1 Changes with Apache 2.0.17-dev
3 *) If a higher-level filter handles the the byterange aspects of a
4 request, then the byterange filter should not try to redo the
5 work. The most common case of this happening, is a byterange
6 request going through the proxy, and the origin server handles
7 the byterange request. The proxy should ignore it.
8 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>]
10 *) Changed the threaded mpm to have child_main join to each of the
11 worker threads to make sure the kids are all gone before child_main
12 exits after a signal (cleanup from perform_idle_server_maintenance).
13 This is an extension of Ryans recent commit to make the child_main
16 *) Add more options to the ap_mpm_query function. This also allows MPMs to
17 report if their threads are dynamic or static. Finally, this also
18 implements a new API, ap_show_mpm, which returns the MPM that was
19 required into the core. [Harrie Hazewinkel <harrie@covalent.net>]
21 *) Do not install the binaries from the support directory twice.
22 [jun-ichiro hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>]
24 *) The ap_f* functions should flush data to the filter that is passed
25 in, not the the filter after the one passed in.
26 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
28 *) Make ab work again by changing its native types to apr types and formats.
29 [Justin Erenkrantz <jerenkrantz@ebuilt.com>]
31 *) Move the byterange filter and all of the supporting functions back
32 to the HTTP module. The byterange filter turned out to be very
33 HTTP specific, and it belongs in the HTTP module. [Greg Stein]
35 *) Make clean, distclean, and extraclean consistently according to the
36 Gnu makefile guidelines. [Justin Erenkrantz <jerenkrantz@ebuilt.com>]
38 *) Fix errors in the renaming of the apr_threadattr_detach_xxx functions.
39 This may have been causing problems stopping processes in the threaded
42 *) Fix content-length in mod_negotiation to a long int representation.
45 *) Remove BindAddress from the default config file.
46 [giles@nemeton.com.au]
48 *) Allow module authors to add a module to their Apache build using
49 --with-module, without re-running buildconf. The syntax is:
50 --with-module=module_type:/path/to/module.c
51 The configure script will copy the module.c file to
52 modules/module_type, and it will be added to the relevant Makefiles.
53 currently, this only works for static modules. [Ryan Bloom]
55 *) Changes required to make prefork clean up idle children properly.
56 There was a window during which a starting worker deadlocks when
57 an idle cleanup arrives before it completes init. Apache then keeps
58 trying to cleanup the same deadlocked worker forever (until higher
59 pids come along, but it still will never reduce below the deadlocked
60 pid). Thus the number of children would not reduce to the correct
61 idle level. [Paul J. Reder]
63 Changes with Apache 2.0.16
65 *) Change the default installation directory to /usr/local/apache2,
66 as now defined by the "Apache" layout in config.layout. [Marc Slemko]
68 *) OS/2: Added support for building loadable modules as OS/2 DLLs.
71 *) Get MaxRequestsPerChild working with the Windows MPM.
74 *) Make generic hooks to work, with mod_generic_hook_import/export
75 experimental modules. [Ben Laurie, Will Rowe]
77 *) Fix segfaults for configuration file syntax errors such as
78 "<Directory>" followed by "</Directory" and
79 "<Directory>" followed by "</Directoryz>". [Jeff Trawick]
81 *) Cleanup the --enable-layout option of configure. This makes
82 us use a consistent location for the config.layout file, and it
83 makes configure more portable.
84 [jun-ichiro hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>]
86 *) Changes to 'ab'; fixed int overrun's, added statistics, output in
87 csv/gnuplot format, rudimentary ssl support and various other tweaks
88 to make results more true to what is measured. The upshot of this it
89 turns out that 'ab' has often underreported the true performance of
90 apache. Often by a order of magnitude :-) See talk/paper of Sander
91 Temme <sctemme@covalent.net> at April ApacheCon 2001 for details.
92 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
94 *) Clean up mod_cgid's temporary request pool. Besides fixing a
95 storage leak this ensures that some unnecessary pipes are closed.
98 *) Performance: Add quick_handler hook. This hook is called at the
99 very beginning of the request processing before location_walk,
100 translate_name, etc. This hook is useful for URI keyed content
101 caches like Mike Abbott's Quick Shortcut Cache.
104 *) top_module global variable renamed to ap_top_module [Perl]
106 *) Move ap_set_last_modified to the core. This is a potentially
107 controversial change, because this is kind of HTTP specific. However
108 many protocols should be able to take advantage of this kind of
109 information. I expect that headers will need one more layer of
110 indirection for multi-protocol work, but this is a small step in
111 the right direction. [Ryan Bloom]
113 *) Enable mod_status by default. This matches what Apache 1.3 does.
116 *) Add a ScriptSock directive to the default config file. This is
117 only enabled when mod_cgid is used.
118 [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
120 Changes with Apache 2.0.15
122 *) Untangled the buildconf script and eliminated the need for build's
123 aclocal.m4, generated_lists, build.mk, build2.mk, and a host of other
124 libtool muck that is now under srclib/apr/build. [Roy Fielding]
126 *) Win32: Don't accept more connections than we have worker threads
130 *) Fix bug in the Unix threaded.c MPM that allowed child processes
131 to fork() new child processes.
134 *) Fix a major security problem with double-reverse lookup checking.
135 Previously, a client connecting over IPv4 would not be matched
136 properly when the server had an IPv6 listening socket. PR #7407
137 [Taketo Kabe <kiabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
139 *) Change the way the beos MPM handles polling to allow it to stop and
140 restart. Problem was the sockets being polled were being reset by
141 the select call, so once it had accepted a connection it was no
142 longer listening on the UDP socket we use for shutdown instructions.
143 APR needs to be altered, patch on it's way. [David Reid]
145 *) Empty out the brigade shared by ap_getline()/ap_get_client_block()
146 on error exit from ap_getline(). Some other code got upset because
147 the wrong data was in the brigade. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
149 *) Handle ap_discard_request_body() being called more than once.
150 [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
152 *) Get rid of an inadvertent close of file descriptor 2 in
153 mod_mime_magic. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
155 *) Add a hook, create_request. This hook allows modules to modify
156 a request while it is being created. This hook is called for all
157 request_rec's, main request, sub request, and internal redirect.
158 When this hook is called, the the r->main, r->prev, r->next
159 pointers have been set, so modules can determine what kind of
160 request this is. [Ryan Bloom]
162 *) Cleanup the build process a bit more. The Apache configure
163 script no longer creates its own helper scripts, it just
165 [jean-frederic clere <jfrederic.clere@fujitsu-siemens.com>]
167 *) Stop the forced downgrade of the connection to HTTP/1.0 for
168 proxy requests. [Graham Leggett]
170 *) Avoid using sscanf to determine the HTTP protocol number in
171 the common case because sscanf is a performance hog. From
172 Mike Abbot's Accelerating Apache patch number 6.
173 [Mike Abbot <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com>, Bill Stoddard]
175 *) Fix a security exposure in mod_access. Previously when IPv6
176 listening sockets were used, allow/deny-from-IPv4-address rules
177 were not evaluated properly (PR #7407). Also, add the ability to
178 specify IPv6 address strings with optional prefix length on Allow
179 and Deny. [Jeff Trawick]
181 *) Enhance rotatelogs so that a UTC offset can be specified, and
182 the logfile name can be formatted using strftime(3). (Brought
183 forward from 1.3.) [Ken Coar]
185 *) Reimplement the Windows MPM (mpm_winnt.c) to eliminate calling
186 DuplicateHandle on an IOCompletionPort (a practice which
187 MS "discourages"). The new model does not rely on associating
188 the completion port with the listening sockets, thus the
189 completion port can be completely managed within the child
190 process. A dedicated thread accepts connections off the network,
191 then calls PostQueuedCompletionStatus() to wake up worker
192 threads blocked on the completion port.
195 *) Bring forward the --suexec-umask option which allows the
196 builder to preset the umask for suexec processes. [Ken Coar]
198 *) Add a -V flag to suexec, which causes it to display the
199 compile-time settings with which it was built. (Only
200 usable by root or the AP_HTTPD_USER username.) [Ken Coar]
202 *) Mod_include should always unset the content-length if the file is
203 going to be passed through send_parsed_content. There is no to
204 determine if the content will change before actually scanning the
205 entire content. It is far safer to just remove the C-L as long
206 as we are scanning it. [Ryan Bloom]
208 *) Make sure Apache sends WWW-Authenticate during a reverse proxy
209 request and not Proxy-Authenticate.
210 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>]
212 Changes with Apache 2.0.14
214 *) Fix content-length computation. We ONLY compute a content-length if
215 We are not in a 1.1 request and we cannot chunk, and this is a keepalive
216 or we already have all the data. [Ryan Bloom]
218 *) Report unbounded containers in the config file. Previously, a typo
219 in the </container> directive could result in the rest of the config
220 file being silently ignored, with undesired defaults used.
223 *) Make the old_write filter use the ap_f* functions for the buffering.
226 *) Move more code from the http module into the core server. This
227 is core code, basically the default handler, the default input
228 and output filters, and all of the core configuration directives.
229 All of this code is required in order for the server to work, with or
230 without HTTP. The server is closer to working without the HTTP
231 module, although there is still more to do. [Ryan Bloom]
233 *) Fix a number of SGI compile warnings throughout the server. Fix some
234 bad parameters to apr_bucket_read(). Fix a bad statement in
235 ap_method_in_list(). For the mod_rewrite cache use apr_time_t
236 consistently; we were mixing apr_time_t and time_t in invalid ways
237 before. In load_file(), call apr_dso_error() instead of
238 apr_strerror() so that we get a more specific string on some platforms.
239 PR #6980 [Jeff Trawick]
241 *) Allow modules to query the MPM about it's execution profile. This
242 query API can and should be extended in the future, but for now,
243 max_daemons, and threading or forking is a very good start.
244 [Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>]
246 *) Modify mod_include to send blocks of data no larger than 9k.
247 Without this, mod_include will wait until the whole file is parsed,
248 or the first tag is found to send any data to the client.
249 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
251 *) Fix mod_info, so that <Directory> and <Location> directives are
252 not displayed twice when displaying the current configuration.
253 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
255 *) Add config directives to override DEFAULT_ERROR_MSG and
256 DEFAULT_TIME_FORMAT. This was sent in as PR 6193.
257 [Dan Rench <drench@xnet.com>]
259 *) Get mod_info building and loading on Win32. [William Rowe]
261 *) Begin to move protocol independant functions out of mod_http. The goal
262 is to have only functions that are HTTP specific in the http directory.
265 Changes with Apache 2.0.13
267 *) Don't assume that there will always be multiple calls to the byterange
268 filter. It is possible that we will need to do byteranges with only
269 one call to the filter. [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
271 *) Move the error_bucket definition from the http module to the
272 core server. Every protocol will need this ability, not just
275 Changes with Apache 2.0.12
277 *) Modify mod_file_cache to save pre-formatted strings for
278 content-length and last-modified headers for performance.
279 [Mike Abbot <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com>]
281 *) Namespace protect IOBUFSIZ since it is exposed in the API.
282 [Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>]
284 *) Use "Basic" authentication instead of "basic" in ab, as the spec
285 says we should. [Andre Breiler <andre.breiler@rd.bbc.co.uk>]
287 *) Fix a seg fault in mod_userdir.c. We used to use the pw structure
288 without ever filling it out. This fixes PR 7271.
289 [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp> and
290 Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
292 *) Add a couple of GCC attribute tags to printf style functions.
293 [Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>]
295 *) Add the correct language tag for interoperation with the Taiwanese
296 versions of MSIE and Netscape. [Clive Lin <clive@CirX.ORG>] PR#7142
298 *) Migrate the perchild MPM to use the new apr signal child, and
299 APR thread functions. [Ryan Bloom]
301 *) Close one copy of the CGI's stdout before creating the new process.
302 The CGI will still have stdout, because we have already dup'ed it.
303 This keeps Apache from waiting forever to send the results of a CGI
304 process that has forked a long-lived child process.
305 [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
307 *) Remove the rest of the pthreads functions from the threaded MPM.
308 This requires the APR support for a signal thread that was just
311 *) Make mod_dir use a fixup for sending a redirect to the browser.
312 Before this, we were using a handler, which doesn't make much
313 sense, because the handler wasn't generating any data, it would
314 either return a redirect error code, or DECLINED. This fits the
315 current hooks better. [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
317 *) Make the threaded MPM use APR threads instead of pthreads.
320 *) Get mod_tls to the point where it actually appears to work in all cases.
323 *) implement --enable-modules and --enable-mods-shared for "all" and
326 *) Move the threaded MPM to use APR locks instead of pthread locks.
329 *) Rename mpmt_pthread to threaded. This is more in line with the
330 fact that mpmt_pthread shouldn't be using pthreads directly, and
331 it is a smaller name that doesn't tie into anything.
334 *) Rename the module structures so that the exported symbol matches
335 the file name, and it is easier to automate the installation
336 process (generating LoadModule directives from the module filenames).
339 *) Remove the coalesce filter. With the ap_f* functions, this filter
340 is no longer needed. [Ryan Bloom]
342 Changes with Apache 2.0.11
344 *) Remove the dexter MPM. Perchild is the same basic idea, but it has the
345 added feature of allowing a uid/gid per child process. If no
346 uid/gid is specified, then Perchild behaves exactly like dexter.
349 *) Get perchild building again. [Ryan Bloom]
351 *) Don't disable threads just because we are using the prefork MPM.
352 If somebody wants to compile without threads, they must now add
353 --disable-threads to the configure command line. [Ryan Bloom]
355 *) Begin to move the calls to update_child_status into common code, so
356 that each individual MPM does not need to update the scoreboard itself.
359 *) Allow mod_tls to compile under Unix boxes where openssl has been
360 installed to the system include files.
361 [Gomez Henri <new-httpd@slib.fr>]
363 *) Cleanup the mod_tls configure process. This should remove any need
364 to hand-edit any files. We require OpenSSL 0.9.6 or later, but
365 configure doesn't check that yet. [Ryan Bloom]
367 *) Add a very early prototype of SSL support (in mod_tls.c). It is
368 vital that you read modules/tls/README before attempting to build
371 *) Fix a potential seg fault on all platforms. David Reid fixed this
372 on BEOS, but the problem could happen anywhere, so we don't want
373 to #ifdef it. [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
375 *) Add new LogFormat directive, %D, to log time it takes to serve a
376 request in microseconds. [Bill Stoddard]
378 *) Change AddInputFilter and AddOutputFilter to SetInputFilter and
379 SetOutputFilter. This corresponds nicely with the other Set
380 directives, which operate on containers while the Add* directives
381 tend to work directly on extensions. [Ryan Bloom]
383 *) Cleanup the header handling a bit. This uses the apr_brigade_*
384 functions for the buffering so that we don't need to compute
385 the length of the headers before we actually create the header
388 *) Allow filters to buffer data using the ap_f* functions. These have
389 become macros that resolve directly to apr_brigade_*.
392 *) Get the Unix MPM's to do a graceful restart again. If we are going
393 to register a cleanup with ap_cleanup_scoreboard, then we have to
394 kill the cleanup with the same function, and that function can't be
397 *) Install all required header files. Without these, it was not
398 possible to compile some modules outside of the server.
401 *) Fix the AliasMatch directive in Apache 2.0. When we brought a patch
402 forward from 1.3 to 2.0, we missed a single line, which broke regex
403 aliases. [Ryan Bloom]
405 *) We have a poor abstraction in the protocol. This is a temporary
406 hack to fix the bug, but it will need to be fixed for real. If
407 we find an error while sending out a custom error response, we back
408 up to the first non-OK request and send the data. Then, when we send
409 the EOS from finalize_request_protocol, we go to the last request,
410 to ensure that we aren't sending an EOS to a request that has already
411 received one. Because the data is sent on a different request than
412 the EOS, the error text never gets sent down the filter stack. This
413 fixes the problem by finding the last request, and sending the data
414 with that request. [Ryan Bloom]
416 *) Make the server status page show the correct restart time, and
417 thus the proper uptime. [Ryan Bloom]
419 *) Move the CGI creation logic from mod_include to mod_cgi(d). This
420 should reduce the amount of duplicate code that is required to
421 create CGI processes.
422 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
424 *) ap_new_connection() closes the socket and returns NULL if a socket
425 call fails. Usually this is due to a connection which has been
426 reset. [Jeff Trawick]
428 *) Move the Apache version information out of httpd.h and into release.h.
429 This is in preparation for the first tag with the new tag and release
432 *) Begin restructuring scoreboard code to enable adding back in
433 the ability to use IPC other than shared memory.
434 Get mod_status working on Windows again. [Bill Stoddard]
436 *) Make mod_status work with 2.0. This will work for prefork,
437 mpmt_pthread, and dexter. [Ryan Bloom]
439 *) Correct a typo in httpd.conf.
440 [Kunihiro Tanaka <tanaka@apache.or.jp>] PR#7154
442 *) Really fix mod_rewrite map lookups this time. [Tony Finch]
444 *) Get the correct IP address if ServerName isn't set and we can't
445 find a fully-qualified domain name at startup.
446 PR#7170 [Danek Duvall <dduvall@eng.sun.com>]
448 *) Make mod_cgid work with SuExec. [Ryan Bloom]
450 *) Adopt apr user/group name features for mod_rewrite. Eliminates some
451 'extra' stat's for user/group since they should never occur, and now
452 resolves the SCRIPT_USER and SCRIPT_GROUP, including on WinNT NTFS
453 volumes. [William Rowe]
455 *) Adopt apr features to simplify mod_includes. This changes the
456 behavior of the USER_NAME variable, unknown uid's are now reported
457 as USER_NAME="<unknown>" rather than the old user#000 result.
458 WinNT now resolves USER_NAME on NTFS volumes. [William Rowe]
460 *) Adopt apr features for simplifing mod_userdir, and accept the new
461 Win32/OS2 exceptions without hiccuping. [William Rowe]
463 *) Replace configure --with-optim option by using and saving the
464 environment variable OPTIM instead. This is needed because configure
465 options do not support multiple flags separated by spaces.
468 *) Fix some byterange handling. If we get a byte range that looks like
469 "-999999" where that is past the end of the file, we should return
470 a PARTIAL CONTENT status code, and return the whole file as one big
471 byterange. This matches the 1.3 handling now. [Ryan Bloom]
473 *) Make the error bucket a real meta-data bucket. This means that the
474 bucket length is 0, and a read returns NULL data. If one of these
475 buckets is passed down after the headers are sent, this data will
476 just be ignored. [Greg Stein]
478 *) The prefork MPM wasn't killing child processes correctly if a restart
479 signal was received while the process was serving a request. The child
480 process would become the equivalent of a second parent process. If
481 we break out of the accept loop, then we need to do die after cleaning
482 up after ourselves. [Ryan Bloom]
484 *) Change the Prefork MPM to use SIGWINCH instead of SIGUSR1 for graceful
485 restarts. [Ryan Bloom]
487 *) Modify the apr_stat/lstat/getfileinfo calls within apache to use
488 the most optimal APR_FINFO_wanted bits. This spares Win32 from
489 performing very expensive owner, group and permission lookups
490 and allows the server to function until these apr_finfo_t fields
491 are implemented under Win32. [William Rowe]
493 *) Support for typedsafe optional functions - that is functions exported by
494 optional modules, which, therefore, may or may not be present, depending
495 on configuration. See the experimental modules mod_optional_fn_{ex,im}port
496 for sample code. [Ben Laurie]
498 *) filters can now report an HTTP error to the server. This is done
499 by sending a brigade where the first bucket is an error_bucket.
500 This bucket is a simple bucket that stores an HTTP error and
501 a string. Currently the string is not used, but it may be needed
502 to output an error log. The http_header_filter will find this
503 bucket, and output the error text, and then return
504 AP_FILTER_ERROR, which informs the server that the error web page
505 has already been sent. [Ryan Bloom]
507 *) If we get an error, then we should remove all filters except for
508 those critical to serving a web page. This fixes a bug, where
509 error pages were going through the byterange filter, even though
510 that made no sense. [Ryan Bloom]
512 *) Relax the syntax checking of Host: headers in order to support
513 iDNS. PR#6635 [Tony Finch]
515 *) Cleanup the byterange filter to use the apr_brigade_partition
516 and apr_bucket_copy functions. This removes a lot of very messy
517 code, and hopefully makes this filter more stable.
520 *) Remove AddModule and ClearModuleList directives. Both of these
521 directives were used to ensure that modules could be enabled
522 in the correct order. That requirement is now gone, because
523 we use hooks to ensure that modules are in the correct order.
526 *) When SuExec is specified, we need to add it to the list of
527 targets to be built. If we don't, then any changes to the
528 configuration won't affect SuExec, unless 'make suexec' is
529 specifically run. [Ryan Bloom]
531 *) Cleaned out open_file from mod_file_cache, as apr now accepts
532 the APR_XTHREAD argument to open a file for consumption by
533 parallel threads on win32. [William Rowe]
535 *) Correct a bug in determining when we follow symlinks. The code
536 expected a stat -1 result, not an apr_status_t positive error.
537 Also check if the APR_FINFO_USER fields are valid before we
538 follow the link. [William Rowe]
540 *) Move initgroupgs, ap_uname2id and ap_gname2id from util.c to
541 mpm_common.c. These functions are only valid on some platforms,
542 so they should not be in the main-line code. [Ryan Bloom]
544 *) Remove ap_chdir_file(). This function is not thread-safe,
545 and nobody is currently using it. [Ryan Bloom]
547 *) Do not try to run make depend if there are no .c files in the
548 current directory, doing so makes `make depend` fail.
551 *) Update highperformance.conf to work with either prefork or
552 pthreads mpms. [Greg Ames]
554 *) Stop checking to see if this is a pipelined request if we know
555 for a fact that it isn't. Basically, if r->connection->keepalive == 0.
556 This keeps us from making an extra read call when serving a 1.0
557 request. [Ryan Bloom and Greg Stein]
559 *) Fix the handling of variable expansion look-ahead in mod_rewrite,
560 i.e. syntax like %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER}, and also fix the parsing of
561 more complicated nested RewriteMap lookups. PR#7087 [Tony Finch]
563 *) Fix the RFC number mentioned when complaining about a missing
564 Host: header. PR#7079 [Alexey Toptygin <alexeyt@wam.umd.edu>]
566 *) Fix an endless loop in ab which occurred when ab was posting
567 and the server dropped the connection unexpectedly.
570 *) Fix a segfault while handling request bodies in ap_http_filter().
571 This problem has been seen with mod_dav usage as well as with
572 requests where the body was just being discarded. [Jeff Trawick]
574 *) Some adjustment on the handling and automatic setting (via
575 hints.m4) of various compilation flags (eg: CFLAGS). Also,
576 add the capability to specify flags (NOTEST_CFLAGS and
577 NOTEST_LDFLAGS) which are used to compile Apache, but
578 not used during the configuration process. Useful for
579 flags like "-Werror". [Jim Jagielski]
581 *) Stop using environment variables to force debug mode or
582 no detach. We now use the -D command line argument to
583 specify the correct mode. -DONE_PROCESS and -DNO_DETACH.
584 [Greg Stein, Ryan Bloom]
586 *) Change handlers to use hooks. [Ben Laurie]
588 *) Stop returning copies of filenames from both apr_file_t and
589 apr_dir_t. We pstrdup the filenames that we store in the
590 actual structures, so we don't need to pstrdup the strings again.
593 *) mod_cgi: Fix some problems where the wrong error value was being
594 traced. [Jeff Trawick]
596 *) EBCDIC: Fix some missing ASCII conversion on some protocol data.
599 *) Add generic hooks. [Ben Laurie]
601 *) Use a real pool to dup the error log descriptor. [Ryan Bloom]
603 *) Fix a segfault caused by mod_ext_filter when the external filter
604 program does not exist. [Jeff Trawick]
606 *) Fix an output truncation error when on an HTTP >= 1.0 request an
607 object of size between DEFAULT_BUCKET_SIZE and AP_MIN_BYTES_TO_WRITE
608 was served through mod_charset_lite (or anything else that would
609 create a transient bucket in this size range). ap_bucket_make_heap()
610 silently failed (fixed), transient_setaside() discovered it, but
611 ap_save_brigade() ignored it (fixed). [Jeff Trawick]
613 *) Ignore \r\n or \n when using PEEK mode for input filters. The problem
614 is that some browsers send extra lines at the end of POST requests, and
615 we don't want to delay sending data back to the user just because the
616 browser isn't well behaved. [Ryan Bloom]
618 *) Get SuEXEC working again. We can't send absolute paths to suExec
619 because it refuses to execute those programs. SuEXEC also wasn't
620 always recognizing configuration changes made using the autoconf
623 *) Allow the buildconf process to find the config.m4 files in the correct
624 order. Basically, we can now name config.m4 files as config\d\d.m4,
625 and we will sort them correctly when inserting them into the build
626 process. [Ryan Bloom]
628 *) Get mod_cgid to use apr calls for creating the actual CGI process.
629 This also allows mod_cgid to use ap_os_create_priviledged_process,
630 thus allowing for SuExec execution from mod_cgid. Currently, we do
631 not support everything that standard SuExec supports, but at least
632 it works minimally now. [Ryan Bloom]
634 *) Allow SuExec to be configured from the ./configure command line.
637 *) Update some of the docs in README and INSTALL to reflect some of
638 the changes in Apache 2.0 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
640 *) If we get EAGAIN returned from the call to apr_sendfile, then we
641 need to call sendfile again. This gets us serving large files
642 such as apache_2.0a9.tar.gz on FreeBSD again. [Ryan Bloom]
644 *) Get the support programs building cleanly again.
645 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
647 *) The Apache/Win32 Apache.exe and dll's now live in bin. The
648 current directory logic now backs up over bin/ to determine the
649 server root from the Apache.exe path.
651 *) Apache/Win32 now follows the standard conventions of mod_foo.so
652 loadable modules, dynamic libs are all named libfoo.dll, and the
653 makefile.win populates the include, lib and libexec directories.
655 *) Apache is now IPv6-capable. On systems where APR supports IPv6,
656 Apache gets IPv6 listening sockets by default. Additionally, the
657 Listen, NameVirtualHost, and <VirtualHost> directives support IPv6
658 numeric address strings (e.g., "Listen [fe80::1]:8080").
661 *) Modify the install directory layout. Modules are now installed in
662 modules/. Shared libraries should be installed in libraries/, but
663 we don't have any of those on Unix yet. All install directories
664 are modifyable at configure time. [Ryan Bloom]
666 *) Install all header files in the same directory on Unix. [Ryan Bloom]
668 *) Get the functions in server/linked into the server, regardless of
669 which modules linked into the server. This uses the same hack
670 for Apache that we use for APR and apr-util to ensure all of the
671 necessary functions are linked. As a part of thise, the CHARSET_EBCDIC
672 was renamed to AP_CHARSET_EBCDIC for namespace protection, and to make
673 the scripts a bit easier.
676 *) Rework the RFC1413 handling to make it thread-safe, use a timeout
677 on the query, and remove IPv4 dependencies. [Jeff Trawick]
679 *) Get all of the auth modules to the point that they will install and
680 be loadable into the server. Our new build/install mechanism expects
681 that all modules will have a common name format. The auth modules
682 didn't use that format, so we didn't install them properly.
685 *) API routines ap_pgethostbyname() and ap_pduphostent() are no longer
686 available. Use apr_getaddrinfo() instead. [Jeff Trawick]
688 *) Get "NameVirtualHost *" working in 2.0. [Ryan Bloom]
690 *) Return HTTP_RANGE_NOT_SATISFIABLE if the every range requested starts
691 after the end of the response. [Ryan Bloom]
693 *) Get byterange requests working with responses that do not have a
694 content-length. Because of the way byterange requests work, we have to
695 have all of the data before we can actually do the byterange, so we
696 can compute the content-length in the byterange filter.
699 *) Get exe CGI's working again on Windows.
702 *) Get mod_cgid and mod_rewrite to work as DSOs by changing the way
703 they keep track of whether or not their post config hook has been
704 called before. Instead of a static variable (which is replaced when
705 the DSO is loaded a second time), use userdata in the process pool.
708 Changes with Apache 2.0a9
710 *) Win32 now requires perl to complete the final install step for users
711 to build + install on Win32. Makefile.win now rewrites @@ServerRoot@
712 and installs the conf, htdocs and htdocs/manual directories.
715 *) Make mod_include use a hash table to associate directive tags with
716 functions. This allows modules to implement their own SSI tags easily.
717 The idea is simple enough, a module can insert it's own tag and function
718 combination into a hash table provided by mod_include. While mod_include
719 parses an SSI file, when it encounters a tag in the file, it does a
720 hash lookup to find the function that implements that tag, and passes
721 all of the relevant data to the function. That function is then
722 responsible for processing the tag and handing the remaining data back
723 to mod_include for further processing.
724 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
726 *) Get rid of ap_new_apr_connection(). ap_new_connection() now has
727 fewer parameters: the local and remote socket addresses were removed
728 from the parameter list because all required information is available
729 via the APR socket. [Jeff Trawick]
731 *) Distribution directory structure reorganized to reflect a
732 normal source distribution with external install targets.
735 *) The MPMs that need multiple segments of shared memory now create
736 two apr_shmem_t variables, one for each shared memory allocation.
737 the problem is that we can't determine how much memory will be required
738 for shared memory allocations once we try to allocate more than one
739 variable. The MM code automatically aligns the shared memory allocations,
740 so we end up needing to pad the amount of shared memory we want based
741 on how many variables will be allocated out of the shared memory segment.
742 It is just easier to create a second apr_shmem_t variable, and two
746 *) Cleanup the export list a bit. This creates a single unified list of
747 functions exported by APR. The export list is generated at configure
748 time, and that list is then used to generate the exports.c file.
749 Because of the way the export list is generated, we only export those
750 functions that are valid on the platform we are building on.
753 *) Enable logging the cookie with mod_log_config
754 [Sander van Zoest <sander@covalent.net>]
756 *) Fix a segfault in mod_info when it reaches the end of the configuration.
759 *) Added lib/aputil/ as a placeholder for utility functions which are not
760 specific to the Apache HTTP Server (but do not make sense with APR).
761 The first utility is "apu_dbm": a set of functions to work with DBM
762 files. This first version can be compiled for SDBM or GDBM databases.
765 *) Complete re-write of mod_include. This makes mod_include a filter that
766 uses buckets directly. This has now served the FAQ correctly.
767 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
769 *) Allow modules to specify the first filter in a sub_request when
770 making the sub_request. This keeps modules from having to change the
771 output_filter immediately after creating the sub-request, and therefore
772 skip the sub_req_output_filter. [Ryan Bloom]
774 *) Update ab to accept URLs with IPv6 literal address strings (in the
775 format described in RFC 2732), and to build Host header fields in
776 the same format. This allows IPv6 literal address strings to be
777 used with ab. This support has been tested against Apache 1.3 with
778 the KAME patch, but Apache 2.0 does not yet work with this format
779 of the Host header field. [Jeff Trawick]
781 *) Accomodate an out-of-space condition in the piped logs and the
782 rotatelogs.c code, and no longer churn log processes for this
783 condition. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
785 *) Add support for partial writes with apr_sendfile() to core_output_filter.
788 Changes with Apache 2.0a8
790 *) Add a directive to mod_mime so that filters can be associated with
794 *) Get multi-views working again. We were setting the path_info
795 field incorrectly if we couldn't find the specified file.
798 *) Fix 304 processing. The core should never try to send the headers
799 down the filter stack. Always, just setup the table in the request
800 record, and let the header filter convert it to data that is ready
804 *) More fixes for the proxy. There are still bugs in the proxy code,
805 but this has now proxied www.yahoo.com and www.ntrnet.net (my ISP)
809 *) Fix params for apr_getaddrinfo() call in connect proxy handler.
812 *) APR: Add new apr_getopt_long function to handle long options.
813 [B. W. Fitzpatrick <fitz@red-bean.com>]
815 *) APR: Change apr_connect() to take apr_sockaddr_t instead of hostname.
816 Add generic apr_create_socket(). Add apr_getaddrinfo() for doing
817 hostname resolution/address string parsing and building
818 apr_sockaddr_t. Add apr_get_sockaddr() for getting the address
819 of one of the apr_sockaddr_t structures for a socket. Change
820 apr_bind() to take apr_sockaddr_t. [David Reid and Jeff Trawick]
822 *) Remove the BUFF from the HTTP proxy. This is still a bit ugly, but
823 I have proxied pages with it, cleanup will commence soon.
826 *) Make the proxy work with filters. This isn't perfect, because we
827 aren't dealing with the headers properly. [Ryan Bloom]
829 *) Do not send a content-length iff the C-L is 0 and this is a head
830 request. [Ryan Bloom]
832 *) Make cgi-bin work as a regular directory when using mod_vhost_alias
833 with no VirtualScriptAlias directives. PR#6829 [Tony Finch]
835 *) Remove BUFF from the PROXY connect handling. [Ryan Bloom]
837 *) Get the default_handler to stop trying to deal with HEAD requests.
838 The idea is to let the content-length filter compute the C-L before
839 we try to send the data. If we can get the C-L correctly, then we
840 should send it in the HEAD response.
843 *) The Header filter can now determine if a body should be sent based
844 on r->header_only. The general idea of this is that if we delay
845 deciding to send the body, then we might be able to compute the
846 content-length correctly, which will help caching proxies to cache
847 our data better. Any handler that doesn't want to try to compute
848 the content-length can just send an EOS bucket without data and
849 everything will just work.
852 *) Add the referer to the error log if one is available.
853 [Markus Gyger <mgyger@itr.ch>]
855 *) Mod_info.c has now been ported to Apache 2.0. As a part of this
856 change, the root of the configuration tree has been exposed to modules
858 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
860 *) Get the core_output_filter to use the bucket interface directly.
861 This keeps us from calling the content-length filter multiple times
862 for a simple static request.
865 *) We are sending the content-type correctly now.
866 [Ryan Bloom and Will Rowe]
868 *) APR on FreeBSD: Fix a bug in apr_sendfile() which caused us to report
869 a bogus bytes-sent value when the only thing being sent was trailers
870 and writev() returned an error (or EAGAIN). [Jeff Trawick]
872 *) Get SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT working again. This uses the
873 hints file to determine which platforms define
874 SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT.
877 *) APR: add apr_get_home_directory() [Jeff Trawick]
879 *) Initial import of 1.3-current mod_proxy. [Chuck Murcko]
881 *) Not all platforms have INADDR_NONE defined by default. Apache
882 used to make this check and define INADDR_NONE if appropriate,
883 but APR needs the check too, and I suspect other applications will
884 as well. APR now defines APR_INADDR_NONE, which is always a valid
885 value on all platforms.
886 [Branko Èibej <brane@xbc.nu>]
888 *) Destroy the pthread mutex in lock_intra_cleanup() for PR#6824.
889 [Shuichi Kitaguchi <ki@hh.iij4u.or.jp>]
891 *) Relax the syntax checking of Host: headers in order to support
892 iDNS. PR#6635 [Tony Finch]
894 *) When reading from file buckets we convert to an MMAP if it makes
895 sense. This also simplifies the default handler because the
896 default handler no longer needs to try to create MMAPs.
899 *) BUFF has been removed from the main server. The BUFF code will remain
900 in the code until it has been purged from the proxy module as well.
903 *) Byteranges have been completely re-written to be a filter. This
904 has been tested, and I believe it is working correctly, but it could
905 doesn't work for the Adobe Acrobat plug-in. The output almost matches
906 the output from 1.3, the only difference being that 1.3 includes
907 a content-length in the response, and this does not.
910 *) APR read/write functions and bucket read functions now operate
911 on unsigned integers, instead of signed ones. It doesn't make
912 any sense to use signed ints, because we return the error codes,
913 so if we have an error we should report 0 bytes read or written.
916 *) Always compute the content length, whether it is sent or not.
917 The reason for this, is that it allows us to correctly report
918 the bytes_sent when logging the request. This also simplifies
919 content-length filter a bit, and fixes the actual byte-reporing
920 code in mod_log_config.c
923 *) Remove AP_END_OF_BRIGADE definition. This does not signify what
924 it says, because it was only used by EOS and FLUSH buckets. Since
925 neither of those are required at the end of a brigade, this was
926 really signifying FLUSH_THE_DATA, but that can be determined better
927 by checking AP_BUCKET_IS_EOS() or AP_BUCKET_IS_FLUSH. EOS and FLUSH
928 buckets now return a length of 0, which is actually the amount of data
929 read, so they make more sense.
932 *) Allow the core_output_filter to save some data past the end of a
933 request. If we get an EOS bucket, we only send the data if it
934 makes sense to send it. This allows us to pipeline request
935 responses. As a part of this, we also need to allocate mmap
936 buckets out of the connection pool, not the request pool. This
937 allows the mmap to outlive the request.
940 *) Make blocking and non-blocking bucket reads work correctly for
941 sockets and pipes. These are the only bucket types that should
942 have non-blocking reads, because the other bucket types should
943 ALWAYS be able to return something immediately.
946 *) In the Apache/Win32 console window, accept Ctrl+C to stop the
947 server, but use Ctrl+Break to initiate a graceful restart
948 instead of duplicating behavior. [John Sterling]
950 *) Patch mod_autoindex to set the Last-Modified header based on
951 the directory's mtime, and add the ETag header. [William Rowe]
953 *) Merge the 1.3 patch to add support for logging query string in
954 such a way that "%m %U%q %H" is the same as "%r".
957 *) Port three log methods from mod_log_config 1.3 to 2.0:
958 CLF compliant '-' byte count, method and protocol.
961 *) Add a new LogFormat directive, %c, that will log connection
962 status at the end of the response as follows:
963 'X' - connection aborted before the response completed.
964 '+' - connection may be kept-alive by the server.
965 '-' - connection will be closed by the server.
968 *) Expand APR for WinNT to fully accept and return utf-8 encoded
969 Unicode file names and paths for Win32, and tag the Content-Type
970 from mod_autoindex to reflect that charset if the the feature
971 macro APR_HAS_UNICODE_FS is true. [William Rowe]
973 *) Compute the content length (and add appropriate header field) for
974 the response when no content length is available and we can't use
975 chunked encoding. [Jeff Trawick]
977 *) Changed ap_discard_request_body() to use REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK,
978 so that content input filters get dechunked data when using
979 the default handler. Also removed REQUEST_CHUNKED_PASS.
982 *) Add mod_ext_filter as an experimental module. This module allows
983 the administrator to use external programs as filters. Currently,
984 only filtering of output is supported. [Jeff Trawick]
986 *) Most Apache functions work on EBCDIC machines again, as protocol
987 data is now translated (again). [Jeff Trawick]
989 *) Introduce ap_xlate_proto_{to|from}_ascii() to clean up some of
990 the EBCDIC support. They are noops on ASCII machines, so this
991 type of translation doesn't have to be surrounded by #ifdef
992 CHARSET_EBCDIC. [Jeff Trawick]
994 *) Fix mod_include. tag commands work again, and the server will
995 send the FAQ again. This also allows mod_include to set aside
996 buckets that include partial buckets.
997 [Ryan Bloom and David Reid]
999 *) Add suexec support back. [Manoj Kasichainula]
1001 *) Lingering close now uses the socket directly instead of using
1002 BUFF. This has been tested, but since all we can tell is that it
1003 doesn't fail, this needs to be really hacked on.
1006 *) Allow filters to modify headers and have those headers be sent to
1007 the client. The idea is that we have an http_header filter that
1008 actually sends the headers to the network. This removes the need
1009 for the BUFF to send headers.
1012 *) Charset translation: mod_charset_lite handles translation of
1013 request bodies. Get rid of the xlate version of ap_md5_digest()
1014 since we don't compute digests of filtered (e.g., translated)
1015 response bodies this way anymore. (Note that we don't do it at
1016 all at the present; somebody needs to write a filter to do so.)
1019 *) Input filters and ap_get_brigade() now have a input mode parameter
1020 (blocking, non-blocking, peek) instead of a length parameter.
1023 *) Update the mime.types file to the registered media types as
1024 of 2000-10-19. PR#6613 [Carsten Klapp <carsten.klapp@home.net>,
1027 *) Namespace protect some macros declared in ap_config.h
1030 *) Support HTTP header line folding with input filtering.
1033 *) Mod_include works again. This should still be re-written, but at
1034 least now we can serve an SHTML page again.
1037 *) Begin to remove BUFF from the core. Currently, we keep a pointer
1038 to both the BUFF and the socket in the conn_rec. Functions that
1039 want to use the BUFF can, functions that want to use the socket,
1040 can. They point to the same place.
1043 *) apr_psprintf doesn't understand %lld as a format. Make it %ld.
1044 [Tomas "Ögren" <stric@ing.umu.se>]
1046 *) APR pipes on Unix and Win32 are now cleaned up automatically when the
1047 associated pool goes away. (APR pipes on OS/2 were already had this
1048 logic.) This resolvs a fatal file descriptor leak with CGIs.
1051 *) The final line of the config file was not being read if there was
1052 no \n at the end of it. This was caused by apr_fgets returning
1053 APR_EOF even though we had read valid data. This is solved by
1054 making cfg_getline check the buff that was returned from apr_fgets.
1055 If apr_fgets return APR_EOF, but there was data in the buf, then we
1056 return the buf, otherwise we return NULL.
1059 *) Piped logs work again in the 2.0 series.
1062 *) Restore functionality broken by the mod_rewrite security fix:
1063 rewrite map lookup keys and default values are now expanded
1064 so that the lookup can depend on the requested URI etc.
1065 PR #6671 [Tony Finch]
1067 *) Tighten up the syntax checking of Host: headers to fix a
1068 security bug in some mass virtual hosting configurations
1069 that can allow a remote attacker to retrieve some files
1070 on the system that should be inaccessible. [Tony Finch]
1072 *) Add a pool bucket type. This bucket is used for data allocated out
1073 of a pool. If the pool is cleaned before the bucket is destroyed, then
1074 the data is converted to a heap bucket, allowing it to survive the
1078 *) Add a flush bucket. This allows modules to signal that the filters
1079 should all flush whatever data they currently have. There is no way
1080 to actually force them to do this, so if a filter ignores this bucket,
1081 that's life, but at least we can try with this.
1084 *) Add an output filter for sub-requests. This filter just strips the
1085 EOS bucket so that we don't confuse the main request's core output
1086 filter by sending multiple EOS buckets. This change also makes sub
1087 requests start to send EOS buckets when they are finished.
1090 *) Make ap_bucket_(read|destroy|split|setaside) into macros. Also
1091 makes ap_bucket_destroy a return void, which is okay because it
1092 used to always return APR_SUCCESS, and nobody ever checked its
1093 return value anyway.
1094 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
1096 *) Remove the index into the bucket-type table from the buckets
1097 structure. This has now been replaced with a pointer to the
1098 bucket_type. Also add some macros to test the bucket-type.
1101 *) Renamed all MODULE_EXPORT symbols to AP_MODULE_DECLARE and all symbols
1102 for CORE_EXPORT to AP_CORE_DECLARE (namespace protecting the wrapper)
1103 and retitled API_EXPORT as AP_DECLARE and APR_EXPORT as APR_DECLARE.
1104 All _VAR_ flavors changes to _DATA to be absolutely clear.
1107 *) Add support for /, //, //servername and //server/sharename
1108 parsing of <Directory> blocks under Win32 and OS2.
1109 [Tim Costello, William Rowe, Brian Harvard]
1111 *) Remove the function pointers from the ap_bucket type. They have been
1112 replaced with a global table. Modules are allowed to register bucket
1113 types and use then use those buckets.
1116 *) mod_cgid: In the handler, shut down the Unix socket (only for write)
1117 once we finish writing the request body to the cgi child process;
1118 otherwise, the client doesn't hit EOF on stdin. Small request bodies
1119 worked without this change (for reasons I don't understand), but large
1120 ones didn't. [Jeff Trawick]
1122 *) Remove file bucket specific information from the ap_bucket type.
1123 This has been moved to a file_bucket specific type that hangs off
1124 the data pointer in the ap_bucket type.
1127 *) Input filtering now has a third argument. This is the amount of data
1128 to read from lower filters. This argument can be -1, 0, or a positive
1129 number. -1 means give me all the data you have, I'll deal with it and
1130 let you know if I need more. 0 means give me one line and one line
1131 only. A positive number means I want no more than this much data.
1133 Currently, only 0 and a positive number are implemented. This allows
1134 us to remove the remaining field from the conn_rec structure, which
1138 *) Big cleanup of the input filtering. The goal is that http_filter
1139 understands two conditions, headers and body. It knows where it is
1140 based on c->remaining. If c->remaining is 0, then we are in headers,
1141 and http_filter returns a line at a time. If it is not 0, then we are
1142 in body, and http_filter returns raw data, but only up to c->remaining
1143 bytes. It can return less, but never more.
1144 [Greg Ames, Ryan Bloom, Jeff Trawick]
1146 *) mod_cgi: Write all of the request body to the child, not just what
1147 the kernel would accept on the first write. [Jeff Trawick]
1149 *) Back out the change that moved the brigade from the core_output_filters
1150 ctx to the conn_rec. Since all requests over a given connection
1151 go through the same core_output_filter, the ctx pointer has the
1155 *) Fix another bug in the send_the_file() read/write loop. A partial
1156 send by apr_send would cause unsent data in the read buffer to
1157 get clobbered. Complete making send_the_file handle partial
1158 writes to the network.
1161 *) Fix a couple of type fixes to allow compilation on AIX again
1162 [Victor J. Orlikowski <v.j.orlikowski@gte.net>]
1164 *) Fix bug in send_the_file() which causes offset to be ignored
1165 if there are no headers to send.
1168 *) Handle APR_ENOTIMPL returned from apr_sendfile in the core
1169 filter. Useful for supporting Windows 9* with a binary
1170 compiled on Windows NT.
1173 Changes with Apache 2.0a7
1175 *) Reimplement core_output_filter to buffer/save bucket brigades
1176 across multiple calls to the core_filter. The brigade will be
1177 sent when either MIN_BYTES_TO_SEND or MAX_IOVEC_TO_WRITE
1178 thresholds are hit or the EOS bucket is received.
1181 *) Create experimental filter (buffer_filter) that coalesces bytes
1182 into one large buffer before invoking the next filter in the
1183 chain. This filter is particularly useful with the current
1184 implementation of mod_autoindex when it inserted above the
1185 chunk_filter. mod_autoindex generates a lot of brigades that
1186 containing buckets holding just a few bytes each. The
1187 buffer_filter coalesces these buckets into a single large bucket.
1190 *) Add apr_sendfile() support into the core_output_filter.
1193 *) Add apr_sendv() support into the core_output_filter.
1196 *) Fix mod_log_config so that it compiles cleanly with BUFFERED_LOGS
1197 [Mike Abbott <mja@sgi.com>]
1199 *) Remove ap_send_fb. This is no longer used in Apache, and it doesn't
1200 make much sense, because Apache uses buckets instead of BUFFs now.
1203 *) send_the_file now falls back to a read/write loop on platforms that
1204 do not have sendfile.
1205 [Ryan Bloom and Brian Havard]
1207 *) Install apachectl correctly, and substitute the proper values so
1208 that it works again. [Ryan Bloom]
1210 *) Better(??) handle platforms that lack sendfile().
1213 *) APR now has UUID generation/formatting/parsing support.
1216 *) Begin the http_filter. This is an input filter that understands
1217 the absolute basic amount required to parse an HTTP Request. The
1218 goal is to be able to split headers from request body before passing
1219 the data back to the other filters.
1222 *) Bring forward from 1.3.13 the config directory implementation
1225 *) install apxs if it is created
1228 *) Added APR_IS_STATUS_condition test macros to eliminate canonical error
1229 conversions. [William Rowe]
1231 *) Now that we have ap_add_input_filter(), rename ap_add_filter() to
1232 ap_add_output_filter(). [Jeff Trawick]
1234 *) Multiple build and configuration fixes
1237 -add datadir and localstatedir substitutions
1239 -fix logfilename misspelling
1240 -fix evaluation of installation dir variables and
1241 -replace $foobar by $(foobar) to be usefull in the makefile
1245 -add rules for cross-compiling in rules.mk. Okay, rule to check for
1246 $CC_FOR_BUILD is still missing
1247 -use CHECK_TOOL instead of CHECK_PROG for ranlib
1248 -add missing "AR=@AR@" to severaly Makefile.in's
1249 -cache result for "struct rlimit"
1250 -compile all helper programs with native and cross compiler
1251 and use the native version to generate header file
1252 ["Rüdiger" Kuhlmann <Tadu@gmx.de>]
1254 *) Prepare our autoconf setup for autoconf 2.14a and for cross-
1256 ["Rüdiger" Kuhlmann <Tadu@gmx.de>]
1258 *) Fix a bug where a client which only sends \n to delimit header
1259 lines (netcat) gets a strange looking HTTP_NOT_IMPLEMENTED
1260 message. Start working on ebcdic co-existance with input
1262 [William Rowe, Greg Ames]
1264 *) If mod_so is enabled in the server always create libexec, even
1265 if there are no modules installed in this directory. This is a
1266 requirement for APXS to work correctly.
1269 *) Connection oriented output filters are now stored in the
1270 conn_rec instead of the request_rec. This allows us to add the
1271 output filter in the pre-connection phase instead of the
1272 post_read_request phase, which keeps us from trying to write an
1273 error page before we have a filter to write to the network.
1274 [Ryan Bloom, Jeff Trawick, and Greg Ames]
1276 *) Cleaning up an mmap bucket no longer deletes the mmap. An
1277 mmap can be used across multiple buckets (default_handler with
1278 byte ranges, mod_file_cache, mod_mmap_static), so cleanup of
1279 the mmap itself can't be associated with the bucket.
1282 *) Add .dll caching directive ISAPICacheFile to mod_isapi.
1285 *) Radical surgery to improve mod_isapi support under Win32.
1286 Includes a number of newer ServerSupportFunction calls, support
1287 for ReadClient (in order to retrieve POSTs greater than 48KB),
1288 and general bug fixes to more reliably load ISAPI .dll's and
1289 prevent leaking handle resources. Note: There are still
1290 discrepancies between IIS's and Apache's ServerVariables, and
1291 async calls are still not supported. Additional warnings are
1292 logged to facilitate debugging of unsupported ISAPI calls.
