2 Changes with Apache 2.4.30
4 *) mod_http2: obsolete code removed, no more events on beam pool destruction,
5 discourage content encoders on http2-status response (where they do not work).
8 *) mpm_event: Let the listener thread do its maintenance job on resources
9 shortage. PR 61979. [Yann Ylavic]
11 *) mpm_event: Wakeup the listener to re-enable listening sockets.
14 *) mod_ssl: The SSLCompression directive will now give an error if used
15 with an OpenSSL build which does not support any compression methods.
18 *) mpm_event,worker: Mask signals for threads created by modules in child
19 init, so that they don't receive (implicitely) the ones meant for the MPM.
20 PR 62009. [Armin Abfalterer <a.abfalterer gmail com>, Yann Ylavic]
22 *) mod_md: new experimental, module for managing domains across virtual hosts,
23 implementing the Let's Encrypt ACMEv1 protocol to signup and renew
24 certificates. Please read the modules documentation for further instructions
25 on how to use it. [Stefan Eissing]
27 *) mod_proxy_html: skip documents shorter than 4 bytes
28 PR 56286 [Micha Lenk <micha lenk info>]
30 *) core, mpm_event: Avoid a small memory leak of the scoreboard handle, for
31 the lifetime of the connection, each time it is processed by MPM event.
34 *) mpm_event: Update scoreboard status for KeepAlive state. [Yann Ylavic]
36 *) mod_ldap: Fix a case where a full LDAP cache would continually fail to
37 purge old entries and log AH01323. PR61891.
38 [Hendrik Harms <hendrik.harms gmail.com>]
40 *) mpm_event: close connections not reported as handled by any module to
41 avoid losing track of them and leaking scoreboard entries. PR 61551.
44 *) core: A signal received while stopping could have crashed the main
45 process. PR 61558. [Yann Ylavic]
47 *) mod_ssl: support for mod_md added. [Stefan Eissing]
49 *) mod_proxy_html: process parsed comments immediately.
50 Fixes bug (seen in the wild when used with IBM's HTTPD bundle)
51 where parsed comments may be lost. [Nick Kew]
53 *) mod_proxy_html: introduce doctype for HTML 5 [Nick Kew]
55 *) mod_proxy_html: fix typo-bug processing "strict" vs "transitional"
56 HTML/XHTML. PR 56457 [Nick Kew]
58 *) mpm_event: avoid a very unlikely race condition between the listener and
59 the workers when the latter fails to add a connection to the pollset.
62 *) core: silently ignore a not existent file path when IncludeOptional
63 is used. PR 57585. [Alberto Murillo Silva <powerbsd yahoo.com>, Luca Toscano]
65 *) mod_macro: fix usability of globally defined macros in .htaccess files.
66 PR 57525. [Jose Kahan <jose w3.org>, Yann Ylavic]
68 *) mod_rewrite, core: add the Vary header when a condition evaluates to true
69 and the related RewriteRule is used in a Directory context
70 (triggering an internal redirect). [Luca Toscano]
72 *) ab: Make the TLS layer aware that the underlying socket is nonblocking,
73 and use/handle POLLOUT where needed to avoid busy IOs and recover write
74 errors when appropriate. [Yann Ylavic]
76 *) ab: Keep reading nonblocking to exhaust TCP or SSL buffers when previous
77 read was incomplete (the SSL case can cause the next poll() to timeout
78 since data are buffered already). PR 61301 [Luca Toscano, Yann Ylavic]
80 *) mod_http2: avoid unnecessary data retrieval for a trace log. Allow certain
81 information retrievals on null bucket beams where it makes sense. [Stefan Eissing]
83 Changes with Apache 2.4.29
85 *) mod_unique_id: Use output of the PRNG rather than IP address and
86 pid, avoiding sleep() call and possible DNS issues at startup,
87 plus improving randomness for IPv6-only hosts. [Jan Kaluza]
89 *) mod_rewrite, core: Avoid the 'Vary: Host' response header when HTTP_HOST
90 is used in a condition that evaluates to true. PR 58231 [Luca Toscano, Yann Ylavic]
92 *) mod_http2: v0.10.12, removed optimization for mutex handling in bucket
93 beams that could lead to assertion failure in edge cases.
96 *) mod_proxy: Fix regression for non decimal loadfactor parameter introduced
97 in 2.4.28. [Jim Jagielski]
99 *) mod_authz_dbd: fix a segmentation fault if AuthzDBDQuery is not set.
100 PR 61546. [Lubos Uhliarik <luhliari redhat.com>]
102 *) mod_rewrite: Add support for starting External Rewriting Programs
103 as non-root user on UNIX systems by specifying username and group
104 name as third argument of RewriteMap directive. [Jan Kaluza]
106 *) core: Rewrite the Content-Length filter to avoid excessive memory
107 consumption. Chunked responses will be generated in more cases
108 than in previous releases. PR 61222. [Joe Orton, Ruediger Pluem]
110 *) mod_ssl: Fix SessionTicket callback return value, which does seem to
111 matter with OpenSSL 1.1. [Yann Ylavic]
113 Changes with Apache 2.4.28
115 *) SECURITY: CVE-2017-9798 (cve.mitre.org)
116 Corrupted or freed memory access. <Limit[Except]> must now be used in the
117 main configuration file (httpd.conf) to register HTTP methods before the
118 .htaccess files. [Yann Ylavic]
120 *) event: Avoid possible blocking in the listener thread when shutting down
121 connections. PR 60956. [Yann Ylavic]
123 *) mod_speling: Don't embed referer data in a link in error page.
126 *) htdigest: prevent a buffer overflow when a string exceeds the allowed max
127 length in a password file.
128 [Luca Toscano, Hanno Böck <hanno hboeck de>]
130 *) mod_proxy: loadfactor parameter can now be a decimal number (eg: 1.25).
133 *) mod_proxy_wstunnel: Allow upgrade to any protocol dynamically.
136 *) mod_watchdog/mod_proxy_hcheck: Time intervals can now be spefified
137 down to the millisecond. Supports 'mi' (minute), 'ms' (millisecond),
138 's' (second) and 'hr' (hour!) time suffixes. [Jim Jagielski]
140 *) mod_http2: Fix for stalling when more than 32KB are written to a
141 suspended stream. [Stefan Eissing]
143 *) build: allow configuration without APR sources. [Jacob Champion]
145 *) mod_ssl, ab: Fix compatibility with LibreSSL. PR 61184.
146 [Bernard Spil <brnrd freebsd.org>, Michael Schlenker <msc contact.de>,
149 *) core/log: Support use of optional "tag" in syslog entries.
150 PR 60525. [Ben Rubson <ben.rubson gmail.com>, Jim Jagielski]
152 *) mod_proxy: Fix ProxyAddHeaders merging. [Joe Orton]
154 *) core: Disallow multiple Listen on the same IP:port when listener buckets
155 are configured (ListenCoresBucketsRatio > 0), consistently with the single
156 bucket case (default), thus avoiding the leak of the corresponding socket
157 descriptors on graceful restart. [Yann Ylavic]
159 *) event: Avoid listener periodic wake ups by using the pollset wake-ability
160 when available. PR 57399. [Yann Ylavic, Luca Toscano]
162 *) mod_proxy_wstunnel: Fix detection of unresponded request which could have
163 led to spurious HTTP 502 error messages sent on upgrade connections.
164 PR 61283. [Yann Ylavic]
166 Changes with Apache 2.4.27
168 *) SECURITY: CVE-2017-9789 (cve.mitre.org)
169 mod_http2: Read after free. When under stress, closing many connections,
170 the HTTP/2 handling code would sometimes access memory after it has been
171 freed, resulting in potentially erratic behaviour.
174 *) SECURITY: CVE-2017-9788 (cve.mitre.org)
175 mod_auth_digest: Uninitialized memory reflection. The value placeholder
176 in [Proxy-]Authorization headers type 'Digest' was not initialized or
177 reset before or between successive key=value assignments.
180 *) COMPATIBILITY: mod_lua: Remove the undocumented exported 'apr_table'
181 global variable when using Lua 5.2 or later. This was exported as a
182 side effect from luaL_register, which is no longer supported as of
183 Lua 5.2 which deprecates pollution of the global namespace.
186 *) COMPATIBILITY: mod_http2: Disable and give warning when using Prefork.
187 The server will continue to run, but HTTP/2 will no longer be negotiated.
190 *) COMPATIBILITY: mod_proxy_fcgi: Revert to 2.4.20 FCGI behavior for the
191 default ProxyFCGIBackendType, fixing a regression with PHP-FPM. PR 61202.
192 [Jacob Champion, Jim Jagielski]
194 *) mod_lua: Improve compatibility with Lua 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3.
195 PR58188, PR60831, PR61245. [Rainer Jung]
197 *) mod_http2: Simplify ready queue, less memory and better performance. Update
198 mod_http2 version to 1.10.7. [Stefan Eissing]
200 *) Allow single-char field names inadvertently disallowed in 2.4.25.
201 PR 61220. [Yann Ylavic]
203 *) htpasswd / htdigest: Do not apply the strict permissions of the temporary
204 passwd file to a possibly existing passwd file. PR 61240. [Ruediger Pluem]
206 *) core: Avoid duplicate HEAD in Allow header.
207 This is a regression in 2.4.24 (unreleased), 2.4.25 and 2.4.26.
208 PR 61207. [Christophe Jaillet]
210 Changes with Apache 2.4.26
212 *) SECURITY: CVE-2017-7679 (cve.mitre.org)
213 mod_mime can read one byte past the end of a buffer when sending a
214 malicious Content-Type response header. [Yann Ylavic]
216 *) SECURITY: CVE-2017-7668 (cve.mitre.org)
217 The HTTP strict parsing changes added in 2.2.32 and 2.4.24 introduced a
218 bug in token list parsing, which allows ap_find_token() to search past
219 the end of its input string. By maliciously crafting a sequence of
220 request headers, an attacker may be able to cause a segmentation fault,
221 or to force ap_find_token() to return an incorrect value.
224 *) SECURITY: CVE-2017-7659 (cve.mitre.org)
225 A maliciously constructed HTTP/2 request could cause mod_http2 to
226 dereference a NULL pointer and crash the server process.
228 *) SECURITY: CVE-2017-3169 (cve.mitre.org)
229 mod_ssl may dereference a NULL pointer when third-party modules call
230 ap_hook_process_connection() during an HTTP request to an HTTPS port.
233 *) SECURITY: CVE-2017-3167 (cve.mitre.org)
234 Use of the ap_get_basic_auth_pw() by third-party modules outside of the
235 authentication phase may lead to authentication requirements being
237 [Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu netbsd.org>, Jacob Champion, Eric Covener]
239 *) HTTP/2 support no longer tagged as "experimental" but is instead considered
240 fully production ready.
242 *) mod_http2: Fix for possible CPU busy loop introduced in v1.10.3 where a stream may keep
243 the session in continuous check for state changes that never happen.
246 *) mod_proxy_wstunnel: Add "upgrade" parameter to allow upgrade to other
247 protocols. [Jean-Frederic Clere]
249 *) MPMs unix: Place signals handlers and helpers out of DSOs to avoid
250 a possible crash if a signal is caught during (graceful) restart.
251 PR 60487. [Yann Ylavic]
253 *) mod_rewrite: When a substitution is a fully qualified URL, and the
254 scheme/host/port matches the current virtual host, stop interpreting the
255 path component as a local path just because the first component of the
256 path exists in the filesystem. Adds RewriteOption "LegacyPrefixDocRoot"
257 to revert to previous behavior. PR60009.
258 [Hank Ibell <hwibell gmail.com>]
260 *) core: ap_parse_form_data() URL-decoding doesn't work on EBCDIC
261 platforms. PR61124. [Hank Ibell <hwibell gmail.com>]
263 *) ab: enable option processing for setting a custom HTTP method also for
264 non-SSL builds. [Rainer Jung]
266 *) core: EBCDIC fixes for interim responses with additional headers.
269 *) mod_env: when processing a 'SetEnv' directive, warn if the environment
270 variable name includes a '='. It is likely a configuration error.
271 PR 60249 [Christophe Jaillet]
273 *) Evaluate nested If/ElseIf/Else configuration blocks.
274 [Luca Toscano, Jacob Champion]
276 *) mod_rewrite: Add 'BNP' (backreferences-no-plus) flag to RewriteRule to
277 allow spaces in backreferences to be encoded as %20 instead of '+'.
280 *) mod_rewrite: Add the possibility to limit the escaping to specific
281 characters in backreferences by listing them in the B flag.
284 *) mod_substitute: Fix spurious AH01328 (Line too long) errors on EBCDIC
285 systems. [Eric Covener]
287 *) mod_http2: fail requests without ERROR log in case we need to read interim
288 responses and see only garbage. This can happen if proxied servers send
289 data where none should be, e.g. a body for a HEAD request. [Stefan Eissing]
291 *) mod_proxy_http2: adding support for Reverse Proxy Request headers.
294 *) mod_http2: fixed possible deadlock that could occur when connections were
295 terminated early with ongoing streams. Fixed possible hanger with timeout
296 on race when connection considers itself idle. [Stefan Eissing]
298 *) mod_http2: MaxKeepAliveRequests now limits the number of times a
299 slave connection gets reused. [Stefan Eissing]
301 *) mod_brotli: Add a new module for dynamic Brotli (RFC 7932) compression.
304 *) mod_proxy_http2: Fixed bug in re-attempting proxy requests after
305 connection error. Reliability of reconnect handling improved.
308 *) mod_http2: better performance, eliminated need for nested locks and
309 thread privates. Moving request setups from the main connection to the
310 worker threads. Increase number of spare connections kept.
313 *) mod_http2: input buffering and dynamic flow windows for increased
314 throughput. Requires nghttp2 >= v1.5.0 features. Announced at startup
315 in mod_http2 INFO log as feature 'DWINS'. [Stefan Eissing]
317 *) mod_http2: h2 workers with improved scalability for better scheduling
318 performance. There are H2MaxWorkers threads created at start and the
319 number is kept constant for now. [Stefan Eissing]
321 *) mod_http2: obsoleted option H2SessionExtraFiles, will be ignored and
322 just log a warning. [Stefan Eissing]
324 *) mod_autoindex: Add IndexOptions UseOldDateFormat to allow the date
325 format from 2.2 in the Last Modified column. PR60846.
326 [Hank Ibell <hwibell gmail.com>]
328 *) core: Add %{REMOTE_PORT} to the expression parser. PR59938
329 [Hank Ibell <hwibell gmail.com>]
331 *) mod_cache: Fix a regression in 2.4.25 for the forward proxy case by
332 computing and using the same entity key according to when the cache
333 checks, loads and saves the request.
334 PR 60577. [Yann Ylavic]
336 *) mod_proxy_hcheck: Don't validate timed out responses. [Yann Ylavic]
338 *) mod_proxy_hcheck: Ensure thread-safety when concurrent healthchecks are
339 in use (ProxyHCTPsize > 0). PR 60071. [Yann Ylavic, Jim Jagielski]
341 *) core: %{DOCUMENT_URI} used in nested SSI expressions should point to the
342 URI originally requsted by the user, not the nested documents URI. This
343 restores the behavior of this variable to match the "legacy" SSI parser.
344 PR60624. [Hank Ibell <hwibell gmail.com>]
346 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Add ProxyFCGISetEnvIf to fixup CGI environment
347 variables just before invoking the FastCGI. [Eric Covener,
350 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Return to 2.4.20-and-earlier behavior of leaving
351 a "proxy:fcgi://" prefix in the SCRIPT_FILENAME environment variable by
352 default. Add ProxyFCGIBackendType to allow the type of backend to be
353 specified so these kinds of fixups can be restored without impacting
354 FPM. PR60576 [Eric Covener, Jim Jagielski]
356 *) mod_ssl: work around leaks on (graceful) restart. [Yann Ylavic]
358 *) mod_ssl: Add support for OpenSSL 1.1.0. [Rainer Jung]
360 *) Don't set SO_REUSEPORT unless ListenCoresBucketsRatio is greater
361 than zero. [Eric Covener]
363 *) mod_http2: moving session cleanup to pre_close hook to avoid races with
364 modules already shut down and slave connections still operating.
367 *) mod_lua: Support for Lua 5.3
369 *) mod_proxy_http2: support for ProxyPreserverHost directive. [Stefan Eissing]
371 *) mod_http2: fix for crash when running out of memory.
372 [Robert Swiecki <robert swiecki.net>, Stefan Eissing]
374 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Return HTTP 504 rather than 503 in case of proxy timeout.
377 *) mod_http2: not counting file buckets again stream max buffer limits.
378 Effectively transfering static files in one step from slave to master
379 connection. [Stefan Eissing]
381 *) mod_http2: comforting ap_check_pipeline() on slave connections
382 to facilitate reuse (see https://github.com/icing/mod_h2/issues/128).
383 [Stefan Eissing, reported by Armin Abfalterer]
385 *) mod_http2: http/2 streams now with state handling/transitions as defined
386 in RFC7540. Stream cleanup/connection shutdown reworked to become easier
387 to understand/maintain/debug. Added many asserts on state and cleanup
388 transitions. [Stefan Eissing]
390 *) mod_auth_digest: Use an anonymous shared memory segment by default,
391 preventing startup failure after unclean shutdown. PR 54622.
394 *) mod_filter: Fix AddOutputFilterByType with non-content-level filters.
395 PR 58856. [Micha Lenk <micha lenk.info>]
397 *) mod_watchdog: Fix semaphore leak over restarts. [Jim Jagielski]
399 *) mod_http2: regression fix on PR 59348, on graceful restart, ongoing
400 streams are finished normally before the final GOAWAY is sent.
401 [Stefan Eissing, <slavko gmail.com>]
403 *) mod_proxy: Allow the per-request environment variable "no-proxy" to
404 be used as an alternative to ProxyPass /path !. This is primarily
405 to set exceptions for ProxyPass specified in <Location> context.
406 Use SetEnvIf, not SetEnv. PR 60458. [Eric Covener]
408 *) mod_http2: fixes PR60599, sending proper response for conditional requests
409 answered by mod_cache. [Jeff Wheelhouse, Stefan Eissing]
411 *) mod_http2: rework of stream resource cleanup to avoid a crash in a close
412 of a lingering connection. Prohibit special file bucket beaming for
413 shared buckets. Files sent in stream output now use the stream pool
414 as read buffer, reducing memory footprint of connections.
415 [Yann Ylavic, Stefan Eissing]
417 *) mod_proxy_fcgi, mod_fcgid: Fix crashes in ap_fcgi_encoded_env_len() when
418 modules add empty environment variables to the request. PR 60275.
419 [<alex2grad AT gmail.com>]
421 *) mod_http2: fix for possible page fault when stream is resumed during
422 session shutdown. [sidney-j-r-m (github)]
424 *) mod_http2: fix for h2 session ignoring new responses while already
425 open streams continue to have data available. [Stefan Eissing]
427 *) mod_http2: adding support for MergeTrailers directive. [Stefan Eissing]
429 *) mod_http2: limiting DATA frame sizes by TLS record sizes in use on the
430 connection. Flushing outgoing frames earlier. [Stefan Eissing]
432 *) mod_http2: cleanup beamer registry on server reload. PR 60510.
433 [Pavel Mateja <pavel verotel.cz>, Stefan Eissing]
435 *) mod_proxy_{ajp,fcgi}: Fix a possible crash when reusing an established
436 backend connection, happening with LogLevel trace2 or higher configured,
437 or at any log level with compilers not detected as C99 compliant (e.g.
438 MSVC on Windows). [Yann Ylavic]
440 *) mod_ext_filter: Don't interfere with "error buckets" issued by other
441 modules. PR 60375. [Eric Covener, Lubos Uhliarik]
443 *) mod_http2: fixes https://github.com/icing/mod_h2/issues/126 e.g. beam
444 bucket lifetime handling when data is sent over temporary pools.
447 Changes with Apache 2.4.25
449 *) Fix some build issues related to various modules.
452 Changes with Apache 2.4.24 (not released)
454 *) SECURITY: CVE-2016-8740 (cve.mitre.org)
455 mod_http2: Mitigate DoS memory exhaustion via endless
457 [Naveen Tiwari <naveen.tiwari@asu.edu> and CDF/SEFCOM at Arizona State
458 University, Stefan Eissing]
460 *) SECURITY: CVE-2016-2161 (cve.mitre.org)
461 mod_auth_digest: Prevent segfaults during client entry allocation when
462 the shared memory space is exhausted.
463 [Maksim Malyutin <m.malyutin dsec.ru>, Eric Covener, Jacob Champion]
465 *) SECURITY: CVE-2016-0736 (cve.mitre.org)
466 mod_session_crypto: Authenticate the session data/cookie with a
467 MAC (SipHash) to prevent deciphering or tampering with a padding
468 oracle attack. [Yann Ylavic, Colm MacCarthaigh]
470 *) SECURITY: CVE-2016-8743 (cve.mitre.org)
471 Enforce HTTP request grammar corresponding to RFC7230 for request lines
472 and request headers, to prevent response splitting and cache pollution by
473 malicious clients or downstream proxies. [William Rowe, Stefan Fritsch]
475 *) Validate HTTP response header grammar defined by RFC7230, resulting
476 in a 500 error in the event that invalid response header contents are
477 detected when serving the response, to avoid response splitting and cache
478 pollution by malicious clients, upstream servers or faulty modules.
479 [Stefan Fritsch, Eric Covener, Yann Ylavic]
481 *) core: Mitigate [f]cgi CVE-2016-5387 "httpoxy" issues.
482 [Dominic Scheirlinck <dominic vendhq.com>, Yann Ylavic]
484 *) mod_rewrite: Limit runaway memory use by short circuiting some kinds of
485 looping RewriteRules when the local path significantly exceeds
486 LimitRequestLine. PR 60478. [Jeff Wheelhouse <apache wheelhouse.org>]
488 *) mod_ratelimit: Allow for initial "burst" amount at full speed before
489 throttling: PR 60145 [Andy Valencia <ajv-etradanalhos vsta.org>,
492 *) mod_socache_memcache: Provide memcache stats to mod_status.
495 *) mod_file_cache: mod_file_cache should be able to serve files that
496 haven't had a Content-Type set via e.g. mod_mime. [Eric Covener]
498 *) http_filters: Fix potential looping in new check_headers() due to new
499 pattern of ap_die() from http header filter. Explicitly clear the
500 previous headers and body.
502 *) core: Drop Content-Length header and message-body from HTTP 204 responses.
503 PR 51350 [Luca Toscano]
505 *) mod_proxy: Honor a server scoped ProxyPass exception when ProxyPass is
506 configured in <Location>, like in 2.2. PR 60458.
509 *) mod_lua: Fix default value of LuaInherit directive. It should be
510 'parent-first' instead of 'none', as per documentation. PR 60419
513 *) core: New directive HttpProtocolOptions to control httpd enforcement
514 of various RFC7230 requirements. [Stefan Fritsch, William Rowe]
516 *) core: Permit unencoded ';' characters to appear in proxy requests and
517 Location: response headers. Corresponds to modern browser behavior.
520 *) core: ap_rgetline_core now pulls from r->proto_input_filters.
522 *) core: Correctly parse an IPv6 literal host specification in an absolute
523 URL in the request line. [Stefan Fritsch]
525 *) core: New directive RegisterHttpMethod for registering non-standard
526 HTTP methods. [Stefan Fritsch]
528 *) mod_socache_memcache: Pass expiration time through to memcached. PR 55445.
529 [Faidon Liambotis <paravoid debian.org>, Joe Orton]
531 *) mod_cache: Use the actual URI path and query-string for identifying the
532 cached entity (key), such that rewrites are taken into account when
533 running afterwards (CacheQuickHandler off). PR 21935. [Yann Ylavic]
535 *) mod_http2: new directive 'H2EarlyHints' to enable sending of HTTP status
536 103 interim responses. Disabled by default. [Stefan Eissing]
538 *) mod_ssl: Fix quick renegotiation (OptRenegotiaton) with no intermediate
539 in the client certificate chain. PR 55786. [Yann Ylavic]
541 *) event: Allow to use the whole allocated scoreboard (up to ServerLimit
542 slots) to avoid scoreboard full errors when some processes are finishing
543 gracefully. Also, make gracefully finishing processes close all
544 keep-alive connections. PR 53555. [Stefan Fritsch]
546 *) mpm_event: Don't take over scoreboard slots from gracefully finishing
547 threads. [Stefan Fritsch]
549 *) mpm_event: Free memory earlier when shutting down processes.
552 *) mod_status: Display the process slot number in the async connection
553 overview. [Stefan Fritsch]
555 *) mod_dir: Responses that go through "FallbackResource" might appear to
556 hang due to unterminated chunked encoding. PR58292. [Eric Covener]
558 *) mod_dav: Fix a potential cause of unbounded memory usage or incorrect
559 behavior in a routine that sends <DAV:response>'s to the output filters.
562 *) mod_http2: new directive 'H2PushResource' to enable early pushes before
563 processing of the main request starts. Resources are announced to the
564 client in Link headers on a 103 early hint response.
565 All responses with status code <400 are inspected for Link header and
566 trigger pushes accordingly. 304 still does prevent pushes.
567 'H2PushResource' can mark resources as 'critical' which gives them higher
568 priority than the main resource. This leads to preferred scheduling for
569 processing and, when content is available, will send it first. 'critical'
570 is also recognized on Link headers. [Stefan Eissing]
572 *) mod_proxy_http2: uris in Link headers are now mapped back to a suitable
573 local url when available. Relative uris with an absolute path are mapped
574 as well. This makes reverse proxy mapping available for resources
575 announced in this header.
576 With 103 interim responses being forwarded to the main client connection,
577 this effectively allows early pushing of resources by a reverse proxied
578 backend server. [Stefan Eissing]
580 *) mod_proxy_http2: adding support for newly proposed 103 status code.
583 *) mpm_unix: Apache fails to start if previously crashed then restarted with
584 the same PID (e.g. in container). PR 60261.
585 [Val <valentin.bremond gmail.com>, Yann Ylavic]
587 *) mod_http2: unannounced and multiple interim responses (status code < 200)
588 are parsed and forwarded to client until a final response arrives.
591 *) mod_proxy_http2: improved robustness when main connection is closed early
592 by resetting all ongoing streams against the backend.
595 *) mod_http2: allocators from slave connections are released earlier,
596 resulting in less overall memory use on busy, long lived connections.
599 *) mod_remoteip: Pick up where we left off during a subrequest rather
600 than running with the modified XFF but original TCP address.
603 *) http: Respond with "408 Request Timeout" when a timeout occurs while
604 reading the request body. [Yann Ylavic]
606 *) mod_http2: connection shutdown revisited: corrected edge cases on
607 shutting down ongoing streams, changed log warnings to be less noisy
608 when waiting on long running tasks. [Stefan Eissing]
610 *) mod_http2: changed all AP_DEBUG_ASSERT to ap_assert to have them
611 available also in normal deployments. [Stefan Eissing]
613 *) mod_http2/mod_proxy_http2: 100-continue handling now properly implemented
614 up to the backend. Reused HTTP/2 proxy connections with more than a second
615 not used will block request bodies until a PING answer is received.
616 Requests headers are not delayed by this, since they are repeatable in
617 case of failure. This greatly increases robustness, especially with
618 busy server and/or low keepalive connections. [Stefan Eissing]
620 *) mod_proxy_http2: fixed duplicate symbols with mod_http2.
623 *) mod_http2: rewrite of how responses and trailers are transferred between
624 master and slave connection. Reduction of internal states for tasks
625 and streams, stability. Heuristic id generation for slave connections
626 to better keep promise of connection ids unique at given point int time.
627 Fix for mod_cgid interop in high load situtations.
628 Fix for handling of incoming trailers when no request body is sent.
631 *) mod_http2: fix suspended handling for streams. Output could become
632 blocked in rare cases. [Stefan Eissing]
634 *) mpm_winnt: Prevent a denial of service when the 'data' AcceptFilter is in
635 use by replacing it with the 'connect' filter. PR 59970. [Jacob Champion]
637 *) mod_cgid: Resolve a case where a short CGI response causes a subsequent
638 CGI to be killed prematurely, resulting in a truncated subsequent
639 response. [Eric Covener]
641 *) mod_proxy_hcheck: Set health check URI and expression correctly for health
642 check worker. PR 60038 [zdeno <zdeno@scnet.sk>]
644 *) mod_http2: if configured with nghttp2 1.14.0 and onward, invalid request
645 headers will immediately reset the stream with a PROTOCOL error. Feature
646 logged by module on startup as 'INVHD' in info message.
649 *) mod_http2: fixed handling of stream buffers during shutdown.
652 *) mod_reqtimeout: Fix body timeout disabling for CONNECT requests to avoid
653 triggering mod_proxy_connect's AH01018 once the tunnel is established.
656 *) ab: Set the Server Name Indication (SNI) extension on outgoing TLS
657 connections (unless -I is specified), according to the Host header (if
658 any) or the requested URL's hostname otherwise. [Yann Ylavic]
660 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: avoid loops when ProxyErrorOverride is enabled
661 and the error documents are proxied. PR 55415. [Luca Toscano]
663 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: read the whole FCGI response even when the content
664 has not been modified (HTTP 304) or in case of a precondition failure
665 (HTTP 412) to avoid subsequent bogus reads and confusing
666 error messages logged. [Luca Toscano]
668 *) mod_http2: h2 status resource follows latest draft, see
669 http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-benfield-http2-debug-state-01.txt
672 *) mod_http2: handling graceful shutdown gracefully, e.g. handling existing
673 streams to the end. [Stefan Eissing]
675 *) mod_proxy_{http,ajp,fcgi}: don't reuse backend connections with data
676 available before the request is sent. PR 57832. [Yann Ylavic]
678 *) mod_proxy_balancer: Prevent redirect loops between workers within a
679 balancer by limiting the number of redirects to the number balancer
680 members. PR 59864 [Ruediger Pluem]
682 *) mod_proxy: Correctly consider error response codes by the backend when
683 processing failonstatus. PR 59869 [Ruediger Pluem]
685 *) mod_dav: Add dav_get_provider_name() function to obtain the name
686 of the provider from mod_dav. [Graham Leggett]
688 *) mod_dav: Add support for childtags to dav_error.
689 [Jari Urpalainen <jari.urpalainen nokia.com>]
691 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Fix 2.4.23 breakage for mod_rewrite per-dir and query
692 string showing up in SCRIPT_FILENAME. PR59815
694 *) mod_include: Fix a potential memory misuse while evaluating expressions.
695 PR59844. [Eric Covener]
697 *) mod_http2: new H2CopyFiles directive that changes treatment of file
698 handles in responses. Necessary in order to fix broken lifetime handling
699 in modules such as mod_wsgi.
701 *) mod_http2: removing timeouts on master connection while requests are
702 being processed. Requests may timeout, but the master only times out when
703 no more requests are active. [Stefan Eissing]
705 *) mod_http2: fixes connection flush when answering SETTINGS without any
706 stream open. [Moto Ishizawa <@summerwind>, Stefan Eissing]
708 Changes with Apache 2.4.23
710 *) mod_ssl: reset client-verify state of ssl when aborting renegotiations.
711 [Erki Aring <erki@example.ee>, Stefan Eissing]
713 *) mod_sed: Fix 'x' command processing. [Christophe Jaillet]
715 *) configure: Fix ./configure edge-case failures around dependencies
716 of mod_proxy_hcheck. [William Rowe, Ruediger Pluem, Jeff Trawick]
718 Changes with Apache 2.4.22
720 *) mod_http2: fix for request abort when connections drops, introduced in
723 Changes with Apache 2.4.21
725 *) core: Added support for HTTP code 451. PR 58985.
