added compile-time and configurable limits for
6938 various aspects of reading a client request to avoid some simple
6939 denial of service attacks, including limits on maximum request-line
6940 size (LimitRequestLine), number of header fields (LimitRequestFields),
6941 and size of any one header field (LimitRequestFieldsize). Also added
6942 a configurable directive LimitRequestBody for limiting the size of the
6943 request message body. [Roy Fielding]
6945 *) Make status module aware of DNS and logging states, even if
6946 STATUS not defined. [Jim Jagielski]
6948 *) Fix a problem with the new OS/2 mutexes. [Brian Havard]
6950 *) Enhance mod_speling so that CheckSpelling can be used in
6951 <Directory> containers and .htaccess files. [Ken Coar]
6953 *) API: new ap_custom_response() function for hooking into the
6954 ErrorDocument mechanism at runtime [Doug MacEachern]
6956 *) API: new ap_uuencode() function [Doug MacEachern]
6958 *) API: scan_script_header_err_core() now "public" and renamed
6959 ap_scan_script_header_err_core() [Doug MacEachern]
6961 *) The 'status' module will now show the process pid's and their
6962 state even without full STATUS accounting. [Jim Jagielski]
6964 *) Restore the client IP address to the error log messages, this
6965 was lost during the transition from 1.2 to 1.3. Add a new
6966 function ap_log_rerror() which takes a request_rec * and
6967 formats it appropriately. [Dean Gaudet] PR#2661
6969 *) Cure ap_cfg_getline() of its nasty habit of compressing internal
6970 whitespace in input lines -- including within quoted strings.
6972 but leading and trailing whitespace should continue to be
6973 stripped [Martin Kraemer]
6975 *) Cleanup of the PrintPath/PrintPathOS2 helper functions. Avoid
6976 the ugly use of an env. variable and use command-line args for
6977 alternate $PATH. Make more like advanced 'type's as well.
6980 *) The IRIXN32 Rule was being ignored. Configure now correctly adds
6981 -n32 only if IRIXN32 says to. [Jim Jagielski, Alain St-Denis
6982 <alain.st-denis@ec.gc.ca>] PR#2736
6984 *) Clean up a warning in mod_proxy. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6986 *) Renamed __EMX__ (internal define of the gcc port under OS/2) to OS2
6987 following the same idea as "MSVC vs WIN32". Additionally the src/os/emx/
6988 directory was renamed to src/os/os2/ for consistency.
6989 [Brian Havard, Ralf S. Engelschall]
6991 *) Add new Rule SHARED_CHAIN which can be used to enable linking of DSO
6992 files (here modules) against other DSO files (here shared libraries).
6993 This is done by determining a subset of LIBS which can be safely used for
6994 linking the DSOs, i.e. PIC libs and shared libs. Currently the rule is
6995 disabled for all platforms to avoid problems with this (experimental)
6996 rule. But we provide it now for those people how ran into problems and
6997 want to came out by forcing linking against DSOs.
6998 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2587
7000 *) Fix suEXEC start message: Has to be of `notice' level to really get
7001 printed together with the standard startup message because the `notice'
7002 level is handled special inside ap_log_error() for startup messages.
7003 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2761 PR#2761 PR#2765
7005 *) Add correct `model' MIME types from RFC2077 to mime.types file.
7006 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2732
7008 *) Fixed examples in mod_rewrite.html document.
7009 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2756
7011 *) Allow ap_read_request errors to propagate through the normal request
7012 handling loop so that the connection can be properly closed with
7013 lingering_close, thus avoiding a potential TCP reset that would
7014 cause the client to miss the HTTP error response. [Roy Fielding]
7016 *) One more portability fix for APACI shadow tree support: Swap order of awk
7017 and sed in top-level configure script to avoid sed fails on some
7018 platforms (for instance SunOS 4.1.3 and NCR SysV) because of the
7019 non-newline-termined output of Awk. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2729
7021 *) PORT: NEC EWS4800 support.
7022 [MATSUURA Takanori <t-matsuu@protein.osaka-u.ac.jp>]
7024 *) Fix a segfault in the proxy on OS/2. [Brian Havard]
7026 *) Fix Win32 part of ap_spawn_child() by providing a reasonable child_info
7027 structure instead of just NULL. This fixes at least the RewriteMap
7028 programs under Win32. [Marco De Michele <mdemichele@tin.it>] PR#2483
7030 *) Add workaround to top-level `configure' script for brain dead
7031 `echo' commands which interpet escape sequences per default.
7032 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2654
7034 *) Make sure that the path to the Perl interpreter is correctly
7035 adjusted under `make install' also for the printenv CGI script.
7036 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2595
7038 *) Update the mod_rewrite.html document to correctly reflect the situation
7039 of the `proxy' (`[P]') feature. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2679
7041 *) Fix `install-includes' sub-target of `install' target in top-level
7042 Makefile.tmpl: The umask+cp approach didn't work as expected (especially
7043 for users which extracted the distribution under 'umask 077'), so replace
7044 it by an explicit cp+chmod approach.
7045 [Richard Lloyd, Curt Sampson, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2656 PR#2626
7047 *) Fix `distclean' and `clean' targets in src/Makefile.tmpl to have same
7048 behavior and to cleanup correctly even under enabled SHARED_CORE rule.
7049 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7051 *) Use a more straight forward and thus less problematic Sed command in
7052 src/helper/mkdir.sh script. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7054 *) Make sure the `configure' scripts doesn't fail when trying to guess the
7055 domainname of the machine and there are multiple `domainname' and
7056 `search' entries in /etc/resolv.conf.
7057 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2710
7059 *) Add note about the SHARED_CORE requirement on some platforms also to the
7060 INSTALL file because a lot of users don't read htdocs/manual/dso.html
7061 first. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2701
7063 *) Fix document "hyperlink" for dso.html in src/Configuration.tmpl
7064 [Knut A.Syed <Knut.Syed@nhh.no>] PR#2674
7066 *) Modify mod_rewrite to update the Vary response field if the URL rewriting
7067 engine does any manipulations or decisions based upon request fields.
7070 *) Document the special APACI behavior for installation paths where
7071 ``/apache'' is appended to paths under some (well defined, of course)
7072 situations to prevent pollution of system locations with Apache files.
7073 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2660
7075 *) Fixed problem with buffered response message not being sent for
7076 the read_request error conditions of URI-too-long (414) and
7077 malformed header fields (400). [Roy Fielding] PR#2646
7079 *) Add support for the Max-Forwards: header line required by RFC2068 for
7080 the TRACE method. This allows apache to TRACE along a chain of proxies
7081 up to a predetermined depth. [Martin Kraemer]
7083 *) Fix SHARED_CORE rule: The CFLAGS_SHLIB variable is no longer doubled
7084 (compilers complained) and the .so.V.R.P filename extension was adjusted
7085 to correctly reflect the 1.3.2 version.
7086 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2644
7088 *) SECURITY: Plug "..." and other canonicalization holes under OS/2.
7091 *) PORT: implement serialized accepts for OS/2. [Brian Havard]
7093 *) mod_include had problems with the fsize and flastmod directives
7094 under WIN32. Fix also avoids the minor security hole of using
7095 ".." paths for fsize and flastmod.
7096 [Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2355
7098 *) Fixed some Makefile dependency problems. [Dean Gaudet]
7100 Changes with Apache 1.3.1
7102 *) Disable the incorrect entry for application/msword in the
7103 mod_mime_magic "magic" file because it also matches other Office
7104 documents. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2608
7106 *) Fix broken RANLIB handling in src/Configure (the entry from
7107 src/Configuration.tmpl was ignored) and additionally force RANLIB to
7108 /bin/true under HP/UX where ranlib exists but is deprecated.
7109 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2627
7111 *) 'apachectl status' failed on some systems.
7112 [Steve VanDevender <stevev@darkwing.uoregon.edu>, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#2613
7114 *) Add new flags for ap_unparse_uri_components() to make it generate
7115 the scheme://sitepart string only, or to omit the query string.
7118 *) WIN32: Canonicalize ServerRoot before checking to see if it
7119 is a valid directory. The failure to do this caused certain
7120 ServerRoot settings (eg. "ServerRoot /apache") to be improperly
7121 rejected. [Marc Slemko]
7123 *) Global renaming of C header files to both get rid of conflicts with third
7124 party packages and to again reach consistency:
7125 1. conf.h -> ap_config.h
7126 2. conf_auto.h -> ap_config_auto.h \ these are now merged
7127 3. ap_config.h -> ap_config_auto.h / in the config process
7128 4. compat.h -> ap_compat.h
7129 5. apctype.h -> ap_ctype.h
7130 Backward compatibility files for conf.h and compat.h were created.
7132 *) mod_mmap_static will no longer take action on requests unless at
7133 least one "mmapfile" directive is present in the configuration.
7134 This experimental module has to do some black magic to operate
7135 inside the current API and thus creates side-effects for other
7136 modules under some circumstances.
7137 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7139 *) Add conservative ticks around more egrep arguments in top-level configure
7140 to avoid problems under brain-dead platforms like Digital UNIX (OSF1).
7141 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2596
7143 *) mod_rewrite created RewriteLock files under the UID of the parent
7144 process, thus the child processes had no write access to the files.
7145 Now a chown() is done on the file to the uid of the children,
7146 if applicable. [Lars Eilebrecht, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2341
7148 *) Autogenerate some HAVE_XXXXX_H defines in conf_auto.h (determined via
7149 TestCompile) instead of defining them manually in conf.h based on less
7150 accurate platform definitions. This way we no longer have to fiddle with
7151 OS-type and/or OS-version identifiers to discover whether a system header
7152 file exists or not. Instead we now directly check for the existence of
7153 those esoteric ones.
7154 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2093, PR#2361, PR#2377, PR#2434,
7155 PR#2524, PR#2525, PR#2533, PR#2569
7157 *) mod_setenvif (BrowserMatch* and friends) will now match a missing
7158 field with "^$". [Ken Coar]
7160 *) Set the RTLD_GLOBAL dlopen mode parameter to allow dynamically loaded
7161 modules to load their own modules dynamically. This improves mod_perl
7162 and mod_php3 when these modules are loaded dynamically into Apache.
7165 *) Cache a proxied request in the event that the client cancels the
7166 transfer, provided that the configured percentage of the file has
7167 already been transfered. It works for HTTP transfers only. The
7168 new configuration directive is called CacheForceCompletion.
7169 [Glen Parker <glenebob@nwlink.com>] PR#2277
7171 *) Add the "<!DOCTYPE HTML" magic cookie used by modern documents (and
7172 required by HTML 3.2 and later) to mod_mime_magic's conf/magic.
7173 [Anna Shergold <anna@inext.co.uk>]
7175 *) Fix yet another signal-based race condition involving nested timers.
7176 Signals suck. [Dean Gaudet]
7178 *) suexec's error messages have been clarified a little bit. [Ken Coar]
7180 *) Clean up some, but perhaps not all, 8-bit character set problems
7181 with config file parsing, and URL parsing. We now define
7182 ap_isdigit(), ap_isupper(), ... which cast to an (unsigned char).
7183 This should work on most modern unixes.
7184 [Dean Gaudet] PR#800, 2282, 2553 (and others)
7186 *) The "handler not found" error was issued in cases where the handler
7187 really did exist, but was just declining to serve the request.
7188 [John Van Essen <jve@gamers.org>] PR#2529
7190 *) Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for SCO5 (OpenServer 5.0.x).
7191 [Ronald Record <rr@sco.com>] PR#2533
7193 *) The APACI libexecdir was not extended with an "apache/" subdir
7194 if the installation prefix didn't already contain "apache", but
7195 it should be because the DSO files are Apache-specific. Now
7196 libexecdir is treated the same way sysconfdir, datadir, localstatedir
7197 and includedir are already treated.
7198 [Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>] PR#2551
7200 *) The <Limit> parsing routine was incorrectly treating methods as
7201 case-insensitive. [Ken Coar]
7203 *) The ap_bprintf() code neglected to test if there was an error on
7204 the connection. ap_bflush() misdiagnosed a failure as a success.
7207 *) add support for #perl arg interpolation in mod_include
7210 *) API: Name changes of table_elts to ap_table_elts, is_table_empty
7211 to ap_is_table_empty and bgetflag to ap_bgetflag. [Ben Laurie]
7213 *) PORT: Add UnixWare 7 support
7214 [Vadim Kostoglodoff <vadim@olly.ru>] PR#2463
7216 *) Fix the Guess-DSO-flags-from-Perl stuff in src/Configure: "perl" was
7217 used instead of "$PERL" which contains the correctly determined Perl
7218 interpreter (important for instance on systems where "perl" and "perl5"
7219 exists, like BSDI or FreeBSD, etc).
7220 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2505
7222 *) Move the initial suEXEC-related startup message from plain
7223 fprintf()/stderr to a delayed ap_log_error()-based one to avoid problems
7224 when Apache is started from inetd (instead of standalone). Under this
7225 situation startup messages on stderr lead to problems (the line is sent
7226 to the client in front of the requested document).
7227 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#871, PR#1318
7229 *) Add a flag so ap_fnmatch() can be used for case-blind pattern matching.
7230 [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
7232 *) WIN32: Don't collapse multiple slashes in PATH_INFO.
7233 [Ben Laurie, Bill Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>] PR#2274
7235 *) WIN32 SECURITY: Eliminate trailing "."s in path components. These are
7236 ignored by the Windows filesystem, and so can be used to bypass security.
7237 [Ben Laurie, Alexei Kosut].
7239 *) We now attempt to dump core when we get SIGILL. [Jim Jagielski]
7241 *) PORT: remove broken test for MAP_FILE in http_main.c.
7242 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
7244 *) PORT: Change support/apachectl to use "kill -0 $pid" to test if the
7245 httpd is running. This should be more portable than figuring out
7246 which of three dozen different versions of "ps" are installed.
7249 *) WIN32: If we can't figure out how to execute a file in a script
7250 directory, bail out of the request with an error message. [W G Stoddard]
7252 *) WIN32 SECURITY: Eliminate directories consisting of three or more dots;
7253 these are treated by Win32 as if they are ".." but are not detected by
7254 other machinery within Apache. This is something of a kludge but
7255 eliminates a security hole. [Manoj Kasichainula, Ben Laurie]
7257 *) Move ap_escape_quotes() from src/ap to src/main/util.c; it uses
7258 pools and thus pollutes libap (until the pool stuff is moved there).
7261 *) IndexIgnore should be case-blind on Win32 (and any other case-aware
7262 but case-insensitive platforms). New #define for this added to conf.h
7263 (CASE_BLIND_FILESYSTEM). [Ken Coar] PR#2455
7265 *) Enable DSO support for OpenBSD in general, not only for 2.x, because it
7266 also works for OpenBSD 1.x. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7268 *) PORT: Fix compilation problem on ARM Linux.
7269 [Sam Kington <sam@illuminated.co.uk>] PR#2443
7271 *) Let APACI's configure script determine some configuration parameters
7272 (Group, Port, ServerAdmin, ServerName) via some intelligent tests to
7273 remove some of the classical hurdles for new users when setting up
7274 Apache. This is done per default because it is useful for the average
7275 user. Package authors can use the --without-confadjust option to disable
7276 these configuration adjustments.
7277 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7279 *) Added an EXTRA_DEPS configuration parameter which can be used
7280 to add an extra Makefile dependency for the httpd target, for instance
7281 to external third-party libraries, etc.
7282 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7284 *) Add <IfDefine>..</IfDefine> sections to the core module (with same spirit
7285 as <IfModule>..</IfModule> sections) which can be used to skip or process
7286 contained commands dependend of ``-D PARAMETER'' options on the command
7287 line. This can be used to achieve logical conditions like <IfDefine
7288 ReverseProxy> instead of physically ones (e.g. <IfModule mod_proxy.c>)
7289 and thus especially can be used for conditionally loading DSO-based
7290 modules via LoadModule, etc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7292 *) PORT: clean up a warning in mod_status for OS/2. [Brian Havard]
7294 *) Make table elements const. This may prevent obscure errors. [Ben Laurie]
7296 *) Fix parsing of FTP `SIZE' responses in proxy module: The newline was not
7297 truncated which forced following HTTP headers to be data in the HTTP
7298 reponse. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Charles Fu <ccwf@bacchus.com>]
7301 *) Portability fix for APACI shadow tree support: Swap order of awk and sed
7302 in top-level configure script to avoid sed fails on some platforms (for
7303 instance SunOS 4.1.3 and NCR SysV) because of the non-newline-termined
7304 output of Awk. [Bill Houle <bhoule@sandiegoca.ncr.com>] PR#2435
7306 *) Improve performance of directory listings (mod_autoindex) by comparing
7307 integer keys (last-modified and size) as integers rather than converting
7308 them to strings first. Also use a set of explicit byte tests rather
7309 than strcmp() to check for parent directory-ness of an entry. Oh, and
7310 make sure the parent directory (if displayed) is *always* listed first
7311 regardless of the sort key. Overall performance winnage should be good
7312 in CPU time, instruction cache, and memory usage, particularly for large
7313 directories. [Ken Coar]
7315 *) Add a tiny but useful goody to APACI's configure script: The generation
7316 of a config.status script (as GNU Autoconf does) which remembers the used
7317 configure command and hence can be used to restore the configuration by
7318 just re-running this script or for remembering the configuration between
7320 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7322 *) Add httpd -t (test) option for running configuration syntax tests only.
7323 If something is broken it complains and exits with a return code
7324 non-equal to 0. This can be used manually by the user to check the Apache
7325 configuration after editing and is also automatically used by apachectl
7326 on (graceful) restart command to make sure Apache doesn't die on restarts
7327 because of a configuration which is now broken since the last (re)start.
7328 This way `apachectl restart' can be used inside cronjobs without having
7329 to expect Apache to be falling down. Additionally the httpd -t can be run
7330 via `apachectl configtest'.
7331 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2393
7333 *) Minor display fix for "install" target of top-level Makefile:
7334 the displayed installation command was incorrect although the
7335 executed command was correct. Now they are in sync.
7336 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2402
7338 *) Correct initialization of variable `allowed_globals' in http_main.c
7339 [Justin Bradford <justin@ukans.edu>] PR#2400
7341 *) Apache would incorrectly downcase the entire Content-Type passed from
7342 CGIs. This affected server-push scripts and such which use
7343 multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary=ThisRandomString.
7344 [Dean Gaudet] PR#2394
7346 *) PORT: QNX update to properly guess 32-bit systems.
7347 [Sean Boudreau <seanb@qnx.com>] PR#2390
7349 *) Make sure the DSO emulation code for HPUX finds the proprietary shl_xxx()
7350 functions which are in libdld under HPUX 9/10.
7351 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2378
7353 *) Make sure the "install" target of the top-level Makefile doesn't break
7354 because of a return code of 1 from an "if" (for instance under braindead
7355 Ultrix the result code of an "if" construct is 1 if the "then" clause
7356 didn't match). [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7358 *) Add an additional "dummy" target to the "$(LIB)" target in generated
7359 modules/xxx/Makefile's to avoid problems with SVR4 Make under "full-DSO"
7360 situation (no libxxx.a built, only mod_xxx.so's) where LIB and OBJS are
7361 empty. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Dean Gaudet, Martin Kraemer]
7363 *) Replace two bad sprintf() calls with ap_snprintf() variants in
7364 mod_rewrite. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7366 *) Fix missing usage description for MetaFiles directive.
7367 [David MacKenzie <djm@va.pubnix.com>] PR#2384
7369 *) mod_log_config wouldn't let vhosts use log formats defined in the
7370 main server. [Christof Damian <damian@mediaconsult.com>] PR#2090
7372 *) mod_usertrack was corrupting the client hostname. As part of the
7373 fix, the cookie values were slightly extended to include the
7374 fully qualified hostname of the client.
7375 [Dean Gaudet] PR#2190, 2229, 2366
7377 *) Fix a typo in pool debugging code. [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
7379 *) mod_unique_id did not work on alpha linux (in general on any
7380 architecture that has 64-bit time_t).
7381 [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
7383 *) PORT: Make SCO 5 (and probably 3) compile again. [Ben Laurie]
7385 *) PORT: NCR MPRAS systems have the same bug with SIGHUP restart that
7386 Solaris systems experience. So define WORKAROUND_SOLARIS_BUG.
7387 [Klaus Weber <kweber@chephren.germany.ncr.com>] PR#1973
7389 *) Change "Options None" to "Options FollowSymLinks" in the
7390 <Directory /> section of the default access.conf-dist
7391 (and -win even though it doesn't matter there). This has better
7392 performance, and more intuitive semantics. [Dean Gaudet]
7394 *) PORT: Updated support for UTS 2.1.2.
7395 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#2320
7397 *) Fix symbol export list (src/support/httpd.exp) after recent
7398 API changes in the child spawning area.
7399 [Jens-Uwe Mager <jum@helios.de>]
7401 *) Workaround for configure script and old `test' commands which do not
7402 support the -x flag (for instance under platforms like Ultrix). This is
7403 solved by another helper script findprg.sh which searches for Perl and
7404 Awk like PrintPath but _via different names_.
7405 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7407 *) Remove the system() call from htpasswd.c, which eliminates a system
7408 dependancy. ["M.D.Parker" <mdpc@netcom.com>] PR#2332
7410 *) PORT: Fix compilation failures on NEXTSTEP.
7411 [Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>] PR#2293, 2316
7413 *) PORT: F_NDELAY is a typo, should have been FNDELAY. There's also
7414 O_NDELAY on various systems. [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#2313
7416 *) PORT: helpers/GuessOS updates for various versions for NCR SVR4.
7417 [juerg schreiner <j.schreiner@zh.ch>,
7418 Bill Houle <Bill.Houle@SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM>] PR#2310
7420 *) Fix recently introduced Win32 child spawning code in mod_rewrite.c which
7421 was broken because of invalid ap_pstrcat() -> strcat() transformation.
7422 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7424 *) Proxy Cache Fixes: account for directory sizes, fork off garbage collection
7425 to continue in background, use predefined types (off_t, size_t, time_t),
7426 log the current cache usage percentage at LogLevel debug
7427 [Martin Kraemer, based on discussion between Dean Gaudet & Dirk vanGulik]
7429 Changes with Apache 1.3.0
7431 *) Using a type map file as a custom error document was not possible.
7432 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#1031
7434 *) Avoid problems with braindead Awks by additionally searching for gawk
7435 and nawk in APACI's configure script.
7436 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2319
7438 *) Rename md5.h to ap_md5.h to avoid conflicts with native MD5 on
7439 some systems. [Randy Terbush]
7441 *) Change usage of perror()+fprintf(stderr,...) in mod_rewrite to
7442 more proper ap_log_error() variants.
7443 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7445 *) Make sure the argument for the --add-module option to APACI's configure
7446 script is of type [path/to/]mod_xxx.c because all calculations inside
7447 configure and src/Configure depend on this.
7448 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2307
7450 *) Changes usage of perror/fprintf to stderr to more proper ap_log_error
7451 in mod_mime, mod_log_referer, mod_log_agent, and mod_log_config.
7454 *) Various OS/2 cleanups ["Brian Havard" <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
7456 *) PORT: QNX needed a #include <sys/mman.h>; and now it uses flock
7457 serialized accept to handle multiple sockets.
7458 [Rob Saccoccio <robs@InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2295, 2296
7460 *) Have NT properly set the directory for CGI scripts
7461 (& other spawned children)
7462 [W G Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>]
7464 *) Propagate environment to CGI scripts correctly in Win32.
7465 [W G Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>] PR#2294
7467 *) Some symbol renaming:
7468 ap_spawn_child_err became ap_spawn_child
7469 ap_spawn_child_err_buff became ap_bspawn_child
7470 spawn_child was obsoleted and moved to compat.h
7473 *) Upgrade the child spawning code in mod_rewrite for the RewriteMap
7474 programs: ap_spawn_child_err() is used and the Win32 case now uses
7475 CreateProcess() instead of a low-level execl() (which caused problems in
7476 the past under Win32).
7477 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7479 *) A few cosmetics and trivial enhancements to APXS to make the
7480 generated Makefile more user friendly. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7482 *) Proxy Fix: The proxy special failure routine ap_proxyerror()
7483 was updated to use the normal apache error processing, thereby allowing
7484 proxy errors to be treated by ErrorDocument's as well. For this
7485 purpose, a new module-to-core communication variable "error-notes"
7486 was introduced; the proxy (and possibly other modules) communicates
7487 its error text using this variable. Its content is copied to a new
7488 cgi-env-var REDIRECT_ERROR_NOTES for use by ErrorDocuments.
7489 The old proxy special error routine ap_proxy_log_uerror()
7490 was replaced by regular ap_log_error() calls, many messages were made
7492 [Martin Kraemer] PR#494, 1259
7494 *) SECURITY: A possible buffer overflow in the ftp proxy was fixed.
7497 *) Transform the configure message "You need root privileges for suEXEC"
7498 from a fatal error into a (more friendly) warning because the building
7499 ("make") of Apache we can allow, of course. Root privileges are needed
7500 only for the installation step ("make install"). So make sure the
7501 user is aware of this fact but let him proceed as long as he can.
7502 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2288
7504 *) Renamed three more functions to common ap_ prefix which we missed at the
7505 Big Symbol Renaming because they're #defines and not real C functions:
7506 is_default_port(), default_port(), http_method().
7507 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7509 *) A zero-length name after a $ in an SSI document should cause
7510 just the $ to be in the expansion. This was broken during the
7511 security fixes in 1.2.5. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1921, 2249
7513 *) Call ap_destroy_sub_req() in ap_add_cgi_vars() to reclaim some
7514 memory. [Rob Saccoccio <robs@InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2252
7516 *) Fix src/support/httpd.exp (DSO export file which is currently only
7517 used under AIX) because of recent changes to function names.
7518 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7520 Changes with Apache 1.3b7
7522 *) Make sure a MIME-type can be forced via a RewriteRule even when no
7523 substitution takes place, for instance via the following rule:
7524 ``RewriteRule ^myscript$ - [T=application/x-httpd-cgi]'' This was often
7525 requested by users in the past to force a single script without a .cgi
7526 extension and outside any cgi-bin dirs to be executed as a CGI program.
7527 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2254
7529 *) A fix for protocol issues surrounding 400, 408, and
7530 414 responses. [Ed Korthof]
7532 *) Ignore MaxRequestsPerChild on WIN32. [Brian Behlendorf]
7534 *) Fix discrepancy in proxy_ftp.c which was causing failures when
7535 trying to connect to certain ftpd's, such as anonftpd.
7536 [Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>]
7538 *) Make mod_rewrite use ap_open_piped_log() for RewriteLog directive's
7539 logfile instead of fiddling around itself with child spawning stuff.
7540 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7542 *) Made RefererIgnore case-insensitive.
7544 *) Mod_log_agent, mod_log_referer now use ap_open_piped_log for piped logs.
7547 *) Replace use of spawn_child with ap_spawn_child_err_buff, to make everything
7548 "safe" under Win32. In: mod_include.c, mod_mime_magic.c
7551 *) Improve RFC1413 support. [Bob Beck <beck@bofh.ucs.ualberta.ca>]
7553 *) Fix support script `dbmmanage': It was unable to handle some sort
7554 of passwords, especially passwords with "0" chars.
7555 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2242
7557 *) WIN32: Clicking on "Last Modified" in a fancy index caused a crash. Fixed.
7558 [Ben Laurie] PR#2238
7560 *) WIN32: CGIs could cause a hang (because of a deadlock in the standard C
7561 library), so CGI handling has been changed to use Win32 native handles
7562 instead of C file descriptors.
7563 [Ben Laurie and Bill Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>] PR#1129, 1607
7565 *) The proxy cache would store an incorrect content-length in the cached
7566 file copy after a cache update. That resulted in repeated fetching
7567 of the original copy instead of using the cached copy.
7568 [Ernst Kloppenburg <kloppen@isr.uni-stuttgart.de>] PR#2094
7570 *) The Makefiles assumed that DSO files are build via $(LD). This
7571 is broken for two reasons: First we never defined at least LD=ld
7572 somewhere to make sure this works (it was silently assumed that most Make
7573 provide a built-in LD definition - ARGL!) and second using the generic LD
7574 variable is not the truth. Instead a special variable named LD_SHLIB is
7575 reasonable because although "ld" is usually the default, the command for
7576 building DSO files can be "libtool" or even "cc" on some systems.
7577 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7579 *) Replace the AddVersionPlatform directive with ServerTokens which
7580 provides for more control over the format of the Server:
7581 header line. SERVER_SUBVERSION is no longer supported;
7582 all module should use the ap_add_version_component()
7583 API function instead. [Jim Jagielski]
7585 *) Support for the NCR MP/RAS 3.0
7586 [John Withers <withers@semi.kcsc.mwr.irs.gov>]
7588 *) The LDFLAGS_SHLIB_EXPORT variable of src/Configuration[.tmpl] was
7589 not retrieved in src/Configure and thus was not useable.
