1 Changes with Apache 2.1.0-dev
3 [Remove entries to the current 2.0 section below, when backported]
5 *) Add a hook (insert_error_filter) to allow filters to re-insert
6 themselves during processing of error responses. Enable mod_expires
7 to use the new hook to include Expires headers in valid error
8 responses. This addresses an RFC violation. It fixes PRs 19794,
9 24884, and 25123. [Paul J. Reder]
11 *) Fix <Limit> and <LimitExcept> parsing to require a closing '>'
12 in the initial container. PR 25414.
13 [Geoffrey Young <geoff apache.org>]
15 *) Fix memory leak in handling of request bodies during reverse
16 proxy operations. PR 24991. [Larry Toppi <larry.toppi citrix.com>]
18 *) Clean up httpd -V output: Instead of displaying the MPM source
19 directory, display the MPM name and some MPM properties.
20 [Geoffrey Young <geoff apache.org>]
22 *) Fixed cache-removal order in mod_mem_cache.
23 [Jean-Jacques Clar, Cliff Woolley]
25 *) Add fatal exception hook for use by debug modules. The hook is only
26 available if the --enable-exception-hook configure parm is used.
29 *) mod_ssl/mod_status: Re-enable support for output of SSL session
30 cache information in server-status page. [Joe Orton]
32 *) mod_ssl: Remove the shmht session cache, shmcb should be used
35 *) mod_ssl: SSL_VERSION_LIBRARY is set to the version string from the
36 SSL library used at run-time, rather than at compile-time.
37 PR: 23956 [Eric Seidel <eseidel apple.com>]
39 *) SECURITY [CAN-2003-0020]: Escape arbitrary data before writing
40 into the errorlog. [André Malo]
42 *) mod_logio: Account for some bytes handed to the network layer prior to
43 dropped connections. [Jeff Trawick]
45 *) mod_autoindex: new directive IndexStyleSheet
46 [Tyler Riddle <triddle_1999 yahoo.com>, Paul Querna <chip force-elite.com>]
48 *) Fix a long delay with CGI requests and keepalive connections on
51 *) Fix uninitialized gprof directory name in prefork MPM. PR 24450.
52 [Chris Knight <Christopher.D.Knight nasa.gov>]
54 *) mod_auth_ldap: Fix some segfaults in the cache logic. PR 18756.
55 [Matthieu Estrade <apache moresecurity.org>]
57 *) mod_autoindex: Restore the ability to add a description for
58 directories that don't contain an index file. [André Malo]
60 *) mod_autoindex: Add 'XHTML' option in order to allow switching between
61 HTML 3.2 and XHTML 1.0 output. PR 23747. [André Malo]
63 *) Add XHTML Document Type Definitions to httpd.h (minor MMN bump).
66 *) mod_setenvif: Fix the regex optimizer, which under circumstances
67 treated the supplied regex as literal string. PR 24219.
70 *) mod_autoindex / core: Don't fail to show filenames containing
71 special characters like '%'. PR 13598. [André Malo]
73 *) mod_status: Report total CPU time accurately when using a threaded
74 MPM. PR 23795. [Jeff Trawick]
76 *) mod_ssl: Fix segfault on a non-SSL request if the the 'c' log
77 format code is used. PR 22741. [Gary E. Miller <gem rellim.com>]
79 *) Log an error when requests for URIs which fail to map to a valid
80 filesystem name are rejected with 403. [Jeff Trawick]
82 *) Switch to APR 1.0 API.
84 *) Fix mod_include's expression parser to recognize strings correctly
85 even if they start with an escaped token. [André Malo]
87 *) Major overhaul of mod_include's filter parser. The new parser code
88 is expected to be more robust and should catch all of the edge cases
89 that were not handled by the previous one. This includes a binary
90 incompatible change of mod_include's external API. [André Malo]
92 *) mod_rewrite: Allow forced mimetypes [T=...] to get expanded.
93 PR 14223. [André Malo]
95 *) mod_rewrite: Catch an edge case, where strange subsequent RewriteRules
96 could lead to a 400 (Bad Request) response. [André Malo]
98 *) mod_rewrite: Fix LA-U and LA-F lookups in directory context. Previously
99 the current rewrite state was just used as lookup path, which lead to
100 strange and often useless results. Related to PR 8493. [André Malo]
102 *) Change Listen directive to bind to all addresses when a hostname is
103 not specified. [Justin Erenkrantz]
105 *) Correct failure with Listen directives on machines with IPv6 enabled.
106 [Colm MacCárthaigh <colm stdlib.net>, Justin Erenkrantz]
108 *) Fix a link failure in mod_ssl when the OpenSSL libraries contain
109 the ENGINE functions but the engine header files are missing.
112 *) mod_dav: Use bucket brigades when reading PUT data. This avoids
113 problems if the data stream is modified by an input filter. PR 22104.
114 [Tim Robbins <tim robbins.dropbear.id.au>, André Malo]
116 *) mod_rewrite: RewriteRules in server context using the force
117 type feature [T=...] no longer disable MultiViews. [André Malo]
119 *) mod_rewrite: In external rewrite maps lookup keys containing
120 a newline now cause a lookup failure. PR 14453.
121 [Cedric Gavage <cedric.gavage unixtech.be>, André Malo]
123 *) mod_rewrite: Allow piped rewrite logs to be relative to ServerRoot.
126 *) mod_authz_groupfile: Strip trailing spaces of group names. This
127 hopefully saves some hours of searching for typos. PR 12863.
130 *) mod_actions: Propagate the handler name to the action script via
131 the REDIRECT_HANDLER environment variable. [André Malo]
133 *) mod_actions: Introduce the "virtual" modifier to the Action directive,
134 which allows the use of handlers for virtual locations. PR 8431.
137 *) mod_speling: Recognize AcceptPathInfo setting for the particular
138 location. Default is to reject path information. PR 21059.
141 *) mod_ext_filter: Add the ability to filter request bodies.
142 [Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner linbit.com>]
144 *) mod_cgid: Restart the cgid daemon if it crashes. PR 19849
145 [Glenn Nielsen <glenn apache.org>]
147 *) Fix some broken log messages in WinNT MPM.
148 [Juan Rivera <Juan.Rivera citrix.com>]
150 *) Add support for IMT minor-type wildcards (e.g., text/*) to
151 ExpiresByType. PR#7991 [Ken Coar]
153 *) Fix a problem with namespace mappings being dropped in mod_dav_fs;
154 if any property values were set which defined namespaces these
155 came out mangled in the PROPFIND response. PR 11637.
156 [Amit Athavale <amit_athavale persistent.co.in>]
158 *) prefork MPM: Use the right permissions for the directory created
159 for gprof support. [Jim Carlson <jcarlson jnous.com>]
161 *) Fix a compile failure with recent OpenSSL and picky compilers
162 (e.g., OpenSSL 0.9.7a and xlc_r on AIX). [Jeff Trawick]
164 *) OpenSSL headers should be included as "openssl/ssl.h", and not rely on
165 the INCLUDE path to be defined properly.
166 PR 11310. [Geoff Thorpe <geoff geoffthorpe.net>]
168 *) Modify APACHE_CHECK_SSL_TOOLKIT to detect SSL-C. [Madhusudan Mathihalli]
170 *) Replace the APACHE_CHECK_SSL_TOOLKIT method with a cleaner one, using
171 autoconf tools (AC_CHECK_HEADER, AC_CHECK_LIB etc).
172 [Geoff Thorpe <geoff geoffthorpe.net>]
174 *) change directive name from 'compressionlevel' to 'deflatecompressionlevel'
175 [Ian Holsman, André Malo]
177 *) mod_negotiation: quality values are now parsed independent from
178 the current locale. level values are now really parsed as integers.
179 PR 17564. [André Malo]
181 *) Added the WindowsSocketsWorkaround directive for Windows NT/2000/XP
182 to work around problems with certain VPN and Firewall products that
183 have buggy AcceptEx implementations.
184 [Allan Edwards w/ suggestions from Bill Stoddard & Bill Rowe]
186 *) Extend mod_negotiation to evaluate the environment variables
187 no-gzip and gzip-only-text/html the same way as mod_deflate does.
190 *) mod_rewrite: Fix some problems reporting errors with mapping
191 programs (RewriteMap prg:/something). [Jeff Trawick]
193 *) Return 413 if chunk-ext-header is too long rather than reading from
194 the truncated line. PR 15857. [Justin Erenkrantz]
196 *) Allow restart of httpd to occur even with syntax errors in the config
197 file. PR 16813. [Justin Erenkrantz]
199 *) Use APR_LAYOUT instead of APACHE_LAYOUT in configure. PR 15679.
202 *) Remove files on 'make distclean' that should be. PR 15592.
205 *) Allow apachectl to perform status with links and elinks as well.
208 *) Extend the SetEnvIf directive to capture subexpressions of the
209 matched value. [André Malo]
211 *) mod_log_config change optional hook to return previous handler
214 *) Forward port of mod_actions' ability to handle arbitrary methods
215 with the Script directive. [André Malo]
217 *) Let suexec send a message to stderr, if it failed or its policy
218 was violated. This message appears in the error log and allows
219 for easier debugging. PR 5381, 7638, 8255, 10773. [André Malo]
221 *) Modify buildconf to copy all required files into httpd's tree.
222 [Thom May <thom planetarytramp.net>]
224 *) Allow mod_dav to do weak entity comparison functions.
227 *) Move RFC 1413 ident requests from core to new module mod_ident.
230 *) Add mod_authz_owner - a forward port of "Require file-owner"
231 and "Require file-group", which was already present in version
234 *) Add mod_dav_lock - a generic subset of the DAV locking implementation.
237 *) Replace some of the mutex locking in the worker MPM with
238 atomic operations for higher concurrency. [Brian Pane]
240 *) Allow 'make depend' to work with non-GCC compilers.