726 [Yehuda Katz <yehuda ymkatz.net>, Jim Jagielski]
728 *) ab: Use caseless matching for HTTP tokens (e.g. content-length). PR 59111.
731 *) mod_http2: more rigid error handling in DATA frame assembly, leading
732 to deterministic connection errors if assembly fails.
733 [Stefan Eissing, Pal Nilsen <https://github.com/maedox>]
735 *) abs: Include OPENSSL_Applink when compiling on Windows, to resolve
736 failures under Visual Studio 2015 and other mismatched MSVCRT flavors.
737 PR59630 [Jan Ehrhardt <phpdev ehrhardt.nl>]
739 *) mod_ssl: Add "no_crl_for_cert_ok" flag to SSLCARevocationCheck directive
740 to opt-in previous behaviour (2.2) with CRLs verification when checking
741 certificate(s) with no corresponding CRL. [Yann Ylavic]
743 *) mpm_event, mpm_worker: Fix computation of MinSpareThreads' lower bound
744 according the number of listeners buckets. [Yann Ylavic]
746 *) Add ap_cstr_casecmp[n]() - placeholder of apr_cstr_casecmp[n] functions
747 for case-insensitive C/POSIX-locale token comparison.
748 [Jim Jagielski, William Rowe, Yann Ylavic, Branko Čibej]
750 *) mod_userdir: Constify and save a few bytes in the conf pool when
751 parsing the "UserDir" directive. [Christophe Jaillet]
753 *) mod_cache: Fix (max-stale with no '=') and enforce (check
754 integers after '=') Cache-Control header parsing.
757 *) core: Add -DDUMP_INCLUDES configtest option to show the tree
758 of Included configuration files.
759 [Jacob Champion <champion.pxi gmail.com>]
761 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Avoid passing a filename of proxy:fcgi:// as
762 SCRIPT_FILENAME to a FastCGI server. PR59618.
763 [Jacob Champion <champion.pxi gmail.com>]
765 *) mod_dav: Add dav_get_provider_name() function to obtain the name
766 of the provider from mod_dav.
767 [Jari Urpalainen <jari.urpalainen nokia.com>]
769 *) mod_proxy_http2: properly care for HTTP2 flow control of the frontend
770 connection is HTTP/1.1. [Patch supplied by Evgeny Kotkov]
772 *) mod_http2: improved cleanup of connection/streams/tasks to always
773 have deterministic order regardless of event initiating it. Addresses
774 reported crashes due to memory read after free issues.
777 *) mod_ssl: Correct the interaction between SSLProxyCheckPeerCN and newer
778 SSLProxyCheckPeerName directives since release 2.4.5, such that disabling
779 either disables both, and that enabling either triggers the new, more
780 comprehensive SSLProxyCheckPeerName behavior. Only a single configuration
781 remains to enable the legacy behavior, which is to explicitly disable
782 SSLProxyCheckPeerName, and enable SSLProxyCheckPeerCN. [William Rowe]
784 *) mod_include: add the <!--#comment ...> syntax in order to include comments
785 in a SSI file. [Christophe Jaillet based on a suggestion from Rob]
787 *) mod_http2: improved event handling for suspended streams, responses
788 and window updates. [Stefan Eissing]
790 *) mod_proxy_hcheck: Provide for dynamic background health
791 checks on reverse proxies associated with BalancerMember
792 workers. [Jim Jagielski]
794 *) mod_http2: Fix async write issue that led to selection of wrong timeout
795 vs. keepalive timeout selection for idle sessions. [Stefan Eissing]
797 *) mod_http2: checking LimitRequestLine, LimitRequestFields and
798 LimitRequestFieldSize configurated values for incoming streams. Returning
799 HTTP status 431 for too long/many headers fields and 414 for a too long
800 pseudo header. [Stefan Eissing]
802 *) mod_http2: tracking conn_rec->current_thread on slave connections, so
803 that mod_lua finds the correct one. Fixes PR 59542. [Stefan Eissing]
805 *) mod_proxy_http2: new experimental http2 proxy module for h2: and h2c: proxy
806 urls. Part of the httpd mod_proxy framework, common settings apply.
807 Requests from the same HTTP/2 frontend connection against the same backend
808 are aggregated on a single connection.
811 *) mod_http2: slave connections have conn_rec->aborted flag set when a stream
812 has been reset by the client. [Stefan Eissing]
814 *) mod_http2: merge of some 2.4.x adaptions re filters on slave connections.
815 Small fixes in bucket beams when forwarding file buckets. Output handling
816 on master connection uses less FLUSH and passes automatically when more
817 than half of H2StreamMaxMemSize bytes have accumulated.
818 Workaround for http: when forwarding partial file buckets to keep the
819 output filter from closing these too early. [Stefan Eissing]
821 *) mod_http2: elimination of fixed master connection buffer for TLS
822 connections. New scratch bucket handling optimized for TLS write sizes.
823 File bucket data read directly into scratch buffers, avoiding one
824 copy. Non-TLS connections continue to pass buckets unchanged to the core
825 filters to allow sendfile() usage. [Stefan Eissing]
827 *) mod_http2/mod_proxy_http2: h2_request.c is no longer shared between these
828 modules. This simplifies building on platforms such as Windows, as module
829 reference used in logging is now clear. [Stefan Eissing]
831 *) Scoreboard: Fix a regression in 2.4.20 that causes wrong request data
832 to be displayed on the status page. PR 59333. [Yann Ylavic, William Rowe]
834 *) mod_http2: fixed a bug that caused mod_proxy_http2 to be called for window
835 updates on requests it had already reported done. Added synchronization
836 on early connection/stream close that lets ongoing requests safely drain
840 *) mod_http2: scoreboard updates that summarize the h2 session (and replace
841 the last request information) will only happen when the session is idle or
842 in shutdown/done phase. [Stefan Eissing]
844 *) mod_http2: new "bucket beam" technology to transport buckets across
845 threads without buffer copy. Delaying response start until flush or
846 enough body data has been accumulated. Overall significantly smaller
847 memory footprint. [Stefan Eissing]
849 *) core: New CGIVar directive can configure REQUEST_URI to represent the
850 current URI being processed instead of always the original request.
853 *) scoreboard/status: Restore behavior of showing workers' previous Client,
854 VHost and Request values when idle, like in 2.4.18 and earlier.
856 *) mod_http2: r->protocol changed to "HTTP/2.0" (was "HTTP/2") as this will
857 give expected syntax in CGI's SERVER_PROTOCOL is more compatible with
858 existing major/minor handling. Fixes PR 59313.
860 *) mod_http2: disabling mmap for file buckets transport due to segmenation
861 faults when files change on the fly.
863 Changes with Apache 2.4.20
865 *) SECURITY: CVE-2016-1546 (cve.mitre.org)
866 mod_http2: restricting number of concurrent stream workers per connection
869 *) core: Do not read .htaccess if AllowOverride and AllowOverrideList
870 are "None". PR 58528.
871 [Michael Schlenker <msc contact.de, Ruediger Pluem, Daniel Ruggeri]
873 *) mod_proxy_express: Fix possible use of DB handle after close. PR 59230.
874 [Petr <pgajdos suse.cz>]
876 *) core/util_script: relax alphanumeric filter of environment variable names
877 on Windows to allow '(' and ')' for passing PROGRAMFILES(X86) et.al.
878 unadulterated in 64 bit versions of Windows. PR 46751.
879 [John <john leineweb de>]
881 *) mod_http2: incrementing keepalives on each request started so that logging
882 %k gives increasing numbers per master http2 connection.
883 New documented variables in env, usable in custom log formats: H2_PUSH,
884 H2_PUSHED, H2_PUSHED_ON, H2_STREAM_ID and H2_STREAM_TAG.
887 *) mod_http2: more efficient passing of response bodies with less contention
888 and file bucket forwarding. [Stefan Eissing]
890 *) mod_http2: fix for missing score board updates on request count, fix for
891 memory leak on slave connection reuse. [Stefan Eissing]
893 *) mod_http2: Fix build on Windows from dsp files.
896 Changes with Apache 2.4.19
898 *) mod_include: Add variable DOCUMENT_ARGS, with the arguments to the
899 request for the SSI document. [Jeff Trawick]
901 *) mod_authz_host: Add a new "forward-dns" authorization type, not relying on
902 reverse DNS lookups. [Fabien]
904 *) mod_proxy_http2: new experimental http2 proxy module for h2: and h2c: proxy
905 urls. Uses backend connections for concurrent requests if frontend
906 connection is http2 as well.
909 *) mod_ssl: Add hooks to allow other modules to perform processing at
910 several stages of initialization and connection handling. See
911 mod_ssl_openssl.h. [Jeff Trawick]
913 *) mod_http2: disabling PUSH when client sends GOAWAY. Slave connections are
914 reused for several requests, improved performance and better memory use.
917 *) mod_rewrite: Don't implicitly URL-escape the original query string
918 when no substitution has changed it (like PR50447 but server context)
919 [Evgeny Kotkov <evgeny.kotkov visualsvn.com>]
921 *) mod_http2: fixes problem with wrong lifetime of file buckets on main
922 connection. [Stefan Eissing]
924 *) mod_http2: fixes incorrect denial of requests without :authority header.
927 *) mod_reqtimeout: Prevent long response times from triggering a timeout once
928 the request has been fully read. PR 59045. [Yann Ylavic]
930 *) ap_expr: expression support for variable HTTP2=on|off. [Stefan Eissing]
932 *) mod_http2: give control to async mpm for keepalive timeouts only when
933 no streams are open and even if only after 1 sec delay. Under load, event
934 mpm discards connections otherwise too quickly. [Stefan Eissing]
936 *) mod_ssl: Don't lose track of the SSL context if an unlikely failure occurs
937 in ssl_init_ssl_connection(). [Graham Leggett]
939 *) mod_rewrite: Add QSL|qslast flag to allow rewrites to files with
940 literal question marks in their names. PR 58777. [Eric Covener]
942 *) event: use pre_connection hook to properly initialize connection state for
943 slave connections. use protocol_switch hook to initialize server config
944 early based on SNI selected vhost.
947 *) hostname: Test and log useragent_host per-request across various modules,
948 including the scoreboard, expression and rewrite engines, setenvif,
949 authz_host, access_compat, custom logging, ssl and REMOTE_HOST variables.
950 PR55348 [William Rowe]
952 *) core: Track the useragent_host per-request when mod_remoteip or similar
953 modules track a per-request useragent_ip. Modules should be updated
954 to inquire for ap_get_useragent_host() in place of ap_get_remote_host().
957 *) core: fix a bug in <UnDefine ...> directive processing. When used, the last
958 <Define...>'ed variable was also withdrawn. PR 59019
961 *) mod_http2: Accept-Encoding is, when present on the initiating request,
962 added to push promises. This lets compressed content work in pushes.
963 by the client. [Stefan Eissing]
965 *) mod_http2: fixed possible read after free when streams were cancelled early
966 by the client. [Stefan Eissing]
968 *) mod_http2: fixed possible deadlock during connection shutdown. Thanks to
969 @FrankStolle for reporting and getting the necessary data.
972 *) mod_http2: fixed apr_uint64_t formatting in a log statement to user proper
973 APR def, thanks to @Sp1l.
975 *) mod_http2: number of worker threads allowed to a connection is adjusting
976 dynamically. Starting with 4, the number is doubled when streams can be
977 served without block on http/2 connection flow. The number is halfed, when
978 the server has to wait on client flow control grants.
979 This can happen with a maximum frequency of 5 times per second.
980 When a connection occupies too many workers, repeatable requests
981 (GET/HEAD/OPTIONS) are cancelled and placed back in the queue. Should that
982 not suffice and a stream is busy longer than the server timeout, the
983 connection will be aborted with error code ENHANCE_YOUR_CALM.
984 This does *not* limit the number of streams a client may open, rather the
985 number of server threads a connection might use.
988 *) mod_http2: allowing link header to specify multiple "rel" values,
989 space-separated inside a quoted string. Prohibiting push when Link
990 parameter "nopush" is present.
993 *) mod_http2: reworked connection state handling. Idle connections accept a
994 GOAWAY from the client without further reply. Otherwise the
995 module makes a best effort to send one last GOAWAY to the client.
997 *) mod_http2: the values from standard directives Timeout and KeepAliveTimeout
998 properly are applied to http/2 connections.
1001 *) mod_http2: idle connections are returned to async mpms. new hook
1002 "pre_close_connection" used to send GOAWAY frame when not already done.
1003 Setting event mpm server config "by hand" for the main connection to
1004 the correct negotiated server.
1007 *) mod_http2: keep-alive blocking reads are done with 1 second timeouts to
1008 check for MPM stopping. Will announce early GOAWAY and finish processing
1009 open streams, then close.
1012 *) mod_http2: bytes read/written on slave connections are reported via the
1013 optional mod_logio functions. Fixes PR 58871.
1015 *) prefork: Initialize the POD when running in ONE_PROCESS (or -X) mode to
1016 avoid a crash. [Jan Kaluza, Yann Ylavic]
1018 *) mod_ssl: When SSLVerify is disabled (NONE), don't force a renegotiation if
1019 the SSLVerifyDepth applied with the default/handshaken vhost differs from
1020 the one applicable with the finally selected vhost. [Yann Ylavic]
1022 *) core: Ensure that httpd exits with an error status when the MPM fails
1023 to run. [Yann Ylavic]
1025 *) mod_ssl: Fix a possible memory leak on restart for custom [EC]DH params.
1026 [Jan Kaluza, Yann Ylavic]
1028 *) mod_ssl: Add SSLOCSPProxyURL to add the possibility to do all queries
1029 to OCSP responders through a HTTP proxy. [Ruediger Pluem]
1031 *) mod_proxy: Play/restore the TLS-SNI on new backend connections which
1032 had to be issued because the remote closed the previous/reusable one
1033 during idle (keep-alive) time. [Yann Ylavic]
1035 *) mod_cache_socache: Fix a possible cached entity body corruption when it
1036 is received from an origin server in multiple batches and forwarded by
1037 mod_proxy. [Yann Ylavic]
1039 *) core: Add expression support to SetHandler.
1042 *) mod_remoteip: Prevent an external proxy from presenting an internal
1043 proxy. PR 55962. [Mike Rumph]
1045 *) core: Prevent a server crash in case of an invalid CONNECT request with
1046 a custom error page for status code 400 that uses server side includes.
1047 PR 58929 [Ruediger Pluem]
1049 *) mod_ssl: handle TIMEOUT on empty SSL input as non-fatal, returning
1050 APR_TIMEUP and preserving connection state for later retry.
1053 *) mod_ssl: Save some TLS record (application data) fragmentations by
1054 including the last and subsequent suitable buckets when coalescing.
1057 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Suppress HTTP error 503 and message 01075,
1058 "Error dispatching request", when the cause appears to be
1059 due to the client closing the connection.
1060 PR58118. [Tobias Adolph <adolph lrz.de>]
1062 *) mod_cgid: Message AH02550, failure to flush a response to the client,
1063 is now logged at TRACE1 level to match the underlying core output filter
1064 severity. [Eric Covener]
1066 *) mime.types: add common extension "m4a" for MPEG 4 Audio.
1067 PR 57895 [Dylan Millikin <dylan.millikin gmail.com>]
1069 *) Added many log numbers to log statements that had none.
1072 *) mod_log_config: Add GlobalLog to allow a globally defined log to
1073 be inherited by virtual hosts that define a CustomLog.
1076 *) mod_http2: connections how keep a "push diary" where hashes of already
1077 pushed resources are kept. See directive H2PushDiarySize for managing this.
1078 Push diaries can be initialized by clients via the "Cache-Digest" request
1079 header. This carries a base64url encoded. compressed Golomb set as described
1080 in https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kazuho-h2-cache-digest/
1081 Introduced a status handler for HTTP/2 connections, giving various counters
1082 and statistics about the current connection, plus its cache digest value
1083 in a JSON record. Not a replacement for more HTTP/2 in the server status.
1085 <Location "/http2-status">
1086 SetHandler http2-status
1090 *) mod_http2: Fixed flushing of last GOAWAY frame. Previously, that frame
1091 did not always reach the client, causing some to fail the next request.
1092 Fixed calculation of last stream id accepted as described in rfc7540.
1093 Reading in KEEPALIVE state now correctly shown in scoreboard.
1094 Fixed possible race in connection shutdown after review by Ylavic.
1095 Fixed segfault on connection shutdown, callback ran into a semi dismantled session.
1098 *) mod_http2: Added support for experimental accept-push-policy draft
1099 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ruellan-http-accept-push-policy-00). Clients
1100 may now influence server pushes by sending accept-push-policy headers.
1103 *) mod_http2: new r->subprocess_env variables HTTP2 and H2PUSH, set to "on"
1104 when available for request.
1107 *) mod_http2: fixed bug in input window size calculation by moving chunked
1108 request body encoding into later stage of processing. Fixes PR 58825.
1111 *) core: new hook "pre_close_connection" which is run before the lingering
1112 close of connections is started. This gives protocol handlers one last
1113 chance to use a connection before it goes down.
1116 *) mod_status/scoreboard: showing connection protocol in new column, new
1117 ap_update_child_status methods for updating server/description. mod_ssl
1118 sets vhost negotiated by servername directly.
1121 Changes with Apache 2.4.18
1123 *) mod_ssl: for all ssl_engine_vars.c lookups, fall back to master connection
1124 if conn_rec itself holds no valid SSLConnRec*. Fixes PR58666.
1127 *) mod_http2: connection level window for flow control is set to protocol
1128 maximum of 2GB-1, preventing window exhaustion when sending data on many
1129 streams with higher cumulative window size.
1130 Reducing write frequency unless push promises need to be flushed.
1133 *) mod_http2: required minimum version of libnghttp2 is 1.2.1
1136 *) mod_proxy_fdpass: Fix AH01153 error when using the default configuration.
1137 In earlier version of httpd, you can explicitelly set the 'flusher' parameter
1138 to 'flush' as a workaround. (i.e. flusher=flush)
1139 Add documentation for the 'flusher' parameter when defining a proxy worker.
1140 [Christophe Jaillet]
1142 *) mod_ssl: For the "SSLStaplingReturnResponderErrors off" case, make sure
1143 to only staple responses with certificate status "good". [Kaspar Brand]
1145 *) mod_http2: new directive 'H2PushPriority' to allow priority specifications
1146 on server pushed streams according to their content-type.
1149 *) mod_http2: fixes crash on connection abort for a busy connection.
1150 fixes crash on a request that did not produce any response.
1153 *) mod_http2: trailers are sent after response body if set in request_rec
1154 trailers_out before the end-of-request bucket is sent through the
1155 output filters. [Stefan Eissing]
1157 *) mod_http2: incoming trailers (headers after request body) are properly
1158 forwarded to the processing engine. [Stefan Eissing]
1160 *) mod_http2: new directive 'H2Push' to en-/disable HTTP/2 server
1161 pushes a server/virtual host. Pushes are initiated by the presence
1162 of 'Link:' headers with relation 'preload' on a response. [Stefan Eissing]
1164 *) mod_http2: write performance of http2 improved for larger resources,
1165 especially static files. [Stefan Eissing]
1167 *) core: if the first HTTP/1.1 request on a connection goes to a server that
1168 prefers different protocols, these protocols are announced in a Upgrade:
1169 header on the response, mentioning the preferred protocols.
1172 *) mod_http2: new directives 'H2TLSWarmUpSize' and 'H2TLSCoolDownSecs'
1173 to control TLS record sizes during connection lifetime.
1176 *) mod_http2: new directive 'H2ModernTLSOnly' to enforce security
1177 requirements of RFC 7540 on TLS connections. [Stefan Eissing]
1179 *) core: add ap_get_protocol_upgrades() to retrieve the list of protocols
1180 that a client could possibly upgrade to. Use in first request on a
1181 connection to announce protocol choices. [Stefan Eissing]
1183 *) mod_http2: reworked deallocation on connection shutdown and worker
1184 abort. Separate parent pool for all workers. worker threads are joined
1185 on planned worker shutdown. [Yann Ylavic, Stefan Eissing]
1187 *) mod_ssl: when receiving requests for other virtual hosts than the handshake
1188 server, the SSL parameters are checked for equality. With equal
1189 configuration, requests are passed for processing. Any change will trigger
1190 the old behaviour of "421 Misdirected Request".
1191 SSL now remembers the cipher suite that was used for the last handshake.
1192 This is compared against for any vhost/directory cipher specification.
1193 Detailed examination of renegotiation is only done when these do not
1195 Renegotiation is 403ed when a master connection is present. Exact reason
1196 is given additionally in a request note. [Stefan Eissing]
1198 *) mod_ssl: Make the output filter more friendly with deferred write and
1199 response pipelining. [Yann Ylavic, Joe Orton]
1201 *) core: Fix scoreboard crash (SIGBUS) on hardware requiring strict 64bit
1202 alignment (SPARC64, PPC64). [Yann Ylavic]
1204 *) mod_cache: Accept HT (Horizontal Tab) when parsing cache related header
1205 fields as described in RFC7230. [Christophe Jaillet]
1207 *) core/util_script: making REDIRECT_URL a full URL is now opt-in
1208 via new 'QualifyRedirectURL' directive.
1210 *) core: Limit to ten the number of tolerated empty lines between request,
1211 and consume them before the pipelining check to avoid possible response
1212 delay when reading the next request without flushing. [Yann Ylavic]
1214 *) mod_ssl: Extend expression parser registration to support ssl variables
1215 in any expression using mod_rewrite syntax "%{SSL:VARNAME}" or function
1216 syntax "ssl(VARNAME)". [Rainer Jung]
1218 Changes with Apache 2.4.17
1220 *) mod_http2: added donated HTTP/2 implementation via core module. Similar
1221 configuration options to mod_ssl. [Stefan Eissing]
1223 *) mod_proxy: don't recyle backend announced "Connection: close" connections
1224 to avoid reusing it should the close be effective after some new request
1225 is ready to be sent. [Yann Ylavic]
1227 *) mod_substitute: Allow to configure the patterns merge order with the new
1228 SubstituteInheritBefore on|off directive. PR 57641
1229 [Marc.Stern <Marc.Stern approach.be>, Yann Ylavic, William Rowe]
1231 *) mod_proxy: Fix ProxySourceAddress binding failure with AH00938.
1232 PR 56687. [Arne de Bruijn <apache arbruijn.dds.nl>
1234 *) mod_ssl: Support compilation against libssl built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL3,
1235 and change the compiled-in default for SSL[Proxy]Protocol to "all -SSLv3",
1236 in accordance with RFC 7568. PR 58349, PR 57120. [Kaspar Brand]
1238 *) mod_ssl: append :!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXP to the cipher string settings,
1239 instead of prepending !aNULL:!eNULL:!EXP: (as was the case in 2.4.7
1240 and later). Enables support for configuring the SUITEB* cipher
1241 strings introduced in OpenSSL 1.0.2. PR 58213. [Kaspar Brand]
1243 *) mod_ssl: Add support for extracting the msUPN and dnsSRV forms
1244 of subjectAltName entries of type "otherName" into
1245 SSL_{CLIENT,SERVER}_SAN_OTHER_{msUPN,dnsSRV}_n environment
1246 variables. Addresses PR 58020. [Jan Pazdziora <jpazdziora redhat.com>,
1249 *) mod_logio: Fix logging of %^FB (time to first byte) on the first request on
1250 an SSL connection. PR 58454.
1251 [Konstantin J. Chernov <k.j.chernov gmail.com>]
1253 *) mod_cache: r->err_headers_out is not merged into
1254 r->headers when mod_cache is enabled and the response
1255 is cached for the first time. [Edward Lu]
1257 *) mod_slotmem_shm: Fix slots/SHM files names on restart for systems that
1258 can't create new (clear) slots while previous children gracefully stopping
1259 still use the old ones (e.g. Windows, OS2). mod_proxy_balancer failed to
1260 restart whenever the number of configured balancers/members changed during
1261 restart. PR 58024. [Yann Ylavic]
1263 *) core/util_script: make REDIRECT_URL a full URL. PR 57785. [Nick Kew]
1265 *) MPMs: Support SO_REUSEPORT to create multiple duplicated listener
1266 records for scalability. [Yingqi Lu <yingqi.lu@intel.com>,
1267 Jeff Trawick, Jim Jagielski, Yann Ylavic]
1269 *) mod_alias: Introduce expression parser support for Alias, ScriptAlias
1270 and Redirect. Limit Redirect expressions to directory (Location) context
1271 and redirect statuses (implicit or explicit).
1272 [Graham Leggett, Yann Ylavic, Ruediger Pluem]
1274 *) mod_proxy: Fix a race condition that caused a failed worker to be retried
1275 before the retry period is over. [Ruediger Pluem]
1277 *) mod_autoindex: Allow autoindexes when neither mod_dir nor mod_mime are
1278 loaded. [Eric Covener]
1280 *) mod_rewrite: Allow cookies set by mod_rewrite to contain ':' by accepting
1281 ';' as an alternate separator. PR47241.
1282 [<bugzilla schermesser com>, Eric Covener]
1284 *) apxs: Add HTTPD_VERSION and HTTPD_MMN to the variables available with
1285 apxs -q. PR58202. [Daniel Shahaf <danielsh apache.org>]
1287 *) mod_rewrite: Avoid a crash when lacking correct DB access permissions
1288 when using RewriteMap with MapType dbd or fastdbd. [Christophe Jaillet]
1290 *) mod_authz_dbd: Avoid a crash when lacking correct DB access permissions.
1291 PR 57868. [Jose Kahan <jose w3.org>, Yann Ylavic]
1293 *) mod_socache_memcache: Add the 'MemcacheConnTTL' directive to control how
1294 long to keep idle connections with the memcache server(s).
1295 Change default value from 600 usec (!) to 15 sec. PR 58091
1296 [Christophe Jaillet]
1298 *) mod_dir: Prevent the internal identifier "httpd/unix-directory" from
1299 appearing as a Content-Type response header when requests for a directory
1300 are rewritten by mod_rewrite. [Eric Covener]
1302 Changes with Apache 2.4.16
1304 *) http: Fix LimitRequestBody checks when there is no more bytes to read.
1305 [Michael Kaufmann <mail michael-kaufmann.ch>]
1307 *) mod_alias: Revert expression parser support for Alias, ScriptAlias
1308 and Redirect due to a regression (introduced in 2.4.13, not released).
1310 *) mod_reqtimeout: Don't let pipelining checks and keep-alive times interfere
1311 with the timeouts computed for subsequent requests. PR 56729.
1312 [Eric Covener, Yann Ylavic]
1314 *) core: Avoid a possible truncation of the faulty header included in the
1315 HTML response when LimitRequestFieldSize is reached. [Yann Ylavic]
1317 *) mod_ldap: In some case, LDAP_NO_SUCH_ATTRIBUTE could be returned instead
1318 of an error during a compare operation. [Eric Covener]
1320 Changes with Apache 2.4.15 (not released)
1322 *) mod_ext_filter, mod_charset_lite: Avoid inadvertent filtering of protocol
1323 data during read of chunked request bodies. PR 58049.
1324 [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail.com>]
1326 *) mod_ldap: Stop leaking LDAP connections when 'LDAPConnectionPoolTTL 0'
1327 is configured. PR 58037. [Ted Phelps <phelps gnusto.com>]
1329 *) core: Allow spaces after chunk-size for compatibility with implementations
1330 using a pre-filled buffer. [Yann Ylavic, Jeff Trawick]
1332 *) mod_ssl: Remove deprecated SSLCertificateChainFile warning.
1335 Changes with Apache 2.4.14 (not released)
1337 *) SECURITY: CVE-2015-3183 (cve.mitre.org)
1338 core: Fix chunk header parsing defect.
1339 Remove apr_brigade_flatten(), buffering and duplicated code from
1340 the HTTP_IN filter, parse chunks in a single pass with zero copy.
1341 Limit accepted chunk-size to 2^63-1 and be strict about chunk-ext
1342 authorized characters. [Graham Leggett, Yann Ylavic]
1344 *) SECURITY: CVE-2015-3185 (cve.mitre.org)
1345 Replacement of ap_some_auth_required (unusable in Apache httpd 2.4)
1346 with new ap_some_authn_required and ap_force_authn hook. [Ben Reser]
1348 Changes with Apache 2.4.13 (not released)
1350 *) SECURITY: CVE-2015-0253 (cve.mitre.org)
1351 core: Fix a crash with ErrorDocument 400 pointing to a local URL-path
1352 with the INCLUDES filter active, introduced in 2.4.11. PR 57531.
1355 *) SECURITY: CVE-2015-0228 (cve.mitre.org)
1356 mod_lua: A maliciously crafted websockets PING after a script
1357 calls r:wsupgrade() can cause a child process crash.
1358 [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail.com>]
1360 *) mod_proxy: Don't put the worker in error state for 500 or 503 errors
1361 returned by the backend unless failonstatus is configured to. PR 56925.
1364 *) core: Don't lowercase the argument to SetHandler if it begins with
1365 "proxy:unix". PR 57968. [Eric Covener]
1367 *) mod_ssl OCSP Stapling: Don't block initial handshakes while refreshing
1368 the OCSP response for a different certificate. mod_ssl has an additional
1369 global mutex, "ssl-stapling-refresh". PR 57131 (partial fix).
1372 *) mod_authz_dbm: Fix crashes when "dbm-file-group" is used and
1373 authz modules were loaded in the "wrong" order. [Joe Orton]
1375 *) mod_authn_dbd, mod_authz_dbd, mod_session_dbd, mod_rewrite: Fix lifetime
1376 of DB lookup entries independently of the selected DB engine. PR 46421.
1377 [Steven whitson <steven.whitson gmail com>, Jan Kaluza, Yann Ylavic].
1379 *) In alignment with RFC 7525, the default recommended SSLCipherSuite
1380 and SSLProxyCipherSuite now exclude RC4 as well as MD5. Also, the
1381 default recommended SSLProtocol and SSLProxyProtocol directives now
1382 exclude SSLv3. Existing configurations must be adjusted by the
1383 administrator. [William Rowe]
1385 *) mod_ssl: Add support for extracting subjectAltName entries of type
1386 rfc822Name and dNSName into SSL_{CLIENT,SERVER}_SAN_{Email,DNS}_n
1387 environment variables. Also addresses PR 57207. [Kaspar Brand]
1389 *) dav_validate_request: avoid validating locks and ETags when there are
1390 no If headers providing them on a resource we aren't modifying.
1393 *) mod_proxy_scgi: ProxySCGIInternalRedirect now allows an alternate
1394 response header to be used by the application, for when the application
1395 or framework is unable to return Location in the internal-redirect
1396 form. [Jeff Trawick]
1398 *) core: Cleanup the request soon/even if some output filter fails to
1399 handle the EOR bucket. [Yann Ylavic]
1401 *) mpm_event: Allow for timer events duplicates. [Jim Jagielski, Yann Ylavic]
1403 *) mod_proxy, mod_ssl, mod_cache_socache, mod_socache_*: Support machine
1404 readable server-status produced when using the "?auto" query string.
1407 *) mod_status: Add more data to machine readable server-status produced
1408 when using the "?auto" query string. [Rainer Jung]
1410 *) mod_ssl: Check for the Entropy Gathering Daemon (EGD) availability at
1411 configure time (RAND_egd), and complain if SSLRandomSeed requires using
1412 it otherwise. [Bernard Spil <pil.oss gmail com>, Stefan Sperling,
1415 *) mod_ssl: make sure to consistently output SSLCertificateChainFile
1416 deprecation warnings, when encountered in a VirtualHost block.
1417 [Falco Schwarz <hiding falco.me>]
1419 *) mod_log_config: Add "%{UNIT}T" format to output request duration in
1420 seconds, milliseconds or microseconds depending on UNIT ("s", "ms", "us").