7590 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7592 *) Various Makefile consistency cleanups:
7593 - make OSDIR also automatically be relative to src/ like INCDIR
7594 - SUBDIRS is now generated in src/Makefile only and not in
7595 Makefile.config because it is a local define for this location.
7596 - remove BROKEN_BPRINTF_FLAGS because is it no longer used inside
7597 any Makefile but make sure that at least the "-K inline" is kept in
7599 - update the "depend" targets in Makefile.tmpl files to use $(OSDIR), too.
7600 - updated the dependencies theirself
7601 - removed not existing SHLIB variable from "clean" targets
7602 - replaced SHLIB_OBJS/SHLIBS_OBJ consistently with OBJS_PIC because OBJS
7603 already exists and OBJS_PIC are also just plain objects and have not
7604 directly to do with "shared" things. The only difference is that they
7605 contain PIC. So OBJS_PIC is the more canonical name.
7606 - Updated the Makefile-dependency lines for OBJS_PIC
7607 - Removed the Makefile-dependency line in Configure to avoid double
7609 - replaced ugly xx-so.o/xx.so-o hack with a clean and consistent usage
7610 of xxx.lo as GNU libtool does with its PIC objects
7611 - reduce local complexity in modules Makefile.tmpl by moving the last
7612 existing target "depend" to the generation section in Configure, too.
7613 - removed the historical $(SPACER) which was used in the past together
7614 with BROKEN_BPRINTF_FLAGS to avoid zig-zags in the build process. This
7615 is no longer needed.
7616 - force the build and run of the gen_xxx programs under main/ as the
7617 first step before building the objects because it looks cleaner
7618 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7620 *) WIN32: Make Win32 work again after the /dev/null DoS fix.
7623 *) WIN32: Check for buffer overflows in ap_os_canonical_filename.
7626 *) WIN32: Don't force ISAPI headers to finish with \n.
7627 [Jim Patterson <Jim.Patterson@Cognos.COM>, Ben Laurie] PR#2060
7629 *) When opening "configuration" files (like httpd.conf, htaccess
7630 and htpasswd), Apache will not allow them to be non-/dev/null
7631 device files. This closes a DoS hole. At the same time,
7632 we use ap_pfopen to open these files to handle timeouts.
7633 [Jim Jagielski, Martin Kraemer]
7635 *) Apache will now log the reason its httpd children exit if they exit
7636 due to an unexpected signal. (It requires a new porting define,
7637 SYS_SIGLIST, which if defined should point to a list of text
7638 descriptions of the signals available. See PORTING.) [Dean Gaudet]
7640 *) WIN32: chdir() doesn't make sense in a multithreaded environment
7641 like WIN32. Before, Win32 CGI's could have had sporadic failures
7642 if a chdir call from one thread was made between another chdir call
7643 and a spawn in another thread. So, for now don't chdir for CGI scripts
7644 in WIN32. The current CGI "spec" is unclear as to whether it's
7645 necessary. Long-term fix is to either serialize the chdir/spawn combo
7646 or use WIN32 native calls to spawn a process. This temp fix was
7647 necessary to remove this as a showstopper for 1.3's release.
7650 *) Cleanup the suEXEC support in APACI and make it more safe:
7651 1. Add big fat hint in INSTALL about risks and to read the
7652 htdocs/manual/suexec.html document before using the suexec-related
7654 2. Make sure the user has at least provided one --suexec-xxxx option
7655 (specifies suEXEC parameters) in addition to --enable-suexec option.
7656 If only --enable-suexec is given APACI stops with a hint to INSTALL
7657 and htdocs/manual/suexec.html documents.
7658 3. Provide two additional --suexec-xxxx options to make the suEXEC
7659 configuration complete (especially for package maintainers who else
7660 had to patch the source tree) by providing ways to configure minimal
7661 UID/GID and safe PATH, too.
7662 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7664 *) Cleanup of the `configure --shadow' process:
7665 - make sure the configure script creates its temporary files in the
7666 shadow tree to avoid conflicts with parallel configure runs
7667 - removed unnecessary option "-r" from "rm" call for Makefiles
7668 - make sure the configure scripts creates the shadow-wrapper Makefile
7669 only when no shadow trees already exists
7670 - make sure "make distclean" removes the shadow-wrapper Makefile but only
7671 when no more shadow trees exists
7672 - overhauled mkshadow.sh script: now its more IFS-safe and approx. twice
7673 as fast (in the past it needed 70sec, now it runs just 38sec)
7674 - make sure CVS does not complain about the created files
7675 Makefille.<gnutriple> and directories src.<gnutriple>
7676 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7678 *) Added the ap_add_version_component() API routine and the
7679 AddVersionPlatform core directive. The first allows modules to
7680 declare themselves in the Server response header field value,
7681 augmenting the SERVER_SUBVERSION define in the Configuration file
7682 with run-time settings (more useful in a loadable-module environment).
7683 AddVersionPlatform inserts a comment such as "(UNIX)" or "(Win32)"
7684 into the server version string. [Ken Coar] PR#2056
7686 *) Minor stability tweaks to avoid core dumps in ap_snprintf.
7689 *) Emit the "Accept-Range" header for the default handler.
7690 [Brian Behlendorf] PR#1464
7692 *) Add a note to httpd.conf-dist that apache will on some systems fail
7693 to start when the Group # is set to a negative or large positive value.
7696 *) Make sure the module execution order is correct even when some modules
7697 are loaded under runtime (`LoadModule') via the DSO mechanism:
7698 1. The list of loaded modules is now a dynamically allocated one
7699 and not the original statically list from modules.c
7700 2. The loaded modules are now correctly setup by LoadModule for
7701 later use by the AddModule command.
7702 3. When the DSO mechanism for modules is used APACI's `install'
7703 target now enables all created `LoadModule' lines per default because
7704 this is both already expected by the user _and_ needed to avoid
7705 confusion with the next point and reduces the Makefile.tmpl complexity
7706 4. When the DSO mechanism for modules is used, APACI's `install'
7707 target now additionally makes sure the module list is reconstructed
7708 via a complete `ClearModuleList+AddModule...' entry.
7709 5. The support tool `apxs' now also makes sure an AddModule command
7710 is added in addition to the LoadModule command.
7711 6. The modules.c generation was extended to now contain two
7712 comments to make sure no one is confused by the confusing terminology
7713 of loading/linking (we use load=link+load & link=activate instead of
7714 the obvious load=activate & link=link :-( )
7715 This way now there is no longer a difference under execution time between
7716 statically and dynamically linked modules.
7717 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7719 *) Fix the generated mod_xxx.c from "apxs -g -f xxx" after the
7720 Big Symbol Renaming. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7722 *) Add a comment to mod_example.c showing the format of a FLAG command
7725 *) Standardized the time format in mod_status to match that of other
7726 places in the code (e.g. DATE_GMT). PR#1551
7728 *) Fix handling of %Z in timefmt strings for those platforms with no time
7729 zone information in their tm struct. [Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>]
7732 *) Makes mod_rewrite, mod_log_config, mod_status and the ServerSignature
7733 feature compatible with 'UseCanonicalName off' by changing
7734 r->server->server_hostname to ap_get_server_name(). And I changed some
7735 functions which use r->server->port to use ap_get_server_port() instead,
7736 because if there's no Port directive in the config r->server->port is 0.
7739 *) get/set_module_config are trivial enough to be better off inline. Worth
7740 1.5% performance boost. [Dean Gaudet]
7742 *) Fix off-by-one error in ap_proxy_date_canon() in proxy_util.c
7743 when ensuring 'x' is at least 30-chars big. [Jim Jagielski,
7746 *) [BS2000 security] BS2000 needs an extra authentication to initialize
7747 the task environment to the unprivileged User id. Otherwise CGI scripts
7748 would have a way to gain super user access. [Martin Kraemer]
7750 *) Fix debug log messages for BS2000/OSD: instead of logging the whole
7751 absolute path, only log base name of logging source as is done
7752 in unix. [Martin Kraemer]
7754 *) Ronald Tschalaer's Accept-Encoding patch - preserve the "x-" in
7755 the encoding type from the Accept-Encoding header (if it's there)
7756 and use it in the response, as that's probably what it'll be expecting.
7757 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch]
7759 *) Fix to mod_alias: translate_alias_redir is dealing with
7760 a URI, not a filename, so the check for drive letters for win32
7761 and emx is not necessary. [Dean Gaudet]
7763 *) WIN32: Allow .cmd as an executable extension.
7764 [Kari Likovuori <Kari.Likovuori@mol.fi>] PR#2146
7766 *) Make Apache header files, and some variables, C++ friendly.
7767 [Michael Anderson's <mka@redes.int.com.mx>]
7769 *) Child processes can now "signal" (by exiting with a status
7770 of APEXIT_CHILDFATAL) the parent process to abort and
7771 shutdown the server if the error in the child process was
7772 fatal enough. [Jim Jagielski]
7774 *) mod_autoindex's find_itme() was sensitive to MIME type case.
7775 [Jim Jagielski] PR#2112
7777 *) Make sure the referer_log and agent_log entries in the default httpd.conf
7778 file are also adjusted for the actual relative installation paths.
7779 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2175
7781 *) WIN32: Extensive overhaul of the way UNCs are handled. [Ben Laurie]
7783 *) WIN32: Make roots of filesystems (e.g. c:/) work. [Ben Laurie]
7786 *) PORT: Various porting changes to support AIX 3.2, 4.1.5, 4.2 and 4.3.
7787 Additionally the checks for finding the vendor DSO library were moved
7788 from mod_so.c to Configure because first it needs $PLAT etc. and second
7789 mod_so already uses an abstraction layer and does not fiddle with the
7790 vendor functions itself.
7791 [Jens-Uwe Mager, Ralf S. Engelschall]
7793 *) PORT: Some optimization defines for NetBSD
7794 [Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>] PR#2165
7796 *) PORT: Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for NetBSD.
7797 [Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2158
7799 *) Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for AIX (at least 4.2 but older
7800 AIX variants should work fine, too. Even AIX 3.x should work). This is
7801 accomplished by using the free DSO emulation code from Jens-Uwe Mager
7802 which we put into a os/unix/os-dso-aix.c file.
7803 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7805 *) PORT: Fix compiler warnings under AIX >= 4.2 where the manual pages imply
7806 that we should use NET_SIZE_T == int but the include files force size_t.
7807 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7809 *) Fix two bugs in select() handling in http_main.c.
7812 *) Suppress "error(0)" messages for ap_log_error() when the APLOG_NOERRNO
7813 is unset (as it is in situations like timeouts) where it is unclear
7814 whether errno is set or not. [Martin Kraemer]
7816 *) Just having APACI's localstatedir is too general and not enough for most
7817 of the systems. 1.3b6 again required manual APACI patches by package
7818 maintainers from Red Hat and FreeBSD because for their filesystem layout a
7819 little bit more flexibility in configuring the paths is needed. Hence we
7820 provide three additional configure options (--runtimedir, --logfiledir,
7821 --proxycachedir) which now can be used for more granular adjustments if
7822 --localstatedir is not enough to fit the particular needs. As a nice
7823 side-effect this reduces some subdir fiddling in configure+Makefile.tmpl.
7824 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7826 *) Make the install root for "make install" in APACI's Makefile overrideable
7827 by package authors. This way we are even more friendly to package
7828 maintainers (especially Debian and Red Hat) who build for the real prefix
7829 via "configure --prefix=/<real>" but use a different local prefix via
7830 "make root=/tmp/apache install" for rolling the package without bristling
7831 the target location on their system.
7832 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7834 *) Workaround sed limitations in APACI's configure script by now
7835 substituting in chunks of 50 commands (because for instance HPUX's vendor
7836 sed has a limit of max. 98 commands)
7837 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2136
7839 *) Adding SOCKS5 support and fixing existing SOCKS4 support.
7840 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2140
7842 *) Manually fix some symbols which were not renamed to prefix ap_ in the BIG
7843 RENAMING process because they are defined as pre-processor macros instead
7844 of real functions: bputc, bgetc, piped_log_write_fd, piped_log_read_fd
7845 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7847 *) Workaround braindead AWK's when generating ap_config.h: The split() and
7848 substr() functions cannot be nested under vendor AWK from Solaris 2.6.
7849 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2139
7851 *) Various bugfixes and cleanups for the APACI configure script:
7852 o fix IFS handling for _nested_ situation
7853 o fix Perl interpreter search: take first one found instead of last one
7854 o fix DSO consistency check
7855 o print error messages to stderr instead of stdout
7856 o add install-quiet for --shadow situation to Makefile stub
7857 o reduce complexity by avoiding sed-hacks for rule and module list loops
7858 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7860 *) Fix DEBUG_CGI situation in mod_cgi.c [David MacKenzie] PR#2114
7862 *) Make sure the input field separator (IFS) shell variable is explicitly
7863 initialized correctly before _every_ `for' loop and also restored after
7864 the loops. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7866 *) Make sure that "make install" doesn't overwrite the `mime.types' and
7867 `magic' files from an existing Apache installation. Because people often
7868 customize these for own MIME and content types.
7869 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7871 *) PORT: Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for OpenBSD 2.x
7872 [Peter Galbavy, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2109
7874 *) Fix the path to the ScoreBoardFile in the install-config target, too.
7875 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2105
7877 *) Let "configure" clear out the users parameters (provided as shell
7878 variables) to avoid side-effects in "src/Configure" when the user
7879 exported them (which is not needed, but some users do it).
7880 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2101
7882 *) Provide backward compatibility from some old src/Configuration.tmpl
7883 parameter names to the canonical Autoconf-style shell variable names. For
7884 instance CFLAGS vs. EXTRA_CFLAGS. The EXTRA_xxx variants are accepted now
7885 but a hint message is displayed. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7887 *) Make sure that "make install" doesn't overwrite the DocumentRoot and
7888 CGI scripts from an existing Apache installation.
7889 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Jim Jagielski] PR#2084
7891 *) Make `configure --compat' more "compatible" by first
7892 let the libexecdir default to EPREFIX/libexec instead of EPREFIX/bin and
7893 second by making sure the "avoid-bristling-suffix" /apache is not
7894 appended to sysconfdir, datadir, localstatedir and includedir when
7895 --compat is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Lars Eilebrecht]
7897 *) NeXT required strdup() in support/logresolve.c
7898 [Francisco Tomei <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>] PR#2082
7900 *) AIX required sys/select.h in support/ab.c
7901 [Jens Schleusener <Jens.Schleusener@dlr.de>] PR#2081
7903 *) Fix the path to the MimeMagicFile in the install-config target, too.
7904 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2089
7906 *) PORT: Added HP-UX 11 patches [Jeff Earickson <jaearick@colby.edu>]
7908 *) If you start apache with the -S command line option it will dump
7909 out the parsed vhost settings. This is useful for folks trying
7910 to figure out what is wrong with their vhost configuration.
7911 (Other dumps may be added in the future.) [Dean Gaudet]
7913 *) Add %pA, %pI, and %pp codes to ap_vformatter (and hence ap_bprintf,
7914 ap_snprintf, and ap_psprintf). See include/ap.h for docs.
7917 *) Because /usr/local/apache is the default prefix the ``configure
7918 --compat'' option no longer has to set prefix, again. This way the
7919 --compat option honors a leading --prefix option. [Lars Eilebrecht]
7921 *) PORT: Cast the first argument of dlopen() in ap_os_dso_load()
7922 to `char *' under OSF1 and FreeBSD 2.x where it is defined this way
7923 to avoid "discard const" warnings. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7925 *) If a specific handler is set for a file yet the request still
7926 ends up being handled by the default handler, log an error
7927 message before handling it. This catches things such as trying
7928 to use SSIs without mod_include enabled. [Marc Slemko]
7930 *) Fix error logging for the startup case where ap_log_error() still uses
7931 stderr as the target. Now the default log level is honored here, too.
7932 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7934 *) PORT: Make sure some AWK's don't fail in src/Configure with "string too
7935 long" errors when generating the MODULES entry for src/Makefile
7936 [Ben Hyde, Ralf S. Engelschall]
7938 *) Make sure src/Configure doesn't complain about the old directory
7939 /usr/local/etc/httpd/ when APACI is used. [Lars Eilebrecht]
7941 Changes with Apache 1.3b6
7943 *) PORT: Clean up warnings on Ultrix and HPUX. [Ben Hyde]
7945 *) Adding DSO support for the HP/UX platform by emulating the dlopen-style
7946 interface via the similar but proprietary HP/UX shl_xxx-style system
7947 calls. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7949 *) PORT: Updated UnixWare 2.0.x and 2.1.x entries for DSO support and made
7950 APACI Makefile.tmpl "install" target more robust for sensible UnixWare
7951 Make. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7953 *) ++++ THE BIG SYMBOL RENAMING ++++
7954 To avoid symbol clashes with third-party code compiled into the server,
7955 we globally applied the prefix "ap_" to the following classes of
7957 - Apache provided general functions (e.g., ap_cpystrn)
7958 - Public API functions (e.g., palloc, bgets)
7959 - Private functions which we can't make static (because of
7960 cross-object usage) but should be (e.g., new_connection)
7961 For backward source compatibility a new header file named compat.h was
7962 created which provides defines for the old symbol names and can be used
7963 by third-party module authors.
7966 *) Added dynamic shared object (DSO) support for SVR4-derivates: The
7967 problem under SVR4 is that there is no command flag to force the linker
7968 to export the global symbols of the httpd executable therewith they are
7969 available to the DSO's. Instead of problematic hacks like creating a
7970 dummy.so file (containing dummy references to all global symbols) the
7971 httpd binary is linked against, we use a clean trick stolen from Perl 5:
7972 Placing the Apache core code itself into a DSO library named libhttpd.so.
7973 This way the global symbols _HAVE_ to be exported and thus are available
7974 to any manually loaded DSO's under runtime. To reduce the impact to the
7975 user to null we go even further and create a stub httpd executable which
7976 automatically keeps track of the DSO library loading itself and thus
7977 hides the complete mechanism from the user. Although the generation of
7978 this DSO library is automatically triggered for platforms which
7979 essentially need it (mostly all SVR4-derivates) it can be also enabled
7980 manually via the Rule SHARED_CORE. This can be interesting in the future
7981 where we perhaps exploit this libhttpd.so mechanism for providing nifty
7982 features like graceful upgrades, or whatever.
7983 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Martin Kraemer]
7985 *) Build the libraries before building the rest of the tools. [Ben Hyde]
7987 *) Add "distclean" target to src/-Makefiles to provide "make distclean" also
7988 inside the src subtree (i.e. for non-APACI users). Following GNU Makefile
7989 conventions while "clean" removes only stuff created by "all" targets,
7990 "distclean" additionally removes the stuff from the configuration
7991 process. This way "make distclean" (hence the name) provides a fresh
7992 source tree as it was for distribution.
7993 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7995 *) Allow top-level (APACI) Makefile to break on build errors
7996 the same way the src/ subtree Makefiles breaks on them by replacing the
7997 initial APACI sed-subdir-display-kludge with a more clean
7998 variable-passing-solution: variable SDP can optionally hold the subdir
7999 prefix which is consistently used for displaying the subdir movement.
8000 This way even the top-level Makefile can stop correctly on errors as the
8001 user expects. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8003 *) Fixed ordering of argument checks for RewriteBase directive.
8004 [Todd Eigenschink <eigenstr@mixi.net>] PR#2045
8006 *) Change Win32 IS_MODULE to SHARED_MODULE to match Unix' method of
8007 indicating that a module is being compiled for dynamic loading. Also
8008 remove #define IS_MODULE from modules and add SHARED_MODULE define
8009 to the mak/dsp files. [Alexei Kosut]
8011 *) Reduce logging level of "normal" warning messages to APLOG_INFO,
8012 since we are now logging APLOG_WARNING by default. [Roy Fielding]
8014 *) PORT: OS/2 tweak to deal with multiple .exe targets. [Brian Havard]
8016 *) Add documentation file and src/Configuration.tmpl entry for the
8017 experimental mod_mmap_static module. Because although it is and marked as
8018 an experimental one it is distributed and thus should be documented and
8019 prepared for configuration the same way as all others modules.
8020 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8022 *) Add query (-q) option to apxs support tool to be able to manually query
8023 specific settings from apxs. This is needed for instance when you
8024 manually want to access Apache's header files and you need to assemble
8025 the -I option. Now you can do -I`apxs -q INCLUDEDIR`.
8026 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8028 *) Now src/Configure uses a fallback strategy for the shared object support
8029 on platforms where no explicit information is available: If a Perl
8030 installation exists we ask it about its shared object support and if it's
8031 the dlopen-style one we shamelessly guess the compiler and linker flags
8032 for creating shared objects from Perls knowledge. Of course, the user is
8033 warning about what we are doing and informed that he should send us
8034 the guessed flags when they work. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8036 *) Provide APACI --without-support option to be able to disable the build
8037 and installation of the support tools from the src/support/ area.
8038 Although its useful to have these installed per default we should provide
8039 a way to compile and install without them for backward-compatibility.
8040 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8042 *) Add of the new APache eXtenSion (apxs) support tool for building and
8043 installing modules into an _already installed_ Apache package through the
8044 dynamic shared object (DSO) mechanism [mod_so.c]. The trick here is that
8045 this approach actually doesn't need the Apache source tree. The
8046 (APACI-installed) server package is enough, because this now includes the
8047 Apache C header files (PREFIX/include) and the new APXS tool
8048 (SBINDIR/apxs). The intend is to provide a handy tool for third-party
8049 module authors to build their Apache modules _OUTSIDE_ the Apache source
8050 tree while avoiding them to fiddle around with the totally platform
8051 dependend way of compiling DSO files. The tool supports all ranges of
8052 modules, from trivial ones (single mod_foo.c) to complex ones (like PHP3
8053 which has a mod_php3.c plus a pre-built libmodphp3-so.a) and even can
8054 on-the-fly generate a minimalistic Makefile and sample module for the
8055 first step to provide both a quick success event and to demonstrate the
8056 APXS mechanism to module authors. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8058 *) Fix core dumps in use of CONNECT in proxy.
8059 [Rainer.Scherg@rexroth.de] PR#1326, #1573, #1942
8061 *) Modify the log directives in httpd.conf-dist files to use CustomLog
8062 so that users have examples of how CustomLog can be used.
8065 *) Add the new Apache Autoconf-style Interface (APACI) for the top-level of
8066 the Apache distribution tree. Until Apache 1.3 there was no real
8067 out-of-the-box batch-capable build and installation procedure for the
8068 complete Apache package. This is now provided by a top-level "configure"
8069 script and a corresponding top-level "Makefile.tmpl" file. The goal is
8070 to provide a GNU Autoconf-style frontend which is capable to both drive
8071 the old src/Configure stuff in batch and additionally installs the
8072 package with a GNU-conforming directory layout. Any options from the old
8073 configuration scheme are available plus a lot of new options for flexibly
8074 customizing Apache. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8076 *) The floating point ap_snprintf code wasn't threadsafe.
8077 Had to remove the HAVE_CVT macro in order to do threadsafe
8078 calling of the ?cvt() floating point routines. [Dean Gaudet]
8080 *) PORT: Add the SCO_SV port. [Jim Jagielski] PR#1962
8082 *) PORT: IRIX needs the -n32 flag iff using the 'cc' compiler
8083 [Jim Jagielski] PR#1901
8085 *) BUG: Configure was using TCC and CC inconsistently. Make sure
8086 Configure knows which CC we are using. [Jim Jagielski]
8088 *) "Options +Includes" wasn't correctly merged if "+IncludesNoExec"
8089 was defined in a parent directory. [Lars Eilebrecht]
8091 *) API: ap_snprintf() code mutated into ap_vformatter(), which is
8092 a generic printf-style routine that can call arbitrary output
8093 routines. Use this to replace http_bprintf.c. Add new routines
8094 psprintf(), pvsprintf() which allocate the exact amount of memory
8095 required for a string from a pool. Use psprintf() to clean up
8096 various bits of code which used ap_snprintf()/pstrdup().
8099 *) PORT: HAVE_SNPRINTF doesn't do anything any longer. This is because
8100 ap_snprintf() has different semantics and formatting codes than
8101 snprintf(). [Dean Gaudet]
8103 *) SIGXCPU and SIGXFSZ are now reset to SIG_DFL at boot-time. This
8104 is necessary on at least Solaris where the /etc/rc?.d scripts
8105 are run with these signals ignored, and "SIG_IGN" settings are
8106 maintained across exec().
8107 [Rein Tollevik <reint@sys.sol.no>] PR#2009
8109 *) Fix the check for symbolic links in ``RewriteCond ... -l'': stat() was
8110 used instead of lstat() and thus this flag didn't work as expected.
8111 [Rein Tollevik <reint@sys.sol.no>] PR#2010
8113 *) Fix the proxy pass-through feature of mod_rewrite for the case of
8114 existing QUERY_STRING now that mod_proxy was recently changed because of
8115 the new URL parsing stuff. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8117 *) A few changes to scoreboard definitions which helps gcc generate
8118 better code. [Dean Gaudet]
8120 *) ANSI C doesn't guarantee that "int foo : 2" in a structure will
8121 be a signed bitfield. So mark a few bitfields as signed to
8122 ensure correct code. [Dean Gaudet]
8124 *) The default for HostnameLookups was changed to Off, but there
8125 was a problem and it wasn't taking effect. [Dean Gaudet]
8127 *) PORT: Clean up undefined signals on some platforms (SCO, BeOS).
8130 *) After a SIGHUP the listening sockets in the parent weren't
8131 properly marked for closure on fork().
8132 [Jürgen Keil <jk@tools.de>] PR#2000
8134 *) Allow %2F in two situations: 1) it is in the query part of the URI,
8135 therefore not exposed to %2F -> '/' translations and 2) the request
8136 is a proxy request, so we're not dealing with a local resource anyway.
8137 Without this, the proxy would fail to work for any URL's with
8138 %2f in them (occurs quite often in
8139 http://.../cgi-bin/...?http%3A%2F%2F... references) [Martin Kraemer]
8141 *) Protect against FD_SETSIZE mismatches. [Dean Gaudet]
8143 *) Make the shared object compilation command more portable by avoiding
8144 the direct combination of `-c' & `-o' which is not honored by some
8145 compilers like UnixWare's cc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8147 *) WIN32: the proxy was creating filenames missing the last four
8148 characters. While this normally doesn't stop anything from
8149 working, it can result in extra collisions.
8150 [Tim Costello <tjcostel@socs.uts.edu.au>] PR#1890
8152 *) Now mod_proxy uses the response string (in addition to the response status
8153 code) from the already used FTP SIZE command to setup the Content-Length
8154 header if available. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1183
8156 *) Reanimated the (still undocumented) proxy receive buffer size directive:
8157 Renamed from ReceiveBufferSize to ProxyReceiveBufferSize because the old
8158 name was really too generic, added documentation for this directive to
8159 the mod_proxy.html and corrected the hyperlink to it in the
8160 new_features_1.3.html document. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1348
8162 *) Fix a bug in the src/helpers/fp2rp script and make it a little bit
8163 faster [Martin Kraemer]
8165 *) Make Configure die when you give it an unknown command switch.
8168 *) Add five new and fresh manpages for the support programs: dbmmanage.1,
8169 suexec.8, htdigest.1, rotatelogs.8 and logresolve.8. Now all up-to-date
8170 and per default compiled support programs have manual pages - just to
8171 document our stuff a little bit more and to be able to do really
8172 Unix-like installations ;-) [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8174 *) Major cleanups to the Configure script to make it and its generated
8175 Makefiles again readable and maintainable: add SRCDIR option, removed
8176 INCLUDES_DEPTH[0-2] kludge, cleanup of TARGET option, cleanup of
8177 generated sections, consequently added Makefile headers with inheritance
8178 information, added subdir movement messages for easier following where
8179 the build process currently stays (more verbose then standard Make, less
8180 verbose than GNU make), same style to comments in the Configure script,
8181 added Apache license header, fixed a few bugs, etc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8183 *) Add the new ApacheBench program "ab" to src/support/: This is derived
8184 from the ZeusBench benchmarking program and can be used to determine the
8185 response performance of an Apache installation. This version is
8186 officially licensed with Zeus Technology, Ltd. See the license agreement
8187 statements in <199803171224.NAA24547@en1.engelschall.com> in apache-core.
8188 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8190 *) API: Various core functions that are definately not part of the API
8191 have been made static, and a few have been marked API_EXPORT. Still
8192 more have been marked CORE_EXPORT and are not intended for general
8193 use by modules. [Doug MacEachern, Dean Gaudet]
8195 *) mod_proxy was not clearing the Proxy-Connection header from
8196 requests; now it does. This did not violate any spec, however
8197 causes poor interactions when you are talking to remote proxies.
8198 [Marc Slemko] PR#1741
8200 *) Various cleanups to the command line interface and manual pages.
8201 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8203 *) cfg_getline() was not properly handling lines that did not end
8204 with a line termination character. [Marc Slemko] PR#1869, 1909
8206 *) Performance tweak to mod_log_config. [Dmitry Khrustalev]
8208 *) Clean up some undocumented behavior of mod_setenvif related to
8209 "merging" two SetEnvIf directives when they match the same header
8210 and regex. Document that mod_setenvif will perform comparisons in
8211 the order they appear in the config file. Optimize mod_setenvif by
8212 doing more work at config time rather than at runtime.
