3 Changes with Apache 2.3.15
5 *) mod_deflate: Fix endless loop if first bucket is metadata. PR 51590.
6 [Torsten Foertsch <torsten foertsch gmx net>]
8 Changes with Apache 2.3.14
10 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Improve trace logging. [Rainer Jung]
12 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Respect "reuse" flag in END_REPONSE packets.
15 *) mod_proxy: enable absolute URLs to be rewritten with ProxyPassReverse,
16 e.g. to reverse proxy "Location: https://other-internal-server/login"
19 *) prefork, worker, event: Make sure crashes are logged to the error log if
20 httpd has already detached from the console. [Stefan Fritsch]
22 *) prefork, worker, event: Reduce period during startup/restart where a
23 successive signal may be lost. PR 43696. [Arun Bhalla <arun shme net>]
25 *) mod_allowmethods: Correct Merging of "reset" and do not allow an
26 empty parameter list for the AllowMethods directive. [Rainer Jung]
28 *) configure: Update selection of modules for 'all' and 'most'. 'all' will
29 now enable all modules except for example and test modules. Make the
30 selection for 'most' more useful (including ssl and proxy). Both 'all'
31 and 'most' will now disable modules if dependencies are missing instead
32 of aborting. If a specific module is requested with --enable-XXX=yes,
33 missing dependencies will still cause configure to exit with an error.
36 *) mod_ldap: Revert the integration of apr-ldap as ap_ldap which was done
37 in 2.3.13. [Stefan Fritsch]
39 *) core: For '*' or '_default_' vhosts, use a wildcard address of any
40 address family, rather than IPv4 only. [Joe Orton]
42 *) core, mod_rewrite, mod_ssl, mod_nw_ssl: Make the SERVER_NAME variable
43 include [ ] for literal IPv6 addresses, as mandated by RFC 3875.
44 PR 26005. [Stefan Fritsch]
46 *) mod_negotiation: Fix parsing of Content-Length in type maps. PR 42203.
47 [Nagae Hidetake <nagae eagan jp>]
49 *) core: Add more logging to ap_scan_script_header_err* functions. Add
50 ap_scan_script_header_err*_ex functions that take a module index for
52 mod_cgi, mod_cgid, mod_proxy_fcgi, mod_proxy_scgi, mod_isapi: Use the
53 new functions in order to make logging configurable per-module.
56 *) mod_dir: Add DirectoryIndexRedirect to send an external redirect to
57 the proper index. [Eric Covener]
59 *) mod_deflate: Don't try to compress requests with a zero sized body.
60 PR 51350. [Stefan Fritsch]
62 *) core: Fix startup on IP6-only systems. PR 50592. [Joe Orton,
63 <root linkage white-void net>]
65 *) suexec: Add environment variables CONTEXT_DOCUMENT_ROOT, CONTEXT_PREFIX,
66 REDIRECT_ERROR_NOTES, REDIRECT_SCRIPT_FILENAME, REQUEST_SCHEME to the
67 whitelist in suexec. PR 51499. [Graham Laverty <graham reg ca>,
70 *) mod_rewrite: Fix regexp RewriteCond with NoCase. [Stefan Fritsch]
72 *) mod_log_debug: New module that allows to log custom messages at various
73 phases in the request processing. [Stefan Fritsch]
75 *) mod_ssl: Add some debug logging when loading server certificates.
76 PR 37912. [Nick Burch <nick burch alfresco com>]
78 *) configure: Support reallyall option also for --enable-mods-static.
81 *) mod_socache_dc: add --with-distcache to configure for choosing
82 the distcache installation directory. [Rainer Jung]
84 *) mod_socache_dc: use correct build variable MOD_SOCACHE_DC_LDADD
85 instead of MOD_SOCACHE_LDADD in build macro. [Rainer Jung]
87 *) mod_lua, mod_deflate: respect platform specific runpath linker
90 *) configure: Only link the httpd binary against PCRE. No other support
91 binary needs PCRE. [Rainer Jung]
93 *) configure: tolerate dependency checking failures for modules if
94 they have been enabled implicitely. [Rainer Jung]
96 *) configure: Allow to specify module specific custom linker flags via
97 the MOD_XXX_LDADD variables. [Rainer Jung]
99 Changes with Apache 2.3.13
101 *) ab: Support specifying the local address to use. PR 48930.
102 [Peter Schuller <scode spotify com>]
104 *) core: Add support to ErrorLogFormat for logging the system unique
105 thread id under Linux. [Stefan Fritsch]
107 *) event: New AsyncRequestWorkerFactor directive to influence how many
108 connections will be accepted per process. [Stefan Fritsch]
110 *) prefork, worker, event: Rename MaxClients to MaxRequestWorkers which
111 describes more accurately what it does. [Stefan Fritsch]
113 *) rotatelogs: Add -p argument to specify custom program to invoke
114 after a log rotation. PR 51285. [Sven Ulland <sveniu ifi.uio.no>,
117 *) mod_ssl: Don't do OCSP checks for valid self-issued certs. [Kaspar Brand]
119 *) mod_ssl: Avoid unnecessary renegotiations with SSLVerifyDepth 0.
120 PR 48215. [Kaspar Brand]
122 *) mod_status: Display information about asynchronous connections in the
123 server-status. PR 44377. [Stefan Fritsch]
125 *) mpm_event: If the number of connections of a process is very high, or if
126 all workers are busy, don't accept new connections in that process.
129 *) mpm_event: Process lingering close asynchronously instead of tying up
130 worker threads. [Jeff Trawick, Stefan Fritsch]
132 *) mpm_event: If MaxMemFree is set, limit the number of pools that is kept
133 around. [Stefan Fritsch]
135 *) mpm_event: Fix graceful restart aborting connections. PR 43359.
136 [Takashi Sato <takashi lans-tv com>]
138 *) mod_ssl: Disable AECDH ciphers in example config. PR 51363.
139 [Rob Stradling <rob comodo com>]
141 *) core: Introduce new function ap_get_conn_socket() to access the socket of
142 a connection. [Stefan Fritsch]
144 *) mod_data: Introduce a filter to support RFC2397 data URLs. [Graham
147 *) mod_userdir/mod_alias/mod_vhost_alias: Correctly set DOCUMENT_ROOT,
148 CONTEXT_DOCUMENT_ROOT, CONTEXT_PREFIX. PR 26052. PR 46198.
151 *) core: Allow to override document_root on a per-request basis. Introduce
152 new context_document_root and context_prefix which provide information
153 about non-global URI-to-directory mappings (from e.g. mod_userdir or
154 mod_alias) to scripts. PR 49705. [Stefan Fritsch]
156 *) core: Add <ElseIf> and <Else> to complement <If> sections.
159 *) mod_ext_filter: Remove DebugLevel option in favor of per-module loglevel.
162 *) mod_include: Make the "#if expr" element use the new "ap_expr" expression
163 parser. The old parser can still be used by setting the new directive
164 SSILegacyExprParser. [Stefan Fritsch]
166 *) core: Add some features to ap_expr for use by mod_include: a restricted
167 mode that does not allow to bypass request access restrictions; new
168 variables DOCUMENT_URI (alias for REQUEST_URI), LAST_MODIFIED; -A as an
169 alias for -U; an additional data entry in ap_expr_eval_ctx_t for use by
170 the consumer; an extensible ap_expr_exec_ctx() API that allows to use that
171 data entry. [Stefan Fritsch]
173 *) mod_include: Merge directory configs instead of one SSI* config directive
174 causing all other per-directory SSI* config directives to be reset.
177 *) mod_charset_lite: Remove DebugLevel option in favour of per-module
178 loglevel. [Stefan Fritsch]
180 *) core: Add ap_regexec_len() function that works with non-null-terminated
181 strings. PR 51231. [Yehezkel Horowitz <horowity checkpoint com>]
183 *) mod_authnz_ldap: If the LDAP server returns constraint violation,
184 don't treat this as an error but as "auth denied". [Stefan Fritsch]
186 *) mod_proxy_fcgi|scgi: Add support for "best guess" of PATH_INFO
187 for SCGI/FCGI. PR 50880, 50851. [Mark Montague <mark catseye.org>,
190 *) mod_cache: When content is served stale, and there is no means to
191 revalidate the content using ETag or Last-Modified, and we have
192 mandated no stale-on-error behaviour, stand down and don't cache.
193 Saves a cache write that will never be read.
196 *) mod_reqtimeout: Fix a timed out connection going into the keep-alive
197 state after a timeout when discarding a request body. PR 51103.
200 *) core: Add various file existance test operators to ap_expr.
203 *) mod_proxy_express: New mass reverse-proxy switch extension for
204 mod_proxy. [Jim Jagielski]
206 *) configure: Fix script error when configuring module set "reallyall".
209 Changes with Apache 2.3.12
211 *) configure, core: Provide easier support for APR's hook probe
212 capability. [Jim Jagielski, Jeff Trawick]
214 *) Silence autoconf 2.68 warnings. [Rainer Jung]
216 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Resolve crash when LDAP is used for authorization only
217 [Scott Hill <shill genscape.com>]
219 *) support: Make sure check_forensic works with mod_unique_id loaded
222 *) Add child_status hook for tracking creation/termination of MPM child
223 processes. Add end_generation hook for notification when the last
224 MPM child of a generation exits. [Jeff Trawick]
226 *) mod_ldap: Make LDAPSharedCacheSize 0 create a non-shared-memory cache per
227 process as opposed to disabling caching completely. This allows to use
228 the non-shared-memory cache as a workaround for the shared memory cache
229 not being available during graceful restarts. PR 48958. [Stefan Fritsch]
231 *) Add new ap_reserve_module_slots/ap_reserve_module_slots_directive API,
232 necessary if a module (like mod_perl) registers additional modules late
233 in the startup phase. [Stefan Fritsch]
235 *) core: Prevent segfault if DYNAMIC_MODULE_LIMIT is reached. PR 51072.
236 [Torsten Förtsch <torsten foertsch gmx net>]
238 *) WinNT MPM: Improve robustness under heavy load. [Jeff Trawick]
240 *) MinGW build improvements. PR 49535. [John Vandenberg
241 <jayvdb gmail.com>, Jeff Trawick]
243 *) core: Support module names with colons in loglevel configuration.
244 [Torsten Förtsch <torsten foertsch gmx net>]
246 *) mod_ssl, ab: Support OpenSSL compiled without SSLv2 support.
249 *) core: Abort if the MPM is changed across restart. [Jeff Trawick]
251 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Add support for 'ProxyErrorOverride on'. PR 50945.
252 [Peter Pramberger <peter pramberger.at>, Jim Jagielski]
254 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Add support for 'ProxyErrorOverride on'. PR 50913.
255 [Mark Montague <mark catseye.org>, Jim Jagielski]
257 *) core: Change the APIs of ap_cfg_getline() and ap_cfg_getc() to return an
258 error code. Abort with a nice error message if a config line is too long.
259 Partial fix for PR 50824. [Stefan Fritsch]
261 *) mod_info: Dump config to stdout during startup if -DDUMP_CONFIG is
262 specified. PR 31956. [Stefan Fritsch]
264 *) Restore visibility of DEFAULT_PIDLOG to core and modules. MPM
265 helper function ap_remove_pid() added. [Jeff Trawick]
267 *) Enable DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR on Windows and NetWare. [various]
269 *) Correct C++ incompatibility with http_log.h. [Stefan Fritsch, Jeff
272 *) mod_log_config: Prevent segfault. PR 50861. [Torsten Förtsch
273 <torsten.foertsch gmx.net>]
275 *) core: AllowEncodedSlashes new option NoDecode to allow encoded slashes
276 in request URL path info but not decode them. Change behavior of option
277 "On" to decode the encoded slashes as 2.0 and 2.2 do. PR 35256,
278 PR 46830. [Dan Poirier]
280 *) mod_ssl: Check SNI hostname against Host header case-insensitively.