1421 [Ben Reser, Rainer Jung]
1423 *) Allow FallbackResource to work when a directory is requested and
1424 there is no autoindex nor DirectoryIndex.
1425 [Jack <tjerk.meesters gmail.com>, Eric Covener]
1427 *) mod_proxy_wstunnel: Bypass the handler while the connection is not
1428 upgraded to WebSocket, so that other modules can possibly take over
1429 the leading HTTP requests. [Yann Ylavic]
1431 *) mod_http: Fix incorrect If-Match handling. PR 57358
1432 [Kunihiko Sakamoto <ksakamoto google.com>]
1434 *) mod_ssl: Add a warning if protocol given in SSLProtocol or SSLProxyProtocol
1435 will override other parameters given in the same directive. This could be
1436 a missing + or - prefix. PR 52820 [Christophe Jaillet]
1438 *) core, modules: Avoid error response/document handling by the core if some
1439 handler or input filter already did it while reading the request (causing
1440 a double response body). [Yann Ylavic]
1442 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Fix client connection errors handling and logged status
1443 when it occurs. PR 56823. [Yann Ylavic]
1445 *) mod_proxy: Use the correct server name for SNI in case the backend
1446 SSL connection itself is established via a proxy server.
1447 PR 57139 [Szabolcs Gyurko <szabolcs gyurko.org>]
1449 *) mod_ssl: Fix possible crash when loading server certificate constraints.
1450 PR 57694. [Paul Spangler <paul.spangler ni com>, Yann Ylavic]
1452 *) build: Don't load both mod_cgi and mod_cgid in the default configuration
1453 if they're both built. [olli hauer <ohauer gmx.de>]
1455 *) mod_logio: Add LogIOTrackTTFB and %^FB logformat to log the time
1456 taken to start writing response headers. [Eric Covener]
1458 *) mod_ssl: Avoid compilation errors with LibreSSL related to
1459 the use of ENGINE_CTRL_CHIL_SET_FORKCHECK.
1460 [Stuart Henderson <sthen openbsd.org>]
1462 *) mod_proxy_http: Use the "Connection: close" header for requests to
1463 backends not recycling connections (disablereuse), including the default
1464 reverse and forward proxies. [Yann Ylavic]
1466 *) mod_proxy: Add ap_connection_reusable() for checking if a connection
1467 is reusable as of this point in processing. [Jeff Trawick]
1469 *) mod_proxy_wstunnel: Avoid an empty response by failing with 502 (Bad
1470 Gateway) when no response is ever received from the backend.
1473 *) core_filters: Restore/disable TCP_NOPUSH option after non-blocking
1474 sendfile. [Yann Ylavic]
1476 *) mod_buffer: Forward flushed input data immediately and avoid (unlikely)
1477 access to freed memory. [Yann Ylavic, Christophe Jaillet]
1479 *) core: Add CGIPassAuth directive to control whether HTTP authorization
1480 headers are passed to scripts as CGI variables. PR 56855. [Jeff
1483 *) core: Initialize scoreboard's used optional functions on graceful restarts
1484 to avoid a crash when relocation occurs. PR 57177. [Yann Ylavic]
1486 *) mod_dav: Avoid a potential integer underflow in the lock timeout value sent
1487 back to a client. The answer to a LOCK request could be an extremly large
1488 integer if the time needed to lock the resource was longer that the
1489 requested timeout given in the LOCK request. In such a case, we now answer
1491 [Christophe Jaillet]
1493 *) mod_cgid: Within the first minute of a server start or restart,
1494 allow mod_cgid to retry connecting to its daemon process. Previously,
1495 'No such file or directory: unable to connect to cgi daemon...' could
1496 be logged without an actual retry. PR57685.
1497 [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail.com>]
1499 *) mod_proxy: Use the original (non absolute) form of the request-line's URI
1500 for requests embedded in CONNECT payloads used to connect SSL backends via
1501 a ProxyRemote forward-proxy. PR 55892. [Hendrik Harms <hendrik.harms
1502 gmail com>, William Rowe, Yann Ylavic]
1504 *) http: Make ap_die() robust against any HTTP error code and not modify
1505 response status (finally logged) when nothing is to be done. PR 56035.
1508 *) mod_proxy_connect/wstunnel: If both client and backend sides get readable
1509 at the same time, don't lose errors occurring while forwarding on the first
1510 side when none occurs next on the other side, and abort. [Yann Ylavic]
1512 *) mod_rewrite: Improve relative substitutions in per-directory/htaccess
1513 context for directories found by mod_userdir and mod_alias. These no
1514 longer require RewriteBase to be specified. [Eric Covener]
1516 *) mod_proxy_http: Don't expect the backend to ack the "Connection: close" to
1517 finally close those not meant to be kept alive by SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive
1518 or force-proxy-request-1.0. [Yann Ylavic]
1520 *) core: If explicitly configured, use the KeepaliveTimeout value of the
1521 virtual host which handled the latest request on the connection, or by
1522 default the one of the first virtual host bound to the same IP:port.
1523 PR56226. [Yann Ylavic]
1525 *) mod_lua: After a r:wsupgrade(), mod_lua was not properly
1526 responding to a websockets PING but instead invoking the specified
1527 script. PR57524. [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail.com>]
1529 *) mod_ssl: Add the SSL_CLIENT_CERT_RFC4523_CEA variable, which provides
1530 a combination of certificate serialNumber and issuer as defined by
1531 CertificateExactMatch in RFC4523. [Graham Leggett]
1533 *) core: Add expression support to ErrorDocument. Switch from a fixed
1534 sized 664 byte array per merge to a hash table. [Graham Leggett]
1536 *) ab: Add missing longest request (100%) to CSV export.
1537 [Marcin Fabrykowski <bugzilla fabrykowski.pl>]
1539 *) mod_macro: Clear macros before initialization to avoid use-after-free
1540 on startup or restart when the module is linked statically. PR 57525
1541 [apache.org tech.futurequest.net, Yann Ylavic]
1543 *) mod_alias: Introduce expression parser support for Alias, ScriptAlias
1544 and Redirect. [Graham Leggett]
1546 *) mod_ssl: 'SSLProtocol ALL' was being ignored in virtual host context.
1547 PR 57100. [Michael Kaufmann <apache-bugzilla michael-kaufmann.ch>,
1550 *) mpm_event: Avoid access to the scoreboard from the connection while
1551 it is suspended (waiting for events). [Eric Covener, Jeff Trawick]
1553 *) mod_ssl: Fix renegotiation failures redirected to an ErrorDocument.
1554 PR 57334. [Yann Ylavic].
1556 *) mod_deflate: A misplaced check prevents limiting small bodies with the
1557 new inflate limits. PR56872. [Edward Lu, Eric Covener, Yann Ylavic]
1559 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Forward SSL protocol name (SSLv3, TLSv1.1 etc.) as a
1560 request attribute to the backend. Recent Tomcat versions will extract
1561 it and provide it as a servlet request attribute named
1562 "org.apache.tomcat.util.net.secure_protocol_version". [Rainer Jung]
1564 *) core: Optimize string concatenation in expression parser when evaluating
1565 a string expression. [Rainer Jung]
1567 *) acinclude.m4: Generate #LoadModule directive in default httpd.conf for
1568 every --enable-mpms-shared. PR 53882. [olli hauer <ohauer gmx.de>,
1571 *) mod_authn_dbd: Fix the error message logged in case of error while querying
1572 the database. This is associated to AH01656 and AH01661. [Christophe Jaillet]
1574 *) mod_authz_groupfile: Reduce the severity of AH01667 from ERROR to DEBUG,
1575 because it may be evaluated inside <RequireAny>. PR55523. [Eric Covener]
1577 *) mod_ssl: Fix small memory leak during initialization when ECDH is used.
1580 Changes with Apache 2.4.12
1582 *) mpm_winnt: Accept utf-8 (Unicode) service names and descriptions for
1583 internationalization. [William Rowe]
1585 *) mpm_winnt: Normalize the error and status messages emitted by service.c,
1586 the service control interface for Windows. [William Rowe]
1588 *) configure: Fix --enable-v4-mapped configuration on *BSD. PR 53824.
1589 [ olli hauer <ohauer gmx.de>, Yann Ylavic ]
1591 *) Reverted <DirectoryMatch > behavior regression introduced in 2.4.11
1594 Changes with Apache 2.4.11 (not released)
1596 *) SECURITY: CVE-2014-3583 (cve.mitre.org)
1597 mod_proxy_fcgi: Fix a potential crash due to buffer over-read, with
1598 response headers' size above 8K. [Yann Ylavic, Jeff Trawick]
1600 *) SECURITY: CVE-2014-3581 (cve.mitre.org)
1601 mod_cache: Avoid a crash when Content-Type has an empty value.
1602 PR 56924. [Mark Montague <mark catseye.org>, Jan Kaluza]
1604 *) SECURITY: CVE-2014-8109 (cve.mitre.org)
1605 mod_lua: Fix handling of the Require line when a LuaAuthzProvider is
1606 used in multiple Require directives with different arguments.
1607 PR57204 [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail.com>]
1609 *) SECURITY: CVE-2013-5704 (cve.mitre.org)
1610 core: HTTP trailers could be used to replace HTTP headers
1611 late during request processing, potentially undoing or
1612 otherwise confusing modules that examined or modified
1613 request headers earlier. Adds "MergeTrailers" directive to restore
1614 legacy behavior. [Edward Lu, Yann Ylavic, Joe Orton, Eric Covener]
1616 *) mod_ssl: New directive SSLSessionTickets (On|Off).
1617 The directive controls the use of TLS session tickets (RFC 5077),
1618 default value is "On" (unchanged behavior).
1619 Session ticket creation uses a random key created during web
1620 server startup and recreated during restarts. No other key
1621 recreation mechanism is available currently. Therefore using session
1622 tickets without restarting the web server with an appropriate frequency
1623 (e.g. daily) compromises perfect forward secrecy. [Rainer Jung]
1625 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Provide some basic alternate options for specifying
1626 how PATH_INFO is passed to FastCGI backends by adding significance to
1627 the value of proxy-fcgi-pathinfo. PR 55329. [Eric Covener]
1629 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Enable UDS backends configured with SetHandler/RewriteRule
1630 to opt-in to connection reuse and other Proxy options via explicitly
1631 declared "proxy workers" (<Proxy unix:... enablereuse=on max=...)
1634 *) mod_proxy: Add "enablereuse" option as the inverse of "disablereuse".
1637 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Enable opt-in to TCP connection reuse by explicitly
1638 setting proxy option disablereuse=off. [Eric Covener] PR 57378.
1640 *) event: Update the internal "connection id" when requests
1641 move from thread to thread. Reuse can confuse modules like
1642 mod_cgid. PR 57435. [Michael Thorpe <mike gistnet.com>]
1644 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Remove proxy:balancer:// prefix from SCRIPT_FILENAME
1645 passed to fastcgi backends. [Eric Covener]
1647 *) core: Configuration files with long lines and continuation characters
1648 are not read properly. PR 55910. [Manuel Mausz <manuel-as mausz.at>]
1650 *) mod_include: the 'env' function was incorrectly handled as 'getenv' if the
1651 leading 'e' was written in upper case in <!--#if expr="..." -->
1652 statements. [Christophe Jaillet]
1654 *) split-logfile: Fix perl error: 'Can't use string ("example.org:80")
1655 as a symbol ref while "strict refs"'. PR 56329.
1656 [Holger Mauermann <mauermann gmail.com>]
1658 *) mod_proxy: Prevent ProxyPassReverse from doing a substitution when
1659 the URL parameter interpolates to an empty string. PR 56603.
1660 [<ajprout hotmail.com>]
1662 *) core: Fix -D[efined] or <Define>[d] variables lifetime across restarts.
1663 PR 57328. [Armin Abfalterer <a.abfalterer gmail.com>, Yann Ylavic].
1665 *) mod_proxy: Preserve original request headers even if they differ
1666 from the ones to be forwarded to the backend. PR 45387.
1669 *) mod_ssl: dump SSL IO/state for the write side of the connection(s),
1670 like reads (level TRACE4). [Yann Ylavic]
1672 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Ignore body data from backend for 304 responses. PR 57198.
1675 *) mod_ssl: Do not crash when looking up SSL related variables during
1676 expression evaluation on non SSL connections. PR 57070 [Ruediger Pluem]
1678 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Fix handling of the default port (8009) in the
1679 ProxyPass and <Proxy> configurations. PR 57259. [Yann Ylavic]
1681 *) mpm_event: Avoid a possible use after free when notifying the end of
1682 connection during lingering close. PR 57268. [Eric Covener, Yann Ylavic]
1684 *) mod_ssl: Fix recognition of OCSP stapling responses that are encoded
1685 improperly or too large. [Jeff Trawick]
1687 *) core: Add ap_log_data(), ap_log_rdata(), etc. for logging buffers.
1690 *) mod_proxy_fcgi, mod_authnz_fcgi: stop reading the response and issue an
1691 error when parsing or forwarding the response fails. [Yann Ylavic]
1693 *) mod_ssl: Fix a memory leak in case of graceful restarts with OpenSSL >= 0.9.8e
1694 PR 53435 [tadanori <tadanori2007 yahoo.com>, Sebastian Wiedenroth <wiedi frubar.net>]
1696 *) mod_proxy_connect: Don't issue AH02447 on sockets hangups, let the read
1697 determine whether it is a normal close or a real error. PR 57168. [Yann
1700 *) mod_proxy_wstunnel: abort backend connection on polling error to avoid
1701 further processing. [Yann Ylavic]
1703 *) core: Support custom ErrorDocuments for HTTP 501 and 414 status codes.
1704 PR 57167 [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail.com>]
1706 *) mod_proxy_connect: Fix ProxyRemote to https:// backends on EBCDIC
1707 systems. PR 57092 [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail.com>]
1709 *) mod_cache: Avoid a 304 response to an unconditional requst when an AH00752
1710 CacheLock error occurs during cache revalidation. [Eric Covener]
1712 *) mod_ssl: Move OCSP stapling information from a per-certificate store to
1713 a per-server hash. PR 54357, PR 56919. [Alex Bligh <alex alex.org.uk>,
1714 Yann Ylavic, Kaspar Brand]
1716 *) mod_cache_socache: Change average object size hint from 32 bytes to
1717 2048 bytes. [Rainer Jung]
1719 *) mod_cache_socache: Add cache status to server-status. [Rainer Jung]
1721 *) event: Fix worker-listener deadlock in graceful restart.
1724 *) Concat strings at compile time when possible. PR 53741.
1726 *) mod_substitute: Restrict configuration in .htaccess to
1727 FileInfo as documented. [Rainer Jung]
1729 *) mod_substitute: Make maximum line length configurable. [Rainer Jung]
1731 *) mod_substitute: Fix line length limitation in case of regexp plus flatten.
1734 *) mod_proxy: Truncated character worker names are no longer fatal
1735 errors. PR53218. [Jim Jagielski]
1737 *) mod_dav: Set r->status_line in dav_error_response. PR 55426.
1739 *) mod_proxy_http, mod_cache: Avoid (unlikely) accesses to freed memory.
1740 [Yann Ylavic, Christophe Jaillet]
1742 *) http_protocol: fix logic in ap_method_list_(add|remove) in order:
1743 - to correctly reset bits
1744 - not to modify the 'method_mask' bitfield unnecessarily
1745 [Christophe Jaillet]
1747 *) mod_slotmem_shm: Increase log level for some originally debug messages.
1750 *) mod_ldap: In 2.4.10, some LDAP searches or comparisons might be done with
1751 the wrong credentials when a backend connection is reused.
1754 *) mod_macro: Add missing APLOGNO for some Warning log messages.
1755 [Christophe Jaillet]
1757 *) mod_cache: Avoid sending 304 responses during failed revalidations
1758 PR56881. [Eric Covener]
1760 *) mod_status: Honor client IP address using mod_remoteip. PR 55886.
1763 *) cmake-based build for Windows: Fix incompatibility with cmake 2.8.12
1764 and later. PR 56615. [Chuck Liu <cliu81 gmail.com>, Jeff Trawick]
1766 *) mod_ratelimit: Drop severity of AH01455 and AH01457 (ap_pass_brigade
1767 failed) messages from ERROR to TRACE1. Other filters do not bother
1768 re-reporting failures from lower level filters. PR56832. [Eric Covener]
1770 *) core: Avoid useless warning message when parsing a section guarded by
1771 <IfDefine foo> if $(foo) is used within the section.
1772 PR 56503 [Christophe Jaillet]
1774 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Fix faulty logging of large amounts of stderr from the
1775 application. PR 56858. [Manuel Mausz <manuel-asf mausz.at>]
1777 *) mod_proxy_http: Proxy responses with error status and
1778 "ProxyErrorOverride On" hang until proxy timeout.
1779 PR53420 [Rainer Jung]
1781 *) mod_log_config: Allow three character log formats to be registered. For
1782 backwards compatibility, the first character of a three-character format
1783 must be the '^' (caret) character. [Eric Covener]
1785 *) mod_lua: Don't quote Expires and Path values. PR 56734.
1786 [Keith Mashinter, <kmashint yahoo com>]
1788 *) mod_authz_core: Allow <AuthzProviderAlias>'es to be seen from auth
1789 stanzas under virtual hosts. PR 56870. [Eric Covener]
1791 Changes with Apache 2.4.10
1793 *) SECURITY: CVE-2014-0117 (cve.mitre.org)
1794 mod_proxy: Fix crash in Connection header handling which allowed a denial
1795 of service attack against a reverse proxy with a threaded MPM.
1798 *) SECURITY: CVE-2014-3523 (cve.mitre.org)
1799 Fix a memory consumption denial of service in the WinNT MPM, used in all
1800 Windows installations. Workaround: AcceptFilter <protocol> {none|connect}
1803 *) SECURITY: CVE-2014-0226 (cve.mitre.org)
1804 Fix a race condition in scoreboard handling, which could lead to
1805 a heap buffer overflow. [Joe Orton, Eric Covener]
1807 *) SECURITY: CVE-2014-0118 (cve.mitre.org)
1808 mod_deflate: The DEFLATE input filter (inflates request bodies) now
1809 limits the length and compression ratio of inflated request bodies to
1810 avoid denial of service via highly compressed bodies. See directives
1811 DeflateInflateLimitRequestBody, DeflateInflateRatioLimit,
1812 and DeflateInflateRatioBurst. [Yann Ylavic, Eric Covener]
1814 *) SECURITY: CVE-2014-0231 (cve.mitre.org)
1815 mod_cgid: Fix a denial of service against CGI scripts that do
1816 not consume stdin that could lead to lingering HTTPD child processes
1817 filling up the scoreboard and eventually hanging the server. By
1818 default, the client I/O timeout (Timeout directive) now applies to
1819 communication with scripts. The CGIDScriptTimeout directive can be
1820 used to set a different timeout for communication with scripts.
1821 [Rainer Jung, Eric Covener, Yann Ylavic]
1823 *) mod_ssl: Extend the scope of SSLSessionCacheTimeout to sessions
1824 resumed by TLS session resumption (RFC 5077). [Rainer Jung]
1826 *) mod_deflate: Don't fail when flushing inflated data to the user-agent
1827 and that coincides with the end of stream ("Zlib error flushing inflate
1828 buffer"). PR 56196. [Christoph Fausak <christoph fausak glueckkanja.com>]
1830 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Forward local IP address as a custom request attribute
1831 like we already do for the remote port. [Rainer Jung]
1833 *) core: Include any error notes set by modules in the canned error
1834 response for 403 errors. [Jeff Trawick]
1836 *) mod_ssl: Set an error note for requests rejected due to
1837 SSLStrictSNIVHostCheck. [Jeff Trawick]
1839 *) mod_ssl: Fix issue with redirects to error documents when handling
1840 SNI errors. [Jeff Trawick]
1842 *) mod_ssl: Fix tmp DH parameter leak, adjust selection to prefer
1843 larger keys and support up to 8192-bit keys. [Ruediger Pluem,
1846 *) mod_dav: Fix improper encoding in PROPFIND responses. PR 56480.
1849 *) WinNT MPM: Improve error handling for termination events in child.
1852 *) mod_proxy: When ping/pong is configured for a worker, don't send or
1853 forward "100 Continue" (interim) response to the client if it does
1854 not expect one. [Yann Ylavic]
1856 *) mod_ldap: Be more conservative with the last-used time for
1857 LDAPConnectionPoolTTL. PR54587 [Eric Covener]
1859 *) mod_ldap: LDAP connections used for authn were not respecting
1860 LDAPConnectionPoolTTL. PR54587 [Eric Covener]
1862 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Fix occasional high CPU when handling request bodies.
1865 *) event MPM: Fix possible crashes (third-party modules accessing c->sbh)
1866 or occasional missed mod_status updates under load. PR 56639.
1867 [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail com>]
1869 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Support primitive LDAP servers do not accept
1870 filters, such as "SDBM-backed LDAP" on z/OS, by allowing a special
1871 filter "none" to be specified in AuthLDAPURL. [Eric Covener]
1873 *) mod_deflate: Fix inflation of files larger than 4GB. PR 56062.
1874 [Lukas Bezdicka <social v3.sk>]
1876 *) mod_deflate: Handle Zlib header and validation bytes received in multiple
1877 chunks. PR 46146. [Yann Ylavic]
1879 *) mod_proxy: Allow reverse-proxy to be set via explicit handler.
1880 [ryo takatsuki <ryotakatsuki gmail com>]
1882 *) ab: support custom HTTP method with -m argument. PR 56604.
1883 [Roman Jurkov <winfinit gmail.com>]
1885 *) mod_proxy_balancer: Correctly encode user provided data in management
1886 interface. PR 56532 [Maksymilian, <max cert.cx>]
1888 *) mod_proxy: Don't limit the size of the connectable Unix Domain Socket
1889 paths. [Graham Dumpleton, Christophe Jaillet, Yann Ylavic]
1891 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Support iobuffersize parameter. [Jeff Trawick]
1893 *) event: Send the SSL close notify alert when the KeepAliveTimeout
1894 expires. PR54998. [Yann Ylavic]
1896 *) mod_ssl: Ensure that the SSL close notify alert is flushed to the client.
1897 PR54998. [Tim Kosse <tim.kosse filezilla-project.org>, Yann Ylavic]
1899 *) mod_proxy: Shutdown (eg. SSL close notify) the backend connection before
1900 closing. [Yann Ylavic]
1902 *) mod_auth_form: Add a debug message when the fields on a form are not
1903 recognised. [Graham Leggett]
1905 *) mod_cache: Preserve non-cacheable headers forwarded from an origin 304
1906 response. PR 55547. [Yann Ylavic]
1908 *) mod_proxy_wstunnel: Fix the use of SSL connections with the "wss:"
1909 scheme. PR55320. [Alex Liu <alex.leo.ca gmail.com>]
1911 *) mod_socache_shmcb: Correct counting of expirations for status display.
1912 Expirations happening during retrieval were not counted. [Rainer Jung]
1914 *) mod_cache: Retry unconditional request with the full URL (including the
1915 query-string) when the origin server's 304 response does not match the
1916 conditions used to revalidate the stale entry. [Yann Ylavic].
1918 *) mod_alias: Stop setting CONTEXT_PREFIX and CONTEXT_DOCUMENT environment
1919 variables as a result of AliasMatch. [Eric Covener]
1921 *) mod_cache: Don't add cached/revalidated entity headers to a 304 response.
1922 PR 55547. [Yann Ylavic]
1924 *) mod_proxy_scgi: Support Unix sockets. ap_proxy_port_of_scheme():
1925 Support default SCGI port (4000). [Jeff Trawick]
1927 *) mod_cache: Fix AH00784 errors on Windows when the the CacheLock directive
1928 is enabled. [Eric Covener]
1930 *) mod_expires: don't add Expires header to error responses (4xx/5xx),
1931 be they generated or forwarded. PR 55669. [Yann Ylavic]
1933 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Don't segfault when failing to connect to the backend.
1934 (regression in 2.4.9 release) [Jeff Trawick]
1936 *) mod_authn_socache: Fix crash at startup in certain configurations.
1937 PR 56371. (regression in 2.4.7) [Jan Kaluza]
1939 *) mod_ssl: restore argument structure for "exec"-type SSLPassPhraseDialog
1940 programs to the form used in releases up to 2.4.7, and emulate
1941 a backwards-compatible behavior for existing setups. [Kaspar Brand]
1943 *) mod_ssl: Add SSLOCSPUseRequestNonce directive to control whether or not
1944 OCSP requests should use a nonce to be checked against the responder's
1945 one. PR 56233. [Yann Ylavic, Kaspar Brand]
1947 *) mod_ssl: "SSLEngine off" will now override a Listen-based default
1948 and does disable mod_ssl for the vhost. [Joe Orton]
1950 *) mod_lua: Enforce the max post size allowed via r:parsebody()
1953 *) mod_lua: Use binary comparison to find boundaries for multipart
1954 objects, as to not terminate our search prematurely when hitting
1955 a NULL byte. [Daniel Gruno]
1957 *) mod_ssl: add workaround for SSLCertificateFile when using OpenSSL
1958 versions before 0.9.8h and not specifying an SSLCertificateChainFile
1959 (regression introduced with 2.4.8). PR 56410. [Kaspar Brand]
1961 *) mod_ssl: bring SNI behavior into better conformance with RFC 6066:
1962 no longer send warning-level unrecognized_name(112) alerts,
1963 and limit startup warnings to cases where an OpenSSL version
1964 without TLS extension support is used. PR 56241. [Kaspar Brand]
1966 *) mod_proxy_html: Avoid some possible memory access violation in case of
1967 specially crafted files, when the ProxyHTMLMeta directive is turned on.
1968 Follow up of PR 56287 [Christophe Jaillet]
1970 *) mod_auth_form: Make sure the optional functions are loaded even when
1971 the AuthFormProvider isn't specified. [Graham Leggett]
1973 *) mod_ssl: avoid processing bogus SSLCertificateKeyFile values
1974 (and logging garbled file names). PR 56306. [Kaspar Brand]
1976 *) mod_ssl: fix merging of global and vhost-level settings with the
1977 SSLCertificateFile, SSLCertificateKeyFile, and SSLOpenSSLConfCmd
1978 directives. PR 56353. [Kaspar Brand]
1980 *) mod_headers: Allow the "value" parameter of Header and RequestHeader to
1981 contain an ap_expr expression if prefixed with "expr=". [Eric Covener]
1983 *) rotatelogs: Avoid creation of zombie processes when -p is used on
1984 Unix platforms. [Joe Orton]
1986 *) mod_authnz_fcgi: New module to enable FastCGI authorizer
1987 applications to authenticate and/or authorize clients.
1990 *) mod_proxy: Do not try to parse the regular expressions passed by
1991 ProxyPassMatch as URL as they do not follow their syntax.
1992 PR 56074. [Ruediger Pluem]
1994 *) mod_reqtimeout: Resolve unexpected timeouts on keepalive requests
1995 under the Event MPM. PR56216. [Frank Meier <frank meier ergon ch>]
1997 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Fix sending of response without some HTTP headers
1998 that might be set by filters. PR 55558. [Jim Riggs <jim riggs.me>]
2000 *) mod_proxy_html: Do not delete the wrong data from HTML code when a
2001 "http-equiv" meta tag specifies a Content-Type behind any other
2002 "http-equiv" meta tag. PR 56287 [Micha Lenk <micha lenk info>]
2004 *) mod_proxy: Don't reuse a SSL backend connection whose requested SNI
2005 differs. PR 55782. [Yann Ylavic]
2007 *) Add suspend_connection and resume_connection hooks to notify modules
2008 when the thread/connection relationship changes. (Should be implemented
2009 for any third-party async MPMs.) [Jeff Trawick]
2011 *) mod_proxy_wstunnel: Don't issue AH02447 and log a 500 on routine
2012 hangups from websockets origin servers. PR 56299
2013 [Yann Ylavic, Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail com>, Eric Covener]
2015 *) mod_proxy_wstunnel: Don't pool backend websockets connections,
2016 because we need to handshake every time. PR 55890.
2019 *) mod_lua: Redesign how request record table access behaves,
2020 in order to utilize the request record from within these tables.
2023 *) mod_lua: Add r:wspeek for peeking at WebSocket frames. [Daniel Gruno]
2025 *) mod_lua: Log an error when the initial parsing of a Lua file fails.
2026 [Daniel Gruno, Felipe Daragon <filipe syhunt com>]
2028 *) mod_lua: Reformat and escape script error output.
2029 [Daniel Gruno, Felipe Daragon <filipe syhunt com>]
2031 *) mod_lua: URL-escape cookie keys/values to prevent tainted cookie data
2032 from causing response splitting.
2033 [Daniel Gruno, Felipe Daragon <filipe syhunt com>]
2035 *) mod_lua: Disallow newlines in table values inside the request_rec,
2036 to prevent HTTP Response Splitting via tainted headers.
2037 [Daniel Gruno, Felipe Daragon <filipe syhunt com>]
2039 *) mod_lua: Remove the non-working early/late arguments for
2040 LuaHookCheckUserID. [Daniel Gruno]
2042 *) mod_lua: Change IVM storage to use shm [Daniel Gruno]
2044 *) mod_lua: More verbose error logging when a handler function cannot be
2045 found. [Daniel Gruno]
2047 Changes with Apache 2.4.9
2049 *) mod_ssl: Work around a bug in some older versions of OpenSSL that
2050 would cause a crash in SSL_get_certificate for servers where the
2051 certificate hadn't been sent. [Stephen Henson]
2053 *) mod_lua: Add a fixups hook that checks if the original request is intended
2054 for LuaMapHandler. This fixes a bug where FallbackResource invalidates the
2055 LuaMapHandler directive in certain cases by changing the URI before the map
2056 handler code executes [Daniel Gruno, Daniel Ferradal <dferradal gmail com>].
2058 Changes with Apache 2.4.8 (not released)
2060 *) SECURITY: CVE-2014-0098 (cve.mitre.org)
2061 Clean up cookie logging with fewer redundant string parsing passes.
2062 Log only cookies with a value assignment. Prevents segfaults when
2063 logging truncated cookies.
2064 [William Rowe, Ruediger Pluem, Jim Jagielski]
2066 *) SECURITY: CVE-2013-6438 (cve.mitre.org)
2067 mod_dav: Keep track of length of cdata properly when removing
2068 leading spaces. Eliminates a potential denial of service from
2069 specifically crafted DAV WRITE requests
2070 [Amin Tora <Amin.Tora neustar.biz>]
2072 *) core: Support named groups and backreferences within the LocationMatch,
2073 DirectoryMatch, FilesMatch and ProxyMatch directives. (Requires
2074 non-ancient PCRE library) [Graham Leggett]
2076 *) core: draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-23 corrections regarding
2077 TE/CL conflicts. [Yann Ylavic, Jim Jagielski]
2079 *) core: Detect incomplete request and response bodies, log an error and
2080 forward it to the underlying filters. PR 55475 [Yann Ylavic]
2082 *) mod_dir: Add DirectoryCheckHandler to allow a 2.2-like behavior, skipping
2083 execution when a handler is already set. PR53929. [Eric Covener]
2085 *) mod_ssl: Do not perform SNI / Host header comparison in case of a
2086 forward proxy request. [Ruediger Pluem]
2088 *) mod_ssl: Remove the hardcoded algorithm-type dependency for the
2089 SSLCertificateFile and SSLCertificateKeyFile directives, to enable
2090 future algorithm agility, and deprecate the SSLCertificateChainFile
2091 directive (obsoleted by SSLCertificateFile). [Kaspar Brand]
2093 *) mod_rewrite: Add RewriteOptions InheritDown, InheritDownBefore,
2094 and IgnoreInherit to allow RewriteRules to be pushed from parent scopes
2095 to child scopes without explicitly configuring each child scope.