243 *) If an httpd.conf has commented out AddModule directives,
244 apxs -i -a will add an un-commented AddModule directive for
245 the new module, which breaks the config.
246 PR: 11212 [Joe Orton]
248 *) Fix mod_proxy handling of filtered input bodies. [Justin Erenkrantz]
250 *) Move the check of the Expect request header field after the hook
251 for ap_post_read_request, since that is the only opportunity for
252 modules to handle Expect extensions. [Justin Erenkrantz]
254 *) Rewrite of aaa modules to an authn/authz model.
255 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Justin Erenkrantz]
258 [Apache 2.1.0-dev includes those bug fixes and changes with the
259 Apache 2.0.xx tree as documented, and except as noted, below.]
261 Changes with Apache 2.0.49
262 *) Win32 MPM: Implement MaxMemFree to enable setting an upper
263 limit on the amount of storage used by the bucket brigades
264 in each server thread. [Bill Stoddard]
266 *) Modified the cache code to be header-location agnostic. Also
267 fixed a number of other cache code bugs related to PR 15852.
268 Includes a patch submitted by Sushma Rai <rsushma novell.com>.
269 This fixes mod_mem_cache but not mod_disk_cache yet so I'm not
270 closing the PR since that is what they are using. [Paul J. Reder]
272 *) complain via error_log when mod_include's INCLUDES filter is
273 enabled, but the relevant Options flag allowing the filter to run
274 for the specific resource wasn't set, so that the filter won't
275 silently get skipped. next remove itself, so the warning will be
276 logged only once [Stas Bekman, Jeff Trawick, Bill Rowe]
278 *) mod_info: HTML escape configuration information so it displays
279 correctly. PR 24232. [Thom May]
281 *) Restore the ability to add a description for directories that
282 don't contain an index file. (Broken in 2.0.48) [André Malo]
284 *) Fix a problem with the display of empty variables ("SetEnv foo") in
285 mod_include. PR 24734 [Markus Julen <mj zermatt.net>]
287 *) mod_log_config: Log the minutes component of the timezone correctly.
288 PR 23642. [Hong-Gunn Chew <hgbug gunnet.org>]
290 *) mod_proxy: Fix cases where an invalid status-line could be sent
291 to the client. PR 23998. [Joe Orton]
293 *) mod_ssl: Fix segfaults at startup if other modules which use OpenSSL
294 are also loaded. [Joe Orton]
296 *) mod_ssl: Use human-readable OpenSSL error strings in logs; use
297 thread-safe interface for retrieving error strings. [Joe Orton]
299 *) mod_expires: Initialize ExpiresDefault to NULL instead of "" to
300 avoid reporting an Internal Server error if it is used without
301 having been set in the httpd.conf file. PR: 23748, 24459
302 [Andre Malo, Liam Quinn <liam htmlhelp.com>]
304 *) mod_autoindex: Don't omit the <tr> start tag if the SuppressIcon
305 option is set. PR 21668. [Jesse Tie-Ten-Quee <highos highos.com>]
307 *) mod_include no longer allows an ETag header on 304 responses.
308 PR 19355. [Geoffrey Young <geoff apache.org>, André Malo]
310 *) EBCDIC: Convert header fields to ASCII before sending (broken
311 since 2.0.44). [Martin Kraemer]
313 *) Fix the inability to log errors like exec failure in
314 mod_ext_filter/mod_cgi script children. This was broken after
315 such children stopped inheriting the error log handle.
318 *) Fix mod_info to use the real config file name, not the default
319 config file name. [Aryeh Katz <aryeh secured-services.com>]
321 *) Set the scoreboard state to indicate logging prior to running
322 logging hooks so that server-status will show 'L' for hung loggers
323 instead of 'W'. [Jeff Trawick]
325 Changes with Apache 2.0.48
327 *) SECURITY [CAN-2003-0789]: mod_cgid: Resolve some mishandling of
328 the AF_UNIX socket used to communicate with the cgid daemon and
329 the CGI script. [Jeff Trawick]
331 *) SECURITY [CAN-2003-0542]: Fix buffer overflows in mod_alias and
332 mod_rewrite which occurred if one configured a regular expression
333 with more than 9 captures. [André Malo]
335 *) mod_include: fix segfault which occured if the filename was not
336 set, for example, when processing some error conditions.
337 PR 23836. [Brian Akins <bakins web.turner.com>, André Malo]
339 *) fix the config parser to support <Foo>..</Foo> containers (no
340 arguments in the opening tag) supported by httpd 1.3. Without
341 this change mod_perl 2.0's <Perl> sections are broken.
342 ["Philippe M. Chiasson" <gozer cpan.org>]
344 *) mod_cgid: fix a hash table corruption problem which could
345 result in the wrong script being cleaned up at the end of a
346 request. [Jeff Trawick]
348 *) Update httpd-*.conf to be clearer in describing the connection
349 between AddType and AddEncoding for defining the meaning of
350 compressed file extensions. [Roy Fielding]
352 *) mod_rewrite: Don't die silently when failing to open RewriteLogs.
353 PR 23416. [André Malo]
355 *) mod_rewrite: Fix mod_rewrite's support of the [P] option to send
356 rewritten request using "proxy:". The code was adding multiple "proxy:"
357 fields in the rewritten URI. PR: 13946.
358 [Eider Oliveira <eider bol.com.br>]
360 *) cache_util: Fix ap_check_cache_freshness to check max_age, smax_age, and
361 expires as directed in RFC 2616. [Thomas Castelle <tcastelle generali.fr>]
363 *) Ensure that ssl-std.conf is generated at configure time, and switch
364 to using the expanded config variables to work the same as
365 httpd-std.conf PR: 19611
368 *) mod_ssl: Fix segfaults after renegotiation failure. PR 21370
369 [Hartmut Keil <Hartmut.Keil adnovum.ch>]
371 *) mod_autoindex: If a directory contains a file listed in the
372 DirectoryIndex directive, the folder icon is no longer replaced
373 by the icon of that file. PR 9587.
374 [David Shane Holden <dpejesh yahoo.com>]
376 *) Fixed mod_usertrack to not get false positive matches on the
377 user-tracking cookie's name. PR 16661.
378 [Manni Wood <manniwood planet-save.com>]
380 *) mod_cache: Fix the cache code so that responses can be cached
381 if they have an Expires header but no Etag or Last-Modified
385 *) mod_log_config: Fix %b log format to write really "-" when 0 bytes
386 were sent (e.g. with 304 or 204 response codes). [Astrid Keßler]
388 *) Modify ap_get_client_block() to note if it has seen EOS.
391 *) Fix a bug, where mod_deflate sometimes unconditionally compressed the
392 content if the Accept-Encoding header contained only other tokens than
393 "gzip" (such as "deflate"). PR 21523. [Joe Orton, André Malo]
395 *) Avoid an infinite recursion, which occured if the name of an included
396 config file or directory contained a wildcard character. PR 22194.
399 *) mod_ssl: Fix a problem setting variables that represent the
400 client certificate chain. PR 21371 [Jeff Trawick]
402 *) Unix: Handle permissions settings for flock-based mutexes in
403 unixd_set_global|proc_mutex_perms(). Allow the functions to be
404 called for any type of mutex. PR 20312 [Jeff Trawick]
406 *) ab: Work over non-loopback on Unix again. PR 21495. [Jeff Trawick]
408 *) Fix a misleading message from the some of the threaded MPMs when
409 MaxClients has to be lowered due to the setting of ServerLimit.
412 *) Lower the severity of the "listener thread didn't exit" message
413 to debug, as it is of interest only to developers. PR 9011
416 *) MPMs: The bucket brigades subsystem now honors the MaxMemFree setting.
417 [Cliff Woolley, Jean-Jacques Clar]
419 *) Install config.nice into the build/ directory to make
420 minor version upgrades easier. [Joshua Slive]
422 *) Fix mod_deflate so that it does not call deflate() without checking
423 first whether it has something to deflate. (Currently this causes
424 deflate to generate a fatal error according to the zlib spec.)
425 PR 22259. [Stas Bekman]
427 *) mod_ssl: Fix FakeBasicAuth for subrequest. Log an error when an
428 identity spoof is encountered.
431 *) mod_rewrite: Ignore RewriteRules in .htaccess files if the directory
432 containing the .htaccess file is requested without a trailing slash.
433 PR 20195. [André Malo]
435 *) ab: Overlong credentials given via command line no longer clobber
436 the buffer. [André Malo]
438 *) mod_deflate: Don't attempt to hold all of the response until we're
439 done. [Justin Erenkrantz]
441 *) Assure that we block properly when reading input bodies with SSL.
442 PR 19242. [David Deaves <David.Deaves dd.id.au>, William Rowe]
444 *) Update mime.types to include latest IANA and W3C types. [Roy Fielding]
446 *) mod_ext_filter: Set additional environment variables for use by
447 the external filter. PR 20944. [Andrew Ho, Jeff Trawick]
449 *) Fix buildconf errors when libtool version changes. [Jeff Trawick]
451 *) Remember an authenticated user during internal redirects if the
452 redirection target is not access protected and pass it
453 to scripts using the REDIRECT_REMOTE_USER environment variable.
454 PR 10678, 11602. [André Malo]
456 *) mod_include: Fix a trio of bugs that would cause various unusual
457 sequences of parsed bytes to omit portions of the output stream.
458 PR 21095. [Ron Park <ronald.park cnet.com>, André Malo, Cliff Woolley]
460 *) Update the header token parsing code to allow LWS between the
461 token word and the ':' seperator. [PR 16520]
462 [Kris Verbeeck <kris.verbeeck advalvas.be>, Nicel KM <mnicel yahoo.com>]
464 *) Eliminate creation of a temporary table in ap_get_mime_headers_core()
465 [Joe Schaefer <joe+gmane sunstarsys.com>]
467 *) Added FreeBSD directory layout. PR 21100.