1295 *) Add input filtering to Apache. The basic idea for the input
1296 filters is the same as the ideas for output filters. The biggest
1297 difference is that instead of calling ap_pass_brigade, ap_get_brigade
1298 should be called, and the order of execution for the filter itself is
1299 different. When writing an output filter, a brigade is passed in,
1300 and filters operate directly on that brigade, when done, they call
1301 ap_pass_brigade. Input filters are the exact opposite. Because input
1302 is not a push operation, filters first call ap_get_brigade. When this
1303 function returns, the input filter will be left with a valid brigade.
1304 The input filter should then operate on the brigade, and return.
1307 *) Fix building on BSD/OS using its native make. The build system
1308 falls back to the BSD .include directive on that host platform.
1311 *) Expand dbmmanage to allow -d -m -s -p options for Crypt, MD5,
1312 SHA1 and plaintext password encodings. Make feature tests a
1313 bit more flexible. [William Rowe]
1315 *) Charset translation: mod_charset_lite handles output content
1316 translation in a filter. mod_charset_lite no longer ignores
1317 subrequests. A bunch of cruft related to BUFF's support for
1318 translating request and response bodies was removed.
1321 *) Move the addition of the CORE filter to the post_read_request
1322 hook in http_core.c. This removes the need to add the filter in
1323 multiple places and allows for an SSL module to be added much
1324 simpler. [Ryan Bloom]
1326 *) Fix a security problem that affects certain configurations of
1327 mod_rewrite. If the result of a RewriteRule is a filename that
1328 contains expansion specifiers, especially regexp backreferences
1329 $0..$9 and %0..%9, then it may be possible for an attacker to
1330 access any file on the web server. [Tony Finch]
1332 *) Fix a bug where errors that are detected during early request parsing
1333 don't produce visible HTTP error messages at the browser, because
1334 the core_filter wasn't present. [Greg Ames]
1336 *) Provide apr_socklen_t as a portability aid.
1337 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
1339 *) Overhaul of dbmmanage to allow a groups arg (as in Apache 1.2)
1340 as well as a comment arg to the add, adduser and update cmds.
1341 update allows the user to clear or preserve pw/groups/comment.
1342 Fixed a bug in dbmmanage that prevented the check option from
1343 parsing a password followed by :group... text. Corrected the
1344 seed calcualation for Win32 systems, and added -lsdbm support.
1347 *) Configured mod_auth_dbm to compile with sdbmlib under Win32.
1350 *) Avoid a segfault when parsing .htaccess files. An
1351 uninitialized tree pointer was passed to ap_build_config().
1354 *) Change the way that inet_addr & inet_network are checked for
1355 in APR's configure process to allow BeOS BONE to correctly
1356 find them. With this change BeOS BONE now builds from source
1357 with no problems. [David Reid]
1359 *) Fix a bug in apr_create_process() for Unix. The NULL signifying
1360 the end of the parameters to execve() was stored in the wrong
1361 location, overlaying the storage beyond the newargs[] array and
1362 also passing uninitialized storage to execve(), which would
1363 sometimes fail with EFAULT. [Jeff Trawick]
1365 *) Fix a bug parsing configuration file containers. With a sequence
1366 like this in the config file
1368 <IfModule mod_kilroy.c>
1371 <IfModule mod_lovejoy.c>
1376 the second container would be terminated at the blank line due to
1377 sediment in the buffer from reading the prior </IfModule> and an
1378 error message would be generated for the real </IfModule> for the
1379 second container. Also due to this problem, any two characters
1380 could be used for "</" in the close of a container.
1383 *) ap_add_filter prototype changed to remove the ctx pointer. The
1384 pointer still remains in the filter structure, but it can not be
1385 a part of the ap_add_filter prototype. The reason is that when
1386 the core uses AddFilter to add a filter to the stack it doesn't
1387 know how to allocate the ctx pointer, or even how much memory should
1388 be allocated. The filters will have to be responsible for allocating
1389 the ctx memory when they need it.
1392 *) Add an AddFilter directive. This directive takes a list of filters
1393 that should be activated for the requested resource.
1396 *) apr_snprintf(): Get quad format strings working on OS/390 (and perhaps
1397 some other platforms). [Jeff Trawick]
1399 *) Modify mod_include to be a filter. Currently, it has only been tested
1400 on actual files, but it should work for CGI scripts too.
1403 *) apr_putc(), apr_puts() for Unix: handle buffered files and interrupted
1404 writes. apr_flush() for Unix: handle interrupted writes.
1407 *) NameVirtualHost can now take "*" as an argument instead of
1408 an IP address. This allows you to create a purely name-based
1409 virtual hosting server that does not have any IP addresses in
1410 the configuration file and which ignores the local address
1411 of any connections. PR #5595, PR #4455 [Tony Finch]
1413 *) Fix some compile warnings in mod_mmap_static.c
1414 [Mike Abbott <mja@sgi.com>]
1416 *) Fix chunking problem with CGI scripts. The general problem was that
1417 the CGI modules were adding an EOS bucket and then the core added an
1418 EOS bucket. The chunking filter finalizes the chunked response when it
1419 encounters an EOS bucket. Because two EOS buckets were sent, we
1420 finalized the response twice. The fix is to make sure we only send one
1421 EOS, by utilizing a flag in the request_rec.
1424 *) apr_put_os_file() now sets up the unget byte appropriately on Unix
1425 and Win32. Previously, the first read from an apr_file_t set up via
1426 apr_put_os_file() would return a '\0'. [Jeff Trawick]
1428 *) Mod_cgid now creates a single element bucket brigade, with a pipe
1429 bucket, instead of using BUFF's and ap_r*.
1432 *) APRVARS.in no longer overwrites the EXTRA_LIBS variable.
1433 [Mike Abbott <mja@sgi.com>]
1435 *) Remove ap_bopenf from buff code. This required modifying the file_cache
1436 code to use APR file's directly instead of going through BUFFs.
1439 *) Fix compile break on some platforms for mod_mime_magic.c
1440 [John K. Sterling <sterling@covalent.net>]
1442 *) Fix merging of AddDefaultCharset directive.
1443 PR #5872 (1.3) [Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@imgsrc.co.jp>]
1445 *) Minor revamp of the rlimit sections of code. We now test
1446 explicitly for setrlimit and getrlimit. Also, unixd_set_rlimit()
1447 is now "available" even if the platform doesn't support
1448 the rlimit family (it's just a noop though). [Jim Jagielski]
1450 *) Migrate the pre-selection of which MPM to use for specific
1451 platforms to hints.m4, which contains (or should contain)
1452 all platform specific "hints". [Jim Jagielski]
1454 *) Remove IOLs from Apache. With filtering, IOLs are no longer necessary
1457 *) Add tables with non-string/binary values to APR.
1460 *) Fix some bad calls to ap_log_rerror() in mod_rewrite.
1463 *) Update PCRE to version 3.2. [Ryan Bloom]
1465 *) Change the way buckets' destroy functions are called so that
1466 they can be more directly used when changing the type of a
1467 bucket in place. [Tony Finch]
1469 *) Add generic support for reference-counting the resources used by
1470 buckets, and alter the HEAP and MMAP buckets to use it. Change
1471 the way buckets are initialised to support changing the type of
1472 buckets in place, and use it when setting aside TRANSIENT buckets.
1473 Change the implementation of TRANSIENT buckets so that it can be
1474 mostly shared with IMMORTAL buckets, which are now implemented.
1477 Changes with Apache 2.0a6
1479 *) Add support to Apache and APR for dsos on OS/390. [Greg Ames]
1481 *) Add a chunking filter to Apache. This brings us one step closer
1482 to removing BUFF. [Ryan Bloom]
1484 *) ap_add_filter now adds filters in a LIFO fashion. The first filter
1485 added to the stack is the last filter to be called. [Ryan Bloom]
1487 *) Apache 2.0 has been completely documented using Scandoc. The
1488 docs can be generated by running 'make docs'. [Ryan Bloom]
1490 *) Add filtered I/O to Apache. This is based on bucket brigades,
1491 Currently the buckets still use BUFF under the covers, but that
1492 should change quickly. The only currently written filter is the
1493 core filter which just calls ap_bwrite. [The Apache Group]
1495 *) APR locks on Unix: Let APR_LOCKALL locks work when APR isn't
1496 built with thread support. [Jeff Trawick]
1498 *) Abort configuration if --with-layout was specified and there's
1499 no layout definition file. [Ken Coar]
1501 *) Add support for '--with-port=n' option to configure. [Ken Coar]
1503 *) Add support for extension methods for the Allow response header
1504 field, and an API routine for accessing r->allowed and the
1505 list of extension methods in a unified manner. [Ken Coar]
1507 *) mod_cern_meta: fix broken file reading loop in scan_meta_file().
1508 [Rob Simonson <simo@us.ibm.com>]
1510 *) Get xlate builds working again. The apr renaming in 2.0a5 broke
1511 APACHE_XLATE builds. [Jeff Trawick]
1513 *) A configuration file parsing problem was fixed. When the
1514 configuration file started with an IfModule/IfDefine container,
1515 only the last statement in the container would be retained.
1518 Changes with Apache 2.0a5
1520 *) Perchild is serving pages after passing them to different child
1521 processes. There are still a lot of bugs, but this does work. I
1522 have made requests against the same installation of Apache, and had
1523 different servers use different user IDs to serve the responses.
1524 This change moves to using socketpair instead of an AF_UNIX socket.
1527 *) Perchild MPM still doesn't work perfectly, but it is serving pages.
1528 It can't seem to pass between child processes yet, but I think we
1529 are closer now than before. This moves us back to using Unix
1530 Domain Sockets. [Ryan Bloom]
1532 *) libapr functions and types renamed with apr_ prefix.
1533 #include "apr_compat.h" for 1.3.x backwards compat
1536 *) Fix problems with APR sockaddr handling on Win32. It didn't always
1537 return the right information on the local socket address.
1538 [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls@level8.com>]
1540 *) ap_recv() on Win32: Set bytes-read to 0 on error.
1541 [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls@level8.com>]
1543 *) Add an option to not detach from the controlling terminal without
1544 going into single process mode. This allows for much easier
1545 debugging of the process startup code. [Ryan Bloom]
1547 *) ab: don't use perror() to report the failure of an APR function.
1550 *) Make dexter, mpmt_pthread, and perchild MPMs not destroy the
1551 scoreboard on graceful restarts.
1554 *) Fix segfault/SIGSEGV when running gzip from mod_mime_magic.c.
1555 An invalid ap_proc_t was passed to ap_create_process().
1558 *) Allow modules to register filters. Those filters are still
1559 never called, but this is a step in the right direction.
1560 [Ryan Bloom and Greg Stein]
1562 *) Register the mod_cgid daemon process for cleanup so that it is
1563 killed at termination if it does not die when the parent gets
1564 SIGTERM. This change is to fix occasional problems where the
1565 process stays around. Bugs in similar logic in mod_rewrite and
1566 mod_include were also fixed. [Jeff Trawick]
1568 *) Fix a bug in the time handling. Basically, we were imploding a time
1569 in ap_parseHTTPdate, but it had bogus data in the exploded time format.
1570 Namely, tm_usec and tm_gmtoff were not filled out. ap_implode_time
1571 uses those two fields to adjust the time value. Because of the HTTP
1572 spec, both of those values can be zero'ed out safely. This fixes
1573 the bug correctly. [Ryan Bloom]
1575 *) Fix a couple of place in the Windows code where the wrong error
1576 code was being returned. [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls@level8.com>]
1578 *) Fix POOL_DEBUG (at least for prefork mpm). [Dean Gaudet]
1580 *) Added the APR_EOL_STR macro for platform dependent differences in
1581 logfiles and other raw text (such as all APR files). Fixes logfiles
1582 not terminated with cr/lf sequences in Win32. [William Rowe]
1584 *) Move all strings functions in APR to src/lib/apr/strings and create
1585 apr_strings.h for the prototypes. [Ryan Bloom]
1587 *) APR lock fixes: when using SysV sems, flock(), or fcntl(), be sure
1588 to repeat the syscall until we stop getting EINTR. I noticed a
1589 related problem at termination (SIGTERM) on FreeBSD when using
1590 fcntl(). Apache 1.3 had these new loops too. Also, make the flock()
1591 implementation work properly with child init. Previously, ap_lock()
1592 was essentially a no-op because all children were using different
1593 locks and thus nobody ever blocked. [Jeff Trawick]
1595 *) The htdocs/ tree has been moved out of the CVS source tree into
1596 a separate area for easier development. This has NO EFFECT on
1597 end-users or Apache installations. [Ken Coar]
1599 *) Integrate the mod_dav module for WebDAV protocol handling. This
1600 adds the dav and dav_fs modules, the SDBM library, and additional
1601 XML handling utilities. [Greg Stein]
1603 *) Clean out obsolete names (from httpd.h) for the HTTP Status Codes
1606 *) Update the lib/expat-lite/ library (bring forward changes from
1607 the Apache 1.3 repository). [Greg Stein]
1609 *) If sizeof(long long) == sizeof(long), then prefer long in APR
1610 configure.in. [Dave Hill <ddhill@zk3.dec.com>]
1612 *) Add ap_sendfile for Tru64 Unix. Also, add an error message for
1613 machines where sendfile is detected, but nobody has written ap_sendfile.
1614 [Dave Hill <ddhill@zk3.dec.com>]
1616 *) Compile fixes in mod_mmap_static. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
1618 *) ab would start up more connections than needed, then quit when the
1619 desired number were finished. Also fixed a logic error involving
1620 ab keepalives. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
1622 *) WinNT: Implement non-blocking pipes with timeouts to communicate
1623 with CGIs. Apache 2.0a4 had non-blocking pipes but without
1624 timeouts (i.e, if a timeout was specified, the pipe reverted to
1625 a full blocking pipe). Now the behaviour is more in line with
1626 Unix non-blocking pipes.
1629 *) WinNT: Implement accept socket reuse. Using mod_file_cache to
1630 cache open file handles along with accept socket reuse enables
1631 Apache 2.0 to serve non-keepalive requests for static files at
1632 3x the rate of Apache 1.3.(e.g, Apache 1.3 will serve 400 rps
1633 and Apache 2.0 will serve almost 1200 rps on my system).
1636 *) Merge mod_mmap_static function into mod_file_cache. mod_file_cache
1637 supports two config directives, mmapfile (same behavious as
1638 mod_mmap_static) and cachefile. Use the cachefile directive
1639 to cache open file handles. This directive only works on systems
1640 that have implemented the ap_sendfile API. cachefile works today
1641 on Windows NT, but has not been tested on any flavors of Unix.
1644 *) Cleanup the configuration. With the last few changes the
1645 configuration process automatically:
1646 inherits information about how to build from APR. Allowing
1647 APR to inform Apache that it should or should not use -ldl
1649 Detects which mod_cgi should be used mod_cgi or mod_cgid,
1650 based on the threading model
1652 Apache calls APR's configure process before finishing it's
1653 configuration processing, allowing for more information flow
1658 *) Change Unix and Win32 ap_setsockopt() so that APR_SO_NONBLOCK
1659 with non-zero argument makes the socket non-blocking. BeOS and
1660 OS/2 already worked this way. [Jeff Trawick]
1662 *) ap_close() now calls ap_flush() for buffered files, so write
1663 operations work a whole lot better on buffered files.
1666 *) Fix error messages issued from MPMs which explain where to change
1667 compiled-in limits (e.g., ThreadsPerChild, MaxClients, StartTreads).
1670 *) ap_create_pipe() now leaves pipes in blocking state. (This helps
1671 reduce the number of syscalls on Unix.) ap_set_pipe_timeout() is
1672 now the way that the blocking state of a pipe is manipulated.
1673 ap_block_pipe() is gone. [Jeff Trawick]
1675 *) Correct the problem where the only local host name that the IP stack
1676 can discover are 'undotted' private names. If no fully qualified
1677 domain name can be identified, the default ServerName will be set to
1678 the machine's IP address string. A warning is always provided if the
1679 ServerName not specified, but assumed. Solves PR6215 [William Rowe]
1681 *) Repair problems with config file processing which caused segfault
1682 at init when virtual hosts were defined and which caused ServerName to
1683 be ignored when there was no valid DNS setup. [Jeff Trawick]
1685 *) Removed pointless ap_is_aborted macro function. [Roy Fielding]
1687 *) Add ap_sendfile implementation for AIX
1688 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
1690 *) Repair C++ compatibility in ap_config.h, apr_file_io.h,
1691 apr_network_io.h, and apr_thread_proc.h.
1692 [Tyler J. Brooks <tylerjbrooks@home.com>, Jeff Trawick]
1694 *) Bring the allocation and pool debugging code back into a working
1695 state. This will need to be tested as so far it's only been used on
1698 *) Change configuration command setup to be properly typesafe when in
1699 maintainer mode. Note that this requires a compiler that can initialise
1700 unions. [Ben Laurie]
1702 *) Turn on buffering for config file reads. Part of this was to
1703 repair buffered I/O support in Unix and implement buffered
1704 ap_fgets() for all platforms. [Brian Havard, Jeff Trawick]
1706 *) Win32: Fix problem where UTC offset was not being set correctly
1707 in the access log. Problem reported on news group by Jerry Baker.
1710 *) Fix segfault when reporting this type of syntax error:
1711 "</container> without matching <container> section", where
1712 container is VirtualHost or Directory or whatever.
1715 *) Prevent the source code for CGIs from being revealed when using
1716 mod_vhost_alias and the CGI directory is under the document root
1717 and a user makes a request like http://www.example.com//cgi-bin/cgi
1718 as reported in <news:960999105.344321@ernani.logica.co.uk>
1721 *) Add support for the new Beos NetwOrking Environment (BONE)
1724 *) xlate: ap_xlate_conv_buffer() now tells the caller when the
1725 final input char is incomplete; ap_bwrite_xlate() now handles
1726 incomplete final input chars. [Jeff Trawick]
1728 *) Yet another update to saferead/halfduplex stuff -- need to ensure
1729 that a bhalfduplex call occurs before logging or else DNS and
1730 such can delay the last packet of the response. [Dean Gaudet]
1732 *) Some syscall reduction in APR on unix -- don't seek when setting
1733 up an mmap; and don't fcntl() more than once per socket.
1736 *) When mod_cgid is started as root, the cgi daemon now switches
1737 to the configured User/Group (like other httpd processes)
1738 instead of continuing as root. [Jeff Trawick]
1740 *) The prefork MPM now uses an APR lock for the accept() mutex.
1741 It has not been getting a lock at all recently. httpd -V now
1742 displays APR's selection of the lock mechanism instead of the
1743 symbols previously respected by prefork. [Jeff Trawick]
1745 *) Change the mmap() feature test to check only for existence.
1746 The previous check required features not used by Apache.
1749 *) Fix a couple of bugs in mod_cgid: The cgi arguments were
1750 sometimes mangled. The len parm to accept() was not
1751 initialized, leading sometimes to an endless loop of failed
1752 accept() calls on OS/390 and anywhere else that failed the call
1753 if the len was negative. Use <sys/un.h> for struct sockaddr_un
1754 instead of declaring it ourselves to fix a compilation problem
1755 on Solaris. [Jeff Trawick]
1757 *) Add Resource limiting code back into Apache 2.0. [Ryan Bloom]
1759 *) Fix zombie process problem with mod_cgi. [Jeff Trawick]
1761 *) Port mod_mmap_static to 2.0. Make it go faster. [Greg Ames]
1763 *) Fix storage overlay when loading dsos. Symptom: Apache dies at
1764 initialization if ALLOC_DEBUG is defined; no known symptom
1765 otherwise. [Jeff Trawick]
1767 *) Fix typo in configure script when checking for mod_so. bash
1768 doesn't seem to have a problem but /bin/sh on Solaris does.
1769 Symptom: "./configure: test: unknown operator =="
1772 *) Rebind the Win32 NT and 9x services control into the MPM.
1773 All console, WinNT SCM and Win9x pseudo-service control code is
1774 now wrapped within the WinNT MPM.
1777 *) Make a copy of getenv("PATH") before storing for later use. Some
1778 getenv() implementations use the same storage for successive calls.
1779 CGIs on OS/390 had a bad PATH due to this. [Jeff Trawick]
1781 *) Server Tokens work in 2.0 again. This also propogates the change
1782 to allow just the product name in the server string using
1786 Changes with Apache 2.0a4
1788 *) EBCDIC: Rearrange calls to ap_checkconv() so that most handlers
1789 won't need to call it. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
1791 *) Move pre_config hook call to between configuration read and config
1792 tree walk. This allows all modules to implement pre_config hooks
1793 and know that they will be called at an appropriate time.
1796 *) mod_cgi, mod_cgid: Make ScriptLog directive work again.
1799 *) Add pre-config hooks back to all modules.
1802 *) Fix a SIGSEGV in ap_md5digest(), which is used when you have
1803 ContentDigest enabled and we can't/don't mmap the file.
1806 *) We now report the correct line number for syntax errors in config
1807 files. [Ryan Bloom, Greg Stein, Jeff Trawick]
1809 *) Brought mod_auth_digest up to synch with 1.3, fixed ap_time_t-
1810 related bugs, and changed shmem/locking to use apr API. Shared-mem
1811 is currently disabled, however, because of problems with graceful
1812 restarts. [Ronald Tschalär]
1814 *) Fix corruption of IFS variable in --with-module= handling.
1815 Depending on the user's shell or customization thereof, there
1816 would be errors generating ap_config_auto.h later in the configure
1817 procedure. [Jeff Trawick]
1819 *) mod_cgi: Restore logging of stderr from child process when ScriptLog
1820 isn't used (as in 1.3), except that on Unix it is now logged via
1821 ap_log_rerror() instead of by the child having STDERR_FILENO refer
1822 to the error log. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
1824 *) Add '-D' argument processing for run time configuration defines.
1827 *) Organize http_main.c as independent code, such that no code or
1828 global data is exported from it. WIN32 will dynamically link it
1829 to the server core, so this will prevent mutual dependency.
1832 *) Add separate dynamic linkage tags APR_EXPORT(), APR_EXPORT_NONSTD()
1833 and APR_VAR_EXPORT to correctly resolve apr functions and globals.
1836 *) Add Win9x service execution and Ctrl+C/Ctrl+Break/Shutdown handlers.
1837 [William Rowe, Jan Just Keijser <KEIJSERJJ@logica.com>]
1839 *) Add mod_charset_lite for configuring character set translation.
1842 *) Add '-n' option to htpasswd to make it print its user:pw record
1843 on stdout rather than having to frob a text file. [Ken Coar]
1845 *) Fix saferead. Basically, we flush the output buffer if a read on the
1849 *) APR: Add ap_xlate_get_sb() so that an app can find out whether or not
1850 a conversion is single-byte only. [Jeff Trawick]
1852 *) BEOS: ap_shutdown should return APR_SUCCESS or errno. Note that
1853 the BeOS 5.0 documentation says that shutdown doesn't work yet.
1856 *) Fix some minor errors where pid was being manipulated as an int
1857 instead of the portable pid_t. [Roy Fielding]
1859 *) Fix some error log prints that were printing the pointer to a
1860 structure rather than the pid within the structure.
1861 [Jeff Trawick, Roy Fielding]
1863 *) ab: Fix a command-line processing bug; track bad headers in
1864 err_response; support reading headers up to 2K.
1865 [Ask Bjoern Hansen <ask@valueclick.com>]
1867 *) Fix ap_resolve_env() so that it handles new function added in a prior
1868 alpha (see "Added the capability to do ${ENVVAR} constructs in the
1869 config file.") as well as the constructs used by mod_rewrite.
1870 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
1872 *) Apache 2.0 builds and runs on OS/390. [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames]
1874 *) Change the EBCDIC support in functions for MD5, SHA1, and base 64 to use
1875 APR to perform translation, instead of accessing the hard-coded tables
1876 in 1.3's ebcdic.c. [Jeff Trawick]
1878 *) Fix some bugs (mostly lost 1.3 code) in ab's command-line processing.
1881 *) Add the ability to hook into the config file reading phase. Basically
1882 if a directive is specified EXEC_ON_READ, then when that directive is
1883 read from the config file, the assocaited function is executed. This
1884 should only be used for those directives that must muck with HOW the
1885 server INTERPRETS the config. This should not be used for directives
1886 that re-order or replace items in the config tree. Those changes should
1887 be made in the pre-config step.
1890 *) Add mod_example to the build system.
1893 *) APR: Add ap_xlate_conv_byte() to convert one char between single-
1894 byte character sets. [Jeff Trawick]
1896 *) Pick up various EBCDIC fixes from 1.3 (from Martin
1897 Kraemer and Oliver Reh originally according to the change log).
1900 *) Fix a couple of problems in RFC1413 support (controlled by the
1901 IdentityCheck directive). Apache did not build the request string
1902 properly and more importantly Apache would loop forever if the
1903 would-be ident server dropped the connection before sending a
1904 properly terminated response. [Jeff Trawick]
1906 *) apxs works in 2.0.
1909 *) Reliable piped logs work in 2.0.
1912 *) Introduce a hash table implementation into APR to be used for
1913 replacing tables and other random data structures in Apache.
1916 *) Add some more error reporting to htpasswd in the case of problems
1917 generating or accessing the temporary file. Also, pass in a
1918 buffer if the implementation knows how to use it (i.e., if L_tmpnam
1919 is defined). [Ken Coar]
1921 *) Configure creates config.nice now containing your configure
1922 options. Syntax: ./config.nice [--more-options]
1925 *) Fix various return code problems in APR on Win32. For most of
1926 these, APR was returning APR_EEXIST instead of GetLastError()/
1927 WSAGetLastError(). [Jeff Trawick]
1929 *) Make piped logs work again in version 2.0
1932 *) Add VPATH support to UNIX build system of Apache and APR.
1935 *) Fix ap_tokenize_to_argv to respect the const arguments that are
1939 *) Fix mm's memcpy/memset macros, pointer arithmetic was broken.
1940 Patch submitted to author.
1943 *) Fix mm configuration on Solaris 8 x86 and OS/390. Don't require
1944 /sbin in PATH on FreeBSD (all submitted to rse previously)
1947 *) Fix building Pthread-based MPMs on OpenBSD
1948 [Sascha Schumann] PR#26
1950 *) Fix ap_readdir() problem on systems where d_name[] field in
1951 struct dirent is declared with only one byte. (This problem only
1952 affected multithreaded builds.) This caused a segfault during
1953 pool cleanup with mod_autoindex on Solaris (Solaris 8 x86, at
1954 least). [Jeff Trawick]
1956 *) Fix some make-portability problems on at least Tru64, Irix
1958 [Sascha Schumann] PR#18, PR#39
1960 *) Add ap_sigwait() to support old-style sigwait() on systems
1961 like OS/390 and UnixWare.
1964 *) Add POSIX-thread flags for more platforms.
1967 *) Fix some minor bugs in ap_strerror(). Teach ap_strerror()
1968 (on Unix, at least) to handle resolver errors. Fix a bug in
1969 the definition of APR_ENOMEM so that ap_strerror() can spit
1970 out the correct error message for it.
1973 Changes with Apache 2.0a3
1975 *) mod_so reports ap_os_dso_error() if ap_dso_load() fails
1978 *) API: *HOOK* macros now have an AP_ prefix
1981 *) Win32: Eliminate redundant calls to initialize winsock.
1982 [Tim Costello <timcostello@ozemail.com.au>]
1984 *) Fix bugs initializing ungetchar for pipes.
1985 [Chia-liang Kao <clkao@CirX.ORG>]
1987 *) The ab program in the src/support directory is now portable using
1991 *) Support directory is being compiled when the server is built
1994 *) The configure option --with-program-name has been added to allow
1995 developers to rename the executable at configure time. This also
1996 changes the name of the config files to match the executable's name.
1999 *) mod_autoindex: Add `IndexOptions +VersionSort', to nicely sort filenames
2000 containing version numbers. [Martin Pool]
2002 *) ap_open(..,APR_OS_DEFAULT,..) uses perms 0666 instead of 0777 on
2003 Unix; access_log and error_log now created with these perms; non-
2004 Unix is unaffected [Jeff Trawick]
2006 *) Finished move of ap_md5 routines to apr_md5. Removed ap_md5.h.
2007 Replaced more magic numbers with MD5_DIGESTSIZE.
2008 [William Rowe, Roy Fielding]
2010 *) Win32: Get mod_auth_digest compiling and added to the Windows
2011 build environment. Not tested and I'd be suprised if it
2012 actually works. [Bill Stoddard]
2014 *) Revamp the Win32 make environment. Makefiles have been removed and
2015 Apache.dsw created to bring together all the pieces. Create new file
2016 os/win32/BaseAddr.ref to define module base addresses (to prevent
2017 dll relocation at start-up).
2018 [William Rowe, Greg Marr, Tim Costello, Bill Stoddard]
2020 *) [EBCDIC] Port Paul Gilmartin's CRLF patch from 1.3. This replaces most
2021 of the \015, \012, and \015\012 constants with macros.
2022 [Greg Ames <gregames@us.ibm.com>]
2024 *) Add ap_xlate_open() et al for translation of text between different
2025 character sets. The initial implementation requires iconv().
2028 *) More FAQs and answers from comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix.
2029 [Joshua Slive <slive@finance.commerce.ubc.ca>]
2031 *) CGI output is being timed out now.
2034 *) Fix the problem with dieing quietly. dupfile now takes a pool which
2035 is used by the new apr file. There is no reason to create a new file
2036 with the same lifetime as the original file.
2039 *) Win32: Attempt to eliminate dll relocation at start-up by specifying
2040 module base addresses. This will help shooting seg faults
2041 in the field. [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
2043 *) Update Apache on Windows documentation. Add new document
2044 describing how to compile Apache on Windows.
2045 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
2047 *) ap_set_pipe_timeout(), ap_poll(), and APR_SO_TIMEOUT now take
2048 microseconds instead of seconds. Some storage leaks and other
2049 minor bugs in related code were fixed. [Jeff Trawick]
2051 *) Win32: First cut at getting mod_isapi working under 2.0
2052 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
2054 *) First stab at getting mod_auth_digest working under 2.0
2055 quick change summary:
2056 - moved the random byte generation (ap_generate_random_bytes) into APR
2057 - now uses ap_time_t
2058 - compiles and runs on linux
2060 [Brian Martin <bmartin@penguincomputing.com>]
2062 *) Win32: Move the space stripping of physical service names
2063 fix up from Apache 1.3. #include'ing "ap_mpm.h" fixes up an
2064 unresolved symbol. Add dependency checking to the
2065 CreateService call to ensure TCPIP and AFP (winsock) is started
2067 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
2069 *) Win32: Add code to perform latebinding on functions that may
2070 not exist on all levels of Windows where Apache runs. This
2071 is needed to allow Apache to start-up on Win95/98. All calls
2072 to non portable functions should be protected with
2073 ap_oslevel checks to prevent runtime segfaults.
2074 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
2076 *) Fix fallback default values for SHM_R and SHM_W [Martin Kraemer]
2078 *) Get lingering_close() working again. [Dean Gaudet, Jeff Trawick]
2080 *) Win32: Get non-blocking CGI pipe reads working under Windows NT.
2081 This addresses PR 1623. Still need to address timing out runaway
2082 CGI scripts. [Bill Stoddard]
2084 *) Win32: Make ap_stat Windows 95/98 friendly
2085 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
2087 *) Win32: Fix a bug in ap_get_oslevel which causes GetVersionEx() to
2088 always fail. Need to initialise the dwOSVersionInfoSize member of the
2089 OSVERSIONINFO struct before calling GetVersionEx, so GetVersionEx
2092 The patch also enhances ap_get_oslevel (and the associated enum) to
2093 handle selected service packs for NT4, and adds recognition for
2094 Windows 2000. This is useful, eg. if we can recognise NT4 SP2 then
2095 we can use ReadFileScatter and WriteFileGather in readwrite.c.
2096 [Tim Costello <Tim.Costello@BTFinancialgroup.com>]
2098 *) Get mod_rewrite building and running, and mod_status building for Win NT
2099 [Allan Edwards <ake@raleigh.ibm.com>]
2101 *) Patch to port mod_auth_db to the 2.0 api and also to support
2102 Berlekey DB 3.0. It works for me with both Berkeley DB 3.0.55 and
2103 2.7.7. It should work with version 1 as well but I haven't tested it.
2104 [Brian Martin <bmartin@penguincomputing.com>]
2106 *) Get APR DSO code working under Windows. Includes cross platform
2108 [Tim.Costello@BTFinancialgroup.com]
2110 *) Fix some of the Windows APR time functions.
2113 *) FAQ changes related to tidying up historical documents on the web site.
2114 [Joshua Slive <slive@finance.commerce.ubc.ca>]
2116 *) Move Windows DSO code into APR.
2119 *) Eliminate apr_win.h and apr_winconfig.h (and the ugly #ifdefs they cause).
2120 Now, apr.h and apr_config.h are generated from apr.hw and apr_config.hw
2121 at build time. At this point, the server will not compile on Windows because
2122 of the recent DSO commits. Fixing those next.
2123 [Bill Rowe & Bill Stoddard]
2125 *) Added error checking for file I/O APR routines.
2126 [Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>]
2128 *) APR: Don't use the values of resolver error codes for the
2129 corresponding APR error codes. On Unix and Win32, return the
2130 proper APR error code after a resolver error. [Jeff Trawick]
2132 Changes with Apache 2.0a2
2134 *) Renamed the executable back to httpd on all platforms other
2138 *) Allow BeOS to survive restarts, log properly and a few
2139 small things it had problems with due to the way it setup
2140 users and groups. [David Reid]
2142 *) Get mod_rewrite working with APR locks
2143 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
2145 *) Actually remove the sempahore when the lock cleanup routine
2146 is called on BeOS. [David Reid]
2148 *) Clear hook registrations between reads of the config file.
2149 When DSOs are unloaded and re-loaded the old hook pointers may
2150 no longer be valid. This fix eliminates potential segfaults.
2151 [Allan Edwards <ake@raleigh.ibm.com>]
2153 *) Fix a problem with Sigfunc not being defined or bypassed
2154 if sigaction() wasn't found. [Jim Jagielski]
2156 *) Fix the locking mechanism on BSD variants. They now use fcntl
2157 locks. This allows the server to start and serve pages.
2160 *) First cut at getting the Win32 installer to work
2161 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
2163 *) Get htpasswd compiling under Windows
2164 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
2166 *) Change the log message for a bind() failure to show the
2167 interface and port number. [Jeff Trawick]
2169 *) Import the documentation from 1.3.12 and bring parts of it
2170 up-to-date with respect to the changes that have occurred
2174 *) BeOS MPM updated. CGI bug on BeOS fixed. IP addresses
2175 now logged correctly on BeOS.
2178 *) Create one makefile for all Win32 distributions (NT/2000/95/98).
2179 Makefile.win includes the same user interface as the old
2181 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>, Jeff Trawick <trawick@us.ibm.com>]
2183 *) Win32 exec now uses COMSPEC environment string for command
2184 shell path resolution.
2185 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>] PR#3715
2187 *) Win32: ap_connect() was not returning correct error condition
2189 [Allen Prescott <allen@clanprescott.com>]
2191 *) Win32: ap_open() was broken on Win9x because an NT-specific
2192 flag was passed to CreateFile. ap_puts() added an unnecessary
2194 [Jeff Trawick <trawick@us.ibm.com>]
2196 *) Put in Korean and Norwegian index.html pages (2.0 and 1.3)
2197 which where donated by Lee Kuk Hyun and Lorant Czaran. 'Fixed'
2198 confusing ee/et name and made all extensions language/dialect
2199 rather than country reflecting. Changed example files to
2200 explicit reflect the ISO charset and added a few common
2201 ones to the example config [dirkx]
2203 *) Extend external module capability. To use this, you call
2204 configure with --with-module=path/to/mod1,path/to/mod2,etc.
2207 *) Backported the various "default charset" fixes from 1.3.12,
2208 including the AddDefaultCharset directive. [Jim Jagielski]
2210 *) Added the capability to do ${ENVVAR} constructs in the
2211 config file. E.g. 'ServerAdmin ${POSTMASTER}'. As commited
2212 it does this on a line by line basis; i.e. if the envvar
2213 expands to something with spaces you have to protect it
2214 by adding quotes around it (Unless of course you expect it
2215 to contains more than one argument. Alternatively you
2216 can compile it on a per token basis; which is what people
2217 usually expect by setting RESOLVE_ENV_PER_TOKEN. But this
2218 hampers fancier hacks.
2219 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
2221 *) Changed the 'ErrorDocument' syntax in that it NO longer
2222 supports the asymetric
2224 ErrorDocument 301 "Some message
2226 Note the opening " quote, without a closing quote. It now
2227 has either the following syntaxes
2229 ErrorDocument XXX /local/uri
2230 ErrorDocument XXX http://valid/url
2231 ErrorDocument XXX "Some Message"
2233 The recognition heuristic is: if it has a space it
2234 is a message. If it has no spaces and starts with a /
2235 or is a valid URL then treat it that way. Otherwise it
2236 is assumed to be a message.
2238 This breaks backward compatibility but makes live a hell
2239 of a lot easier for GUI's and config file parsers.
2240 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
2242 *) Changed 'CacheNegotiatedDocs' from its present/not-present
2243 syntax into a 'on' or 'off' syntax. As it currently is the
2244 only non nesting token which uses NO_ARGS and thus is an
2245 absolute pain for any config interface automation. This
2246 breaks backward compatibility. [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
2248 *) Add ability to add external modules to the build process. This is
2249 done with --with-module=/path/to/module. Modules can only be added
2250 as static modules at this point.
2253 Changes with Apache 2.0a1
2255 *) Fix FreeBSD 3.3 core dump.
2256 Basically, ap_initialize() needs to get called before
2257 create_process(), since create_process() passes op_on structure
2258 to semop() to get a lock, but op_on isn't initialized until
2259 ap_initialize() calls setup_lock(). Here is a slight
2260 rearrangement to main() which calls ap_initialize() earlier...
2261 [Jeff Trawick <trawick@us.ibm.com>]
2263 *) Enable Apache to use sendfile/TransmitFile API
2264 [Bill Stoddard, David Reid, Paul Reder]
2266 *) Re-Implement Win32 APR network I/O APIs and most of the file I/O
2270 *) Make file I/O and network I/O writev/sendv APIs consistent.
2271 Eliminate use of ap_iovec_t and use Posix struct iovec.
2272 Use seperate variable on ap_writev to set the number of iovecs
2273 passed in and number of bytes written.
2276 *) Adapt file iol to use APR functions. Replaced ap_open_file()
2277 with ap_create_file_iol(). ap_create_file_iol() requires that
2278 the file be opened prior to the call using ap_open().
2281 *) Port mod_include and mod_cgi to 2.0
2282 [Paul Reder, Bill Stoddard]
2284 *) ap_send{,v}, ap_recv, ap_sendfile API clarification --
2285 bytes_read/bytes_written is always valid (never -1). Plus
2286 some fixes to buff.c to correct problems introduced by the
2287 errno => ap_status_t changes a while back. Plus a fix to
2288 chunked encoding introduced right at the beginning of 2.0.
2291 *) Revamped UNIX build system to use autoconf and libtool.
2292 [Manoj Kasichainula, Sascha Schumann]
2294 *) port mod_rewrite to 2.0. [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
2296 *) More rigorous checking of Host: headers to fix security problems
2297 with mass name-based virtual hosting (whether using mod_rewrite
2298 or mod_vhost_alias).
2299 [Ben Hyde, Tony Finch]
2301 *) Add back support for UseCanonicalName in <Directory> containers.
2302 [Manoj Kasichainula]
2304 *) Added APLOG_STARTUP log type. This allows us to write an error
2305 message without any of the date and time information. As a part
2306 of this change, I also removed all of the calls to fprintf(stderr
2307 and replaced them with calls to ap_log_error using APLOG_STARTUP
2308 writing to stderr is no longer portable, because we don't direct
2309 stderr to the error log on all platforms.
2312 *) Convert error logging functions to take errno as an argument.
2313 This makes our error logs more portable, because some Windows API's
2314 don't set errno. This change allows us to still output a valid
2315 message on all of our platforms.
2318 *) mod_mime_magic runs in 2.0-dev now.
2319 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
2321 *) sendfile has been added to APR.
2322 [John Zedlewski <zedlwski@Princeton.EDU>]
2324 *) buff.c has been converted to no longer use errno.
2325 [Manoj Kasichainula]
2327 *) mod_speling runs in 2.0-dev now: a bug in readdir_r handling and
2328 interface adaption to APR functions did it. [Martin Kraemer]
2330 *) Support DSOs properly on 32-bit HP-UX 11.0
2331 [Dilip Khandekar <dilip@cup.hp.com>]
2333 *) Updated MM in APR source tree from version 1.0.8 to 1.0.11
2334 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2336 *) Cleaned APR build environment integration and bootstrap APR
2337 automatically for developers from src/Configure.
2338 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2340 *) Fixed building of src/support/htpasswd.c
2341 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2343 *) When generating the Location: header, mod_speling forgot
2344 to escape the spelling-fixed uri. (Forw-Port from 1.3)
2347 *) Moved mod_auth_digest.c from experimental to standard. [Roy Fielding]
2349 *) Change all pools to APR contexts. This is the first step to
2350 incorporating APR into Apache. [Ryan Bloom]
2352 *) Move "handler not found" warning message to below the check
2353 for a wildcard handler. [Dirk <dirkm@teleport.com>, Roy Fielding]
2354 PR#2584, PR#2751, PR#3349, PR#3436, PR#3548, PR#4384, PR#4795, PR#4807
2356 *) Support line-continuation feature in config.option file and
2357 allow the loading of multiple option sections at once via
2358 ``--with-option=<section1>,<section2>,...''
2359 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2361 *) Rebuilt CVS repository with Apache 1.3.9 as basis. [Roy Fielding]
2363 Changes with Apache MPM
2365 *) Use asynchronous AcceptEx() and a completion port to accept and
2366 dispatch connections to threads in Windows NT/2000.
2369 *) Implement WINNT Win32 MPM from original Win32 code in http_main.c
2372 *) Implement the APACI --with-option facility
2373 (per default used the config.option file).
2374 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2376 *) MPM BEOS port. [David Reid <abb37@dial.pipex.com>]
2378 *) Start to implement module-defined hooks that are a) fast and b) typesafe.
2379 Replace pre_connection module call with a register_hook call and
2380 implement pre_connection as a hook. The intent is that these hooks will
2381 be extended to allow Apache to be multi-protocol, and also to allow the
2382 calling order to be specified on a per-hook/per-module basis.
2385 *) Implement mpm_* methods as "modules". Each method gets its own
2386 subdir in src/modules (eg: src/modules/prefork). Selection
2387 of method uses Rule MPM_METHOD. [Jim Jagielski]
2389 *) Port the hybrid server from the apache-apr repository as
2390 mpm_mpmt_pthread. [Manoj Kasichainula]
2392 *) os/unix/unixd.[ch]: detach, setuid, setgid, stuff which will be common
2393 amongst the unix MPMs.
2395 *) mpm_prefork: throw away all the alarm/timeout crud; and clean up the
2396 signal handling for the new world order. [Dean Gaudet]
2398 *) Crude ap_thread_mutex abstraction so that we get the pthread stuff out
2399 of alloc.c for now. [Dean Gaudet]
2401 *) Handle partial large writes correctly. [Ben Laurie]
2403 *) Eliminate conn_rec's pointer to server. All it knows is the base server
2404 based on IP/port. [Ben Laurie]
2406 *) Port a bunch of modules to the new module structure.
2407 ["Michael H. Voase" <mvoase@midcoast.com.au>]
2409 *) I/O layering and BUFF revamp. See docs/buff.txt. [Dean Gaudet]
2411 *) Basic restructuring to introduce the MPM concept; includes various
2412 changes to the module API... better described by
2413 docs/initial_blurb.txt. [Dean Gaudet]
2415 Changes with Apache pthreads
2417 *) New buff option added: BO_TIMEOUT. It describes the timeout for
2418 buff operations (generally over a network).
2419 [Dean Gaudet, Ryan Bloom, Manoj Kasichainula]
2421 *) Created http_accept abstraction. Added 4 new functions (not exported):
2422 init_accept(), begin_accepting_requests(), get_request(),
2423 stop_accepting_requests() [Bill Stoddard]
2425 *) Fix to ap_rprintf call that allows mod_info to work properly.
2426 [James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>]
2428 *) user and ap_auth_type fields were moved from connection_rec to
2429 request_rec. [Ryan Bloom]
2431 *) Removed the ap_block_alarms and ap_unblock_alarm calls. These aren't
2432 needed in a threaded server.
2434 *) Initial pthread implementation from from Dean's apache-nspr code.
2435 [Bill Stoddard, Ryan Bloom]
2438 Changes with Apache 1.3.9
2440 *) Remove bogus error message when a redirect doesn't set Location.
2441 Instead, use an empty string to avoid coredump if the error message
2442 was supposed to include a location. [Roy Fielding]
2444 *) Don't allow configure to include mod_auth_digest unless it is
2445 explicitly requested, even if the user asked for all modules.
2448 *) Translate module names to dll names for OS/2 so that they are no more
2449 than 8 characters long and have an extension of "dll" instead of "so".
2452 *) Print out pointer to Rule DEV_RANDOM when truerand lib not found.
2453 Fix test-compile check to check for randbyte instead of trand32.
2454 Use ap_base64encode_binary/decode instead of copy in mod_auth_digest.c
2455 and tweak to make Amaya happier. [Ronald Tschalär]
2457 *) Ensure that the installed expat include files are world readable,
2458 just like the other header files. [Martin Kraemer]
2460 *) Fixed generated AddModule adjustments in APACI's `configure' script
2461 in order to allow (new) modules like mod_vhost_alias to be handled
2462 correctly (which was touched by the adjustments for mod_alias).
2463 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2465 *) For binary builds, add -R flag to apachectl to work around the lack of
2466 an absolute path to the ./libexec directory where the libhttp.ep file
2467 is needed for SHARED_CORE architectures. [Randy Terbush]
2469 *) WIN32: Create the CGI script process as DETACHED. This may solve the
2470 problem observed by some Win95/98 users where they get CGI script
2471 output sent to the console. [Bill Stoddard]
2473 *) Fix (re)naming in the uuencode/decode section. The ap/ap_
2474 routines are now called ap_base64* and are 'plain' (i.e., no
2475 pool access or anything clever). Inside util.c the routines acting
2476 like pstrdup are called ap_pbase64encode() and ap_pbase64decode().
2477 The oddly named ap_uuencode(), ap_uudecode() are kept around for
2478 now but deprecated. [dirkx]
2480 *) Clean up the base64 and SHA1 additions and make sure they are
2481 represented in the ApacheCore.def, ApacheCoreOS2.def, and httpd.exp
2482 files. [Roy Fielding]
2484 *) WIN32: Migrate to InstallShield 5.5 and provide a bit more error
2485 checking. Allow compiling on VS 6.0. [Randy Terbush]
2487 *) Fixed assumption of absolute paths in binbuild.sh. [Tony Finch]
2489 *) Use TestCompile to search for the truerand library (rather than blindly
2490 assuming its existence). If it is not found, complain (but do not
2491 exit - yet). [Martin Kraemer]
2493 *) We forgot to add the new exported function names to
2494 src/support/httpd.exp. [Bill Stoddard, Randy Terbush]
2496 *) Add description of -T command-line option to usage().
2497 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2499 *) For "some" platforms (notably, EBCDIC based ones), libos needs to be
2500 searched only AFTER libap has been searched, because libap needs
2501 some symbols from libos. [Martin Kraemer]
2503 *) Fix conflict with original mod_digest related to the symbol of the
2504 module dispatch list (which has to be unique for DSO and follow the
2505 usual conventions for the installation procedure).
2506 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2508 *) Add a dbm-library check for the "usual places" (-ldbm, -lndbm, -ldb)
2509 for other platforms as well. [Martin Kraemer]
2511 *) Make ap_sha1.c compile for EBCDIC platforms: replace remaining LONG
2512 types by AP_LONG and replace reference to renamed variable 'ubuf'
2513 by 'buffer'. [Martin Kraemer]
2515 Changes with Apache 1.3.8 [not released]
2517 *) Flush the output buffer immediately after sending an error or redirect
2518 response, since the result may be needed by the client to abort a
2519 long data transfer or restart a series of pipelined requests.
2520 [Tom Vaughan <tvaughan@aventail.com>, Roy Fielding]
2522 *) PORT: Improved compilation and DSO support on Sequent DYNIX/ptx.
2523 [Ian Turner <iant@sequent.com>] PR#4735
2525 *) Local struct mmap in http_core.c conflicted with system structure
2526 name on DYNIX -- changed to mmap_rec. [Roy Fielding] PR#4735
2528 *) Added updated mod_digest as modules/experimental/mod_auth_digest.
2529 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald@innovation.ch>]
2531 *) Fix a memory leak where the module counts were getting messed
2532 up across restarts. [David Harris <dharris@drh.net>]
2534 *) CIDR addresses such as a.b.c.d/24 where d != 0 weren't handled
2535 properly in mod_access.
2536 ["Paul J. Reder" <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#4770
2538 *) RewriteLock/RewriteMap didn't work properly with virtual hosts.
2539 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su>] PR#3874
2541 *) PORT: Support for compaq/tandem/com.
2542 [Michael Ottati <michael.ottati@compaq.com>, dirkx]
2544 *) Added SHA1 password encryption support to easy migration from
2545 Netscape servers. See support/SHA1 for more information.
2546 Caused the separation of ap_md5.c into md5, sha1 and a general
2547 ap_checkpass.c with just a validate_passwd routine. Added a
2548 couple of flags to support/htpasswd. Some reuse of the to64()
2549 function; hence renamed to ap_to64().
2550 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Clinton Wong <clintdw@netcom.com>]
2552 *) Change for EBCDIC platforms (TPF and BS2000) to correctly deal
2553 with ASCII/EBCDIC conversions in "ident" query.
2554 [David McCreedy <McCreedy@us.ibm.com>]
2556 *) Get rid of redefinition warning on MAC_OS_X_SERVER platform.