8215 *) src/include/ap_config.h now wraps it's #define's with #ifndef/#endif's
8216 to allow for modules to overrule them and to reduce redefinition
8217 warnings [Jim Jagielski]
8219 *) [PORT] For A/UX change the OS-#define for -DAUX to -DAUX3.
8222 *) Making the hard-coded cross-module function call mime_find_ct() (from
8223 mod_proxy to mod_mime) obsolete by making sure the API hook for MIME type
8224 checking is really called even for proxy requests except for URLs with
8225 HTTP schemes (because there we can optimize by not running the type
8226 checking hooks due to the fact that the proxy gets the MIME Content-type
8227 from the remote host later). This change cleans up mod_mime by removing
8228 the ugly export kludge, makes the one-liner file mod_mime.h obsolete, and
8229 especially unbundles mod_proxy and mod_mime. This way they both now can
8230 be compiled as shared objects and are no longer tied together.
8231 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8233 *) util.c cleanup and speedup. [Dean Gaudet]
8235 *) API: Clarification, pstrndup() will always copy n bytes of the source
8236 and NUL terminate at the (n+1)st byte. [Dean Gaudet]
8238 *) Mark module command_rec and handler_rec structures const so that they
8239 end up in the read-only data section (and are friendlier to systems
8240 that don't do optimistic memory allocation on fork()). [Dean Gaudet]
8242 *) Add check to the "Port" directive to make sure the specified
8243 port is in the appropriate range. [Ben Hyde]
8245 *) Performance improvements to invoke_handler().
8246 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su>]
8248 *) Added support for building shared objects even for library-style modules
8249 (which are built from more than one object file). This now provides the
8250 ability to build mod_proxy as a shared object module. Additionally
8251 modules like mod_example are now also supported for shared object
8252 building because the generated Makefiles now no longer assume there is at
8253 least one statically linked module. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8255 *) API: Clarify usage of content_type, handler, content_encoding,
8256 content_language and content_languages fields in request_rec. They
8257 must always be lowercased; and the strings pointed to shouldn't
8258 be modified (you must copy them to modify them). Fix a few bugs
8259 related to this. [Dean Gaudet]
8261 *) API: Clarification: except for RAW_ARGS, all command handlers can
8262 treat the char * parameters as permanent, and modifiable. There
8263 is no need to pstrdup() them. Clean up some needless pstrdup().
8266 *) Now mod_so keeps track of which module shared objects with which names
8267 are loaded and thus avoids multiple loading and unloading and irritating
8268 error_log messages. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8270 *) Prior to the existence of mod_setenv it was necessary to tweak the TZ
8271 environment variable in the apache core. But that tweaking interferes
8272 with mod_setenv. So don't tweak if the user has specified an explicit
8273 TZ variable. [Jay Soffian <jay@cimedia.com>] PR#1888
8275 *) rputs() did not calculate r->sent_bodyct properly.
8276 [Siegmund Stirnweiss <siegst@kat.ina.de>] PR#1900
8278 *) The CGI spec says that REMOTE_HOST should be set to the remote hosts's
8279 name, or left unset if this value is unavailable. Apache was setting
8280 it to the IP address when unavailable.
8281 [Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net>] PR#1925
8283 *) Various improvements to the configuration and build support for compiling
8284 modules as shared objects. Especially Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.1, IRIX and
8285 OSF1 support with GCC and vendor compilers was added. This way shared
8286 object support is now provided out-of-the-box for FreeBSD, Linux,
8287 Solaris, SunOS, IRIX and OSF1. In short: On all major platforms!
8288 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8290 *) Minor cleanup in http_main -- split QNX and OS2 specific "mmap"
8291 scoreboard code into separate #defines -- USE_POSIX_SCOREBOARD
8292 and USE_OS2_SCOREBOARD. [Dean Gaudet]
8294 *) Fix one more special locking problem for RewriteMap programs in
8295 mod_rewrite: According to the documentation of flock(), "Locks are on
8296 files, not file descriptors. That is, file descriptors duplicated
8297 through dup(2) or fork(2) do not result in multiple instances of a lock,
8298 but rather multiple references to a single lock. If a process holding a
8299 lock on a file forks and the child explicitly unlocks the file, the
8300 parent will lose its lock.". To overcome this we have to make sure the
8301 RewriteLock file is opened _AFTER_ the childs were spawned which is now
8302 the case by opening it in the child_init instead of the module_init API
8303 hook. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1029
8305 *) Change to Location and LocationMatch semantics. LocationMatch no
8306 longer lets a single slash match multiple adjacent slashes in the
8307 URL. This change is for consistency with RewriteRule and
8308 AliasMatch. Multiple slashes have meaning in URLs that they do
8309 not have in (some) filesystems. Location on the other hand can
8310 be considered a shorthand for a more complicated regex, and it
8311 does match multiple slashes with a single slash -- which is
8312 also consistent with the Alias directive.
8313 [Dean Gaudet] related PR#1440
8315 *) Fix bug with mod_mime_magic causing certain files, including files
8316 of length 0, to result in no response from the server.
8319 *) The Configure script now generates src/include/ap_config.h which
8320 contains the set of defines used when Apache is compiled on a platform.
8321 This file can then be included by external modules before including
8322 any Apache header files in case they are being built separately from
8323 Apache. Along with this change, a couple of minor changes were
8324 made to make Apache's #defines coexist peacefully with any autoconf
8325 defines an external module might have. [Rasmus Lerdorf]
8327 *) Fix mod_rewrite for the ugly API case where <VirtualHost> sections exist
8328 but without any RewriteXXXXX directives. Here mod_rewrite is given no
8329 chance by the API to initialize its per-server configuration and thus
8330 receives the wrong one from the main server. This is now avoided by
8331 remembering the server together with the config structure while
8332 configuring and later assuming there is no config when we see a
8333 difference between the remembered server and the one calling us.
8334 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1790
8336 *) Fixed the DBM RewriteMap support for mod_rewrite: First the support now
8337 is automatically disabled under configure time when the dbm_xxx functions
8338 are not available. Second, two heavy source code errors in the DBM
8339 support code were fixed. This makes DBM RewriteMap's usable again after
8340 a long time of brokenness. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1696
8342 *) Now all configuration files support Unix-style line-continuation via
8343 the trailing backslash ("\") character. This enables us to write down
8344 complex or just very long directives in a more readable way. The
8345 backslash character has to be really the last character before the
8346 newline and it has not been prefixed by another (escaping) backslash.
8347 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8349 *) When using ProxyPass the ?querystring was not passed correctly.
8350 [Joel Truher <truher@wired.com>]
8352 *) To deal with modules being compiled and [dynamically] linked
8353 at a different time from the core, the SERVER_VERSION and
8354 SERVER_BUILT symbols have been abstracted through the new
8355 API routines apapi_get_server_version() and apapi_get_server_built().
8358 *) WIN32: Preserve trailing slash in canonical path (and hence
8359 in PATH_INFO). [Paul Sutton, Ben Laurie]
8361 *) PORT: USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT has proven unreliable
8362 depending on the rev of Solaris and what mixture of modules
8363 are in use. So it has been disabled, and Solaris is back to
8364 using USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT. Users may experiment with
8365 USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT at their own risk, it may speed
8366 up static content only servers. Or it may fail unpredictably.
8367 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1779, 1854, 1904
8369 *) mod_test_util_uri.c created which tests the logic in util_uri.c.
8372 *) API: Rewrite of absoluteURI handling, and in particular how
8373 absoluteURIs match vhosts. Unless a request is a proxy request, a
8374 "http://host" url is treated as if a similar "Host:" header had been
8375 supplied. This change was made to support future HTTP/1.x protocols
8376 which may require clients to send absoluteURIs for all requests.
8378 In order to achieve this change subtle changes were made to the API. In a
8379 request_rec, r->hostlen has been removed. r->unparsed_uri now exists so
8380 that the unmodified uri can be retrieved easily. r->proxyreq is not set
8381 by the core, modules must set it during the post_read_request or
8382 translate_names phase.
8384 Plus changes to the virtualhost test suite for absoluteURI testing.
8386 This fixes several bugs with the proxy proxying requests to vhosts
8387 managed by the same httpd.
8390 *) API: Cleanup of code in http_vhost.c, and remove vhost matching
8391 code from mod_rewrite. The vhost matching is now performed by a
8392 globally available function matches_request_vhost(). [Dean Gaudet]
8394 *) Reduce memory usage, and speed up ServerAlias support. As a
8395 side-effect users can list multiple ServerAlias directives
8396 and they're all considered.
8397 [Chia-liang Kao <clkao@cirx.org>] PR#1531
8399 *) The "poly" directive in image maps did not include the borders of the
8400 polygon, whereas the "rect" directive does. Fix this inconsistency.
8401 [Konstantin Morshnev <moko@design.ru>] PR#1771
8403 *) Make \\ behave as expected. [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch]
8405 *) Add the `%a' construct to LogFormat and CustomLog to log the client IP
8406 address. [Todd Eigenschink <eigenstr@mixi.net>] PR#1885
8408 *) API: A new source module main/util_uri.c; It contains a routine
8409 parse_uri_components() and friends which breaks a URI into its component
8410 parts. These parts are stored in a uri_components structure called
8411 parsed_uri within each request_rec, and are available to all modules.
8412 Additionally, an unparse routine is supplied which re-assembles the URI
8413 components back to an URI, optionally hiding the username:password@ part
8414 from ftp proxy requests, and other useful routines. Within the structure,
8415 you find on a ready-for-use basis:
8416 scheme; /* scheme ("http"/"ftp"/...) */
8417 hostinfo; /* combined [user[:password]@]host[:port] */
8418 user; /* user name, as in http://user:passwd@host:port/ */
8419 password; /* password, as in http://user:passwd@host:port/ */
8420 hostname; /* hostname from URI (or from Host: header) */
8421 port_str; /* port string (integer representation is in "port") */
8422 path; /* the request path (or "/" if only scheme://host was given) */
8423 query; /* Everything after a '?' in the path, if present */
8424 fragment; /* Trailing "#fragment" string, if present */
8425 This is meant to serve as the platform for *BIG* savings in
8426 code complexity for the proxy module (and maybe the vhost logic).
8429 *) Make all possible meta-construct expansions ($N, %N, %{NAME} and
8430 ${map:key}) available for all location where a string is created in
8431 mod_rewrite rewriting rulesets: 1st arg of RewriteCond, 2nd arg of
8432 RewriteRule and for the [E=NAME:STRING] flag of RewriteRule. This way the
8433 possible expansions are consequently usable at all string creation
8434 locations. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8436 *) Fix initialization of RewriteLogLevel (default now is 0 as documented
8437 and not 1) and the per-virtual-server merging of directives. Now all
8438 directives except `RewriteEngine' and `RewriteOption' are either
8439 completely overridden (default) or completely inherited (when
8440 `RewriteOptions inherit') is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1325
8442 *) Fix `RewriteMap' program lookup in situations where such maps are
8443 defined but disabled (`RewriteEngine off') in per-server context.
8444 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1431
8446 *) Fix bug introduced in 1.3b4-dev, config with no Port setting would cause
8447 server to bind to port 0 rather than 80. [Dean Gaudet]
8449 *) Fix long-standing problem with RewriteMap _programs_ under Unix derivates
8450 (like SunOS and FreeBSD) which don't accept the locking of pipes
8451 directly. A new directive RewriteLock is introduced which can be used to
8452 setup a separate locking file which then is used for synchronization.
8453 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1029
8455 *) WIN32: The server root is obtained from the registry key
8456 HKLM\SOFTWARE\Apache Group\Apache\<version> (version is currently
8457 "1.3 beta"), unless overridden by the -d command line flag. The
8458 value is stored by running "apache -i -d serverroot". [Paul Sutton]
8460 *) Merged os/win32/mod_dll.c into modules/standard/mod_so.c to support
8461 dynamic loading on Win32 and Unix via the same module. [Paul Sutton]
8463 *) Now mod_rewrite no longer makes problematic assumptions on the characters
8464 a username can contain when trying to expand it via /etc/passwd.
8465 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8467 *) The mod_setenvif BrowserMatch backwards compatibility command did not
8468 work properly with spaces in the regex. [Ronald Tschalaer] PR#1825
8470 *) Add new RewriteMap types: First, `rnd' which is equivalent to the `txt'
8471 type but with a special post-processing for the looked-up value: It
8472 parses it into alternatives according to `|' chars and then only one
8473 particular alternative is chosen randomly (this is an essential
8474 functionality needed for balancing between backend-servers when using
8475 Apache as a Reverse Proxy. The looked up value here is a list of
8476 servers). Second, `int' with the built-in maps named `tolower' and
8477 `toupper' which can be used to map URL parts to a fixed case (this is an
8478 essential feature to fix the case of server names when doing mass
8479 virtual-hosting with the help of mod_rewrite instead of using
8480 <VirtualHost> sections). [Ralf S. Engelschall, parts based on code from
8481 Jay Soffian <jay@cimedia.com>] PR#1631
8483 *) Add a new directive to mod_proxy similar to ProxyPass: `ProxyPassReverse'.
8484 This directive lets Apache adjust the URL in Location-headers on HTTP
8485 redirect responses sent by the remote server. This way the virtually
8486 mapped area is no longer left on redirects and thus by-passed which is
8487 especially essential when running Apache as a reverse proxy.
8488 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8490 *) Hide Proxy-Authorization from CGI/SSI/etc just like Authorization is
8491 hidden. [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
8493 *) Apache will, when started with the -X (single process) debugging flag,
8494 honor the SIGINT or SIGQUIT signals again now. This capability got lost
8495 a while ago during OS/2 signal handling changes.
8497 *) [PORT] Work around the fact that NeXT runs on more than the
8498 m68k chips in mod_status [Scott Anguish and Timothy Luoma
8501 *) [PORT] Recognize FreeBSD versions so we can use the OS regex as well
8502 as handling unsigned-chars for FreeBSD v3 and v2 [Andrey Chernov
8503 <ache@nagual.pp.ru> and Jim] PR#1450
8505 *) Use SA_RESETHAND or SA_ONESHOT when installing the coredump handlers.
8506 In particular the handlers could trigger themselves into an infinite
8507 loop if RLimitMem was used with a small amount of memory -- too small
8508 for the signal stack frame to be set up. [Dean Gaudet]
8510 *) Fix problems with absoluteURIs introduced during 1.3b4. [Dean Gaudet,
8511 Alvaro Martinez Echevarria <alvaro@lander.es>]
8513 *) Fix multiple UserDir problem introduced during 1.3b4-dev.
8514 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1850
8516 *) ap_cpystrn() had an off-by-1 error.
8517 [Charles Fu <ccwf@klab.caltech.edu>] PR#1847
8519 *) API: As Ken suggested the check_cmd_context() function and related
8520 defines are non-static now so modules can use 'em. [Martin Kraemer]
8522 *) mod_info would occasionally produce an unpaired <tt> in its
8523 output. Fixed. [Martin Kraemer]
8525 *) By default AIX binds a process (and it's children) to a single
8526 processor. httpd children now unbind themselves from that cpu
8527 and re-bind to one selected at random via bindprocessor()
8530 *) Linux 2.0 and above implement RLIMIT_AS, RLIMIT_DATA has almost no
8531 effect. Work around it by using RLIMIT_AS for the RLimitMEM
8532 directive. [Enrik Berkhan <enrik@inka.de>] PR#1816
8534 *) mod_mime_magic error message should indicate the filename when
8535 reads fail. ["M.D.Parker" <mdpc@netcom.com>] PR#1827
8537 *) Previously Apache would permit </Files> to end <FilesMatch> (and
8538 similary for Location and Directory), now this is diagnosed as an
8539 error. Improve error messages for mismatched sections (<Files>,
8540 <FilesMatch>, <Directory>, <DirectoryMatch>, ...).
8541 [Dean Gaudet, Martin Kraemer]
8543 *) <Files> is not permitted within <Location> (because of the
8544 semantic ordering). [Dean Gaudet] PR#379
8546 *) <Files> with wildcards was broken by the change in wildcard
8547 semantics (* does not match /). To fix this, <Files> now
8548 apply only to the basename of the request filename. This
8549 fixes some other inconsistencies in <Files> semantics
8550 (such as <Files a*b> not working). [Dean Gaudet] PR#1817
8552 *) Removed bogus "dist.tar" target from Makefile.tmpl and make sure
8553 backup files are removed on "clean" target [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8555 *) PORT: Add -lm to LIBS for HPUX. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1639
8557 *) Various errors from select() and accept() in child_main() would
8558 result in an infinite loop. It seems these two tickle kernel
8559 or library bugs occasionally, and result in log spammage and
8560 a generally bad scene. Now the child exits immediately,
8561 which seems to be a good workaround.
8562 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1747, 1107, 588, 1787, 987, 588
8564 *) Cleaned up some race conditions in unix child_main during
8565 initialization. [Dean Gaudet]
8567 *) SECURITY: "UserDir /abspath" without a * in the path would allow
8568 remote users to access "/~.." and bypass access restrictions
8569 (but note /~../.. was handled properly).
8570 [Lauri Jesmin <jesmin@ut.ee>] PR#1701
8572 *) API: os_is_path_absolute() now takes a const char * instead of a char *.
8575 Changes with Apache 1.3b5
8577 *) Source file dependencies in Makefile.tmpl files throughout the
8578 source tree were updated to accurately reflect reality.
8581 *) Preserve the content encoding given by the AddEncoding directive
8582 when the client doesn't otherwise specify an encoding.
8583 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>]
8585 *) Sort out problems with canonical filename handling happening too late.
8586 [Dean Gaudet, Ben Laurie]
8588 Changes with Apache 1.3b4
8590 *) The module structure was modified to include a *dynamic_load_handle
8591 in the STANDARD_MODULE_STUFF portion, and the MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER
8592 has been bumped accordingly. [Paul Sutton]
8594 *) All BrowserMatch directives mentioned in
8595 htdocs/manual/known_client_problems.html are in the default
8596 configuration files. [Lars Eilebrecht]
8598 *) MiNT port update. [Jan Paul Schmidt]
8600 *) HTTP/1.1 requires x-gzip and gzip encodings be treated
8601 equivalent, similarly for x-compress and compress. Apache
8602 now ignores a leading x- when comparing encodings. It also
8603 preserves the encoding the client requests (for example if
8604 it requests x-gzip, then Apache will respond with x-gzip
8605 in the Content-Encoding header).
8606 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>] PR#1772
8608 *) Fix a memory leak on keep-alive connections. [Igor Tatarinov]
8610 *) Added mod_so module to support dynamic loading of modules on Unix
8611 (like mod_dld for Win32). This replaces mod_dld.c. Use SharedModule
8612 instead of AddModule in Configuration to build shared modules
8613 [Sameer Parekh, Paul Sutton]
8615 *) Minor cleanups to r->finfo handling in some modules.
8618 *) Abstract read()/write() to ap_read()/ap_write().
8619 Makes it easier to add other types of IO code such as SFIO.
8622 *) API: Generalize default_port manipulations to make support of
8623 different protocols easier. [Ben Laurie, Randy Terbush]
8625 *) There are many cases where users do not want Apache to form
8626 self-referential urls using the "canonical" ServerName and Port.
8627 The new UseCanonicalName directive (default on), if set to off
8628 will cause Apache to use the client-supplied hostname and port.
8629 API: Part of this change required a change to the construct_url()
8630 prototype; and the addition of get_server_name() and
8632 [Michael Douglass <mikedoug@texas.net>, Dean Gaudet]
8633 PR#315, 459, 485, 1433
8635 *) Yet another rearrangement of the source tree.. now all the common
8636 header files are in the src/include directory. The -Imain -Iap
8637 references in Makefiles have been changed to the simpler -Iinclude
8638 instead. In addition to simplifying the build a little bit, this
8639 also makes it clear when a module is referencing something in a
8640 other than kosher manner (e.g., the proxy including mod_mime.h).
8641 Module-private header files (the proxy, mod_mime, the regex library,
8642 and mod_rewrite) have not been moved to src/include; nor have
8643 the OS-abstraction files. [Ken Coar]
8645 *) Fix a bug where r->hostname didn't have the :port stripped
8646 from it. [Dean Gaudet]
8648 *) Tweaked the headers_out table size, and the subprocess_env
8649 table size guess in rename_original_environment(). Added
8650 MAKE_TABLE_PROFILE which can help discover make_table()
8651 calls that use too small an initial guess, see alloc.c.
8654 *) Options and AllowOverride weren't properly merging in the main
8655 server setting inside vhosts (only an issue when you have no
8656 <Directory> or other section containing an Options that affects
8657 a request). Options +foo or -foo in the main_server wouldn't
8658 affect the main_server's lookup defaults. [Dean Gaudet]
8660 *) Variable 'cwd' was being used pointlessly before being set.
8663 *) r->allowed handling cleaned up in the standard modules.
8666 *) Some case-sensitivity issues cleaned up to be consistent with
8667 RFC2068. [Dean Gaudet]
8669 *) SIGURG doesn't exist everywhere.
8670 [Mark Andrew Heinrich <heinrich@tinderbox.Stanford.EDU>]
8672 *) mod_unique_id was erroneously generating a second unique id when
8673 an internal redirect occured. Such redirects occur, for example,
8674 when processing a DirectoryIndex match. [Dean Gaudet]
8676 *) API: table_add, table_merge, and table_set include implicit pstrdup()
8677 of the key and value. But in many cases this is not required
8678 because the key/value is a constant, or the value has been built
8679 by pstrcat() or other similar means. New routines table_addn,
8680 table_mergen, and table_setn have been added to the API, these
8681 routines do not pstrdup() their arguments. The core code and
8682 standard modules were changed to take advantage of these routines.
8683 The resulting server is up to 20% faster in some situations.
8685 Note that it is easy to get code subtly wrong if you pass a key/value
8686 which is in a pool other than the pool of the table. The only
8687 safe thing to do is to pass key/values which are in the pool of
8688 the table, or in one of the ancestors of the pool of the table.
8689 i.e. if the table is part of a subrequest, a value from the main
8690 request's pool is OK since the subrequest pool is a sub_pool of the
8691 main request's pool (and therefore has a lifespan at most as long as
8692 the main pool). There is debugging code which can detect improper
8693 usage, enabled by defining POOL_DEBUG. See alloc.c for more details.
8694 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su>, Dean Gaudet]
8696 *) More mod_mime_magic cleanup: fewer syscalls; should handle "files"
8697 which don't exist on disk more gracefully; handles vhosts properly.
8698 Update documentation to reflect the code -- if there's no
8699 MimeMagicFile directive then the module is not enabled.
8702 *) PORT: Some older *nix dialects cannot automatically start scripts
8703 which begin with a #! interpreter line (the shell starts the scripts
8704 appropriately on these platforms). Apache now supports starting of
8705 "hashbang-scripts" when the NEED_HASHBANG_EMUL define is set.
8706 [Martin Kraemer, with code from peter@zeus.dialix.oz.au (Peter Wemm)
8709 *) API: "typedef array_header table" removed from alloc.h, folks should
8710 have been writing to use table as if it were an opaque type, but even
8711 some standard modules got this wrong. By changing the definition
8712 to "typedef struct table table" module authors will receive compile
8713 time warnings that they're doing the wrong thing. This change
8714 facilitates future changes with more sophisticated table
8715 structures. Specifically, module authors should be using table_elts()
8716 to get access to an array_header * for the table. [Dean Gaudet]
8718 *) API: Renamed new_connection() to avoid namespace collision with LDAP
8719 library routines. [Ken Coar, Rasmus Lerdorf]
8721 *) WIN32: mod_speling is now available on the Win32 platform.
8724 *) For clarity the following compile time definition was changed:
8726 SAFE_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT -> SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT
8728 Also, for example, HAVE_MMAP would mean to use mmap() scoreboards
8729 and not be a general notice that the OS has mmap(). Now the
8730 HAVE_MMAP/SHMGET #defines strictly are informational that the
8731 OS has that method of shared memory; the type to use for
8732 the scoreboard is a seperate #define (USE_MMAP_SCOREBOARD
8733 and USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD). This allows outside modules to
8734 determine if shared memory is available and allows Apache
8735 to determine the best method to use for the scoreboard.
8738 *) PORT: UnixWare 2.1.2 SMP appears to require USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT,
8739 as do various earlier versions. It should be safe on all versions.
8740 Unixware 1.x appears to have the same SIGHUP bug as solaris does with
8741 the slack code. A few other cleanups for Unixware.
8742 [Tom Hughes <thh@cyberscience.com>] PR#1082, PR#1282, PR#1499, PR#1553
8744 *) PORT: A/UX can handle single-listen accepts without mutex
8745 locking, so we add SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT. [Jim Jagielski]
8747 *) When die() happens we need to eat any request body if one exists.
8748 Otherwise we can't continue with a keepalive session. This shows up
8749 as a POST problem with MSIE 4.0, typically against pages which are
8750 authenticated. [Roy Fielding] PR#1399
8752 *) If you define SECURITY_HOLE_PASS_AUTHORIZATION then the Authorization
8753 header will be passed to CGIs. This is generally a security hole, so
8754 it's not a default. [Marc Slemko] PR#549
8756 *) Fix Y2K problem with date printing in suexec log.
8757 [Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>] PR#1343
8759 *) WIN32 deserves a pid file. [Ben Hyde]
8761 *) suexec errors now include the errno/description. [Marc Slemko] PR#1543
8763 *) PORT: OSF/1 now uses USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT to solve PR#467.
8764 The choice of flock vs. fcntl was made based on timings which showed that
8765 even on non-NFS, non-exported filesystems fcntl() was an order of
8766 magnitude slower. It also uses SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT so
8767 that single socket users will see no difference. [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
8769 *) "File does not exist" error message was erroneously including the
8770 errno. [Marc Slemko]
8772 *) Improve the warning message generated when a client drops the
8773 connection (hits stop button, etc.) during a send. [Roy Fielding]
8775 *) Defining GPROF will disable profiling in the parent and enable it
8776 in the children. If you're profiling under Linux this is pretty much
8777 necessary because SIGPROF is lost across a fork(). [Dean Gaudet]
8779 *) htdigest and htpasswd needed slight tweaks to work on OS/2 and WIN32.
8782 *) The NeXT cc (which is gcc hacked up) doesn't appear to support some
8783 gcc functionality. Work around it.
8784 [Keith Severson <keith@sssd.navy.mil>] PR#1613
8786 *) Some linkers complain when .o files contain no functions.
8787 [Keith Severson <keith@sssd.navy.mil>] PR#1614
8789 *) Some const declarations in mod_imap.c that were added for debugging
8790 purposes caused some compilers heartburn without adding any
8791 significant value, so they've been removed. [Ken Coar]
8793 *) The src/main/*.h header files have had #ifndef wrappers added to
8794 insulate them against duplicate calls if they get included through
8795 multiple paths (e.g., in .c files as well as other .h files).
8798 *) The libap routines now have a header file for their prototypes,
8799 src/ap/ap.h, to ease their use in non-httpd applications. [Ken Coar]
8801 *) mod_autoindex with a plaintext header file would emit the <PRE>
8802 start-tag before the HTML preamble, rather than after the preamble
8803 but before the header file contents. [John Van Essen <jve@gamers.org>]
8806 *) SECURITY: Fix a possible buffer overflow in logresolve. This is
8807 only an issue on systems without a MAXDNAME define or where
8808 the resolver returns domain names longer than MAXDNAME. [Marc Slemko]
8810 *) SECURITY: Eliminate possible buffer overflow in cfg_getline, which
8811 is used to read various types of files such as htaccess and
8812 htpasswd files. [Marc Slemko]
8814 *) SECURITY: Ensure that the buffer returned by ht_time is always
8815 properly null terminated. [Marc Slemko]
8817 *) The "Connection" header could be sent back with multiple "close"
8818 tokens. Not an error, but a waste.
8819 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1683
8821 *) mod_rewrite's RewriteLog should behave like mod_log_config, it
8822 shouldn't force hostname lookups. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1684
8824 *) "basic" auth needs a case-insensitive comparison.
8825 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1666
8827 *) For maximum portability, the environment passed to CGIs should
8828 only contain variables whose names match the regex
8829 /[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]*/. This is now enforced by stamping
8830 underscores over any character outside the regex. This
8831 affects HTTP_* variables, in a way that should be backward
8832 compatible for all the standard headers; and affects variables
8833 set with SetEnv/BrowserMatch and similar directives.
8836 *) mod_speling returned incorrect HREF's when an ambigous match
8837 was found. Noticed by <robinton@amtrash.comlink.de> (Soeren Ziehe)
8838 [robinton@amtrash.comlink.de (Soeren Ziehe), Martin Kraemer]
8840 *) PORT: Apache now compiles & runs on an EBCDIC mainframe
8841 (the Siemens BS2000/OSD family) in the POSIX subsystem
8844 *) PORT: Fix problem killing children when terminating. Allow ^C
8845 to shut down the server. [Brian Havard]
8847 *) pstrdup() is implicit in calls to table_* functions, so there's
8848 no need to do it before calling. Clean up a few cases.