2096 PR56153. [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail com>]
2098 *) prefork: Fix long delays when doing a graceful restart.
2099 PR 54852 [Jim Jagielski, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm maven pl>]
2101 *) FreeBSD: Disable IPv4-mapped listening sockets by default for versions
2102 5+ instead of just for FreeBSD 5. PR 53824. [Jeff Trawick]
2104 *) mod_proxy_wstunnel: Avoid busy loop on client errors, drop message
2105 IDs 02445, 02446, and 02448 to TRACE1 from DEBUG. PR 56145.
2106 [Joffroy Christen <joffroy.christen solvaxis com>, Eric Covener]
2108 *) mod_remoteip: Correct the trusted proxy match test. PR 54651.
2109 [Yoshinori Ehara <yoshinori ehara gmail com>, Eugene L <eugenel amazon com>]
2111 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Fix error message when an unexpected protocol version
2112 number is received from the application. PR 56110. [Jeff Trawick]
2114 *) mod_remoteip: Use the correct IP addresses to populate the proxy_ips field.
2115 PR 55972. [Mike Rumph]
2117 *) mod_lua: Update r:setcookie() to accept a table of options and add domain,
2118 path and httponly to the list of options available to set.
2119 PR 56128 [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail com>, Daniel Gruno]
2121 *) mod_lua: Fix r:setcookie() to add, rather than replace,
2122 the Set-Cookie header. PR56105
2123 [Kevin J Walters <kjw ms com>, Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail com>]
2125 *) mod_lua: Allow for database results to be returned as a hash with
2126 row-name/value pairs instead of just row-number/value. [Daniel Gruno]
2128 *) mod_rewrite: Add %{CONN_REMOTE_ADDR} as the non-useragent counterpart to
2129 %{REMOTE_ADDR}. PR 56094. [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail com>]
2131 *) WinNT MPM: If ap_run_pre_connection() fails or sets c->aborted, don't
2132 save the socket for reuse by the next worker as if it were an
2133 APR_SO_DISCONNECTED socket. Restores 2.2 behavior. [Eric Covener]
2135 *) mod_dir: Don't search for a DirectoryIndex or DirectorySlash on a URL
2136 that was just rewritten by mod_rewrite. PR53929. [Eric Covener]
2138 *) mod_session: When we have a session we were unable to decode,
2139 behave as if there was no session at all. [Thomas Eckert
2140 <thomas.r.w.eckert gmail com>]
2142 *) mod_session: Fix problems interpreting the SessionInclude and
2143 SessionExclude configuration. PR 56038. [Erik Pearson
2144 <erik adaptations.com>]
2146 *) mod_authn_core: Allow <AuthnProviderAlias>'es to be seen from auth
2147 stanzas under virtual hosts. PR 55622. [Eric Covener]
2149 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Use apr_socket_timeout_get instead of hard-coded
2150 30 seconds timeout. [Jan Kaluza]
2152 *) build: only search for modules (config*.m4) in known subdirectories, see
2153 build/config-stubs. [Stefan Fritsch]
2155 *) mod_cache_disk: Fix potential hangs on Windows when using mod_cache_disk.
2156 PR 55833. [Eric Covener]
2158 *) mod_ssl: Add support for OpenSSL configuration commands by introducing
2159 the SSLOpenSSLConfCmd directive. [Stephen Henson, Kaspar Brand]
2161 *) mod_proxy: Remove (never documented) <Proxy ~ wildcard-url> syntax which
2162 is equivalent to <ProxyMatch wildcard-url>. [Christophe Jaillet]
2164 *) mod_authz_user, mod_authz_host, mod_authz_groupfile, mod_authz_dbm,
2165 mod_authz_dbd, mod_authnz_ldap: Support the expression parser within the
2166 require directives. [Graham Leggett]
2168 *) mod_proxy_http: Core dumped under high load. PR 50335.
2169 [Jan Kaluza <jkaluza redhat.com>]
2171 *) mod_socache_shmcb.c: Remove arbitrary restriction on shared memory size
2172 previously limited to 64MB. [Jens Låås <jelaas gmail.com>]
2174 *) mod_lua: Use binary copy when dealing with uploads through r:parsebody()
2175 to prevent truncating files. [Daniel Gruno]
2177 Changes with Apache 2.4.7
2179 *) SECURITY: CVE-2013-4352 (cve.mitre.org)
2180 mod_cache: Fix a NULL pointer deference which allowed untrusted
2181 origin servers to crash mod_cache in a forward proxy
2182 configuration. [Graham Leggett]
2184 *) APR 1.5.0 or later is now required for the event MPM.
2186 *) slotmem_shm: Error detection. [Jim Jagielski]
2188 *) event: Use skiplist data structure. [Jim Jagielski]
2190 *) event: Fail at startup with message AP02405 if the APR atomic
2191 implementation is not compatible with the MPM. [Jim Jagielski]
2193 *) mpm_unix: Add ap_mpm_podx_* implementation to avoid code duplication
2194 and align w/ trunk. [Jim Jagielski]
2196 *) Fix potential rejection of valid MaxMemFree and ThreadStackSize
2197 directives. [Mike Rumph <mike.rumph oracle.com>]
2199 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Remove 64K limit on encoded length of all envvars.
2200 An individual envvar with an encoded length of more than 16K will be
2201 omitted. [Jeff Trawick]
2203 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Handle reading protocol data that is split between
2204 packets. [Jeff Trawick]
2206 *) mod_ssl: Improve handling of ephemeral DH and ECDH keys by
2207 allowing custom parameters to be configured via SSLCertificateFile,
2208 and by adding standardized DH parameters for 1024/2048/3072/4096 bits.
2209 Unless custom parameters are configured, the standardized parameters
2210 are applied based on the certificate's RSA/DSA key size. [Kaspar Brand]
2212 *) mod_ssl, configure: Require OpenSSL 0.9.8a or later. [Kaspar Brand]
2214 *) mod_ssl: drop support for export-grade ciphers with ephemeral RSA
2215 keys, and unconditionally disable aNULL, eNULL and EXP ciphers
2216 (not overridable via SSLCipherSuite). [Kaspar Brand]
2218 *) mod_proxy: Added support for unix domain sockets as the
2219 backend server endpoint. This also introduces an unintended
2220 incompatibility for third party modules using the mod_proxy
2221 proxy_worker_shared structure, especially for balancer lbmethod
2222 modules. [Jim Jagielski, Blaise Tarr <blaise tarr gmail com>]
2224 *) Add experimental cmake-based build system for Windows. [Jeff Trawick,
2227 *) event MPM: Fix possible crashes (third party modules accessing c->sbh)
2228 or occasional missed mod_status updates for some keepalive requests
2229 under load. [Eric Covener]
2231 *) mod_authn_socache: Support optional initialization arguments for
2232 socache providers. [Chris Darroch]
2234 *) mod_session: Reset the max-age on session save. PR 47476. [Alexey
2235 Varlamov <alexey.v.varlamov gmail com>]
2237 *) mod_session: After parsing the value of the header specified by the
2238 SessionHeader directive, remove the value from the response. PR 55279.
2241 *) mod_headers: Allow for format specifiers in the substitution string
2242 when using Header edit. [Daniel Ruggeri]
2244 *) mod_dav: dav_resource->uri is treated as unencoded. This was an
2245 unnecessary ABI changed introduced in 2.4.6. PR 55397.
2247 *) mod_dav: Don't require lock tokens for COPY source. PR 55306.
2249 *) core: Don't truncate output when sending is interrupted by a signal,
2250 such as from an exiting CGI process. PR 55643. [Jeff Trawick]
2252 *) WinNT MPM: Exit the child if the parent process crashes or is terminated.
2253 [Oracle Corporation]
2255 *) Windows: Correct failure to discard stderr in some error log
2256 configurations. (Error message AH00093) [Jeff Trawick]
2258 *) mod_session_crypto: Allow using exec: calls to obtain session
2259 encryption key. [Daniel Ruggeri]
2261 *) core: Add missing Reason-Phrase in HTTP response headers.
2262 PR 54946. [Rainer Jung]
2264 *) mod_rewrite: Make rewrite websocket-aware to allow proxying.
2265 PR 55598. [Chris Harris <chris.harris kitware com>]
2267 *) mod_ldap: When looking up sub-groups, use an implicit objectClass=*
2268 instead of an explicit cn=* filter. [David Hawes <dhawes vt.edu>]
2270 *) ab: Add wait time, fix processing time, and output write errors only if
2271 they occurred. [Christophe Jaillet]
2273 *) worker MPM: Don't forcibly kill worker threads if the child process is
2274 exiting gracefully. [Oracle Corporation]
2276 *) core: apachectl -S prints wildcard name-based virtual hosts twice.
2277 PR54948 [Eric Covener]
2279 *) mod_auth_basic: Add AuthBasicUseDigestAlgorithm directive to
2280 allow migration of passwords from digest to basic authentication.
2283 *) ab: Add a new -l parameter in order not to check the length of the responses.
2284 This can be useful with dynamic pages.
2285 PR9945, PR27888, PR42040 [<ccikrs1 cranbrook edu>]
2287 *) Suppress formatting of startup messages written to the console when
2288 ErrorLogFormat is used. [Jeff Trawick]
2290 *) mod_auth_digest: Be more specific when the realm mismatches because the
2291 realm has not been specified. [Graham Leggett]
2293 *) mod_proxy: Add a note in the balancer manager stating whether changes
2294 will or will not be persisted and whether settings are inherited.
2295 [Daniel Ruggeri, Jim Jagielski]
2297 *) core: Add util_fcgi.h and associated definitions and support
2298 routines for FastCGI, based largely on mod_proxy_fcgi.
2301 *) mod_headers: Add 'Header note header-name note-name' for copying a response
2302 headers value into a note. [Eric Covener]
2304 *) mod_headers: Add 'setifempty' command to Header and RequestHeader.
2307 *) mod_logio: new format-specifier %S (sum) which is the sum of received
2308 and sent byte counts.
2309 PR54015 [Christophe Jaillet]
2311 *) mod_deflate: Improve error detection when decompressing request bodies
2312 with trailing garbage: handle case where trailing bytes are in
2313 the same bucket. [Rainer Jung]
2315 *) mod_authz_groupfile, mod_authz_user: Reduce severity of AH01671 and AH01663
2316 from ERROR to DEBUG, since these modules do not know what mod_authz_core
2317 is doing with their AUTHZ_DENIED return value. [Eric Covener]
2319 *) mod_ldap: add TRACE5 for LDAP retries. [Eric Covener]
2321 *) mod_ldap: retry on an LDAP timeout during authn. [Eric Covener]
2323 *) mod_ldap: Change "LDAPReferrals off" to actually set the underlying LDAP
2324 SDK option to OFF, and introduce "LDAPReferrals default" to take the SDK
2325 default, sans rebind authentication callback.
2326 [Jan Kaluza <kaluze AT redhat.com>]
2328 *) core: Log a message at TRACE1 when the client aborts a connection.
2331 *) WinNT MPM: Don't crash during child process initialization if the
2332 Listen protocol is unrecognized. [Jeff Trawick]
2334 *) modules: Fix some compiler warnings. [Guenter Knauf]
2336 *) Sync 2.4 and trunk
2337 - Avoid some memory allocation and work when TRACE1 is not activated
2338 - fix typo in include guard
2340 - No need to lower the string before removing the path, it is just
2343 [Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet wanadoo.fr>]
2345 *) mod_filter: Add "change=no" as a proto-flag to FilterProtocol
2346 to remove a providers initial flags set at registration time.
2349 *) core, mod_ssl: Enable the ability for a module to reverse the sense of
2350 a poll event from a read to a write or vice versa. This is a step on
2351 the way to allow mod_ssl taking full advantage of the event MPM.
2354 *) Makefile.win: Install proper pcre DLL file during debug build install.
2355 PR 55235. [Ben Reser <ben reser org>]
2357 *) mod_ldap: Fix a potential memory leak or corruption. PR 54936.
2358 [Zhenbo Xu <zhenbo1987 gmail com>]
2360 *) ab: Fix potential buffer overflows when processing the T and X
2361 command-line options. PR 55360.
2362 [Mike Rumph <mike.rumph oracle.com>]
2364 *) fcgistarter: Specify SO_REUSEADDR to allow starting a server
2365 with old connections in TIME_WAIT. [Jeff Trawick]
2367 *) core: Add open_htaccess hook which, in conjunction with dirwalk_stat
2368 and post_perdir_config (introduced in 2.4.5), allows mpm-itk to be
2369 used without patches to httpd core. [Stefan Fritsch]
2371 *) support/htdbm: fix processing of -t command line switch. Regression
2373 PR 55264 [Jo Rhett <jrhett netconsonance com>]
2375 *) mod_lua: add websocket support via r:wsupgrade, r:wswrite, r:wsread
2376 and r:wsping. [Daniel Gruno]
2378 *) mod_lua: add support for writing/reading cookies via r:getcookie and
2379 r:setcookie. [Daniel Gruno]
2381 *) mod_lua: If the first yield() of a LuaOutputFilter returns a string, it should
2382 be prefixed to the response as documented. [Eric Covener]
2383 Note: Not present in 2.4.7 CHANGES
2385 *) mod_lua: Remove ETAG, Content-Length, and Content-MD5 when a LuaOutputFilter
2386 is configured without mod_filter. [Eric Covener]
2387 Note: Not present in 2.4.7 CHANGES
2389 *) mod_lua: Register LuaOutputFilter scripts as changing the content and
2390 content-length by default, when run my mod_filter. Previously,
2391 growing or shrinking a response that started with Content-Length set
2392 would require mod_filter and FilterProtocol change=yes. [Eric Covener]
2393 Note: Not present in 2.4.7 CHANGES
2395 *) mod_lua: Return a 500 error if a LuaHook* script doesn't return a
2396 numeric return code. [Eric Covener]
2397 Note: Not present in 2.4.7 CHANGES
2399 Changes with Apache 2.4.6
2401 *) Revert a broken fix for PR54948 that was applied to 2.4.5 (which was
2402 not released) and found post-2.4.5 tagging.
2404 Changes with Apache 2.4.5
2406 *) SECURITY: CVE-2013-1896 (cve.mitre.org)
2407 mod_dav: Sending a MERGE request against a URI handled by mod_dav_svn with
2408 the source href (sent as part of the request body as XML) pointing to a
2409 URI that is not configured for DAV will trigger a segfault. [Ben Reser
2412 *) SECURITY: CVE-2013-2249 (cve.mitre.org)
2413 mod_session_dbd: Make sure that dirty flag is respected when saving
2414 sessions, and ensure the session ID is changed each time the session
2415 changes. This changes the format of the updatesession SQL statement.
2416 Existing configurations must be changed.
2417 [Takashi Sato, Graham Leggett]
2419 *) mod_auth_basic: Add a generic mechanism to fake basic authentication
2420 using the ap_expr parser. AuthBasicFake allows the administrator to
2421 construct their own username and password for basic authentication based
2422 on their needs. [Graham Leggett]
2424 *) mpm_event: Check that AsyncRequestWorkerFactor is not negative. PR 54254.
2425 [Jackie Zhang <jackie qq zhang gmail com>]
2427 *) mod_proxy: Ensure we don't attempt to amend a table we are iterating
2428 through, ensuring that all headers listed by Connection are removed.
2429 [Graham Leggett, Co-Advisor <coad measurement-factory.com>]
2431 *) mod_proxy_http: Make the proxy-interim-response environment variable
2432 effective by formally overriding origin server behaviour. [Graham
2433 Leggett, Co-Advisor <coad measurement-factory.com>]
2435 *) mod_proxy: Fix seg-faults when using the global pool on threaded
2436 MPMs [Thomas Eckert <thomas.r.w.eckert gmail.com>, Graham Leggett,
2439 *) mod_deflate: Remove assumptions as to when an EOS bucket might arrive.
2440 Gracefully step aside if the body size is zero. [Graham Leggett]
2442 *) mod_ssl: Fix possible truncation of OCSP responses when reading from the
2445 *) core: Support the SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT optimization
2446 on Linux kernel versions 3.x and above. PR 55121. [Bradley Heilbrun
2447 <apache heilbrun.org>]
2449 *) mod_cache_socache: Make sure the CacheSocacheMaxSize directive is merged
2450 correctly. [Jens Låås <jelaas gmail.com>]
2452 *) rotatelogs: add -n number-of-files option to rotate through a number
2453 of fixed-name logfiles. [Eric Covener]
2455 *) mod_proxy: Support web-socket tunnels via mod_proxy_wstunnel.
2458 *) mod_cache_socache: Use the name of the socache implementation when performing
2459 a lookup rather than using the raw arguments. [Martin Ksellmann
2460 <martin@ksellmann.de>]
2462 *) core: Add dirwalk_stat hook. [Jeff Trawick]
2464 *) core: Add post_perdir_config hook.
2465 [Steinar Gunderson <sgunderson bigfoot.com>]
2467 *) proxy_util: NULL terminate the right buffer in 'send_http_connect'.
2468 [Christophe Jaillet]
2470 *) mod_remoteip: close file in error path. [Christophe Jaillet]
2472 *) core: make the "default" parameter of the "ErrorDocument" option case
2473 insensitive. PR 54419 [Tianyin Xu <tixu cs ucsd edu>]
2475 *) mod_proxy_html: make the "ProxyHTMLFixups" options case insensitive.
2476 PR 54420 [Tianyin Xu <tixu cs ucsd edu>]
2478 *) mod_cache: Make option "CacheDisable" in mod_cache case insensitive.
2479 PR 54462 [Tianyin Xu <tixu cs ucsd edu>]
2481 *) mod_cache: If a 304 response indicates an entity not currently cached, then
2482 the cache MUST disregard the response and repeat the request without the
2483 conditional. [Graham Leggett, Co-Advisor <coad measurement-factory.com>]
2485 *) mod_cache: Ensure that we don't attempt to replace a cached response
2486 with an older response as per RFC2616 13.12. [Graham Leggett, Co-Advisor
2487 <coad measurement-factory.com>]
2489 *) core, mod_cache: Ensure RFC2616 compliance in ap_meets_conditions()
2490 with weak validation combined with If-Range and Range headers. Break
2491 out explicit conditional header checks to be useable elsewhere in the
2492 server. Ensure weak validation RFC compliance in the byteranges filter.
2493 Ensure RFC validation compliance when serving cached entities. PR 16142
2494 [Graham Leggett, Co-Advisor <coad measurement-factory.com>]
2496 *) core: Add the ability to do explicit matching on weak and strong ETags
2497 as per RFC2616 Section 13.3.3. [Graham Leggett, Co-Advisor
2498 <coad measurement-factory.com>]
2500 *) mod_cache: Ensure that updated responses to HEAD requests don't get
2501 mistakenly paired with a previously cached body. Ensure that any existing
2502 body is removed when a HEAD request is cached. [Graham Leggett,
2503 Co-Advisor <coad measurement-factory.com>]
2505 *) mod_cache: Honour Cache-Control: no-store in a request. [Graham Leggett]
2507 *) mod_cache: Make sure that contradictory entity headers present in a 304
2508 Not Modified response are caught and cause the entity to be removed.
2511 *) mod_cache: Make sure Vary processing handles multivalued Vary headers and
2512 multivalued headers referred to via Vary. [Graham Leggett]
2514 *) mod_cache: When serving from cache, only the last header of a multivalued
2515 header was taken into account. Fixed. Ensure that Warning headers are
2516 correctly handled as per RFC2616. [Graham Leggett]
2518 *) mod_cache: Ignore response headers specified by no-cache=header and
2519 private=header as specified by RFC2616 14.9.1 What is Cacheable. Ensure
2520 that these headers are still processed when multiple Cache-Control
2521 headers are present in the response. PR 54706 [Graham Leggett,
2522 Yann Ylavic <ylavic.dev gmail.com>]
2524 *) mod_cache: Invalidate cached entities in response to RFC2616 Section
2525 13.10 Invalidation After Updates or Deletions. PR 15868 [Graham
2528 *) mod_dav: Improve error handling in dav_method_put(), add new
2529 dav_join_error() function. PR 54145. [Ben Reser <ben reser.org>]
2531 *) mod_dav: Do not fail PROPPATCH when prop namespace is not known.
2532 PR 52559 [Diego Santa Cruz <diego.santaCruz spinetix.com>]
2534 *) mod_dav: When a PROPPATCH attempts to remove a non-existent dead
2535 property on a resource for which there is no dead property in the same
2536 namespace httpd segfaults. PR 52559 [Diego Santa Cruz
2537 <diego.santaCruz spinetix.com>]
2539 *) mod_dav: Sending an If or If-Match header with an invalid ETag doesn't
2540 result in a 412 Precondition Failed for a COPY operation. PR54610
2541 [Timothy Wood <tjw omnigroup.com>]
2543 *) mod_dav: Make sure that when we prepare an If URL for Etag comparison,
2544 we compare unencoded paths. PR 53910 [Timothy Wood <tjw omnigroup.com>]
2546 *) mod_deflate: Remove assumptions as to when an EOS bucket might arrive.
2547 Gracefully step aside if the body size is zero. [Graham Leggett]
2549 *) 'AuthGroupFile' and 'AuthUserFile' do not accept anymore the optional
2550 'standard' keyword . It was unused and not documented.
2551 PR54463 [Tianyin Xu <tixu cs.ucsd.edu> and Christophe Jaillet]
2553 *) core: Do not over allocate memory within 'ap_rgetline_core' for
2554 the common case. [Christophe Jaillet]
2556 *) core: speed up (for common cases) and reduce memory usage of
2557 ap_escape_logitem(). This should save 70-100 bytes in the request
2558 pool for a default config. [Christophe Jaillet]
2560 *) mod_dav: Ensure URI is correctly uriencoded on return. PR 54611
2561 [Timothy Wood <tjw omnigroup.com>]
2563 *) mod_proxy: Reject invalid values for Max-Forwards. [Graham Leggett,
2564 Co-Advisor <coad measurement-factory.com>]
2566 *) mod_cache: RFC2616 14.9.3 The s-maxage directive also implies the
2567 semantics of the proxy-revalidate directive. [Graham Leggett]
2569 *) mod_ssl: add support for subjectAltName-based host name checking
2570 in proxy mode (SSLProxyCheckPeerName). PR 54030. [Kaspar Brand]
2572 *) core: Use the proper macro for HTTP/1.1. [Graham Leggett]
2574 *) event MPM: Provide error handling for ThreadStackSize. PR 54311
2575 [Tianyin Xu <tixu cs.ucsd.edu>, Christophe Jaillet]
2577 *) mod_dav: Do not segfault on PROPFIND with a zero length DBM.
2578 PR 52559 [Diego Santa Cruz <diego.santaCruz spinetix.com>]
2580 *) core: Improve error message where client's request-line exceeds
2581 LimitRequestLine. PR 54384 [Christophe Jaillet]
2583 *) mod_macro: New module that provides macros within configuration files.
2586 *) mod_cache_socache: New cache implementation backed by mod_socache
2587 that replaces mod_mem_cache known from httpd 2.2. [Graham
2590 *) htpasswd: Add -v option to verify a password. [Stefan Fritsch]
2592 *) mod_proxy: Add BalancerInherit and ProxyPassInherit to control
2593 whether Proxy Balancers and Workers are inherited by vhosts
2594 (default is On). [Jim Jagielski]
2596 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Allow using exec: calls to obtain LDAP bind
2597 password. [Daniel Ruggeri]
2599 *) Added balancer parameter failontimeout to allow server admin
2600 to configure an IO timeout as an error in the balancer.
2603 *) mod_auth_digest: Fix crashes if shm initialization failed. [Stefan
2606 *) htpasswd, htdbm: Fix password generation. PR 54735. [Stefan Fritsch]
2608 *) core: Add workaround for gcc bug on sparc/64bit. PR 52900.
2611 *) mod_setenvif: Fix crash in case SetEnvif and SetEnvIfExpr are used
2612 together. PR 54881. [Ruediger Pluem]
2614 *) htdigest: Fix buffer overflow when reading digest password file
2615 with very long lines. PR 54893. [Rainer Jung]
2617 *) ap_expr: Add the ability to base64 encode and base64 decode
2618 strings and to generate their SHA1 and MD5 hash.
2619 [Graham Leggett, Stefan Fritsch]
2621 *) mod_log_config: Fix crash when logging request end time for a failed
2622 request. PR 54828 [Rainer Jung]
2624 *) mod_ssl: Catch missing, mismatched or encrypted client cert/key pairs
2625 with SSLProxyMachineCertificateFile/Path directives. PR 52212, PR 54698.
2626 [Keith Burdis <keith burdis.org>, Joe Orton, Kaspar Brand]
2628 *) mod_ssl: Quiet FIPS mode weak keys disabled and FIPS not selected emits
2629 in the error log to debug level. [William Rowe]
2631 *) mod_cache_disk: CacheMinFileSize and CacheMaxFileSize were always
2632 using compiled in defaults of 1000000/1 respectively. [Eric Covener]
2634 *) mod_lbmethod_heartbeat, mod_heartmonitor: Respect DefaultRuntimeDir/
2635 DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR for the heartbeat storage file. [Jeff Trawick]
2637 *) mod_include: Use new ap_expr for 'elif', like 'if',
2638 if legacy parser is not specified. PR 54548 [Tom Donovan]
2640 *) mod_lua: Add some new functions: r:htpassword(), r:mkdir(), r:mkrdir(),
2641 r:rmdir(), r:touch(), r:get_direntries(), r.date_parse_rfc().
2644 *) mod_lua: Add multipart form data handling. [Daniel Gruno]
2646 *) mod_lua: If a LuaMapHandler doesn't return any value, log a warning
2647 and treat it as apache2.OK. [Eric Covener]
2649 *) mod_lua: Add bindings for apr_dbd/mod_dbd database access
2652 *) mod_lua: Add LuaInputFilter/LuaOutputFilter for creating content
2653 filters in Lua [Daniel Gruno]
2655 *) mod_lua: Allow scripts handled by the lua-script handler to return
2656 a status code to the client (such as a 302 or a 500) [Daniel Gruno]
2658 *) mod_lua: Decline handling 'lua-script' if the file doesn't exist,
2659 rather than throwing an internal server error. [Daniel Gruno]
2661 *) mod_lua: Add functions r:flush and r:sendfile as well as additional
2662 request information to the request_rec structure. [Daniel Gruno]
2664 *) mod_lua: Add a server scope for Lua states, which creates a pool of
2665 states with manageable minimum and maximum size. [Daniel Gruno]
2667 *) mod_lua: Add new directive, LuaMapHandler, for dynamically mapping
2668 URIs to Lua scripts and functions using regular expressions.
2671 *) mod_lua: Add new directive LuaCodeCache for controlling in-memory
2672 caching of lua scripts. [Daniel Gruno]
2674 Changes with Apache 2.4.4
2676 *) SECURITY: CVE-2012-3499 (cve.mitre.org)
2677 Various XSS flaws due to unescaped hostnames and URIs HTML output in
2678 mod_info, mod_status, mod_imagemap, mod_ldap, and mod_proxy_ftp.
2679 [Jim Jagielski, Stefan Fritsch, Niels Heinen <heinenn google com>]
2681 *) SECURITY: CVE-2012-4558 (cve.mitre.org)
2682 XSS in mod_proxy_balancer manager interface. [Jim Jagielski,
2683 Niels Heinen <heinenn google com>]
2685 *) mod_dir: Add support for the value 'disabled' in FallbackResource.
2686 [Vincent Deffontaines]
2688 *) mod_proxy_connect: Don't keepalive the connection to the client if the
2689 backend closes the connection. PR 54474. [Pavel Mateja <pavel netsafe cz>]
2691 *) mod_lua: Add bindings for mod_dbd/apr_dbd database access.
2694 *) mod_proxy: Allow for persistence of local changes made via the
2695 balancer-manager between graceful/normal restarts and power
2696 cycles. [Jim Jagielski]
2698 *) mod_proxy: Fix startup crash with mis-defined balancers.
2699 PR 52402. [Jim Jagielski]
2701 *) --with-module: Fix failure to integrate them into some existing
2702 module directories. PR 40097. [Jeff Trawick]
2704 *) htcacheclean: Fix potential segfault if "-p" is omitted. [Joe Orton]
2706 *) mod_proxy_http: Honour special value 0 (unlimited) of LimitRequestBody
2707 PR 54435. [Pavel Mateja <pavel netsafe.cz>]
2709 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Support unknown HTTP methods. PR 54416.
2712 *) htcacheclean: Fix list options "-a" and "-A".
2715 *) mod_slotmem_shm: Fix mistaken reset of num_free for restored shm.
2718 *) mod_proxy: non-existence of byrequests is not an immediate error.
2721 *) mod_proxy_balancer: Improve output of balancer-manager (re: Drn,
2722 Dis, Ign, Stby). PR 52478 [Danijel <dt-ng rbfh de>]
2724 *) configure: Fix processing of --disable-FEATURE for various features.
2727 *) mod_dialup/mod_http: Prevent a crash in mod_dialup in case of internal
2730 *) various modules, rotatelogs: Replace use of apr_file_write() with
2731 apr_file_write_full() to prevent incomplete writes. PR 53131.
2732 [Nicolas Viennot <apache viennot biz>, Stefan Fritsch]
2734 *) ab: Support socket timeout (-s timeout).
2735 [Guido Serra <zeph fsfe org>]
2737 *) httxt2dbm: Correct length computation for the 'value' stored in the
2738 DBM file. PR 47650 [jon buckybox com]
2740 *) core: Be more correct about rejecting directives that cannot work in <If>
2741 sections. [Stefan Fritsch]
2743 *) core: Fix directives like LogLevel that need to know if they are invoked
2744 at virtual host context or in Directory/Files/Location/If sections to
2745 work properly in If sections that are not in a Directory/Files/Location.
2748 *) mod_xml2enc: Fix problems with charset conversion altering the
2749 Content-Length. [Micha Lenk <micha lenk info>]
2751 *) ap_expr: Add req_novary function that allows HTTP header lookups
2752 without adding the name to the Vary header. [Stefan Fritsch]
2754 *) mod_slotmem_*: Add in new fgrab() function which forces a grab and
2755 slot allocation on a specified slot. Allow for clearing of inuse
2756 array. [Jim Jagielski]
2758 *) mod_proxy_ftp: Fix segfaults on IPv4 requests to hosts with DNS
2759 AAAA records. PR 40841. [Andrew Rucker Jones <arjones simultan
2760 dyndns org>, <ast domdv de>, Jim Jagielski]
2762 *) mod_auth_form: Make sure that get_notes_auth() sets the user as does
2763 get_form_auth() and get_session_auth(). Makes sure that REMOTE_USER
2764 does not vanish during mod_include driven subrequests. [Graham
2767 *) mod_cache_disk: Resolve errors while revalidating disk-cached files on
2768 Windows ("...rename tempfile to datafile failed..."). PR 38827
2771 *) mod_proxy_balancer: Bring XML output up to date. [Jim Jagielski]
2773 *) htpasswd, htdbm: Optionally read passwords from stdin, as more
2774 secure alternative to -b. PR 40243. [Adomas Paltanavicius <adomas
2775 paltanavicius gmail com>, Stefan Fritsch]
2777 *) htpasswd, htdbm: Add support for bcrypt algorithm (requires
2778 apr-util 1.5 or higher). PR 49288. [Stefan Fritsch]
2780 *) htpasswd, htdbm: Put full 48bit of entropy into salt, improve
2781 error handling. Add some of htpasswd's improvements to htdbm,
2782 e.g. warn if password is truncated by crypt(). [Stefan Fritsch]
2784 *) mod_auth_form: Support the expr parser in the
2785 AuthFormLoginRequiredLocation, AuthFormLoginSuccessLocation and
2786 AuthFormLogoutLocation directives. [Graham Leggett]
2788 *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS-SRP (Secure Remote Password key exchange
2789 for TLS, RFC 5054). PR 51075. [Quinn Slack <sqs cs stanford edu>,
2790 Christophe Renou, Peter Sylvester]
2792 *) mod_rewrite: Stop mergeing RewriteBase down to subdirectories
2793 unless new option 'RewriteOptions MergeBase' is configured.