2557 Change "Power Macintosh" to Power* so if uname prints "Power Book"
2558 we're still happy on Rhapsody platforms. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
2560 *) Fix SIGSEGV on some systems because the Vary fix below included
2561 a call to table_do with a variable argument list that was not
2562 NULL terminated. Replaced with better implementation. [Roy Fielding]
2564 Changes with Apache 1.3.7 [not released]
2566 *) The "Vary" response header field is now sanitised right before
2567 the header is sent back to the client. Multiple "Vary" fields
2568 are combined, and duplicate tokens (e.g., "Vary: host, host" or
2569 "Vary: host, negotiate, host, accept-language") are reduced to
2570 single instances. This is a better solution than the force-no-vary
2571 one (which is still valid for clients that can't cope with Vary
2572 at all). PR#3118 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Ken Coar]
2574 *) Portability changes for BeOS. [David Reid abb37@dial.pipex.com]
2576 *) Link DSO's with "gcc -shared" instead of "ld -Bshareable" at
2577 least on Linux and FreeBSD for now.
2580 *) Win32: More apache -k restart work. Restarts are now honored
2581 immediately and connections in the listen queue are -not- lost.
2582 This is made possible by the use of the WSADuplicateSocket()
2583 call. The listeners are opened in the parent, duplicated, then
2584 the duplicates are passed to the child. The original listen sockets
2585 are not closed by the parent across a restart, thus the listen queue
2587 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
2589 *) Fix handling of case when a client has sent "Expect: 100-continue"
2590 and we are going to respond with an error, but get stuck waiting to
2591 discard the body in the pointless hope of preserving the connection.
2592 [Roy Fielding, Joe Orton <jeo101@york.ac.uk>] PR#4499, PR#3806
2594 *) Fix 'configure' to work correctly with SysV-based versions of
2595 'tr' (consistent with Configure's use as well). [Jim Jagielski]
2597 *) apxs: Add "-S var=val" option which allows for override of CFG_*
2598 built-in values. Add "-e" option which works like -i but doesn't
2599 install the DSO; useful for editing httpd.conf with apxs. Fix
2600 editing code so that multiple invocations of apxs -a will not
2601 create duplicate LoadModule/AddModule entries; apxs can now be
2602 used to re- enable/disable a module. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
2604 *) Win32: Update the server to use Winsock 2. Specifically, link with
2605 ws2_32.lib rather than wsock32.lib. This gives us access to
2606 WSADuplcateSocket() in addition to some other enhanced comm APIs.
2607 Win 95 users may need to update their TCP/IP stack to pick up
2608 Winsock 2. (See http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/)
2609 [Bill Stoddard stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com]
2611 *) Win32: Redirect CGI script stderr (script debug info) into the
2612 error.log when CGI scripts fail. This makes Apache on Win32
2613 behave more like Unix.
2614 [Bill Stoddard stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com]
2616 *) Fixed `httpd' usage display: -D was missing.
2617 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4614
2619 *) Fix `make r' test procedure in src/regex/: ap_isprint was not found.
2620 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4561, PR#4562
2622 *) OS/2: Fix problem with accept lock semaphores where server would die with
2623 "OS2SEM: Error 105 getting accept lock. Exiting!"
2624 [Brian Havard] PR#4505
2626 *) Add DSO support for DGUX 4.x using gcc. Tested on x86 platforms.
2627 [Randy Terbush <randy@covalent.net>]
2629 *) Add the new mass-vhost module (mod_vhost_alias.c) developed and
2630 used by Demon Internet, Ltd. [Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net>]
2632 *) Better GCC detection for DSO flags under Solaris 2 where the `cc'
2633 command potentially _is_ GCC. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2635 *) Fix apxs build issues on AIX
2636 [Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@raleigh.ibm.com>]
2638 *) DocumentRoot Checking: Under previous versions, when Apache
2639 first started up, it used to do a stat of each DocumentRoot to
2640 see if it existed and was a directory. If not, then an error
2641 message was printed. THIS HAS BEEN DISABLED. If DocumentRoot
2642 does not exist, you will get error messages in error_log. If
2643 the '-t' command line option is used (to check the configuration)
2644 the check of DocumentRoot IS performed. An additional command
2645 line option, '-T', has been added if you want to avoid the
2646 DocumentRoot check even when checking the configuration.
2649 *) Win32: The query switch "apache -S" didn't exit after showing the
2650 vhost settings. That was inconsistent with the other query functions.
2651 [Bill Stoddard - Fixed by Martin on Unix in 1.3.4]
2653 *) Win32: Changed behaviour of apache -k restart.
2654 Previously, the server would drain all connections in the stack's
2655 listen queue before honoring the restart. On a busy server, this
2656 could take hours. Now, a restart is honored almost immediately.
2657 All connections in Apache's queues are handled but connections in
2658 the stack's listen queue are discarded. Restart triggered by
2659 MaxRequestPerChild is unchanged.
2660 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
2662 *) Win32: Eliminated unnecessary call to wait_for_multiple_objects in
2663 the accept loop. Good for a 5% performance boost. Cleaned up
2664 parent/child process management code.
2665 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
2667 *) Added ceiling on file size for memory mapped files.
2668 [John Giannandrea <jg@meer.net>] PR#4122
2670 *) Fix ndbm.h include problems with brain-dead glibc >= 2.1 which
2671 has ndbm.h in a non-standard db1/ subdir. PR#4431, PR#4528
2672 [Henri Gomez <gomez@slib.fr>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
2674 *) Determine AP_BYTE_ORDER for ap_config_auto.h and already
2675 use this at least for Expat. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2677 *) Allow .module files to specify libraries with Lib:.
2680 *) Allow SetEnvIf[NoCase] to test environment variables as well
2681 as header fields and request attributes. [Ken Coar]
2683 *) Fix mod_autoindex's handling of ScanHTMLTitles when file
2684 content-types are "text/html;parameters". PR#4524 [Ken Coar]
2686 *) Remove "mxb" support from mod_negotiation -- it was a draft feature
2687 never accepted into any standard, and it opens up certain DoS
2688 attacks. [Koen Holtman <Koen.Holtman@cern.ch>]
2690 *) TestCompile updated. We can now run programs and output the
2691 results during the Configure process. [ Jim Jagielski]
2693 *) The source is now quad (long long) aware as needed. Specifically,
2694 the Configure process determines the correct size of off_t and
2695 *void. When the OS/platform/compiler supports quads, ap_snprintf()
2696 provides for the 'q' format qualifier (if quads are not available,
2697 'q' is silently "demoted" to long). [Jim Jagielski]
2699 *) When the username or password fed to htpasswd is too long, include the
2700 size limit in the error message. Also report illegal characters
2701 (currently only ':') in the username. Add the size restrictions
2702 to the man page. [Ken Coar]
2704 *) Fixed the configure --without-support option so it doesn't result in
2705 an infinite loop. [Marc Slemko]
2707 *) Piped error logs could cause a segfault if an error occured
2708 during configuration after a restart.
2709 [Aidan Cully <aidan@panix.com>] PR#4456
2711 *) If a "Location" field was stored in r->err_headers_out rather
2712 than r->headers_out, redirect processing wouldn't find it and
2713 the server would core dump on ap_escape_html(NULL). Check both
2714 tables and raise HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR with a log message
2715 if Location isn't set. [Doug MacEachern, Ken Coar]
2717 *) Add RULE_EXPAT, the src/lib/ directory structure, and a modified copy
2718 of the Expat 1.0.2 distribution. [Greg Stein]
2720 *) Replace regexec() calls with calls to a new API stub function
2721 ap_regexec(). This solves problems with DSO modules which use the regex
2722 library. [Jens-Uwe Mager <jum@helios.de>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
2724 *) Add 'Request_Protocol' special keyword to mod_setenvif so that
2725 environment variables can be set according to the protocol version
2726 (e.g., HTTP/0.9 or HTTP/1.1) of the request. [Ken Coar]
2728 *) Add DSO support for OpenStep (Mach 4.2) platform.
2729 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>] PR#3997
2731 *) Fix sed regex for generating ap_config_auto.h in src/Configure.
2732 [Jan Gallo <gallo@pvt.sk>] PR#3690, PR#4373
2734 *) Switch to /bin/sh5 in APACI on Ultrix and friends to avoid problems with
2735 their brain-dead /bin/sh. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4372
2737 *) Better DSO flags recognition on NetBSD platforms using ELF.
2738 [Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>] PR#4310
2740 *) Always log months in english format for %t in mod_log_config.
2741 [Petr Lampa <lampa@fee.vutbr.cz>] PR#4366, 679
2743 *) Support for server-parsed and multiview-determined ReadmeName and
2744 HeaderName files in mod_autoindex. Removed the restriction on
2745 "/"s in ReadmeName and HeaderName directives since the *sub_req*
2746 routines will deal with the access issues. (It's now possible to
2747 have {site|group|project|customer|...} wide readmes and headers.)
2748 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx@rsbx.net>, Ken Coar] PR#1574, 3026, 3529,
2751 *) When stat() fails, don't assume anything about the contents of
2752 the struct stat. [Ed Korthof <ed@bitmechanic.com>]
2754 *) It's OK for a semop to return EINTR, just loop around and try
2755 again. [Dean Gaudet]
2757 *) Fix configuration engine re-entrant hangups, which solve a
2758 handful of problems seen with mod_perl <Perl> configuration sections
2759 [Salvador Ortiz Garcia <sog@msg.com.mx>]
2761 *) Mac OS and Mac OS X Server now use the appropriate custom layout
2762 by default when building with APACI; allow for platform-specific
2763 variable defaults in configure. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
2765 *) Do setgid() before initgroups() in http_main; some platforms
2766 zap the grouplist when setgid() is called. This was fixed in
2767 suexec earlier, but the main httpd code missed the change.
2768 [Rob Saccoccio <robs@InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2579
2770 *) Add recognition of .tgz as a gzipped tarchive.
2771 [Bertrand de Singly <bertrand.de-singly@polytechnique.fr>] PR#2364
2773 *) mod_include's fsize/flastmod should allow only relative paths, just
2774 like "include file". [Jaroslav Benkovsky <benkovsk@pha.pvt.cz>]
2776 *) OS/2: Add support for building loadable modules using DLLs.
2779 *) Add iconsdir, htdocsdir, and cgidir to config.layout.
2782 *) Fix minor but annoying bug with the test for Configuration.tmpl
2783 being newer than Configuration so that it is less likely to fail
2784 when using APACI and shadow sources. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
2786 *) PORT: Add initial support for Mac OS (versions 10.0 and
2787 greater). Use Mac OS X Server layout for now. Clean up dyld code
2788 in unix/os.c, and don't install the dyld error handlers, which
2789 are no longer needed in Mac OS. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
2791 *) Rename Rhapsody layout to "Mac OS X Server". Change install
2792 locations to appropriate ones for user-built (as opposed to
2793 system) installs. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
2795 *) Modify mod_autoindex's handling of AddDescription so that the
2796 behaviour matches the documentation. [Ken Coar] PR#1898, 3072.
2798 *) Add functionality to the install-bindist.sh script created by
2799 binbuild.sh to use tar when copying distribution files to the
2800 serverroot. This allows upgrading an existing installation
2801 without nesting the new distribution in the old.
2803 install-bindist.sh now detects the local perl5 path to install
2804 apxs and dbmmanage with proper path to perl interpreter.
2806 Add an install-binsupport target which copies the source files
2807 for apxs and dbmmanage to bindist to allow these scripts to
2808 be properly installed relative to the destination serverroot.
2809 [Randy Terbush, Covalent Technologies, randy@covalent.net]
2811 *) Fix intermittent SEGV in ap_proxy_cache_error() in
2812 src/modules/proxy_util.c where a NULL filepointer and
2813 temporary filename were closed and unlinked.
2814 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>,
2815 Tim Costello <tjcostel@socs.uts.edu.au>] PR#3178
2817 *) Fix inconsistent error messages reported by mod_proxy.
2818 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>]
2820 *) OS/2: Fix terminating CGIs that aren't compiled by EMX GCC when a
2821 connection is aborted. [Brian Havard]
2823 *) Force the LANG envariable to the known state of "C" so that we
2824 have assurance about how string manipulators (e.g., tr) will
2825 function. [Ken Coar] PR#1630
2827 *) Add a directive to allow customising of the tracking cookie name.
2828 [Ken Coar] PR#2921, 4303
2830 *) Add "force-no-vary" envariable to allow servers to work around
2831 clients that choke on "Vary" fields in the response header.
2832 [Ken Coar, Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@zippy.machaon.ru>] PR#4118
2834 *) Fixed a bug in mod_dir that causes a child process will infinitely
2835 recurse when it attemps to handle a request for a directory wnd the
2836 value of the DirectoryIndex directive is a single dot. Also likely
2837 to happen for anyother values of DirectoryIndex that will map back
2838 to the same directory. The handler now only considers regular files
2839 as being index candidates. No PR#s found.
2840 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx@rsbx.net>]
2842 *) Ease configuration debugging by making TestCompile fall back to
2843 using "make" if the $MAKE variable is unset [Martin Kraemer]
2845 *) Fixed the ServerSignature directive to work as documented.
2846 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx@rsbx.net>] PR#4248
2848 *) Add "opt" (SysV-style) layout to config.layout. [Raymond S Brand
2851 *) Add APACI --without-execstrip option which can be used to disable the
2852 stripping of executables on installation. This is very important for DSO
2853 and debugging situations. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2855 *) Add support for OS/2 (case insenstive filesystem, .exe suffix, etc)
2856 to APACI files and related scripts.
2857 [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4269
2859 *) Add support for standalone mode in TPF
2860 [Joe Moenich <moenich@us.ibm.com>]
2862 *) Fix number of bytes copied by read_connection() in src/support/ab.c
2863 [Jim Cox <jc@superlink.net>] PR#4271
2865 *) Fix special RewriteCond "-s" pattern matching.
2866 [Bob Finch <bob@nas.com>]
2868 *) Fix value quoting in src/Configure script for ap_config_auto.h
2869 [Paul Sutton <paul@awe.com>]
2871 *) Make sure RewriteLock can be used only in the global context, (i.e.
2872 outside of any <VirtualHost> sections) because it's a global facility of
2873 the rewrite engine. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2875 *) Fix the ownership delegation for proxy directory under `make install'.
2876 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2878 *) APACI would not correctly build suexec. [Maria Verina
2879 <mariav@icgeb.trieste.it>] PR#4260
2881 *) mod_mime_magic passed only the first 4k of a file to
2882 uncompress/gzip, but those tools sometimes do not produce
2883 any output unless a sufficient portion of the compressed
2884 file is input. Change to pass the entire file -- but
2885 only read 4k of output.
2886 [Marcin Cieslak <saper@system.pl>] PR#4097
2888 *) "IndexOptions None" generated extra spaces at the end of each
2889 line. [inkling@firstnethou.com] PR#3770
2891 *) The "100 Continue" response wasn't being sent after internal
2892 redirects. [Jose KAHAN <kahan@w3.org>] PR#3910, 3806, 3575
2894 *) When padding the name with spaces for display, mod_autoindex would
2895 count &, <, and > in their escaped width, messing up the display.
2896 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4075, 3758
2898 *) PORT: fixed a compilation problem on NEXT.
2899 [Jacques Distler <distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu>] PR#4130
2901 *) r->request_time wasn't being set properly in certain error conditions.
2902 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4156
2904 *) PORT: deal with UTS compiler error in http_protocol.c
2905 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#4189
2907 *) Add ap_vrprintf() function. [John Tobey <jtobey@banta-im.com>] PR#4246
2909 *) Fix the mod_mime hash table to work properly with locales other
2910 than C. [Dean Gaudet] PR#3427
2912 *) Fix a memory leak which is exacerbated by certain configurations.
2913 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4225
2915 *) Prevent clobbering saved IFS values in APACI. [Jim Jagielski]
2917 *) Fix buffer overflows in ap_uuencode and ap_uudecode pointed out
2918 by "Peter 'Luna' Altberg <peter@altberg.nu>" and PR#3422
2919 [Peter 'Luna' Altberg <peter@altberg.nu>, Ronald Tschalär]
2921 *) Make {Set,Unset,Pass}Env per-directory instead of per-server.
2924 *) Correct an apparent typo: on the Windows and MPE platforms, the
2925 htpasswd utility was limiting passwords to only 8 characters.
2928 *) EBCDIC platforms: David submitted patches for two bugs in the
2929 MD5 digest port for EBCDIC machines:
2930 a) the htdigest utility overwrote the old contents of the digest file
2931 b) the Content-MD5 header value (ContentDigest directive) was wrong
2932 when the returned file was not converted from EBCDIC, but was a
2933 binary (e.g., image file) in the first place.
2934 [David McCreedy <mccreedy@us.ibm.com>]
2936 *) support/htpasswd now permits the password to be specified on the
2937 command line with the '-b' switch. This is useful when passwords
2938 need to be maintained by scripts -- particularly in the Win32
2939 environment. [Ken Coar]
2941 *) Win32: Win32 multiple services patch. Added capability to install and
2942 run multiple copies of apache as individual services.
2945 apache -n apache1 -i -f c:/httpd.conf
2946 Installs apache as service 'apache1' and associates c:/httpd.conf
2949 Starts apache1 service.
2951 Stops apache1 service
2954 apache -n apache2 -i
2955 Installs apache as service 'apache2'. httpd.conf is located under
2956 the default server root (/apache/conf/httpd.conf).
2958 Starts apache2 service.
2961 apache -n apache3 -i -d c:/program files/apache
2962 Install apache as service 'apache3' and sets server root to
2963 c:/program files/apache.
2966 apache -n apache2 -k restart
2967 Restart apache2 service
2969 [Keith Wannamaker, Ken Parzygnat, Bill Stoddard]
2971 *) Correct the signed/unsigned character handling for the MD5 routines;
2972 mismatches were causing compilation problems with gcc -pedantic and
2973 in the TPF cross-compilation. [Ken Coar]
2975 *) OS/2: Rework CGI handling to use spawn*() instead of fork/exec, achieving
2976 a roughly 5 fold speed up. [Brian Havard]
2978 *) proxy ftp: instead of using the hardwired string "text/plain" as
2979 a fallback type for files served by the ftp proxy, use the
2980 ap_default_type() function to determine the configured type.
2981 This allows for special configurations like
2982 <Directory proxy:ftp://some.host>
2983 DefaultType gargle/blurb
2985 Additionally, add the Content-Encoding: header to FTP proxy replies
2986 when the encoding is defined (by the AddEncoding directive).
2987 Because it was missing, it was almost impossible to browse compressed
2988 files using the FTP proxy (works now perfectly in Communicator).
2989 The ftp proxy now also returns the Date: and Server: header lines (if not
2990 much else... This code is "somewhat" broken) like normal requests do.
2993 *) Be more smart in APACI's configure script when determining the UID/GID
2994 for User/Group directives and use the determined UID/GID to initialize
2995 the permissions on the proxycachedir.
2996 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Ralf S. Engelschall]
2998 *) Changed the forking-prior-to-cleanup in the proxy module to first
2999 check wether it actually needs to collect garbage. This reduces
3000 the number of fork()s from one/request to just the odd one an hour.
3001 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
3003 *) Added proxy, auth and header support to src/support/ab.c. Added a
3004 README file to src/support/
3005 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
3007 *) Don't hard-code the path to AWK in --shadow bootstrapping Makefile.
3008 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4050
3010 *) Add support for DSO module compilation on BSD/OS 3.x.
3011 [Randy Terbush, Covalent Technologies]
3013 *) Fix sed-substitutions in `make install': path elements like `httpd/conf'
3014 (for instance from an APACI configure --sysconfdir=/etc/httpd/conf
3015 option) were substituted with $(TARGET).conf, etc. Same for other strings
3016 with dots where the dot wasn't matched as plain text.
3017 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3019 *) PORT: Add support for FreeBSD 4.x [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3021 *) Fix verbose output of APACI configure (option -v)
3022 [Martin Kraemer, Ralf S. Engelschall]
3024 Changes with Apache 1.3.6
3026 *) Removed new PassAllEnv code due to DSO problems. [Lars Eilebrecht]
3028 Changes with Apache 1.3.5 [not released]
3030 *) M_INVALID needed a value within the scope of METHODS so that unknown
3031 methods can be access controlled. [Roy Fielding] PR#3821
3033 *) Added PassAllEnv; makes server's entire environment available
3034 to CGIs and SSIs executed within directive's scope. [Ken Coar]
3036 *) ap_uuencode() always added two trailing '='s and encoding of
3037 8 bit characters on a machine with signed char may produced
3038 incorrect results. Additionally ap_uuencode() should now
3039 work correctly on EBCDIC platforms.
3040 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald@innovation.ch>] PR#3411
3042 *) WIN32: Binary installer now runs the configuration DLL before
3043 the reboot prompt (which is only given if MSVCRT.DLL system
3044 DLL is new or updated). This should avoid the configuration
3045 directory being empty after installation. [Paul Sutton]
3046 PR#3767, 3800, 3827, 3850, 3900, 3953, 3988
3048 *) WIN32: Binary installer now creates Start menu options to start
3049 and stop Apache as a console application and to uninstall
3050 the Apache service on NT. [Paul Sutton] PR#3741
3052 *) WIN32: Apache.exe now contains an icon. [Paul Sutton]
3054 *) PORT: Switch back to using fcntl() locking on Linux -- instabilities
3055 have been reported with flock() locking (probably related to kernel
3056 version). [Dean Gaudet] PR#2723, 3531
3058 *) Using APACI, the main config file (usually httpd.conf) was
3059 not being adjusted as $(TARGET).conf. [Wilfredo Sanchez
3060 <wsanchez@apple.com>]
3062 *) PORT: AIX does not require the SHARED_CODE "hack"
3063 [Ryan Bloom <rbb@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3065 *) Set-Cookie headers were being doubled up for some CGIs by the O(n^2)
3066 avoidance code added in 1.3.3.
3067 [Dean Gaudet, Jeff Lewis <lewis@stanford.edu>] PR#3872
3069 *) ap_isxdigit was somehow neglected when adding the ap_isfoo() macros
3070 for 8-bit safeness. [Dean Gaudet]
3072 *) PORT: Use -fPIC instead of -fpic on Solaris and SunOS for compiling DSOs
3073 because SPARCs have a small machine-specific maximum size for the Global
3074 Offset Table which is often exceeded when compiling one of the larger
3075 third-party modules with Apache. [Peter Urban <Peter.Urban@epfl.ch>] PR#3977
3077 *) Move the directive `ExtendedStatus' in httpd.conf-dist-win _after_ the
3078 DSO/DLL section because it's a directive from mod_status and isn't
3079 available before the DLL of mod_status is loaded.
3080 [Martin POESCHL <mpoeschl@gmx.net>] PR#3936
3082 *) SECURITY: Fix a bug in the calculation of the buffer size for the line
3083 continuation facility in Apache's configuration files which could
3084 lead to a buffer overflow situation.
3085 [Thomas Devanneaux <Thomas.Devanneaux@enst.fr>] PR#3617
3087 *) Make documentation and error messages of APACI's --activate-module=FILE
3088 option more clear. [Jan Wolter <janc@wwnet.net>] PR#3995
3090 *) Fix the gcc version check (for enabling the `inline' facility) to
3091 really support all future gcc versions >= 2.7 until we know more.
3092 [John Tobey <jtobey@banta-im.com>] PR#3983
3094 *) Let APACI's configure script correctly complain for unknown --enable-XXX
3095 and --disable-XXX options. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3958
3097 *) Link the shared core bootstrap program (``Rule SHARED_CORE=yes'') also
3098 against libap.a and use its ap_snprintf() instead of sprintf() to avoid
3099 possible buffer overflows. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3101 *) Remove no longer used non-API function ap_single_module_init().
3102 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3104 *) Add Apple's Mac OS X Server Layout "Rhapsody" to config.layout.
3107 *) Add cgidir, htdocsdir, iconsdir variables to Makefile.tmpl in order
3108 to make platform installations easier. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
3110 *) In configure, do not append the target name to the directory path if
3111 the path already contains "apache". [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3113 *) SIGPIPE is now ignored by the server core. The request write routines
3114 (ap_rputc, ap_rputs, ap_rvputs, ap_rwrite, ap_rprintf, ap_rflush) now
3115 correctly check for output errors and mark the connection as aborted.
3116 Replaced many direct (unchecked) calls to ap_b* routines with the
3117 analogous ap_r* calls. [Roy Fielding]
3119 *) Enhanced mod_rewrite's mapfile handling: The in-core cache for text and
3120 DBM format mapfiles now uses a 4-way hash table with LRU functionality.
3121 Furthermore map lookups for non-existent keys are now cached as well.
3122 Additionally "txt" maps are now parsed with simple string functions
3123 instead of using ap_pregcomp(). As a side effect a bug that prevented
3124 the usage of keys containing the "," character was fixed.
3125 The changes drastically improve the performance when large rewrite maps
3127 [Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.swb.de>, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3160
3129 *) Added ap_sub_req_method_uri() for doing a subrequest with a method
3130 other than GET, and const'd the definition of method in request_rec.
3133 *) Use proper pid_t type for saving PIDs in alloc.c. [John Bley]
3135 *) Replaced use of WIN32 define with HAVE_DRIVE_LETTERS to indicate
3136 when the OS allows a DOS drive letter within pathnames. [Brian Havard]
3138 *) Add %V to mod_log_config, this logs the hostname according to the
3139 UseCanonicalName setting (this is the pre-1.3.4 behaviour of
3140 %v). Useful for mass vhosting. [Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>]
3142 *) Add support for \n and \t to mod_log_config, can be used to produce
3143 more reliable logs with multiline entries. [Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>]
3145 *) Fixed a few compiler nits. [John Bley <jbb6@acpub.duke.edu>]
3147 *) Added informative error messages for failed munmap() and fseek() calls
3148 in http_core.c. [John Bley, Roy Fielding]
3150 *) Added some informative error messages for some failed malloc()
3151 calls. [John Bley <jbb6@acpub.duke.edu>, Jim Jagielski]
3153 *) OS/2 ap_os_canonical_filename()'s behaviour is improved: ap_assert()
3154 is removed. This allows <Directory proxy:*> directives to work and
3155 prevents invalid requests from killing the process.
3156 [Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
3158 *) Reorganised FAQ document.
3159 [Joshua Slive <slive@finance.commerce.ubc.ca>] PR#2497
3161 *) src/support/: The ApacheBench benchmark program was overhauled by
3162 David N. Welton: you can now have it generate an HTML TABLE, presumably
3163 for integration into other HTML sources. David updated the ab man page
3164 as well and added some missing descriptions. Thanks!
3165 [David N. Welton <davidw@prosa.it>]
3167 *) Win32: The filename validity checker now allows filenames containing
3168 characters in the range 0x80 to 0xff (for example accented characters).
3169 [Paul Sutton] PR#3890
3171 *) Added conditional logging based upon environment variables to
3172 mod_log_config. mod_log_referer and mod_log_agent
3173 are now deprecated. [Ken Coar]
3175 *) Allow apache acting as a proxy server to relay the real
3176 reason of a failure to a client rather than the "internal
3177 server error" it does currently. The general exposure mechanism
3178 can be triggered by any module by setting the "verbose-error-to"
3179 note to "*"; this allows more than just proxy errors to be exposed.
3180 [Cliff Skolnick, Roy Fielding, Martin Kraemer] Related to PR#3455, 4086
3182 *) Moved man pages for ab and apachectrl to section 8.
3183 [Wilfredo Sanchez, Roy Fielding]
3185 *) Added -S option to install.sh so that options can be passed to
3186 strip on some platforms. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Wilfredo Sanchez]
3188 *) Tweak modules Makefile generated by Configure so that it handles
3189 the test case of no modules being selected. [chaz@reliant.com]
3191 *) Added a <LimitExcept method ...> sectioning directive that allows
3192 the user to assign authentication control to any HTTP method that
3193 is *not* given in the argument list; i.e., the logical negation
3194 of the <Limit> directive. This is particularly useful for controlling
3195 access on methods unknown to the Apache core, but perhaps known by
3196 some module or CGI script. [Roy Fielding, Tony Finch]
3198 *) Prevent apachectl from complaining if the PIDFILE exists but
3199 does not contain a process id, as might occur if the server is
3200 being rapidly restarted. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
3202 *) Win32: Add global symbols missing from ApacheCore.def. [Carl Olsen]
3204 *) Entity tag comparisons for If-Match and If-None-Match were not being
3205 performed correctly -- weak tags might cause false positives. Also,
3206 strong comparison wasn't properly enforced in all cases.
3207 [Roy Fielding, Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet] PR#2065, 3657
3209 *) OS/2: Supply OS/2 error code instead of errno on semaphore errors.
3212 *) Work around a bug in Lynx regarding its sending "Negotiate: trans"
3213 even though it doesn't understand TCN. [Koen Holtman, Roy Fielding]
3215 *) Added ap_size_list_item(), ap_get_list_item(), and ap_find_list_item()
3216 to util.c for parsing an HTTP header field value to extract the next
3217 list item, taking into account the possible presence of nested comments,
3218 quoted-pairs, and quoted-strings. ap_get_list_item() also removes
3219 insignificant whitespace and lowercases non-quoted tokens.
3220 [Roy Fielding] PR#2065
3222 *) proxy: The various calls to ap_proxyerror() can return HTTP/1.1 status
3223 code different from 500. This allows the proxy to, e.g., return
3224 "403 Forbidden" for ProxyBlock'ed URL's. [Martin Kraemer] Related to PR#3455
3226 *) Fix ordering of language variants for the case where the traditional
3227 negotiation algorithm is being used with multiple language variants
3228 and no Accept-Language. [James Treacy <treacy@debian.org>] PR#3299, 3688
3230 *) Do not round the TCN quality calculation to 5 decimal places,
3231 unlike RFC 2296, because the calculation might need 12 decimal places
3232 to get the right result. [Roy Fielding]
3234 *) Remove unused code to disable transparent negotiation when
3235 negotiating on encoding only, as we now handle encoding too
3236 (though this is nonstandard for TCN), remove charset=ISO-8859-1
3237 fiddle from the fiddle-averse RVSA comparison, and fix bugs in
3238 some debugging statements within mod_negotiation. [Koen Holtman]
3240 *) Fixed a rare memory corruption possibility in mod_dir if the index
3241 file is negotiable and no acceptable variant can be found.
3242 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Martin Kraemer]
3244 *) Win32: Add new config directive, ScriptInterpreterSource, to enable
3245 searching the Win32 registry for script interpreters.
3248 *) Win32: The compiled-in default filename for the error log is now
3249 error.log, which matches the default in the distributed httpd.conf.
3252 *) Win32: Any error messages from -i or -u command line options are now
3253 displayed on the console output rather than sent to the error log.
3254 Also the "Running Apache..." message is not output unless Apache is
3255 going to serve requests. [Paul Sutton]
3257 *) Rework the MD5 authentication scheme to use FreeBSD's algorithm,
3258 and use a private significator ('$apr1$') to mark passwords as
3259 being smashed with our own algorithm. Also abstract the password
3260 checking into a new ap_validate_password() routine. [Ken Coar]
3262 *) Win32: The filename validity checker now allows "COM" but refuses
3263 access to "COM1" through "COM4". This allows filenames such
3264 as "com.name" to be served. [Paul Sutton] PR#3769.
3266 *) BS2000: Adapt to the new ufork() system call interface which will
3267 make subtasking easier on the OSD/POSIX mainframe environment.
3270 *) Add a compatibility define for escape_uri() -> ap_escape_uri() to
3271 ap_compat.h. [David White <david@persimmon.com>] PR#3725
3273 *) Make NDBM file suffix determination for mod_rewrite more accurate, i.e.
3274 use `.db' instead of `.pag' not only for FreeBSD, but also when
3275 the NDBM library looks like Berkeley-DB based.
3276 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3773
3278 *) Add ability to handle DES or MD5 authentication passwords.
3279 [Ryan Bloom <rbb@Raleigh.IBM.Com>]
3281 *) Fix O(n^2) memory consumption in mod_speling. [Dean Gaudet]
3283 *) SECURITY: Avoid some buffer overflow problems when escaping
3284 quoted strings. (This overflow was on the heap and we believe
3285 impossible to exploit.) [Rick Perry <perry@ece.vill.edu>]
3287 *) Let src/Configure be aware of CFLAGS options starting with plus
3288 signs as it's the case for the HP/UX compiler.
3289 [Doug Yatcilla <yatcilda@umdnj.edu>] PR#3681
3291 *) Remove the hard-wire of TAR=tar (we now check for gtar and gnutar first)
3292 and check to see if the tar we wind up with supports '-h'.
3293 [Jim Jagielski] PR#3671
3295 *) A consistent and conservative style for all shell scripts has been
3296 implemented. Basically, all shell string tests use the traditional
3297 hack of 'if [ "x$var" != "x" ]' or 'if [ "x$var" = "xstring" ]'
3298 to protect against bare null variable strings (ie: wrapping both
3299 sides with double quotes and prepending 'x'). 'x' was chosen
3300 because it's more universal and hopefully easier for old shell
3301 prgrammers, as well as being easier to search for in 'vi' (/x\$) :)
3304 *) The status module now prints out both the main server generation as
3305 well as the generation of each process. Also, the vhost info is
3306 printed with '?notable'. [Jim Jagielski]
3308 *) Move src/main/md5c.c to src/ap/ap_md5c.c; it's httpd-neutral
3309 and this makes its functions available to things in src/support.
3312 Changes with Apache 1.3.4
3314 *) Renamed macros status_drops_connection to ap_status_drops_connection
3315 and vestigial scan_script_header to ap_scan_script_header_err,
3316 mostly for aesthetic reasons. [Roy Fielding]
3318 *) The query switch "httpd -S" didn't exit after showing the
3319 vhost settings. That was inconsistent with the other query functions.
3322 *) Moved the MODULE_MAGIC_COOKIE from before the versions and
3323 filename to the end of the STANDARD_MODULE_STUFF. Its
3324 presence at the beginning prevented reporting of the filename
3325 for modules compiled before 1 January 1999. [Ken Coar]
3327 *) SECURITY: ap_os_is_filename_valid() has been added to Win32
3328 to detect and prevent access to special DOS device file names.
3329 [Paul Sutton, Ken Parzygnat]
3331 *) WIN32: Created new makefiles Makefile_win32.txt (normal build)
3332 and Makefile_win32_debug.txt (debug build) that work on Win95.
3333 Run each of the following from the src directory:
3334 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt # compiles normal build
3335 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt install # compiles and installs
3336 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt clean # removes compiled junk
3337 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt # compiles debug build
3338 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt install
3339 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt clean
3342 *) Added binbuild.sh and findprg.sh helpers to make it easier for us
3343 to build binary distributions. [Lars Eilebrecht]
3345 *) IndexOptions SuppressColumnSorting only turned off making
3346 the column headers anchors; you could still change the display
3347 order by manually adding a '?N=A' or similar query string to the
3348 URL. Now SuppressColumnSorting locks in the sort order so
3349 it can't be overridden this way. [Ken Coar]
3351 *) Added IndexOrderDefault directive to supply a default sort order
3352 for FancyIndexed directory listings. [Ken Coar] PR#1699
3354 *) Change the ap_assert macro to a variant that works on all platforms.
3355 [Richard Prinz <richard.prinz@cso.net>] PR#2575
3357 *) Make sure under ELF-based NetBSD (now) and OpenBSD (future) we don't
3358 search for an underscore on dlsym() (as it's already the case
3359 for FreeBSD 3.0). [Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>] PR#2462
3361 *) Small fix for mod_env.html: The module was documented as to be _not_
3362 compiled into Apache per default, although it _IS_ compiled into
3363 Apache per default. [Sim Harbert <sim@mindspring.com>] PR#3572
3365 *) Instead of fixing a bug in the generation procedure for config.status (a
3366 backslash was missing) we remove the bug together with it's complete
3367 context because the special cases of the past can now no longer occur
3368 because of the recent magic for the --with-layout default.
3369 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3590
3371 *) Make top-level Makefile aware of a parallel build procedures (make -j) by
3372 making sure the src/support/ tools are _forced_ to be build last (they
3373 depend on other libraries).
3374 [Markus Theissinger <markus.theissinger@gmx.de>]
3376 *) Fix installation procedure: Now that os-inline.c is actually used (a
3377 recently fixed bug prevented this) we need to also install os-include.c
3378 in addition to os.h into the PREFIX/include/ location or building of
3379 module DSOs with APXS fails. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3527
3381 *) Added MODULE_MAGIC_COOKIE as the first field in a module structure to
3382 allow us to distinguish between a garbled DSO (or even a file which isn't
3383 an Apache module DSO at all) and a DSO which doesn't match the current
3384 Apache API. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3152
3386 *) Two minor enhancements to mod_rewrite: First RewriteRule now also
3387 supports the ``nocase|NC'' flag (as RewriteCond already does for ages) to
3388 match case insensitive (this especially avoids nasty patterns like
3389 `[tT][eE][sS][tT]'). Second two additional internal map functions
3390 `escape' and `unescape' were added which can be used to escape/unescape
3391 to/from hex-encodings in URLs parts (this is especially useful in
3392 combination with map lookups).
3393 [Magnus Bodin, Ian Kallen, Ralf S. Engelschall]
3395 *) Renamed the macro escape_uri() to ap_escape_uri() which was
3396 forgotten (because it was a macro) in the symbol renaming process.
3397 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3399 *) Fix some inconsistencies related to the scopes of directives. The only
3400 user visible change is that the directives `UseCanonicalName' and
3401 `ContentDigest' now use the (more correct) `Options' scope instead of
3402 (less correct) `AuthConfig' scope. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3404 *) Using DSO, the Server token was being mangled. Specifically, the
3405 module's token was being added first before the Apache token. This
3406 has been fixed. [Jim Jagielski]
3408 *) Major overhaul of mod_negotiation.c, part 2.
3409 - properly handle "identity" within Accept-Encoding.
3410 - allow encoded variants in RVSA negotiation and let them appear in
3411 the Alternates field using the non-standard "encoding" tag-list.
3412 - fixed both negotiation algorithms so that an explicitly accepted
3413 encoding is preferred over no encoding if "identity" is not
3414 included within Accept-Encoding.
3415 - added ap_array_pstrcat() to alloc.c for efficient concatenation
3416 of large substring sequences.
3417 - replaced O(n^2) memory hogs in mod_negotiation with ap_array_pstrcat.
3420 *) Major overhaul of mod_negotiation.c, part 1.
3421 - cleanups to mod_negotiation comments and code structure
3422 - made compliant with HTTP/1.1 proposed standard (rfc2068) and added
3423 support for everything in the upcoming HTTP/1.1
3424 revision (draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-06.txt).
3425 - language tag matching also handles tags with more than 2
3427 - empty Accept, Accept-Language, Accept-Charset headers are
3428 processed correctly; previously an empty header would make all
3429 values acceptable instead of unacceptable.
3430 - allowed for q values in Accept-Encoding
3431 - added support for transparent content negotiation (rfc2295 and
3432 rfc2296) (though we do not implement all features in these drafts,
3433 e.g. no feature negotiation). Removed old experimental version.
3434 - implemented 'structured entity tags' for better cache correctness
3435 (structured entity tags ensure that caches which can deal with Vary
3436 will (eventually) be updated if the set of variants on the server
3438 - this involved adding a vlist_validator element to request_rec
3439 - this involved adding the ap_make_etag() function to the global API
3440 - modified guessing of charsets used by Apache negotiation algorithm
3441 to guess 'no charset' if the variant is not a text/* type
3442 - added code to sort multiviews variants into a canonical order so that
3443 negotiation results are consistent across backup/restores and mirrors
3444 - removed possibility of a type map file resolving to another type map
3445 file as its best variant
3446 [Koen Holtman, Roy Fielding, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3451, 3299, 1987
3448 *) RFC2396 allows the syntax http://host:/path (with no port number)
3449 but the proxy disallowed it (ap_proxy_canon_netloc()).
3450 [David Kristol <dmk@bell-labs.com>] PR#3530
3452 *) When modules update/modify the file name in the configfile_t structure,
3453 syntax errors will report the updated name, not the original one.
3454 [Fabien Coelho <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>] PR#3573
3456 *) Correct some filename case assumptions from WIN32 to
3457 CASE_BLIND_FILESYSTEM. [Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
3459 *) For %v log ServerName regardless of the UseCanonicalName
3460 setting (similarly for %p). [Dean Gaudet]
3462 *) Configure was initializing the variables $OSDIR, $INCDIR and $SHELL
3463 rather late (too late for some invocations of TestCompile).
3464 This improves the make environment available to TestCompile and
3465 the *.module scripts. [Martin Kraemer]
3467 *) The hashbang emulation code in ap_execve.c would interpret
3468 #!/hashbang/scripts correctly, but failed to fall back to a
3469 standard shell for scripts which did NOT start with #!
3470 Now SHELL_PATH is started in these cases. [Martin Kraemer]
3472 *) PORT: Added the Cyberguard V2 port [Richard Stagg <stagg@lentil.org>]
3475 *) Update APXS manual page: some -q option arguments were missing
3476 and another was incorrect. [Mark Anderson <mda@discerning.com>] PR#3553
3478 *) Cleanup the command line options: `-?' was documented to show
3479 the usage list but does it with an error because `?' is not a valid
3480 command. OTOH a lot of users expect `-h' to print such a usage list and
3481 instead are annoyed for ages by our huge unreadable list of directives.
3482 So we now changed the command line options this way:
3484 Intent: we need `-L' to be free, and `-R' for the DSO run-time path is
3485 very similar to the popular linker option.
3487 Intent: while -l gives the small list of modules, -L now gives the
3488 large list of directives implemented by these modules. This is also
3489 consistent with -v (short version info) and -V (large version info).
3491 Intent: it's now the expected option ;-)
3492 The manual page was adjusted accordingly.
3493 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2714
3495 *) Fixed problem of fclose() on an unopened file in suexec if LOG_EXEC
3496 wasn't defined. [Rick Franchuk <rickf@transpect.net>]
3498 *) Removed recently introduced bugs and disfigurements in APACI:
3499 o fixed argument line processing: using $args was broken: It was not
3500 initialized and using args="$args $apc_option" and even args="$args
3501 \"$apc_option\"" fails in the second processing round for any arguments
3502 containing whitespaces. The only correct way is to use the construct
3503 "$@" (but not possible here) or iterate _both_ times over the implicit
3504 argument line (no argument to for-loop) which is what we now use.
3505 o make --with-layout=Apache the default without creating
3506 redundancy (copying the --with-layout block in the argument parsing
3507 loop). We achieve this by using the "$@" construct together with the
3508 `set' command to prepend --with-layout=Apache to the command line in
3509 case --with-layout is not used.
3510 o fixed auto-suffix handling now that config.layout exists.
3511 Paths which are auto-suffixed are marked with a trailing plus sign in
3512 config.layout and every path now can be marked this way (not only the
3513 four paths for which we do it currently). Additionally the suffix is
3514 no longer a static one. Instead it's now `/<target>' where <target> is
3515 the argument of the --target option or per default `httpd'.
3516 o allow also tabs (and only spaces) where we match whitespaces
3517 o various fixes and cleanups related to used shell coding style
3518 o made Jim happy by replacing `Written by' with `Initially written by' ;-)
3519 o trimmed output of --help to fit into 80 columns
3520 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3522 *) Added two new core API functions, ap_single_module_configure() and
3523 ap_single_module_init(), which are now used by mod_so to configure a module
3524 after loading. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3526 *) PORT: Add defines for USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT and
3527 SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT to NetBSD/OpenBSD section
3528 of ap_config.h to allow serialized accept for multiport listens.
3529 [Roy Fielding, Curt Sampson] PR#3120
3531 *) PORT: Fixed a misplaced #endif for NetBSD/OpenBSD section
3532 of ap_config.h that would skip several defines if DEFAULT_GROUP
3533 was overridden. [Roy Fielding]
3535 *) PORT: The I86 version of DGUX has support for strncasecmp and
3536 strcasecmp, so allow it in ap_config.h. [Amiel Lee Yee] PR#3247
3538 *) Fix ordering of definitions in ap_config.h so that ap_inline is
3539 defined before it might be used. [Victor Khimenko]
3541 *) PORT: Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for BSDI (v4.0).
3542 [Tom Serkowski <tks@bsdi.com>] PR#3453
3544 *) Make generation of src/Configuration.apaci more robust: It failed to
3545 differenciate between modules when one module name was a postfix of
3546 another (e.g. cgi vs. fastcgi). We now check for mod_XXX, libXXX and even
3547 just XXX (think about totally non-standard names like "apache_ssl", too).
3548 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3380
3550 *) In src/Configure remove the SERVER_SUBVERSION support (already deprecated
3551 since 1.3b7) and make whitespace handling more robust (it failed horrible
3552 when whitespaces were present in the arguments of -D options).
3553 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3240
3555 *) Add APACI --shadow=DIR variant (in addition to --shadow). This now first
3556 creates an external package shadow tree in DIR before the local build
3557 shadow tree is generated under DIR. This way one can have the extracted
3558 Apache distribution tree read-only on NFS or CDROM and still build Apache
3559 from these sources. An automatically triggered VPATH-like mechanism is
3560 provided through the TOP variable, too.
3561 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
3563 *) Fix negotiation so that a Vary response header is correctly
3564 generated when, for a particular dimension, variants only vary
3565 in having or not having a value for that dimension. [Paul Sutton]
3567 *) Fix negotiation so that we prefer an encoded variant over an
3568 unencoded variant if the user-agent explicitly says it can
3569 accept that encoding. Previously we always preferred the unencoded
3571 [Paul Ausbeck <paula@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu>, Paul Sutton] PR#3447
3573 *) Fix APXS tool: query variables LIBS_SHLIB and TARGET were not recognized
3574 and the usage page was inconsistent with the functionality and manpage.
3575 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3577 *) Allow special options -Wc,xxx and -Wl,xxx on APXS compile/link command.
3578 They can occur multiple times and their arguments (`xxx') are passed AS
3579 IS to the compiler/linker command. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3581 *) Fixed possible (but harmless in practice) bug in the DBM lookup
3582 procedure of mod_rewrite: very long keys were truncated.
3583 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3585 *) Added a generic --with-layout=[FILE:]ID option. ID here is a layout
3586 identifier, currently "Apache" and "GNU" are pre-defined in the file
3587 config.layout. Custom layouts are possible by using FILE:ID as the
3588 argument where the layout ID is taken from FILE.
3590 The config.layout file consists of <Layout ID>..</Layout> sections
3591 where inside those sections "path_variable: path_value" pairs can be
3592 specified. These lines are converted to path_variable='path_value'.
3594 *) Add a DefaultLanguage directive so that files missing a language
3595 extension (e.g., .fr, .de) can be labelled as being some other
3596 default language. DefaultLanguage can appear in <Directory> and
3597 <Files> containers as well as .htaccess files. [Paul Sutton]
3600 *) Fix TARGET configuration when configuring and installing using
3601 APACI configure. TARGET now defines the basename of the configuration
3602 file, startup script, manual page, etc. log_error_core() now reports
3603 the server binary name given by argv[0]. TARGET can now also be defined
3604 with --target=TARGET parameter passed to APACI configure.
3605 [Ralf Engelschall, Randy Terbush]
3607 *) mod_include.c:handle_perl() now properly tests for OPT_INCNOEXEC
3608 rather than OPT_INCLUDES [Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>]
3610 *) ap_md5_binary() was using sprintf() rather than a table lookup
3611 to convert binary bytes to hex digits.
3612 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald@innovation.ch>] PR#3409
3614 *) Fix SEGV in TCN negotiation if no variants are acceptable.
3615 [Martin Plechsmid <plechsmi@karlin.mff.cuni.cz>] PR#1987
3617 *) API: ap_exists_config_define() function is now "public" [Doug MacEachern]
3619 *) Fix documentation of `Action' directive: It can activate a CGI script
3620 when either a handler or a MIME content type is triggered by the request.
3621 [Andrew Pimlott <pimlott@math.harvard.edu>] PR#3340
3623 *) Document the `add' command of `dbmmanage' in `dbmmanage.1' manpage.
3624 [David MacKenzie <djm@uu.net>] PR#3394
3626 *) Ignore a "ErrorDocument 401" directive with a full URL and write a
3627 notice to the error log. It is not possible to send a 401 response
3628 and a redirect at the same time. [Lars Eilebrecht]
3630 *) Fallback to native compilers for IRIX-32 platform. It seems that
3631 a gcc 2.8.1 compiled apache is logging client addresses with all
3632 bits set (255.255.255.255). This is the second such problem caused
3633 by gcc 2.8.1 compiler. The first being broken semaphore locking.
3636 *) Updated mime.types to reflect current Internet media types
3637 and include a URL to the registry.
3638 [Manoj Kasichainula, Roy Fielding] PR#2380, 2286, 2246
3640 *) SECURITY: Do a more complete check in mod_include to avoid
3641 an infinite loop of recursive SSI includes. [Marc Slemko] PR#3323
3643 *) Add APACI --suexec-docroot and --suexec-logfile options which can be
3644 used to set the document root directory (DOC_ROOT) and the suexec
3645 logfile (LOG_EXEC), respectively. Additionally the --layout option
3646 was changed to show more information about the suEXEC setup.
3647 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3316, 3357, 3361
3649 *) Added the last two WebDAV status codes of 424 (Failed Dependency)
3650 and 507 (Insufficient Storage) for use by third-party modules.
3653 *) Enabled all of the WebDAV method names for use by third-party
3654 modules, Limit, and Script directives. That includes PATCH,
3655 PROPFIND, PROPPATCH, MKCOL, COPY, MOVE, LOCK, and UNLOCK.
3656 Improved mod_actions.c so that it can use any of the methods
3657 defined in httpd.h. Added ap_method_number_of(method) for
3658 getting the internal method number. [Roy Fielding]
3660 *) PORT: Add a port to the TPF OS. [Joe Moenich <moenich@us.ibm.com> and
3663 *) Fix problems with handling of UNC names (e.g., \\host\path)
3664 on Win32. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@us.ibm.com>]
3666 *) Rework os_canonical_*() on Win32 so it's simpler, more
3667 robust, and works. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@us.ibm.com>]
3668 PR#2555, 2915, 3064, 3232
3670 *) Work around incomplete implementation of strftime on Win32.
