2 Changes with Apache 2.5.0
4 *) core: New functions to obtain load parameters: ap_get_sload()
5 and ap_get_loadavg(). [Jim Jagielski]
7 *) mod_cache_socache: New cache implementation backed by mod_socache
8 that replaces mod_mem_cache removed from httpd v2.2. [Graham
11 *) mod_auth_form: Support the expr parser in the
12 AuthFormLoginRequiredLocation, AuthFormLoginSuccessLocation and
13 AuthFormLogoutLocation directives. [Graham Leggett]
15 *) core: Add dirwalk_stat and pre_htaccess hooks, allowing mpm-itk
16 to be used without patches to httpd core. [Jeff Trawick]
18 *) mod_proxy: Allow for persistence of local changes (via the
19 balancer-manager) between graceful and normal restarts.
22 *) mod_slotmem: New provider function, fgrab(), which forces an
23 allocation of a slot. [Jim Jagielski]
25 *) mod_proxy_balancer: The nonce is only derived from the UUID iff
26 not set via the 'nonce' balancer param. [Jim Jagielski]
28 *) mod_lua: Add LuaInputFilter/LuaOutputFilter for creating content
29 filters in Lua [Daniel Gruno]
31 *) core: Apply length limit when logging Status header values.
32 [Jeff Trawick, Chris Darroch]
34 *) mod_ssl: Match wildcard SSL certificate names in proxy mode.
37 *) WinNT MPM: Store pid and generation for each thread in scoreboard
38 to allow tracking of threads from exiting children via mod_status
39 or other such mechanisms. [Jeff Trawick]
41 *) mod_ssl: Catch missing or mismatched client cert/key pairs with
42 SSLProxyMachineCertificateFile/Path directives. PR 52212.
43 [Keith Burdis <keith burdis.org>, Joe Orton]
45 *) mod_lua: Allow scripts handled by the lua-script handler to return
46 a status code to the client (such as a 302 or a 500) [Daniel Gruno]
48 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Fix crash in packet dump code when logging
49 with LogLevel trace7 or trace8. PR 53730. [Rainer Jung]
51 *) mod_cache: Wrong content type and character set when
52 mod_cache serves stale content because of a proxy error.
53 PR 53539. [Rainer Jung, Ruediger Pluem]
55 *) mod_lua: Decline handling 'lua-script' if the file doesn't exist,
56 rather than throwing an internal server error. [Daniel Gruno]
58 *) mod_lua: Add functions r:flush and r:sendfile as well as additional
59 request information to the request_rec structure. [Daniel Gruno]
61 *) mod_lua: Add a server scope for Lua states, which creates a pool of
62 states with managable minimum and maximum size. [Daniel Gruno]
64 *) core: Add post_perdir_config hook.
65 [Steinar Gunderson <sgunderson bigfoot.com>]
67 *) mod_lua: Add new directive, LuaMapHandler, for dynamically mapping
68 URIs to Lua scripts and functions using regular expressions.
71 *) mod_lua: Add new directive LuaCodeCache for controlling in-memory
72 caching of lua scripts. [Daniel Gruno]
74 *) The following now respect DefaultRuntimeDir/DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR:
75 - APIs: ap_log_pid(), ap_remove_pid, ap_read_pid()
76 - core: the scoreboard (ScoreBoardFile), pid file (PidFile), and
78 - mod_lbmethod_heartbeat, mod_heartmonitor: heartbeat storage file
79 - mod_ldap: shared memory cache
80 - mod_socache_shmcb, mod_socache_dbm: shared memory or dbm for cache
83 *) mod_ssl: Add RFC 5878 support. [Ben Laurie]
85 *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS-SRP (Secure Remote Password key exchange
86 for TLS, RFC 5054). PR 51075. [Quinn Slack <sqs cs stanford edu>,
87 Christophe Renou, Peter Sylvester]
89 *) core: Make ap_regcomp() return AP_REG_ESPACE if out of memory. Make
90 ap_pregcomp() abort if out of memory. This raises the minimum PCRE
91 requirement to version 6.0. PR 53284. [Stefan Fritsch]
93 *) suexec: Add --enable-suexec-capabilites support on Linux, to use
94 setuid/setgid capability bits rather than a setuid root binary.
97 *) suexec: Add support for logging to syslog as an alternative to logging
98 to a file; configure --without-suexec-logfile --with-suexec-syslog.
101 *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS Next Protocol Negotiation. PR 52210.
102 [Matthew Steele <mdsteele google.com>]
104 *) various modules, rotatelogs: Replace use of apr_file_write() with
105 apr_file_write_full() to prevent incomplete writes. PR 53131.
106 [Nicolas Viennot <apache viennot biz>, Stefan Fritsch]
108 *) cross-compile: allow to provide CC_FOR_BUILD so that gen_test_char will
109 be compiled by the build compiler instead of the host compiler.
110 Also set CC_FOR_BUILD to 'cc' when cross-compilation is detected.
111 PR 51257. [Guenter Knauf]
113 *) core: In maintainer mode, replace apr_palloc with a version that
114 initializes the allocated memory with non-zero values, except if
115 AP_DEBUG_NO_ALLOC_POISON is defined. [Stefan Fritsch]
117 *) mod_policy: Add a new testing module to help server administrators
118 enforce a configurable level of protocol compliance on their
119 servers and application servers behind theirs. [Graham Leggett]
121 *) mod_firehose: Add a new debugging module able to record traffic
122 passing through the server in such a way that connections and/or
123 requests be reconstructed and replayed. [Graham Leggett]
133 [Apache 2.5.0-dev includes those bug fixes and changes with the
134 Apache 2.4.xx tree as documented below, except as noted.]
136 Changes with Apache 2.4.x and later:
138 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/CHANGES?view=markup
140 Changes with Apache 2.2.x and later:
142 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/CHANGES?view=markup
144 Changes with Apache 2.0.x and later:
146 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x/CHANGES?view=markup