2794 PR 53963. [Eric Covener]
2796 *) mod_header: Allow for exposure of loadavg and server load using new
2797 format specifiers %l, %i, %b [Jim Jagielski]
2799 *) core: Make ap_regcomp() return AP_REG_ESPACE if out of memory. Make
2800 ap_pregcomp() abort if out of memory. This raises the minimum PCRE
2801 requirement to version 6.0. [Stefan Fritsch]
2803 *) mod_proxy: Add ability to configure the sticky session separator.
2804 PR 53893. [<inu inusasha de>, Jim Jagielski]
2806 *) mod_dumpio: Correctly log large messages
2807 PR 54179 [Marek Wianecki <mieszek2 interia pl>]
2809 *) core: Don't fail at startup with AH00554 when Include points to
2810 a directory without any wildcard character. [Eric Covener]
2812 *) core: Fail startup if the argument to ServerTokens is unrecognized.
2813 [Jackie Zhang <jackie.qq.zhang gmail.com>]
2815 *) mod_log_forensic: Don't log a spurious "-" if a request has been rejected
2816 before mod_log_forensic could attach its id to it. [Stefan Fritsch]
2818 *) rotatelogs: Omit the second argument for the first invocation of
2819 a post-rotate program when -p is used, per the documentation.
2822 *) mod_session_dbd: fix a segmentation fault in the function dbd_remove.
2823 PR 53452. [<rebanerebane gmail com>, Reimo Rebane]
2825 *) core: Functions to provide server load values: ap_get_sload() and
2826 ap_get_loadavg(). [Jim Jagielski, Jan Kaluza <jkaluza redhat.com>,
2829 *) mod_ldap: Fix regression in handling "server unavailable" errors on
2830 Windows. PR 54140. [Eric Covener]
2832 *) syslog logging: Remove stray ", referer" at the end of some messages.
2835 *) "Iterate" directives: Report an error if no arguments are provided.
2838 *) mod_ssl: Change default for SSLCompression to off, as compression
2839 causes security issues in most setups. (The so called "CRIME" attack).
2842 *) ab: add TLS1.1/TLS1.2 options to -f switch, and adapt output
2843 to more accurately report the negotiated protocol. PR 53916.
2844 [Nicolás Pernas Maradei <nico emutex com>, Kaspar Brand]
2846 *) core: ErrorDocument now works for requests without a Host header.
2847 PR 48357. [Jeff Trawick]
2849 *) prefork: Avoid logging harmless errors during graceful stop.
2850 [Joe Orton, Jeff Trawick]
2852 *) mod_proxy: When concatting for PPR, avoid cases where we
2853 concat ".../" and "/..." to create "...//..." [Jim Jagielski]
2855 *) mod_cache: Wrong content type and character set when
2856 mod_cache serves stale content because of a proxy error.
2857 PR 53539. [Rainer Jung, Ruediger Pluem]
2859 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Fix crash in packet dump code when logging
2860 with LogLevel trace7 or trace8. PR 53730. [Rainer Jung]
2862 *) httpd.conf: Removed the configuration directives setting a bad_DNT
2863 environment introduced in 2.4.3. The actual directives are commented
2864 out in the default conf file.
2866 *) core: Apply length limit when logging Status header values.
2867 [Jeff Trawick, Chris Darroch]
2869 *) mod_proxy_balancer: The nonce is only derived from the UUID iff
2870 not set via the 'nonce' balancer param. [Jim Jagielski]
2872 *) mod_ssl: Match wildcard SSL certificate names in proxy mode.
2873 PR 53006. [Joe Orton]
2875 *) Windows: Fix output of -M, -L, and similar command-line options
2876 which display information about the server configuration.
2879 Changes with Apache 2.4.3
2881 *) SECURITY: CVE-2012-3502 (cve.mitre.org)
2882 mod_proxy_ajp, mod_proxy_http: Fix an issue in back end
2883 connection closing which could lead to privacy issues due
2884 to a response mixup. PR 53727. [Rainer Jung]
2886 *) SECURITY: CVE-2012-2687 (cve.mitre.org)
2887 mod_negotiation: Escape filenames in variant list to prevent a
2888 possible XSS for a site where untrusted users can upload files to
2889 a location with MultiViews enabled. [Niels Heinen <heinenn google.com>]
2891 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Don't try a potentially expensive nested groups
2892 search before exhausting all AuthLDAPGroupAttribute checks on the
2893 current group. PR 52464 [Eric Covener]
2895 *) mod_lua: Add new directive LuaAuthzProvider to allow implementing an
2896 authorization provider in lua. [Stefan Fritsch]
2898 *) core: Be less strict when checking whether Content-Type is set to
2899 "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" when parsing POST data,
2900 or we risk losing data with an appended charset. PR 53698
2901 [Petter Berntsen <petterb gmail.com>]
2903 *) httpd.conf: Added configuration directives to set a bad_DNT environment
2904 variable based on User-Agent and to remove the DNT header field from
2905 incoming requests when a match occurs. This currently has the effect of
2906 removing DNT from requests by MSIE 10.0 because it deliberately violates
2907 the current specification of DNT semantics for HTTP. [Roy T. Fielding]
2909 *) mod_socache_shmcb: Fix bus error due to a misalignment
2910 in some 32 bit builds, especially on Solaris Sparc.
2911 PR 53040. [Rainer Jung]
2913 *) mod_cache: Set content type in case we return stale content.
2916 *) Windows: Fix SSL failures on windows with AcceptFilter https none.
2917 PR 52476. [Jeff Trawick]
2919 *) ab: Fix read failure when targeting SSL server. [Jeff Trawick]
2921 *) The following now respect DefaultRuntimeDir/DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR:
2922 - mod_auth_digest: shared memory file
2925 *) htpasswd: Use correct file mode for checking if file is writable.
2926 PR 45923. [Stefan Fritsch]
2928 *) mod_rewrite: Fix crash with dbd RewriteMaps. PR 53663. [Mikhail T.
2929 <mi apache aldan algebra com>]
2931 *) mod_ssl: Add new directive SSLCompression to disable TLS-level
2932 compression. PR 53219. [Björn Jacke <bjoern j3e de>, Stefan Fritsch]
2934 *) mod_lua: Add a few missing request_rec fields. Rename remote_ip to
2935 client_ip to match conn_rec. [Stefan Fritsch]
2937 *) mod_lua: Change prototype of vm_construct, to work around gcc bug which
2938 causes a segfault. PR 52779. [Dick Snippe <Dick Snippe tech omroep nl>]
2940 *) mpm_event: Don't count connections in lingering close state when
2941 calculating how many additional connections may be accepted.
2944 *) mod_ssl: If exiting during initialization because of a fatal error,
2945 log a message to the main error log pointing to the appropriate
2946 virtual host error log. [Stefan Fritsch]
2948 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Reduce memory usage in case of many keep-alive requests on
2949 one connection. PR 52275. [Naohiro Ooiwa <naohiro ooiwa miraclelinux com>]
2951 *) mod_proxy_balancer: Restore balancing after a failed worker has
2952 recovered when using lbmethod_bybusyness. PR 48735. [Jeff Trawick]
2954 *) mod_setenvif: Compile some global regex only once during startup.
2955 This should save some memory, especially with .htaccess.
2958 *) core: Add the port number to the vhost's name in the scoreboard.
2961 *) mod_proxy: Fix ProxyPassReverse for balancer configurations.
2962 PR 45434. [Joe Orton]
2964 *) mod_lua: Add the parsebody function for parsing POST data. PR 53064.
2967 *) apxs: Use LDFLAGS from config_vars.mk in addition to CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS.
2970 *) mod_proxy: Fix memory leak or possible corruption in ProxyBlock
2971 implementation. [Ruediger Pluem, Joe Orton]
2973 *) mod_proxy: Check hostname from request URI against ProxyBlock list,
2974 not forward proxy, if ProxyRemote* is configured. [Joe Orton]
2976 *) mod_proxy_connect: Avoid DNS lookup on hostname from request URI
2977 if ProxyRemote* is configured. PR 43697. [Joe Orton]
2979 *) mpm_event, mpm_worker: Remain active amidst prevalent child process
2980 resource shortages. [Jeff Trawick]
2982 *) Add "strict" and "warnings" pragmas to Perl scripts. [Rich Bowen]
2984 *) The following now respect DefaultRuntimeDir/DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR:
2985 - core: the scoreboard (ScoreBoardFile), pid file (PidFile), and
2989 *) ab: Fix bind() errors. [Joe Orton]
2991 *) mpm_event: Don't do a blocking write when starting a lingering close
2992 from the listener thread. PR 52229. [Stefan Fritsch]
2994 *) mod_so: If a filename without slashes is specified for LoadFile or
2995 LoadModule and the file cannot be found in the server root directory,
2996 try to use the standard dlopen() search path. [Stefan Fritsch]
2998 *) mpm_event, mpm_worker: Fix cases where the spawn rate wasn't reduced
2999 after child process resource shortages. [Jeff Trawick]
3001 *) mpm_prefork: Reduce spawn rate after a child process exits due to
3002 unexpected poll or accept failure. [Jeff Trawick]
3004 *) core: Log value of Status header line in script responses rather
3005 than the fixed header name. [Chris Darroch]
3007 *) mod_ssl: Fix handling of empty response from OCSP server.
3008 [Jim Meyering <meyering redhat.com>, Joe Orton]
3010 *) mpm_event: Fix handling of MaxConnectionsPerChild. [Stefan Fritsch]
3012 *) mod_authz_core: If an expression in "Require expr" returns denied and
3013 references %{REMOTE_USER}, trigger authentication and retry. PR 52892.
3016 *) core: Always log if LimitRequestFieldSize triggers. [Stefan Fritsch]
3018 *) mod_deflate: Skip compression if compression is enabled at SSL level.
3021 *) core: Add missing HTTP status codes registered with IANA.
3022 [Julian Reschke <julian.reschke gmx.de>, Rainer Jung]
3024 *) mod_ldap: Treat the "server unavailable" condition as a transient
3025 error with all LDAP SDKs. [Filip Valder <filip.valder vsb.cz>]
3027 *) core: Fix spurious "not allowed here" error returned when the Options
3028 directive is used in .htaccess and "AllowOverride Options" (with no
3029 specific options restricted) is configured. PR 53444. [Eric Covener]
3031 *) mod_authz_core: Fix parsing of Require arguments in <AuthzProviderAlias>.
3032 PR 53048. [Stefan Fritsch]
3034 *) mod_log_config: Fix %{abc}C truncating cookie values at first "=".
3035 PR 53104. [Greg Ames]
3037 *) mod_ext_filter: Fix error_log spam when input filters are configured.
3040 *) mod_rewrite: Add "AllowAnyURI" option. PR 52774. [Joe Orton]
3042 *) htdbm, htpasswd: Don't crash if crypt() fails (e.g. with FIPS enabled).
3043 [Paul Wouters <pwouters redhat.com>, Joe Orton]
3045 *) core: Use a TLS 1.0 close_notify alert for internal dummy connection if
3046 the chosen listener is configured for https. [Joe Orton]
3048 *) mod_proxy: Use the the same hostname for SNI as for the HTTP request when
3049 forwarding to SSL backends. PR 53134.
3050 [Michael Weiser <michael weiser.dinsnail.net>, Ruediger Pluem]
3052 *) mod_info: Display all registered providers. [Stefan Fritsch]
3054 *) mod_ssl: Send the error message for speaking http to an https port using
3055 HTTP/1.0 instead of HTTP/0.9, and omit the link that may be wrong when
3056 using SNI. PR 50823. [Stefan Fritsch]
3058 *) core: Fix segfault in logging if r->useragent_addr or c->client_addr is
3059 unset. PR 53265. [Stefan Fritsch]
3061 *) log_server_status: Bring Perl style forward to the present, use
3062 standard modules, update for new format of server-status output.
3063 PR 45424. [Richard Bowen, Dave Brondsema, and others]
3065 *) mod_sed, mod_log_debug, mod_rewrite: Symbol namespace cleanups.
3066 [Joe Orton, André Malo]
3068 *) core: Prevent "httpd -k restart" from killing server in presence of
3069 config error. [Joe Orton]
3071 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: If there is an error reading the headers from the
3072 backend, send an error to the client. PR 52879. [Stefan Fritsch]
3074 Changes with Apache 2.4.2
3076 *) SECURITY: CVE-2012-0883 (cve.mitre.org)
3077 envvars: Fix insecure handling of LD_LIBRARY_PATH that could lead to the
3078 current working directory to be searched for DSOs. [Stefan Fritsch]
3080 *) mod_slotmem_shm: Honor DefaultRuntimeDir [Jim Jagielski]
3082 *) mod_ssl: Fix crash with threaded MPMs due to race condition when
3083 initializing EC temporary keys. [Stefan Fritsch]
3085 *) mod_rewrite: Fix RewriteCond integer checks to be parsed correctly.
3086 PR 53023. [Axel Reinhold <apache freakout.de>, André Malo]
3088 *) mod_proxy: Add the forcerecovery balancer parameter that determines if
3089 recovery for balancer workers is enforced. [Ruediger Pluem]
3091 *) Fix MPM DSO load failure on AIX. [Jeff Trawick]
3093 *) mod_proxy: Correctly set up reverse proxy worker. PR 52935.
3094 [Petter Berntsen <petterb gmail.com>]
3096 *) mod_sed: Don't define PATH_MAX to a potentially undefined value, causing
3097 compile problems on GNU hurd. [Stefan Fritsch]
3099 *) core: Add ap_runtime_dir_relative() and DefaultRuntimeDir.
3102 *) core: Fix breakage of Listen directives with MPMs that use a
3103 per-directory config. PR 52904. [Stefan Fritsch]
3105 *) core: Disallow directives in AllowOverrideList which are only allowed
3106 in VirtualHost or server context. These are usually not prepared to be
3107 called in .htaccess files. [Stefan Fritsch]
3109 *) core: In AllowOverrideList, do not allow 'None' together with other
3110 directives. PR 52823. [Stefan Fritsch]
3112 *) mod_slotmem_shm: Support DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR for file-based shm.
3115 *) core: Fix merging of AllowOverrideList and ContentDigest.
3118 *) mod_request: Fix validation of the KeptBodySize argument so it
3119 doesn't always throw a configuration error. PR 52981 [Eric Covener]
3121 *) core: Add filesystem paths to access denied / access failed messages
3122 AH00035 and AH00036. [Eric Covener]
3124 *) mod_dumpio: Properly handle errors from subsequent input filters.
3125 PR 52914. [Stefan Fritsch]
3127 *) Unix MPMs: Fix small memory leak in parent process if connect()
3128 failed when waking up children. [Joe Orton]
3130 *) "DirectoryIndex disabled" now undoes DirectoryIndex settings in
3131 the current configuration section, not just previous config sections.
3132 PR 52845. [Eric Covener]
3134 *) mod_xml2enc: Fix broken handling of EOS buckets which could lead to
3135 response headers not being sent. PR 52766. [Stefan Fritsch]
3137 *) mod_ssl: Properly free the GENERAL_NAMEs. PR 32652. [Kaspar Brand]
3139 *) core: Check during config test that directories for the access
3140 logs actually exist. PR 29941. [Stefan Fritsch]
3142 *) mod_xml2enc, mod_proxy_html: Enable per-module loglevels.
3145 *) mod_filter: Fix segfault with AddOutputFilterByType. PR 52755.
3148 *) mod_session: Sessions are encoded as application/x-www-form-urlencoded
3149 strings, however we do not handle the encoding of spaces properly.
3150 Fixed. [Graham Leggett]
3152 *) Configuration: Example in comment should use a path consistent
3153 with the default configuration. PR 52715.
3154 [Rich Bowen, Jens Schleusener, Rainer Jung]
3156 *) Configuration: Switch documentation links from trunk to 2.4.
3159 *) configure: Fix out of tree build using apr and apr-util in srclib.
3162 Changes with Apache 2.4.1
3164 *) SECURITY: CVE-2012-0053 (cve.mitre.org)
3165 Fix an issue in error responses that could expose "httpOnly" cookies
3166 when no custom ErrorDocument is specified for status code 400.
3169 *) mod_proxy_balancer: Fix crash on Windows. PR 52402 [Mladen Turk]
3171 *) core: Check during configtest that the directories for error logs exist.
3172 PR 29941 [Stefan Fritsch]
3174 *) Core configuration: add AllowOverride option to treat syntax
3175 errors in .htaccess as non-fatal. PR 52439 [Nick Kew, Jim Jagielski]
3177 *) core: Fix memory consumption in core output filter with streaming
3178 bucket types like CGI or PIPE. [Joe Orton, Stefan Fritsch]
3180 *) configure: Disable modules at configure time if a prerequisite module
3181 is not enabled. PR 52487. [Stefan Fritsch]
3183 *) Rewrite and proxy now decline what they don't support rather
3184 than fail the request. [Joe Orton]
3186 *) Fix building against external apr plus apr-util if apr is not installed
3187 in a system default path. [Rainer Jung]
3189 *) Doxygen fixes and improvements. [Joe Orton, Igor Galić]
3191 *) core: Fix building against PCRE 8.30 by switching from the obsolete
3192 pcre_info() to pcre_fullinfo(). PR 52623 [Ruediger Pluem, Rainer Jung]
3194 Changes with Apache 2.4.0
3196 *) SECURITY: CVE-2012-0031 (cve.mitre.org)
3197 Fix scoreboard issue which could allow an unprivileged child process
3198 to cause the parent to crash at shutdown rather than terminate
3199 cleanly. [Joe Orton]
3201 *) mod_ssl: Fix compilation with xlc on AIX. PR 52394. [Stefan Fritsch]
3203 *) SECURITY: CVE-2012-0021 (cve.mitre.org)
3204 mod_log_config: Fix segfault (crash) when the '%{cookiename}C' log format
3205 string is in use and a client sends a nameless, valueless cookie, causing
3206 a denial of service. The issue existed since version 2.2.17 and 2.3.3.
3207 PR 52256. [Rainer Canavan <rainer-apache 7val com>]
3209 *) mod_ssl: when compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.1 or later, allow explicit
3210 control of TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 through the SSLProtocol directive.
3213 *) mod_ssl: set OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN when compiling against OpenSSL 1.0.1
3214 or later, to improve binary compatibility with future OpenSSL releases.
3217 *) mod_mime: Don't arbitrarily bypass AddOutputFilter during a ProxyPass,
3218 but then allow AddOutputFilter during a RewriteRule [P]. Make mod_mime
3219 behave identically in both cases. PR52342. [Graham Leggett]
3221 *) Move ab, logresolve, httxt2dbm and apxs to bin from sbin, along with
3222 corresponding man pages. [Graham Leggett]
3224 *) Distinguish properly between the bindir and sbindir directories when
3225 installing binaries. Previously all binaries were silently installed to
3226 sbindir, whether they were system administration commands or not.
3229 Changes with Apache 2.3.16
3231 *) SECURITY: CVE-2011-4317 (cve.mitre.org)
3232 Resolve additional cases of URL rewriting with ProxyPassMatch or
3233 RewriteRule, where particular request-URIs could result in undesired
3234 backend network exposure in some configurations.
3237 *) core: Limit line length in .htaccess to 8K like in 2.2.x, to avoid
3238 additional DoS potential. [Stefan Fritsch]
3240 *) core, all modules: Add unique tag to most error log messages. [Stefan
3243 *) mod_socache_memcache: Change provider name from "mc" to "memcache" to
3244 match module name. [Stefan Fritsch]
3246 *) mod_slotmem_shm: Change provider name from "shared" to "shm" to match
3247 module name. [Stefan Fritsch]
3249 *) mod_ldap: Fix segfault with Solaris LDAP when enabling ldaps. This
3250 requires an apr-util fix in which is available in apr-util >= 1.4.0.
3251 PR 42682. [Stefan Fritsch]
3253 *) mod_rewrite: Add the AllowNoSlash RewriteOption, which makes it possible
3254 for RewriteRules to be placed in .htaccess files that match the directory
3255 with no trailing slash. PR 48304.
3256 [Matthew Byng-Maddick <matthew byng-maddick bbc.co.uk>]
3258 *) mod_session_crypto: Add a SessionCryptoPassphraseFile directive so that
3259 the administrator can hide the keys from the configuration. [Graham
3262 *) Introduce a per request version of the remote IP address, which can be
3263 optionally modified by a module when the effective IP of the client
3264 is not the same as the real IP of the client (such as a load balancer).
3265 Introduce a per connection "peer_ip" and a per request "client_ip" to
3266 distinguish between the raw IP address of the connection and the effective
3267 IP address of the request. [Graham Leggett]
3269 *) ap_pass_brigade_fchk() function added. [Jim Jagielski]
3271 *) core: Pass ap_errorlog_info struct to error log hook. [Stefan Fritsch]
3273 *) mod_cache_disk: Make sure we check return codes on all writes and
3274 attempts to close, and clean up after ourselves in these cases.
3275 PR43589. [Graham Leggett]
3277 *) mod_cache_disk: Remove the unnecessary intermediate brigade while
3278 writing to disk. Fixes a problem where mod_disk_cache was leaving
3279 buckets in the intermediate brigade and not passing them to out on
3280 exit. [Florian S. <f_los_ch yahoo.com>, Graham Leggett]
3282 *) mod_ssl: use a shorter setting for SSLCipherSuite in the default
3283 default configuration file, and add some more information about
3284 configuring a speed-optimized alternative.
3287 *) mod_ssl: drop support for the SSLv2 protocol. [Kaspar Brand]
3289 *) mod_lua: Stop losing track of all but the most specific LuaHook* directives
3290 when multiple per-directory config sections are used. Adds LuaInherit
3291 directive to control how parent sections are merged. [Eric Covener]
3293 *) Server directive display (-L): Include directives of DSOs.
3296 *) mod_cache: Make sure we merge headers correctly when we handle a
3297 non cacheable conditional response. PR52120. [Graham Leggett]
3299 *) Pre GA removal of components that will not be included:
3300 - mod_noloris was superseded by mod_reqtimeout
3305 *) core: Set MaxMemFree 2048 by default. [Stefan Fritsch]
3307 *) mpm_event: Fix assertion failure during very high load. [Stefan Fritsch]
3309 *) configure: Additional modules loaded by default: mod_headers.
3310 Modules moved from module set "few" to "most" and no longer loaded
3311 by default: mod_actions, mod_allowmethods, mod_auth_form, mod_buffer,
3312 mod_cgi(d), mod_include, mod_negotiation, mod_ratelimit, mod_request,
3313 mod_userdir. [Rainer Jung]
3315 *) mod_lua: Use the right lua scope when used as a hook. [Rainer Jung]
3317 *) configure: Only load the really imporant modules (i.e. those enabled by
3318 the 'few' selection) by default. Don't handle modules enabled with
3319 --enable-foo specially. [Stefan Fritsch]
3321 *) end-generation hook: Fix false notification of end-of-generation for
3322 temporary intervals with no active MPM children. [Jeff Trawick]
3324 *) mod_ssl: Add support for configuring persistent TLS session ticket
3325 encryption/decryption keys (useful for clustered environments).
3326 [Paul Querna, Kaspar Brand]
3328 *) mod_usertrack: Use random value instead of remote IP address.
3331 Changes with Apache 2.3.15
3333 *) SECURITY: CVE-2011-3348 (cve.mitre.org)
3334 mod_proxy_ajp: Respond with HTTP_NOT_IMPLEMENTED when the method is not
3335 recognized. [Jean-Frederic Clere]
3337 *) SECURITY: CVE-2011-3192 (cve.mitre.org)
3338 core: Fix handling of byte-range requests to use less memory, to avoid
3339 denial of service. If the sum of all ranges in a request is larger than
3340 the original file, ignore the ranges and send the complete file.
3341 PR 51714. [Stefan Fritsch, Jim Jagielski, Ruediger Pluem, Eric Covener,
3342 <lowprio20 gmail.com>]
3344 *) SECURITY: CVE-2011-3607 (cve.mitre.org)
3345 core: Fix integer overflow in ap_pregsub. This can be triggered e.g.
3346 with mod_setenvif via a malicious .htaccess. [Stefan Fritsch]
3348 *) SECURITY: CVE-2011-3368 (cve.mitre.org)
3349 Reject requests where the request-URI does not match the HTTP
3350 specification, preventing unexpected expansion of target URLs in
3351 some reverse proxy configurations. [Joe Orton]
3353 *) configure: Load all modules in the generated default configuration
3354 when using --enable-load-all-modules. [Rainer Jung]
3356 *) mod_reqtimeout: Change the default to set some reasonable timeout
3357 values. [Stefan Fritsch]
3359 *) core, mod_dav_fs: Change default ETag to be "size mtime", i.e. remove
3360 the inode. PR 49623. [Stefan Fritsch]
3362 *) mod_lua: Expose SSL variables via r:ssl_var_lookup(). [Eric Covener]
3364 *) mod_lua: LuaHook{AccessChecker,AuthChecker,CheckUserID,TranslateName}
3365 can now additionally be run as "early" or "late" relative to other modules.
3368 *) configure: By default, only load those modules that are either required
3369 or explicitly selected by a configure --enable-foo argument. The
3370 LoadModule statements for modules enabled by --enable-mods-shared=most
3371 and friends will be commented out. [Stefan Fritsch]
3373 *) mod_lua: Prevent early Lua hooks (LuaHookTranslateName and
3374 LuaHookQuickHandler) from being configured in <Directory>, <Files>,
3375 and htaccess where the configuration would have been ignored.
3378 *) mod_lua: Resolve "attempt to index local 'r' (a userdata value)" errors
3379 in LuaMapHandler scripts [Eric Covener]
3381 *) mod_log_debug: Rename optional argument from if= to expr=, to be more
3382 in line with other config directives. [Stefan Fritsch]
3384 *) mod_headers: Require an expression to be specified with expr=, to be more
3385 in line with other config directives. [Stefan Fritsch]
3387 *) mod_substitute: To prevent overboarding memory usage, limit line length
3388 to 1MB. [Stefan Fritsch]
3390 *) mod_lua: Make the query string (r.args) writable. [Eric Covener]
3392 *) mod_include: Add support for application/x-www-form-urlencoded encoding
3393 and decoding. [Graham Leggett]
3395 *) rotatelogs: Add -c option to force logfile creation in every rotation
3396 interval, even if empty. [Jan Kaluža <jkaluza redhat.com>]
3398 *) core: Limit ap_pregsub() to 64K, add ap_pregsub_ex() for longer strings.
3401 *) mod_session_crypto: Refactor to support the new apr_crypto API.
3404 *) http: Add missing Location header if local URL-path is used as
3405 ErrorDocument for 30x. [Stefan Fritsch]
3407 *) mod_buffer: Make sure we step down for subrequests, but not for internal
3408 redirects triggered by mod_rewrite. [Graham Leggett]
3410 *) mod_lua: add r:construct_url as a wrapper for ap_construct_url.
3413 *) mod_remote_ip: Fix configuration of internal proxies. PR 49272.
3414 [Jim Riggs <jim riggs me>]
3416 *) mpm_winnt: Handle AcceptFilter 'none' mode correctly; resolve specific
3417 server IP endpoint and remote client IP upon connection. [William Rowe]
3419 *) mod_setenvif: Remove OID match which is obsoleted by SetEnvIfExpr with
3420 PeerExtList(). [Stefan Fritsch]
3422 *) mpm_prefork, mpm_worker, mpm_event: If a child is created just before
3423 graceful restart and then exits because of a missing lock file, don't
3424 shutdown the whole server. PR 39311. [Shawn Michael
3425 <smichael rightnow com>]
3427 *) mpm_event: Check the return value from ap_run_create_connection.
3428 PR 41194. [Davi Arnaut]
3430 *) mod_mime_magic: Add signatures for PNG and SWF to the example config.
3431 PR 48352. [Jeremy Wagner-Kaiser <jwagner-kaiser adknowledge com>]
3433 *) core, unixd: Add -D DUMP_RUN_CFG option to dump some configuration items
3434 from the parsed (or default) config. This is useful for init scripts that
3435 need to setup temporary directories and permissions. [Stefan Fritsch]
3437 *) core, mod_actions, mod_asis: Downgrade error log messages which accompany
3438 a 404 request status from loglevel error to info. PR 35768. [Stefan
3441 *) core: Fix hook sorting with Perl modules. PR 45076. [Torsten Foertsch
3442 <torsten foertsch gmx net>]
3444 *) core: Enforce LimitRequestFieldSize after multiple headers with the same
3445 name have been merged. [Stefan Fritsch]
3447 *) mod_ssl: If MaxMemFree is set, ask OpenSSL >= 1.0.0 to reduce memory
3448 usage. PR 51618. [Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez opensuse org>,
3451 *) mod_ssl: At startup, when checking a server certificate whether it
3452 matches the configured ServerName, also take dNSName entries in the
3453 subjectAltName extension into account. PR 32652, PR 47051. [Kaspar Brand]
3455 *) mod_substitute: Reduce memory usage and copying of data. PR 50559.
3458 *) mod_ssl/proxy: enable the SNI extension for backend TLS connections
3461 *) Add wrappers for malloc, calloc, realloc that check for out of memory
3462 situations and use them in many places. PR 51568, PR 51569, PR 51571.
3465 *) Fix cross-compilation of mod_cgi/mod_cgid when APR_HAVE_STRUCT_RLIMIT is
3466 false but RLIMIT_* are defined. PR51371. [Eric Covener]
3468 *) core: Correctly obey ServerName / ServerAlias if the Host header from the
3469 request matches the VirtualHost address.
3470 PR 51709. [Micha Lenk <micha lenk.info>]
3472 *) mod_unique_id: Use random number generator to initialize counter.
3473 PR 45110. [Stefan Fritsch]
3475 *) core: Add convenience API for apr_random. [Stefan Fritsch]
3477 *) core: Add MaxRangeOverlaps and MaxRangeReversals directives to control
3478 the number of overlapping and reversing ranges (respectively) permitted
3479 before returning the entire resource, with a default limit of 20.
3482 *) mod_ldap: Optional function uldap_ssl_supported(r) always returned false
3483 if called from a virtual host with mod_ldap directives in it. Did not
3484 affect mod_authnz_ldap's usage of mod_ldap. [Eric Covener]
3486 *) mod_filter: Instead of dropping the Accept-Ranges header when a filter
3487 registered with AP_FILTER_PROTO_NO_BYTERANGE is present,
3488 set the header value to "none". [Eric Covener, Ruediger Pluem]
3490 *) core: Allow MaxRanges none|unlimited|default and set 'Accept-Ranges: none'
3491 in the case Ranges are being ignored with MaxRanges none.
3494 *) mod_ssl: revamp CRL-based revocation checking when validating
3495 certificates of clients or proxied servers. Completely delegate
3496 CRL processing to OpenSSL, and add a new [Proxy]CARevocationCheck
3497 directive for controlling the revocation checking mode. [Kaspar Brand]
3499 *) core: Add MaxRanges directive to control the number of ranges permitted
3500 before returning the entire resource, with a default limit of 200.
3503 *) mod_cache: Ensure that CacheDisable can correctly appear within
3504 a LocationMatch. [Graham Leggett]
3506 *) mod_cache: Fix the moving of the CACHE filter, which erroneously
3507 stood down if the original filter was not added by configuration.