3671 [Manoj Kasichainula, Ken Parzygnat <kparz@us.ibm.com>]
3673 *) Move a typedef to fix compile problems on Linux with 1.x kernels.
3674 [Manoj Kasichainula] PR#3177
3676 *) PORT: Add a port to the Concurrent PowerMAX OS. [Tom Horsley
3677 <Tom.Horsley@mail.ccur.com>]
3679 *) WIN32: Log more explicit error messages if spawning an interpreted
3680 script failed, including the command line used to attempt to execute
3681 the interpreter and the Win32 error code returned. [Marc Slemko]
3683 *) Disable sending of error-notes on a 500 (Internal Server Error) response
3684 since it often includes file path info. Enable sending of error-notes
3685 on a 501 (Method Not Implemented). [Roy Fielding] PR#3173
3687 *) http_config.c would respond with 501 (Method Not Implemented) if a
3688 content type handler was specified but could not be found, which
3689 should have been a 500 response. Likewise, mod_proxy.c would responsd
3690 with a 501 if the URI scheme is unrecognized instead of the correct
3691 response of 403 (Forbidden). [Roy Fielding]
3693 *) SECURITY: Eliminate DoS attack when a bad URI path contains what
3694 looks like a printf format escape. [Marc Slemko, Studenten Net Twente]
3696 *) Fix in mod_autoindex: for files where the last modified time stamp was
3697 unavailable, an empty string was printed which was 2 bytes short.
3698 The size and description columns were therefore not aligned correctly.
3699 [Martin Kraemer] (no PR#)
3701 *) Update BS2000 OS code to work with recent versions. Starting with
3702 release A17, the child fork() must be replaced by a _rfork().
3703 (BS2000 only) [Martin Kraemer]
3705 *) Add the actual server_rec structure of the specific Vhost to the
3706 scoreboard file and avoid a string copy (as well as allow some
3707 further future enhancements). [Harrie Hazewinkel
3708 <harrie.hazewinkel@jrc.it>]
3710 *) Add APACI --permute-module=foo:bar option which can be used to
3711 on-the-fly/batch permute the order of two modules (mod_foo and mod_bar)
3712 in the Configuration[.apaci] file. Two special and important variants are
3713 supported for the option argument: first BEGIN:foo which permutes module
3714 mod_foo with the begin of the module list, i.e. it `moves' the module to
3715 the begin of the list (gives it lowest priority). And second foo:END
3716 which permutes mod_foo with the end of the module list, i.e. it `moves'
3717 the module to the end of the list (gives it highest priority).
3718 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3720 *) Fix problem with 'apache -k shutdown' and startup event
3721 synchronisation (Win32). [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3724 *) The config parser wasn't correctly noticing a missing '>'
3725 on container start lines (e.g., it wouldn't spot
3726 "<Directory /" as a syntax error). [Ryan Bloom <rbbloom@us.ibm.com>]
3729 *) Add a 'RemoveHandler' directive which will selectively remove
3730 all handler associations for the specified file extensions.
3731 [Ryan Bloom <rbbloom@us.ibm.com>] PR#1799.
3733 *) Properly handle & allow "nul" and ".*/null" in AccessConfig and
3734 ResourceConfig directives on Win32. Also add a note to the effect
3735 of 'useless User directive ignored on Win32' to the errorlog if
3736 a User directive is encountered on Win32.
3737 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2078, 2303.
3739 *) Fix multiple whitespace handling in imagemaps for mod_imap which was
3740 broken since Apache 1.3.1 where we took out compressing of multiple
3741 spaces in ap_cfg_getline().
3742 [Ivan Richwalski <ivan@seppuku.net>] PR#3249
3744 *) Fix Berkeley-DB/2.x support in mod_auth_db: The data structures were not
3745 initialized correctly and the db_open() call used an invalid mode
3746 parameter. [Ron Klatchko <ron@ckm.ucsf.edu>] PR#3171
3748 *) PORT: DSO support for UnixWare 7
3749 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Ron Record <rr@sco.com>]
3751 *) Merge the contents of the {srm,access}.conf-dist* files into the
3752 httpd.conf-dist* files. The srm and access files now contain
3753 only comments, and httpd.conf has all the combined contents in
3754 a rational order. [Ken Coar]
3756 *) PORT: DSO/ELF support for FreeBSD 3.0.
3757 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Dirk Froemberg <ibex@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>]
3759 *) Add a "default-handler" handler that calls the default_hander()
3760 function which is normally called for static content. This allows
3761 you to override a specific handler. [Marc Slemko]
3763 *) Further simplify checking for absolute paths by replacing an
3764 hard-coded syntax check with a call to a routine we already created to
3765 do this. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2976, 3074
3767 *) Log an error if we encounter a malformed "require" directive
3768 in mod_auth if we know that we know that no other module can
3769 deal with it. [Marc Slemko]
3771 *) Remove ap_private_extern method of hiding conflicting symbols
3772 on the NEXT platform because it is not correct for all versions,
3773 and the versions for which it is correct are unknown.
3774 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
3776 *) Fix inheritance of IndexOptions NameWidth and remove unintended
3777 restriction on +NameWidth, +IconHeight, and +IconWidth. [Ken Coar]
3779 *) Fix per-directory config merging for cases in which a 500 error
3780 is encountered in an .htaccess file somewhere down the tree.
3783 *) Minor performance improvement to ap_escape_html(). [Roy Fielding]
3785 *) Fixed a segmentation violation in mod_proxy when a response is
3786 non-cachable. [Roy Fielding, traced by Doug Bloebaum]. PR#2950, 3056
3788 Changes with Apache 1.3.3
3790 *) Added a complete implementation of the Expect header field as
3791 specified in rev-05 of HTTP/1.1. Disabled the 100 Continue
3792 response when we already know the final status, which is mighty
3793 useful for PUT responses that result in 302 or 401. [Roy Fielding]
3795 *) Remove extra trailing whitespace from the getline results as part
3796 of the protocol processing, which is extra nice because it works
3797 between continuation lines, is almost no cost in the normal case
3798 of no extra whitespace, and saves memory. [Roy Fielding]
3800 *) Added new HTTP status codes and default response bodies from the
3801 revised HTTP/1.1 (307, 416, 417), WebDAV (102, 207, 422, 423), and
3802 HTTP Extension Framework (510) specifications. Did not add the
3803 WebDAV 424 and 425 codes because they are bogus. We don't use any
3804 of these codes yet, but they are now available to 3rd-party modules.
3807 *) Fix a possible race condition between timed-out requests and the
3808 ap_bhalfduplex select that might result in an infinite loop on
3809 platforms that do not validate the descriptor. [Roy Fielding]
3811 *) WIN32: Add "-k shutdown" and "-k restart" options to signal a
3812 running Apache server [Paul Sutton]
3814 *) Fix mod_autoindex bug where directories got a size of "0k" instead
3815 of "-". [Martin Plechsmid <plechsmi@karlin.mff.cuni.cz>, Marc Slemko]
3818 *) PORT: DRS 6000 machine. [Paul Debleecker <pdebleecker@jetair.be>]
3820 *) Add the server signature text (from the core ServerSignature directive)
3821 to the list of envariables available to scripts, SSI, and the like.
3824 *) PORT: Fix sys/resource.h handling for SCO 3.x platform.
3825 [M. Laak <maert@proinv.ee>] PR#3108
3827 *) Fallback from sysconf-based to plain HZ-based `ticks per second'
3828 calculation in mod_status for all systems which don't have POSIX
3829 sysconf() (like UTS 2.1) and not only for the NEXT platform.
3830 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#3055
3832 *) Fix `require ...' directive parsing in mod_auth, mod_auth_dbm and
3833 mod_auth_db by using ap_getword_white() (which uses ap_isspace())
3834 instead of ap_getword(..., ' ') (which parses only according to spaces
3835 but not tabs). [James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>,
3836 Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3105
3838 *) Fix the SERVER_NAME variable under sub-request situations (where
3839 `UseCanonicalName off' is used) like CGI's called from SSI pages or
3840 RewriteCond variables by adopting r->hostname to sub-requests.
3841 [James Grinter <jrg@blodwen.demon.co.uk>] PR#3111
3843 *) Fix stderr redirection under syslog-based error logging situation.
3844 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#3095
3846 *) Document `ErrorLog syslog:facility' variant of error logging.
3847 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#3096
3849 *) Fix http://localhost/ hints in top-level INSTALL document.
3850 [Rob Jenson <robjen@spotch.com>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3088
3852 *) Quote paths in default configuration files. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
3854 *) PORT: Remove extra HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H define for RHAPSODY since
3855 it is now taken care of properly by the header file tests.
3856 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
3858 *) Fix problem with scripts and filehandle inheritance on Win32.
3859 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2884, 2910
3861 *) Win32 name canonicalisation could end up using the server's
3862 working directory to fill in some blanks. [Ken Parzygnat
3863 <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#3001
3865 *) Correct invalid assumption by ap_sub_req_lookup_file() that all
3866 absolute paths begin with "/" -- because they don't on Win32.
3867 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2976, 3074
3869 *) Add [REDIRECT_]VARIANTS environment variable to mod_speling
3870 so that ErrorDocument 300 processors can reformat the list
3871 if desired. [Ken Coar] PR#2859
3873 *) Add +/- incremental prefixes to IndexOptions keywords, and
3874 enable merging of multiple IndexOptions directives. [Ken Coar]
3876 *) PORT: Allow GuessOS to recognize Unixware 7.0.1 [Steve Cameron
3877 <steve.cameron@compaq.com>]
3879 *) Reconstructed the loop through multiple htaccess file names so
3880 that missing files are not confused with unreadable files.
3883 *) The ap_pfopen and ap_pfdopen routines were failing to protect the
3884 errno on an error, which leads to one error being mistaken for
3885 another when reading non-existent .htaccess files.
3888 *) OS/2: The new header tests get things right, need to update
3889 ap_config.h. [Brian Havard]
3891 *) The Perl %ENV hash will now be setup by default when using the
3892 mod_include `perl' command [Doug MacEachern]
3894 *) PORT: Add Pyramid DC/OSx support to configuration mechanism.
3895 [Earle Ake <akee@wpdiss1.wpafb.af.mil>]
3897 *) PORT: Fix sys/resource.h handling for Amdahl's UTS 2.1
3898 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#3054
3900 *) Correct comment in mod_log_config.c about its internals.
3901 [Elf Sternberg <elf@halcyon.com>]
3903 *) Avoid possible line overflow in Configure: Use an awkfile to
3904 handle the creation of modules.c [Jim Jagielski]
3906 Changes with Apache 1.3.2
3908 *) Fix bug in ap_remove_module(), which caused problems for dso's
3909 who were the top_module. [Doug MacEachern]
3911 *) Add support for Berkeley-DB/2.x (in addition to Berkeley-DB/1.x) to
3912 mod_auth_db to both be friendly to users who wants to use this version
3913 and to avoid problems under platforms where only version 2.x is present.
3914 [Dan Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
3916 *) When using ap_log_rerror(), make the error message available to the
3917 *ERROR_NOTES envariables by default. [Ken Coar]
3919 *) BS2000 platform only: get rid of the nasty BS2000AuthFile.
3920 You now must define a BS2000Account name for the server User.
3921 This has fewer security implications than the old approach.
3924 *) Fix SHARED_CORE feature for HPUX platform: We now use extension `.sl'
3925 instead of `.so' and `SHLIB_PATH' instead of `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' on this
3926 platform to make the braindead HPUX linker happy. Notice, for the module
3927 DSOs we don't have to use this, because these are loaded manually (and
3928 not via HPUX' dld). [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2905, PR#2968
3930 *) Remove 64 thread limit on Win32.
3931 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3933 *) Remove redundant substitutions in top-level Makefile.tmpl.
3934 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3936 *) Fix APACI's `Group' configuration adjustment - especially for Linux
3937 platforms where `nogroup' exists in /etc/group. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3939 *) Make PrintPath work generically instead of having one version
3940 strictly for OS/2. [Jim Jagielski, Brian Havard]
3942 *) Fix the recently introduced C header file checking: We now use the C
3943 pre-processor pass only (and no longer the complete compiler pass) to
3944 determine whether a C header file exists or not. Because only this way
3945 we're safe against inter-header dependencies (which caused horrible
3946 portability problems). The only drawback is that we now have a CPP
3947 configuration variable which has to be determined first (we do a similar
3948 approach as GNU Autoconf does here). When all fails the user still has
3949 the possibility to override it manually via APACI or src/Configuration.
3950 As a fallback for the header check itself we can directly check the
3951 existance of the file under /usr/include, too.
3952 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2777
3954 *) PORT: Added RHAPSODY (Mac OS X Server) support. MAP_TMPFILE defined
3955 as an alternate mechanism for mmap'd shared memory for RHAPSODY.
3956 ap_private_extern defined to hide symbols that conflict with loaded
3957 dynamic libraries on the NEXT and RHAPSODY platforms.
3958 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
3960 *) Delete PID file on clean shutdowns.
3961 [Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com>] PR#2947
3963 *) Fix mod_auth_*.html documents: NSCA -> NCSA
3964 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#2991
3966 *) Fix INSTALL document: www.gnu.ai.mit.edu -> www.gnu.org
3967 [Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>] PR#2994
3969 *) Fix dbmmanage.1 manual page.
3970 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#2992
3972 *) Fix possible buffer overflow situation in suexec.c.
3973 [Jeff Stewart <jws@purdue.edu>] PR#2790
3975 *) Add some more LIBS for the SCO5 platform which are needed for the already
3976 used -lprot. It's actually a bug in SCO5, of course.
3977 [Ronald Record <rr@sco.com>] PR#2533
3979 *) Fix documentation of ProxyPass/ProxyPassReverse according to the
3980 trailing slash problem. [Jon Drukman <jsd@gamespot.com>] PR#2933
3982 *) Remove `-msym' option from LDFLAGS_SHLIB for the Digital UNIX (OSF/1)
3983 platform, because it's only supported under version 4.0 and higher. But
3984 because our GuessOS is still unaware of Digital UNIX versions and the
3985 -msym is just to optimize the DSO statup time a little bit it's safe and
3986 best when we leave it out now. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2969
3988 *) Fix the ap_log_error_old(), ap_log_unixerr() and ap_log_printf()
3989 functions: First all three functions no longer fail on strings containing
3990 "%" chars and second ap_log_printf() no longer does a double-formatting
3991 (instead it directly passes through the message to be formatted to the
3992 real internal formatting function). [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2941
3994 *) Allow "Include" directives anywhere in the server config
3995 files (but not .htaccess files). [Ken Coar] PR#2727
3997 *) The proxy was refusing to serve CONNECT requests except to
3998 port 443 (https://) and 563 (snews://). The new AllowCONNECT
3999 directive allows the configuration of the ports to which a
4000 CONNECT is allowed. [Sameer Parekh, Martin Kraemer]
4002 *) mod_expires will now act on content that is not sent from a file
4003 on disk. Previously it would never add an Expires: header to
4004 any response that did not come from a file on disk; the only
4005 case where it still doesn't (and can't) add one for that type of
4006 content is if you are using a modification date based setting.
4007 [Marc Slemko, Paul Phillips <paulp@go2net.com>]
4009 *) Problems encountered during .htaccess parsing or CGI execution
4010 that lead to a "500 Server Error" condition now provide explanatory
4011 text (in the *ERROR_NOTES envariable) to ErrorDocument 500 scripts.
4014 *) Add NameWidth keyword to IndexOptions directive so that the
4015 width of the filename column is customisable. [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
4018 *) Recognize lowercase _and_ uppercase `uname' results under
4019 SCO OpenServer. [David Coelho <drc@ppt.com>]
4021 *) As duplicate "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" lines within the header seem to be
4022 a common problem of (mis-administrated?) IIS servers, make the apache
4023 proxy immune to these errors (and ignore the duplicates, but log
4024 the fact to error_log). [Martin Kraemer], after the proposal in PR#2914
4026 *) The <IfModule and <IfDefine block starting directives now only
4027 allow exactly one argument. Previously, the optional negation
4028 character '!' could be separated by whitespace without a syntax
4029 error being reported, albeit defeating the IfModule functionality
4030 (enclosed directives would ALWAYS be executed). By using the
4031 stricter syntax, these hard-to-track errors can be avoided.
4034 *) Simplify handling of IndexOptions in mod_autoindex -- and BTW
4035 cause the standalone FancyIndexing directive to logically OR
4036 into any existing IndexOptions settings rather than wiping
4037 them out. [Ken Coar]
4039 *) Changes in ftp proxy: make URL parsing simpler by using the
4041 + Add display of the "current directory" in cases where it's
4042 different from the supplied path (e.g., ftp://user@host/ lives
4043 in /home/user, not in /, therefore clicking on "../" in the
4044 starting directory might send us to /home/).
4045 + When ftp login fails, (esp. when a user name was part of the
4046 URL already), we now return [401 Unauthorized ] to allow the
4047 browser to pop up an authorization dialog. This makes passwords
4048 slightly less visible (they don't appear in the regular log files)
4049 and implements a functionality that other www proxy servers
4053 *) Triggered by the recent "Via:" header changes, the proxy module would
4054 dump core for replies with invalid headers (e.g., duplicate
4055 "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" lines). These errors are now logged and the
4056 core dump is avoided. Also, broken replies are not cached.
4057 [Martin Kraemer] PR#2914
4059 *) new `GprofDir' directive when compiled with -DGPROF, where gprof can
4060 plop gmon.out profile data for each child [Doug MacEachern]
4062 *) Use the construct ``"$@"'' instead of ``$*'' in the generated
4063 config.status script to be immune against arguments with whitespaces.
4064 [Yves Arrouye <yves@apple.com>] PR#2866
4066 *) Replace the inlined information grabbing stuff for the configuration
4067 adjustment feature (no --without-confadjust) with calls to a new helper
4068 script `buildinfo.sh' which is both more flexible and already proofed to
4069 be more robust against platform differences. This mainly fixes the
4070 recently occured ``sed: command garbled: ...'' problems.
4071 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2776, PR#2848
4073 *) Make ab.c again pass ``gcc -Wall -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align
4074 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Winline''
4075 without complains after we recently added the POST feature.
4076 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4078 *) Renamed is_HTTP_xxx() macros to ap_is_HTTP_xxx() name. They are used inside
4079 modules as API functions and we forgot them at the big symbol renaming.
4080 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4082 *) Remove bad reference to non-existing SERVER_VERSION in mod_rewrite.html
4083 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.ORG>] PR#2895
4085 *) Dynamically size the filename column of mod_autoindex output.
4088 *) Add the ability to do POST requests to the ab benchmarking tool.
4089 [Kurt Sussman <kls@best.com>] PR#2871
4091 *) Bump up MAX_ENV_FLAGS in mod_rewrite.h from the too conservatice limit of
4092 5 to 10 because there are some users out there who always have 5 to 8
4093 variables in one RewriteRule and had to patch mod_rewrite.h for every
4094 release. So 15 should be now more than enough, even for them. (I never
4095 needed more than 4 in my RewriteRules ;-)
4096 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4098 *) Make the proxy generate and understand Via: headers
4101 *) Change the proxy to use tables instead of array_headers for
4102 the header lines. [Martin Kraemer]
4104 *) Make sure the config.status file is not overridden when just
4105 ``configure --help'' is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2844
4107 *) Split MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER into _MAJOR/_MINOR numbers. This should
4108 provide a way to trace API changes that add functionality but do
4109 not create a compatibility issue for precompiled modules, etc.
4110 See include/ap_mmn.h for more details. [Randy Terbush]
4112 *) Fix suexec installation under `make install root=xxx' situation.
4113 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4115 *) Extend the output of the -V switch to include the paths of all
4116 compiled-in configuration files, if they were overridden at
4117 compile time, for least astonishment of the user.
4120 *) When READing a request in ExtendedStatus mode, the "old"
4121 vhost, request and client information is not displayed.
4124 *) STATUS is no longer available. Full status information now
4125 run-time configurable using the ExtendedStatus directive.
4128 *) SECURITY: Eliminate O(n^2) space DoS attacks (and other O(n^2)
4129 cpu time attacks) in header parsing. Add ap_overlap_tables(),
4130 a function which can be used to perform bulk update operations
4131 on tables in a more efficient manner. [Dean Gaudet]
4133 *) SECURITY: Added compile-time and configurable limits for
4134 various aspects of reading a client request to avoid some simple
4135 denial of service attacks, including limits on maximum request-line
4136 size (LimitRequestLine), number of header fields (LimitRequestFields),
4137 and size of any one header field (LimitRequestFieldsize). Also added
4138 a configurable directive LimitRequestBody for limiting the size of the
4139 request message body. [Roy Fielding]
4141 *) Make status module aware of DNS and logging states, even if
4142 STATUS not defined. [Jim Jagielski]
4144 *) Fix a problem with the new OS/2 mutexes. [Brian Havard]
4146 *) Enhance mod_speling so that CheckSpelling can be used in
4147 <Directory> containers and .htaccess files. [Ken Coar]
4149 *) API: new ap_custom_response() function for hooking into the
4150 ErrorDocument mechanism at runtime [Doug MacEachern]
4152 *) API: new ap_uuencode() function [Doug MacEachern]
4154 *) API: scan_script_header_err_core() now "public" and renamed
4155 ap_scan_script_header_err_core() [Doug MacEachern]
4157 *) The 'status' module will now show the process pid's and their
4158 state even without full STATUS accounting. [Jim Jagielski]
4160 *) Restore the client IP address to the error log messages, this
4161 was lost during the transition from 1.2 to 1.3. Add a new
4162 function ap_log_rerror() which takes a request_rec * and
4163 formats it appropriately. [Dean Gaudet] PR#2661
4165 *) Cure ap_cfg_getline() of its nasty habit of compressing internal
4166 whitespace in input lines -- including within quoted strings.
4168 but leading and trailing whitespace should continue to be
4169 stripped [Martin Kraemer]
4171 *) Cleanup of the PrintPath/PrintPathOS2 helper functions. Avoid
4172 the ugly use of an env. variable and use command-line args for
4173 alternate $PATH. Make more like advanced 'type's as well.
4176 *) The IRIXN32 Rule was being ignored. Configure now correctly adds
4177 -n32 only if IRIXN32 says to. [Jim Jagielski, Alain St-Denis
4178 <alain.st-denis@ec.gc.ca>] PR#2736
4180 *) Clean up a warning in mod_proxy. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4182 *) Renamed __EMX__ (internal define of the gcc port under OS/2) to OS2
4183 following the same idea as "MSVC vs WIN32". Additionally the src/os/emx/
4184 directory was renamed to src/os/os2/ for consistency.
4185 [Brian Havard, Ralf S. Engelschall]
4187 *) Add new Rule SHARED_CHAIN which can be used to enable linking of DSO
4188 files (here modules) against other DSO files (here shared libraries).
4189 This is done by determining a subset of LIBS which can be safely used for
4190 linking the DSOs, i.e. PIC libs and shared libs. Currently the rule is
4191 disabled for all platforms to avoid problems with this (experimental)
4192 rule. But we provide it now for those people how ran into problems and
4193 want to came out by forcing linking against DSOs.
4194 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2587
4196 *) Fix suEXEC start message: Has to be of `notice' level to really get
4197 printed together with the standard startup message because the `notice'
4198 level is handled special inside ap_log_error() for startup messages.
4199 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2761 PR#2761 PR#2765
4201 *) Add correct `model' MIME types from RFC2077 to mime.types file.
4202 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2732
4204 *) Fixed examples in mod_rewrite.html document.
4205 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2756
4207 *) Allow ap_read_request errors to propagate through the normal request
4208 handling loop so that the connection can be properly closed with
4209 lingering_close, thus avoiding a potential TCP reset that would
4210 cause the client to miss the HTTP error response. [Roy Fielding]
4212 *) One more portability fix for APACI shadow tree support: Swap order of awk
4213 and sed in top-level configure script to avoid sed fails on some
4214 platforms (for instance SunOS 4.1.3 and NCR SysV) because of the
4215 non-newline-termined output of Awk. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2729
4217 *) PORT: NEC EWS4800 support.
4218 [MATSUURA Takanori <t-matsuu@protein.osaka-u.ac.jp>]
4220 *) Fix a segfault in the proxy on OS/2. [Brian Havard]
4222 *) Fix Win32 part of ap_spawn_child() by providing a reasonable child_info
4223 structure instead of just NULL. This fixes at least the RewriteMap
4224 programs under Win32. [Marco De Michele <mdemichele@tin.it>] PR#2483
4226 *) Add workaround to top-level `configure' script for brain dead
4227 `echo' commands which interpet escape sequences per default.
4228 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2654
4230 *) Make sure that the path to the Perl interpreter is correctly
4231 adjusted under `make install' also for the printenv CGI script.
4232 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2595
4234 *) Update the mod_rewrite.html document to correctly reflect the situation
4235 of the `proxy' (`[P]') feature. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2679
4237 *) Fix `install-includes' sub-target of `install' target in top-level
4238 Makefile.tmpl: The umask+cp approach didn't work as expected (especially
4239 for users which extracted the distribution under 'umask 077'), so replace
4240 it by an explicit cp+chmod approach.
4241 [Richard Lloyd, Curt Sampson, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2656 PR#2626
4243 *) Fix `distclean' and `clean' targets in src/Makefile.tmpl to have same
4244 behavior and to cleanup correctly even under enabled SHARED_CORE rule.
4245 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4247 *) Use a more straight forward and thus less problematic Sed command in
4248 src/helper/mkdir.sh script. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4250 *) Make sure the `configure' scripts doesn't fail when trying to guess the
4251 domainname of the machine and there are multiple `domainname' and
4252 `search' entries in /etc/resolv.conf.
4253 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2710
4255 *) Add note about the SHARED_CORE requirement on some platforms also to the
4256 INSTALL file because a lot of users don't read htdocs/manual/dso.html
4257 first. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2701
4259 *) Fix document "hyperlink" for dso.html in src/Configuration.tmpl
4260 [Knut A.Syed <Knut.Syed@nhh.no>] PR#2674
4262 *) Modify mod_rewrite to update the Vary response field if the URL rewriting
4263 engine does any manipulations or decisions based upon request fields.
4266 *) Document the special APACI behavior for installation paths where
4267 ``/apache'' is appended to paths under some (well defined, of course)
4268 situations to prevent pollution of system locations with Apache files.
4269 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2660
4271 *) Fixed problem with buffered response message not being sent for
4272 the read_request error conditions of URI-too-long (414) and
4273 malformed header fields (400). [Roy Fielding] PR#2646
4275 *) Add support for the Max-Forwards: header line required by RFC2068 for
4276 the TRACE method. This allows apache to TRACE along a chain of proxies
4277 up to a predetermined depth. [Martin Kraemer]
4279 *) Fix SHARED_CORE rule: The CFLAGS_SHLIB variable is no longer doubled
4280 (compilers complained) and the .so.V.R.P filename extension was adjusted
4281 to correctly reflect the 1.3.2 version.
4282 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2644
4284 *) SECURITY: Plug "..." and other canonicalization holes under OS/2.
4287 *) PORT: implement serialized accepts for OS/2. [Brian Havard]
4289 *) mod_include had problems with the fsize and flastmod directives
4290 under WIN32. Fix also avoids the minor security hole of using
4291 ".." paths for fsize and flastmod.
4292 [Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2355
4294 *) Fixed some Makefile dependency problems. [Dean Gaudet]
4296 Changes with Apache 1.3.1
4298 *) Disable the incorrect entry for application/msword in the
4299 mod_mime_magic "magic" file because it also matches other Office
4300 documents. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2608
4302 *) Fix broken RANLIB handling in src/Configure (the entry from
4303 src/Configuration.tmpl was ignored) and additionally force RANLIB to
4304 /bin/true under HP/UX where ranlib exists but is deprecated.
4305 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2627
4307 *) 'apachectl status' failed on some systems.
4308 [Steve VanDevender <stevev@darkwing.uoregon.edu>, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#2613
4310 *) Add new flags for ap_unparse_uri_components() to make it generate
4311 the scheme://sitepart string only, or to omit the query string.
4314 *) WIN32: Canonicalize ServerRoot before checking to see if it
4315 is a valid directory. The failure to do this caused certain
4316 ServerRoot settings (eg. "ServerRoot /apache") to be improperly
4317 rejected. [Marc Slemko]
4319 *) Global renaming of C header files to both get rid of conflicts with third
4320 party packages and to again reach consistency:
4321 1. conf.h -> ap_config.h
4322 2. conf_auto.h -> ap_config_auto.h \ these are now merged
4323 3. ap_config.h -> ap_config_auto.h / in the config process
4324 4. compat.h -> ap_compat.h
4325 5. apctype.h -> ap_ctype.h
4326 Backward compatibility files for conf.h and compat.h were created.
4328 *) mod_mmap_static will no longer take action on requests unless at
4329 least one "mmapfile" directive is present in the configuration.
4330 This experimental module has to do some black magic to operate
4331 inside the current API and thus creates side-effects for other
4332 modules under some circumstances.
4333 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4335 *) Add conservative ticks around more egrep arguments in top-level configure
4336 to avoid problems under brain-dead platforms like Digital UNIX (OSF1).
4337 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2596
4339 *) mod_rewrite created RewriteLock files under the UID of the parent
4340 process, thus the child processes had no write access to the files.
4341 Now a chown() is done on the file to the uid of the children,
4342 if applicable. [Lars Eilebrecht, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2341
4344 *) Autogenerate some HAVE_XXXXX_H defines in conf_auto.h (determined via
4345 TestCompile) instead of defining them manually in conf.h based on less
4346 accurate platform definitions. This way we no longer have to fiddle with
4347 OS-type and/or OS-version identifiers to discover whether a system header
4348 file exists or not. Instead we now directly check for the existence of
4349 those esoteric ones.
4350 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2093, PR#2361, PR#2377, PR#2434,
4351 PR#2524, PR#2525, PR#2533, PR#2569
4353 *) mod_setenvif (BrowserMatch* and friends) will now match a missing
4354 field with "^$". [Ken Coar]
4356 *) Set the RTLD_GLOBAL dlopen mode parameter to allow dynamically loaded
4357 modules to load their own modules dynamically. This improves mod_perl
4358 and mod_php3 when these modules are loaded dynamically into Apache.
4361 *) Cache a proxied request in the event that the client cancels the
4362 transfer, provided that the configured percentage of the file has
4363 already been transfered. It works for HTTP transfers only. The
4364 new configuration directive is called CacheForceCompletion.
4365 [Glen Parker <glenebob@nwlink.com>] PR#2277
4367 *) Add the "<!DOCTYPE HTML" magic cookie used by modern documents (and
4368 required by HTML 3.2 and later) to mod_mime_magic's conf/magic.
4369 [Anna Shergold <anna@inext.co.uk>]
4371 *) Fix yet another signal-based race condition involving nested timers.
4372 Signals suck. [Dean Gaudet]
4374 *) suexec's error messages have been clarified a little bit. [Ken Coar]
4376 *) Clean up some, but perhaps not all, 8-bit character set problems
4377 with config file parsing, and URL parsing. We now define
4378 ap_isdigit(), ap_isupper(), ... which cast to an (unsigned char).
4379 This should work on most modern unixes.
4380 [Dean Gaudet] PR#800, 2282, 2553 (and others)
4382 *) The "handler not found" error was issued in cases where the handler
4383 really did exist, but was just declining to serve the request.
4384 [John Van Essen <jve@gamers.org>] PR#2529
4386 *) Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for SCO5 (OpenServer 5.0.x).
4387 [Ronald Record <rr@sco.com>] PR#2533
4389 *) The APACI libexecdir was not extended with an "apache/" subdir
4390 if the installation prefix didn't already contain "apache", but
4391 it should be because the DSO files are Apache-specific. Now
4392 libexecdir is treated the same way sysconfdir, datadir, localstatedir
4393 and includedir are already treated.
4394 [Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>] PR#2551
4396 *) The <Limit> parsing routine was incorrectly treating methods as
4397 case-insensitive. [Ken Coar]
4399 *) The ap_bprintf() code neglected to test if there was an error on
4400 the connection. ap_bflush() misdiagnosed a failure as a success.
4403 *) add support for #perl arg interpolation in mod_include
4406 *) API: Name changes of table_elts to ap_table_elts, is_table_empty
4407 to ap_is_table_empty and bgetflag to ap_bgetflag. [Ben Laurie]
4409 *) PORT: Add UnixWare 7 support
4410 [Vadim Kostoglodoff <vadim@olly.ru>] PR#2463
4412 *) Fix the Guess-DSO-flags-from-Perl stuff in src/Configure: "perl" was
4413 used instead of "$PERL" which contains the correctly determined Perl
4414 interpreter (important for instance on systems where "perl" and "perl5"
4415 exists, like BSDI or FreeBSD, etc).
4416 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2505
4418 *) Move the initial suEXEC-related startup message from plain
4419 fprintf()/stderr to a delayed ap_log_error()-based one to avoid problems
4420 when Apache is started from inetd (instead of standalone). Under this
4421 situation startup messages on stderr lead to problems (the line is sent
4422 to the client in front of the requested document).
4423 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#871, PR#1318
4425 *) Add a flag so ap_fnmatch() can be used for case-blind pattern matching.
4426 [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
4428 *) WIN32: Don't collapse multiple slashes in PATH_INFO.
4429 [Ben Laurie, Bill Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>] PR#2274
4431 *) WIN32 SECURITY: Eliminate trailing "."s in path components. These are
4432 ignored by the Windows filesystem, and so can be used to bypass security.
4433 [Ben Laurie, Alexei Kosut].
4435 *) We now attempt to dump core when we get SIGILL. [Jim Jagielski]
4437 *) PORT: remove broken test for MAP_FILE in http_main.c.
4438 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
4440 *) PORT: Change support/apachectl to use "kill -0 $pid" to test if the
4441 httpd is running. This should be more portable than figuring out
4442 which of three dozen different versions of "ps" are installed.
4445 *) WIN32: If we can't figure out how to execute a file in a script
4446 directory, bail out of the request with an error message. [W G Stoddard]
4448 *) WIN32 SECURITY: Eliminate directories consisting of three or more dots;
4449 these are treated by Win32 as if they are ".." but are not detected by
4450 other machinery within Apache. This is something of a kludge but
4451 eliminates a security hole. [Manoj Kasichainula, Ben Laurie]
4453 *) Move ap_escape_quotes() from src/ap to src/main/util.c; it uses
4454 pools and thus pollutes libap (until the pool stuff is moved there).
4457 *) IndexIgnore should be case-blind on Win32 (and any other case-aware
4458 but case-insensitive platforms). New #define for this added to conf.h
4459 (CASE_BLIND_FILESYSTEM). [Ken Coar] PR#2455
4461 *) Enable DSO support for OpenBSD in general, not only for 2.x, because it
4462 also works for OpenBSD 1.x. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4464 *) PORT: Fix compilation problem on ARM Linux.
4465 [Sam Kington <sam@illuminated.co.uk>] PR#2443
4467 *) Let APACI's configure script determine some configuration parameters
4468 (Group, Port, ServerAdmin, ServerName) via some intelligent tests to
4469 remove some of the classical hurdles for new users when setting up
4470 Apache. This is done per default because it is useful for the average
4471 user. Package authors can use the --without-confadjust option to disable
4472 these configuration adjustments.
4473 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4475 *) Added an EXTRA_DEPS configuration parameter which can be used
4476 to add an extra Makefile dependency for the httpd target, for instance
4477 to external third-party libraries, etc.
4478 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4480 *) Add <IfDefine>..</IfDefine> sections to the core module (with same spirit
4481 as <IfModule>..</IfModule> sections) which can be used to skip or process
4482 contained commands dependend of ``-D PARAMETER'' options on the command
4483 line. This can be used to achieve logical conditions like <IfDefine
4484 ReverseProxy> instead of physically ones (e.g. <IfModule mod_proxy.c>)
4485 and thus especially can be used for conditionally loading DSO-based
4486 modules via LoadModule, etc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4488 *) PORT: clean up a warning in mod_status for OS/2. [Brian Havard]
4490 *) Make table elements const. This may prevent obscure errors. [Ben Laurie]
4492 *) Fix parsing of FTP `SIZE' responses in proxy module: The newline was not
4493 truncated which forced following HTTP headers to be data in the HTTP
4494 reponse. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Charles Fu <ccwf@bacchus.com>]
4497 *) Portability fix for APACI shadow tree support: Swap order of awk and sed
4498 in top-level configure script to avoid sed fails on some platforms (for
4499 instance SunOS 4.1.3 and NCR SysV) because of the non-newline-termined
4500 output of Awk. [Bill Houle <bhoule@sandiegoca.ncr.com>] PR#2435
4502 *) Improve performance of directory listings (mod_autoindex) by comparing
4503 integer keys (last-modified and size) as integers rather than converting
4504 them to strings first. Also use a set of explicit byte tests rather
4505 than strcmp() to check for parent directory-ness of an entry. Oh, and
4506 make sure the parent directory (if displayed) is *always* listed first
4507 regardless of the sort key. Overall performance winnage should be good
4508 in CPU time, instruction cache, and memory usage, particularly for large
4509 directories. [Ken Coar]
4511 *) Add a tiny but useful goody to APACI's configure script: The generation
4512 of a config.status script (as GNU Autoconf does) which remembers the used
4513 configure command and hence can be used to restore the configuration by
4514 just re-running this script or for remembering the configuration between
4516 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4518 *) Add httpd -t (test) option for running configuration syntax tests only.
4519 If something is broken it complains and exits with a return code
4520 non-equal to 0. This can be used manually by the user to check the Apache
4521 configuration after editing and is also automatically used by apachectl
4522 on (graceful) restart command to make sure Apache doesn't die on restarts
4523 because of a configuration which is now broken since the last (re)start.
4524 This way `apachectl restart' can be used inside cronjobs without having
4525 to expect Apache to be falling down. Additionally the httpd -t can be run
4526 via `apachectl configtest'.
4527 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2393
4529 *) Minor display fix for "install" target of top-level Makefile:
4530 the displayed installation command was incorrect although the
4531 executed command was correct. Now they are in sync.
4532 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2402
4534 *) Correct initialization of variable `allowed_globals' in http_main.c
4535 [Justin Bradford <justin@ukans.edu>] PR#2400
4537 *) Apache would incorrectly downcase the entire Content-Type passed from
4538 CGIs. This affected server-push scripts and such which use
4539 multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary=ThisRandomString.
4540 [Dean Gaudet] PR#2394
4542 *) PORT: QNX update to properly guess 32-bit systems.
4543 [Sean Boudreau <seanb@qnx.com>] PR#2390
4545 *) Make sure the DSO emulation code for HPUX finds the proprietary shl_xxx()
4546 functions which are in libdld under HPUX 9/10.
4547 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2378
4549 *) Make sure the "install" target of the top-level Makefile doesn't break
4550 because of a return code of 1 from an "if" (for instance under braindead
4551 Ultrix the result code of an "if" construct is 1 if the "then" clause
4552 didn't match). [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4554 *) Add an additional "dummy" target to the "$(LIB)" target in generated
4555 modules/xxx/Makefile's to avoid problems with SVR4 Make under "full-DSO"
4556 situation (no libxxx.a built, only mod_xxx.so's) where LIB and OBJS are
4557 empty. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Dean Gaudet, Martin Kraemer]
4559 *) Replace two bad sprintf() calls with ap_snprintf() variants in
4560 mod_rewrite. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4562 *) Fix missing usage description for MetaFiles directive.
4563 [David MacKenzie <djm@va.pubnix.com>] PR#2384
4565 *) mod_log_config wouldn't let vhosts use log formats defined in the
4566 main server. [Christof Damian <damian@mediaconsult.com>] PR#2090
4568 *) mod_usertrack was corrupting the client hostname. As part of the
4569 fix, the cookie values were slightly extended to include the
4570 fully qualified hostname of the client.
4571 [Dean Gaudet] PR#2190, 2229, 2366
4573 *) Fix a typo in pool debugging code. [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
4575 *) mod_unique_id did not work on alpha linux (in general on any
4576 architecture that has 64-bit time_t).
4577 [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
4579 *) PORT: Make SCO 5 (and probably 3) compile again. [Ben Laurie]
4581 *) PORT: NCR MPRAS systems have the same bug with SIGHUP restart that
4582 Solaris systems experience. So define WORKAROUND_SOLARIS_BUG.
4583 [Klaus Weber <kweber@chephren.germany.ncr.com>] PR#1973
4585 *) Change "Options None" to "Options FollowSymLinks" in the
4586 <Directory /> section of the default access.conf-dist
4587 (and -win even though it doesn't matter there). This has better
4588 performance, and more intuitive semantics. [Dean Gaudet]
4590 *) PORT: Updated support for UTS 2.1.2.
4591 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#2320
4593 *) Fix symbol export list (src/support/httpd.exp) after recent
4594 API changes in the child spawning area.
4595 [Jens-Uwe Mager <jum@helios.de>]
4597 *) Workaround for configure script and old `test' commands which do not
4598 support the -x flag (for instance under platforms like Ultrix). This is
4599 solved by another helper script findprg.sh which searches for Perl and
4600 Awk like PrintPath but _via different names_.
4601 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4603 *) Remove the system() call from htpasswd.c, which eliminates a system
4604 dependancy. ["M.D.Parker" <mdpc@netcom.com>] PR#2332
4606 *) PORT: Fix compilation failures on NEXTSTEP.
4607 [Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>] PR#2293, 2316
4609 *) PORT: F_NDELAY is a typo, should have been FNDELAY. There's also
4610 O_NDELAY on various systems. [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#2313
4612 *) PORT: helpers/GuessOS updates for various versions for NCR SVR4.
4613 [juerg schreiner <j.schreiner@zh.ch>,
4614 Bill Houle <Bill.Houle@SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM>] PR#2310
4616 *) Fix recently introduced Win32 child spawning code in mod_rewrite.c which
4617 was broken because of invalid ap_pstrcat() -> strcat() transformation.
4618 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4620 *) Proxy Cache Fixes: account for directory sizes, fork off garbage collection
4621 to continue in background, use predefined types (off_t, size_t, time_t),
4622 log the current cache usage percentage at LogLevel debug
4623 [Martin Kraemer, based on discussion between Dean Gaudet & Dirk vanGulik]
4625 Changes with Apache 1.3.0
4627 *) Using a type map file as a custom error document was not possible.
4628 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#1031
4630 *) Avoid problems with braindead Awks by additionally searching for gawk
4631 and nawk in APACI's configure script.
4632 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2319
4634 *) Rename md5.h to ap_md5.h to avoid conflicts with native MD5 on
4635 some systems. [Randy Terbush]
4637 *) Change usage of perror()+fprintf(stderr,...) in mod_rewrite to
4638 more proper ap_log_error() variants.
4639 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4641 *) Make sure the argument for the --add-module option to APACI's configure
4642 script is of type [path/to/]mod_xxx.c because all calculations inside
4643 configure and src/Configure depend on this.
4644 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2307
4646 *) Changes usage of perror/fprintf to stderr to more proper ap_log_error
4647 in mod_mime, mod_log_referer, mod_log_agent, and mod_log_config.
4650 *) Various OS/2 cleanups ["Brian Havard" <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
4652 *) PORT: QNX needed a #include <sys/mman.h>; and now it uses flock
4653 serialized accept to handle multiple sockets.
4654 [Rob Saccoccio <robs@InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2295, 2296
4656 *) Have NT properly set the directory for CGI scripts
4657 (& other spawned children)
4658 [W G Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>]
4660 *) Propagate environment to CGI scripts correctly in Win32.
4661 [W G Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>] PR#2294
4663 *) Some symbol renaming:
4664 ap_spawn_child_err became ap_spawn_child
4665 ap_spawn_child_err_buff became ap_bspawn_child
4666 spawn_child was obsoleted and moved to compat.h
4669 *) Upgrade the child spawning code in mod_rewrite for the RewriteMap
4670 programs: ap_spawn_child_err() is used and the Win32 case now uses
4671 CreateProcess() instead of a low-level execl() (which caused problems in
4672 the past under Win32).
4673 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4675 *) A few cosmetics and trivial enhancements to APXS to make the
4676 generated Makefile more user friendly. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4678 *) Proxy Fix: The proxy special failure routine ap_proxyerror()
4679 was updated to use the normal apache error processing, thereby allowing
4680 proxy errors to be treated by ErrorDocument's as well. For this
4681 purpose, a new module-to-core communication variable "error-notes"
4682 was introduced; the proxy (and possibly other modules) communicates
4683 its error text using this variable. Its content is copied to a new
4684 cgi-env-var REDIRECT_ERROR_NOTES for use by ErrorDocuments.
4685 The old proxy special error routine ap_proxy_log_uerror()
4686 was replaced by regular ap_log_error() calls, many messages were made
4688 [Martin Kraemer] PR#494, 1259
4690 *) SECURITY: A possible buffer overflow in the ftp proxy was fixed.
4693 *) Transform the configure message "You need root privileges for suEXEC"
4694 from a fatal error into a (more friendly) warning because the building
4695 ("make") of Apache we can allow, of course. Root privileges are needed
4696 only for the installation step ("make install"). So make sure the
4697 user is aware of this fact but let him proceed as long as he can.
4698 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2288
4700 *) Renamed three more functions to common ap_ prefix which we missed at the
4701 Big Symbol Renaming because they're #defines and not real C functions:
4702 is_default_port(), default_port(), http_method().
4703 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4705 *) A zero-length name after a $ in an SSI document should cause
4706 just the $ to be in the expansion. This was broken during the
4707 security fixes in 1.2.5. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1921, 2249
4709 *) Call ap_destroy_sub_req() in ap_add_cgi_vars() to reclaim some
4710 memory. [Rob Saccoccio <robs@InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2252
4712 *) Fix src/support/httpd.exp (DSO export file which is currently only
4713 used under AIX) because of recent changes to function names.
4714 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4716 Changes with Apache 1.3b7
4718 *) Make sure a MIME-type can be forced via a RewriteRule even when no
4719 substitution takes place, for instance via the following rule:
4720 ``RewriteRule ^myscript$ - [T=application/x-httpd-cgi]'' This was often
4721 requested by users in the past to force a single script without a .cgi
4722 extension and outside any cgi-bin dirs to be executed as a CGI program.
4723 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2254
4725 *) A fix for protocol issues surrounding 400, 408, and
4726 414 responses. [Ed Korthof]
4728 *) Ignore MaxRequestsPerChild on WIN32. [Brian Behlendorf]
4730 *) Fix discrepancy in proxy_ftp.c which was causing failures when
4731 trying to connect to certain ftpd's, such as anonftpd.
4732 [Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>]
4734 *) Make mod_rewrite use ap_open_piped_log() for RewriteLog directive's
4735 logfile instead of fiddling around itself with child spawning stuff.
4736 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4738 *) Made RefererIgnore case-insensitive.
4740 *) Mod_log_agent, mod_log_referer now use ap_open_piped_log for piped logs.
4743 *) Replace use of spawn_child with ap_spawn_child_err_buff, to make everything
4744 "safe" under Win32. In: mod_include.c, mod_mime_magic.c
4747 *) Improve RFC1413 support. [Bob Beck <beck@bofh.ucs.ualberta.ca>]
4749 *) Fix support script `dbmmanage': It was unable to handle some sort
4750 of passwords, especially passwords with "0" chars.
4751 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2242
4753 *) WIN32: Clicking on "Last Modified" in a fancy index caused a crash. Fixed.
4754 [Ben Laurie] PR#2238
4756 *) WIN32: CGIs could cause a hang (because of a deadlock in the standard C
4757 library), so CGI handling has been changed to use Win32 native handles
4758 instead of C file descriptors.
4759 [Ben Laurie and Bill Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>] PR#1129, 1607
4761 *) The proxy cache would store an incorrect content-length in the cached
4762 file copy after a cache update. That resulted in repeated fetching
4763 of the original copy instead of using the cached copy.
4764 [Ernst Kloppenburg <kloppen@isr.uni-stuttgart.de>] PR#2094
4766 *) The Makefiles assumed that DSO files are build via $(LD). This
4767 is broken for two reasons: First we never defined at least LD=ld
4768 somewhere to make sure this works (it was silently assumed that most Make
4769 provide a built-in LD definition - ARGL!) and second using the generic LD
4770 variable is not the truth. Instead a special variable named LD_SHLIB is
4771 reasonable because although "ld" is usually the default, the command for
4772 building DSO files can be "libtool" or even "cc" on some systems.
4773 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4775 *) Replace the AddVersionPlatform directive with ServerTokens which
4776 provides for more control over the format of the Server:
4777 header line. SERVER_SUBVERSION is no longer supported;
4778 all module should use the ap_add_version_component()
4779 API function instead. [Jim Jagielski]
4781 *) Support for the NCR MP/RAS 3.0
4782 [John Withers <withers@semi.kcsc.mwr.irs.gov>]
4784 *) The LDFLAGS_SHLIB_EXPORT variable of src/Configuration[.tmpl] was
4785 not retrieved in src/Configure and thus was not useable.
4786 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4788 *) Various Makefile consistency cleanups:
4789 - make OSDIR also automatically be relative to src/ like INCDIR
4790 - SUBDIRS is now generated in src/Makefile only and not in
4791 Makefile.config because it is a local define for this location.
4792 - remove BROKEN_BPRINTF_FLAGS because is it no longer used inside
4793 any Makefile but make sure that at least the "-K inline" is kept in
4795 - update the "depend" targets in Makefile.tmpl files to use $(OSDIR), too.
4796 - updated the dependencies theirself
4797 - removed not existing SHLIB variable from "clean" targets
4798 - replaced SHLIB_OBJS/SHLIBS_OBJ consistently with OBJS_PIC because OBJS
4799 already exists and OBJS_PIC are also just plain objects and have not
4800 directly to do with "shared" things. The only difference is that they
4801 contain PIC. So OBJS_PIC is the more canonical name.
4802 - Updated the Makefile-dependency lines for OBJS_PIC
4803 - Removed the Makefile-dependency line in Configure to avoid double
4805 - replaced ugly xx-so.o/xx.so-o hack with a clean and consistent usage
4806 of xxx.lo as GNU libtool does with its PIC objects
4807 - reduce local complexity in modules Makefile.tmpl by moving the last
4808 existing target "depend" to the generation section in Configure, too.