8849 [Marc Slemko, Dean Gaudet]
8851 *) new -C and -c command line arguments
8853 -C "directive" : process directive before reading config files
8854 -c "directive" : process directive after reading config files
8856 httpd -C "PerlModule Apache::httpd_conf"
8857 [Doug MacEachern, Martin Kraemer]
8859 *) WIN32: Fix the execution of CGIs that are scripts and called
8860 with path info that does not have an '=' in.
8861 (eg. http://server/cgi-bin/printenv?foobar)
8862 [Marc Slemko] PR#1591
8864 *) WIN32: Fix a call to os_canonical_filename so it doesn't try to
8865 mess with fake filenames. This fixes proxy caching on
8868 *) SECURITY: General mod_include cleanup, including fixing several
8869 possible buffer overflows and a possible infinite loop.
8870 [Dean Gaudet, Marc Slemko]
8872 *) SECURITY: Numerous changes to mod_imap in a general cleanup
8873 including fixing a possible buffer overflow. [Dean Gaudet]
8875 *) WIN32: overhaul of multithreading code. Shutdowns are now graceful
8876 (connections are not dropped). Code can handle graceful restarts
8877 (but there is as yet no way to signal this to Apache). Various
8878 other cleanups. [Paul Sutton]
8880 *) The aplog_error changes specific to 1.3 introduced a buffer
8881 overrun in the (now legacy) log_printf function. Fixed.
8884 *) mod_digest didn't properly deal with proxy authentication. It
8885 also lacked a case-insensitive comparision of the "Digest"
8886 token. [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>] PR#1599
8888 *) A few cleanups in mod_status for efficiency. [Dean Gaudet]
8890 *) A few cleanups in mod_info to make it thread-safe, and remove an
8891 off-by-5 bug that could hammer \0 on the stack. [Dean Gaudet]
8893 *) no2slash() was O(n^2) in the length of the input. Make it O(n).
8896 *) API: migration from strncpy() to our "enhanced" version called
8897 ap_cpystrn() for performance and functionality reasons.
8898 Located in libap.a. [Jim Jagielski]
8900 *) table_set() and table_unset() did not deal correctly with
8901 multiple occurrences of the same key.
8902 [Stephen Scheck <sscheck@infonex.net>, Ben Laurie] PR#1604
8904 *) The AuthName must now be enclosed in quotes if it is to contain
8905 spaces. [Ken Coar] PR#1195
8907 *) API: new function: ap_escape_quotes(). [Ken Coar] PR#1195
8909 *) WIN32: Work around optimiser bug that killed ISAPI in release
8910 versions. [Ben Laurie] PR#1533
8912 *) PORT: Update the MPE port [Mark Bixby, Jim Jagielski]
8914 *) Interim (slow) fix for p->sub_pool critical sections in
8915 alloc.c (affects win32 only). [Ben Hyde]
8917 *) non-WIN32 was missing destroy_mutex definition. [Ben Hyde]
8919 *) send_fd_length() did not calculate total_bytes_sent properly.
8920 [Ben Reser <breser@regnow.com>] PR#1366
8922 *) The bputc() macro was not properly integrated with the chunking
8923 code; in many cases modules using bputc() could cause completely
8924 bogus chunked output. (Typically this will show up as problems
8925 with Internet Explorer 4.0 reading a page, but other browsers
8926 having no problem.) [Dean Gaudet]
8928 *) Create LARGE_WRITE_THRESHOLD define which determines how many
8929 bytes have to be supplied to bwrite() before it will consider
8930 doing a writev() to assemble multiple buffers in one system
8931 call. This is critical for modules such as mod_include,
8932 mod_autoindex, mod_php3 which all use bputc()/bputs() of smaller
8933 strings in some cases. The result would be extra effort
8934 setting up writev(), and in many cases extra effort building
8935 chunks. The default is 31, it can be overriden at compile
8938 *) Move the gid switching code into the child so that log files
8939 and pid files are opened with the root gid.
8940 [Gregory A Lundberg <lundberg@vr.net>]
8942 *) WIN32: Check for binaries by looking for the executable header
8943 instead of counting control characters.
8944 [Jim Patterson <Jim.Patterson@Cognos.COM>] PR#1340
8946 *) ap_snprintf() moved from main/util_snprintf.c to ap/ap_snprintf.c
8947 so the functionality is available to applications other than the
8948 server itself (like the src/support tools). [Ken Coar]
8950 *) ap_slack() moved out of main/util.c into ap/ap_slack.c as part of
8951 the libap consolidation work. [Ken Coar]
8953 *) ap_snprintf() with a len of 0 behaved like sprintf(). This is not
8954 useful, and isn't what the standards require. Now it returns 0
8955 and writes nothing. [Dean Gaudet]
8957 *) When an error occurs in fcntl() locking suggest the user look up
8958 the docs for LockFile. [Dean Gaudet]
8960 *) Eliminate some dead code from writev_it_all().
8961 [Igor Tatarinov <tatarino@prairie.NoDak.edu>]
8963 *) mod_autoindex had an fread() without checking the result code.
8964 It also wouldn't handle "AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/text.gif text/*"
8965 (note the missing closing paren) properly. [Dean Gaudet]
8967 *) It appears the "257th byte" bug (see
8968 htdocs/manual/misc/known_client_problems.html#257th-byte) can happen
8969 at the 256th byte as well. Fixed. [Dean Gaudet]
8971 *) PORT: Fix mod_mime_magic under OS/2, no support for block devices.
8974 *) Fix memory corruption caused by allocating auth usernames in the
8975 wrong pool. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1500
8977 *) Fix an off-by-1, and an unterminated string error in
8978 mod_mime_magic. [Dean Gaudet]
8980 *) Fix a potential SEGV problem in mod_negotiation when dealing
8981 with type-maps. [Dean Gaudet]
8983 *) Better glibc support under Linux. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1542
8985 *) "RedirectMatch gone /" would cause a SIGSEGV. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1319
8987 *) WIN32: avoid overflows during file canonicalisations.
8988 [malcolm@mgdev.demon.co.uk] PR#1378
8990 *) WIN32: set_file_slot() didn't detect absolute paths. [Ben Laurie]
8993 *) WIN32: mod_status display header didn't match fields. [Ben Laurie]
8995 *) The pthread_mutex_* functions return an error code, and don't
8996 set errno. [Igor Tatarinov <tatarino@prairie.NoDak.edu>]
8998 *) WIN32: Allow spaces to prefix the interpreter in #! lines.
8999 [Ben Laurie] PR#1101
9001 *) WIN32: Cure file leak in CGIs. [Peter Tillemans <pti@net4all.be>] PR#1523
9003 *) proxy_ftp: the directory listings generated by the proxy ftp module
9004 now have a title in which the path components are clickable and allow
9005 quick navigation to the clicked-on directory on the currently listed
9006 ftp server. This also fixes a bug where the ".." directory links would
9007 sometimes refer to the wrong directory. [Martin Kraemer]
9009 *) WIN32: Allocate the correct amount of memory for the scoreboard.
9012 *) WIN32: Only lowercase the part of the path that is real. [Ben Laurie]
9015 *) Fix problems with timeouts in inetd mode and -X mode. [Dean Gaudet]
9017 *) Fix the spurious "(0)unknown error: mmap_handler: mmap failed"
9018 error messages. [Ben Hyde]
9020 Changes with Apache 1.3b3
9022 *) WIN32: Work around brain-damaged spawn calls that can't deal
9023 with spaces and slashes. [Ben Laurie]
9025 *) WIN32: Fix the code so CGIs can use socket calls on Windows.
9026 The problem was that certain undocumented environment variables
9027 needed for sockets to work under Win32 were not being passed.
9028 [Frank Faubert <frank@sane.com>]
9030 *) Add a "-V" command line flag to the httpd binary. This
9031 flag shows some of the defines that Apache was compiled with.
9032 It is useful for debugging purposes. [Martin Kraemer]
9034 *) Start separating the ap_*() routines into their own library, so they
9035 can be used by items in src/support among other things.
9036 [Ken Coar] PR#512, 905, 1252, 1308
9038 *) Give a more informative error when no AuthType is set.
9041 *) Remove strtoul() use from mod_proxy because it isn't available
9042 on all platforms. [Marc Slemko] PR#1214
9044 *) WIN32: Some Win32 systems terminated all responses after 16 kB.
9045 This turns out to be a bug in Winsock - select() doesn't always
9046 return the correct status. [Ben Laurie]
9048 *) Directives owned by http_core can now use the new check_cmd_context()
9049 routine to ensure that they're not being used within a container
9050 (e.g., <Directory>) where they're invalid. [Martin Kraemer]
9052 *) PORT: Recent changes made it necessary to add explicit prototype
9053 for fgetc() and fgets() on SunOS 4.x. [Martin Kraemer, Ben Hyde]
9055 *) It was necessary to distinguish between resources which are
9056 allocated in the parent, for cleanup in the parent, and resources
9057 which are allocated in each child, for cleanup in each child.
9058 A new pool was created which is passed to the module child_init
9059 and child_exit functions; modules are free to register per-child
9060 cleanups there. This fixes a bug with reliable piped logs.
9063 *) mod_autoindex wasn't displaying the ReadmeName file at the bottom
9064 unless it was also doing FancyIndexes, but it displayed the
9065 HeaderName file at the top under all circumstances. It now shows
9066 the ReadmeName file for simple indices, too, as it should.
9069 *) http_core was mmap()ing even in cases where it wasn't going to
9070 read the file. [Ben Hyde <bhyde@gensym.com>]
9072 *) Complete rewrite ;-) of mod_rewrite's URL rewriting engine:
9073 Now the rewriting engine (the heart of mod_rewrite) is organized more
9074 straight-forward, first time well documented and reduced to the really
9075 essential parts. All redundant cases were stripped off and processing now
9076 is the same for both per-server and per-directory context with only a
9077 minimum difference (the prefix stripping in per-dir context). As a
9078 side-effect some subtle restrictions and two recently discovered problems
9079 are gone: Wrong escaping of QUERY_STRING on redirects in per-directory
9080 context and restrictions on the substitution URL on redirects.
9081 Additionally some minor source cleanups were done.
9082 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9084 *) Lars Eilebrecht wrote a whole new set of Apache Vhost Internals
9085 documentation, examples, explanations and caveats. They live in a new
9086 subdirectory htdocs/manual/vhost/. [Lars Eilebrecht <sfx@unix-ag.org>]
9088 *) If ap_slack fails to allocate above the low slack line it's a good
9089 indication that further problems will occur; it's a better indication
9090 than many external libraries give us when we actually run out of
9091 descriptors. So report it to the user once per restart.
9092 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1181
9094 *) Change mod_include and mod_autoindex to use Y2K-safe date formats
9095 by default. [Ken Coar]
9097 *) Add a "SuppressColumnSorting" option to the IndexOptions list,
9098 which will keep the column heading from being links for sorting
9099 the display. [Ken Coar, suggested by Brian Tiemann <btman@pacific.net>]
9102 *) PORT: Update the LynxOS port. [Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>]
9104 *) Fix logic error when issuing a mmap() failed message
9105 with a non-zero MMAP_THRESHOLD.
9106 [David Chambers <davidc@flosun.salk.edu>] PR#1294
9108 *) Preserve handler value on ProxyPass'ed requests by not
9109 calling find_types on a proxy'd request; fixes problems
9110 where some ProxyPass'ed URLs weren't actually passed
9112 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#870
9114 *) Fix a byte ordering problem in mod_access which prevented
9115 the old-style syntax (i.e. "a.b.c." to match a class C)
9116 from working properly. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1248, 1328, 1384
9118 *) Fix problem with USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT not working
9119 properly. Each child needs to open the lockfile instead
9120 of using the passed file-descriptor from the parent.
9121 [Jim Jagielski] PR#1056
9123 *) Fix the error logging in mod_cgi; the recent error log changes
9124 introduced a bug that prevented it from working correctly.
9125 [M.D.Parker] PR#1352
9127 *) Default to USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT on HPUX to properly
9128 handle multiple Listen directives. [Marc Slemko] PR#872
9130 *) Inherit a bugfix to fnmatch.c from FreeBSD sources.
9131 ["[KOI8-R] áÎÄÒÅÊ þÅÒÎÏ×" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>] PR#1311
9133 *) When a configuration parse complained about a bad directive,
9134 the logger would use whatever (unrelated) value was in errno.
9135 errno is now forced to EINVAL first in this case. [Ken Coar]
9137 *) A sed command in the Configure script pushed the edge of POSIXness,
9138 breaking on some systems. [Bhaba R.Misra <system@vt.edu>] PR#1368
9140 *) Solaris >= 2.5 was totally broken due to a mess up using pthread
9141 mutexes. [Roy Fielding, Dean Gaudet]
9143 *) OS/2 Port updated; it should be possible to build OS/2 from the same
9144 sources as Unix now. [Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
9146 *) Fix a year formatting bug in mod_usertrack.
9147 [Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>] PR#1342
9149 *) A mild SIGTERM/SIGALRM race condition was eliminated.
9150 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1211
9152 *) Warn user that default path has changed if /usr/local/etc/httpd
9153 is found on the system. [Lars Eilebrecht]
9155 *) Various mod_mime_magic bug fixes and cleanups: Uncompression
9156 should work, it should work on WIN32, and a few resource
9157 leaks and abort conditions are fixed.
9158 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1205
9160 *) PORT: On AIX 1.x files can't be named '@', fix the proxy cache
9161 to use '%' instead of '@' in its encodings.
9162 [David Schuler <schuld@btv.ibm.com>] PR#1317
9164 *) Improve the warning message generated when the "server is busy".
9165 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1293
9167 *) PORT: All ports which don't otherwise define DEF_WANTHSREGEX will
9168 get Spencer regex by default. This is to avoid having to
9169 discover bugs in operating system libraries. [Dean Gaudet]
9171 *) PORT: "Fix" PR#467 by generating warnings on systems which we have
9172 not been able to get working USE_*_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT settings for.
9173 Document this a bit more in src/PORTING. [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
9175 *) Ensure that one copy of config warnings makes it to the
9176 error_log. [Dean Gaudet]
9178 *) Invent new structure and associated methods to handle config file
9179 reading. Add "custom" hook to use config file cfg_getline() on
9180 something which is not a FILE* [Martin Kraemer]
9182 *) Make single-exe Windows install. [Ben Laurie and Eric Esselink]
9184 *) WIN32: Make CGI work under Win95. [Ben Laurie and Paul Sutton]
9186 *) WIN32: Make index.html and friends work under Win95. [Ben Laurie]
9188 *) PORT: Solaris 2.4 needs Spencer regex, the system regex is broken.
9189 [John Line <jml4@cam.ac.uk>] PR#1321
9191 *) Default pathname has been changed everywhere to /usr/local/apache
9192 [Sameer <sameer@c2.net>]
9194 *) PORT: AIX now uses USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT.
9195 [David Bronder <David-Bronder@uiowa.edu>] PR#849
9197 *) PORT: i386 AIX does not have memmove.
9198 [David Schuler <schuld@btv.ibm.com>] PR#1267
9200 *) PORT: HPUX now defaults to using Spencer regex.
9201 [Philippe Vanhaesendonck <pvanhaes@be.oracle.com>,
9202 Omar Del Rio <al112263@academ01.lag.itesm.mx>] PR#482, 1246
9204 *) PORT: Some versions of NetBSD don't automatically define
9205 __NetBSD__. Workaround by defining NETBSD.
9206 [Chris Craft <ccraft@cncc.cc.co.us>] PR#977
9208 *) PORT: UnixWare 2.x requires -lgen for syslog.
9209 [Hans Snijder <hs@meganet.nl>] PR#1249
9211 *) PORT: ULTRIX appears to not have syslog.
9212 [Lars Eilebrecht <Lars.Eilebrecht@unix-ag.org>]
9214 *) PORT: Basic Gemini port (treat it like unixware212).
9215 ["Pavel Yakovlev (Paul McHacker)" <hac@tomcat.olly.ru>]
9217 *) PORT: All SVR4 systems now use NET_SIZE_T = size_t, and
9218 use USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD.
9221 *) Various improvements in detecting config file errors (missing closing
9222 directives for <Directory>, <Files> etc. blocks, prohibiting global
9223 server settings in <VirtualHost> blocks, flagging unhandled multiple
9224 arguments to <Directory>, <Files> etc.)
9227 *) Add support to suexec wrapper program for mod_unique_id's UNIQUE_ID
9228 variable to provide this one to suexec'd CGIs, too.
9229 [M.D.Parker <mdpc@netcom.com>] PR#1284
9231 *) New support tool: src/support/split-logfile, a sample Perl script which
9232 splits up a combined access log into separate files based on the
9233 name of the virtual host (listed first in the log records by "%v").
9236 Changes with Apache 1.3b2 (there is no 1.3b1)
9238 *) TestCompile was not passing $LIBS [Dean Gaudet]
9240 *) Makefile.tmpl was not using $CFLAGS in the link phase.
9243 *) Add debugging code to alloc.c. Defining ALLOC_DEBUG provides a
9244 rudimentary memory debugger which can be used on live servers with
9245 low impact -- it sets all allocated and freed memory bytes to 0xa5.
9246 Defining ALLOC_USE_MALLOC will cause the alloc code to use malloc()
9247 and free() for each object. This is far more expensive and should
9248 only be used for testing with tools such as Electric Fence and
9249 Purify. See main/alloc.c for more details. [Dean Gaudet]
9251 *) Configure uses a sh trap and didn't set its exitcode properly.
9252 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1159
9254 *) Yet another vhost revamp. Add the NameVirtualHost directive which
9255 explicitly lists the ip:port pairs that are to be used for name-vhosts.
9256 From a given ip:port, regardless what the Host: header is, you can
9257 only reach the vhosts defined on that ip:port. The precedence of
9258 vhosts was reversed to match other precedences in the config --
9259 the earlier vhosts override the later vhosts. All vhost matching was
9260 moved into http_vhost.[ch]. [Dean Gaudet]
9262 *) ap_inline can be used to force inlining. GNUC __attribute__() can
9263 be used for whatever reason is appropriate (i.e. format() warnings
9264 for printf style functions). Both are enabled only with
9265 gcc >= 2.7.x (so that we have fewer support issues with older
9266 versions). [Dean Gaudet]
9268 *) Fix support for Proxy Authentication (we were testing the response
9269 status too early). [Marc Slemko]
9271 *) CoreDumpDirectory directive directs where the core file is
9272 written when a SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, SIGABORT or SIGABRT are
9273 received. [Marc Slemko, Dean Gaudet]
9275 *) PORT: Support for Atari MINT.
9276 [Jan Paul Schmidt <Jan.P.Schmidt@mni.fh-giessen.de>]
9278 *) When booting, apache will now detach itself from stdin, stdout,
9279 and stderr. stderr will not be detached until after the config
9280 files have been read so you will be able to see initial error
9281 messages. After that all errors are logged in the error_log.
9282 This makes it more convenient to start apache via rsh, ssh,
9283 or crontabs. [Dean Gaudet] PR#523
9285 *) mod_proxy was sending HTTP/1.1 responses to ftp requests by mistake.
9286 Also removed the auto-generated link to www.apache.org that was the
9287 source of so many misdirected bug reports. [Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
9289 *) send_fb would not detect aborted connections in some situations.
9292 *) mod_include would use uninitialized data when parsing certain
9293 expressions involving && and ||. [Brian Slesinsky] PR#1139
9295 *) mod_imap should only handle GET methods. [Jay Bloodworth]
9297 *) suexec.c wouldn't build without -DLOG_EXEC. [Jason A. Dour]
9299 *) mod_autoindex improperly counted &escapes; as more than one
9300 character in the description. It also improperly truncated
9301 descriptions that were exactly the maximum length.
9304 *) RedirectMatch was not properly escaping the result (PR#1155). Also
9305 "RedirectMatch /advertiser/(.*) $1" is now permitted.
9308 *) mod_include now uses symbolic names to check for request success
9309 and return HTTP errors, and correctly handles all types of
9310 redirections (previously it only did temporary redirect correctly).
9311 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding]
9313 *) mod_userdir was modifying r->finfo in cases where it wasn't setting
9314 r->filename. Since those two are meant to be in sync with each other
9315 this is a bug. ["Paul B. Henson" <henson@intranet.csupomona.edu>]
9317 *) PORT: Support Unisys SVR4, whose uname returns mostly useless data.
9318 ["Kaufman, Steven E" <Steven.Kaufman@unisys.com>]
9320 *) Inetd mode (which is buggy) uses timeouts without having setup the
9321 jmpbuffer. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1064
9323 *) Work around problem under Linux where a child will start looping
9324 reporting a select error over and over.
9325 [Rick Franchuk <rickf@transpect.net>] PR#1107, 987, 588
9327 *) Fixed error in proxy_util.c when looping through multiple host IP
9328 addresses. [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#974
9330 *) If BUFFERED_LOGS is defined then mod_log_config will do atomic
9331 buffered writes -- that is, it will buffer up to PIPE_BUF (i.e. 4k)
9332 bytes before writing, but it will never split a log entry across a
9333 buffer boundary. [Dean Gaudet]
9335 *) API: the short_score record has been split into two pieces, one which
9336 the parent writes on, and one which the child writes on. As part of
9337 this change the get_scoreboard_info() function was removed, and
9338 scoreboard_image was exported. This change fixes a race condition
9339 in file based scoreboard systems, and speeds up changes involving the
9340 scoreboard in earlier 1.3 development. [Dean Gaudet]
9342 *) API: New register_other_child() API (see http_main.h) which allows
9343 modules to register children with the parent for maintenance. It
9344 is disabled by defining NO_OTHER_CHILD. [Dean Gaudet]
9346 *) API: New piped_log API (see http_log.h) which implements piped logs,
9347 and will use register_other_child to implement reliable piped logs
9348 when it is available. The reliable piped logs part can be disabled
9349 by defining NO_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS. At the moment reliable piped
9350 logs is only available on Unix. [Dean Gaudet]
9352 *) API: set_last_modified() broken into set_last_modified(), set_etag(), and
9353 meets_conditions(). This allows conditional HTTP selection to be
9354 handled separately from the storing of the header fields, and provides
9355 the ability for CGIs to set their own ETags for conditional checking.
9356 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding] PR#895
9358 *) Changes to mod_log_config to allow naming of format strings.
9359 Format nicknames are defined with "LogFormat fmt nickname", and can
9360 be used with "LogFormat nickname" and "CustomLog logtarget nickname".
9363 *) New module, "mod_speling", which can help find files even when
9364 the URL is slightly misspelled. [Martin Kraemer, Alexei Kosut]
9366 *) API: New function child_terminate() triggers the child process to
9367 exit, while allowing the child finish what it needs to for the
9368 current request first.
9369 [Doug MacEachern, Alexei Kosut]
9371 *) Windows now defaults to using full status reports with mod_status.
9372 [Alexei Kosut] PR #1094
9374 *) *Really* disable all mod_rewrite operations if the engine is off.
9375 Some things (like RewriteMaps) were checked/performed even if they
9376 weren't supposed to be. [Ken Coar] PR #991
9378 *) Implement a new timer scheme which eliminates the need to call alarm() all
9379 the time. Instead a counter in the scoreboard for each child is used to
9380 show when the child has made forward progress. The parent samples this
9381 counter every scoreboard maintenance cycle, and issues SIGALRM if no
9382 progress has been made in the timeout period. This reduces the static
9383 request best-case syscall count to 22 from 29. This scheme is only
9384 used by systems with memory-based scoreboards. [Dean Gaudet]
9386 *) The proxy now properly handles CONNECT requests which are sent
9387 to proxy servers when using ProxyRemote. [Marc Slemko] PR#1024
9389 *) A script called apachectl has been added to the support
9390 directory. This script allows you to do things such as
9391 "apachectl start" and "apachectl restart" from the command
9394 *) Modules and core routines are now put into libraries, which
9395 simplifies the link line tremendously (among other advantages).
9398 *) Some of the MD5 names defined in Apache have been renamed to have
9399 an `ap_' prefix to avoid conflicts with routines supplied by
9400 external libraries. [Ken Coar]
9402 *) Removal of mod_auth_msql.c from the distribution. There are many
9403 other options for databases today. Rather than offer one option,
9404 offer none at this time. mod_auth_msql and other SQL database
9405 authentication modules can be found at the Apache Module Registry.
9406 http://modules.apache.org/ It would be nice to offer a generic
9407 mod_auth_sql option in the near future.
9409 *) PORT: BeOS support added [Alexei Kosut]
9411 *) Configure no longer accepts the -make option, since it creates
9412 Makefile on the fly based on Makefile.tmpl and Configuration.
9414 *) Apache now gracefully shuts down when it receives a SIGTERM, instead
9415 of forcibly killing off all its processes and exiting without
9416 cleaning up. [Alexei Kosut]
9418 *) API: A new field in the request_rec, r->mtime, has been added to
9419 avoid gratuitous parsing of date strings. It is intended to hold
9420 the last-modified date of the resource (if applicable). An
9421 update_mtime() routine has also been added to advance it if
9422 appropriate. [Roy Fielding, Ken Coar]
9424 *) SECURITY: If a htaccess file can not be read due to bad permissions,
9425 deny access to the directory with a HTTP_FORBIDDEN. The previous
9426 behavior was to ignore the htaccess file if it could not be read.
9427 This change may make some setups with unreadable htaccess files
9428 stop working. [Marc Slemko] PR#817
9430 *) Add aplog_error() providing a mechanism to define levels of
9431 verbosity to the server error logging. This addition also provides
9432 the ability to log errors using syslogd. Error logging is configurable
9433 on a per-server basis using the LogLevel directive. Conversion
9434 of log_*() in progress. [Randy Terbush]
9436 *) Further enhance aplog_error() to not log filename, line number, and
9437 errno information when it isn't applicable. [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
9439 *) WIN32: Canonicalise filenames under Win32. Short filenames are
9440 converted to long ones. Backslashes are converted to forward
9441 slashes. Case is converted to lower. Parts of URLs that do not
9442 correspond to files are left completely alone. [Ben Laurie]
9444 *) PORT: 2 new OSs added to the list of ports:
9445 Encore's UMAX V: Arieh Markel <amarkel@encore.com>
9446 Acorn RISCiX: Stephen Borrill <sborrill@xemplar.co.uk>
9448 *) Add the server version (SERVER_VERSION macro) to the "server
9449 configured and running" entry in the error_log. Also build an
9450 object file at link-time that contains the current time
9451 (SERVER_BUILT global const char[]), and include that in the
9454 *) Set r->headers_out when sending responses from the proxy.
9455 This fixes things such as the logging of headers sent from
9456 the proxy. [Marc Slemko] PR#659
9458 *) support/httpd_monitor is no longer distributed because the
9459 scoreboard should not be file based if at all possible. Use
9460 mod_status to see current server snapshot.
9462 *) (set_file_slot): New function, allowing auth directives to be
9463 independent of the server root, so the server documents can be
9464 moved to a different directory or machine more easily.
9465 [David J. MacKenzie]
9467 *) If no TransferLog is given explicitly, decline
9468 to log. This supports coexistence with other logging modules,
9469 such as the custom one that UUNET uses. [David J. MacKenzie]
9471 *) Check for titles in server-parsed HTML files.
9472 Ignore leading newlines and returns in titles. The old behavior
9473 of replacing a newline after <title> with a space causes the
9474 title to be misaligned in the listing. [David J. MacKenzie]
9476 *) Change mod_cern_meta to be configurable on a per-directory basis.
9477 [David J. MacKenzie]
9479 *) Add 'Include' directive to allow inclusion of configuration
9480 files within configuration files. [Randy Terbush]
9482 *) Proxy errors on connect() are logged to the error_log (nothing
9483 new); now they include the IP address and port that failed
9484 (*that's* new). [Ken Coar, Marc Slemko] PR#352
9486 *) Various architectures now define USE_MMAP_FILES which causes
9487 the server to use mmap() for static files. There are two
9488 compile-time tunables MMAP_THRESHOLD (minimum number of bytes
9489 required to use mmap(), default is 0), and MMAP_SEGMENT_SIZE (maximum
9490 number of bytes written in one cycle from a single mmap()d object,
9491 default 32768). [Dean Gaudet]
9493 *) API: Added post_read_request API phase which is run right after reading
9494 the request from a client, or right after an internal redirect. It is
9495 useful for modules setting environment variables that depend only on
9496 the headers/contents of the request. It does not run during subrequests
9497 because subrequests inherit pretty much everything from the main
9498 request. [Dean Gaudet]
9500 *) Added mod_unique_id which is used to generate a unique identifier for
9501 each hit, available in the environment variable UNIQUE_ID.
9504 *) init_modules is now called after the error logs have been opened. This
9505 allows modules to emit information messages into the error logs.