3510 *) mod_ssl: improve certificate error logging. PR 47408. [Kaspar Brand]
3512 *) mod_authz_groupfile: Increase length limit of lines in the group file to
3513 16MB. PR 43084. [Stefan Fritsch]
3515 *) core: Increase length limit of lines in the configuration file to 16MB.
3516 PR 45888. PR 50824. [Stefan Fritsch]
3518 *) core: Add API for resizable buffers. [Stefan Fritsch]
3520 *) mod_ldap: Enable LDAPConnectionTimeout for LDAP toolkits that have
3521 LDAP_OPT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT instead of LDAP_OPT_NETWORK_TIMEOUT, such
3522 as Tivoli Directory Server 6.3 and later. [Eric Covener]
3524 *) mod_ldap: Change default number of retries from 10 to 3, and add
3525 an LDAPRetries and LDAPRetryDelay directives. [Eric Covener]
3527 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Don't retry during authentication, because this just
3528 multiplies the ample retries already being done by mod_ldap. [Eric Covener]
3530 *) configure: Allow to explicitly disable modules even with module selection
3531 'reallyall'. [Stefan Fritsch]
3533 *) mod_rewrite: Check validity of each internal (int:) RewriteMap even if the
3534 RewriteEngine is disabled in server context, avoiding a crash while
3535 referencing the invalid int: map at runtime. PR 50994.
3536 [Ben Noordhuis <info noordhuis nl>]
3538 *) mod_ssl, configure: require OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later. [Kaspar Brand]
3540 *) mod_ssl: remove ssl_toolkit_compat layer. [Kaspar Brand]
3542 *) mod_ssl, configure, ab: drop support for RSA BSAFE SSL-C toolkit.
3545 *) mod_usertrack: Run mod_usertrack earlier in the fixups hook to ensure the
3546 cookie is set when modules such as mod_rewrite trigger a redirect. Also
3547 use r->err_headers_out for the cookie, for the same reason. PR29755.
3548 [Sami J. Mäkinen <sjm almamedia fi>, Eric Covener]
3550 *) mod_proxy_http, mod_proxy_connect: Add 'proxy-status' and
3551 'proxy-source-port' request notes for logging. PR 30195. [Stefan Fritsch]
3553 *) configure: Enable ldap modules in 'all' and 'most' selections if ldap
3554 is compiled into apr-util. [Stefan Fritsch]
3556 *) core: Add ap_check_cmd_context()-check if a command is executed in
3557 .htaccess file. [Stefan Fritsch]
3559 *) mod_deflate: Fix endless loop if first bucket is metadata. PR 51590.
3560 [Torsten Foertsch <torsten foertsch gmx net>]
3562 *) mod_authn_socache: Fix to work in .htaccess if not configured anywhere
3563 in httpd.conf, and introduce an AuthnCacheEnable directive.
3566 *) mod_xml2enc: new (formerly third-party) module supporting
3567 internationalisation for filters via smart charset sniffing
3568 and conversion. [Nick Kew]
3570 *) mod_proxy_html: new (formerly third-party) module to fix up
3571 HTML links in a reverse proxy situation, where a backend
3572 generates URLs that are not resolvable by Clients. [Nick Kew]
3574 Changes with Apache 2.3.14
3576 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Improve trace logging. [Rainer Jung]
3578 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Respect "reuse" flag in END_REPONSE packets.
3581 *) mod_proxy: enable absolute URLs to be rewritten with ProxyPassReverse,
3582 e.g. to reverse proxy "Location: https://other-internal-server/login"
3585 *) prefork, worker, event: Make sure crashes are logged to the error log if
3586 httpd has already detached from the console. [Stefan Fritsch]
3588 *) prefork, worker, event: Reduce period during startup/restart where a
3589 successive signal may be lost. PR 43696. [Arun Bhalla <arun shme net>]
3591 *) mod_allowmethods: Correct Merging of "reset" and do not allow an
3592 empty parameter list for the AllowMethods directive. [Rainer Jung]
3594 *) configure: Update selection of modules for 'all' and 'most'. 'all' will
3595 now enable all modules except for example and test modules. Make the
3596 selection for 'most' more useful (including ssl and proxy). Both 'all'
3597 and 'most' will now disable modules if dependencies are missing instead
3598 of aborting. If a specific module is requested with --enable-XXX=yes,
3599 missing dependencies will still cause configure to exit with an error.
3602 *) mod_ldap: Revert the integration of apr-ldap as ap_ldap which was done
3603 in 2.3.13. [Stefan Fritsch]
3605 *) core: For '*' or '_default_' vhosts, use a wildcard address of any
3606 address family, rather than IPv4 only. [Joe Orton]
3608 *) core, mod_rewrite, mod_ssl, mod_nw_ssl: Make the SERVER_NAME variable
3609 include [ ] for literal IPv6 addresses, as mandated by RFC 3875.
3610 PR 26005. [Stefan Fritsch]
3612 *) mod_negotiation: Fix parsing of Content-Length in type maps. PR 42203.
3613 [Nagae Hidetake <nagae eagan jp>]
3615 *) core: Add more logging to ap_scan_script_header_err* functions. Add
3616 ap_scan_script_header_err*_ex functions that take a module index for
3618 mod_cgi, mod_cgid, mod_proxy_fcgi, mod_proxy_scgi, mod_isapi: Use the
3619 new functions in order to make logging configurable per-module.
3622 *) mod_dir: Add DirectoryIndexRedirect to send an external redirect to
3623 the proper index. [Eric Covener]
3625 *) mod_deflate: Don't try to compress requests with a zero sized body.
3626 PR 51350. [Stefan Fritsch]
3628 *) core: Fix startup on IPv6-only systems. PR 50592. [Joe Orton,
3629 <root linkage white-void net>]
3631 *) suexec: Add environment variables CONTEXT_DOCUMENT_ROOT, CONTEXT_PREFIX,
3632 REDIRECT_ERROR_NOTES, REDIRECT_SCRIPT_FILENAME, REQUEST_SCHEME to the
3633 whitelist in suexec. PR 51499. [Graham Laverty <graham reg ca>,
3636 *) mod_rewrite: Fix regexp RewriteCond with NoCase. [Stefan Fritsch]
3638 *) mod_log_debug: New module that allows to log custom messages at various
3639 phases in the request processing. [Stefan Fritsch]
3641 *) mod_ssl: Add some debug logging when loading server certificates.
3642 PR 37912. [Nick Burch <nick burch alfresco com>]
3644 *) configure: Support reallyall option also for --enable-mods-static.
3647 *) mod_socache_dc: add --with-distcache to configure for choosing
3648 the distcache installation directory. [Rainer Jung]
3650 *) mod_socache_dc: use correct build variable MOD_SOCACHE_DC_LDADD
3651 instead of MOD_SOCACHE_LDADD in build macro. [Rainer Jung]
3653 *) mod_lua, mod_deflate: respect platform specific runpath linker
3656 *) configure: Only link the httpd binary against PCRE. No other support
3657 binary needs PCRE. [Rainer Jung]
3659 *) configure: tolerate dependency checking failures for modules if
3660 they have been enabled implicitly. [Rainer Jung]
3662 *) configure: Allow to specify module specific custom linker flags via
3663 the MOD_XXX_LDADD variables. [Rainer Jung]
3665 Changes with Apache 2.3.13
3667 *) ab: Support specifying the local address to use. PR 48930.
3668 [Peter Schuller <scode spotify com>]
3670 *) core: Add support to ErrorLogFormat for logging the system unique
3671 thread id under Linux. [Stefan Fritsch]
3673 *) event: New AsyncRequestWorkerFactor directive to influence how many
3674 connections will be accepted per process. [Stefan Fritsch]
3676 *) prefork, worker, event: Rename MaxClients to MaxRequestWorkers which
3677 describes more accurately what it does. [Stefan Fritsch]
3679 *) rotatelogs: Add -p argument to specify custom program to invoke
3680 after a log rotation. PR 51285. [Sven Ulland <sveniu ifi.uio.no>,
3683 *) mod_ssl: Don't do OCSP checks for valid self-issued certs. [Kaspar Brand]
3685 *) mod_ssl: Avoid unnecessary renegotiations with SSLVerifyDepth 0.
3686 PR 48215. [Kaspar Brand]
3688 *) mod_status: Display information about asynchronous connections in the
3689 server-status. PR 44377. [Stefan Fritsch]
3691 *) mpm_event: If the number of connections of a process is very high, or if
3692 all workers are busy, don't accept new connections in that process.
3695 *) mpm_event: Process lingering close asynchronously instead of tying up
3696 worker threads. [Jeff Trawick, Stefan Fritsch]
3698 *) mpm_event: If MaxMemFree is set, limit the number of pools that is kept
3699 around. [Stefan Fritsch]
3701 *) mpm_event: Fix graceful restart aborting connections. PR 43359.
3702 [Takashi Sato <takashi lans-tv com>]
3704 *) mod_ssl: Disable AECDH ciphers in example config. PR 51363.
3705 [Rob Stradling <rob comodo com>]
3707 *) core: Introduce new function ap_get_conn_socket() to access the socket of
3708 a connection. [Stefan Fritsch]
3710 *) mod_data: Introduce a filter to support RFC2397 data URLs. [Graham
3713 *) mod_userdir/mod_alias/mod_vhost_alias: Correctly set DOCUMENT_ROOT,
3714 CONTEXT_DOCUMENT_ROOT, CONTEXT_PREFIX. PR 26052. PR 46198.
3717 *) core: Allow to override document_root on a per-request basis. Introduce
3718 new context_document_root and context_prefix which provide information
3719 about non-global URI-to-directory mappings (from e.g. mod_userdir or
3720 mod_alias) to scripts. PR 49705. [Stefan Fritsch]
3722 *) core: Add <ElseIf> and <Else> to complement <If> sections.
3725 *) mod_ext_filter: Remove DebugLevel option in favor of per-module loglevel.
3728 *) mod_include: Make the "#if expr" element use the new "ap_expr" expression
3729 parser. The old parser can still be used by setting the new directive
3730 SSILegacyExprParser. [Stefan Fritsch]
3732 *) core: Add some features to ap_expr for use by mod_include: a restricted
3733 mode that does not allow to bypass request access restrictions; new
3734 variables DOCUMENT_URI (alias for REQUEST_URI), LAST_MODIFIED; -A as an
3735 alias for -U; an additional data entry in ap_expr_eval_ctx_t for use by
3736 the consumer; an extensible ap_expr_exec_ctx() API that allows to use that
3737 data entry. [Stefan Fritsch]
3739 *) mod_include: Merge directory configs instead of one SSI* config directive
3740 causing all other per-directory SSI* config directives to be reset.
3743 *) mod_charset_lite: Remove DebugLevel option in favour of per-module
3744 loglevel. [Stefan Fritsch]
3746 *) core: Add ap_regexec_len() function that works with non-null-terminated
3747 strings. PR 51231. [Yehezkel Horowitz <horowity checkpoint com>]
3749 *) mod_authnz_ldap: If the LDAP server returns constraint violation,
3750 don't treat this as an error but as "auth denied". [Stefan Fritsch]
3752 *) mod_proxy_fcgi|scgi: Add support for "best guess" of PATH_INFO
3753 for SCGI/FCGI. PR 50880, 50851. [Mark Montague <mark catseye.org>,
3756 *) mod_cache: When content is served stale, and there is no means to
3757 revalidate the content using ETag or Last-Modified, and we have
3758 mandated no stale-on-error behaviour, stand down and don't cache.
3759 Saves a cache write that will never be read.
3762 *) mod_reqtimeout: Fix a timed out connection going into the keep-alive
3763 state after a timeout when discarding a request body. PR 51103.
3766 *) core: Add various file existence test operators to ap_expr.
3769 *) mod_proxy_express: New mass reverse-proxy switch extension for
3770 mod_proxy. [Jim Jagielski]
3772 *) configure: Fix script error when configuring module set "reallyall".
3775 Changes with Apache 2.3.12
3777 *) configure, core: Provide easier support for APR's hook probe
3778 capability. [Jim Jagielski, Jeff Trawick]
3780 *) Silence autoconf 2.68 warnings. [Rainer Jung]
3782 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Resolve crash when LDAP is used for authorization only
3783 [Scott Hill <shill genscape.com>]
3785 *) support: Make sure check_forensic works with mod_unique_id loaded
3788 *) Add child_status hook for tracking creation/termination of MPM child
3789 processes. Add end_generation hook for notification when the last
3790 MPM child of a generation exits. [Jeff Trawick]
3792 *) mod_ldap: Make LDAPSharedCacheSize 0 create a non-shared-memory cache per
3793 process as opposed to disabling caching completely. This allows to use
3794 the non-shared-memory cache as a workaround for the shared memory cache
3795 not being available during graceful restarts. PR 48958. [Stefan Fritsch]
3797 *) Add new ap_reserve_module_slots/ap_reserve_module_slots_directive API,
3798 necessary if a module (like mod_perl) registers additional modules late
3799 in the startup phase. [Stefan Fritsch]
3801 *) core: Prevent segfault if DYNAMIC_MODULE_LIMIT is reached. PR 51072.
3802 [Torsten Förtsch <torsten foertsch gmx net>]
3804 *) WinNT MPM: Improve robustness under heavy load. [Jeff Trawick]
3806 *) MinGW build improvements. PR 49535. [John Vandenberg
3807 <jayvdb gmail.com>, Jeff Trawick]
3809 *) core: Support module names with colons in loglevel configuration.
3810 [Torsten Förtsch <torsten foertsch gmx net>]
3812 *) mod_ssl, ab: Support OpenSSL compiled without SSLv2 support.
3815 *) core: Abort if the MPM is changed across restart. [Jeff Trawick]
3817 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Add support for 'ProxyErrorOverride on'. PR 50945.
3818 [Peter Pramberger <peter pramberger.at>, Jim Jagielski]
3820 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Add support for 'ProxyErrorOverride on'. PR 50913.
3821 [Mark Montague <mark catseye.org>, Jim Jagielski]
3823 *) core: Change the APIs of ap_cfg_getline() and ap_cfg_getc() to return an
3824 error code. Abort with a nice error message if a config line is too long.
3825 Partial fix for PR 50824. [Stefan Fritsch]
3827 *) mod_info: Dump config to stdout during startup if -DDUMP_CONFIG is
3828 specified. PR 31956. [Stefan Fritsch]
3830 *) Restore visibility of DEFAULT_PIDLOG to core and modules. MPM
3831 helper function ap_remove_pid() added. [Jeff Trawick]
3833 *) Enable DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR on Windows and NetWare. [various]
3835 *) Correct C++ incompatibility with http_log.h. [Stefan Fritsch, Jeff
3838 *) mod_log_config: Prevent segfault. PR 50861. [Torsten Förtsch
3839 <torsten.foertsch gmx.net>]
3841 *) core: AllowEncodedSlashes new option NoDecode to allow encoded slashes
3842 in request URL path info but not decode them. Change behavior of option
3843 "On" to decode the encoded slashes as 2.0 and 2.2 do. PR 35256,
3844 PR 46830. [Dan Poirier]
3846 *) mod_ssl: Check SNI hostname against Host header case-insensitively.
3847 PR 49491. [Mayank Agrawal <magrawal.08 gmail.com>]
3849 *) mod_ldap: Add LDAPConnectionPoolTTL to give control over lifetime
3850 of bound backend LDAP connections. PR47634 [Eric Covener]
3852 *) mod_cache: Make CacheEnable and CacheDisable configurable per
3853 directory in addition to per server, making them work from within
3854 a LocationMatch. [Graham Leggett]
3856 *) worker, event, prefork: Correct several issues when built as
3857 DSOs; most notably, the scoreboard was reinitialized during graceful
3858 restart, such that processes of the previous generation were not
3859 observable. [Jeff Trawick]
3861 Changes with Apache 2.3.11
3863 *) mod_win32: Added shebang check for '! so that .vbs scripts work as CGI.
3864 Win32's cscript interpreter can only use a single quote as comment char.
3867 *) mod_proxy: balancer-manager now uses POST instead of GET.
3870 *) core: new util function: ap_parse_form_data(). Previously,
3871 this capability was tucked away in mod_request. [Jim Jagielski]
3873 *) core: new hook: ap_run_pre_read_request. [Jim Jagielski]
3875 *) modules: Fix many modules that were not correctly initializing if they
3876 were not active during server startup but got enabled later during a
3877 graceful restart. [Stefan Fritsch]
3879 *) core: Create new ap_state_query function that allows modules to determine
3880 if the current configuration run is the initial one at server startup,
3881 and if the server is started for testing/config dumping only.
3884 *) mod_proxy: Runtime configuration of many parameters for existing
3885 balancers via the balancer-manager. [Jim Jagielski]
3887 *) mod_proxy: Runtime addition of new workers (BalancerMember) for existing
3888 balancers via the balancer-manager. [Jim Jagielski]
3890 *) mod_cache: When a bad Expires date is present, we need to behave as if
3891 the Expires is in the past, not as if the Expires is missing. PR 16521.
3892 [Co-Advisor <coad measurement-factory.com>]
3894 *) mod_cache: We must ignore quoted-string values that appear in a
3895 Cache-Control header. PR 50199. [Graham Leggett]
3897 *) mod_dav: Revert change to send 501 error if unknown Content-* header is
3898 received for a PUT request. PR 42978. [Stefan Fritsch]
3900 *) mod_cache: Respect s-maxage as described by RFC2616 14.9.3, which must
3901 take precedence if present. PR 35247. [Graham Leggett]
3903 *) mod_ssl: Fix a possible startup failure if multiple SSL vhosts
3904 are configured with the same ServerName and private key file.
3905 [Masahiro Matsuya <mmatsuya redhat.com>, Joe Orton]
3907 *) mod_socache_dc: Make module compile by fixing some typos.
3908 PR 50735 [Mark Montague <mark catseye.org>]
3910 *) prefork: Update MPM state in children during a graceful stop or
3911 restart. PR 41743. [Andrew Punch <andrew.punch 247realmedia.com>]
3913 *) mod_mime: Ignore leading dots when looking for mime extensions.
3914 PR 50434 [Stefan Fritsch]
3916 *) core: Add support to set variables with the 'Define' directive. The
3917 variables that can then be used in the config using the ${VAR} syntax
3918 known from envvar interpolation. [Stefan Fritsch]
3920 *) mod_proxy_http: make adding of X-Forwarded-* headers configurable.
3921 ProxyAddHeaders defaults to On. [Vincent Deffontaines]
3923 *) mod_slotmem_shm: Increase memory alignment for slotmem data.
3926 *) mod_ssl: Add config options for OCSP: SSLOCSPResponderTimeout,
3927 SSLOCSPResponseMaxAge, SSLOCSPResponseTimeSkew.
3928 [Kaspar Brand <httpd-dev.2011 velox.ch>]
3930 *) mod_ssl: Revamp output buffering to reduce network overhead for
3931 output fragmented into many buckets, such as chunked HTTP responses.
3934 *) core: Apply <If> sections to all requests, not only to file base requests.
3935 Allow to use <If> inside <Directory>, <Location>, and <Files> sections.
3936 The merging of <If> sections now happens after the merging of <Location>
3937 sections, even if an <If> section is embedded inside a <Directory> or
3938 <Files> section. [Stefan Fritsch]
3940 *) mod_proxy: Refactor usage of shared data by dropping the scoreboard
3941 and using slotmem. Create foundation for dynamic growth/changes of
3942 members within a balancer. Remove BalancerNonce in favor of a
3943 per-balancer 'nonce' parameter. [Jim Jagielski]
3945 *) mod_status: Don't show slots which are disabled by MaxClients as open.
3946 PR 47022 [Jordi Prats <jordi prats gmail com>, Stefan Fritsch]
3948 *) mpm_prefork: Fix ap_mpm_query results for AP_MPMQ_MAX_DAEMONS and
3949 AP_MPMQ_MAX_THREADS.
3951 *) mod_authz_core: Fix bug in merging logic if user-based and non-user-based
3952 authorization directives were mixed. [Stefan Fritsch]
3954 *) mod_authn_socache: change directive name from AuthnCacheProvider
3955 to AuthnCacheProvideFor. The term "provider" is overloaded in
3956 this module, and we should avoid confusion between the provider
3957 of a backend (AuthnCacheSOCache) and the authn provider(s) for
3958 which this module provides cacheing (AuthnCacheProvideFor).
3961 *) mod_proxy_http: Allocate the fake backend request from a child pool
3962 of the backend connection, instead of misusing the pool of the frontend
3963 request. Fixes a thread safety issue where buckets set aside in the
3964 backend connection leak into other threads, and then disappear when
3965 the frontend request is cleaned up, in turn causing corrupted buckets
3966 to make other threads spin. [Graham Leggett]
3968 *) mod_ssl: Change the format of the SSL_{CLIENT,SERVER}_{I,S}_DN variables
3969 to be RFC 2253 compatible, convert non-ASCII characters to UTF8, and
3970 escape other special characters with backslashes. The old format can
3971 still be used with the LegacyDNStringFormat argument to SSLOptions.
3973 *) core, mod_rewrite: Make the REQUEST_SCHEME variable available to
3974 scripts and mod_rewrite. [Stefan Fritsch]
3976 *) mod_rewrite: Allow to use arbitrary boolean expressions (ap_expr) in
3977 RewriteCond. [Stefan Fritsch]
3979 *) mod_rewrite: Allow to unset environment variables using E=!VAR.
3980 PR 49512. [Mark Drayton <mark markdrayton info>, Stefan Fritsch]
3982 *) mod_headers: Restore the 2.3.8 and earlier default for the first
3983 argument of the Header directive ("onsuccess"). [Eric Covener]
3985 *) core: Disallow the mixing of relative and absolute Options PR 33708.
3986 [Sönke Tesch <st kino-fahrplan.de>]
3988 *) core: When exporting request headers to HTTP_* environment variables,
3989 drop variables whose names contain invalid characters. Describe in the
3990 docs how to restore the old behaviour. [Malte S. Stretz <mss apache org>]
3992 *) core: When selecting an IP-based virtual host, favor an exact match for
3993 the port over a wildcard (or omitted) port instead of favoring the one
3994 that came first in the configuration file. [Eric Covener]
3996 *) core: Overlapping virtual host address/port combinations now implicitly
3997 enable name-based virtual hosting for that address. The NameVirtualHost
3998 directive has no effect, and _default_ is interpreted the same as "*".
4001 *) core: In the absence of any Options directives, the default is now
4002 "FollowSymlinks" instead of "All". [Igor Galić]
4004 *) rotatelogs: Add -e option to write logs through to stdout for optional
4005 further processing. [Graham Leggett]
4007 *) mod_ssl: Correctly read full lines in input filter when the line is
4008 incomplete during first read. PR 50481. [Ruediger Pluem]
4010 *) mod_authz_core: Add AuthzSendForbiddenOnFailure directive to allow
4011 sending '403 FORBIDDEN' instead of '401 UNAUTHORIZED' if authorization
4012 fails for an authenticated user. PR 40721. [Stefan Fritsch]
4014 Changes with Apache 2.3.10
4016 *) mod_rewrite: Don't implicitly URL-escape the original query string
4017 when no substitution has changed it. PR 50447. [Eric Covener]
4019 *) core: Honor 'AcceptPathInfo OFF' during internal redirects,
4020 such as per-directory mod_rewrite substitutions. PR 50349.
4023 *) mod_rewrite: Add 'RewriteOptions InheritBefore' to put the base
4024 rules/conditions before the overridden rules/conditions. PR 39313.
4025 [Jérôme Grandjanny <jerome.grandjanny cea.fr>]
4027 *) mod_autoindex: add IndexIgnoreReset to reset the list of IndexIgnored
4028 filenames in higher precedence configuration sections. PR 24243.
4031 *) mod_cgid: RLimit* directive support for mod_cgid. PR 42135
4034 *) core: Fail startup when the argument to ServerName looks like a glob
4035 or a regular expression instead of a hostname (*?[]). PR 39863
4036 [Rahul Nair <rahul.g.nair gmail.com>]
4038 *) mod_userdir: Add merging of enable, disable, and filename arguments
4039 to UserDir directive, leaving enable/disable of userlists unmerged.
4040 PR 44076 [Eric Covener]
4042 *) httpd: When no -k option is provided on the httpd command line, the server
4043 was starting without checking for an existing pidfile. PR 50350
4046 *) mod_proxy: Put the worker in error state if the SSL handshake with the
4047 backend fails. PR 50332.
4048 [Daniel Ruggeri <DRuggeri primary.net>, Ruediger Pluem]
4050 *) mod_cache_disk: Fix Windows build which was broken after renaming
4051 the module. [Gregg L. Smith]
4053 Changes with Apache 2.3.9
4055 *) SECURITY: CVE-2010-1623 (cve.mitre.org)
4056 Fix a denial of service attack against mod_reqtimeout.
4059 *) mod_headers: Change default first argument of Header directive
4060 from "onsuccess" to "always". [Eric Covener]
4062 *) mod_include: Add the onerror attribute to the include element,
4063 allowing an URL to be specified to include on error. [Graham
4066 *) mod_cache_disk: mod_disk_cache renamed to mod_cache_disk, to be
4067 consistent with the naming of other modules. [Graham Leggett]
4069 *) mod_setenvif: Add SetEnvIfExpr directive to set env var depending on
4070 expression. [Stefan Fritsch]
4072 *) mod_proxy: Fix ProxyPassInterpolateEnv directive. PR 50292.
4075 *) suEXEC: Add Suexec directive to disable suEXEC without renaming the
4076 binary (Suexec Off), or force startup failure if suEXEC is required
4077 but not supported (Suexec On). Change SuexecUserGroup to fail
4078 startup instead of just printing a warning if suEXEC is disabled.
4081 *) core: Add Error directive for aborting startup or htaccess processing
4082 with a specified error message. [Jeff Trawick]
4084 *) mod_rewrite: Fix the RewriteEngine directive to work within a
4085 location. Previously, once RewriteEngine was switched on globally,
4086 it was impossible to switch off. [Graham Leggett]
4088 *) core, mod_include, mod_ssl: Move the expression parser derived from
4089 mod_include back into mod_include. Replace ap_expr with a parser
4090 derived from mod_ssl's parser. Make mod_ssl use the new parser. Rework
4091 ap_expr's public interface and provide hooks for modules to add variables
4092 and functions. [Stefan Fritsch]
4094 *) core: Do the hook sorting earlier so that the hooks are properly sorted
4095 for the pre_config hook and during parsing the config. [Stefan Fritsch]
4097 *) core: In the absence of any AllowOverride directives, the default is now
4098 "None" instead of "All". PR49823 [Eric Covener]
4100 *) mod_proxy: Don't allow ProxyPass or ProxyPassReverse in
4101 <Directory> or <Files>. PR47765 [Eric Covener]
4103 *) prefork/worker/event MPMS: default value (when no directive is present)
4104 of MaxConnectionsPerChild/MaxRequestsPerChild is changed to 0 from 10000
4105 to match default configuration and manual. PR47782 [Eric Covener]
4107 *) proxy_connect: Don't give up in the middle of a CONNECT tunnel
4108 when the child process is starting to exit. PR50220. [Eric Covener]
4110 *) mod_autoindex: Fix inheritance of mod_autoindex directives into
4111 contexts that don't have any mod_autoindex directives. PR47766.
4114 *) mod_rewrite: Add END flag for RewriteRule to prevent further rounds
4115 of rewrite processing when a per-directory substitution occurs.
4118 *) mod_ssl: Make sure to always log an error if loading of CA certificates
4119 fails. PR 40312. [Paul Tiemann <issues apache org ourdetour com>]
4121 *) mod_dav: Send 501 error if unknown Content-* header is received for a PUT
4122 request (RFC 2616 9.6). PR 42978. [Stefan Fritsch]
4124 *) mod_dav: Send 400 error if malformed Content-Range header is received for
4125 a put request (RFC 2616 14.16). PR 49825. [Stefan Fritsch]
4127 *) mod_proxy: Release the backend connection as soon as EOS is detected,
4128 so the backend isn't forced to wait for the client to eventually
4129 acknowledge the data. [Graham Leggett]
4131 *) mod_proxy: Optimise ProxyPass within a Location so that it is stored
4132 per-directory, and chosen during the location walk. Make ProxyPass
4133 work correctly from within a LocationMatch. [Graham Leggett]
4135 *) core: Fix segfault if per-module LogLevel is on virtual host
4136 scope. PR 50117. [Stefan Fritsch]
4138 *) mod_proxy: Move the ProxyErrorOverride directive to have per
4139 directory scope. [Graham Leggett]
4141 *) mod_allowmethods: New module to deny certain HTTP methods without
4142 interfering with authentication/authorization. [Paul Querna,
4143 Igor Galić, Stefan Fritsch]
4145 *) mod_ssl: Log certificate information and improve error message if client
4146 cert verification fails. PR 50093, PR 50094. [Lassi Tuura <lat cern ch>,
4149 *) htcacheclean: Teach htcacheclean to limit cache size by number of
4150 inodes in addition to size of files. Prevents a cache disk from
4151 running out of space when many small files are cached.
4154 *) core: Rename MaxRequestsPerChild to MaxConnectionsPerChild, which
4155 describes more accurately what the directive does. The old name
4156 still works but logs a warning. [Stefan Fritsch]
4158 *) mod_cache: Optionally serve stale data when a revalidation returns a
4159 5xx response, controlled by the CacheStaleOnError directive.
4162 *) htcacheclean: Allow the listing of valid URLs within the cache, with
4163 the option to list entry metadata such as sizes and times. [Graham
4166 *) mod_cache: correctly parse quoted strings in cache headers.
4169 *) mod_cache: Allow control over the base URL of reverse proxied requests
4170 using the CacheKeyBaseURL directive, so that the cache key can be
4171 calculated from the endpoint URL instead of the server URL. [Graham
4174 *) mod_cache: CacheLastModifiedFactor, CacheStoreNoStore, CacheStorePrivate,
4175 CacheStoreExpired, CacheIgnoreNoLastMod, CacheDefaultExpire,
4176 CacheMinExpire and CacheMaxExpire can be set per directory/location.
4179 *) mod_disk_cache: CacheMaxFileSize, CacheMinFileSize, CacheReadSize and
4180 CacheReadTime can be set per directory/location. [Graham Leggett]
4182 *) core: Speed up config parsing if using a very large number of config
4183 files. PR 50002 [andrew cloudaccess net]
4185 *) mod_cache: Support the caching of HEAD requests. [Graham Leggett]
4187 *) htcacheclean: Allow the option to round up file sizes to a given
4188 block size, improving the accuracy of disk usage. [Graham Leggett]
4190 *) mod_ssl: Add authz providers for use with mod_authz_core and its
4191 RequireAny/RequireAll containers: 'ssl' (equivalent to SSLRequireSSL),
4192 'ssl-verify-client' (for use with 'SSLVerifyClient optional'), and
4193 'ssl-require' (expressions with same syntax as SSLRequire).
4196 *) mod_ssl: Make the ssl expression parser thread-safe. It now requires
4197 bison instead of yacc. [Stefan Fritsch]
4199 *) mod_disk_cache: Change on-disk header file format to support the
4200 link of the device/inode of the data file to the matching header
4201 file, and to support the option of not writing a data file when
4202 the data file is empty. [Graham Leggett]
4204 *) core/mod_unique_id: Add generate_log_id hook to allow to use
4205 the ID generated by mod_unique_id as error log ID for requests.