4809 - removed the historical $(SPACER) which was used in the past together
4810 with BROKEN_BPRINTF_FLAGS to avoid zig-zags in the build process. This
4811 is no longer needed.
4812 - force the build and run of the gen_xxx programs under main/ as the
4813 first step before building the objects because it looks cleaner
4814 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4816 *) WIN32: Make Win32 work again after the /dev/null DoS fix.
4819 *) WIN32: Check for buffer overflows in ap_os_canonical_filename.
4822 *) WIN32: Don't force ISAPI headers to finish with \n.
4823 [Jim Patterson <Jim.Patterson@Cognos.COM>, Ben Laurie] PR#2060
4825 *) When opening "configuration" files (like httpd.conf, htaccess
4826 and htpasswd), Apache will not allow them to be non-/dev/null
4827 device files. This closes a DoS hole. At the same time,
4828 we use ap_pfopen to open these files to handle timeouts.
4829 [Jim Jagielski, Martin Kraemer]
4831 *) Apache will now log the reason its httpd children exit if they exit
4832 due to an unexpected signal. (It requires a new porting define,
4833 SYS_SIGLIST, which if defined should point to a list of text
4834 descriptions of the signals available. See PORTING.) [Dean Gaudet]
4836 *) WIN32: chdir() doesn't make sense in a multithreaded environment
4837 like WIN32. Before, Win32 CGI's could have had sporadic failures
4838 if a chdir call from one thread was made between another chdir call
4839 and a spawn in another thread. So, for now don't chdir for CGI scripts
4840 in WIN32. The current CGI "spec" is unclear as to whether it's
4841 necessary. Long-term fix is to either serialize the chdir/spawn combo
4842 or use WIN32 native calls to spawn a process. This temp fix was
4843 necessary to remove this as a showstopper for 1.3's release.
4846 *) Cleanup the suEXEC support in APACI and make it more safe:
4847 1. Add big fat hint in INSTALL about risks and to read the
4848 htdocs/manual/suexec.html document before using the suexec-related
4850 2. Make sure the user has at least provided one --suexec-xxxx option
4851 (specifies suEXEC parameters) in addition to --enable-suexec option.
4852 If only --enable-suexec is given APACI stops with a hint to INSTALL
4853 and htdocs/manual/suexec.html documents.
4854 3. Provide two additional --suexec-xxxx options to make the suEXEC
4855 configuration complete (especially for package maintainers who else
4856 had to patch the source tree) by providing ways to configure minimal
4857 UID/GID and safe PATH, too.
4858 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4860 *) Cleanup of the `configure --shadow' process:
4861 - make sure the configure script creates its temporary files in the
4862 shadow tree to avoid conflicts with parallel configure runs
4863 - removed unnecessary option "-r" from "rm" call for Makefiles
4864 - make sure the configure scripts creates the shadow-wrapper Makefile
4865 only when no shadow trees already exists
4866 - make sure "make distclean" removes the shadow-wrapper Makefile but only
4867 when no more shadow trees exists
4868 - overhauled mkshadow.sh script: now its more IFS-safe and approx. twice
4869 as fast (in the past it needed 70sec, now it runs just 38sec)
4870 - make sure CVS does not complain about the created files
4871 Makefille.<gnutriple> and directories src.<gnutriple>
4872 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4874 *) Added the ap_add_version_component() API routine and the
4875 AddVersionPlatform core directive. The first allows modules to
4876 declare themselves in the Server response header field value,
4877 augmenting the SERVER_SUBVERSION define in the Configuration file
4878 with run-time settings (more useful in a loadable-module environment).
4879 AddVersionPlatform inserts a comment such as "(UNIX)" or "(Win32)"
4880 into the server version string. [Ken Coar] PR#2056
4882 *) Minor stability tweaks to avoid core dumps in ap_snprintf.
4885 *) Emit the "Accept-Range" header for the default handler.
4886 [Brian Behlendorf] PR#1464
4888 *) Add a note to httpd.conf-dist that apache will on some systems fail
4889 to start when the Group # is set to a negative or large positive value.
4892 *) Make sure the module execution order is correct even when some modules
4893 are loaded under runtime (`LoadModule') via the DSO mechanism:
4894 1. The list of loaded modules is now a dynamically allocated one
4895 and not the original statically list from modules.c
4896 2. The loaded modules are now correctly setup by LoadModule for
4897 later use by the AddModule command.
4898 3. When the DSO mechanism for modules is used APACI's `install'
4899 target now enables all created `LoadModule' lines per default because
4900 this is both already expected by the user _and_ needed to avoid
4901 confusion with the next point and reduces the Makefile.tmpl complexity
4902 4. When the DSO mechanism for modules is used, APACI's `install'
4903 target now additionally makes sure the module list is reconstructed
4904 via a complete `ClearModuleList+AddModule...' entry.
4905 5. The support tool `apxs' now also makes sure an AddModule command
4906 is added in addition to the LoadModule command.
4907 6. The modules.c generation was extended to now contain two
4908 comments to make sure no one is confused by the confusing terminology
4909 of loading/linking (we use load=link+load & link=activate instead of
4910 the obvious load=activate & link=link :-( )
4911 This way now there is no longer a difference under execution time between
4912 statically and dynamically linked modules.
4913 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4915 *) Fix the generated mod_xxx.c from "apxs -g -f xxx" after the
4916 Big Symbol Renaming. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4918 *) Add a comment to mod_example.c showing the format of a FLAG command
4921 *) Standardized the time format in mod_status to match that of other
4922 places in the code (e.g. DATE_GMT). PR#1551
4924 *) Fix handling of %Z in timefmt strings for those platforms with no time
4925 zone information in their tm struct. [Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>]
4928 *) Makes mod_rewrite, mod_log_config, mod_status and the ServerSignature
4929 feature compatible with 'UseCanonicalName off' by changing
4930 r->server->server_hostname to ap_get_server_name(). And I changed some
4931 functions which use r->server->port to use ap_get_server_port() instead,
4932 because if there's no Port directive in the config r->server->port is 0.
4935 *) get/set_module_config are trivial enough to be better off inline. Worth
4936 1.5% performance boost. [Dean Gaudet]
4938 *) Fix off-by-one error in ap_proxy_date_canon() in proxy_util.c
4939 when ensuring 'x' is at least 30-chars big. [Jim Jagielski,
4942 *) [BS2000 security] BS2000 needs an extra authentication to initialize
4943 the task environment to the unprivileged User id. Otherwise CGI scripts
4944 would have a way to gain super user access. [Martin Kraemer]
4946 *) Fix debug log messages for BS2000/OSD: instead of logging the whole
4947 absolute path, only log base name of logging source as is done
4948 in unix. [Martin Kraemer]
4950 *) Ronald Tschalaer's Accept-Encoding patch - preserve the "x-" in
4951 the encoding type from the Accept-Encoding header (if it's there)
4952 and use it in the response, as that's probably what it'll be expecting.
4953 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch]
4955 *) Fix to mod_alias: translate_alias_redir is dealing with
4956 a URI, not a filename, so the check for drive letters for win32
4957 and emx is not necessary. [Dean Gaudet]
4959 *) WIN32: Allow .cmd as an executable extension.
4960 [Kari Likovuori <Kari.Likovuori@mol.fi>] PR#2146
4962 *) Make Apache header files, and some variables, C++ friendly.
4963 [Michael Anderson's <mka@redes.int.com.mx>]
4965 *) Child processes can now "signal" (by exiting with a status
4966 of APEXIT_CHILDFATAL) the parent process to abort and
4967 shutdown the server if the error in the child process was
4968 fatal enough. [Jim Jagielski]
4970 *) mod_autoindex's find_itme() was sensitive to MIME type case.
4971 [Jim Jagielski] PR#2112
4973 *) Make sure the referer_log and agent_log entries in the default httpd.conf
4974 file are also adjusted for the actual relative installation paths.
4975 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2175
4977 *) WIN32: Extensive overhaul of the way UNCs are handled. [Ben Laurie]
4979 *) WIN32: Make roots of filesystems (e.g. c:/) work. [Ben Laurie]
4982 *) PORT: Various porting changes to support AIX 3.2, 4.1.5, 4.2 and 4.3.
4983 Additionally the checks for finding the vendor DSO library were moved
4984 from mod_so.c to Configure because first it needs $PLAT etc. and second
4985 mod_so already uses an abstraction layer and does not fiddle with the
4986 vendor functions itself.
4987 [Jens-Uwe Mager, Ralf S. Engelschall]
4989 *) PORT: Some optimization defines for NetBSD
4990 [Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>] PR#2165
4992 *) PORT: Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for NetBSD.
4993 [Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2158
4995 *) Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for AIX (at least 4.2 but older
4996 AIX variants should work fine, too. Even AIX 3.x should work). This is
4997 accomplished by using the free DSO emulation code from Jens-Uwe Mager
4998 which we put into a os/unix/os-dso-aix.c file.
4999 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5001 *) PORT: Fix compiler warnings under AIX >= 4.2 where the manual pages imply
5002 that we should use NET_SIZE_T == int but the include files force size_t.
5003 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5005 *) Fix two bugs in select() handling in http_main.c.
5008 *) Suppress "error(0)" messages for ap_log_error() when the APLOG_NOERRNO
5009 is unset (as it is in situations like timeouts) where it is unclear
5010 whether errno is set or not. [Martin Kraemer]
5012 *) Just having APACI's localstatedir is too general and not enough for most
5013 of the systems. 1.3b6 again required manual APACI patches by package
5014 maintainers from RedHat and FreeBSD because for their filesystem layout a
5015 little bit more flexibility in configuring the paths is needed. Hence we
5016 provide three additional configure options (--runtimedir, --logfiledir,
5017 --proxycachedir) which now can be used for more granular adjustments if
5018 --localstatedir is not enough to fit the particular needs. As a nice
5019 side-effect this reduces some subdir fiddling in configure+Makefile.tmpl.
5020 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5022 *) Make the install root for "make install" in APACI's Makefile overrideable
5023 by package authors. This way we are even more friendly to package
5024 maintainers (especially Debian and RedHat) who build for the real prefix
5025 via "configure --prefix=/<real>" but use a different local prefix via
5026 "make root=/tmp/apache install" for rolling the package without bristling
5027 the target location on their system.
5028 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5030 *) Workaround sed limitations in APACI's configure script by now
5031 substituting in chunks of 50 commands (because for instance HPUX's vendor
5032 sed has a limit of max. 98 commands)
5033 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2136
5035 *) Adding SOCKS5 support and fixing existing SOCKS4 support.
5036 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2140
5038 *) Manually fix some symbols which were not renamed to prefix ap_ in the BIG
5039 RENAMING process because they are defined as pre-processor macros instead
5040 of real functions: bputc, bgetc, piped_log_write_fd, piped_log_read_fd
5041 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5043 *) Workaround braindead AWK's when generating ap_config.h: The split() and
5044 substr() functions cannot be nested under vendor AWK from Solaris 2.6.
5045 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2139
5047 *) Various bugfixes and cleanups for the APACI configure script:
5048 o fix IFS handling for _nested_ situation
5049 o fix Perl interpreter search: take first one found instead of last one
5050 o fix DSO consistency check
5051 o print error messages to stderr instead of stdout
5052 o add install-quiet for --shadow situation to Makefile stub
5053 o reduce complexity by avoiding sed-hacks for rule and module list loops
5054 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5056 *) Fix DEBUG_CGI situation in mod_cgi.c [David MacKenzie] PR#2114
5058 *) Make sure the input field separator (IFS) shell variable is explicitly
5059 initialized correctly before _every_ `for' loop and also restored after
5060 the loops. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5062 *) Make sure that "make install" doesn't overwrite the `mime.types' and
5063 `magic' files from an existing Apache installation. Because people often
5064 customize these for own MIME and content types.
5065 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5067 *) PORT: Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for OpenBSD 2.x
5068 [Peter Galbavy, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2109
5070 *) Fix the path to the ScoreBoardFile in the install-config target, too.
5071 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2105
5073 *) Let "configure" clear out the users parameters (provided as shell
5074 variables) to avoid side-effects in "src/Configure" when the user
5075 exported them (which is not needed, but some users do it).
5076 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2101
5078 *) Provide backward compatibility from some old src/Configuration.tmpl
5079 parameter names to the canonical Autoconf-style shell variable names. For
5080 instance CFLAGS vs. EXTRA_CFLAGS. The EXTRA_xxx variants are accepted now
5081 but a hint message is displayed. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5083 *) Make sure that "make install" doesn't overwrite the DocumentRoot and
5084 CGI scripts from an existing Apache installation.
5085 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Jim Jagielski] PR#2084
5087 *) Make `configure --compat' more "compatible" by first
5088 let the libexecdir default to EPREFIX/libexec instead of EPREFIX/bin and
5089 second by making sure the "avoid-bristling-suffix" /apache is not
5090 appended to sysconfdir, datadir, localstatedir and includedir when
5091 --compat is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Lars Eilebrecht]
5093 *) NeXT required strdup() in support/logresolve.c
5094 [Francisco Tomei <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>] PR#2082
5096 *) AIX required sys/select.h in support/ab.c
5097 [Jens Schleusener <Jens.Schleusener@dlr.de>] PR#2081
5099 *) Fix the path to the MimeMagicFile in the install-config target, too.
5100 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2089
5102 *) PORT: Added HP-UX 11 patches [Jeff Earickson <jaearick@colby.edu>]
5104 *) If you start apache with the -S command line option it will dump
5105 out the parsed vhost settings. This is useful for folks trying
5106 to figure out what is wrong with their vhost configuration.
5107 (Other dumps may be added in the future.) [Dean Gaudet]
5109 *) Add %pA, %pI, and %pp codes to ap_vformatter (and hence ap_bprintf,
5110 ap_snprintf, and ap_psprintf). See include/ap.h for docs.
5113 *) Because /usr/local/apache is the default prefix the ``configure
5114 --compat'' option no longer has to set prefix, again. This way the
5115 --compat option honors a leading --prefix option. [Lars Eilebrecht]
5117 *) PORT: Cast the first argument of dlopen() in ap_os_dso_load()
5118 to `char *' under OSF1 and FreeBSD 2.x where it is defined this way
5119 to avoid "discard const" warnings. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5121 *) If a specific handler is set for a file yet the request still
5122 ends up being handled by the default handler, log an error
5123 message before handling it. This catches things such as trying
5124 to use SSIs without mod_include enabled. [Marc Slemko]
5126 *) Fix error logging for the startup case where ap_log_error() still uses
5127 stderr as the target. Now the default log level is honored here, too.
5128 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5130 *) PORT: Make sure some AWK's don't fail in src/Configure with "string too
5131 long" errors when generating the MODULES entry for src/Makefile
5132 [Ben Hyde, Ralf S. Engelschall]
5134 *) Make sure src/Configure doesn't complain about the old directory
5135 /usr/local/etc/httpd/ when APACI is used. [Lars Eilebrecht]
5137 Changes with Apache 1.3b6
5139 *) PORT: Clean up warnings on Ultrix and HPUX. [Ben Hyde]
5141 *) Adding DSO support for the HP/UX platform by emulating the dlopen-style
5142 interface via the similar but proprietary HP/UX shl_xxx-style system
5143 calls. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5145 *) PORT: Updated UnixWare 2.0.x and 2.1.x entries for DSO support and made
5146 APACI Makefile.tmpl "install" target more robust for sensible UnixWare
5147 Make. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5149 *) ++++ THE BIG SYMBOL RENAMING ++++
5150 To avoid symbol clashes with third-party code compiled into the server,
5151 we globally applied the prefix "ap_" to the following classes of
5153 - Apache provided general functions (e.g., ap_cpystrn)
5154 - Public API functions (e.g., palloc, bgets)
5155 - Private functions which we can't make static (because of
5156 cross-object usage) but should be (e.g., new_connection)
5157 For backward source compatibility a new header file named compat.h was
5158 created which provides defines for the old symbol names and can be used
5159 by third-party module authors.
5162 *) Added dynamic shared object (DSO) support for SVR4-derivates: The
5163 problem under SVR4 is that there is no command flag to force the linker
5164 to export the global symbols of the httpd executable therewith they are
5165 available to the DSO's. Instead of problematic hacks like creating a
5166 dummy.so file (containing dummy references to all global symbols) the
5167 httpd binary is linked against, we use a clean trick stolen from Perl 5:
5168 Placing the Apache core code itself into a DSO library named libhttpd.so.
5169 This way the global symbols _HAVE_ to be exported and thus are available
5170 to any manually loaded DSO's under runtime. To reduce the impact to the
5171 user to null we go even further and create a stub httpd executable which
5172 automatically keeps track of the DSO library loading itself and thus
5173 hides the complete mechanism from the user. Although the generation of
5174 this DSO library is automatically triggered for platforms which
5175 essentially need it (mostly all SVR4-derivates) it can be also enabled
5176 manually via the Rule SHARED_CORE. This can be interesting in the future
5177 where we perhaps exploit this libhttpd.so mechanism for providing nifty
5178 features like graceful upgrades, or whatever.
5179 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Martin Kraemer]
5181 *) Build the libraries before building the rest of the tools. [Ben Hyde]
5183 *) Add "distclean" target to src/-Makefiles to provide "make distclean" also
5184 inside the src subtree (i.e. for non-APACI users). Following GNU Makefile
5185 conventions while "clean" removes only stuff created by "all" targets,
5186 "distclean" additionally removes the stuff from the configuration
5187 process. This way "make distclean" (hence the name) provides a fresh
5188 source tree as it was for distribution.
5189 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5191 *) Allow top-level (APACI) Makefile to break on build errors
5192 the same way the src/ subtree Makefiles breaks on them by replacing the
5193 initial APACI sed-subdir-display-kludge with a more clean
5194 variable-passing-solution: variable SDP can optionally hold the subdir
5195 prefix which is consistently used for displaying the subdir movement.
5196 This way even the top-level Makefile can stop correctly on errors as the
5197 user expects. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5199 *) Fixed ordering of argument checks for RewriteBase directive.
5200 [Todd Eigenschink <eigenstr@mixi.net>] PR#2045
5202 *) Change Win32 IS_MODULE to SHARED_MODULE to match Unix' method of
5203 indicating that a module is being compiled for dynamic loading. Also
5204 remove #define IS_MODULE from modules and add SHARED_MODULE define
5205 to the mak/dsp files. [Alexei Kosut]
5207 *) Reduce logging level of "normal" warning messages to APLOG_INFO,
5208 since we are now logging APLOG_WARNING by default. [Roy Fielding]
5210 *) PORT: OS/2 tweak to deal with multiple .exe targets. [Brian Havard]
5212 *) Add documentation file and src/Configuration.tmpl entry for the
5213 experimental mod_mmap_static module. Because although it is and marked as
5214 an experimental one it is distributed and thus should be documented and
5215 prepared for configuration the same way as all others modules.
5216 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5218 *) Add query (-q) option to apxs support tool to be able to manually query
5219 specific settings from apxs. This is needed for instance when you
5220 manually want to access Apache's header files and you need to assemble
5221 the -I option. Now you can do -I`apxs -q INCLUDEDIR`.
5222 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5224 *) Now src/Configure uses a fallback strategy for the shared object support
5225 on platforms where no explicit information is available: If a Perl
5226 installation exists we ask it about its shared object support and if it's
5227 the dlopen-style one we shamelessly guess the compiler and linker flags
5228 for creating shared objects from Perls knowledge. Of course, the user is
5229 warning about what we are doing and informed that he should send us
5230 the guessed flags when they work. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5232 *) Provide APACI --without-support option to be able to disable the build
5233 and installation of the support tools from the src/support/ area.
5234 Although its useful to have these installed per default we should provide
5235 a way to compile and install without them for backward-compatibility.
5236 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5238 *) Add of the new APache eXtenSion (apxs) support tool for building and
5239 installing modules into an _already installed_ Apache package through the
5240 dynamic shared object (DSO) mechanism [mod_so.c]. The trick here is that
5241 this approach actually doesn't need the Apache source tree. The
5242 (APACI-installed) server package is enough, because this now includes the
5243 Apache C header files (PREFIX/include) and the new APXS tool
5244 (SBINDIR/apxs). The intend is to provide a handy tool for third-party
5245 module authors to build their Apache modules _OUTSIDE_ the Apache source
5246 tree while avoiding them to fiddle around with the totally platform
5247 dependend way of compiling DSO files. The tool supports all ranges of
5248 modules, from trivial ones (single mod_foo.c) to complex ones (like PHP3
5249 which has a mod_php3.c plus a pre-built libmodphp3-so.a) and even can
5250 on-the-fly generate a minimalistic Makefile and sample module for the
5251 first step to provide both a quick success event and to demonstrate the
5252 APXS mechanism to module authors. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5254 *) Fix core dumps in use of CONNECT in proxy.
5255 [Rainer.Scherg@rexroth.de] PR#1326, #1573, #1942
5257 *) Modify the log directives in httpd.conf-dist files to use CustomLog
5258 so that users have examples of how CustomLog can be used.
5261 *) Add the new Apache Autoconf-style Interface (APACI) for the top-level of
5262 the Apache distribution tree. Until Apache 1.3 there was no real
5263 out-of-the-box batch-capable build and installation procedure for the
5264 complete Apache package. This is now provided by a top-level "configure"
5265 script and a corresponding top-level "Makefile.tmpl" file. The goal is
5266 to provide a GNU Autoconf-style frontend which is capable to both drive
5267 the old src/Configure stuff in batch and additionally installs the
5268 package with a GNU-conforming directory layout. Any options from the old
5269 configuration scheme are available plus a lot of new options for flexibly
5270 customizing Apache. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5272 *) The floating point ap_snprintf code wasn't threadsafe.
5273 Had to remove the HAVE_CVT macro in order to do threadsafe
5274 calling of the ?cvt() floating point routines. [Dean Gaudet]
5276 *) PORT: Add the SCO_SV port. [Jim Jagielski] PR#1962
5278 *) PORT: IRIX needs the -n32 flag iff using the 'cc' compiler
5279 [Jim Jagielski] PR#1901
5281 *) BUG: Configure was using TCC and CC inconsistently. Make sure
5282 Configure knows which CC we are using. [Jim Jagielski]
5284 *) "Options +Includes" wasn't correctly merged if "+IncludesNoExec"
5285 was defined in a parent directory. [Lars Eilebrecht]
5287 *) API: ap_snprintf() code mutated into ap_vformatter(), which is
5288 a generic printf-style routine that can call arbitrary output
5289 routines. Use this to replace http_bprintf.c. Add new routines
5290 psprintf(), pvsprintf() which allocate the exact amount of memory
5291 required for a string from a pool. Use psprintf() to clean up
5292 various bits of code which used ap_snprintf()/pstrdup().
5295 *) PORT: HAVE_SNPRINTF doesn't do anything any longer. This is because
5296 ap_snprintf() has different semantics and formatting codes than
5297 snprintf(). [Dean Gaudet]
5299 *) SIGXCPU and SIGXFSZ are now reset to SIG_DFL at boot-time. This
5300 is necessary on at least Solaris where the /etc/rc?.d scripts
5301 are run with these signals ignored, and "SIG_IGN" settings are
5302 maintained across exec().
5303 [Rein Tollevik <reint@sys.sol.no>] PR#2009
5305 *) Fix the check for symbolic links in ``RewriteCond ... -l'': stat() was
5306 used instead of lstat() and thus this flag didn't work as expected.
5307 [Rein Tollevik <reint@sys.sol.no>] PR#2010
5309 *) Fix the proxy pass-through feature of mod_rewrite for the case of
5310 existing QUERY_STRING now that mod_proxy was recently changed because of
5311 the new URL parsing stuff. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5313 *) A few changes to scoreboard definitions which helps gcc generate
5314 better code. [Dean Gaudet]
5316 *) ANSI C doesn't guarantee that "int foo : 2" in a structure will
5317 be a signed bitfield. So mark a few bitfields as signed to
5318 ensure correct code. [Dean Gaudet]
5320 *) The default for HostnameLookups was changed to Off, but there
5321 was a problem and it wasn't taking effect. [Dean Gaudet]
5323 *) PORT: Clean up undefined signals on some platforms (SCO, BeOS).
5326 *) After a SIGHUP the listening sockets in the parent weren't
5327 properly marked for closure on fork().
5328 [Jürgen Keil <jk@tools.de>] PR#2000
5330 *) Allow %2F in two situations: 1) it is in the query part of the URI,
5331 therefore not exposed to %2F -> '/' translations and 2) the request
5332 is a proxy request, so we're not dealing with a local resource anyway.
5333 Without this, the proxy would fail to work for any URL's with
5334 %2f in them (occurs quite often in
5335 http://.../cgi-bin/...?http%3A%2F%2F... references) [Martin Kraemer]
5337 *) Protect against FD_SETSIZE mismatches. [Dean Gaudet]
5339 *) Make the shared object compilation command more portable by avoiding
5340 the direct combination of `-c' & `-o' which is not honored by some
5341 compilers like UnixWare's cc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5343 *) WIN32: the proxy was creating filenames missing the last four
5344 characters. While this normally doesn't stop anything from
5345 working, it can result in extra collisions.
5346 [Tim Costello <tjcostel@socs.uts.edu.au>] PR#1890
5348 *) Now mod_proxy uses the response string (in addition to the response status
5349 code) from the already used FTP SIZE command to setup the Content-Length
5350 header if available. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1183
5352 *) Reanimated the (still undocumented) proxy receive buffer size directive:
5353 Renamed from ReceiveBufferSize to ProxyReceiveBufferSize because the old
5354 name was really too generic, added documentation for this directive to
5355 the mod_proxy.html and corrected the hyperlink to it in the
5356 new_features_1.3.html document. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1348
5358 *) Fix a bug in the src/helpers/fp2rp script and make it a little bit
5359 faster [Martin Kraemer]
5361 *) Make Configure die when you give it an unknown command switch.
5364 *) Add five new and fresh manpages for the support programs: dbmmanage.1,
5365 suexec.8, htdigest.1, rotatelogs.8 and logresolve.8. Now all up-to-date
5366 and per default compiled support programs have manual pages - just to
5367 document our stuff a little bit more and to be able to do really
5368 Unix-like installations ;-) [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5370 *) Major cleanups to the Configure script to make it and its generated
5371 Makefiles again readable and maintainable: add SRCDIR option, removed
5372 INCLUDES_DEPTH[0-2] kludge, cleanup of TARGET option, cleanup of
5373 generated sections, consequently added Makefile headers with inheritance
5374 information, added subdir movement messages for easier following where
5375 the build process currently stays (more verbose then standard Make, less
5376 verbose than GNU make), same style to comments in the Configure script,
5377 added Apache license header, fixed a few bugs, etc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5379 *) Add the new ApacheBench program "ab" to src/support/: This is derived
5380 from the ZeusBench benchmarking program and can be used to determine the
5381 response performance of an Apache installation. This version is
5382 officially licensed with Zeus Technology, Ltd. See the license agreement
5383 statements in <199803171224.NAA24547@en1.engelschall.com> in apache-core.
5384 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5386 *) API: Various core functions that are definately not part of the API
5387 have been made static, and a few have been marked API_EXPORT. Still
5388 more have been marked CORE_EXPORT and are not intended for general
5389 use by modules. [Doug MacEachern, Dean Gaudet]
5391 *) mod_proxy was not clearing the Proxy-Connection header from
5392 requests; now it does. This did not violate any spec, however
5393 causes poor interactions when you are talking to remote proxies.
5394 [Marc Slemko] PR#1741
5396 *) Various cleanups to the command line interface and manual pages.
5397 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5399 *) cfg_getline() was not properly handling lines that did not end
5400 with a line termination character. [Marc Slemko] PR#1869, 1909
5402 *) Performance tweak to mod_log_config. [Dmitry Khrustalev]
5404 *) Clean up some undocumented behavior of mod_setenvif related to
5405 "merging" two SetEnvIf directives when they match the same header
5406 and regex. Document that mod_setenvif will perform comparisons in
5407 the order they appear in the config file. Optimize mod_setenvif by
5408 doing more work at config time rather than at runtime.
5411 *) src/include/ap_config.h now wraps it's #define's with #ifndef/#endif's
5412 to allow for modules to overrule them and to reduce redefinition
5413 warnings [Jim Jagielski]
5415 *) [PORT] For A/UX change the OS-#define for -DAUX to -DAUX3.
5418 *) Making the hard-coded cross-module function call mime_find_ct() (from
5419 mod_proxy to mod_mime) obsolete by making sure the API hook for MIME type
5420 checking is really called even for proxy requests except for URLs with
5421 HTTP schemes (because there we can optimize by not running the type
5422 checking hooks due to the fact that the proxy gets the MIME Content-type
5423 from the remote host later). This change cleans up mod_mime by removing
5424 the ugly export kludge, makes the one-liner file mod_mime.h obsolete, and
5425 especially unbundles mod_proxy and mod_mime. This way they both now can
5426 be compiled as shared objects and are no longer tied together.
5427 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5429 *) util.c cleanup and speedup. [Dean Gaudet]
5431 *) API: Clarification, pstrndup() will always copy n bytes of the source
5432 and NUL terminate at the (n+1)st byte. [Dean Gaudet]
5434 *) Mark module command_rec and handler_rec structures const so that they
5435 end up in the read-only data section (and are friendlier to systems
5436 that don't do optimistic memory allocation on fork()). [Dean Gaudet]
5438 *) Add check to the "Port" directive to make sure the specified
5439 port is in the appropriate range. [Ben Hyde]
5441 *) Performance improvements to invoke_handler().
5442 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su>]
5444 *) Added support for building shared objects even for library-style modules
5445 (which are built from more than one object file). This now provides the
5446 ability to build mod_proxy as a shared object module. Additionally
5447 modules like mod_example are now also supported for shared object
5448 building because the generated Makefiles now no longer assume there is at
5449 least one statically linked module. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5451 *) API: Clarify usage of content_type, handler, content_encoding,
5452 content_language and content_languages fields in request_rec. They
5453 must always be lowercased; and the strings pointed to shouldn't
5454 be modified (you must copy them to modify them). Fix a few bugs
5455 related to this. [Dean Gaudet]
5457 *) API: Clarification: except for RAW_ARGS, all command handlers can
5458 treat the char * parameters as permanent, and modifiable. There
5459 is no need to pstrdup() them. Clean up some needless pstrdup().
5462 *) Now mod_so keeps track of which module shared objects with which names
5463 are loaded and thus avoids multiple loading and unloading and irritating
5464 error_log messages. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5466 *) Prior to the existence of mod_setenv it was necessary to tweak the TZ
5467 environment variable in the apache core. But that tweaking interferes
5468 with mod_setenv. So don't tweak if the user has specified an explicit
5469 TZ variable. [Jay Soffian <jay@cimedia.com>] PR#1888
5471 *) rputs() did not calculate r->sent_bodyct properly.
5472 [Siegmund Stirnweiss <siegst@kat.ina.de>] PR#1900
5474 *) The CGI spec says that REMOTE_HOST should be set to the remote hosts's
5475 name, or left unset if this value is unavailable. Apache was setting
5476 it to the IP address when unavailable.
5477 [Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net>] PR#1925
5479 *) Various improvements to the configuration and build support for compiling
5480 modules as shared objects. Especially Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.1, IRIX and
5481 OSF1 support with GCC and vendor compilers was added. This way shared
5482 object support is now provided out-of-the-box for FreeBSD, Linux,
5483 Solaris, SunOS, IRIX and OSF1. In short: On all major platforms!
5484 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5486 *) Minor cleanup in http_main -- split QNX and OS2 specific "mmap"
5487 scoreboard code into separate #defines -- USE_POSIX_SCOREBOARD
5488 and USE_OS2_SCOREBOARD. [Dean Gaudet]
5490 *) Fix one more special locking problem for RewriteMap programs in
5491 mod_rewrite: According to the documentation of flock(), "Locks are on
5492 files, not file descriptors. That is, file descriptors duplicated
5493 through dup(2) or fork(2) do not result in multiple instances of a lock,
5494 but rather multiple references to a single lock. If a process holding a
5495 lock on a file forks and the child explicitly unlocks the file, the
5496 parent will lose its lock.". To overcome this we have to make sure the
5497 RewriteLock file is opened _AFTER_ the childs were spawned which is now
5498 the case by opening it in the child_init instead of the module_init API
5499 hook. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1029
5501 *) Change to Location and LocationMatch semantics. LocationMatch no
5502 longer lets a single slash match multiple adjacent slashes in the
5503 URL. This change is for consistency with RewriteRule and
5504 AliasMatch. Multiple slashes have meaning in URLs that they do
5505 not have in (some) filesystems. Location on the other hand can
5506 be considered a shorthand for a more complicated regex, and it
5507 does match multiple slashes with a single slash -- which is
5508 also consistent with the Alias directive.
5509 [Dean Gaudet] related PR#1440
5511 *) Fix bug with mod_mime_magic causing certain files, including files
5512 of length 0, to result in no response from the server.
5515 *) The Configure script now generates src/include/ap_config.h which
5516 contains the set of defines used when Apache is compiled on a platform.
5517 This file can then be included by external modules before including
5518 any Apache header files in case they are being built separately from
5519 Apache. Along with this change, a couple of minor changes were
5520 made to make Apache's #defines coexist peacefully with any autoconf
5521 defines an external module might have. [Rasmus Lerdorf]
5523 *) Fix mod_rewrite for the ugly API case where <VirtualHost> sections exist
5524 but without any RewriteXXXXX directives. Here mod_rewrite is given no
5525 chance by the API to initialize its per-server configuration and thus
5526 receives the wrong one from the main server. This is now avoided by
5527 remembering the server together with the config structure while
5528 configuring and later assuming there is no config when we see a
5529 difference between the remembered server and the one calling us.
5530 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1790
5532 *) Fixed the DBM RewriteMap support for mod_rewrite: First the support now
5533 is automatically disabled under configure time when the dbm_xxx functions
5534 are not available. Second, two heavy source code errors in the DBM
5535 support code were fixed. This makes DBM RewriteMap's usable again after
5536 a long time of brokenness. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1696
5538 *) Now all configuration files support Unix-style line-continuation via
5539 the trailing backslash ("\") character. This enables us to write down
5540 complex or just very long directives in a more readable way. The
5541 backslash character has to be really the last character before the
5542 newline and it has not been prefixed by another (escaping) backslash.
5543 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5545 *) When using ProxyPass the ?querystring was not passed correctly.
5546 [Joel Truher <truher@wired.com>]
5548 *) To deal with modules being compiled and [dynamically] linked
5549 at a different time from the core, the SERVER_VERSION and
5550 SERVER_BUILT symbols have been abstracted through the new
5551 API routines apapi_get_server_version() and apapi_get_server_built().
5554 *) WIN32: Preserve trailing slash in canonical path (and hence
5555 in PATH_INFO). [Paul Sutton, Ben Laurie]
5557 *) PORT: USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT has proven unreliable
5558 depending on the rev of Solaris and what mixture of modules
5559 are in use. So it has been disabled, and Solaris is back to
5560 using USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT. Users may experiment with
5561 USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT at their own risk, it may speed
5562 up static content only servers. Or it may fail unpredictably.
5563 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1779, 1854, 1904
5565 *) mod_test_util_uri.c created which tests the logic in util_uri.c.
5568 *) API: Rewrite of absoluteURI handling, and in particular how
5569 absoluteURIs match vhosts. Unless a request is a proxy request, a
5570 "http://host" url is treated as if a similar "Host:" header had been
5571 supplied. This change was made to support future HTTP/1.x protocols
5572 which may require clients to send absoluteURIs for all requests.
5574 In order to achieve this change subtle changes were made to the API. In a
5575 request_rec, r->hostlen has been removed. r->unparsed_uri now exists so
5576 that the unmodified uri can be retrieved easily. r->proxyreq is not set
5577 by the core, modules must set it during the post_read_request or
5578 translate_names phase.
5580 Plus changes to the virtualhost test suite for absoluteURI testing.
5582 This fixes several bugs with the proxy proxying requests to vhosts
5583 managed by the same httpd.
5586 *) API: Cleanup of code in http_vhost.c, and remove vhost matching
5587 code from mod_rewrite. The vhost matching is now performed by a
5588 globally available function matches_request_vhost(). [Dean Gaudet]
5590 *) Reduce memory usage, and speed up ServerAlias support. As a
5591 side-effect users can list multiple ServerAlias directives
5592 and they're all considered.
5593 [Chia-liang Kao <clkao@cirx.org>] PR#1531
5595 *) The "poly" directive in image maps did not include the borders of the
5596 polygon, whereas the "rect" directive does. Fix this inconsistency.
5597 [Konstantin Morshnev <moko@design.ru>] PR#1771
5599 *) Make \\ behave as expected. [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch]
5601 *) Add the `%a' construct to LogFormat and CustomLog to log the client IP
5602 address. [Todd Eigenschink <eigenstr@mixi.net>] PR#1885
5604 *) API: A new source module main/util_uri.c; It contains a routine
5605 parse_uri_components() and friends which breaks a URI into its component
5606 parts. These parts are stored in a uri_components structure called
5607 parsed_uri within each request_rec, and are available to all modules.
5608 Additionally, an unparse routine is supplied which re-assembles the URI
5609 components back to an URI, optionally hiding the username:password@ part
5610 from ftp proxy requests, and other useful routines. Within the structure,
5611 you find on a ready-for-use basis:
5612 scheme; /* scheme ("http"/"ftp"/...) */
5613 hostinfo; /* combined [user[:password]@]host[:port] */
5614 user; /* user name, as in http://user:passwd@host:port/ */
5615 password; /* password, as in http://user:passwd@host:port/ */
5616 hostname; /* hostname from URI (or from Host: header) */
5617 port_str; /* port string (integer representation is in "port") */
5618 path; /* the request path (or "/" if only scheme://host was given) */
5619 query; /* Everything after a '?' in the path, if present */
5620 fragment; /* Trailing "#fragment" string, if present */
5621 This is meant to serve as the platform for *BIG* savings in
5622 code complexity for the proxy module (and maybe the vhost logic).
5625 *) Make all possible meta-construct expansions ($N, %N, %{NAME} and
5626 ${map:key}) available for all location where a string is created in
5627 mod_rewrite rewriting rulesets: 1st arg of RewriteCond, 2nd arg of
5628 RewriteRule and for the [E=NAME:STRING] flag of RewriteRule. This way the
5629 possible expansions are consequently usable at all string creation
5630 locations. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5632 *) Fix initialization of RewriteLogLevel (default now is 0 as documented
5633 and not 1) and the per-virtual-server merging of directives. Now all
5634 directives except `RewriteEngine' and `RewriteOption' are either
5635 completely overridden (default) or completely inherited (when
5636 `RewriteOptions inherit') is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1325
5638 *) Fix `RewriteMap' program lookup in situations where such maps are
5639 defined but disabled (`RewriteEngine off') in per-server context.
5640 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1431
5642 *) Fix bug introduced in 1.3b4-dev, config with no Port setting would cause
5643 server to bind to port 0 rather than 80. [Dean Gaudet]
5645 *) Fix long-standing problem with RewriteMap _programs_ under Unix derivates
5646 (like SunOS and FreeBSD) which don't accept the locking of pipes
5647 directly. A new directive RewriteLock is introduced which can be used to
5648 setup a separate locking file which then is used for synchronization.
5649 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1029
5651 *) WIN32: The server root is obtained from the registry key
5652 HKLM\SOFTWARE\Apache Group\Apache\<version> (version is currently
5653 "1.3 beta"), unless overridden by the -d command line flag. The
5654 value is stored by running "apache -i -d serverroot". [Paul Sutton]
5656 *) Merged os/win32/mod_dll.c into modules/standard/mod_so.c to support
5657 dynamic loading on Win32 and Unix via the same module. [Paul Sutton]
5659 *) Now mod_rewrite no longer makes problematic assumptions on the characters
5660 a username can contain when trying to expand it via /etc/passwd.
5661 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5663 *) The mod_setenvif BrowserMatch backwards compatibility command did not
5664 work properly with spaces in the regex. [Ronald Tschalaer] PR#1825
5666 *) Add new RewriteMap types: First, `rnd' which is equivalent to the `txt'
5667 type but with a special post-processing for the looked-up value: It
5668 parses it into alternatives according to `|' chars and then only one
5669 particular alternative is chosen randomly (this is an essential
5670 functionality needed for balancing between backend-servers when using
5671 Apache as a Reverse Proxy. The looked up value here is a list of
5672 servers). Second, `int' with the built-in maps named `tolower' and
5673 `toupper' which can be used to map URL parts to a fixed case (this is an
5674 essential feature to fix the case of server names when doing mass
5675 virtual-hosting with the help of mod_rewrite instead of using
5676 <VirtualHost> sections). [Ralf S. Engelschall, parts based on code from
5677 Jay Soffian <jay@cimedia.com>] PR#1631
5679 *) Add a new directive to mod_proxy similar to ProxyPass: `ProxyPassReverse'.
5680 This directive lets Apache adjust the URL in Location-headers on HTTP
5681 redirect responses sent by the remote server. This way the virtually
5682 mapped area is no longer left on redirects and thus by-passed which is
5683 especially essential when running Apache as a reverse proxy.
5684 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5686 *) Hide Proxy-Authorization from CGI/SSI/etc just like Authorization is
5687 hidden. [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
5689 *) Apache will, when started with the -X (single process) debugging flag,
5690 honor the SIGINT or SIGQUIT signals again now. This capability got lost
5691 a while ago during OS/2 signal handling changes.
5693 *) [PORT] Work around the fact that NeXT runs on more than the
5694 m68k chips in mod_status [Scott Anguish and Timothy Luoma
5697 *) [PORT] Recognize FreeBSD versions so we can use the OS regex as well
5698 as handling unsigned-chars for FreeBSD v3 and v2 [Andrey Chernov
5699 <ache@nagual.pp.ru> and Jim] PR#1450
5701 *) Use SA_RESETHAND or SA_ONESHOT when installing the coredump handlers.
5702 In particular the handlers could trigger themselves into an infinite
5703 loop if RLimitMem was used with a small amount of memory -- too small
5704 for the signal stack frame to be set up. [Dean Gaudet]
5706 *) Fix problems with absoluteURIs introduced during 1.3b4. [Dean Gaudet,
5707 Alvaro Martinez Echevarria <alvaro@lander.es>]
5709 *) Fix multiple UserDir problem introduced during 1.3b4-dev.
5710 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1850
5712 *) ap_cpystrn() had an off-by-1 error.
5713 [Charles Fu <ccwf@klab.caltech.edu>] PR#1847
5715 *) API: As Ken suggested the check_cmd_context() function and related
5716 defines are non-static now so modules can use 'em. [Martin Kraemer]
5718 *) mod_info would occasionally produce an unpaired <tt> in its
5719 output. Fixed. [Martin Kraemer]
5721 *) By default AIX binds a process (and it's children) to a single
5722 processor. httpd children now unbind themselves from that cpu
5723 and re-bind to one selected at random via bindprocessor()
5726 *) Linux 2.0 and above implement RLIMIT_AS, RLIMIT_DATA has almost no
5727 effect. Work around it by using RLIMIT_AS for the RLimitMEM
5728 directive. [Enrik Berkhan <enrik@inka.de>] PR#1816
5730 *) mod_mime_magic error message should indicate the filename when
5731 reads fail. ["M.D.Parker" <mdpc@netcom.com>] PR#1827
5733 *) Previously Apache would permit </Files> to end <FilesMatch> (and
5734 similary for Location and Directory), now this is diagnosed as an
5735 error. Improve error messages for mismatched sections (<Files>,
5736 <FilesMatch>, <Directory>, <DirectoryMatch>, ...).
5737 [Dean Gaudet, Martin Kraemer]
5739 *) <Files> is not permitted within <Location> (because of the
5740 semantic ordering). [Dean Gaudet] PR#379
5742 *) <Files> with wildcards was broken by the change in wildcard
5743 semantics (* does not match /). To fix this, <Files> now
5744 apply only to the basename of the request filename. This
5745 fixes some other inconsistencies in <Files> semantics
5746 (such as <Files a*b> not working). [Dean Gaudet] PR#1817
5748 *) Removed bogus "dist.tar" target from Makefile.tmpl and make sure
5749 backup files are removed on "clean" target [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5751 *) PORT: Add -lm to LIBS for HPUX. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1639
5753 *) Various errors from select() and accept() in child_main() would
5754 result in an infinite loop. It seems these two tickle kernel
5755 or library bugs occasionally, and result in log spammage and
5756 a generally bad scene. Now the child exits immediately,
5757 which seems to be a good workaround.
5758 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1747, 1107, 588, 1787, 987, 588
5760 *) Cleaned up some race conditions in unix child_main during
5761 initialization. [Dean Gaudet]
5763 *) SECURITY: "UserDir /abspath" without a * in the path would allow
5764 remote users to access "/~.." and bypass access restrictions
5765 (but note /~../.. was handled properly).
5766 [Lauri Jesmin <jesmin@ut.ee>] PR#1701
5768 *) API: os_is_path_absolute() now takes a const char * instead of a char *.
5771 Changes with Apache 1.3b5
5773 *) Source file dependencies in Makefile.tmpl files throughout the
5774 source tree were updated to accurately reflect reality.
5777 *) Preserve the content encoding given by the AddEncoding directive
5778 when the client doesn't otherwise specify an encoding.
5779 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>]
5781 *) Sort out problems with canonical filename handling happening too late.
5782 [Dean Gaudet, Ben Laurie]
5784 Changes with Apache 1.3b4
5786 *) The module structure was modified to include a *dynamic_load_handle
5787 in the STANDARD_MODULE_STUFF portion, and the MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER
5788 has been bumped accordingly. [Paul Sutton]
5790 *) All BrowserMatch directives mentioned in
5791 htdocs/manual/known_client_problems.html are in the default
5792 configuration files. [Lars Eilebrecht]
5794 *) MiNT port update. [Jan Paul Schmidt]
5796 *) HTTP/1.1 requires x-gzip and gzip encodings be treated
5797 equivalent, similarly for x-compress and compress. Apache
5798 now ignores a leading x- when comparing encodings. It also
5799 preserves the encoding the client requests (for example if
5800 it requests x-gzip, then Apache will respond with x-gzip
5801 in the Content-Encoding header).
5802 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>] PR#1772
5804 *) Fix a memory leak on keep-alive connections. [Igor Tatarinov]
5806 *) Added mod_so module to support dynamic loading of modules on Unix
5807 (like mod_dld for Win32). This replaces mod_dld.c. Use SharedModule
5808 instead of AddModule in Configuration to build shared modules
5809 [Sameer Parekh, Paul Sutton]
5811 *) Minor cleanups to r->finfo handling in some modules.
5814 *) Abstract read()/write() to ap_read()/ap_write().
5815 Makes it easier to add other types of IO code such as SFIO.
5818 *) API: Generalize default_port manipulations to make support of
5819 different protocols easier. [Ben Laurie, Randy Terbush]
5821 *) There are many cases where users do not want Apache to form
5822 self-referential urls using the "canonical" ServerName and Port.
5823 The new UseCanonicalName directive (default on), if set to off
5824 will cause Apache to use the client-supplied hostname and port.
5825 API: Part of this change required a change to the construct_url()
5826 prototype; and the addition of get_server_name() and
5828 [Michael Douglass <mikedoug@texas.net>, Dean Gaudet]
5829 PR#315, 459, 485, 1433
5831 *) Yet another rearrangement of the source tree.. now all the common
5832 header files are in the src/include directory. The -Imain -Iap
5833 references in Makefiles have been changed to the simpler -Iinclude
5834 instead. In addition to simplifying the build a little bit, this
5835 also makes it clear when a module is referencing something in a
5836 other than kosher manner (e.g., the proxy including mod_mime.h).
5837 Module-private header files (the proxy, mod_mime, the regex library,
5838 and mod_rewrite) have not been moved to src/include; nor have
5839 the OS-abstraction files. [Ken Coar]
5841 *) Fix a bug where r->hostname didn't have the :port stripped
5842 from it. [Dean Gaudet]
5844 *) Tweaked the headers_out table size, and the subprocess_env
5845 table size guess in rename_original_environment(). Added
5846 MAKE_TABLE_PROFILE which can help discover make_table()
5847 calls that use too small an initial guess, see alloc.c.
5850 *) Options and AllowOverride weren't properly merging in the main
5851 server setting inside vhosts (only an issue when you have no
5852 <Directory> or other section containing an Options that affects
5853 a request). Options +foo or -foo in the main_server wouldn't
5854 affect the main_server's lookup defaults. [Dean Gaudet]
5856 *) Variable 'cwd' was being used pointlessly before being set.
5859 *) r->allowed handling cleaned up in the standard modules.
5862 *) Some case-sensitivity issues cleaned up to be consistent with
5863 RFC2068. [Dean Gaudet]
5865 *) SIGURG doesn't exist everywhere.
5866 [Mark Andrew Heinrich <heinrich@tinderbox.Stanford.EDU>]
5868 *) mod_unique_id was erroneously generating a second unique id when
5869 an internal redirect occured. Such redirects occur, for example,
5870 when processing a DirectoryIndex match. [Dean Gaudet]
5872 *) API: table_add, table_merge, and table_set include implicit pstrdup()
5873 of the key and value. But in many cases this is not required
5874 because the key/value is a constant, or the value has been built
5875 by pstrcat() or other similar means. New routines table_addn,
5876 table_mergen, and table_setn have been added to the API, these
5877 routines do not pstrdup() their arguments. The core code and
5878 standard modules were changed to take advantage of these routines.
5879 The resulting server is up to 20% faster in some situations.
5881 Note that it is easy to get code subtly wrong if you pass a key/value
5882 which is in a pool other than the pool of the table. The only
5883 safe thing to do is to pass key/values which are in the pool of
5884 the table, or in one of the ancestors of the pool of the table.
5885 i.e. if the table is part of a subrequest, a value from the main
5886 request's pool is OK since the subrequest pool is a sub_pool of the
5887 main request's pool (and therefore has a lifespan at most as long as
5888 the main pool). There is debugging code which can detect improper
5889 usage, enabled by defining POOL_DEBUG. See alloc.c for more details.
