2 Changes with Apache 2.5.0
4 *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS-SRP (Secure Remote Password key exchange
5 for TLS, RFC 5054). PR 51075. [Quinn Slack <sqs cs stanford edu>,
6 Christophe Renou, Peter Sylvester]
8 *) htdbm, htpasswd: Don't crash if crypt() fails (e.g. with FIPS enabled).
9 [Paul Wouters <pwouters redhat.com>, Joe Orton]
11 *) mod_ssl: Add new directive SSLCompression to disable TLS-level
12 compression. PR 53219. [Björn Jacke <bjoern j3e de>, Stefan Fritsch]
14 *) core: Make ap_regcomp() return AP_REG_ESPACE if out of memory. Make
15 ap_pregcomp() abort if out of memory. This raises the minimum PCRE
16 requirement to version 6.0. PR 53284. [Stefan Fritsch]
18 *) apxs: Use LDFLAGS from config_vars.mk in addition to CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS.
21 *) mpm_event: Fix handling of MaxConnectionsPerChild. [Stefan Fritsch]
23 *) suexec: Add --enable-suexec-capabilites support on Linux, to use
24 setuid/setgid capability bits rather than a setuid root binary.
27 *) suexec: Add support for logging to syslog as an alternative to logging
28 to a file; configure --without-suexec-logfile --with-suexec-syslog.
31 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Reduce memory usage in case of many keep-alive requests on
32 one connection. PR 52275. [Naohiro Ooiwa <naohiro ooiwa miraclelinux com>]
34 *) mod_proxy: Use the the same hostname for SNI as for the HTTP request when
35 forwarding to SSL backends. PR 53134.
36 [Michael Weiser <michael weiser.dinsnail.net>, Ruediger Pluem]
38 *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS Next Protocol Negotiation. PR 52210.
39 [Matthew Steele <mdsteele google.com>]
41 *) mod_so: If a filename without slashes is specified for LoadFile or
42 LoadModule and the file cannot be found in the server root directory,
43 try to use the standard dlopen() search path. [Stefan Fritsch]
45 *) various modules, rotatelogs: Replace use of apr_file_write() with
46 apr_file_write_full() to prevent incomplete writes. PR 53131.
47 [Nicolas Viennot <apache viennot biz>, Stefan Fritsch]
49 *) core: Fix segfault in logging if r->useragent_addr or c->client_addr is
50 unset. [Stefan Fritsch]
52 *) cross-compile: allow to provide CC_FOR_BUILD so that gen_test_char will
53 be compiled by the build compiler instead of the host compiler.
54 Also set CC_FOR_BUILD to 'cc' when cross-compilation is detected.
55 PR 51257. [Guenter Knauf]
57 *) mod_ssl: Send the error message for speaking http to an https port using
58 HTTP/1.0 instead of HTTP/0.9, and omit the link that may be wrong when
59 using SNI. PR 50823. [Stefan Fritsch]
61 *) mod_authz_core: Fix parsing of Require arguments in <AuthzProviderAlias>.
62 PR 53048. [Stefan Fritsch]
64 *) core: Fix error handling in ap_scan_script_header_err_brigade() if there
65 is no EOS bucket in the brigade. Fixes segfault with mod_proxy_fcgi.
66 PR 48272. [Stefan Fritsch]
68 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: If there is an error reading the headers from the
69 backend, send an error to the client. PR 52879. [Stefan Fritsch]
71 *) mod_rewrite: Fix RewriteCond integer checks to be parsed correctly.
72 PR 53023. [Axel Reinhold <apache freakout.de>, André Malo]
74 *) mod_proxy: Add the forcerecovery balancer parameter that determines if
75 recovery for balancer workers is enforced. [Ruediger Pluem]
77 *) mod_proxy: Correctly set up reverse proxy worker. PR 52935.
78 [Petter Berntsen <petterb gmail.com>]
80 *) core: Add filesystem paths to access denied / access failed messages
81 AH00035 and AH00036. [Eric Covener]
83 *) Fix MPM DSO load failure on AIX. [Jeff Trawick]
85 *) core: Add the port number to the vhost's name in the scoreboard.
88 *) mpm_event: Don't do a blocking write when starting a lingering close
89 from the listener thread. PR 52229. [Stefan Fritsch]
91 *) core: In maintainer mode, replace apr_palloc with a version that
92 initializes the allocated memory with non-zero values, except if
93 AP_DEBUG_NO_ALLOC_POISON is defined. [Stefan Fritsch]
95 *) mod_log_config: Check during config test that directories for access logs
96 exist. PR 29941. [Stefan Fritsch]
98 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Don't try a potentially expensive nested groups
99 search before exhausting all AuthLDAPGroupAttribute checks on the
100 current group. PR52464 [Eric Covener]
102 *) mod_policy: Add a new testing module to help server administrators
103 enforce a configurable level of protocol compliance on their
104 servers and application servers behind theirs. [Graham Leggett]
106 *) mod_firehose: Add a new debugging module able to record traffic
107 passing through the server in such a way that connections and/or
108 requests be reconstructed and replayed. [Graham Leggett]
110 *) Event MPM: Reduce locking by using a lock free circular queue.
120 [Apache 2.5.0-dev includes those bug fixes and changes with the
121 Apache 2.4.xx tree as documented below, except as noted.]
123 Changes with Apache 2.4.x and later:
125 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/CHANGES?view=markup
127 Changes with Apache 2.2.x and later:
129 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/CHANGES?view=markup
131 Changes with Apache 2.0.x and later:
133 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x/CHANGES?view=markup