468 [Sander Holthaus <info orangexl.com>, André Malo]
470 *) Fix NULL-pointer issue in ab when parsing an incomplete or non-HTTP
471 response. PR 21085. [Glenn Nielsen <glenn apache.org>, André Malo]
473 *) mod_rewrite: Perform child initialization on the rewrite log lock.
474 This fixes a log corruption issue when flock-based serialization
475 is used (e.g., FreeBSD). [Jeff Trawick]
477 *) Don't respect the Server header field as set by modules and CGIs.
478 As with 1.3, for proxy requests any such field is from the origin
479 server; otherwise it will have our server info as controlled by
480 the ServerTokens directive. [Jeff Trawick]
482 Changes with Apache 2.0.47
484 *) SECURITY [CAN-2003-0192]: Fixed a bug whereby certain sequences
485 of per-directory renegotiations and the SSLCipherSuite directive
486 being used to upgrade from a weak ciphersuite to a strong one
487 could result in the weak ciphersuite being used in place of the
488 strong one. [Ben Laurie]
490 *) SECURITY [CAN-2003-0253]: Fixed a bug in prefork MPM causing
491 temporary denial of service when accept() on a rarely accessed port
492 returns certain errors. Reported by Saheed Akhtar
493 <S.Akhtar talis.com>. [Jeff Trawick]
495 *) SECURITY [CAN-2003-0254]: Fixed a bug in ftp proxy causing denial
496 of service when target host is IPv6 but proxy server can't create
497 IPv6 socket. Fixed by the reporter. [Yoshioka Tsuneo
498 <tsuneo.yoshioka f-secure.com>]
500 *) SECURITY [VU#379828] Prevent the server from crashing when entering
501 infinite loops. The new LimitInternalRecursion directive configures
502 limits of subsequent internal redirects and nested subrequests, after
503 which the request will be aborted. PR 19753 (and probably others).
504 [William Rowe, Jeff Trawick, André Malo]
506 *) core_output_filter: don't split the brigade after a FLUSH bucket if
507 it's the last bucket. This prevents creating unneccessary empty
508 brigades which may not be destroyed until the end of a keepalive
510 [Juan Rivera <Juan.Rivera citrix.com>]
512 *) Add support for "streamy" PROPFIND responses.
513 [Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman collab.net>]
515 *) mod_cgid: Eliminate a double-close of a socket. This resolves
516 various operational problems in a threaded MPM, since on the
517 second attempt to close the socket, the same descriptor was
518 often already in use by another thread for another purpose.
521 *) mod_negotiation: Introduce "prefer-language" environment variable,
522 which allows to influence the negotiation process on request basis
523 to prefer a certain language. [André Malo]
525 *) Make mod_expires' ExpiresByType work properly, including for
526 dynamically-generated documents. [Ken Coar, Bill Stoddard]
528 Changes with Apache 2.0.46
530 *) SECURITY [CAN-2003-0245]: Fixed a bug causing apr_pvsprintf() to crash
531 by sending an overly long string. This can be triggered remotely
532 through mod_dav, mod_ssl, and other mechanisms. Reported by David
533 Endler <DEndler iDefense.com>.
534 [Joe Orton <jorton redhat.com>]
536 *) SECURITY [CAN-2003-0189]: Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability
537 affecting basic authentication on Unix platforms related to
538 thread-safety in apr_password_validate(). The problem was reported
539 by John Hughes <john.hughes entegrity.com>.
541 *) Fix for mod_dav. Call the 'can_be_activity' callback, if provided,
542 when a MKACTIVITY request comes in.
543 [Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman collab.net>]
545 *) Perform run-time query in apxs for apr and apr-util's includes.
548 *) run libtool from the apr install directory (in case that is different
549 from the apache install directory) [Jeff Trawick]
551 *) configure.in: Play nice with libtool-1.5. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
553 *) If mod_mime_magic does not know the content-type, do not attempt to
554 guess. PR 16908. [Andrew Gapon <agapon telcordia.com>]
556 *) ssl session caching(shmht) : Fix a SEGV problem with SHMHT session
558 [Andreas Leimbacher <andreasl67 yahoo.de>, Madhusudan Mathihalli]
560 *) Add a delete flag to htpasswd.
563 *) Fix mod_rewrite's handling of absolute URIs. The escaping routines
564 now work scheme dependent and the query string will only be
565 appended if supported by the particular scheme. [André Malo]
567 *) Add another check for already compressed content in mod_deflate.
568 PR 19913. [Tsuyoshi SASAMOTO <nazonazo super.win.ne.jp>]
570 *) Fixes for VPATH builds; copying special.mk and any future .mk files
571 from the source tree as well as the build tree (now creates a usable
572 configuration for apxs), and eliminated redundant -I'nclude paths.
575 *) Code fixes, constness corrections and ssl_toolkit_compat.h updates
576 for SSLC and OpenSSL toolkit compatibility. Still work remains to
577 be done to cripple features based on the limitations of RSA's binary
578 distribution of their SSL-C toolkit.
579 [William Rowe, Madhusudan Mathihalli, Jeff Trawick]
581 *) Linux 2.4+: If Apache is started as root and you code
582 CoreDumpDirectory, coredumps are enabled via the prctl() syscall.
585 *) ap_get_mime_headers_core: allocate space for the trailing null
586 when folding is in effect.
587 PR 18170 [Peter Mayne <PeterMayne SPAM_SUX.ap.spherion.com>]
589 *) Fix --enable-mods-shared=most and other variants. [Aaron Bannert]
591 *) mod_log_config: Add the ability to log the id of the thread
592 processing the request via new %P formats. [Jeff Trawick]
594 *) Use appropriate language codes for Czech (cs) and Traditional Chinese
595 (zh-tw) in default config files. PR 9427. [André Malo]
597 *) mod_auth_ldap: Use generic whitespace character class when parsing
598 "require" directives, instead of literal spaces only. PR 17135.
601 *) Hook mod_rewrite's type checker before mod_mime's one. That way the
602 RewriteRule [T=...] Flag should work as expected now. PR 19626.
605 *) htpasswd: Check the processed file on validity. If a line is not empty
606 and not a comment, it must contain at least one colon. Otherwise exit
607 with error code 7. [Kris Verbeeck <Kris.Verbeeck ubizen.com>, Thom May]
609 *) Fix a problem that caused httpd to be linked with incorrect flags
610 on some platforms when mod_so was enabled by default, breaking
611 DSOs on AIX. PR 19012 [Jeff Trawick]
613 *) By default, use the same CC and CPP with which APR was built.
614 The user can override with CC and CPP environment variables.
617 *) Fix ap_construct_url() so that it surrounds IPv6 literal address
618 strings with []. This fixes certain types of redirection.
619 PR 19207. [Jeff Trawick]
621 *) forward port of buffer overflow fixes for htdigest. [Thom May]
623 *) Added AllowEncodedSlashes directive to permit control of whether
624 the server will accept encoded slashes ('%2f') in the URI path.
625 Default condition is off (the historical behaviour). This permits
626 environments in which the path-info needs to contain encoded
627 slashes. PR 543, 2389, 3581, 3589, 5687, 7066, 7865, 14639. [Ken Coar]
629 *) When using Redirect in directory context, append requested query
630 string if there's no one supplied by configuration. PR 10961.
633 *) Unescape the supplied wildcard pattern in mod_autoindex. Otherwise
634 the pattern will not always match as desired. PR 12596.
637 *) mod_autoindex now emits and accepts modern query string parameter
638 delimiters (;). Thus column headers no longer contain unescaped
639 ampersands. PR 10880 [André Malo]
641 *) Enable ap_sock_disable_nagle for Windows. This along with the
642 addition of APR_TCP_NODELAY_INHERITED to apr.hw will cause Nagle
643 to be disabled for Windows. [Allan Edwards]
645 *) Correct a mis-correlation between mpm_common.c and mpm_common.h;
646 This patch reverts us to pre-2.0.46 behavior, using the
647 ap_sock_disable_nagle noop macro, because ap_sock_disable_nagle
648 was never compiled on Win32. [Allan Edwards, William Rowe]
650 *) Fix a build problem with passing unsupported --enable-layout
651 args to apr and apr-util. This broke binbuild.sh as well as
652 user-specified layout parameters. PR 18649 [Justin Erenkrantz,
655 *) If a Date response header was already set in the headers array,
656 this value was ignored in favour of the current time. This meant
657 that Date headers on proxied requests where rewritten when they
658 should not have been. PR: 14376 [Graham Leggett]
660 *) Add code to buildconf that produces an httpd.spec file from
661 httpd.spec.in, using build/get-version.sh from APR.
664 *) Fixed a segfault when multiple ProxyBlock directives were used.
665 PR: 19023 [Sami Tikka <sami.tikka f-secure.com>]
667 *) SECURITY [CAN-2003-0134] OS2: Fix a Denial of Service vulnerability
668 identified and reported by Robert Howard <rihoward rawbw.com> that
669 where device names faulted the running OS2 worker process.
670 The fix is actually in APR 0.9.4. [Brian Havard]
672 *) Forward port: Escape special characters (especially control
673 characters) in mod_log_config to make a clear distinction between
674 client-supplied strings (with special characters) and server-side
675 strings. This was already introduced in version 1.3.25.
678 *) mod_deflate: Check also err_headers_out for an already set
679 Content-Encoding: gzip header. This prevents gzip compressed content
680 from a CGI script from being compressed once more. PR 17797.
683 Changes with Apache 2.0.45
685 *) Fix possible segfaults under obscure error conditions within the
686 cgid daemon. [Jeff Trawick, William Rowe]
688 *) SECURITY [CAN-2003-0132]: Close a Denial of Service vulnerability
689 identified by David Endler <DEndler iDefense.com> on all platforms.
690 An unlimited stream of newlines were acceptable between requests
691 where each <lf> would allocate an 80 byte buffer, leading very
692 quickly to memory exahustion. [Brian Pane]
694 *) Added an rpm build script.