9508 *) Fixed proxy-pass-through feature of mod_rewrite; Added error logging
9509 information for case where proxy module is not available. [Marc Slemko]
9511 *) PORT: Apache has need for mutexes to serialize its children around
9512 accept. In prior versions either fcntl file locking or flock file
9513 locking were used. The method is chosen by the definition of
9514 USE_xxx_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT in conf.h. xxx is FCNTL for fcntl(),
9515 and FLOCK for flock(). New options have been added:
9516 - SYSVSEM to use System V style semaphores
9517 - PTHREAD to use POSIX threads (appears to work on Solaris only)
9518 - USLOCK to use IRIX uslock
9519 Based on timing various techniques, the following changes were made
9521 - Linux 2.x uses flock instead of fcntl
9522 - Solaris 2.x uses pthreads
9523 - IRIX uses SysV semaphores -- however multiprocessor IRIX boxes
9524 work far faster if you -DUSE_USLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT
9525 [Dean Gaudet, Pierre-Yves Kerembellec <Pierre-Yves.Kerembellec@vtcom.fr>,
9526 Martijn Koster <m.koster@pobox.com>]
9528 *) PORT: The semantics of accept/select make it very desirable to use
9529 mutexes to serialize accept when multiple Listens are in use. But
9530 in the case where only a single socket is open it is sometimes
9531 redundant to serialize accept(). Not all unixes do a good job with
9532 potentially dozens of children blocked on accept() on the same
9533 socket. It's now possible to define SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT and
9534 the server will avoid serialization when listening on only one socket,
9535 and use serialization when listening on multiple sockets.
9536 [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
9538 *) Configure changes: TestLib replaced by TestCompile, which has
9539 some additional capability (such as doing a sanity check of
9540 the compiler and flags selected); the version of Solaris is now
9541 available via the #define value of SOLARIS2; IRIX n32bit libs
9542 now supported and selectable by new Configuration Rule: IRIXN32;
9543 We no longer default to -O2 optimization. [Jim Jagielski]
9545 *) Updated Configure: Configuration now uses AddModule to specify
9546 module source or binary file location, relative to src directory.
9547 Modules can be dropped into modules/extra, or in their own
9548 directory, and modules can come with a Makefile or Configure can
9549 create one. Modules can add compiler or library information to
9550 generated Makefiles. [Paul Sutton]
9552 *) Source core re-organisation: distributed modules are now in
9553 modules/standard. All other source code is in main. OS-specific
9554 code is in os/{unix,emx,win32} directories. [Paul Sutton]
9556 *) mod_browser has been removed, since it's replaced by mod_setenvif.
9559 *) Fix another long-standing bug in sub_req_lookup_file where it would
9560 happily skip past access checks on subdirectories looked up with
9561 relative paths. (It's used by mod_dir, mod_negotiation,
9562 and mod_include.) [Dean Gaudet]
9564 *) directory_walk optimization to reduce an O(N*M) loop to O(N+M) where
9565 N is the number of <Directory> sections, and M is the number of
9566 components in the filename of an object.
9568 To achieve this optimization the following config changes were made:
9569 - Wildcards (* and ?, not the regex forms) in <Directory>s,
9570 <Files>s, and <Location>s now treat a slash as a special
9571 character. For example "/home/*/public_html" previously would
9572 match "/home/a/andrew/public_html", now it only matches things
9573 like "/home/bob/public_html". This mimics /bin/sh behaviour.
9574 - It's possible now to use [] wildcarding in <Directory>, <Files>
9576 - Regex <Directory>s are applied after all non-regex <Directory>s.
9580 *) Fix a bug introduced in 1.3a1 directory_walk regarding .htaccess files
9581 and corrupted paths. [Dean Gaudet]
9583 *) Enhanced and cleaned up the URL rewriting engine of mod_rewrite:
9584 First the grouped parts of RewriteRule pattern matches (parenthesis!) can
9585 be accessed now via backreferences $1..$9 in RewriteConds test-against
9586 strings in addition to RewriteRules subst string. Second the grouped
9587 parts of RewriteCond pattern matches (parenthesis!) can be accessed now
9588 via backreferences %1..%9 both in following RewriteCond test-against
9589 strings and RewriteRules subst string. This provides maximum flexibility
9590 through the use of backreferences.
9591 Additionally the rewriting engine was cleaned up by putting common
9592 code to the new expand_backrefs_inbuffer() function.
9593 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9595 *) When merging the main server's <Directory> and <Location> sections into
9596 a vhost, put the main server's first and the vhost's second. Otherwise
9597 the vhost can't override the main server. [Dean Gaudet] PR#717
9599 *) The <Directory> code would merge and re-merge the same section after
9600 a match was found, possibly causing problems with some modules.
9603 *) ip-based vhosts are stored and queried using a hashing function, which
9604 has been shown to improve performance on servers with many ip-vhosts.
9605 Some other changes had to be made to accommodate this:
9606 - the * address for vhosts now behaves like _default_
9607 - the matching process now is:
9608 - match an ip-vhost directly via hash (possibly matches main
9610 - if that fails, just pretend it matched the main server
9611 - if so far only the main server has been matched, perform
9612 name-based lookups (ServerName, ServerAlias, ServerPath)
9613 *only on name-based vhosts*
9614 - if they fail, look for _default_ vhosts
9615 [Dean Gaudet, Dave Hankins <dhankins@sugarat.net>]
9617 *) dbmmanage overhaul:
9618 - merge dbmmanage and dbmmanage.new functionality, remove dbmmanage.new
9619 - tie() to AnyDBM_File which will use one of DB_File, NDBM_File or
9620 GDBM_File (-ldb, -lndbm, -lgdbm) (trying each in that order)
9621 - provide better seed for rand
9622 - prompt for password as per getpass(3) (turn off echo, read from
9624 - use "newstyle" crypt based on $Config{osname} ($^O)
9625 - will not add a user if already in database, use new `update' command
9627 - added `check' command to check a users' password
9628 - added `import' command to convert existing password text-files or
9629 dbm files exported with `view'
9630 - more descriptive usage, general cleanup, 'use strict' clean, etc.
9633 *) Added psocket() which is a pool form of socket(), various places within
9634 the proxy weren't properly blocking alarms while registering the cleanup
9635 for its sockets. bclose() now uses pclose() and pclosesocket(). There
9636 was a bug where the client socket was being close()d twice due a still
9637 registered cleanup. [Dean Gaudet]
9639 *) A few cleanups were made to reduce time(), getpid(), and signal() calls.
9642 *) PORT: AIX >= 4.2 requires -lm due to libc changes.
9643 [Jason Venner <jason@idiom.com>] PR#667
9645 *) Enable ``=""'' for RewriteCond directives to match against
9646 the empty string. This is the preferred way instead of ``^$''.
9647 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9649 *) Fixed an infinite loop in mod_imap for references above the server root
9650 [Dean Gaudet] PR#748
9652 *) mod_proxy now has a ReceiveBufferSize directive, similar to
9653 SendBufferSize, so that the TCP window can be set appropriately
9654 for LFNs. [Phillip A. Prindeville]
9656 *) mod_browser has been replaced by the more general mod_setenvif
9657 (courtesy of Paul Sutton). BrowserMatch* directives are still
9658 available, but are now joined by SetEnvIf*, UnSetEnvIf*, and
9659 UnSetEnvIfZero directives. [Ken Coar]
9661 *) "HostnameLookups double" forces double-reverse DNS to succeed in
9662 order for remote_host to be set (for logging, or for the env var
9663 REMOTE_HOST). The old define MAXIMUM_DNS has been deprecated.
9666 *) mod_access overhaul:
9667 - Now understands network/netmask syntax (i.e. 10.1.0.0/255.255.0.0)
9668 and cidr syntax (i.e. 10.1.0.0/16). PR#762
9669 - Critical path was sped up by pre-computing a few things at config time.
9670 - The undocumented syntax "allow user-agents" was removed,
9671 the replacement is "allow from env=foobar" combined with mod_browser.
9672 - When used with hostnames it now forces a double-reverse lookup
9673 no matter what the directory settings are. This double-reverse
9674 doesn't affect any of the other routines that use the remote
9675 hostname. In particular it's still passed to CGIs and the log
9676 without the double-reverse check. Related PR#860.
9679 *) When a large bwrite() occurs (larger than the internal buffer size),
9680 while there is already something in the buffer, apache will combine
9681 the large write and the buffer into a single writev(). (This is
9682 in anticipation of using mmap() for reading files.)
9685 *) In obscure cases where a partial socket write occurred while chunking,
9686 Apache would omit the chunk header/footer on the next block. Cleaned
9687 up other bugs/inconsistencies in error conditions in buff.c. Fixed
9688 a bug where a long pause in DNS lookups could cause the last packet
9689 of a response to be unduly delayed. [Roy Fielding, Dean Gaudet]
9691 *) API: Added child_exit function to module structure. This is called
9692 once per "heavy-weight process" just before a server child exit()'s
9693 e.g. when max_requests_per_child is reached, etc.
9694 [Doug MacEachern, Dean Gaudet]
9696 *) mod_include cleanup showed that handle_else was being used to handle
9697 endif. It didn't cause problems, but it was cleaned up too.
9700 *) mod_cern_meta would attempt to find meta files for the directory itself
9701 in some cases, but not in others. It now avoids it in all cases.
9704 *) mod_mime_magic would core dump if there was a decompression error.
9705 [Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>] PR#904
9707 *) PORT: some variants of DGUX require -lsocket -lnsl
9708 [Alexander L Jones <alex@systems-options.co.uk>] PR#732
9710 *) mod_autoindex now allows sorting of FancyIndexed directory listings
9711 by the various fields (name, size, et cetera), either in ascending
9712 or descending order. Just click on the column header. [Ken Coar]
9714 *) PORT: Various tweaks to eliminate pointer-int casting warnings on 64-bit
9715 CPUs like the Alpha. Apache still stores ints in pointers, but that's
9716 the relatively safe direction. [Dean Gaudet] PR#344
9718 *) PORT: QNX mmap() support for faster/more reliable scoreboard handling.
9719 [Igor N Kovalenko <infoh@mail.wplus.net>] PR#683
9721 *) child_main avoids an unneeded call to select() when there is only one
9722 listening socket. [Dean Gaudet]
9724 *) In the event that the server is starved for idle servers it will
9725 spawn 1, then 2, then 4, ..., then 32 servers each second,
9726 doubling each second. It'll also give a warning in the errorlog
9727 since the most common reason for this is a poor StartServers
9728 setting. The define MAX_SPAWN_RATE can be used to raise/lower
9729 the maximum. [Dean Gaudet]
9731 *) Apache now provides an effectively unbuffered connection for
9732 CGI scripts. This means that data will be sent to the client
9733 as soon as the CGI pauses or stops output; previously, Apache would
9734 buffer the output up to a fixed buffer size before sending, which
9735 could result in the user viewing an empty page until the CGI finished
9736 or output a complete buffer. It is no longer necessary to use an
9737 "nph-" CGI to get unbuffered output. Given that most CGIs are written
9738 in a language that by default does buffering (e.g. perl) this
9739 shouldn't have a detrimental effect on performance.
9741 "nph-" CGIs, which formerly provided a direct socket to the client
9742 without any server post-processing, were not fully compatible with
9743 HTTP/1.1 or SSL support. As such they would have had to implement
9744 the transport details, such as encryption or chunking, in order
9745 to work properly in certain situations. Now, the only difference
9746 between nph and non-nph scripts is "non-parsed headers".
9747 [Dean Gaudet, Sameer Parekh, Roy Fielding]
9749 *) If a BUFF is switched from buffered to unbuffered reading the first
9750 bread() will return whatever remained in the buffer prior to the
9751 switch. [Dean Gaudet]
9753 Changes with Apache 1.3a1
9755 *) Added another Configure helper script: TestLib. It determines
9756 if a specified library exists. [Jim Jagielski]
9758 *) PORT: Allow for use of n32bit libraries under IRIX 6.x
9759 [derived from patch from Jeff Hayes <jhayes@aw.sgi.com>]
9762 *) PORT: Some architectures use size_t for various lengths in network
9763 functions such as accept(), and getsockname(). The definition
9764 NET_SIZE_T is used to control this. [Dean Gaudet]
9766 *) PORT: Linux: Attempt to detect glibc based systems and include crypt.h
9767 and -lcrypt. Test for various db libraries (dbm, ndbm, db) when
9768 mod_auth_dbm or mod_auth_db are included. [Dean Gaudet]
9770 *) PORT: QNX doesn't have initgroups() which support/suexec.c uses.
9771 [Igor N Kovalenko <infoh@mail.wplus.net>]
9773 *) "force-response-1.0" now only applies to requests which are HTTP/1.0 to
9774 begin with. "nokeepalive" now works for HTTP/1.1 clients. Added
9775 "downgrade-1.0" which causes Apache to pretend it received a 1.0.
9776 [Dean Gaudet] related PR#875
9778 *) API: Correct child_init() slot declaration from int to void, to
9779 match the init() declaration. Update mod_example to use the new
9782 *) added transport handle slot (t_handle) to the BUFF structure
9785 *) get_client_block() returns wrong length if policy is
9786 REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK.
9787 [Kenichi Hori <ken@d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#815
9789 *) Support the image map format of FrontPage. For example:
9790 rect /url.hrm 10 20 30 40
9791 ["Chris O'Byrne" <obyrne@iol.ie>] PR#807
9793 *) PORT: -lresolv and -lsocks were in the wrong order for Solaris.
9794 ["Darren O'Shaughnessy" <darren@aaii.oz.au>] PR#846
9796 *) AddModuleInfo directive for mod_info which allows you to annotate
9797 the output of mod_info. ["Lou D. Langholtz" <ldl@usi.utah.edu>]
9799 *) Added NoProxy directive to avoid using ProxyRemote for selected
9800 addresses. Added ProxyDomain directive to cause unqualified
9801 names to be qualified by redirection.
9802 [Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>]
9804 *) Support Proxy Authentication, and don't pass the Proxy-Authorize
9805 header to the remote host in the proxy. [Sameer Parekh and
9808 *) Upgraded mod_rewrite from 3.0.6+ to latest officially available version
9809 3.0.9. This upgrade includes: fixed deadlooping on rewriting to same
9810 URLs, fixed rewritelog(), fixed forced response code handling on
9811 redirects from within .htaccess files, disabled pipe locking under
9812 braindead SunOS 4.1.x, allow env variables to be set even on rules with
9813 no substitution, bugfixed situations where HostnameLookups is off, made
9814 mod_rewrite more thread-safe for NT port and fixed problem when creating
9815 an empty query string via "xxx?".
9816 This update also removes the copyright of Ralf S. Engelschall,
9817 i.e. now mod_rewrite no longer has a shared copyright. Instead is is
9818 exclusively copyrighted by the Apache Group now. This happened because
9819 the author now has gifted mod_rewrite exclusively to the Apache Group and
9820 no longer maintains an external version.
9821 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9823 *) API: Added child_init function to module structure. This is called
9824 once per "heavy-weight process" before any requests are handled.
9825 See http_config.h for more details. [Dean Gaudet]
9827 *) Anonymous_LogEmail was logging on each subrequest.
9828 [Dean Gaudet] PR#421, 868
9830 *) API: Added is_initial_req() which tests if the request being
9831 processed is the initial request, or a subrequest.
9834 *) Extended SSI (mod_include) now handles additional relops for
9835 string comparisons (<, >, <=, and >=). [Bruno Wolff III] PR#41
9837 *) Configure fixed to correctly propagate user-selected options and
9838 settings (such as CC and OPTIM) to Makefiles other than
9839 src/Makefile (notably support/Makefile). [Ken Coar] PR#666, #834
9841 *) IndexOptions SuppressHTMLPreamble now causes the actual HTML of
9842 directory indices to start with the contents of the HeaderName file
9843 if there is one. If there isn't one, the behaviour is unchanged.
9844 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding, Andrey A. Chernov]
9846 *) WIN32: Modules can now be dynamically loaded DLLs using the
9847 LoadModule/LoadFile directives. Note that module DLLs must be
9848 compiled with the multithreaded DLL version of the runtime library.
9849 [Alexei Kosut and Ben Laurie]
9851 *) Automatic indexing removed from mod_dir and placed into mod_autoindex.
9852 This allows the admin to completely remove automatic indexing
9853 from the server, while still supporting the basic functions of
9854 trailing-slash redirects and DirectoryIndex files. Note that if
9855 you're carrying over an old Configuration file and you use directory
9856 indexing then you'll want to add:
9858 Module autoindex_module mod_autoindex.o
9860 before mod_dir in your Configuration. [Dean Gaudet]
9862 *) popendir/pclosedir created to properly protect directory scanning.
9863 [Dean Gaudet] PR#525
9865 *) AliasMatch, ScriptAliasMatch and RedirectMatch directives added,
9866 giving regex support to mod_alias. <DirectoryMatch>, <LocationMatch>
9867 and <FilesMatch> sections added to succeed <DirectoryMatch ~>, etc...
9870 *) The AccessFileName directive can now take more than one filename.
9871 ["Lou D. Langholtz" <ldl@usi.utah.edu>]
9873 *) The new mod_mime_magic can be used to "magically" determine the type
9874 of a file if the extension is unknown. Based on the unix file(1)
9875 command. [Ian Kluft <ikluft@cisco.com>]
9877 *) We now determine and display the time spent processing a
9878 request if desired. [Jim Jagielski]
9880 *) mod_status: PID field of "dead" child slots no longer displays
9881 main httpd process's PID. [Jim Jagielski]
9883 *) Makefile.nt added - to build all the bits from the command line:
9884 nmake -f Makefile.nt
9885 Doesn't yet work properly. [Ben Laurie]
9887 *) Default text of 404 error is now "Not Found" rather than the
9888 potentially misleading "File Not Found". [Ken Coar]
9890 *) CONFIG: "HostnameLookups" now defaults to off because it is far better
9891 for the net if we require people that actually need this data to
9892 enable it. [Linus Torvalds]
9894 *) directory_walk() is an expensive function, keep a little more state to
9895 avoid needless string counting. Add two new functions make_dirstr_parent
9896 and make_dirstr_prefix which replace all existing uses of make_dirstr.
9897 The new functions are a little less general than make_dirstr, but
9898 work more efficiently (less memory, less string counting).
9901 *) EXTRA_LFLAGS was changed to EXTRA_LDFLAGS (and LFLAGS was changed
9902 to LDFLAGS) to avoid complications with lex rules in make files.
9903 [Dean Gaudet] PR#372
9905 *) run_method optimized to avoid needless scanning over NULLs in the
9906 module list. [Dean Gaudet]
9908 *) Revamp of (unix) scoreboard management code such that it avoids
9909 unnecessary traversals of the scoreboard on each hit. This is
9910 particularly important for high volume sites with a large
9911 HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. Some of the previous operations were O(n^2),
9912 and are now O(n). See also SCOREBOARD_MAINTENANCE_INTERVAL in
9913 httpd.h. [Dean Gaudet]
9915 *) In configurations using multiple Listen statements it was possible for
9916 busy sockets to starve other sockets of service. [Dean Gaudet]
9918 *) Added hook so standalone_main can be replaced at compile time
9919 (define STANDALONE_MAIN)
9922 *) Lowest-level read/write functions in buff.c will be replaced with
9923 the SFIO library calls sfread/sfwrite if B_SFIO is defined at
9924 compile time. The default sfio discipline will behave as apache
9925 would without sfio compiled in.
9928 *) Enhance UserDir directive (mod_userdir) to accept a list of
9929 usernames for the 'disable' keyword, and add 'enable user...' to
9930 selectively *en*able userdirs if they're globally disabled.
9933 *) If NETSCAPE_DBM_COMPAT is defined in EXTRA_CFLAGS then Apache
9934 will work with Netscape dbm files. (dbmmanage will probably not
9935 work however.) [Alexander Spohr <aspohr@netmatic.com>] PR#444
9937 *) Add a ListenBacklog directive to control the backlog parameter
9938 passed to listen(). Also change the default to 511 from 512.
9941 *) API: A new handler response DONE which informs apache that the
9942 request has been handled and it can finish off quickly, similar to
9943 how it handles errors. [Rob Hartill]
9945 *) Turn off chunked encoding after sending terminating chunk/footer
9946 so that we can't do it twice by accident. [Roy Fielding]
9948 *) mod_expire also issues Cache-Control: max-age headers.
9951 *) API: Added kill_only_once option for free_proc_chain so that it won't
9952 aggressively try to kill off specific children. For fastcgi.
9953 [Stanley Gambarin <gambarin@OpenMarket.com>]
9955 *) mod_auth deals with extra ':' delimited fields. [Marc Slemko]
9957 *) Added IconHeight and IconWidth to mod_dir's IndexOptions directive.
9958 When used together, these cause mod_dir to emit HEIGHT and WIDTH
9959 attributes in the FancyIndexing IMG tags. [Ken Coar]
9961 *) PORT: Sequent and SONY NEWS-OS support added. [Jim Jagielski]
9963 *) PORT: Added Windows NT support
9964 [Ben Laurie and Ambarish Malpani <ambarish@valicert.com>]
9966 Changes with Apache 1.2.6
9968 *) mod_include when using XBitHack Full would send ETags in addition to
9969 sending Last-Modifieds. This is incorrect HTTP/1.1 behaviour.
9970 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1133
9972 *) SECURITY: When a client connects to a particular port/addr, and
9973 gives a Host: header ensure that the virtual host requested can
9974 actually be reached via that port/addr. [Ed Korthof <ed@organic.com>]
9976 *) Support virtual hosts with wildcard port and/or multiple ports
9977 properly. [Ed Korthof <ed@organic.com>]
9979 *) Fixed some case-sensitivity issues according to RFC2068.
9982 *) Set r->allowed properly in mod_asis.c, mod_dir.c, mod_info.c,
9983 and mod_include.c. [Dean Gaudet]
9985 *) Variable 'cwd' was being used pointlessly before being set.
9988 *) SIGURG doesn't exist on all platforms.
9989 [Mark Andrew Heinrich <heinrich@tinderbox.Stanford.EDU>]
9991 *) When an error occurs during a POST, or other operation with a
9992 request body, the body has to be read from the net before allowing
9993 a keepalive session to continue. [Roy Fielding] PR#1399
9995 *) When an error occurs in fcntl() locking suggest the user look up
9996 the docs for LockFile. [Dean Gaudet]
9998 *) table_set() and table_unset() did not deal correctly with
9999 multiple occurrences of the same key. [Stephen Scheck
10000 <sscheck@infonex.net>, Ben Laurie] PR#1604
10002 *) send_fd_length() did not calculate total_bytes_sent properly in error
10003 cases. [Ben Reser <breser@regnow.com>] PR#1366
10005 *) r->connection->user was allocated in the wrong pool causing corruption
10006 in some cases when used with mod_cern_meta. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1500
10008 *) mod_proxy was sending HTTP/1.1 responses to ftp requests by mistake.
10009 Also removed the auto-generated link to www.apache.org that was the
10010 source of so many misdirected bug reports. [Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
10012 *) Multiple "close" tokens may have been set in the "Connection"
10013 header, not an error, but a waste.
10014 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1683
10016 *) "basic" and "digest" auth tokens should be tested case-insensitive.
10017 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1599, PR#1666
10019 *) It appears the "257th byte" bug (see
10020 htdocs/manual/misc/known_client_problems.html#257th-byte) can happen
10021 at the 256th byte as well. Fixed. [Dean Gaudet]
10023 *) mod_rewrite would not handle %3f properly in some situations.
10026 *) Apache could generate improperly chunked HTTP/1.1 responses when
10027 the bputc() or rputc() functions were used by modules (such as
10028 mod_include). [Dean Gaudet]
10030 *) #ifdef wrap a few #defines in httpd.h to make life easier on
10031 some ports. [Ralf Engelschall]
10033 *) Fix MPE compilation error in mod_usertrack.c. [Mark Bixby]
10035 *) Quote CC='$(CC)' to improve recurse make calls. [Martin Kraemer]
10037 *) Avoid B_ERROR redeclaration on sysvr4 systems. [Martin Kraemer]
10039 Changes with Apache 1.2.5
10041 *) SECURITY: Fix a possible buffer overflow in logresolve. This is
10042 only an issue on systems without a MAXDNAME define or where
10043 the resolver returns domain names longer than MAXDNAME. [Marc Slemko]
10045 *) Fix an improper length in an ap_snprintf call in proxy_date_canon().
10048 *) Fix core dump in the ftp proxy when reading incorrectly formatted
10049 directory listings. [Marc Slemko]
10051 *) SECURITY: Fix possible minor buffer overflow in the proxy cache.
10054 *) SECURITY: Eliminate possible buffer overflow in cfg_getline, which
10055 is used to read various types of files such as htaccess and
10056 htpasswd files. [Marc Slemko]
10058 *) SECURITY: Ensure that the buffer returned by ht_time is always
10059 properly null terminated. [Marc Slemko]
10061 *) SECURITY: General mod_include cleanup, including fixing several
10062 possible buffer overflows and a possible infinite loop. This cleanup
10063 was done against 1.3 code and then backported to 1.2, the result
10064 is a large difference (due to indentation cleanup in 1.3 code).
10065 Users interested in seeing a smaller set of relevant differences
10066 should consider comparing against src/modules/standard/mod_include.c
10067 from the 1.3b3 release. Non-indentation changes to mod_include
10068 between 1.2 and 1.3 were minimal. [Dean Gaudet, Marc Slemko]
10070 *) SECURITY: Numerous changes to mod_imap in a general cleanup
10071 including fixing a possible buffer overflow. This cleanup also
10072 was done with 1.3 code as a basis, see the the previous note
10073 about mod_include. [Dean Gaudet]
10075 *) SECURITY: If a htaccess file can not be read due to bad
10076 permissions, deny access to the directory with a HTTP_FORBIDDEN.
10077 The previous behavior was to ignore the htaccess file if it could not
10078 be read. This change may make some setups with unreadable
10079 htaccess files stop working. PR#817 [Marc Slemko]
10081 *) SECURITY: no2slash() was O(n^2) in the length of the input.
10082 Make it O(n). This inefficiency could be used to mount a denial
10083 of service attack against the Apache server. Thanks to
10084 Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@boss.staszic.waw.pl> for reporting
10085 this. [Dean Gaudet]
10087 *) mod_include used uninitialized data for some uses of && and ||.
10088 [Brian Slesinsky <bslesins@wired.com>] PR#1139
10090 *) mod_imap should decline all non-GET methods.
10091 [Jay Bloodworth <jay@pathways.sde.state.sc.us>]
10093 *) suexec.c wouldn't build without -DLOG_EXEC. [Jason A. Dour]
10095 *) mod_userdir was modifying r->finfo in cases where it wasn't setting
10096 r->filename. Since those two are meant to be in sync with each other
10097 this is a bug. ["Paul B. Henson" <henson@intranet.csupomona.edu>]
10099 *) mod_include did not properly handle all possible redirects from sub-
10100 requests. [Ken Coar]
10102 *) Inetd mode (which is buggy) uses timeouts without having setup the
10103 jmpbuffer. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1064
10105 *) Work around problem under Linux where a child will start looping
10106 reporting a select error over and over.
10107 [Rick Franchuk <rickf@transpect.net>] PR#1107
10109 Changes with Apache 1.2.4
10111 *) The ProxyRemote change in 1.2.3 introduced a bug resulting in the proxy
10112 always making requests with the full-URI instead of just the URI path.
10113 [Marc Slemko, Roy Fielding]
10115 *) Add -lm for AIX versions >= 4.2 to allow Apache to link properly
10116 on this platform. [Marc Slemko]
10118 Changes with Apache 1.2.3
10120 *) The request to a remote proxy was mangled if it was generated as the
10121 result of a ProxyPass directive. URL schemes other than http:// were not
10122 supported when ProxyRemote was used. PR#260, PR#656, PR#699, PR#713,
10123 PR#812 [Lars Eilebrecht]
10125 *) Fixed proxy-pass-through feature of mod_rewrite; Added error logging
10126 information for case where proxy module is not available. [Marc Slemko]
10128 *) Force proxy to always respond as HTTP/1.0, which it was failing to
10129 do for errors and cached responses. [Roy Fielding]
10131 *) PORT: Improved support for ConvexOS 11. [Jeff Venters]
10133 Changes with Apache 1.2.2 [not released]
10135 *) Fixed another long-standing bug in sub_req_lookup_file where it would
10136 happily skip past access checks on subdirectories looked up with relative
10137 paths. (It's used by mod_dir, mod_negotiation, and mod_include.)
10140 *) Add lockfile name to error message printed out when
10141 USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is defined.
10144 *) Enhanced the chunking and error handling inside the buffer functions.
10145 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding]
10147 *) When merging the main server's <Directory> and <Location> sections into
10148 a vhost, put the main server's first and the vhost's second. Otherwise
10149 the vhost can't override the main server. [Dean Gaudet] PR#717
10151 *) The <Directory> code would merge and re-merge the same section after
10152 a match was found, possibly causing problems with some modules.
10155 *) Fixed an infinite loop in mod_imap for references above the server root.
