1 Changes with Apache 2.0b1
2 *) Add new LogFormat directive, %D, to log time it takes to serve a
3 request in microseconds. [Bill Stoddard]
5 *) Change AddInputFilter and AddOutputFilter to SetInputFilter and
6 SetOutputFilter. This corresponds nicely with the other Set
7 directives, which operate on containers while the Add* directives
8 tend to work directly on extensions. [Ryan Bloom]
10 *) Cleanup the header handling a bit. This uses the apr_brigade_*
11 functions for the buffering so that we don't need to compute
12 the length of the headers before we actually create the header
15 *) Allow filters to buffer data using the ap_f* functions. These have
16 become macros that resolve directly to apr_brigade_*.
19 *) Get the Unix MPM's to do a graceful restart again. If we are going
20 to register a cleanup with ap_cleanup_scoreboard, then we have to
21 kill the cleanup with the same function, and that function can't be
24 *) Install all required header files. Without these, it was not
25 possible to compile some modules outside of the server.
28 *) Fix the AliasMatch directive in Apache 2.0. When we brought a patch
29 forward from 1.3 to 2.0, we missed a single line, which broke regex
32 *) We have a poor abstraction in the protocol. This is a temporary
33 hack to fix the bug, but it will need to be fixed for real. If
34 we find an error while sending out a custom error response, we back
35 up to the first non-OK request and send the data. Then, when we send
36 the EOS from finalize_request_protocol, we go to the last request,
37 to ensure that we aren't sending an EOS to a request that has already
38 received one. Because the data is sent on a different request than
39 the EOS, the error text never gets sent down the filter stack. This
40 fixes the problem by finding the last request, and sending the data
41 with that request. [Ryan Bloom]
43 *) Make the server status page show the correct restart time, and
44 thus the proper uptime. [Ryan Bloom]
46 *) Move the CGI creation logic from mod_include to mod_cgi(d). This
47 should reduce the amount of duplicate code that is required to
49 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
51 *) ap_new_connection() closes the socket and returns NULL if a socket
52 call fails. Usually this is due to a connection which has been
55 *) Move the Apache version information out of httpd.h and into release.h.
56 This is in preparation for the first tag with the new tag and release
59 *) Begin restructuring scoreboard code to enable adding back in
60 the ability to use IPC other than shared memory.
61 Get mod_status working on Windows again. [Bill Stoddard]
63 *) Make mod_status work with 2.0. This will work for prefork,
64 mpmt_pthread, and dexter. [Ryan Bloom]
66 *) Correct a typo in httpd.conf.
67 [Kunihiro Tanaka <tanaka@apache.or.jp>] PR#7154
69 *) Really fix mod_rewrite map lookups this time. [Tony Finch]
71 *) Get the correct IP address if ServerName isn't set and we can't
72 find a fully-qualified domain name at startup.
73 PR#7170 [Danek Duvall <dduvall@eng.sun.com>]
75 *) Make mod_cgid work with SuExec. [Ryan Bloom]
77 *) Adopt apr user/group name features for mod_rewrite. Eliminates some
78 'extra' stat's for user/group since they should never occur, and now
79 resolves the SCRIPT_USER and SCRIPT_GROUP, including on WinNT NTFS
80 volumes. [William Rowe]
82 *) Adopt apr features to simplify mod_includes. This changes the
83 behavior of the USER_NAME variable, unknown uid's are now reported
84 as USER_NAME="<unknown>" rather than the old user#000 result.
85 WinNT now resolves USER_NAME on NTFS volumes. [William Rowe]
87 *) Adopt apr features for simplifing mod_userdir, and accept the new
88 Win32/OS2 exceptions without hiccuping. [William Rowe]
90 *) Replace configure --with-optim option by using and saving the
91 environment variable OPTIM instead. This is needed because configure
92 options do not support multiple flags separated by spaces.
95 *) Fix some byterange handling. If we get a byte range that looks like
96 "-999999" where that is past the end of the file, we should return
97 a PARTIAL CONTENT status code, and return the whole file as one big
98 byterange. This matches the 1.3 handling now. [Ryan Bloom]
100 *) Make the error bucket a real meta-data bucket. This means that the
101 bucket length is 0, and a read returns NULL data. If one of these
102 buckets is passed down after the headers are sent, this data will
103 just be ignored. [Greg Stein]
105 *) The prefork MPM wasn't killing child processes correctly if a restart
106 signal was received while the process was serving a request. The child
107 process would become the equivalent of a second parent process. If
108 we break out of the accept loop, then we need to do die after cleaning
109 up after ourselves. [Ryan Bloom]
111 *) Change the Prefork MPM to use SIGWINCH instead of SIGUSR1 for graceful
112 restarts. [Ryan Bloom]
114 *) Modify the apr_stat/lstat/getfileinfo calls within apache to use
115 the most optimal APR_FINFO_wanted bits. This spares Win32 from
116 performing very expensive owner, group and permission lookups
117 and allows the server to function until these apr_finfo_t fields
118 are implemented under Win32. [William Rowe]
120 *) Support for typedsafe optional functions - that is functions exported by
121 optional modules, which, therefore, may or may not be present, depending
122 on configuration. See the experimental modules mod_optional_fn_{ex,im}port
123 for sample code. [Ben Laurie]
125 *) filters can now report an HTTP error to the server. This is done
126 by sending a brigade where the first bucket is an error_bucket.
127 This bucket is a simple bucket that stores an HTTP error and
128 a string. Currently the string is not used, but it may be needed
129 to output an error log. The http_header_filter will find this
130 bucket, and output the error text, and then return
131 AP_FILTER_ERROR, which informs the server that the error web page
132 has already been sent. [Ryan Bloom]
134 *) If we get an error, then we should remove all filters except for
135 those critical to serving a web page. This fixes a bug, where
136 error pages were going through the byterange filter, even though
137 that made no sense. [Ryan Bloom]
139 *) Relax the syntax checking of Host: headers in order to support
140 iDNS. PR#6635 [Tony Finch]
142 *) Cleanup the byterange filter to use the apr_brigade_partition
143 and apr_bucket_copy functions. This removes a lot of very messy
144 code, and hopefully makes this filter more stable.
147 *) Remove AddModule and ClearModuleList directives. Both of these
148 directives were used to ensure that modules could be enabled
149 in the correct order. That requirement is now gone, because
150 we use hooks to ensure that modules are in the correct order.
153 *) When SuExec is specified, we need to add it to the list of
154 targets to be built. If we don't, then any changes to the
155 configuration won't affect SuExec, unless 'make suexec' is
156 specifically run. [Ryan Bloom]
158 *) Cleaned out open_file from mod_file_cache, as apr now accepts
159 the APR_XTHREAD argument to open a file for consumption by
160 parallel threads on win32. [William Rowe]
162 *) Correct a bug in determining when we follow symlinks. The code
163 expected a stat -1 result, not an apr_status_t positive error.
164 Also check if the APR_FINFO_USER fields are valid before we
165 follow the link. [William Rowe]
167 *) Move initgroupgs, ap_uname2id and ap_gname2id from util.c to
168 mpm_common.c. These functions are only valid on some platforms,
169 so they should not be in the main-line code. [Ryan Bloom]
171 *) Remove ap_chdir_file(). This function is not thread-safe,
172 and nobody is currently using it. [Ryan Bloom]
174 *) Do not try to run make depend if there are no .c files in the
175 current directory, doing so makes `make depend` fail.
178 *) Update highperformance.conf to work with either prefork or
179 pthreads mpms. [Greg Ames]
181 *) Stop checking to see if this is a pipelined request if we know
182 for a fact that it isn't. Basically, if r->connection->keepalive == 0.
183 This keeps us from making an extra read call when serving a 1.0
184 request. [Ryan Bloom and Greg Stein]
186 *) Fix the handling of variable expansion look-ahead in mod_rewrite,
187 i.e. syntax like %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER}, and also fix the parsing of
188 more complicated nested RewriteMap lookups. PR#7087 [Tony Finch]
190 *) Fix the RFC number mentioned when complaining about a missing
191 Host: header. PR#7079 [Alexey Toptygin <alexeyt@wam.umd.edu>]
193 *) Fix an endless loop in ab which occurred when ab was posting
194 and the server dropped the connection unexpectedly.
197 *) Fix a segfault while handling request bodies in ap_http_filter().
198 This problem has been seen with mod_dav usage as well as with
199 requests where the body was just being discarded. [Jeff Trawick]
201 *) Some adjustment on the handling and automatic setting (via
202 hints.m4) of various compilation flags (eg: CFLAGS). Also,
203 add the capability to specify flags (NOTEST_CFLAGS and
204 NOTEST_LDFLAGS) which are used to compile Apache, but
205 not used during the configuration process. Useful for
206 flags like "-Werror". [Jim Jagielski]
208 *) Stop using environment variables to force debug mode or
209 no detach. We now use the -D command line argument to
210 specify the correct mode. -DONE_PROCESS and -DNO_DETACH.
211 [Greg Stein, Ryan Bloom]
213 *) Change handlers to use hooks. [Ben Laurie]
215 *) Stop returning copies of filenames from both apr_file_t and
216 apr_dir_t. We pstrdup the filenames that we store in the
217 actual structures, so we don't need to pstrdup the strings again.
220 *) mod_cgi: Fix some problems where the wrong error value was being
221 traced. [Jeff Trawick]
223 *) EBCDIC: Fix some missing ASCII conversion on some protocol data.
226 *) Add generic hooks. [Ben Laurie]
228 *) Use a real pool to dup the error log descriptor. [Ryan Bloom]
230 *) Fix a segfault caused by mod_ext_filter when the external filter
231 program does not exist. [Jeff Trawick]
233 *) Fix an output truncation error when on an HTTP >= 1.0 request an
234 object of size between DEFAULT_BUCKET_SIZE and AP_MIN_BYTES_TO_WRITE
235 was served through mod_charset_lite (or anything else that would
236 create a transient bucket in this size range). ap_bucket_make_heap()
237 silently failed (fixed), transient_setaside() discovered it, but
238 ap_save_brigade() ignored it (fixed). [Jeff Trawick]
240 *) Ignore \r\n or \n when using PEEK mode for input filters. The problem
241 is that some browsers send extra lines at the end of POST requests, and
242 we don't want to delay sending data back to the user just because the
243 browser isn't well behaved. [Ryan Bloom]
245 *) Get SuEXEC working again. We can't send absolute paths to suExec
246 because it refuses to execute those programs. SuEXEC also wasn't
247 always recognizing configuration changes made using the autoconf
250 *) Allow the buildconf process to find the config.m4 files in the correct
251 order. Basically, we can now name config.m4 files as config\d\d.m4,
252 and we will sort them correctly when inserting them into the build
253 process. [Ryan Bloom]
255 *) Get mod_cgid to use apr calls for creating the actual CGI process.
256 This also allows mod_cgid to use ap_os_create_priviledged_process,
257 thus allowing for SuExec execution from mod_cgid. Currently, we do
258 not support everything that standard SuExec supports, but at least
259 it works minimally now. [Ryan Bloom]
261 *) Allow SuExec to be configured from the ./configure command line.
264 *) Update some of the docs in README and INSTALL to reflect some of
265 the changes in Apache 2.0 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
267 *) If we get EAGAIN returned from the call to apr_sendfile, then we
268 need to call sendfile again. This gets us serving large files
269 such as apache_2.0a9.tar.gz on FreeBSD again. [Ryan Bloom]
271 *) Get the support programs building cleanly again.
272 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
274 *) The Apache/Win32 Apache.exe and dll's now live in bin. The
275 current directory logic now backs up over bin/ to determine the
276 server root from the Apache.exe path.
278 *) Apache/Win32 now follows the standard conventions of mod_foo.so
279 loadable modules, dynamic libs are all named libfoo.dll, and the
280 makefile.win populates the include, lib and libexec directories.
282 *) Apache is now IPv6-capable. On systems where APR supports IPv6,
283 Apache gets IPv6 listening sockets by default. Additionally, the
284 Listen, NameVirtualHost, and <VirtualHost> directives support IPv6
285 numeric address strings (e.g., "Listen [fe80::1]:8080").
288 *) Modify the install directory layout. Modules are now installed in
289 modules/. Shared libraries should be installed in libraries/, but
290 we don't have any of those on Unix yet. All install directories
291 are modifyable at configure time. [Ryan Bloom]
293 *) Install all header files in the same directory on Unix. [Ryan Bloom]
295 *) Get the functions in server/linked into the server, regardless of
296 which modules linked into the server. This uses the same hack
297 for Apache that we use for APR and apr-util to ensure all of the
298 necessary functions are linked. As a part of thise, the CHARSET_EBCDIC
299 was renamed to AP_CHARSET_EBCDIC for namespace protection, and to make
300 the scripts a bit easier.
303 *) Rework the RFC1413 handling to make it thread-safe, use a timeout
304 on the query, and remove IPv4 dependencies. [Jeff Trawick]
306 *) Get all of the auth modules to the point that they will install and
307 be loadable into the server. Our new build/install mechanism expects
308 that all modules will have a common name format. The auth modules
309 didn't use that format, so we didn't install them properly.
312 *) API routines ap_pgethostbyname() and ap_pduphostent() are no longer
313 available. Use apr_getaddrinfo() instead. [Jeff Trawick]
315 *) Get "NameVirtualHost *" working in 2.0. [Ryan Bloom]
317 *) Return HTTP_RANGE_NOT_SATISFIABLE if the every range requested starts
318 after the end of the response. [Ryan Bloom]
320 *) Get byterange requests working with responses that do not have a
321 content-length. Because of the way byterange requests work, we have to
322 have all of the data before we can actually do the byterange, so we
323 can compute the content-length in the byterange filter.
326 *) Get exe CGI's working again on Windows.
329 *) Get mod_cgid and mod_rewrite to work as DSOs by changing the way
330 they keep track of whether or not their post config hook has been
331 called before. Instead of a static variable (which is replaced when
332 the DSO is loaded a second time), use userdata in the process pool.
335 Changes with Apache 2.0a9
337 *) Win32 now requires perl to complete the final install step for users
338 to build + install on Win32. Makefile.win now rewrites @@ServerRoot@
339 and installs the conf, htdocs and htdocs/manual directories.
342 *) Make mod_include use a hash table to associate directive tags with
343 functions. This allows modules to implement their own SSI tags easily.
344 The idea is simple enough, a module can insert it's own tag and function
345 combination into a hash table provided by mod_include. While mod_include
346 parses an SSI file, when it encounters a tag in the file, it does a
347 hash lookup to find the function that implements that tag, and passes
348 all of the relevant data to the function. That function is then
349 responsible for processing the tag and handing the remaining data back
350 to mod_include for further processing.
351 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
353 *) Get rid of ap_new_apr_connection(). ap_new_connection() now has
354 fewer parameters: the local and remote socket addresses were removed
355 from the parameter list because all required information is available
356 via the APR socket. [Jeff Trawick]
358 *) Distribution directory structure reorganized to reflect a
359 normal source distribution with external install targets.
362 *) The MPMs that need multiple segments of shared memory now create
363 two apr_shmem_t variables, one for each shared memory allocation.
364 the problem is that we can't determine how much memory will be required
365 for shared memory allocations once we try to allocate more than one
366 variable. The MM code automatically aligns the shared memory allocations,
367 so we end up needing to pad the amount of shared memory we want based
368 on how many variables will be allocated out of the shared memory segment.
369 It is just easier to create a second apr_shmem_t variable, and two
373 *) Cleanup the export list a bit. This creates a single unified list of
374 functions exported by APR. The export list is generated at configure
375 time, and that list is then used to generate the exports.c file.
376 Because of the way the export list is generated, we only export those
377 functions that are valid on the platform we are building on.
380 *) Enable logging the cookie with mod_log_config
381 [Sander van Zoest <sander@covalent.net>]
383 *) Fix a segfault in mod_info when it reaches the end of the configuration.
386 *) Added lib/aputil/ as a placeholder for utility functions which are not
387 specific to the Apache HTTP Server (but do not make sense with APR).
388 The first utility is "apu_dbm": a set of functions to work with DBM
389 files. This first version can be compiled for SDBM or GDBM databases.
392 *) Complete re-write of mod_include. This makes mod_include a filter that
393 uses buckets directly. This has now served the FAQ correctly.
394 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
396 *) Allow modules to specify the first filter in a sub_request when
397 making the sub_request. This keeps modules from having to change the
398 output_filter immediately after creating the sub-request, and therefore
399 skip the sub_req_output_filter. [Ryan Bloom]
401 *) Update ab to accept URLs with IPv6 literal address strings (in the
402 format described in RFC 2732), and to build Host header fields in
403 the same format. This allows IPv6 literal address strings to be
404 used with ab. This support has been tested against Apache 1.3 with
405 the KAME patch, but Apache 2.0 does not yet work with this format
406 of the Host header field. [Jeff Trawick]
408 *) Accomodate an out-of-space condition in the piped logs and the
409 rotatelogs.c code, and no longer churn log processes for this
410 condition. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
412 *) Add support for partial writes with apr_sendfile() to core_output_filter.
415 Changes with Apache 2.0a8
417 *) Add a directive to mod_mime so that filters can be associated with
421 *) Get multi-views working again. We were setting the path_info
422 field incorrectly if we couldn't find the specified file.
425 *) Fix 304 processing. The core should never try to send the headers
426 down the filter stack. Always, just setup the table in the request
427 record, and let the header filter convert it to data that is ready
431 *) More fixes for the proxy. There are still bugs in the proxy code,
432 but this has now proxied www.yahoo.com and www.ntrnet.net (my ISP)
436 *) Fix params for apr_getaddrinfo() call in connect proxy handler.
439 *) APR: Add new apr_getopt_long function to handle long options.
440 [B. W. Fitzpatrick <fitz@red-bean.com>]
442 *) APR: Change apr_connect() to take apr_sockaddr_t instead of hostname.
443 Add generic apr_create_socket(). Add apr_getaddrinfo() for doing
444 hostname resolution/address string parsing and building
445 apr_sockaddr_t. Add apr_get_sockaddr() for getting the address
446 of one of the apr_sockaddr_t structures for a socket. Change
447 apr_bind() to take apr_sockaddr_t. [David Reid and Jeff Trawick]
449 *) Remove the BUFF from the HTTP proxy. This is still a bit ugly, but
450 I have proxied pages with it, cleanup will commence soon.
453 *) Make the proxy work with filters. This isn't perfect, because we
454 aren't dealing with the headers properly. [Ryan Bloom]
456 *) Do not send a content-length iff the C-L is 0 and this is a head
457 request. [Ryan Bloom]
459 *) Make cgi-bin work as a regular directory when using mod_vhost_alias
460 with no VirtualScriptAlias directives. PR#6829 [Tony Finch]
462 *) Remove BUFF from the PROXY connect handling. [Ryan Bloom]
464 *) Get the default_handler to stop trying to deal with HEAD requests.
465 The idea is to let the content-length filter compute the C-L before
466 we try to send the data. If we can get the C-L correctly, then we
467 should send it in the HEAD response.
470 *) The Header filter can now determine if a body should be sent based
471 on r->header_only. The general idea of this is that if we delay
472 deciding to send the body, then we might be able to compute the
473 content-length correctly, which will help caching proxies to cache
474 our data better. Any handler that doesn't want to try to compute
475 the content-length can just send an EOS bucket without data and
476 everything will just work.
479 *) Add the referer to the error log if one is available.
480 [Markus Gyger <mgyger@itr.ch>]
482 *) Mod_info.c has now been ported to Apache 2.0. As a part of this
483 change, the root of the configuration tree has been exposed to modules
485 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
487 *) Get the core_output_filter to use the bucket interface directly.
488 This keeps us from calling the content-length filter multiple times
489 for a simple static request.
492 *) We are sending the content-type correctly now.
493 [Ryan Bloom and Will Rowe]
495 *) APR on FreeBSD: Fix a bug in apr_sendfile() which caused us to report
496 a bogus bytes-sent value when the only thing being sent was trailers
497 and writev() returned an error (or EAGAIN). [Jeff Trawick]
499 *) Get SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT working again. This uses the
500 hints file to determine which platforms define
501 SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT.
504 *) APR: add apr_get_home_directory() [Jeff Trawick]
506 *) Initial import of 1.3-current mod_proxy. [Chuck Murcko]
508 *) Not all platforms have INADDR_NONE defined by default. Apache
509 used to make this check and define INADDR_NONE if appropriate,
510 but APR needs the check too, and I suspect other applications will
511 as well. APR now defines APR_INADDR_NONE, which is always a valid
512 value on all platforms.
513 [Branko Èibej <brane@xbc.nu>]
515 *) Destroy the pthread mutex in lock_intra_cleanup() for PR#6824.
516 [Shuichi Kitaguchi <ki@hh.iij4u.or.jp>]
518 *) Relax the syntax checking of Host: headers in order to support
519 iDNS. PR#6635 [Tony Finch]
521 *) When reading from file buckets we convert to an MMAP if it makes
522 sense. This also simplifies the default handler because the
523 default handler no longer needs to try to create MMAPs.
526 *) BUFF has been removed from the main server. The BUFF code will remain
527 in the code until it has been purged from the proxy module as well.
530 *) Byteranges have been completely re-written to be a filter. This
531 has been tested, and I believe it is working correctly, but it could
532 doesn't work for the Adobe Acrobat plug-in. The output almost matches
533 the output from 1.3, the only difference being that 1.3 includes
534 a content-length in the response, and this does not.
537 *) APR read/write functions and bucket read functions now operate
538 on unsigned integers, instead of signed ones. It doesn't make
539 any sense to use signed ints, because we return the error codes,
540 so if we have an error we should report 0 bytes read or written.
543 *) Always compute the content length, whether it is sent or not.
544 The reason for this, is that it allows us to correctly report
545 the bytes_sent when logging the request. This also simplifies
546 content-length filter a bit, and fixes the actual byte-reporing
547 code in mod_log_config.c
550 *) Remove AP_END_OF_BRIGADE definition. This does not signify what
551 it says, because it was only used by EOS and FLUSH buckets. Since
552 neither of those are required at the end of a brigade, this was
553 really signifying FLUSH_THE_DATA, but that can be determined better
554 by checking AP_BUCKET_IS_EOS() or AP_BUCKET_IS_FLUSH. EOS and FLUSH
555 buckets now return a length of 0, which is actually the amount of data
556 read, so they make more sense.
559 *) Allow the core_output_filter to save some data past the end of a
560 request. If we get an EOS bucket, we only send the data if it
561 makes sense to send it. This allows us to pipeline request
562 responses. As a part of this, we also need to allocate mmap
563 buckets out of the connection pool, not the request pool. This
564 allows the mmap to outlive the request.
567 *) Make blocking and non-blocking bucket reads work correctly for
568 sockets and pipes. These are the only bucket types that should
569 have non-blocking reads, because the other bucket types should
570 ALWAYS be able to return something immediately.
573 *) In the Apache/Win32 console window, accept Ctrl+C to stop the
574 server, but use Ctrl+Break to initiate a graceful restart
575 instead of duplicating behavior. [John Sterling]
577 *) Patch mod_autoindex to set the Last-Modified header based on
578 the directory's mtime, and add the ETag header. [William Rowe]
580 *) Merge the 1.3 patch to add support for logging query string in
581 such a way that "%m %U%q %H" is the same as "%r".
584 *) Port three log methods from mod_log_config 1.3 to 2.0:
585 CLF compliant '-' byte count, method and protocol.
588 *) Add a new LogFormat directive, %c, that will log connection
589 status at the end of the response as follows:
590 'X' - connection aborted before the response completed.
591 '+' - connection may be kept-alive by the server.
592 '-' - connection will be closed by the server.
595 *) Expand APR for WinNT to fully accept and return utf-8 encoded
596 Unicode file names and paths for Win32, and tag the Content-Type
597 from mod_autoindex to reflect that charset if the the feature
598 macro APR_HAS_UNICODE_FS is true. [William Rowe]
600 *) Compute the content length (and add appropriate header field) for
601 the response when no content length is available and we can't use
602 chunked encoding. [Jeff Trawick]
604 *) Changed ap_discard_request_body() to use REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK,
605 so that content input filters get dechunked data when using
606 the default handler. Also removed REQUEST_CHUNKED_PASS.
609 *) Add mod_ext_filter as an experimental module. This module allows
610 the administrator to use external programs as filters. Currently,
611 only filtering of output is supported. [Jeff Trawick]
613 *) Most Apache functions work on EBCDIC machines again, as protocol
614 data is now translated (again). [Jeff Trawick]
616 *) Introduce ap_xlate_proto_{to|from}_ascii() to clean up some of
617 the EBCDIC support. They are noops on ASCII machines, so this
618 type of translation doesn't have to be surrounded by #ifdef
619 CHARSET_EBCDIC. [Jeff Trawick]
621 *) Fix mod_include. tag commands work again, and the server will
622 send the FAQ again. This also allows mod_include to set aside
623 buckets that include partial buckets.
624 [Ryan Bloom and David Reid]
626 *) Add suexec support back. [Manoj Kasichainula]
628 *) Lingering close now uses the socket directly instead of using
629 BUFF. This has been tested, but since all we can tell is that it
630 doesn't fail, this needs to be really hacked on.
633 *) Allow filters to modify headers and have those headers be sent to
634 the client. The idea is that we have an http_header filter that
635 actually sends the headers to the network. This removes the need
636 for the BUFF to send headers.
639 *) Charset translation: mod_charset_lite handles translation of
640 request bodies. Get rid of the xlate version of ap_md5_digest()
641 since we don't compute digests of filtered (e.g., translated)
642 response bodies this way anymore. (Note that we don't do it at
643 all at the present; somebody needs to write a filter to do so.)
646 *) Input filters and ap_get_brigade() now have a input mode parameter
647 (blocking, non-blocking, peek) instead of a length parameter.
650 *) Update the mime.types file to the registered media types as
651 of 2000-10-19. PR#6613 [Carsten Klapp <carsten.klapp@home.net>,
654 *) Namespace protect some macros declared in ap_config.h
657 *) Support HTTP header line folding with input filtering.
660 *) Mod_include works again. This should still be re-written, but at
661 least now we can serve an SHTML page again.
664 *) Begin to remove BUFF from the core. Currently, we keep a pointer
665 to both the BUFF and the socket in the conn_rec. Functions that
666 want to use the BUFF can, functions that want to use the socket,
667 can. They point to the same place.
670 *) apr_psprintf doesn't understand %lld as a format. Make it %ld.
671 [Tomas "Ögren" <stric@ing.umu.se>]
673 *) APR pipes on Unix and Win32 are now cleaned up automatically when the
674 associated pool goes away. (APR pipes on OS/2 were already had this
675 logic.) This resolvs a fatal file descriptor leak with CGIs.
678 *) The final line of the config file was not being read if there was
679 no \n at the end of it. This was caused by apr_fgets returning
680 APR_EOF even though we had read valid data. This is solved by
681 making cfg_getline check the buff that was returned from apr_fgets.
682 If apr_fgets return APR_EOF, but there was data in the buf, then we
683 return the buf, otherwise we return NULL.
686 *) Piped logs work again in the 2.0 series.
689 *) Restore functionality broken by the mod_rewrite security fix:
690 rewrite map lookup keys and default values are now expanded
691 so that the lookup can depend on the requested URI etc.
692 PR #6671 [Tony Finch]
694 *) Tighten up the syntax checking of Host: headers to fix a
695 security bug in some mass virtual hosting configurations
696 that can allow a remote attacker to retrieve some files
697 on the system that should be inaccessible. [Tony Finch]
699 *) Add a pool bucket type. This bucket is used for data allocated out
700 of a pool. If the pool is cleaned before the bucket is destroyed, then
701 the data is converted to a heap bucket, allowing it to survive the
705 *) Add a flush bucket. This allows modules to signal that the filters
706 should all flush whatever data they currently have. There is no way
707 to actually force them to do this, so if a filter ignores this bucket,
708 that's life, but at least we can try with this.
711 *) Add an output filter for sub-requests. This filter just strips the
712 EOS bucket so that we don't confuse the main request's core output
713 filter by sending multiple EOS buckets. This change also makes sub
714 requests start to send EOS buckets when they are finished.
717 *) Make ap_bucket_(read|destroy|split|setaside) into macros. Also
718 makes ap_bucket_destroy a return void, which is okay because it
719 used to always return APR_SUCCESS, and nobody ever checked its
721 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
723 *) Remove the index into the bucket-type table from the buckets
724 structure. This has now been replaced with a pointer to the
725 bucket_type. Also add some macros to test the bucket-type.
728 *) Renamed all MODULE_EXPORT symbols to AP_MODULE_DECLARE and all symbols
729 for CORE_EXPORT to AP_CORE_DECLARE (namespace protecting the wrapper)
730 and retitled API_EXPORT as AP_DECLARE and APR_EXPORT as APR_DECLARE.
731 All _VAR_ flavors changes to _DATA to be absolutely clear.
734 *) Add support for /, //, //servername and //server/sharename
735 parsing of <Directory> blocks under Win32 and OS2.
736 [Tim Costello, William Rowe, Brian Harvard]
738 *) Remove the function pointers from the ap_bucket type. They have been
739 replaced with a global table. Modules are allowed to register bucket
740 types and use then use those buckets.
743 *) mod_cgid: In the handler, shut down the Unix socket (only for write)
744 once we finish writing the request body to the cgi child process;
745 otherwise, the client doesn't hit EOF on stdin. Small request bodies
746 worked without this change (for reasons I don't understand), but large
747 ones didn't. [Jeff Trawick]
749 *) Remove file bucket specific information from the ap_bucket type.
750 This has been moved to a file_bucket specific type that hangs off
751 the data pointer in the ap_bucket type.
754 *) Input filtering now has a third argument. This is the amount of data
755 to read from lower filters. This argument can be -1, 0, or a positive
756 number. -1 means give me all the data you have, I'll deal with it and
757 let you know if I need more. 0 means give me one line and one line
758 only. A positive number means I want no more than this much data.
760 Currently, only 0 and a positive number are implemented. This allows
761 us to remove the remaining field from the conn_rec structure, which
765 *) Big cleanup of the input filtering. The goal is that http_filter
766 understands two conditions, headers and body. It knows where it is
767 based on c->remaining. If c->remaining is 0, then we are in headers,
768 and http_filter returns a line at a time. If it is not 0, then we are
769 in body, and http_filter returns raw data, but only up to c->remaining
770 bytes. It can return less, but never more.
771 [Greg Ames, Ryan Bloom, Jeff Trawick]
773 *) mod_cgi: Write all of the request body to the child, not just what
774 the kernel would accept on the first write. [Jeff Trawick]
776 *) Back out the change that moved the brigade from the core_output_filters
777 ctx to the conn_rec. Since all requests over a given connection
778 go through the same core_output_filter, the ctx pointer has the
782 *) Fix another bug in the send_the_file() read/write loop. A partial
783 send by apr_send would cause unsent data in the read buffer to
784 get clobbered. Complete making send_the_file handle partial
785 writes to the network.
788 *) Fix a couple of type fixes to allow compilation on AIX again
789 [Victor J. Orlikowski <v.j.orlikowski@gte.net>]
791 *) Fix bug in send_the_file() which causes offset to be ignored
792 if there are no headers to send.
795 *) Handle APR_ENOTIMPL returned from apr_sendfile in the core
796 filter. Useful for supporting Windows 9* with a binary
797 compiled on Windows NT.
800 Changes with Apache 2.0a7
802 *) Reimplement core_output_filter to buffer/save bucket brigades
803 across multiple calls to the core_filter. The brigade will be
804 sent when either MIN_BYTES_TO_SEND or MAX_IOVEC_TO_WRITE
805 thresholds are hit or the EOS bucket is received.
808 *) Create experimental filter (buffer_filter) that coalesces bytes
809 into one large buffer before invoking the next filter in the
810 chain. This filter is particularly useful with the current
811 implementation of mod_autoindex when it inserted above the
812 chunk_filter. mod_autoindex generates a lot of brigades that
813 containing buckets holding just a few bytes each. The
814 buffer_filter coalesces these buckets into a single large bucket.
817 *) Add apr_sendfile() support into the core_output_filter.
820 *) Add apr_sendv() support into the core_output_filter.
823 *) Fix mod_log_config so that it compiles cleanly with BUFFERED_LOGS
824 [Mike Abbott <mja@sgi.com>]
826 *) Remove ap_send_fb. This is no longer used in Apache, and it doesn't
827 make much sense, because Apache uses buckets instead of BUFFs now.
830 *) send_the_file now falls back to a read/write loop on platforms that
831 do not have sendfile.
832 [Ryan Bloom and Brian Havard]
834 *) Install apachectl correctly, and substitute the proper values so
835 that it works again. [Ryan Bloom]
837 *) Better(??) handle platforms that lack sendfile().
840 *) APR now has UUID generation/formatting/parsing support.
843 *) Begin the http_filter. This is an input filter that understands
844 the absolute basic amount required to parse an HTTP Request. The
845 goal is to be able to split headers from request body before passing
846 the data back to the other filters.
849 *) Bring forward from 1.3.13 the config directory implementation
852 *) install apxs if it is created
855 *) Added APR_IS_STATUS_condition test macros to eliminate canonical error
856 conversions. [William Rowe]
858 *) Now that we have ap_add_input_filter(), rename ap_add_filter() to
859 ap_add_output_filter(). [Jeff Trawick]
861 *) Multiple build and configuration fixes
864 -add datadir and localstatedir substitutions
866 -fix logfilename misspelling
867 -fix evaluation of installation dir variables and
868 -replace $foobar by $(foobar) to be usefull in the makefile
872 -add rules for cross-compiling in rules.mk. Okay, rule to check for
873 $CC_FOR_BUILD is still missing
874 -use CHECK_TOOL instead of CHECK_PROG for ranlib
875 -add missing "AR=@AR@" to severaly Makefile.in's
876 -cache result for "struct rlimit"
877 -compile all helper programs with native and cross compiler
878 and use the native version to generate header file
879 ["Rüdiger" Kuhlmann <Tadu@gmx.de>]
881 *) Prepare our autoconf setup for autoconf 2.14a and for cross-
883 ["Rüdiger" Kuhlmann <Tadu@gmx.de>]
885 *) Fix a bug where a client which only sends \n to delimit header
886 lines (netcat) gets a strange looking HTTP_NOT_IMPLEMENTED
887 message. Start working on ebcdic co-existance with input
889 [William Rowe, Greg Ames]
891 *) If mod_so is enabled in the server always create libexec, even
892 if there are no modules installed in this directory. This is a
893 requirement for APXS to work correctly.
896 *) Connection oriented output filters are now stored in the
897 conn_rec instead of the request_rec. This allows us to add the
898 output filter in the pre-connection phase instead of the
899 post_read_request phase, which keeps us from trying to write an
900 error page before we have a filter to write to the network.
901 [Ryan Bloom, Jeff Trawick, and Greg Ames]
903 *) Cleaning up an mmap bucket no longer deletes the mmap. An
904 mmap can be used across multiple buckets (default_handler with
905 byte ranges, mod_file_cache, mod_mmap_static), so cleanup of
906 the mmap itself can't be associated with the bucket.
909 *) Add .dll caching directive ISAPICacheFile to mod_isapi.
912 *) Radical surgery to improve mod_isapi support under Win32.
913 Includes a number of newer ServerSupportFunction calls, support
914 for ReadClient (in order to retrieve POSTs greater than 48KB),
915 and general bug fixes to more reliably load ISAPI .dll's and
916 prevent leaking handle resources. Note: There are still
917 discrepancies between IIS's and Apache's ServerVariables, and
918 async calls are still not supported. Additional warnings are
919 logged to facilitate debugging of unsupported ISAPI calls.
922 *) Add input filtering to Apache. The basic idea for the input
923 filters is the same as the ideas for output filters. The biggest
924 difference is that instead of calling ap_pass_brigade, ap_get_brigade
925 should be called, and the order of execution for the filter itself is
926 different. When writing an output filter, a brigade is passed in,
927 and filters operate directly on that brigade, when done, they call
928 ap_pass_brigade. Input filters are the exact opposite. Because input
929 is not a push operation, filters first call ap_get_brigade. When this
930 function returns, the input filter will be left with a valid brigade.
931 The input filter should then operate on the brigade, and return.
934 *) Fix building on BSD/OS using its native make. The build system
935 falls back to the BSD .include directive on that host platform.
938 *) Expand dbmmanage to allow -d -m -s -p options for Crypt, MD5,
939 SHA1 and plaintext password encodings. Make feature tests a
940 bit more flexible. [William Rowe]
942 *) Charset translation: mod_charset_lite handles output content
943 translation in a filter. mod_charset_lite no longer ignores
944 subrequests. A bunch of cruft related to BUFF's support for
945 translating request and response bodies was removed.
948 *) Move the addition of the CORE filter to the post_read_request
949 hook in http_core.c. This removes the need to add the filter in
950 multiple places and allows for an SSL module to be added much
951 simpler. [Ryan Bloom]
953 *) Fix a security problem that affects certain configurations of
954 mod_rewrite. If the result of a RewriteRule is a filename that
955 contains expansion specifiers, especially regexp backreferences
956 $0..$9 and %0..%9, then it may be possible for an attacker to
957 access any file on the web server. [Tony Finch]
959 *) Fix a bug where errors that are detected during early request parsing
960 don't produce visible HTTP error messages at the browser, because
961 the core_filter wasn't present. [Greg Ames]
963 *) Provide apr_socklen_t as a portability aid.
964 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
966 *) Overhaul of dbmmanage to allow a groups arg (as in Apache 1.2)
967 as well as a comment arg to the add, adduser and update cmds.
968 update allows the user to clear or preserve pw/groups/comment.
969 Fixed a bug in dbmmanage that prevented the check option from
970 parsing a password followed by :group... text. Corrected the
971 seed calcualation for Win32 systems, and added -lsdbm support.
974 *) Configured mod_auth_dbm to compile with sdbmlib under Win32.
977 *) Avoid a segfault when parsing .htaccess files. An
978 uninitialized tree pointer was passed to ap_build_config().
981 *) Change the way that inet_addr & inet_network are checked for
982 in APR's configure process to allow BeOS BONE to correctly
983 find them. With this change BeOS BONE now builds from source
984 with no problems. [David Reid]
986 *) Fix a bug in apr_create_process() for Unix. The NULL signifying
987 the end of the parameters to execve() was stored in the wrong
988 location, overlaying the storage beyond the newargs[] array and
989 also passing uninitialized storage to execve(), which would
990 sometimes fail with EFAULT. [Jeff Trawick]
992 *) Fix a bug parsing configuration file containers. With a sequence
993 like this in the config file
995 <IfModule mod_kilroy.c>
998 <IfModule mod_lovejoy.c>
1003 the second container would be terminated at the blank line due to
1004 sediment in the buffer from reading the prior </IfModule> and an
1005 error message would be generated for the real </IfModule> for the
1006 second container. Also due to this problem, any two characters
1007 could be used for "</" in the close of a container.
1010 *) ap_add_filter prototype changed to remove the ctx pointer. The
1011 pointer still remains in the filter structure, but it can not be
1012 a part of the ap_add_filter prototype. The reason is that when
1013 the core uses AddFilter to add a filter to the stack it doesn't
1014 know how to allocate the ctx pointer, or even how much memory should
1015 be allocated. The filters will have to be responsible for allocating
1016 the ctx memory when they need it.
1019 *) Add an AddFilter directive. This directive takes a list of filters
1020 that should be activated for the requested resource.
1023 *) apr_snprintf(): Get quad format strings working on OS/390 (and perhaps
1024 some other platforms). [Jeff Trawick]
1026 *) Modify mod_include to be a filter. Currently, it has only been tested
1027 on actual files, but it should work for CGI scripts too.
1030 *) apr_putc(), apr_puts() for Unix: handle buffered files and interrupted
1031 writes. apr_flush() for Unix: handle interrupted writes.
1034 *) NameVirtualHost can now take "*" as an argument instead of
1035 an IP address. This allows you to create a purely name-based
1036 virtual hosting server that does not have any IP addresses in
1037 the configuration file and which ignores the local address
1038 of any connections. PR #5595, PR #4455 [Tony Finch]
1040 *) Fix some compile warnings in mod_mmap_static.c
1041 [Mike Abbott <mja@sgi.com>]
1043 *) Fix chunking problem with CGI scripts. The general problem was that
1044 the CGI modules were adding an EOS bucket and then the core added an
1045 EOS bucket. The chunking filter finalizes the chunked response when it
1046 encounters an EOS bucket. Because two EOS buckets were sent, we
1047 finalized the response twice. The fix is to make sure we only send one
1048 EOS, by utilizing a flag in the request_rec.
1051 *) apr_put_os_file() now sets up the unget byte appropriately on Unix
1052 and Win32. Previously, the first read from an apr_file_t set up via
1053 apr_put_os_file() would return a '\0'. [Jeff Trawick]
1055 *) Mod_cgid now creates a single element bucket brigade, with a pipe
1056 bucket, instead of using BUFF's and ap_r*.
1059 *) APRVARS.in no longer overwrites the EXTRA_LIBS variable.
1060 [Mike Abbott <mja@sgi.com>]
1062 *) Remove ap_bopenf from buff code. This required modifying the file_cache
1063 code to use APR file's directly instead of going through BUFFs.
1066 *) Fix compile break on some platforms for mod_mime_magic.c
1067 [John K. Sterling <sterling@covalent.net>]
1069 *) Fix merging of AddDefaultCharset directive.
1070 PR #5872 (1.3) [Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@imgsrc.co.jp>]
1072 *) Minor revamp of the rlimit sections of code. We now test
1073 explicitly for setrlimit and getrlimit. Also, unixd_set_rlimit()
1074 is now "available" even if the platform doesn't support
1075 the rlimit family (it's just a noop though). [Jim Jagielski]
1077 *) Migrate the pre-selection of which MPM to use for specific
1078 platforms to hints.m4, which contains (or should contain)
1079 all platform specific "hints". [Jim Jagielski]
1081 *) Remove IOLs from Apache. With filtering, IOLs are no longer necessary
1084 *) Add tables with non-string/binary values to APR.
1087 *) Fix some bad calls to ap_log_rerror() in mod_rewrite.
1090 *) Update PCRE to version 3.2. [Ryan Bloom]
1092 *) Change the way buckets' destroy functions are called so that
1093 they can be more directly used when changing the type of a
1094 bucket in place. [Tony Finch]
1096 *) Add generic support for reference-counting the resources used by
1097 buckets, and alter the HEAP and MMAP buckets to use it. Change
1098 the way buckets are initialised to support changing the type of
1099 buckets in place, and use it when setting aside TRANSIENT buckets.
1100 Change the implementation of TRANSIENT buckets so that it can be
1101 mostly shared with IMMORTAL buckets, which are now implemented.
1104 Changes with Apache 2.0a6
1106 *) Add support to Apache and APR for dsos on OS/390. [Greg Ames]
1108 *) Add a chunking filter to Apache. This brings us one step closer
1109 to removing BUFF. [Ryan Bloom]
1111 *) ap_add_filter now adds filters in a LIFO fashion. The first filter
1112 added to the stack is the last filter to be called. [Ryan Bloom]
1114 *) Apache 2.0 has been completely documented using Scandoc. The
1115 docs can be generated by running 'make docs'. [Ryan Bloom]
1117 *) Add filtered I/O to Apache. This is based on bucket brigades,
1118 Currently the buckets still use BUFF under the covers, but that
1119 should change quickly. The only currently written filter is the
1120 core filter which just calls ap_bwrite. [The Apache Group]
1122 *) APR locks on Unix: Let APR_LOCKALL locks work when APR isn't
1123 built with thread support. [Jeff Trawick]
1125 *) Abort configuration if --with-layout was specified and there's
1126 no layout definition file. [Ken Coar]
1128 *) Add support for '--with-port=n' option to configure. [Ken Coar]
1130 *) Add support for extension methods for the Allow response header
1131 field, and an API routine for accessing r->allowed and the
1132 list of extension methods in a unified manner. [Ken Coar]
1134 *) mod_cern_meta: fix broken file reading loop in scan_meta_file().
1135 [Rob Simonson <simo@us.ibm.com>]
1137 *) Get xlate builds working again. The apr renaming in 2.0a5 broke
1138 APACHE_XLATE builds. [Jeff Trawick]
1140 *) A configuration file parsing problem was fixed. When the
1141 configuration file started with an IfModule/IfDefine container,
1142 only the last statement in the container would be retained.
1145 Changes with Apache 2.0a5
1147 *) Perchild is serving pages after passing them to different child
1148 processes. There are still a lot of bugs, but this does work. I
1149 have made requests against the same installation of Apache, and had
1150 different servers use different user IDs to serve the responses.
1151 This change moves to using socketpair instead of an AF_UNIX socket.
1154 *) Perchild MPM still doesn't work perfectly, but it is serving pages.
1155 It can't seem to pass between child processes yet, but I think we
1156 are closer now than before. This moves us back to using Unix
1157 Domain Sockets. [Ryan Bloom]
1159 *) libapr functions and types renamed with apr_ prefix.
1160 #include "apr_compat.h" for 1.3.x backwards compat
1163 *) Fix problems with APR sockaddr handling on Win32. It didn't always
1164 return the right information on the local socket address.
1165 [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls@level8.com>]
1167 *) ap_recv() on Win32: Set bytes-read to 0 on error.
1168 [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls@level8.com>]
1170 *) Add an option to not detach from the controlling terminal without
1171 going into single process mode. This allows for much easier
1172 debugging of the process startup code. [Ryan Bloom]
1174 *) ab: don't use perror() to report the failure of an APR function.
1177 *) Make dexter, mpmt_pthread, and perchild MPMs not destroy the
1178 scoreboard on graceful restarts.
1181 *) Fix segfault/SIGSEGV when running gzip from mod_mime_magic.c.
1182 An invalid ap_proc_t was passed to ap_create_process().
1185 *) Allow modules to register filters. Those filters are still
1186 never called, but this is a step in the right direction.
1187 [Ryan Bloom and Greg Stein]
1189 *) Register the mod_cgid daemon process for cleanup so that it is
1190 killed at termination if it does not die when the parent gets
1191 SIGTERM. This change is to fix occasional problems where the
1192 process stays around. Bugs in similar logic in mod_rewrite and
1193 mod_include were also fixed. [Jeff Trawick]
1195 *) Fix a bug in the time handling. Basically, we were imploding a time
1196 in ap_parseHTTPdate, but it had bogus data in the exploded time format.
1197 Namely, tm_usec and tm_gmtoff were not filled out. ap_implode_time
1198 uses those two fields to adjust the time value. Because of the HTTP
1199 spec, both of those values can be zero'ed out safely. This fixes
1200 the bug correctly. [Ryan Bloom]
1202 *) Fix a couple of place in the Windows code where the wrong error
1203 code was being returned. [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls@level8.com>]
1205 *) Fix POOL_DEBUG (at least for prefork mpm). [Dean Gaudet]
1207 *) Added the APR_EOL_STR macro for platform dependent differences in
1208 logfiles and other raw text (such as all APR files). Fixes logfiles
1209 not terminated with cr/lf sequences in Win32. [William Rowe]
1211 *) Move all strings functions in APR to src/lib/apr/strings and create
1212 apr_strings.h for the prototypes. [Ryan Bloom]
1214 *) APR lock fixes: when using SysV sems, flock(), or fcntl(), be sure
1215 to repeat the syscall until we stop getting EINTR. I noticed a
1216 related problem at termination (SIGTERM) on FreeBSD when using
1217 fcntl(). Apache 1.3 had these new loops too. Also, make the flock()
1218 implementation work properly with child init. Previously, ap_lock()
1219 was essentially a no-op because all children were using different
1220 locks and thus nobody ever blocked. [Jeff Trawick]
1222 *) The htdocs/ tree has been moved out of the CVS source tree into
1223 a separate area for easier development. This has NO EFFECT on
1224 end-users or Apache installations. [Ken Coar]
1226 *) Integrate the mod_dav module for WebDAV protocol handling. This
1227 adds the dav and dav_fs modules, the SDBM library, and additional
1228 XML handling utilities. [Greg Stein]
1230 *) Clean out obsolete names (from httpd.h) for the HTTP Status Codes
1233 *) Update the lib/expat-lite/ library (bring forward changes from
1234 the Apache 1.3 repository). [Greg Stein]
1236 *) If sizeof(long long) == sizeof(long), then prefer long in APR
1237 configure.in. [Dave Hill <ddhill@zk3.dec.com>]
1239 *) Add ap_sendfile for Tru64 Unix. Also, add an error message for
1240 machines where sendfile is detected, but nobody has written ap_sendfile.