695 [Graham Leggett, Joe Orton <jorton redhat.com>]
697 *) Simpler, faster code path for request header scanning [Brian Pane]
699 *) SECURITY: Eliminated leaks of several file descriptors to child
700 processes, such as CGI scripts. This fix depends on the APR library
701 release 0.9.2 or later (0.9.3 was distributed with the httpd
702 source tarball for Apache 2.0.45.) PR 17206
703 [Christian Kratzer <ck cksoft.de>, Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz zabbadoz.net>]
705 *) Fix path handling of mod_rewrite, especially on non-unix systems.
706 There was some confusion between local paths and URL paths.
707 PR 12902. [André Malo]
709 *) Prevent endless loops of internal redirects in mod_rewrite by
710 aborting after exceeding a limit of internal redirects. The
711 limit defaults to 10 and can be changed using the RewriteOptions
712 directive. PR 17462. [André Malo]
714 *) Win32: Avoid busy wait (consuming all the CPU idle cycles) when
715 all worker threads are busy.
716 [Igor Nazarenko <igor_nazarenko hotmail.com>]
718 *) Keep the subrequest filter in place when a subrequest is
719 redirected. PR 15423. [Jeff Trawick]
721 *) you can now specify the compression level for mod_deflate.
722 [Ian Holsman, Stephen Pierzchala <stephen pierzchala.com>,
723 Michael Schroepl <Michael.Schroepl telekurs.de>]
725 *) mod_deflate: Extend the DeflateFilterNote directive to
726 allow accurate logging of the filter's in- and outstream.
729 *) Allow SSLMutex to select/use the full range of APR locking
730 mechanisms available to it. Also, fix the bug that SSLMutex uses
731 APR_LOCK_DEFAULT no matter what. PR 8122 [Jim Jagielski,
732 Martin Kutschker <martin.t.kutschker blackbox.net>]
734 *) Restore the ability of htdigest.exe to create files that contain
735 more than one user. PR 12910. [André Malo]
737 *) Improve binary compatibility of the core between debug (aka
738 maintainer-mode) and a non-debug compile.
741 *) mod_usertrack: don't set the cookie in subrequests. This works
742 around the problem that cookies were set twice during fast internal
743 redirects. PR 13211. [André Malo]
745 *) mod_autoindex no longer forgets output format and enabled version
746 sort in linked column headers. [André Malo]
748 *) Use .sv instead of .se as extension for Swedish documents in the
749 default configuration. PR 12877. [André Malo]
751 *) Updated mod_ldap and mod_auth_ldap to support the Novell LDAP SDK SSL
752 and standardized the LDAP SSL support across the various LDAP SDKs.
753 Isolated the SSL functionality to mod_ldap rather than speading it
754 across mod_auth_ldap and mod_ldap. Also added LDAPTrustedCA
755 and LDAPTrustedCAType directives to mod_ldap to allow for a more
756 common method of specifying the SSL certificate.
757 [Dave Ward, Brad Nicholes]
759 *) Fixed mod_ssl's SSLCertificateChain initialization to no longer
760 skip the first cert of the chain by default. This misbehavior
761 was introduced in 2.0.34. PR 14560 [Madhusudan Mathihalli]
763 *) mod_cgi, mod_cgid, mod_ext_filter: Log errors when scripts cannot
764 be started on Unix because of such problems as bad permissions,
765 bad shebang line, etc. [Jeff Trawick]
767 *) Fix 64-bit problem in mod_ssl input logic.
768 [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli hp.com>]
770 *) Fix potential memory leaks in mod_deflate on malformed data. PR 16046.
773 *) Rewrite ap_xml_parse_input to use bucket brigades. PR 16134.
776 *) Fix segfault which occurred when a section in an included
777 configuration file was not closed. PR 17093. [André Malo]
779 *) Enhance the behavior of mod_isapi's WriteClient() callback to
780 provide better emulation for isapi modules that presume that the
781 first WriteClient() call may send status and headers. An example
782 of WriteClient() abuse is the foxisapi module, which relies on
783 that assumpion and now works. [William Rowe, Milan Kosina]
785 *) Check the return value of ap_run_pre_connection(). So if the
786 pre_connection phase fails (without setting c->aborted)
787 ap_run_process_connection is not executed. [Stas Bekman]
789 *) Fixed a problem with mod_ldap which caused it to fault when caching
790 was disabled. Needed to make sure that the code did not
791 attempt to use the cache if it didn't exist. Also fixed some memory
792 leaks which were due to not releasing LDAP resources on error
793 conditions. [Brad Nicholes]
795 *) Hook mod_proxy's fixup before mod_rewrite's fixup, so that by
796 mod_rewrite proxied URLs will not be escaped accidentally by
797 mod_proxy's fixup. PR 16368 [André Malo]
799 *) While processing filters on internal redirects, remember seen EOS
800 buckets also in the request structure of the redirect issuer(s). This
801 prevents filters (such as mod_deflate) from adding garbage to the
802 response. PR 14451. [André Malo]
804 *) suexec: Be more pedantic when cleaning environment. Clean it
805 immediately after startup. PR 2790, 10449.
806 [Jeff Stewart <jws purdue.edu>, André Malo]
808 *) Fix apxs to insert LoadModule directives only outside of sections.
809 PR 8712, 9012. [André Malo]
811 *) Fix suexec compile error under SUNOS4, where strerror() doesn't
812 exist. PR 5913, 9977.
813 [Jonathan W Miner <Jonathan.W.Miner lmco.com>]
815 *) Fix If header parsing when a non-mod_dav lock token is passed to it.
816 PR 16452. [Justin Erenkrantz]
818 *) mod_auth_digest no longer tries to guess AuthDigestDomain, if it's
819 not specified. Now it assumes "/" as already documented. PR 16937.
822 *) Try to log an error if a piped log program fails. Try to
823 restart a piped log program in more failure situations. Fix an
824 existing problem with error handling in piped_log_spawn(). Use
825 new APR apr_proc_create() features to prevent Apache from starting
826 on Unix* in most cases where a piped log program can be started,
827 and add log messages for the other situations. *Other platforms
828 already failed Apache initialization if a piped log program
829 couldn't be started. PR 15761 [Jeff Trawick]
831 *) Fix mod_cern_meta to not create empty metafiles when the
832 metafile searched for does not exist. PR 12353
833 [Owen Rees <owen_rees hp.com>]
835 *) Introduce debugging symbols for Win32 release builds, both .pdb
836 and .dbg files (older debuggers and Dr. Watson-type utilities
837 on WinNT or Win9x don't support the newer .pdb flavor.)
838 [Allen Edwards, William Rowe]
840 *) Fix bug where 'Satisfy Any' without an AuthType lost all MIME
841 information (and more). Related to PR 9076. [André Malo]
843 *) mod_file_cache: fix segfault serving mmaped cached files.
846 *) mod_file_cache: fixed a segfault when multiple MMapFile directives
847 were used. PR 16313. [Cliff Woolley]
849 *) Fix a nasty segfault in mmap_bucket_setaside() caused by passing
850 an incompatible pointer type to mmap_bucket_destroy(void*).
851 [Gerard Eviston <geviston bigpond.net.au>]
853 *) Enable the -n name parameter on NetWare to allow the
854 administrator to rename the Apache console screen
857 *) Fixed piped access logs on Win32 by disabling OTHER_CHILD
858 support by default in APR. More development is required
859 to deploy OTHER_CHILD on Win32. [William Rowe]
861 *) Use saner default config values for suexec. PR 15713.
862 [Thom May <thom planetarytramp.net>]
864 *) mod_rewrite: Allow "RewriteEngine Off" even if no "Options FollowSymlinks"
865 (or SymlinksIfOwnermatch) is set. PR 12395. [André Malo]
867 *) apxs: Include any special APR ld flags when linking the DSO.
868 This resolves problems on AIX when building a DSO with apxs+gcc.
871 *) Added character set support to mod_auth_LDAP to allow it to
872 convert extended characters used in the user ID to UTF-8
873 before authenticating against the LDAP directory. The new
874 directive AuthLDAPCharsetConfig is used to specify the config
875 file that contains the character set conversion table.
878 *) Don't remove the Content-Length from responses in mod_proxy
879 PR: 8677 [Brian Pane]
881 *) Ensure LDAP version is set to v3 on every bind. PR 14235.
882 [Sergey A. Lipnevich <sergeyli pisem.net>]
884 *) Fix mod_ldap to open an existing shared memory file should one
885 already exist. PR 12757. [Scooter Morris <scooter gene.com>,
888 *) Fix the ulimit command used by apachectl on Tru64. PR 13609.
889 [Joseph Senulis <Joseph.Senulis dnr.state.wi.us>, Jeff Trawick]
891 *) Change the ulimit command used by apachectl on AIX so that it
892 works in all locales. [Jeff Trawick]
894 *) mod_ext_filter: Fix a problem building argument lists which
895 occasionally caused exec to fail. PR 15491. [Jeff Trawick]
897 Changes with Apache 2.0.44
899 *) mod_autoindex: Bring forward the IndexOptions IgnoreCase option
900 from Apache 1.3. PR 14276
901 [David Shane Holden <dpejesh yahoo.com>, William Rowe]
903 *) mod_mime: Workaround to prevent a segfault if r->filename=NULL
906 *) Reorder the definitions for mod_ldap and mod_auth_ldap within
907 config.m4 to make sure the parent mod_ldap is defined first.
908 This ensures that mod_ldap comes before mod_auth_ldap in the
909 httpd.conf file, which is necessary for mod_auth_ldap to load.