4208 *) mod_cache: Make sure that we never allow a 304 Not Modified response
4209 that we asked for to leak to the client should the 304 response be
4210 uncacheable. PR45341 [Graham Leggett]
4212 *) mod_cache: Add the cache_status hook to register the final cache
4213 decision hit/miss/revalidate. Add optional support for an X-Cache
4214 and/or an X-Cache-Detail header to add the cache status to the
4215 response. PR48241 [Graham Leggett]
4217 *) mod_authz_host: Add 'local' provider that matches connections originating
4218 on the local host. PR 19938. [Stefan Fritsch]
4220 *) Event MPM: Fix crash accessing pollset on worker thread when child
4221 process is exiting. [Jeff Trawick]
4223 *) core: For process invocation (cgi, fcgid, piped loggers and so forth)
4224 pass the system library path (LD_LIBRARY_PATH or platform-specific
4225 variables) along with the system PATH, by default. Both should be
4226 overridden together as desired using PassEnv etc; see mod_env.
4229 *) mod_cache: Introduce CacheStoreExpired, to allow administrators to
4230 capture a stale backend response, perform If-Modified-Since requests
4231 against the backend, and serving from the cache all 304 responses.
4232 This restores pre-2.2.4 cache behavior. [William Rowe]
4234 *) mod_rewrite: Introduce <=, >= string comparison operators, and integer
4235 comparators -lt, -le, -eq, -ge, and -gt. To help bash users and drop
4236 the ambiguity of the symlink test "-ltest", introduce -h or -L as
4237 symlink test operators. [William Rowe]
4239 *) mod_cache: Give the cache provider the opportunity to choose to cache
4240 or not cache based on the buckets present in the brigade, such as the
4241 presence of a FILE bucket.
4244 *) mod_authz_core: Allow authz providers to check args while reading the
4245 config and allow to cache parsed args. Move 'all' and 'env' authz
4246 providers from mod_authz_host to mod_authz_core. Add 'method' authz
4247 provider depending on the HTTP method. [Stefan Fritsch]
4249 *) mod_include: Move the request_rec within mod_include to be
4250 exposed within include_ctx_t. [Graham Leggett]
4252 *) mod_include: Reinstate support for UTF-8 character sets by allowing a
4253 variable being echoed or set to be decoded and then encoded as separate
4254 steps. PR47686 [Graham Leggett]
4256 *) mod_cache: Add a discrete commit_entity() provider function within the
4257 mod_cache provider interface which is called to indicate to the
4258 provider that caching is complete, giving the provider the opportunity
4259 to commit temporary files permanently to the cache in an atomic
4260 fashion. Replace the inconsistent use of error cleanups with a formal
4261 set of pool cleanups attached to a subpool, which is destroyed on error.
4264 *) mod_cache: Change the signature of the store_body() provider function
4265 within the mod_cache provider interface to support an "in" brigade
4266 and an "out" brigade instead of just a single input brigade. This
4267 gives a cache provider the option to consume only part of the brigade
4268 passed to it, rather than the whole brigade as was required before.
4269 This fixes an out of memory and a request timeout condition that would
4270 occur when the original document was a large file. Introduce
4271 CacheReadSize and CacheReadTime directives to mod_disk_cache to control
4272 the amount of data to attempt to cache at a time. [Graham Leggett]
4274 *) core: Add ErrorLogFormat to allow configuring error log format, including
4275 additional information that is logged once per connection or request. Add
4276 error log IDs for connections and request to allow correlating error log
4277 lines and the corresponding access log entry. [Stefan Fritsch]
4279 *) core: Disable sendfile by default. [Stefan Fritsch]
4281 *) mod_cache: Check the request to determine whether we are allowed
4282 to return cached content at all, and respect a "Cache-Control:
4283 no-cache" header from a client. Previously, "no-cache" would
4284 behave like "max-age=0". [Graham Leggett]
4286 *) mod_cache: Use a proper filter context to hold filter data instead
4287 of misusing the per-request configuration. Fixes a segfault on trunk
4288 when the normal handler is used. [Graham Leggett]
4290 *) mod_cgid: Log a warning if the ScriptSock path is truncated because
4291 it is too long. PR 49388. [Stefan Fritsch]
4293 *) vhosts: Do not allow _default_ in NameVirtualHost, or mixing *
4294 and non-* ports on NameVirtualHost, or multiple NameVirtualHost
4295 directives for the same address:port, or NameVirtualHost
4296 directives with no matching VirtualHosts, or multiple ip-based
4297 VirtualHost sections for the same address:port. These were
4298 previously accepted with a warning, but the behavior was
4299 undefined. [Dan Poirier]
4301 *) mod_remoteip: Fix a segfault when using mod_remoteip in conjunction with
4302 Allow/Deny. PR 49838. [Andrew Skalski <voltara gmail.com>]
4304 *) core: DirectoryMatch can now match on the end of line character ($),
4305 and sub-directories of matched directories are no longer implicitly
4306 matched. PR49809 [Eric Covener]
4308 *) Regexps: introduce new higher-level regexp utility including parsing
4309 and executing perl-style regexp ops (e.g s/foo/bar/i) and regexp memory
4312 *) Proxy: support setting source address. PR 29404
4313 [Multiple contributors iterating through bugzilla,
4314 Aron Ujvari <xanco nikhok.hu>, Aleksey Midenkov <asm uezku.kemsu.ru>,
4315 <dan listening-station.net; trunk version Nick Kew]
4317 *) HTTP protocol: return 400 not 503 if we have to abort due to malformed
4318 chunked encoding. [Nick Kew]
4320 Changes with Apache 2.3.8
4322 *) suexec: Support large log files. PR 45856. [Stefan Fritsch]
4324 *) core: Abort with sensible error message if no or more than one MPM is
4325 loaded. [Stefan Fritsch]
4327 *) mod_proxy: Rename erroronstatus to failonstatus.
4328 [Daniel Ruggeri <DRuggeri primary.net>]
4330 *) mod_dav_fs: Fix broken "creationdate" property.
4331 Regression in version 2.3.7. [Rainer Jung]
4333 Changes with Apache 2.3.7
4335 *) SECURITY: CVE-2010-1452 (cve.mitre.org)
4336 mod_dav, mod_cache, mod_session: Fix Handling of requests without a path
4337 segment. PR 49246 [Mark Drayton, Jeff Trawick]
4339 *) mod_ldap: Properly check the result returned by apr_ldap_init. PR 46076.
4342 *) mod_rewrite: Log errors if rewrite map files cannot be opened. PR 49639.
4345 *) mod_proxy_http: Support the 'ping' property for backend HTTP/1.1 servers
4346 via leveraging 100-Continue as the initial "request".
4349 *) core/mod_authz_core: Introduce new access_checker_ex hook that enables
4350 mod_authz_core to bypass authentication if access should be allowed by
4351 IP address/env var/... [Stefan Fritsch]
4353 *) core: Introduce note_auth_failure hook to allow modules to add support
4354 for additional auth types. This makes ap_note_auth_failure() work with
4355 mod_auth_digest again. PR 48807. [Stefan Fritsch]
4357 *) socache modules: return APR_NOTFOUND when a lookup is not found [Nick Kew]
4359 *) mod_authn_socache: new module [Nick Kew]
4361 *) configure: Add reallyall option for --enable-mods-shared. [Stefan Fritsch]
4363 *) Fix Windows build when using VC6. [Gregg L. Smith <lists glewis com>]
4365 *) mod_rewrite: Allow to set environment variables without explicitly
4366 giving a value. [Rainer Jung]
4368 *) mod_rewrite: Remove superfluous EOL from rewrite logging. [Rainer Jung]
4370 *) mod_include: recognise "text/html; parameters" as text/html
4371 PR 49616 [Andrey Chernov <ache nagual.pp.ru>]
4373 *) CGI vars: allow PATH to be set by SetEnv, consistent with LD_LIBRARY_PATH
4376 *) Core: Extra robustness: don't try authz and segfault if authn
4377 fails to set r->user. Log bug and return 500 instead.
4380 *) HTTP protocol filter: fix handling of longer chunk extensions
4381 PR 49474 [<tee.bee gmx.de>]
4383 *) Update SSL cipher suite and add example for SSLHonorCipherOrder.
4384 [Lars Eilebrecht, Rainer Jung]
4386 *) move AddOutputFilterByType from core to mod_filter. This should
4387 fix nasty side-effects that happen when content_type is set
4388 more than once in processing a request, and make it fully
4389 compatible with dynamic and proxied contents. [Nick Kew]
4391 *) mod_log_config: Implement logging for sub second timestamps and
4392 request end time. [Rainer Jung]
4394 Changes with Apache 2.3.6
4396 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-3555 (cve.mitre.org)
4397 mod_ssl: Comprehensive fix of the TLS renegotiation prefix injection
4398 attack when compiled against OpenSSL version 0.9.8m or later. Introduces
4399 the 'SSLInsecureRenegotiation' directive to reopen this vulnerability
4400 and offer unsafe legacy renegotiation with clients which do not yet
4401 support the new secure renegotiation protocol, RFC 5746.
4402 [Joe Orton, and with thanks to the OpenSSL Team]
4404 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-3555 (cve.mitre.org)
4405 mod_ssl: A partial fix for the TLS renegotiation prefix injection attack
4406 by rejecting any client-initiated renegotiations. Forcibly disable
4407 keepalive for the connection if there is any buffered data readable. Any
4408 configuration which requires renegotiation for per-directory/location
4409 access control is still vulnerable, unless using OpenSSL >= 0.9.8l.
4410 [Joe Orton, Ruediger Pluem, Hartmut Keil <Hartmut.Keil adnovum.ch>]
4412 *) SECURITY: CVE-2010-0408 (cve.mitre.org)
4413 mod_proxy_ajp: Respond with HTTP_BAD_REQUEST when the body is not sent
4414 when request headers indicate a request body is incoming; not a case of
4415 HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR. [Niku Toivola <niku.toivola sulake.com>]
4417 *) SECURITY: CVE-2010-0425 (cve.mitre.org)
4418 mod_isapi: Do not unload an isapi .dll module until the request
4419 processing is completed, avoiding orphaned callback pointers.
4420 [Brett Gervasoni <brettg senseofsecurity.com>, Jeff Trawick]
4422 *) core: Filter init functions are now run strictly once per request
4423 before handler invocation. The init functions are no longer run
4424 for connection filters. PR 49328. [Joe Orton]
4426 *) core: Adjust the output filter chain correctly in an internal
4427 redirect from a subrequest, preserving filters from the main
4428 request as necessary. PR 17629. [Joe Orton]
4430 *) mod_cache: Explicitly allow cache implementations to cache a 206 Partial
4431 Response if they so choose to do so. Previously an attempt to cache a 206
4432 was arbitrarily allowed if the response contained an Expires or
4433 Cache-Control header, and arbitrarily denied if both headers were missing.
4436 *) core: Add microsecond timestamp fractions, process id and thread id
4437 to the error log. [Rainer Jung]
4439 *) configure: The "most" module set gets build by default. [Rainer Jung]
4441 *) configure: Building dynamic modules (DSO) by default. [Rainer Jung]
4443 *) configure: Fix broken VPATH build when using included APR.
4446 *) mod_session_crypto: Fix configure problem when building
4447 with APR 2 and for VPATH builds with included APR.
4450 *) mod_session_crypto: API compatibility with APR 2 crypto and
4451 APR Util 1.x crypto. [Rainer Jung]
4453 *) ab: Fix memory leak with -v2 and SSL. PR 49383.
4454 [Pavel Kankovsky <peak argo troja mff cuni cz>]
4456 *) core: Add per-module and per-directory loglevel configuration.
4457 Add some more trace logging.
4458 mod_rewrite: Replace RewriteLog/RewriteLogLevel with trace log levels.
4459 mod_ssl: Replace LogLevelDebugDump with trace log levels.
4460 mod_ssl/mod_proxy*: Adjust loglevels to be less verbose at levels info
4462 mod_dumpio: Replace DumpIOLogLevel with trace log levels.
4465 *) mod_ldap: LDAP caching was suppressed (and ldap-status handler returns
4466 title page only) when any mod_ldap directives were used in VirtualHost
4467 context. [Eric Covener]
4469 *) mod_disk_cache: Decline the opportunity to cache if the response is
4470 a 206 Partial Content. This stops a reverse proxied partial response
4471 from becoming cached, and then being served in subsequent responses.
4474 *) mod_deflate: avoid the risk of forwarding data before headers are set.
4475 PR 49369 [Matthew Steele <mdsteele google.com>]
4477 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Ensure nested groups are checked when the
4478 top-level group doesn't have any direct non-group members
4479 of attributes in AuthLDAPGroupAttribute. [Eric Covener]
4481 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Search or Comparison during authorization phase
4482 can use the credentials from the authentication phase
4483 (AuthLDAPSearchAsUSer,AuthLDAPCompareAsUser).
4484 PR 48340 [Domenico Rotiroti, Eric Covener]
4486 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Allow the initial DN search during authentication
4487 to use the HTTP username/pass instead of an anonymous or hard-coded
4488 LDAP id (AuthLDAPInitialBindAsUser, AuthLDAPInitialBindPattern).
4491 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Publish requested LDAP data with an AUTHORIZE_ prefix
4492 when this module is used for authorization. See AuthLDAPAuthorizePrefix.
4493 PR 45584 [Eric Covener]
4495 *) apxs -q: Stop filtering out ':' characters from the reported values.
4496 PR 45343. [Bill Cole]
4498 *) prefork MPM: Work around possible crashes on child exit in APR reslist
4499 cleanup code. PR 43857. [Tom Donovan]
4501 *) ab: fix number of requests sent by ab when keepalive is enabled. PR 48497.
4502 [Bryn Dole <dole blekko.com>]
4504 *) Log an error for failures to read a chunk-size, and return 408 instead of
4505 413 when this is due to a read timeout. This change also fixes some cases
4506 of two error documents being sent in the response for the same scenario.
4507 [Eric Covener] PR49167
4509 *) mod_proxy_balancer: Add new directive BalancerNonce to allow admin
4510 to control/set the nonce used in the balancer-manager application.
4513 *) mod_proxy_connect: Support port ranges in AllowConnect. PR 23673.
4516 *) Proxy balancer: support setting error status according to HTTP response
4517 code from a backend. PR 48939. [Daniel Ruggeri <DRuggeri primary.net>]
4519 *) htcacheclean: Introduce the ability to clean specific URLs from the
4520 cache, if provided as an optional parameter on the command line.
4523 *) core: Introduce the IncludeStrict directive, which explicitly fails
4524 server startup if no files or directories match a wildcard path.
4527 *) htcacheclean: Report additional statistics about entries deleted.
4528 PR 48944. [Mark Drayton mark markdrayton.info]
4530 *) Introduce SSLFIPS directive to support OpenSSL FIPS_mode; permits all
4531 builds of mod_ssl to use 'SSLFIPS off' for portability, but the proper
4532 build of openssl is required for 'SSLFIPS on'. PR 46270.
4533 [Dr Stephen Henson <steve openssl.org>, William Rowe]
4535 *) mod_proxy_http: Log the port of the remote server in various messages.
4536 PR 48812. [Igor Galić <i galic brainsware org>]
4538 *) mod_reqtimeout: Do not wrongly enforce timeouts for mod_proxy's backend
4539 connections and other protocol handlers (like mod_ftp). [Stefan Fritsch]
4541 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Really regard the operation a success, when the client
4542 aborted the connection. In addition adjust the log message if the client
4543 aborted the connection. [Ruediger Pluem]
4545 *) mod_ssl: Add the 'SSLInsecureRenegotiation' directive, which
4546 allows insecure renegotiation with clients which do not yet
4547 support the secure renegotiation protocol. [Joe Orton]
4549 *) mod_ssl: Fix a potential I/O hang if a long list of trusted CAs
4550 is configured for client cert auth. PR 46952. [Joe Orton]
4552 *) core: Only log a 408 if it is no keepalive timeout. PR 39785
4553 [Ruediger Pluem, Mark Montague <markmont umich.edu>]
4555 *) support/rotatelogs: Add -L option to create a link to the current
4556 log file. PR 48761 [<lyndon orthanc.ca>, Dan Poirier]
4558 *) mod_ldap: Update LDAPTrustedClientCert to consistently be a per-directory
4559 setting only, matching most of the documentation and examples.
4560 PR 46541 [Paul Reder, Eric Covener]
4562 *) mod_ldap: LDAPTrustedClientCert now accepts CA_DER/CA_BASE64 argument
4563 types previously allowed only in LDAPTrustedGlobalCert. [Eric Covener]
4565 *) mod_negotiation: Preserve query string over multiviews negotiation.
4566 This buglet was fixed for type maps in 2.2.6, but the same issue
4567 affected multiviews and was overlooked.
4568 PR 33112 [Joergen Thomsen <apache jth.net>]
4570 *) mod_ldap: Eliminate a potential crash with multiple LDAPTrustedClientCert
4571 when some are not password-protected. [Eric Covener]
4573 *) Fix startup segfault when the Mutex directive is used but no loaded
4574 modules use httpd mutexes. PR 48787. [Jeff Trawick]
4576 *) Proxy: get the headers right in a HEAD request with
4577 ProxyErrorOverride, by checking for an overridden error
4578 before not after going into a catch-all code path.
4579 PR 41646. [Nick Kew, Stuart Children]
4581 *) support/rotatelogs: Support the simplest log rotation case, log
4582 truncation. Useful when the log is being processed in real time
4583 using a command like tail. [Graham Leggett]
4585 *) support/htcacheclean: Teach it how to write a pid file (modelled on
4586 httpd's writing of a pid file) so that it becomes possible to run
4587 more than one instance of htcacheclean on the same machine.
4590 *) Log command line on startup, so there's a record of command line
4591 arguments like -f. PR 48752. [Dan Poirier]
4593 *) Introduce mod_reflector, a handler capable of reflecting POSTed
4594 request bodies back within the response through the output filter
4595 stack. Can be used to turn an output filter into a web service.
4598 *) mod_proxy_http: Make sure that when an ErrorDocument is served
4599 from a reverse proxied URL, that the subrequest respects the status
4600 of the original request. This brings the behaviour of proxy_handler
4601 in line with default_handler. PR 47106. [Graham Leggett]
4603 *) Support wildcards in both the directory and file components of
4604 the path specified by the Include directive. [Graham Leggett]
4606 *) mod_proxy, mod_proxy_http: Support remote https proxies
4607 by using HTTP CONNECT. PR 19188.
4608 [Philippe Dutrueux <lilas evidian.com>, Rainer Jung]
4610 *) apxs: Fix -A and -a options to ignore whitespace in httpd.conf
4611 [Philip M. Gollucci]
4613 *) worker: Don't report server has reached MaxClients until it has.
4614 Add message when server gets within MinSpareThreads of MaxClients.
4615 PR 46996. [Dan Poirier]
4617 *) mod_session: Session expiry was being initialised, but not updated
4618 on each session save, resulting in timed out sessions when there
4619 should not have been. Fixed. [Graham Leggett]
4621 *) mod_log_config: Add the R option to log the handler used within the
4622 request. [Christian Folini <christian.folini netnea com>]
4624 *) mod_include: Allow fine control over the removal of Last-Modified and
4625 ETag headers within the INCLUDES filter, making it possible to cache
4626 responses if desired. Fix the default value of the SSIAccessEnable
4627 directive. [Graham Leggett]
4629 *) Add new UnDefine directive to undefine a variable. PR 35350.
4632 *) Make ap_pregsub(), used by AliasMatch and friends, use the same syntax
4633 for regex backreferences as mod_rewrite and mod_include: Remove the use
4634 of '&' as an alias for '$0' and allow to escape any character with a
4635 backslash. PR 48351. [Stefan Fritsch]
4637 *) mod_authnz_ldap: If AuthLDAPCharsetConfig is set, also convert the
4638 password to UTF-8. PR 45318.
4639 [Johannes Müller <joh_m gmx.de>, Stefan Fritsch]
4641 *) ab: Fix calculation of requests per second in HTML output. PR 48594.
4644 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Failures to map a username to a DN, or to check a user
4645 password now result in an informational level log entry instead of
4646 warning level. [Eric Covener]
4648 Changes with Apache 2.3.5
4650 *) SECURITY: CVE-2010-0434 (cve.mitre.org)
4651 Ensure each subrequest has a shallow copy of headers_in so that the
4652 parent request headers are not corrupted. Eliminates a problematic
4653 optimization in the case of no request body. PR 48359
4654 [Jake Scott, William Rowe, Ruediger Pluem]
4656 *) Turn static function get_server_name_for_url() into public
4657 ap_get_server_name_for_url() and use it where appropriate. This
4658 fixes mod_rewrite generating invalid URLs for redirects to IPv6
4659 literal addresses. [Stefan Fritsch]
4661 *) mod_ldap: Introduce new config option LDAPTimeout to set the timeout
4662 for LDAP operations like bind and search. [Stefan Fritsch]
4664 *) mod_proxy, mod_proxy_ftp: Move ProxyFtpDirCharset from mod_proxy to
4665 mod_proxy_ftp. [Takashi Sato]
4667 *) mod_proxy, mod_proxy_connect: Move AllowCONNECT from mod_proxy to
4668 mod_proxy_connect. [Takashi Sato]
4670 *) mod_cache: Do an exact match of the keys defined by
4671 CacheIgnoreURLSessionIdentifiers against the querystring instead of
4672 a partial match. PR 48401.
4673 [Dodou Wang <wangdong.08 gmail.com>, Ruediger Pluem]
4675 *) mod_proxy_balancer: Fix crash in balancer-manager. [Rainer Jung]
4677 *) Core HTTP: disable keepalive when the Client has sent
4678 Expect: 100-continue
4679 but we respond directly with a non-100 response.
4680 Keepalive here led to data from clients continuing being treated as
4684 *) Core: reject NULLs in request line or request headers.
4687 *) Core: (re)-introduce -T commandline option to suppress documentroot
4689 PR 41887 [Jan van den Berg <janvdberg gmail.com>]
4691 *) mod_autoindex: support XHTML as equivalent to HTML in IndexOptions,
4692 ScanHTMLTitles, ReadmeName, HeaderName
4693 PR 48416 [Dmitry Bakshaev <dab18 izhnet.ru>, Nick Kew]
4695 *) Proxy: Fix ProxyPassReverse with relative URL
4696 Derived (slightly erroneously) from PR 38864 [Nick Kew]
4698 *) mod_headers: align Header Edit with Header Set when used on Content-Type
4699 PR 48422 [Cyril Bonté <cyril.bonte free.fr>, Nick Kew>]
4701 *) mod_headers: Enable multi-match-and-replace edit option
4704 *) mod_filter: enable it to act on non-200 responses.
4707 Changes with Apache 2.3.4
4709 *) Replace AcceptMutex, LockFile, RewriteLock, SSLMutex, SSLStaplingMutex,
4710 and WatchdogMutexPath with a single Mutex directive. Add APIs to
4711 simplify setup and user customization of APR proc and global mutexes.
4712 (See util_mutex.h.) Build-time setting DEFAULT_LOCKFILE is no longer
4713 respected; set DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR instead. [Jeff Trawick]
4715 *) http_core: KeepAlive no longer accepts other than On|Off.
4718 *) mod_dav: Remove errno from dav_error interface. Calls to dav_new_error()
4719 and dav_new_error_tag() must be adjusted to add an apr_status_t parameter.
4722 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Add AuthLDAPBindAuthoritative to allow Authentication to
4723 try other providers in the case of an LDAP bind failure.
4724 PR 46608 [Justin Erenkrantz, Joe Schaefer, Tony Stevenson]
4726 *) Build: fix --with-module to work as documented
4727 PR 43881 [Gez Saunders <gez.saunders virgin.net>]
4729 Changes with Apache 2.3.3
4731 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-3095 (cve.mitre.org)
4732 mod_proxy_ftp: sanity check authn credentials.
4733 [Stefan Fritsch <sf fritsch.de>, Joe Orton]
4735 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-3094 (cve.mitre.org)
4736 mod_proxy_ftp: NULL pointer dereference on error paths.
4737 [Stefan Fritsch <sf fritsch.de>, Joe Orton]
4739 *) mod_ssl: enable support for ECC keys and ECDH ciphers. Tested against
4740 OpenSSL 1.0.0b3. [Vipul Gupta <vipul.gupta sun.com>, Sander Temme]
4742 *) mod_dav: Include uri when logging a PUT error due to connection abort.
4743 PR 38149. [Stefan Fritsch]
4745 *) mod_dav: Return 409 instead of 500 for a LOCK request if the parent
4746 resource does not exist or is not a collection. PR 43465. [Stefan Fritsch]
4748 *) mod_dav_fs: Return 409 instead of 500 for Litmus test case copy_nodestcoll
4749 (a COPY request where the parent of the destination resource does not
4750 exist). PR 39299. [Stefan Fritsch]
4752 *) mod_dav_fs: Don't delete the whole file if a PUT with content-range failed.
4753 PR 42896. [Stefan Fritsch]
4755 *) mod_dav_fs: Make PUT create files atomically and no longer destroy the
4756 old file if the transfer aborted. PR 39815. [Paul Querna, Stefan Fritsch]
4758 *) mod_dav_fs: Remove inode keyed locking as this conflicts with atomically
4759 creating files. On systems with inode numbers, this is a format change of
4760 the DavLockDB. The old DavLockDB must be deleted on upgrade.
4763 *) mod_log_config: Make ${cookie}C correctly match whole cookie names
4764 instead of substrings. PR 28037. [Dan Franklin <dan dan-franklin.com>,
4767 *) vhost: A purely-numeric Host: header should not be treated as a port.
4770 *) mod_ldap: Avoid 500 errors with "Unable to set LDAP_OPT_REFHOPLIMIT option to 5"
4771 when built against openldap by using SDK LDAP_OPT_REFHOPLIMIT defaults unless
4772 LDAPReferralHopLimit is explicitly configured.
4775 *) mod_charset_lite: Honor 'CharsetOptions NoImplicitAdd'.
4778 *) mod_ssl: Add support for OCSP Stapling. PR 43822.
4779 [Dr Stephen Henson <shenson oss-institute.org>]
4781 *) mod_socache_shmcb: Allow parens in file name if cache size is given.
4782 Fixes SSLSessionCache directive mis-parsing parens in pathname.
4783 PR 47945. [Stefan Fritsch]
4785 *) htpasswd: Improve out of disk space handling. PR 30877. [Stefan Fritsch]
4787 *) htpasswd: Use MD5 hash by default on all platforms. [Stefan Fritsch]
4789 *) mod_sed: Reduce memory consumption when processing very long lines.
4790 PR 48024 [Basant Kumar Kukreja <basant.kukreja sun.com>]
4792 *) ab: Fix segfault in case the argument for -n is a very large number.
4793 PR 47178. [Philipp Hagemeister <oss phihag.de>]
4795 *) Allow ProxyPreserveHost to work in <Proxy> sections. PR 34901.
4798 *) configure: Fix THREADED_MPMS so that mod_cgid is enabled again
4799 for worker MPM. [Takashi Sato]
4801 *) mod_dav: Provide a mechanism to obtain the request_rec and pathname
4802 from the dav_resource. [Jari Urpalainen <jari.urpalainen nokia.com>,
4803 Brian France <brian brianfrance.com>]
4805 *) Build: Use install instead of cp if available on installing
4806 modules to avoid segmentation fault. PR 47951. [hirose31 gmail.com]
4808 *) mod_cache: correctly consider s-maxage in cacheability
4809 decisions. [Dan Poirier]
4811 *) mod_logio/core: Report more accurate byte counts in mod_status if
4812 mod_logio is loaded. PR 25656. [Stefan Fritsch]
4814 *) mod_ldap: If LDAPSharedCacheSize is too small, try harder to purge
4815 some cache entries and log a warning. Also increase the default
4816 LDAPSharedCacheSize to 500000. This is a more realistic size suitable
4817 for the default values of 1024 for LdapCacheEntries/LdapOpCacheEntries.
4818 PR 46749. [Stefan Fritsch]
4820 *) mod_rewrite: Make sure that a hostname:port isn't fully qualified if
4821 the request is a CONNECT request. [Bill Zajac <billz consultla.com>]
4823 *) mod_cache: Teach CacheEnable and CacheDisable to work from within a
4824 Location section, in line with how ProxyPass works. [Graham Leggett]
4826 *) mod_reqtimeout: New module to set timeouts and minimum data rates for
4827 receiving requests from the client. [Stefan Fritsch]
4829 *) core: Fix potential memory leaks by making sure to not destroy
4830 bucket brigades that have been created by earlier filters.
4833 *) core, mod_deflate, mod_sed: Reduce memory usage by reusing bucket
4834 brigades in several places. [Stefan Fritsch]
4836 *) mod_cache: Fix uri_meets_conditions() so that CacheEnable will
4837 match by scheme, or by a wildcarded hostname. PR 40169
4838 [Peter Grandi <pg_asf asf.for.sabi.co.uk>, Graham Leggett]
4840 *) suxec: Allow to log an error if exec fails by setting FD_CLOEXEC
4841 on the log file instead of closing it. PR 10744. [Nicolas Rachinsky]
4843 *) mod_mime: Make RemoveType override the info from TypesConfig.
4844 PR 38330. [Stefan Fritsch]
4846 *) mod_cache: Introduce the option to run the cache from within the
4847 normal request handler, and to allow fine grained control over
4848 where in the filter chain content is cached. Adds CacheQuickHandler
4849 directive. [Graham Leggett]
4851 *) core: Treat timeout reading request as 408 error, not 400.
4852 Log 408 errors in access log as was done in Apache 1.3.x.
4853 PR 39785 [Nobutaka Mantani <nobutaka nobutaka.org>,
4854 Stefan Fritsch <sf fritsch.de>, Dan Poirier]
4856 *) mod_ssl: Reintroduce SSL_CLIENT_S_DN, SSL_CLIENT_I_DN, SSL_SERVER_S_DN,
4857 SSL_SERVER_I_DN back to the environment variables to be set by mod_ssl.
4858 [Peter Sylvester <peter.sylvester edelweb.fr>]
4860 *) mod_disk_cache: don't cache incomplete responses, per RFC 2616, 13.8.
4861 PR15866. [Dan Poirier]
4863 *) ab: ab segfaults in verbose mode on https sites
4864 PR46393. [Ryan Niebur]
4866 *) mod_dav: Allow other modules to become providers and add resource types
4867 to the DAV response. [Jari Urpalainen <jari.urpalainen nokia.com>,
4868 Brian France <brian brianfrance.com>]
4870 *) mod_dav: Allow other modules to add things to the DAV or Allow headers
4871 of an OPTIONS request. [Jari Urpalainen <jari.urpalainen nokia.com>,
4872 Brian France <brian brianfrance.com>]
4874 *) core: Lower memory usage of core output filter.
4875 [Stefan Fritsch <sf sfritsch.de>]
4877 *) mod_mime: Detect invalid use of MultiviewsMatch inside Location and
4878 LocationMatch sections. PR47754. [Dan Poirier]
4880 *) mod_request: Make sure the KeptBodySize directive rejects values
4881 that aren't valid numbers. [Graham Leggett]
4883 *) mod_session_crypto: Sanity check should the potentially encrypted
4884 session cookie be too short. [Graham Leggett]
4886 *) mod_session.c: Prevent a segfault when session is added but not
4887 configured. [Graham Leggett]
4889 *) htcacheclean: 19 ways to fail, 1 error message. Fixed. [Graham Leggett]
4891 *) mod_auth_digest: Fail server start when nonce count checking
4892 is configured without shared memory, or md5-sess algorithm is
4893 configured. [Dan Poirier]
4895 *) mod_proxy_connect: The connect method doesn't work if the client is
4896 connecting to the apache proxy through an ssl socket. Fixed.