281 PR 49491. [Mayank Agrawal <magrawal.08 gmail.com>]
283 *) mod_ldap: Add LDAPConnectionPoolTTL to give control over lifetime
284 of bound backend LDAP connections. PR47634 [Eric Covener]
286 *) mod_cache: Make CacheEnable and CacheDisable configurable per
287 directory in addition to per server, making them work from within
288 a LocationMatch. [Graham Leggett]
290 *) worker, event, prefork: Correct several issues when built as
291 DSOs; most notably, the scoreboard was reinitialized during graceful
292 restart, such that processes of the previous generation were not
293 observable. [Jeff Trawick]
295 Changes with Apache 2.3.11
297 *) mod_win32: Added shebang check for '! so that .vbs scripts work as CGI.
298 Win32's cscript interpreter can only use a single quote as comment char.
301 *) mod_proxy: balancer-manager now uses POST instead of GET.
304 *) core: new util function: ap_parse_form_data(). Previously,
305 this capability was tucked away in mod_request. [Jim Jagielski]
307 *) core: new hook: ap_run_pre_read_request. [Jim Jagielski]
309 *) mod_cache: When a request other than GET or HEAD arrives, we must
310 invalidate existing cache entities as per RFC2616 13.10. PR 15868.
313 *) modules: Fix many modules that were not correctly initializing if they
314 were not active during server startup but got enabled later during a
315 graceful restart. [Stefan Fritsch]
317 *) core: Create new ap_state_query function that allows modules to determine
318 if the current configuration run is the initial one at server startup,
319 and if the server is started for testing/config dumping only.
322 *) mod_proxy: Runtime configuration of many parameters for existing
323 balancers via the balancer-manager. [Jim Jagielski]
325 *) mod_proxy: Runtime addition of new workers (BalancerMember) for existing
326 balancers via the balancer-manager. [Jim Jagielski]
328 *) mod_cache: When a bad Expires date is present, we need to behave as if
329 the Expires is in the past, not as if the Expires is missing. PR 16521.
330 [Co-Advisor <coad@measurement-factory.com>]
332 *) mod_cache: We must ignore quoted-string values that appear in a
333 Cache-Control header. PR 50199. [Graham Leggett]
335 *) mod_dav: Revert change to send 501 error if unknown Content-* header is
336 received for a PUT request. PR 42978. [Stefan Fritsch]
338 *) mod_cache: Respect s-maxage as described by RFC2616 14.9.3, which must
339 take precedence if present. PR 35247. [Graham Leggett]
341 *) mod_ssl: Fix a possible startup failure if multiple SSL vhosts
342 are configured with the same ServerName and private key file.
343 [Masahiro Matsuya <mmatsuya redhat.com>, Joe Orton]
345 *) mod_socache_dc: Make module compile by fixing some typos.
346 PR 50735 [Mark Montague <mark catseye.org>]
348 *) prefork: Update MPM state in children during a graceful stop or
349 restart. PR 41743. [Andrew Punch <andrew.punch 247realmedia.com>]
351 *) mod_mime: Ignore leading dots when looking for mime extensions.
352 PR 50434 [Stefan Fritsch]
354 *) core: Add support to set variables with the 'Define' directive. The
355 variables that can then be used in the config using the ${VAR} syntax
356 known from envvar interpolation. [Stefan Fritsch]
358 *) mod_proxy_http: make adding of X-Forwarded-* headers configurable.
359 ProxyAddHeaders defaults to On. [Vincent Deffontaines]
361 *) mod_slotmem_shm: Increase memory alignment for slotmem data.
364 *) mod_ssl: Add config options for OCSP: SSLOCSPResponderTimeout,
365 SSLOCSPResponseMaxAge, SSLOCSPResponseTimeSkew.
366 [Kaspar Brand <httpd-dev.2011 velox.ch>]
368 *) mod_ssl: Revamp output buffering to reduce network overhead for
369 output fragmented into many buckets, such as chunked HTTP responses.
372 *) core: Apply <If> sections to all requests, not only to file base requests.
373 Allow to use <If> inside <Directory>, <Location>, and <Files> sections.
374 The merging of <If> sections now happens after the merging of <Location>
375 sections, even if an <If> section is embedded inside a <Directory> or
376 <Files> section. [Stefan Fritsch]
378 *) mod_proxy: Refactor usage of shared data by dropping the scoreboard
379 and using slotmem. Create foundation for dynamic growth/changes of
380 members within a balancer. Remove BalancerNonce in favor of a
381 per-balancer 'nonce' parameter. [Jim Jagielski]
383 *) mod_status: Don't show slots which are disabled by MaxClients as open.
384 PR: 47022 [Jordi Prats <jordi prats gmail com>, Stefan Fritsch]
386 *) mpm_prefork: Fix ap_mpm_query results for AP_MPMQ_MAX_DAEMONS and
389 *) mod_authz_core: Fix bug in merging logic if user-based and non-user-based
390 authorization directives were mixed. [Stefan Fritsch]
392 *) mod_authn_socache: change directive name from AuthnCacheProvider
393 to AuthnCacheProvideFor. The term "provider" is overloaded in
394 this module, and we should avoid confusion between the provider
395 of a backend (AuthnCacheSOCache) and the authn provider(s) for
396 which this module provides cacheing (AuthnCacheProvideFor).
399 *) mod_proxy_http: Allocate the fake backend request from a child pool
400 of the backend connection, instead of misusing the pool of the frontend
401 request. Fixes a thread safety issue where buckets set aside in the
402 backend connection leak into other threads, and then disappear when
403 the frontend request is cleaned up, in turn causing corrupted buckets
404 to make other threads spin. [Graham Leggett]
406 *) mod_ssl: Change the format of the SSL_{CLIENT,SERVER}_{I,S}_DN variables
407 to be RFC 2253 compatible, convert non-ASCII characters to UTF8, and
408 escape other special characters with backslashes. The old format can
409 still be used with the LegacyDNStringFormat argument to SSLOptions.
411 *) core, mod_rewrite: Make the REQUEST_SCHEME variable available to
412 scripts and mod_rewrite. [Stefan Fritsch]
414 *) mod_rewrite: Allow to use arbitrary boolean expressions (ap_expr) in
415 RewriteCond. [Stefan Fritsch]
417 *) mod_rewrite: Allow to unset environment variables using E=!VAR.
418 PR 49512. [Mark Drayton <mark markdrayton info>, Stefan Fritsch]
420 *) mod_headers: Restore the 2.3.8 and earlier default for the first
421 argument of the Header directive ("onsuccess"). [Eric Covener]
423 *) core: Disallow the mixing of relative and absolute Options PR 33708.
424 [Sönke Tesch <st kino-fahrplan.de>]
426 *) core: When exporting request headers to HTTP_* environment variables,
427 drop variables whose names contain invalid characters. Describe in the
428 docs how to restore the old behaviour. [Malte S. Stretz <mss apache org>]
430 *) core: When selecting an IP-based virtual host, favor an exact match for
431 the port over a wildcard (or omitted) port instead of favoring the one
432 that came first in the configuration file. [Eric Covener]
434 *) core: Overlapping virtual host address/port combinations now implicitly
435 enable name-based virtual hosting for that address. The NameVirtualHost
436 directive has no effect, and _default_ is interpreted the same as "*".
439 *) core: In the absence of any Options directives, the default is now
440 "FollowSymlinks" instead of "All". [Igor Galić]
442 *) rotatelogs: Add -e option to write logs through to stdout for optional
443 further processing. [Graham Leggett]
445 *) mod_ssl: Correctly read full lines in input filter when the line is
446 incomplete during first read. PR 50481. [Ruediger Pluem]
448 *) mod_authz_core: Add AuthzSendForbiddenOnFailure directive to allow
449 sending '403 FORBIDDEN' instead of '401 UNAUTHORIZED' if authorization
450 fails for an authenticated user. PR 40721. [Stefan Fritsch]
452 Changes with Apache 2.3.10
454 *) mod_rewrite: Don't implicitly URL-escape the original query string
455 when no substitution has changed it. PR 50447. [Eric Covener]
457 *) core: Honor 'AcceptPathInfo OFF' during internal redirects,
458 such as per-directory mod_rewrite substitutions. PR 50349.
461 *) mod_rewrite: Add 'RewriteOptions InheritBefore' to put the base
462 rules/conditions before the overridden rules/conditions. PR 39313.
463 [Jérôme Grandjanny <jerome.grandjanny cea.fr>]
465 *) mod_autoindex: add IndexIgnoreReset to reset the list of IndexIgnored
466 filenames in higher precedence configuration sections. PR 24243.
469 *) mod_cgid: RLimit* directive support for mod_cgid. PR 42135
472 *) core: Fail startup when the argument to ServerName looks like a glob
473 or a regular expression instead of a hostname (*?[]). PR 39863
474 [Rahul Nair <rahul.g.nair gmail.com>]
476 *) mod_userdir: Add merging of enable, disable, and filename arguments
477 to UserDir directive, leaving enable/disable of userlists unmerged.
478 PR 44076 [Eric Covener]
480 *) httpd: When no -k option is provided on the httpd command line, the server
481 was starting without checking for an existing pidfile. PR 50350
484 *) mod_proxy: Put the worker in error state if the SSL handshake with the
485 backend fails. PR 50332.
486 [Daniel Ruggeri <DRuggeri primary.net>, Ruediger Pluem]
488 *) mod_cache_disk: Fix Windows build which was broken after renaming
489 the module. [Gregg L. Smith]
491 Changes with Apache 2.3.9
493 *) SECURITY: CVE-2010-1623 (cve.mitre.org)
494 Fix a denial of service attack against mod_reqtimeout.
497 *) mod_headers: Change default first argument of Header directive
498 from "onsuccess" to "always". [Eric Covener]
500 *) mod_include: Add the onerror attribute to the include element,
501 allowing an URL to be specified to include on error. [Graham
504 *) mod_cache_disk: mod_disk_cache renamed to mod_cache_disk, to be
505 consistent with the naming of other modules. [Graham Leggett]
507 *) mod_setenvif: Add SetEnvIfExpr directive to set env var depending on
508 expression. [Stefan Fritsch]
510 *) mod_proxy: Fix ProxyPassInterpolateEnv directive. PR 50292.
513 *) suEXEC: Add Suexec directive to disable suEXEC without renaming the
514 binary (Suexec Off), or force startup failure if suEXEC is required
515 but not supported (Suexec On). Change SuexecUserGroup to fail
516 startup instead of just printing a warning if suEXEC is disabled.