910 PR 14256 [Graham Leggett]
912 *) Fix the building of cgi command lines when the query string
913 contains '='. PR 13914 [Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta iki.fi>,
916 *) Rename CacheMaxStreamingBuffer to MCacheMaxStreamingBuffer. Move
917 implementation of MCacheMaxStreamingBuffer from mod_cache to
918 mod_mem_cache. MCacheMaxStreamingBuffer now defaults to the
919 lesser of 100,000 bytes or MCacheMaxCacheObjectSize. This should
920 eliminate the need for explicitly coding MCacheMaxStreamingBuffer
921 in most configurations. [Bill Stoddard]
923 *) mod_cache: Fix PR 15113, a core dump in cache_in_filter when
924 a redirect occurs. The code was passing a format string and
925 integer to apr_pstrcat. Changed to apr_psprintf.
928 *) Replace APU_HAS_LDAPSSL_CLIENT_INIT with APU_HAS_LDAP_NETSCAPE_SSL
929 as set by apr-util in util_ldap.c. This should allow mod_ldap
930 to work with the Netscape/Mozilla LDAP library. [Øyvin Sømme
931 <somme oslo.westerngeco.slb.com>, Graham Leggett]
933 *) Fix critical bug in new --enable-v4-mapped configure option
934 implementation which broke IPv4 listening sockets on some
935 systems. [hiroyuki hanai <hanai imgsrc.co.jp>]
937 *) mod_setenvif: Fix BrowserMatchNoCase support for non-regex
938 patterns [André Malo <nd perlig.de>]
940 *) Add version string to provider API. [Justin Erenkrantz]
942 *) build: './configure && make' now works without an in-tree
943 apr and apr-util. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
945 *) mod_negotiation: Set the appropriate mime response headers
946 (Content-Type, charset, Content-Language and Content-Encoding)
947 for negotated type-map "Body:" responses (such as the error
948 pages.) [André Malo <nd perlig.de>]
950 *) mod_log_config: Allow '%%' escaping in CustomLog format
951 strings to insert a literal, single '%'.
952 [André Malo <nd perlig.de>]
954 *) mod_autoindex: AddDescription directives for directories
955 now work as in Apache 1.3, where no trailing '/' is
956 specified on the directory name. Previously, the trailing
957 '/' *had* to be specified, which was incompatible with
958 Apache 1.3. PR 7990 [Jeff Trawick]
960 *) Fix for PR 14556. The expiry calculations in mod_cache were
961 trying to perform "now + ((date - lastmod) * factor)" where
962 date == lastmod resulting in "now + 0". The code now follows
963 the else path (using the default expiration) if date is
964 equal to lastmod. [Sergey <rx armstrike.com>, Paul J. Reder]
966 *) Use AP_DECLARE in the debug versions of ap_strXXX in case the
967 default calling convention is not the same as the one used by
968 AP_DECLARE. [Juan Rivera <Juan.Rivera citrix.com>]
970 *) mod_cache: Don't cache response header fields designated
971 as hop-by-hop headers in HTTP/1.1 (RFC 2616 Section 13.5.1).
972 [Estrade Matthieu <estrade-m ifrance.com>, Brian Pane]
974 *) mod_cgid: Handle environment variables containing newlines.
975 PR 14550 [Piotr Czejkowski <apache czarny.eu.org>, Jeff
978 *) Move mod_ext_filter out of experimental and into filters.
981 *) Fixed a memory leak in mod_deflate with dynamic content.
982 PR 14321 [Ken Franken <kfranken decisionmark.com>]
984 *) Add --[enable|disable]-v4-mapped configure option to control
985 whether or not Apache expects to handle IPv4 connections
986 on IPv6 listening sockets. Either setting will work on
987 systems with the IPV6_V6ONLY socket option. --enable-v4-mapped
988 must be used on systems that always allow IPv4 connections on
989 IPv6 listening sockets. PR 14037 (Bugzilla), PR 7492 (Gnats)
992 *) This fixes a problem where the underlying cache code
993 indicated that there was one more element on the cache
994 than there actually was. This happened since element 0
995 exists but is not used. This code allocates the correct
996 number of useable elements and reports the number of
997 actually used elements. The previous code only allowed
998 MCacheMaxObjectCount-1 objects to be stored in the
999 cache. [Paul J. Reder]
1001 *) mod_setenvif: Add SERVER_ADDR special keyword to allow
1002 envariable setting according to the server IP address
1003 which received the request. [Ken Coar]
1005 *) mod_cgid: Terminate CGI scripts when the client connection
1006 drops. PR 8388 [Jeff Trawick]
1008 *) Rearrange OpenSSL engine initialization to support RAND
1009 redirection on crypto accelerator.
1010 [Frederic DONNAT <frederic.donnat zencod.com>]
1012 *) Always emit Vary header if mod_deflate is involved in the
1013 request. [Andre Malo <nd perlig.de>]
1015 *) mod_isapi: Stop unsetting the 'empty' query string result with
1016 a NULL argument in ecb->lpszQueryString, eliminating segfaults
1017 for some ISAPI modules. PR 14399
1018 [Detlev Vendt <detlev.vendt brillit.de>]
1020 *) mod_isapi: Fix an issue where the HSE_REQ_DONE_WITH_SESSION
1021 notification is received before the HttpExtensionProc() returns
1022 HSE_STATUS_PENDING. This only affected isapi .dll's configured
1023 with the ISAPIFakeAsync on directive. PR 11918
1024 [John DeSetto <jdesetto radiantsystems.com>, William Rowe]
1026 *) mod_isapi: Fix the issue where all results from mod_isapi would
1027 run through the core die handler resulting in invalid responses
1028 or access log entries. PR 10216 [William Rowe]
1030 *) Improves the user friendliness of the CacheRoot processing
1031 over my last pass. This version avoids the pool allocations
1032 but doesn't avoid all of the runtime checks. It no longer
1033 terminates during post-config processing. An error is logged
1034 once per worker, indicating that the CacheRoot needs to be set.
1037 *) Fix a bug where we keep files open until the end of a
1038 keepalive connection, which can result in:
1039 (24)Too many open files: file permissions deny server access
1040 especially on threaded servers. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
1042 *) Fix a bug in which mod_proxy sent an invalid Content-Length
1043 when a proxied URL was invoked as a server-side include within
1044 a page generated in response to a form POST. [Brian Pane]
1046 *) Added code to process min and max file size directives and to
1047 init the expirychk flag in mod_disk_cache. Added a clarifying
1048 comment to cache_util. [Paul J. Reder]
1050 *) The value emitted by ServerSignature now mimics the Server HTTP
1051 header as controlled by ServerTokens. [Francis Daly <deva daoine.org>]
1053 *) Gracefully handly retry situations in the SSL input filter,
1054 by following the SSL libraries' retry semantics.
1057 *) Terminate CGI scripts when the client connection drops. This
1058 fix only applies to some normal paths in mod_cgi. mod_cgid
1059 is still busted. PR 8388 [Jeff Trawick]
1061 *) Fix a bug where 416 "Range not satisfiable" was being
1062 returned for content that should have been redirected.
1065 *) Fix memory leak in mod_ssl from internal SSL library allocations
1066 within SSL_get_peer_certificate and X509_get_pubkey.
1067 [Zvi Har'El <rl math.technion.ac.il>
1068 Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli hp.com>].
1070 *) mod_ssl uses free() inappropriately in several places, to free
1071 memory which has been previously allocated inside OpenSSL.
1072 Such memory should be freed with OPENSSL_free(), not with free().
1073 [Nadav Har'El <nyh math.technion.ac.il>,
1074 Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli hp.com>].
1076 *) Emit a message to the error log when we return 404 because
1077 the URI contained '%2f'. (This was previously nastily silent
1078 and difficult to debug.) [Ken Coar]
1080 *) Fix streaming output from an nph- CGI script. CGI:IRC now
1081 works. PR 8482 [Jeff Trawick]
1083 *) More accurate logging of bytes sent in mod_logio when
1084 the client terminates the connection before the response
1085 is completely sent [Bojan Smojver <bojan rexursive.com>]
1087 *) Fix some problems in the perchild MPM.
1088 [Jonas Eriksson <jonas webkonsulterna.com>]
1090 *) Change the CacheRoot processing to check for a required
1091 value at config time. This saves a lot of wasted processing
1092 if the mod_disk_cache module is loaded but no CacheRoot
1093 was provided. This fix also adds code to log an error
1094 and avoid useless pallocs and procesing when the computed
1095 cache file name cannot be opened. This also updates the
1096 docs accordingly. [Paul J. Reder]
1098 *) Introduce the EnableSendfile directive, allowing users of NFS
1099 shares to disable sendfile mechanics when they either fail
1100 outright or provide intermitantly corrupted data. PR
1103 *) Resolve the error "An operation was attempted on something
1104 that is not a socket. : winnt_accept: AcceptEx failed.
1105 Attempting to recover." for users of various firewall and
1106 anti-virus software on Windows. PR 8325 [William Rowe]
1108 *) Add the ProxyBadHeader directive, which gives the admin some
1109 control on how mod_proxy should handle bogus HTTP headers from
1110 proxied servers. This allows 2.0 to "emulate" 1.3's behavior if
1111 desired. [Jim Jagielski]
1113 *) Change the LDAP modules to export their symbols correctly
1114 during a Windows build. Add dsp files for Windows. Update
1115 README.ldap file for Windows build instructions.
1116 [Andre Schild <A.Schild aarboard.ch>]
1118 *) Performance improvements for the code that generates HTTP
1119 response headers [Brian Pane]
1121 *) Add -S as a synonym for -t -DDUMP_VHOSTS.
1122 [Thom May <thom planetarytramp.net>]
1124 *) Fix a bug with dbm rewrite maps which caused the wrong value to
1125 be used when the key was not found in the dbm. PR 13204
1128 *) Fix a problem with streaming script output and mod_cgid.
1131 *) Add ap_register_provider/ap_lookup_provider API.