1241 [Dave Hill <ddhill@zk3.dec.com>]
1243 *) Compile fixes in mod_mmap_static. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
1245 *) ab would start up more connections than needed, then quit when the
1246 desired number were finished. Also fixed a logic error involving
1247 ab keepalives. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
1249 *) WinNT: Implement non-blocking pipes with timeouts to communicate
1250 with CGIs. Apache 2.0a4 had non-blocking pipes but without
1251 timeouts (i.e, if a timeout was specified, the pipe reverted to
1252 a full blocking pipe). Now the behaviour is more in line with
1253 Unix non-blocking pipes.
1256 *) WinNT: Implement accept socket reuse. Using mod_file_cache to
1257 cache open file handles along with accept socket reuse enables
1258 Apache 2.0 to serve non-keepalive requests for static files at
1259 3x the rate of Apache 1.3.(e.g, Apache 1.3 will serve 400 rps
1260 and Apache 2.0 will serve almost 1200 rps on my system).
1263 *) Merge mod_mmap_static function into mod_file_cache. mod_file_cache
1264 supports two config directives, mmapfile (same behavious as
1265 mod_mmap_static) and cachefile. Use the cachefile directive
1266 to cache open file handles. This directive only works on systems
1267 that have implemented the ap_sendfile API. cachefile works today
1268 on Windows NT, but has not been tested on any flavors of Unix.
1271 *) Cleanup the configuration. With the last few changes the
1272 configuration process automatically:
1273 inherits information about how to build from APR. Allowing
1274 APR to inform Apache that it should or should not use -ldl
1276 Detects which mod_cgi should be used mod_cgi or mod_cgid,
1277 based on the threading model
1279 Apache calls APR's configure process before finishing it's
1280 configuration processing, allowing for more information flow
1285 *) Change Unix and Win32 ap_setsockopt() so that APR_SO_NONBLOCK
1286 with non-zero argument makes the socket non-blocking. BeOS and
1287 OS/2 already worked this way. [Jeff Trawick]
1289 *) ap_close() now calls ap_flush() for buffered files, so write
1290 operations work a whole lot better on buffered files.
1293 *) Fix error messages issued from MPMs which explain where to change
1294 compiled-in limits (e.g., ThreadsPerChild, MaxClients, StartTreads).
1297 *) ap_create_pipe() now leaves pipes in blocking state. (This helps
1298 reduce the number of syscalls on Unix.) ap_set_pipe_timeout() is
1299 now the way that the blocking state of a pipe is manipulated.
1300 ap_block_pipe() is gone. [Jeff Trawick]
1302 *) Correct the problem where the only local host name that the IP stack
1303 can discover are 'undotted' private names. If no fully qualified
1304 domain name can be identified, the default ServerName will be set to
1305 the machine's IP address string. A warning is always provided if the
1306 ServerName not specified, but assumed. Solves PR6215 [William Rowe]
1308 *) Repair problems with config file processing which caused segfault
1309 at init when virtual hosts were defined and which caused ServerName to
1310 be ignored when there was no valid DNS setup. [Jeff Trawick]
1312 *) Removed pointless ap_is_aborted macro function. [Roy Fielding]
1314 *) Add ap_sendfile implementation for AIX
1315 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
1317 *) Repair C++ compatibility in ap_config.h, apr_file_io.h,
1318 apr_network_io.h, and apr_thread_proc.h.
1319 [Tyler J. Brooks <tylerjbrooks@home.com>, Jeff Trawick]
1321 *) Bring the allocation and pool debugging code back into a working
1322 state. This will need to be tested as so far it's only been used on
1325 *) Change configuration command setup to be properly typesafe when in
1326 maintainer mode. Note that this requires a compiler that can initialise
1327 unions. [Ben Laurie]
1329 *) Turn on buffering for config file reads. Part of this was to
1330 repair buffered I/O support in Unix and implement buffered
1331 ap_fgets() for all platforms. [Brian Havard, Jeff Trawick]
1333 *) Win32: Fix problem where UTC offset was not being set correctly
1334 in the access log. Problem reported on news group by Jerry Baker.
1337 *) Fix segfault when reporting this type of syntax error:
1338 "</container> without matching <container> section", where
1339 container is VirtualHost or Directory or whatever.
1342 *) Prevent the source code for CGIs from being revealed when using
1343 mod_vhost_alias and the CGI directory is under the document root
1344 and a user makes a request like http://www.example.com//cgi-bin/cgi
1345 as reported in <news:960999105.344321@ernani.logica.co.uk>
1348 *) Add support for the new Beos NetwOrking Environment (BONE)
1351 *) xlate: ap_xlate_conv_buffer() now tells the caller when the
1352 final input char is incomplete; ap_bwrite_xlate() now handles
1353 incomplete final input chars. [Jeff Trawick]
1355 *) Yet another update to saferead/halfduplex stuff -- need to ensure
1356 that a bhalfduplex call occurs before logging or else DNS and
1357 such can delay the last packet of the response. [Dean Gaudet]
1359 *) Some syscall reduction in APR on unix -- don't seek when setting
1360 up an mmap; and don't fcntl() more than once per socket.
1363 *) When mod_cgid is started as root, the cgi daemon now switches
1364 to the configured User/Group (like other httpd processes)
1365 instead of continuing as root. [Jeff Trawick]
1367 *) The prefork MPM now uses an APR lock for the accept() mutex.
1368 It has not been getting a lock at all recently. httpd -V now
1369 displays APR's selection of the lock mechanism instead of the
1370 symbols previously respected by prefork. [Jeff Trawick]
1372 *) Change the mmap() feature test to check only for existence.
1373 The previous check required features not used by Apache.
1376 *) Fix a couple of bugs in mod_cgid: The cgi arguments were
1377 sometimes mangled. The len parm to accept() was not
1378 initialized, leading sometimes to an endless loop of failed
1379 accept() calls on OS/390 and anywhere else that failed the call
1380 if the len was negative. Use <sys/un.h> for struct sockaddr_un
1381 instead of declaring it ourselves to fix a compilation problem
1382 on Solaris. [Jeff Trawick]
1384 *) Add Resource limiting code back into Apache 2.0. [Ryan Bloom]
1386 *) Fix zombie process problem with mod_cgi. [Jeff Trawick]
1388 *) Port mod_mmap_static to 2.0. Make it go faster. [Greg Ames]
1390 *) Fix storage overlay when loading dsos. Symptom: Apache dies at
1391 initialization if ALLOC_DEBUG is defined; no known symptom
1392 otherwise. [Jeff Trawick]
1394 *) Fix typo in configure script when checking for mod_so. bash
1395 doesn't seem to have a problem but /bin/sh on Solaris does.
1396 Symptom: "./configure: test: unknown operator =="
1399 *) Rebind the Win32 NT and 9x services control into the MPM.
1400 All console, WinNT SCM and Win9x pseudo-service control code is
1401 now wrapped within the WinNT MPM.
1404 *) Make a copy of getenv("PATH") before storing for later use. Some
1405 getenv() implementations use the same storage for successive calls.
1406 CGIs on OS/390 had a bad PATH due to this. [Jeff Trawick]
1408 *) Server Tokens work in 2.0 again. This also propogates the change
1409 to allow just the product name in the server string using
1413 Changes with Apache 2.0a4
1415 *) EBCDIC: Rearrange calls to ap_checkconv() so that most handlers
1416 won't need to call it. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
1418 *) Move pre_config hook call to between configuration read and config
1419 tree walk. This allows all modules to implement pre_config hooks
1420 and know that they will be called at an appropriate time.
1423 *) mod_cgi, mod_cgid: Make ScriptLog directive work again.
1426 *) Add pre-config hooks back to all modules.
1429 *) Fix a SIGSEGV in ap_md5digest(), which is used when you have
1430 ContentDigest enabled and we can't/don't mmap the file.
1433 *) We now report the correct line number for syntax errors in config
1434 files. [Ryan Bloom, Greg Stein, Jeff Trawick]
1436 *) Brought mod_auth_digest up to synch with 1.3, fixed ap_time_t-
1437 related bugs, and changed shmem/locking to use apr API. Shared-mem
1438 is currently disabled, however, because of problems with graceful
1439 restarts. [Ronald Tschalär]
1441 *) Fix corruption of IFS variable in --with-module= handling.
1442 Depending on the user's shell or customization thereof, there
1443 would be errors generating ap_config_auto.h later in the configure
1444 procedure. [Jeff Trawick]
1446 *) mod_cgi: Restore logging of stderr from child process when ScriptLog
1447 isn't used (as in 1.3), except that on Unix it is now logged via
1448 ap_log_rerror() instead of by the child having STDERR_FILENO refer
1449 to the error log. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
1451 *) Add '-D' argument processing for run time configuration defines.
1454 *) Organize http_main.c as independent code, such that no code or
1455 global data is exported from it. WIN32 will dynamically link it
1456 to the server core, so this will prevent mutual dependency.
1459 *) Add separate dynamic linkage tags APR_EXPORT(), APR_EXPORT_NONSTD()
1460 and APR_VAR_EXPORT to correctly resolve apr functions and globals.
1463 *) Add Win9x service execution and Ctrl+C/Ctrl+Break/Shutdown handlers.
1464 [William Rowe, Jan Just Keijser <KEIJSERJJ@logica.com>]
1466 *) Add mod_charset_lite for configuring character set translation.
1469 *) Add '-n' option to htpasswd to make it print its user:pw record
1470 on stdout rather than having to frob a text file. [Ken Coar]
1472 *) Fix saferead. Basically, we flush the output buffer if a read on the
1476 *) APR: Add ap_xlate_get_sb() so that an app can find out whether or not
1477 a conversion is single-byte only. [Jeff Trawick]
1479 *) BEOS: ap_shutdown should return APR_SUCCESS or errno. Note that
1480 the BeOS 5.0 documentation says that shutdown doesn't work yet.
1483 *) Fix some minor errors where pid was being manipulated as an int
1484 instead of the portable pid_t. [Roy Fielding]
1486 *) Fix some error log prints that were printing the pointer to a
1487 structure rather than the pid within the structure.
1488 [Jeff Trawick, Roy Fielding]
1490 *) ab: Fix a command-line processing bug; track bad headers in
1491 err_response; support reading headers up to 2K.
1492 [Ask Bjoern Hansen <ask@valueclick.com>]
1494 *) Fix ap_resolve_env() so that it handles new function added in a prior
1495 alpha (see "Added the capability to do ${ENVVAR} constructs in the
1496 config file.") as well as the constructs used by mod_rewrite.
1497 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
1499 *) Apache 2.0 builds and runs on OS/390. [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames]
1501 *) Change the EBCDIC support in functions for MD5, SHA1, and base 64 to use
1502 APR to perform translation, instead of accessing the hard-coded tables
1503 in 1.3's ebcdic.c. [Jeff Trawick]
1505 *) Fix some bugs (mostly lost 1.3 code) in ab's command-line processing.
1508 *) Add the ability to hook into the config file reading phase. Basically
1509 if a directive is specified EXEC_ON_READ, then when that directive is
1510 read from the config file, the assocaited function is executed. This
1511 should only be used for those directives that must muck with HOW the
1512 server INTERPRETS the config. This should not be used for directives
1513 that re-order or replace items in the config tree. Those changes should
1514 be made in the pre-config step.
1517 *) Add mod_example to the build system.
1520 *) APR: Add ap_xlate_conv_byte() to convert one char between single-
1521 byte character sets. [Jeff Trawick]
1523 *) Pick up various EBCDIC fixes from 1.3 (from Martin
1524 Kraemer and Oliver Reh originally according to the change log).
1527 *) Fix a couple of problems in RFC1413 support (controlled by the
1528 IdentityCheck directive). Apache did not build the request string
1529 properly and more importantly Apache would loop forever if the
1530 would-be ident server dropped the connection before sending a
1531 properly terminated response. [Jeff Trawick]
1533 *) apxs works in 2.0.
1536 *) Reliable piped logs work in 2.0.
1539 *) Introduce a hash table implementation into APR to be used for
1540 replacing tables and other random data structures in Apache.
1543 *) Add some more error reporting to htpasswd in the case of problems
1544 generating or accessing the temporary file. Also, pass in a
1545 buffer if the implementation knows how to use it (i.e., if L_tmpnam
1546 is defined). [Ken Coar]
1548 *) Configure creates config.nice now containing your configure
1549 options. Syntax: ./config.nice [--more-options]
1552 *) Fix various return code problems in APR on Win32. For most of
1553 these, APR was returning APR_EEXIST instead of GetLastError()/
1554 WSAGetLastError(). [Jeff Trawick]
1556 *) Make piped logs work again in version 2.0
1559 *) Add VPATH support to UNIX build system of Apache and APR.
1562 *) Fix ap_tokenize_to_argv to respect the const arguments that are
1566 *) Fix mm's memcpy/memset macros, pointer arithmetic was broken.
1567 Patch submitted to author.
1570 *) Fix mm configuration on Solaris 8 x86 and OS/390. Don't require
1571 /sbin in PATH on FreeBSD (all submitted to rse previously)
1574 *) Fix building Pthread-based MPMs on OpenBSD
1575 [Sascha Schumann] PR#26
1577 *) Fix ap_readdir() problem on systems where d_name[] field in
1578 struct dirent is declared with only one byte. (This problem only
1579 affected multithreaded builds.) This caused a segfault during
1580 pool cleanup with mod_autoindex on Solaris (Solaris 8 x86, at
1581 least). [Jeff Trawick]
1583 *) Fix some make-portability problems on at least Tru64, Irix
1585 [Sascha Schumann] PR#18, PR#39
1587 *) Add ap_sigwait() to support old-style sigwait() on systems
1588 like OS/390 and UnixWare.
1591 *) Add POSIX-thread flags for more platforms.
1594 *) Fix some minor bugs in ap_strerror(). Teach ap_strerror()
1595 (on Unix, at least) to handle resolver errors. Fix a bug in
1596 the definition of APR_ENOMEM so that ap_strerror() can spit
1597 out the correct error message for it.
1600 Changes with Apache 2.0a3
1602 *) mod_so reports ap_os_dso_error() if ap_dso_load() fails
1605 *) API: *HOOK* macros now have an AP_ prefix
1608 *) Win32: Eliminate redundant calls to initialize winsock.
1609 [Tim Costello <timcostello@ozemail.com.au>]
1611 *) Fix bugs initializing ungetchar for pipes.
1612 [Chia-liang Kao <clkao@CirX.ORG>]
1614 *) The ab program in the src/support directory is now portable using
1618 *) Support directory is being compiled when the server is built
1621 *) The configure option --with-program-name has been added to allow
1622 developers to rename the executable at configure time. This also
1623 changes the name of the config files to match the executable's name.
1626 *) mod_autoindex: Add `IndexOptions +VersionSort', to nicely sort filenames
1627 containing version numbers. [Martin Pool]
1629 *) ap_open(..,APR_OS_DEFAULT,..) uses perms 0666 instead of 0777 on
1630 Unix; access_log and error_log now created with these perms; non-
1631 Unix is unaffected [Jeff Trawick]
1633 *) Finished move of ap_md5 routines to apr_md5. Removed ap_md5.h.
1634 Replaced more magic numbers with MD5_DIGESTSIZE.
1635 [William Rowe, Roy Fielding]
1637 *) Win32: Get mod_auth_digest compiling and added to the Windows
1638 build environment. Not tested and I'd be suprised if it
1639 actually works. [Bill Stoddard]
1641 *) Revamp the Win32 make environment. Makefiles have been removed and
1642 Apache.dsw created to bring together all the pieces. Create new file
1643 os/win32/BaseAddr.ref to define module base addresses (to prevent
1644 dll relocation at start-up).
1645 [William Rowe, Greg Marr, Tim Costello, Bill Stoddard]
1647 *) [EBCDIC] Port Paul Gilmartin's CRLF patch from 1.3. This replaces most
1648 of the \015, \012, and \015\012 constants with macros.
1649 [Greg Ames <gregames@us.ibm.com>]
1651 *) Add ap_xlate_open() et al for translation of text between different
1652 character sets. The initial implementation requires iconv().
1655 *) More FAQs and answers from comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix.
1656 [Joshua Slive <slive@finance.commerce.ubc.ca>]
1658 *) CGI output is being timed out now.
1661 *) Fix the problem with dieing quietly. dupfile now takes a pool which
1662 is used by the new apr file. There is no reason to create a new file
1663 with the same lifetime as the original file.
1666 *) Win32: Attempt to eliminate dll relocation at start-up by specifying
1667 module base addresses. This will help shooting seg faults
1668 in the field. [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
1670 *) Update Apache on Windows documentation. Add new document
1671 describing how to compile Apache on Windows.
1672 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
1674 *) ap_set_pipe_timeout(), ap_poll(), and APR_SO_TIMEOUT now take
1675 microseconds instead of seconds. Some storage leaks and other
1676 minor bugs in related code were fixed. [Jeff Trawick]
1678 *) Win32: First cut at getting mod_isapi working under 2.0
1679 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
1681 *) First stab at getting mod_auth_digest working under 2.0
1682 quick change summary:
1683 - moved the random byte generation (ap_generate_random_bytes) into APR
1684 - now uses ap_time_t
1685 - compiles and runs on linux
1687 [Brian Martin <bmartin@penguincomputing.com>]
1689 *) Win32: Move the space stripping of physical service names
1690 fix up from Apache 1.3. #include'ing "ap_mpm.h" fixes up an
1691 unresolved symbol. Add dependency checking to the
1692 CreateService call to ensure TCPIP and AFP (winsock) is started
1694 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
1696 *) Win32: Add code to perform latebinding on functions that may
1697 not exist on all levels of Windows where Apache runs. This
1698 is needed to allow Apache to start-up on Win95/98. All calls
1699 to non portable functions should be protected with
1700 ap_oslevel checks to prevent runtime segfaults.
1701 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
1703 *) Fix fallback default values for SHM_R and SHM_W [Martin Kraemer]
1705 *) Get lingering_close() working again. [Dean Gaudet, Jeff Trawick]
1707 *) Win32: Get non-blocking CGI pipe reads working under Windows NT.
1708 This addresses PR 1623. Still need to address timing out runaway
1709 CGI scripts. [Bill Stoddard]
1711 *) Win32: Make ap_stat Windows 95/98 friendly
1712 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
1714 *) Win32: Fix a bug in ap_get_oslevel which causes GetVersionEx() to
1715 always fail. Need to initialise the dwOSVersionInfoSize member of the
1716 OSVERSIONINFO struct before calling GetVersionEx, so GetVersionEx
1719 The patch also enhances ap_get_oslevel (and the associated enum) to
1720 handle selected service packs for NT4, and adds recognition for
1721 Windows 2000. This is useful, eg. if we can recognise NT4 SP2 then
1722 we can use ReadFileScatter and WriteFileGather in readwrite.c.
1723 [Tim Costello <Tim.Costello@BTFinancialgroup.com>]
1725 *) Get mod_rewrite building and running, and mod_status building for Win NT
1726 [Allan Edwards <ake@raleigh.ibm.com>]
1728 *) Patch to port mod_auth_db to the 2.0 api and also to support
1729 Berlekey DB 3.0. It works for me with both Berkeley DB 3.0.55 and
1730 2.7.7. It should work with version 1 as well but I haven't tested it.
1731 [Brian Martin <bmartin@penguincomputing.com>]
1733 *) Get APR DSO code working under Windows. Includes cross platform
1735 [Tim.Costello@BTFinancialgroup.com]
1737 *) Fix some of the Windows APR time functions.
1740 *) FAQ changes related to tidying up historical documents on the web site.
1741 [Joshua Slive <slive@finance.commerce.ubc.ca>]
1743 *) Move Windows DSO code into APR.
1746 *) Eliminate apr_win.h and apr_winconfig.h (and the ugly #ifdefs they cause).
1747 Now, apr.h and apr_config.h are generated from apr.hw and apr_config.hw
1748 at build time. At this point, the server will not compile on Windows because
1749 of the recent DSO commits. Fixing those next.
1750 [Bill Rowe & Bill Stoddard]
1752 *) Added error checking for file I/O APR routines.
1753 [Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>]
1755 *) APR: Don't use the values of resolver error codes for the
1756 corresponding APR error codes. On Unix and Win32, return the
1757 proper APR error code after a resolver error. [Jeff Trawick]
1759 Changes with Apache 2.0a2
1761 *) Renamed the executable back to httpd on all platforms other
1765 *) Allow BeOS to survive restarts, log properly and a few
1766 small things it had problems with due to the way it setup
1767 users and groups. [David Reid]
1769 *) Get mod_rewrite working with APR locks
1770 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
1772 *) Actually remove the sempahore when the lock cleanup routine
1773 is called on BeOS. [David Reid]
1775 *) Clear hook registrations between reads of the config file.
1776 When DSOs are unloaded and re-loaded the old hook pointers may
1777 no longer be valid. This fix eliminates potential segfaults.
1778 [Allan Edwards <ake@raleigh.ibm.com>]
1780 *) Fix a problem with Sigfunc not being defined or bypassed
1781 if sigaction() wasn't found. [Jim Jagielski]
1783 *) Fix the locking mechanism on BSD variants. They now use fcntl
1784 locks. This allows the server to start and serve pages.
1787 *) First cut at getting the Win32 installer to work
1788 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
1790 *) Get htpasswd compiling under Windows
1791 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
1793 *) Change the log message for a bind() failure to show the
1794 interface and port number. [Jeff Trawick]
1796 *) Import the documentation from 1.3.12 and bring parts of it
1797 up-to-date with respect to the changes that have occurred
1801 *) BeOS MPM updated. CGI bug on BeOS fixed. IP addresses
1802 now logged correctly on BeOS.
1805 *) Create one makefile for all Win32 distributions (NT/2000/95/98).
1806 Makefile.win includes the same user interface as the old
1808 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>, Jeff Trawick <trawick@us.ibm.com>]
1810 *) Win32 exec now uses COMSPEC environment string for command
1811 shell path resolution.
1812 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>] PR#3715
1814 *) Win32: ap_connect() was not returning correct error condition
1816 [Allen Prescott <allen@clanprescott.com>]
1818 *) Win32: ap_open() was broken on Win9x because an NT-specific
1819 flag was passed to CreateFile. ap_puts() added an unnecessary
1821 [Jeff Trawick <trawick@us.ibm.com>]
1823 *) Put in Korean and Norwegian index.html pages (2.0 and 1.3)
1824 which where donated by Lee Kuk Hyun and Lorant Czaran. 'Fixed'
1825 confusing ee/et name and made all extensions language/dialect
1826 rather than country reflecting. Changed example files to
1827 explicit reflect the ISO charset and added a few common
1828 ones to the example config [dirkx]
1830 *) Extend external module capability. To use this, you call
1831 configure with --with-module=path/to/mod1,path/to/mod2,etc.
1834 *) Backported the various "default charset" fixes from 1.3.12,
1835 including the AddDefaultCharset directive. [Jim Jagielski]
1837 *) Added the capability to do ${ENVVAR} constructs in the
1838 config file. E.g. 'ServerAdmin ${POSTMASTER}'. As commited
1839 it does this on a line by line basis; i.e. if the envvar
1840 expands to something with spaces you have to protect it
1841 by adding quotes around it (Unless of course you expect it
1842 to contains more than one argument. Alternatively you
1843 can compile it on a per token basis; which is what people
1844 usually expect by setting RESOLVE_ENV_PER_TOKEN. But this
1845 hampers fancier hacks.
1846 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
1848 *) Changed the 'ErrorDocument' syntax in that it NO longer
1849 supports the asymetric
1851 ErrorDocument 301 "Some message
1853 Note the opening " quote, without a closing quote. It now
1854 has either the following syntaxes
1856 ErrorDocument XXX /local/uri
1857 ErrorDocument XXX http://valid/url
1858 ErrorDocument XXX "Some Message"
1860 The recognition heuristic is: if it has a space it
1861 is a message. If it has no spaces and starts with a /
1862 or is a valid URL then treat it that way. Otherwise it
1863 is assumed to be a message.
1865 This breaks backward compatibility but makes live a hell
1866 of a lot easier for GUI's and config file parsers.
1867 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
1869 *) Changed 'CacheNegotiatedDocs' from its present/not-present
1870 syntax into a 'on' or 'off' syntax. As it currently is the
1871 only non nesting token which uses NO_ARGS and thus is an
1872 absolute pain for any config interface automation. This
1873 breaks backward compatibility. [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
1875 *) Add ability to add external modules to the build process. This is
1876 done with --with-module=/path/to/module. Modules can only be added
1877 as static modules at this point.
1880 Changes with Apache 2.0a1
1882 *) Fix FreeBSD 3.3 core dump.
1883 Basically, ap_initialize() needs to get called before
1884 create_process(), since create_process() passes op_on structure
1885 to semop() to get a lock, but op_on isn't initialized until
1886 ap_initialize() calls setup_lock(). Here is a slight
1887 rearrangement to main() which calls ap_initialize() earlier...
1888 [Jeff Trawick <trawick@us.ibm.com>]
1890 *) Enable Apache to use sendfile/TransmitFile API
1891 [Bill Stoddard, David Reid, Paul Reder]
1893 *) Re-Implement Win32 APR network I/O APIs and most of the file I/O
1897 *) Make file I/O and network I/O writev/sendv APIs consistent.
1898 Eliminate use of ap_iovec_t and use Posix struct iovec.
1899 Use seperate variable on ap_writev to set the number of iovecs
1900 passed in and number of bytes written.
1903 *) Adapt file iol to use APR functions. Replaced ap_open_file()
1904 with ap_create_file_iol(). ap_create_file_iol() requires that
1905 the file be opened prior to the call using ap_open().
1908 *) Port mod_include and mod_cgi to 2.0
1909 [Paul Reder, Bill Stoddard]
1911 *) ap_send{,v}, ap_recv, ap_sendfile API clarification --
1912 bytes_read/bytes_written is always valid (never -1). Plus
1913 some fixes to buff.c to correct problems introduced by the
1914 errno => ap_status_t changes a while back. Plus a fix to
1915 chunked encoding introduced right at the beginning of 2.0.
1918 *) Revamped UNIX build system to use autoconf and libtool.
1919 [Manoj Kasichainula, Sascha Schumann]
1921 *) port mod_rewrite to 2.0. [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
1923 *) More rigorous checking of Host: headers to fix security problems
1924 with mass name-based virtual hosting (whether using mod_rewrite
1925 or mod_vhost_alias).
1926 [Ben Hyde, Tony Finch]
1928 *) Add back support for UseCanonicalName in <Directory> containers.
1929 [Manoj Kasichainula]
1931 *) Added APLOG_STARTUP log type. This allows us to write an error
1932 message without any of the date and time information. As a part
1933 of this change, I also removed all of the calls to fprintf(stderr
1934 and replaced them with calls to ap_log_error using APLOG_STARTUP
1935 writing to stderr is no longer portable, because we don't direct
1936 stderr to the error log on all platforms.
1939 *) Convert error logging functions to take errno as an argument.
1940 This makes our error logs more portable, because some Windows API's
1941 don't set errno. This change allows us to still output a valid
1942 message on all of our platforms.
1945 *) mod_mime_magic runs in 2.0-dev now.
1946 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
1948 *) sendfile has been added to APR.
1949 [John Zedlewski <zedlwski@Princeton.EDU>]
1951 *) buff.c has been converted to no longer use errno.
1952 [Manoj Kasichainula]
1954 *) mod_speling runs in 2.0-dev now: a bug in readdir_r handling and
1955 interface adaption to APR functions did it. [Martin Kraemer]
1957 *) Support DSOs properly on 32-bit HP-UX 11.0
1958 [Dilip Khandekar <dilip@cup.hp.com>]
1960 *) Updated MM in APR source tree from version 1.0.8 to 1.0.11
1961 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
1963 *) Cleaned APR build environment integration and bootstrap APR
1964 automatically for developers from src/Configure.
1965 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
1967 *) Fixed building of src/support/htpasswd.c
1968 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
1970 *) When generating the Location: header, mod_speling forgot
1971 to escape the spelling-fixed uri. (Forw-Port from 1.3)
1974 *) Moved mod_auth_digest.c from experimental to standard. [Roy Fielding]
1976 *) Change all pools to APR contexts. This is the first step to
1977 incorporating APR into Apache. [Ryan Bloom]
1979 *) Move "handler not found" warning message to below the check
1980 for a wildcard handler. [Dirk <dirkm@teleport.com>, Roy Fielding]
1981 PR#2584, PR#2751, PR#3349, PR#3436, PR#3548, PR#4384, PR#4795, PR#4807
1983 *) Support line-continuation feature in config.option file and
1984 allow the loading of multiple option sections at once via
1985 ``--with-option=<section1>,<section2>,...''
1986 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
1988 *) Rebuilt CVS repository with Apache 1.3.9 as basis. [Roy Fielding]
1990 Changes with Apache MPM
1992 *) Use asynchronous AcceptEx() and a completion port to accept and
1993 dispatch connections to threads in Windows NT/2000.
1996 *) Implement WINNT Win32 MPM from original Win32 code in http_main.c
1999 *) Implement the APACI --with-option facility
2000 (per default used the config.option file).
2001 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2003 *) MPM BEOS port. [David Reid <abb37@dial.pipex.com>]
2005 *) Start to implement module-defined hooks that are a) fast and b) typesafe.
2006 Replace pre_connection module call with a register_hook call and
2007 implement pre_connection as a hook. The intent is that these hooks will
2008 be extended to allow Apache to be multi-protocol, and also to allow the
2009 calling order to be specified on a per-hook/per-module basis.
2012 *) Implement mpm_* methods as "modules". Each method gets its own
2013 subdir in src/modules (eg: src/modules/prefork). Selection
2014 of method uses Rule MPM_METHOD. [Jim Jagielski]
2016 *) Port the hybrid server from the apache-apr repository as
2017 mpm_mpmt_pthread. [Manoj Kasichainula]
2019 *) os/unix/unixd.[ch]: detach, setuid, setgid, stuff which will be common
2020 amongst the unix MPMs.
2022 *) mpm_prefork: throw away all the alarm/timeout crud; and clean up the
2023 signal handling for the new world order. [Dean Gaudet]
2025 *) Crude ap_thread_mutex abstraction so that we get the pthread stuff out
2026 of alloc.c for now. [Dean Gaudet]
2028 *) Handle partial large writes correctly. [Ben Laurie]
2030 *) Eliminate conn_rec's pointer to server. All it knows is the base server
2031 based on IP/port. [Ben Laurie]
2033 *) Port a bunch of modules to the new module structure.
2034 ["Michael H. Voase" <mvoase@midcoast.com.au>]
2036 *) I/O layering and BUFF revamp. See docs/buff.txt. [Dean Gaudet]
2038 *) Basic restructuring to introduce the MPM concept; includes various
2039 changes to the module API... better described by
2040 docs/initial_blurb.txt. [Dean Gaudet]
2042 Changes with Apache pthreads
2044 *) New buff option added: BO_TIMEOUT. It describes the timeout for
2045 buff operations (generally over a network).
2046 [Dean Gaudet, Ryan Bloom, Manoj Kasichainula]
2048 *) Created http_accept abstraction. Added 4 new functions (not exported):
2049 init_accept(), begin_accepting_requests(), get_request(),
2050 stop_accepting_requests() [Bill Stoddard]
2052 *) Fix to ap_rprintf call that allows mod_info to work properly.
2053 [James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>]
2055 *) user and ap_auth_type fields were moved from connection_rec to
2056 request_rec. [Ryan Bloom]
2058 *) Removed the ap_block_alarms and ap_unblock_alarm calls. These aren't
2059 needed in a threaded server.
2061 *) Initial pthread implementation from from Dean's apache-nspr code.
2062 [Bill Stoddard, Ryan Bloom]
2065 Changes with Apache 1.3.9
2067 *) Remove bogus error message when a redirect doesn't set Location.
2068 Instead, use an empty string to avoid coredump if the error message
2069 was supposed to include a location. [Roy Fielding]
2071 *) Don't allow configure to include mod_auth_digest unless it is
2072 explicitly requested, even if the user asked for all modules.
2075 *) Translate module names to dll names for OS/2 so that they are no more
2076 than 8 characters long and have an extension of "dll" instead of "so".
2079 *) Print out pointer to Rule DEV_RANDOM when truerand lib not found.
2080 Fix test-compile check to check for randbyte instead of trand32.
2081 Use ap_base64encode_binary/decode instead of copy in mod_auth_digest.c
2082 and tweak to make Amaya happier. [Ronald Tschalär]
2084 *) Ensure that the installed expat include files are world readable,
2085 just like the other header files. [Martin Kraemer]
2087 *) Fixed generated AddModule adjustments in APACI's `configure' script
2088 in order to allow (new) modules like mod_vhost_alias to be handled
2089 correctly (which was touched by the adjustments for mod_alias).
2090 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2092 *) For binary builds, add -R flag to apachectl to work around the lack of
2093 an absolute path to the ./libexec directory where the libhttp.ep file
2094 is needed for SHARED_CORE architectures. [Randy Terbush]
2096 *) WIN32: Create the CGI script process as DETACHED. This may solve the
2097 problem observed by some Win95/98 users where they get CGI script
2098 output sent to the console. [Bill Stoddard]
2100 *) Fix (re)naming in the uuencode/decode section. The ap/ap_
2101 routines are now called ap_base64* and are 'plain' (i.e., no
2102 pool access or anything clever). Inside util.c the routines acting
2103 like pstrdup are called ap_pbase64encode() and ap_pbase64decode().
2104 The oddly named ap_uuencode(), ap_uudecode() are kept around for
2105 now but deprecated. [dirkx]
2107 *) Clean up the base64 and SHA1 additions and make sure they are
2108 represented in the ApacheCore.def, ApacheCoreOS2.def, and httpd.exp
2109 files. [Roy Fielding]
2111 *) WIN32: Migrate to InstallShield 5.5 and provide a bit more error
2112 checking. Allow compiling on VS 6.0. [Randy Terbush]
2114 *) Fixed assumption of absolute paths in binbuild.sh. [Tony Finch]
2116 *) Use TestCompile to search for the truerand library (rather than blindly
2117 assuming its existence). If it is not found, complain (but do not
2118 exit - yet). [Martin Kraemer]
2120 *) We forgot to add the new exported function names to
2121 src/support/httpd.exp. [Bill Stoddard, Randy Terbush]
2123 *) Add description of -T command-line option to usage().
2124 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2126 *) For "some" platforms (notably, EBCDIC based ones), libos needs to be
2127 searched only AFTER libap has been searched, because libap needs
2128 some symbols from libos. [Martin Kraemer]
2130 *) Fix conflict with original mod_digest related to the symbol of the
2131 module dispatch list (which has to be unique for DSO and follow the
2132 usual conventions for the installation procedure).
2133 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2135 *) Add a dbm-library check for the "usual places" (-ldbm, -lndbm, -ldb)
2136 for other platforms as well. [Martin Kraemer]
2138 *) Make ap_sha1.c compile for EBCDIC platforms: replace remaining LONG
2139 types by AP_LONG and replace reference to renamed variable 'ubuf'
2140 by 'buffer'. [Martin Kraemer]
2142 Changes with Apache 1.3.8 [not released]
2144 *) Flush the output buffer immediately after sending an error or redirect
2145 response, since the result may be needed by the client to abort a
2146 long data transfer or restart a series of pipelined requests.
2147 [Tom Vaughan <tvaughan@aventail.com>, Roy Fielding]
2149 *) PORT: Improved compilation and DSO support on Sequent DYNIX/ptx.
2150 [Ian Turner <iant@sequent.com>] PR#4735
2152 *) Local struct mmap in http_core.c conflicted with system structure
2153 name on DYNIX -- changed to mmap_rec. [Roy Fielding] PR#4735
2155 *) Added updated mod_digest as modules/experimental/mod_auth_digest.
2156 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald@innovation.ch>]
2158 *) Fix a memory leak where the module counts were getting messed
2159 up across restarts. [David Harris <dharris@drh.net>]
2161 *) CIDR addresses such as a.b.c.d/24 where d != 0 weren't handled
2162 properly in mod_access.
2163 ["Paul J. Reder" <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#4770
2165 *) RewriteLock/RewriteMap didn't work properly with virtual hosts.
2166 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su>] PR#3874
2168 *) PORT: Support for compaq/tandem/com.
2169 [Michael Ottati <michael.ottati@compaq.com>, dirkx]
2171 *) Added SHA1 password encryption support to easy migration from
2172 Netscape servers. See support/SHA1 for more information.
2173 Caused the separation of ap_md5.c into md5, sha1 and a general
2174 ap_checkpass.c with just a validate_passwd routine. Added a
2175 couple of flags to support/htpasswd. Some reuse of the to64()
2176 function; hence renamed to ap_to64().
2177 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Clinton Wong <clintdw@netcom.com>]
2179 *) Change for EBCDIC platforms (TPF and BS2000) to correctly deal
2180 with ASCII/EBCDIC conversions in "ident" query.
2181 [David McCreedy <McCreedy@us.ibm.com>]
2183 *) Get rid of redefinition warning on MAC_OS_X_SERVER platform.
2184 Change "Power Macintosh" to Power* so if uname prints "Power Book"
2185 we're still happy on Rhapsody platforms. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
2187 *) Fix SIGSEGV on some systems because the Vary fix below included
2188 a call to table_do with a variable argument list that was not
2189 NULL terminated. Replaced with better implementation. [Roy Fielding]
2191 Changes with Apache 1.3.7 [not released]
2193 *) The "Vary" response header field is now sanitised right before
2194 the header is sent back to the client. Multiple "Vary" fields
2195 are combined, and duplicate tokens (e.g., "Vary: host, host" or
2196 "Vary: host, negotiate, host, accept-language") are reduced to
2197 single instances. This is a better solution than the force-no-vary
2198 one (which is still valid for clients that can't cope with Vary
2199 at all). PR#3118 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Ken Coar]
2201 *) Portability changes for BeOS. [David Reid abb37@dial.pipex.com]
2203 *) Link DSO's with "gcc -shared" instead of "ld -Bshareable" at
2204 least on Linux and FreeBSD for now.
2207 *) Win32: More apache -k restart work. Restarts are now honored
2208 immediately and connections in the listen queue are -not- lost.
2209 This is made possible by the use of the WSADuplicateSocket()
2210 call. The listeners are opened in the parent, duplicated, then
2211 the duplicates are passed to the child. The original listen sockets
2212 are not closed by the parent across a restart, thus the listen queue
2214 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
2216 *) Fix handling of case when a client has sent "Expect: 100-continue"
2217 and we are going to respond with an error, but get stuck waiting to
2218 discard the body in the pointless hope of preserving the connection.
2219 [Roy Fielding, Joe Orton <jeo101@york.ac.uk>] PR#4499, PR#3806
2221 *) Fix 'configure' to work correctly with SysV-based versions of
2222 'tr' (consistent with Configure's use as well). [Jim Jagielski]
2224 *) apxs: Add "-S var=val" option which allows for override of CFG_*
2225 built-in values. Add "-e" option which works like -i but doesn't
2226 install the DSO; useful for editing httpd.conf with apxs. Fix
2227 editing code so that multiple invocations of apxs -a will not
2228 create duplicate LoadModule/AddModule entries; apxs can now be
2229 used to re- enable/disable a module. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
2231 *) Win32: Update the server to use Winsock 2. Specifically, link with
2232 ws2_32.lib rather than wsock32.lib. This gives us access to
2233 WSADuplcateSocket() in addition to some other enhanced comm APIs.
2234 Win 95 users may need to update their TCP/IP stack to pick up
2235 Winsock 2. (See http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/)
2236 [Bill Stoddard stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com]
2238 *) Win32: Redirect CGI script stderr (script debug info) into the
2239 error.log when CGI scripts fail. This makes Apache on Win32
2240 behave more like Unix.
2241 [Bill Stoddard stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com]
2243 *) Fixed `httpd' usage display: -D was missing.
2244 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4614
2246 *) Fix `make r' test procedure in src/regex/: ap_isprint was not found.
2247 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4561, PR#4562
2249 *) OS/2: Fix problem with accept lock semaphores where server would die with
2250 "OS2SEM: Error 105 getting accept lock. Exiting!"
2251 [Brian Havard] PR#4505
2253 *) Add DSO support for DGUX 4.x using gcc. Tested on x86 platforms.
2254 [Randy Terbush <randy@covalent.net>]
2256 *) Add the new mass-vhost module (mod_vhost_alias.c) developed and
2257 used by Demon Internet, Ltd. [Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net>]
2259 *) Better GCC detection for DSO flags under Solaris 2 where the `cc'
2260 command potentially _is_ GCC. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2262 *) Fix apxs build issues on AIX
2263 [Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@raleigh.ibm.com>]
2265 *) DocumentRoot Checking: Under previous versions, when Apache
2266 first started up, it used to do a stat of each DocumentRoot to
2267 see if it existed and was a directory. If not, then an error
2268 message was printed. THIS HAS BEEN DISABLED. If DocumentRoot
2269 does not exist, you will get error messages in error_log. If
2270 the '-t' command line option is used (to check the configuration)
2271 the check of DocumentRoot IS performed. An additional command
2272 line option, '-T', has been added if you want to avoid the
2273 DocumentRoot check even when checking the configuration.
2276 *) Win32: The query switch "apache -S" didn't exit after showing the
2277 vhost settings. That was inconsistent with the other query functions.
2278 [Bill Stoddard - Fixed by Martin on Unix in 1.3.4]
2280 *) Win32: Changed behaviour of apache -k restart.
2281 Previously, the server would drain all connections in the stack's
2282 listen queue before honoring the restart. On a busy server, this
2283 could take hours. Now, a restart is honored almost immediately.
2284 All connections in Apache's queues are handled but connections in
2285 the stack's listen queue are discarded. Restart triggered by
2286 MaxRequestPerChild is unchanged.
2287 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
2289 *) Win32: Eliminated unnecessary call to wait_for_multiple_objects in
2290 the accept loop. Good for a 5% performance boost. Cleaned up
2291 parent/child process management code.
2292 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
2294 *) Added ceiling on file size for memory mapped files.
2295 [John Giannandrea <jg@meer.net>] PR#4122
2297 *) Fix ndbm.h include problems with brain-dead glibc >= 2.1 which
2298 has ndbm.h in a non-standard db1/ subdir. PR#4431, PR#4528
2299 [Henri Gomez <gomez@slib.fr>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
2301 *) Determine AP_BYTE_ORDER for ap_config_auto.h and already
2302 use this at least for Expat. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2304 *) Allow .module files to specify libraries with Lib:.
2307 *) Allow SetEnvIf[NoCase] to test environment variables as well
2308 as header fields and request attributes. [Ken Coar]
2310 *) Fix mod_autoindex's handling of ScanHTMLTitles when file
2311 content-types are "text/html;parameters". PR#4524 [Ken Coar]
2313 *) Remove "mxb" support from mod_negotiation -- it was a draft feature
2314 never accepted into any standard, and it opens up certain DoS
2315 attacks. [Koen Holtman <Koen.Holtman@cern.ch>]
2317 *) TestCompile updated. We can now run programs and output the
2318 results during the Configure process. [ Jim Jagielski]
2320 *) The source is now quad (long long) aware as needed. Specifically,
2321 the Configure process determines the correct size of off_t and
2322 *void. When the OS/platform/compiler supports quads, ap_snprintf()
2323 provides for the 'q' format qualifier (if quads are not available,
2324 'q' is silently "demoted" to long). [Jim Jagielski]
2326 *) When the username or password fed to htpasswd is too long, include the
2327 size limit in the error message. Also report illegal characters
2328 (currently only ':') in the username. Add the size restrictions
2329 to the man page. [Ken Coar]
2331 *) Fixed the configure --without-support option so it doesn't result in
2332 an infinite loop. [Marc Slemko]
2334 *) Piped error logs could cause a segfault if an error occured
2335 during configuration after a restart.
2336 [Aidan Cully <aidan@panix.com>] PR#4456
2338 *) If a "Location" field was stored in r->err_headers_out rather
2339 than r->headers_out, redirect processing wouldn't find it and
2340 the server would core dump on ap_escape_html(NULL). Check both
2341 tables and raise HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR with a log message
2342 if Location isn't set. [Doug MacEachern, Ken Coar]
2344 *) Add RULE_EXPAT, the src/lib/ directory structure, and a modified copy
2345 of the Expat 1.0.2 distribution. [Greg Stein]
2347 *) Replace regexec() calls with calls to a new API stub function
2348 ap_regexec(). This solves problems with DSO modules which use the regex
2349 library. [Jens-Uwe Mager <jum@helios.de>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
2351 *) Add 'Request_Protocol' special keyword to mod_setenvif so that
2352 environment variables can be set according to the protocol version
2353 (e.g., HTTP/0.9 or HTTP/1.1) of the request. [Ken Coar]
2355 *) Add DSO support for OpenStep (Mach 4.2) platform.
2356 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>] PR#3997
2358 *) Fix sed regex for generating ap_config_auto.h in src/Configure.
2359 [Jan Gallo <gallo@pvt.sk>] PR#3690, PR#4373
2361 *) Switch to /bin/sh5 in APACI on Ultrix and friends to avoid problems with
2362 their brain-dead /bin/sh. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4372
2364 *) Better DSO flags recognition on NetBSD platforms using ELF.
2365 [Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>] PR#4310
2367 *) Always log months in english format for %t in mod_log_config.
2368 [Petr Lampa <lampa@fee.vutbr.cz>] PR#4366, 679
2370 *) Support for server-parsed and multiview-determined ReadmeName and
2371 HeaderName files in mod_autoindex. Removed the restriction on
2372 "/"s in ReadmeName and HeaderName directives since the *sub_req*
2373 routines will deal with the access issues. (It's now possible to
2374 have {site|group|project|customer|...} wide readmes and headers.)
2375 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx@rsbx.net>, Ken Coar] PR#1574, 3026, 3529,
2378 *) When stat() fails, don't assume anything about the contents of
2379 the struct stat. [Ed Korthof <ed@bitmechanic.com>]
2381 *) It's OK for a semop to return EINTR, just loop around and try
2382 again. [Dean Gaudet]
2384 *) Fix configuration engine re-entrant hangups, which solve a
2385 handful of problems seen with mod_perl <Perl> configuration sections
2386 [Salvador Ortiz Garcia <sog@msg.com.mx>]
2388 *) Mac OS and Mac OS X Server now use the appropriate custom layout
2389 by default when building with APACI; allow for platform-specific
2390 variable defaults in configure. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
2392 *) Do setgid() before initgroups() in http_main; some platforms
2393 zap the grouplist when setgid() is called. This was fixed in
2394 suexec earlier, but the main httpd code missed the change.
2395 [Rob Saccoccio <robs@InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2579
2397 *) Add recognition of .tgz as a gzipped tarchive.
2398 [Bertrand de Singly <bertrand.de-singly@polytechnique.fr>] PR#2364
2400 *) mod_include's fsize/flastmod should allow only relative paths, just
2401 like "include file". [Jaroslav Benkovsky <benkovsk@pha.pvt.cz>]
2403 *) OS/2: Add support for building loadable modules using DLLs.
2406 *) Add iconsdir, htdocsdir, and cgidir to config.layout.
2409 *) Fix minor but annoying bug with the test for Configuration.tmpl
2410 being newer than Configuration so that it is less likely to fail
2411 when using APACI and shadow sources. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
2413 *) PORT: Add initial support for Mac OS (versions 10.0 and
2414 greater). Use Mac OS X Server layout for now. Clean up dyld code
2415 in unix/os.c, and don't install the dyld error handlers, which
2416 are no longer needed in Mac OS. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
2418 *) Rename Rhapsody layout to "Mac OS X Server". Change install
2419 locations to appropriate ones for user-built (as opposed to
2420 system) installs. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
2422 *) Modify mod_autoindex's handling of AddDescription so that the
2423 behaviour matches the documentation. [Ken Coar] PR#1898, 3072.
2425 *) Add functionality to the install-bindist.sh script created by
2426 binbuild.sh to use tar when copying distribution files to the
2427 serverroot. This allows upgrading an existing installation
2428 without nesting the new distribution in the old.
2430 install-bindist.sh now detects the local perl5 path to install
2431 apxs and dbmmanage with proper path to perl interpreter.