10156 [Dean Gaudet] PR#748
10158 *) mod_include cleanup showed that handle_else was being used to handle
10159 endif. It didn't cause problems, but it was cleaned up too.
10162 *) Last official synchronization of mod_rewrite with author version (because
10163 mod_rewrite is now directly developed by the author at the Apache Group):
10164 o added diff between mod_rewrite 3.0.6+ and 3.0.9
10165 minus WIN32/NT stuff, but plus copyright removement.
10167 - workaround for detecting infinite rewriting loops
10168 - fixed setting of env vars when "-" is used as subst string
10169 - fixed forced response code on redirects (PR#777)
10170 - fixed cases where r->args is ""
10171 - kludge to disable locking on pipes under braindead SunOS
10172 - fix for rewritelog in cases where remote hostname is unknown
10173 - fixed totally damaged request_rec walk-back loop
10174 o remove static from local data and add static to global ones.
10175 o replaced ugly proxy finding stuff by simple
10176 find_linked_module("mod_proxy") call.
10177 o added missing negation char on rewritelog()
10178 o fixed a few comment typos
10179 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10181 *) Anonymous_LogEmail was logging on each subrequest.
10182 [Dean Gaudet] PR#421, PR#868
10184 *) "force-response-1.0" now only applies to requests which are HTTP/1.0 to
10185 begin with. "nokeepalive" now works for HTTP/1.1 clients. Added
10186 "downgrade-1.0" which causes Apache to pretend it received a 1.0.
10187 Additionally mod_browser now triggers during translate_name to workaround
10188 a deficiency in the header_parse phase.
10189 [Dean Gaudet] PR#875
10191 *) get_client_block() returns wrong length if policy is
10192 REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK.
10193 [Kenichi Hori <ken@d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#815
10195 *) Properly treat <files> container like other containers in mod_info.
10196 [Marc Slemko] PR#848
10198 *) The proxy didn't treat the "Host:" keyword of the host header as case-
10199 insensitive. The proxy would corrupt the first line of a response from
10200 an HTTP/0.9 server. [Kenichi Hori <ken@d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#813,814
10202 *) mod_include would log some bogus values occasionally.
10203 [Skip Montanaro <skip@calendar.com>, Marc Slemko] PR#797
10205 *) PORT: The slack fd changes in 1.2.1 introduced a problem with SIGHUP
10206 under Solaris 2.x (up through 2.5.1). It has been fixed.
10207 [Dean Gaudet] PR#832
10209 *) API: In HTTP/1.1, whether or not a request message contains a body
10210 is independent of the request method and based solely on the presence
10211 of a Content-Length or Transfer-Encoding. Therefore, our default
10212 handlers need to be prepared to read a body even if they don't know
10213 what to do with it; otherwise, the body would be mistaken for the
10214 next request on a persistent connection. discard_request_body()
10215 has been added to take care of that. [Roy Fielding] PR#378
10217 *) API: Symbol APACHE_RELEASE provides a numeric form of the Apache
10218 release version number, such that it always increases along the
10219 same lines as our source code branching. [Roy Fielding]
10221 *) Minor oversight on multiple variants fixed. [Paul Sutton] PR#94
10223 Changes with Apache 1.2.1
10225 *) SECURITY: Don't serve file system objects unless they are plain files,
10226 symlinks, or directories. This prevents local users from using pipes
10227 or named sockets to invoke programs for an extremely crude form of
10230 *) SECURITY: HeaderName and ReadmeName were settable in .htaccess and
10231 could contain "../" allowing a local user to "publish" any file on
10232 the system. No slashes are allowed now. [Dean Gaudet]
10234 *) SECURITY: It was possible to violate the symlink Options using mod_dir
10235 (headers, readmes, titles), mod_negotiation (type maps), or
10236 mod_cern_meta (meta files). [Dean Gaudet]
10238 *) SECURITY: Apache will refuse to run as "User root" unless
10239 BIG_SECURITY_HOLE is defined at compile time. [Dean Gaudet]
10241 *) CONFIG: If a symlink pointed to a directory then it would be disallowed
10242 if it contained a .htaccess disallowing symlinks. This is contrary
10243 to the rule that symlink permissions are tested with the symlink
10244 options of the parent directory. [Dean Gaudet] PR#353
10246 *) CONFIG: The LockFile directive can be used to place the serializing
10247 lockfile in any location. It previously defaulted to /usr/tmp/htlock.
10248 [Somehow it took four of us: Randy Terbush, Jim Jagielski, Dean Gaudet,
10251 *) Request processing now retains state of whether or not the request
10252 body has been read, so that internal redirects and subrequests will
10253 not try to read it twice (and block). [Roy Fielding]
10255 *) Add a placeholder in modules/Makefile to avoid errors with certain
10256 makes. [Marc Slemko]
10258 *) QUERY_STRING was unescaped in mod_include, it shouldn't be.
10259 [Dean Gaudet] PR#644
10261 *) mod_include was not properly changing the current directory.
10262 [Marc Slemko] PR#742
10264 *) Attempt to work around problems with third party libraries that do not
10265 handle high numbered descriptors (examples include bind, and
10266 solaris libc). On all systems apache attempts to keep all permanent
10267 descriptors above 15 (called the low slack line). Solaris users
10268 can also benefit from adding -DHIGH_SLACK_LINE=256 to EXTRA_CFLAGS
10269 which keeps all non-FILE * descriptors above 255. On all systems
10270 this should make supporting large numbers of vhosts with many open
10271 log files more feasible. If this causes trouble please report it,
10272 you can disable this workaround by adding -DNO_SLACK to EXTRA_CFLAGS.
10273 [Dean Gaudet] various PRs
10275 *) Related to the last entry, network sockets are now opened before
10276 log files are opened. The only known case where this can cause
10277 problems is under Solaris with many virtualhosts and many Listen
10278 directives. But using -DHIGH_SLACK_LINE=256 described above will
10279 work around this problem. [Dean Gaudet]
10281 *) USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is now default for FreeBSD, A/UX, and
10284 *) Improved unix error response logging. [Marc Slemko]
10286 *) Update mod_rewrite from 3.0.5 to 3.0.6. New ruleflag
10287 QSA=query_string_append. Also fixed a nasty bug in per-dir context:
10288 when a URL http://... was used in conjunction with a special
10289 redirect flag, e.g. R=permanent, the permanent status was lost.
10290 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
10292 *) If an object has multiple variants that are otherwise equal Apache
10293 would prefer the last listed variant rather than the first.
10294 [Paul Sutton] PR#94
10296 *) "make clean" at the top level now removes *.o. [Dean Gaudet] PR#752
10298 *) mod_status dumps core in inetd mode. [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
10301 *) pregsub had an off-by-1 in its error checking code. [Alexei Kosut]
10303 *) PORT: fix rlim_t problems with AIX 4.2. [Marc Slemko] PR#333
10305 *) PORT: Update UnixWare support for 2.1.2.
10306 [Lawrence Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>] PR#511
10308 *) PORT: NonStop-UX [Joachim Schmitz <schmitz_joachim@tandem.com>] PR#327
10310 *) PORT: Update ConvexOS support for 11.5.
10311 [David DeSimone <fox@convex.com>] PR#399
10313 *) PORT: Support for DEC cc compiler under ULTRIX.
10314 ["P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia" <alejolo@ideam.gov.co>] PR#388
10316 *) PORT: Support for Maxion/OS SVR4.2 Real Time Unix. [no name given] PR#383
10318 *) PORT: Workaround for AIX 3.x compiler bug in http_bprintf.c.
10319 [Marc Slemko] PR#725
10321 *) PORT: fix problem compiling http_bprintf.c with gcc under SCO
10322 [Marc Slemko] PR#695
10324 Changes with Apache 1.2
10326 Changes with Apache 1.2b11
10328 *) Fixed open timestamp fd in proxy_cache.c [Chuck Murcko]
10330 *) Added undocumented perl SSI mechanism for -DUSE_PERL_SSI and mod_perl.
10331 [Doug MacEachern, Rob Hartill]
10333 *) Proxy needs to use hard_timeout instead of soft_timeout when it is
10334 reading from one buffer and writing to another, at least until it has
10335 a custom timeout handler. [Roy Fielding and Petr Lampa]
10337 *) Fixed problem on IRIX with servers hanging in IdentityCheck,
10338 apparently due to a mismatch between sigaction and setjmp.
10339 [Roy Fielding] PR#502
10341 *) Log correct status code if we timeout before receiving a request (408)
10342 or if we received a request-line that was too long to process (414).
10343 [Ed Korthof and Roy Fielding] PR#601
10345 *) Virtual hosts with the same ServerName, but on different ports, were
10346 not being selected properly. [Ed Korthof]
10348 *) Added code to return the requested IP address from proxy_host2addr()
10349 if gethostbyaddr() fails due to reverse DNS lookup problems. Original
10350 change submitted by Jozsef Hollosi <hollosi@sbcm.com>.
10351 [Chuck Murcko] PR#614
10353 *) If multiple requests on a single connection are used to retrieve
10354 data from different virtual hosts, the virtual host list would be
10355 scanned starting with the most recently used VH instead of the first,
10356 causing most virtual hosts to be ignored.
10357 [Paul Sutton and Martin Mares] PR#610
10359 *) The OS/2 handling of process group was broken by a porting patch for
10360 MPE, so restored prior code for OS/2. [Roy Fielding and Garey Smiley]
10362 *) Inherit virtual server port from main server if none (or "*") is
10363 given for VirtualHost. [Dean Gaudet] PR#576
10365 *) If the lookup for a DirectoryIndex name with content negotiation
10366 has found matching variants, but none are acceptable, return the
10367 negotiation result if there are no more DirectoryIndex names to lookup.
10368 [Petr Lampa and Roy Fielding]
10370 *) If a soft_timeout occurs after keepalive is set, then the main child
10371 loop would try to read another request even though the connection
10372 has been aborted. [Roy Fielding]
10374 *) Configure changes: Allow for whitespace at the start of a
10375 Module declaration. Also, be more understanding about the
10376 CC=/OPTIM= format in Configuration. Finally, fix compiler
10377 flags if using HP-UX's cc compiler. [Jim Jagielski]
10379 *) Subrequests and internal redirects now inherit the_request from the
10380 original request-line. [Roy Fielding]
10382 *) Test for error conditions before creating output header fields, since
10383 we don't want the error message to include those fields. Likewise,
10384 reset the content_language(s) and content_encoding of the response
10385 before generating or redirecting to an error message, since the new
10386 message will have its own Content-* definitions. [Dean Gaudet]
10388 *) Restored the semantics of headers_out (headers sent only with 200..299
10389 and 304 responses) and err_headers_out (headers sent with all responses).
10390 Avoid the overhead of copying tables if err_headers_out is empty
10391 (the usual case). [Roy Fielding]
10393 *) Fixed a couple places where a check for the default Content-Type was
10394 not properly checking both the value configured by the DefaultType
10395 directive and the DEFAULT_TYPE symbol in httpd.h. Changed the value
10396 of DEFAULT_TYPE to match the documented default (text/plain).
10397 [Dean Gaudet] PR#506
10399 *) Escape the HTML-sensitive characters in the Request-URI that is
10400 output for each child by mod_status. [Dean Gaudet and Ken Coar] PR#501
10402 *) Properly initialize the flock structures used by the mutex locking
10403 around accept() when USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is defined.
10406 *) The method for determining PATH_INFO has been restored to the pre-1.2b
10407 (and NCSA httpd) definition wherein it was the extra path info beyond
10408 the CGI script filename. The environment variable FILEPATH_INFO has
10409 been removed, and instead we supply the original REQUEST_URI to any
10410 script that wants to be Apache-specific and needs the real URI path.
10411 This solves a problem with existing scripts that use extra path info
10412 in the ScriptAlias directive to pass options to the CGI script.
10415 *) The _default_ change in 1.2b10 will change the behaviour on configs
10416 that use multiple Listen statements for listening on multiple ports.
10417 But that change is necessary to make _default_ consistent with other
10418 forms of <VirtualHost>. It requires such configs to be modified
10419 to use <VirtualHost _default_:*>. The documentation has been
10420 updated. [Dean Gaudet] PR#530
10422 *) If an ErrorDocument CGI script is used to respond to an error
10423 generated by another CGI script which has already read the message
10424 body of the request, the server would block trying to read the
10425 message body again. [Rob Hartill]
10427 *) signal() replacement conflicted with a define on QNX (and potentially
10428 other platforms). Fixed. [Ben Laurie] PR#512
10430 Changes with Apache 1.2b10
10432 *) Allow HTTPD_ROOT, SERVER_CONFIG_FILE, DEFAULT_PATH, and SHELL_PATH
10433 to be configured via -D in Configuration. [Dean Gaudet] PR#449
10435 *) <VirtualHost _default_:portnum> didn't work properly. [Dean Gaudet]
10437 *) Added prototype for mktemp() for SUNOS4 [Marc Slemko]
10439 *) In mod_proxy.c, check return values for proxy_host2addr() when reading
10440 config, in case the hostent struct returned is trash.
10441 [Chuck Murcko] PR #491
10443 *) Fixed the fix in 1.2b9 for parsing URL query info into args for CGI
10444 scripts. [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
10446 Changes with Apache 1.2b9 [never announced]
10448 *) Reset the MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER to account for the unsigned port
10449 changes and in anticipation of 1.2 final release. [Roy Fielding]
10451 *) Fix problem with scripts not receiving a SIGPIPE when client drops
10452 the connection (e.g., when user presses Stop). Apache will now stop
10453 trying to send a message body immediately after an error from write.
10454 [Roy Fielding and Nathan Kurz] PR#335
10456 *) Rearrange Configuration.tmpl so that mod_rewrite has higher priority
10457 than mod_alias, and mod_alias has higher priority than mod_proxy;
10458 rearranged other modules to enhance understanding of their purpose
10459 and relative order (and maybe even reduce some overhead).
10460 [Roy Fielding and Sameer Parekh]
10462 *) Fix graceful restart. Eliminate many signal-related race
10463 conditions in both forms of restart, and in SIGTERM. See
10464 htdocs/manual/stopping.html for details on stopping and
10465 restarting the parent. [Dean Gaudet]
10467 *) Fix memory leaks in mod_rewrite, mod_browser, mod_include. Tune
10468 memory allocator to avoid a behaviour that required extra blocks to
10469 be allocated. [Dean Gaudet]
10471 *) Allow suexec to access files relative to current directory but not
10472 above. (Excluding leading / or any .. directory.) [Ken Coar]
10475 *) Fix suexec segfault when group doesn't exist. [Gregory Neil Shapiro]
10476 PR#367, 368, 354, 453
10478 *) Fix the above fix: if suexec is enabled, avoid destroying r->url
10479 while obtaining the /~user and save the username in a separate data
10480 area so that it won't be overwritten by the call to getgrgid(), and
10481 fix some misuse of the pool string allocation functions. Also fixes
10482 a general problem with parsing URL query info into args for CGI scripts.
10483 [Roy Fielding] PR#339, 367, 354, 453
10485 *) Fix IRIX warning about bzero undefined. [Marc Slemko]
10487 *) Fix problem with <Directory proxy:...>. [Martin Kraemer] PR#271
10489 *) Corrected spelling of "authoritative". AuthDBAuthoratative became
10490 AuthDBAuthoritative. [Marc Slemko] PR#420
10492 *) MaxClients should be at least 1. [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#375
10494 *) The default handler now logs invalid methods or URIs (i.e. PUT on an
10495 object that can't be PUT, or FOOBAR for some method FOOBAR that
10496 apache doesn't know about at all). Log 404s that occur in mod_include.
10497 [Paul Sutton, John Van Essen]
10499 *) If a soft timeout (or lingerout) occurs while trying to flush a
10500 buffer or write inside buff.c or fread'ing from a CGI's output,
10501 then the timeout would be ignored. [Roy Fielding] PR#373
10503 *) Work around a bug in Netscape Navigator versions 2.x, 3.x and 4.0b2's
10504 parsing of headers. If the terminating empty-line CRLF occurs starting
10505 at the 256th or 257th byte of output, then Navigator will think a normal
10506 image is invalid. We are guessing that this is because their initial
10507 read of a new request uses a 256 byte buffer. We check the bytes written
10508 so far and, if we are about to tickle the bug, we instead insert a
10509 padding header of eminent bogosity. [Roy Fielding and Dean Gaudet] PR#232
10511 *) Fixed SIGSEGV problem when a DirectoryIndex file is also the source
10512 of an external redirection. [Roy Fielding and Paul Sutton]
10514 *) Configure would create a broken Makefile if the configuration file
10515 contained a commented-out Rule. [Roy Fielding]
10517 *) Promote per_dir_config and subprocess_env from the subrequest to the
10518 main request in mod_negotiation. In particular this fixes a bug
10519 where <Files> sections wouldn't properly apply to negotiated content.
10522 *) Fix a potential deadlock in mod_cgi script_err handling.
10523 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10525 *) rotatelogs zero-pads the logfile names to improve alphabetic sorting.
10526 [Mitchell Blank Jr]
10528 *) Updated mod_rewrite to 3.0.4: Fixes HTTP redirects from within
10529 .htaccess files because the RewriteBase was not replaced correctly.
10530 Updated mod_rewrite to 3.0.5: Fixes problem with rewriting inside
10531 <Directory> sections missing a trailing /. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10533 *) Clean up Linux settings in conf.h by detecting 2.x versus 1.x. For
10534 1.x the settings are those of pre-1.2b8. For 2.x we include
10535 USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD (scoreboard in shared memory rather than file) and
10536 HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H (enable the RLimit commands).
10537 [Dean Gaudet] PR#336, PR#340
10539 *) Redirect did not preserve ?query_strings when present in the client's
10540 request. [Dean Gaudet]
10542 *) Configure was finding non-modules on EXTRA_LIBS. [Frank Cringle] PR#380
10544 *) Use /bin/sh5 on ULTRIX. [P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia] PR#369
10546 *) Add UnixWare compile/install instructions. [Chuck Murcko]
10548 *) Add mod_example (illustration of API techniques). [Ken Coar]
10550 *) Add macro for memmove to conf.h for SUNOS4. [Marc Slemko]
10552 *) Improve handling of directories when filenames have spaces in them.
10555 *) For hosts with multiple IP addresses, try all additional addresses if
10556 necessary to get a connect. Fail only if hostent address list is
10557 exhausted. [Chuck Murcko]
10559 *) More signed/unsigned port fixes. [Dean Gaudet]
10561 *) HARD_SERVER_LIMIT can be defined in the Configuration file now.
10564 Changes with Apache 1.2b8
10566 *) suexec.c doesn't close the log file, allowing CGIs to continue writing
10567 to it. [Marc Slemko]
10569 *) The addition of <Location> and <File> directives made the
10570 sub_req_lookup_simple() function bogus, so we now handle
10571 the special cases directly. [Dean Gaudet]
10573 *) We now try to log where the server is dumping core when a fatal
10574 signal is received. [Ken Coar]
10576 *) Improved lingering_close by adding a special timeout, removing the
10577 spurious log messages, removing the nonblocking settings (they
10578 are not needed with the better timeout), and adding commentary
10579 about the NO_LINGCLOSE and USE_SO_LINGER issues. NO_LINGCLOSE is
10580 now the default for SunOS4, UnixWare, NeXT, and IRIX. [Roy Fielding]
10582 *) Send error messages about setsockopt failures to the server error
10583 log instead of stderr. [Roy Fielding]
10585 *) Fix loopholes in proxy cache expiry vis a vis alarms. [Brian Moore]
10587 *) Stopgap solution for CGI 3-second delay with server-side includes: if
10588 processing a subrequest, allocate memory from r->main->pool instead
10589 of r->pool so that we can avoid waiting for free_proc_chain to cleanup
10590 in the middle of an SSI request. [Dean Gaudet] PR #122
10592 *) Fixed status of response when POST is received for a nonexistent URL
10593 (was sending 405, now 404) and when any method is sent with a
10594 full-URI that doesn't match the server and the server is not acting
10595 as a proxy (was sending 501, now 403). [Roy Fielding]
10597 *) Host port changed to unsigned short. [Ken Coar] PR #276
10599 *) Fix typo in command definition of AuthAuthoritative. [Ken Coar] PR #246
10601 *) Defined USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD for shared memory on Linux. [Dean Gaudet]
10603 *) Report extra info from errno with many errors that cause httpd to exit.
10604 spawn_child, popenf, and pclosef now have valid errno returns in the
10605 event of an error. Correct problems where errno was stomped on
10606 before being reported. [Dean Gaudet]
10608 *) In the proxy, if the cache filesystem was full, garbage_coll() was
10609 never called, and thus the filesystem would remain full indefinitely.
10610 We now also remove incomplete cache files left if the origin server
10611 didn't send a Content-Length header and either the client has aborted
10612 transfer or bwrite() to client has failed. [Petr Lampa]
10614 *) Fixed the handling of module and script-added header fields.
10615 Improved the interface for sending header fields and reduced
10616 the duplication of code between sending okay responses and errors.
10617 We now always send both headers_out and err_headers_out, and
10618 ensure that the server-reserved fields are not being overridden,
10619 while not overriding those that are not reserved. [Roy Fielding]
10621 *) Moved transparent content negotiation fields to err_headers_out
10622 to reflect above changes. [Petr Lampa]
10624 *) Fixed the determination of whether or not we should make the
10625 connection persistent for all of the cases where some other part
10626 of the server has already indicated that we should not. Also
10627 improved the ordering of the test so that chunked encoding will
10628 be set whenever it is desired instead of only when KeepAlive
10629 is enabled. Added persistent connection capability for most error
10630 responses (those that do not indicate a bad input stream) when
10631 accessed by an HTTP/1.1 client. [Roy Fielding]
10633 *) Added missing timeouts for sending header fields, error responses,
10634 and the last chunk of chunked encoding, each of which could have
10635 resulted in a process being stuck in write forever. Using soft_timeout
10636 requires that the sender check for an aborted connection rather than
10637 continuing after an EINTR. Timeouts that used to be initiated before
10638 send_http_header (and never killed) are now initiated only within or
10639 around the routines that actually do the sending, and not allowed to
10640 propagate above the caller. [Roy Fielding]
10642 *) mod_auth_anon required an @ or a . in the email address, not both.
10645 *) per_dir_defaults weren't set correctly until directory_walk for
10646 name-based vhosts. This fixes an obscure bug with the wrong config
10647 info being used for vhosts that share the same ip as the server.
10650 *) Improved generation of modules/Makefile to be more generic for
10651 new module directories. [Ken Coar, Chuck Murcko, Roy Fielding]
10653 *) Generate makefile dependency for Configuration based on the actual
10654 name given when running the Configure process. [Dean Gaudet]
10656 *) Fixed problem with vhost error log not being set prior to
10657 initializing virtual hosts. [Dean Gaudet]
10659 *) Fixed infinite loop when a trailing slash is included after a type map
10660 file URL (extra path info). [Petr Lampa]
10662 *) Fixed server status updating of per-connection counters. [Roy Fielding]
10664 *) Add documentation for DNS issues (reliability and security), and try
10665 to explain the virtual host matching process. [Dean Gaudet]
10667 *) Try to continue gracefully by disabling the vhost if a DNS lookup
10668 fails while parsing the configuration file. [Dean Gaudet]
10670 *) Improved calls to setsockopt. [Roy Fielding]
10672 *) Negotiation changes: Don't output empty content-type in variant list;
10673 Output charset in variant list; Return sooner from handle_multi() if
10674 no variants found; Add handling of '*' wildcard in Accept-Charset.
10675 [Petr Lampa and Paul Sutton]
10677 *) Fixed overlaying of request/sub-request notes and headers in
10678 mod_negotiation. [Dean Gaudet]
10680 *) If two variants' charset quality are equal and one is the default
10681 charset (iso-8859-1), then prefer the variant that was specifically
10682 listed in Accept-Charset instead of the default. [Petr Lampa]
10684 *) Memory allocation problem in push_array() -- it would corrupt memory
10685 when nalloc==0. [Kai Risku <krisku@tf.hut.fi> and Roy Fielding]
10687 *) invoke_handler() doesn't handle mime arguments in content-type
10688 [Petr Lampa] PR#160
10690 *) Reduced IdentityCheck timeout to 30 seconds, as per RFC 1413 minimum.
10693 *) Fixed problem with ErrorDocument not working for virtual hosts
10694 due to one of the performance changes in 1.2b7. [Dean Gaudet]
10696 *) Log an error message if we get a request header that is too long,
10697 since it may indicate a buffer overflow attack. [Marc Slemko]
10699 *) Made is_url() allow "[-.+a-zA-Z0-9]+:" as a valid scheme and
10700 not reject URLs without a double-slash, as per RFC2068 section 3.2.
10701 [Ken Coar] PR #146, #187
10703 *) Added table entry placeholder for new header_parser callback
10704 in all of the distributed modules. [Ken Coar] PR #191
10706 *) Allow for cgi files without the .EXE extension on them under OS/2.
10707 [Garey Smiley] PR #59
10709 *) Fixed error message when resource is not found and URL contains
10710 path info. [Petr Lampa and Dean Gaudet] PR #40
10712 *) Fixed user and server confusion over what should be a virtual host
10713 and what is the main server, resulting in access to something
10714 other than the name defined in the virtualhost directive (but
10715 with the same IP address) failing. [Dean Gaudet]
10717 *) Updated mod_rewrite to version 3.0.2, which: fixes compile error on
10718 AIX; improves the redirection stuff to enable the users to generally
10719 redirect to http, https, gopher and ftp; added TIME variable for
10720 RewriteCond which expands to YYYYMMDDHHMMSS strings and added the
10721 special patterns >STRING, <STRING and =STRING to RewriteCond, which
10722 can be used in conjunction with %{TIME} or other variables to create
10723 time-dependent rewriting rules. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10725 *) bpushfd() no longer notes cleanups for the file descriptors it is handed.
10726 Module authors may need to adjust their code for proper cleanup to take
10727 place (that is, call note_cleanups_for_fd()). This change fixes problems
10728 with file descriptors being erroneously closed when the proxy module was
10729 in use. [Ben Laurie]
10731 *) Fix bug in suexec reintroduced by changes in 1.2b7 which allows
10732 initgroups() to hose the group information needed for later
10733 comparisons. [Randy Terbush]
10735 *) Remove unnecessary call to va_end() in create_argv() which
10736 caused a SEGV on some systems.
10738 *) Use proper MAXHOSTNAMELEN symbol for limiting length of server name.
10741 *) Clear memory allocated for listeners. [Randy Terbush]
10743 *) Improved handling of IP address as a virtualhost address and
10744 introduced "_default_" as a synonym for the default vhost config.
10745 [Dean Gaudet] PR #212
10747 Changes with Apache 1.2b7
10749 *) Port to UXP/DS(V20) [Toshiaki Nomura <nom@yk.fujitsu.co.jp>]
10751 *) unset Content-Length if chunked (RFC-2068) [Petr Lampa]
10753 *) mod_negotiation fixes [Petr Lampa] PR#157, PR#158, PR#159
10754 - replace protocol response numbers with symbols
10755 - save variant-list into main request notes
10756 - free allocated memory from subrequests
10757 - merge notes, headers_out and err_headers_out
10759 *) changed status check mask in proxy_http.c from "HTTP/#.# ### *" to
10760 "HTTP/#.# ###*" to be more lenient about what we accept.
10763 *) more proxy FTP bug fixes:
10764 - Changed send_dir() to remove user/passwd from displayed URL.
10765 - Changed login error messages to be more descriptive.
10766 - remove setting of SO_DEBUG socket option
10767 - Make ftp_getrc() more lenient about multiline responses,
10768 specifically, 230 responses which don't have continuation 230-
10769 on each line). These seem to be all NT FTP servers, and while
10770 perhaps questionable, they appear to be legal by RFC 959.
10771 - Add missing kill_timeout() after transfer to user completes.
10774 *) Fixed problem where a busy server could hang when restarting
10775 after being sent a SIGHUP due to child processes not exiting.
10778 *) Modify mod_include escaping so a '\' only signifies an escaped
10779 character if the next character is one that needs
10780 escaping. [Ben Laurie]
10782 *) Eliminated possible infinite loop in mod_imap when relative URLs are
10783 used with a 'base' directive that does not have a '/' in it.
10784 [Marc Slemko, reported by Onno Witvliet <onno@tc.hsa.nl>]
10786 *) Reduced the default timeout from 1200 seconds to 300, and the
10787 one in the sample configfile from 400 to 300. [Marc Slemko]
10789 *) Stop vbprintf from crashing if given a NULL string pointer;
10790 print (null) instead. [Ken Coar]
10792 *) Don't disable Nagle algorithm if system doesn't have TCP_NODELAY.