1132 [John K. Sterling <john sterls.com>, Justin Erenkrantz]
1134 Changes with Apache 2.0.43
1136 *) SECURITY [CAN-2002-0840]: HTML-escape the address produced by
1137 ap_server_signature() against this cross-site scripting
1138 vulnerability exposed by the directive 'UseCanonicalName Off'.
1139 Also HTML-escape the SERVER_NAME environment variable for CGI
1140 and SSI requests. It's safe to escape as only the '<', '>',
1141 and '&' characters are affected, which won't appear in a valid
1142 hostname. Reported by Matthew Murphy <mattmurphy kc.rr.com>.
1145 *) Fix a core dump in mod_cache when it attemtped to store uncopyable
1146 buckets. This happened, for instance, when a file to be cached
1147 contained SSI tags to execute a CGI script (passed as a pipe
1148 bucket). [Paul J. Reder]
1150 *) Ensure that output already available is flushed to the network
1151 when the content-length filter realizes that no new output will
1152 be available for a while. This helps some streaming CGIs as
1153 well as some other dynamically-generated content. [Jeff Trawick]
1155 *) Fix a mutex problem in mod_ssl session cache support which
1156 could lead to an infinite loop. PR 12705
1157 [Amund Elstad <amund.elstad ergo.no>, Jeff Trawick]
1159 *) SECURITY [CAN-2002-1156] (cve.mitre.org):
1160 Fix the exposure of CGI source when a POST request is sent to
1161 a location where both DAV and CGI are enabled. [Ryan Bloom]
1163 *) Allow the UserDir directive to accept a list of directories.
1164 This matches what Apache 1.3 does. Also add documentation for
1165 this feature. [Jay Ball <jay veggiespam.com>]
1167 *) New Module: mod_logio. adds the ability to log bytes sent and
1168 received. [Bojan Smojver <bojan rexursive.com>]
1170 *) SuExec needs to use the same default directory as the rest of
1171 server, namely /usr/local/apache2.
1172 [SangBeom han <sbhan os.korea.ac.kr>]
1174 *) Get mod_auth_ldap to retry connections on LDAP_SERVER_DOWN.
1175 [Thomas Bennett <thomas.bennett eds.com>, Graham Leggett]
1177 *) Make sure the contents of the WWW-Authenticate header is
1178 passed on a 4xx error by proxy. Previously all headers
1179 were dropped, resulting in the browser being unable to
1180 authenticate. [Dr Richard Reiner <rreiner fscinternet.com>,
1181 Richard Danielli <rdanielli fscinternet.com>, Graham Wiseman
1182 <gwiseman fscinternet.com>, David Henderson
1183 <dhenderson fscinternet.com>]
1185 *) Make mod_cache's CacheMaxStreamingBuffer directive work
1186 properly for virtual hosts that override server-wide mod_cache
1187 setttings. [Matthieu Estrade <estrade-m ifrance.com>]
1189 *) Add -p option to apxs to allow programs to be compiled with apxs.
1192 Changes with Apache 2.0.42
1194 *) mod_dav: Check for versioning hooks before using them.
1197 Changes with Apache 2.0.41
1199 *) The protocol version (eg: HTTP/1.1) in the request line parsing
1200 is now case insensitive. [Jim Jagielski]
1202 *) Allow AddOutputFilterByType to add multiple filters per directive.
1205 *) Remove warnings with Sun's Forte compiler. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1207 *) Fixed mod_disk_cache's generation of 304s
1208 [Kris Verbeeck <Kris.Verbeeck ubizen.com>]
1210 *) Add support for using fnmatch patterns in the final path
1211 segment of an Include statement (eg.. include /foo/bar/*.conf).
1212 and remove the noise on stderr during config dir processing.
1213 [Joe Orton <jorton redhat.com>]
1215 *) mod_cache: cache_storage.c. Add the hostname and any request
1216 args to the key generated for caching. This provides a unique
1217 key for each virtual host and for each request with unique
1218 args. [Paul J. Reder, args code provided by Kris Verbeeck]
1220 *) mod_cache: Do not cache responses to GET requests with query
1221 URLs if the origin server does not explicitly provide an
1222 Expires header on the response (RFC 2616 Section 13.9)
1223 [Kris Verbeeck <krisv be.ubizen.com>]
1225 *) Fix memory leak in core_output_filter. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1227 *) Update OpenSSL detection to work on Darwin.
1228 [Sander Temme <sctemme covalent.net>]
1230 *) Update the xslt and css to give the documentation a more
1232 [André Malo <nd perlig.de>, Gernot Winkler <greh o3media.de>]
1234 *) Fix some bucket memory leaks in the chunking code
1235 [Joe Schaefer <joe+apache sunstarsys.com>]
1237 *) Add ModMimeUsePathInfo directive. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1239 *) mod_cache: added support for caching streamed responses (proxy,
1240 CGI, etc) with optional CacheMaxStreamingBuffer setting [Brian Pane]
1242 *) Add image/x-icon to httpd.conf PR 10993.
1243 [Ian Holsman, Peter Bieringer <pb bieringer.de>]
1245 *) Fix FileETags none operation. PR 12207.
1246 [Justin Erenkrantz, Andrew Ho <andrew tellme.com>]
1248 *) Restored the experimental leader/followers MPM to working
1249 condition and converted its thread synchronization from
1250 mutexes to atomic CAS. [Brian Pane]
1252 *) Fix Logic on non-html file removal in mod_deflate
1253 [Kris Verbeeck <Kris.Verbeeck ubizen.com>]
1255 *) Fix "ab -g"'s truncated year: the last digit was cut off.
1256 [Leon Brocard <acme astray.com>]
1258 *) mod_rewrite can now sets cookies in err_headers, uses the correct
1259 expiry date, and can now set the path as well
1260 PR 12132,12181,12172.
1261 [Ian Holsman / Rob Cromwell <apachechangelog robcromwell.com>]
1263 *) The content-length filter no longer tries to buffer up
1264 the entire output of a long-running request before sending
1265 anything to the client. [Brian Pane]
1267 *) Win32: Lower the default stack size from 1MB to 256K. This will
1268 allow around 8000 threads to be started per child process.
1269 'EDITBIN /STACK:size apache.exe' can be used to change this
1270 value directly in the apache.exe executable.
1273 *) Win32: Implement ThreadLimit directive in the Windows MPM.
1276 *) Remove CacheOn config directive since it is set but never checked.
1277 No sense wasting cycles on unused code. Besides, the only truly
1278 bug free code is deleted code. :) [Paul J. Reder]
1280 *) BufferLogs are now run-time enabled, and the log_config now has 2 new
1281 callbacks to allow a 3rd party module to actually do the writing of the
1282 log file [Ian Holsman]
1284 *) Correct ISAPIReadAheadBuffer to default to 49152, per mod_isapi docs.
1285 [André Malo, Astrid Keßler <kess kess-net.de>]
1287 *) Fix Segfault in mod_cache. [Kris Verbeeck <Kris.Verbeeck ubizen.com>]
1289 *) Fix a null pointer dereference in the merge_env_dir_configs
1290 function of the mod_env module. PR 11791
1293 *) New option to ServerTokens 'maj[or]'. Only show the major version
1294 Also Surfaced this directive in the standard config (default FULL)
1297 *) Change mod_rewrite to use apr-util's dbm support for dbm rewrite
1298 maps. The dbm type (e.g., ndbm, gdbm) can be specified on the
1299 RewriteMap directive. PR 10644 [Jeff Trawick]
1301 *) Fixed mod_rewrite's RewriteMap prg: support so that request/response
1302 pairs will no longer get out of sync with each other. PR 9534
1305 *) Fixes required to get quoted and escaped command args working in
1306 mod_ext_filter. PR 11793 [Paul J. Reder]
1308 *) mod-proxy: handle proxied responses with no status lines
1309 [JD Silvester <jsilves uwo.ca>, Brett Huttley <brett huttley.net>]
1311 *) Fix bug where environment or command line arguments containing
1312 non-ASCII-7 characters would cause the Win32 child process creation
1313 to fail. PR 11854 [William Rowe]
1315 *) Bug #11213.. make module loading error messages more informative
1316 [Ian Darwin <Ian779 darwinsys.com>]
1318 *) thread safety & proxy-ftp [Alexey Panchenko <alexey liwest.ru>, Ian Holsman]
1320 *) mod_disk_cache works much better. This module should still
1321 be considered experimental. [Eric Prud'hommeaux]
1323 *) Performance improvement for keepalive requests: when setting
1324 aside a small file for potential concatenation with the next
1325 response on the connection, set aside the file descriptor rather
1326 than copying the file into the heap. [Brian Pane]
1328 *) Modified version check on openssl so that it finds the executable
1329 first and then performs a check of the version, only warning the
1330 user if they chose, or we selected, an old version of OpenSSL.
1331 This change also allows the code to work for non-openssl libraries
1332 selected via the --with-ssl=dir option, which can override the
1333 automated library check in any case. [Roy Fielding]
1335 Changes with Apache 2.0.40
1337 *) SECURITY [CAN-2002-0661] (cve.mitre.org):
1338 Close a very significant security hole that
1339 applies only to the Win32, OS2 and Netware platforms. Unix was not
1340 affected, Cygwin may be affected. Certain URIs will bypass security
1341 and allow users to invoke or access any file depending on the system
1342 configuration. Without upgrading, a single .conf change will close
1343 the vulnerability. Add the following directive in the global server
1344 httpd.conf context before any other Alias or Redirect directives;
1345 RedirectMatch 400 "\\\.\."
1346 Reported by Auriemma Luigi <bugtest sitoverde.com>.
1349 *) SECURITY [CAN-2002-0654] (cve.mitre.org):
1350 Close a path-revealing exposure in multiview type
1351 map negotiation (such as the default error documents) where the
1352 module would report the full path of the typemapped .var file when
1353 multiple documents or no documents could be served based on the mime
1354 negotiation. Reported by Auriemma Luigi <bugtest sitoverde.com>.