2433 Add an install-binsupport target which copies the source files
2434 for apxs and dbmmanage to bindist to allow these scripts to
2435 be properly installed relative to the destination serverroot.
2436 [Randy Terbush, Covalent Technologies, randy@covalent.net]
2438 *) Fix intermittent SEGV in ap_proxy_cache_error() in
2439 src/modules/proxy_util.c where a NULL filepointer and
2440 temporary filename were closed and unlinked.
2441 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>,
2442 Tim Costello <tjcostel@socs.uts.edu.au>] PR#3178
2444 *) Fix inconsistent error messages reported by mod_proxy.
2445 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>]
2447 *) OS/2: Fix terminating CGIs that aren't compiled by EMX GCC when a
2448 connection is aborted. [Brian Havard]
2450 *) Force the LANG envariable to the known state of "C" so that we
2451 have assurance about how string manipulators (e.g., tr) will
2452 function. [Ken Coar] PR#1630
2454 *) Add a directive to allow customising of the tracking cookie name.
2455 [Ken Coar] PR#2921, 4303
2457 *) Add "force-no-vary" envariable to allow servers to work around
2458 clients that choke on "Vary" fields in the response header.
2459 [Ken Coar, Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@zippy.machaon.ru>] PR#4118
2461 *) Fixed a bug in mod_dir that causes a child process will infinitely
2462 recurse when it attemps to handle a request for a directory wnd the
2463 value of the DirectoryIndex directive is a single dot. Also likely
2464 to happen for anyother values of DirectoryIndex that will map back
2465 to the same directory. The handler now only considers regular files
2466 as being index candidates. No PR#s found.
2467 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx@rsbx.net>]
2469 *) Ease configuration debugging by making TestCompile fall back to
2470 using "make" if the $MAKE variable is unset [Martin Kraemer]
2472 *) Fixed the ServerSignature directive to work as documented.
2473 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx@rsbx.net>] PR#4248
2475 *) Add "opt" (SysV-style) layout to config.layout. [Raymond S Brand
2478 *) Add APACI --without-execstrip option which can be used to disable the
2479 stripping of executables on installation. This is very important for DSO
2480 and debugging situations. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2482 *) Add support for OS/2 (case insenstive filesystem, .exe suffix, etc)
2483 to APACI files and related scripts.
2484 [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4269
2486 *) Add support for standalone mode in TPF
2487 [Joe Moenich <moenich@us.ibm.com>]
2489 *) Fix number of bytes copied by read_connection() in src/support/ab.c
2490 [Jim Cox <jc@superlink.net>] PR#4271
2492 *) Fix special RewriteCond "-s" pattern matching.
2493 [Bob Finch <bob@nas.com>]
2495 *) Fix value quoting in src/Configure script for ap_config_auto.h
2496 [Paul Sutton <paul@awe.com>]
2498 *) Make sure RewriteLock can be used only in the global context, (i.e.
2499 outside of any <VirtualHost> sections) because it's a global facility of
2500 the rewrite engine. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2502 *) Fix the ownership delegation for proxy directory under `make install'.
2503 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2505 *) APACI would not correctly build suexec. [Maria Verina
2506 <mariav@icgeb.trieste.it>] PR#4260
2508 *) mod_mime_magic passed only the first 4k of a file to
2509 uncompress/gzip, but those tools sometimes do not produce
2510 any output unless a sufficient portion of the compressed
2511 file is input. Change to pass the entire file -- but
2512 only read 4k of output.
2513 [Marcin Cieslak <saper@system.pl>] PR#4097
2515 *) "IndexOptions None" generated extra spaces at the end of each
2516 line. [inkling@firstnethou.com] PR#3770
2518 *) The "100 Continue" response wasn't being sent after internal
2519 redirects. [Jose KAHAN <kahan@w3.org>] PR#3910, 3806, 3575
2521 *) When padding the name with spaces for display, mod_autoindex would
2522 count &, <, and > in their escaped width, messing up the display.
2523 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4075, 3758
2525 *) PORT: fixed a compilation problem on NEXT.
2526 [Jacques Distler <distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu>] PR#4130
2528 *) r->request_time wasn't being set properly in certain error conditions.
2529 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4156
2531 *) PORT: deal with UTS compiler error in http_protocol.c
2532 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#4189
2534 *) Add ap_vrprintf() function. [John Tobey <jtobey@banta-im.com>] PR#4246
2536 *) Fix the mod_mime hash table to work properly with locales other
2537 than C. [Dean Gaudet] PR#3427
2539 *) Fix a memory leak which is exacerbated by certain configurations.
2540 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4225
2542 *) Prevent clobbering saved IFS values in APACI. [Jim Jagielski]
2544 *) Fix buffer overflows in ap_uuencode and ap_uudecode pointed out
2545 by "Peter 'Luna' Altberg <peter@altberg.nu>" and PR#3422
2546 [Peter 'Luna' Altberg <peter@altberg.nu>, Ronald Tschalär]
2548 *) Make {Set,Unset,Pass}Env per-directory instead of per-server.
2551 *) Correct an apparent typo: on the Windows and MPE platforms, the
2552 htpasswd utility was limiting passwords to only 8 characters.
2555 *) EBCDIC platforms: David submitted patches for two bugs in the
2556 MD5 digest port for EBCDIC machines:
2557 a) the htdigest utility overwrote the old contents of the digest file
2558 b) the Content-MD5 header value (ContentDigest directive) was wrong
2559 when the returned file was not converted from EBCDIC, but was a
2560 binary (e.g., image file) in the first place.
2561 [David McCreedy <mccreedy@us.ibm.com>]
2563 *) support/htpasswd now permits the password to be specified on the
2564 command line with the '-b' switch. This is useful when passwords
2565 need to be maintained by scripts -- particularly in the Win32
2566 environment. [Ken Coar]
2568 *) Win32: Win32 multiple services patch. Added capability to install and
2569 run multiple copies of apache as individual services.
2572 apache -n apache1 -i -f c:/httpd.conf
2573 Installs apache as service 'apache1' and associates c:/httpd.conf
2576 Starts apache1 service.
2578 Stops apache1 service
2581 apache -n apache2 -i
2582 Installs apache as service 'apache2'. httpd.conf is located under
2583 the default server root (/apache/conf/httpd.conf).
2585 Starts apache2 service.
2588 apache -n apache3 -i -d c:/program files/apache
2589 Install apache as service 'apache3' and sets server root to
2590 c:/program files/apache.
2593 apache -n apache2 -k restart
2594 Restart apache2 service
2596 [Keith Wannamaker, Ken Parzygnat, Bill Stoddard]
2598 *) Correct the signed/unsigned character handling for the MD5 routines;
2599 mismatches were causing compilation problems with gcc -pedantic and
2600 in the TPF cross-compilation. [Ken Coar]
2602 *) OS/2: Rework CGI handling to use spawn*() instead of fork/exec, achieving
2603 a roughly 5 fold speed up. [Brian Havard]
2605 *) proxy ftp: instead of using the hardwired string "text/plain" as
2606 a fallback type for files served by the ftp proxy, use the
2607 ap_default_type() function to determine the configured type.
2608 This allows for special configurations like
2609 <Directory proxy:ftp://some.host>
2610 DefaultType gargle/blurb
2612 Additionally, add the Content-Encoding: header to FTP proxy replies
2613 when the encoding is defined (by the AddEncoding directive).
2614 Because it was missing, it was almost impossible to browse compressed
2615 files using the FTP proxy (works now perfectly in Communicator).
2616 The ftp proxy now also returns the Date: and Server: header lines (if not
2617 much else... This code is "somewhat" broken) like normal requests do.
2620 *) Be more smart in APACI's configure script when determining the UID/GID
2621 for User/Group directives and use the determined UID/GID to initialize
2622 the permissions on the proxycachedir.
2623 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Ralf S. Engelschall]
2625 *) Changed the forking-prior-to-cleanup in the proxy module to first
2626 check wether it actually needs to collect garbage. This reduces
2627 the number of fork()s from one/request to just the odd one an hour.
2628 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
2630 *) Added proxy, auth and header support to src/support/ab.c. Added a
2631 README file to src/support/
2632 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
2634 *) Don't hard-code the path to AWK in --shadow bootstrapping Makefile.
2635 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4050
2637 *) Add support for DSO module compilation on BSD/OS 3.x.
2638 [Randy Terbush, Covalent Technologies]
2640 *) Fix sed-substitutions in `make install': path elements like `httpd/conf'
2641 (for instance from an APACI configure --sysconfdir=/etc/httpd/conf
2642 option) were substituted with $(TARGET).conf, etc. Same for other strings
2643 with dots where the dot wasn't matched as plain text.
2644 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2646 *) PORT: Add support for FreeBSD 4.x [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2648 *) Fix verbose output of APACI configure (option -v)
2649 [Martin Kraemer, Ralf S. Engelschall]
2651 Changes with Apache 1.3.6
2653 *) Removed new PassAllEnv code due to DSO problems. [Lars Eilebrecht]
2655 Changes with Apache 1.3.5 [not released]
2657 *) M_INVALID needed a value within the scope of METHODS so that unknown
2658 methods can be access controlled. [Roy Fielding] PR#3821
2660 *) Added PassAllEnv; makes server's entire environment available
2661 to CGIs and SSIs executed within directive's scope. [Ken Coar]
2663 *) ap_uuencode() always added two trailing '='s and encoding of
2664 8 bit characters on a machine with signed char may produced
2665 incorrect results. Additionally ap_uuencode() should now
2666 work correctly on EBCDIC platforms.
2667 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald@innovation.ch>] PR#3411
2669 *) WIN32: Binary installer now runs the configuration DLL before
2670 the reboot prompt (which is only given if MSVCRT.DLL system
2671 DLL is new or updated). This should avoid the configuration
2672 directory being empty after installation. [Paul Sutton]
2673 PR#3767, 3800, 3827, 3850, 3900, 3953, 3988
2675 *) WIN32: Binary installer now creates Start menu options to start
2676 and stop Apache as a console application and to uninstall
2677 the Apache service on NT. [Paul Sutton] PR#3741
2679 *) WIN32: Apache.exe now contains an icon. [Paul Sutton]
2681 *) PORT: Switch back to using fcntl() locking on Linux -- instabilities
2682 have been reported with flock() locking (probably related to kernel
2683 version). [Dean Gaudet] PR#2723, 3531
2685 *) Using APACI, the main config file (usually httpd.conf) was
2686 not being adjusted as $(TARGET).conf. [Wilfredo Sanchez
2687 <wsanchez@apple.com>]
2689 *) PORT: AIX does not require the SHARED_CODE "hack"
2690 [Ryan Bloom <rbb@raleigh.ibm.com>]
2692 *) Set-Cookie headers were being doubled up for some CGIs by the O(n^2)
2693 avoidance code added in 1.3.3.
2694 [Dean Gaudet, Jeff Lewis <lewis@stanford.edu>] PR#3872
2696 *) ap_isxdigit was somehow neglected when adding the ap_isfoo() macros
2697 for 8-bit safeness. [Dean Gaudet]
2699 *) PORT: Use -fPIC instead of -fpic on Solaris and SunOS for compiling DSOs
2700 because SPARCs have a small machine-specific maximum size for the Global
2701 Offset Table which is often exceeded when compiling one of the larger
2702 third-party modules with Apache. [Peter Urban <Peter.Urban@epfl.ch>] PR#3977
2704 *) Move the directive `ExtendedStatus' in httpd.conf-dist-win _after_ the
2705 DSO/DLL section because it's a directive from mod_status and isn't
2706 available before the DLL of mod_status is loaded.
2707 [Martin POESCHL <mpoeschl@gmx.net>] PR#3936
2709 *) SECURITY: Fix a bug in the calculation of the buffer size for the line
2710 continuation facility in Apache's configuration files which could
2711 lead to a buffer overflow situation.
2712 [Thomas Devanneaux <Thomas.Devanneaux@enst.fr>] PR#3617
2714 *) Make documentation and error messages of APACI's --activate-module=FILE
2715 option more clear. [Jan Wolter <janc@wwnet.net>] PR#3995
2717 *) Fix the gcc version check (for enabling the `inline' facility) to
2718 really support all future gcc versions >= 2.7 until we know more.
2719 [John Tobey <jtobey@banta-im.com>] PR#3983
2721 *) Let APACI's configure script correctly complain for unknown --enable-XXX
2722 and --disable-XXX options. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3958
2724 *) Link the shared core bootstrap program (``Rule SHARED_CORE=yes'') also
2725 against libap.a and use its ap_snprintf() instead of sprintf() to avoid
2726 possible buffer overflows. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2728 *) Remove no longer used non-API function ap_single_module_init().
2729 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2731 *) Add Apple's Mac OS X Server Layout "Rhapsody" to config.layout.
2734 *) Add cgidir, htdocsdir, iconsdir variables to Makefile.tmpl in order
2735 to make platform installations easier. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
2737 *) In configure, do not append the target name to the directory path if
2738 the path already contains "apache". [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2740 *) SIGPIPE is now ignored by the server core. The request write routines
2741 (ap_rputc, ap_rputs, ap_rvputs, ap_rwrite, ap_rprintf, ap_rflush) now
2742 correctly check for output errors and mark the connection as aborted.
2743 Replaced many direct (unchecked) calls to ap_b* routines with the
2744 analogous ap_r* calls. [Roy Fielding]
2746 *) Enhanced mod_rewrite's mapfile handling: The in-core cache for text and
2747 DBM format mapfiles now uses a 4-way hash table with LRU functionality.
2748 Furthermore map lookups for non-existent keys are now cached as well.
2749 Additionally "txt" maps are now parsed with simple string functions
2750 instead of using ap_pregcomp(). As a side effect a bug that prevented
2751 the usage of keys containing the "," character was fixed.
2752 The changes drastically improve the performance when large rewrite maps
2754 [Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.swb.de>, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3160
2756 *) Added ap_sub_req_method_uri() for doing a subrequest with a method
2757 other than GET, and const'd the definition of method in request_rec.
2760 *) Use proper pid_t type for saving PIDs in alloc.c. [John Bley]
2762 *) Replaced use of WIN32 define with HAVE_DRIVE_LETTERS to indicate
2763 when the OS allows a DOS drive letter within pathnames. [Brian Havard]
2765 *) Add %V to mod_log_config, this logs the hostname according to the
2766 UseCanonicalName setting (this is the pre-1.3.4 behaviour of
2767 %v). Useful for mass vhosting. [Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>]
2769 *) Add support for \n and \t to mod_log_config, can be used to produce
2770 more reliable logs with multiline entries. [Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>]
2772 *) Fixed a few compiler nits. [John Bley <jbb6@acpub.duke.edu>]
2774 *) Added informative error messages for failed munmap() and fseek() calls
2775 in http_core.c. [John Bley, Roy Fielding]
2777 *) Added some informative error messages for some failed malloc()
2778 calls. [John Bley <jbb6@acpub.duke.edu>, Jim Jagielski]
2780 *) OS/2 ap_os_canonical_filename()'s behaviour is improved: ap_assert()
2781 is removed. This allows <Directory proxy:*> directives to work and
2782 prevents invalid requests from killing the process.
2783 [Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
2785 *) Reorganised FAQ document.
2786 [Joshua Slive <slive@finance.commerce.ubc.ca>] PR#2497
2788 *) src/support/: The ApacheBench benchmark program was overhauled by
2789 David N. Welton: you can now have it generate an HTML TABLE, presumably
2790 for integration into other HTML sources. David updated the ab man page
2791 as well and added some missing descriptions. Thanks!
2792 [David N. Welton <davidw@prosa.it>]
2794 *) Win32: The filename validity checker now allows filenames containing
2795 characters in the range 0x80 to 0xff (for example accented characters).
2796 [Paul Sutton] PR#3890
2798 *) Added conditional logging based upon environment variables to
2799 mod_log_config. mod_log_referer and mod_log_agent
2800 are now deprecated. [Ken Coar]
2802 *) Allow apache acting as a proxy server to relay the real
2803 reason of a failure to a client rather than the "internal
2804 server error" it does currently. The general exposure mechanism
2805 can be triggered by any module by setting the "verbose-error-to"
2806 note to "*"; this allows more than just proxy errors to be exposed.
2807 [Cliff Skolnick, Roy Fielding, Martin Kraemer] Related to PR#3455, 4086
2809 *) Moved man pages for ab and apachectrl to section 8.
2810 [Wilfredo Sanchez, Roy Fielding]
2812 *) Added -S option to install.sh so that options can be passed to
2813 strip on some platforms. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Wilfredo Sanchez]
2815 *) Tweak modules Makefile generated by Configure so that it handles
2816 the test case of no modules being selected. [chaz@reliant.com]
2818 *) Added a <LimitExcept method ...> sectioning directive that allows
2819 the user to assign authentication control to any HTTP method that
2820 is *not* given in the argument list; i.e., the logical negation
2821 of the <Limit> directive. This is particularly useful for controlling
2822 access on methods unknown to the Apache core, but perhaps known by
2823 some module or CGI script. [Roy Fielding, Tony Finch]
2825 *) Prevent apachectl from complaining if the PIDFILE exists but
2826 does not contain a process id, as might occur if the server is
2827 being rapidly restarted. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
2829 *) Win32: Add global symbols missing from ApacheCore.def. [Carl Olsen]
2831 *) Entity tag comparisons for If-Match and If-None-Match were not being
2832 performed correctly -- weak tags might cause false positives. Also,
2833 strong comparison wasn't properly enforced in all cases.
2834 [Roy Fielding, Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet] PR#2065, 3657
2836 *) OS/2: Supply OS/2 error code instead of errno on semaphore errors.
2839 *) Work around a bug in Lynx regarding its sending "Negotiate: trans"
2840 even though it doesn't understand TCN. [Koen Holtman, Roy Fielding]
2842 *) Added ap_size_list_item(), ap_get_list_item(), and ap_find_list_item()
2843 to util.c for parsing an HTTP header field value to extract the next
2844 list item, taking into account the possible presence of nested comments,
2845 quoted-pairs, and quoted-strings. ap_get_list_item() also removes
2846 insignificant whitespace and lowercases non-quoted tokens.
2847 [Roy Fielding] PR#2065
2849 *) proxy: The various calls to ap_proxyerror() can return HTTP/1.1 status
2850 code different from 500. This allows the proxy to, e.g., return
2851 "403 Forbidden" for ProxyBlock'ed URL's. [Martin Kraemer] Related to PR#3455
2853 *) Fix ordering of language variants for the case where the traditional
2854 negotiation algorithm is being used with multiple language variants
2855 and no Accept-Language. [James Treacy <treacy@debian.org>] PR#3299, 3688
2857 *) Do not round the TCN quality calculation to 5 decimal places,
2858 unlike RFC 2296, because the calculation might need 12 decimal places
2859 to get the right result. [Roy Fielding]
2861 *) Remove unused code to disable transparent negotiation when
2862 negotiating on encoding only, as we now handle encoding too
2863 (though this is nonstandard for TCN), remove charset=ISO-8859-1
2864 fiddle from the fiddle-averse RVSA comparison, and fix bugs in
2865 some debugging statements within mod_negotiation. [Koen Holtman]
2867 *) Fixed a rare memory corruption possibility in mod_dir if the index
2868 file is negotiable and no acceptable variant can be found.
2869 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Martin Kraemer]
2871 *) Win32: Add new config directive, ScriptInterpreterSource, to enable
2872 searching the Win32 registry for script interpreters.
2875 *) Win32: The compiled-in default filename for the error log is now
2876 error.log, which matches the default in the distributed httpd.conf.
2879 *) Win32: Any error messages from -i or -u command line options are now
2880 displayed on the console output rather than sent to the error log.
2881 Also the "Running Apache..." message is not output unless Apache is
2882 going to serve requests. [Paul Sutton]
2884 *) Rework the MD5 authentication scheme to use FreeBSD's algorithm,
2885 and use a private significator ('$apr1$') to mark passwords as
2886 being smashed with our own algorithm. Also abstract the password
2887 checking into a new ap_validate_password() routine. [Ken Coar]
2889 *) Win32: The filename validity checker now allows "COM" but refuses
2890 access to "COM1" through "COM4". This allows filenames such
2891 as "com.name" to be served. [Paul Sutton] PR#3769.
2893 *) BS2000: Adapt to the new ufork() system call interface which will
2894 make subtasking easier on the OSD/POSIX mainframe environment.
2897 *) Add a compatibility define for escape_uri() -> ap_escape_uri() to
2898 ap_compat.h. [David White <david@persimmon.com>] PR#3725
2900 *) Make NDBM file suffix determination for mod_rewrite more accurate, i.e.
2901 use `.db' instead of `.pag' not only for FreeBSD, but also when
2902 the NDBM library looks like Berkeley-DB based.
2903 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3773
2905 *) Add ability to handle DES or MD5 authentication passwords.
2906 [Ryan Bloom <rbb@Raleigh.IBM.Com>]
2908 *) Fix O(n^2) memory consumption in mod_speling. [Dean Gaudet]
2910 *) SECURITY: Avoid some buffer overflow problems when escaping
2911 quoted strings. (This overflow was on the heap and we believe
2912 impossible to exploit.) [Rick Perry <perry@ece.vill.edu>]
2914 *) Let src/Configure be aware of CFLAGS options starting with plus
2915 signs as it's the case for the HP/UX compiler.
2916 [Doug Yatcilla <yatcilda@umdnj.edu>] PR#3681
2918 *) Remove the hard-wire of TAR=tar (we now check for gtar and gnutar first)
2919 and check to see if the tar we wind up with supports '-h'.
2920 [Jim Jagielski] PR#3671
2922 *) A consistent and conservative style for all shell scripts has been
2923 implemented. Basically, all shell string tests use the traditional
2924 hack of 'if [ "x$var" != "x" ]' or 'if [ "x$var" = "xstring" ]'
2925 to protect against bare null variable strings (ie: wrapping both
2926 sides with double quotes and prepending 'x'). 'x' was chosen
2927 because it's more universal and hopefully easier for old shell
2928 prgrammers, as well as being easier to search for in 'vi' (/x\$) :)
2931 *) The status module now prints out both the main server generation as
2932 well as the generation of each process. Also, the vhost info is
2933 printed with '?notable'. [Jim Jagielski]
2935 *) Move src/main/md5c.c to src/ap/ap_md5c.c; it's httpd-neutral
2936 and this makes its functions available to things in src/support.
2939 Changes with Apache 1.3.4
2941 *) Renamed macros status_drops_connection to ap_status_drops_connection
2942 and vestigial scan_script_header to ap_scan_script_header_err,
2943 mostly for aesthetic reasons. [Roy Fielding]
2945 *) The query switch "httpd -S" didn't exit after showing the
2946 vhost settings. That was inconsistent with the other query functions.
2949 *) Moved the MODULE_MAGIC_COOKIE from before the versions and
2950 filename to the end of the STANDARD_MODULE_STUFF. Its
2951 presence at the beginning prevented reporting of the filename
2952 for modules compiled before 1 January 1999. [Ken Coar]
2954 *) SECURITY: ap_os_is_filename_valid() has been added to Win32
2955 to detect and prevent access to special DOS device file names.
2956 [Paul Sutton, Ken Parzygnat]
2958 *) WIN32: Created new makefiles Makefile_win32.txt (normal build)
2959 and Makefile_win32_debug.txt (debug build) that work on Win95.
2960 Run each of the following from the src directory:
2961 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt # compiles normal build
2962 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt install # compiles and installs
2963 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt clean # removes compiled junk
2964 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt # compiles debug build
2965 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt install
2966 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt clean
2969 *) Added binbuild.sh and findprg.sh helpers to make it easier for us
2970 to build binary distributions. [Lars Eilebrecht]
2972 *) IndexOptions SuppressColumnSorting only turned off making
2973 the column headers anchors; you could still change the display
2974 order by manually adding a '?N=A' or similar query string to the
2975 URL. Now SuppressColumnSorting locks in the sort order so
2976 it can't be overridden this way. [Ken Coar]
2978 *) Added IndexOrderDefault directive to supply a default sort order
2979 for FancyIndexed directory listings. [Ken Coar] PR#1699
2981 *) Change the ap_assert macro to a variant that works on all platforms.
2982 [Richard Prinz <richard.prinz@cso.net>] PR#2575
2984 *) Make sure under ELF-based NetBSD (now) and OpenBSD (future) we don't
2985 search for an underscore on dlsym() (as it's already the case
2986 for FreeBSD 3.0). [Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>] PR#2462
2988 *) Small fix for mod_env.html: The module was documented as to be _not_
2989 compiled into Apache per default, although it _IS_ compiled into
2990 Apache per default. [Sim Harbert <sim@mindspring.com>] PR#3572
2992 *) Instead of fixing a bug in the generation procedure for config.status (a
2993 backslash was missing) we remove the bug together with it's complete
2994 context because the special cases of the past can now no longer occur
2995 because of the recent magic for the --with-layout default.
2996 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3590
2998 *) Make top-level Makefile aware of a parallel build procedures (make -j) by
2999 making sure the src/support/ tools are _forced_ to be build last (they
3000 depend on other libraries).
3001 [Markus Theissinger <markus.theissinger@gmx.de>]
3003 *) Fix installation procedure: Now that os-inline.c is actually used (a
3004 recently fixed bug prevented this) we need to also install os-include.c
3005 in addition to os.h into the PREFIX/include/ location or building of
3006 module DSOs with APXS fails. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3527
3008 *) Added MODULE_MAGIC_COOKIE as the first field in a module structure to
3009 allow us to distinguish between a garbled DSO (or even a file which isn't
3010 an Apache module DSO at all) and a DSO which doesn't match the current
3011 Apache API. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3152
3013 *) Two minor enhancements to mod_rewrite: First RewriteRule now also
3014 supports the ``nocase|NC'' flag (as RewriteCond already does for ages) to
3015 match case insensitive (this especially avoids nasty patterns like
3016 `[tT][eE][sS][tT]'). Second two additional internal map functions
3017 `escape' and `unescape' were added which can be used to escape/unescape
3018 to/from hex-encodings in URLs parts (this is especially useful in
3019 combination with map lookups).
3020 [Magnus Bodin, Ian Kallen, Ralf S. Engelschall]
3022 *) Renamed the macro escape_uri() to ap_escape_uri() which was
3023 forgotten (because it was a macro) in the symbol renaming process.
3024 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3026 *) Fix some inconsistencies related to the scopes of directives. The only
3027 user visible change is that the directives `UseCanonicalName' and
3028 `ContentDigest' now use the (more correct) `Options' scope instead of
3029 (less correct) `AuthConfig' scope. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3031 *) Using DSO, the Server token was being mangled. Specifically, the
3032 module's token was being added first before the Apache token. This
3033 has been fixed. [Jim Jagielski]
3035 *) Major overhaul of mod_negotiation.c, part 2.
3036 - properly handle "identity" within Accept-Encoding.
3037 - allow encoded variants in RVSA negotiation and let them appear in
3038 the Alternates field using the non-standard "encoding" tag-list.
3039 - fixed both negotiation algorithms so that an explicitly accepted
3040 encoding is preferred over no encoding if "identity" is not
3041 included within Accept-Encoding.
3042 - added ap_array_pstrcat() to alloc.c for efficient concatenation
3043 of large substring sequences.
3044 - replaced O(n^2) memory hogs in mod_negotiation with ap_array_pstrcat.
3047 *) Major overhaul of mod_negotiation.c, part 1.
3048 - cleanups to mod_negotiation comments and code structure
3049 - made compliant with HTTP/1.1 proposed standard (rfc2068) and added
3050 support for everything in the upcoming HTTP/1.1
3051 revision (draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-06.txt).
3052 - language tag matching also handles tags with more than 2
3054 - empty Accept, Accept-Language, Accept-Charset headers are
3055 processed correctly; previously an empty header would make all
3056 values acceptable instead of unacceptable.
3057 - allowed for q values in Accept-Encoding
3058 - added support for transparent content negotiation (rfc2295 and
3059 rfc2296) (though we do not implement all features in these drafts,
3060 e.g. no feature negotiation). Removed old experimental version.
3061 - implemented 'structured entity tags' for better cache correctness
3062 (structured entity tags ensure that caches which can deal with Vary
3063 will (eventually) be updated if the set of variants on the server
3065 - this involved adding a vlist_validator element to request_rec
3066 - this involved adding the ap_make_etag() function to the global API
3067 - modified guessing of charsets used by Apache negotiation algorithm
3068 to guess 'no charset' if the variant is not a text/* type
3069 - added code to sort multiviews variants into a canonical order so that
3070 negotiation results are consistent across backup/restores and mirrors
3071 - removed possibility of a type map file resolving to another type map
3072 file as its best variant
3073 [Koen Holtman, Roy Fielding, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3451, 3299, 1987
3075 *) RFC2396 allows the syntax http://host:/path (with no port number)
3076 but the proxy disallowed it (ap_proxy_canon_netloc()).
3077 [David Kristol <dmk@bell-labs.com>] PR#3530
3079 *) When modules update/modify the file name in the configfile_t structure,
3080 syntax errors will report the updated name, not the original one.
3081 [Fabien Coelho <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>] PR#3573
3083 *) Correct some filename case assumptions from WIN32 to
3084 CASE_BLIND_FILESYSTEM. [Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
3086 *) For %v log ServerName regardless of the UseCanonicalName
3087 setting (similarly for %p). [Dean Gaudet]
3089 *) Configure was initializing the variables $OSDIR, $INCDIR and $SHELL
3090 rather late (too late for some invocations of TestCompile).
3091 This improves the make environment available to TestCompile and
3092 the *.module scripts. [Martin Kraemer]
3094 *) The hashbang emulation code in ap_execve.c would interpret
3095 #!/hashbang/scripts correctly, but failed to fall back to a
3096 standard shell for scripts which did NOT start with #!
3097 Now SHELL_PATH is started in these cases. [Martin Kraemer]
3099 *) PORT: Added the Cyberguard V2 port [Richard Stagg <stagg@lentil.org>]
3102 *) Update APXS manual page: some -q option arguments were missing
3103 and another was incorrect. [Mark Anderson <mda@discerning.com>] PR#3553
3105 *) Cleanup the command line options: `-?' was documented to show
3106 the usage list but does it with an error because `?' is not a valid
3107 command. OTOH a lot of users expect `-h' to print such a usage list and
3108 instead are annoyed for ages by our huge unreadable list of directives.
3109 So we now changed the command line options this way:
3111 Intent: we need `-L' to be free, and `-R' for the DSO run-time path is
3112 very similar to the popular linker option.
3114 Intent: while -l gives the small list of modules, -L now gives the
3115 large list of directives implemented by these modules. This is also
3116 consistent with -v (short version info) and -V (large version info).
3118 Intent: it's now the expected option ;-)
3119 The manual page was adjusted accordingly.
3120 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2714
3122 *) Fixed problem of fclose() on an unopened file in suexec if LOG_EXEC
3123 wasn't defined. [Rick Franchuk <rickf@transpect.net>]
3125 *) Removed recently introduced bugs and disfigurements in APACI:
3126 o fixed argument line processing: using $args was broken: It was not
3127 initialized and using args="$args $apc_option" and even args="$args
3128 \"$apc_option\"" fails in the second processing round for any arguments
3129 containing whitespaces. The only correct way is to use the construct
3130 "$@" (but not possible here) or iterate _both_ times over the implicit
3131 argument line (no argument to for-loop) which is what we now use.
3132 o make --with-layout=Apache the default without creating
3133 redundancy (copying the --with-layout block in the argument parsing
3134 loop). We achieve this by using the "$@" construct together with the
3135 `set' command to prepend --with-layout=Apache to the command line in
3136 case --with-layout is not used.
3137 o fixed auto-suffix handling now that config.layout exists.
3138 Paths which are auto-suffixed are marked with a trailing plus sign in
3139 config.layout and every path now can be marked this way (not only the
3140 four paths for which we do it currently). Additionally the suffix is
3141 no longer a static one. Instead it's now `/<target>' where <target> is
3142 the argument of the --target option or per default `httpd'.
3143 o allow also tabs (and only spaces) where we match whitespaces
3144 o various fixes and cleanups related to used shell coding style
3145 o made Jim happy by replacing `Written by' with `Initially written by' ;-)
3146 o trimmed output of --help to fit into 80 columns
3147 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3149 *) Added two new core API functions, ap_single_module_configure() and
3150 ap_single_module_init(), which are now used by mod_so to configure a module
3151 after loading. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3153 *) PORT: Add defines for USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT and
3154 SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT to NetBSD/OpenBSD section
3155 of ap_config.h to allow serialized accept for multiport listens.
3156 [Roy Fielding, Curt Sampson] PR#3120
3158 *) PORT: Fixed a misplaced #endif for NetBSD/OpenBSD section
3159 of ap_config.h that would skip several defines if DEFAULT_GROUP
3160 was overridden. [Roy Fielding]
3162 *) PORT: The I86 version of DGUX has support for strncasecmp and
3163 strcasecmp, so allow it in ap_config.h. [Amiel Lee Yee] PR#3247
3165 *) Fix ordering of definitions in ap_config.h so that ap_inline is
3166 defined before it might be used. [Victor Khimenko]
3168 *) PORT: Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for BSDI (v4.0).
3169 [Tom Serkowski <tks@bsdi.com>] PR#3453
3171 *) Make generation of src/Configuration.apaci more robust: It failed to
3172 differenciate between modules when one module name was a postfix of
3173 another (e.g. cgi vs. fastcgi). We now check for mod_XXX, libXXX and even
3174 just XXX (think about totally non-standard names like "apache_ssl", too).
3175 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3380
3177 *) In src/Configure remove the SERVER_SUBVERSION support (already deprecated
3178 since 1.3b7) and make whitespace handling more robust (it failed horrible
3179 when whitespaces were present in the arguments of -D options).
3180 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3240
3182 *) Add APACI --shadow=DIR variant (in addition to --shadow). This now first
3183 creates an external package shadow tree in DIR before the local build
3184 shadow tree is generated under DIR. This way one can have the extracted
3185 Apache distribution tree read-only on NFS or CDROM and still build Apache
3186 from these sources. An automatically triggered VPATH-like mechanism is
3187 provided through the TOP variable, too.
3188 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
3190 *) Fix negotiation so that a Vary response header is correctly
3191 generated when, for a particular dimension, variants only vary
3192 in having or not having a value for that dimension. [Paul Sutton]
3194 *) Fix negotiation so that we prefer an encoded variant over an
3195 unencoded variant if the user-agent explicitly says it can
3196 accept that encoding. Previously we always preferred the unencoded
3198 [Paul Ausbeck <paula@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu>, Paul Sutton] PR#3447
3200 *) Fix APXS tool: query variables LIBS_SHLIB and TARGET were not recognized
3201 and the usage page was inconsistent with the functionality and manpage.
3202 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3204 *) Allow special options -Wc,xxx and -Wl,xxx on APXS compile/link command.
3205 They can occur multiple times and their arguments (`xxx') are passed AS
3206 IS to the compiler/linker command. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3208 *) Fixed possible (but harmless in practice) bug in the DBM lookup
3209 procedure of mod_rewrite: very long keys were truncated.
3210 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3212 *) Added a generic --with-layout=[FILE:]ID option. ID here is a layout
3213 identifier, currently "Apache" and "GNU" are pre-defined in the file
3214 config.layout. Custom layouts are possible by using FILE:ID as the
3215 argument where the layout ID is taken from FILE.
3217 The config.layout file consists of <Layout ID>..</Layout> sections
3218 where inside those sections "path_variable: path_value" pairs can be
3219 specified. These lines are converted to path_variable='path_value'.
3221 *) Add a DefaultLanguage directive so that files missing a language
3222 extension (e.g., .fr, .de) can be labelled as being some other
3223 default language. DefaultLanguage can appear in <Directory> and
3224 <Files> containers as well as .htaccess files. [Paul Sutton]
3227 *) Fix TARGET configuration when configuring and installing using
3228 APACI configure. TARGET now defines the basename of the configuration
3229 file, startup script, manual page, etc. log_error_core() now reports
3230 the server binary name given by argv[0]. TARGET can now also be defined
3231 with --target=TARGET parameter passed to APACI configure.
3232 [Ralf Engelschall, Randy Terbush]
3234 *) mod_include.c:handle_perl() now properly tests for OPT_INCNOEXEC
3235 rather than OPT_INCLUDES [Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>]
3237 *) ap_md5_binary() was using sprintf() rather than a table lookup
3238 to convert binary bytes to hex digits.
3239 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald@innovation.ch>] PR#3409
3241 *) Fix SEGV in TCN negotiation if no variants are acceptable.
3242 [Martin Plechsmid <plechsmi@karlin.mff.cuni.cz>] PR#1987
3244 *) API: ap_exists_config_define() function is now "public" [Doug MacEachern]
3246 *) Fix documentation of `Action' directive: It can activate a CGI script
3247 when either a handler or a MIME content type is triggered by the request.
3248 [Andrew Pimlott <pimlott@math.harvard.edu>] PR#3340
3250 *) Document the `add' command of `dbmmanage' in `dbmmanage.1' manpage.
3251 [David MacKenzie <djm@uu.net>] PR#3394
3253 *) Ignore a "ErrorDocument 401" directive with a full URL and write a
3254 notice to the error log. It is not possible to send a 401 response
3255 and a redirect at the same time. [Lars Eilebrecht]
3257 *) Fallback to native compilers for IRIX-32 platform. It seems that
3258 a gcc 2.8.1 compiled apache is logging client addresses with all
3259 bits set (255.255.255.255). This is the second such problem caused
3260 by gcc 2.8.1 compiler. The first being broken semaphore locking.
3263 *) Updated mime.types to reflect current Internet media types
3264 and include a URL to the registry.
3265 [Manoj Kasichainula, Roy Fielding] PR#2380, 2286, 2246
3267 *) SECURITY: Do a more complete check in mod_include to avoid
3268 an infinite loop of recursive SSI includes. [Marc Slemko] PR#3323
3270 *) Add APACI --suexec-docroot and --suexec-logfile options which can be
3271 used to set the document root directory (DOC_ROOT) and the suexec
3272 logfile (LOG_EXEC), respectively. Additionally the --layout option
3273 was changed to show more information about the suEXEC setup.
3274 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3316, 3357, 3361
3276 *) Added the last two WebDAV status codes of 424 (Failed Dependency)
3277 and 507 (Insufficient Storage) for use by third-party modules.
3280 *) Enabled all of the WebDAV method names for use by third-party
3281 modules, Limit, and Script directives. That includes PATCH,
3282 PROPFIND, PROPPATCH, MKCOL, COPY, MOVE, LOCK, and UNLOCK.
3283 Improved mod_actions.c so that it can use any of the methods
3284 defined in httpd.h. Added ap_method_number_of(method) for
3285 getting the internal method number. [Roy Fielding]
3287 *) PORT: Add a port to the TPF OS. [Joe Moenich <moenich@us.ibm.com> and
3290 *) Fix problems with handling of UNC names (e.g., \\host\path)
3291 on Win32. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@us.ibm.com>]
3293 *) Rework os_canonical_*() on Win32 so it's simpler, more
3294 robust, and works. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@us.ibm.com>]
3295 PR#2555, 2915, 3064, 3232
3297 *) Work around incomplete implementation of strftime on Win32.
3298 [Manoj Kasichainula, Ken Parzygnat <kparz@us.ibm.com>]
3300 *) Move a typedef to fix compile problems on Linux with 1.x kernels.
3301 [Manoj Kasichainula] PR#3177
3303 *) PORT: Add a port to the Concurrent PowerMAX OS. [Tom Horsley
3304 <Tom.Horsley@mail.ccur.com>]
3306 *) WIN32: Log more explicit error messages if spawning an interpreted
3307 script failed, including the command line used to attempt to execute
3308 the interpreter and the Win32 error code returned. [Marc Slemko]
3310 *) Disable sending of error-notes on a 500 (Internal Server Error) response
3311 since it often includes file path info. Enable sending of error-notes
3312 on a 501 (Method Not Implemented). [Roy Fielding] PR#3173
3314 *) http_config.c would respond with 501 (Method Not Implemented) if a
3315 content type handler was specified but could not be found, which
3316 should have been a 500 response. Likewise, mod_proxy.c would responsd
3317 with a 501 if the URI scheme is unrecognized instead of the correct
3318 response of 403 (Forbidden). [Roy Fielding]
3320 *) SECURITY: Eliminate DoS attack when a bad URI path contains what
3321 looks like a printf format escape. [Marc Slemko, Studenten Net Twente]
3323 *) Fix in mod_autoindex: for files where the last modified time stamp was
3324 unavailable, an empty string was printed which was 2 bytes short.
3325 The size and description columns were therefore not aligned correctly.
3326 [Martin Kraemer] (no PR#)
3328 *) Update BS2000 OS code to work with recent versions. Starting with
3329 release A17, the child fork() must be replaced by a _rfork().
3330 (BS2000 only) [Martin Kraemer]
3332 *) Add the actual server_rec structure of the specific Vhost to the
3333 scoreboard file and avoid a string copy (as well as allow some
3334 further future enhancements). [Harrie Hazewinkel
3335 <harrie.hazewinkel@jrc.it>]
3337 *) Add APACI --permute-module=foo:bar option which can be used to
3338 on-the-fly/batch permute the order of two modules (mod_foo and mod_bar)
3339 in the Configuration[.apaci] file. Two special and important variants are
3340 supported for the option argument: first BEGIN:foo which permutes module
3341 mod_foo with the begin of the module list, i.e. it `moves' the module to
3342 the begin of the list (gives it lowest priority). And second foo:END
3343 which permutes mod_foo with the end of the module list, i.e. it `moves'
3344 the module to the end of the list (gives it highest priority).
3345 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3347 *) Fix problem with 'apache -k shutdown' and startup event
3348 synchronisation (Win32). [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3351 *) The config parser wasn't correctly noticing a missing '>'
3352 on container start lines (e.g., it wouldn't spot
3353 "<Directory /" as a syntax error). [Ryan Bloom <rbbloom@us.ibm.com>]
3356 *) Add a 'RemoveHandler' directive which will selectively remove
3357 all handler associations for the specified file extensions.
3358 [Ryan Bloom <rbbloom@us.ibm.com>] PR#1799.
3360 *) Properly handle & allow "nul" and ".*/null" in AccessConfig and
3361 ResourceConfig directives on Win32. Also add a note to the effect
3362 of 'useless User directive ignored on Win32' to the errorlog if
3363 a User directive is encountered on Win32.
3364 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2078, 2303.
3366 *) Fix multiple whitespace handling in imagemaps for mod_imap which was
3367 broken since Apache 1.3.1 where we took out compressing of multiple
3368 spaces in ap_cfg_getline().
3369 [Ivan Richwalski <ivan@seppuku.net>] PR#3249
3371 *) Fix Berkeley-DB/2.x support in mod_auth_db: The data structures were not
3372 initialized correctly and the db_open() call used an invalid mode
3373 parameter. [Ron Klatchko <ron@ckm.ucsf.edu>] PR#3171
3375 *) PORT: DSO support for UnixWare 7
3376 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Ron Record <rr@sco.com>]
3378 *) Merge the contents of the {srm,access}.conf-dist* files into the
3379 httpd.conf-dist* files. The srm and access files now contain
3380 only comments, and httpd.conf has all the combined contents in
3381 a rational order. [Ken Coar]
3383 *) PORT: DSO/ELF support for FreeBSD 3.0.
3384 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Dirk Froemberg <ibex@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>]
3386 *) Add a "default-handler" handler that calls the default_hander()
3387 function which is normally called for static content. This allows
3388 you to override a specific handler. [Marc Slemko]
3390 *) Further simplify checking for absolute paths by replacing an
3391 hard-coded syntax check with a call to a routine we already created to
3392 do this. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2976, 3074
3394 *) Log an error if we encounter a malformed "require" directive
3395 in mod_auth if we know that we know that no other module can
3396 deal with it. [Marc Slemko]
3398 *) Remove ap_private_extern method of hiding conflicting symbols
3399 on the NEXT platform because it is not correct for all versions,
3400 and the versions for which it is correct are unknown.
3401 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
3403 *) Fix inheritance of IndexOptions NameWidth and remove unintended
3404 restriction on +NameWidth, +IconHeight, and +IconWidth. [Ken Coar]
3406 *) Fix per-directory config merging for cases in which a 500 error
3407 is encountered in an .htaccess file somewhere down the tree.
3410 *) Minor performance improvement to ap_escape_html(). [Roy Fielding]
3412 *) Fixed a segmentation violation in mod_proxy when a response is
3413 non-cachable. [Roy Fielding, traced by Doug Bloebaum]. PR#2950, 3056
3415 Changes with Apache 1.3.3
3417 *) Added a complete implementation of the Expect header field as
3418 specified in rev-05 of HTTP/1.1. Disabled the 100 Continue
3419 response when we already know the final status, which is mighty
3420 useful for PUT responses that result in 302 or 401. [Roy Fielding]
3422 *) Remove extra trailing whitespace from the getline results as part
3423 of the protocol processing, which is extra nice because it works
3424 between continuation lines, is almost no cost in the normal case
3425 of no extra whitespace, and saves memory. [Roy Fielding]
3427 *) Added new HTTP status codes and default response bodies from the
3428 revised HTTP/1.1 (307, 416, 417), WebDAV (102, 207, 422, 423), and
3429 HTTP Extension Framework (510) specifications. Did not add the
3430 WebDAV 424 and 425 codes because they are bogus. We don't use any
3431 of these codes yet, but they are now available to 3rd-party modules.
3434 *) Fix a possible race condition between timed-out requests and the
3435 ap_bhalfduplex select that might result in an infinite loop on
3436 platforms that do not validate the descriptor. [Roy Fielding]
3438 *) WIN32: Add "-k shutdown" and "-k restart" options to signal a
3439 running Apache server [Paul Sutton]
3441 *) Fix mod_autoindex bug where directories got a size of "0k" instead
3442 of "-". [Martin Plechsmid <plechsmi@karlin.mff.cuni.cz>, Marc Slemko]
3445 *) PORT: DRS 6000 machine. [Paul Debleecker <pdebleecker@jetair.be>]
3447 *) Add the server signature text (from the core ServerSignature directive)
3448 to the list of envariables available to scripts, SSI, and the like.
3451 *) PORT: Fix sys/resource.h handling for SCO 3.x platform.
3452 [M. Laak <maert@proinv.ee>] PR#3108
3454 *) Fallback from sysconf-based to plain HZ-based `ticks per second'
3455 calculation in mod_status for all systems which don't have POSIX
3456 sysconf() (like UTS 2.1) and not only for the NEXT platform.
3457 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#3055
3459 *) Fix `require ...' directive parsing in mod_auth, mod_auth_dbm and
3460 mod_auth_db by using ap_getword_white() (which uses ap_isspace())
3461 instead of ap_getword(..., ' ') (which parses only according to spaces
3462 but not tabs). [James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>,
3463 Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3105
3465 *) Fix the SERVER_NAME variable under sub-request situations (where
3466 `UseCanonicalName off' is used) like CGI's called from SSI pages or
3467 RewriteCond variables by adopting r->hostname to sub-requests.
3468 [James Grinter <jrg@blodwen.demon.co.uk>] PR#3111
3470 *) Fix stderr redirection under syslog-based error logging situation.
3471 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#3095
3473 *) Document `ErrorLog syslog:facility' variant of error logging.
3474 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#3096
3476 *) Fix http://localhost/ hints in top-level INSTALL document.
3477 [Rob Jenson <robjen@spotch.com>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3088
3479 *) Quote paths in default configuration files. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
3481 *) PORT: Remove extra HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H define for RHAPSODY since
3482 it is now taken care of properly by the header file tests.
3483 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
3485 *) Fix problem with scripts and filehandle inheritance on Win32.
3486 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2884, 2910
3488 *) Win32 name canonicalisation could end up using the server's
3489 working directory to fill in some blanks. [Ken Parzygnat
3490 <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#3001
3492 *) Correct invalid assumption by ap_sub_req_lookup_file() that all
3493 absolute paths begin with "/" -- because they don't on Win32.
3494 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2976, 3074
3496 *) Add [REDIRECT_]VARIANTS environment variable to mod_speling
3497 so that ErrorDocument 300 processors can reformat the list
3498 if desired. [Ken Coar] PR#2859
3500 *) Add +/- incremental prefixes to IndexOptions keywords, and
3501 enable merging of multiple IndexOptions directives. [Ken Coar]
3503 *) PORT: Allow GuessOS to recognize Unixware 7.0.1 [Steve Cameron
3504 <steve.cameron@compaq.com>]
3506 *) Reconstructed the loop through multiple htaccess file names so
3507 that missing files are not confused with unreadable files.