4897 PR29744. [Brad Boyer, Mark Cave-Ayland, Julian Gilbey, Fabrice Durand,
4898 David Gence, Tim Dodge, Per Gunnar Hans, Emmanuel Elango,
4899 Kevin Croft, Rudolf Cardinal]
4901 *) mod_ssl: The error message when SSLCertificateFile is missing should
4902 at least give the name or position of the problematic virtual host
4903 definition. [Stefan Fritsch sf sfritsch.de]
4905 *) mod_auth_digest: Fix null pointer when qop=none. [Dan Poirier]
4907 *) Add support for HTTP PUT to ab. [Jeff Barnes <jbarnesweb yahoo.com>]
4909 *) mod_headers: generalise the envclause to support expression
4910 evaluation with ap_expr parser [Nick Kew]
4912 *) mod_cache: Introduce the thundering herd lock, a mechanism to keep
4913 the flood of requests at bay that strike a backend webserver as
4914 a cached entity goes stale. [Graham Leggett]
4916 *) mod_auth_digest: Fix usage of shared memory and re-enable it.
4917 PR 16057 [Dan Poirier]
4919 *) Preserve Port information over internal redirects
4920 PR 35999 [Jonas Ringh <jonas.ringh cixit.se>]
4922 *) Proxy: unable to connect to a backend is SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE,
4923 rather than BAD_GATEWAY or (especially) NOT_FOUND.
4924 PR 46971 [evanc nortel.com]
4926 *) Various modules: Do better checking of pollset operations in order to
4927 avoid segmentation faults if they fail. PR 46467
4928 [Stefan Fritsch <sf sfritsch.de>]
4930 *) mod_autoindex: Correctly create an empty cell if the description
4931 for a file is missing. PR 47682 [Peter Poeml <poeml suse.de>]
4933 *) ab: Fix broken error messages after resolver or connect() failures.
4936 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-1890 (cve.mitre.org)
4937 Fix a potential Denial-of-Service attack against mod_proxy in a
4938 reverse proxy configuration, where a remote attacker can force a
4939 proxy process to consume CPU time indefinitely. [Nick Kew, Joe Orton]
4941 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-1191 (cve.mitre.org)
4942 mod_proxy_ajp: Avoid delivering content from a previous request which
4943 failed to send a request body. PR 46949 [Ruediger Pluem]
4945 *) htdbm: Fix possible buffer overflow if dbm database has very
4946 long values. PR 30586 [Dan Poirier]
4948 *) core: Return APR_EOF if request body is shorter than the length announced
4949 by the client. PR 33098 [ Stefan Fritsch <sf sfritsch.de>]
4951 *) mod_suexec: correctly set suexec_enabled when httpd is run by a
4952 non-root user and may have insufficient permissions.
4953 PR 42175 [Jim Radford <radford blackbean.org>]
4955 *) mod_ssl: Fix SSL_*_DN_UID variables to use the 'userID' attribute
4956 type. PR 45107. [Michael Ströder <michael stroeder.com>,
4957 Peter Sylvester <peter.sylvester edelweb.fr>]
4959 *) mod_proxy_http: fix case sensitivity checking transfer encoding
4960 PR 47383 [Ryuzo Yamamoto <ryuzo.yamamoto gmail.com>]
4962 *) mod_alias: ensure Redirect issues a valid URL.
4963 PR 44020 [Håkon Stordahl <hakon stordahl.org>]
4965 *) mod_dir: add FallbackResource directive, to enable admin to specify
4966 an action to happen when a URL maps to no file, without resorting
4967 to ErrorDocument or mod_rewrite. PR 47184 [Nick Kew]
4969 *) mod_cgid: Do not leak the listening Unix socket file descriptor to the
4970 CGI process. PR 47335 [Kornél Pál <kornelpal gmail.com>]
4972 *) mod_rewrite: Remove locking for writing to the rewritelog.
4973 PR 46942 [Dan Poirier <poirier pobox.com>]
4975 *) mod_alias: check sanity in Redirect arguments.
4976 PR 44729 [Sönke Tesch <st kino-fahrplan.de>, Jim Jagielski]
4978 *) mod_proxy_http: fix Host: header for literal IPv6 addresses.
4979 PR 47177 [Carlos Garcia Braschi <cgbraschi gmail.com>]
4981 *) mod_cache: Add CacheIgnoreURLSessionIdentifiers directive to ignore
4982 defined session identifiers encoded in the URL when caching.
4985 *) mod_rewrite: Fix the error string returned by RewriteRule.
4986 RewriteRule returned "RewriteCond: bad flag delimiters" when the 3rd
4987 argument of RewriteRule was not started with "[" or not ended with "]".
4988 PR 45082 [Vitaly Polonetsky <m_vitaly topixoft.com>]
4990 *) Windows: Fix usage message.
4993 *) apachectl: When passing through arguments to httpd in
4994 non-SysV mode, use the "$@" syntax to preserve arguments.
4997 *) mod_dbd: add DBDInitSQL directive to enable SQL statements to
4998 be run when a connection is opened. PR 46827
4999 [Marko Kevac <mkevac gmail.com>]
5001 *) mod_cgid: Improve handling of long AF_UNIX socket names (ScriptSock).
5002 PR 47037. [Jeff Trawick]
5004 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Check more strictly that the backend follows the AJP
5005 protocol. [Mladen Turk]
5007 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Forward remote port information by default.
5010 *) Allow MPMs to be loaded dynamically, as with most other modules. Use
5011 --enable-mpms-shared={list|"all"} to enable. This required changes to
5012 the MPM interfaces. Removed: mpm.h, mpm_default.h (as an installed
5013 header), APACHE_MPM_DIR, MPM_NAME, ap_threads_per_child,
5014 ap_max_daemons_limit, ap_my_generation, etc. ap_mpm_query() can't be
5015 called until after the register-hooks phase. [Jeff Trawick]
5017 *) mod_ssl: Add SSLProxyCheckPeerExpire and SSLProxyCheckPeerCN directives
5018 to enable stricter checking of remote server certificates.
5021 *) ab: Fix a 100% CPU loop on platforms where a failed non-blocking connect
5022 returns EINPROGRESS and a subsequent poll() returns only POLLERR.
5023 Observed on HP-UX. [Eric Covener]
5025 *) Remove broken support for BeOS, TPF, and even older platforms such
5026 as A/UX, Next, and Tandem. [Jeff Trawick]
5028 *) mod_proxy_ftp: Add ProxyFtpListOnWildcard directive to allow files with
5029 globbing characters to be retrieved instead of converted into a
5030 directory listing. PR 46789 [Dan Poirier <poirier pobox.com>]
5032 *) Provide ap_retained_data_create()/ap_retained_data_get() for preservation
5033 of module state across unload/load. [Jeff Trawick]
5035 *) mod_substitute: Fix a memory leak. PR 44948
5036 [Dan Poirier <poirier pobox.com>]
5038 Changes with Apache 2.3.2
5040 *) mod_mime_magic: Fix detection of compressed content. [Rainer Jung]
5042 *) mod_negotiation: Escape paths of filenames in 406 responses to avoid
5043 HTML injections and HTTP response splitting. PR 46837.
5044 [Geoff Keating <geoffk apple.com>]
5046 *) mod_ssl: add support for type-safe STACK constructs in OpenSSL
5047 development HEAD. PR 45521. [Kaspar Brand, Sander Temme]
5049 *) ab: Fix maintenance of the pollset to resolve EALREADY errors
5050 with kqueue (BSD/OS X) and excessive CPU with event ports (Solaris).
5051 PR 44584. Use APR_POLLSET_NOCOPY for better performance with some
5052 pollset implementations. [Jeff Trawick]
5054 *) mod_disk_cache: The module now turns off sendfile support if
5055 'EnableSendfile off' is defined globally. [Lars Eilebrecht]
5057 *) mod_deflate: Adjust content metadata before bailing out on 304
5058 responses so that the metadata does not differ from 200 response.
5061 *) mod_deflate: Fix creation of invalid Etag headers. We now make sure
5062 that the Etag value is properly quoted when adding the gzip marker.
5063 PR 39727, 45023. [Lars Eilebrecht, Roy T. Fielding]
5065 *) Added 20x22 icons for ODF, SVG, and XML documents. PR 37185.
5068 *) Disabled DefaultType directive and removed ap_default_type()
5069 from core. We now exclude Content-Type from responses for which
5070 a media type has not been configured via mime.types, AddType,
5071 ForceType, or some other mechanism. PR 13986. [Roy T. Fielding]
5073 *) mod_rewrite: Add IPV6 variable to RewriteCond
5074 [Ryan Phillips <ryan-apache trolocsis.com>]
5076 *) core: Enhance KeepAliveTimeout to support a value in milliseconds.
5077 PR 46275. [Takashi Sato]
5079 *) rotatelogs: Allow size units B, K, M, G and combination of
5080 time and size based rotation. [Rainer Jung]
5082 *) rotatelogs: Add flag for verbose (debug) output. [Rainer Jung]
5084 *) mod_ssl: Fix merging of SSLRenegBufferSize directive. PR 46508
5085 [<tlhackque yahoo.com>]
5087 *) core: Translate the the status line to ASCII on EBCDIC platforms in
5088 ap_send_interim_response() and for locally generated "100 Continue"
5089 responses. [Eric Covener]
5091 *) prefork: Fix child process hang during graceful restart/stop in
5092 configurations with multiple listening sockets. PR 42829. [Joe Orton,
5095 *) mod_session_crypto: Ensure that SessionCryptoDriver can only be
5096 set in the global scope. [Graham Leggett]
5098 *) mod_ext_filter: We need to detect failure to startup the filter
5099 program (a mangled response is not acceptable). Fix to detect
5100 failure, and offer configuration option either to abort or
5101 to remove the filter and continue.
5104 *) mod_session_crypto: Rewrite the session_crypto module against the
5105 apr_crypto API. [Graham Leggett]
5107 *) mod_auth_form: Fix a pool lifetime issue, don't remove the subrequest
5108 until the main request is cleaned up. [Graham Leggett]
5110 Changes with Apache 2.3.1
5112 *) ap_slotmem: Add in new slot-based memory access API impl., including
5113 2 providers (mod_sharedmem and mod_plainmem) [Jim Jagielski,
5114 Jean-Frederic Clere, Brian Akins <brian.akins turner.com>]
5116 *) mod_include: support generating non-ASCII characters as entities in SSI
5119 *) core/utils: Enhance ap_escape_html API to support escaping non-ASCII chars
5122 *) mod_rewrite: fix "B" flag breakage by reverting r5589343
5123 PR 45529 [Bob Ionescu <bobsiegen googlemail.com>]
5125 *) CGI: return 504 (Gateway timeout) rather than 500 when a script
5126 times out before returning status line/headers.
5129 *) mod_cgid: fix segfault problem on solaris.
5130 PR 39332 [Masaoki Kobayashi <masaoki techfirm.co.jp>]
5132 *) mod_proxy_scgi: Added. [André Malo]
5134 *) mod_cache: Introduce 'no-cache' per-request environment variable
5135 to prevent the saving of an otherwise cacheable response.
5138 *) mod_rewrite: Introduce DiscardPathInfo|DPI flag to stop the troublesome
5139 way that per-directory rewrites append the previous notion of PATH_INFO
5140 to each substitution before evaluating subsequent rules.
5141 PR 38642 [Eric Covener]
5143 *) mod_cgid: Do not add an empty argument when calling the CGI script.
5144 PR 46380 [Ruediger Pluem]
5146 *) scoreboard: Remove unused sb_type from process_score.
5147 [Torsten Foertsch <torsten.foertsch gmx.net>, Chris Darroch]
5149 *) mod_ssl: Add SSLRenegBufferSize directive to allow changing the
5150 size of the buffer used for the request-body where necessary
5151 during a per-dir renegotiation. PR 39243. [Joe Orton]
5153 *) mod_proxy_fdpass: New module to pass a client connection over to a separate
5154 process that is reading from a unix daemon socket.
5156 *) mod_ssl: Improve environment variable extraction to be more
5157 efficient and to correctly handle DNs with duplicate tags.
5158 PR 45975. [Joe Orton]
5160 *) Remove the obsolete serial attribute from the RPM spec file. Compile
5161 against the external pcre. Add missing binaries fcgistarter, and
5162 mod_socache* and mod_session*. [Graham Leggett]
5164 Changes with Apache 2.3.0
5166 *) mod_ratelimit: New module to do bandwidth rate limiting. [Paul Querna]
5168 *) Remove X-Pad header which was added as a work around to a bug in
5169 Netscape 2.x to 4.0b2. [Takashi Sato <takashi lans-tv.com>]
5171 *) Add DTrace Statically Defined Tracing (SDT) probes.
5172 [Theo Schlossnagle <jesus omniti.com>, Paul Querna]
5174 *) mod_proxy_balancer: Move all load balancing implementations
5175 as individual, self-contained mod_proxy submodules under
5176 modules/proxy/balancers [Jim Jagielski]
5178 *) Rename APIs to include ap_ prefix:
5179 find_child_by_pid -> ap_find_child_by_pid
5180 suck_in_APR -> ap_suck_in_APR
5181 sys_privileges_handlers -> ap_sys_privileges_handlers
5182 unixd_accept -> ap_unixd_accept
5183 unixd_config -> ap_unixd_config
5184 unixd_killpg -> ap_unixd_killpg
5185 unixd_set_global_mutex_perms -> ap_unixd_set_global_mutex_perms
5186 unixd_set_proc_mutex_perms -> ap_unixd_set_proc_mutex_perms
5187 unixd_set_rlimit -> ap_unixd_set_rlimit
5190 *) mod_lbmethod_heartbeat: New module to load balance mod_proxy workers
5191 based on heartbeats. [Paul Querna]
5193 *) mod_heartmonitor: New module to collect heartbeats, and write out a file
5194 so that other modules can load balance traffic as needed. [Paul Querna]
5196 *) mod_heartbeat: New module to generate multicast heartbeats to know if a
5197 server is online. [Paul Querna]
5199 *) mod_buffer: Honour the flush bucket and flush the buffer in the
5200 input filter. Make sure that metadata buckets are written to
5201 the buffer, not to the final brigade. [Graham Leggett]
5203 *) mod_buffer: Optimise the buffering of heap buckets when the heap
5204 buckets stay exactly APR_BUCKET_BUFF_SIZE long. [Graham Leggett,
5207 *) mod_buffer: Optional support for buffering of the input and output
5208 filter stacks. Can collapse many small buckets into fewer larger
5209 buckets, and prevents excessively small chunks being sent over
5210 the wire. [Graham Leggett]
5212 *) mod_privileges: new module to make httpd on Solaris privileges-aware
5213 and to enable different virtualhosts to run with different
5214 privileges and Unix user/group IDs [Nick Kew]
5216 *) mod_mem_cache: this module has been removed. [William Rowe]
5218 *) authn/z: Remove mod_authn_default and mod_authz_default.
5221 *) authz: Fix handling of authz configurations, make default authz
5222 logic replicate 2.2.x authz logic, and replace <Satisfy*>, Reject,
5223 and AuthzMergeRules directives with Match, <Match*>, and AuthzMerge
5224 directives. [Chris Darroch]
5226 *) mod_authn_core: Prevent crash when provider alias created to
5227 provider which is not yet registered. [Chris Darroch]
5229 *) mod_authn_core: Add AuthType of None to support disabling
5230 authentication. [Chris Darroch]
5232 *) core: Allow <Limit> and <LimitExcept> directives to nest, and
5233 constrain their use to conform with that of other access control
5234 and authorization directives. [Chris Darroch]
5236 *) unixd: turn existing code into a module, and turn the set user/group
5237 and chroot into a child_init function. [Nick Kew]
5239 *) mod_dir: Support "DirectoryIndex disabled"
5240 Suggested By André Warnier <aw ice-sa.com> [Eric Covener]
5242 *) mod_ssl: Send Content-Type application/ocsp-request for POST requests to
5243 OSCP responders. PR 46014 [Dr Stephen Henson <steve openssl.org>]
5245 *) mod_authnz_ldap: don't return NULL-valued environment variables to
5246 other modules. PR 39045 [Francois Pesce <francois.pesce gmail.com>]
5248 *) Don't adjust case in pathname components that are not of interest
5249 to mod_mime. Fixes mod_negotiation's use of such components.
5250 PR 43250 [Basant Kumar Kukreja <basant.kukreja sun.com>]
5252 *) Be tolerant in what you accept - accept slightly broken
5253 status lines from a backend provided they include a valid status code.
5254 PR 44995 [Rainer Jung <rainer.jung kippdata.de>]
5256 *) New module mod_sed: filter Request/Response bodies through sed
5257 [Basant Kumar Kukreja <basant.kukreja sun.com>]
5259 *) mod_auth_form: Make sure that basic authentication is correctly
5260 faked directly after login. [Graham Leggett]
5262 *) mod_session_cookie, mod_session_dbd: Make sure cookies are set both
5263 within the output headers and error output headers, so that the
5264 session is maintained across redirects. [Graham Leggett]
5266 *) mod_auth_form: Make sure the logged in user is populated correctly
5267 after a form login. Fixes a missing REMOTE_USER variable directly
5268 following a login. [Graham Leggett]
5270 *) mod_session_cookie: Make sure that cookie attributes are correctly
5271 included in the blank cookie when cookies are removed. This fixes an
5272 inability to log out when using mod_auth_form. [Graham Leggett]
5274 *) mod_session: Prevent a segfault when a CGI script sets a cookie with a
5275 null value. [David Shane Holden <dpejesh apache.org>]
5277 *) core, authn/z: Determine registered authn/z providers directly in
5278 ap_setup_auth_internal(), which allows optional functions that just
5279 wrapped ap_list_provider_names() to be removed from authn/z modules.
5282 *) authn/z: Convert common provider version strings to macros.
5285 *) core: When testing for slash-terminated configuration paths in
5286 ap_location_walk(), don't look past the start of an empty string
5287 such as that created by a <Location ""> directive.
5290 *) core, mod_proxy: If a kept_body is present, it becomes safe for
5291 subrequests to support message bodies. Make sure that safety
5292 checks within the core and within the proxy are not triggered
5293 when kept_body is present. This makes it possible to embed
5294 proxied POST requests within mod_include. [Graham Leggett]
5296 *) mod_auth_form: Make sure the input filter stack is properly set
5297 up before reading the login form. Make sure the kept body filter
5298 is correctly inserted to ensure the body can be read a second
5299 time safely should the authn be successful. [Graham Leggett,
5302 *) mod_request: Insert the KEPT_BODY filter via the insert_filter
5303 hook instead of during fixups. Add a safety check to ensure the
5304 filters cannot be inserted more than once. [Graham Leggett,
5307 *) ap_cache_cacheable_headers_out() will (now) always
5308 merge an error headers _before_ clearing them and _before_
5309 merging in the actual entity headers and doing normal
5310 hop-by-hop cleansing. [Dirk-Willem van Gulik].
5312 *) cache: retire ap_cache_cacheable_hdrs_out() which was used
5313 for both in- and out-put headers; and replace it by a single
5314 ap_cache_cacheable_headers() wrapped in a in- and out-put
5315 specific ap_cache_cacheable_headers_in()/out(). The latter
5316 which will also merge error and ensure content-type. To keep
5317 cache modules consistent with ease. This API change bumps
5318 up the minor MM by one [Dirk-Willem van Gulik].
5320 *) Move the KeptBodySize directive, kept_body filters and the
5321 ap_parse_request_body function out of the http module and into a
5322 new module called mod_request, reducing the size of the core.
5325 *) mod_dbd: Handle integer configuration directive parameters with a
5328 *) Change the directives within the mod_session* modules to be valid
5329 both inside and outside the location/directory sections, as
5330 suggested by wrowe. [Graham Leggett]
5332 *) mod_auth_form: Add a module capable of allowing end users to log
5333 in using an HTML form, storing the credentials within mod_session.
5336 *) Add a function to the http filters that is able to parse an HTML
5337 form request with the type of application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
5340 *) mod_session_crypto: Initialise SSL in the post config hook.
5341 [Ruediger Pluem, Graham Leggett]
5343 *) mod_session_dbd: Add a session implementation capable of storing
5344 session information in a SQL database via the dbd interface. Useful
5345 for sites where session privacy is important. [Graham Leggett]
5347 *) mod_session_crypto: Add a session encoding implementation capable
5348 of encrypting and decrypting sessions wherever they may be stored.
5349 Introduces a level of privacy when sessions are stored on the
5350 browser. [Graham Leggett]
5352 *) mod_session_cookie: Add a session implementation capable of storing
5353 session information within cookies on the browser. Useful for high
5354 volume sites where server bound sessions are too resource intensive.
5357 *) mod_session: Add a generic session interface to unify the different
5358 attempts at saving persistent sessions across requests.
5361 *) core, authn/z: Avoid calling access control hooks for internal requests
5362 with configurations which match those of initial request. Revert to
5363 original behaviour (call access control hooks for internal requests
5364 with URIs different from initial request) if any access control hooks or
5365 providers are not registered as permitting this optimization.
5366 Introduce wrappers for access control hook and provider registration
5367 which can accept additional mode and flag data. [Chris Darroch]
5369 *) Introduced ap_expr API for expression evaluation.
5370 This is adapted from mod_include, which is the first module
5374 *) mod_authz_dbd: When redirecting after successful login/logout per
5375 AuthzDBDRedirectQuery, do not report authorization failure, and use
5376 first row returned by database query instead of last row.
5379 *) mod_ldap: Correctly return all requested attribute values
5380 when some attributes have a null value.
5381 PR 44560 [Anders Kaseorg <anders kaseorg.com>]
5383 *) core: check symlink ownership if both FollowSymlinks and
5384 SymlinksIfOwnerMatch are set [Nick Kew]
5386 *) core: fix origin checking in SymlinksIfOwnerMatch
5387 PR 36783 [Robert L Mathews <rob-apache.org.bugs tigertech.net>]
5389 *) Activate mod_cache, mod_file_cache and mod_disk_cache as part of the
5390 'most' set for '--enable-modules' and '--enable-shared-mods'. Include
5391 mod_mem_cache in 'all' as well. [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
5393 *) Also install mod_so.h, mod_rewrite.h and mod_cache.h; as these
5394 contain public function declarations which are useful for
5395 third party module authors. PR 42431 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik].
5397 *) mod_dir, mod_negotiation: pass the output filter information
5398 to newly created sub requests; as these are later on used
5399 as true requests with an internal redirect. This allows for
5400 mod_cache et.al. to trap the results of the redirect.
5401 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Ruediger Pluem]
5403 *) mod_ldap: Add support (taking advantage of the new APR capability)
5404 for ldap rebind callback while chasing referrals. This allows direct
5405 searches on LDAP servers (in particular MS Active Directory 2003+)
5406 using referrals without the use of the global catalog.
5407 PRs 26538, 40268, and 42557 [Paul J. Reder]
5409 *) ApacheMonitor.exe: Introduce --kill argument for use by the
5410 installer. This will permit the installation tool to remove
5411 all running instances before attempting to remove the .exe.
5414 *) mod_ssl: Add support for OCSP validation of client certificates.
5415 PR 41123. [Marc Stern <marc.stern approach.be>, Joe Orton]
5417 *) mod_serf: New module for Reverse Proxying. [Paul Querna]
5419 *) core: Add the option to keep aside a request body up to a certain
5420 size that would otherwise be discarded, to be consumed by filters
5421 such as mod_include. When enabled for a directory, POST requests
5422 to shtml files can be passed through to embedded scripts as POST
5423 requests, rather being downgraded to GET requests. [Graham Leggett]
5425 *) mod_ssl: Fix TLS upgrade (RFC 2817) support. PR 41231. [Joe Orton]
5427 *) scoreboard: Correctly declare ap_time_process_request.
5428 PR 43789 [Tom Donovan <Tom.Donovan acm.org>]
5430 *) core; scoreboard: ap_get_scoreboard_worker(sbh) now takes the sbh member
5431 from the connection rec, ap_get_scoreboard_worker(proc, thread) will now
5432 provide the unusual legacy lookup. [William Rowe]
5434 *) mpm winnt: fix null pointer dereference
5435 PR 42572 [Davi Arnaut]
5437 *) mod_authnz_ldap, mod_authn_dbd: Tidy up the code to expose authn
5438 parameters to the environment. Improve portability to
5439 EBCDIC machines by using apr_toupper(). [Martin Kraemer]
5441 *) mod_ldap, mod_authnz_ldap: Add support for nested groups (i.e. the ability
5442 to authorize an authenticated user via a "require ldap-group X" directive
5443 where the user is not in group X, but is in a subgroup contained in X.
5444 PR 42891 [Paul J. Reder]
5446 *) mod_ssl: Add support for caching SSL Sessions in memcached. [Paul Querna]
5448 *) apxs: Enhance -q flag to print all known variables and their values
5449 when invoked without variable name(s).
5450 [William Rowe, Sander Temme]
5452 *) apxs: Eliminate run-time check for mod_so. PR 40653.
5453 [David M. Lee <dmlee crossroads.com>]
5455 *) beos MPM: Create pmain pool and run modules' child_init hooks when
5456 entering ap_mpm_run(), then destroy pmain when exiting ap_mpm_run().
5459 *) netware MPM: Destroy pmain pool when exiting ap_mpm_run() so that
5460 cleanups registered in modules' child_init hooks are performed.
5463 *) Fix issue which could cause error messages to be written to access logs
5464 on Win32. PR 40476. [Tom Donovan <Tom.Donovan acm.org>]
5466 *) The LockFile directive, which specifies the location of
5467 the accept() mutex lockfile, is deprecated. Instead, the
5468 AcceptMutex directive now takes an optional lockfile
5469 location parameter, ala SSLMutex. [Jim Jagielski]
5471 *) mod_authn_dbd: Export any additional columns queried in the SQL select
5472 into the environment with the name AUTHENTICATE_<COLUMN>. This brings
5473 mod_authn_dbd behaviour in line with mod_authnz_ldap. [Graham Leggett]
5475 *) mod_dbd: Key the storage of prepared statements on the hex string
5476 value of server_rec, rather than the server name, as the server name
5477 may change (eg when the server name is set) at any time, causing
5478 weird behaviour in modules dependent on mod_dbd. [Graham Leggett]
5480 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Added win32 build. [Mladen Turk]
5482 *) sendfile_nonblocking() takes the _brigade_ as an argument, gets
5483 the first bucket from the brigade, finds it not to be a FILE
5484 bucket and barfs. The fix is to pass a bucket rather than a brigade.
5485 [Niklas Edmundsson <nikke acc.umu.se>]
5487 *) mod_rewrite: support rewritemap by SQL query [Nick Kew]
5489 *) ap_get_server_version() has been removed. Third-party modules must
5490 now use ap_get_server_banner() or ap_get_server_description().
5493 *) All MPMs: Introduce a check_config phase between pre_config and
5494 open_logs, to allow modules to review interdependent configuration
5495 directive values and adjust them while messages can still be logged
5496 to the console. Handle relevant MPM directives during this phase
5497 and format messages for both the console and the error log, as
5498 appropriate. [Chris Darroch]
5500 *) core: Do not allow internal redirects like the DirectoryIndex of mod_dir
5501 to circumvent the symbolic link checks imposed by FollowSymLinks and
5502 SymLinksIfOwnerMatch. [Nick Kew, Ruediger Pluem, William Rowe]
5504 *) New SSLLogLevelDebugDump [ None (default) | IO (not bytes) | Bytes ]
5505 configures the I/O Dump of SSL traffic, when LogLevel is set to Debug.
5506 The default is none as this is far greater debugging resolution than
5507 the typical administrator is prepared to untangle. [William Rowe]
5509 *) mod_disk_cache: If possible, check if the size of an object to cache is
5510 within the configured boundaries before actually saving data.
5511 [Niklas Edmundsson <nikke acc.umu.se>]
5513 *) Worker and event MPMs: Remove improper scoreboard updates which were
5514 performed in the event of a fork() failure. [Chris Darroch]
5516 *) Add support for fcgi:// proxies to mod_rewrite.
5517 [Markus Schiegl <ms schiegl.com>]
5519 *) Remove incorrect comments from scoreboard.h regarding conditional
5520 loading of worker_score structure with mod_status, and remove unused
5521 definitions relating to old life_status field.
5522 [Chris Darroch <chrisd pearsoncmg.com>]
5524 *) Remove allocation of memory for unused array of lb_score pointers
5525 in ap_init_scoreboard(). [Chris Darroch <chrisd pearsoncmg.com>]
5527 *) Add mod_proxy_fcgi, a FastCGI back end for mod_proxy.
5528 [Garrett Rooney, Jim Jagielski, Paul Querna]
5530 *) Event MPM: Fill in the scoreboard's tid field. PR 38736.
5531 [Chris Darroch <chrisd pearsoncmg.com>]
5533 *) mod_charset_lite: Remove Content-Length when output filter can
5534 invalidate it. Warn when input filter can invalidate it.
5537 *) Authz: Add the new module mod_authn_core that will provide common
5538 authn directives such as 'AuthType', 'AuthName'. Move the directives
5539 'AuthType' and 'AuthName' out of the core module and merge mod_authz_alias
5540 into mod_authn_core. [Brad Nicholes]
5542 *) Authz: Move the directives 'Order', 'Allow', 'Deny' and 'Satisfy'
5543 into the new module mod_access_compat which can be loaded to provide
5544 support for these directives.
5547 *) Authz: Move the 'Require' directive from the core module as well as
5548 add the directives '<SatisfyAll>', '<SatisfyOne>', '<RequireAlias>'
5549 and 'Reject' to mod_authz_core. The new directives introduce 'AND/OR'
5550 logic into the authorization processing. [Brad Nicholes]
5552 *) Authz: Add the new module mod_authz_core which acts as the
5553 authorization provider vector and contains common authz
5554 directives. [Brad Nicholes]
5556 *) Authz: Renamed mod_authz_dbm authz providers from 'group' and
5557 'file-group' to 'dbm-group' and 'dbm-file-group'. [Brad Nicholes]
5559 *) Authz: Added the new authz providers 'env', 'ip', 'host', 'all' to handle
5560 host-based access control provided by mod_authz_host and invoked
5561 through the 'Require' directive. [Brad Nicholes]
5563 *) Authz: Convert all of the authz modules from hook based to
5564 provider based. [Brad Nicholes]
5566 *) mod_cache: Add CacheMinExpire directive to set the minimum time in
5567 seconds to cache a document.
5568 [Brian Akins <brian.akins turner.com>, Ruediger Pluem]
5570 *) mod_authz_dbd: SQL authz with Login/Session support [Nick Kew]
5572 *) Fix typo in ProxyStatus syntax error message.
5573 [Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet wanadoo.fr>]
5575 *) Asynchronous write completion for the Event MPM. [Brian Pane]
5577 *) Added an End-Of-Request bucket type. The logging of a request and
5578 the freeing of its pool are now done when the EOR bucket is destroyed.
5579 This has the effect of delaying the logging until right after the last
5580 of the response is sent; ap_core_output_filter() calls the access logger
5581 indirectly when it destroys the EOR bucket. [Brian Pane]
5583 *) Rewrite of logresolve support utility: IPv6 addresses are now supported
5584 and the format of statistical output has changed. [Colm MacCarthaigh]
5586 *) Rewrite of ap_coreoutput_filter to do nonblocking writes [Brian Pane]
5588 *) Added new connection states for handler and write completion
5591 *) mod_cgid: Refuse to work on Solaris 10 due to OS bugs. PR 34264.
5594 *) Teach mod_ssl to use arbitrary OIDs in an SSLRequire directive,
5595 allowing string-valued client certificate attributes to be used for
5596 access control, as in: SSLRequire "value" in OID("1.3.6.1.4.1.18060.1")
5597 [Martin Kraemer, David Reid]
5599 [Apache 2.3.0-dev includes those bug fixes and changes with the
5600 Apache 2.2.xx tree as documented, and except as noted, below.]
5602 Changes with Apache 2.2.x and later:
5604 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/CHANGES?view=markup
5606 Changes with Apache 2.0.x and later:
5608 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x/CHANGES?view=markup