5890 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su>, Dean Gaudet]
5892 *) More mod_mime_magic cleanup: fewer syscalls; should handle "files"
5893 which don't exist on disk more gracefully; handles vhosts properly.
5894 Update documentation to reflect the code -- if there's no
5895 MimeMagicFile directive then the module is not enabled.
5898 *) PORT: Some older *nix dialects cannot automatically start scripts
5899 which begin with a #! interpreter line (the shell starts the scripts
5900 appropriately on these platforms). Apache now supports starting of
5901 "hashbang-scripts" when the NEED_HASHBANG_EMUL define is set.
5902 [Martin Kraemer, with code from peter@zeus.dialix.oz.au (Peter Wemm)
5905 *) API: "typedef array_header table" removed from alloc.h, folks should
5906 have been writing to use table as if it were an opaque type, but even
5907 some standard modules got this wrong. By changing the definition
5908 to "typedef struct table table" module authors will receive compile
5909 time warnings that they're doing the wrong thing. This change
5910 facilitates future changes with more sophisticated table
5911 structures. Specifically, module authors should be using table_elts()
5912 to get access to an array_header * for the table. [Dean Gaudet]
5914 *) API: Renamed new_connection() to avoid namespace collision with LDAP
5915 library routines. [Ken Coar, Rasmus Lerdorf]
5917 *) WIN32: mod_speling is now available on the Win32 platform.
5920 *) For clarity the following compile time definition was changed:
5922 SAFE_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT -> SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT
5924 Also, for example, HAVE_MMAP would mean to use mmap() scoreboards
5925 and not be a general notice that the OS has mmap(). Now the
5926 HAVE_MMAP/SHMGET #defines strictly are informational that the
5927 OS has that method of shared memory; the type to use for
5928 the scoreboard is a seperate #define (USE_MMAP_SCOREBOARD
5929 and USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD). This allows outside modules to
5930 determine if shared memory is available and allows Apache
5931 to determine the best method to use for the scoreboard.
5934 *) PORT: UnixWare 2.1.2 SMP appears to require USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT,
5935 as do various earlier versions. It should be safe on all versions.
5936 Unixware 1.x appears to have the same SIGHUP bug as solaris does with
5937 the slack code. A few other cleanups for Unixware.
5938 [Tom Hughes <thh@cyberscience.com>] PR#1082, PR#1282, PR#1499, PR#1553
5940 *) PORT: A/UX can handle single-listen accepts without mutex
5941 locking, so we add SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT. [Jim Jagielski]
5943 *) When die() happens we need to eat any request body if one exists.
5944 Otherwise we can't continue with a keepalive session. This shows up
5945 as a POST problem with MSIE 4.0, typically against pages which are
5946 authenticated. [Roy Fielding] PR#1399
5948 *) If you define SECURITY_HOLE_PASS_AUTHORIZATION then the Authorization
5949 header will be passed to CGIs. This is generally a security hole, so
5950 it's not a default. [Marc Slemko] PR#549
5952 *) Fix Y2K problem with date printing in suexec log.
5953 [Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>] PR#1343
5955 *) WIN32 deserves a pid file. [Ben Hyde]
5957 *) suexec errors now include the errno/description. [Marc Slemko] PR#1543
5959 *) PORT: OSF/1 now uses USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT to solve PR#467.
5960 The choice of flock vs. fcntl was made based on timings which showed that
5961 even on non-NFS, non-exported filesystems fcntl() was an order of
5962 magnitude slower. It also uses SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT so
5963 that single socket users will see no difference. [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
5965 *) "File does not exist" error message was erroneously including the
5966 errno. [Marc Slemko]
5968 *) Improve the warning message generated when a client drops the
5969 connection (hits stop button, etc.) during a send. [Roy Fielding]
5971 *) Defining GPROF will disable profiling in the parent and enable it
5972 in the children. If you're profiling under Linux this is pretty much
5973 necessary because SIGPROF is lost across a fork(). [Dean Gaudet]
5975 *) htdigest and htpasswd needed slight tweaks to work on OS/2 and WIN32.
5978 *) The NeXT cc (which is gcc hacked up) doesn't appear to support some
5979 gcc functionality. Work around it.
5980 [Keith Severson <keith@sssd.navy.mil>] PR#1613
5982 *) Some linkers complain when .o files contain no functions.
5983 [Keith Severson <keith@sssd.navy.mil>] PR#1614
5985 *) Some const declarations in mod_imap.c that were added for debugging
5986 purposes caused some compilers heartburn without adding any
5987 significant value, so they've been removed. [Ken Coar]
5989 *) The src/main/*.h header files have had #ifndef wrappers added to
5990 insulate them against duplicate calls if they get included through
5991 multiple paths (e.g., in .c files as well as other .h files).
5994 *) The libap routines now have a header file for their prototypes,
5995 src/ap/ap.h, to ease their use in non-httpd applications. [Ken Coar]
5997 *) mod_autoindex with a plaintext header file would emit the <PRE>
5998 start-tag before the HTML preamble, rather than after the preamble
5999 but before the header file contents. [John Van Essen <jve@gamers.org>]
6002 *) SECURITY: Fix a possible buffer overflow in logresolve. This is
6003 only an issue on systems without a MAXDNAME define or where
6004 the resolver returns domain names longer than MAXDNAME. [Marc Slemko]
6006 *) SECURITY: Eliminate possible buffer overflow in cfg_getline, which
6007 is used to read various types of files such as htaccess and
6008 htpasswd files. [Marc Slemko]
6010 *) SECURITY: Ensure that the buffer returned by ht_time is always
6011 properly null terminated. [Marc Slemko]
6013 *) The "Connection" header could be sent back with multiple "close"
6014 tokens. Not an error, but a waste.
6015 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1683
6017 *) mod_rewrite's RewriteLog should behave like mod_log_config, it
6018 shouldn't force hostname lookups. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1684
6020 *) "basic" auth needs a case-insensitive comparison.
6021 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1666
6023 *) For maximum portability, the environment passed to CGIs should
6024 only contain variables whose names match the regex
6025 /[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]*/. This is now enforced by stamping
6026 underscores over any character outside the regex. This
6027 affects HTTP_* variables, in a way that should be backward
6028 compatible for all the standard headers; and affects variables
6029 set with SetEnv/BrowserMatch and similar directives.
6032 *) mod_speling returned incorrect HREF's when an ambigous match
6033 was found. Noticed by <robinton@amtrash.comlink.de> (Soeren Ziehe)
6034 [robinton@amtrash.comlink.de (Soeren Ziehe), Martin Kraemer]
6036 *) PORT: Apache now compiles & runs on an EBCDIC mainframe
6037 (the Siemens BS2000/OSD family) in the POSIX subsystem
6040 *) PORT: Fix problem killing children when terminating. Allow ^C
6041 to shut down the server. [Brian Havard]
6043 *) pstrdup() is implicit in calls to table_* functions, so there's
6044 no need to do it before calling. Clean up a few cases.
6045 [Marc Slemko, Dean Gaudet]
6047 *) new -C and -c command line arguments
6049 -C "directive" : process directive before reading config files
6050 -c "directive" : process directive after reading config files
6052 httpd -C "PerlModule Apache::httpd_conf"
6053 [Doug MacEachern, Martin Kraemer]
6055 *) WIN32: Fix the execution of CGIs that are scripts and called
6056 with path info that does not have an '=' in.
6057 (eg. http://server/cgi-bin/printenv?foobar)
6058 [Marc Slemko] PR#1591
6060 *) WIN32: Fix a call to os_canonical_filename so it doesn't try to
6061 mess with fake filenames. This fixes proxy caching on
6064 *) SECURITY: General mod_include cleanup, including fixing several
6065 possible buffer overflows and a possible infinite loop.
6066 [Dean Gaudet, Marc Slemko]
6068 *) SECURITY: Numerous changes to mod_imap in a general cleanup
6069 including fixing a possible buffer overflow. [Dean Gaudet]
6071 *) WIN32: overhaul of multithreading code. Shutdowns are now graceful
6072 (connections are not dropped). Code can handle graceful restarts
6073 (but there is as yet no way to signal this to Apache). Various
6074 other cleanups. [Paul Sutton]
6076 *) The aplog_error changes specific to 1.3 introduced a buffer
6077 overrun in the (now legacy) log_printf function. Fixed.
6080 *) mod_digest didn't properly deal with proxy authentication. It
6081 also lacked a case-insensitive comparision of the "Digest"
6082 token. [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>] PR#1599
6084 *) A few cleanups in mod_status for efficiency. [Dean Gaudet]
6086 *) A few cleanups in mod_info to make it thread-safe, and remove an
6087 off-by-5 bug that could hammer \0 on the stack. [Dean Gaudet]
6089 *) no2slash() was O(n^2) in the length of the input. Make it O(n).
6092 *) API: migration from strncpy() to our "enhanced" version called
6093 ap_cpystrn() for performance and functionality reasons.
6094 Located in libap.a. [Jim Jagielski]
6096 *) table_set() and table_unset() did not deal correctly with
6097 multiple occurrences of the same key.
6098 [Stephen Scheck <sscheck@infonex.net>, Ben Laurie] PR#1604
6100 *) The AuthName must now be enclosed in quotes if it is to contain
6101 spaces. [Ken Coar] PR#1195
6103 *) API: new function: ap_escape_quotes(). [Ken Coar] PR#1195
6105 *) WIN32: Work around optimiser bug that killed ISAPI in release
6106 versions. [Ben Laurie] PR#1533
6108 *) PORT: Update the MPE port [Mark Bixby, Jim Jagielski]
6110 *) Interim (slow) fix for p->sub_pool critical sections in
6111 alloc.c (affects win32 only). [Ben Hyde]
6113 *) non-WIN32 was missing destroy_mutex definition. [Ben Hyde]
6115 *) send_fd_length() did not calculate total_bytes_sent properly.
6116 [Ben Reser <breser@regnow.com>] PR#1366
6118 *) The bputc() macro was not properly integrated with the chunking
6119 code; in many cases modules using bputc() could cause completely
6120 bogus chunked output. (Typically this will show up as problems
6121 with Internet Explorer 4.0 reading a page, but other browsers
6122 having no problem.) [Dean Gaudet]
6124 *) Create LARGE_WRITE_THRESHOLD define which determines how many
6125 bytes have to be supplied to bwrite() before it will consider
6126 doing a writev() to assemble multiple buffers in one system
6127 call. This is critical for modules such as mod_include,
6128 mod_autoindex, mod_php3 which all use bputc()/bputs() of smaller
6129 strings in some cases. The result would be extra effort
6130 setting up writev(), and in many cases extra effort building
6131 chunks. The default is 31, it can be overriden at compile
6134 *) Move the gid switching code into the child so that log files
6135 and pid files are opened with the root gid.
6136 [Gregory A Lundberg <lundberg@vr.net>]
6138 *) WIN32: Check for binaries by looking for the executable header
6139 instead of counting control characters.
6140 [Jim Patterson <Jim.Patterson@Cognos.COM>] PR#1340
6142 *) ap_snprintf() moved from main/util_snprintf.c to ap/ap_snprintf.c
6143 so the functionality is available to applications other than the
6144 server itself (like the src/support tools). [Ken Coar]
6146 *) ap_slack() moved out of main/util.c into ap/ap_slack.c as part of
6147 the libap consolidation work. [Ken Coar]
6149 *) ap_snprintf() with a len of 0 behaved like sprintf(). This is not
6150 useful, and isn't what the standards require. Now it returns 0
6151 and writes nothing. [Dean Gaudet]
6153 *) When an error occurs in fcntl() locking suggest the user look up
6154 the docs for LockFile. [Dean Gaudet]
6156 *) Eliminate some dead code from writev_it_all().
6157 [Igor Tatarinov <tatarino@prairie.NoDak.edu>]
6159 *) mod_autoindex had an fread() without checking the result code.
6160 It also wouldn't handle "AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/text.gif text/*"
6161 (note the missing closing paren) properly. [Dean Gaudet]
6163 *) It appears the "257th byte" bug (see
6164 htdocs/manual/misc/known_client_problems.html#257th-byte) can happen
6165 at the 256th byte as well. Fixed. [Dean Gaudet]
6167 *) PORT: Fix mod_mime_magic under OS/2, no support for block devices.
6170 *) Fix memory corruption caused by allocating auth usernames in the
6171 wrong pool. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1500
6173 *) Fix an off-by-1, and an unterminated string error in
6174 mod_mime_magic. [Dean Gaudet]
6176 *) Fix a potential SEGV problem in mod_negotiation when dealing
6177 with type-maps. [Dean Gaudet]
6179 *) Better glibc support under Linux. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1542
6181 *) "RedirectMatch gone /" would cause a SIGSEGV. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1319
6183 *) WIN32: avoid overflows during file canonicalisations.
6184 [malcolm@mgdev.demon.co.uk] PR#1378
6186 *) WIN32: set_file_slot() didn't detect absolute paths. [Ben Laurie]
6189 *) WIN32: mod_status display header didn't match fields. [Ben Laurie]
6191 *) The pthread_mutex_* functions return an error code, and don't
6192 set errno. [Igor Tatarinov <tatarino@prairie.NoDak.edu>]
6194 *) WIN32: Allow spaces to prefix the interpreter in #! lines.
6195 [Ben Laurie] PR#1101
6197 *) WIN32: Cure file leak in CGIs. [Peter Tillemans <pti@net4all.be>] PR#1523
6199 *) proxy_ftp: the directory listings generated by the proxy ftp module
6200 now have a title in which the path components are clickable and allow
6201 quick navigation to the clicked-on directory on the currently listed
6202 ftp server. This also fixes a bug where the ".." directory links would
6203 sometimes refer to the wrong directory. [Martin Kraemer]
6205 *) WIN32: Allocate the correct amount of memory for the scoreboard.
6208 *) WIN32: Only lowercase the part of the path that is real. [Ben Laurie]
6211 *) Fix problems with timeouts in inetd mode and -X mode. [Dean Gaudet]
6213 *) Fix the spurious "(0)unknown error: mmap_handler: mmap failed"
6214 error messages. [Ben Hyde]
6216 Changes with Apache 1.3b3
6218 *) WIN32: Work around brain-damaged spawn calls that can't deal
6219 with spaces and slashes. [Ben Laurie]
6221 *) WIN32: Fix the code so CGIs can use socket calls on Windows.
6222 The problem was that certain undocumented environment variables
6223 needed for sockets to work under Win32 were not being passed.
6224 [Frank Faubert <frank@sane.com>]
6226 *) Add a "-V" command line flag to the httpd binary. This
6227 flag shows some of the defines that Apache was compiled with.
6228 It is useful for debugging purposes. [Martin Kraemer]
6230 *) Start separating the ap_*() routines into their own library, so they
6231 can be used by items in src/support among other things.
6232 [Ken Coar] PR#512, 905, 1252, 1308
6234 *) Give a more informative error when no AuthType is set.
6237 *) Remove strtoul() use from mod_proxy because it isn't available
6238 on all platforms. [Marc Slemko] PR#1214
6240 *) WIN32: Some Win32 systems terminated all responses after 16 kB.
6241 This turns out to be a bug in Winsock - select() doesn't always
6242 return the correct status. [Ben Laurie]
6244 *) Directives owned by http_core can now use the new check_cmd_context()
6245 routine to ensure that they're not being used within a container
6246 (e.g., <Directory>) where they're invalid. [Martin Kraemer]
6248 *) PORT: Recent changes made it necessary to add explicit prototype
6249 for fgetc() and fgets() on SunOS 4.x. [Martin Kraemer, Ben Hyde]
6251 *) It was necessary to distinguish between resources which are
6252 allocated in the parent, for cleanup in the parent, and resources
6253 which are allocated in each child, for cleanup in each child.
6254 A new pool was created which is passed to the module child_init
6255 and child_exit functions; modules are free to register per-child
6256 cleanups there. This fixes a bug with reliable piped logs.
6259 *) mod_autoindex wasn't displaying the ReadmeName file at the bottom
6260 unless it was also doing FancyIndexes, but it displayed the
6261 HeaderName file at the top under all circumstances. It now shows
6262 the ReadmeName file for simple indices, too, as it should.
6265 *) http_core was mmap()ing even in cases where it wasn't going to
6266 read the file. [Ben Hyde <bhyde@gensym.com>]
6268 *) Complete rewrite ;-) of mod_rewrite's URL rewriting engine:
6269 Now the rewriting engine (the heart of mod_rewrite) is organized more
6270 straight-forward, first time well documented and reduced to the really
6271 essential parts. All redundant cases were stripped off and processing now
6272 is the same for both per-server and per-directory context with only a
6273 minimum difference (the prefix stripping in per-dir context). As a
6274 side-effect some subtle restrictions and two recently discovered problems
6275 are gone: Wrong escaping of QUERY_STRING on redirects in per-directory
6276 context and restrictions on the substitution URL on redirects.
6277 Additionally some minor source cleanups were done.
6278 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6280 *) Lars Eilebrecht wrote a whole new set of Apache Vhost Internals
6281 documentation, examples, explanations and caveats. They live in a new
6282 subdirectory htdocs/manual/vhost/. [Lars Eilebrecht <sfx@unix-ag.org>]
6284 *) If ap_slack fails to allocate above the low slack line it's a good
6285 indication that further problems will occur; it's a better indication
6286 than many external libraries give us when we actually run out of
6287 descriptors. So report it to the user once per restart.
6288 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1181
6290 *) Change mod_include and mod_autoindex to use Y2K-safe date formats
6291 by default. [Ken Coar]
6293 *) Add a "SuppressColumnSorting" option to the IndexOptions list,
6294 which will keep the column heading from being links for sorting
6295 the display. [Ken Coar, suggested by Brian Tiemann <btman@pacific.net>]
6298 *) PORT: Update the LynxOS port. [Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>]
6300 *) Fix logic error when issuing a mmap() failed message
6301 with a non-zero MMAP_THRESHOLD.
6302 [David Chambers <davidc@flosun.salk.edu>] PR#1294
6304 *) Preserve handler value on ProxyPass'ed requests by not
6305 calling find_types on a proxy'd request; fixes problems
6306 where some ProxyPass'ed URLs weren't actually passed
6308 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#870
6310 *) Fix a byte ordering problem in mod_access which prevented
6311 the old-style syntax (i.e. "a.b.c." to match a class C)
6312 from working properly. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1248, 1328, 1384
6314 *) Fix problem with USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT not working
6315 properly. Each child needs to open the lockfile instead
6316 of using the passed file-descriptor from the parent.
6317 [Jim Jagielski] PR#1056
6319 *) Fix the error logging in mod_cgi; the recent error log changes
6320 introduced a bug that prevented it from working correctly.
6321 [M.D.Parker] PR#1352
6323 *) Default to USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT on HPUX to properly
6324 handle multiple Listen directives. [Marc Slemko] PR#872
6326 *) Inherit a bugfix to fnmatch.c from FreeBSD sources.
6327 ["[KOI8-R] áÎÄÒÅÊ þÅÒÎÏ×" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>] PR#1311
6329 *) When a configuration parse complained about a bad directive,
6330 the logger would use whatever (unrelated) value was in errno.
6331 errno is now forced to EINVAL first in this case. [Ken Coar]
6333 *) A sed command in the Configure script pushed the edge of POSIXness,
6334 breaking on some systems. [Bhaba R.Misra <system@vt.edu>] PR#1368
6336 *) Solaris >= 2.5 was totally broken due to a mess up using pthread
6337 mutexes. [Roy Fielding, Dean Gaudet]
6339 *) OS/2 Port updated; it should be possible to build OS/2 from the same
6340 sources as Unix now. [Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
6342 *) Fix a year formatting bug in mod_usertrack.
6343 [Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>] PR#1342
6345 *) A mild SIGTERM/SIGALRM race condition was eliminated.
6346 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1211
6348 *) Warn user that default path has changed if /usr/local/etc/httpd
6349 is found on the system. [Lars Eilebrecht]
6351 *) Various mod_mime_magic bug fixes and cleanups: Uncompression
6352 should work, it should work on WIN32, and a few resource
6353 leaks and abort conditions are fixed.
6354 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1205
6356 *) PORT: On AIX 1.x files can't be named '@', fix the proxy cache
6357 to use '%' instead of '@' in its encodings.
6358 [David Schuler <schuld@btv.ibm.com>] PR#1317
6360 *) Improve the warning message generated when the "server is busy".
6361 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1293
6363 *) PORT: All ports which don't otherwise define DEF_WANTHSREGEX will
6364 get Spencer regex by default. This is to avoid having to
6365 discover bugs in operating system libraries. [Dean Gaudet]
6367 *) PORT: "Fix" PR#467 by generating warnings on systems which we have
6368 not been able to get working USE_*_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT settings for.
6369 Document this a bit more in src/PORTING. [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
6371 *) Ensure that one copy of config warnings makes it to the
6372 error_log. [Dean Gaudet]
6374 *) Invent new structure and associated methods to handle config file
6375 reading. Add "custom" hook to use config file cfg_getline() on
6376 something which is not a FILE* [Martin Kraemer]
6378 *) Make single-exe Windows install. [Ben Laurie and Eric Esselink]
6380 *) WIN32: Make CGI work under Win95. [Ben Laurie and Paul Sutton]
6382 *) WIN32: Make index.html and friends work under Win95. [Ben Laurie]
6384 *) PORT: Solaris 2.4 needs Spencer regex, the system regex is broken.
6385 [John Line <jml4@cam.ac.uk>] PR#1321
6387 *) Default pathname has been changed everywhere to /usr/local/apache
6388 [Sameer <sameer@c2.net>]
6390 *) PORT: AIX now uses USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT.
6391 [David Bronder <David-Bronder@uiowa.edu>] PR#849
6393 *) PORT: i386 AIX does not have memmove.
6394 [David Schuler <schuld@btv.ibm.com>] PR#1267
6396 *) PORT: HPUX now defaults to using Spencer regex.
6397 [Philippe Vanhaesendonck <pvanhaes@be.oracle.com>,
6398 Omar Del Rio <al112263@academ01.lag.itesm.mx>] PR#482, 1246
6400 *) PORT: Some versions of NetBSD don't automatically define
6401 __NetBSD__. Workaround by defining NETBSD.
6402 [Chris Craft <ccraft@cncc.cc.co.us>] PR#977
6404 *) PORT: UnixWare 2.x requires -lgen for syslog.
6405 [Hans Snijder <hs@meganet.nl>] PR#1249
6407 *) PORT: ULTRIX appears to not have syslog.
6408 [Lars Eilebrecht <Lars.Eilebrecht@unix-ag.org>]
6410 *) PORT: Basic Gemini port (treat it like unixware212).
6411 ["Pavel Yakovlev (Paul McHacker)" <hac@tomcat.olly.ru>]
6413 *) PORT: All SVR4 systems now use NET_SIZE_T = size_t, and
6414 use USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD.
6417 *) Various improvements in detecting config file errors (missing closing
6418 directives for <Directory>, <Files> etc. blocks, prohibiting global
6419 server settings in <VirtualHost> blocks, flagging unhandled multiple
6420 arguments to <Directory>, <Files> etc.)
6423 *) Add support to suexec wrapper program for mod_unique_id's UNIQUE_ID
6424 variable to provide this one to suexec'd CGIs, too.
6425 [M.D.Parker <mdpc@netcom.com>] PR#1284
6427 *) New support tool: src/support/split-logfile, a sample Perl script which
6428 splits up a combined access log into separate files based on the
6429 name of the virtual host (listed first in the log records by "%v").
6432 Changes with Apache 1.3b2 (there is no 1.3b1)
6434 *) TestCompile was not passing $LIBS [Dean Gaudet]
6436 *) Makefile.tmpl was not using $CFLAGS in the link phase.
6439 *) Add debugging code to alloc.c. Defining ALLOC_DEBUG provides a
6440 rudimentary memory debugger which can be used on live servers with
6441 low impact -- it sets all allocated and freed memory bytes to 0xa5.
6442 Defining ALLOC_USE_MALLOC will cause the alloc code to use malloc()
6443 and free() for each object. This is far more expensive and should
6444 only be used for testing with tools such as Electric Fence and
6445 Purify. See main/alloc.c for more details. [Dean Gaudet]
6447 *) Configure uses a sh trap and didn't set its exitcode properly.
6448 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1159
6450 *) Yet another vhost revamp. Add the NameVirtualHost directive which
6451 explicitly lists the ip:port pairs that are to be used for name-vhosts.
6452 From a given ip:port, regardless what the Host: header is, you can
6453 only reach the vhosts defined on that ip:port. The precedence of
6454 vhosts was reversed to match other precedences in the config --
6455 the earlier vhosts override the later vhosts. All vhost matching was
6456 moved into http_vhost.[ch]. [Dean Gaudet]
6458 *) ap_inline can be used to force inlining. GNUC __attribute__() can
6459 be used for whatever reason is appropriate (i.e. format() warnings
6460 for printf style functions). Both are enabled only with
6461 gcc >= 2.7.x (so that we have fewer support issues with older
6462 versions). [Dean Gaudet]
6464 *) Fix support for Proxy Authentication (we were testing the response
6465 status too early). [Marc Slemko]
6467 *) CoreDumpDirectory directive directs where the core file is
6468 written when a SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, SIGABORT or SIGABRT are
6469 received. [Marc Slemko, Dean Gaudet]
6471 *) PORT: Support for Atari MINT.
6472 [Jan Paul Schmidt <Jan.P.Schmidt@mni.fh-giessen.de>]
6474 *) When booting, apache will now detach itself from stdin, stdout,
6475 and stderr. stderr will not be detached until after the config
6476 files have been read so you will be able to see initial error
6477 messages. After that all errors are logged in the error_log.
6478 This makes it more convenient to start apache via rsh, ssh,
6479 or crontabs. [Dean Gaudet] PR#523
6481 *) mod_proxy was sending HTTP/1.1 responses to ftp requests by mistake.
6482 Also removed the auto-generated link to www.apache.org that was the
6483 source of so many misdirected bug reports. [Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
6485 *) send_fb would not detect aborted connections in some situations.
6488 *) mod_include would use uninitialized data when parsing certain
6489 expressions involving && and ||. [Brian Slesinsky] PR#1139
6491 *) mod_imap should only handle GET methods. [Jay Bloodworth]
6493 *) suexec.c wouldn't build without -DLOG_EXEC. [Jason A. Dour]
6495 *) mod_autoindex improperly counted &escapes; as more than one
6496 character in the description. It also improperly truncated
6497 descriptions that were exactly the maximum length.
6500 *) RedirectMatch was not properly escaping the result (PR#1155). Also
6501 "RedirectMatch /advertiser/(.*) $1" is now permitted.
6504 *) mod_include now uses symbolic names to check for request success
6505 and return HTTP errors, and correctly handles all types of
6506 redirections (previously it only did temporary redirect correctly).
6507 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding]
6509 *) mod_userdir was modifying r->finfo in cases where it wasn't setting
6510 r->filename. Since those two are meant to be in sync with each other
6511 this is a bug. ["Paul B. Henson" <henson@intranet.csupomona.edu>]
6513 *) PORT: Support Unisys SVR4, whose uname returns mostly useless data.
6514 ["Kaufman, Steven E" <Steven.Kaufman@unisys.com>]
6516 *) Inetd mode (which is buggy) uses timeouts without having setup the
6517 jmpbuffer. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1064
6519 *) Work around problem under Linux where a child will start looping
6520 reporting a select error over and over.
6521 [Rick Franchuk <rickf@transpect.net>] PR#1107, 987, 588
6523 *) Fixed error in proxy_util.c when looping through multiple host IP
6524 addresses. [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#974
6526 *) If BUFFERED_LOGS is defined then mod_log_config will do atomic
6527 buffered writes -- that is, it will buffer up to PIPE_BUF (i.e. 4k)
6528 bytes before writing, but it will never split a log entry across a
6529 buffer boundary. [Dean Gaudet]
6531 *) API: the short_score record has been split into two pieces, one which
6532 the parent writes on, and one which the child writes on. As part of
6533 this change the get_scoreboard_info() function was removed, and
6534 scoreboard_image was exported. This change fixes a race condition
6535 in file based scoreboard systems, and speeds up changes involving the
6536 scoreboard in earlier 1.3 development. [Dean Gaudet]
6538 *) API: New register_other_child() API (see http_main.h) which allows
6539 modules to register children with the parent for maintenance. It
6540 is disabled by defining NO_OTHER_CHILD. [Dean Gaudet]
6542 *) API: New piped_log API (see http_log.h) which implements piped logs,
6543 and will use register_other_child to implement reliable piped logs
6544 when it is available. The reliable piped logs part can be disabled
6545 by defining NO_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS. At the moment reliable piped
6546 logs is only available on Unix. [Dean Gaudet]
6548 *) API: set_last_modified() broken into set_last_modified(), set_etag(), and
6549 meets_conditions(). This allows conditional HTTP selection to be
6550 handled separately from the storing of the header fields, and provides
6551 the ability for CGIs to set their own ETags for conditional checking.
6552 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding] PR#895
6554 *) Changes to mod_log_config to allow naming of format strings.
6555 Format nicknames are defined with "LogFormat fmt nickname", and can
6556 be used with "LogFormat nickname" and "CustomLog logtarget nickname".
6559 *) New module, "mod_speling", which can help find files even when
6560 the URL is slightly misspelled. [Martin Kraemer, Alexei Kosut]
6562 *) API: New function child_terminate() triggers the child process to
6563 exit, while allowing the child finish what it needs to for the
6564 current request first.
6565 [Doug MacEachern, Alexei Kosut]
6567 *) Windows now defaults to using full status reports with mod_status.
6568 [Alexei Kosut] PR #1094
6570 *) *Really* disable all mod_rewrite operations if the engine is off.
6571 Some things (like RewriteMaps) were checked/performed even if they
6572 weren't supposed to be. [Ken Coar] PR #991
6574 *) Implement a new timer scheme which eliminates the need to call alarm() all
6575 the time. Instead a counter in the scoreboard for each child is used to
6576 show when the child has made forward progress. The parent samples this
6577 counter every scoreboard maintenance cycle, and issues SIGALRM if no
6578 progress has been made in the timeout period. This reduces the static
6579 request best-case syscall count to 22 from 29. This scheme is only
6580 used by systems with memory-based scoreboards. [Dean Gaudet]
6582 *) The proxy now properly handles CONNECT requests which are sent
6583 to proxy servers when using ProxyRemote. [Marc Slemko] PR#1024
6585 *) A script called apachectl has been added to the support
6586 directory. This script allows you to do things such as
6587 "apachectl start" and "apachectl restart" from the command
6590 *) Modules and core routines are now put into libraries, which
6591 simplifies the link line tremendously (among other advantages).
6594 *) Some of the MD5 names defined in Apache have been renamed to have
6595 an `ap_' prefix to avoid conflicts with routines supplied by
6596 external libraries. [Ken Coar]
6598 *) Removal of mod_auth_msql.c from the distribution. There are many
6599 other options for databases today. Rather than offer one option,
6600 offer none at this time. mod_auth_msql and other SQL database
6601 authentication modules can be found at the Apache Module Registry.
6602 http://modules.apache.org/ It would be nice to offer a generic
6603 mod_auth_sql option in the near future.
6605 *) PORT: BeOS support added [Alexei Kosut]
6607 *) Configure no longer accepts the -make option, since it creates
6608 Makefile on the fly based on Makefile.tmpl and Configuration.
6610 *) Apache now gracefully shuts down when it receives a SIGTERM, instead
6611 of forcibly killing off all its processes and exiting without
6612 cleaning up. [Alexei Kosut]
6614 *) API: A new field in the request_rec, r->mtime, has been added to
6615 avoid gratuitous parsing of date strings. It is intended to hold
6616 the last-modified date of the resource (if applicable). An
6617 update_mtime() routine has also been added to advance it if
6618 appropriate. [Roy Fielding, Ken Coar]
6620 *) SECURITY: If a htaccess file can not be read due to bad permissions,
6621 deny access to the directory with a HTTP_FORBIDDEN. The previous
6622 behavior was to ignore the htaccess file if it could not be read.
6623 This change may make some setups with unreadable htaccess files
6624 stop working. [Marc Slemko] PR#817
6626 *) Add aplog_error() providing a mechanism to define levels of
6627 verbosity to the server error logging. This addition also provides
6628 the ability to log errors using syslogd. Error logging is configurable
6629 on a per-server basis using the LogLevel directive. Conversion
6630 of log_*() in progress. [Randy Terbush]
6632 *) Further enhance aplog_error() to not log filename, line number, and
6633 errno information when it isn't applicable. [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
6635 *) WIN32: Canonicalise filenames under Win32. Short filenames are
6636 converted to long ones. Backslashes are converted to forward
6637 slashes. Case is converted to lower. Parts of URLs that do not
6638 correspond to files are left completely alone. [Ben Laurie]
6640 *) PORT: 2 new OSs added to the list of ports:
6641 Encore's UMAX V: Arieh Markel <amarkel@encore.com>
6642 Acorn RISCiX: Stephen Borrill <sborrill@xemplar.co.uk>
6644 *) Add the server version (SERVER_VERSION macro) to the "server
6645 configured and running" entry in the error_log. Also build an
6646 object file at link-time that contains the current time
6647 (SERVER_BUILT global const char[]), and include that in the
6650 *) Set r->headers_out when sending responses from the proxy.
6651 This fixes things such as the logging of headers sent from
6652 the proxy. [Marc Slemko] PR#659
6654 *) support/httpd_monitor is no longer distributed because the
6655 scoreboard should not be file based if at all possible. Use
6656 mod_status to see current server snapshot.
6658 *) (set_file_slot): New function, allowing auth directives to be
6659 independent of the server root, so the server documents can be
6660 moved to a different directory or machine more easily.
6661 [David J. MacKenzie]
6663 *) If no TransferLog is given explicitly, decline
6664 to log. This supports coexistence with other logging modules,
6665 such as the custom one that UUNET uses. [David J. MacKenzie]
6667 *) Check for titles in server-parsed HTML files.
6668 Ignore leading newlines and returns in titles. The old behavior
6669 of replacing a newline after <title> with a space causes the
6670 title to be misaligned in the listing. [David J. MacKenzie]
6672 *) Change mod_cern_meta to be configurable on a per-directory basis.
6673 [David J. MacKenzie]
6675 *) Add 'Include' directive to allow inclusion of configuration
6676 files within configuration files. [Randy Terbush]
6678 *) Proxy errors on connect() are logged to the error_log (nothing
6679 new); now they include the IP address and port that failed
6680 (*that's* new). [Ken Coar, Marc Slemko] PR#352
6682 *) Various architectures now define USE_MMAP_FILES which causes
6683 the server to use mmap() for static files. There are two
6684 compile-time tunables MMAP_THRESHOLD (minimum number of bytes
6685 required to use mmap(), default is 0), and MMAP_SEGMENT_SIZE (maximum
6686 number of bytes written in one cycle from a single mmap()d object,
6687 default 32768). [Dean Gaudet]
6689 *) API: Added post_read_request API phase which is run right after reading
6690 the request from a client, or right after an internal redirect. It is
6691 useful for modules setting environment variables that depend only on
6692 the headers/contents of the request. It does not run during subrequests
6693 because subrequests inherit pretty much everything from the main
6694 request. [Dean Gaudet]
6696 *) Added mod_unique_id which is used to generate a unique identifier for
6697 each hit, available in the environment variable UNIQUE_ID.
6700 *) init_modules is now called after the error logs have been opened. This
6701 allows modules to emit information messages into the error logs.
6704 *) Fixed proxy-pass-through feature of mod_rewrite; Added error logging
6705 information for case where proxy module is not available. [Marc Slemko]
6707 *) PORT: Apache has need for mutexes to serialize its children around
6708 accept. In prior versions either fcntl file locking or flock file
6709 locking were used. The method is chosen by the definition of
6710 USE_xxx_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT in conf.h. xxx is FCNTL for fcntl(),
6711 and FLOCK for flock(). New options have been added:
6712 - SYSVSEM to use System V style semaphores
6713 - PTHREAD to use POSIX threads (appears to work on Solaris only)
6714 - USLOCK to use IRIX uslock
6715 Based on timing various techniques, the following changes were made
6717 - Linux 2.x uses flock instead of fcntl
6718 - Solaris 2.x uses pthreads
6719 - IRIX uses SysV semaphores -- however multiprocessor IRIX boxes
6720 work far faster if you -DUSE_USLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT
6721 [Dean Gaudet, Pierre-Yves Kerembellec <Pierre-Yves.Kerembellec@vtcom.fr>,
6722 Martijn Koster <m.koster@pobox.com>]
6724 *) PORT: The semantics of accept/select make it very desirable to use
6725 mutexes to serialize accept when multiple Listens are in use. But
6726 in the case where only a single socket is open it is sometimes
6727 redundant to serialize accept(). Not all unixes do a good job with
6728 potentially dozens of children blocked on accept() on the same
6729 socket. It's now possible to define SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT and
6730 the server will avoid serialization when listening on only one socket,
6731 and use serialization when listening on multiple sockets.
6732 [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
6734 *) Configure changes: TestLib replaced by TestCompile, which has
6735 some additional capability (such as doing a sanity check of
6736 the compiler and flags selected); the version of Solaris is now
6737 available via the #define value of SOLARIS2; IRIX n32bit libs
6738 now supported and selectable by new Configuration Rule: IRIXN32;
6739 We no longer default to -O2 optimization. [Jim Jagielski]
6741 *) Updated Configure: Configuration now uses AddModule to specify
6742 module source or binary file location, relative to src directory.
6743 Modules can be dropped into modules/extra, or in their own
6744 directory, and modules can come with a Makefile or Configure can
6745 create one. Modules can add compiler or library information to
6746 generated Makefiles. [Paul Sutton]
6748 *) Source core re-organisation: distributed modules are now in
6749 modules/standard. All other source code is in main. OS-specific
6750 code is in os/{unix,emx,win32} directories. [Paul Sutton]
6752 *) mod_browser has been removed, since it's replaced by mod_setenvif.
6755 *) Fix another long-standing bug in sub_req_lookup_file where it would
6756 happily skip past access checks on subdirectories looked up with
6757 relative paths. (It's used by mod_dir, mod_negotiation,
6758 and mod_include.) [Dean Gaudet]
6760 *) directory_walk optimization to reduce an O(N*M) loop to O(N+M) where
6761 N is the number of <Directory> sections, and M is the number of
6762 components in the filename of an object.
6764 To achieve this optimization the following config changes were made:
6765 - Wildcards (* and ?, not the regex forms) in <Directory>s,
6766 <Files>s, and <Location>s now treat a slash as a special
6767 character. For example "/home/*/public_html" previously would
6768 match "/home/a/andrew/public_html", now it only matches things
6769 like "/home/bob/public_html". This mimics /bin/sh behaviour.
6770 - It's possible now to use [] wildcarding in <Directory>, <Files>
6772 - Regex <Directory>s are applied after all non-regex <Directory>s.
6776 *) Fix a bug introduced in 1.3a1 directory_walk regarding .htaccess files
6777 and corrupted paths. [Dean Gaudet]
6779 *) Enhanced and cleaned up the URL rewriting engine of mod_rewrite:
6780 First the grouped parts of RewriteRule pattern matches (parenthesis!) can
6781 be accessed now via backreferences $1..$9 in RewriteConds test-against
6782 strings in addition to RewriteRules subst string. Second the grouped
6783 parts of RewriteCond pattern matches (parenthesis!) can be accessed now
6784 via backreferences %1..%9 both in following RewriteCond test-against
6785 strings and RewriteRules subst string. This provides maximum flexibility
6786 through the use of backreferences.
6787 Additionally the rewriting engine was cleaned up by putting common
6788 code to the new expand_backrefs_inbuffer() function.
6789 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6791 *) When merging the main server's <Directory> and <Location> sections into
6792 a vhost, put the main server's first and the vhost's second. Otherwise
6793 the vhost can't override the main server. [Dean Gaudet] PR#717
6795 *) The <Directory> code would merge and re-merge the same section after
6796 a match was found, possibly causing problems with some modules.
6799 *) ip-based vhosts are stored and queried using a hashing function, which
6800 has been shown to improve performance on servers with many ip-vhosts.
6801 Some other changes had to be made to accommodate this:
6802 - the * address for vhosts now behaves like _default_
6803 - the matching process now is:
6804 - match an ip-vhost directly via hash (possibly matches main
6806 - if that fails, just pretend it matched the main server
6807 - if so far only the main server has been matched, perform
6808 name-based lookups (ServerName, ServerAlias, ServerPath)
6809 *only on name-based vhosts*
6810 - if they fail, look for _default_ vhosts
6811 [Dean Gaudet, Dave Hankins <dhankins@sugarat.net>]
6813 *) dbmmanage overhaul:
6814 - merge dbmmanage and dbmmanage.new functionality, remove dbmmanage.new
6815 - tie() to AnyDBM_File which will use one of DB_File, NDBM_File or
6816 GDBM_File (-ldb, -lndbm, -lgdbm) (trying each in that order)
6817 - provide better seed for rand
6818 - prompt for password as per getpass(3) (turn off echo, read from
6820 - use "newstyle" crypt based on $Config{osname} ($^O)
6821 - will not add a user if already in database, use new `update' command
6823 - added `check' command to check a users' password
6824 - added `import' command to convert existing password text-files or
6825 dbm files exported with `view'
6826 - more descriptive usage, general cleanup, 'use strict' clean, etc.
6829 *) Added psocket() which is a pool form of socket(), various places within
6830 the proxy weren't properly blocking alarms while registering the cleanup
6831 for its sockets. bclose() now uses pclose() and pclosesocket(). There
6832 was a bug where the client socket was being close()d twice due a still
6833 registered cleanup. [Dean Gaudet]
6835 *) A few cleanups were made to reduce time(), getpid(), and signal() calls.
6838 *) PORT: AIX >= 4.2 requires -lm due to libc changes.
6839 [Jason Venner <jason@idiom.com>] PR#667
6841 *) Enable ``=""'' for RewriteCond directives to match against
6842 the empty string. This is the preferred way instead of ``^$''.
6843 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6845 *) Fixed an infinite loop in mod_imap for references above the server root
6846 [Dean Gaudet] PR#748
6848 *) mod_proxy now has a ReceiveBufferSize directive, similar to
6849 SendBufferSize, so that the TCP window can be set appropriately
6850 for LFNs. [Phillip A. Prindeville]
6852 *) mod_browser has been replaced by the more general mod_setenvif
6853 (courtesy of Paul Sutton). BrowserMatch* directives are still
6854 available, but are now joined by SetEnvIf*, UnSetEnvIf*, and
6855 UnSetEnvIfZero directives. [Ken Coar]
6857 *) "HostnameLookups double" forces double-reverse DNS to succeed in
6858 order for remote_host to be set (for logging, or for the env var
6859 REMOTE_HOST). The old define MAXIMUM_DNS has been deprecated.
6862 *) mod_access overhaul:
6863 - Now understands network/netmask syntax (i.e. 10.1.0.0/255.255.0.0)
6864 and cidr syntax (i.e. 10.1.0.0/16). PR#762
6865 - Critical path was sped up by pre-computing a few things at config time.
6866 - The undocumented syntax "allow user-agents" was removed,
6867 the replacement is "allow from env=foobar" combined with mod_browser.
6868 - When used with hostnames it now forces a double-reverse lookup
6869 no matter what the directory settings are. This double-reverse
6870 doesn't affect any of the other routines that use the remote
6871 hostname. In particular it's still passed to CGIs and the log
6872 without the double-reverse check. Related PR#860.
6875 *) When a large bwrite() occurs (larger than the internal buffer size),
6876 while there is already something in the buffer, apache will combine
6877 the large write and the buffer into a single writev(). (This is
6878 in anticipation of using mmap() for reading files.)
6881 *) In obscure cases where a partial socket write occurred while chunking,
6882 Apache would omit the chunk header/footer on the next block. Cleaned
6883 up other bugs/inconsistencies in error conditions in buff.c. Fixed
6884 a bug where a long pause in DNS lookups could cause the last packet
6885 of a response to be unduly delayed. [Roy Fielding, Dean Gaudet]
6887 *) API: Added child_exit function to module structure. This is called
6888 once per "heavy-weight process" just before a server child exit()'s
6889 e.g. when max_requests_per_child is reached, etc.
6890 [Doug MacEachern, Dean Gaudet]
6892 *) mod_include cleanup showed that handle_else was being used to handle
6893 endif. It didn't cause problems, but it was cleaned up too.
6896 *) mod_cern_meta would attempt to find meta files for the directory itself
6897 in some cases, but not in others. It now avoids it in all cases.
6900 *) mod_mime_magic would core dump if there was a decompression error.
6901 [Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>] PR#904
6903 *) PORT: some variants of DGUX require -lsocket -lnsl
6904 [Alexander L Jones <alex@systems-options.co.uk>] PR#732
6906 *) mod_autoindex now allows sorting of FancyIndexed directory listings
6907 by the various fields (name, size, et cetera), either in ascending
6908 or descending order. Just click on the column header. [Ken Coar]
6910 *) PORT: Various tweaks to eliminate pointer-int casting warnings on 64-bit
6911 CPUs like the Alpha. Apache still stores ints in pointers, but that's
6912 the relatively safe direction. [Dean Gaudet] PR#344
6914 *) PORT: QNX mmap() support for faster/more reliable scoreboard handling.
6915 [Igor N Kovalenko <infoh@mail.wplus.net>] PR#683
6917 *) child_main avoids an unneeded call to select() when there is only one
6918 listening socket. [Dean Gaudet]
6920 *) In the event that the server is starved for idle servers it will
6921 spawn 1, then 2, then 4, ..., then 32 servers each second,
6922 doubling each second. It'll also give a warning in the errorlog
6923 since the most common reason for this is a poor StartServers
6924 setting. The define MAX_SPAWN_RATE can be used to raise/lower
6925 the maximum. [Dean Gaudet]
6927 *) Apache now provides an effectively unbuffered connection for
6928 CGI scripts. This means that data will be sent to the client
6929 as soon as the CGI pauses or stops output; previously, Apache would
6930 buffer the output up to a fixed buffer size before sending, which
6931 could result in the user viewing an empty page until the CGI finished
6932 or output a complete buffer. It is no longer necessary to use an
6933 "nph-" CGI to get unbuffered output. Given that most CGIs are written
6934 in a language that by default does buffering (e.g. perl) this
6935 shouldn't have a detrimental effect on performance.
6937 "nph-" CGIs, which formerly provided a direct socket to the client
6938 without any server post-processing, were not fully compatible with
6939 HTTP/1.1 or SSL support. As such they would have had to implement
6940 the transport details, such as encryption or chunking, in order
6941 to work properly in certain situations. Now, the only difference
6942 between nph and non-nph scripts is "non-parsed headers".
6943 [Dean Gaudet, Sameer Parekh, Roy Fielding]
6945 *) If a BUFF is switched from buffered to unbuffered reading the first
6946 bread() will return whatever remained in the buffer prior to the
6947 switch. [Dean Gaudet]
6949 Changes with Apache 1.3a1
6951 *) Added another Configure helper script: TestLib. It determines
6952 if a specified library exists. [Jim Jagielski]
6954 *) PORT: Allow for use of n32bit libraries under IRIX 6.x
6955 [derived from patch from Jeff Hayes <jhayes@aw.sgi.com>]
6958 *) PORT: Some architectures use size_t for various lengths in network
6959 functions such as accept(), and getsockname(). The definition
6960 NET_SIZE_T is used to control this. [Dean Gaudet]
6962 *) PORT: Linux: Attempt to detect glibc based systems and include crypt.h
6963 and -lcrypt. Test for various db libraries (dbm, ndbm, db) when
6964 mod_auth_dbm or mod_auth_db are included. [Dean Gaudet]
6966 *) PORT: QNX doesn't have initgroups() which support/suexec.c uses.
6967 [Igor N Kovalenko <infoh@mail.wplus.net>]
6969 *) "force-response-1.0" now only applies to requests which are HTTP/1.0 to
6970 begin with. "nokeepalive" now works for HTTP/1.1 clients. Added
6971 "downgrade-1.0" which causes Apache to pretend it received a 1.0.
6972 [Dean Gaudet] related PR#875
6974 *) API: Correct child_init() slot declaration from int to void, to
6975 match the init() declaration. Update mod_example to use the new
6978 *) added transport handle slot (t_handle) to the BUFF structure
6981 *) get_client_block() returns wrong length if policy is
6982 REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK.
6983 [Kenichi Hori <ken@d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#815
6985 *) Support the image map format of FrontPage. For example:
6986 rect /url.hrm 10 20 30 40
6987 ["Chris O'Byrne" <obyrne@iol.ie>] PR#807
6989 *) PORT: -lresolv and -lsocks were in the wrong order for Solaris.
6990 ["Darren O'Shaughnessy" <darren@aaii.oz.au>] PR#846
6992 *) AddModuleInfo directive for mod_info which allows you to annotate
6993 the output of mod_info. ["Lou D. Langholtz" <ldl@usi.utah.edu>]
6995 *) Added NoProxy directive to avoid using ProxyRemote for selected
6996 addresses. Added ProxyDomain directive to cause unqualified
6997 names to be qualified by redirection.
6998 [Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>]
7000 *) Support Proxy Authentication, and don't pass the Proxy-Authorize
7001 header to the remote host in the proxy. [Sameer Parekh and
7004 *) Upgraded mod_rewrite from 3.0.6+ to latest officially available version
7005 3.0.9. This upgrade includes: fixed deadlooping on rewriting to same
7006 URLs, fixed rewritelog(), fixed forced response code handling on
7007 redirects from within .htaccess files, disabled pipe locking under
7008 braindead SunOS 4.1.x, allow env variables to be set even on rules with
7009 no substitution, bugfixed situations where HostnameLookups is off, made
7010 mod_rewrite more thread-safe for NT port and fixed problem when creating
7011 an empty query string via "xxx?".
7012 This update also removes the copyright of Ralf S. Engelschall,
7013 i.e. now mod_rewrite no longer has a shared copyright. Instead is is
7014 exclusively copyrighted by the Apache Group now. This happened because
7015 the author now has gifted mod_rewrite exclusively to the Apache Group and
7016 no longer maintains an external version.
7017 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7019 *) API: Added child_init function to module structure. This is called
7020 once per "heavy-weight process" before any requests are handled.