3510 *) The ap_pfopen and ap_pfdopen routines were failing to protect the
3511 errno on an error, which leads to one error being mistaken for
3512 another when reading non-existent .htaccess files.
3515 *) OS/2: The new header tests get things right, need to update
3516 ap_config.h. [Brian Havard]
3518 *) The Perl %ENV hash will now be setup by default when using the
3519 mod_include `perl' command [Doug MacEachern]
3521 *) PORT: Add Pyramid DC/OSx support to configuration mechanism.
3522 [Earle Ake <akee@wpdiss1.wpafb.af.mil>]
3524 *) PORT: Fix sys/resource.h handling for Amdahl's UTS 2.1
3525 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#3054
3527 *) Correct comment in mod_log_config.c about its internals.
3528 [Elf Sternberg <elf@halcyon.com>]
3530 *) Avoid possible line overflow in Configure: Use an awkfile to
3531 handle the creation of modules.c [Jim Jagielski]
3533 Changes with Apache 1.3.2
3535 *) Fix bug in ap_remove_module(), which caused problems for dso's
3536 who were the top_module. [Doug MacEachern]
3538 *) Add support for Berkeley-DB/2.x (in addition to Berkeley-DB/1.x) to
3539 mod_auth_db to both be friendly to users who wants to use this version
3540 and to avoid problems under platforms where only version 2.x is present.
3541 [Dan Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
3543 *) When using ap_log_rerror(), make the error message available to the
3544 *ERROR_NOTES envariables by default. [Ken Coar]
3546 *) BS2000 platform only: get rid of the nasty BS2000AuthFile.
3547 You now must define a BS2000Account name for the server User.
3548 This has fewer security implications than the old approach.
3551 *) Fix SHARED_CORE feature for HPUX platform: We now use extension `.sl'
3552 instead of `.so' and `SHLIB_PATH' instead of `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' on this
3553 platform to make the braindead HPUX linker happy. Notice, for the module
3554 DSOs we don't have to use this, because these are loaded manually (and
3555 not via HPUX' dld). [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2905, PR#2968
3557 *) Remove 64 thread limit on Win32.
3558 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3560 *) Remove redundant substitutions in top-level Makefile.tmpl.
3561 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3563 *) Fix APACI's `Group' configuration adjustment - especially for Linux
3564 platforms where `nogroup' exists in /etc/group. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3566 *) Make PrintPath work generically instead of having one version
3567 strictly for OS/2. [Jim Jagielski, Brian Havard]
3569 *) Fix the recently introduced C header file checking: We now use the C
3570 pre-processor pass only (and no longer the complete compiler pass) to
3571 determine whether a C header file exists or not. Because only this way
3572 we're safe against inter-header dependencies (which caused horrible
3573 portability problems). The only drawback is that we now have a CPP
3574 configuration variable which has to be determined first (we do a similar
3575 approach as GNU Autoconf does here). When all fails the user still has
3576 the possibility to override it manually via APACI or src/Configuration.
3577 As a fallback for the header check itself we can directly check the
3578 existance of the file under /usr/include, too.
3579 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2777
3581 *) PORT: Added RHAPSODY (Mac OS X Server) support. MAP_TMPFILE defined
3582 as an alternate mechanism for mmap'd shared memory for RHAPSODY.
3583 ap_private_extern defined to hide symbols that conflict with loaded
3584 dynamic libraries on the NEXT and RHAPSODY platforms.
3585 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
3587 *) Delete PID file on clean shutdowns.
3588 [Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com>] PR#2947
3590 *) Fix mod_auth_*.html documents: NSCA -> NCSA
3591 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#2991
3593 *) Fix INSTALL document: www.gnu.ai.mit.edu -> www.gnu.org
3594 [Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>] PR#2994
3596 *) Fix dbmmanage.1 manual page.
3597 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#2992
3599 *) Fix possible buffer overflow situation in suexec.c.
3600 [Jeff Stewart <jws@purdue.edu>] PR#2790
3602 *) Add some more LIBS for the SCO5 platform which are needed for the already
3603 used -lprot. It's actually a bug in SCO5, of course.
3604 [Ronald Record <rr@sco.com>] PR#2533
3606 *) Fix documentation of ProxyPass/ProxyPassReverse according to the
3607 trailing slash problem. [Jon Drukman <jsd@gamespot.com>] PR#2933
3609 *) Remove `-msym' option from LDFLAGS_SHLIB for the Digital UNIX (OSF/1)
3610 platform, because it's only supported under version 4.0 and higher. But
3611 because our GuessOS is still unaware of Digital UNIX versions and the
3612 -msym is just to optimize the DSO statup time a little bit it's safe and
3613 best when we leave it out now. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2969
3615 *) Fix the ap_log_error_old(), ap_log_unixerr() and ap_log_printf()
3616 functions: First all three functions no longer fail on strings containing
3617 "%" chars and second ap_log_printf() no longer does a double-formatting
3618 (instead it directly passes through the message to be formatted to the
3619 real internal formatting function). [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2941
3621 *) Allow "Include" directives anywhere in the server config
3622 files (but not .htaccess files). [Ken Coar] PR#2727
3624 *) The proxy was refusing to serve CONNECT requests except to
3625 port 443 (https://) and 563 (snews://). The new AllowCONNECT
3626 directive allows the configuration of the ports to which a
3627 CONNECT is allowed. [Sameer Parekh, Martin Kraemer]
3629 *) mod_expires will now act on content that is not sent from a file
3630 on disk. Previously it would never add an Expires: header to
3631 any response that did not come from a file on disk; the only
3632 case where it still doesn't (and can't) add one for that type of
3633 content is if you are using a modification date based setting.
3634 [Marc Slemko, Paul Phillips <paulp@go2net.com>]
3636 *) Problems encountered during .htaccess parsing or CGI execution
3637 that lead to a "500 Server Error" condition now provide explanatory
3638 text (in the *ERROR_NOTES envariable) to ErrorDocument 500 scripts.
3641 *) Add NameWidth keyword to IndexOptions directive so that the
3642 width of the filename column is customisable. [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
3645 *) Recognize lowercase _and_ uppercase `uname' results under
3646 SCO OpenServer. [David Coelho <drc@ppt.com>]
3648 *) As duplicate "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" lines within the header seem to be
3649 a common problem of (mis-administrated?) IIS servers, make the apache
3650 proxy immune to these errors (and ignore the duplicates, but log
3651 the fact to error_log). [Martin Kraemer], after the proposal in PR#2914
3653 *) The <IfModule and <IfDefine block starting directives now only
3654 allow exactly one argument. Previously, the optional negation
3655 character '!' could be separated by whitespace without a syntax
3656 error being reported, albeit defeating the IfModule functionality
3657 (enclosed directives would ALWAYS be executed). By using the
3658 stricter syntax, these hard-to-track errors can be avoided.
3661 *) Simplify handling of IndexOptions in mod_autoindex -- and BTW
3662 cause the standalone FancyIndexing directive to logically OR
3663 into any existing IndexOptions settings rather than wiping
3664 them out. [Ken Coar]
3666 *) Changes in ftp proxy: make URL parsing simpler by using the
3668 + Add display of the "current directory" in cases where it's
3669 different from the supplied path (e.g., ftp://user@host/ lives
3670 in /home/user, not in /, therefore clicking on "../" in the
3671 starting directory might send us to /home/).
3672 + When ftp login fails, (esp. when a user name was part of the
3673 URL already), we now return [401 Unauthorized ] to allow the
3674 browser to pop up an authorization dialog. This makes passwords
3675 slightly less visible (they don't appear in the regular log files)
3676 and implements a functionality that other www proxy servers
3680 *) Triggered by the recent "Via:" header changes, the proxy module would
3681 dump core for replies with invalid headers (e.g., duplicate
3682 "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" lines). These errors are now logged and the
3683 core dump is avoided. Also, broken replies are not cached.
3684 [Martin Kraemer] PR#2914
3686 *) new `GprofDir' directive when compiled with -DGPROF, where gprof can
3687 plop gmon.out profile data for each child [Doug MacEachern]
3689 *) Use the construct ``"$@"'' instead of ``$*'' in the generated
3690 config.status script to be immune against arguments with whitespaces.
3691 [Yves Arrouye <yves@apple.com>] PR#2866
3693 *) Replace the inlined information grabbing stuff for the configuration
3694 adjustment feature (no --without-confadjust) with calls to a new helper
3695 script `buildinfo.sh' which is both more flexible and already proofed to
3696 be more robust against platform differences. This mainly fixes the
3697 recently occured ``sed: command garbled: ...'' problems.
3698 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2776, PR#2848
3700 *) Make ab.c again pass ``gcc -Wall -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align
3701 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Winline''
3702 without complains after we recently added the POST feature.
3703 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3705 *) Renamed is_HTTP_xxx() macros to ap_is_HTTP_xxx() name. They are used inside
3706 modules as API functions and we forgot them at the big symbol renaming.
3707 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3709 *) Remove bad reference to non-existing SERVER_VERSION in mod_rewrite.html
3710 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.ORG>] PR#2895
3712 *) Dynamically size the filename column of mod_autoindex output.
3715 *) Add the ability to do POST requests to the ab benchmarking tool.
3716 [Kurt Sussman <kls@best.com>] PR#2871
3718 *) Bump up MAX_ENV_FLAGS in mod_rewrite.h from the too conservatice limit of
3719 5 to 10 because there are some users out there who always have 5 to 8
3720 variables in one RewriteRule and had to patch mod_rewrite.h for every
3721 release. So 15 should be now more than enough, even for them. (I never
3722 needed more than 4 in my RewriteRules ;-)
3723 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3725 *) Make the proxy generate and understand Via: headers
3728 *) Change the proxy to use tables instead of array_headers for
3729 the header lines. [Martin Kraemer]
3731 *) Make sure the config.status file is not overridden when just
3732 ``configure --help'' is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2844
3734 *) Split MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER into _MAJOR/_MINOR numbers. This should
3735 provide a way to trace API changes that add functionality but do
3736 not create a compatibility issue for precompiled modules, etc.
3737 See include/ap_mmn.h for more details. [Randy Terbush]
3739 *) Fix suexec installation under `make install root=xxx' situation.
3740 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3742 *) Extend the output of the -V switch to include the paths of all
3743 compiled-in configuration files, if they were overridden at
3744 compile time, for least astonishment of the user.
3747 *) When READing a request in ExtendedStatus mode, the "old"
3748 vhost, request and client information is not displayed.
3751 *) STATUS is no longer available. Full status information now
3752 run-time configurable using the ExtendedStatus directive.
3755 *) SECURITY: Eliminate O(n^2) space DoS attacks (and other O(n^2)
3756 cpu time attacks) in header parsing. Add ap_overlap_tables(),
3757 a function which can be used to perform bulk update operations
3758 on tables in a more efficient manner. [Dean Gaudet]
3760 *) SECURITY: Added compile-time and configurable limits for
3761 various aspects of reading a client request to avoid some simple
3762 denial of service attacks, including limits on maximum request-line
3763 size (LimitRequestLine), number of header fields (LimitRequestFields),
3764 and size of any one header field (LimitRequestFieldsize). Also added
3765 a configurable directive LimitRequestBody for limiting the size of the
3766 request message body. [Roy Fielding]
3768 *) Make status module aware of DNS and logging states, even if
3769 STATUS not defined. [Jim Jagielski]
3771 *) Fix a problem with the new OS/2 mutexes. [Brian Havard]
3773 *) Enhance mod_speling so that CheckSpelling can be used in
3774 <Directory> containers and .htaccess files. [Ken Coar]
3776 *) API: new ap_custom_response() function for hooking into the
3777 ErrorDocument mechanism at runtime [Doug MacEachern]
3779 *) API: new ap_uuencode() function [Doug MacEachern]
3781 *) API: scan_script_header_err_core() now "public" and renamed
3782 ap_scan_script_header_err_core() [Doug MacEachern]
3784 *) The 'status' module will now show the process pid's and their
3785 state even without full STATUS accounting. [Jim Jagielski]
3787 *) Restore the client IP address to the error log messages, this
3788 was lost during the transition from 1.2 to 1.3. Add a new
3789 function ap_log_rerror() which takes a request_rec * and
3790 formats it appropriately. [Dean Gaudet] PR#2661
3792 *) Cure ap_cfg_getline() of its nasty habit of compressing internal
3793 whitespace in input lines -- including within quoted strings.
3795 but leading and trailing whitespace should continue to be
3796 stripped [Martin Kraemer]
3798 *) Cleanup of the PrintPath/PrintPathOS2 helper functions. Avoid
3799 the ugly use of an env. variable and use command-line args for
3800 alternate $PATH. Make more like advanced 'type's as well.
3803 *) The IRIXN32 Rule was being ignored. Configure now correctly adds
3804 -n32 only if IRIXN32 says to. [Jim Jagielski, Alain St-Denis
3805 <alain.st-denis@ec.gc.ca>] PR#2736
3807 *) Clean up a warning in mod_proxy. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3809 *) Renamed __EMX__ (internal define of the gcc port under OS/2) to OS2
3810 following the same idea as "MSVC vs WIN32". Additionally the src/os/emx/
3811 directory was renamed to src/os/os2/ for consistency.
3812 [Brian Havard, Ralf S. Engelschall]
3814 *) Add new Rule SHARED_CHAIN which can be used to enable linking of DSO
3815 files (here modules) against other DSO files (here shared libraries).
3816 This is done by determining a subset of LIBS which can be safely used for
3817 linking the DSOs, i.e. PIC libs and shared libs. Currently the rule is
3818 disabled for all platforms to avoid problems with this (experimental)
3819 rule. But we provide it now for those people how ran into problems and
3820 want to came out by forcing linking against DSOs.
3821 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2587
3823 *) Fix suEXEC start message: Has to be of `notice' level to really get
3824 printed together with the standard startup message because the `notice'
3825 level is handled special inside ap_log_error() for startup messages.
3826 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2761 PR#2761 PR#2765
3828 *) Add correct `model' MIME types from RFC2077 to mime.types file.
3829 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2732
3831 *) Fixed examples in mod_rewrite.html document.
3832 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2756
3834 *) Allow ap_read_request errors to propagate through the normal request
3835 handling loop so that the connection can be properly closed with
3836 lingering_close, thus avoiding a potential TCP reset that would
3837 cause the client to miss the HTTP error response. [Roy Fielding]
3839 *) One more portability fix for APACI shadow tree support: Swap order of awk
3840 and sed in top-level configure script to avoid sed fails on some
3841 platforms (for instance SunOS 4.1.3 and NCR SysV) because of the
3842 non-newline-termined output of Awk. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2729
3844 *) PORT: NEC EWS4800 support.
3845 [MATSUURA Takanori <t-matsuu@protein.osaka-u.ac.jp>]
3847 *) Fix a segfault in the proxy on OS/2. [Brian Havard]
3849 *) Fix Win32 part of ap_spawn_child() by providing a reasonable child_info
3850 structure instead of just NULL. This fixes at least the RewriteMap
3851 programs under Win32. [Marco De Michele <mdemichele@tin.it>] PR#2483
3853 *) Add workaround to top-level `configure' script for brain dead
3854 `echo' commands which interpet escape sequences per default.
3855 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2654
3857 *) Make sure that the path to the Perl interpreter is correctly
3858 adjusted under `make install' also for the printenv CGI script.
3859 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2595
3861 *) Update the mod_rewrite.html document to correctly reflect the situation
3862 of the `proxy' (`[P]') feature. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2679
3864 *) Fix `install-includes' sub-target of `install' target in top-level
3865 Makefile.tmpl: The umask+cp approach didn't work as expected (especially
3866 for users which extracted the distribution under 'umask 077'), so replace
3867 it by an explicit cp+chmod approach.
3868 [Richard Lloyd, Curt Sampson, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2656 PR#2626
3870 *) Fix `distclean' and `clean' targets in src/Makefile.tmpl to have same
3871 behavior and to cleanup correctly even under enabled SHARED_CORE rule.
3872 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3874 *) Use a more straight forward and thus less problematic Sed command in
3875 src/helper/mkdir.sh script. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3877 *) Make sure the `configure' scripts doesn't fail when trying to guess the
3878 domainname of the machine and there are multiple `domainname' and
3879 `search' entries in /etc/resolv.conf.
3880 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2710
3882 *) Add note about the SHARED_CORE requirement on some platforms also to the
3883 INSTALL file because a lot of users don't read htdocs/manual/dso.html
3884 first. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2701
3886 *) Fix document "hyperlink" for dso.html in src/Configuration.tmpl
3887 [Knut A.Syed <Knut.Syed@nhh.no>] PR#2674
3889 *) Modify mod_rewrite to update the Vary response field if the URL rewriting
3890 engine does any manipulations or decisions based upon request fields.
3893 *) Document the special APACI behavior for installation paths where
3894 ``/apache'' is appended to paths under some (well defined, of course)
3895 situations to prevent pollution of system locations with Apache files.
3896 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2660
3898 *) Fixed problem with buffered response message not being sent for
3899 the read_request error conditions of URI-too-long (414) and
3900 malformed header fields (400). [Roy Fielding] PR#2646
3902 *) Add support for the Max-Forwards: header line required by RFC2068 for
3903 the TRACE method. This allows apache to TRACE along a chain of proxies
3904 up to a predetermined depth. [Martin Kraemer]
3906 *) Fix SHARED_CORE rule: The CFLAGS_SHLIB variable is no longer doubled
3907 (compilers complained) and the .so.V.R.P filename extension was adjusted
3908 to correctly reflect the 1.3.2 version.
3909 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2644
3911 *) SECURITY: Plug "..." and other canonicalization holes under OS/2.
3914 *) PORT: implement serialized accepts for OS/2. [Brian Havard]
3916 *) mod_include had problems with the fsize and flastmod directives
3917 under WIN32. Fix also avoids the minor security hole of using
3918 ".." paths for fsize and flastmod.
3919 [Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2355
3921 *) Fixed some Makefile dependency problems. [Dean Gaudet]
3923 Changes with Apache 1.3.1
3925 *) Disable the incorrect entry for application/msword in the
3926 mod_mime_magic "magic" file because it also matches other Office
3927 documents. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2608
3929 *) Fix broken RANLIB handling in src/Configure (the entry from
3930 src/Configuration.tmpl was ignored) and additionally force RANLIB to
3931 /bin/true under HP/UX where ranlib exists but is deprecated.
3932 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2627
3934 *) 'apachectl status' failed on some systems.
3935 [Steve VanDevender <stevev@darkwing.uoregon.edu>, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#2613
3937 *) Add new flags for ap_unparse_uri_components() to make it generate
3938 the scheme://sitepart string only, or to omit the query string.
3941 *) WIN32: Canonicalize ServerRoot before checking to see if it
3942 is a valid directory. The failure to do this caused certain
3943 ServerRoot settings (eg. "ServerRoot /apache") to be improperly
3944 rejected. [Marc Slemko]
3946 *) Global renaming of C header files to both get rid of conflicts with third
3947 party packages and to again reach consistency:
3948 1. conf.h -> ap_config.h
3949 2. conf_auto.h -> ap_config_auto.h \ these are now merged
3950 3. ap_config.h -> ap_config_auto.h / in the config process
3951 4. compat.h -> ap_compat.h
3952 5. apctype.h -> ap_ctype.h
3953 Backward compatibility files for conf.h and compat.h were created.
3955 *) mod_mmap_static will no longer take action on requests unless at
3956 least one "mmapfile" directive is present in the configuration.
3957 This experimental module has to do some black magic to operate
3958 inside the current API and thus creates side-effects for other
3959 modules under some circumstances.
3960 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3962 *) Add conservative ticks around more egrep arguments in top-level configure
3963 to avoid problems under brain-dead platforms like Digital UNIX (OSF1).
3964 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2596
3966 *) mod_rewrite created RewriteLock files under the UID of the parent
3967 process, thus the child processes had no write access to the files.
3968 Now a chown() is done on the file to the uid of the children,
3969 if applicable. [Lars Eilebrecht, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2341
3971 *) Autogenerate some HAVE_XXXXX_H defines in conf_auto.h (determined via
3972 TestCompile) instead of defining them manually in conf.h based on less
3973 accurate platform definitions. This way we no longer have to fiddle with
3974 OS-type and/or OS-version identifiers to discover whether a system header
3975 file exists or not. Instead we now directly check for the existence of
3976 those esoteric ones.
3977 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2093, PR#2361, PR#2377, PR#2434,
3978 PR#2524, PR#2525, PR#2533, PR#2569
3980 *) mod_setenvif (BrowserMatch* and friends) will now match a missing
3981 field with "^$". [Ken Coar]
3983 *) Set the RTLD_GLOBAL dlopen mode parameter to allow dynamically loaded
3984 modules to load their own modules dynamically. This improves mod_perl
3985 and mod_php3 when these modules are loaded dynamically into Apache.
3988 *) Cache a proxied request in the event that the client cancels the
3989 transfer, provided that the configured percentage of the file has
3990 already been transfered. It works for HTTP transfers only. The
3991 new configuration directive is called CacheForceCompletion.
3992 [Glen Parker <glenebob@nwlink.com>] PR#2277
3994 *) Add the "<!DOCTYPE HTML" magic cookie used by modern documents (and
3995 required by HTML 3.2 and later) to mod_mime_magic's conf/magic.
3996 [Anna Shergold <anna@inext.co.uk>]
3998 *) Fix yet another signal-based race condition involving nested timers.
3999 Signals suck. [Dean Gaudet]
4001 *) suexec's error messages have been clarified a little bit. [Ken Coar]
4003 *) Clean up some, but perhaps not all, 8-bit character set problems
4004 with config file parsing, and URL parsing. We now define
4005 ap_isdigit(), ap_isupper(), ... which cast to an (unsigned char).
4006 This should work on most modern unixes.
4007 [Dean Gaudet] PR#800, 2282, 2553 (and others)
4009 *) The "handler not found" error was issued in cases where the handler
4010 really did exist, but was just declining to serve the request.
4011 [John Van Essen <jve@gamers.org>] PR#2529
4013 *) Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for SCO5 (OpenServer 5.0.x).
4014 [Ronald Record <rr@sco.com>] PR#2533
4016 *) The APACI libexecdir was not extended with an "apache/" subdir
4017 if the installation prefix didn't already contain "apache", but
4018 it should be because the DSO files are Apache-specific. Now
4019 libexecdir is treated the same way sysconfdir, datadir, localstatedir
4020 and includedir are already treated.
4021 [Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>] PR#2551
4023 *) The <Limit> parsing routine was incorrectly treating methods as
4024 case-insensitive. [Ken Coar]
4026 *) The ap_bprintf() code neglected to test if there was an error on
4027 the connection. ap_bflush() misdiagnosed a failure as a success.
4030 *) add support for #perl arg interpolation in mod_include
4033 *) API: Name changes of table_elts to ap_table_elts, is_table_empty
4034 to ap_is_table_empty and bgetflag to ap_bgetflag. [Ben Laurie]
4036 *) PORT: Add UnixWare 7 support
4037 [Vadim Kostoglodoff <vadim@olly.ru>] PR#2463
4039 *) Fix the Guess-DSO-flags-from-Perl stuff in src/Configure: "perl" was
4040 used instead of "$PERL" which contains the correctly determined Perl
4041 interpreter (important for instance on systems where "perl" and "perl5"
4042 exists, like BSDI or FreeBSD, etc).
4043 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2505
4045 *) Move the initial suEXEC-related startup message from plain
4046 fprintf()/stderr to a delayed ap_log_error()-based one to avoid problems
4047 when Apache is started from inetd (instead of standalone). Under this
4048 situation startup messages on stderr lead to problems (the line is sent
4049 to the client in front of the requested document).
4050 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#871, PR#1318
4052 *) Add a flag so ap_fnmatch() can be used for case-blind pattern matching.
4053 [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
4055 *) WIN32: Don't collapse multiple slashes in PATH_INFO.
4056 [Ben Laurie, Bill Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>] PR#2274
4058 *) WIN32 SECURITY: Eliminate trailing "."s in path components. These are
4059 ignored by the Windows filesystem, and so can be used to bypass security.
4060 [Ben Laurie, Alexei Kosut].
4062 *) We now attempt to dump core when we get SIGILL. [Jim Jagielski]
4064 *) PORT: remove broken test for MAP_FILE in http_main.c.
4065 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
4067 *) PORT: Change support/apachectl to use "kill -0 $pid" to test if the
4068 httpd is running. This should be more portable than figuring out
4069 which of three dozen different versions of "ps" are installed.
4072 *) WIN32: If we can't figure out how to execute a file in a script
4073 directory, bail out of the request with an error message. [W G Stoddard]
4075 *) WIN32 SECURITY: Eliminate directories consisting of three or more dots;
4076 these are treated by Win32 as if they are ".." but are not detected by
4077 other machinery within Apache. This is something of a kludge but
4078 eliminates a security hole. [Manoj Kasichainula, Ben Laurie]
4080 *) Move ap_escape_quotes() from src/ap to src/main/util.c; it uses
4081 pools and thus pollutes libap (until the pool stuff is moved there).
4084 *) IndexIgnore should be case-blind on Win32 (and any other case-aware
4085 but case-insensitive platforms). New #define for this added to conf.h
4086 (CASE_BLIND_FILESYSTEM). [Ken Coar] PR#2455
4088 *) Enable DSO support for OpenBSD in general, not only for 2.x, because it
4089 also works for OpenBSD 1.x. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4091 *) PORT: Fix compilation problem on ARM Linux.
4092 [Sam Kington <sam@illuminated.co.uk>] PR#2443
4094 *) Let APACI's configure script determine some configuration parameters
4095 (Group, Port, ServerAdmin, ServerName) via some intelligent tests to
4096 remove some of the classical hurdles for new users when setting up
4097 Apache. This is done per default because it is useful for the average
4098 user. Package authors can use the --without-confadjust option to disable
4099 these configuration adjustments.
4100 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4102 *) Added an EXTRA_DEPS configuration parameter which can be used
4103 to add an extra Makefile dependency for the httpd target, for instance
4104 to external third-party libraries, etc.
4105 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4107 *) Add <IfDefine>..</IfDefine> sections to the core module (with same spirit
4108 as <IfModule>..</IfModule> sections) which can be used to skip or process
4109 contained commands dependend of ``-D PARAMETER'' options on the command
4110 line. This can be used to achieve logical conditions like <IfDefine
4111 ReverseProxy> instead of physically ones (e.g. <IfModule mod_proxy.c>)
4112 and thus especially can be used for conditionally loading DSO-based
4113 modules via LoadModule, etc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4115 *) PORT: clean up a warning in mod_status for OS/2. [Brian Havard]
4117 *) Make table elements const. This may prevent obscure errors. [Ben Laurie]
4119 *) Fix parsing of FTP `SIZE' responses in proxy module: The newline was not
4120 truncated which forced following HTTP headers to be data in the HTTP
4121 reponse. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Charles Fu <ccwf@bacchus.com>]
4124 *) Portability fix for APACI shadow tree support: Swap order of awk and sed
4125 in top-level configure script to avoid sed fails on some platforms (for
4126 instance SunOS 4.1.3 and NCR SysV) because of the non-newline-termined
4127 output of Awk. [Bill Houle <bhoule@sandiegoca.ncr.com>] PR#2435
4129 *) Improve performance of directory listings (mod_autoindex) by comparing
4130 integer keys (last-modified and size) as integers rather than converting
4131 them to strings first. Also use a set of explicit byte tests rather
4132 than strcmp() to check for parent directory-ness of an entry. Oh, and
4133 make sure the parent directory (if displayed) is *always* listed first
4134 regardless of the sort key. Overall performance winnage should be good
4135 in CPU time, instruction cache, and memory usage, particularly for large
4136 directories. [Ken Coar]
4138 *) Add a tiny but useful goody to APACI's configure script: The generation
4139 of a config.status script (as GNU Autoconf does) which remembers the used
4140 configure command and hence can be used to restore the configuration by
4141 just re-running this script or for remembering the configuration between
4143 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4145 *) Add httpd -t (test) option for running configuration syntax tests only.
4146 If something is broken it complains and exits with a return code
4147 non-equal to 0. This can be used manually by the user to check the Apache
4148 configuration after editing and is also automatically used by apachectl
4149 on (graceful) restart command to make sure Apache doesn't die on restarts
4150 because of a configuration which is now broken since the last (re)start.
4151 This way `apachectl restart' can be used inside cronjobs without having
4152 to expect Apache to be falling down. Additionally the httpd -t can be run
4153 via `apachectl configtest'.
4154 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2393
4156 *) Minor display fix for "install" target of top-level Makefile:
4157 the displayed installation command was incorrect although the
4158 executed command was correct. Now they are in sync.
4159 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2402
4161 *) Correct initialization of variable `allowed_globals' in http_main.c
4162 [Justin Bradford <justin@ukans.edu>] PR#2400
4164 *) Apache would incorrectly downcase the entire Content-Type passed from
4165 CGIs. This affected server-push scripts and such which use
4166 multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary=ThisRandomString.
4167 [Dean Gaudet] PR#2394
4169 *) PORT: QNX update to properly guess 32-bit systems.
4170 [Sean Boudreau <seanb@qnx.com>] PR#2390
4172 *) Make sure the DSO emulation code for HPUX finds the proprietary shl_xxx()
4173 functions which are in libdld under HPUX 9/10.
4174 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2378
4176 *) Make sure the "install" target of the top-level Makefile doesn't break
4177 because of a return code of 1 from an "if" (for instance under braindead
4178 Ultrix the result code of an "if" construct is 1 if the "then" clause
4179 didn't match). [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4181 *) Add an additional "dummy" target to the "$(LIB)" target in generated
4182 modules/xxx/Makefile's to avoid problems with SVR4 Make under "full-DSO"
4183 situation (no libxxx.a built, only mod_xxx.so's) where LIB and OBJS are
4184 empty. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Dean Gaudet, Martin Kraemer]
4186 *) Replace two bad sprintf() calls with ap_snprintf() variants in
4187 mod_rewrite. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4189 *) Fix missing usage description for MetaFiles directive.
4190 [David MacKenzie <djm@va.pubnix.com>] PR#2384
4192 *) mod_log_config wouldn't let vhosts use log formats defined in the
4193 main server. [Christof Damian <damian@mediaconsult.com>] PR#2090
4195 *) mod_usertrack was corrupting the client hostname. As part of the
4196 fix, the cookie values were slightly extended to include the
4197 fully qualified hostname of the client.
4198 [Dean Gaudet] PR#2190, 2229, 2366
4200 *) Fix a typo in pool debugging code. [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
4202 *) mod_unique_id did not work on alpha linux (in general on any
4203 architecture that has 64-bit time_t).
4204 [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
4206 *) PORT: Make SCO 5 (and probably 3) compile again. [Ben Laurie]
4208 *) PORT: NCR MPRAS systems have the same bug with SIGHUP restart that
4209 Solaris systems experience. So define WORKAROUND_SOLARIS_BUG.
4210 [Klaus Weber <kweber@chephren.germany.ncr.com>] PR#1973
4212 *) Change "Options None" to "Options FollowSymLinks" in the
4213 <Directory /> section of the default access.conf-dist
4214 (and -win even though it doesn't matter there). This has better
4215 performance, and more intuitive semantics. [Dean Gaudet]
4217 *) PORT: Updated support for UTS 2.1.2.
4218 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#2320
4220 *) Fix symbol export list (src/support/httpd.exp) after recent
4221 API changes in the child spawning area.
4222 [Jens-Uwe Mager <jum@helios.de>]
4224 *) Workaround for configure script and old `test' commands which do not
4225 support the -x flag (for instance under platforms like Ultrix). This is
4226 solved by another helper script findprg.sh which searches for Perl and
4227 Awk like PrintPath but _via different names_.
4228 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4230 *) Remove the system() call from htpasswd.c, which eliminates a system
4231 dependancy. ["M.D.Parker" <mdpc@netcom.com>] PR#2332
4233 *) PORT: Fix compilation failures on NEXTSTEP.
4234 [Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>] PR#2293, 2316
4236 *) PORT: F_NDELAY is a typo, should have been FNDELAY. There's also
4237 O_NDELAY on various systems. [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#2313
4239 *) PORT: helpers/GuessOS updates for various versions for NCR SVR4.
4240 [juerg schreiner <j.schreiner@zh.ch>,
4241 Bill Houle <Bill.Houle@SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM>] PR#2310
4243 *) Fix recently introduced Win32 child spawning code in mod_rewrite.c which
4244 was broken because of invalid ap_pstrcat() -> strcat() transformation.
4245 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4247 *) Proxy Cache Fixes: account for directory sizes, fork off garbage collection
4248 to continue in background, use predefined types (off_t, size_t, time_t),
4249 log the current cache usage percentage at LogLevel debug
4250 [Martin Kraemer, based on discussion between Dean Gaudet & Dirk vanGulik]
4252 Changes with Apache 1.3.0
4254 *) Using a type map file as a custom error document was not possible.
4255 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#1031
4257 *) Avoid problems with braindead Awks by additionally searching for gawk
4258 and nawk in APACI's configure script.
4259 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2319
4261 *) Rename md5.h to ap_md5.h to avoid conflicts with native MD5 on
4262 some systems. [Randy Terbush]
4264 *) Change usage of perror()+fprintf(stderr,...) in mod_rewrite to
4265 more proper ap_log_error() variants.
4266 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4268 *) Make sure the argument for the --add-module option to APACI's configure
4269 script is of type [path/to/]mod_xxx.c because all calculations inside
4270 configure and src/Configure depend on this.
4271 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2307
4273 *) Changes usage of perror/fprintf to stderr to more proper ap_log_error
4274 in mod_mime, mod_log_referer, mod_log_agent, and mod_log_config.
4277 *) Various OS/2 cleanups ["Brian Havard" <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
4279 *) PORT: QNX needed a #include <sys/mman.h>; and now it uses flock
4280 serialized accept to handle multiple sockets.
4281 [Rob Saccoccio <robs@InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2295, 2296
4283 *) Have NT properly set the directory for CGI scripts
4284 (& other spawned children)
4285 [W G Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>]
4287 *) Propagate environment to CGI scripts correctly in Win32.
4288 [W G Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>] PR#2294
4290 *) Some symbol renaming:
4291 ap_spawn_child_err became ap_spawn_child
4292 ap_spawn_child_err_buff became ap_bspawn_child
4293 spawn_child was obsoleted and moved to compat.h
4296 *) Upgrade the child spawning code in mod_rewrite for the RewriteMap
4297 programs: ap_spawn_child_err() is used and the Win32 case now uses
4298 CreateProcess() instead of a low-level execl() (which caused problems in
4299 the past under Win32).
4300 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4302 *) A few cosmetics and trivial enhancements to APXS to make the
4303 generated Makefile more user friendly. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4305 *) Proxy Fix: The proxy special failure routine ap_proxyerror()
4306 was updated to use the normal apache error processing, thereby allowing
4307 proxy errors to be treated by ErrorDocument's as well. For this
4308 purpose, a new module-to-core communication variable "error-notes"
4309 was introduced; the proxy (and possibly other modules) communicates
4310 its error text using this variable. Its content is copied to a new
4311 cgi-env-var REDIRECT_ERROR_NOTES for use by ErrorDocuments.
4312 The old proxy special error routine ap_proxy_log_uerror()
4313 was replaced by regular ap_log_error() calls, many messages were made
4315 [Martin Kraemer] PR#494, 1259
4317 *) SECURITY: A possible buffer overflow in the ftp proxy was fixed.
4320 *) Transform the configure message "You need root privileges for suEXEC"
4321 from a fatal error into a (more friendly) warning because the building
4322 ("make") of Apache we can allow, of course. Root privileges are needed
4323 only for the installation step ("make install"). So make sure the
4324 user is aware of this fact but let him proceed as long as he can.
4325 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2288
4327 *) Renamed three more functions to common ap_ prefix which we missed at the
4328 Big Symbol Renaming because they're #defines and not real C functions:
4329 is_default_port(), default_port(), http_method().
4330 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4332 *) A zero-length name after a $ in an SSI document should cause
4333 just the $ to be in the expansion. This was broken during the
4334 security fixes in 1.2.5. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1921, 2249
4336 *) Call ap_destroy_sub_req() in ap_add_cgi_vars() to reclaim some
4337 memory. [Rob Saccoccio <robs@InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2252
4339 *) Fix src/support/httpd.exp (DSO export file which is currently only
4340 used under AIX) because of recent changes to function names.
4341 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4343 Changes with Apache 1.3b7
4345 *) Make sure a MIME-type can be forced via a RewriteRule even when no
4346 substitution takes place, for instance via the following rule:
4347 ``RewriteRule ^myscript$ - [T=application/x-httpd-cgi]'' This was often
4348 requested by users in the past to force a single script without a .cgi
4349 extension and outside any cgi-bin dirs to be executed as a CGI program.
4350 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2254
4352 *) A fix for protocol issues surrounding 400, 408, and
4353 414 responses. [Ed Korthof]
4355 *) Ignore MaxRequestsPerChild on WIN32. [Brian Behlendorf]
4357 *) Fix discrepancy in proxy_ftp.c which was causing failures when
4358 trying to connect to certain ftpd's, such as anonftpd.
4359 [Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>]
4361 *) Make mod_rewrite use ap_open_piped_log() for RewriteLog directive's
4362 logfile instead of fiddling around itself with child spawning stuff.
4363 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4365 *) Made RefererIgnore case-insensitive.
4367 *) Mod_log_agent, mod_log_referer now use ap_open_piped_log for piped logs.
4370 *) Replace use of spawn_child with ap_spawn_child_err_buff, to make everything
4371 "safe" under Win32. In: mod_include.c, mod_mime_magic.c
4374 *) Improve RFC1413 support. [Bob Beck <beck@bofh.ucs.ualberta.ca>]
4376 *) Fix support script `dbmmanage': It was unable to handle some sort
4377 of passwords, especially passwords with "0" chars.
4378 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2242
4380 *) WIN32: Clicking on "Last Modified" in a fancy index caused a crash. Fixed.
4381 [Ben Laurie] PR#2238
4383 *) WIN32: CGIs could cause a hang (because of a deadlock in the standard C
4384 library), so CGI handling has been changed to use Win32 native handles
4385 instead of C file descriptors.
4386 [Ben Laurie and Bill Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>] PR#1129, 1607
4388 *) The proxy cache would store an incorrect content-length in the cached
4389 file copy after a cache update. That resulted in repeated fetching
4390 of the original copy instead of using the cached copy.
4391 [Ernst Kloppenburg <kloppen@isr.uni-stuttgart.de>] PR#2094
4393 *) The Makefiles assumed that DSO files are build via $(LD). This
4394 is broken for two reasons: First we never defined at least LD=ld
4395 somewhere to make sure this works (it was silently assumed that most Make
4396 provide a built-in LD definition - ARGL!) and second using the generic LD
4397 variable is not the truth. Instead a special variable named LD_SHLIB is
4398 reasonable because although "ld" is usually the default, the command for
4399 building DSO files can be "libtool" or even "cc" on some systems.
4400 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4402 *) Replace the AddVersionPlatform directive with ServerTokens which
4403 provides for more control over the format of the Server:
4404 header line. SERVER_SUBVERSION is no longer supported;
4405 all module should use the ap_add_version_component()
4406 API function instead. [Jim Jagielski]
4408 *) Support for the NCR MP/RAS 3.0
4409 [John Withers <withers@semi.kcsc.mwr.irs.gov>]
4411 *) The LDFLAGS_SHLIB_EXPORT variable of src/Configuration[.tmpl] was
4412 not retrieved in src/Configure and thus was not useable.
4413 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4415 *) Various Makefile consistency cleanups:
4416 - make OSDIR also automatically be relative to src/ like INCDIR
4417 - SUBDIRS is now generated in src/Makefile only and not in
4418 Makefile.config because it is a local define for this location.
4419 - remove BROKEN_BPRINTF_FLAGS because is it no longer used inside
4420 any Makefile but make sure that at least the "-K inline" is kept in
4422 - update the "depend" targets in Makefile.tmpl files to use $(OSDIR), too.
4423 - updated the dependencies theirself
4424 - removed not existing SHLIB variable from "clean" targets
4425 - replaced SHLIB_OBJS/SHLIBS_OBJ consistently with OBJS_PIC because OBJS
4426 already exists and OBJS_PIC are also just plain objects and have not
4427 directly to do with "shared" things. The only difference is that they
4428 contain PIC. So OBJS_PIC is the more canonical name.
4429 - Updated the Makefile-dependency lines for OBJS_PIC
4430 - Removed the Makefile-dependency line in Configure to avoid double
4432 - replaced ugly xx-so.o/xx.so-o hack with a clean and consistent usage
4433 of xxx.lo as GNU libtool does with its PIC objects
4434 - reduce local complexity in modules Makefile.tmpl by moving the last
4435 existing target "depend" to the generation section in Configure, too.
4436 - removed the historical $(SPACER) which was used in the past together
4437 with BROKEN_BPRINTF_FLAGS to avoid zig-zags in the build process. This
4438 is no longer needed.
4439 - force the build and run of the gen_xxx programs under main/ as the
4440 first step before building the objects because it looks cleaner
4441 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4443 *) WIN32: Make Win32 work again after the /dev/null DoS fix.
4446 *) WIN32: Check for buffer overflows in ap_os_canonical_filename.
4449 *) WIN32: Don't force ISAPI headers to finish with \n.
4450 [Jim Patterson <Jim.Patterson@Cognos.COM>, Ben Laurie] PR#2060
4452 *) When opening "configuration" files (like httpd.conf, htaccess
4453 and htpasswd), Apache will not allow them to be non-/dev/null
4454 device files. This closes a DoS hole. At the same time,
4455 we use ap_pfopen to open these files to handle timeouts.
4456 [Jim Jagielski, Martin Kraemer]
4458 *) Apache will now log the reason its httpd children exit if they exit
4459 due to an unexpected signal. (It requires a new porting define,
4460 SYS_SIGLIST, which if defined should point to a list of text
4461 descriptions of the signals available. See PORTING.) [Dean Gaudet]
4463 *) WIN32: chdir() doesn't make sense in a multithreaded environment
4464 like WIN32. Before, Win32 CGI's could have had sporadic failures
4465 if a chdir call from one thread was made between another chdir call
4466 and a spawn in another thread. So, for now don't chdir for CGI scripts
4467 in WIN32. The current CGI "spec" is unclear as to whether it's
4468 necessary. Long-term fix is to either serialize the chdir/spawn combo
4469 or use WIN32 native calls to spawn a process. This temp fix was
4470 necessary to remove this as a showstopper for 1.3's release.
4473 *) Cleanup the suEXEC support in APACI and make it more safe:
4474 1. Add big fat hint in INSTALL about risks and to read the
4475 htdocs/manual/suexec.html document before using the suexec-related
4477 2. Make sure the user has at least provided one --suexec-xxxx option
4478 (specifies suEXEC parameters) in addition to --enable-suexec option.
4479 If only --enable-suexec is given APACI stops with a hint to INSTALL
4480 and htdocs/manual/suexec.html documents.
4481 3. Provide two additional --suexec-xxxx options to make the suEXEC
4482 configuration complete (especially for package maintainers who else
4483 had to patch the source tree) by providing ways to configure minimal
4484 UID/GID and safe PATH, too.
4485 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4487 *) Cleanup of the `configure --shadow' process:
4488 - make sure the configure script creates its temporary files in the
4489 shadow tree to avoid conflicts with parallel configure runs
4490 - removed unnecessary option "-r" from "rm" call for Makefiles
4491 - make sure the configure scripts creates the shadow-wrapper Makefile
4492 only when no shadow trees already exists
4493 - make sure "make distclean" removes the shadow-wrapper Makefile but only
4494 when no more shadow trees exists
4495 - overhauled mkshadow.sh script: now its more IFS-safe and approx. twice
4496 as fast (in the past it needed 70sec, now it runs just 38sec)
4497 - make sure CVS does not complain about the created files
4498 Makefille.<gnutriple> and directories src.<gnutriple>
4499 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4501 *) Added the ap_add_version_component() API routine and the
4502 AddVersionPlatform core directive. The first allows modules to
4503 declare themselves in the Server response header field value,
4504 augmenting the SERVER_SUBVERSION define in the Configuration file
4505 with run-time settings (more useful in a loadable-module environment).
4506 AddVersionPlatform inserts a comment such as "(UNIX)" or "(Win32)"
4507 into the server version string. [Ken Coar] PR#2056
4509 *) Minor stability tweaks to avoid core dumps in ap_snprintf.
4512 *) Emit the "Accept-Range" header for the default handler.
4513 [Brian Behlendorf] PR#1464
4515 *) Add a note to httpd.conf-dist that apache will on some systems fail
4516 to start when the Group # is set to a negative or large positive value.
4519 *) Make sure the module execution order is correct even when some modules
4520 are loaded under runtime (`LoadModule') via the DSO mechanism:
4521 1. The list of loaded modules is now a dynamically allocated one
4522 and not the original statically list from modules.c
4523 2. The loaded modules are now correctly setup by LoadModule for
4524 later use by the AddModule command.
4525 3. When the DSO mechanism for modules is used APACI's `install'
4526 target now enables all created `LoadModule' lines per default because
4527 this is both already expected by the user _and_ needed to avoid
4528 confusion with the next point and reduces the Makefile.tmpl complexity
4529 4. When the DSO mechanism for modules is used, APACI's `install'
4530 target now additionally makes sure the module list is reconstructed
4531 via a complete `ClearModuleList+AddModule...' entry.
4532 5. The support tool `apxs' now also makes sure an AddModule command
4533 is added in addition to the LoadModule command.
4534 6. The modules.c generation was extended to now contain two
4535 comments to make sure no one is confused by the confusing terminology
4536 of loading/linking (we use load=link+load & link=activate instead of
4537 the obvious load=activate & link=link :-( )
4538 This way now there is no longer a difference under execution time between
4539 statically and dynamically linked modules.
4540 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4542 *) Fix the generated mod_xxx.c from "apxs -g -f xxx" after the
4543 Big Symbol Renaming. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4545 *) Add a comment to mod_example.c showing the format of a FLAG command
4548 *) Standardized the time format in mod_status to match that of other
4549 places in the code (e.g. DATE_GMT). PR#1551
4551 *) Fix handling of %Z in timefmt strings for those platforms with no time
4552 zone information in their tm struct. [Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>]
4555 *) Makes mod_rewrite, mod_log_config, mod_status and the ServerSignature
4556 feature compatible with 'UseCanonicalName off' by changing
4557 r->server->server_hostname to ap_get_server_name(). And I changed some
4558 functions which use r->server->port to use ap_get_server_port() instead,
4559 because if there's no Port directive in the config r->server->port is 0.
4562 *) get/set_module_config are trivial enough to be better off inline. Worth
4563 1.5% performance boost. [Dean Gaudet]
4565 *) Fix off-by-one error in ap_proxy_date_canon() in proxy_util.c
4566 when ensuring 'x' is at least 30-chars big. [Jim Jagielski,
4569 *) [BS2000 security] BS2000 needs an extra authentication to initialize
4570 the task environment to the unprivileged User id. Otherwise CGI scripts
4571 would have a way to gain super user access. [Martin Kraemer]
4573 *) Fix debug log messages for BS2000/OSD: instead of logging the whole
4574 absolute path, only log base name of logging source as is done
4575 in unix. [Martin Kraemer]
4577 *) Ronald Tschalaer's Accept-Encoding patch - preserve the "x-" in
4578 the encoding type from the Accept-Encoding header (if it's there)
4579 and use it in the response, as that's probably what it'll be expecting.
4580 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch]
4582 *) Fix to mod_alias: translate_alias_redir is dealing with
4583 a URI, not a filename, so the check for drive letters for win32
4584 and emx is not necessary. [Dean Gaudet]
4586 *) WIN32: Allow .cmd as an executable extension.
4587 [Kari Likovuori <Kari.Likovuori@mol.fi>] PR#2146
4589 *) Make Apache header files, and some variables, C++ friendly.