519 *) core: Add Error directive for aborting startup or htaccess processing
520 with a specified error message. [Jeff Trawick]
522 *) mod_rewrite: Fix the RewriteEngine directive to work within a
523 location. Previously, once RewriteEngine was switched on globally,
524 it was impossible to switch off. [Graham Leggett]
526 *) core, mod_include, mod_ssl: Move the expression parser derived from
527 mod_include back into mod_include. Replace ap_expr with a parser
528 derived from mod_ssl's parser. Make mod_ssl use the new parser. Rework
529 ap_expr's public interface and provide hooks for modules to add variables
530 and functions. [Stefan Fritsch]
532 *) core: Do the hook sorting earlier so that the hooks are properly sorted
533 for the pre_config hook and during parsing the config. [Stefan Fritsch]
535 *) core: In the absence of any AllowOverride directives, the default is now
536 "None" instead of "All". PR49823 [Eric Covener]
538 *) mod_proxy: Don't allow ProxyPass or ProxyPassReverse in
539 <Directory> or <Files>. PR47765 [Eric Covener]
541 *) prefork/worker/event MPMS: default value (when no directive is present)
542 of MaxConnectionsPerChild/MaxRequestsPerChild is changed to 0 from 10000
543 to match default configuration and manual. PR47782 [Eric Covener]
545 *) proxy_connect: Don't give up in the middle of a CONNECT tunnel
546 when the child process is starting to exit. PR50220. [Eric Covener]
548 *) mod_autoindex: Fix inheritance of mod_autoindex directives into
549 contexts that don't have any mod_autoindex directives. PR47766.
552 *) mod_rewrite: Add END flag for RewriteRule to prevent further rounds
553 of rewrite processing when a per-directory substitution occurs.
556 *) mod_ssl: Make sure to always log an error if loading of CA certificates
557 fails. PR 40312. [Paul Tiemann <issues apache org ourdetour com>]
559 *) mod_dav: Send 501 error if unknown Content-* header is received for a PUT
560 request (RFC 2616 9.6). PR 42978. [Stefan Fritsch]
562 *) mod_dav: Send 400 error if malformed Content-Range header is received for
563 a put request (RFC 2616 14.16). PR 49825. [Stefan Fritsch]
565 *) mod_proxy: Release the backend connection as soon as EOS is detected,
566 so the backend isn't forced to wait for the client to eventually
567 acknowledge the data. [Graham Leggett]
569 *) mod_proxy: Optimise ProxyPass within a Location so that it is stored
570 per-directory, and chosen during the location walk. Make ProxyPass
571 work correctly from within a LocationMatch. [Graham Leggett]
573 *) core: Fix segfault if per-module LogLevel is on virtual host
574 scope. PR 50117. [Stefan Fritsch]
576 *) mod_proxy: Move the ProxyErrorOverride directive to have per
577 directory scope. [Graham Leggett]
579 *) mod_allowmethods: New module to deny certain HTTP methods without
580 interfering with authentication/authorization. [Paul Querna,
581 Igor Galić, Stefan Fritsch]
583 *) mod_ssl: Log certificate information and improve error message if client
584 cert verification fails. PR 50093, PR 50094. [Lassi Tuura <lat cern ch>,
587 *) htcacheclean: Teach htcacheclean to limit cache size by number of
588 inodes in addition to size of files. Prevents a cache disk from
589 running out of space when many small files are cached.
592 *) core: Rename MaxRequestsPerChild to MaxConnectionsPerChild, which
593 describes more accurately what the directive does. The old name
594 still works but logs a warning. [Stefan Fritsch]
596 *) mod_cache: Optionally serve stale data when a revalidation returns a
597 5xx response, controlled by the CacheStaleOnError directive.
600 *) htcacheclean: Allow the listing of valid URLs within the cache, with
601 the option to list entry metadata such as sizes and times. [Graham
604 *) mod_cache: correctly parse quoted strings in cache headers.
607 *) mod_cache: Allow control over the base URL of reverse proxied requests
608 using the CacheKeyBaseURL directive, so that the cache key can be
609 calculated from the endpoint URL instead of the server URL. [Graham
612 *) mod_cache: CacheLastModifiedFactor, CacheStoreNoStore, CacheStorePrivate,
613 CacheStoreExpired, CacheIgnoreNoLastMod, CacheDefaultExpire,
614 CacheMinExpire and CacheMaxExpire can be set per directory/location.
617 *) mod_disk_cache: CacheMaxFileSize, CacheMinFileSize, CacheReadSize and
618 CacheReadTime can be set per directory/location. [Graham Leggett]
620 *) core: Speed up config parsing if using a very large number of config
621 files. PR 50002 [andrew cloudaccess net]
623 *) mod_cache: Support the caching of HEAD requests. [Graham Leggett]
625 *) htcacheclean: Allow the option to round up file sizes to a given
626 block size, improving the accuracy of disk usage. [Graham Leggett]
628 *) mod_ssl: Add authz providers for use with mod_authz_core and its
629 RequireAny/RequireAll containers: 'ssl' (equivalent to SSLRequireSSL),
630 'ssl-verify-client' (for use with 'SSLVerifyClient optional'), and
631 'ssl-require' (expressions with same syntax as SSLRequire).
634 *) mod_ssl: Make the ssl expression parser thread-safe. It now requires
635 bison instead of yacc. [Stefan Fritsch]
637 *) mod_disk_cache: Change on-disk header file format to support the
638 link of the device/inode of the data file to the matching header
639 file, and to support the option of not writing a data file when
640 the data file is empty. [Graham Leggett]
642 *) core/mod_unique_id: Add generate_log_id hook to allow to use
643 the ID generated by mod_unique_id as error log ID for requests.
646 *) mod_cache: Make sure that we never allow a 304 Not Modified response
647 that we asked for to leak to the client should the 304 response be
648 uncacheable. PR45341 [Graham Leggett]
650 *) mod_cache: Add the cache_status hook to register the final cache
651 decision hit/miss/revalidate. Add optional support for an X-Cache
652 and/or an X-Cache-Detail header to add the cache status to the
653 response. PR48241 [Graham Leggett]
655 *) mod_authz_host: Add 'local' provider that matches connections originating
656 on the local host. PR 19938. [Stefan Fritsch]
658 *) Event MPM: Fix crash accessing pollset on worker thread when child
659 process is exiting. [Jeff Trawick]
661 *) core: For process invocation (cgi, fcgid, piped loggers and so forth)
662 pass the system library path (LD_LIBRARY_PATH or platform-specific
663 variables) along with the system PATH, by default. Both should be
664 overridden together as desired using PassEnv etc; see mod_env.
667 *) mod_cache: Introduce CacheStoreExpired, to allow administrators to
668 capture a stale backend response, perform If-Modified-Since requests
669 against the backend, and serving from the cache all 304 responses.
670 This restores pre-2.2.4 cache behavior. [William Rowe]
672 *) mod_rewrite: Introduce <=, >= string comparison operators, and integer
673 comparators -lt, -le, -eq, -ge, and -gt. To help bash users and drop
674 the ambiguity of the symlink test "-ltest", introduce -h or -L as
675 symlink test operators. [William Rowe]
677 *) mod_cache: Give the cache provider the opportunity to choose to cache
678 or not cache based on the buckets present in the brigade, such as the
679 presence of a FILE bucket.
682 *) mod_authz_core: Allow authz providers to check args while reading the
683 config and allow to cache parsed args. Move 'all' and 'env' authz
684 providers from mod_authz_host to mod_authz_core. Add 'method' authz
685 provider depending on the HTTP method. [Stefan Fritsch]
687 *) mod_include: Move the request_rec within mod_include to be
688 exposed within include_ctx_t. [Graham Leggett]
690 *) mod_include: Reinstate support for UTF-8 character sets by allowing a
691 variable being echoed or set to be decoded and then encoded as separate
692 steps. PR47686 [Graham Leggett]
694 *) mod_cache: Add a discrete commit_entity() provider function within the
695 mod_cache provider interface which is called to indicate to the
696 provider that caching is complete, giving the provider the opportunity
697 to commit temporary files permanently to the cache in an atomic
698 fashion. Replace the inconsistent use of error cleanups with a formal
699 set of pool cleanups attached to a subpool, which is destroyed on error.
702 *) mod_cache: Change the signature of the store_body() provider function
703 within the mod_cache provider interface to support an "in" brigade
704 and an "out" brigade instead of just a single input brigade. This
705 gives a cache provider the option to consume only part of the brigade
706 passed to it, rather than the whole brigade as was required before.
707 This fixes an out of memory and a request timeout condition that would
708 occur when the original document was a large file. Introduce
709 CacheReadSize and CacheReadTime directives to mod_disk_cache to control
710 the amount of data to attempt to cache at a time. [Graham Leggett]
712 *) core: Add ErrorLogFormat to allow configuring error log format, including
713 additional information that is logged once per connection or request. Add
714 error log IDs for connections and request to allow correlating error log
715 lines and the corresponding access log entry. [Stefan Fritsch]
717 *) core: Disable sendfile by default. [Stefan Fritsch]
719 *) mod_cache: Check the request to determine whether we are allowed
720 to return cached content at all, and respect a "Cache-Control:
721 no-cache" header from a client. Previously, "no-cache" would
722 behave like "max-age=0". [Graham Leggett]
724 *) mod_cache: Use a proper filter context to hold filter data instead
725 of misusing the per-request configuration. Fixes a segfault on trunk
726 when the normal handler is used. [Graham Leggett]
728 *) mod_cgid: Log a warning if the ScriptSock path is truncated because
729 it is too long. PR 49388. [Stefan Fritsch]
731 *) vhosts: Do not allow _default_ in NameVirtualHost, or mixing *
732 and non-* ports on NameVirtualHost, or multiple NameVirtualHost
733 directives for the same address:port, or NameVirtualHost
734 directives with no matching VirtualHosts, or multiple ip-based
735 VirtualHost sections for the same address:port. These were
736 previously accepted with a warning, but the behavior was
737 undefined. [Dan Poirier]
739 *) mod_remoteip: Fix a segfault when using mod_remoteip in conjunction with
740 Allow/Deny. PR 49838. [Andrew Skalski <voltara gmail.com>]
742 *) core: DirectoryMatch can now match on the end of line character ($),
743 and sub-directories of matched directories are no longer implicitly
744 matched. PR49809 [Eric Covener]
746 *) Regexps: introduce new higher-level regexp utility including parsing
747 and executing perl-style regexp ops (e.g s/foo/bar/i) and regexp memory
750 *) Proxy: support setting source address. PR 29404
751 [Multiple contributors iterating through bugzilla,
752 Aron Ujvari <xanco nikhok.hu>, Aleksey Midenkov <asm uezku.kemsu.ru>,
753 <dan listening-station.net; trunk version Nick Kew]
755 *) HTTP protocol: return 400 not 503 if we have to abort due to malformed
756 chunked encoding. [Nick Kew]
758 Changes with Apache 2.3.8
760 *) suexec: Support large log files. PR 45856. [Stefan Fritsch]
762 *) core: Abort with sensible error message if no or more than one MPM is
763 loaded. [Stefan Fritsch]
765 *) mod_proxy: Rename erroronstatus to failonstatus.
766 [Daniel Ruggeri <DRuggeri primary.net>]
768 *) mod_dav_fs: Fix broken "creationdate" property.
769 Regression in version 2.3.7. [Rainer Jung]
771 Changes with Apache 2.3.7
773 *) SECURITY: CVE-2010-1452 (cve.mitre.org)
774 mod_dav, mod_cache, mod_session: Fix Handling of requests without a path
775 segment. PR: 49246 [Mark Drayton, Jeff Trawick]
777 *) mod_ldap: Properly check the result returned by apr_ldap_init. PR 46076.
780 *) mod_rewrite: Log errors if rewrite map files cannot be opened. PR 49639.
783 *) mod_proxy_http: Support the 'ping' property for backend HTTP/1.1 servers
784 via leveraging 100-Continue as the initial "request".