7021 See http_config.h for more details. [Dean Gaudet]
7023 *) Anonymous_LogEmail was logging on each subrequest.
7024 [Dean Gaudet] PR#421, 868
7026 *) API: Added is_initial_req() which tests if the request being
7027 processed is the initial request, or a subrequest.
7030 *) Extended SSI (mod_include) now handles additional relops for
7031 string comparisons (<, >, <=, and >=). [Bruno Wolff III] PR#41
7033 *) Configure fixed to correctly propagate user-selected options and
7034 settings (such as CC and OPTIM) to Makefiles other than
7035 src/Makefile (notably support/Makefile). [Ken Coar] PR#666, #834
7037 *) IndexOptions SuppressHTMLPreamble now causes the actual HTML of
7038 directory indices to start with the contents of the HeaderName file
7039 if there is one. If there isn't one, the behaviour is unchanged.
7040 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding, Andrey A. Chernov]
7042 *) WIN32: Modules can now be dynamically loaded DLLs using the
7043 LoadModule/LoadFile directives. Note that module DLLs must be
7044 compiled with the multithreaded DLL version of the runtime library.
7045 [Alexei Kosut and Ben Laurie]
7047 *) Automatic indexing removed from mod_dir and placed into mod_autoindex.
7048 This allows the admin to completely remove automatic indexing
7049 from the server, while still supporting the basic functions of
7050 trailing-slash redirects and DirectoryIndex files. Note that if
7051 you're carrying over an old Configuration file and you use directory
7052 indexing then you'll want to add:
7054 Module autoindex_module mod_autoindex.o
7056 before mod_dir in your Configuration. [Dean Gaudet]
7058 *) popendir/pclosedir created to properly protect directory scanning.
7059 [Dean Gaudet] PR#525
7061 *) AliasMatch, ScriptAliasMatch and RedirectMatch directives added,
7062 giving regex support to mod_alias. <DirectoryMatch>, <LocationMatch>
7063 and <FilesMatch> sections added to succeed <DirectoryMatch ~>, etc...
7066 *) The AccessFileName directive can now take more than one filename.
7067 ["Lou D. Langholtz" <ldl@usi.utah.edu>]
7069 *) The new mod_mime_magic can be used to "magically" determine the type
7070 of a file if the extension is unknown. Based on the unix file(1)
7071 command. [Ian Kluft <ikluft@cisco.com>]
7073 *) We now determine and display the time spent processing a
7074 request if desired. [Jim Jagielski]
7076 *) mod_status: PID field of "dead" child slots no longer displays
7077 main httpd process's PID. [Jim Jagielski]
7079 *) Makefile.nt added - to build all the bits from the command line:
7080 nmake -f Makefile.nt
7081 Doesn't yet work properly. [Ben Laurie]
7083 *) Default text of 404 error is now "Not Found" rather than the
7084 potentially misleading "File Not Found". [Ken Coar]
7086 *) CONFIG: "HostnameLookups" now defaults to off because it is far better
7087 for the net if we require people that actually need this data to
7088 enable it. [Linus Torvalds]
7090 *) directory_walk() is an expensive function, keep a little more state to
7091 avoid needless string counting. Add two new functions make_dirstr_parent
7092 and make_dirstr_prefix which replace all existing uses of make_dirstr.
7093 The new functions are a little less general than make_dirstr, but
7094 work more efficiently (less memory, less string counting).
7097 *) EXTRA_LFLAGS was changed to EXTRA_LDFLAGS (and LFLAGS was changed
7098 to LDFLAGS) to avoid complications with lex rules in make files.
7099 [Dean Gaudet] PR#372
7101 *) run_method optimized to avoid needless scanning over NULLs in the
7102 module list. [Dean Gaudet]
7104 *) Revamp of (unix) scoreboard management code such that it avoids
7105 unnecessary traversals of the scoreboard on each hit. This is
7106 particularly important for high volume sites with a large
7107 HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. Some of the previous operations were O(n^2),
7108 and are now O(n). See also SCOREBOARD_MAINTENANCE_INTERVAL in
7109 httpd.h. [Dean Gaudet]
7111 *) In configurations using multiple Listen statements it was possible for
7112 busy sockets to starve other sockets of service. [Dean Gaudet]
7114 *) Added hook so standalone_main can be replaced at compile time
7115 (define STANDALONE_MAIN)
7118 *) Lowest-level read/write functions in buff.c will be replaced with
7119 the SFIO library calls sfread/sfwrite if B_SFIO is defined at
7120 compile time. The default sfio discipline will behave as apache
7121 would without sfio compiled in.
7124 *) Enhance UserDir directive (mod_userdir) to accept a list of
7125 usernames for the 'disable' keyword, and add 'enable user...' to
7126 selectively *en*able userdirs if they're globally disabled.
7129 *) If NETSCAPE_DBM_COMPAT is defined in EXTRA_CFLAGS then Apache
7130 will work with Netscape dbm files. (dbmmanage will probably not
7131 work however.) [Alexander Spohr <aspohr@netmatic.com>] PR#444
7133 *) Add a ListenBacklog directive to control the backlog parameter
7134 passed to listen(). Also change the default to 511 from 512.
7137 *) API: A new handler response DONE which informs apache that the
7138 request has been handled and it can finish off quickly, similar to
7139 how it handles errors. [Rob Hartill]
7141 *) Turn off chunked encoding after sending terminating chunk/footer
7142 so that we can't do it twice by accident. [Roy Fielding]
7144 *) mod_expire also issues Cache-Control: max-age headers.
7147 *) API: Added kill_only_once option for free_proc_chain so that it won't
7148 aggressively try to kill off specific children. For fastcgi.
7149 [Stanley Gambarin <gambarin@OpenMarket.com>]
7151 *) mod_auth deals with extra ':' delimited fields. [Marc Slemko]
7153 *) Added IconHeight and IconWidth to mod_dir's IndexOptions directive.
7154 When used together, these cause mod_dir to emit HEIGHT and WIDTH
7155 attributes in the FancyIndexing IMG tags. [Ken Coar]
7157 *) PORT: Sequent and SONY NEWS-OS support added. [Jim Jagielski]
7159 *) PORT: Added Windows NT support
7160 [Ben Laurie and Ambarish Malpani <ambarish@valicert.com>]
7162 Changes with Apache 1.2.6
7164 *) mod_include when using XBitHack Full would send ETags in addition to
7165 sending Last-Modifieds. This is incorrect HTTP/1.1 behaviour.
7166 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1133
7168 *) SECURITY: When a client connects to a particular port/addr, and
7169 gives a Host: header ensure that the virtual host requested can
7170 actually be reached via that port/addr. [Ed Korthof <ed@organic.com>]
7172 *) Support virtual hosts with wildcard port and/or multiple ports
7173 properly. [Ed Korthof <ed@organic.com>]
7175 *) Fixed some case-sensitivity issues according to RFC2068.
7178 *) Set r->allowed properly in mod_asis.c, mod_dir.c, mod_info.c,
7179 and mod_include.c. [Dean Gaudet]
7181 *) Variable 'cwd' was being used pointlessly before being set.
7184 *) SIGURG doesn't exist on all platforms.
7185 [Mark Andrew Heinrich <heinrich@tinderbox.Stanford.EDU>]
7187 *) When an error occurs during a POST, or other operation with a
7188 request body, the body has to be read from the net before allowing
7189 a keepalive session to continue. [Roy Fielding] PR#1399
7191 *) When an error occurs in fcntl() locking suggest the user look up
7192 the docs for LockFile. [Dean Gaudet]
7194 *) table_set() and table_unset() did not deal correctly with
7195 multiple occurrences of the same key. [Stephen Scheck
7196 <sscheck@infonex.net>, Ben Laurie] PR#1604
7198 *) send_fd_length() did not calculate total_bytes_sent properly in error
7199 cases. [Ben Reser <breser@regnow.com>] PR#1366
7201 *) r->connection->user was allocated in the wrong pool causing corruption
7202 in some cases when used with mod_cern_meta. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1500
7204 *) mod_proxy was sending HTTP/1.1 responses to ftp requests by mistake.
7205 Also removed the auto-generated link to www.apache.org that was the
7206 source of so many misdirected bug reports. [Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
7208 *) Multiple "close" tokens may have been set in the "Connection"
7209 header, not an error, but a waste.
7210 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1683
7212 *) "basic" and "digest" auth tokens should be tested case-insensitive.
7213 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1599, PR#1666
7215 *) It appears the "257th byte" bug (see
7216 htdocs/manual/misc/known_client_problems.html#257th-byte) can happen
7217 at the 256th byte as well. Fixed. [Dean Gaudet]
7219 *) mod_rewrite would not handle %3f properly in some situations.
7222 *) Apache could generate improperly chunked HTTP/1.1 responses when
7223 the bputc() or rputc() functions were used by modules (such as
7224 mod_include). [Dean Gaudet]
7226 *) #ifdef wrap a few #defines in httpd.h to make life easier on
7227 some ports. [Ralf Engelschall]
7229 *) Fix MPE compilation error in mod_usertrack.c. [Mark Bixby]
7231 *) Quote CC='$(CC)' to improve recurse make calls. [Martin Kraemer]
7233 *) Avoid B_ERROR redeclaration on sysvr4 systems. [Martin Kraemer]
7235 Changes with Apache 1.2.5
7237 *) SECURITY: Fix a possible buffer overflow in logresolve. This is
7238 only an issue on systems without a MAXDNAME define or where
7239 the resolver returns domain names longer than MAXDNAME. [Marc Slemko]
7241 *) Fix an improper length in an ap_snprintf call in proxy_date_canon().
7244 *) Fix core dump in the ftp proxy when reading incorrectly formatted
7245 directory listings. [Marc Slemko]
7247 *) SECURITY: Fix possible minor buffer overflow in the proxy cache.
7250 *) SECURITY: Eliminate possible buffer overflow in cfg_getline, which
7251 is used to read various types of files such as htaccess and
7252 htpasswd files. [Marc Slemko]
7254 *) SECURITY: Ensure that the buffer returned by ht_time is always
7255 properly null terminated. [Marc Slemko]
7257 *) SECURITY: General mod_include cleanup, including fixing several
7258 possible buffer overflows and a possible infinite loop. This cleanup
7259 was done against 1.3 code and then backported to 1.2, the result
7260 is a large difference (due to indentation cleanup in 1.3 code).
7261 Users interested in seeing a smaller set of relevant differences
7262 should consider comparing against src/modules/standard/mod_include.c
7263 from the 1.3b3 release. Non-indentation changes to mod_include
7264 between 1.2 and 1.3 were minimal. [Dean Gaudet, Marc Slemko]
7266 *) SECURITY: Numerous changes to mod_imap in a general cleanup
7267 including fixing a possible buffer overflow. This cleanup also
7268 was done with 1.3 code as a basis, see the the previous note
7269 about mod_include. [Dean Gaudet]
7271 *) SECURITY: If a htaccess file can not be read due to bad
7272 permissions, deny access to the directory with a HTTP_FORBIDDEN.
7273 The previous behavior was to ignore the htaccess file if it could not
7274 be read. This change may make some setups with unreadable
7275 htaccess files stop working. PR#817 [Marc Slemko]
7277 *) SECURITY: no2slash() was O(n^2) in the length of the input.
7278 Make it O(n). This inefficiency could be used to mount a denial
7279 of service attack against the Apache server. Thanks to
7280 Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@boss.staszic.waw.pl> for reporting
7283 *) mod_include used uninitialized data for some uses of && and ||.
7284 [Brian Slesinsky <bslesins@wired.com>] PR#1139
7286 *) mod_imap should decline all non-GET methods.
7287 [Jay Bloodworth <jay@pathways.sde.state.sc.us>]
7289 *) suexec.c wouldn't build without -DLOG_EXEC. [Jason A. Dour]
7291 *) mod_userdir was modifying r->finfo in cases where it wasn't setting
7292 r->filename. Since those two are meant to be in sync with each other
7293 this is a bug. ["Paul B. Henson" <henson@intranet.csupomona.edu>]
7295 *) mod_include did not properly handle all possible redirects from sub-
7296 requests. [Ken Coar]
7298 *) Inetd mode (which is buggy) uses timeouts without having setup the
7299 jmpbuffer. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1064
7301 *) Work around problem under Linux where a child will start looping
7302 reporting a select error over and over.
7303 [Rick Franchuk <rickf@transpect.net>] PR#1107
7305 Changes with Apache 1.2.4
7307 *) The ProxyRemote change in 1.2.3 introduced a bug resulting in the proxy
7308 always making requests with the full-URI instead of just the URI path.
7309 [Marc Slemko, Roy Fielding]
7311 *) Add -lm for AIX versions >= 4.2 to allow Apache to link properly
7312 on this platform. [Marc Slemko]
7314 Changes with Apache 1.2.3
7316 *) The request to a remote proxy was mangled if it was generated as the
7317 result of a ProxyPass directive. URL schemes other than http:// were not
7318 supported when ProxyRemote was used. PR#260, PR#656, PR#699, PR#713,
7319 PR#812 [Lars Eilebrecht]
7321 *) Fixed proxy-pass-through feature of mod_rewrite; Added error logging
7322 information for case where proxy module is not available. [Marc Slemko]
7324 *) Force proxy to always respond as HTTP/1.0, which it was failing to
7325 do for errors and cached responses. [Roy Fielding]
7327 *) PORT: Improved support for ConvexOS 11. [Jeff Venters]
7329 Changes with Apache 1.2.2 [not released]
7331 *) Fixed another long-standing bug in sub_req_lookup_file where it would
7332 happily skip past access checks on subdirectories looked up with relative
7333 paths. (It's used by mod_dir, mod_negotiation, and mod_include.)
7336 *) Add lockfile name to error message printed out when
7337 USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is defined.
7340 *) Enhanced the chunking and error handling inside the buffer functions.
7341 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding]
7343 *) When merging the main server's <Directory> and <Location> sections into
7344 a vhost, put the main server's first and the vhost's second. Otherwise
7345 the vhost can't override the main server. [Dean Gaudet] PR#717
7347 *) The <Directory> code would merge and re-merge the same section after
7348 a match was found, possibly causing problems with some modules.
7351 *) Fixed an infinite loop in mod_imap for references above the server root.
7352 [Dean Gaudet] PR#748
7354 *) mod_include cleanup showed that handle_else was being used to handle
7355 endif. It didn't cause problems, but it was cleaned up too.
7358 *) Last official synchronization of mod_rewrite with author version (because
7359 mod_rewrite is now directly developed by the author at the Apache Group):
7360 o added diff between mod_rewrite 3.0.6+ and 3.0.9
7361 minus WIN32/NT stuff, but plus copyright removement.
7363 - workaround for detecting infinite rewriting loops
7364 - fixed setting of env vars when "-" is used as subst string
7365 - fixed forced response code on redirects (PR#777)
7366 - fixed cases where r->args is ""
7367 - kludge to disable locking on pipes under braindead SunOS
7368 - fix for rewritelog in cases where remote hostname is unknown
7369 - fixed totally damaged request_rec walk-back loop
7370 o remove static from local data and add static to global ones.
7371 o replaced ugly proxy finding stuff by simple
7372 find_linked_module("mod_proxy") call.
7373 o added missing negation char on rewritelog()
7374 o fixed a few comment typos
7375 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7377 *) Anonymous_LogEmail was logging on each subrequest.
7378 [Dean Gaudet] PR#421, PR#868
7380 *) "force-response-1.0" now only applies to requests which are HTTP/1.0 to
7381 begin with. "nokeepalive" now works for HTTP/1.1 clients. Added
7382 "downgrade-1.0" which causes Apache to pretend it received a 1.0.
7383 Additionally mod_browser now triggers during translate_name to workaround
7384 a deficiency in the header_parse phase.
7385 [Dean Gaudet] PR#875
7387 *) get_client_block() returns wrong length if policy is
7388 REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK.
7389 [Kenichi Hori <ken@d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#815
7391 *) Properly treat <files> container like other containers in mod_info.
7392 [Marc Slemko] PR#848
7394 *) The proxy didn't treat the "Host:" keyword of the host header as case-
7395 insensitive. The proxy would corrupt the first line of a response from
7396 an HTTP/0.9 server. [Kenichi Hori <ken@d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#813,814
7398 *) mod_include would log some bogus values occasionally.
7399 [Skip Montanaro <skip@calendar.com>, Marc Slemko] PR#797
7401 *) PORT: The slack fd changes in 1.2.1 introduced a problem with SIGHUP
7402 under Solaris 2.x (up through 2.5.1). It has been fixed.
7403 [Dean Gaudet] PR#832
7405 *) API: In HTTP/1.1, whether or not a request message contains a body
7406 is independent of the request method and based solely on the presence
7407 of a Content-Length or Transfer-Encoding. Therefore, our default
7408 handlers need to be prepared to read a body even if they don't know
7409 what to do with it; otherwise, the body would be mistaken for the
7410 next request on a persistent connection. discard_request_body()
7411 has been added to take care of that. [Roy Fielding] PR#378
7413 *) API: Symbol APACHE_RELEASE provides a numeric form of the Apache
7414 release version number, such that it always increases along the
7415 same lines as our source code branching. [Roy Fielding]
7417 *) Minor oversight on multiple variants fixed. [Paul Sutton] PR#94
7419 Changes with Apache 1.2.1
7421 *) SECURITY: Don't serve file system objects unless they are plain files,
7422 symlinks, or directories. This prevents local users from using pipes
7423 or named sockets to invoke programs for an extremely crude form of
7426 *) SECURITY: HeaderName and ReadmeName were settable in .htaccess and
7427 could contain "../" allowing a local user to "publish" any file on
7428 the system. No slashes are allowed now. [Dean Gaudet]
7430 *) SECURITY: It was possible to violate the symlink Options using mod_dir
7431 (headers, readmes, titles), mod_negotiation (type maps), or
7432 mod_cern_meta (meta files). [Dean Gaudet]
7434 *) SECURITY: Apache will refuse to run as "User root" unless
7435 BIG_SECURITY_HOLE is defined at compile time. [Dean Gaudet]
7437 *) CONFIG: If a symlink pointed to a directory then it would be disallowed
7438 if it contained a .htaccess disallowing symlinks. This is contrary
7439 to the rule that symlink permissions are tested with the symlink
7440 options of the parent directory. [Dean Gaudet] PR#353
7442 *) CONFIG: The LockFile directive can be used to place the serializing
7443 lockfile in any location. It previously defaulted to /usr/tmp/htlock.
7444 [Somehow it took four of us: Randy Terbush, Jim Jagielski, Dean Gaudet,
7447 *) Request processing now retains state of whether or not the request
7448 body has been read, so that internal redirects and subrequests will
7449 not try to read it twice (and block). [Roy Fielding]
7451 *) Add a placeholder in modules/Makefile to avoid errors with certain
7452 makes. [Marc Slemko]
7454 *) QUERY_STRING was unescaped in mod_include, it shouldn't be.
7455 [Dean Gaudet] PR#644
7457 *) mod_include was not properly changing the current directory.
7458 [Marc Slemko] PR#742
7460 *) Attempt to work around problems with third party libraries that do not
7461 handle high numbered descriptors (examples include bind, and
7462 solaris libc). On all systems apache attempts to keep all permanent
7463 descriptors above 15 (called the low slack line). Solaris users
7464 can also benefit from adding -DHIGH_SLACK_LINE=256 to EXTRA_CFLAGS
7465 which keeps all non-FILE * descriptors above 255. On all systems
7466 this should make supporting large numbers of vhosts with many open
7467 log files more feasible. If this causes trouble please report it,
7468 you can disable this workaround by adding -DNO_SLACK to EXTRA_CFLAGS.
7469 [Dean Gaudet] various PRs
7471 *) Related to the last entry, network sockets are now opened before
7472 log files are opened. The only known case where this can cause
7473 problems is under Solaris with many virtualhosts and many Listen
7474 directives. But using -DHIGH_SLACK_LINE=256 described above will
7475 work around this problem. [Dean Gaudet]
7477 *) USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is now default for FreeBSD, A/UX, and
7480 *) Improved unix error response logging. [Marc Slemko]
7482 *) Update mod_rewrite from 3.0.5 to 3.0.6. New ruleflag
7483 QSA=query_string_append. Also fixed a nasty bug in per-dir context:
7484 when a URL http://... was used in conjunction with a special
7485 redirect flag, e.g. R=permanent, the permanent status was lost.
7486 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
7488 *) If an object has multiple variants that are otherwise equal Apache
7489 would prefer the last listed variant rather than the first.
7492 *) "make clean" at the top level now removes *.o. [Dean Gaudet] PR#752
7494 *) mod_status dumps core in inetd mode. [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
7497 *) pregsub had an off-by-1 in its error checking code. [Alexei Kosut]
7499 *) PORT: fix rlim_t problems with AIX 4.2. [Marc Slemko] PR#333
7501 *) PORT: Update UnixWare support for 2.1.2.
7502 [Lawrence Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>] PR#511
7504 *) PORT: NonStop-UX [Joachim Schmitz <schmitz_joachim@tandem.com>] PR#327
7506 *) PORT: Update ConvexOS support for 11.5.
7507 [David DeSimone <fox@convex.com>] PR#399
7509 *) PORT: Support for DEC cc compiler under ULTRIX.
7510 ["P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia" <alejolo@ideam.gov.co>] PR#388
7512 *) PORT: Support for Maxion/OS SVR4.2 Real Time Unix. [no name given] PR#383
7514 *) PORT: Workaround for AIX 3.x compiler bug in http_bprintf.c.
7515 [Marc Slemko] PR#725
7517 *) PORT: fix problem compiling http_bprintf.c with gcc under SCO
7518 [Marc Slemko] PR#695
7520 Changes with Apache 1.2
7522 Changes with Apache 1.2b11
7524 *) Fixed open timestamp fd in proxy_cache.c [Chuck Murcko]
7526 *) Added undocumented perl SSI mechanism for -DUSE_PERL_SSI and mod_perl.
7527 [Doug MacEachern, Rob Hartill]
7529 *) Proxy needs to use hard_timeout instead of soft_timeout when it is
7530 reading from one buffer and writing to another, at least until it has
7531 a custom timeout handler. [Roy Fielding and Petr Lampa]
7533 *) Fixed problem on IRIX with servers hanging in IdentityCheck,
7534 apparently due to a mismatch between sigaction and setjmp.
7535 [Roy Fielding] PR#502
7537 *) Log correct status code if we timeout before receiving a request (408)
7538 or if we received a request-line that was too long to process (414).
7539 [Ed Korthof and Roy Fielding] PR#601
7541 *) Virtual hosts with the same ServerName, but on different ports, were
7542 not being selected properly. [Ed Korthof]
7544 *) Added code to return the requested IP address from proxy_host2addr()
7545 if gethostbyaddr() fails due to reverse DNS lookup problems. Original
7546 change submitted by Jozsef Hollosi <hollosi@sbcm.com>.
7547 [Chuck Murcko] PR#614
7549 *) If multiple requests on a single connection are used to retrieve
7550 data from different virtual hosts, the virtual host list would be
7551 scanned starting with the most recently used VH instead of the first,
7552 causing most virtual hosts to be ignored.
7553 [Paul Sutton and Martin Mares] PR#610
7555 *) The OS/2 handling of process group was broken by a porting patch for
7556 MPE, so restored prior code for OS/2. [Roy Fielding and Garey Smiley]
7558 *) Inherit virtual server port from main server if none (or "*") is
7559 given for VirtualHost. [Dean Gaudet] PR#576
7561 *) If the lookup for a DirectoryIndex name with content negotiation
7562 has found matching variants, but none are acceptable, return the
7563 negotiation result if there are no more DirectoryIndex names to lookup.
7564 [Petr Lampa and Roy Fielding]
7566 *) If a soft_timeout occurs after keepalive is set, then the main child
7567 loop would try to read another request even though the connection
7568 has been aborted. [Roy Fielding]
7570 *) Configure changes: Allow for whitespace at the start of a
7571 Module declaration. Also, be more understanding about the
7572 CC=/OPTIM= format in Configuration. Finally, fix compiler
7573 flags if using HP-UX's cc compiler. [Jim Jagielski]
7575 *) Subrequests and internal redirects now inherit the_request from the
7576 original request-line. [Roy Fielding]
7578 *) Test for error conditions before creating output header fields, since
7579 we don't want the error message to include those fields. Likewise,
7580 reset the content_language(s) and content_encoding of the response
7581 before generating or redirecting to an error message, since the new
7582 message will have its own Content-* definitions. [Dean Gaudet]
7584 *) Restored the semantics of headers_out (headers sent only with 200..299
7585 and 304 responses) and err_headers_out (headers sent with all responses).
7586 Avoid the overhead of copying tables if err_headers_out is empty
7587 (the usual case). [Roy Fielding]
7589 *) Fixed a couple places where a check for the default Content-Type was
7590 not properly checking both the value configured by the DefaultType
7591 directive and the DEFAULT_TYPE symbol in httpd.h. Changed the value
7592 of DEFAULT_TYPE to match the documented default (text/plain).
7593 [Dean Gaudet] PR#506
7595 *) Escape the HTML-sensitive characters in the Request-URI that is
7596 output for each child by mod_status. [Dean Gaudet and Ken Coar] PR#501
7598 *) Properly initialize the flock structures used by the mutex locking
7599 around accept() when USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is defined.
7602 *) The method for determining PATH_INFO has been restored to the pre-1.2b
7603 (and NCSA httpd) definition wherein it was the extra path info beyond
7604 the CGI script filename. The environment variable FILEPATH_INFO has
7605 been removed, and instead we supply the original REQUEST_URI to any
7606 script that wants to be Apache-specific and needs the real URI path.
7607 This solves a problem with existing scripts that use extra path info
7608 in the ScriptAlias directive to pass options to the CGI script.
7611 *) The _default_ change in 1.2b10 will change the behaviour on configs
7612 that use multiple Listen statements for listening on multiple ports.
7613 But that change is necessary to make _default_ consistent with other
7614 forms of <VirtualHost>. It requires such configs to be modified
7615 to use <VirtualHost _default_:*>. The documentation has been
7616 updated. [Dean Gaudet] PR#530
7618 *) If an ErrorDocument CGI script is used to respond to an error
7619 generated by another CGI script which has already read the message
7620 body of the request, the server would block trying to read the
7621 message body again. [Rob Hartill]
7623 *) signal() replacement conflicted with a define on QNX (and potentially
7624 other platforms). Fixed. [Ben Laurie] PR#512
7626 Changes with Apache 1.2b10
7628 *) Allow HTTPD_ROOT, SERVER_CONFIG_FILE, DEFAULT_PATH, and SHELL_PATH
7629 to be configured via -D in Configuration. [Dean Gaudet] PR#449
7631 *) <VirtualHost _default_:portnum> didn't work properly. [Dean Gaudet]
7633 *) Added prototype for mktemp() for SUNOS4 [Marc Slemko]
7635 *) In mod_proxy.c, check return values for proxy_host2addr() when reading
7636 config, in case the hostent struct returned is trash.
7637 [Chuck Murcko] PR #491
7639 *) Fixed the fix in 1.2b9 for parsing URL query info into args for CGI
7640 scripts. [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
7642 Changes with Apache 1.2b9 [never announced]
7644 *) Reset the MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER to account for the unsigned port
7645 changes and in anticipation of 1.2 final release. [Roy Fielding]
7647 *) Fix problem with scripts not receiving a SIGPIPE when client drops
7648 the connection (e.g., when user presses Stop). Apache will now stop
7649 trying to send a message body immediately after an error from write.
7650 [Roy Fielding and Nathan Kurz] PR#335
7652 *) Rearrange Configuration.tmpl so that mod_rewrite has higher priority
7653 than mod_alias, and mod_alias has higher priority than mod_proxy;
7654 rearranged other modules to enhance understanding of their purpose
7655 and relative order (and maybe even reduce some overhead).
7656 [Roy Fielding and Sameer Parekh]
7658 *) Fix graceful restart. Eliminate many signal-related race
7659 conditions in both forms of restart, and in SIGTERM. See
7660 htdocs/manual/stopping.html for details on stopping and
7661 restarting the parent. [Dean Gaudet]
7663 *) Fix memory leaks in mod_rewrite, mod_browser, mod_include. Tune
7664 memory allocator to avoid a behaviour that required extra blocks to
7665 be allocated. [Dean Gaudet]
7667 *) Allow suexec to access files relative to current directory but not
7668 above. (Excluding leading / or any .. directory.) [Ken Coar]
7671 *) Fix suexec segfault when group doesn't exist. [Gregory Neil Shapiro]
7672 PR#367, 368, 354, 453
7674 *) Fix the above fix: if suexec is enabled, avoid destroying r->url
7675 while obtaining the /~user and save the username in a separate data
7676 area so that it won't be overwritten by the call to getgrgid(), and
7677 fix some misuse of the pool string allocation functions. Also fixes
7678 a general problem with parsing URL query info into args for CGI scripts.
7679 [Roy Fielding] PR#339, 367, 354, 453
7681 *) Fix IRIX warning about bzero undefined. [Marc Slemko]
7683 *) Fix problem with <Directory proxy:...>. [Martin Kraemer] PR#271
7685 *) Corrected spelling of "authoritative". AuthDBAuthoratative became
7686 AuthDBAuthoritative. [Marc Slemko] PR#420
7688 *) MaxClients should be at least 1. [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#375
7690 *) The default handler now logs invalid methods or URIs (i.e. PUT on an
7691 object that can't be PUT, or FOOBAR for some method FOOBAR that
7692 apache doesn't know about at all). Log 404s that occur in mod_include.
7693 [Paul Sutton, John Van Essen]
7695 *) If a soft timeout (or lingerout) occurs while trying to flush a
7696 buffer or write inside buff.c or fread'ing from a CGI's output,
7697 then the timeout would be ignored. [Roy Fielding] PR#373
7699 *) Work around a bug in Netscape Navigator versions 2.x, 3.x and 4.0b2's
7700 parsing of headers. If the terminating empty-line CRLF occurs starting
7701 at the 256th or 257th byte of output, then Navigator will think a normal
7702 image is invalid. We are guessing that this is because their initial
7703 read of a new request uses a 256 byte buffer. We check the bytes written
7704 so far and, if we are about to tickle the bug, we instead insert a
7705 padding header of eminent bogosity. [Roy Fielding and Dean Gaudet] PR#232
7707 *) Fixed SIGSEGV problem when a DirectoryIndex file is also the source
7708 of an external redirection. [Roy Fielding and Paul Sutton]
7710 *) Configure would create a broken Makefile if the configuration file
7711 contained a commented-out Rule. [Roy Fielding]
7713 *) Promote per_dir_config and subprocess_env from the subrequest to the
7714 main request in mod_negotiation. In particular this fixes a bug
7715 where <Files> sections wouldn't properly apply to negotiated content.
7718 *) Fix a potential deadlock in mod_cgi script_err handling.
7719 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7721 *) rotatelogs zero-pads the logfile names to improve alphabetic sorting.
7724 *) Updated mod_rewrite to 3.0.4: Fixes HTTP redirects from within
7725 .htaccess files because the RewriteBase was not replaced correctly.
7726 Updated mod_rewrite to 3.0.5: Fixes problem with rewriting inside
7727 <Directory> sections missing a trailing /. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7729 *) Clean up Linux settings in conf.h by detecting 2.x versus 1.x. For
7730 1.x the settings are those of pre-1.2b8. For 2.x we include
7731 USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD (scoreboard in shared memory rather than file) and
7732 HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H (enable the RLimit commands).
7733 [Dean Gaudet] PR#336, PR#340
7735 *) Redirect did not preserve ?query_strings when present in the client's
7736 request. [Dean Gaudet]
7738 *) Configure was finding non-modules on EXTRA_LIBS. [Frank Cringle] PR#380
7740 *) Use /bin/sh5 on ULTRIX. [P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia] PR#369
7742 *) Add UnixWare compile/install instructions. [Chuck Murcko]
7744 *) Add mod_example (illustration of API techniques). [Ken Coar]
7746 *) Add macro for memmove to conf.h for SUNOS4. [Marc Slemko]
7748 *) Improve handling of directories when filenames have spaces in them.
7751 *) For hosts with multiple IP addresses, try all additional addresses if
7752 necessary to get a connect. Fail only if hostent address list is
7753 exhausted. [Chuck Murcko]
7755 *) More signed/unsigned port fixes. [Dean Gaudet]
7757 *) HARD_SERVER_LIMIT can be defined in the Configuration file now.
7760 Changes with Apache 1.2b8
7762 *) suexec.c doesn't close the log file, allowing CGIs to continue writing
7763 to it. [Marc Slemko]
7765 *) The addition of <Location> and <File> directives made the
7766 sub_req_lookup_simple() function bogus, so we now handle
7767 the special cases directly. [Dean Gaudet]
7769 *) We now try to log where the server is dumping core when a fatal
7770 signal is received. [Ken Coar]
7772 *) Improved lingering_close by adding a special timeout, removing the
7773 spurious log messages, removing the nonblocking settings (they
7774 are not needed with the better timeout), and adding commentary
7775 about the NO_LINGCLOSE and USE_SO_LINGER issues. NO_LINGCLOSE is
7776 now the default for SunOS4, UnixWare, NeXT, and IRIX. [Roy Fielding]
7778 *) Send error messages about setsockopt failures to the server error
7779 log instead of stderr. [Roy Fielding]
7781 *) Fix loopholes in proxy cache expiry vis a vis alarms. [Brian Moore]
7783 *) Stopgap solution for CGI 3-second delay with server-side includes: if
7784 processing a subrequest, allocate memory from r->main->pool instead
7785 of r->pool so that we can avoid waiting for free_proc_chain to cleanup
7786 in the middle of an SSI request. [Dean Gaudet] PR #122
7788 *) Fixed status of response when POST is received for a nonexistent URL
7789 (was sending 405, now 404) and when any method is sent with a
7790 full-URI that doesn't match the server and the server is not acting
7791 as a proxy (was sending 501, now 403). [Roy Fielding]
7793 *) Host port changed to unsigned short. [Ken Coar] PR #276
7795 *) Fix typo in command definition of AuthAuthoritative. [Ken Coar] PR #246
7797 *) Defined USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD for shared memory on Linux. [Dean Gaudet]
7799 *) Report extra info from errno with many errors that cause httpd to exit.
7800 spawn_child, popenf, and pclosef now have valid errno returns in the
7801 event of an error. Correct problems where errno was stomped on
7802 before being reported. [Dean Gaudet]
7804 *) In the proxy, if the cache filesystem was full, garbage_coll() was
7805 never called, and thus the filesystem would remain full indefinitely.
7806 We now also remove incomplete cache files left if the origin server
7807 didn't send a Content-Length header and either the client has aborted
7808 transfer or bwrite() to client has failed. [Petr Lampa]
7810 *) Fixed the handling of module and script-added header fields.
7811 Improved the interface for sending header fields and reduced
7812 the duplication of code between sending okay responses and errors.
7813 We now always send both headers_out and err_headers_out, and
7814 ensure that the server-reserved fields are not being overridden,
7815 while not overriding those that are not reserved. [Roy Fielding]
7817 *) Moved transparent content negotiation fields to err_headers_out
7818 to reflect above changes. [Petr Lampa]
7820 *) Fixed the determination of whether or not we should make the
7821 connection persistent for all of the cases where some other part
7822 of the server has already indicated that we should not. Also
7823 improved the ordering of the test so that chunked encoding will
7824 be set whenever it is desired instead of only when KeepAlive
7825 is enabled. Added persistent connection capability for most error
7826 responses (those that do not indicate a bad input stream) when
7827 accessed by an HTTP/1.1 client. [Roy Fielding]
7829 *) Added missing timeouts for sending header fields, error responses,
7830 and the last chunk of chunked encoding, each of which could have
7831 resulted in a process being stuck in write forever. Using soft_timeout
7832 requires that the sender check for an aborted connection rather than
7833 continuing after an EINTR. Timeouts that used to be initiated before
7834 send_http_header (and never killed) are now initiated only within or
7835 around the routines that actually do the sending, and not allowed to
7836 propagate above the caller. [Roy Fielding]
7838 *) mod_auth_anon required an @ or a . in the email address, not both.
7841 *) per_dir_defaults weren't set correctly until directory_walk for
7842 name-based vhosts. This fixes an obscure bug with the wrong config
7843 info being used for vhosts that share the same ip as the server.
7846 *) Improved generation of modules/Makefile to be more generic for
7847 new module directories. [Ken Coar, Chuck Murcko, Roy Fielding]
7849 *) Generate makefile dependency for Configuration based on the actual
7850 name given when running the Configure process. [Dean Gaudet]
7852 *) Fixed problem with vhost error log not being set prior to
7853 initializing virtual hosts. [Dean Gaudet]
7855 *) Fixed infinite loop when a trailing slash is included after a type map
7856 file URL (extra path info). [Petr Lampa]
7858 *) Fixed server status updating of per-connection counters. [Roy Fielding]
7860 *) Add documentation for DNS issues (reliability and security), and try
7861 to explain the virtual host matching process. [Dean Gaudet]
7863 *) Try to continue gracefully by disabling the vhost if a DNS lookup
7864 fails while parsing the configuration file. [Dean Gaudet]
7866 *) Improved calls to setsockopt. [Roy Fielding]
7868 *) Negotiation changes: Don't output empty content-type in variant list;
7869 Output charset in variant list; Return sooner from handle_multi() if
7870 no variants found; Add handling of '*' wildcard in Accept-Charset.
7871 [Petr Lampa and Paul Sutton]
7873 *) Fixed overlaying of request/sub-request notes and headers in
7874 mod_negotiation. [Dean Gaudet]
7876 *) If two variants' charset quality are equal and one is the default
7877 charset (iso-8859-1), then prefer the variant that was specifically
7878 listed in Accept-Charset instead of the default. [Petr Lampa]
7880 *) Memory allocation problem in push_array() -- it would corrupt memory
7881 when nalloc==0. [Kai Risku <krisku@tf.hut.fi> and Roy Fielding]
7883 *) invoke_handler() doesn't handle mime arguments in content-type
7886 *) Reduced IdentityCheck timeout to 30 seconds, as per RFC 1413 minimum.
7889 *) Fixed problem with ErrorDocument not working for virtual hosts
7890 due to one of the performance changes in 1.2b7. [Dean Gaudet]
7892 *) Log an error message if we get a request header that is too long,
7893 since it may indicate a buffer overflow attack. [Marc Slemko]
7895 *) Made is_url() allow "[-.+a-zA-Z0-9]+:" as a valid scheme and
7896 not reject URLs without a double-slash, as per RFC2068 section 3.2.
7897 [Ken Coar] PR #146, #187
7899 *) Added table entry placeholder for new header_parser callback
7900 in all of the distributed modules. [Ken Coar] PR #191
7902 *) Allow for cgi files without the .EXE extension on them under OS/2.
7903 [Garey Smiley] PR #59
7905 *) Fixed error message when resource is not found and URL contains
7906 path info. [Petr Lampa and Dean Gaudet] PR #40
7908 *) Fixed user and server confusion over what should be a virtual host
7909 and what is the main server, resulting in access to something
7910 other than the name defined in the virtualhost directive (but
7911 with the same IP address) failing. [Dean Gaudet]
7913 *) Updated mod_rewrite to version 3.0.2, which: fixes compile error on
7914 AIX; improves the redirection stuff to enable the users to generally
7915 redirect to http, https, gopher and ftp; added TIME variable for
7916 RewriteCond which expands to YYYYMMDDHHMMSS strings and added the
7917 special patterns >STRING, <STRING and =STRING to RewriteCond, which
7918 can be used in conjunction with %{TIME} or other variables to create
7919 time-dependent rewriting rules. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7921 *) bpushfd() no longer notes cleanups for the file descriptors it is handed.
7922 Module authors may need to adjust their code for proper cleanup to take
7923 place (that is, call note_cleanups_for_fd()). This change fixes problems
7924 with file descriptors being erroneously closed when the proxy module was
7925 in use. [Ben Laurie]
7927 *) Fix bug in suexec reintroduced by changes in 1.2b7 which allows
7928 initgroups() to hose the group information needed for later
7929 comparisons. [Randy Terbush]
7931 *) Remove unnecessary call to va_end() in create_argv() which
7932 caused a SEGV on some systems.
7934 *) Use proper MAXHOSTNAMELEN symbol for limiting length of server name.
7937 *) Clear memory allocated for listeners. [Randy Terbush]
7939 *) Improved handling of IP address as a virtualhost address and
7940 introduced "_default_" as a synonym for the default vhost config.
7941 [Dean Gaudet] PR #212
7943 Changes with Apache 1.2b7
7945 *) Port to UXP/DS(V20) [Toshiaki Nomura <nom@yk.fujitsu.co.jp>]
7947 *) unset Content-Length if chunked (RFC-2068) [Petr Lampa]
7949 *) mod_negotiation fixes [Petr Lampa] PR#157, PR#158, PR#159
7950 - replace protocol response numbers with symbols
7951 - save variant-list into main request notes
7952 - free allocated memory from subrequests
7953 - merge notes, headers_out and err_headers_out
7955 *) changed status check mask in proxy_http.c from "HTTP/#.# ### *" to
7956 "HTTP/#.# ###*" to be more lenient about what we accept.
7959 *) more proxy FTP bug fixes:
7960 - Changed send_dir() to remove user/passwd from displayed URL.
7961 - Changed login error messages to be more descriptive.
7962 - remove setting of SO_DEBUG socket option
7963 - Make ftp_getrc() more lenient about multiline responses,
7964 specifically, 230 responses which don't have continuation 230-
7965 on each line). These seem to be all NT FTP servers, and while
7966 perhaps questionable, they appear to be legal by RFC 959.
7967 - Add missing kill_timeout() after transfer to user completes.
7970 *) Fixed problem where a busy server could hang when restarting
7971 after being sent a SIGHUP due to child processes not exiting.
7974 *) Modify mod_include escaping so a '\' only signifies an escaped
7975 character if the next character is one that needs
7976 escaping. [Ben Laurie]
7978 *) Eliminated possible infinite loop in mod_imap when relative URLs are
7979 used with a 'base' directive that does not have a '/' in it.
7980 [Marc Slemko, reported by Onno Witvliet <onno@tc.hsa.nl>]
7982 *) Reduced the default timeout from 1200 seconds to 300, and the
7983 one in the sample configfile from 400 to 300. [Marc Slemko]
7985 *) Stop vbprintf from crashing if given a NULL string pointer;
7986 print (null) instead. [Ken Coar]
7988 *) Don't disable Nagle algorithm if system doesn't have TCP_NODELAY.
7989 [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
7991 *) Fixed problem with mod_cgi-generated internal redirects trying to
7992 read the request message-body twice. [Archie Cobbs and Roy Fielding]
7994 *) Reduced timeout on lingering close, removed possibility of a blocked
7995 read causing the child to hang, and stopped logging of errors if
7996 the socket is not connected (reset by client). [Roy Fielding]
7998 *) Rearranged main child loop to remove duplication of code in
7999 select/accept and keep-alive requests, fixed several bugs regarding
8000 checking scoreboard_image for exit indication and failure to
8001 account for all success conditions and trap all error conditions,
8002 prevented multiple flushes before closing the socket; close the entire
8003 socket buffer instead of just one descriptor, prevent logging of
8004 EPROTO and ECONNABORTED on platforms where supported, and generally
8005 improved readability. [Roy Fielding]
8007 *) Extensive performance improvements. Cleaned up inefficient use of
8008 auto initializers, multiple is_matchexp calls on a static string,
8009 and excessive merging of response_code_strings. [Dean Gaudet]
8011 *) Added double-buffering to mod_include to improve performance on
8012 server-side includes. [Marc Slemko]
8014 *) Several fixes for suexec wrapper. [Randy Terbush]
8015 - Make wrapper work for files on NFS filesystem.
8016 - Fix portability problem of MAXPATHLEN.
8017 - Fix array overrun problem in clean_env().
8018 - Fix allocation of PATH environment variable
8020 *) Removed extraneous blank line is description of mod_status chars.
8023 *) Logging of errors from the call_exec routine simply went nowhere,
8024 since the logfile fd has been closed, so now we send them to stderr.
8025 [Harald T. Alvestrand]
8027 *) Fixed core dump when DocumentRoot is a CGI.
8028 [Ben Laurie, reported by geddis@tesserae.com]
8030 *) Fixed potential file descriptor leak in mod_asis; updated it and
8031 http_core to use pfopen/pfclose instead of fopen/fclose.
8032 [Randy Terbush and Roy Fielding]
8034 *) Fixed handling of unsigned ints in ap_snprintf() on some chips such
8035 as the DEC Alpha which is 64-bit but uses 32-bit ints.
8036 [Dean Gaudet and Ken Coar]
8038 *) Return a 302 response code to the client when sending a redirect
8039 due to a missing trailing '/' on a directory instead of a 301; now
8040 it is cacheable. [Markus Gyger]
8042 *) Fix condition where, if a bad directive occurs in .htaccess, and
8043 sub_request() goes first to this directory, then log_reason() will
8044 SIGSEGV because it doesn't have initialized r->per_dir_config.
8045 [PR#162 from Petr Lampa, fix by Marc Slemko and Dean Gaudet]
8047 *) Fix handling of lang_index in is_variant_better(). This was
8048 causing problems which resulted in the server sending the
8049 wrong language document in some cases. [Petr Lampa]
8051 *) Remove free() from clean_env() in suexec wrapper. This was nuking
8052 the clean environment on some systems.
8054 *) Tweak byteserving code (e.g. serving PDF files) to work around
8055 bugs in Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
8056 Emit Content-Length header when sending multipart/byteranges.
8059 *) Port to HI-UX/WE2. [Nick Maclaren]
8061 *) Port to HP MPE operating system for HP 3000 machines
8062 [Mark Bixby <markb@cccd.edu>]
8064 *) Fixed bug which caused a segmentation fault if only one argument
8065 given to RLimit* directives. [Ed Korthof]
8067 *) Continue persistent connection after 204 or 304 response. [Dean Gaudet]
8069 *) Improved buffered output to the client by delaying the flush decision
8070 until the BUFF code is actually about to read the next request.
8071 This fixes a problem introduced in 1.2b5 with clients that send
8072 an extra CRLF after a POST request. Also improved chunked output
8073 performance by combining writes using writev() and removing as
8074 many bflush() calls as possible. NOTE: Platforms without writev()
8075 must add -DNO_WRITEV to the compiler CFLAGS, either in Configuration
8076 or Configure, unless we have already done so. [Dean Gaudet]
8078 *) Fixed mod_rewrite bug which truncated the rewritten URL [Marc Slemko]
8080 *) Fixed mod_info output corruption bug introduced by buffer overflow
8081 fixes. [Dean Gaudet]
8083 *) Fixed http_protocol to correctly output all HTTP/1.1 headers, including
8084 for the special case of a 304 response. [Paul Sutton]
8086 *) Improved handling of TRACE method by bypassing normal method handling
8087 and header parsing routines; fixed Allow response to always allow TRACE.
8090 *) Fixed compiler warnings in the regex library. [Dean Gaudet]
8092 *) Cleaned-up some of the generated HTML. [Ken Coar]
8094 Changes with Apache 1.2b6
8096 *) Allow whitespace in imagemap mapfile coordinates. [Marc Slemko]
8098 *) Fix typo introduced in fix for potential infinite loop around
8099 accept() in child_main(). This change caused the rev to 1.2b6.
8100 1.2b5 was never a public beta.
8102 Changes with Apache 1.2b5
8104 *) Change KeepAlive semantics (On|Off instead of a number), add
8105 MaxKeepAliveRequests directive. [Alexei Kosut]
8107 *) Various NeXT compilation patches, as well as a change in
8108 regex/regcomp.c since that file also used a NEXT define.
8111 *) Allow * to terminate the end of a directory match in mod_dir.
8112 Allows /~* to match for both /~joe and /~joe/. [David Bronder]
8114 *) Don't call can_exec() if suexec_enabled. Calling this requires
8115 scripts executed by the suexec wrapper to be world executable, which
8116 defeats one of the advantages of running the wrapper. [Randy Terbush]
8118 *) Portability Fix: IRIX complained with 'make clean' about *pure* (removed)
8121 *) Migration from sprintf() to snprintf() to avoid buffer
8122 overflows. [Marc Slemko]
8124 *) Provide portable snprintf() implementation (ap_snprintf)
8125 as well as *cvt family. [Jim Jagielski]
8127 *) Portability Fix: NeXT lacks unistd.h so we wrap it's inclusion
8130 *) Remove mod_fastcgi.c from the distribution. This module appears
8131 to be maintained more through the Open Market channels and should
8132 continue to be easily available at http://www.fastcgi.com/
8134 *) Fixed bug in modules/Makefile that wouldn't allow building in more
8135 than one subdirectory (or cleaning, either). [Jeremy Laidman]
8137 *) mod_info assumed that the config files were relative to ServerRoot.
8140 *) CGI scripts called as an error document resulting from failed
8141 CGI execution would hang waiting for POST'ed data. [Rob Hartill]
8143 *) Log reason when mod_dir returns access HTTP_FORBIDDEN
8146 *) Properly check errno to prevent display of a directory index
8147 when server receives a long enough URL to confuse stat().
8150 *) Several security enhancements to suexec wrapper. It is _highly_
8151 recommended that previously installed versions of the wrapper
8152 be replaced with this version. [Randy Terbush, Jason Dour]
8154 - ~user execution now properly restricted to ~user's home
8155 directory and below.
8156 - execution restricted to UID/GID > 100
8157 - restrict passed environment to known variables
8158 - call setgid() before initgroups() (portability fix)
8159 - remove use of setenv() (portability fix)
8161 *) Add HTTP/1.0 response forcing. [Ben Laurie]
8163 *) Add access control via environment variables. [Ben Laurie]
8165 *) Add rflush() function. [Alexei Kosut]
8167 *) remove duplicate pcalloc() call in new_connection().
8169 *) Fix incorrect comparison which could allow number of children =
8170 MaxClients + 1 if less than HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. Also fix potential
8171 problem if StartServers > HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. [Ed Korthof]
8173 *) Updated support for OSes (MachTen, ULTRIX, Paragon, ISC, OpenBSD
8174 AIX PS/2, CONVEXOS. [Jim Jagielski]
8176 *) Replace instances of inet_ntoa() with inet_addr() for ProxyBlock.