4590 [Michael Anderson's <mka@redes.int.com.mx>]
4592 *) Child processes can now "signal" (by exiting with a status
4593 of APEXIT_CHILDFATAL) the parent process to abort and
4594 shutdown the server if the error in the child process was
4595 fatal enough. [Jim Jagielski]
4597 *) mod_autoindex's find_itme() was sensitive to MIME type case.
4598 [Jim Jagielski] PR#2112
4600 *) Make sure the referer_log and agent_log entries in the default httpd.conf
4601 file are also adjusted for the actual relative installation paths.
4602 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2175
4604 *) WIN32: Extensive overhaul of the way UNCs are handled. [Ben Laurie]
4606 *) WIN32: Make roots of filesystems (e.g. c:/) work. [Ben Laurie]
4609 *) PORT: Various porting changes to support AIX 3.2, 4.1.5, 4.2 and 4.3.
4610 Additionally the checks for finding the vendor DSO library were moved
4611 from mod_so.c to Configure because first it needs $PLAT etc. and second
4612 mod_so already uses an abstraction layer and does not fiddle with the
4613 vendor functions itself.
4614 [Jens-Uwe Mager, Ralf S. Engelschall]
4616 *) PORT: Some optimization defines for NetBSD
4617 [Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>] PR#2165
4619 *) PORT: Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for NetBSD.
4620 [Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2158
4622 *) Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for AIX (at least 4.2 but older
4623 AIX variants should work fine, too. Even AIX 3.x should work). This is
4624 accomplished by using the free DSO emulation code from Jens-Uwe Mager
4625 which we put into a os/unix/os-dso-aix.c file.
4626 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4628 *) PORT: Fix compiler warnings under AIX >= 4.2 where the manual pages imply
4629 that we should use NET_SIZE_T == int but the include files force size_t.
4630 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4632 *) Fix two bugs in select() handling in http_main.c.
4635 *) Suppress "error(0)" messages for ap_log_error() when the APLOG_NOERRNO
4636 is unset (as it is in situations like timeouts) where it is unclear
4637 whether errno is set or not. [Martin Kraemer]
4639 *) Just having APACI's localstatedir is too general and not enough for most
4640 of the systems. 1.3b6 again required manual APACI patches by package
4641 maintainers from RedHat and FreeBSD because for their filesystem layout a
4642 little bit more flexibility in configuring the paths is needed. Hence we
4643 provide three additional configure options (--runtimedir, --logfiledir,
4644 --proxycachedir) which now can be used for more granular adjustments if
4645 --localstatedir is not enough to fit the particular needs. As a nice
4646 side-effect this reduces some subdir fiddling in configure+Makefile.tmpl.
4647 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4649 *) Make the install root for "make install" in APACI's Makefile overrideable
4650 by package authors. This way we are even more friendly to package
4651 maintainers (especially Debian and RedHat) who build for the real prefix
4652 via "configure --prefix=/<real>" but use a different local prefix via
4653 "make root=/tmp/apache install" for rolling the package without bristling
4654 the target location on their system.
4655 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4657 *) Workaround sed limitations in APACI's configure script by now
4658 substituting in chunks of 50 commands (because for instance HPUX's vendor
4659 sed has a limit of max. 98 commands)
4660 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2136
4662 *) Adding SOCKS5 support and fixing existing SOCKS4 support.
4663 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2140
4665 *) Manually fix some symbols which were not renamed to prefix ap_ in the BIG
4666 RENAMING process because they are defined as pre-processor macros instead
4667 of real functions: bputc, bgetc, piped_log_write_fd, piped_log_read_fd
4668 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4670 *) Workaround braindead AWK's when generating ap_config.h: The split() and
4671 substr() functions cannot be nested under vendor AWK from Solaris 2.6.
4672 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2139
4674 *) Various bugfixes and cleanups for the APACI configure script:
4675 o fix IFS handling for _nested_ situation
4676 o fix Perl interpreter search: take first one found instead of last one
4677 o fix DSO consistency check
4678 o print error messages to stderr instead of stdout
4679 o add install-quiet for --shadow situation to Makefile stub
4680 o reduce complexity by avoiding sed-hacks for rule and module list loops
4681 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4683 *) Fix DEBUG_CGI situation in mod_cgi.c [David MacKenzie] PR#2114
4685 *) Make sure the input field separator (IFS) shell variable is explicitly
4686 initialized correctly before _every_ `for' loop and also restored after
4687 the loops. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4689 *) Make sure that "make install" doesn't overwrite the `mime.types' and
4690 `magic' files from an existing Apache installation. Because people often
4691 customize these for own MIME and content types.
4692 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4694 *) PORT: Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for OpenBSD 2.x
4695 [Peter Galbavy, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2109
4697 *) Fix the path to the ScoreBoardFile in the install-config target, too.
4698 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2105
4700 *) Let "configure" clear out the users parameters (provided as shell
4701 variables) to avoid side-effects in "src/Configure" when the user
4702 exported them (which is not needed, but some users do it).
4703 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2101
4705 *) Provide backward compatibility from some old src/Configuration.tmpl
4706 parameter names to the canonical Autoconf-style shell variable names. For
4707 instance CFLAGS vs. EXTRA_CFLAGS. The EXTRA_xxx variants are accepted now
4708 but a hint message is displayed. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4710 *) Make sure that "make install" doesn't overwrite the DocumentRoot and
4711 CGI scripts from an existing Apache installation.
4712 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Jim Jagielski] PR#2084
4714 *) Make `configure --compat' more "compatible" by first
4715 let the libexecdir default to EPREFIX/libexec instead of EPREFIX/bin and
4716 second by making sure the "avoid-bristling-suffix" /apache is not
4717 appended to sysconfdir, datadir, localstatedir and includedir when
4718 --compat is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Lars Eilebrecht]
4720 *) NeXT required strdup() in support/logresolve.c
4721 [Francisco Tomei <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>] PR#2082
4723 *) AIX required sys/select.h in support/ab.c
4724 [Jens Schleusener <Jens.Schleusener@dlr.de>] PR#2081
4726 *) Fix the path to the MimeMagicFile in the install-config target, too.
4727 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2089
4729 *) PORT: Added HP-UX 11 patches [Jeff Earickson <jaearick@colby.edu>]
4731 *) If you start apache with the -S command line option it will dump
4732 out the parsed vhost settings. This is useful for folks trying
4733 to figure out what is wrong with their vhost configuration.
4734 (Other dumps may be added in the future.) [Dean Gaudet]
4736 *) Add %pA, %pI, and %pp codes to ap_vformatter (and hence ap_bprintf,
4737 ap_snprintf, and ap_psprintf). See include/ap.h for docs.
4740 *) Because /usr/local/apache is the default prefix the ``configure
4741 --compat'' option no longer has to set prefix, again. This way the
4742 --compat option honors a leading --prefix option. [Lars Eilebrecht]
4744 *) PORT: Cast the first argument of dlopen() in ap_os_dso_load()
4745 to `char *' under OSF1 and FreeBSD 2.x where it is defined this way
4746 to avoid "discard const" warnings. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4748 *) If a specific handler is set for a file yet the request still
4749 ends up being handled by the default handler, log an error
4750 message before handling it. This catches things such as trying
4751 to use SSIs without mod_include enabled. [Marc Slemko]
4753 *) Fix error logging for the startup case where ap_log_error() still uses
4754 stderr as the target. Now the default log level is honored here, too.
4755 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4757 *) PORT: Make sure some AWK's don't fail in src/Configure with "string too
4758 long" errors when generating the MODULES entry for src/Makefile
4759 [Ben Hyde, Ralf S. Engelschall]
4761 *) Make sure src/Configure doesn't complain about the old directory
4762 /usr/local/etc/httpd/ when APACI is used. [Lars Eilebrecht]
4764 Changes with Apache 1.3b6
4766 *) PORT: Clean up warnings on Ultrix and HPUX. [Ben Hyde]
4768 *) Adding DSO support for the HP/UX platform by emulating the dlopen-style
4769 interface via the similar but proprietary HP/UX shl_xxx-style system
4770 calls. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4772 *) PORT: Updated UnixWare 2.0.x and 2.1.x entries for DSO support and made
4773 APACI Makefile.tmpl "install" target more robust for sensible UnixWare
4774 Make. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4776 *) ++++ THE BIG SYMBOL RENAMING ++++
4777 To avoid symbol clashes with third-party code compiled into the server,
4778 we globally applied the prefix "ap_" to the following classes of
4780 - Apache provided general functions (e.g., ap_cpystrn)
4781 - Public API functions (e.g., palloc, bgets)
4782 - Private functions which we can't make static (because of
4783 cross-object usage) but should be (e.g., new_connection)
4784 For backward source compatibility a new header file named compat.h was
4785 created which provides defines for the old symbol names and can be used
4786 by third-party module authors.
4789 *) Added dynamic shared object (DSO) support for SVR4-derivates: The
4790 problem under SVR4 is that there is no command flag to force the linker
4791 to export the global symbols of the httpd executable therewith they are
4792 available to the DSO's. Instead of problematic hacks like creating a
4793 dummy.so file (containing dummy references to all global symbols) the
4794 httpd binary is linked against, we use a clean trick stolen from Perl 5:
4795 Placing the Apache core code itself into a DSO library named libhttpd.so.
4796 This way the global symbols _HAVE_ to be exported and thus are available
4797 to any manually loaded DSO's under runtime. To reduce the impact to the
4798 user to null we go even further and create a stub httpd executable which
4799 automatically keeps track of the DSO library loading itself and thus
4800 hides the complete mechanism from the user. Although the generation of
4801 this DSO library is automatically triggered for platforms which
4802 essentially need it (mostly all SVR4-derivates) it can be also enabled
4803 manually via the Rule SHARED_CORE. This can be interesting in the future
4804 where we perhaps exploit this libhttpd.so mechanism for providing nifty
4805 features like graceful upgrades, or whatever.
4806 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Martin Kraemer]
4808 *) Build the libraries before building the rest of the tools. [Ben Hyde]
4810 *) Add "distclean" target to src/-Makefiles to provide "make distclean" also
4811 inside the src subtree (i.e. for non-APACI users). Following GNU Makefile
4812 conventions while "clean" removes only stuff created by "all" targets,
4813 "distclean" additionally removes the stuff from the configuration
4814 process. This way "make distclean" (hence the name) provides a fresh
4815 source tree as it was for distribution.
4816 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4818 *) Allow top-level (APACI) Makefile to break on build errors
4819 the same way the src/ subtree Makefiles breaks on them by replacing the
4820 initial APACI sed-subdir-display-kludge with a more clean
4821 variable-passing-solution: variable SDP can optionally hold the subdir
4822 prefix which is consistently used for displaying the subdir movement.
4823 This way even the top-level Makefile can stop correctly on errors as the
4824 user expects. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4826 *) Fixed ordering of argument checks for RewriteBase directive.
4827 [Todd Eigenschink <eigenstr@mixi.net>] PR#2045
4829 *) Change Win32 IS_MODULE to SHARED_MODULE to match Unix' method of
4830 indicating that a module is being compiled for dynamic loading. Also
4831 remove #define IS_MODULE from modules and add SHARED_MODULE define
4832 to the mak/dsp files. [Alexei Kosut]
4834 *) Reduce logging level of "normal" warning messages to APLOG_INFO,
4835 since we are now logging APLOG_WARNING by default. [Roy Fielding]
4837 *) PORT: OS/2 tweak to deal with multiple .exe targets. [Brian Havard]
4839 *) Add documentation file and src/Configuration.tmpl entry for the
4840 experimental mod_mmap_static module. Because although it is and marked as
4841 an experimental one it is distributed and thus should be documented and
4842 prepared for configuration the same way as all others modules.
4843 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4845 *) Add query (-q) option to apxs support tool to be able to manually query
4846 specific settings from apxs. This is needed for instance when you
4847 manually want to access Apache's header files and you need to assemble
4848 the -I option. Now you can do -I`apxs -q INCLUDEDIR`.
4849 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4851 *) Now src/Configure uses a fallback strategy for the shared object support
4852 on platforms where no explicit information is available: If a Perl
4853 installation exists we ask it about its shared object support and if it's
4854 the dlopen-style one we shamelessly guess the compiler and linker flags
4855 for creating shared objects from Perls knowledge. Of course, the user is
4856 warning about what we are doing and informed that he should send us
4857 the guessed flags when they work. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4859 *) Provide APACI --without-support option to be able to disable the build
4860 and installation of the support tools from the src/support/ area.
4861 Although its useful to have these installed per default we should provide
4862 a way to compile and install without them for backward-compatibility.
4863 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4865 *) Add of the new APache eXtenSion (apxs) support tool for building and
4866 installing modules into an _already installed_ Apache package through the
4867 dynamic shared object (DSO) mechanism [mod_so.c]. The trick here is that
4868 this approach actually doesn't need the Apache source tree. The
4869 (APACI-installed) server package is enough, because this now includes the
4870 Apache C header files (PREFIX/include) and the new APXS tool
4871 (SBINDIR/apxs). The intend is to provide a handy tool for third-party
4872 module authors to build their Apache modules _OUTSIDE_ the Apache source
4873 tree while avoiding them to fiddle around with the totally platform
4874 dependend way of compiling DSO files. The tool supports all ranges of
4875 modules, from trivial ones (single mod_foo.c) to complex ones (like PHP3
4876 which has a mod_php3.c plus a pre-built libmodphp3-so.a) and even can
4877 on-the-fly generate a minimalistic Makefile and sample module for the
4878 first step to provide both a quick success event and to demonstrate the
4879 APXS mechanism to module authors. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4881 *) Fix core dumps in use of CONNECT in proxy.
4882 [Rainer.Scherg@rexroth.de] PR#1326, #1573, #1942
4884 *) Modify the log directives in httpd.conf-dist files to use CustomLog
4885 so that users have examples of how CustomLog can be used.
4888 *) Add the new Apache Autoconf-style Interface (APACI) for the top-level of
4889 the Apache distribution tree. Until Apache 1.3 there was no real
4890 out-of-the-box batch-capable build and installation procedure for the
4891 complete Apache package. This is now provided by a top-level "configure"
4892 script and a corresponding top-level "Makefile.tmpl" file. The goal is
4893 to provide a GNU Autoconf-style frontend which is capable to both drive
4894 the old src/Configure stuff in batch and additionally installs the
4895 package with a GNU-conforming directory layout. Any options from the old
4896 configuration scheme are available plus a lot of new options for flexibly
4897 customizing Apache. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4899 *) The floating point ap_snprintf code wasn't threadsafe.
4900 Had to remove the HAVE_CVT macro in order to do threadsafe
4901 calling of the ?cvt() floating point routines. [Dean Gaudet]
4903 *) PORT: Add the SCO_SV port. [Jim Jagielski] PR#1962
4905 *) PORT: IRIX needs the -n32 flag iff using the 'cc' compiler
4906 [Jim Jagielski] PR#1901
4908 *) BUG: Configure was using TCC and CC inconsistently. Make sure
4909 Configure knows which CC we are using. [Jim Jagielski]
4911 *) "Options +Includes" wasn't correctly merged if "+IncludesNoExec"
4912 was defined in a parent directory. [Lars Eilebrecht]
4914 *) API: ap_snprintf() code mutated into ap_vformatter(), which is
4915 a generic printf-style routine that can call arbitrary output
4916 routines. Use this to replace http_bprintf.c. Add new routines
4917 psprintf(), pvsprintf() which allocate the exact amount of memory
4918 required for a string from a pool. Use psprintf() to clean up
4919 various bits of code which used ap_snprintf()/pstrdup().
4922 *) PORT: HAVE_SNPRINTF doesn't do anything any longer. This is because
4923 ap_snprintf() has different semantics and formatting codes than
4924 snprintf(). [Dean Gaudet]
4926 *) SIGXCPU and SIGXFSZ are now reset to SIG_DFL at boot-time. This
4927 is necessary on at least Solaris where the /etc/rc?.d scripts
4928 are run with these signals ignored, and "SIG_IGN" settings are
4929 maintained across exec().
4930 [Rein Tollevik <reint@sys.sol.no>] PR#2009
4932 *) Fix the check for symbolic links in ``RewriteCond ... -l'': stat() was
4933 used instead of lstat() and thus this flag didn't work as expected.
4934 [Rein Tollevik <reint@sys.sol.no>] PR#2010
4936 *) Fix the proxy pass-through feature of mod_rewrite for the case of
4937 existing QUERY_STRING now that mod_proxy was recently changed because of
4938 the new URL parsing stuff. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4940 *) A few changes to scoreboard definitions which helps gcc generate
4941 better code. [Dean Gaudet]
4943 *) ANSI C doesn't guarantee that "int foo : 2" in a structure will
4944 be a signed bitfield. So mark a few bitfields as signed to
4945 ensure correct code. [Dean Gaudet]
4947 *) The default for HostnameLookups was changed to Off, but there
4948 was a problem and it wasn't taking effect. [Dean Gaudet]
4950 *) PORT: Clean up undefined signals on some platforms (SCO, BeOS).
4953 *) After a SIGHUP the listening sockets in the parent weren't
4954 properly marked for closure on fork().
4955 [Jürgen Keil <jk@tools.de>] PR#2000
4957 *) Allow %2F in two situations: 1) it is in the query part of the URI,
4958 therefore not exposed to %2F -> '/' translations and 2) the request
4959 is a proxy request, so we're not dealing with a local resource anyway.
4960 Without this, the proxy would fail to work for any URL's with
4961 %2f in them (occurs quite often in
4962 http://.../cgi-bin/...?http%3A%2F%2F... references) [Martin Kraemer]
4964 *) Protect against FD_SETSIZE mismatches. [Dean Gaudet]
4966 *) Make the shared object compilation command more portable by avoiding
4967 the direct combination of `-c' & `-o' which is not honored by some
4968 compilers like UnixWare's cc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4970 *) WIN32: the proxy was creating filenames missing the last four
4971 characters. While this normally doesn't stop anything from
4972 working, it can result in extra collisions.
4973 [Tim Costello <tjcostel@socs.uts.edu.au>] PR#1890
4975 *) Now mod_proxy uses the response string (in addition to the response status
4976 code) from the already used FTP SIZE command to setup the Content-Length
4977 header if available. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1183
4979 *) Reanimated the (still undocumented) proxy receive buffer size directive:
4980 Renamed from ReceiveBufferSize to ProxyReceiveBufferSize because the old
4981 name was really too generic, added documentation for this directive to
4982 the mod_proxy.html and corrected the hyperlink to it in the
4983 new_features_1.3.html document. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1348
4985 *) Fix a bug in the src/helpers/fp2rp script and make it a little bit
4986 faster [Martin Kraemer]
4988 *) Make Configure die when you give it an unknown command switch.
4991 *) Add five new and fresh manpages for the support programs: dbmmanage.1,
4992 suexec.8, htdigest.1, rotatelogs.8 and logresolve.8. Now all up-to-date
4993 and per default compiled support programs have manual pages - just to
4994 document our stuff a little bit more and to be able to do really
4995 Unix-like installations ;-) [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4997 *) Major cleanups to the Configure script to make it and its generated
4998 Makefiles again readable and maintainable: add SRCDIR option, removed
4999 INCLUDES_DEPTH[0-2] kludge, cleanup of TARGET option, cleanup of
5000 generated sections, consequently added Makefile headers with inheritance
5001 information, added subdir movement messages for easier following where
5002 the build process currently stays (more verbose then standard Make, less
5003 verbose than GNU make), same style to comments in the Configure script,
5004 added Apache license header, fixed a few bugs, etc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5006 *) Add the new ApacheBench program "ab" to src/support/: This is derived
5007 from the ZeusBench benchmarking program and can be used to determine the
5008 response performance of an Apache installation. This version is
5009 officially licensed with Zeus Technology, Ltd. See the license agreement
5010 statements in <199803171224.NAA24547@en1.engelschall.com> in apache-core.
5011 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5013 *) API: Various core functions that are definately not part of the API
5014 have been made static, and a few have been marked API_EXPORT. Still
5015 more have been marked CORE_EXPORT and are not intended for general
5016 use by modules. [Doug MacEachern, Dean Gaudet]
5018 *) mod_proxy was not clearing the Proxy-Connection header from
5019 requests; now it does. This did not violate any spec, however
5020 causes poor interactions when you are talking to remote proxies.
5021 [Marc Slemko] PR#1741
5023 *) Various cleanups to the command line interface and manual pages.
5024 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5026 *) cfg_getline() was not properly handling lines that did not end
5027 with a line termination character. [Marc Slemko] PR#1869, 1909
5029 *) Performance tweak to mod_log_config. [Dmitry Khrustalev]
5031 *) Clean up some undocumented behavior of mod_setenvif related to
5032 "merging" two SetEnvIf directives when they match the same header
5033 and regex. Document that mod_setenvif will perform comparisons in
5034 the order they appear in the config file. Optimize mod_setenvif by
5035 doing more work at config time rather than at runtime.
5038 *) src/include/ap_config.h now wraps it's #define's with #ifndef/#endif's
5039 to allow for modules to overrule them and to reduce redefinition
5040 warnings [Jim Jagielski]
5042 *) [PORT] For A/UX change the OS-#define for -DAUX to -DAUX3.
5045 *) Making the hard-coded cross-module function call mime_find_ct() (from
5046 mod_proxy to mod_mime) obsolete by making sure the API hook for MIME type
5047 checking is really called even for proxy requests except for URLs with
5048 HTTP schemes (because there we can optimize by not running the type
5049 checking hooks due to the fact that the proxy gets the MIME Content-type
5050 from the remote host later). This change cleans up mod_mime by removing
5051 the ugly export kludge, makes the one-liner file mod_mime.h obsolete, and
5052 especially unbundles mod_proxy and mod_mime. This way they both now can
5053 be compiled as shared objects and are no longer tied together.
5054 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5056 *) util.c cleanup and speedup. [Dean Gaudet]
5058 *) API: Clarification, pstrndup() will always copy n bytes of the source
5059 and NUL terminate at the (n+1)st byte. [Dean Gaudet]
5061 *) Mark module command_rec and handler_rec structures const so that they
5062 end up in the read-only data section (and are friendlier to systems
5063 that don't do optimistic memory allocation on fork()). [Dean Gaudet]
5065 *) Add check to the "Port" directive to make sure the specified
5066 port is in the appropriate range. [Ben Hyde]
5068 *) Performance improvements to invoke_handler().
5069 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su>]
5071 *) Added support for building shared objects even for library-style modules
5072 (which are built from more than one object file). This now provides the
5073 ability to build mod_proxy as a shared object module. Additionally
5074 modules like mod_example are now also supported for shared object
5075 building because the generated Makefiles now no longer assume there is at
5076 least one statically linked module. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5078 *) API: Clarify usage of content_type, handler, content_encoding,
5079 content_language and content_languages fields in request_rec. They
5080 must always be lowercased; and the strings pointed to shouldn't
5081 be modified (you must copy them to modify them). Fix a few bugs
5082 related to this. [Dean Gaudet]
5084 *) API: Clarification: except for RAW_ARGS, all command handlers can
5085 treat the char * parameters as permanent, and modifiable. There
5086 is no need to pstrdup() them. Clean up some needless pstrdup().
5089 *) Now mod_so keeps track of which module shared objects with which names
5090 are loaded and thus avoids multiple loading and unloading and irritating
5091 error_log messages. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5093 *) Prior to the existence of mod_setenv it was necessary to tweak the TZ
5094 environment variable in the apache core. But that tweaking interferes
5095 with mod_setenv. So don't tweak if the user has specified an explicit
5096 TZ variable. [Jay Soffian <jay@cimedia.com>] PR#1888
5098 *) rputs() did not calculate r->sent_bodyct properly.
5099 [Siegmund Stirnweiss <siegst@kat.ina.de>] PR#1900
5101 *) The CGI spec says that REMOTE_HOST should be set to the remote hosts's
5102 name, or left unset if this value is unavailable. Apache was setting
5103 it to the IP address when unavailable.
5104 [Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net>] PR#1925
5106 *) Various improvements to the configuration and build support for compiling
5107 modules as shared objects. Especially Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.1, IRIX and
5108 OSF1 support with GCC and vendor compilers was added. This way shared
5109 object support is now provided out-of-the-box for FreeBSD, Linux,
5110 Solaris, SunOS, IRIX and OSF1. In short: On all major platforms!
5111 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5113 *) Minor cleanup in http_main -- split QNX and OS2 specific "mmap"
5114 scoreboard code into separate #defines -- USE_POSIX_SCOREBOARD
5115 and USE_OS2_SCOREBOARD. [Dean Gaudet]
5117 *) Fix one more special locking problem for RewriteMap programs in
5118 mod_rewrite: According to the documentation of flock(), "Locks are on
5119 files, not file descriptors. That is, file descriptors duplicated
5120 through dup(2) or fork(2) do not result in multiple instances of a lock,
5121 but rather multiple references to a single lock. If a process holding a
5122 lock on a file forks and the child explicitly unlocks the file, the
5123 parent will lose its lock.". To overcome this we have to make sure the
5124 RewriteLock file is opened _AFTER_ the childs were spawned which is now
5125 the case by opening it in the child_init instead of the module_init API
5126 hook. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1029
5128 *) Change to Location and LocationMatch semantics. LocationMatch no
5129 longer lets a single slash match multiple adjacent slashes in the
5130 URL. This change is for consistency with RewriteRule and
5131 AliasMatch. Multiple slashes have meaning in URLs that they do
5132 not have in (some) filesystems. Location on the other hand can
5133 be considered a shorthand for a more complicated regex, and it
5134 does match multiple slashes with a single slash -- which is
5135 also consistent with the Alias directive.
5136 [Dean Gaudet] related PR#1440
5138 *) Fix bug with mod_mime_magic causing certain files, including files
5139 of length 0, to result in no response from the server.
5142 *) The Configure script now generates src/include/ap_config.h which
5143 contains the set of defines used when Apache is compiled on a platform.
5144 This file can then be included by external modules before including
5145 any Apache header files in case they are being built separately from
5146 Apache. Along with this change, a couple of minor changes were
5147 made to make Apache's #defines coexist peacefully with any autoconf
5148 defines an external module might have. [Rasmus Lerdorf]
5150 *) Fix mod_rewrite for the ugly API case where <VirtualHost> sections exist
5151 but without any RewriteXXXXX directives. Here mod_rewrite is given no
5152 chance by the API to initialize its per-server configuration and thus
5153 receives the wrong one from the main server. This is now avoided by
5154 remembering the server together with the config structure while
5155 configuring and later assuming there is no config when we see a
5156 difference between the remembered server and the one calling us.
5157 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1790
5159 *) Fixed the DBM RewriteMap support for mod_rewrite: First the support now
5160 is automatically disabled under configure time when the dbm_xxx functions
5161 are not available. Second, two heavy source code errors in the DBM
5162 support code were fixed. This makes DBM RewriteMap's usable again after
5163 a long time of brokenness. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1696
5165 *) Now all configuration files support Unix-style line-continuation via
5166 the trailing backslash ("\") character. This enables us to write down
5167 complex or just very long directives in a more readable way. The
5168 backslash character has to be really the last character before the
5169 newline and it has not been prefixed by another (escaping) backslash.
5170 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5172 *) When using ProxyPass the ?querystring was not passed correctly.
5173 [Joel Truher <truher@wired.com>]
5175 *) To deal with modules being compiled and [dynamically] linked
5176 at a different time from the core, the SERVER_VERSION and
5177 SERVER_BUILT symbols have been abstracted through the new
5178 API routines apapi_get_server_version() and apapi_get_server_built().
5181 *) WIN32: Preserve trailing slash in canonical path (and hence
5182 in PATH_INFO). [Paul Sutton, Ben Laurie]
5184 *) PORT: USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT has proven unreliable
5185 depending on the rev of Solaris and what mixture of modules
5186 are in use. So it has been disabled, and Solaris is back to
5187 using USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT. Users may experiment with
5188 USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT at their own risk, it may speed
5189 up static content only servers. Or it may fail unpredictably.
5190 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1779, 1854, 1904
5192 *) mod_test_util_uri.c created which tests the logic in util_uri.c.
5195 *) API: Rewrite of absoluteURI handling, and in particular how
5196 absoluteURIs match vhosts. Unless a request is a proxy request, a
5197 "http://host" url is treated as if a similar "Host:" header had been
5198 supplied. This change was made to support future HTTP/1.x protocols
5199 which may require clients to send absoluteURIs for all requests.
5201 In order to achieve this change subtle changes were made to the API. In a
5202 request_rec, r->hostlen has been removed. r->unparsed_uri now exists so
5203 that the unmodified uri can be retrieved easily. r->proxyreq is not set
5204 by the core, modules must set it during the post_read_request or
5205 translate_names phase.
5207 Plus changes to the virtualhost test suite for absoluteURI testing.
5209 This fixes several bugs with the proxy proxying requests to vhosts
5210 managed by the same httpd.
5213 *) API: Cleanup of code in http_vhost.c, and remove vhost matching
5214 code from mod_rewrite. The vhost matching is now performed by a
5215 globally available function matches_request_vhost(). [Dean Gaudet]
5217 *) Reduce memory usage, and speed up ServerAlias support. As a
5218 side-effect users can list multiple ServerAlias directives
5219 and they're all considered.
5220 [Chia-liang Kao <clkao@cirx.org>] PR#1531
5222 *) The "poly" directive in image maps did not include the borders of the
5223 polygon, whereas the "rect" directive does. Fix this inconsistency.
5224 [Konstantin Morshnev <moko@design.ru>] PR#1771
5226 *) Make \\ behave as expected. [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch]
5228 *) Add the `%a' construct to LogFormat and CustomLog to log the client IP
5229 address. [Todd Eigenschink <eigenstr@mixi.net>] PR#1885
5231 *) API: A new source module main/util_uri.c; It contains a routine
5232 parse_uri_components() and friends which breaks a URI into its component
5233 parts. These parts are stored in a uri_components structure called
5234 parsed_uri within each request_rec, and are available to all modules.
5235 Additionally, an unparse routine is supplied which re-assembles the URI
5236 components back to an URI, optionally hiding the username:password@ part
5237 from ftp proxy requests, and other useful routines. Within the structure,
5238 you find on a ready-for-use basis:
5239 scheme; /* scheme ("http"/"ftp"/...) */
5240 hostinfo; /* combined [user[:password]@]host[:port] */
5241 user; /* user name, as in http://user:passwd@host:port/ */
5242 password; /* password, as in http://user:passwd@host:port/ */
5243 hostname; /* hostname from URI (or from Host: header) */
5244 port_str; /* port string (integer representation is in "port") */
5245 path; /* the request path (or "/" if only scheme://host was given) */
5246 query; /* Everything after a '?' in the path, if present */
5247 fragment; /* Trailing "#fragment" string, if present */
5248 This is meant to serve as the platform for *BIG* savings in
5249 code complexity for the proxy module (and maybe the vhost logic).
5252 *) Make all possible meta-construct expansions ($N, %N, %{NAME} and
5253 ${map:key}) available for all location where a string is created in
5254 mod_rewrite rewriting rulesets: 1st arg of RewriteCond, 2nd arg of
5255 RewriteRule and for the [E=NAME:STRING] flag of RewriteRule. This way the
5256 possible expansions are consequently usable at all string creation
5257 locations. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5259 *) Fix initialization of RewriteLogLevel (default now is 0 as documented
5260 and not 1) and the per-virtual-server merging of directives. Now all
5261 directives except `RewriteEngine' and `RewriteOption' are either
5262 completely overridden (default) or completely inherited (when
5263 `RewriteOptions inherit') is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1325
5265 *) Fix `RewriteMap' program lookup in situations where such maps are
5266 defined but disabled (`RewriteEngine off') in per-server context.
5267 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1431
5269 *) Fix bug introduced in 1.3b4-dev, config with no Port setting would cause
5270 server to bind to port 0 rather than 80. [Dean Gaudet]
5272 *) Fix long-standing problem with RewriteMap _programs_ under Unix derivates
5273 (like SunOS and FreeBSD) which don't accept the locking of pipes
5274 directly. A new directive RewriteLock is introduced which can be used to
5275 setup a separate locking file which then is used for synchronization.
5276 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1029
5278 *) WIN32: The server root is obtained from the registry key
5279 HKLM\SOFTWARE\Apache Group\Apache\<version> (version is currently
5280 "1.3 beta"), unless overridden by the -d command line flag. The
5281 value is stored by running "apache -i -d serverroot". [Paul Sutton]
5283 *) Merged os/win32/mod_dll.c into modules/standard/mod_so.c to support
5284 dynamic loading on Win32 and Unix via the same module. [Paul Sutton]
5286 *) Now mod_rewrite no longer makes problematic assumptions on the characters
5287 a username can contain when trying to expand it via /etc/passwd.
5288 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5290 *) The mod_setenvif BrowserMatch backwards compatibility command did not
5291 work properly with spaces in the regex. [Ronald Tschalaer] PR#1825
5293 *) Add new RewriteMap types: First, `rnd' which is equivalent to the `txt'
5294 type but with a special post-processing for the looked-up value: It
5295 parses it into alternatives according to `|' chars and then only one
5296 particular alternative is chosen randomly (this is an essential
5297 functionality needed for balancing between backend-servers when using
5298 Apache as a Reverse Proxy. The looked up value here is a list of
5299 servers). Second, `int' with the built-in maps named `tolower' and
5300 `toupper' which can be used to map URL parts to a fixed case (this is an
5301 essential feature to fix the case of server names when doing mass
5302 virtual-hosting with the help of mod_rewrite instead of using
5303 <VirtualHost> sections). [Ralf S. Engelschall, parts based on code from
5304 Jay Soffian <jay@cimedia.com>] PR#1631
5306 *) Add a new directive to mod_proxy similar to ProxyPass: `ProxyPassReverse'.
5307 This directive lets Apache adjust the URL in Location-headers on HTTP
5308 redirect responses sent by the remote server. This way the virtually
5309 mapped area is no longer left on redirects and thus by-passed which is
5310 especially essential when running Apache as a reverse proxy.
5311 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5313 *) Hide Proxy-Authorization from CGI/SSI/etc just like Authorization is
5314 hidden. [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
5316 *) Apache will, when started with the -X (single process) debugging flag,
5317 honor the SIGINT or SIGQUIT signals again now. This capability got lost
5318 a while ago during OS/2 signal handling changes.
5320 *) [PORT] Work around the fact that NeXT runs on more than the
5321 m68k chips in mod_status [Scott Anguish and Timothy Luoma
5324 *) [PORT] Recognize FreeBSD versions so we can use the OS regex as well
5325 as handling unsigned-chars for FreeBSD v3 and v2 [Andrey Chernov
5326 <ache@nagual.pp.ru> and Jim] PR#1450
5328 *) Use SA_RESETHAND or SA_ONESHOT when installing the coredump handlers.
5329 In particular the handlers could trigger themselves into an infinite
5330 loop if RLimitMem was used with a small amount of memory -- too small
5331 for the signal stack frame to be set up. [Dean Gaudet]
5333 *) Fix problems with absoluteURIs introduced during 1.3b4. [Dean Gaudet,
5334 Alvaro Martinez Echevarria <alvaro@lander.es>]
5336 *) Fix multiple UserDir problem introduced during 1.3b4-dev.
5337 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1850
5339 *) ap_cpystrn() had an off-by-1 error.
5340 [Charles Fu <ccwf@klab.caltech.edu>] PR#1847
5342 *) API: As Ken suggested the check_cmd_context() function and related
5343 defines are non-static now so modules can use 'em. [Martin Kraemer]
5345 *) mod_info would occasionally produce an unpaired <tt> in its
5346 output. Fixed. [Martin Kraemer]
5348 *) By default AIX binds a process (and it's children) to a single
5349 processor. httpd children now unbind themselves from that cpu
5350 and re-bind to one selected at random via bindprocessor()
5353 *) Linux 2.0 and above implement RLIMIT_AS, RLIMIT_DATA has almost no
5354 effect. Work around it by using RLIMIT_AS for the RLimitMEM
5355 directive. [Enrik Berkhan <enrik@inka.de>] PR#1816
5357 *) mod_mime_magic error message should indicate the filename when
5358 reads fail. ["M.D.Parker" <mdpc@netcom.com>] PR#1827
5360 *) Previously Apache would permit </Files> to end <FilesMatch> (and
5361 similary for Location and Directory), now this is diagnosed as an
5362 error. Improve error messages for mismatched sections (<Files>,
5363 <FilesMatch>, <Directory>, <DirectoryMatch>, ...).
5364 [Dean Gaudet, Martin Kraemer]
5366 *) <Files> is not permitted within <Location> (because of the
5367 semantic ordering). [Dean Gaudet] PR#379
5369 *) <Files> with wildcards was broken by the change in wildcard
5370 semantics (* does not match /). To fix this, <Files> now
5371 apply only to the basename of the request filename. This
5372 fixes some other inconsistencies in <Files> semantics
5373 (such as <Files a*b> not working). [Dean Gaudet] PR#1817
5375 *) Removed bogus "dist.tar" target from Makefile.tmpl and make sure
5376 backup files are removed on "clean" target [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5378 *) PORT: Add -lm to LIBS for HPUX. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1639
5380 *) Various errors from select() and accept() in child_main() would
5381 result in an infinite loop. It seems these two tickle kernel
5382 or library bugs occasionally, and result in log spammage and
5383 a generally bad scene. Now the child exits immediately,
5384 which seems to be a good workaround.
5385 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1747, 1107, 588, 1787, 987, 588
5387 *) Cleaned up some race conditions in unix child_main during
5388 initialization. [Dean Gaudet]
5390 *) SECURITY: "UserDir /abspath" without a * in the path would allow
5391 remote users to access "/~.." and bypass access restrictions
5392 (but note /~../.. was handled properly).
5393 [Lauri Jesmin <jesmin@ut.ee>] PR#1701
5395 *) API: os_is_path_absolute() now takes a const char * instead of a char *.
5398 Changes with Apache 1.3b5
5400 *) Source file dependencies in Makefile.tmpl files throughout the
5401 source tree were updated to accurately reflect reality.
5404 *) Preserve the content encoding given by the AddEncoding directive
5405 when the client doesn't otherwise specify an encoding.
5406 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>]
5408 *) Sort out problems with canonical filename handling happening too late.
5409 [Dean Gaudet, Ben Laurie]
5411 Changes with Apache 1.3b4
5413 *) The module structure was modified to include a *dynamic_load_handle
5414 in the STANDARD_MODULE_STUFF portion, and the MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER
5415 has been bumped accordingly. [Paul Sutton]
5417 *) All BrowserMatch directives mentioned in
5418 htdocs/manual/known_client_problems.html are in the default
5419 configuration files. [Lars Eilebrecht]
5421 *) MiNT port update. [Jan Paul Schmidt]
5423 *) HTTP/1.1 requires x-gzip and gzip encodings be treated
5424 equivalent, similarly for x-compress and compress. Apache
5425 now ignores a leading x- when comparing encodings. It also
5426 preserves the encoding the client requests (for example if
5427 it requests x-gzip, then Apache will respond with x-gzip
5428 in the Content-Encoding header).
5429 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>] PR#1772
5431 *) Fix a memory leak on keep-alive connections. [Igor Tatarinov]
5433 *) Added mod_so module to support dynamic loading of modules on Unix
5434 (like mod_dld for Win32). This replaces mod_dld.c. Use SharedModule
5435 instead of AddModule in Configuration to build shared modules
5436 [Sameer Parekh, Paul Sutton]
5438 *) Minor cleanups to r->finfo handling in some modules.
5441 *) Abstract read()/write() to ap_read()/ap_write().
5442 Makes it easier to add other types of IO code such as SFIO.
5445 *) API: Generalize default_port manipulations to make support of
5446 different protocols easier. [Ben Laurie, Randy Terbush]
5448 *) There are many cases where users do not want Apache to form
5449 self-referential urls using the "canonical" ServerName and Port.
5450 The new UseCanonicalName directive (default on), if set to off
5451 will cause Apache to use the client-supplied hostname and port.
5452 API: Part of this change required a change to the construct_url()
5453 prototype; and the addition of get_server_name() and
5455 [Michael Douglass <mikedoug@texas.net>, Dean Gaudet]
5456 PR#315, 459, 485, 1433
5458 *) Yet another rearrangement of the source tree.. now all the common
5459 header files are in the src/include directory. The -Imain -Iap
5460 references in Makefiles have been changed to the simpler -Iinclude
5461 instead. In addition to simplifying the build a little bit, this
5462 also makes it clear when a module is referencing something in a
5463 other than kosher manner (e.g., the proxy including mod_mime.h).
5464 Module-private header files (the proxy, mod_mime, the regex library,
5465 and mod_rewrite) have not been moved to src/include; nor have
5466 the OS-abstraction files. [Ken Coar]
5468 *) Fix a bug where r->hostname didn't have the :port stripped
5469 from it. [Dean Gaudet]
5471 *) Tweaked the headers_out table size, and the subprocess_env
5472 table size guess in rename_original_environment(). Added
5473 MAKE_TABLE_PROFILE which can help discover make_table()
5474 calls that use too small an initial guess, see alloc.c.
5477 *) Options and AllowOverride weren't properly merging in the main
5478 server setting inside vhosts (only an issue when you have no
5479 <Directory> or other section containing an Options that affects
5480 a request). Options +foo or -foo in the main_server wouldn't
5481 affect the main_server's lookup defaults. [Dean Gaudet]
5483 *) Variable 'cwd' was being used pointlessly before being set.
5486 *) r->allowed handling cleaned up in the standard modules.
5489 *) Some case-sensitivity issues cleaned up to be consistent with
5490 RFC2068. [Dean Gaudet]
5492 *) SIGURG doesn't exist everywhere.
5493 [Mark Andrew Heinrich <heinrich@tinderbox.Stanford.EDU>]
5495 *) mod_unique_id was erroneously generating a second unique id when
5496 an internal redirect occured. Such redirects occur, for example,
5497 when processing a DirectoryIndex match. [Dean Gaudet]
5499 *) API: table_add, table_merge, and table_set include implicit pstrdup()
5500 of the key and value. But in many cases this is not required
5501 because the key/value is a constant, or the value has been built
5502 by pstrcat() or other similar means. New routines table_addn,
5503 table_mergen, and table_setn have been added to the API, these
5504 routines do not pstrdup() their arguments. The core code and
5505 standard modules were changed to take advantage of these routines.
5506 The resulting server is up to 20% faster in some situations.
5508 Note that it is easy to get code subtly wrong if you pass a key/value
5509 which is in a pool other than the pool of the table. The only
5510 safe thing to do is to pass key/values which are in the pool of
5511 the table, or in one of the ancestors of the pool of the table.
5512 i.e. if the table is part of a subrequest, a value from the main
5513 request's pool is OK since the subrequest pool is a sub_pool of the
5514 main request's pool (and therefore has a lifespan at most as long as
5515 the main pool). There is debugging code which can detect improper
5516 usage, enabled by defining POOL_DEBUG. See alloc.c for more details.
5517 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su>, Dean Gaudet]
5519 *) More mod_mime_magic cleanup: fewer syscalls; should handle "files"
5520 which don't exist on disk more gracefully; handles vhosts properly.
5521 Update documentation to reflect the code -- if there's no
5522 MimeMagicFile directive then the module is not enabled.
5525 *) PORT: Some older *nix dialects cannot automatically start scripts
5526 which begin with a #! interpreter line (the shell starts the scripts
5527 appropriately on these platforms). Apache now supports starting of
5528 "hashbang-scripts" when the NEED_HASHBANG_EMUL define is set.
5529 [Martin Kraemer, with code from peter@zeus.dialix.oz.au (Peter Wemm)
5532 *) API: "typedef array_header table" removed from alloc.h, folks should
5533 have been writing to use table as if it were an opaque type, but even
5534 some standard modules got this wrong. By changing the definition
5535 to "typedef struct table table" module authors will receive compile
5536 time warnings that they're doing the wrong thing. This change
5537 facilitates future changes with more sophisticated table
5538 structures. Specifically, module authors should be using table_elts()
5539 to get access to an array_header * for the table. [Dean Gaudet]
5541 *) API: Renamed new_connection() to avoid namespace collision with LDAP
5542 library routines. [Ken Coar, Rasmus Lerdorf]
5544 *) WIN32: mod_speling is now available on the Win32 platform.
5547 *) For clarity the following compile time definition was changed:
5549 SAFE_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT -> SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT
5551 Also, for example, HAVE_MMAP would mean to use mmap() scoreboards
5552 and not be a general notice that the OS has mmap(). Now the
5553 HAVE_MMAP/SHMGET #defines strictly are informational that the
5554 OS has that method of shared memory; the type to use for
5555 the scoreboard is a seperate #define (USE_MMAP_SCOREBOARD
5556 and USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD). This allows outside modules to
5557 determine if shared memory is available and allows Apache
5558 to determine the best method to use for the scoreboard.
5561 *) PORT: UnixWare 2.1.2 SMP appears to require USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT,
5562 as do various earlier versions. It should be safe on all versions.
5563 Unixware 1.x appears to have the same SIGHUP bug as solaris does with
5564 the slack code. A few other cleanups for Unixware.
5565 [Tom Hughes <thh@cyberscience.com>] PR#1082, PR#1282, PR#1499, PR#1553
5567 *) PORT: A/UX can handle single-listen accepts without mutex
5568 locking, so we add SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT. [Jim Jagielski]
5570 *) When die() happens we need to eat any request body if one exists.
5571 Otherwise we can't continue with a keepalive session. This shows up
5572 as a POST problem with MSIE 4.0, typically against pages which are
5573 authenticated. [Roy Fielding] PR#1399
5575 *) If you define SECURITY_HOLE_PASS_AUTHORIZATION then the Authorization
5576 header will be passed to CGIs. This is generally a security hole, so
5577 it's not a default. [Marc Slemko] PR#549
5579 *) Fix Y2K problem with date printing in suexec log.
5580 [Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>] PR#1343
5582 *) WIN32 deserves a pid file. [Ben Hyde]
5584 *) suexec errors now include the errno/description. [Marc Slemko] PR#1543
5586 *) PORT: OSF/1 now uses USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT to solve PR#467.
5587 The choice of flock vs. fcntl was made based on timings which showed that
5588 even on non-NFS, non-exported filesystems fcntl() was an order of
5589 magnitude slower. It also uses SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT so
5590 that single socket users will see no difference. [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
5592 *) "File does not exist" error message was erroneously including the
5593 errno. [Marc Slemko]
5595 *) Improve the warning message generated when a client drops the
5596 connection (hits stop button, etc.) during a send. [Roy Fielding]
5598 *) Defining GPROF will disable profiling in the parent and enable it
5599 in the children. If you're profiling under Linux this is pretty much
5600 necessary because SIGPROF is lost across a fork(). [Dean Gaudet]
5602 *) htdigest and htpasswd needed slight tweaks to work on OS/2 and WIN32.
5605 *) The NeXT cc (which is gcc hacked up) doesn't appear to support some
5606 gcc functionality. Work around it.
5607 [Keith Severson <keith@sssd.navy.mil>] PR#1613
5609 *) Some linkers complain when .o files contain no functions.
5610 [Keith Severson <keith@sssd.navy.mil>] PR#1614
5612 *) Some const declarations in mod_imap.c that were added for debugging
5613 purposes caused some compilers heartburn without adding any
5614 significant value, so they've been removed. [Ken Coar]
5616 *) The src/main/*.h header files have had #ifndef wrappers added to
5617 insulate them against duplicate calls if they get included through
5618 multiple paths (e.g., in .c files as well as other .h files).
5621 *) The libap routines now have a header file for their prototypes,
5622 src/ap/ap.h, to ease their use in non-httpd applications. [Ken Coar]
5624 *) mod_autoindex with a plaintext header file would emit the <PRE>
5625 start-tag before the HTML preamble, rather than after the preamble
5626 but before the header file contents. [John Van Essen <jve@gamers.org>]
5629 *) SECURITY: Fix a possible buffer overflow in logresolve. This is
5630 only an issue on systems without a MAXDNAME define or where
5631 the resolver returns domain names longer than MAXDNAME. [Marc Slemko]
5633 *) SECURITY: Eliminate possible buffer overflow in cfg_getline, which
5634 is used to read various types of files such as htaccess and
5635 htpasswd files. [Marc Slemko]
5637 *) SECURITY: Ensure that the buffer returned by ht_time is always
5638 properly null terminated. [Marc Slemko]
5640 *) The "Connection" header could be sent back with multiple "close"
5641 tokens. Not an error, but a waste.