1357 *) SECURITY [CAN-2002-0654] (cve.mitre.org):
1358 Close a path-revealing exposure in cgi/cgid when we
1359 fail to invoke a script. The modules would report "couldn't create
1360 child process /path-to-script/script.pl" revealing the full path
1361 of the script. Reported by Jim Race <jrace qualys.com>.
1364 *) Set aside the apr-iconv and apr_xlate() features for the Win32
1365 build of 2.0.40 so development can be completed. A patch, from
1366 <http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/patches/apply_to_2.0.40/>
1367 will be available for those that wish to work with apr-iconv.
1370 *) Fix proxy so that it is possible to access ftp: URLs via a proxy
1371 chain. [Peter Van Biesen <peter.vanbiesen vlafo.be>]
1373 *) mod-deflate now checks to make sure that 'gzip-only-text/html' is
1374 set to 1, so we can exclude things from the general case with
1375 browsermatch. [Ian Holsman, Andre Schild <A.Schild aarboard.ch>]
1377 *) Accept multiple leading /'s for requests within the DocumentRoot.
1378 PR 10946 [William Rowe, David Shane Holden <dpejesh yahoo.com>]
1380 *) Solved the reports of .pdf byterange failures on Win32 alone.
1381 APR's sendfile for the win32 platform collapses header and trailer
1382 buffers into a single buffer. However, we destroyed the pointers
1383 to the header buffer if a trailer buffer was present. PR 10781
1386 *) mod_ext_filter: Add the ability to enable or disable a filter via
1387 an environment variable. Add the ability to register a filter of
1388 type other than AP_FTYPE_RESOURCE. [Jeff Trawick]
1390 *) Restore the ability to specify host names on Listen directives.
1391 PR 11030. [Jeff Trawick, David Shane Holden <dpejesh yahoo.com>]
1393 *) When deciding on the default address family for listening sockets,
1394 make sure we can actually bind to an AF_INET6 socket before
1395 deciding that we should default to AF_INET6. This fixes a startup
1396 problem on certain levels of OpenUNIX. PR 10235. [Jeff Trawick]
1398 *) Replace usage of atol() to parse strings when we might want a
1399 larger-than-long value with apr_atoll(), which returns long long.
1400 This allows HTTPD to deal with larger files correctly.
1401 [Shantonu Sen <ssen apple.com>]
1403 *) mod_ext_filter: Ignore any content-type parameters when checking if
1404 the response should be filtered. Previously, "intype=text/html"
1405 wouldn't match something like "text/html;charset=8859_1".
1408 *) mod_ext_filter: Set up environment variables for external programs.
1409 [Craig Sebenik <craig netapp.com>]
1411 *) Modified the HTTP_IN filter to immediately append the EOS (end of
1412 stream) bucket for C-L POST bodies, saving a roundtrip and allowing
1413 the caller to determine that no content remains without prefetching
1414 additional POST body. [William Rowe]
1416 *) Get proxy ftp to work over IPv6. [Shoichi Sakane <sakane kame.net>]
1418 *) Look for OpenSSL libraries in /usr/lib64. [Peter Poeml <poeml suse.de>]
1420 *) Update SuSE layout. [Peter Poeml <poeml suse.de>]
1422 *) Changes to the internationalized error documents:
1423 Comment them out in the default config file to make the default
1424 install as simple as possible; Correct the english 500 error to
1425 be more understandable; Add a Swedish translation.
1426 [Thomas Sjogren <thomas northernsecurity.net>,
1427 Erik Abele <erik codefaktor.de>, Rich Bowen, Joshua Slive]
1429 *) Increase the limit on file descriptors per process in apachectl.
1432 *) Fix a dependency error when building ApacheMonitor, so that Win32
1433 and MSVC now trust that the project is current (when it is).
1434 [James Cox <imajes php.net>]
1436 *) mod_ext_filter: don't segfault if content-type is not set. PR 10617.
1437 [Arthur P. Smith <apsmith aps.org>, Jeff Trawick]
1439 *) APR-Util Renames pending have been completed [Thom May]
1441 *) Performance improvements for the code that reads request
1442 headers (ap_rgetline_core() and related functions) [Brian Pane]
1444 *) Add a new directive: MaxMemFree. MaxMemFree makes it possible
1445 to configure the maximum amount of memory the allocators will
1446 hold on to for reuse. Anything over the MaxMemFree threshold
1447 will be free()d. This directive is useful when uncommon large
1448 peaks occur in memory usage. It should _not_ be used to mask
1449 defective modules' memory use. [Sander Striker]
1451 *) Fixed the Content-Length filter so that HTTP/1.0 requests to CGI
1452 scripts would not result in a truncated response.
1453 [Ryan Bloom, Justin Erenkrantz, Cliff Woolley]
1455 *) Add a filter_init parameter to the filter registration functions
1456 so that a filter can execute arbitrary code before the handlers
1457 are invoked. This resolves a problem where mod_include requests
1458 would incorrectly return a 304. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1460 *) Fix a long-standing bug in 2.0, CGI scripts were being called
1461 with relative paths instead of absolute paths. Apache 1.3 used
1462 absolute paths for everything except for SuExec, this brings back
1463 that standard. [Ryan Bloom]
1465 *) Fix infinite loop due to two HTTP_IN filters being present for
1466 internally redirected requests. PR 10146. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1468 *) Switch conn_rec->keepalive to an enumeration rather than a bitfield.
1471 *) Fix mod_ext_filter to look in the main server for filter definitions
1472 when running in a vhost if the filter definition is not found in
1473 the vhost. PR 10147 [Jeff Trawick]
1475 *) Support WinNT CGI invocation through ScriptInterpreterSource
1476 'registry' for script interpreter paths and names with non-ascii
1477 characters in the executable filepath. [William Rowe]
1479 *) Support the -w flag on to keep the Win32 console open on error.
1482 *) Normalize the hostname value in the request_rec to all-lowercase
1483 [Perry Harrington <pedward webcom.com>]
1485 *) Fix WinNT cgi 500 errors when QUERY_ARGS or other strings include
1486 extended characters (non US-ASCII) in non-utf8 format. This brings
1487 Win32 back into CGI/1.1 compliance, and leaves charset decoding up
1488 to the cgi application itself. [William Rowe]
1490 *) Major overhaul of mod_dav, mod_dav_fs and the experimental/cache
1491 modules to bring them up to the current apr/apr-util APIs.
1494 *) Fix segfault in mod_mem_cache most frequently observed when
1495 serving the same file to multiple clients on an MP machine.
1498 *) mod_rewrite can now set cookies (RewriteRule (.*) - [CO=name:$1:.domain])
1499 [Brian Degenhardt <bmd mp3.com>, Ian Holsman]
1501 *) Fix perchild to work with apachectl by adding -k support to perchild.
1502 PR 10074 [Jeff Trawick]
1504 *) Fix a silly htpasswd.c logic error that incorrectly reported that
1505 both -c and -n had been used. PR 9989 [Cliff Woolley]
1507 *) Fixed a mod_include error case in which no HTTP response was sent
1508 to the client if an shtml document contained an unterminated SSI
1509 directive [Brian Pane]
1511 *) Improve ap_get_client_block implementation by using APR-util brigade
1512 helper functions and relying on current filter assumptions.
1515 Changes with Apache 2.0.39
1517 *) Fixed a build problem in htpasswd.c on Win32.
1518 [Guenter Knauf <eflash gmx.net>, Cliff Woolley]
1520 Changes with Apache 2.0.38
1522 *) Rewrite htpasswd to use APR. The removes the annoying warning about
1523 tmpnam being unsafe. [Ryan Bloom]
1525 *) We must set the MIME-type for .shtml files to text/html if we want them
1526 to be parsed for SSI tags. Add the config for that to the default
1527 config file so that it is easier to enable .shtml parsing.
1528 [Dave Dyer <ddyer real-me.net>]
1530 *) Fixed a problem with 'make install' on ReliantUnix.
1531 [Jean-frederic Clere <jfrederic.clere fujitsu-siemens.com>]
1533 *) Make the default_handler catch all requests that aren't served by
1534 another handler. This also gets us to return a 404 if a directory
1535 is requested, there is no DirectoryIndex, and mod_autoindex isn't
1536 loaded. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1538 *) Fixed the handling of nested if-statements in shtml files.
1539 PR 9866 [Brian Pane]
1541 *) Allow 'make install DESTDIR=/path'. This allows packagers to install
1542 into a directory different from the one that was configured. This
1543 also mirrors the root= feature from 1.3. We cannot use prefix=,
1544 because both APR and APR-util resolve their installation paths at
1545 configuration time. This means that there is no variable prefix
1546 to replace. [Andreas Hasenack <andreas netbank.com.br>]
1548 *) AIX 4.3.2 and above: Define SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT.
1549 These levels of AIX don't have a thundering herd problem with
1550 accept(). [Jeff Trawick]
1552 *) prefork MPM: Ignore mutex errors during graceful restart. For
1553 certain types of mutexes (particularly SysV semaphores), we
1554 should expect to occasionally fail to obtain or release the
1555 mutex during restart processing. [Jeff Trawick]
1557 *) Fix install-bindist.sh so that it finds any perl instead of just
1558 early perl 5.x versions. This is consistent with a build/install
1559 from source, and it allows the perl scripts installed by a bindist
1560 to work on systems with perl 5.6. [Jeff Trawick]
1562 *) Fix apxs so that the makefile created by "apxs -g" works on AIX and
1563 Tru64 (and probably some other platforms). [Jeff Trawick]
1565 *) Allow CGI scripts to return their Content-Length. This also fixes a
1566 hang on HEAD requests seen on certain platforms (such as FreeBSD).
1569 *) Added log rotation based on file size to the RotateLog support
1570 utility. [Brad Nicholes]
1572 *) Fix some casting in mod_rewrite which broke random maps.