787 *) core/mod_authz_core: Introduce new access_checker_ex hook that enables
788 mod_authz_core to bypass authentication if access should be allowed by
789 IP address/env var/... [Stefan Fritsch]
791 *) core: Introduce note_auth_failure hook to allow modules to add support
792 for additional auth types. This makes ap_note_auth_failure() work with
793 mod_auth_digest again. PR 48807. [Stefan Fritsch]
795 *) socache modules: return APR_NOTFOUND when a lookup is not found [Nick Kew]
797 *) mod_authn_socache: new module [Nick Kew]
799 *) configure: Add reallyall option for --enable-mods-shared. [Stefan Fritsch]
801 *) Fix Windows build when using VC6. [Gregg L. Smith <lists glewis com>]
803 *) mod_rewrite: Allow to set environment variables without explicitly
804 giving a value. [Rainer Jung]
806 *) mod_rewrite: Remove superfluous EOL from rewrite logging. [Rainer Jung]
808 *) mod_include: recognise "text/html; parameters" as text/html
809 PR 49616 [Andrey Chernov <ache nagual.pp.ru>]
811 *) CGI vars: allow PATH to be set by SetEnv, consistent with LD_LIBRARY_PATH
814 *) Core: Extra robustness: don't try authz and segfault if authn
815 fails to set r->user. Log bug and return 500 instead.
818 *) HTTP protocol filter: fix handling of longer chunk extensions
819 PR 49474 [<tee.bee gmx.de>]
821 *) Update SSL cipher suite and add example for SSLHonorCipherOrder.
822 [Lars Eilebrecht, Rainer Jung]
824 *) move AddOutputFilterByType from core to mod_filter. This should
825 fix nasty side-effects that happen when content_type is set
826 more than once in processing a request, and make it fully
827 compatible with dynamic and proxied contents. [Nick Kew]
829 *) mod_log_config: Implement logging for sub second timestamps and
830 request end time. [Rainer Jung]
832 Changes with Apache 2.3.6
834 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-3555 (cve.mitre.org)
835 mod_ssl: Comprehensive fix of the TLS renegotiation prefix injection
836 attack when compiled against OpenSSL version 0.9.8m or later. Introduces
837 the 'SSLInsecureRenegotiation' directive to reopen this vulnerability
838 and offer unsafe legacy renegotiation with clients which do not yet
839 support the new secure renegotiation protocol, RFC 5746.
840 [Joe Orton, and with thanks to the OpenSSL Team]
842 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-3555 (cve.mitre.org)
843 mod_ssl: A partial fix for the TLS renegotiation prefix injection attack
844 by rejecting any client-initiated renegotiations. Forcibly disable
845 keepalive for the connection if there is any buffered data readable. Any
846 configuration which requires renegotiation for per-directory/location
847 access control is still vulnerable, unless using OpenSSL >= 0.9.8l.
848 [Joe Orton, Ruediger Pluem, Hartmut Keil <Hartmut.Keil adnovum.ch>]
850 *) SECURITY: CVE-2010-0408 (cve.mitre.org)
851 mod_proxy_ajp: Respond with HTTP_BAD_REQUEST when the body is not sent
852 when request headers indicate a request body is incoming; not a case of
853 HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR. [Niku Toivola <niku.toivola sulake.com>]
855 *) SECURITY: CVE-2010-0425 (cve.mitre.org)
856 mod_isapi: Do not unload an isapi .dll module until the request
857 processing is completed, avoiding orphaned callback pointers.
858 [Brett Gervasoni <brettg senseofsecurity.com>, Jeff Trawick]
860 *) core: Filter init functions are now run strictly once per request
861 before handler invocation. The init functions are no longer run
862 for connection filters. PR 49328. [Joe Orton]
864 *) core: Adjust the output filter chain correctly in an internal
865 redirect from a subrequest, preserving filters from the main
866 request as necessary. PR 17629. [Joe Orton]
868 *) mod_cache: Explicitly allow cache implementations to cache a 206 Partial
869 Response if they so choose to do so. Previously an attempt to cache a 206
870 was arbitrarily allowed if the response contained an Expires or
871 Cache-Control header, and arbitrarily denied if both headers were missing.
874 *) core: Add microsecond timestamp fractions, process id and thread id
875 to the error log. [Rainer Jung]
877 *) configure: The "most" module set gets build by default. [Rainer Jung]
879 *) configure: Building dynamic modules (DSO) by default. [Rainer Jung]
881 *) configure: Fix broken VPATH build when using included APR.
884 *) mod_session_crypto: Fix configure problem when building
885 with APR 2 and for VPATH builds with included APR.
888 *) mod_session_crypto: API compatibility with APR 2 crypto and
889 APR Util 1.x crypto. [Rainer Jung]
891 *) ab: Fix memory leak with -v2 and SSL. PR 49383.
892 [Pavel Kankovsky <peak argo troja mff cuni cz>]
894 *) core: Add per-module and per-directory loglevel configuration.
895 Add some more trace logging.
896 mod_rewrite: Replace RewriteLog/RewriteLogLevel with trace log levels.
897 mod_ssl: Replace LogLevelDebugDump with trace log levels.
898 mod_ssl/mod_proxy*: Adjust loglevels to be less verbose at levels info
900 mod_dumpio: Replace DumpIOLogLevel with trace log levels.
903 *) mod_ldap: LDAP caching was suppressed (and ldap-status handler returns
904 title page only) when any mod_ldap directives were used in VirtualHost
905 context. [Eric Covener]
907 *) mod_disk_cache: Decline the opportunity to cache if the response is
908 a 206 Partial Content. This stops a reverse proxied partial response
909 from becoming cached, and then being served in subsequent responses.
912 *) mod_deflate: avoid the risk of forwarding data before headers are set.
913 PR 49369 [Matthew Steele <mdsteele google.com>]
915 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Ensure nested groups are checked when the
916 top-level group doesn't have any direct non-group members
917 of attributes in AuthLDAPGroupAttribute. [Eric Covener]
919 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Search or Comparison during authorization phase
920 can use the credentials from the authentication phase
921 (AuthLDAPSearchAsUSer,AuthLDAPCompareAsUser).
922 PR 48340 [Domenico Rotiroti, Eric Covener]
924 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Allow the initial DN search during authentication
925 to use the HTTP username/pass instead of an anonymous or hard-coded
926 LDAP id (AuthLDAPInitialBindAsUser, AuthLDAPInitialBindPattern).
929 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Publish requested LDAP data with an AUTHORIZE_ prefix
930 when this module is used for authorization. See AuthLDAPAuthorizePrefix.
931 PR 45584 [Eric Covener]
933 *) apxs -q: Stop filtering out ':' characters from the reported values.
934 PR 45343. [Bill Cole]
936 *) prefork MPM: Work around possible crashes on child exit in APR reslist
937 cleanup code. PR 43857. [Tom Donovan]
939 *) ab: fix number of requests sent by ab when keepalive is enabled. PR 48497.
940 [Bryn Dole <dole blekko.com>]
942 *) Log an error for failures to read a chunk-size, and return 408 instead of
943 413 when this is due to a read timeout. This change also fixes some cases
944 of two error documents being sent in the response for the same scenario.
945 [Eric Covener] PR49167
947 *) mod_proxy_balancer: Add new directive BalancerNonce to allow admin
948 to control/set the nonce used in the balancer-manager application.
951 *) mod_proxy_connect: Support port ranges in AllowConnect. PR 23673.
954 *) Proxy balancer: support setting error status according to HTTP response
955 code from a backend. PR 48939. [Daniel Ruggeri <DRuggeri primary.net>]
957 *) htcacheclean: Introduce the ability to clean specific URLs from the
958 cache, if provided as an optional parameter on the command line.
961 *) core: Introduce the IncludeStrict directive, which explicitly fails
962 server startup if no files or directories match a wildcard path.
965 *) htcacheclean: Report additional statistics about entries deleted.
966 PR 48944. [Mark Drayton mark markdrayton.info]
968 *) Introduce SSLFIPS directive to support OpenSSL FIPS_mode; permits all
969 builds of mod_ssl to use 'SSLFIPS off' for portability, but the proper
970 build of openssl is required for 'SSLFIPS on'. PR 46270.
971 [Dr Stephen Henson <steve openssl.org>, William Rowe]
973 *) mod_proxy_http: Log the port of the remote server in various messages.
974 PR 48812. [Igor Galić <i galic brainsware org>]
976 *) mod_reqtimeout: Do not wrongly enforce timeouts for mod_proxy's backend
977 connections and other protocol handlers (like mod_ftp). [Stefan Fritsch]
979 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Really regard the operation a success, when the client
980 aborted the connection. In addition adjust the log message if the client
981 aborted the connection. [Ruediger Pluem]
983 *) mod_ssl: Add the 'SSLInsecureRenegotiation' directive, which
984 allows insecure renegotiation with clients which do not yet
985 support the secure renegotiation protocol. [Joe Orton]
987 *) mod_ssl: Fix a potential I/O hang if a long list of trusted CAs
988 is configured for client cert auth. PR 46952. [Joe Orton]
990 *) core: Only log a 408 if it is no keepalive timeout. PR 39785
991 [Ruediger Pluem, Mark Montague <markmont umich.edu>]
993 *) support/rotatelogs: Add -L option to create a link to the current
994 log file. PR 48761 [<lyndon orthanc.ca>, Dan Poirier]
996 *) mod_ldap: Update LDAPTrustedClientCert to consistently be a per-directory
997 setting only, matching most of the documentation and examples.
998 PR 46541 [Paul Reder, Eric Covener]
1000 *) mod_ldap: LDAPTrustedClientCert now accepts CA_DER/CA_BASE64 argument
1001 types previously allowed only in LDAPTrustedGlobalCert. [Eric Covener]
1003 *) mod_negotiation: Preserve query string over multiviews negotiation.
1004 This buglet was fixed for type maps in 2.2.6, but the same issue
1005 affected multiviews and was overlooked.
1006 PR 33112 [Joergen Thomsen <apache jth.net>]
1008 *) mod_ldap: Eliminate a potential crash with multiple LDAPTrustedClientCert
1009 when some are not password-protected. [Eric Covener]
1011 *) Fix startup segfault when the Mutex directive is used but no loaded
1012 modules use httpd mutexes. PR 48787. [Jeff Trawick]
1014 *) Proxy: get the headers right in a HEAD request with
1015 ProxyErrorOverride, by checking for an overridden error
1016 before not after going into a catch-all code path.
1017 PR 41646. [Nick Kew, Stuart Children]
1019 *) support/rotatelogs: Support the simplest log rotation case, log
1020 truncation. Useful when the log is being processed in real time
1021 using a command like tail. [Graham Leggett]
1023 *) support/htcacheclean: Teach it how to write a pid file (modelled on
1024 httpd's writing of a pid file) so that it becomes possible to run
1025 more than one instance of htcacheclean on the same machine.
1028 *) Log command line on startup, so there's a record of command line
1029 arguments like -f. PR 48752. [Dan Poirier]
1031 *) Introduce mod_reflector, a handler capable of reflecting POSTed
1032 request bodies back within the response through the output filter
1033 stack. Can be used to turn an output filter into a web service.
1036 *) mod_proxy_http: Make sure that when an ErrorDocument is served
1037 from a reverse proxied URL, that the subrequest respects the status
1038 of the original request. This brings the behaviour of proxy_handler
1039 in line with default_handler. PR 47106. [Graham Leggett]
1041 *) Support wildcards in both the directory and file components of
1042 the path specified by the Include directive. [Graham Leggett]
1044 *) mod_proxy, mod_proxy_http: Support remote https proxies
1045 by using HTTP CONNECT. PR 19188.