5642 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1683
5644 *) mod_rewrite's RewriteLog should behave like mod_log_config, it
5645 shouldn't force hostname lookups. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1684
5647 *) "basic" auth needs a case-insensitive comparison.
5648 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1666
5650 *) For maximum portability, the environment passed to CGIs should
5651 only contain variables whose names match the regex
5652 /[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]*/. This is now enforced by stamping
5653 underscores over any character outside the regex. This
5654 affects HTTP_* variables, in a way that should be backward
5655 compatible for all the standard headers; and affects variables
5656 set with SetEnv/BrowserMatch and similar directives.
5659 *) mod_speling returned incorrect HREF's when an ambigous match
5660 was found. Noticed by <robinton@amtrash.comlink.de> (Soeren Ziehe)
5661 [robinton@amtrash.comlink.de (Soeren Ziehe), Martin Kraemer]
5663 *) PORT: Apache now compiles & runs on an EBCDIC mainframe
5664 (the Siemens BS2000/OSD family) in the POSIX subsystem
5667 *) PORT: Fix problem killing children when terminating. Allow ^C
5668 to shut down the server. [Brian Havard]
5670 *) pstrdup() is implicit in calls to table_* functions, so there's
5671 no need to do it before calling. Clean up a few cases.
5672 [Marc Slemko, Dean Gaudet]
5674 *) new -C and -c command line arguments
5676 -C "directive" : process directive before reading config files
5677 -c "directive" : process directive after reading config files
5679 httpd -C "PerlModule Apache::httpd_conf"
5680 [Doug MacEachern, Martin Kraemer]
5682 *) WIN32: Fix the execution of CGIs that are scripts and called
5683 with path info that does not have an '=' in.
5684 (eg. http://server/cgi-bin/printenv?foobar)
5685 [Marc Slemko] PR#1591
5687 *) WIN32: Fix a call to os_canonical_filename so it doesn't try to
5688 mess with fake filenames. This fixes proxy caching on
5691 *) SECURITY: General mod_include cleanup, including fixing several
5692 possible buffer overflows and a possible infinite loop.
5693 [Dean Gaudet, Marc Slemko]
5695 *) SECURITY: Numerous changes to mod_imap in a general cleanup
5696 including fixing a possible buffer overflow. [Dean Gaudet]
5698 *) WIN32: overhaul of multithreading code. Shutdowns are now graceful
5699 (connections are not dropped). Code can handle graceful restarts
5700 (but there is as yet no way to signal this to Apache). Various
5701 other cleanups. [Paul Sutton]
5703 *) The aplog_error changes specific to 1.3 introduced a buffer
5704 overrun in the (now legacy) log_printf function. Fixed.
5707 *) mod_digest didn't properly deal with proxy authentication. It
5708 also lacked a case-insensitive comparision of the "Digest"
5709 token. [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>] PR#1599
5711 *) A few cleanups in mod_status for efficiency. [Dean Gaudet]
5713 *) A few cleanups in mod_info to make it thread-safe, and remove an
5714 off-by-5 bug that could hammer \0 on the stack. [Dean Gaudet]
5716 *) no2slash() was O(n^2) in the length of the input. Make it O(n).
5719 *) API: migration from strncpy() to our "enhanced" version called
5720 ap_cpystrn() for performance and functionality reasons.
5721 Located in libap.a. [Jim Jagielski]
5723 *) table_set() and table_unset() did not deal correctly with
5724 multiple occurrences of the same key.
5725 [Stephen Scheck <sscheck@infonex.net>, Ben Laurie] PR#1604
5727 *) The AuthName must now be enclosed in quotes if it is to contain
5728 spaces. [Ken Coar] PR#1195
5730 *) API: new function: ap_escape_quotes(). [Ken Coar] PR#1195
5732 *) WIN32: Work around optimiser bug that killed ISAPI in release
5733 versions. [Ben Laurie] PR#1533
5735 *) PORT: Update the MPE port [Mark Bixby, Jim Jagielski]
5737 *) Interim (slow) fix for p->sub_pool critical sections in
5738 alloc.c (affects win32 only). [Ben Hyde]
5740 *) non-WIN32 was missing destroy_mutex definition. [Ben Hyde]
5742 *) send_fd_length() did not calculate total_bytes_sent properly.
5743 [Ben Reser <breser@regnow.com>] PR#1366
5745 *) The bputc() macro was not properly integrated with the chunking
5746 code; in many cases modules using bputc() could cause completely
5747 bogus chunked output. (Typically this will show up as problems
5748 with Internet Explorer 4.0 reading a page, but other browsers
5749 having no problem.) [Dean Gaudet]
5751 *) Create LARGE_WRITE_THRESHOLD define which determines how many
5752 bytes have to be supplied to bwrite() before it will consider
5753 doing a writev() to assemble multiple buffers in one system
5754 call. This is critical for modules such as mod_include,
5755 mod_autoindex, mod_php3 which all use bputc()/bputs() of smaller
5756 strings in some cases. The result would be extra effort
5757 setting up writev(), and in many cases extra effort building
5758 chunks. The default is 31, it can be overriden at compile
5761 *) Move the gid switching code into the child so that log files
5762 and pid files are opened with the root gid.
5763 [Gregory A Lundberg <lundberg@vr.net>]
5765 *) WIN32: Check for binaries by looking for the executable header
5766 instead of counting control characters.
5767 [Jim Patterson <Jim.Patterson@Cognos.COM>] PR#1340
5769 *) ap_snprintf() moved from main/util_snprintf.c to ap/ap_snprintf.c
5770 so the functionality is available to applications other than the
5771 server itself (like the src/support tools). [Ken Coar]
5773 *) ap_slack() moved out of main/util.c into ap/ap_slack.c as part of
5774 the libap consolidation work. [Ken Coar]
5776 *) ap_snprintf() with a len of 0 behaved like sprintf(). This is not
5777 useful, and isn't what the standards require. Now it returns 0
5778 and writes nothing. [Dean Gaudet]
5780 *) When an error occurs in fcntl() locking suggest the user look up
5781 the docs for LockFile. [Dean Gaudet]
5783 *) Eliminate some dead code from writev_it_all().
5784 [Igor Tatarinov <tatarino@prairie.NoDak.edu>]
5786 *) mod_autoindex had an fread() without checking the result code.
5787 It also wouldn't handle "AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/text.gif text/*"
5788 (note the missing closing paren) properly. [Dean Gaudet]
5790 *) It appears the "257th byte" bug (see
5791 htdocs/manual/misc/known_client_problems.html#257th-byte) can happen
5792 at the 256th byte as well. Fixed. [Dean Gaudet]
5794 *) PORT: Fix mod_mime_magic under OS/2, no support for block devices.
5797 *) Fix memory corruption caused by allocating auth usernames in the
5798 wrong pool. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1500
5800 *) Fix an off-by-1, and an unterminated string error in
5801 mod_mime_magic. [Dean Gaudet]
5803 *) Fix a potential SEGV problem in mod_negotiation when dealing
5804 with type-maps. [Dean Gaudet]
5806 *) Better glibc support under Linux. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1542
5808 *) "RedirectMatch gone /" would cause a SIGSEGV. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1319
5810 *) WIN32: avoid overflows during file canonicalisations.
5811 [malcolm@mgdev.demon.co.uk] PR#1378
5813 *) WIN32: set_file_slot() didn't detect absolute paths. [Ben Laurie]
5816 *) WIN32: mod_status display header didn't match fields. [Ben Laurie]
5818 *) The pthread_mutex_* functions return an error code, and don't
5819 set errno. [Igor Tatarinov <tatarino@prairie.NoDak.edu>]
5821 *) WIN32: Allow spaces to prefix the interpreter in #! lines.
5822 [Ben Laurie] PR#1101
5824 *) WIN32: Cure file leak in CGIs. [Peter Tillemans <pti@net4all.be>] PR#1523
5826 *) proxy_ftp: the directory listings generated by the proxy ftp module
5827 now have a title in which the path components are clickable and allow
5828 quick navigation to the clicked-on directory on the currently listed
5829 ftp server. This also fixes a bug where the ".." directory links would
5830 sometimes refer to the wrong directory. [Martin Kraemer]
5832 *) WIN32: Allocate the correct amount of memory for the scoreboard.
5835 *) WIN32: Only lowercase the part of the path that is real. [Ben Laurie]
5838 *) Fix problems with timeouts in inetd mode and -X mode. [Dean Gaudet]
5840 *) Fix the spurious "(0)unknown error: mmap_handler: mmap failed"
5841 error messages. [Ben Hyde]
5843 Changes with Apache 1.3b3
5845 *) WIN32: Work around brain-damaged spawn calls that can't deal
5846 with spaces and slashes. [Ben Laurie]
5848 *) WIN32: Fix the code so CGIs can use socket calls on Windows.
5849 The problem was that certain undocumented environment variables
5850 needed for sockets to work under Win32 were not being passed.
5851 [Frank Faubert <frank@sane.com>]
5853 *) Add a "-V" command line flag to the httpd binary. This
5854 flag shows some of the defines that Apache was compiled with.
5855 It is useful for debugging purposes. [Martin Kraemer]
5857 *) Start separating the ap_*() routines into their own library, so they
5858 can be used by items in src/support among other things.
5859 [Ken Coar] PR#512, 905, 1252, 1308
5861 *) Give a more informative error when no AuthType is set.
5864 *) Remove strtoul() use from mod_proxy because it isn't available
5865 on all platforms. [Marc Slemko] PR#1214
5867 *) WIN32: Some Win32 systems terminated all responses after 16 kB.
5868 This turns out to be a bug in Winsock - select() doesn't always
5869 return the correct status. [Ben Laurie]
5871 *) Directives owned by http_core can now use the new check_cmd_context()
5872 routine to ensure that they're not being used within a container
5873 (e.g., <Directory>) where they're invalid. [Martin Kraemer]
5875 *) PORT: Recent changes made it necessary to add explicit prototype
5876 for fgetc() and fgets() on SunOS 4.x. [Martin Kraemer, Ben Hyde]
5878 *) It was necessary to distinguish between resources which are
5879 allocated in the parent, for cleanup in the parent, and resources
5880 which are allocated in each child, for cleanup in each child.
5881 A new pool was created which is passed to the module child_init
5882 and child_exit functions; modules are free to register per-child
5883 cleanups there. This fixes a bug with reliable piped logs.
5886 *) mod_autoindex wasn't displaying the ReadmeName file at the bottom
5887 unless it was also doing FancyIndexes, but it displayed the
5888 HeaderName file at the top under all circumstances. It now shows
5889 the ReadmeName file for simple indices, too, as it should.
5892 *) http_core was mmap()ing even in cases where it wasn't going to
5893 read the file. [Ben Hyde <bhyde@gensym.com>]
5895 *) Complete rewrite ;-) of mod_rewrite's URL rewriting engine:
5896 Now the rewriting engine (the heart of mod_rewrite) is organized more
5897 straight-forward, first time well documented and reduced to the really
5898 essential parts. All redundant cases were stripped off and processing now
5899 is the same for both per-server and per-directory context with only a
5900 minimum difference (the prefix stripping in per-dir context). As a
5901 side-effect some subtle restrictions and two recently discovered problems
5902 are gone: Wrong escaping of QUERY_STRING on redirects in per-directory
5903 context and restrictions on the substitution URL on redirects.
5904 Additionally some minor source cleanups were done.
5905 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5907 *) Lars Eilebrecht wrote a whole new set of Apache Vhost Internals
5908 documentation, examples, explanations and caveats. They live in a new
5909 subdirectory htdocs/manual/vhost/. [Lars Eilebrecht <sfx@unix-ag.org>]
5911 *) If ap_slack fails to allocate above the low slack line it's a good
5912 indication that further problems will occur; it's a better indication
5913 than many external libraries give us when we actually run out of
5914 descriptors. So report it to the user once per restart.
5915 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1181
5917 *) Change mod_include and mod_autoindex to use Y2K-safe date formats
5918 by default. [Ken Coar]
5920 *) Add a "SuppressColumnSorting" option to the IndexOptions list,
5921 which will keep the column heading from being links for sorting
5922 the display. [Ken Coar, suggested by Brian Tiemann <btman@pacific.net>]
5925 *) PORT: Update the LynxOS port. [Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>]
5927 *) Fix logic error when issuing a mmap() failed message
5928 with a non-zero MMAP_THRESHOLD.
5929 [David Chambers <davidc@flosun.salk.edu>] PR#1294
5931 *) Preserve handler value on ProxyPass'ed requests by not
5932 calling find_types on a proxy'd request; fixes problems
5933 where some ProxyPass'ed URLs weren't actually passed
5935 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#870
5937 *) Fix a byte ordering problem in mod_access which prevented
5938 the old-style syntax (i.e. "a.b.c." to match a class C)
5939 from working properly. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1248, 1328, 1384
5941 *) Fix problem with USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT not working
5942 properly. Each child needs to open the lockfile instead
5943 of using the passed file-descriptor from the parent.
5944 [Jim Jagielski] PR#1056
5946 *) Fix the error logging in mod_cgi; the recent error log changes
5947 introduced a bug that prevented it from working correctly.
5948 [M.D.Parker] PR#1352
5950 *) Default to USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT on HPUX to properly
5951 handle multiple Listen directives. [Marc Slemko] PR#872
5953 *) Inherit a bugfix to fnmatch.c from FreeBSD sources.
5954 ["[KOI8-R] áÎÄÒÅÊ þÅÒÎÏ×" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>] PR#1311
5956 *) When a configuration parse complained about a bad directive,
5957 the logger would use whatever (unrelated) value was in errno.
5958 errno is now forced to EINVAL first in this case. [Ken Coar]
5960 *) A sed command in the Configure script pushed the edge of POSIXness,
5961 breaking on some systems. [Bhaba R.Misra <system@vt.edu>] PR#1368
5963 *) Solaris >= 2.5 was totally broken due to a mess up using pthread
5964 mutexes. [Roy Fielding, Dean Gaudet]
5966 *) OS/2 Port updated; it should be possible to build OS/2 from the same
5967 sources as Unix now. [Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
5969 *) Fix a year formatting bug in mod_usertrack.
5970 [Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>] PR#1342
5972 *) A mild SIGTERM/SIGALRM race condition was eliminated.
5973 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1211
5975 *) Warn user that default path has changed if /usr/local/etc/httpd
5976 is found on the system. [Lars Eilebrecht]
5978 *) Various mod_mime_magic bug fixes and cleanups: Uncompression
5979 should work, it should work on WIN32, and a few resource
5980 leaks and abort conditions are fixed.
5981 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1205
5983 *) PORT: On AIX 1.x files can't be named '@', fix the proxy cache
5984 to use '%' instead of '@' in its encodings.
5985 [David Schuler <schuld@btv.ibm.com>] PR#1317
5987 *) Improve the warning message generated when the "server is busy".
5988 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1293
5990 *) PORT: All ports which don't otherwise define DEF_WANTHSREGEX will
5991 get Spencer regex by default. This is to avoid having to
5992 discover bugs in operating system libraries. [Dean Gaudet]
5994 *) PORT: "Fix" PR#467 by generating warnings on systems which we have
5995 not been able to get working USE_*_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT settings for.
5996 Document this a bit more in src/PORTING. [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
5998 *) Ensure that one copy of config warnings makes it to the
5999 error_log. [Dean Gaudet]
6001 *) Invent new structure and associated methods to handle config file
6002 reading. Add "custom" hook to use config file cfg_getline() on
6003 something which is not a FILE* [Martin Kraemer]
6005 *) Make single-exe Windows install. [Ben Laurie and Eric Esselink]
6007 *) WIN32: Make CGI work under Win95. [Ben Laurie and Paul Sutton]
6009 *) WIN32: Make index.html and friends work under Win95. [Ben Laurie]
6011 *) PORT: Solaris 2.4 needs Spencer regex, the system regex is broken.
6012 [John Line <jml4@cam.ac.uk>] PR#1321
6014 *) Default pathname has been changed everywhere to /usr/local/apache
6015 [Sameer <sameer@c2.net>]
6017 *) PORT: AIX now uses USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT.
6018 [David Bronder <David-Bronder@uiowa.edu>] PR#849
6020 *) PORT: i386 AIX does not have memmove.
6021 [David Schuler <schuld@btv.ibm.com>] PR#1267
6023 *) PORT: HPUX now defaults to using Spencer regex.
6024 [Philippe Vanhaesendonck <pvanhaes@be.oracle.com>,
6025 Omar Del Rio <al112263@academ01.lag.itesm.mx>] PR#482, 1246
6027 *) PORT: Some versions of NetBSD don't automatically define
6028 __NetBSD__. Workaround by defining NETBSD.
6029 [Chris Craft <ccraft@cncc.cc.co.us>] PR#977
6031 *) PORT: UnixWare 2.x requires -lgen for syslog.
6032 [Hans Snijder <hs@meganet.nl>] PR#1249
6034 *) PORT: ULTRIX appears to not have syslog.
6035 [Lars Eilebrecht <Lars.Eilebrecht@unix-ag.org>]
6037 *) PORT: Basic Gemini port (treat it like unixware212).
6038 ["Pavel Yakovlev (Paul McHacker)" <hac@tomcat.olly.ru>]
6040 *) PORT: All SVR4 systems now use NET_SIZE_T = size_t, and
6041 use USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD.
6044 *) Various improvements in detecting config file errors (missing closing
6045 directives for <Directory>, <Files> etc. blocks, prohibiting global
6046 server settings in <VirtualHost> blocks, flagging unhandled multiple
6047 arguments to <Directory>, <Files> etc.)
6050 *) Add support to suexec wrapper program for mod_unique_id's UNIQUE_ID
6051 variable to provide this one to suexec'd CGIs, too.
6052 [M.D.Parker <mdpc@netcom.com>] PR#1284
6054 *) New support tool: src/support/split-logfile, a sample Perl script which
6055 splits up a combined access log into separate files based on the
6056 name of the virtual host (listed first in the log records by "%v").
6059 Changes with Apache 1.3b2 (there is no 1.3b1)
6061 *) TestCompile was not passing $LIBS [Dean Gaudet]
6063 *) Makefile.tmpl was not using $CFLAGS in the link phase.
6066 *) Add debugging code to alloc.c. Defining ALLOC_DEBUG provides a
6067 rudimentary memory debugger which can be used on live servers with
6068 low impact -- it sets all allocated and freed memory bytes to 0xa5.
6069 Defining ALLOC_USE_MALLOC will cause the alloc code to use malloc()
6070 and free() for each object. This is far more expensive and should
6071 only be used for testing with tools such as Electric Fence and
6072 Purify. See main/alloc.c for more details. [Dean Gaudet]
6074 *) Configure uses a sh trap and didn't set its exitcode properly.
6075 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1159
6077 *) Yet another vhost revamp. Add the NameVirtualHost directive which
6078 explicitly lists the ip:port pairs that are to be used for name-vhosts.
6079 From a given ip:port, regardless what the Host: header is, you can
6080 only reach the vhosts defined on that ip:port. The precedence of
6081 vhosts was reversed to match other precedences in the config --
6082 the earlier vhosts override the later vhosts. All vhost matching was
6083 moved into http_vhost.[ch]. [Dean Gaudet]
6085 *) ap_inline can be used to force inlining. GNUC __attribute__() can
6086 be used for whatever reason is appropriate (i.e. format() warnings
6087 for printf style functions). Both are enabled only with
6088 gcc >= 2.7.x (so that we have fewer support issues with older
6089 versions). [Dean Gaudet]
6091 *) Fix support for Proxy Authentication (we were testing the response
6092 status too early). [Marc Slemko]
6094 *) CoreDumpDirectory directive directs where the core file is
6095 written when a SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, SIGABORT or SIGABRT are
6096 received. [Marc Slemko, Dean Gaudet]
6098 *) PORT: Support for Atari MINT.
6099 [Jan Paul Schmidt <Jan.P.Schmidt@mni.fh-giessen.de>]
6101 *) When booting, apache will now detach itself from stdin, stdout,
6102 and stderr. stderr will not be detached until after the config
6103 files have been read so you will be able to see initial error
6104 messages. After that all errors are logged in the error_log.
6105 This makes it more convenient to start apache via rsh, ssh,
6106 or crontabs. [Dean Gaudet] PR#523
6108 *) mod_proxy was sending HTTP/1.1 responses to ftp requests by mistake.
6109 Also removed the auto-generated link to www.apache.org that was the
6110 source of so many misdirected bug reports. [Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
6112 *) send_fb would not detect aborted connections in some situations.
6115 *) mod_include would use uninitialized data when parsing certain
6116 expressions involving && and ||. [Brian Slesinsky] PR#1139
6118 *) mod_imap should only handle GET methods. [Jay Bloodworth]
6120 *) suexec.c wouldn't build without -DLOG_EXEC. [Jason A. Dour]
6122 *) mod_autoindex improperly counted &escapes; as more than one
6123 character in the description. It also improperly truncated
6124 descriptions that were exactly the maximum length.
6127 *) RedirectMatch was not properly escaping the result (PR#1155). Also
6128 "RedirectMatch /advertiser/(.*) $1" is now permitted.
6131 *) mod_include now uses symbolic names to check for request success
6132 and return HTTP errors, and correctly handles all types of
6133 redirections (previously it only did temporary redirect correctly).
6134 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding]
6136 *) mod_userdir was modifying r->finfo in cases where it wasn't setting
6137 r->filename. Since those two are meant to be in sync with each other
6138 this is a bug. ["Paul B. Henson" <henson@intranet.csupomona.edu>]
6140 *) PORT: Support Unisys SVR4, whose uname returns mostly useless data.
6141 ["Kaufman, Steven E" <Steven.Kaufman@unisys.com>]
6143 *) Inetd mode (which is buggy) uses timeouts without having setup the
6144 jmpbuffer. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1064
6146 *) Work around problem under Linux where a child will start looping
6147 reporting a select error over and over.
6148 [Rick Franchuk <rickf@transpect.net>] PR#1107, 987, 588
6150 *) Fixed error in proxy_util.c when looping through multiple host IP
6151 addresses. [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#974
6153 *) If BUFFERED_LOGS is defined then mod_log_config will do atomic
6154 buffered writes -- that is, it will buffer up to PIPE_BUF (i.e. 4k)
6155 bytes before writing, but it will never split a log entry across a
6156 buffer boundary. [Dean Gaudet]
6158 *) API: the short_score record has been split into two pieces, one which
6159 the parent writes on, and one which the child writes on. As part of
6160 this change the get_scoreboard_info() function was removed, and
6161 scoreboard_image was exported. This change fixes a race condition
6162 in file based scoreboard systems, and speeds up changes involving the
6163 scoreboard in earlier 1.3 development. [Dean Gaudet]
6165 *) API: New register_other_child() API (see http_main.h) which allows
6166 modules to register children with the parent for maintenance. It
6167 is disabled by defining NO_OTHER_CHILD. [Dean Gaudet]
6169 *) API: New piped_log API (see http_log.h) which implements piped logs,
6170 and will use register_other_child to implement reliable piped logs
6171 when it is available. The reliable piped logs part can be disabled
6172 by defining NO_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS. At the moment reliable piped
6173 logs is only available on Unix. [Dean Gaudet]
6175 *) API: set_last_modified() broken into set_last_modified(), set_etag(), and
6176 meets_conditions(). This allows conditional HTTP selection to be
6177 handled separately from the storing of the header fields, and provides
6178 the ability for CGIs to set their own ETags for conditional checking.
6179 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding] PR#895
6181 *) Changes to mod_log_config to allow naming of format strings.
6182 Format nicknames are defined with "LogFormat fmt nickname", and can
6183 be used with "LogFormat nickname" and "CustomLog logtarget nickname".
6186 *) New module, "mod_speling", which can help find files even when
6187 the URL is slightly misspelled. [Martin Kraemer, Alexei Kosut]
6189 *) API: New function child_terminate() triggers the child process to
6190 exit, while allowing the child finish what it needs to for the
6191 current request first.
6192 [Doug MacEachern, Alexei Kosut]
6194 *) Windows now defaults to using full status reports with mod_status.
6195 [Alexei Kosut] PR #1094
6197 *) *Really* disable all mod_rewrite operations if the engine is off.
6198 Some things (like RewriteMaps) were checked/performed even if they
6199 weren't supposed to be. [Ken Coar] PR #991
6201 *) Implement a new timer scheme which eliminates the need to call alarm() all
6202 the time. Instead a counter in the scoreboard for each child is used to
6203 show when the child has made forward progress. The parent samples this
6204 counter every scoreboard maintenance cycle, and issues SIGALRM if no
6205 progress has been made in the timeout period. This reduces the static
6206 request best-case syscall count to 22 from 29. This scheme is only
6207 used by systems with memory-based scoreboards. [Dean Gaudet]
6209 *) The proxy now properly handles CONNECT requests which are sent
6210 to proxy servers when using ProxyRemote. [Marc Slemko] PR#1024
6212 *) A script called apachectl has been added to the support
6213 directory. This script allows you to do things such as
6214 "apachectl start" and "apachectl restart" from the command
6217 *) Modules and core routines are now put into libraries, which
6218 simplifies the link line tremendously (among other advantages).
6221 *) Some of the MD5 names defined in Apache have been renamed to have
6222 an `ap_' prefix to avoid conflicts with routines supplied by
6223 external libraries. [Ken Coar]
6225 *) Removal of mod_auth_msql.c from the distribution. There are many
6226 other options for databases today. Rather than offer one option,
6227 offer none at this time. mod_auth_msql and other SQL database
6228 authentication modules can be found at the Apache Module Registry.
6229 http://modules.apache.org/ It would be nice to offer a generic
6230 mod_auth_sql option in the near future.
6232 *) PORT: BeOS support added [Alexei Kosut]
6234 *) Configure no longer accepts the -make option, since it creates
6235 Makefile on the fly based on Makefile.tmpl and Configuration.
6237 *) Apache now gracefully shuts down when it receives a SIGTERM, instead
6238 of forcibly killing off all its processes and exiting without
6239 cleaning up. [Alexei Kosut]
6241 *) API: A new field in the request_rec, r->mtime, has been added to
6242 avoid gratuitous parsing of date strings. It is intended to hold
6243 the last-modified date of the resource (if applicable). An
6244 update_mtime() routine has also been added to advance it if
6245 appropriate. [Roy Fielding, Ken Coar]
6247 *) SECURITY: If a htaccess file can not be read due to bad permissions,
6248 deny access to the directory with a HTTP_FORBIDDEN. The previous
6249 behavior was to ignore the htaccess file if it could not be read.
6250 This change may make some setups with unreadable htaccess files
6251 stop working. [Marc Slemko] PR#817
6253 *) Add aplog_error() providing a mechanism to define levels of
6254 verbosity to the server error logging. This addition also provides
6255 the ability to log errors using syslogd. Error logging is configurable
6256 on a per-server basis using the LogLevel directive. Conversion
6257 of log_*() in progress. [Randy Terbush]
6259 *) Further enhance aplog_error() to not log filename, line number, and
6260 errno information when it isn't applicable. [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
6262 *) WIN32: Canonicalise filenames under Win32. Short filenames are
6263 converted to long ones. Backslashes are converted to forward
6264 slashes. Case is converted to lower. Parts of URLs that do not
6265 correspond to files are left completely alone. [Ben Laurie]
6267 *) PORT: 2 new OSs added to the list of ports:
6268 Encore's UMAX V: Arieh Markel <amarkel@encore.com>
6269 Acorn RISCiX: Stephen Borrill <sborrill@xemplar.co.uk>
6271 *) Add the server version (SERVER_VERSION macro) to the "server
6272 configured and running" entry in the error_log. Also build an
6273 object file at link-time that contains the current time
6274 (SERVER_BUILT global const char[]), and include that in the
6277 *) Set r->headers_out when sending responses from the proxy.
6278 This fixes things such as the logging of headers sent from
6279 the proxy. [Marc Slemko] PR#659
6281 *) support/httpd_monitor is no longer distributed because the
6282 scoreboard should not be file based if at all possible. Use
6283 mod_status to see current server snapshot.
6285 *) (set_file_slot): New function, allowing auth directives to be
6286 independent of the server root, so the server documents can be
6287 moved to a different directory or machine more easily.
6288 [David J. MacKenzie]
6290 *) If no TransferLog is given explicitly, decline
6291 to log. This supports coexistence with other logging modules,
6292 such as the custom one that UUNET uses. [David J. MacKenzie]
6294 *) Check for titles in server-parsed HTML files.
6295 Ignore leading newlines and returns in titles. The old behavior
6296 of replacing a newline after <title> with a space causes the
6297 title to be misaligned in the listing. [David J. MacKenzie]
6299 *) Change mod_cern_meta to be configurable on a per-directory basis.
6300 [David J. MacKenzie]
6302 *) Add 'Include' directive to allow inclusion of configuration
6303 files within configuration files. [Randy Terbush]
6305 *) Proxy errors on connect() are logged to the error_log (nothing
6306 new); now they include the IP address and port that failed
6307 (*that's* new). [Ken Coar, Marc Slemko] PR#352
6309 *) Various architectures now define USE_MMAP_FILES which causes
6310 the server to use mmap() for static files. There are two
6311 compile-time tunables MMAP_THRESHOLD (minimum number of bytes
6312 required to use mmap(), default is 0), and MMAP_SEGMENT_SIZE (maximum
6313 number of bytes written in one cycle from a single mmap()d object,
6314 default 32768). [Dean Gaudet]
6316 *) API: Added post_read_request API phase which is run right after reading
6317 the request from a client, or right after an internal redirect. It is
6318 useful for modules setting environment variables that depend only on
6319 the headers/contents of the request. It does not run during subrequests
6320 because subrequests inherit pretty much everything from the main
6321 request. [Dean Gaudet]
6323 *) Added mod_unique_id which is used to generate a unique identifier for
6324 each hit, available in the environment variable UNIQUE_ID.
6327 *) init_modules is now called after the error logs have been opened. This
6328 allows modules to emit information messages into the error logs.
6331 *) Fixed proxy-pass-through feature of mod_rewrite; Added error logging
6332 information for case where proxy module is not available. [Marc Slemko]
6334 *) PORT: Apache has need for mutexes to serialize its children around
6335 accept. In prior versions either fcntl file locking or flock file
6336 locking were used. The method is chosen by the definition of
6337 USE_xxx_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT in conf.h. xxx is FCNTL for fcntl(),
6338 and FLOCK for flock(). New options have been added:
6339 - SYSVSEM to use System V style semaphores
6340 - PTHREAD to use POSIX threads (appears to work on Solaris only)
6341 - USLOCK to use IRIX uslock
6342 Based on timing various techniques, the following changes were made
6344 - Linux 2.x uses flock instead of fcntl
6345 - Solaris 2.x uses pthreads
6346 - IRIX uses SysV semaphores -- however multiprocessor IRIX boxes
6347 work far faster if you -DUSE_USLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT
6348 [Dean Gaudet, Pierre-Yves Kerembellec <Pierre-Yves.Kerembellec@vtcom.fr>,
6349 Martijn Koster <m.koster@pobox.com>]
6351 *) PORT: The semantics of accept/select make it very desirable to use
6352 mutexes to serialize accept when multiple Listens are in use. But
6353 in the case where only a single socket is open it is sometimes
6354 redundant to serialize accept(). Not all unixes do a good job with
6355 potentially dozens of children blocked on accept() on the same
6356 socket. It's now possible to define SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT and
6357 the server will avoid serialization when listening on only one socket,
6358 and use serialization when listening on multiple sockets.
6359 [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
6361 *) Configure changes: TestLib replaced by TestCompile, which has
6362 some additional capability (such as doing a sanity check of
6363 the compiler and flags selected); the version of Solaris is now
6364 available via the #define value of SOLARIS2; IRIX n32bit libs
6365 now supported and selectable by new Configuration Rule: IRIXN32;
6366 We no longer default to -O2 optimization. [Jim Jagielski]
6368 *) Updated Configure: Configuration now uses AddModule to specify
6369 module source or binary file location, relative to src directory.
6370 Modules can be dropped into modules/extra, or in their own
6371 directory, and modules can come with a Makefile or Configure can
6372 create one. Modules can add compiler or library information to
6373 generated Makefiles. [Paul Sutton]
6375 *) Source core re-organisation: distributed modules are now in
6376 modules/standard. All other source code is in main. OS-specific
6377 code is in os/{unix,emx,win32} directories. [Paul Sutton]
6379 *) mod_browser has been removed, since it's replaced by mod_setenvif.
6382 *) Fix another long-standing bug in sub_req_lookup_file where it would
6383 happily skip past access checks on subdirectories looked up with
6384 relative paths. (It's used by mod_dir, mod_negotiation,
6385 and mod_include.) [Dean Gaudet]
6387 *) directory_walk optimization to reduce an O(N*M) loop to O(N+M) where
6388 N is the number of <Directory> sections, and M is the number of
6389 components in the filename of an object.
6391 To achieve this optimization the following config changes were made:
6392 - Wildcards (* and ?, not the regex forms) in <Directory>s,
6393 <Files>s, and <Location>s now treat a slash as a special
6394 character. For example "/home/*/public_html" previously would
6395 match "/home/a/andrew/public_html", now it only matches things
6396 like "/home/bob/public_html". This mimics /bin/sh behaviour.
6397 - It's possible now to use [] wildcarding in <Directory>, <Files>
6399 - Regex <Directory>s are applied after all non-regex <Directory>s.
6403 *) Fix a bug introduced in 1.3a1 directory_walk regarding .htaccess files
6404 and corrupted paths. [Dean Gaudet]
6406 *) Enhanced and cleaned up the URL rewriting engine of mod_rewrite:
6407 First the grouped parts of RewriteRule pattern matches (parenthesis!) can
6408 be accessed now via backreferences $1..$9 in RewriteConds test-against
6409 strings in addition to RewriteRules subst string. Second the grouped
6410 parts of RewriteCond pattern matches (parenthesis!) can be accessed now
6411 via backreferences %1..%9 both in following RewriteCond test-against
6412 strings and RewriteRules subst string. This provides maximum flexibility
6413 through the use of backreferences.
6414 Additionally the rewriting engine was cleaned up by putting common
6415 code to the new expand_backrefs_inbuffer() function.
6416 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6418 *) When merging the main server's <Directory> and <Location> sections into
6419 a vhost, put the main server's first and the vhost's second. Otherwise
6420 the vhost can't override the main server. [Dean Gaudet] PR#717
6422 *) The <Directory> code would merge and re-merge the same section after
6423 a match was found, possibly causing problems with some modules.
6426 *) ip-based vhosts are stored and queried using a hashing function, which
6427 has been shown to improve performance on servers with many ip-vhosts.
6428 Some other changes had to be made to accommodate this:
6429 - the * address for vhosts now behaves like _default_
6430 - the matching process now is:
6431 - match an ip-vhost directly via hash (possibly matches main
6433 - if that fails, just pretend it matched the main server
6434 - if so far only the main server has been matched, perform
6435 name-based lookups (ServerName, ServerAlias, ServerPath)
6436 *only on name-based vhosts*
6437 - if they fail, look for _default_ vhosts
6438 [Dean Gaudet, Dave Hankins <dhankins@sugarat.net>]
6440 *) dbmmanage overhaul:
6441 - merge dbmmanage and dbmmanage.new functionality, remove dbmmanage.new
6442 - tie() to AnyDBM_File which will use one of DB_File, NDBM_File or
6443 GDBM_File (-ldb, -lndbm, -lgdbm) (trying each in that order)
6444 - provide better seed for rand
6445 - prompt for password as per getpass(3) (turn off echo, read from
6447 - use "newstyle" crypt based on $Config{osname} ($^O)
6448 - will not add a user if already in database, use new `update' command
6450 - added `check' command to check a users' password
6451 - added `import' command to convert existing password text-files or
6452 dbm files exported with `view'
6453 - more descriptive usage, general cleanup, 'use strict' clean, etc.
6456 *) Added psocket() which is a pool form of socket(), various places within
6457 the proxy weren't properly blocking alarms while registering the cleanup
6458 for its sockets. bclose() now uses pclose() and pclosesocket(). There
6459 was a bug where the client socket was being close()d twice due a still
6460 registered cleanup. [Dean Gaudet]
6462 *) A few cleanups were made to reduce time(), getpid(), and signal() calls.
6465 *) PORT: AIX >= 4.2 requires -lm due to libc changes.
6466 [Jason Venner <jason@idiom.com>] PR#667
6468 *) Enable ``=""'' for RewriteCond directives to match against
6469 the empty string. This is the preferred way instead of ``^$''.
6470 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6472 *) Fixed an infinite loop in mod_imap for references above the server root
6473 [Dean Gaudet] PR#748
6475 *) mod_proxy now has a ReceiveBufferSize directive, similar to
6476 SendBufferSize, so that the TCP window can be set appropriately
6477 for LFNs. [Phillip A. Prindeville]
6479 *) mod_browser has been replaced by the more general mod_setenvif
6480 (courtesy of Paul Sutton). BrowserMatch* directives are still
6481 available, but are now joined by SetEnvIf*, UnSetEnvIf*, and
6482 UnSetEnvIfZero directives. [Ken Coar]
6484 *) "HostnameLookups double" forces double-reverse DNS to succeed in
6485 order for remote_host to be set (for logging, or for the env var
6486 REMOTE_HOST). The old define MAXIMUM_DNS has been deprecated.
6489 *) mod_access overhaul:
6490 - Now understands network/netmask syntax (i.e. 10.1.0.0/255.255.0.0)
6491 and cidr syntax (i.e. 10.1.0.0/16). PR#762
6492 - Critical path was sped up by pre-computing a few things at config time.
6493 - The undocumented syntax "allow user-agents" was removed,
6494 the replacement is "allow from env=foobar" combined with mod_browser.
6495 - When used with hostnames it now forces a double-reverse lookup
6496 no matter what the directory settings are. This double-reverse
6497 doesn't affect any of the other routines that use the remote
6498 hostname. In particular it's still passed to CGIs and the log
6499 without the double-reverse check. Related PR#860.
6502 *) When a large bwrite() occurs (larger than the internal buffer size),
6503 while there is already something in the buffer, apache will combine
6504 the large write and the buffer into a single writev(). (This is
6505 in anticipation of using mmap() for reading files.)
6508 *) In obscure cases where a partial socket write occurred while chunking,
6509 Apache would omit the chunk header/footer on the next block. Cleaned
6510 up other bugs/inconsistencies in error conditions in buff.c. Fixed
6511 a bug where a long pause in DNS lookups could cause the last packet
6512 of a response to be unduly delayed. [Roy Fielding, Dean Gaudet]
6514 *) API: Added child_exit function to module structure. This is called
6515 once per "heavy-weight process" just before a server child exit()'s
6516 e.g. when max_requests_per_child is reached, etc.
6517 [Doug MacEachern, Dean Gaudet]
6519 *) mod_include cleanup showed that handle_else was being used to handle
6520 endif. It didn't cause problems, but it was cleaned up too.
6523 *) mod_cern_meta would attempt to find meta files for the directory itself
6524 in some cases, but not in others. It now avoids it in all cases.
6527 *) mod_mime_magic would core dump if there was a decompression error.
6528 [Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>] PR#904
6530 *) PORT: some variants of DGUX require -lsocket -lnsl
6531 [Alexander L Jones <alex@systems-options.co.uk>] PR#732
6533 *) mod_autoindex now allows sorting of FancyIndexed directory listings
6534 by the various fields (name, size, et cetera), either in ascending
6535 or descending order. Just click on the column header. [Ken Coar]
6537 *) PORT: Various tweaks to eliminate pointer-int casting warnings on 64-bit
6538 CPUs like the Alpha. Apache still stores ints in pointers, but that's
6539 the relatively safe direction. [Dean Gaudet] PR#344
6541 *) PORT: QNX mmap() support for faster/more reliable scoreboard handling.
6542 [Igor N Kovalenko <infoh@mail.wplus.net>] PR#683
6544 *) child_main avoids an unneeded call to select() when there is only one
6545 listening socket. [Dean Gaudet]
6547 *) In the event that the server is starved for idle servers it will
6548 spawn 1, then 2, then 4, ..., then 32 servers each second,
6549 doubling each second. It'll also give a warning in the errorlog
6550 since the most common reason for this is a poor StartServers
6551 setting. The define MAX_SPAWN_RATE can be used to raise/lower
6552 the maximum. [Dean Gaudet]
6554 *) Apache now provides an effectively unbuffered connection for
6555 CGI scripts. This means that data will be sent to the client
6556 as soon as the CGI pauses or stops output; previously, Apache would
6557 buffer the output up to a fixed buffer size before sending, which
6558 could result in the user viewing an empty page until the CGI finished
6559 or output a complete buffer. It is no longer necessary to use an
6560 "nph-" CGI to get unbuffered output. Given that most CGIs are written
6561 in a language that by default does buffering (e.g. perl) this
6562 shouldn't have a detrimental effect on performance.
6564 "nph-" CGIs, which formerly provided a direct socket to the client
6565 without any server post-processing, were not fully compatible with
6566 HTTP/1.1 or SSL support. As such they would have had to implement
6567 the transport details, such as encryption or chunking, in order
6568 to work properly in certain situations. Now, the only difference
6569 between nph and non-nph scripts is "non-parsed headers".
6570 [Dean Gaudet, Sameer Parekh, Roy Fielding]
6572 *) If a BUFF is switched from buffered to unbuffered reading the first
6573 bread() will return whatever remained in the buffer prior to the
6574 switch. [Dean Gaudet]
6576 Changes with Apache 1.3a1
6578 *) Added another Configure helper script: TestLib. It determines
6579 if a specified library exists. [Jim Jagielski]
6581 *) PORT: Allow for use of n32bit libraries under IRIX 6.x
6582 [derived from patch from Jeff Hayes <jhayes@aw.sgi.com>]
6585 *) PORT: Some architectures use size_t for various lengths in network
6586 functions such as accept(), and getsockname(). The definition
6587 NET_SIZE_T is used to control this. [Dean Gaudet]
6589 *) PORT: Linux: Attempt to detect glibc based systems and include crypt.h
6590 and -lcrypt. Test for various db libraries (dbm, ndbm, db) when
6591 mod_auth_dbm or mod_auth_db are included. [Dean Gaudet]
6593 *) PORT: QNX doesn't have initgroups() which support/suexec.c uses.
6594 [Igor N Kovalenko <infoh@mail.wplus.net>]
6596 *) "force-response-1.0" now only applies to requests which are HTTP/1.0 to
6597 begin with. "nokeepalive" now works for HTTP/1.1 clients. Added
6598 "downgrade-1.0" which causes Apache to pretend it received a 1.0.
6599 [Dean Gaudet] related PR#875
6601 *) API: Correct child_init() slot declaration from int to void, to
6602 match the init() declaration. Update mod_example to use the new
6605 *) added transport handle slot (t_handle) to the BUFF structure
6608 *) get_client_block() returns wrong length if policy is
6609 REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK.
6610 [Kenichi Hori <ken@d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#815
6612 *) Support the image map format of FrontPage. For example:
6613 rect /url.hrm 10 20 30 40
6614 ["Chris O'Byrne" <obyrne@iol.ie>] PR#807
6616 *) PORT: -lresolv and -lsocks were in the wrong order for Solaris.
6617 ["Darren O'Shaughnessy" <darren@aaii.oz.au>] PR#846
6619 *) AddModuleInfo directive for mod_info which allows you to annotate
6620 the output of mod_info. ["Lou D. Langholtz" <ldl@usi.utah.edu>]
6622 *) Added NoProxy directive to avoid using ProxyRemote for selected
6623 addresses. Added ProxyDomain directive to cause unqualified
6624 names to be qualified by redirection.
6625 [Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>]
6627 *) Support Proxy Authentication, and don't pass the Proxy-Authorize
6628 header to the remote host in the proxy. [Sameer Parekh and
6631 *) Upgraded mod_rewrite from 3.0.6+ to latest officially available version
6632 3.0.9. This upgrade includes: fixed deadlooping on rewriting to same
6633 URLs, fixed rewritelog(), fixed forced response code handling on
6634 redirects from within .htaccess files, disabled pipe locking under
6635 braindead SunOS 4.1.x, allow env variables to be set even on rules with
6636 no substitution, bugfixed situations where HostnameLookups is off, made
6637 mod_rewrite more thread-safe for NT port and fixed problem when creating
6638 an empty query string via "xxx?".
6639 This update also removes the copyright of Ralf S. Engelschall,
6640 i.e. now mod_rewrite no longer has a shared copyright. Instead is is
6641 exclusively copyrighted by the Apache Group now. This happened because
6642 the author now has gifted mod_rewrite exclusively to the Apache Group and
6643 no longer maintains an external version.
6644 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6646 *) API: Added child_init function to module structure. This is called
6647 once per "heavy-weight process" before any requests are handled.
6648 See http_config.h for more details. [Dean Gaudet]
6650 *) Anonymous_LogEmail was logging on each subrequest.
6651 [Dean Gaudet] PR#421, 868
6653 *) API: Added is_initial_req() which tests if the request being
6654 processed is the initial request, or a subrequest.
6657 *) Extended SSI (mod_include) now handles additional relops for
6658 string comparisons (<, >, <=, and >=). [Bruno Wolff III] PR#41
6660 *) Configure fixed to correctly propagate user-selected options and
6661 settings (such as CC and OPTIM) to Makefiles other than
6662 src/Makefile (notably support/Makefile). [Ken Coar] PR#666, #834
6664 *) IndexOptions SuppressHTMLPreamble now causes the actual HTML of
6665 directory indices to start with the contents of the HeaderName file
6666 if there is one. If there isn't one, the behaviour is unchanged.
6667 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding, Andrey A. Chernov]
6669 *) WIN32: Modules can now be dynamically loaded DLLs using the
6670 LoadModule/LoadFile directives. Note that module DLLs must be
6671 compiled with the multithreaded DLL version of the runtime library.
6672 [Alexei Kosut and Ben Laurie]
6674 *) Automatic indexing removed from mod_dir and placed into mod_autoindex.
6675 This allows the admin to completely remove automatic indexing
6676 from the server, while still supporting the basic functions of
6677 trailing-slash redirects and DirectoryIndex files. Note that if
6678 you're carrying over an old Configuration file and you use directory
6679 indexing then you'll want to add:
6681 Module autoindex_module mod_autoindex.o
6683 before mod_dir in your Configuration. [Dean Gaudet]
6685 *) popendir/pclosedir created to properly protect directory scanning.
6686 [Dean Gaudet] PR#525
6688 *) AliasMatch, ScriptAliasMatch and RedirectMatch directives added,
6689 giving regex support to mod_alias. <DirectoryMatch>, <LocationMatch>
6690 and <FilesMatch> sections added to succeed <DirectoryMatch ~>, etc...
6693 *) The AccessFileName directive can now take more than one filename.
6694 ["Lou D. Langholtz" <ldl@usi.utah.edu>]
6696 *) The new mod_mime_magic can be used to "magically" determine the type
6697 of a file if the extension is unknown. Based on the unix file(1)
6698 command. [Ian Kluft <ikluft@cisco.com>]
6700 *) We now determine and display the time spent processing a
6701 request if desired. [Jim Jagielski]
6703 *) mod_status: PID field of "dead" child slots no longer displays
6704 main httpd process's PID. [Jim Jagielski]
6706 *) Makefile.nt added - to build all the bits from the command line:
6707 nmake -f Makefile.nt
6708 Doesn't yet work properly. [Ben Laurie]
6710 *) Default text of 404 error is now "Not Found" rather than the
6711 potentially misleading "File Not Found". [Ken Coar]
6713 *) CONFIG: "HostnameLookups" now defaults to off because it is far better
6714 for the net if we require people that actually need this data to
6715 enable it. [Linus Torvalds]
6717 *) directory_walk() is an expensive function, keep a little more state to
6718 avoid needless string counting. Add two new functions make_dirstr_parent
6719 and make_dirstr_prefix which replace all existing uses of make_dirstr.
6720 The new functions are a little less general than make_dirstr, but
6721 work more efficiently (less memory, less string counting).
6724 *) EXTRA_LFLAGS was changed to EXTRA_LDFLAGS (and LFLAGS was changed
6725 to LDFLAGS) to avoid complications with lex rules in make files.