10793 [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
10795 *) Fixed problem with mod_cgi-generated internal redirects trying to
10796 read the request message-body twice. [Archie Cobbs and Roy Fielding]
10798 *) Reduced timeout on lingering close, removed possibility of a blocked
10799 read causing the child to hang, and stopped logging of errors if
10800 the socket is not connected (reset by client). [Roy Fielding]
10802 *) Rearranged main child loop to remove duplication of code in
10803 select/accept and keep-alive requests, fixed several bugs regarding
10804 checking scoreboard_image for exit indication and failure to
10805 account for all success conditions and trap all error conditions,
10806 prevented multiple flushes before closing the socket; close the entire
10807 socket buffer instead of just one descriptor, prevent logging of
10808 EPROTO and ECONNABORTED on platforms where supported, and generally
10809 improved readability. [Roy Fielding]
10811 *) Extensive performance improvements. Cleaned up inefficient use of
10812 auto initializers, multiple is_matchexp calls on a static string,
10813 and excessive merging of response_code_strings. [Dean Gaudet]
10815 *) Added double-buffering to mod_include to improve performance on
10816 server-side includes. [Marc Slemko]
10818 *) Several fixes for suexec wrapper. [Randy Terbush]
10819 - Make wrapper work for files on NFS filesystem.
10820 - Fix portability problem of MAXPATHLEN.
10821 - Fix array overrun problem in clean_env().
10822 - Fix allocation of PATH environment variable
10824 *) Removed extraneous blank line is description of mod_status chars.
10827 *) Logging of errors from the call_exec routine simply went nowhere,
10828 since the logfile fd has been closed, so now we send them to stderr.
10829 [Harald T. Alvestrand]
10831 *) Fixed core dump when DocumentRoot is a CGI.
10832 [Ben Laurie, reported by geddis@tesserae.com]
10834 *) Fixed potential file descriptor leak in mod_asis; updated it and
10835 http_core to use pfopen/pfclose instead of fopen/fclose.
10836 [Randy Terbush and Roy Fielding]
10838 *) Fixed handling of unsigned ints in ap_snprintf() on some chips such
10839 as the DEC Alpha which is 64-bit but uses 32-bit ints.
10840 [Dean Gaudet and Ken Coar]
10842 *) Return a 302 response code to the client when sending a redirect
10843 due to a missing trailing '/' on a directory instead of a 301; now
10844 it is cacheable. [Markus Gyger]
10846 *) Fix condition where, if a bad directive occurs in .htaccess, and
10847 sub_request() goes first to this directory, then log_reason() will
10848 SIGSEGV because it doesn't have initialized r->per_dir_config.
10849 [PR#162 from Petr Lampa, fix by Marc Slemko and Dean Gaudet]
10851 *) Fix handling of lang_index in is_variant_better(). This was
10852 causing problems which resulted in the server sending the
10853 wrong language document in some cases. [Petr Lampa]
10855 *) Remove free() from clean_env() in suexec wrapper. This was nuking
10856 the clean environment on some systems.
10858 *) Tweak byteserving code (e.g. serving PDF files) to work around
10859 bugs in Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
10860 Emit Content-Length header when sending multipart/byteranges.
10863 *) Port to HI-UX/WE2. [Nick Maclaren]
10865 *) Port to HP MPE operating system for HP 3000 machines
10866 [Mark Bixby <markb@cccd.edu>]
10868 *) Fixed bug which caused a segmentation fault if only one argument
10869 given to RLimit* directives. [Ed Korthof]
10871 *) Continue persistent connection after 204 or 304 response. [Dean Gaudet]
10873 *) Improved buffered output to the client by delaying the flush decision
10874 until the BUFF code is actually about to read the next request.
10875 This fixes a problem introduced in 1.2b5 with clients that send
10876 an extra CRLF after a POST request. Also improved chunked output
10877 performance by combining writes using writev() and removing as
10878 many bflush() calls as possible. NOTE: Platforms without writev()
10879 must add -DNO_WRITEV to the compiler CFLAGS, either in Configuration
10880 or Configure, unless we have already done so. [Dean Gaudet]
10882 *) Fixed mod_rewrite bug which truncated the rewritten URL [Marc Slemko]
10884 *) Fixed mod_info output corruption bug introduced by buffer overflow
10885 fixes. [Dean Gaudet]
10887 *) Fixed http_protocol to correctly output all HTTP/1.1 headers, including
10888 for the special case of a 304 response. [Paul Sutton]
10890 *) Improved handling of TRACE method by bypassing normal method handling
10891 and header parsing routines; fixed Allow response to always allow TRACE.
10894 *) Fixed compiler warnings in the regex library. [Dean Gaudet]
10896 *) Cleaned-up some of the generated HTML. [Ken Coar]
10898 Changes with Apache 1.2b6
10900 *) Allow whitespace in imagemap mapfile coordinates. [Marc Slemko]
10902 *) Fix typo introduced in fix for potential infinite loop around
10903 accept() in child_main(). This change caused the rev to 1.2b6.
10904 1.2b5 was never a public beta.
10906 Changes with Apache 1.2b5
10908 *) Change KeepAlive semantics (On|Off instead of a number), add
10909 MaxKeepAliveRequests directive. [Alexei Kosut]
10911 *) Various NeXT compilation patches, as well as a change in
10912 regex/regcomp.c since that file also used a NEXT define.
10915 *) Allow * to terminate the end of a directory match in mod_dir.
10916 Allows /~* to match for both /~joe and /~joe/. [David Bronder]
10918 *) Don't call can_exec() if suexec_enabled. Calling this requires
10919 scripts executed by the suexec wrapper to be world executable, which
10920 defeats one of the advantages of running the wrapper. [Randy Terbush]
10922 *) Portability Fix: IRIX complained with 'make clean' about *pure* (removed)
10925 *) Migration from sprintf() to snprintf() to avoid buffer
10926 overflows. [Marc Slemko]
10928 *) Provide portable snprintf() implementation (ap_snprintf)
10929 as well as *cvt family. [Jim Jagielski]
10931 *) Portability Fix: NeXT lacks unistd.h so we wrap it's inclusion
10934 *) Remove mod_fastcgi.c from the distribution. This module appears
10935 to be maintained more through the Open Market channels and should
10936 continue to be easily available at http://www.fastcgi.com/
10938 *) Fixed bug in modules/Makefile that wouldn't allow building in more
10939 than one subdirectory (or cleaning, either). [Jeremy Laidman]
10941 *) mod_info assumed that the config files were relative to ServerRoot.
10944 *) CGI scripts called as an error document resulting from failed
10945 CGI execution would hang waiting for POST'ed data. [Rob Hartill]
10947 *) Log reason when mod_dir returns access HTTP_FORBIDDEN
10950 *) Properly check errno to prevent display of a directory index
10951 when server receives a long enough URL to confuse stat().
10954 *) Several security enhancements to suexec wrapper. It is _highly_
10955 recommended that previously installed versions of the wrapper
10956 be replaced with this version. [Randy Terbush, Jason Dour]
10958 - ~user execution now properly restricted to ~user's home
10959 directory and below.
10960 - execution restricted to UID/GID > 100
10961 - restrict passed environment to known variables
10962 - call setgid() before initgroups() (portability fix)
10963 - remove use of setenv() (portability fix)
10965 *) Add HTTP/1.0 response forcing. [Ben Laurie]
10967 *) Add access control via environment variables. [Ben Laurie]
10969 *) Add rflush() function. [Alexei Kosut]
10971 *) remove duplicate pcalloc() call in new_connection().
10973 *) Fix incorrect comparison which could allow number of children =
10974 MaxClients + 1 if less than HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. Also fix potential
10975 problem if StartServers > HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. [Ed Korthof]
10977 *) Updated support for OSes (MachTen, ULTRIX, Paragon, ISC, OpenBSD
10978 AIX PS/2, CONVEXOS. [Jim Jagielski]
10980 *) Replace instances of inet_ntoa() with inet_addr() for ProxyBlock.
10981 It's more portable. [Martin Kraemer]
10983 *) Replace references to make in Makefile.tmpl with $(MAKE).
10986 *) Add ProxyBlock directive w/IP address caching. Add IP address
10987 caching to NoCache directive as well. ProxyBlock works with all
10988 handlers; NoCache now also works with FTP for anonymous logins.
10989 Still more code cleanup. [Chuck Murcko]
10991 *) Add "header parse" API hook [Ben Laurie]
10993 *) Fix byte ordering problems for REMOTE_PORT [Chuck Murcko]
10995 *) suEXEC wrapper was freeing memory that had not been malloc'ed.
10997 *) Correctly allow access and auth directives in <Files> sections in
10998 server config files. [Alexei Kosut]
11000 *) Fix bug with ServerPath that could cause certain files to be not
11001 found by the server. [Alexei Kosut]
11003 *) Fix handling of ErrorDocument so that it doesn't remove a trailing
11004 double-quote from text and so that it properly checks for unsupported
11005 status codes using the new index_of_response interface. [Roy Fielding]
11007 *) Multiple fixes to the lingering_close code in order to avoid being
11008 interrupted by a stray timeout, to avoid lingering on a connection
11009 that has already been aborted or never really existed, to ensure that
11010 we stop lingering as soon as any error condition is received, and to
11011 prevent being stuck indefinitely if the read blocks. Also improves
11012 reporting of error conditions. [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
11014 *) Fixed initialization of parameter structure for sigaction.
11015 [mgyger@itr.ch, Adrian Filipi-Martin]
11017 *) Fixed reinitializing the parameters before each call to accept and
11018 select, and removed potential for infinite loop in accept.
11019 [Roy Fielding, after useful PR from adrian@virginia.edu]
11021 *) Fixed condition where, if a child fails to fork, the scoreboard would
11022 continue to say SERVER_STARTING forever. Eventually, the main process
11023 would refuse to start new children because count_idle_servers() will
11024 count those SERVER_STARTING entries and will always report that there
11025 are enough idle servers. [Phillip Vandry]
11027 *) Fixed bug in bcwrite regarding failure to account for partial writes.
11028 Avoided calling bflush() when the client is pipelining requests.
11029 Removed unnecessary flushes from http_protocol. [Dean Gaudet]
11031 *) Added description of "." mode in server-status [Jim Jagielski]
11033 Changes with Apache 1.2b4
11035 *) Fix possible race condition in accept_mutex_init() that
11036 could leave a small security hole open allowing files to be
11037 overwritten in cases where the server UID has write permissions.
11040 *) Fix awk compatibilty problem in Configure. [Jim Jagielski]
11042 *) Fix portablity problem in util_script where ARG_MAX may not be
11043 defined for some systems.
11045 *) Add changes to allow compilation on Machten 4.0.3 for PowerPC.
11048 *) OS/2 changes to support an MMAP style scoreboard file and UNIX
11049 style magic #! token for better script portability. [Garey Smiley]
11051 *) Fix bug in suexec wrapper introduced in b3 that would cause failed
11052 execution for ~userdir CGI. [Jason Dour]
11054 *) Fix initgroups() business in suexec wrapper. [Jason Dour]
11056 *) Fix month off by one in suexec wrapper logging.
11058 Changes with Apache 1.2b3:
11060 *) Fix error in mod_cgi which could cause resources not to be properly
11061 freed, or worse. [Dean Gaudet]
11063 *) Fix find_string() NULL pointer dereference. [Howard Fear]
11065 *) Add set_flag_slot() at the request of Dirk and others.
11068 *) Sync mod_rewrite with patch level 10. [Ralf Engelschall]
11070 *) Add changes to improve the error message given for invalid
11071 ServerName parameters. [Dirk vanGulik]
11073 *) Add "Authoritative" directive for Auth modules that don't
11074 currently have it. This gives admin control to assign authoritative
11075 control to an authentication scheme and allow "fall through" for
11076 those authentication modules that aren't "Authoritative" thereby
11077 allowing multiple authentication mechanisms to be chained.
11080 *) Remove requirement for ResourceConfig/AccessConfig if not using
11081 the three config file layout. [Randy Terbush]
11083 *) Add PASV mode to mod_proxy FTP handler. [Chuck Murcko]
11085 *) Changes to suexec wrapper to fix the following problems:
11086 1. symlinked homedirs will kill ~userdirs.
11087 2. initgroups() on Linux 2.0.x clobbers gr->grid.
11088 3. CGI command lines paramters problems
11089 4. pw-pwdir for "docroot check" still the httpd user's pw record.
11090 [Randy Terbush, Jason Dour]
11092 *) Change create_argv() to accept variable arguments. This fixes
11093 a problem where arguments were not getting passed to the CGI via
11094 argv[] when the suexec wrapper was active. [Randy Terbush, Jake Buchholz]
11096 *) Collapse multiple slashes in path URLs to properly apply
11097 handlers defined by <Location>. [Alexei Kosut]
11099 *) Define a sane set of DEFAULT_USER and DEFAULT_GROUP values for AIX.
11101 *) Improve the accuracy of request duration timings by setting
11102 r->request_time in read_request_line() instead of read_request().
11105 *) Reset timeout while reading via get_client_block() in mod_cgi.c
11106 Fixes problem with timed out transfers of large files. [Rasmus Lerdorf]
11108 *) Add the ability to pass different Makefile.tmpl files to Configure
11109 using the -make flag. [Rob Hartill]
11111 *) Fix coredump triggered when sending a SIGHUP to the server caused
11112 by an assertion failure, in turn caused by an uninitialised field in a
11116 *) Add FILEPATH_INFO variable to CGI environment, which is equal to
11117 PATH_INFO from previous versions of Apache (in certain situations,
11118 Apache 1.2's PATH_INFO will be different than 1.1's). [Alexei Kosut]
11119 [later removed in 1.2b11]
11121 *) Add rwrite() function to API to allow for sending strings of
11122 arbitrary length. [Doug MacEachern]
11124 *) Remove rlim_t typedef for NetBSD. Do older versions need this?
11126 *) Defined rlim_t and WANTHSREGEX=yes and fixed waitpid() substitute for
11127 NeXT. [Jim Jagielski]
11129 *) Removed recent modification to promote the status code on internal
11130 redirects, since the correct fix was to change the default log format
11131 in mod_log_config so that it outputs the original status. [Rob Hartill]
11133 Changes with Apache 1.2b2:
11135 *) Update set_signals() to use sigaction() for setting handlers.
11136 This appears to fix a re-entrant problem in the seg_fault()
11137 bus_error() handlers. [Randy Terbush]
11139 *) Changes to allow mod_status compile for OS/2 [Garey Smiley]
11141 *) changes for DEC AXP running OSF/1 v3.0. [Marc Evans]
11143 *) proxy_http.c bugfixes: [Chuck Murcko]
11144 1) fixes possible NULL pointer reference w/NoCache
11145 2) fixes NoCache behavior when using ProxyRemote (ProxyRemote
11146 host would cache nothing if it was in the local domain,
11147 and the local domain was in the NoCache list)
11148 3) Adds Host: header when not available
11149 4) Some code cleanup and clarification
11151 *) mod_include.c bugfixes:
11152 1) Fixed an ommission that caused include variables to not
11153 be parsed in config errmsg directives [Howard Fear]
11154 2) Remove HAVE_POSIX_REGEX cruft [Alexei Kosut]
11155 3) Patch to fix compiler warnings [perrot@lal.in2p3.fr]
11156 4) Allow backslash-escaping to all quoted text
11157 [Ben Yoshino <ben@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu>]
11158 5) Pass variable to command line if not set in XSSI's env
11161 *) Fix infinite loop when processing Content-language lines in
11162 type-map files. [Alexei Kosut]
11164 *) Closed file-globbing hole in test-cgi script. [Brian Behlendorf]
11166 *) Fixed problem in set_[user|group] that prevented CGI execution
11167 for non-virtualhosts when suEXEC was enabled. [Randy Terbush]
11169 *) Added PORTING information file. [Jim Jagielski]
11171 *) Added definitions for S_IWGRP and S_IWOTH to conf.h [Ben Laurie]
11173 *) Changed default group to "nogroup" instead of "nobody" [Randy Terbush]
11175 *) Fixed define typo of FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT where
11176 USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT was intended.
11178 *) Fixed additional uses of 0xffffffff where INADDR_NONE was intended,
11179 which caused problems of systems where socket s_addr is >32bits.
11181 *) Added comment to explain (r->chunked = 1) side-effect in
11182 http_protocol.c [Roy Fielding]
11184 *) Replaced use of index() in mod_expires.c with more appropriate
11185 and portable isdigit() test. [Ben Laurie]
11187 *) Updated Configure for ...
11188 OS/2 (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes, other code changes)
11189 *-dg-dgux* (bad pattern match)
11190 QNX (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes)
11191 *-sunos4* (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes, -DUSEBCOPY)
11193 *-unixware211 (new)
11194 and added some user diagnostic info. [Ben Laurie]
11196 *) In helpers/CutRule, replaced "cut" invocation with "awk" invocation
11197 for better portability. [Jim Jagielski]
11199 *) Updated helpers/GuessOS for ...
11200 SCO 5 (recognize minor releases)
11201 SCO UnixWare (braindamaged uname, whatever-whatever-unixware2)
11202 SCO UnixWare 2.1.1 (requires a separate set of #defines in conf.h)
11203 IRIX64 (-sgi-irix64)
11204 ULTRIX (-unknown-ultrix)
11205 SINIX (-whatever-sysv4)
11206 NCR Unix (-ncr-sysv4)
11207 and fixed something in helpers/PrintPath [Ben Laurie]
11209 Changes with Apache 1.2b1
11211 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_2.html>
11213 Changes with Apache 1.1.1
11215 *) Fixed bug where Cookie module would make two entries in the
11216 logfile for each access [Mark Cox]
11218 *) Fixed bug where Redirect in .htaccess files would cause memory
11219 leak. [Nathan Neulinger]
11221 *) MultiViews now works correctly with AddHandler [Alexei Kosut]
11223 *) Problems with mod_auth_msql fixed [Dirk vanGulik]
11225 *) Fix misspelling of "Anonymous_Authorative" directive in mod_auth_anon.
11227 Changes with Apache 1.1.0
11229 *) Bring NeXT support up to date. [Takaaki Matsumoto]
11231 *) Bring QNX support up to date. [Ben Laurie]
11233 *) Make virtual hosts default to main server keepalive parameters.
11234 [Alexei Kosut, Ben Laurie]
11236 *) Allow ScanHTMLTitles to work with lowercase <title> tags. [Alexei Kosut]
11238 *) Fix missing address family for connect, also remove unreachable statement
11239 in mod_proxy. [Ben Laurie]
11241 *) mod_env now turned on by default in Configuration.tmpl.
11243 *) Bugs which were fixed:
11244 a) yet more mod_proxy bugs [Ben Laurie]
11245 b) CGI works again with inetd [Alexei Kosut]
11246 c) Leading colons were stripped from passwords [osm@interguide.com]
11247 d) Another fix to multi-method Limit problem [jk@tools.de]
11249 Changes with Apache 1.1b4
11251 *) r->bytes_sent variable restored. [Robert Thau]
11253 *) Previously broken multi-method <Limit> parsing fixed. [Robert Thau]
11255 *) More possibly unsecure programs removed from the support directory.
11257 *) More mod_auth_msql authentication improvements.
11259 *) VirtualHosts based on Host: headers no longer conflict with the
11262 *) OS/2 compatibility enhancements. [Gary Smiley]
11264 *) POST now allowed to directory index CGI scripts.
11266 *) Actions now work with files of the default type.
11268 *) Bugs which were fixed:
11269 a) more mod_proxy bugs
11270 b) early termination of inetd requests
11271 c) compile warnings on several systems
11272 d) problems when scripts stop reading output early
11274 Changes with Apache 1.1b3
11276 *) Much of cgi-bin and all of cgi-src has been removed, due to
11277 various security holes found and that we could no longer support
11280 *) The "Set-Cookie" header is now special-cased to not merge multiple
11281 instances, since certain popular browsers can not handle multiple
11282 Set-Cookie instructions in a single header. [Paul Sutton]
11284 *) rprintf() added to buffer code, occurrences of sprintf removed.
11287 *) CONNECT method for proxy module, which means tunneling SSL should work.
11288 (No crypto needed) Also a NoCache config directive.
11290 *) Several API additions: pstrndup(), table_unset() and get_token()
11291 functions now available to modules.
11293 *) mod_imap fixups, in particular Location: headers are now complete
11296 *) New "info" module which reports on installed module set through a
11297 special URL, a la mod_status.
11299 *) "ServerPath" directive added - allows for graceful transition
11300 for Host:-header-based virtual hosts.
11302 *) Anonymous authentication module improvements.
11304 *) MSQL authentication module improvements.
11306 *) Status module design improved - output now table-based. [Ben Laurie]
11308 *) htdigest utility included for use with digest authentication
11311 *) mod_negotiation: Accept values with wildcards to be treated with
11312 less priority than those without wildcards at the same quality
11313 value. [Alexei Kosut]
11315 *) Bugs which were fixed:
11316 a) numerous mod_proxy bugs
11317 b) CGI early-termination bug [Ben Laurie]
11318 c) Keepalives not working with virtual hosts
11319 d) RefererIgnore problems
11320 e) closing fd's twice in mod_include (causing core dumps on
11321 Linux and elsewhere).
11323 Changes with Apache 1.1b2
11326 a) core dumps in mod_digest
11327 b) truncated hostnames/ip address in the logs
11328 c) relative URL's in mod_imap map files
11330 Changes with Apache 1.1b1
11332 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_1.html>
11334 Changes with Apache 1.0.3
11336 *) Internal redirects which occur in mod_dir.c now preserve the
11337 query portion of a request (the bit after the question mark).
11340 *) Escape active characters '<', '>' and '&' in html output in
11341 directory listings, error messages and redirection links.
11344 *) Apache will now work with LynxOS 2.3 and later [Steven Watt]
11346 *) Fix for POSIX compliance in waiting for processes in alloc.c.
11349 *) setsockopt no longer takes a const declared argument [Martijn Koster]
11351 *) Reset timeout timer after each successful fwrite() to the network.
11352 This patch adds a reset_timeout() procedure that is called by
11353 send_fd() to reset the timeout ever time data is written to the net.
11356 *) timeout() signal handler now checks for SIGPIPE and reports
11357 lost connections in a more user friendly way. [Rob Hartill]
11359 *) Location of the "scoreboard" file which used to live in /tmp is
11360 now configurable (for OSes that can't use mmap) via ScoreBoardFile
11361 which works similar to PidFile (in httpd.conf) [Rob Hartill]
11363 *) Include sys/resource.h in the correct place for SunOS4 [Sameer Parekh]
11365 *) the pstrcat call in mod_cookies.c didn't have an ending NULL,
11366 which caused a SEGV with cookies enabled
11368 *) Output warning when MinSpareServers is set to <= 0 and change it to 1
11371 *) Log the UNIX textual error returned by some system calls, in
11372 particular errors from accept() [David Robinson]
11374 *) Add strerror function to util.c for SunOS4 [Randy Terbush]
11376 Changes with Apache 1.0.2
11378 *) patch to get Apache compiled on UnixWare 2.x, recommended as
11379 a temporary measure, pending rewrite of rfc931.c. [Chuck Murcko]
11381 *) Fix get_basic_auth_pw() to set the auth_type of the request.
11384 *) past changes to http_config.c to only use the
11385 setrlimit function on systems defining RLIMIT_NOFILE
11386 broke the feature on SUNOS4. Now defines HAVE_RESOURCE
11387 for SUNOS and prototypes the needed functions.
11389 *) Remove uses of MAX_STRING_LEN/HUGE_STRING_LEN from several routines.
11392 *) Fix use of pointer to scratch memory. [Cliff Skolnick]
11394 *) Merge multiple headers from CGI scripts instead of taking last
11395 one. [David Robinson]
11397 *) Add support for SCO 5. [Ben Laurie]
11399 Changes with Apache 1.0.1
11401 *) Silence mod_log_referer and mod_log_agent if not configured
11404 *) Recursive includes can occur if the client supplies PATH_INFO data
11405 and the server provider uses relative links; as file.html
11406 relative to /doc.shtml/pathinfo is /doc.shtml/file.html. [David Robinson]
11408 *) The replacement for initgroups() did not call {set,end}grent(). This
11409 had two implications: if anything else used getgrent(), then
11410 initgroups() would fail, and it was consuming a file descriptor.
11413 *) On heavily loaded servers it was possible for the scoreboard to get
11414 out of sync with reality, as a result of a race condition.
11415 The observed symptoms are far more Apaches running than should
11416 be, and heavy system loads, generally followed by catastrophic
11417 system failure. [Ben Laurie]
11419 *) Fix typo in license. [David Robinson]
11421 Changes with Apache 1.0.0 23 Nov 1995
11423 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_0.html>
11425 Changes with Apache 0.8.16 05 Nov 1995
11427 *) New man page for 'httpd' added to support directory [David Robinson]
11429 *) .htgroup files can have more than one line giving members for a
11430 given group (each must have the group name in front), for NCSA
11431 back-compatibility [Robert Thau]
11433 *) Mutual exclusion around accept() is on by default for SVR4 systems
11434 generally, since they generally can't handle multiple processes in
11435 accept() on the same socket. This should cure flaky behavior on
11436 a lot of those systems. [David Robinson]
11438 *) AddType, AddEncoding, and AddLanguage directives take multiple
11439 extensions on a single command line [David Robinson]
11441 *) UserDir can be disabled for a given virtual host by saying
11442 "UserDir disabled" in the <VirtualHost> section --- it was a bug
11443 that this didn't work. [David Robinson]
11445 *) Compiles on QNX [Ben Laurie]
11447 *) Corrected parsing of ctime time format [David Robinson]
11449 *) httpd does a perror() before exiting if it can't log its pid
11450 to the PidFile, to make diagnosing the error a bit easier.
11453 *) <!--#include file="..."--> can no longer include files in the
11454 parent directory, for NCSA back-compatibility. [David Robinson]
11456 *) '~' is *not* escaped in URIs generated for directory listings
11459 *) Eliminated compiler warning in the imagemap module [Randy Terbush]
11461 *) Fixed bug involving handling URIs with escaped %-characters
11462 in redirects [David Robinson]
11464 Changes with Apache 0.8.15 14 Oct 1995
11466 *) Switched to new, simpler license
11468 *) Eliminated core dumps with improperly formatted DBM group files [Mark Cox]
11470 *) Don't allow requests for ordinary files to have PATH_INFO [Ben Laurie]
11472 *) Reject paths containing %-escaped '%' or null characters [David Robinson]
11474 *) Correctly handles internal redirects to files with names containing '%'
11477 *) Repunctuated some error messages [Aram Mirzadeh, Andrew Wilson]
11479 *) Use geteuid() rather than getuid() to see if we have root privilege,
11480 so that server correctly resets privilege if run setuid root. [Andrew
11483 *) Handle ftp: and telnet: URLs correctly in imagemaps (built-in module)
11486 *) Fix relative URLs in imagemap files [Randy Terbush]
11488 *) Somewhat better fix for the old "Alias /foo/ /bar/" business
11491 *) Don't repeatedly open the ErrorLog if a bunch of <VirtualHost>
11492 entries all name the same one. [David Robinson]
11494 *) Fix directory listings with filenames containing unusual characters
11497 *) Better URI-escaping for generated URIs in directories with filenames
11498 containing unusual characters [Ben Laurie]
11500 *) Fixed potential FILE* leak in http_main.c [Ben Laurie]
11502 *) Unblock alarms on error return from spawn_child() [David Robinson]
11504 *) Sample Config files have extra note for SCO users [Ben Laurie]
11506 *) Configuration has note for HP-UX users [Rob Hartill]
11508 *) Eliminated some bogus Linux-only #defines in conf.h [Aram Mirzadeh]
11510 *) Nuked bogus #define in httpd.h [David Robinson]
11512 *) Better test for whether a system has setrlimit() [David Robinson]
11514 *) Calls update_child_status() after reopen_scoreboard() [David Robinson]
11516 *) Doesn't send itself SIGHUP on startup when run in the -X debug-only mode
11519 Changes with Apache 0.8.14 19 Sep 1995
11521 *) Compiles on SCO ODT 3.0 [Ben Laurie]
11523 *) AddDescription works (better) [Ben Laurie]
11525 *) Leaves an intelligible error diagnostic when it can't set group
11526 privileges on standalone startup [Andrew Wilson]
11528 *) Compiles on NeXT again --- the 0.8.13 RLIMIT patch was failing on
11529 that machine, which claims to be BSD but does not support RLIMIT.