1046 [Philippe Dutrueux <lilas evidian.com>, Rainer Jung]
1048 *) apxs: Fix -A and -a options to ignore whitespace in httpd.conf
1049 [Philip M. Gollucci]
1051 *) worker: Don't report server has reached MaxClients until it has.
1052 Add message when server gets within MinSpareThreads of MaxClients.
1053 PR 46996. [Dan Poirier]
1055 *) mod_session: Session expiry was being initialised, but not updated
1056 on each session save, resulting in timed out sessions when there
1057 should not have been. Fixed. [Graham Leggett]
1059 *) mod_log_config: Add the R option to log the handler used within the
1060 request. [Christian Folini <christian.folini netnea com>]
1062 *) mod_include: Allow fine control over the removal of Last-Modified and
1063 ETag headers within the INCLUDES filter, making it possible to cache
1064 responses if desired. Fix the default value of the SSIAccessEnable
1065 directive. [Graham Leggett]
1067 *) Add new UnDefine directive to undefine a variable. PR 35350.
1070 *) Make ap_pregsub(), used by AliasMatch and friends, use the same syntax
1071 for regex backreferences as mod_rewrite and mod_include: Remove the use
1072 of '&' as an alias for '$0' and allow to escape any character with a
1073 backslash. PR 48351. [Stefan Fritsch]
1075 *) mod_authnz_ldap: If AuthLDAPCharsetConfig is set, also convert the
1076 password to UTF-8. PR 45318.
1077 [Johannes Müller <joh_m gmx.de>, Stefan Fritsch]
1079 *) ab: Fix calculation of requests per second in HTML output. PR 48594.
1082 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Failures to map a username to a DN, or to check a user
1083 password now result in an informational level log entry instead of
1084 warning level. [Eric Covener]
1086 Changes with Apache 2.3.5
1088 *) SECURITY: CVE-2010-0434 (cve.mitre.org)
1089 Ensure each subrequest has a shallow copy of headers_in so that the
1090 parent request headers are not corrupted. Eliminates a problematic
1091 optimization in the case of no request body. PR 48359
1092 [Jake Scott, William Rowe, Ruediger Pluem]
1094 *) Turn static function get_server_name_for_url() into public
1095 ap_get_server_name_for_url() and use it where appropriate. This
1096 fixes mod_rewrite generating invalid URLs for redirects to IPv6
1097 literal addresses. [Stefan Fritsch]
1099 *) mod_ldap: Introduce new config option LDAPTimeout to set the timeout
1100 for LDAP operations like bind and search. [Stefan Fritsch]
1102 *) mod_proxy, mod_proxy_ftp: Move ProxyFtpDirCharset from mod_proxy to
1103 mod_proxy_ftp. [Takashi Sato]
1105 *) mod_proxy, mod_proxy_connect: Move AllowCONNECT from mod_proxy to
1106 mod_proxy_connect. [Takashi Sato]
1108 *) mod_cache: Do an exact match of the keys defined by
1109 CacheIgnoreURLSessionIdentifiers against the querystring instead of
1110 a partial match. PR 48401.
1111 [Dodou Wang <wangdong.08 gmail.com>, Ruediger Pluem]
1113 *) mod_proxy_balancer: Fix crash in balancer-manager. [Rainer Jung]
1115 *) Core HTTP: disable keepalive when the Client has sent
1116 Expect: 100-continue
1117 but we respond directly with a non-100 response.
1118 Keepalive here led to data from clients continuing being treated as
1122 *) Core: reject NULLs in request line or request headers.
1125 *) Core: (re)-introduce -T commandline option to suppress documentroot
1127 PR 41887 [Jan van den Berg <janvdberg gmail.com>]
1129 *) mod_autoindex: support XHTML as equivalent to HTML in IndexOptions,
1130 ScanHTMLTitles, ReadmeName, HeaderName
1131 PR 48416 [Dmitry Bakshaev <dab18 izhnet.ru>, Nick Kew]
1133 *) Proxy: Fix ProxyPassReverse with relative URL
1134 Derived (slightly erroneously) from PR 38864 [Nick Kew]
1136 *) mod_headers: align Header Edit with Header Set when used on Content-Type
1137 PR 48422 [Cyril Bonté <cyril.bonte free.fr>, Nick Kew>]
1139 *) mod_headers: Enable multi-match-and-replace edit option
1142 *) mod_filter: enable it to act on non-200 responses.
1145 Changes with Apache 2.3.4
1147 *) Replace AcceptMutex, LockFile, RewriteLock, SSLMutex, SSLStaplingMutex,
1148 and WatchdogMutexPath with a single Mutex directive. Add APIs to
1149 simplify setup and user customization of APR proc and global mutexes.
1150 (See util_mutex.h.) Build-time setting DEFAULT_LOCKFILE is no longer
1151 respected; set DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR instead. [Jeff Trawick]
1153 *) http_core: KeepAlive no longer accepts other than On|Off.
1156 *) mod_dav: Remove errno from dav_error interface. Calls to dav_new_error()
1157 and dav_new_error_tag() must be adjusted to add an apr_status_t parameter.
1160 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Add AuthLDAPBindAuthoritative to allow Authentication to
1161 try other providers in the case of an LDAP bind failure.
1162 PR 46608 [Justin Erenkrantz, Joe Schaefer, Tony Stevenson]
1164 *) Build: fix --with-module to work as documented
1165 PR 43881 [Gez Saunders <gez.saunders virgin.net>]
1167 Changes with Apache 2.3.3
1169 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-3095 (cve.mitre.org)
1170 mod_proxy_ftp: sanity check authn credentials.
1171 [Stefan Fritsch <sf fritsch.de>, Joe Orton]
1173 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-3094 (cve.mitre.org)
1174 mod_proxy_ftp: NULL pointer dereference on error paths.
1175 [Stefan Fritsch <sf fritsch.de>, Joe Orton]
1176 *) mod_ssl: enable support for ECC keys and ECDH ciphers. Tested against
1177 OpenSSL 1.0.0b3. [Vipul Gupta <vipul.gupta sun.com>, Sander Temme]
1179 *) mod_dav: Include uri when logging a PUT error due to connection abort.
1180 PR 38149. [Stefan Fritsch]
1182 *) mod_dav: Return 409 instead of 500 for a LOCK request if the parent
1183 resource does not exist or is not a collection. PR 43465. [Stefan Fritsch]
1185 *) mod_dav_fs: Return 409 instead of 500 for Litmus test case copy_nodestcoll
1186 (a COPY request where the parent of the destination resource does not
1187 exist). PR 39299. [Stefan Fritsch]
1189 *) mod_dav_fs: Don't delete the whole file if a PUT with content-range failed.
1190 PR 42896. [Stefan Fritsch]
1192 *) mod_dav_fs: Make PUT create files atomically and no longer destroy the
1193 old file if the transfer aborted. PR 39815. [Paul Querna, Stefan Fritsch]
1195 *) mod_dav_fs: Remove inode keyed locking as this conflicts with atomically
1196 creating files. On systems with inode numbers, this is a format change of
1197 the DavLockDB. The old DavLockDB must be deleted on upgrade.
1200 *) mod_log_config: Make ${cookie}C correctly match whole cookie names
1201 instead of substrings. PR 28037. [Dan Franklin <dan dan-franklin.com>,
1204 *) vhost: A purely-numeric Host: header should not be treated as a port.
1207 *) mod_ldap: Avoid 500 errors with "Unable to set LDAP_OPT_REFHOPLIMIT option to 5"
1208 when built against openldap by using SDK LDAP_OPT_REFHOPLIMIT defaults unless
1209 LDAPReferralHopLimit is explicitly configured.
1212 *) mod_charset_lite: Honor 'CharsetOptions NoImplicitAdd'.
1215 *) mod_ssl: Add support for OCSP Stapling. PR 43822.
1216 [Dr Stephen Henson <shenson oss-institute.org>]
1218 *) mod_socache_shmcb: Allow parens in file name if cache size is given.
1219 Fixes SSLSessionCache directive mis-parsing parens in pathname.
1220 PR 47945. [Stefan Fritsch]
1222 *) htpasswd: Improve out of disk space handling. PR 30877. [Stefan Fritsch]
1224 *) htpasswd: Use MD5 hash by default on all platforms. [Stefan Fritsch]
1226 *) mod_sed: Reduce memory consumption when processing very long lines.
1227 PR 48024 [Basant Kumar Kukreja <basant.kukreja sun.com>]
1229 *) ab: Fix segfault in case the argument for -n is a very large number.
1230 PR 47178. [Philipp Hagemeister <oss phihag.de>]
1232 *) Allow ProxyPreserveHost to work in <Proxy> sections. PR 34901.
1235 *) configure: Fix THREADED_MPMS so that mod_cgid is enabled again
1236 for worker MPM. [Takashi Sato]
1238 *) mod_dav: Provide a mechanism to obtain the request_rec and pathname
1239 from the dav_resource. [Jari Urpalainen <jari.urpalainen nokia.com>,
1240 Brian France <brian brianfrance.com>]
1242 *) Build: Use install instead of cp if available on installing
1243 modules to avoid segmentation fault. PR 47951. [hirose31 gmail.com]
1245 *) mod_cache: correctly consider s-maxage in cacheability
1246 decisions. [Dan Poirier]
1248 *) mod_logio/core: Report more accurate byte counts in mod_status if
1249 mod_logio is loaded. PR 25656. [Stefan Fritsch]
1251 *) mod_ldap: If LDAPSharedCacheSize is too small, try harder to purge
1252 some cache entries and log a warning. Also increase the default
1253 LDAPSharedCacheSize to 500000. This is a more realistic size suitable
1254 for the default values of 1024 for LdapCacheEntries/LdapOpCacheEntries.
1255 PR 46749. [Stefan Fritsch]
1257 *) mod_rewrite: Make sure that a hostname:port isn't fully qualified if
1258 the request is a CONNECT request. [Bill Zajac <billz consultla.com>]
1260 *) mod_cache: Teach CacheEnable and CacheDisable to work from within a
1261 Location section, in line with how ProxyPass works. [Graham Leggett]
1263 *) mod_reqtimeout: New module to set timeouts and minimum data rates for
1264 receiving requests from the client. [Stefan Fritsch]
1266 *) core: Fix potential memory leaks by making sure to not destroy
1267 bucket brigades that have been created by earlier filters.
1270 *) core, mod_deflate, mod_sed: Reduce memory usage by reusing bucket
1271 brigades in several places. [Stefan Fritsch]
1273 *) mod_cache: Fix uri_meets_conditions() so that CacheEnable will
1274 match by scheme, or by a wildcarded hostname. PR 40169
1275 [Peter Grandi <pg_asf asf.for.sabi.co.uk>, Graham Leggett]
1277 *) suxec: Allow to log an error if exec fails by setting FD_CLOEXEC
1278 on the log file instead of closing it. PR 10744. [Nicolas Rachinsky]
1280 *) mod_mime: Make RemoveType override the info from TypesConfig.
1281 PR 38330. [Stefan Fritsch]
1283 *) mod_cache: Introduce the option to run the cache from within the
1284 normal request handler, and to allow fine grained control over
1285 where in the filter chain content is cached. [Graham Leggett]
1287 *) core: Treat timeout reading request as 408 error, not 400.