6726 [Dean Gaudet] PR#372
6728 *) run_method optimized to avoid needless scanning over NULLs in the
6729 module list. [Dean Gaudet]
6731 *) Revamp of (unix) scoreboard management code such that it avoids
6732 unnecessary traversals of the scoreboard on each hit. This is
6733 particularly important for high volume sites with a large
6734 HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. Some of the previous operations were O(n^2),
6735 and are now O(n). See also SCOREBOARD_MAINTENANCE_INTERVAL in
6736 httpd.h. [Dean Gaudet]
6738 *) In configurations using multiple Listen statements it was possible for
6739 busy sockets to starve other sockets of service. [Dean Gaudet]
6741 *) Added hook so standalone_main can be replaced at compile time
6742 (define STANDALONE_MAIN)
6745 *) Lowest-level read/write functions in buff.c will be replaced with
6746 the SFIO library calls sfread/sfwrite if B_SFIO is defined at
6747 compile time. The default sfio discipline will behave as apache
6748 would without sfio compiled in.
6751 *) Enhance UserDir directive (mod_userdir) to accept a list of
6752 usernames for the 'disable' keyword, and add 'enable user...' to
6753 selectively *en*able userdirs if they're globally disabled.
6756 *) If NETSCAPE_DBM_COMPAT is defined in EXTRA_CFLAGS then Apache
6757 will work with Netscape dbm files. (dbmmanage will probably not
6758 work however.) [Alexander Spohr <aspohr@netmatic.com>] PR#444
6760 *) Add a ListenBacklog directive to control the backlog parameter
6761 passed to listen(). Also change the default to 511 from 512.
6764 *) API: A new handler response DONE which informs apache that the
6765 request has been handled and it can finish off quickly, similar to
6766 how it handles errors. [Rob Hartill]
6768 *) Turn off chunked encoding after sending terminating chunk/footer
6769 so that we can't do it twice by accident. [Roy Fielding]
6771 *) mod_expire also issues Cache-Control: max-age headers.
6774 *) API: Added kill_only_once option for free_proc_chain so that it won't
6775 aggressively try to kill off specific children. For fastcgi.
6776 [Stanley Gambarin <gambarin@OpenMarket.com>]
6778 *) mod_auth deals with extra ':' delimited fields. [Marc Slemko]
6780 *) Added IconHeight and IconWidth to mod_dir's IndexOptions directive.
6781 When used together, these cause mod_dir to emit HEIGHT and WIDTH
6782 attributes in the FancyIndexing IMG tags. [Ken Coar]
6784 *) PORT: Sequent and SONY NEWS-OS support added. [Jim Jagielski]
6786 *) PORT: Added Windows NT support
6787 [Ben Laurie and Ambarish Malpani <ambarish@valicert.com>]
6789 Changes with Apache 1.2.6
6791 *) mod_include when using XBitHack Full would send ETags in addition to
6792 sending Last-Modifieds. This is incorrect HTTP/1.1 behaviour.
6793 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1133
6795 *) SECURITY: When a client connects to a particular port/addr, and
6796 gives a Host: header ensure that the virtual host requested can
6797 actually be reached via that port/addr. [Ed Korthof <ed@organic.com>]
6799 *) Support virtual hosts with wildcard port and/or multiple ports
6800 properly. [Ed Korthof <ed@organic.com>]
6802 *) Fixed some case-sensitivity issues according to RFC2068.
6805 *) Set r->allowed properly in mod_asis.c, mod_dir.c, mod_info.c,
6806 and mod_include.c. [Dean Gaudet]
6808 *) Variable 'cwd' was being used pointlessly before being set.
6811 *) SIGURG doesn't exist on all platforms.
6812 [Mark Andrew Heinrich <heinrich@tinderbox.Stanford.EDU>]
6814 *) When an error occurs during a POST, or other operation with a
6815 request body, the body has to be read from the net before allowing
6816 a keepalive session to continue. [Roy Fielding] PR#1399
6818 *) When an error occurs in fcntl() locking suggest the user look up
6819 the docs for LockFile. [Dean Gaudet]
6821 *) table_set() and table_unset() did not deal correctly with
6822 multiple occurrences of the same key. [Stephen Scheck
6823 <sscheck@infonex.net>, Ben Laurie] PR#1604
6825 *) send_fd_length() did not calculate total_bytes_sent properly in error
6826 cases. [Ben Reser <breser@regnow.com>] PR#1366
6828 *) r->connection->user was allocated in the wrong pool causing corruption
6829 in some cases when used with mod_cern_meta. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1500
6831 *) mod_proxy was sending HTTP/1.1 responses to ftp requests by mistake.
6832 Also removed the auto-generated link to www.apache.org that was the
6833 source of so many misdirected bug reports. [Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
6835 *) Multiple "close" tokens may have been set in the "Connection"
6836 header, not an error, but a waste.
6837 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1683
6839 *) "basic" and "digest" auth tokens should be tested case-insensitive.
6840 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1599, PR#1666
6842 *) It appears the "257th byte" bug (see
6843 htdocs/manual/misc/known_client_problems.html#257th-byte) can happen
6844 at the 256th byte as well. Fixed. [Dean Gaudet]
6846 *) mod_rewrite would not handle %3f properly in some situations.
6849 *) Apache could generate improperly chunked HTTP/1.1 responses when
6850 the bputc() or rputc() functions were used by modules (such as
6851 mod_include). [Dean Gaudet]
6853 *) #ifdef wrap a few #defines in httpd.h to make life easier on
6854 some ports. [Ralf Engelschall]
6856 *) Fix MPE compilation error in mod_usertrack.c. [Mark Bixby]
6858 *) Quote CC='$(CC)' to improve recurse make calls. [Martin Kraemer]
6860 *) Avoid B_ERROR redeclaration on sysvr4 systems. [Martin Kraemer]
6862 Changes with Apache 1.2.5
6864 *) SECURITY: Fix a possible buffer overflow in logresolve. This is
6865 only an issue on systems without a MAXDNAME define or where
6866 the resolver returns domain names longer than MAXDNAME. [Marc Slemko]
6868 *) Fix an improper length in an ap_snprintf call in proxy_date_canon().
6871 *) Fix core dump in the ftp proxy when reading incorrectly formatted
6872 directory listings. [Marc Slemko]
6874 *) SECURITY: Fix possible minor buffer overflow in the proxy cache.
6877 *) SECURITY: Eliminate possible buffer overflow in cfg_getline, which
6878 is used to read various types of files such as htaccess and
6879 htpasswd files. [Marc Slemko]
6881 *) SECURITY: Ensure that the buffer returned by ht_time is always
6882 properly null terminated. [Marc Slemko]
6884 *) SECURITY: General mod_include cleanup, including fixing several
6885 possible buffer overflows and a possible infinite loop. This cleanup
6886 was done against 1.3 code and then backported to 1.2, the result
6887 is a large difference (due to indentation cleanup in 1.3 code).
6888 Users interested in seeing a smaller set of relevant differences
6889 should consider comparing against src/modules/standard/mod_include.c
6890 from the 1.3b3 release. Non-indentation changes to mod_include
6891 between 1.2 and 1.3 were minimal. [Dean Gaudet, Marc Slemko]
6893 *) SECURITY: Numerous changes to mod_imap in a general cleanup
6894 including fixing a possible buffer overflow. This cleanup also
6895 was done with 1.3 code as a basis, see the the previous note
6896 about mod_include. [Dean Gaudet]
6898 *) SECURITY: If a htaccess file can not be read due to bad
6899 permissions, deny access to the directory with a HTTP_FORBIDDEN.
6900 The previous behavior was to ignore the htaccess file if it could not
6901 be read. This change may make some setups with unreadable
6902 htaccess files stop working. PR#817 [Marc Slemko]
6904 *) SECURITY: no2slash() was O(n^2) in the length of the input.
6905 Make it O(n). This inefficiency could be used to mount a denial
6906 of service attack against the Apache server. Thanks to
6907 Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@boss.staszic.waw.pl> for reporting
6910 *) mod_include used uninitialized data for some uses of && and ||.
6911 [Brian Slesinsky <bslesins@wired.com>] PR#1139
6913 *) mod_imap should decline all non-GET methods.
6914 [Jay Bloodworth <jay@pathways.sde.state.sc.us>]
6916 *) suexec.c wouldn't build without -DLOG_EXEC. [Jason A. Dour]
6918 *) mod_userdir was modifying r->finfo in cases where it wasn't setting
6919 r->filename. Since those two are meant to be in sync with each other
6920 this is a bug. ["Paul B. Henson" <henson@intranet.csupomona.edu>]
6922 *) mod_include did not properly handle all possible redirects from sub-
6923 requests. [Ken Coar]
6925 *) Inetd mode (which is buggy) uses timeouts without having setup the
6926 jmpbuffer. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1064
6928 *) Work around problem under Linux where a child will start looping
6929 reporting a select error over and over.
6930 [Rick Franchuk <rickf@transpect.net>] PR#1107
6932 Changes with Apache 1.2.4
6934 *) The ProxyRemote change in 1.2.3 introduced a bug resulting in the proxy
6935 always making requests with the full-URI instead of just the URI path.
6936 [Marc Slemko, Roy Fielding]
6938 *) Add -lm for AIX versions >= 4.2 to allow Apache to link properly
6939 on this platform. [Marc Slemko]
6941 Changes with Apache 1.2.3
6943 *) The request to a remote proxy was mangled if it was generated as the
6944 result of a ProxyPass directive. URL schemes other than http:// were not
6945 supported when ProxyRemote was used. PR#260, PR#656, PR#699, PR#713,
6946 PR#812 [Lars Eilebrecht]
6948 *) Fixed proxy-pass-through feature of mod_rewrite; Added error logging
6949 information for case where proxy module is not available. [Marc Slemko]
6951 *) Force proxy to always respond as HTTP/1.0, which it was failing to
6952 do for errors and cached responses. [Roy Fielding]
6954 *) PORT: Improved support for ConvexOS 11. [Jeff Venters]
6956 Changes with Apache 1.2.2 [not released]
6958 *) Fixed another long-standing bug in sub_req_lookup_file where it would
6959 happily skip past access checks on subdirectories looked up with relative
6960 paths. (It's used by mod_dir, mod_negotiation, and mod_include.)
6963 *) Add lockfile name to error message printed out when
6964 USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is defined.
6967 *) Enhanced the chunking and error handling inside the buffer functions.
6968 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding]
6970 *) When merging the main server's <Directory> and <Location> sections into
6971 a vhost, put the main server's first and the vhost's second. Otherwise
6972 the vhost can't override the main server. [Dean Gaudet] PR#717
6974 *) The <Directory> code would merge and re-merge the same section after
6975 a match was found, possibly causing problems with some modules.
6978 *) Fixed an infinite loop in mod_imap for references above the server root.
6979 [Dean Gaudet] PR#748
6981 *) mod_include cleanup showed that handle_else was being used to handle
6982 endif. It didn't cause problems, but it was cleaned up too.
6985 *) Last official synchronization of mod_rewrite with author version (because
6986 mod_rewrite is now directly developed by the author at the Apache Group):
6987 o added diff between mod_rewrite 3.0.6+ and 3.0.9
6988 minus WIN32/NT stuff, but plus copyright removement.
6990 - workaround for detecting infinite rewriting loops
6991 - fixed setting of env vars when "-" is used as subst string
6992 - fixed forced response code on redirects (PR#777)
6993 - fixed cases where r->args is ""
6994 - kludge to disable locking on pipes under braindead SunOS
6995 - fix for rewritelog in cases where remote hostname is unknown
6996 - fixed totally damaged request_rec walk-back loop
6997 o remove static from local data and add static to global ones.
6998 o replaced ugly proxy finding stuff by simple
6999 find_linked_module("mod_proxy") call.
7000 o added missing negation char on rewritelog()
7001 o fixed a few comment typos
7002 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7004 *) Anonymous_LogEmail was logging on each subrequest.
7005 [Dean Gaudet] PR#421, PR#868
7007 *) "force-response-1.0" now only applies to requests which are HTTP/1.0 to
7008 begin with. "nokeepalive" now works for HTTP/1.1 clients. Added
7009 "downgrade-1.0" which causes Apache to pretend it received a 1.0.
7010 Additionally mod_browser now triggers during translate_name to workaround
7011 a deficiency in the header_parse phase.
7012 [Dean Gaudet] PR#875
7014 *) get_client_block() returns wrong length if policy is
7015 REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK.
7016 [Kenichi Hori <ken@d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#815
7018 *) Properly treat <files> container like other containers in mod_info.
7019 [Marc Slemko] PR#848
7021 *) The proxy didn't treat the "Host:" keyword of the host header as case-
7022 insensitive. The proxy would corrupt the first line of a response from
7023 an HTTP/0.9 server. [Kenichi Hori <ken@d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#813,814
7025 *) mod_include would log some bogus values occasionally.
7026 [Skip Montanaro <skip@calendar.com>, Marc Slemko] PR#797
7028 *) PORT: The slack fd changes in 1.2.1 introduced a problem with SIGHUP
7029 under Solaris 2.x (up through 2.5.1). It has been fixed.
7030 [Dean Gaudet] PR#832
7032 *) API: In HTTP/1.1, whether or not a request message contains a body
7033 is independent of the request method and based solely on the presence
7034 of a Content-Length or Transfer-Encoding. Therefore, our default
7035 handlers need to be prepared to read a body even if they don't know
7036 what to do with it; otherwise, the body would be mistaken for the
7037 next request on a persistent connection. discard_request_body()
7038 has been added to take care of that. [Roy Fielding] PR#378
7040 *) API: Symbol APACHE_RELEASE provides a numeric form of the Apache
7041 release version number, such that it always increases along the
7042 same lines as our source code branching. [Roy Fielding]
7044 *) Minor oversight on multiple variants fixed. [Paul Sutton] PR#94
7046 Changes with Apache 1.2.1
7048 *) SECURITY: Don't serve file system objects unless they are plain files,
7049 symlinks, or directories. This prevents local users from using pipes
7050 or named sockets to invoke programs for an extremely crude form of
7053 *) SECURITY: HeaderName and ReadmeName were settable in .htaccess and
7054 could contain "../" allowing a local user to "publish" any file on
7055 the system. No slashes are allowed now. [Dean Gaudet]
7057 *) SECURITY: It was possible to violate the symlink Options using mod_dir
7058 (headers, readmes, titles), mod_negotiation (type maps), or
7059 mod_cern_meta (meta files). [Dean Gaudet]
7061 *) SECURITY: Apache will refuse to run as "User root" unless
7062 BIG_SECURITY_HOLE is defined at compile time. [Dean Gaudet]
7064 *) CONFIG: If a symlink pointed to a directory then it would be disallowed
7065 if it contained a .htaccess disallowing symlinks. This is contrary
7066 to the rule that symlink permissions are tested with the symlink
7067 options of the parent directory. [Dean Gaudet] PR#353
7069 *) CONFIG: The LockFile directive can be used to place the serializing
7070 lockfile in any location. It previously defaulted to /usr/tmp/htlock.
7071 [Somehow it took four of us: Randy Terbush, Jim Jagielski, Dean Gaudet,
7074 *) Request processing now retains state of whether or not the request
7075 body has been read, so that internal redirects and subrequests will
7076 not try to read it twice (and block). [Roy Fielding]
7078 *) Add a placeholder in modules/Makefile to avoid errors with certain
7079 makes. [Marc Slemko]
7081 *) QUERY_STRING was unescaped in mod_include, it shouldn't be.
7082 [Dean Gaudet] PR#644
7084 *) mod_include was not properly changing the current directory.
7085 [Marc Slemko] PR#742
7087 *) Attempt to work around problems with third party libraries that do not
7088 handle high numbered descriptors (examples include bind, and
7089 solaris libc). On all systems apache attempts to keep all permanent
7090 descriptors above 15 (called the low slack line). Solaris users
7091 can also benefit from adding -DHIGH_SLACK_LINE=256 to EXTRA_CFLAGS
7092 which keeps all non-FILE * descriptors above 255. On all systems
7093 this should make supporting large numbers of vhosts with many open
7094 log files more feasible. If this causes trouble please report it,
7095 you can disable this workaround by adding -DNO_SLACK to EXTRA_CFLAGS.
7096 [Dean Gaudet] various PRs
7098 *) Related to the last entry, network sockets are now opened before
7099 log files are opened. The only known case where this can cause
7100 problems is under Solaris with many virtualhosts and many Listen
7101 directives. But using -DHIGH_SLACK_LINE=256 described above will
7102 work around this problem. [Dean Gaudet]
7104 *) USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is now default for FreeBSD, A/UX, and
7107 *) Improved unix error response logging. [Marc Slemko]
7109 *) Update mod_rewrite from 3.0.5 to 3.0.6. New ruleflag
7110 QSA=query_string_append. Also fixed a nasty bug in per-dir context:
7111 when a URL http://... was used in conjunction with a special
7112 redirect flag, e.g. R=permanent, the permanent status was lost.
7113 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
7115 *) If an object has multiple variants that are otherwise equal Apache
7116 would prefer the last listed variant rather than the first.
7119 *) "make clean" at the top level now removes *.o. [Dean Gaudet] PR#752
7121 *) mod_status dumps core in inetd mode. [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
7124 *) pregsub had an off-by-1 in its error checking code. [Alexei Kosut]
7126 *) PORT: fix rlim_t problems with AIX 4.2. [Marc Slemko] PR#333
7128 *) PORT: Update UnixWare support for 2.1.2.
7129 [Lawrence Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>] PR#511
7131 *) PORT: NonStop-UX [Joachim Schmitz <schmitz_joachim@tandem.com>] PR#327
7133 *) PORT: Update ConvexOS support for 11.5.
7134 [David DeSimone <fox@convex.com>] PR#399
7136 *) PORT: Support for DEC cc compiler under ULTRIX.
7137 ["P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia" <alejolo@ideam.gov.co>] PR#388
7139 *) PORT: Support for Maxion/OS SVR4.2 Real Time Unix. [no name given] PR#383
7141 *) PORT: Workaround for AIX 3.x compiler bug in http_bprintf.c.
7142 [Marc Slemko] PR#725
7144 *) PORT: fix problem compiling http_bprintf.c with gcc under SCO
7145 [Marc Slemko] PR#695
7147 Changes with Apache 1.2
7149 Changes with Apache 1.2b11
7151 *) Fixed open timestamp fd in proxy_cache.c [Chuck Murcko]
7153 *) Added undocumented perl SSI mechanism for -DUSE_PERL_SSI and mod_perl.
7154 [Doug MacEachern, Rob Hartill]
7156 *) Proxy needs to use hard_timeout instead of soft_timeout when it is
7157 reading from one buffer and writing to another, at least until it has
7158 a custom timeout handler. [Roy Fielding and Petr Lampa]
7160 *) Fixed problem on IRIX with servers hanging in IdentityCheck,
7161 apparently due to a mismatch between sigaction and setjmp.
7162 [Roy Fielding] PR#502
7164 *) Log correct status code if we timeout before receiving a request (408)
7165 or if we received a request-line that was too long to process (414).
7166 [Ed Korthof and Roy Fielding] PR#601
7168 *) Virtual hosts with the same ServerName, but on different ports, were
7169 not being selected properly. [Ed Korthof]
7171 *) Added code to return the requested IP address from proxy_host2addr()
7172 if gethostbyaddr() fails due to reverse DNS lookup problems. Original
7173 change submitted by Jozsef Hollosi <hollosi@sbcm.com>.
7174 [Chuck Murcko] PR#614
7176 *) If multiple requests on a single connection are used to retrieve
7177 data from different virtual hosts, the virtual host list would be
7178 scanned starting with the most recently used VH instead of the first,
7179 causing most virtual hosts to be ignored.
7180 [Paul Sutton and Martin Mares] PR#610
7182 *) The OS/2 handling of process group was broken by a porting patch for
7183 MPE, so restored prior code for OS/2. [Roy Fielding and Garey Smiley]
7185 *) Inherit virtual server port from main server if none (or "*") is
7186 given for VirtualHost. [Dean Gaudet] PR#576
7188 *) If the lookup for a DirectoryIndex name with content negotiation
7189 has found matching variants, but none are acceptable, return the
7190 negotiation result if there are no more DirectoryIndex names to lookup.
7191 [Petr Lampa and Roy Fielding]
7193 *) If a soft_timeout occurs after keepalive is set, then the main child
7194 loop would try to read another request even though the connection
7195 has been aborted. [Roy Fielding]
7197 *) Configure changes: Allow for whitespace at the start of a
7198 Module declaration. Also, be more understanding about the
7199 CC=/OPTIM= format in Configuration. Finally, fix compiler
7200 flags if using HP-UX's cc compiler. [Jim Jagielski]
7202 *) Subrequests and internal redirects now inherit the_request from the
7203 original request-line. [Roy Fielding]
7205 *) Test for error conditions before creating output header fields, since
7206 we don't want the error message to include those fields. Likewise,
7207 reset the content_language(s) and content_encoding of the response
7208 before generating or redirecting to an error message, since the new
7209 message will have its own Content-* definitions. [Dean Gaudet]
7211 *) Restored the semantics of headers_out (headers sent only with 200..299
7212 and 304 responses) and err_headers_out (headers sent with all responses).
7213 Avoid the overhead of copying tables if err_headers_out is empty
7214 (the usual case). [Roy Fielding]
7216 *) Fixed a couple places where a check for the default Content-Type was
7217 not properly checking both the value configured by the DefaultType
7218 directive and the DEFAULT_TYPE symbol in httpd.h. Changed the value
7219 of DEFAULT_TYPE to match the documented default (text/plain).
7220 [Dean Gaudet] PR#506
7222 *) Escape the HTML-sensitive characters in the Request-URI that is
7223 output for each child by mod_status. [Dean Gaudet and Ken Coar] PR#501
7225 *) Properly initialize the flock structures used by the mutex locking
7226 around accept() when USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is defined.
7229 *) The method for determining PATH_INFO has been restored to the pre-1.2b
7230 (and NCSA httpd) definition wherein it was the extra path info beyond
7231 the CGI script filename. The environment variable FILEPATH_INFO has
7232 been removed, and instead we supply the original REQUEST_URI to any
7233 script that wants to be Apache-specific and needs the real URI path.
7234 This solves a problem with existing scripts that use extra path info
7235 in the ScriptAlias directive to pass options to the CGI script.
7238 *) The _default_ change in 1.2b10 will change the behaviour on configs
7239 that use multiple Listen statements for listening on multiple ports.
7240 But that change is necessary to make _default_ consistent with other
7241 forms of <VirtualHost>. It requires such configs to be modified
7242 to use <VirtualHost _default_:*>. The documentation has been
7243 updated. [Dean Gaudet] PR#530
7245 *) If an ErrorDocument CGI script is used to respond to an error
7246 generated by another CGI script which has already read the message
7247 body of the request, the server would block trying to read the
7248 message body again. [Rob Hartill]
7250 *) signal() replacement conflicted with a define on QNX (and potentially
7251 other platforms). Fixed. [Ben Laurie] PR#512
7253 Changes with Apache 1.2b10
7255 *) Allow HTTPD_ROOT, SERVER_CONFIG_FILE, DEFAULT_PATH, and SHELL_PATH
7256 to be configured via -D in Configuration. [Dean Gaudet] PR#449
7258 *) <VirtualHost _default_:portnum> didn't work properly. [Dean Gaudet]
7260 *) Added prototype for mktemp() for SUNOS4 [Marc Slemko]
7262 *) In mod_proxy.c, check return values for proxy_host2addr() when reading
7263 config, in case the hostent struct returned is trash.
7264 [Chuck Murcko] PR #491
7266 *) Fixed the fix in 1.2b9 for parsing URL query info into args for CGI
7267 scripts. [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
7269 Changes with Apache 1.2b9 [never announced]
7271 *) Reset the MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER to account for the unsigned port
7272 changes and in anticipation of 1.2 final release. [Roy Fielding]
7274 *) Fix problem with scripts not receiving a SIGPIPE when client drops
7275 the connection (e.g., when user presses Stop). Apache will now stop
7276 trying to send a message body immediately after an error from write.
7277 [Roy Fielding and Nathan Kurz] PR#335
7279 *) Rearrange Configuration.tmpl so that mod_rewrite has higher priority
7280 than mod_alias, and mod_alias has higher priority than mod_proxy;
7281 rearranged other modules to enhance understanding of their purpose
7282 and relative order (and maybe even reduce some overhead).
7283 [Roy Fielding and Sameer Parekh]
7285 *) Fix graceful restart. Eliminate many signal-related race
7286 conditions in both forms of restart, and in SIGTERM. See
7287 htdocs/manual/stopping.html for details on stopping and
7288 restarting the parent. [Dean Gaudet]
7290 *) Fix memory leaks in mod_rewrite, mod_browser, mod_include. Tune
7291 memory allocator to avoid a behaviour that required extra blocks to
7292 be allocated. [Dean Gaudet]
7294 *) Allow suexec to access files relative to current directory but not
7295 above. (Excluding leading / or any .. directory.) [Ken Coar]
7298 *) Fix suexec segfault when group doesn't exist. [Gregory Neil Shapiro]
7299 PR#367, 368, 354, 453
7301 *) Fix the above fix: if suexec is enabled, avoid destroying r->url
7302 while obtaining the /~user and save the username in a separate data
7303 area so that it won't be overwritten by the call to getgrgid(), and
7304 fix some misuse of the pool string allocation functions. Also fixes
7305 a general problem with parsing URL query info into args for CGI scripts.
7306 [Roy Fielding] PR#339, 367, 354, 453
7308 *) Fix IRIX warning about bzero undefined. [Marc Slemko]
7310 *) Fix problem with <Directory proxy:...>. [Martin Kraemer] PR#271
7312 *) Corrected spelling of "authoritative". AuthDBAuthoratative became
7313 AuthDBAuthoritative. [Marc Slemko] PR#420
7315 *) MaxClients should be at least 1. [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#375
7317 *) The default handler now logs invalid methods or URIs (i.e. PUT on an
7318 object that can't be PUT, or FOOBAR for some method FOOBAR that
7319 apache doesn't know about at all). Log 404s that occur in mod_include.
7320 [Paul Sutton, John Van Essen]
7322 *) If a soft timeout (or lingerout) occurs while trying to flush a
7323 buffer or write inside buff.c or fread'ing from a CGI's output,
7324 then the timeout would be ignored. [Roy Fielding] PR#373
7326 *) Work around a bug in Netscape Navigator versions 2.x, 3.x and 4.0b2's
7327 parsing of headers. If the terminating empty-line CRLF occurs starting
7328 at the 256th or 257th byte of output, then Navigator will think a normal
7329 image is invalid. We are guessing that this is because their initial
7330 read of a new request uses a 256 byte buffer. We check the bytes written
7331 so far and, if we are about to tickle the bug, we instead insert a
7332 padding header of eminent bogosity. [Roy Fielding and Dean Gaudet] PR#232
7334 *) Fixed SIGSEGV problem when a DirectoryIndex file is also the source
7335 of an external redirection. [Roy Fielding and Paul Sutton]
7337 *) Configure would create a broken Makefile if the configuration file
7338 contained a commented-out Rule. [Roy Fielding]
7340 *) Promote per_dir_config and subprocess_env from the subrequest to the
7341 main request in mod_negotiation. In particular this fixes a bug
7342 where <Files> sections wouldn't properly apply to negotiated content.
7345 *) Fix a potential deadlock in mod_cgi script_err handling.
7346 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7348 *) rotatelogs zero-pads the logfile names to improve alphabetic sorting.
7351 *) Updated mod_rewrite to 3.0.4: Fixes HTTP redirects from within
7352 .htaccess files because the RewriteBase was not replaced correctly.
7353 Updated mod_rewrite to 3.0.5: Fixes problem with rewriting inside
7354 <Directory> sections missing a trailing /. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7356 *) Clean up Linux settings in conf.h by detecting 2.x versus 1.x. For
7357 1.x the settings are those of pre-1.2b8. For 2.x we include
7358 USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD (scoreboard in shared memory rather than file) and
7359 HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H (enable the RLimit commands).
7360 [Dean Gaudet] PR#336, PR#340
7362 *) Redirect did not preserve ?query_strings when present in the client's
7363 request. [Dean Gaudet]
7365 *) Configure was finding non-modules on EXTRA_LIBS. [Frank Cringle] PR#380
7367 *) Use /bin/sh5 on ULTRIX. [P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia] PR#369
7369 *) Add UnixWare compile/install instructions. [Chuck Murcko]
7371 *) Add mod_example (illustration of API techniques). [Ken Coar]
7373 *) Add macro for memmove to conf.h for SUNOS4. [Marc Slemko]
7375 *) Improve handling of directories when filenames have spaces in them.
7378 *) For hosts with multiple IP addresses, try all additional addresses if
7379 necessary to get a connect. Fail only if hostent address list is
7380 exhausted. [Chuck Murcko]
7382 *) More signed/unsigned port fixes. [Dean Gaudet]
7384 *) HARD_SERVER_LIMIT can be defined in the Configuration file now.
7387 Changes with Apache 1.2b8
7389 *) suexec.c doesn't close the log file, allowing CGIs to continue writing
7390 to it. [Marc Slemko]
7392 *) The addition of <Location> and <File> directives made the
7393 sub_req_lookup_simple() function bogus, so we now handle
7394 the special cases directly. [Dean Gaudet]
7396 *) We now try to log where the server is dumping core when a fatal
7397 signal is received. [Ken Coar]
7399 *) Improved lingering_close by adding a special timeout, removing the
7400 spurious log messages, removing the nonblocking settings (they
7401 are not needed with the better timeout), and adding commentary
7402 about the NO_LINGCLOSE and USE_SO_LINGER issues. NO_LINGCLOSE is
7403 now the default for SunOS4, UnixWare, NeXT, and IRIX. [Roy Fielding]
7405 *) Send error messages about setsockopt failures to the server error
7406 log instead of stderr. [Roy Fielding]
7408 *) Fix loopholes in proxy cache expiry vis a vis alarms. [Brian Moore]
7410 *) Stopgap solution for CGI 3-second delay with server-side includes: if
7411 processing a subrequest, allocate memory from r->main->pool instead
7412 of r->pool so that we can avoid waiting for free_proc_chain to cleanup
7413 in the middle of an SSI request. [Dean Gaudet] PR #122
7415 *) Fixed status of response when POST is received for a nonexistent URL
7416 (was sending 405, now 404) and when any method is sent with a
7417 full-URI that doesn't match the server and the server is not acting
7418 as a proxy (was sending 501, now 403). [Roy Fielding]
7420 *) Host port changed to unsigned short. [Ken Coar] PR #276
7422 *) Fix typo in command definition of AuthAuthoritative. [Ken Coar] PR #246
7424 *) Defined USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD for shared memory on Linux. [Dean Gaudet]
7426 *) Report extra info from errno with many errors that cause httpd to exit.
7427 spawn_child, popenf, and pclosef now have valid errno returns in the
7428 event of an error. Correct problems where errno was stomped on
7429 before being reported. [Dean Gaudet]
7431 *) In the proxy, if the cache filesystem was full, garbage_coll() was
7432 never called, and thus the filesystem would remain full indefinitely.
7433 We now also remove incomplete cache files left if the origin server
7434 didn't send a Content-Length header and either the client has aborted
7435 transfer or bwrite() to client has failed. [Petr Lampa]
7437 *) Fixed the handling of module and script-added header fields.
7438 Improved the interface for sending header fields and reduced
7439 the duplication of code between sending okay responses and errors.
7440 We now always send both headers_out and err_headers_out, and
7441 ensure that the server-reserved fields are not being overridden,
7442 while not overriding those that are not reserved. [Roy Fielding]
7444 *) Moved transparent content negotiation fields to err_headers_out
7445 to reflect above changes. [Petr Lampa]
7447 *) Fixed the determination of whether or not we should make the
7448 connection persistent for all of the cases where some other part
7449 of the server has already indicated that we should not. Also
7450 improved the ordering of the test so that chunked encoding will
7451 be set whenever it is desired instead of only when KeepAlive
7452 is enabled. Added persistent connection capability for most error
7453 responses (those that do not indicate a bad input stream) when
7454 accessed by an HTTP/1.1 client. [Roy Fielding]
7456 *) Added missing timeouts for sending header fields, error responses,
7457 and the last chunk of chunked encoding, each of which could have
7458 resulted in a process being stuck in write forever. Using soft_timeout
7459 requires that the sender check for an aborted connection rather than
7460 continuing after an EINTR. Timeouts that used to be initiated before
7461 send_http_header (and never killed) are now initiated only within or
7462 around the routines that actually do the sending, and not allowed to
7463 propagate above the caller. [Roy Fielding]
7465 *) mod_auth_anon required an @ or a . in the email address, not both.
7468 *) per_dir_defaults weren't set correctly until directory_walk for
7469 name-based vhosts. This fixes an obscure bug with the wrong config
7470 info being used for vhosts that share the same ip as the server.
7473 *) Improved generation of modules/Makefile to be more generic for
7474 new module directories. [Ken Coar, Chuck Murcko, Roy Fielding]
7476 *) Generate makefile dependency for Configuration based on the actual
7477 name given when running the Configure process. [Dean Gaudet]
7479 *) Fixed problem with vhost error log not being set prior to
7480 initializing virtual hosts. [Dean Gaudet]
7482 *) Fixed infinite loop when a trailing slash is included after a type map
7483 file URL (extra path info). [Petr Lampa]
7485 *) Fixed server status updating of per-connection counters. [Roy Fielding]
7487 *) Add documentation for DNS issues (reliability and security), and try
7488 to explain the virtual host matching process. [Dean Gaudet]
7490 *) Try to continue gracefully by disabling the vhost if a DNS lookup
7491 fails while parsing the configuration file. [Dean Gaudet]
7493 *) Improved calls to setsockopt. [Roy Fielding]
7495 *) Negotiation changes: Don't output empty content-type in variant list;
7496 Output charset in variant list; Return sooner from handle_multi() if
7497 no variants found; Add handling of '*' wildcard in Accept-Charset.
7498 [Petr Lampa and Paul Sutton]
7500 *) Fixed overlaying of request/sub-request notes and headers in
7501 mod_negotiation. [Dean Gaudet]
7503 *) If two variants' charset quality are equal and one is the default
7504 charset (iso-8859-1), then prefer the variant that was specifically
7505 listed in Accept-Charset instead of the default. [Petr Lampa]
7507 *) Memory allocation problem in push_array() -- it would corrupt memory
7508 when nalloc==0. [Kai Risku <krisku@tf.hut.fi> and Roy Fielding]
7510 *) invoke_handler() doesn't handle mime arguments in content-type
7513 *) Reduced IdentityCheck timeout to 30 seconds, as per RFC 1413 minimum.
7516 *) Fixed problem with ErrorDocument not working for virtual hosts
7517 due to one of the performance changes in 1.2b7. [Dean Gaudet]
7519 *) Log an error message if we get a request header that is too long,
7520 since it may indicate a buffer overflow attack. [Marc Slemko]
7522 *) Made is_url() allow "[-.+a-zA-Z0-9]+:" as a valid scheme and
7523 not reject URLs without a double-slash, as per RFC2068 section 3.2.
7524 [Ken Coar] PR #146, #187
7526 *) Added table entry placeholder for new header_parser callback
7527 in all of the distributed modules. [Ken Coar] PR #191
7529 *) Allow for cgi files without the .EXE extension on them under OS/2.
7530 [Garey Smiley] PR #59
7532 *) Fixed error message when resource is not found and URL contains
7533 path info. [Petr Lampa and Dean Gaudet] PR #40
7535 *) Fixed user and server confusion over what should be a virtual host
7536 and what is the main server, resulting in access to something
7537 other than the name defined in the virtualhost directive (but
7538 with the same IP address) failing. [Dean Gaudet]
7540 *) Updated mod_rewrite to version 3.0.2, which: fixes compile error on
7541 AIX; improves the redirection stuff to enable the users to generally
7542 redirect to http, https, gopher and ftp; added TIME variable for
7543 RewriteCond which expands to YYYYMMDDHHMMSS strings and added the
7544 special patterns >STRING, <STRING and =STRING to RewriteCond, which
7545 can be used in conjunction with %{TIME} or other variables to create
7546 time-dependent rewriting rules. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7548 *) bpushfd() no longer notes cleanups for the file descriptors it is handed.
7549 Module authors may need to adjust their code for proper cleanup to take
7550 place (that is, call note_cleanups_for_fd()). This change fixes problems
7551 with file descriptors being erroneously closed when the proxy module was
7552 in use. [Ben Laurie]
7554 *) Fix bug in suexec reintroduced by changes in 1.2b7 which allows
7555 initgroups() to hose the group information needed for later
7556 comparisons. [Randy Terbush]
7558 *) Remove unnecessary call to va_end() in create_argv() which
7559 caused a SEGV on some systems.
7561 *) Use proper MAXHOSTNAMELEN symbol for limiting length of server name.
7564 *) Clear memory allocated for listeners. [Randy Terbush]
7566 *) Improved handling of IP address as a virtualhost address and
7567 introduced "_default_" as a synonym for the default vhost config.
7568 [Dean Gaudet] PR #212
7570 Changes with Apache 1.2b7
7572 *) Port to UXP/DS(V20) [Toshiaki Nomura <nom@yk.fujitsu.co.jp>]
7574 *) unset Content-Length if chunked (RFC-2068) [Petr Lampa]
7576 *) mod_negotiation fixes [Petr Lampa] PR#157, PR#158, PR#159
7577 - replace protocol response numbers with symbols
7578 - save variant-list into main request notes
7579 - free allocated memory from subrequests
7580 - merge notes, headers_out and err_headers_out
7582 *) changed status check mask in proxy_http.c from "HTTP/#.# ### *" to
7583 "HTTP/#.# ###*" to be more lenient about what we accept.
7586 *) more proxy FTP bug fixes:
7587 - Changed send_dir() to remove user/passwd from displayed URL.
7588 - Changed login error messages to be more descriptive.
7589 - remove setting of SO_DEBUG socket option
7590 - Make ftp_getrc() more lenient about multiline responses,
7591 specifically, 230 responses which don't have continuation 230-
7592 on each line). These seem to be all NT FTP servers, and while
7593 perhaps questionable, they appear to be legal by RFC 959.
7594 - Add missing kill_timeout() after transfer to user completes.
7597 *) Fixed problem where a busy server could hang when restarting
7598 after being sent a SIGHUP due to child processes not exiting.
7601 *) Modify mod_include escaping so a '\' only signifies an escaped
7602 character if the next character is one that needs
7603 escaping. [Ben Laurie]
7605 *) Eliminated possible infinite loop in mod_imap when relative URLs are
7606 used with a 'base' directive that does not have a '/' in it.
7607 [Marc Slemko, reported by Onno Witvliet <onno@tc.hsa.nl>]
7609 *) Reduced the default timeout from 1200 seconds to 300, and the
7610 one in the sample configfile from 400 to 300. [Marc Slemko]
7612 *) Stop vbprintf from crashing if given a NULL string pointer;
7613 print (null) instead. [Ken Coar]
7615 *) Don't disable Nagle algorithm if system doesn't have TCP_NODELAY.
7616 [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
7618 *) Fixed problem with mod_cgi-generated internal redirects trying to
7619 read the request message-body twice. [Archie Cobbs and Roy Fielding]
7621 *) Reduced timeout on lingering close, removed possibility of a blocked
7622 read causing the child to hang, and stopped logging of errors if
7623 the socket is not connected (reset by client). [Roy Fielding]
7625 *) Rearranged main child loop to remove duplication of code in
7626 select/accept and keep-alive requests, fixed several bugs regarding
7627 checking scoreboard_image for exit indication and failure to
7628 account for all success conditions and trap all error conditions,
7629 prevented multiple flushes before closing the socket; close the entire
7630 socket buffer instead of just one descriptor, prevent logging of
7631 EPROTO and ECONNABORTED on platforms where supported, and generally
7632 improved readability. [Roy Fielding]
7634 *) Extensive performance improvements. Cleaned up inefficient use of
7635 auto initializers, multiple is_matchexp calls on a static string,
7636 and excessive merging of response_code_strings. [Dean Gaudet]
7638 *) Added double-buffering to mod_include to improve performance on
7639 server-side includes. [Marc Slemko]
7641 *) Several fixes for suexec wrapper. [Randy Terbush]
7642 - Make wrapper work for files on NFS filesystem.
7643 - Fix portability problem of MAXPATHLEN.
7644 - Fix array overrun problem in clean_env().
7645 - Fix allocation of PATH environment variable
7647 *) Removed extraneous blank line is description of mod_status chars.
7650 *) Logging of errors from the call_exec routine simply went nowhere,
7651 since the logfile fd has been closed, so now we send them to stderr.
7652 [Harald T. Alvestrand]
7654 *) Fixed core dump when DocumentRoot is a CGI.
7655 [Ben Laurie, reported by geddis@tesserae.com]
7657 *) Fixed potential file descriptor leak in mod_asis; updated it and
7658 http_core to use pfopen/pfclose instead of fopen/fclose.
7659 [Randy Terbush and Roy Fielding]
7661 *) Fixed handling of unsigned ints in ap_snprintf() on some chips such
7662 as the DEC Alpha which is 64-bit but uses 32-bit ints.
7663 [Dean Gaudet and Ken Coar]
7665 *) Return a 302 response code to the client when sending a redirect
7666 due to a missing trailing '/' on a directory instead of a 301; now
7667 it is cacheable. [Markus Gyger]
7669 *) Fix condition where, if a bad directive occurs in .htaccess, and
7670 sub_request() goes first to this directory, then log_reason() will
7671 SIGSEGV because it doesn't have initialized r->per_dir_config.
7672 [PR#162 from Petr Lampa, fix by Marc Slemko and Dean Gaudet]
7674 *) Fix handling of lang_index in is_variant_better(). This was
7675 causing problems which resulted in the server sending the
7676 wrong language document in some cases. [Petr Lampa]
7678 *) Remove free() from clean_env() in suexec wrapper. This was nuking
7679 the clean environment on some systems.
7681 *) Tweak byteserving code (e.g. serving PDF files) to work around
7682 bugs in Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
7683 Emit Content-Length header when sending multipart/byteranges.
7686 *) Port to HI-UX/WE2. [Nick Maclaren]
7688 *) Port to HP MPE operating system for HP 3000 machines
7689 [Mark Bixby <markb@cccd.edu>]
7691 *) Fixed bug which caused a segmentation fault if only one argument
7692 given to RLimit* directives. [Ed Korthof]
7694 *) Continue persistent connection after 204 or 304 response. [Dean Gaudet]
7696 *) Improved buffered output to the client by delaying the flush decision
7697 until the BUFF code is actually about to read the next request.
7698 This fixes a problem introduced in 1.2b5 with clients that send
7699 an extra CRLF after a POST request. Also improved chunked output
7700 performance by combining writes using writev() and removing as
7701 many bflush() calls as possible. NOTE: Platforms without writev()
7702 must add -DNO_WRITEV to the compiler CFLAGS, either in Configuration
7703 or Configure, unless we have already done so. [Dean Gaudet]
7705 *) Fixed mod_rewrite bug which truncated the rewritten URL [Marc Slemko]
7707 *) Fixed mod_info output corruption bug introduced by buffer overflow
7708 fixes. [Dean Gaudet]
7710 *) Fixed http_protocol to correctly output all HTTP/1.1 headers, including
7711 for the special case of a 304 response. [Paul Sutton]
7713 *) Improved handling of TRACE method by bypassing normal method handling
7714 and header parsing routines; fixed Allow response to always allow TRACE.
7717 *) Fixed compiler warnings in the regex library. [Dean Gaudet]
7719 *) Cleaned-up some of the generated HTML. [Ken Coar]
7721 Changes with Apache 1.2b6
7723 *) Allow whitespace in imagemap mapfile coordinates. [Marc Slemko]
7725 *) Fix typo introduced in fix for potential infinite loop around
7726 accept() in child_main(). This change caused the rev to 1.2b6.
7727 1.2b5 was never a public beta.
7729 Changes with Apache 1.2b5
7731 *) Change KeepAlive semantics (On|Off instead of a number), add
7732 MaxKeepAliveRequests directive. [Alexei Kosut]
7734 *) Various NeXT compilation patches, as well as a change in
7735 regex/regcomp.c since that file also used a NEXT define.
7738 *) Allow * to terminate the end of a directory match in mod_dir.
7739 Allows /~* to match for both /~joe and /~joe/. [David Bronder]
7741 *) Don't call can_exec() if suexec_enabled. Calling this requires
7742 scripts executed by the suexec wrapper to be world executable, which
7743 defeats one of the advantages of running the wrapper. [Randy Terbush]
7745 *) Portability Fix: IRIX complained with 'make clean' about *pure* (removed)
7748 *) Migration from sprintf() to snprintf() to avoid buffer
7749 overflows. [Marc Slemko]
7751 *) Provide portable snprintf() implementation (ap_snprintf)
7752 as well as *cvt family. [Jim Jagielski]
7754 *) Portability Fix: NeXT lacks unistd.h so we wrap it's inclusion
7757 *) Remove mod_fastcgi.c from the distribution. This module appears
7758 to be maintained more through the Open Market channels and should
7759 continue to be easily available at http://www.fastcgi.com/
7761 *) Fixed bug in modules/Makefile that wouldn't allow building in more
7762 than one subdirectory (or cleaning, either). [Jeremy Laidman]
7764 *) mod_info assumed that the config files were relative to ServerRoot.
7767 *) CGI scripts called as an error document resulting from failed
7768 CGI execution would hang waiting for POST'ed data. [Rob Hartill]
7770 *) Log reason when mod_dir returns access HTTP_FORBIDDEN
7773 *) Properly check errno to prevent display of a directory index
7774 when server receives a long enough URL to confuse stat().
7777 *) Several security enhancements to suexec wrapper. It is _highly_
7778 recommended that previously installed versions of the wrapper
7779 be replaced with this version. [Randy Terbush, Jason Dour]
7781 - ~user execution now properly restricted to ~user's home
7782 directory and below.
7783 - execution restricted to UID/GID > 100
7784 - restrict passed environment to known variables
7785 - call setgid() before initgroups() (portability fix)
7786 - remove use of setenv() (portability fix)
7788 *) Add HTTP/1.0 response forcing. [Ben Laurie]
7790 *) Add access control via environment variables. [Ben Laurie]
7792 *) Add rflush() function. [Alexei Kosut]
7794 *) remove duplicate pcalloc() call in new_connection().
7796 *) Fix incorrect comparison which could allow number of children =
7797 MaxClients + 1 if less than HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. Also fix potential
7798 problem if StartServers > HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. [Ed Korthof]
7800 *) Updated support for OSes (MachTen, ULTRIX, Paragon, ISC, OpenBSD
7801 AIX PS/2, CONVEXOS. [Jim Jagielski]
7803 *) Replace instances of inet_ntoa() with inet_addr() for ProxyBlock.
7804 It's more portable. [Martin Kraemer]
7806 *) Replace references to make in Makefile.tmpl with $(MAKE).
7809 *) Add ProxyBlock directive w/IP address caching. Add IP address
7810 caching to NoCache directive as well. ProxyBlock works with all
7811 handlers; NoCache now also works with FTP for anonymous logins.
7812 Still more code cleanup. [Chuck Murcko]
7814 *) Add "header parse" API hook [Ben Laurie]
7816 *) Fix byte ordering problems for REMOTE_PORT [Chuck Murcko]
7818 *) suEXEC wrapper was freeing memory that had not been malloc'ed.
7820 *) Correctly allow access and auth directives in <Files> sections in
7821 server config files. [Alexei Kosut]
7823 *) Fix bug with ServerPath that could cause certain files to be not
7824 found by the server. [Alexei Kosut]
7826 *) Fix handling of ErrorDocument so that it doesn't remove a trailing
7827 double-quote from text and so that it properly checks for unsupported
7828 status codes using the new index_of_response interface. [Roy Fielding]
7830 *) Multiple fixes to the lingering_close code in order to avoid being
7831 interrupted by a stray timeout, to avoid lingering on a connection
7832 that has already been aborted or never really existed, to ensure that
7833 we stop lingering as soon as any error condition is received, and to
7834 prevent being stuck indefinitely if the read blocks. Also improves
7835 reporting of error conditions. [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
7837 *) Fixed initialization of parameter structure for sigaction.
7838 [mgyger@itr.ch, Adrian Filipi-Martin]
7840 *) Fixed reinitializing the parameters before each call to accept and
7841 select, and removed potential for infinite loop in accept.