8177 It's more portable. [Martin Kraemer]
8179 *) Replace references to make in Makefile.tmpl with $(MAKE).
8182 *) Add ProxyBlock directive w/IP address caching. Add IP address
8183 caching to NoCache directive as well. ProxyBlock works with all
8184 handlers; NoCache now also works with FTP for anonymous logins.
8185 Still more code cleanup. [Chuck Murcko]
8187 *) Add "header parse" API hook [Ben Laurie]
8189 *) Fix byte ordering problems for REMOTE_PORT [Chuck Murcko]
8191 *) suEXEC wrapper was freeing memory that had not been malloc'ed.
8193 *) Correctly allow access and auth directives in <Files> sections in
8194 server config files. [Alexei Kosut]
8196 *) Fix bug with ServerPath that could cause certain files to be not
8197 found by the server. [Alexei Kosut]
8199 *) Fix handling of ErrorDocument so that it doesn't remove a trailing
8200 double-quote from text and so that it properly checks for unsupported
8201 status codes using the new index_of_response interface. [Roy Fielding]
8203 *) Multiple fixes to the lingering_close code in order to avoid being
8204 interrupted by a stray timeout, to avoid lingering on a connection
8205 that has already been aborted or never really existed, to ensure that
8206 we stop lingering as soon as any error condition is received, and to
8207 prevent being stuck indefinitely if the read blocks. Also improves
8208 reporting of error conditions. [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
8210 *) Fixed initialization of parameter structure for sigaction.
8211 [mgyger@itr.ch, Adrian Filipi-Martin]
8213 *) Fixed reinitializing the parameters before each call to accept and
8214 select, and removed potential for infinite loop in accept.
8215 [Roy Fielding, after useful PR from adrian@virginia.edu]
8217 *) Fixed condition where, if a child fails to fork, the scoreboard would
8218 continue to say SERVER_STARTING forever. Eventually, the main process
8219 would refuse to start new children because count_idle_servers() will
8220 count those SERVER_STARTING entries and will always report that there
8221 are enough idle servers. [Phillip Vandry]
8223 *) Fixed bug in bcwrite regarding failure to account for partial writes.
8224 Avoided calling bflush() when the client is pipelining requests.
8225 Removed unnecessary flushes from http_protocol. [Dean Gaudet]
8227 *) Added description of "." mode in server-status [Jim Jagielski]
8229 Changes with Apache 1.2b4
8231 *) Fix possible race condition in accept_mutex_init() that
8232 could leave a small security hole open allowing files to be
8233 overwritten in cases where the server UID has write permissions.
8236 *) Fix awk compatibilty problem in Configure. [Jim Jagielski]
8238 *) Fix portablity problem in util_script where ARG_MAX may not be
8239 defined for some systems.
8241 *) Add changes to allow compilation on Machten 4.0.3 for PowerPC.
8244 *) OS/2 changes to support an MMAP style scoreboard file and UNIX
8245 style magic #! token for better script portability. [Garey Smiley]
8247 *) Fix bug in suexec wrapper introduced in b3 that would cause failed
8248 execution for ~userdir CGI. [Jason Dour]
8250 *) Fix initgroups() business in suexec wrapper. [Jason Dour]
8252 *) Fix month off by one in suexec wrapper logging.
8254 Changes with Apache 1.2b3:
8256 *) Fix error in mod_cgi which could cause resources not to be properly
8257 freed, or worse. [Dean Gaudet]
8259 *) Fix find_string() NULL pointer dereference. [Howard Fear]
8261 *) Add set_flag_slot() at the request of Dirk and others.
8264 *) Sync mod_rewrite with patch level 10. [Ralf Engelschall]
8266 *) Add changes to improve the error message given for invalid
8267 ServerName parameters. [Dirk vanGulik]
8269 *) Add "Authoritative" directive for Auth modules that don't
8270 currently have it. This gives admin control to assign authoritative
8271 control to an authentication scheme and allow "fall through" for
8272 those authentication modules that aren't "Authoritative" thereby
8273 allowing multiple authentication mechanisms to be chained.
8276 *) Remove requirement for ResourceConfig/AccessConfig if not using
8277 the three config file layout. [Randy Terbush]
8279 *) Add PASV mode to mod_proxy FTP handler. [Chuck Murcko]
8281 *) Changes to suexec wrapper to fix the following problems:
8282 1. symlinked homedirs will kill ~userdirs.
8283 2. initgroups() on Linux 2.0.x clobbers gr->grid.
8284 3. CGI command lines paramters problems
8285 4. pw-pwdir for "docroot check" still the httpd user's pw record.
8286 [Randy Terbush, Jason Dour]
8288 *) Change create_argv() to accept variable arguments. This fixes
8289 a problem where arguments were not getting passed to the CGI via
8290 argv[] when the suexec wrapper was active. [Randy Terbush, Jake Buchholz]
8292 *) Collapse multiple slashes in path URLs to properly apply
8293 handlers defined by <Location>. [Alexei Kosut]
8295 *) Define a sane set of DEFAULT_USER and DEFAULT_GROUP values for AIX.
8297 *) Improve the accuracy of request duration timings by setting
8298 r->request_time in read_request_line() instead of read_request().
8301 *) Reset timeout while reading via get_client_block() in mod_cgi.c
8302 Fixes problem with timed out transfers of large files. [Rasmus Lerdorf]
8304 *) Add the ability to pass different Makefile.tmpl files to Configure
8305 using the -make flag. [Rob Hartill]
8307 *) Fix coredump triggered when sending a SIGHUP to the server caused
8308 by an assertion failure, in turn caused by an uninitialised field in a
8312 *) Add FILEPATH_INFO variable to CGI environment, which is equal to
8313 PATH_INFO from previous versions of Apache (in certain situations,
8314 Apache 1.2's PATH_INFO will be different than 1.1's). [Alexei Kosut]
8315 [later removed in 1.2b11]
8317 *) Add rwrite() function to API to allow for sending strings of
8318 arbitrary length. [Doug MacEachern]
8320 *) Remove rlim_t typedef for NetBSD. Do older versions need this?
8322 *) Defined rlim_t and WANTHSREGEX=yes and fixed waitpid() substitute for
8323 NeXT. [Jim Jagielski]
8325 *) Removed recent modification to promote the status code on internal
8326 redirects, since the correct fix was to change the default log format
8327 in mod_log_config so that it outputs the original status. [Rob Hartill]
8329 Changes with Apache 1.2b2:
8331 *) Update set_signals() to use sigaction() for setting handlers.
8332 This appears to fix a re-entrant problem in the seg_fault()
8333 bus_error() handlers. [Randy Terbush]
8335 *) Changes to allow mod_status compile for OS/2 [Garey Smiley]
8337 *) changes for DEC AXP running OSF/1 v3.0. [Marc Evans]
8339 *) proxy_http.c bugfixes: [Chuck Murcko]
8340 1) fixes possible NULL pointer reference w/NoCache
8341 2) fixes NoCache behavior when using ProxyRemote (ProxyRemote
8342 host would cache nothing if it was in the local domain,
8343 and the local domain was in the NoCache list)
8344 3) Adds Host: header when not available
8345 4) Some code cleanup and clarification
8347 *) mod_include.c bugfixes:
8348 1) Fixed an ommission that caused include variables to not
8349 be parsed in config errmsg directives [Howard Fear]
8350 2) Remove HAVE_POSIX_REGEX cruft [Alexei Kosut]
8351 3) Patch to fix compiler warnings [perrot@lal.in2p3.fr]
8352 4) Allow backslash-escaping to all quoted text
8353 [Ben Yoshino <ben@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu>]
8354 5) Pass variable to command line if not set in XSSI's env
8357 *) Fix infinite loop when processing Content-language lines in
8358 type-map files. [Alexei Kosut]
8360 *) Closed file-globbing hole in test-cgi script. [Brian Behlendorf]
8362 *) Fixed problem in set_[user|group] that prevented CGI execution
8363 for non-virtualhosts when suEXEC was enabled. [Randy Terbush]
8365 *) Added PORTING information file. [Jim Jagielski]
8367 *) Added definitions for S_IWGRP and S_IWOTH to conf.h [Ben Laurie]
8369 *) Changed default group to "nogroup" instead of "nobody" [Randy Terbush]
8371 *) Fixed define typo of FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT where
8372 USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT was intended.
8374 *) Fixed additional uses of 0xffffffff where INADDR_NONE was intended,
8375 which caused problems of systems where socket s_addr is >32bits.
8377 *) Added comment to explain (r->chunked = 1) side-effect in
8378 http_protocol.c [Roy Fielding]
8380 *) Replaced use of index() in mod_expires.c with more appropriate
8381 and portable isdigit() test. [Ben Laurie]
8383 *) Updated Configure for ...
8384 OS/2 (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes, other code changes)
8385 *-dg-dgux* (bad pattern match)
8386 QNX (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes)
8387 *-sunos4* (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes, -DUSEBCOPY)
8390 and added some user diagnostic info. [Ben Laurie]
8392 *) In helpers/CutRule, replaced "cut" invocation with "awk" invocation
8393 for better portability. [Jim Jagielski]
8395 *) Updated helpers/GuessOS for ...
8396 SCO 5 (recognize minor releases)
8397 SCO UnixWare (braindamaged uname, whatever-whatever-unixware2)
8398 SCO UnixWare 2.1.1 (requires a separate set of #defines in conf.h)
8399 IRIX64 (-sgi-irix64)
8400 ULTRIX (-unknown-ultrix)
8401 SINIX (-whatever-sysv4)
8402 NCR Unix (-ncr-sysv4)
8403 and fixed something in helpers/PrintPath [Ben Laurie]
8405 Changes with Apache 1.2b1
8407 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_2.html>
8409 Changes with Apache 1.1.1
8411 *) Fixed bug where Cookie module would make two entries in the
8412 logfile for each access [Mark Cox]
8414 *) Fixed bug where Redirect in .htaccess files would cause memory
8415 leak. [Nathan Neulinger]
8417 *) MultiViews now works correctly with AddHandler [Alexei Kosut]
8419 *) Problems with mod_auth_msql fixed [Dirk vanGulik]
8421 *) Fix misspelling of "Anonymous_Authorative" directive in mod_auth_anon.
8423 Changes with Apache 1.1.0
8425 *) Bring NeXT support up to date. [Takaaki Matsumoto]
8427 *) Bring QNX support up to date. [Ben Laurie]
8429 *) Make virtual hosts default to main server keepalive parameters.
8430 [Alexei Kosut, Ben Laurie]
8432 *) Allow ScanHTMLTitles to work with lowercase <title> tags. [Alexei Kosut]
8434 *) Fix missing address family for connect, also remove unreachable statement
8435 in mod_proxy. [Ben Laurie]
8437 *) mod_env now turned on by default in Configuration.tmpl.
8439 *) Bugs which were fixed:
8440 a) yet more mod_proxy bugs [Ben Laurie]
8441 b) CGI works again with inetd [Alexei Kosut]
8442 c) Leading colons were stripped from passwords [osm@interguide.com]
8443 d) Another fix to multi-method Limit problem [jk@tools.de]
8445 Changes with Apache 1.1b4
8447 *) r->bytes_sent variable restored. [Robert Thau]
8449 *) Previously broken multi-method <Limit> parsing fixed. [Robert Thau]
8451 *) More possibly unsecure programs removed from the support directory.
8453 *) More mod_auth_msql authentication improvements.
8455 *) VirtualHosts based on Host: headers no longer conflict with the
8458 *) OS/2 compatibility enhancements. [Gary Smiley]
8460 *) POST now allowed to directory index CGI scripts.
8462 *) Actions now work with files of the default type.
8464 *) Bugs which were fixed:
8465 a) more mod_proxy bugs
8466 b) early termination of inetd requests
8467 c) compile warnings on several systems
8468 d) problems when scripts stop reading output early
8470 Changes with Apache 1.1b3
8472 *) Much of cgi-bin and all of cgi-src has been removed, due to
8473 various security holes found and that we could no longer support
8476 *) The "Set-Cookie" header is now special-cased to not merge multiple
8477 instances, since certain popular browsers can not handle multiple
8478 Set-Cookie instructions in a single header. [Paul Sutton]
8480 *) rprintf() added to buffer code, occurrences of sprintf removed.
8483 *) CONNECT method for proxy module, which means tunneling SSL should work.
8484 (No crypto needed) Also a NoCache config directive.
8486 *) Several API additions: pstrndup(), table_unset() and get_token()
8487 functions now available to modules.
8489 *) mod_imap fixups, in particular Location: headers are now complete
8492 *) New "info" module which reports on installed module set through a
8493 special URL, a la mod_status.
8495 *) "ServerPath" directive added - allows for graceful transition
8496 for Host:-header-based virtual hosts.
8498 *) Anonymous authentication module improvements.
8500 *) MSQL authentication module improvements.
8502 *) Status module design improved - output now table-based. [Ben Laurie]
8504 *) htdigest utility included for use with digest authentication
8507 *) mod_negotiation: Accept values with wildcards to be treated with
8508 less priority than those without wildcards at the same quality
8509 value. [Alexei Kosut]
8511 *) Bugs which were fixed:
8512 a) numerous mod_proxy bugs
8513 b) CGI early-termination bug [Ben Laurie]
8514 c) Keepalives not working with virtual hosts
8515 d) RefererIgnore problems
8516 e) closing fd's twice in mod_include (causing core dumps on
8517 Linux and elsewhere).
8519 Changes with Apache 1.1b2
8522 a) core dumps in mod_digest
8523 b) truncated hostnames/ip address in the logs
8524 c) relative URL's in mod_imap map files
8526 Changes with Apache 1.1b1
8528 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_1.html>
8530 Changes with Apache 1.0.3
8532 *) Internal redirects which occur in mod_dir.c now preserve the
8533 query portion of a request (the bit after the question mark).
8536 *) Escape active characters '<', '>' and '&' in html output in
8537 directory listings, error messages and redirection links.
8540 *) Apache will now work with LynxOS 2.3 and later [Steven Watt]
8542 *) Fix for POSIX compliance in waiting for processes in alloc.c.
8545 *) setsockopt no longer takes a const declared argument [Martijn Koster]
8547 *) Reset timeout timer after each successful fwrite() to the network.
8548 This patch adds a reset_timeout() procedure that is called by
8549 send_fd() to reset the timeout ever time data is written to the net.
8552 *) timeout() signal handler now checks for SIGPIPE and reports
8553 lost connections in a more user friendly way. [Rob Hartill]
8555 *) Location of the "scoreboard" file which used to live in /tmp is
8556 now configurable (for OSes that can't use mmap) via ScoreBoardFile
8557 which works similar to PidFile (in httpd.conf) [Rob Hartill]
8559 *) Include sys/resource.h in the correct place for SunOS4 [Sameer Parekh]
8561 *) the pstrcat call in mod_cookies.c didn't have an ending NULL,
8562 which caused a SEGV with cookies enabled
8564 *) Output warning when MinSpareServers is set to <= 0 and change it to 1
8567 *) Log the UNIX textual error returned by some system calls, in
8568 particular errors from accept() [David Robinson]
8570 *) Add strerror function to util.c for SunOS4 [Randy Terbush]
8572 Changes with Apache 1.0.2
8574 *) patch to get Apache compiled on UnixWare 2.x, recommended as
8575 a temporary measure, pending rewrite of rfc931.c. [Chuck Murcko]
8577 *) Fix get_basic_auth_pw() to set the auth_type of the request.
8580 *) past changes to http_config.c to only use the
8581 setrlimit function on systems defining RLIMIT_NOFILE
8582 broke the feature on SUNOS4. Now defines HAVE_RESOURCE
8583 for SUNOS and prototypes the needed functions.
8585 *) Remove uses of MAX_STRING_LEN/HUGE_STRING_LEN from several routines.
8588 *) Fix use of pointer to scratch memory. [Cliff Skolnick]
8590 *) Merge multiple headers from CGI scripts instead of taking last
8591 one. [David Robinson]
8593 *) Add support for SCO 5. [Ben Laurie]
8595 Changes with Apache 1.0.1
8597 *) Silence mod_log_referer and mod_log_agent if not configured
8600 *) Recursive includes can occur if the client supplies PATH_INFO data
8601 and the server provider uses relative links; as file.html
8602 relative to /doc.shtml/pathinfo is /doc.shtml/file.html. [David Robinson]
8604 *) The replacement for initgroups() did not call {set,end}grent(). This
8605 had two implications: if anything else used getgrent(), then
8606 initgroups() would fail, and it was consuming a file descriptor.
8609 *) On heavily loaded servers it was possible for the scoreboard to get
8610 out of sync with reality, as a result of a race condition.
8611 The observed symptoms are far more Apaches running than should
8612 be, and heavy system loads, generally followed by catastrophic
8613 system failure. [Ben Laurie]
8615 *) Fix typo in license. [David Robinson]
8617 Changes with Apache 1.0.0 23 Nov 1995
8619 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_0.html>
8621 Changes with Apache 0.8.16 05 Nov 1995
8623 *) New man page for 'httpd' added to support directory [David Robinson]
8625 *) .htgroup files can have more than one line giving members for a
8626 given group (each must have the group name in front), for NCSA
8627 back-compatibility [Robert Thau]
8629 *) Mutual exclusion around accept() is on by default for SVR4 systems
8630 generally, since they generally can't handle multiple processes in
8631 accept() on the same socket. This should cure flaky behavior on
8632 a lot of those systems. [David Robinson]
8634 *) AddType, AddEncoding, and AddLanguage directives take multiple
8635 extensions on a single command line [David Robinson]
8637 *) UserDir can be disabled for a given virtual host by saying
8638 "UserDir disabled" in the <VirtualHost> section --- it was a bug
8639 that this didn't work. [David Robinson]
8641 *) Compiles on QNX [Ben Laurie]
8643 *) Corrected parsing of ctime time format [David Robinson]
8645 *) httpd does a perror() before exiting if it can't log its pid
8646 to the PidFile, to make diagnosing the error a bit easier.
8649 *) <!--#include file="..."--> can no longer include files in the
8650 parent directory, for NCSA back-compatibility. [David Robinson]
8652 *) '~' is *not* escaped in URIs generated for directory listings
8655 *) Eliminated compiler warning in the imagemap module [Randy Terbush]
8657 *) Fixed bug involving handling URIs with escaped %-characters
8658 in redirects [David Robinson]
8660 Changes with Apache 0.8.15 14 Oct 1995
8662 *) Switched to new, simpler license
8664 *) Eliminated core dumps with improperly formatted DBM group files [Mark Cox]
8666 *) Don't allow requests for ordinary files to have PATH_INFO [Ben Laurie]
8668 *) Reject paths containing %-escaped '%' or null characters [David Robinson]
8670 *) Correctly handles internal redirects to files with names containing '%'
8673 *) Repunctuated some error messages [Aram Mirzadeh, Andrew Wilson]
8675 *) Use geteuid() rather than getuid() to see if we have root privilege,
8676 so that server correctly resets privilege if run setuid root. [Andrew
8679 *) Handle ftp: and telnet: URLs correctly in imagemaps (built-in module)
8682 *) Fix relative URLs in imagemap files [Randy Terbush]
8684 *) Somewhat better fix for the old "Alias /foo/ /bar/" business
8687 *) Don't repeatedly open the ErrorLog if a bunch of <VirtualHost>
8688 entries all name the same one. [David Robinson]
8690 *) Fix directory listings with filenames containing unusual characters
8693 *) Better URI-escaping for generated URIs in directories with filenames
8694 containing unusual characters [Ben Laurie]
8696 *) Fixed potential FILE* leak in http_main.c [Ben Laurie]
8698 *) Unblock alarms on error return from spawn_child() [David Robinson]
8700 *) Sample Config files have extra note for SCO users [Ben Laurie]
8702 *) Configuration has note for HP-UX users [Rob Hartill]
8704 *) Eliminated some bogus Linux-only #defines in conf.h [Aram Mirzadeh]
8706 *) Nuked bogus #define in httpd.h [David Robinson]
8708 *) Better test for whether a system has setrlimit() [David Robinson]
8710 *) Calls update_child_status() after reopen_scoreboard() [David Robinson]
8712 *) Doesn't send itself SIGHUP on startup when run in the -X debug-only mode
8715 Changes with Apache 0.8.14 19 Sep 1995
8717 *) Compiles on SCO ODT 3.0 [Ben Laurie]
8719 *) AddDescription works (better) [Ben Laurie]
8721 *) Leaves an intelligible error diagnostic when it can't set group
8722 privileges on standalone startup [Andrew Wilson]
8724 *) Compiles on NeXT again --- the 0.8.13 RLIMIT patch was failing on
8725 that machine, which claims to be BSD but does not support RLIMIT.
8728 *) gcc -Wall no longer complains about an unused variable when util.c
8729 is compiled with -DMINIMAL_DNS [Andrew Wilson]
8731 *) Nuked another compiler warning for -Wall on Linux [Aram Mirzadeh]
8733 Changes with Apache 0.8.13 07 Sep 1995
8735 *) Make IndexIgnore *work* (ooops) [Jarkko Torppa]
8737 *) Have built-in imagemap code recognize & honor Point directive [James
8740 *) Generate cleaner directory listings in directories with a mix of
8741 long and short filenames [Rob Hartill]
8743 *) Properly initialize dynamically loaded modules [Royston Shufflebotham]
8745 *) Properly default ServerName for virtual servers [Robert Thau]
8747 *) Rationalize handling of BSD in conf.h and elsewhere [Randy Terbush,
8748 Paul Richards and a cast of thousands...]
8750 *) On self-identified BSD systems (we don't try to guess any more),
8751 allocate a few extra file descriptors per virtual host with setrlimit,
8752 if we can, to avoid running out. [Randy Terbush]
8754 *) Write 22-character lock file name into buffer with enough space
8755 on startup [Konstantin Olchanski]
8757 *) Use archaic setpgrp() interface on NeXT, which requires it [Brian
8760 *) Suppress -Wall warning by casting const away in util.c [Aram Mirzadeh]
8762 *) Suppress -Wall warning by initializing variable in negotiation code
8763 [Tobias Weingartner]
8765 Changes with Apache 0.8.12 31 Aug 1995
8767 *) Doesn't pause three seconds after including a CGI script which is
8768 too slow to die off (this is done by not even trying to kill off
8769 subprocesses, including the SIGTERM/pause/SIGKILL routine, until
8770 after the entire document has been processed). [Robert Thau]
8772 *) Doesn't do SSI if Options Includes is off. (Ooops). [David Robinson]
8774 *) Options IncludesNoExec allows inclusion of at least text/* [Roy Fielding]
8776 *) Allows .htaccess files to override <Directory> sections naming the
8777 same directory [David Robinson]
8779 *) Removed an efficiency hack in sub_req_lookup_uri which was
8780 causing certain extremely marginal cases (e.g., ScriptAlias of a
8781 *particular* index.html file) to fail. [David Robinson]
8783 *) Doesn't log an error when the requested URI requires
8784 authentication, but no auth header line was supplied by the
8785 client; this is a normal condition (the client doesn't no auth is
8786 needed here yet). [Robert Thau]
8788 *) Behaves more sanely when the name server loses its mind [Sean Welch]
8790 *) RFC931 code compiles cleanly on old BSDI releases [Randy Terbush]
8792 *) RFC931 code no longer passes out name of prior clients on current
8793 requests if the current request came from a server that doesn't
8794 do RFC931. [David Robinson]
8796 *) Configuration script accepts "Module" lines with trailing whitespace.
8799 *) Cleaned up compiler warning from mod_access.c [Robert Thau]
8801 *) Cleaned up comments in mod_cgi.c [Robert Thau]
8803 Changes with Apache 0.8.11 24 Aug 1995
8805 *) Wildcard <Directory> specifications work. [Robert Thau]
8807 *) Doesn't loop for buggy CGI on Solaris [Cliff Skolnick]
8809 *) Symlink checks (FollowSymLinks off, or SymLinkIfOwnerMatch) always check
8810 the file being requested itself, in addition to the directories leading
8811 up to it. [Robert Thau]
8813 *) Logs access failures due to symlink checks or invalid client address
8814 in the error log [Roy Fielding, Robert Thau]
8816 *) Symlink checks deal correctly with systems where lstat of
8817 "/path/to/some/link/" follows the link. [Thau, Fielding]
8819 *) Doesn't reset DirectoryIndex to 'index.html' when
8820 other directory options are set in a .htaccess file. [Robert Thau]
8822 *) Clarified init code and nuked bogus warning in mod_access.c
8825 *) Corrected several directives in sample srm.conf
8826 --- includes corrections to directory indexing icon-related directives
8827 (using unknown.gif rather than unknown.xbm as the DefaultIcon, doing
8828 icons for encodings right, and turning on AddEncoding by default).
8831 *) Corrected descriptions of args to AddIcon and AddAlt in command table
8834 *) INSTALL & README mention "contributed modules" directory [Brian
8837 *) Fixed English in the license language... "for for" --> "for".
8840 *) Fixed ScriptAlias/Alias interaction by moving ScriptAlias handling to
8841 mod_alias.c, merging it almost completely with handling of Alias, and
8842 adding a 'notes' field to the request_rec which allows the CGI module
8843 to discover whether the Alias module has put this request through
8844 ScriptAlias (which it needs to know for back-compatibility, as the old
8845 NCSA code did not check Options ExecCGI in ScriptAlias directories).
8848 Changes with Apache 0.8.10 18 Aug 1995
8850 *) AllowOverride applies to the named directory, and not just
8851 subdirectories. [David Robinson]
8853 *) Do locking for accept() exclusion (on systems that need it)
8854 using a special file created for the purpose in /usr/tmp, and
8855 not the error log; using the error log causes real problems
8856 if it's NFS-mounted; this is known to be the cause of a whole
8857 lot of "server hang" problems with Solaris. [David Robinson;
8858 thanks to Merten Schumann for help diagnosing the problem].
8860 Changes with Apache 0.8.9 12 Aug 1995
8862 *) Compiles with -DMAXIMUM_DNS ---- ooops! [Henrik Mortensen]
8864 *) Nested includes see environment variables of the including document,
8865 for NCSA bug-compatibility (some sites have standard footer includes
8866 which try to print out the last-modified date). [Eric Hagberg/Robert
8869 *) <!--exec cgi="/some/uri/here"--> always treats the item named by the
8870 URI as a CGI script, even if it would have been treated as something
8871 else if requested directly, for NCSA back-compatibility. (Note that
8872 this means that people who know the name of the script can see the
8873 code just by asking for it). [Robert Thau]
8875 *) New version of dbmmanage script included in support directory as
8878 *) Check if scoreboard file couldn't be opened, and say so, rather
8879 then going insane [David Robinson]
8881 *) POST to CGI works on A/UX [Jim Jagielski]
8883 *) AddIcon and AddAlt commands work properly [Rob Hartill]
8885 *) NCSA server push works properly --- the Arena bug compatibility
8886 workaround, which broke it, is gone (use -DARENA_BUG_WORKAROUND
8887 if you still want the workaround). [Rob Hartill]
8889 *) If client didn't submit any Accept-encodings, ignore encodings in
8890 content negotiation. (NB this will all have to be reworked anyway
8891 for the new HTTP draft). [Florent Guillaume]
8893 *) Don't dump core when trying to log timed-out requests [Jim Jagielski]
8895 *) Really honor CacheNegotiatedDocs [Florent Guillaume]
8897 *) Give Redirect priority over Alias, for NCSA bug compatibility
8900 *) Correctly set PATH_TRANSLATED in all cases from <!--#exec cmd=""-->,
8901 paralleling earlier bug fix for CGI [David Robinson]
8903 *) If DBM auth is improperly configured, report a server error and don't
8906 *) Deleted FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPTS from conf.h entry for A/UX;
8907 it seems to work well enough without it (even in a 10 hits/sec
8908 workout), and the overhead for the locking under A/UX is
8909 alarmingly high (though it is very low on other systems).
8910 [Eric Hagberg, Jim Jagielski]
8912 *) Fixed portability problems with mod_cookies.c [Cliff Skolnick]
8914 *) Further de-Berklize mod_cookies.c; change the bogus #include. [Brian
8915 Behlendorf/Eric Hagberg]
8917 *) More improvements to default Configuration for A/UX [Jim Jagielski]
8919 *) Compiles clean on NEXT [Rob Hartill]
8921 *) Compiles clean on SGI [Robert Thau]
8923 Changes with Apache 0.8.8 08 Aug 1995
8925 *) SunOS library prototypes now never included unless explicitly
8926 requested in the configuration (via -DSUNOS_LIB_PROTOTYPES);
8927 people using GNU libc on SunOS are screwed by prototypes for the
8930 (Those who wish to compile clean with gcc -Wall on a standard
8931 SunOS setup need the prototypes, and may obtain them using
8932 -DSUNOS_LIB_PROTOTYPES. Those wishing to use -Wall on a system
8933 with nonstandard libraries are presumably competent to make their
8936 *) Strips trailing '/' characters off both args to the Alias command,
8937 to make 'Alias /foo/ /bar/' work.
8939 Changes with Apache 0.8.7 03 Aug 1995
8941 *) Don't hang when restarting with a child from 'TransferLog "|..."' running
8942 [reported by David Robinson]
8944 *) Compiles clean on OSF/1 [David Robinson]
8946 *) Added some of the more recent significant changes (AddLanguage stuff,
8947 experimental LogFormat support) to CHANGES file in distribution root
8950 Changes with Apache 0.8.6 02 Aug 1995
8952 *) Deleted Netscape reload workaround --- it's in violation of HTTP specs.
8953 (If you actually wanted a conditional GET which bypassed the cache, you
8954 couldn't get it). [Reported by Roy Fielding]
8956 *) Properly terminate headers on '304 Not Modified' replies to conditional
8957 GETs --- no browser we can find cares much, but the CERN proxy chokes.
8958 [Reported by Cliff Skolnick; fix discovered independently by Rob Hartill]
8960 *) httpd -v doesn't call itself "Shambhala". [Reported by Chuck Murcko]
8962 *) SunOS lib-function prototypes in conf.h conditionalized on __GNUC__,
8963 not __SUNPRO_C (they're needed to quiet gcc -Wall, but acc chokes on 'em,
8964 and older versions don't set the __SUNPRO_C preprocessor variable). On
8965 all other systems, these are never used anyway. [Reported by Mark Cox].
8967 *) Scoreboard file (/tmp/htstatus.*) no longer publically writable.
8969 Changes with Apache 0.8.5 01 Aug 1995
8971 *) Added last-minute configurable log experiment, as optional module
8973 *) Correctly set r->bytes_sent for HTTP/0.9 requests, so they get logged
8974 properly. (One-line fix to http_protocol.c).
8976 *) Work around bogus behavior when reloading from Netscape.
8977 It's Netscape's bug --- for some reason they expect a request with
8978 If-modified-since: to not function as a conditional GET if it also
8979 comes with Pragma: no-cache, which is way out of line with the HTTP
8980 spec (according to Roy Fielding, the redactor).
8982 *) Added parameter to set maximum number of server processes.
8984 *) Added patches to make it work on A/UX. A/UX is *weird*. [Eric Hagberg,
8987 *) IdentityCheck bugfix [Chuck Murcko].
8989 *) Corrected cgi-src/Makefile entry for new imagemap script. [Alexei Kosut]
8991 *) More sample config file corrections; add extension to AddType for
8992 *.asis, move AddType generic description to its proper place, and
8993 fix miscellaneous typos. [ Alexei Kosut ]
8995 *) Deleted the *other* reference to the regents from the Berkeley
8996 legal disclaimer (everyplace).
8998 *) Nuked Shambhala name from src/README; had already cleaned it out
9001 Changes with Apache 0.8.4
9003 *) Changes to server-pool management parms --- renamed current
9004 StartServers to MinSpareServers, created separate StartServers
9005 parameter which means what it says, and renamed MaxServers to
9006 MaxSpareServers (though the old name still works, for NCSA 1.4
9007 back-compatibility). The old names were generally regarded as
9008 too confusing. Also altered "docs" in sample config files.
9010 *) More improvements to default config files ---
9011 sample directives (commented out) for XBitHack, BindAddress,
9012 CacheNegotiatedDocs, VirtualHost; decent set of AddLanguage
9013 defaults, AddTypes for send-as-is and imagemap magic types, and
9014 improvements to samples for DirectoryIndex [Alexei Kosut]
9016 *) Yet more improvements to default config files --- changes to
9017 Alexei's sample AddLanguage directives, and sample LanguagePriority
9018 [ Florent Guillaume ]
9020 *) Set config file locations properly if not set in httpd.conf
9023 *) Don't escape URIs in internal redirects multiple times; don't
9024 do that when translating PATH_INFO to PATH_TRANSLATED either.
9027 *) Corrected spelling of "Required" in 401 error reports [Andrew Wilson]
9029 Changes with Apache 0.8.3
9031 *) Edited distribution README to *briefly* summarize installation
9032 procedures, and give a pointer to the INSTALL file in the src/
9035 *) Upgraded imagemap script in cgi-bin to 1.8 version from more
9036 recent NCSA distributions.
9038 *) Bug fix to previous bug fix --- if .htaccess file and <Directory>
9039 exist for the same directory, use both and don't segfault. [Reported
9042 *) Proper makefile dependencies [David Robinson]
9044 *) Note (re)starts in error log --- reported by Rob Hartill.
9046 *) Only call no2slash() after get_path_info() has been done, to
9047 preserve multiple slashes in the PATH_INFO [NCSA compatibility,
9048 reported by Andrew Wilson, though this one is probably a real bug]
9050 *) Fixed mod_imap.c --- relative paths with base_uri referer don't
9051 dump core when Referer is not supplied. [Randy Terbush]
9053 *) Lightly edited sample config files to refer people to our documentation
9054 instead of NCSA's, and to list Rob McCool as *original* author (also
9055 deleted his old, and no doubt non-functional email address). Would be
9056 nice to have examples of new features...
9058 Changes with Apache 0.8.2 19 Jul 1995
9060 *) Added AddLanuage code [Florent Guillaume]
9062 *) Don't say "access forbidden" when a CGI script is not found. [Mark Cox]
9064 *) All sorts of problems when MultiViews finds a directory. It would
9065 be nice if mod_dir.c was robust enough to handle that, but for now,
9066 just punt. [reported by Brian Behlendorf]
9068 *) Wait for all children on restart, to make sure that the old socket
9069 is gone and we can reopen it. [reported by Randy Terbush]
9071 *) Imagemap module is enabled in default Configuration
9073 *) RefererLog and UserAgentLog modules properly default the logfile
9076 *) Mark Cox's mod_cookies added to the distribution as an optional
9077 module (commented out in the default Configuration, and noted as
9078 an experiment, along with mod_dld). [Mark Cox]
9080 *) Compiles on ULTRIX (a continuing battle...). [Robert Thau]
9082 *) Fixed nasty bug in SIGTERM handling [reported by Randy Terbush]
9084 *) Changed "Shambhala" to "Apache" in API docs. [Robert Thau]
9086 *) Added new, toothier legal disclaimer. [Robert Thau; copied from BSD
9089 Changes with Apache 0.8.1
9091 *) New imagemap module [Randy Terbush]
9093 *) Replacement referer log module with NCSA-compatible RefererIgnore
9094 [Matthew Gray again]
9096 *) Don't mung directory listings with very long filenames.
9099 Changes with Apache 0.8.0 (nee Shambhala 0.6.2) 16 Jul 1995
9101 *) New config script. See INSTALL for info. [Robert Thau]
9103 *) Scoreboard mechanism for regulating the number of extant server
9104 processes. MaxServers and StartServers defaults are the same as
9105 for NCSA, but the meanings are slightly different. (Actually,
9106 I should probably lower the MaxServers default to 10).
9108 Before asking for a new connection, each server process checks
9109 the number of other servers which are also waiting for a
9110 connection. If there are more than MaxServers, it quietly dies
9111 off. Conversely, every second, the root, or caretaker, process
9112 looks to see how many servers are waiting for a new connection;
9113 if there are fewer than StartServers, it starts a new one. This
9114 does not depend on the number of server processes already extant.
9115 The accounting is arranged through a "scoreboard" file, named
9116 /tmp/htstatus.*, on which each process has an independent file
9117 descriptor (they need to seek without interference).
9119 The end effect is that MaxServers is the maximum number of
9120 servers on an *inactive* server machine, but more will be forked
9121 off to handle unusually heavy loads (or unusually slow clients);
9122 these will die off when they are no longer needed --- without
9123 reverting to the overhead of full forking operation. There is a
9124 hard maximum of 150 server processes compiled in, largely to
9125 avoid forking out of control and dragging the machine down.
9126 (This is arguably too high).
9128 In my server endurance tests, this mechanism did not appear to
9129 impose any significant overhead, even after I forced it to put the
9130 scoreboard file on a normal filesystem (which might have more
9131 overhead than tmpfs). [Robert Thau]
9133 *) Set HTTP_FOO variables for SSI <!--#exec cmd-->s, not just CGI scripts.
9136 *) Read .htaccess files even in directory with <Directory> section.
9137 (Former incompatibility noted on mailing list, now fixed). [Robert
9140 *) "HEAD /" gives the client a "Bad Request" error message, rather
9141 than trying to send no body *and* no headers. [Cliff Skolnick].
9143 *) Don't produce double error reports for some very obscure cases
9144 mainly involving auth configuration (the "all modules decline to
9145 handle" case which is a sure sign of a server bug in most cases,
9146 but also happens when authentication is badly misconfigured).
9149 *) Moved FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT defines into conf.h (that's what
9150 it's *for*, and this sort of thing really shouldn't be cluttering
9151 up the Makefile). [Robert Thau]
9153 *) Incidental code cleanups in http_main.c --- stop dragging
9154 sa_client around; just declare it where used. [Robert Thau]
9156 *) Another acc-related fix. (It doesn't like const char
9157 in some places...). [Mark Cox]
9159 Changes with Shambhala 0.6.1 13 Jul 1995
9161 *) Fixed auth_name-related typos in http_core.c [Brian Behlendorf]
9162 Also, fixed auth typo in http_protocol.c unmasked by this fix.
9164 *) Compiles clean with acc on SunOS [Paul Sutton]
9166 *) Reordered modules in modules.c so that Redirect takes priority
9167 over ScriptAlias, for NCSA bug-compatibility [Rob Hartill] ---
9168 believe it or not, he has an actual site with a ScriptAlias and
9169 a Redirect declared for the *exact same directory*. Even *my*
9170 compatibility fetish wouldn't motivate me to fix this if the fix
9171 required any effort, but it doesn't, so what the hey.
9173 *) Fixed to properly default several server_rec fields for virtual
9174 servers from the corresponding fields in the main server_rec.
9175 [Cliff Skolnick --- 'port' was a particular irritant].
9177 *) No longer kills off nph- child processes before they are
9178 finished sending output. [Matthew Gray]
9180 Changes with Shambhala 0.6.0 10 Jul 1995
9182 *) Two styles of timeout --- hard and soft. soft_timeout()s just put
9183 the connection to the client in an "aborted" state, but otherwise
9184 allow whatever handlers are running to clean up. hard_timeout()s
9185 abort the request in progress completely; anything not tied to some
9186 resource pool cleanup will leak. They're still around because I
9187 haven't yet come up with a more elegant way of handling
9188 timeouts when talking to something that isn't the client. The
9189 default_handler and the dir_handler now use soft timeouts, largely
9190 so I can test the feature. [Robert Thau]
9192 *) TransferLog "| my_postprocessor ..." seems to be there. Note that
9193 the case of log handlers dying prematurely is probably handled VERY
9194 gracelessly at this point, and if the logger stops reading input,
9195 the server will hang. (It is known to correctly restart the
9196 logging process on server restart; this is (should be!) going through
9197 the same SIGTERM/pause/SIGKILL routine used to ding an errant CGI
9198 script). [Robert Thau]
9200 *) asis files supported (new module). [Robert Thau]
9202 *) IdentityCheck code is compiled in, but has not been tested. (I
9203 don't know anyone who runs identd). [Robert Thau]
9205 *) PATH_INFO and PATH_TRANSLATED are not set unless some real PATH_INFO
9206 came in with the request, for NCSA bug-compatibility. [Robert Thau]
9208 *) Don't leak the DIR * on HEAD request for a directory. [Robert Thau]
9210 *) Deleted the block_alarms() stuff from dbm_auth; no longer necessary,
9211 as timeouts are not in scope. [Robert Thau]
9213 *) quoted-string args in config files now handled correctly (doesn't drop
9214 the last character). [Robert Thau; reported by Randy Terbush]
9216 *) Fixed silly typo in http_main.c which was suddenly fatal in HP-UX.
9217 How the hell did it ever work? [Robert Thau; reported by Rob Hartill]
9219 *) mod_core.c --- default_type returns DEFAULT_TYPE (the compile-time
9220 default default type); the former default default behavior when all
9221 type-checkers defaulted had been a core dump. [Paul Sutton]
9223 *) Copy filenames out of the struct dirent when indexing
9224 directories. (On Linux, readdir() returns a pointer to the same
9225 memory area every time). Fix is in mod_dir.c. [Paul Sutton]
9227 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.3 [not released]
9229 *) Default response handler notes "file not found" in the error log,
9230 if the file was not found. [Cliff Skolnick].
9232 *) Another Cliff bug --- "GET /~user" now properly redirects (the userdir
9233 code no longer sets up bogus PATH_INFO which fakes out the directory
9234 handler). [Cliff Skolnick]
9236 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.2 06 Jul 1995
9238 *) Changes to http_main.c --- root server no longer plays silly
9239 games with SIGCHLD, and so now detects and replaces dying
9240 children. Child processes just die on SIGTERM, without taking
9241 the whole process group with them. Potential problem --- if any
9242 child process refuses to die, we hang in restart.
9243 MaxRequestsPerChild may still not work, but it certainly works
9244 better than it did before this! [Robert Thau]
9246 *) mod_dir.c bug fixes: ReadmeName and HeaderName
9247 work (or work better, at least); over-long description lines
9248 properly terminated. [Mark Cox]
9250 *) http_request.c now calls unescape_url() more places where it
9251 should [Paul Sutton].
9253 *) More directory handling bugs (reported by Cox)
9254 Parent Directory link is now set correctly. [Robert Thau]
9256 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.1 04 Jul 1995
9258 *) Generalized cleanup interface in alloc.c --- any function can be
9259 registered with alloc.c as a cleanup for a resource pool;
9260 tracking of files and file descriptors has been reimplemented in
9261 terms of this interface, so I can give it some sort of a test.
9264 *) More changes in alloc.c --- new cleanup_for_exec() function,
9265 which tracks down and closes all file descriptors which have been
9266 registered with the alloc.c machinery before the server exec()s a
9267 child process for CGI or <!--#exec-->. CGI children now get
9268 started with exactly three file descriptors open. Hopefully,
9269 this cures the problem Rob H. was having with overly persistent
9270 CGI connections. [Robert Thau]
9272 *) Mutual exclusion around the accept() in child_main() --- this is
9273 required on at least SGI, Solaris and Linux, and is #ifdef'ed in
9274 by default on those systems only (-DFCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT).
9275 This uses fcntl(F_SETLK,...) on the error log descriptor because
9276 flock() on that descriptor won't work on systems which have BSD
9277 flock() semantics, including (I think) Linux 1.3 and Solaris.
9279 This does work on SunOS (when the server is idle, only one
9280 process in the pool is waiting on accept()); it *ought* to work
9281 on the other systems. [Robert Thau]
9283 *) FreeBSD and BSDI portability tweaks [Chuck Murcko]
9285 *) sizeof(*sa_client) bugfix from [Rob Hartill]
9287 *) pstrdup(..., NULL) returns NULL, [Randy Terbush]
9289 *) block_alarms() to avoid leaking the DBM* in dbm auth (this should
9290 be unnecessary if I go to the revised timeout-handling scheme).
9293 *) For NCSA bug-compatibility, set QUERY_STRING env var (to a null
9294 string) even if none came in with the request. [Robert Thau]
9296 *) CHANGES file added to distribution ;-).
9298 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.5
9300 *) mod_dld --- early dynamic loading support [rst]
9301 *) Add wildcard content handlers for XBITHACK; default_hander now
9302 invoked with that mechanism (as a handler hanging off mod_core) [rst]
9303 *) XBITHACK supported as a wildcard content-handler, and
9304 configurable at run-time (not just at compile time, as in the
9305 "patchy server" releases) [rst]
9307 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.4 30 Jun 1995
9309 *) Fixed basic thinkos in mod_dbm_auth.c [rst, reported by Mark Cox]
9310 *) Handle Addtype x/y .z [rst, reported by Cox]
9312 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.3
9314 *) Fixed very dumb bug in mod_alias; "Alias" and "Redirect" are not
9315 synonymous [rst, terbush]
9317 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.1 28 Jun 1995
9319 *) First-cut virtual host implementation; some refit in the config
9320 reading code, and log management, was necessary to support this [rst]
9321 *) Sub-pool machinery, originally added to avoid excessive storage
9322 allocation on listings of large directories (which turned out to
9323 be the problem that the 0.3 storage accounting was added to
9324 find). Subrequests and mod_dir changed to use subpools. [rst]
9325 *) More memory debugging --- free list consistency checks. [rst]
9326 *) Added err_headers to request_rec, with support elsewhere [rst]
9327 *) Other fixes to minor bugs in mod_dir and mod_includes [rst, terbush]
9329 Changes with Shambhala 0.3 19 Jun 1995
9331 *) Switch ONE_PROCESS to a runtime command-line option (-X)
9332 *) Don't compile in mod_ai_backcompat by default
9333 *) Switch name of server from Apache to Shambhala in Makefile
9334 *) Add some accounting routines to track memory usage in the pools,
9337 Changes with Shambhala 0.2
9339 *) Set DOCUMENT_ROOT CGI variable
9340 *) Add single-process debugging, as a compile-time option (ONE_PROCESS)
9341 *) Add critical section protection to handling of cleanup structures
9343 *) Significant code reorg within the server core to group related
9344 functions together [rst]
9345 *) Correctly handle clients that hang up before sending any request
9347 *) Replace dying child processes. [rst]
9349 Changes with Shambhala 0.1 12 Jun 1995
9351 Major rewrite of the pre-existing "patchy server" codebase, by
9352 Robert Thau (rst). Significant portions of the server code, such
9353 as configuration-file handling and HTTP authentication support,
9354 were ripped out and rewritten from scratch. Code that was not
9355 completely rewritten was significantly altered.
9357 Major changes with this release include:
9359 *) Introduction of the module API; in request handling, the central
9360 machinery just dispatches to various modules, which actually do
9361 most of the work. Configuration handling is similar --- modules
9362 declare their own commands, and the central machinery just
9365 API features from shambhala/0.1 were substantially unchanged in
9366 Apache 1.0 and 1.1. (1.0 API features not yet present in this
9367 release, such as wildcard handlers and subpools, were added in
9368 subsequent Shambhala releases, and were also generally rst's
9371 *) This release included the following modules:
9373 mod_access (access control --- allow and deny directives),
9374 mod_alias (Alias and Redirect commands),
9375 mod_auth (straight HTTP authentication, based on flat-files)
9376 mod_auth_dbm (same, with dbm files)
9377 mod_cgi (CGI scripts and, in this release, ScriptAlias)
9378 mod_common_log (CLF access logs; later renamed mod_log_common)
9379 mod_dir (directory indexing)
9380 mod_include (server-side includes)
9381 mod_mime (AddType directives)
9382 mod_negotiation (content negotiation)
9383 mod_userdir (support for users' public_html directories)
9385 It also included a mod_ai_backcompat, which was a private hack
9386 for back-compatibility with rst's own AI-lab servers.
9388 All of these modules were substantially complete, and functional
9389 or nearly so (a few, which implemented features not in use at
9390 Thau's site, required patches of a few lines).
9392 *) sub-request machinery, to allow modules to determine how other
9393 modules would assign MIME types to a given file, or optionally
9394 serve its content (this is heavily used by mod_dir, mod_include
9395 and mod_negotiation).
9397 *) Resource pool system for keeping track of memory allocated and
9398 files opened in service of a particular request. Much of the
9399 code in the modules (when they weren't rewrites) was adjusted to
9400 replace a pervasive convention of using fixed-size buffers on
9401 the stack with an equally pervasive convention of using memory
9402 allocated with palloc().
9404 *) Reorganization of data structures associated with a given
9405 request to eliminate use of global variables and the troublesome
9406 unmunge_name function (used in NCSA and early Apache releases to
9407 attempt to determine the URI which mapped to a given filename
9408 --- a difficult proposition, given that it is easy to produce
9409 setups in which multiple URIs map to the same file).
9411 *) Source files renamed and rearranged
9413 *) Very simple pre-forking behavior --- parent process forked off a
9414 fixed number of children, and then just waited for SIGHUP.
9416 *) Other more minor changes too numerous to list.
9418 This release included modified versions of a lot of code from the
9419 Apache 0.6.4 public release, plus an early pre-forking patch
9420 codeveloped by Robert Thau and Rob Hartill.
9422 Changes with Apache 0.7.3 20 Jun 1995
9424 *) There were a bunch of changes between Apache 0.6.4 and 0.7.3 that
9425 were incorporated by Rob Hartill on the main branch while Robert Thau
9426 worked on the Shambhala rewrite above. Most were merged into the
9427 Shambala architecture after Apache 0.8.0.
9429 Changes with Apache 0.6.4 13 May 1995
9431 *) Patches by Rob Hartill, Cliff Skolnick, Randy Terbush, Robert Thau,
9434 Changes with Apache 0.5.1 10 Apr 1995
9436 Changes with Apache 0.4 02 Apr 1995
9438 *) Patches by Brian Behlendorf, Andrew Wilson, Robert Thau,
9441 Changes with Apache 0.3 24 Mar 1995
9443 *) Patches by Robert Thau, David Robinson, Rob Hartill, and
9446 Changes with Apache 0.2 18 Mar 1995
9448 *) Based on NCSA httpd 1.3 by Rob McCool and patches by CERT,
9449 Roy Fielding, Robert Thau, Nicolas Pioch, David Robinson,
9450 Brian Behlendorf, Rob Hartill, and Cliff Skolnick.
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