1288 Log 408 errors in access log as was done in Apache 1.3.x.
1289 PR 39785 [Nobutaka Mantani <nobutaka nobutaka.org>,
1290 Stefan Fritsch <sf fritsch.de>, Dan Poirier]
1292 *) mod_ssl: Reintroduce SSL_CLIENT_S_DN, SSL_CLIENT_I_DN, SSL_SERVER_S_DN,
1293 SSL_SERVER_I_DN back to the environment variables to be set by mod_ssl.
1294 [Peter Sylvester <peter.sylvester edelweb.fr>]
1296 *) mod_disk_cache: don't cache incomplete responses, per RFC 2616, 13.8.
1297 PR15866. [Dan Poirier]
1299 *) ab: ab segfaults in verbose mode on https sites
1300 PR46393. [Ryan Niebur]
1302 *) mod_dav: Allow other modules to become providers and add resource types
1303 to the DAV response. [Jari Urpalainen <jari.urpalainen nokia.com>,
1304 Brian France <brian brianfrance.com>]
1306 *) mod_dav: Allow other modules to add things to the DAV or Allow headers
1307 of an OPTIONS request. [Jari Urpalainen <jari.urpalainen nokia.com>,
1308 Brian France <brian brianfrance.com>]
1310 *) core: Lower memory usage of core output filter.
1311 [Stefan Fritsch <sf sfritsch.de>]
1313 *) mod_mime: Detect invalid use of MultiviewsMatch inside Location and
1314 LocationMatch sections. PR47754. [Dan Poirier]
1316 *) mod_request: Make sure the KeptBodySize directive rejects values
1317 that aren't valid numbers. [Graham Leggett]
1319 *) mod_session_crypto: Sanity check should the potentially encrypted
1320 session cookie be too short. [Graham Leggett]
1322 *) mod_session.c: Prevent a segfault when session is added but not
1323 configured. [Graham Leggett]
1325 *) htcacheclean: 19 ways to fail, 1 error message. Fixed. [Graham Leggett]
1327 *) mod_auth_digest: Fail server start when nonce count checking
1328 is configured without shared memory, or md5-sess algorithm is
1329 configured. [Dan Poirier]
1331 *) mod_proxy_connect: The connect method doesn't work if the client is
1332 connecting to the apache proxy through an ssl socket. Fixed.
1333 PR29744. [Brad Boyer, Mark Cave-Ayland, Julian Gilbey, Fabrice Durand,
1334 David Gence, Tim Dodge, Per Gunnar Hans, Emmanuel Elango,
1335 Kevin Croft, Rudolf Cardinal]
1337 *) mod_ssl: The error message when SSLCertificateFile is missing should
1338 at least give the name or position of the problematic virtual host
1339 definition. [Stefan Fritsch sf sfritsch.de]
1341 *) mod_auth_digest: Fix null pointer when qop=none. [Dan Poirier]
1343 *) Add support for HTTP PUT to ab. [Jeff Barnes <jbarnesweb yahoo.com>]
1345 *) mod_headers: generalise the envclause to support expression
1346 evaluation with ap_expr parser [Nick Kew]
1348 *) mod_cache: Introduce the thundering herd lock, a mechanism to keep
1349 the flood of requests at bay that strike a backend webserver as
1350 a cached entity goes stale. [Graham Leggett]
1352 *) mod_auth_digest: Fix usage of shared memory and re-enable it.
1353 PR 16057 [Dan Poirier]
1355 *) Preserve Port information over internal redirects
1356 PR 35999 [Jonas Ringh <jonas.ringh cixit.se>]
1358 *) Proxy: unable to connect to a backend is SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE,
1359 rather than BAD_GATEWAY or (especially) NOT_FOUND.
1360 PR 46971 [evanc nortel.com]
1362 *) Various modules: Do better checking of pollset operations in order to
1363 avoid segmentation faults if they fail. PR 46467
1364 [Stefan Fritsch <sf sfritsch.de>]
1366 *) mod_autoindex: Correctly create an empty cell if the description
1367 for a file is missing. PR 47682 [Peter Poeml <poeml suse.de>]
1369 *) ab: Fix broken error messages after resolver or connect() failures.
1372 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-1890 (cve.mitre.org)
1373 Fix a potential Denial-of-Service attack against mod_proxy in a
1374 reverse proxy configuration, where a remote attacker can force a
1375 proxy process to consume CPU time indefinitely. [Nick Kew, Joe Orton]
1377 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-1191 (cve.mitre.org)
1378 mod_proxy_ajp: Avoid delivering content from a previous request which
1379 failed to send a request body. PR 46949 [Ruediger Pluem]
1381 *) htdbm: Fix possible buffer overflow if dbm database has very
1382 long values. PR 30586 [Dan Poirier]
1384 *) core: Return APR_EOF if request body is shorter than the length announced
1385 by the client. PR 33098 [ Stefan Fritsch <sf sfritsch.de>]
1387 *) mod_suexec: correctly set suexec_enabled when httpd is run by a
1388 non-root user and may have insufficient permissions.
1389 PR 42175 [Jim Radford <radford blackbean.org>]
1391 *) mod_ssl: Fix SSL_*_DN_UID variables to use the 'userID' attribute
1392 type. PR 45107. [Michael Ströder <michael stroeder.com>,
1393 Peter Sylvester <peter.sylvester edelweb.fr>]
1395 *) mod_proxy_http: fix case sensitivity checking transfer encoding
1396 PR 47383 [Ryuzo Yamamoto <ryuzo.yamamoto gmail.com>]
1398 *) mod_alias: ensure Redirect issues a valid URL.
1399 PR 44020 [HÃ¥kon Stordahl <hakon stordahl.org>]
1401 *) mod_dir: add FallbackResource directive, to enable admin to specify
1402 an action to happen when a URL maps to no file, without resorting
1403 to ErrorDocument or mod_rewrite. PR 47184 [Nick Kew]
1405 *) mod_cgid: Do not leak the listening Unix socket file descriptor to the
1406 CGI process. PR 47335 [Kornél Pál <kornelpal gmail.com>]
1408 *) mod_rewrite: Remove locking for writing to the rewritelog.
1409 PR 46942 [Dan Poirier <poirier pobox.com>]
1411 *) mod_alias: check sanity in Redirect arguments.
1412 PR 44729 [Sönke Tesch <st kino-fahrplan.de>, Jim Jagielski]
1414 *) mod_proxy_http: fix Host: header for literal IPv6 addresses.
1415 PR 47177 [Carlos Garcia Braschi <cgbraschi gmail.com>]
1417 *) mod_cache: Add CacheIgnoreURLSessionIdentifiers directive to ignore
1418 defined session identifiers encoded in the URL when caching.
1421 *) mod_rewrite: Fix the error string returned by RewriteRule.
1422 RewriteRule returned "RewriteCond: bad flag delimiters" when the 3rd
1423 argument of RewriteRule was not started with "[" or not ended with "]".
1424 PR 45082 [Vitaly Polonetsky <m_vitaly topixoft.com>]
1426 *) Windows: Fix usage message.
1429 *) apachectl: When passing through arguments to httpd in
1430 non-SysV mode, use the "$@" syntax to preserve arguments.
1433 *) mod_dbd: add DBDInitSQL directive to enable SQL statements to
1434 be run when a connection is opened. PR 46827
1435 [Marko Kevac <mkevac gmail.com>]
1437 *) mod_cgid: Improve handling of long AF_UNIX socket names (ScriptSock).
1438 PR 47037. [Jeff Trawick]
1440 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Check more strictly that the backend follows the AJP
1441 protocol. [Mladen Turk]
1443 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Forward remote port information by default.
1446 *) Allow MPMs to be loaded dynamically, as with most other modules. Use
1447 --enable-mpms-shared={list|"all"} to enable. This required changes to
1448 the MPM interfaces. Removed: mpm.h, mpm_default.h (as an installed
1449 header), APACHE_MPM_DIR, MPM_NAME, ap_threads_per_child,
1450 ap_max_daemons_limit, ap_my_generation, etc. ap_mpm_query() can't be
1451 called until after the register-hooks phase. [Jeff Trawick]
1453 *) mod_ssl: Add SSLProxyCheckPeerExpire and SSLProxyCheckPeerCN directives
1454 to enable stricter checking of remote server certificates.
1457 *) ab: Fix a 100% CPU loop on platforms where a failed non-blocking connect
1458 returns EINPROGRESS and a subsequent poll() returns only POLLERR.
1459 Observed on HP-UX. [Eric Covener]
1461 *) Remove broken support for BeOS, TPF, and even older platforms such
1462 as A/UX, Next, and Tandem. [Jeff Trawick]
1464 *) mod_proxy_ftp: Add ProxyFtpListOnWildcard directive to allow files with
1465 globbing characters to be retrieved instead of converted into a
1466 directory listing. PR 46789 [Dan Poirier <poirier pobox.com>]
1468 *) Provide ap_retained_data_create()/ap_retained_data_get() for preservation
1469 of module state across unload/load. [Jeff Trawick]
1471 *) mod_substitute: Fix a memory leak. PR 44948
1472 [Dan Poirier <poirier pobox.com>]
1474 Changes with Apache 2.3.2
1476 *) mod_mime_magic: Fix detection of compressed content. [Rainer Jung]
1478 *) mod_negotiation: Escape pathes of filenames in 406 responses to avoid
1479 HTML injections and HTTP response splitting. PR 46837.
1480 [Geoff Keating <geoffk apple.com>]
1482 *) mod_ssl: add support for type-safe STACK constructs in OpenSSL
1483 development HEAD. PR 45521. [Kaspar Brand, Sander Temme]
1485 *) ab: Fix maintenance of the pollset to resolve EALREADY errors
1486 with kqueue (BSD/OS X) and excessive CPU with event ports (Solaris).
1487 PR 44584. Use APR_POLLSET_NOCOPY for better performance with some
1488 pollset implementations. [Jeff Trawick]
1490 *) mod_disk_cache: The module now turns off sendfile support if
1491 'EnableSendfile off' is defined globally. [Lars Eilebrecht]
1493 *) mod_deflate: Adjust content metadata before bailing out on 304
1494 responses so that the metadata does not differ from 200 response.
1497 *) mod_deflate: Fix creation of invalid Etag headers. We now make sure
1498 that the Etag value is properly quoted when adding the gzip marker.
1499 PR 39727, 45023. [Lars Eilebrecht, Roy T. Fielding]
1501 *) Added 20x22 icons for ODF, SVG, and XML documents. PR 37185.
1504 *) Disabled DefaultType directive and removed ap_default_type()
1505 from core. We now exclude Content-Type from responses for which
1506 a media type has not been configured via mime.types, AddType,
1507 ForceType, or some other mechanism. PR 13986. [Roy T. Fielding]
1509 *) mod_rewrite: Add IPV6 variable to RewriteCond
1510 [Ryan Phillips <ryan-apache trolocsis.com>]
1512 *) core: Enhance KeepAliveTimeout to support a value in milliseconds.
1513 PR 46275. [Takashi Sato]
1515 *) rotatelogs: Allow size units B, K, M, G and combination of
1516 time and size based rotation. [Rainer Jung]
1518 *) rotatelogs: Add flag for verbose (debug) output. [Rainer Jung]
1520 *) mod_ssl: Fix merging of SSLRenegBufferSize directive. PR 46508
1521 [<tlhackque yahoo.com>]
1523 *) core: Translate the the status line to ASCII on EBCDIC platforms in
1524 ap_send_interim_response() and for locally generated "100 Continue"
1525 responses. [Eric Covener]
1527 *) prefork: Fix child process hang during graceful restart/stop in
1528 configurations with multiple listening sockets. PR 42829. [Joe Orton,
1531 *) mod_session_crypto: Ensure that SessionCryptoDriver can only be
1532 set in the global scope. [Graham Leggett]
1534 *) mod_ext_filter: We need to detect failure to startup the filter
1535 program (a mangled response is not acceptable). Fix to detect
1536 failure, and offer configuration option either to abort or
1537 to remove the filter and continue.