7842 [Roy Fielding, after useful PR from adrian@virginia.edu]
7844 *) Fixed condition where, if a child fails to fork, the scoreboard would
7845 continue to say SERVER_STARTING forever. Eventually, the main process
7846 would refuse to start new children because count_idle_servers() will
7847 count those SERVER_STARTING entries and will always report that there
7848 are enough idle servers. [Phillip Vandry]
7850 *) Fixed bug in bcwrite regarding failure to account for partial writes.
7851 Avoided calling bflush() when the client is pipelining requests.
7852 Removed unnecessary flushes from http_protocol. [Dean Gaudet]
7854 *) Added description of "." mode in server-status [Jim Jagielski]
7856 Changes with Apache 1.2b4
7858 *) Fix possible race condition in accept_mutex_init() that
7859 could leave a small security hole open allowing files to be
7860 overwritten in cases where the server UID has write permissions.
7863 *) Fix awk compatibilty problem in Configure. [Jim Jagielski]
7865 *) Fix portablity problem in util_script where ARG_MAX may not be
7866 defined for some systems.
7868 *) Add changes to allow compilation on Machten 4.0.3 for PowerPC.
7871 *) OS/2 changes to support an MMAP style scoreboard file and UNIX
7872 style magic #! token for better script portability. [Garey Smiley]
7874 *) Fix bug in suexec wrapper introduced in b3 that would cause failed
7875 execution for ~userdir CGI. [Jason Dour]
7877 *) Fix initgroups() business in suexec wrapper. [Jason Dour]
7879 *) Fix month off by one in suexec wrapper logging.
7881 Changes with Apache 1.2b3:
7883 *) Fix error in mod_cgi which could cause resources not to be properly
7884 freed, or worse. [Dean Gaudet]
7886 *) Fix find_string() NULL pointer dereference. [Howard Fear]
7888 *) Add set_flag_slot() at the request of Dirk and others.
7891 *) Sync mod_rewrite with patch level 10. [Ralf Engelschall]
7893 *) Add changes to improve the error message given for invalid
7894 ServerName parameters. [Dirk vanGulik]
7896 *) Add "Authoritative" directive for Auth modules that don't
7897 currently have it. This gives admin control to assign authoritative
7898 control to an authentication scheme and allow "fall through" for
7899 those authentication modules that aren't "Authoritative" thereby
7900 allowing multiple authentication mechanisms to be chained.
7903 *) Remove requirement for ResourceConfig/AccessConfig if not using
7904 the three config file layout. [Randy Terbush]
7906 *) Add PASV mode to mod_proxy FTP handler. [Chuck Murcko]
7908 *) Changes to suexec wrapper to fix the following problems:
7909 1. symlinked homedirs will kill ~userdirs.
7910 2. initgroups() on Linux 2.0.x clobbers gr->grid.
7911 3. CGI command lines paramters problems
7912 4. pw-pwdir for "docroot check" still the httpd user's pw record.
7913 [Randy Terbush, Jason Dour]
7915 *) Change create_argv() to accept variable arguments. This fixes
7916 a problem where arguments were not getting passed to the CGI via
7917 argv[] when the suexec wrapper was active. [Randy Terbush, Jake Buchholz]
7919 *) Collapse multiple slashes in path URLs to properly apply
7920 handlers defined by <Location>. [Alexei Kosut]
7922 *) Define a sane set of DEFAULT_USER and DEFAULT_GROUP values for AIX.
7924 *) Improve the accuracy of request duration timings by setting
7925 r->request_time in read_request_line() instead of read_request().
7928 *) Reset timeout while reading via get_client_block() in mod_cgi.c
7929 Fixes problem with timed out transfers of large files. [Rasmus Lerdorf]
7931 *) Add the ability to pass different Makefile.tmpl files to Configure
7932 using the -make flag. [Rob Hartill]
7934 *) Fix coredump triggered when sending a SIGHUP to the server caused
7935 by an assertion failure, in turn caused by an uninitialised field in a
7939 *) Add FILEPATH_INFO variable to CGI environment, which is equal to
7940 PATH_INFO from previous versions of Apache (in certain situations,
7941 Apache 1.2's PATH_INFO will be different than 1.1's). [Alexei Kosut]
7942 [later removed in 1.2b11]
7944 *) Add rwrite() function to API to allow for sending strings of
7945 arbitrary length. [Doug MacEachern]
7947 *) Remove rlim_t typedef for NetBSD. Do older versions need this?
7949 *) Defined rlim_t and WANTHSREGEX=yes and fixed waitpid() substitute for
7950 NeXT. [Jim Jagielski]
7952 *) Removed recent modification to promote the status code on internal
7953 redirects, since the correct fix was to change the default log format
7954 in mod_log_config so that it outputs the original status. [Rob Hartill]
7956 Changes with Apache 1.2b2:
7958 *) Update set_signals() to use sigaction() for setting handlers.
7959 This appears to fix a re-entrant problem in the seg_fault()
7960 bus_error() handlers. [Randy Terbush]
7962 *) Changes to allow mod_status compile for OS/2 [Garey Smiley]
7964 *) changes for DEC AXP running OSF/1 v3.0. [Marc Evans]
7966 *) proxy_http.c bugfixes: [Chuck Murcko]
7967 1) fixes possible NULL pointer reference w/NoCache
7968 2) fixes NoCache behavior when using ProxyRemote (ProxyRemote
7969 host would cache nothing if it was in the local domain,
7970 and the local domain was in the NoCache list)
7971 3) Adds Host: header when not available
7972 4) Some code cleanup and clarification
7974 *) mod_include.c bugfixes:
7975 1) Fixed an ommission that caused include variables to not
7976 be parsed in config errmsg directives [Howard Fear]
7977 2) Remove HAVE_POSIX_REGEX cruft [Alexei Kosut]
7978 3) Patch to fix compiler warnings [perrot@lal.in2p3.fr]
7979 4) Allow backslash-escaping to all quoted text
7980 [Ben Yoshino <ben@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu>]
7981 5) Pass variable to command line if not set in XSSI's env
7984 *) Fix infinite loop when processing Content-language lines in
7985 type-map files. [Alexei Kosut]
7987 *) Closed file-globbing hole in test-cgi script. [Brian Behlendorf]
7989 *) Fixed problem in set_[user|group] that prevented CGI execution
7990 for non-virtualhosts when suEXEC was enabled. [Randy Terbush]
7992 *) Added PORTING information file. [Jim Jagielski]
7994 *) Added definitions for S_IWGRP and S_IWOTH to conf.h [Ben Laurie]
7996 *) Changed default group to "nogroup" instead of "nobody" [Randy Terbush]
7998 *) Fixed define typo of FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT where
7999 USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT was intended.
8001 *) Fixed additional uses of 0xffffffff where INADDR_NONE was intended,
8002 which caused problems of systems where socket s_addr is >32bits.
8004 *) Added comment to explain (r->chunked = 1) side-effect in
8005 http_protocol.c [Roy Fielding]
8007 *) Replaced use of index() in mod_expires.c with more appropriate
8008 and portable isdigit() test. [Ben Laurie]
8010 *) Updated Configure for ...
8011 OS/2 (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes, other code changes)
8012 *-dg-dgux* (bad pattern match)
8013 QNX (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes)
8014 *-sunos4* (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes, -DUSEBCOPY)
8017 and added some user diagnostic info. [Ben Laurie]
8019 *) In helpers/CutRule, replaced "cut" invocation with "awk" invocation
8020 for better portability. [Jim Jagielski]
8022 *) Updated helpers/GuessOS for ...
8023 SCO 5 (recognize minor releases)
8024 SCO UnixWare (braindamaged uname, whatever-whatever-unixware2)
8025 SCO UnixWare 2.1.1 (requires a separate set of #defines in conf.h)
8026 IRIX64 (-sgi-irix64)
8027 ULTRIX (-unknown-ultrix)
8028 SINIX (-whatever-sysv4)
8029 NCR Unix (-ncr-sysv4)
8030 and fixed something in helpers/PrintPath [Ben Laurie]
8032 Changes with Apache 1.2b1
8034 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_2.html>
8036 Changes with Apache 1.1.1
8038 *) Fixed bug where Cookie module would make two entries in the
8039 logfile for each access [Mark Cox]
8041 *) Fixed bug where Redirect in .htaccess files would cause memory
8042 leak. [Nathan Neulinger]
8044 *) MultiViews now works correctly with AddHandler [Alexei Kosut]
8046 *) Problems with mod_auth_msql fixed [Dirk vanGulik]
8048 *) Fix misspelling of "Anonymous_Authorative" directive in mod_auth_anon.
8050 Changes with Apache 1.1.0
8052 *) Bring NeXT support up to date. [Takaaki Matsumoto]
8054 *) Bring QNX support up to date. [Ben Laurie]
8056 *) Make virtual hosts default to main server keepalive parameters.
8057 [Alexei Kosut, Ben Laurie]
8059 *) Allow ScanHTMLTitles to work with lowercase <title> tags. [Alexei Kosut]
8061 *) Fix missing address family for connect, also remove unreachable statement
8062 in mod_proxy. [Ben Laurie]
8064 *) mod_env now turned on by default in Configuration.tmpl.
8066 *) Bugs which were fixed:
8067 a) yet more mod_proxy bugs [Ben Laurie]
8068 b) CGI works again with inetd [Alexei Kosut]
8069 c) Leading colons were stripped from passwords [osm@interguide.com]
8070 d) Another fix to multi-method Limit problem [jk@tools.de]
8072 Changes with Apache 1.1b4
8074 *) r->bytes_sent variable restored. [Robert Thau]
8076 *) Previously broken multi-method <Limit> parsing fixed. [Robert Thau]
8078 *) More possibly unsecure programs removed from the support directory.
8080 *) More mod_auth_msql authentication improvements.
8082 *) VirtualHosts based on Host: headers no longer conflict with the
8085 *) OS/2 compatibility enhancements. [Gary Smiley]
8087 *) POST now allowed to directory index CGI scripts.
8089 *) Actions now work with files of the default type.
8091 *) Bugs which were fixed:
8092 a) more mod_proxy bugs
8093 b) early termination of inetd requests
8094 c) compile warnings on several systems
8095 d) problems when scripts stop reading output early
8097 Changes with Apache 1.1b3
8099 *) Much of cgi-bin and all of cgi-src has been removed, due to
8100 various security holes found and that we could no longer support
8103 *) The "Set-Cookie" header is now special-cased to not merge multiple
8104 instances, since certain popular browsers can not handle multiple
8105 Set-Cookie instructions in a single header. [Paul Sutton]
8107 *) rprintf() added to buffer code, occurrences of sprintf removed.
8110 *) CONNECT method for proxy module, which means tunneling SSL should work.
8111 (No crypto needed) Also a NoCache config directive.
8113 *) Several API additions: pstrndup(), table_unset() and get_token()
8114 functions now available to modules.
8116 *) mod_imap fixups, in particular Location: headers are now complete
8119 *) New "info" module which reports on installed module set through a
8120 special URL, a la mod_status.
8122 *) "ServerPath" directive added - allows for graceful transition
8123 for Host:-header-based virtual hosts.
8125 *) Anonymous authentication module improvements.
8127 *) MSQL authentication module improvements.
8129 *) Status module design improved - output now table-based. [Ben Laurie]
8131 *) htdigest utility included for use with digest authentication
8134 *) mod_negotiation: Accept values with wildcards to be treated with
8135 less priority than those without wildcards at the same quality
8136 value. [Alexei Kosut]
8138 *) Bugs which were fixed:
8139 a) numerous mod_proxy bugs
8140 b) CGI early-termination bug [Ben Laurie]
8141 c) Keepalives not working with virtual hosts
8142 d) RefererIgnore problems
8143 e) closing fd's twice in mod_include (causing core dumps on
8144 Linux and elsewhere).
8146 Changes with Apache 1.1b2
8149 a) core dumps in mod_digest
8150 b) truncated hostnames/ip address in the logs
8151 c) relative URL's in mod_imap map files
8153 Changes with Apache 1.1b1
8155 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_1.html>
8157 Changes with Apache 1.0.3
8159 *) Internal redirects which occur in mod_dir.c now preserve the
8160 query portion of a request (the bit after the question mark).
8163 *) Escape active characters '<', '>' and '&' in html output in
8164 directory listings, error messages and redirection links.
8167 *) Apache will now work with LynxOS 2.3 and later [Steven Watt]
8169 *) Fix for POSIX compliance in waiting for processes in alloc.c.
8172 *) setsockopt no longer takes a const declared argument [Martijn Koster]
8174 *) Reset timeout timer after each successful fwrite() to the network.
8175 This patch adds a reset_timeout() procedure that is called by
8176 send_fd() to reset the timeout ever time data is written to the net.
8179 *) timeout() signal handler now checks for SIGPIPE and reports
8180 lost connections in a more user friendly way. [Rob Hartill]
8182 *) Location of the "scoreboard" file which used to live in /tmp is
8183 now configurable (for OSes that can't use mmap) via ScoreBoardFile
8184 which works similar to PidFile (in httpd.conf) [Rob Hartill]
8186 *) Include sys/resource.h in the correct place for SunOS4 [Sameer Parekh]
8188 *) the pstrcat call in mod_cookies.c didn't have an ending NULL,
8189 which caused a SEGV with cookies enabled
8191 *) Output warning when MinSpareServers is set to <= 0 and change it to 1
8194 *) Log the UNIX textual error returned by some system calls, in
8195 particular errors from accept() [David Robinson]
8197 *) Add strerror function to util.c for SunOS4 [Randy Terbush]
8199 Changes with Apache 1.0.2
8201 *) patch to get Apache compiled on UnixWare 2.x, recommended as
8202 a temporary measure, pending rewrite of rfc931.c. [Chuck Murcko]
8204 *) Fix get_basic_auth_pw() to set the auth_type of the request.
8207 *) past changes to http_config.c to only use the
8208 setrlimit function on systems defining RLIMIT_NOFILE
8209 broke the feature on SUNOS4. Now defines HAVE_RESOURCE
8210 for SUNOS and prototypes the needed functions.
8212 *) Remove uses of MAX_STRING_LEN/HUGE_STRING_LEN from several routines.
8215 *) Fix use of pointer to scratch memory. [Cliff Skolnick]
8217 *) Merge multiple headers from CGI scripts instead of taking last
8218 one. [David Robinson]
8220 *) Add support for SCO 5. [Ben Laurie]
8222 Changes with Apache 1.0.1
8224 *) Silence mod_log_referer and mod_log_agent if not configured
8227 *) Recursive includes can occur if the client supplies PATH_INFO data
8228 and the server provider uses relative links; as file.html
8229 relative to /doc.shtml/pathinfo is /doc.shtml/file.html. [David Robinson]
8231 *) The replacement for initgroups() did not call {set,end}grent(). This
8232 had two implications: if anything else used getgrent(), then
8233 initgroups() would fail, and it was consuming a file descriptor.
8236 *) On heavily loaded servers it was possible for the scoreboard to get
8237 out of sync with reality, as a result of a race condition.
8238 The observed symptoms are far more Apaches running than should
8239 be, and heavy system loads, generally followed by catastrophic
8240 system failure. [Ben Laurie]
8242 *) Fix typo in license. [David Robinson]
8244 Changes with Apache 1.0.0 23 Nov 1995
8246 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_0.html>
8248 Changes with Apache 0.8.16 05 Nov 1995
8250 *) New man page for 'httpd' added to support directory [David Robinson]
8252 *) .htgroup files can have more than one line giving members for a
8253 given group (each must have the group name in front), for NCSA
8254 back-compatibility [Robert Thau]
8256 *) Mutual exclusion around accept() is on by default for SVR4 systems
8257 generally, since they generally can't handle multiple processes in
8258 accept() on the same socket. This should cure flaky behavior on
8259 a lot of those systems. [David Robinson]
8261 *) AddType, AddEncoding, and AddLanguage directives take multiple
8262 extensions on a single command line [David Robinson]
8264 *) UserDir can be disabled for a given virtual host by saying
8265 "UserDir disabled" in the <VirtualHost> section --- it was a bug
8266 that this didn't work. [David Robinson]
8268 *) Compiles on QNX [Ben Laurie]
8270 *) Corrected parsing of ctime time format [David Robinson]
8272 *) httpd does a perror() before exiting if it can't log its pid
8273 to the PidFile, to make diagnosing the error a bit easier.
8276 *) <!--#include file="..."--> can no longer include files in the
8277 parent directory, for NCSA back-compatibility. [David Robinson]
8279 *) '~' is *not* escaped in URIs generated for directory listings
8282 *) Eliminated compiler warning in the imagemap module [Randy Terbush]
8284 *) Fixed bug involving handling URIs with escaped %-characters
8285 in redirects [David Robinson]
8287 Changes with Apache 0.8.15 14 Oct 1995
8289 *) Switched to new, simpler license
8291 *) Eliminated core dumps with improperly formatted DBM group files [Mark Cox]
8293 *) Don't allow requests for ordinary files to have PATH_INFO [Ben Laurie]
8295 *) Reject paths containing %-escaped '%' or null characters [David Robinson]
8297 *) Correctly handles internal redirects to files with names containing '%'
8300 *) Repunctuated some error messages [Aram Mirzadeh, Andrew Wilson]
8302 *) Use geteuid() rather than getuid() to see if we have root privilege,
8303 so that server correctly resets privilege if run setuid root. [Andrew
8306 *) Handle ftp: and telnet: URLs correctly in imagemaps (built-in module)
8309 *) Fix relative URLs in imagemap files [Randy Terbush]
8311 *) Somewhat better fix for the old "Alias /foo/ /bar/" business
8314 *) Don't repeatedly open the ErrorLog if a bunch of <VirtualHost>
8315 entries all name the same one. [David Robinson]
8317 *) Fix directory listings with filenames containing unusual characters
8320 *) Better URI-escaping for generated URIs in directories with filenames
8321 containing unusual characters [Ben Laurie]
8323 *) Fixed potential FILE* leak in http_main.c [Ben Laurie]
8325 *) Unblock alarms on error return from spawn_child() [David Robinson]
8327 *) Sample Config files have extra note for SCO users [Ben Laurie]
8329 *) Configuration has note for HP-UX users [Rob Hartill]
8331 *) Eliminated some bogus Linux-only #defines in conf.h [Aram Mirzadeh]
8333 *) Nuked bogus #define in httpd.h [David Robinson]
8335 *) Better test for whether a system has setrlimit() [David Robinson]
8337 *) Calls update_child_status() after reopen_scoreboard() [David Robinson]
8339 *) Doesn't send itself SIGHUP on startup when run in the -X debug-only mode
8342 Changes with Apache 0.8.14 19 Sep 1995
8344 *) Compiles on SCO ODT 3.0 [Ben Laurie]
8346 *) AddDescription works (better) [Ben Laurie]
8348 *) Leaves an intelligible error diagnostic when it can't set group
8349 privileges on standalone startup [Andrew Wilson]
8351 *) Compiles on NeXT again --- the 0.8.13 RLIMIT patch was failing on
8352 that machine, which claims to be BSD but does not support RLIMIT.
8355 *) gcc -Wall no longer complains about an unused variable when util.c
8356 is compiled with -DMINIMAL_DNS [Andrew Wilson]
8358 *) Nuked another compiler warning for -Wall on Linux [Aram Mirzadeh]
8360 Changes with Apache 0.8.13 07 Sep 1995
8362 *) Make IndexIgnore *work* (ooops) [Jarkko Torppa]
8364 *) Have built-in imagemap code recognize & honor Point directive [James
8367 *) Generate cleaner directory listings in directories with a mix of
8368 long and short filenames [Rob Hartill]
8370 *) Properly initialize dynamically loaded modules [Royston Shufflebotham]
8372 *) Properly default ServerName for virtual servers [Robert Thau]
8374 *) Rationalize handling of BSD in conf.h and elsewhere [Randy Terbush,
8375 Paul Richards and a cast of thousands...]
8377 *) On self-identified BSD systems (we don't try to guess any more),
8378 allocate a few extra file descriptors per virtual host with setrlimit,
8379 if we can, to avoid running out. [Randy Terbush]
8381 *) Write 22-character lock file name into buffer with enough space
8382 on startup [Konstantin Olchanski]
8384 *) Use archaic setpgrp() interface on NeXT, which requires it [Brian
8387 *) Suppress -Wall warning by casting const away in util.c [Aram Mirzadeh]
8389 *) Suppress -Wall warning by initializing variable in negotiation code
8390 [Tobias Weingartner]
8392 Changes with Apache 0.8.12 31 Aug 1995
8394 *) Doesn't pause three seconds after including a CGI script which is
8395 too slow to die off (this is done by not even trying to kill off
8396 subprocesses, including the SIGTERM/pause/SIGKILL routine, until
8397 after the entire document has been processed). [Robert Thau]
8399 *) Doesn't do SSI if Options Includes is off. (Ooops). [David Robinson]
8401 *) Options IncludesNoExec allows inclusion of at least text/* [Roy Fielding]
8403 *) Allows .htaccess files to override <Directory> sections naming the
8404 same directory [David Robinson]
8406 *) Removed an efficiency hack in sub_req_lookup_uri which was
8407 causing certain extremely marginal cases (e.g., ScriptAlias of a
8408 *particular* index.html file) to fail. [David Robinson]
8410 *) Doesn't log an error when the requested URI requires
8411 authentication, but no auth header line was supplied by the
8412 client; this is a normal condition (the client doesn't no auth is
8413 needed here yet). [Robert Thau]
8415 *) Behaves more sanely when the name server loses its mind [Sean Welch]
8417 *) RFC931 code compiles cleanly on old BSDI releases [Randy Terbush]
8419 *) RFC931 code no longer passes out name of prior clients on current
8420 requests if the current request came from a server that doesn't
8421 do RFC931. [David Robinson]
8423 *) Configuration script accepts "Module" lines with trailing whitespace.
8426 *) Cleaned up compiler warning from mod_access.c [Robert Thau]
8428 *) Cleaned up comments in mod_cgi.c [Robert Thau]
8430 Changes with Apache 0.8.11 24 Aug 1995
8432 *) Wildcard <Directory> specifications work. [Robert Thau]
8434 *) Doesn't loop for buggy CGI on Solaris [Cliff Skolnick]
8436 *) Symlink checks (FollowSymLinks off, or SymLinkIfOwnerMatch) always check
8437 the file being requested itself, in addition to the directories leading
8438 up to it. [Robert Thau]
8440 *) Logs access failures due to symlink checks or invalid client address
8441 in the error log [Roy Fielding, Robert Thau]
8443 *) Symlink checks deal correctly with systems where lstat of
8444 "/path/to/some/link/" follows the link. [Thau, Fielding]
8446 *) Doesn't reset DirectoryIndex to 'index.html' when
8447 other directory options are set in a .htaccess file. [Robert Thau]
8449 *) Clarified init code and nuked bogus warning in mod_access.c
8452 *) Corrected several directives in sample srm.conf
8453 --- includes corrections to directory indexing icon-related directives
8454 (using unknown.gif rather than unknown.xbm as the DefaultIcon, doing
8455 icons for encodings right, and turning on AddEncoding by default).
8458 *) Corrected descriptions of args to AddIcon and AddAlt in command table
8461 *) INSTALL & README mention "contributed modules" directory [Brian
8464 *) Fixed English in the license language... "for for" --> "for".
8467 *) Fixed ScriptAlias/Alias interaction by moving ScriptAlias handling to
8468 mod_alias.c, merging it almost completely with handling of Alias, and
8469 adding a 'notes' field to the request_rec which allows the CGI module
8470 to discover whether the Alias module has put this request through
8471 ScriptAlias (which it needs to know for back-compatibility, as the old
8472 NCSA code did not check Options ExecCGI in ScriptAlias directories).
8475 Changes with Apache 0.8.10 18 Aug 1995
8477 *) AllowOverride applies to the named directory, and not just
8478 subdirectories. [David Robinson]
8480 *) Do locking for accept() exclusion (on systems that need it)
8481 using a special file created for the purpose in /usr/tmp, and
8482 not the error log; using the error log causes real problems
8483 if it's NFS-mounted; this is known to be the cause of a whole
8484 lot of "server hang" problems with Solaris. [David Robinson;
8485 thanks to Merten Schumann for help diagnosing the problem].
8487 Changes with Apache 0.8.9 12 Aug 1995
8489 *) Compiles with -DMAXIMUM_DNS ---- ooops! [Henrik Mortensen]
8491 *) Nested includes see environment variables of the including document,
8492 for NCSA bug-compatibility (some sites have standard footer includes
8493 which try to print out the last-modified date). [Eric Hagberg/Robert
8496 *) <!--exec cgi="/some/uri/here"--> always treats the item named by the
8497 URI as a CGI script, even if it would have been treated as something
8498 else if requested directly, for NCSA back-compatibility. (Note that
8499 this means that people who know the name of the script can see the
8500 code just by asking for it). [Robert Thau]
8502 *) New version of dbmmanage script included in support directory as
8505 *) Check if scoreboard file couldn't be opened, and say so, rather
8506 then going insane [David Robinson]
8508 *) POST to CGI works on A/UX [Jim Jagielski]
8510 *) AddIcon and AddAlt commands work properly [Rob Hartill]
8512 *) NCSA server push works properly --- the Arena bug compatibility
8513 workaround, which broke it, is gone (use -DARENA_BUG_WORKAROUND
8514 if you still want the workaround). [Rob Hartill]
8516 *) If client didn't submit any Accept-encodings, ignore encodings in
8517 content negotiation. (NB this will all have to be reworked anyway
8518 for the new HTTP draft). [Florent Guillaume]
8520 *) Don't dump core when trying to log timed-out requests [Jim Jagielski]
8522 *) Really honor CacheNegotiatedDocs [Florent Guillaume]
8524 *) Give Redirect priority over Alias, for NCSA bug compatibility
8527 *) Correctly set PATH_TRANSLATED in all cases from <!--#exec cmd=""-->,
8528 paralleling earlier bug fix for CGI [David Robinson]
8530 *) If DBM auth is improperly configured, report a server error and don't
8533 *) Deleted FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPTS from conf.h entry for A/UX;
8534 it seems to work well enough without it (even in a 10 hits/sec
8535 workout), and the overhead for the locking under A/UX is
8536 alarmingly high (though it is very low on other systems).
8537 [Eric Hagberg, Jim Jagielski]
8539 *) Fixed portability problems with mod_cookies.c [Cliff Skolnick]
8541 *) Further de-Berklize mod_cookies.c; change the bogus #include. [Brian
8542 Behlendorf/Eric Hagberg]
8544 *) More improvements to default Configuration for A/UX [Jim Jagielski]
8546 *) Compiles clean on NEXT [Rob Hartill]
8548 *) Compiles clean on SGI [Robert Thau]
8550 Changes with Apache 0.8.8 08 Aug 1995
8552 *) SunOS library prototypes now never included unless explicitly
8553 requested in the configuration (via -DSUNOS_LIB_PROTOTYPES);
8554 people using GNU libc on SunOS are screwed by prototypes for the
8557 (Those who wish to compile clean with gcc -Wall on a standard
8558 SunOS setup need the prototypes, and may obtain them using
8559 -DSUNOS_LIB_PROTOTYPES. Those wishing to use -Wall on a system
8560 with nonstandard libraries are presumably competent to make their
8563 *) Strips trailing '/' characters off both args to the Alias command,
8564 to make 'Alias /foo/ /bar/' work.
8566 Changes with Apache 0.8.7 03 Aug 1995
8568 *) Don't hang when restarting with a child from 'TransferLog "|..."' running
8569 [reported by David Robinson]
8571 *) Compiles clean on OSF/1 [David Robinson]
8573 *) Added some of the more recent significant changes (AddLanguage stuff,
8574 experimental LogFormat support) to CHANGES file in distribution root
8577 Changes with Apache 0.8.6 02 Aug 1995
8579 *) Deleted Netscape reload workaround --- it's in violation of HTTP specs.
8580 (If you actually wanted a conditional GET which bypassed the cache, you
8581 couldn't get it). [Reported by Roy Fielding]
8583 *) Properly terminate headers on '304 Not Modified' replies to conditional
8584 GETs --- no browser we can find cares much, but the CERN proxy chokes.
8585 [Reported by Cliff Skolnick; fix discovered independently by Rob Hartill]
8587 *) httpd -v doesn't call itself "Shambhala". [Reported by Chuck Murcko]
8589 *) SunOS lib-function prototypes in conf.h conditionalized on __GNUC__,
8590 not __SUNPRO_C (they're needed to quiet gcc -Wall, but acc chokes on 'em,
8591 and older versions don't set the __SUNPRO_C preprocessor variable). On
8592 all other systems, these are never used anyway. [Reported by Mark Cox].
8594 *) Scoreboard file (/tmp/htstatus.*) no longer publically writable.
8596 Changes with Apache 0.8.5 01 Aug 1995
8598 *) Added last-minute configurable log experiment, as optional module
8600 *) Correctly set r->bytes_sent for HTTP/0.9 requests, so they get logged
8601 properly. (One-line fix to http_protocol.c).
8603 *) Work around bogus behavior when reloading from Netscape.
8604 It's Netscape's bug --- for some reason they expect a request with
8605 If-modified-since: to not function as a conditional GET if it also
8606 comes with Pragma: no-cache, which is way out of line with the HTTP
8607 spec (according to Roy Fielding, the redactor).
8609 *) Added parameter to set maximum number of server processes.
8611 *) Added patches to make it work on A/UX. A/UX is *weird*. [Eric Hagberg,
8614 *) IdentityCheck bugfix [Chuck Murcko].
8616 *) Corrected cgi-src/Makefile entry for new imagemap script. [Alexei Kosut]
8618 *) More sample config file corrections; add extension to AddType for
8619 *.asis, move AddType generic description to its proper place, and
8620 fix miscellaneous typos. [ Alexei Kosut ]
8622 *) Deleted the *other* reference to the regents from the Berkeley
8623 legal disclaimer (everyplace).
8625 *) Nuked Shambhala name from src/README; had already cleaned it out
8628 Changes with Apache 0.8.4
8630 *) Changes to server-pool management parms --- renamed current
8631 StartServers to MinSpareServers, created separate StartServers
8632 parameter which means what it says, and renamed MaxServers to
8633 MaxSpareServers (though the old name still works, for NCSA 1.4
8634 back-compatibility). The old names were generally regarded as
8635 too confusing. Also altered "docs" in sample config files.
8637 *) More improvements to default config files ---
8638 sample directives (commented out) for XBitHack, BindAddress,
8639 CacheNegotiatedDocs, VirtualHost; decent set of AddLanguage
8640 defaults, AddTypes for send-as-is and imagemap magic types, and
8641 improvements to samples for DirectoryIndex [Alexei Kosut]
8643 *) Yet more improvements to default config files --- changes to
8644 Alexei's sample AddLanguage directives, and sample LanguagePriority
8645 [ Florent Guillaume ]
8647 *) Set config file locations properly if not set in httpd.conf
8650 *) Don't escape URIs in internal redirects multiple times; don't
8651 do that when translating PATH_INFO to PATH_TRANSLATED either.
8654 *) Corrected spelling of "Required" in 401 error reports [Andrew Wilson]
8656 Changes with Apache 0.8.3
8658 *) Edited distribution README to *briefly* summarize installation
8659 procedures, and give a pointer to the INSTALL file in the src/
8662 *) Upgraded imagemap script in cgi-bin to 1.8 version from more
8663 recent NCSA distributions.
8665 *) Bug fix to previous bug fix --- if .htaccess file and <Directory>
8666 exist for the same directory, use both and don't segfault. [Reported
8669 *) Proper makefile dependencies [David Robinson]
8671 *) Note (re)starts in error log --- reported by Rob Hartill.
8673 *) Only call no2slash() after get_path_info() has been done, to
8674 preserve multiple slashes in the PATH_INFO [NCSA compatibility,
8675 reported by Andrew Wilson, though this one is probably a real bug]
8677 *) Fixed mod_imap.c --- relative paths with base_uri referer don't
8678 dump core when Referer is not supplied. [Randy Terbush]
8680 *) Lightly edited sample config files to refer people to our documentation
8681 instead of NCSA's, and to list Rob McCool as *original* author (also
8682 deleted his old, and no doubt non-functional email address). Would be
8683 nice to have examples of new features...
8685 Changes with Apache 0.8.2 19 Jul 1995
8687 *) Added AddLanuage code [Florent Guillaume]
8689 *) Don't say "access forbidden" when a CGI script is not found. [Mark Cox]
8691 *) All sorts of problems when MultiViews finds a directory. It would
8692 be nice if mod_dir.c was robust enough to handle that, but for now,
8693 just punt. [reported by Brian Behlendorf]
8695 *) Wait for all children on restart, to make sure that the old socket
8696 is gone and we can reopen it. [reported by Randy Terbush]
8698 *) Imagemap module is enabled in default Configuration
8700 *) RefererLog and UserAgentLog modules properly default the logfile
8703 *) Mark Cox's mod_cookies added to the distribution as an optional
8704 module (commented out in the default Configuration, and noted as
8705 an experiment, along with mod_dld). [Mark Cox]
8707 *) Compiles on ULTRIX (a continuing battle...). [Robert Thau]
8709 *) Fixed nasty bug in SIGTERM handling [reported by Randy Terbush]
8711 *) Changed "Shambhala" to "Apache" in API docs. [Robert Thau]
8713 *) Added new, toothier legal disclaimer. [Robert Thau; copied from BSD
8716 Changes with Apache 0.8.1
8718 *) New imagemap module [Randy Terbush]
8720 *) Replacement referer log module with NCSA-compatible RefererIgnore
8721 [Matthew Gray again]
8723 *) Don't mung directory listings with very long filenames.
8726 Changes with Apache 0.8.0 (nee Shambhala 0.6.2) 16 Jul 1995
8728 *) New config script. See INSTALL for info. [Robert Thau]
8730 *) Scoreboard mechanism for regulating the number of extant server
8731 processes. MaxServers and StartServers defaults are the same as
8732 for NCSA, but the meanings are slightly different. (Actually,
8733 I should probably lower the MaxServers default to 10).
8735 Before asking for a new connection, each server process checks
8736 the number of other servers which are also waiting for a
8737 connection. If there are more than MaxServers, it quietly dies
8738 off. Conversely, every second, the root, or caretaker, process
8739 looks to see how many servers are waiting for a new connection;
8740 if there are fewer than StartServers, it starts a new one. This
8741 does not depend on the number of server processes already extant.
8742 The accounting is arranged through a "scoreboard" file, named
8743 /tmp/htstatus.*, on which each process has an independent file
8744 descriptor (they need to seek without interference).
8746 The end effect is that MaxServers is the maximum number of
8747 servers on an *inactive* server machine, but more will be forked
8748 off to handle unusually heavy loads (or unusually slow clients);
8749 these will die off when they are no longer needed --- without
8750 reverting to the overhead of full forking operation. There is a
8751 hard maximum of 150 server processes compiled in, largely to
8752 avoid forking out of control and dragging the machine down.
8753 (This is arguably too high).
8755 In my server endurance tests, this mechanism did not appear to
8756 impose any significant overhead, even after I forced it to put the
8757 scoreboard file on a normal filesystem (which might have more
8758 overhead than tmpfs). [Robert Thau]
8760 *) Set HTTP_FOO variables for SSI <!--#exec cmd-->s, not just CGI scripts.
8763 *) Read .htaccess files even in directory with <Directory> section.
8764 (Former incompatibility noted on mailing list, now fixed). [Robert
8767 *) "HEAD /" gives the client a "Bad Request" error message, rather
8768 than trying to send no body *and* no headers. [Cliff Skolnick].
8770 *) Don't produce double error reports for some very obscure cases
8771 mainly involving auth configuration (the "all modules decline to
8772 handle" case which is a sure sign of a server bug in most cases,
8773 but also happens when authentication is badly misconfigured).
8776 *) Moved FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT defines into conf.h (that's what
8777 it's *for*, and this sort of thing really shouldn't be cluttering
8778 up the Makefile). [Robert Thau]
8780 *) Incidental code cleanups in http_main.c --- stop dragging
8781 sa_client around; just declare it where used. [Robert Thau]
8783 *) Another acc-related fix. (It doesn't like const char
8784 in some places...). [Mark Cox]
8786 Changes with Shambhala 0.6.1 13 Jul 1995
8788 *) Fixed auth_name-related typos in http_core.c [Brian Behlendorf]
8789 Also, fixed auth typo in http_protocol.c unmasked by this fix.
8791 *) Compiles clean with acc on SunOS [Paul Sutton]
8793 *) Reordered modules in modules.c so that Redirect takes priority
8794 over ScriptAlias, for NCSA bug-compatibility [Rob Hartill] ---
8795 believe it or not, he has an actual site with a ScriptAlias and
8796 a Redirect declared for the *exact same directory*. Even *my*
8797 compatibility fetish wouldn't motivate me to fix this if the fix
8798 required any effort, but it doesn't, so what the hey.
8800 *) Fixed to properly default several server_rec fields for virtual
8801 servers from the corresponding fields in the main server_rec.
8802 [Cliff Skolnick --- 'port' was a particular irritant].
8804 *) No longer kills off nph- child processes before they are
8805 finished sending output. [Matthew Gray]
8807 Changes with Shambhala 0.6.0 10 Jul 1995
8809 *) Two styles of timeout --- hard and soft. soft_timeout()s just put
8810 the connection to the client in an "aborted" state, but otherwise
8811 allow whatever handlers are running to clean up. hard_timeout()s
8812 abort the request in progress completely; anything not tied to some
8813 resource pool cleanup will leak. They're still around because I
8814 haven't yet come up with a more elegant way of handling
8815 timeouts when talking to something that isn't the client. The
8816 default_handler and the dir_handler now use soft timeouts, largely
8817 so I can test the feature. [Robert Thau]
8819 *) TransferLog "| my_postprocessor ..." seems to be there. Note that
8820 the case of log handlers dying prematurely is probably handled VERY
8821 gracelessly at this point, and if the logger stops reading input,
8822 the server will hang. (It is known to correctly restart the
8823 logging process on server restart; this is (should be!) going through
8824 the same SIGTERM/pause/SIGKILL routine used to ding an errant CGI
8825 script). [Robert Thau]
8827 *) asis files supported (new module). [Robert Thau]
8829 *) IdentityCheck code is compiled in, but has not been tested. (I
8830 don't know anyone who runs identd). [Robert Thau]
8832 *) PATH_INFO and PATH_TRANSLATED are not set unless some real PATH_INFO
8833 came in with the request, for NCSA bug-compatibility. [Robert Thau]
8835 *) Don't leak the DIR * on HEAD request for a directory. [Robert Thau]
8837 *) Deleted the block_alarms() stuff from dbm_auth; no longer necessary,
8838 as timeouts are not in scope. [Robert Thau]
8840 *) quoted-string args in config files now handled correctly (doesn't drop
8841 the last character). [Robert Thau; reported by Randy Terbush]
8843 *) Fixed silly typo in http_main.c which was suddenly fatal in HP-UX.
8844 How the hell did it ever work? [Robert Thau; reported by Rob Hartill]
8846 *) mod_core.c --- default_type returns DEFAULT_TYPE (the compile-time
8847 default default type); the former default default behavior when all
8848 type-checkers defaulted had been a core dump. [Paul Sutton]
8850 *) Copy filenames out of the struct dirent when indexing
8851 directories. (On Linux, readdir() returns a pointer to the same
8852 memory area every time). Fix is in mod_dir.c. [Paul Sutton]
8854 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.3 [not released]
8856 *) Default response handler notes "file not found" in the error log,
8857 if the file was not found. [Cliff Skolnick].
8859 *) Another Cliff bug --- "GET /~user" now properly redirects (the userdir
8860 code no longer sets up bogus PATH_INFO which fakes out the directory
8861 handler). [Cliff Skolnick]
8863 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.2 06 Jul 1995
8865 *) Changes to http_main.c --- root server no longer plays silly
8866 games with SIGCHLD, and so now detects and replaces dying
8867 children. Child processes just die on SIGTERM, without taking
8868 the whole process group with them. Potential problem --- if any
8869 child process refuses to die, we hang in restart.
8870 MaxRequestsPerChild may still not work, but it certainly works
8871 better than it did before this! [Robert Thau]
8873 *) mod_dir.c bug fixes: ReadmeName and HeaderName
8874 work (or work better, at least); over-long description lines
8875 properly terminated. [Mark Cox]
8877 *) http_request.c now calls unescape_url() more places where it
8878 should [Paul Sutton].
8880 *) More directory handling bugs (reported by Cox)
8881 Parent Directory link is now set correctly. [Robert Thau]
8883 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.1 04 Jul 1995
8885 *) Generalized cleanup interface in alloc.c --- any function can be
8886 registered with alloc.c as a cleanup for a resource pool;
8887 tracking of files and file descriptors has been reimplemented in
8888 terms of this interface, so I can give it some sort of a test.
8891 *) More changes in alloc.c --- new cleanup_for_exec() function,
8892 which tracks down and closes all file descriptors which have been
8893 registered with the alloc.c machinery before the server exec()s a
8894 child process for CGI or <!--#exec-->. CGI children now get
8895 started with exactly three file descriptors open. Hopefully,
8896 this cures the problem Rob H. was having with overly persistent
8897 CGI connections. [Robert Thau]
8899 *) Mutual exclusion around the accept() in child_main() --- this is
8900 required on at least SGI, Solaris and Linux, and is #ifdef'ed in
8901 by default on those systems only (-DFCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT).
8902 This uses fcntl(F_SETLK,...) on the error log descriptor because
8903 flock() on that descriptor won't work on systems which have BSD
8904 flock() semantics, including (I think) Linux 1.3 and Solaris.
8906 This does work on SunOS (when the server is idle, only one
8907 process in the pool is waiting on accept()); it *ought* to work
8908 on the other systems. [Robert Thau]
8910 *) FreeBSD and BSDI portability tweaks [Chuck Murcko]
8912 *) sizeof(*sa_client) bugfix from [Rob Hartill]
8914 *) pstrdup(..., NULL) returns NULL, [Randy Terbush]
8916 *) block_alarms() to avoid leaking the DBM* in dbm auth (this should
8917 be unnecessary if I go to the revised timeout-handling scheme).
8920 *) For NCSA bug-compatibility, set QUERY_STRING env var (to a null
8921 string) even if none came in with the request. [Robert Thau]
8923 *) CHANGES file added to distribution ;-).
8925 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.5
8927 *) mod_dld --- early dynamic loading support [rst]
8928 *) Add wildcard content handlers for XBITHACK; default_hander now
8929 invoked with that mechanism (as a handler hanging off mod_core) [rst]
8930 *) XBITHACK supported as a wildcard content-handler, and
8931 configurable at run-time (not just at compile time, as in the
8932 "patchy server" releases) [rst]
8934 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.4 30 Jun 1995
8936 *) Fixed basic thinkos in mod_dbm_auth.c [rst, reported by Mark Cox]
8937 *) Handle Addtype x/y .z [rst, reported by Cox]
8939 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.3
8941 *) Fixed very dumb bug in mod_alias; "Alias" and "Redirect" are not
8942 synonymous [rst, terbush]
8944 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.1 28 Jun 1995
8946 *) First-cut virtual host implementation; some refit in the config
8947 reading code, and log management, was necessary to support this [rst]
8948 *) Sub-pool machinery, originally added to avoid excessive storage
8949 allocation on listings of large directories (which turned out to
8950 be the problem that the 0.3 storage accounting was added to
8951 find). Subrequests and mod_dir changed to use subpools. [rst]
8952 *) More memory debugging --- free list consistency checks. [rst]
8953 *) Added err_headers to request_rec, with support elsewhere [rst]
8954 *) Other fixes to minor bugs in mod_dir and mod_includes [rst, terbush]
8956 Changes with Shambhala 0.3 19 Jun 1995
8958 *) Switch ONE_PROCESS to a runtime command-line option (-X)
8959 *) Don't compile in mod_ai_backcompat by default
8960 *) Switch name of server from Apache to Shambhala in Makefile
8961 *) Add some accounting routines to track memory usage in the pools,
8964 Changes with Shambhala 0.2
8966 *) Set DOCUMENT_ROOT CGI variable
8967 *) Add single-process debugging, as a compile-time option (ONE_PROCESS)
8968 *) Add critical section protection to handling of cleanup structures
8970 *) Significant code reorg within the server core to group related
8971 functions together [rst]
8972 *) Correctly handle clients that hang up before sending any request
8974 *) Replace dying child processes. [rst]
8976 Changes with Shambhala 0.1 12 Jun 1995
8978 Major rewrite of the pre-existing "patchy server" codebase, by
8979 Robert Thau (rst). Significant portions of the server code, such
8980 as configuration-file handling and HTTP authentication support,
8981 were ripped out and rewritten from scratch. Code that was not
8982 completely rewritten was significantly altered.
8984 Major changes with this release include:
8986 *) Introduction of the module API; in request handling, the central
8987 machinery just dispatches to various modules, which actually do
8988 most of the work. Configuration handling is similar --- modules
8989 declare their own commands, and the central machinery just
8992 API features from shambhala/0.1 were substantially unchanged in
8993 Apache 1.0 and 1.1. (1.0 API features not yet present in this
8994 release, such as wildcard handlers and subpools, were added in
8995 subsequent Shambhala releases, and were also generally rst's
8998 *) This release included the following modules:
9000 mod_access (access control --- allow and deny directives),
9001 mod_alias (Alias and Redirect commands),
9002 mod_auth (straight HTTP authentication, based on flat-files)
9003 mod_auth_dbm (same, with dbm files)
9004 mod_cgi (CGI scripts and, in this release, ScriptAlias)
9005 mod_common_log (CLF access logs; later renamed mod_log_common)
9006 mod_dir (directory indexing)
9007 mod_include (server-side includes)
9008 mod_mime (AddType directives)
9009 mod_negotiation (content negotiation)
9010 mod_userdir (support for users' public_html directories)
9012 It also included a mod_ai_backcompat, which was a private hack
9013 for back-compatibility with rst's own AI-lab servers.
9015 All of these modules were substantially complete, and functional
9016 or nearly so (a few, which implemented features not in use at
9017 Thau's site, required patches of a few lines).
9019 *) sub-request machinery, to allow modules to determine how other
9020 modules would assign MIME types to a given file, or optionally
9021 serve its content (this is heavily used by mod_dir, mod_include
9022 and mod_negotiation).
9024 *) Resource pool system for keeping track of memory allocated and
9025 files opened in service of a particular request. Much of the
9026 code in the modules (when they weren't rewrites) was adjusted to
9027 replace a pervasive convention of using fixed-size buffers on
9028 the stack with an equally pervasive convention of using memory
9029 allocated with palloc().
9031 *) Reorganization of data structures associated with a given
9032 request to eliminate use of global variables and the troublesome
9033 unmunge_name function (used in NCSA and early Apache releases to
9034 attempt to determine the URI which mapped to a given filename
9035 --- a difficult proposition, given that it is easy to produce
9036 setups in which multiple URIs map to the same file).
9038 *) Source files renamed and rearranged
9040 *) Very simple pre-forking behavior --- parent process forked off a
9041 fixed number of children, and then just waited for SIGHUP.
9043 *) Other more minor changes too numerous to list.
9045 This release included modified versions of a lot of code from the
9046 Apache 0.6.4 public release, plus an early pre-forking patch
9047 codeveloped by Robert Thau and Rob Hartill.
9049 Changes with Apache 0.7.3 20 Jun 1995
9051 *) There were a bunch of changes between Apache 0.6.4 and 0.7.3 that
9052 were incorporated by Rob Hartill on the main branch while Robert Thau
9053 worked on the Shambhala rewrite above. Most were merged into the
9054 Shambala architecture after Apache 0.8.0.
9056 Changes with Apache 0.6.4 13 May 1995
9058 *) Patches by Rob Hartill, Cliff Skolnick, Randy Terbush, Robert Thau,
9061 Changes with Apache 0.5.1 10 Apr 1995
9063 Changes with Apache 0.4 02 Apr 1995
9065 *) Patches by Brian Behlendorf, Andrew Wilson, Robert Thau,
9068 Changes with Apache 0.3 24 Mar 1995
9070 *) Patches by Robert Thau, David Robinson, Rob Hartill, and
9073 Changes with Apache 0.2 18 Mar 1995
9075 *) Based on NCSA httpd 1.3 by Rob McCool and patches by CERT,
9076 Roy Fielding, Robert Thau, Nicolas Pioch, David Robinson,
9077 Brian Behlendorf, Rob Hartill, and Cliff Skolnick.
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