11532 *) gcc -Wall no longer complains about an unused variable when util.c
11533 is compiled with -DMINIMAL_DNS [Andrew Wilson]
11535 *) Nuked another compiler warning for -Wall on Linux [Aram Mirzadeh]
11537 Changes with Apache 0.8.13 07 Sep 1995
11539 *) Make IndexIgnore *work* (ooops) [Jarkko Torppa]
11541 *) Have built-in imagemap code recognize & honor Point directive [James
11544 *) Generate cleaner directory listings in directories with a mix of
11545 long and short filenames [Rob Hartill]
11547 *) Properly initialize dynamically loaded modules [Royston Shufflebotham]
11549 *) Properly default ServerName for virtual servers [Robert Thau]
11551 *) Rationalize handling of BSD in conf.h and elsewhere [Randy Terbush,
11552 Paul Richards and a cast of thousands...]
11554 *) On self-identified BSD systems (we don't try to guess any more),
11555 allocate a few extra file descriptors per virtual host with setrlimit,
11556 if we can, to avoid running out. [Randy Terbush]
11558 *) Write 22-character lock file name into buffer with enough space
11559 on startup [Konstantin Olchanski]
11561 *) Use archaic setpgrp() interface on NeXT, which requires it [Brian
11564 *) Suppress -Wall warning by casting const away in util.c [Aram Mirzadeh]
11566 *) Suppress -Wall warning by initializing variable in negotiation code
11567 [Tobias Weingartner]
11569 Changes with Apache 0.8.12 31 Aug 1995
11571 *) Doesn't pause three seconds after including a CGI script which is
11572 too slow to die off (this is done by not even trying to kill off
11573 subprocesses, including the SIGTERM/pause/SIGKILL routine, until
11574 after the entire document has been processed). [Robert Thau]
11576 *) Doesn't do SSI if Options Includes is off. (Ooops). [David Robinson]
11578 *) Options IncludesNoExec allows inclusion of at least text/* [Roy Fielding]
11580 *) Allows .htaccess files to override <Directory> sections naming the
11581 same directory [David Robinson]
11583 *) Removed an efficiency hack in sub_req_lookup_uri which was
11584 causing certain extremely marginal cases (e.g., ScriptAlias of a
11585 *particular* index.html file) to fail. [David Robinson]
11587 *) Doesn't log an error when the requested URI requires
11588 authentication, but no auth header line was supplied by the
11589 client; this is a normal condition (the client doesn't no auth is
11590 needed here yet). [Robert Thau]
11592 *) Behaves more sanely when the name server loses its mind [Sean Welch]
11594 *) RFC931 code compiles cleanly on old BSDI releases [Randy Terbush]
11596 *) RFC931 code no longer passes out name of prior clients on current
11597 requests if the current request came from a server that doesn't
11598 do RFC931. [David Robinson]
11600 *) Configuration script accepts "Module" lines with trailing whitespace.
11603 *) Cleaned up compiler warning from mod_access.c [Robert Thau]
11605 *) Cleaned up comments in mod_cgi.c [Robert Thau]
11607 Changes with Apache 0.8.11 24 Aug 1995
11609 *) Wildcard <Directory> specifications work. [Robert Thau]
11611 *) Doesn't loop for buggy CGI on Solaris [Cliff Skolnick]
11613 *) Symlink checks (FollowSymLinks off, or SymLinkIfOwnerMatch) always check
11614 the file being requested itself, in addition to the directories leading
11615 up to it. [Robert Thau]
11617 *) Logs access failures due to symlink checks or invalid client address
11618 in the error log [Roy Fielding, Robert Thau]
11620 *) Symlink checks deal correctly with systems where lstat of
11621 "/path/to/some/link/" follows the link. [Thau, Fielding]
11623 *) Doesn't reset DirectoryIndex to 'index.html' when
11624 other directory options are set in a .htaccess file. [Robert Thau]
11626 *) Clarified init code and nuked bogus warning in mod_access.c
11627 [Florent Guillaume]
11629 *) Corrected several directives in sample srm.conf
11630 --- includes corrections to directory indexing icon-related directives
11631 (using unknown.gif rather than unknown.xbm as the DefaultIcon, doing
11632 icons for encodings right, and turning on AddEncoding by default).
11635 *) Corrected descriptions of args to AddIcon and AddAlt in command table
11638 *) INSTALL & README mention "contributed modules" directory [Brian
11641 *) Fixed English in the license language... "for for" --> "for".
11644 *) Fixed ScriptAlias/Alias interaction by moving ScriptAlias handling to
11645 mod_alias.c, merging it almost completely with handling of Alias, and
11646 adding a 'notes' field to the request_rec which allows the CGI module
11647 to discover whether the Alias module has put this request through
11648 ScriptAlias (which it needs to know for back-compatibility, as the old
11649 NCSA code did not check Options ExecCGI in ScriptAlias directories).
11652 Changes with Apache 0.8.10 18 Aug 1995
11654 *) AllowOverride applies to the named directory, and not just
11655 subdirectories. [David Robinson]
11657 *) Do locking for accept() exclusion (on systems that need it)
11658 using a special file created for the purpose in /usr/tmp, and
11659 not the error log; using the error log causes real problems
11660 if it's NFS-mounted; this is known to be the cause of a whole
11661 lot of "server hang" problems with Solaris. [David Robinson;
11662 thanks to Merten Schumann for help diagnosing the problem].
11664 Changes with Apache 0.8.9 12 Aug 1995
11666 *) Compiles with -DMAXIMUM_DNS ---- ooops! [Henrik Mortensen]
11668 *) Nested includes see environment variables of the including document,
11669 for NCSA bug-compatibility (some sites have standard footer includes
11670 which try to print out the last-modified date). [Eric Hagberg/Robert
11673 *) <!--exec cgi="/some/uri/here"--> always treats the item named by the
11674 URI as a CGI script, even if it would have been treated as something
11675 else if requested directly, for NCSA back-compatibility. (Note that
11676 this means that people who know the name of the script can see the
11677 code just by asking for it). [Robert Thau]
11679 *) New version of dbmmanage script included in support directory as
11682 *) Check if scoreboard file couldn't be opened, and say so, rather
11683 then going insane [David Robinson]
11685 *) POST to CGI works on A/UX [Jim Jagielski]
11687 *) AddIcon and AddAlt commands work properly [Rob Hartill]
11689 *) NCSA server push works properly --- the Arena bug compatibility
11690 workaround, which broke it, is gone (use -DARENA_BUG_WORKAROUND
11691 if you still want the workaround). [Rob Hartill]
11693 *) If client didn't submit any Accept-encodings, ignore encodings in
11694 content negotiation. (NB this will all have to be reworked anyway
11695 for the new HTTP draft). [Florent Guillaume]
11697 *) Don't dump core when trying to log timed-out requests [Jim Jagielski]
11699 *) Really honor CacheNegotiatedDocs [Florent Guillaume]
11701 *) Give Redirect priority over Alias, for NCSA bug compatibility
11704 *) Correctly set PATH_TRANSLATED in all cases from <!--#exec cmd=""-->,
11705 paralleling earlier bug fix for CGI [David Robinson]
11707 *) If DBM auth is improperly configured, report a server error and don't
11710 *) Deleted FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPTS from conf.h entry for A/UX;
11711 it seems to work well enough without it (even in a 10 hits/sec
11712 workout), and the overhead for the locking under A/UX is
11713 alarmingly high (though it is very low on other systems).
11714 [Eric Hagberg, Jim Jagielski]
11716 *) Fixed portability problems with mod_cookies.c [Cliff Skolnick]
11718 *) Further de-Berklize mod_cookies.c; change the bogus #include. [Brian
11719 Behlendorf/Eric Hagberg]
11721 *) More improvements to default Configuration for A/UX [Jim Jagielski]
11723 *) Compiles clean on NEXT [Rob Hartill]
11725 *) Compiles clean on SGI [Robert Thau]
11727 Changes with Apache 0.8.8 08 Aug 1995
11729 *) SunOS library prototypes now never included unless explicitly
11730 requested in the configuration (via -DSUNOS_LIB_PROTOTYPES);
11731 people using GNU libc on SunOS are screwed by prototypes for the
11734 (Those who wish to compile clean with gcc -Wall on a standard
11735 SunOS setup need the prototypes, and may obtain them using
11736 -DSUNOS_LIB_PROTOTYPES. Those wishing to use -Wall on a system
11737 with nonstandard libraries are presumably competent to make their
11740 *) Strips trailing '/' characters off both args to the Alias command,
11741 to make 'Alias /foo/ /bar/' work.
11743 Changes with Apache 0.8.7 03 Aug 1995
11745 *) Don't hang when restarting with a child from 'TransferLog "|..."' running
11746 [reported by David Robinson]
11748 *) Compiles clean on OSF/1 [David Robinson]
11750 *) Added some of the more recent significant changes (AddLanguage stuff,
11751 experimental LogFormat support) to CHANGES file in distribution root
11754 Changes with Apache 0.8.6 02 Aug 1995
11756 *) Deleted Netscape reload workaround --- it's in violation of HTTP specs.
11757 (If you actually wanted a conditional GET which bypassed the cache, you
11758 couldn't get it). [Reported by Roy Fielding]
11760 *) Properly terminate headers on '304 Not Modified' replies to conditional
11761 GETs --- no browser we can find cares much, but the CERN proxy chokes.
11762 [Reported by Cliff Skolnick; fix discovered independently by Rob Hartill]
11764 *) httpd -v doesn't call itself "Shambhala". [Reported by Chuck Murcko]
11766 *) SunOS lib-function prototypes in conf.h conditionalized on __GNUC__,
11767 not __SUNPRO_C (they're needed to quiet gcc -Wall, but acc chokes on 'em,
11768 and older versions don't set the __SUNPRO_C preprocessor variable). On
11769 all other systems, these are never used anyway. [Reported by Mark Cox].
11771 *) Scoreboard file (/tmp/htstatus.*) no longer publically writable.
11773 Changes with Apache 0.8.5 01 Aug 1995
11775 *) Added last-minute configurable log experiment, as optional module
11777 *) Correctly set r->bytes_sent for HTTP/0.9 requests, so they get logged
11778 properly. (One-line fix to http_protocol.c).
11780 *) Work around bogus behavior when reloading from Netscape.
11781 It's Netscape's bug --- for some reason they expect a request with
11782 If-modified-since: to not function as a conditional GET if it also
11783 comes with Pragma: no-cache, which is way out of line with the HTTP
11784 spec (according to Roy Fielding, the redactor).
11786 *) Added parameter to set maximum number of server processes.
11788 *) Added patches to make it work on A/UX. A/UX is *weird*. [Eric Hagberg,
11791 *) IdentityCheck bugfix [Chuck Murcko].
11793 *) Corrected cgi-src/Makefile entry for new imagemap script. [Alexei Kosut]
11795 *) More sample config file corrections; add extension to AddType for
11796 *.asis, move AddType generic description to its proper place, and
11797 fix miscellaneous typos. [ Alexei Kosut ]
11799 *) Deleted the *other* reference to the regents from the Berkeley
11800 legal disclaimer (everyplace).
11802 *) Nuked Shambhala name from src/README; had already cleaned it out
11803 of everywhere else.
11805 Changes with Apache 0.8.4
11807 *) Changes to server-pool management parms --- renamed current
11808 StartServers to MinSpareServers, created separate StartServers
11809 parameter which means what it says, and renamed MaxServers to
11810 MaxSpareServers (though the old name still works, for NCSA 1.4
11811 back-compatibility). The old names were generally regarded as
11812 too confusing. Also altered "docs" in sample config files.
11814 *) More improvements to default config files ---
11815 sample directives (commented out) for XBitHack, BindAddress,
11816 CacheNegotiatedDocs, VirtualHost; decent set of AddLanguage
11817 defaults, AddTypes for send-as-is and imagemap magic types, and
11818 improvements to samples for DirectoryIndex [Alexei Kosut]
11820 *) Yet more improvements to default config files --- changes to
11821 Alexei's sample AddLanguage directives, and sample LanguagePriority
11822 [ Florent Guillaume ]
11824 *) Set config file locations properly if not set in httpd.conf
11827 *) Don't escape URIs in internal redirects multiple times; don't
11828 do that when translating PATH_INFO to PATH_TRANSLATED either.
11831 *) Corrected spelling of "Required" in 401 error reports [Andrew Wilson]
11833 Changes with Apache 0.8.3
11835 *) Edited distribution README to *briefly* summarize installation
11836 procedures, and give a pointer to the INSTALL file in the src/
11839 *) Upgraded imagemap script in cgi-bin to 1.8 version from more
11840 recent NCSA distributions.
11842 *) Bug fix to previous bug fix --- if .htaccess file and <Directory>
11843 exist for the same directory, use both and don't segfault. [Reported
11846 *) Proper makefile dependencies [David Robinson]
11848 *) Note (re)starts in error log --- reported by Rob Hartill.
11850 *) Only call no2slash() after get_path_info() has been done, to
11851 preserve multiple slashes in the PATH_INFO [NCSA compatibility,
11852 reported by Andrew Wilson, though this one is probably a real bug]
11854 *) Fixed mod_imap.c --- relative paths with base_uri referer don't
11855 dump core when Referer is not supplied. [Randy Terbush]
11857 *) Lightly edited sample config files to refer people to our documentation
11858 instead of NCSA's, and to list Rob McCool as *original* author (also
11859 deleted his old, and no doubt non-functional email address). Would be
11860 nice to have examples of new features...
11862 Changes with Apache 0.8.2 19 Jul 1995
11864 *) Added AddLanuage code [Florent Guillaume]
11866 *) Don't say "access forbidden" when a CGI script is not found. [Mark Cox]
11868 *) All sorts of problems when MultiViews finds a directory. It would
11869 be nice if mod_dir.c was robust enough to handle that, but for now,
11870 just punt. [reported by Brian Behlendorf]
11872 *) Wait for all children on restart, to make sure that the old socket
11873 is gone and we can reopen it. [reported by Randy Terbush]
11875 *) Imagemap module is enabled in default Configuration
11877 *) RefererLog and UserAgentLog modules properly default the logfile
11880 *) Mark Cox's mod_cookies added to the distribution as an optional
11881 module (commented out in the default Configuration, and noted as
11882 an experiment, along with mod_dld). [Mark Cox]
11884 *) Compiles on ULTRIX (a continuing battle...). [Robert Thau]
11886 *) Fixed nasty bug in SIGTERM handling [reported by Randy Terbush]
11888 *) Changed "Shambhala" to "Apache" in API docs. [Robert Thau]
11890 *) Added new, toothier legal disclaimer. [Robert Thau; copied from BSD
11893 Changes with Apache 0.8.1
11895 *) New imagemap module [Randy Terbush]
11897 *) Replacement referer log module with NCSA-compatible RefererIgnore
11898 [Matthew Gray again]
11900 *) Don't mung directory listings with very long filenames.
11901 [Florent Guillaume]
11903 Changes with Apache 0.8.0 (nee Shambhala 0.6.2) 16 Jul 1995
11905 *) New config script. See INSTALL for info. [Robert Thau]
11907 *) Scoreboard mechanism for regulating the number of extant server
11908 processes. MaxServers and StartServers defaults are the same as
11909 for NCSA, but the meanings are slightly different. (Actually,
11910 I should probably lower the MaxServers default to 10).
11912 Before asking for a new connection, each server process checks
11913 the number of other servers which are also waiting for a
11914 connection. If there are more than MaxServers, it quietly dies
11915 off. Conversely, every second, the root, or caretaker, process
11916 looks to see how many servers are waiting for a new connection;
11917 if there are fewer than StartServers, it starts a new one. This
11918 does not depend on the number of server processes already extant.
11919 The accounting is arranged through a "scoreboard" file, named
11920 /tmp/htstatus.*, on which each process has an independent file
11921 descriptor (they need to seek without interference).
11923 The end effect is that MaxServers is the maximum number of
11924 servers on an *inactive* server machine, but more will be forked
11925 off to handle unusually heavy loads (or unusually slow clients);
11926 these will die off when they are no longer needed --- without
11927 reverting to the overhead of full forking operation. There is a
11928 hard maximum of 150 server processes compiled in, largely to
11929 avoid forking out of control and dragging the machine down.
11930 (This is arguably too high).
11932 In my server endurance tests, this mechanism did not appear to
11933 impose any significant overhead, even after I forced it to put the
11934 scoreboard file on a normal filesystem (which might have more
11935 overhead than tmpfs). [Robert Thau]
11937 *) Set HTTP_FOO variables for SSI <!--#exec cmd-->s, not just CGI scripts.
11940 *) Read .htaccess files even in directory with <Directory> section.
11941 (Former incompatibility noted on mailing list, now fixed). [Robert
11944 *) "HEAD /" gives the client a "Bad Request" error message, rather
11945 than trying to send no body *and* no headers. [Cliff Skolnick].
11947 *) Don't produce double error reports for some very obscure cases
11948 mainly involving auth configuration (the "all modules decline to
11949 handle" case which is a sure sign of a server bug in most cases,
11950 but also happens when authentication is badly misconfigured).
11953 *) Moved FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT defines into conf.h (that's what
11954 it's *for*, and this sort of thing really shouldn't be cluttering
11955 up the Makefile). [Robert Thau]
11957 *) Incidental code cleanups in http_main.c --- stop dragging
11958 sa_client around; just declare it where used. [Robert Thau]
11960 *) Another acc-related fix. (It doesn't like const char
11961 in some places...). [Mark Cox]
11963 Changes with Shambhala 0.6.1 13 Jul 1995
11965 *) Fixed auth_name-related typos in http_core.c [Brian Behlendorf]
11966 Also, fixed auth typo in http_protocol.c unmasked by this fix.
11968 *) Compiles clean with acc on SunOS [Paul Sutton]
11970 *) Reordered modules in modules.c so that Redirect takes priority
11971 over ScriptAlias, for NCSA bug-compatibility [Rob Hartill] ---
11972 believe it or not, he has an actual site with a ScriptAlias and
11973 a Redirect declared for the *exact same directory*. Even *my*
11974 compatibility fetish wouldn't motivate me to fix this if the fix
11975 required any effort, but it doesn't, so what the hey.
11977 *) Fixed to properly default several server_rec fields for virtual
11978 servers from the corresponding fields in the main server_rec.
11979 [Cliff Skolnick --- 'port' was a particular irritant].
11981 *) No longer kills off nph- child processes before they are
11982 finished sending output. [Matthew Gray]
11984 Changes with Shambhala 0.6.0 10 Jul 1995
11986 *) Two styles of timeout --- hard and soft. soft_timeout()s just put
11987 the connection to the client in an "aborted" state, but otherwise
11988 allow whatever handlers are running to clean up. hard_timeout()s
11989 abort the request in progress completely; anything not tied to some
11990 resource pool cleanup will leak. They're still around because I
11991 haven't yet come up with a more elegant way of handling
11992 timeouts when talking to something that isn't the client. The
11993 default_handler and the dir_handler now use soft timeouts, largely
11994 so I can test the feature. [Robert Thau]
11996 *) TransferLog "| my_postprocessor ..." seems to be there. Note that
11997 the case of log handlers dying prematurely is probably handled VERY
11998 gracelessly at this point, and if the logger stops reading input,
11999 the server will hang. (It is known to correctly restart the
12000 logging process on server restart; this is (should be!) going through
12001 the same SIGTERM/pause/SIGKILL routine used to ding an errant CGI
12002 script). [Robert Thau]
12004 *) asis files supported (new module). [Robert Thau]
12006 *) IdentityCheck code is compiled in, but has not been tested. (I
12007 don't know anyone who runs identd). [Robert Thau]
12009 *) PATH_INFO and PATH_TRANSLATED are not set unless some real PATH_INFO
12010 came in with the request, for NCSA bug-compatibility. [Robert Thau]
12012 *) Don't leak the DIR * on HEAD request for a directory. [Robert Thau]
12014 *) Deleted the block_alarms() stuff from dbm_auth; no longer necessary,
12015 as timeouts are not in scope. [Robert Thau]
12017 *) quoted-string args in config files now handled correctly (doesn't drop
12018 the last character). [Robert Thau; reported by Randy Terbush]
12020 *) Fixed silly typo in http_main.c which was suddenly fatal in HP-UX.
12021 How the hell did it ever work? [Robert Thau; reported by Rob Hartill]
12023 *) mod_core.c --- default_type returns DEFAULT_TYPE (the compile-time
12024 default default type); the former default default behavior when all
12025 type-checkers defaulted had been a core dump. [Paul Sutton]
12027 *) Copy filenames out of the struct dirent when indexing
12028 directories. (On Linux, readdir() returns a pointer to the same
12029 memory area every time). Fix is in mod_dir.c. [Paul Sutton]
12031 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.3 [not released]
12033 *) Default response handler notes "file not found" in the error log,
12034 if the file was not found. [Cliff Skolnick].
12036 *) Another Cliff bug --- "GET /~user" now properly redirects (the userdir
12037 code no longer sets up bogus PATH_INFO which fakes out the directory
12038 handler). [Cliff Skolnick]
12040 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.2 06 Jul 1995
12042 *) Changes to http_main.c --- root server no longer plays silly
12043 games with SIGCHLD, and so now detects and replaces dying
12044 children. Child processes just die on SIGTERM, without taking
12045 the whole process group with them. Potential problem --- if any
12046 child process refuses to die, we hang in restart.
12047 MaxRequestsPerChild may still not work, but it certainly works
12048 better than it did before this! [Robert Thau]
12050 *) mod_dir.c bug fixes: ReadmeName and HeaderName
12051 work (or work better, at least); over-long description lines
12052 properly terminated. [Mark Cox]
12054 *) http_request.c now calls unescape_url() more places where it
12055 should [Paul Sutton].
12057 *) More directory handling bugs (reported by Cox)
12058 Parent Directory link is now set correctly. [Robert Thau]
12060 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.1 04 Jul 1995
12062 *) Generalized cleanup interface in alloc.c --- any function can be
12063 registered with alloc.c as a cleanup for a resource pool;
12064 tracking of files and file descriptors has been reimplemented in
12065 terms of this interface, so I can give it some sort of a test.
12068 *) More changes in alloc.c --- new cleanup_for_exec() function,
12069 which tracks down and closes all file descriptors which have been
12070 registered with the alloc.c machinery before the server exec()s a
12071 child process for CGI or <!--#exec-->. CGI children now get
12072 started with exactly three file descriptors open. Hopefully,
12073 this cures the problem Rob H. was having with overly persistent
12074 CGI connections. [Robert Thau]
12076 *) Mutual exclusion around the accept() in child_main() --- this is
12077 required on at least SGI, Solaris and Linux, and is #ifdef'ed in
12078 by default on those systems only (-DFCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT).
12079 This uses fcntl(F_SETLK,...) on the error log descriptor because
12080 flock() on that descriptor won't work on systems which have BSD
12081 flock() semantics, including (I think) Linux 1.3 and Solaris.
12083 This does work on SunOS (when the server is idle, only one
12084 process in the pool is waiting on accept()); it *ought* to work
12085 on the other systems. [Robert Thau]
12087 *) FreeBSD and BSDI portability tweaks [Chuck Murcko]
12089 *) sizeof(*sa_client) bugfix from [Rob Hartill]
12091 *) pstrdup(..., NULL) returns NULL, [Randy Terbush]
12093 *) block_alarms() to avoid leaking the DBM* in dbm auth (this should
12094 be unnecessary if I go to the revised timeout-handling scheme).
12097 *) For NCSA bug-compatibility, set QUERY_STRING env var (to a null
12098 string) even if none came in with the request. [Robert Thau]
12100 *) CHANGES file added to distribution ;-).
12102 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.5
12104 *) mod_dld --- early dynamic loading support [rst]
12105 *) Add wildcard content handlers for XBITHACK; default_hander now
12106 invoked with that mechanism (as a handler hanging off mod_core) [rst]
12107 *) XBITHACK supported as a wildcard content-handler, and
12108 configurable at run-time (not just at compile time, as in the
12109 "patchy server" releases) [rst]
12111 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.4 30 Jun 1995
12113 *) Fixed basic thinkos in mod_dbm_auth.c [rst, reported by Mark Cox]
12114 *) Handle Addtype x/y .z [rst, reported by Cox]
12116 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.3
12118 *) Fixed very dumb bug in mod_alias; "Alias" and "Redirect" are not
12119 synonymous [rst, terbush]
12121 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.1 28 Jun 1995
12123 *) First-cut virtual host implementation; some refit in the config
12124 reading code, and log management, was necessary to support this [rst]
12125 *) Sub-pool machinery, originally added to avoid excessive storage
12126 allocation on listings of large directories (which turned out to
12127 be the problem that the 0.3 storage accounting was added to
12128 find). Subrequests and mod_dir changed to use subpools. [rst]
12129 *) More memory debugging --- free list consistency checks. [rst]
12130 *) Added err_headers to request_rec, with support elsewhere [rst]
12131 *) Other fixes to minor bugs in mod_dir and mod_includes [rst, terbush]
12133 Changes with Shambhala 0.3 19 Jun 1995
12135 *) Switch ONE_PROCESS to a runtime command-line option (-X)
12136 *) Don't compile in mod_ai_backcompat by default
12137 *) Switch name of server from Apache to Shambhala in Makefile
12138 *) Add some accounting routines to track memory usage in the pools,
12141 Changes with Shambhala 0.2
12143 *) Set DOCUMENT_ROOT CGI variable
12144 *) Add single-process debugging, as a compile-time option (ONE_PROCESS)
12145 *) Add critical section protection to handling of cleanup structures
12147 *) Significant code reorg within the server core to group related
12148 functions together [rst]
12149 *) Correctly handle clients that hang up before sending any request
12151 *) Replace dying child processes. [rst]
12153 Changes with Shambhala 0.1 12 Jun 1995
12155 Major rewrite of the pre-existing "patchy server" codebase, by
12156 Robert Thau (rst). Significant portions of the server code, such
12157 as configuration-file handling and HTTP authentication support,
12158 were ripped out and rewritten from scratch. Code that was not
12159 completely rewritten was significantly altered.
12161 Major changes with this release include:
12163 *) Introduction of the module API; in request handling, the central
12164 machinery just dispatches to various modules, which actually do
12165 most of the work. Configuration handling is similar --- modules
12166 declare their own commands, and the central machinery just
12167 dispatches to them.
12169 API features from shambhala/0.1 were substantially unchanged in
12170 Apache 1.0 and 1.1. (1.0 API features not yet present in this
12171 release, such as wildcard handlers and subpools, were added in
12172 subsequent Shambhala releases, and were also generally rst's
12175 *) This release included the following modules:
12177 mod_access (access control --- allow and deny directives),
12178 mod_alias (Alias and Redirect commands),
12179 mod_auth (straight HTTP authentication, based on flat-files)
12180 mod_auth_dbm (same, with dbm files)
12181 mod_cgi (CGI scripts and, in this release, ScriptAlias)
12182 mod_common_log (CLF access logs; later renamed mod_log_common)
12183 mod_dir (directory indexing)
12184 mod_include (server-side includes)
12185 mod_mime (AddType directives)
12186 mod_negotiation (content negotiation)
12187 mod_userdir (support for users' public_html directories)
12189 It also included a mod_ai_backcompat, which was a private hack
12190 for back-compatibility with rst's own AI-lab servers.
12192 All of these modules were substantially complete, and functional
12193 or nearly so (a few, which implemented features not in use at
12194 Thau's site, required patches of a few lines).
12196 *) sub-request machinery, to allow modules to determine how other
12197 modules would assign MIME types to a given file, or optionally
12198 serve its content (this is heavily used by mod_dir, mod_include
12199 and mod_negotiation).
12201 *) Resource pool system for keeping track of memory allocated and
12202 files opened in service of a particular request. Much of the
12203 code in the modules (when they weren't rewrites) was adjusted to
12204 replace a pervasive convention of using fixed-size buffers on
12205 the stack with an equally pervasive convention of using memory
12206 allocated with palloc().
12208 *) Reorganization of data structures associated with a given
12209 request to eliminate use of global variables and the troublesome
12210 unmunge_name function (used in NCSA and early Apache releases to
12211 attempt to determine the URI which mapped to a given filename
12212 --- a difficult proposition, given that it is easy to produce
12213 setups in which multiple URIs map to the same file).
12215 *) Source files renamed and rearranged
12217 *) Very simple pre-forking behavior --- parent process forked off a
12218 fixed number of children, and then just waited for SIGHUP.
12220 *) Other more minor changes too numerous to list.
12222 This release included modified versions of a lot of code from the
12223 Apache 0.6.4 public release, plus an early pre-forking patch
12224 codeveloped by Robert Thau and Rob Hartill.
12226 Changes with Apache 0.7.3 20 Jun 1995
12228 *) There were a bunch of changes between Apache 0.6.4 and 0.7.3 that
12229 were incorporated by Rob Hartill on the main branch while Robert Thau
12230 worked on the Shambhala rewrite above. Most were merged into the
12231 Shambala architecture after Apache 0.8.0.
12233 Changes with Apache 0.6.4 13 May 1995
12235 *) Patches by Rob Hartill, Cliff Skolnick, Randy Terbush, Robert Thau,
12238 Changes with Apache 0.5.1 10 Apr 1995
12240 Changes with Apache 0.4 02 Apr 1995
12242 *) Patches by Brian Behlendorf, Andrew Wilson, Robert Thau,
12245 Changes with Apache 0.3 24 Mar 1995
12247 *) Patches by Robert Thau, David Robinson, Rob Hartill, and
12250 Changes with Apache 0.2 18 Mar 1995
12252 *) Based on NCSA httpd 1.3 by Rob McCool and patches by CERT,
12253 Roy Fielding, Robert Thau, Nicolas Pioch, David Robinson,
12254 Brian Behlendorf, Rob Hartill, and Cliff Skolnick.
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