1540 *) mod_session_crypto: Rewrite the session_crypto module against the
1541 apr_crypto API. [Graham Leggett]
1543 *) mod_auth_form: Fix a pool lifetime issue, don't remove the subrequest
1544 until the main request is cleaned up. [Graham Leggett]
1546 Changes with Apache 2.3.1
1548 *) ap_slotmem: Add in new slot-based memory access API impl., including
1549 2 providers (mod_sharedmem and mod_plainmem) [Jim Jagielski,
1550 Jean-Frederic Clere, Brian Akins <brian.akins turner.com>]
1552 *) mod_include: support generating non-ASCII characters as entities in SSI
1555 *) core/utils: Enhance ap_escape_html API to support escaping non-ASCII chars
1558 *) mod_rewrite: fix "B" flag breakage by reverting r5589343
1559 PR 45529 [Bob Ionescu <bobsiegen googlemail.com>]
1561 *) CGI: return 504 (Gateway timeout) rather than 500 when a script
1562 times out before returning status line/headers.
1565 *) mod_cgid: fix segfault problem on solaris.
1566 PR 39332 [Masaoki Kobayashi <masaoki techfirm.co.jp>]
1568 *) mod_proxy_scgi: Added. [André Malo]
1570 *) mod_cache: Introduce 'no-cache' per-request environment variable
1571 to prevent the saving of an otherwise cacheable response.
1574 *) mod_rewrite: Introduce DiscardPathInfo|DPI flag to stop the troublesome
1575 way that per-directory rewrites append the previous notion of PATH_INFO
1576 to each substitution before evaluating subsequent rules.
1577 PR 38642 [Eric Covener]
1579 *) mod_cgid: Do not add an empty argument when calling the CGI script.
1580 PR 46380 [Ruediger Pluem]
1582 *) scoreboard: Remove unused sb_type from process_score.
1583 [Torsten Foertsch <torsten.foertsch gmx.net>, Chris Darroch]
1585 *) mod_ssl: Add SSLRenegBufferSize directive to allow changing the
1586 size of the buffer used for the request-body where necessary
1587 during a per-dir renegotiation. PR 39243. [Joe Orton]
1589 *) mod_proxy_fdpass: New module to pass a client connection over to a separate
1590 process that is reading from a unix daemon socket.
1592 *) mod_ssl: Improve environment variable extraction to be more
1593 efficient and to correctly handle DNs with duplicate tags.
1594 PR 45975. [Joe Orton]
1596 *) Remove the obsolete serial attribute from the RPM spec file. Compile
1597 against the external pcre. Add missing binaries fcgistarter, and
1598 mod_socache* and mod_session*. [Graham Leggett]
1600 Changes with Apache 2.3.0
1602 *) mod_ratelimit: New module to do bandwidth rate limiting. [Paul Querna]
1604 *) Remove X-Pad header which was added as a work around to a bug in
1605 Netscape 2.x to 4.0b2. [Takashi Sato <takashi lans-tv.com>]
1607 *) Add DTrace Statically Defined Tracing (SDT) probes.
1608 [Theo Schlossnagle <jesus omniti.com>, Paul Querna]
1610 *) mod_proxy_balancer: Move all load balancing implementations
1611 as individual, self-contained mod_proxy submodules under
1612 modules/proxy/balancers [Jim Jagielski]
1614 *) Rename APIs to include ap_ prefix:
1615 find_child_by_pid -> ap_find_child_by_pid
1616 suck_in_APR -> ap_suck_in_APR
1617 sys_privileges_handlers -> ap_sys_privileges_handlers
1618 unixd_accept -> ap_unixd_accept
1619 unixd_config -> ap_unixd_config
1620 unixd_killpg -> ap_unixd_killpg
1621 unixd_set_global_mutex_perms -> ap_unixd_set_global_mutex_perms
1622 unixd_set_proc_mutex_perms -> ap_unixd_set_proc_mutex_perms
1623 unixd_set_rlimit -> ap_unixd_set_rlimit
1626 *) mod_lbmethod_heartbeat: New module to load balance mod_proxy workers
1627 based on heartbeats. [Paul Querna]
1629 *) mod_heartmonitor: New module to collect heartbeats, and write out a file
1630 so that other modules can load balance traffic as needed. [Paul Querna]
1632 *) mod_heartbeat: New module to generate multicast heartbeats to know if a
1633 server is online. [Paul Querna]
1635 *) mod_buffer: Honour the flush bucket and flush the buffer in the
1636 input filter. Make sure that metadata buckets are written to
1637 the buffer, not to the final brigade. [Graham Leggett]
1639 *) mod_buffer: Optimise the buffering of heap buckets when the heap
1640 buckets stay exactly APR_BUCKET_BUFF_SIZE long. [Graham Leggett,
1643 *) mod_buffer: Optional support for buffering of the input and output
1644 filter stacks. Can collapse many small buckets into fewer larger
1645 buckets, and prevents excessively small chunks being sent over
1646 the wire. [Graham Leggett]
1648 *) mod_privileges: new module to make httpd on Solaris privileges-aware
1649 and to enable different virtualhosts to run with different
1650 privileges and Unix user/group IDs [Nick Kew]
1652 *) mod_mem_cache: this module has been removed. [William Rowe]
1654 *) authn/z: Remove mod_authn_default and mod_authz_default.
1657 *) authz: Fix handling of authz configurations, make default authz
1658 logic replicate 2.2.x authz logic, and replace <Satisfy*>, Reject,
1659 and AuthzMergeRules directives with Match, <Match*>, and AuthzMerge
1660 directives. [Chris Darroch]
1662 *) mod_authn_core: Prevent crash when provider alias created to
1663 provider which is not yet registered. [Chris Darroch]
1665 *) mod_authn_core: Add AuthType of None to support disabling
1666 authentication. [Chris Darroch]
1668 *) core: Allow <Limit> and <LimitExcept> directives to nest, and
1669 constrain their use to conform with that of other access control
1670 and authorization directives. [Chris Darroch]
1672 *) unixd: turn existing code into a module, and turn the set user/group
1673 and chroot into a child_init function. [Nick Kew]
1675 *) mod_dir: Support "DirectoryIndex disabled"
1676 Suggested By André Warnier <aw ice-sa.com> [Eric Covener]
1678 *) mod_ssl: Send Content-Type application/ocsp-request for POST requests to
1679 OSCP responders. PR 46014 [Dr Stephen Henson <steve openssl.org>]
1681 *) mod_authnz_ldap: don't return NULL-valued environment variables to
1682 other modules. PR 39045 [Francois Pesce <francois.pesce gmail.com>]
1684 *) Don't adjust case in pathname components that are not of interest
1685 to mod_mime. Fixes mod_negotiation's use of such components.
1686 PR 43250 [Basant Kumar Kukreja <basant.kukreja sun.com>]
1688 *) Be tolerant in what you accept - accept slightly broken
1689 status lines from a backend provided they include a valid status code.
1690 PR 44995 [Rainer Jung <rainer.jung kippdata.de>]
1692 *) New module mod_sed: filter Request/Response bodies through sed
1693 [Basant Kumar Kukreja <basant.kukreja sun.com>]
1695 *) mod_auth_form: Make sure that basic authentication is correctly
1696 faked directly after login. [Graham Leggett]
1698 *) mod_session_cookie, mod_session_dbd: Make sure cookies are set both
1699 within the output headers and error output headers, so that the
1700 session is maintained across redirects. [Graham Leggett]
1702 *) mod_auth_form: Make sure the logged in user is populated correctly
1703 after a form login. Fixes a missing REMOTE_USER variable directly
1704 following a login. [Graham Leggett]
1706 *) mod_session_cookie: Make sure that cookie attributes are correctly
1707 included in the blank cookie when cookies are removed. This fixes an
1708 inability to log out when using mod_auth_form. [Graham Leggett]
1710 *) mod_session: Prevent a segfault when a CGI script sets a cookie with a
1711 null value. [David Shane Holden <dpejesh apache.org>]
1713 *) core, authn/z: Determine registered authn/z providers directly in
1714 ap_setup_auth_internal(), which allows optional functions that just
1715 wrapped ap_list_provider_names() to be removed from authn/z modules.
1718 *) authn/z: Convert common provider version strings to macros.
1721 *) core: When testing for slash-terminated configuration paths in
1722 ap_location_walk(), don't look past the start of an empty string
1723 such as that created by a <Location ""> directive.
1726 *) core, mod_proxy: If a kept_body is present, it becomes safe for
1727 subrequests to support message bodies. Make sure that safety
1728 checks within the core and within the proxy are not triggered
1729 when kept_body is present. This makes it possible to embed
1730 proxied POST requests within mod_include. [Graham Leggett]
1732 *) mod_auth_form: Make sure the input filter stack is properly set
1733 up before reading the login form. Make sure the kept body filter
1734 is correctly inserted to ensure the body can be read a second
1735 time safely should the authn be successful. [Graham Leggett,
1738 *) mod_request: Insert the KEPT_BODY filter via the insert_filter
1739 hook instead of during fixups. Add a safety check to ensure the
1740 filters cannot be inserted more than once. [Graham Leggett,
1743 *) ap_cache_cacheable_headers_out() will (now) always
1744 merge an error headers _before_ clearing them and _before_
1745 merging in the actual entity headers and doing normal
1746 hop-by-hop cleansing. [Dirk-Willem van Gulik].
1748 *) cache: retire ap_cache_cacheable_hdrs_out() which was used
1749 for both in- and out-put headers; and replace it by a single
1750 ap_cache_cacheable_headers() wrapped in a in- and out-put
1751 specific ap_cache_cacheable_headers_in()/out(). The latter
1752 which will also merge error and ensure content-type. To keep
1753 cache modules consistent with ease. This API change bumps
1754 up the minor MM by one [Dirk-Willem van Gulik].
1756 *) Move the KeptBodySize directive, kept_body filters and the
1757 ap_parse_request_body function out of the http module and into a
1758 new module called mod_request, reducing the size of the core.
1761 *) mod_dbd: Handle integer configuration directive parameters with a
1764 *) Change the directives within the mod_session* modules to be valid
1765 both inside and outside the location/directory sections, as
1766 suggested by wrowe. [Graham Leggett]
1768 *) mod_auth_form: Add a module capable of allowing end users to log
1769 in using an HTML form, storing the credentials within mod_session.
1772 *) Add a function to the http filters that is able to parse an HTML
1773 form request with the type of application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
1776 *) mod_session_crypto: Initialise SSL in the post config hook.
1777 [Ruediger Pluem, Graham Leggett]
1779 *) mod_session_dbd: Add a session implementation capable of storing
1780 session information in a SQL database via the dbd interface. Useful
1781 for sites where session privacy is important. [Graham Leggett]
1783 *) mod_session_crypto: Add a session encoding implementation capable
1784 of encrypting and decrypting sessions wherever they may be stored.
1785 Introduces a level of privacy when sessions are stored on the
1786 browser. [Graham Leggett]
1788 *) mod_session_cookie: Add a session implementation capable of storing
1789 session information within cookies on the browser. Useful for high
1790 volume sites where server bound sessions are too resource intensive.
1793 *) mod_session: Add a generic session interface to unify the different
1794 attempts at saving persistent sessions across requests.
1797 *) core, authn/z: Avoid calling access control hooks for internal requests
1798 with configurations which match those of initial request. Revert to
1799 original behaviour (call access control hooks for internal requests
1800 with URIs different from initial request) if any access control hooks or
1801 providers are not registered as permitting this optimization.
1802 Introduce wrappers for access control hook and provider registration
1803 which can accept additional mode and flag data. [Chris Darroch]
1805 *) Introduced ap_expr API for expression evaluation.
1806 This is adapted from mod_include, which is the first module
1810 *) mod_authz_dbd: When redirecting after successful login/logout per
1811 AuthzDBDRedirectQuery, do not report authorization failure, and use
1812 first row returned by database query instead of last row.
1815 *) mod_ldap: Correctly return all requested attribute values
1816 when some attributes have a null value.
1817 PR 44560 [Anders Kaseorg <anders kaseorg.com>]
1819 *) core: check symlink ownership if both FollowSymlinks and
1820 SymlinksIfOwnerMatch are set [Nick Kew]
1822 *) core: fix origin checking in SymlinksIfOwnerMatch
1823 PR 36783 [Robert L Mathews <rob-apache.org.bugs tigertech.net>]
1825 *) Activate mod_cache, mod_file_cache and mod_disk_cache as part of the
1826 'most' set for '--enable-modules' and '--enable-shared-mods'. Include
1827 mod_mem_cache in 'all' as well. [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
1829 *) Also install mod_so.h, mod_rewrite.h and mod_cache.h; as these
1830 contain public function declarations which are useful for
1831 third party module authors. PR 42431 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik].
1833 *) mod_dir, mod_negotiation: pass the output filter information
1834 to newly created sub requests; as these are later on used
1835 as true requests with an internal redirect. This allows for
1836 mod_cache et.al. to trap the results of the redirect.
1837 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Ruediger Pluem]
1839 *) mod_ldap: Add support (taking advantage of the new APR capability)
1840 for ldap rebind callback while chasing referrals. This allows direct
1841 searches on LDAP servers (in particular MS Active Directory 2003+)
1842 using referrals without the use of the global catalog.
1843 PRs 26538, 40268, and 42557 [Paul J. Reder]
1845 *) ApacheMonitor.exe: Introduce --kill argument for use by the
1846 installer. This will permit the installation tool to remove
1847 all running instances before attempting to remove the .exe.
1850 *) mod_ssl: Add support for OCSP validation of client certificates.
1851 PR 41123. [Marc Stern <marc.stern approach.be>, Joe Orton]
1853 *) mod_serf: New module for Reverse Proxying. [Paul Querna]
1855 *) core: Add the option to keep aside a request body up to a certain
1856 size that would otherwise be discarded, to be consumed by filters
1857 such as mod_include. When enabled for a directory, POST requests
1858 to shtml files can be passed through to embedded scripts as POST
1859 requests, rather being downgraded to GET requests. [Graham Leggett]
1861 *) mod_ssl: Fix TLS upgrade (RFC 2817) support. PR 41231. [Joe Orton]
1863 *) scoreboard: Correctly declare ap_time_process_request.
1864 PR 43789 [Tom Donovan <Tom.Donovan acm.org>]
1866 *) core; scoreboard: ap_get_scoreboard_worker(sbh) now takes the sbh member
1867 from the connection rec, ap_get_scoreboard_worker(proc, thread) will now
1868 provide the unusual legacy lookup. [William Rowe]
1870 *) mpm winnt: fix null pointer dereference
1871 PR 42572 [Davi Arnaut]
1873 *) mod_authnz_ldap, mod_authn_dbd: Tidy up the code to expose authn
1874 parameters to the environment. Improve portability to
1875 EBCDIC machines by using apr_toupper(). [Martin Kraemer]
1877 *) mod_ldap, mod_authnz_ldap: Add support for nested groups (i.e. the ability
1878 to authorize an authenticated user via a "require ldap-group X" directive
1879 where the user is not in group X, but is in a subgroup contained in X.
1880 PR 42891 [Paul J. Reder]
1882 *) mod_ssl: Add support for caching SSL Sessions in memcached. [Paul Querna]
1884 *) apxs: Enhance -q flag to print all known variables and their values
1885 when invoked without variable name(s).
1886 [William Rowe, Sander Temme]
1888 *) apxs: Eliminate run-time check for mod_so. PR 40653.
1889 [David M. Lee <dmlee crossroads.com>]
1891 *) beos MPM: Create pmain pool and run modules' child_init hooks when
1892 entering ap_mpm_run(), then destroy pmain when exiting ap_mpm_run().
1895 *) netware MPM: Destroy pmain pool when exiting ap_mpm_run() so that
1896 cleanups registered in modules' child_init hooks are performed.
1899 *) Fix issue which could cause error messages to be written to access logs
1900 on Win32. PR 40476. [Tom Donovan <Tom.Donovan acm.org>]
1902 *) The LockFile directive, which specifies the location of
1903 the accept() mutex lockfile, is deprecated. Instead, the
1904 AcceptMutex directive now takes an optional lockfile
1905 location parameter, ala SSLMutex. [Jim Jagielski]
1907 *) mod_authn_dbd: Export any additional columns queried in the SQL select
1908 into the environment with the name AUTHENTICATE_<COLUMN>. This brings
1909 mod_authn_dbd behaviour in line with mod_authnz_ldap. [Graham Leggett]
1911 *) mod_dbd: Key the storage of prepared statements on the hex string
1912 value of server_rec, rather than the server name, as the server name
1913 may change (eg when the server name is set) at any time, causing
1914 weird behaviour in modules dependent on mod_dbd. [Graham Leggett]
1916 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Added win32 build. [Mladen Turk]
1918 *) sendfile_nonblocking() takes the _brigade_ as an argument, gets
1919 the first bucket from the brigade, finds it not to be a FILE
1920 bucket and barfs. The fix is to pass a bucket rather than a brigade.
1921 [Niklas Edmundsson <nikke acc.umu.se>]
1923 *) mod_rewrite: support rewritemap by SQL query [Nick Kew]
1925 *) ap_get_server_version() has been removed. Third-party modules must
1926 now use ap_get_server_banner() or ap_get_server_description().
1929 *) All MPMs: Introduce a check_config phase between pre_config and
1930 open_logs, to allow modules to review interdependent configuration
1931 directive values and adjust them while messages can still be logged
1932 to the console. Handle relevant MPM directives during this phase
1933 and format messages for both the console and the error log, as
1934 appropriate. [Chris Darroch]
1936 *) core: Do not allow internal redirects like the DirectoryIndex of mod_dir
1937 to circumvent the symbolic link checks imposed by FollowSymLinks and
1938 SymLinksIfOwnerMatch. [Nick Kew, Ruediger Pluem, William Rowe]
1940 *) New SSLLogLevelDebugDump [ None (default) | IO (not bytes) | Bytes ]
1941 configures the I/O Dump of SSL traffic, when LogLevel is set to Debug.
1942 The default is none as this is far greater debugging resolution than
1943 the typical administrator is prepared to untangle. [William Rowe]
1945 *) mod_disk_cache: If possible, check if the size of an object to cache is
1946 within the configured boundaries before actually saving data.
1947 [Niklas Edmundsson <nikke acc.umu.se>]
1949 *) Worker and event MPMs: Remove improper scoreboard updates which were
1950 performed in the event of a fork() failure. [Chris Darroch]
1952 *) Add support for fcgi:// proxies to mod_rewrite.
1953 [Markus Schiegl <ms schiegl.com>]
1955 *) Remove incorrect comments from scoreboard.h regarding conditional
1956 loading of worker_score structure with mod_status, and remove unused
1957 definitions relating to old life_status field.
1958 [Chris Darroch <chrisd pearsoncmg.com>]
1960 *) Remove allocation of memory for unused array of lb_score pointers
1961 in ap_init_scoreboard(). [Chris Darroch <chrisd pearsoncmg.com>]
1963 *) Add mod_proxy_fcgi, a FastCGI back end for mod_proxy.
1964 [Garrett Rooney, Jim Jagielski, Paul Querna]
1966 *) Event MPM: Fill in the scoreboard's tid field. PR 38736.
1967 [Chris Darroch <chrisd pearsoncmg.com>]
1969 *) mod_charset_lite: Remove Content-Length when output filter can
1970 invalidate it. Warn when input filter can invalidate it.
1973 *) Authz: Add the new module mod_authn_core that will provide common
1974 authn directives such as 'AuthType', 'AuthName'. Move the directives
1975 'AuthType' and 'AuthName' out of the core module and merge mod_authz_alias
1976 into mod_authn_core. [Brad Nicholes]
1978 *) Authz: Move the directives 'Order', 'Allow', 'Deny' and 'Satisfy'
1979 into the new module mod_access_compat which can be loaded to provide
1980 support for these directives.
1983 *) Authz: Move the 'Require' directive from the core module as well as
1984 add the directives '<SatisfyAll>', '<SatisfyOne>', '<RequireAlias>'
1985 and 'Reject' to mod_authz_core. The new directives introduce 'AND/OR'
1986 logic into the authorization processing. [Brad Nicholes]
1988 *) Authz: Add the new module mod_authz_core which acts as the
1989 authorization provider vector and contains common authz
1990 directives. [Brad Nicholes]
1992 *) Authz: Renamed mod_authz_dbm authz providers from 'group' and
1993 'file-group' to 'dbm-group' and 'dbm-file-group'. [Brad Nicholes]
1995 *) Authz: Added the new authz providers 'env', 'ip', 'host', 'all' to handle
1996 host-based access control provided by mod_authz_host and invoked
1997 through the 'Require' directive. [Brad Nicholes]
1999 *) Authz: Convert all of the authz modules from hook based to
2000 provider based. [Brad Nicholes]
2002 *) mod_cache: Add CacheMinExpire directive to set the minimum time in
2003 seconds to cache a document.
2004 [Brian Akins <brian.akins turner.com>, Ruediger Pluem]
2006 *) mod_authz_dbd: SQL authz with Login/Session support [Nick Kew]
2008 *) Fix typo in ProxyStatus syntax error message.
2009 [Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet wanadoo.fr>]
2011 *) Asynchronous write completion for the Event MPM. [Brian Pane]
2013 *) Added an End-Of-Request bucket type. The logging of a request and
2014 the freeing of its pool are now done when the EOR bucket is destroyed.
2015 This has the effect of delaying the logging until right after the last
2016 of the response is sent; ap_core_output_filter() calls the access logger
2017 indirectly when it destroys the EOR bucket. [Brian Pane]
2019 *) Rewrite of logresolve support utility: IPv6 addresses are now supported
2020 and the format of statistical output has changed. [Colm MacCarthaigh]
2022 *) Rewrite of ap_coreoutput_filter to do nonblocking writes [Brian Pane]
2024 *) Added new connection states for handler and write completion
2027 *) mod_cgid: Refuse to work on Solaris 10 due to OS bugs. PR 34264.
2030 *) Teach mod_ssl to use arbitrary OIDs in an SSLRequire directive,
2031 allowing string-valued client certificate attributes to be used for
2032 access control, as in: SSLRequire "value" in OID("1.3.6.1.4.1.18060.1")
2033 [Martin Kraemer, David Reid]
2035 [Apache 2.3.0-dev includes those bug fixes and changes with the
2036 Apache 2.2.xx tree as documented, and except as noted, below.]
2038 Changes with Apache 2.2.x and later:
2040 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/CHANGES?view=markup
2042 Changes with Apache 2.0.x and later:
2044 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x/CHANGES?view=markup