1573 PR 9770 [Allan Edwards, Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
1575 Changes with Apache 2.0.37
1577 *) allow POST method over SSL when per-directory client cert
1578 authentication is used with 'SSLOptions +OptRenegotiate' enabled
1579 and a client cert was found in the ssl session cache.
1581 *) 'SSLOptions +OptRengotiate' will use client cert in from the ssl
1582 session cache when there is no cert chain in the cache. prior to
1583 the fix this situation would result in a FORBIDDEN response and
1584 error message "Cannot find peer certificate chain"
1587 *) ap_finalize_sub_req_protocol() shouldn't send an EOS bucket if
1588 one was already sent. PR 9644 [Jeff Trawick]
1590 *) Fix the display of the default name for the mime types config
1591 file. PR 9729 [Matthew Brecknell <mbrecknell orchestream.com>]
1593 *) Fix the working directory *for WinNT/2K/XP services only* to
1594 change to the Apache directory (one level above the location
1595 of Apache.exe, in the case that Apache.exe resides in bin/.)
1596 Solves the case of ServerRoot /foo paths where /foo was not
1597 on the same drive as /winnt/system32. [William Rowe]
1599 *) Make 2.0's "AcceptMutex" startup message now "completely"
1600 match how 1.3 does it. [Jim Jagielski]
1602 *) Implement a fixed size memory cache using a priority queue
1605 *) Fix apxs to allow "apxs -q installbuilddir" and to allow
1606 querying certain other variables from config_vars.mk. PR 9316
1609 *) Added the "detached" attribute to the cgi_exec_info_t internals
1610 so that Win32 and Netware won't create a new window or console
1611 for each CGI invoked. PR 8387
1612 [Brad Nicholes, William Rowe]
1614 *) Consolidated the command line parameters and attributes that are
1615 manipulated by the optional function ap_cgi_build_command() in
1616 mod_cgi into a single structure.
1619 *) Get rid of uninitialized value errors with "apxs -q" on certain
1620 variables. [Stas Bekman <stas stason.org>]
1622 *) Fix apxs to allow it to work when the build directory is somewhere
1623 besides server-root/build. PR 8453
1624 [Jeff Trawick and a host of others]
1626 *) Allow ap_discard_request_body to be called multiple times in the
1627 same request. Essentially, ap_http_filter keeps track of whether
1628 it has sent an EOS bucket up the stack, if so, it will only ever
1629 send an EOS bucket for this request.
1630 [Ryan Bloom, Justin Erenkrantz, Greg Stein]
1632 *) Remove all special mod_ssl URIs. This also fixes the bug where
1633 redirecting (.*) will allow an SSL protected page to be viewed
1634 without SSL. [Ryan Bloom]
1636 *) Fix the binary build install script so that the build logic
1637 created by "apxs -g" will work when the user has a binary
1638 build. [Jeff Trawick]
1640 *) Allow instdso.sh to work with full paths to the shared module.
1643 *) NetWare: Enabled CGI functionality and added mod_cgi as a built
1644 in module for NetWare [Brad Nicholes]
1646 *) Changed cgi and piped log behavior to accept 65536 characters
1647 on Win32 (matching Linux) before deadlocking between outputing
1648 client stdin, slurping the output from stdout and then the stderr
1649 stream. PR 8179 [William Rowe]
1651 *) Fixed Win32 wintty.exe support to assure the window title is valid.
1652 Elimiates possible gpfault or garbage title without the -t option.
1655 *) Rewrite mod_cgi, mod_cgid, and mod_proxy input handling to use
1656 brigades and input filters. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1658 *) Allow ap_http_filter (HTTP_IN) to return EOS when there is no request
1659 body. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1661 *) NetWare: Piping log entries through RotateLogs using the
1662 CustomLogs directive is finally supported now that we have
1663 the pipes and spawning functionality working.
1666 *) SECURITY [CVE-2002-0392] (cve.mitre.org) [CERT VU#944335]:
1667 Detect overflow when reading the hex bytes forming a chunk line.
1670 *) Allow RewriteMap prg:'s to take command-line arguments. PR 8464.
1671 [James Tait <JTait wyrddreams.demon.co.uk>]
1673 *) Correctly return 413 when an invalid chunk size is given on
1674 input. Also modify ap_discard_request_body to not do anything
1675 on sub-requests or when the connection will be dropped.
1678 *) Fix the TIME_* SSL var lookups to be threadsafe. PR 9469.
1681 *) Ensure that apr_brigade_write() flushes in all of the cases that
1682 it should to avoid conditions in some modules that could cause
1683 large amounts of data to be buffered. [Cliff Woolley]
1685 *) Fix problem where mod_cache/mod_disk_cache was incorrectly
1686 stripping the content_type from cached responses.
1689 *) apachectl passes through any httpd options. Note: apachectl
1690 should be used in preference to httpd since it ensures that any
1691 appropriate environment variables have been set up.
1694 *) Fix the combination of mod_cgid, mod_setuexec, and mod_userdir.
1695 PR 7810 [Colm MacCarthaigh <colmmacc redbrick.dcu.ie>]
1697 *) Fix suexec execution of CGI scripts from mod_include.
1698 PR 7791, 8291 [Colm MacCarthaigh <colmmacc redbrick.dcu.ie>]
1700 *) Fix segfaults at startup on some platforms when mod_auth_digest,
1701 mod_suexec, or mod_ssl were used as DSO's due to the way they
1702 were tracking the current init phase since DSO's get completely
1703 unloaded and reloaded between phases. PR 9413.
1704 [Tsuyoshi Sasamoto <nazonazo super.win.ne.jp>, Brad Nicholes]
1706 *) Fix mod_include's handling of regular expressions in
1707 "<!--#if" directives [Julius Gawlas <julius_gawlas hp.com>]
1709 *) Fix the worker MPM deadlock problem [Brian Pane]
1711 *) Modify the module documentation to allow for translations.
1712 [Yoshiki Hayashi, Joshua Slive]
1714 *) Fix a file permissions problem which prevented mod_disk_cache
1715 from working on Unix. [Jeff Trawick]
1717 *) Add "-k start|restart|graceful|stop" support to httpd for the Unix
1718 MPMs. These have semantics very similar to the old apachectl
1719 commands of the same name. [Justin Erenkrantz, Jeff Trawick]
1721 *) Make sure that the runtime dir is created by make install.
1722 PR 9233. [Jeff Trawick]
1724 *) Fix an unusual set of ./configure arguments that could cause
1725 mod_http to be built as a DSO, which it currently doesn't
1727 [Cliff Woolley, Robin Johnson <robbat2 orbis-terrarum.net>]
1729 *) Win32: Fix bug in apr_sendfile() that caused incorrect operation
1730 of the %X, %b and %B logformat options. PR 8253, 8996.
1733 *) If content-encoding is already present, do not run deflate (PR 9222)
1734 [Kazuhisa ASADA <kaz asada.sytes.net>]
1736 *) The APLOG_NOERRNO flag to ap_log_[r]error() is now deprecated.
1737 It is currently ignored and it will be removed in a future release
1738 of Apache. [Jeff Trawick]
1740 *) Removed documentation references to the no-longer-supported
1741 "make certificate" feature of mod_ssl for Apache 1.3.x. Test
1742 certificates, if truly desired, can be generated using openssl
1743 commands. PR 8724. [Cliff Woolley]
1745 *) Remove SSLLog and SSLLogLevel directives in favor of having
1746 mod_ssl use the standard ErrorLog directives. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1748 *) OS/390: LIBPATH no longer has to be manually uncommented in
1749 envvars to get apachectl to set up httpd properly. [Jeff Trawick]
1751 *) mod_isapi: All mod_isapi directives, excluding ISAPICacheFile,
1752 may now be specified to the <File/Directory > container, rather
1753 than by vhost. [William Rowe]
1755 *) mod_isapi: Experimental support for faux async support for ISAPI
1756 modules. [William Rowe]
1758 *) mod_isapi: Major refactoring of the code to rely on apr internals
1759 rather than MS APIs (using our own mod_isapi.h headers for ISAPI
1760 symbol definitions.) [William Rowe]
1762 *) mod_isapi: Fixed the return string length from GetServerVariable
1763 callback, it was not including the trailing null in the consumed
1764 buffer size. This was particularly bad for Delphi 6.0 users.
1765 PR 8934 [Sebastian Hantsch <sebastian.hantsch gmx.de>]
1767 *) Fixed Win32 builds for Microsoft VisualStudio 7.0 (.net).
1770 *) Make apxs look in the correct directory for envvars. It was
1771 broken when sbindir != bindir. PR 8869
1772 [Andreas Sundström <sunkan zappa.cx>]
1774 *) Fix mod_deflate corruption when using multiple buckets. PR 9014.
1775 [Asada Kazuhisa <kaz asada.sytes.net>]
1777 *) Performance enhancements for access logger when using
1778 default timestamp formatting [Brian Pane]
1780 *) Added EnableMMAP config directive to enable the server
1781 administrator to disable memory-mapping of delivered files
1782 on a per-directory basis. [Brian Pane]
1784 *) Performance enhancements for mod_setenvif [Brian Pane]
1786 *) Fix a mod_ssl build problem on OS/390. [Jeff Trawick]
1788 *) Fixed If-Modified-Since on Win32, which would give false positives
1789 because of the sub-second resolution of file timestamps on that
1790 platform. [Cliff Woolley]
1792 *) Reverse the hook ordering for mod_userdir and mod_alias so
1793 that Alias/ScriptAlias will override Userdir. PR 8841
1796 *) Move mod_deflate out of experimental and into filters.
1799 *) Get proxy CONNECT basically working. [Jeff Trawick]
1801 *) Fix mod_rewrite hang when APR uses SysV Semaphores and
1802 RewriteLogLevel is set to anything other than 0. PR: 8143
1803 [Aaron Bannert, Cliff Woolley]
1805 *) Fix byterange requests from returning 416 when using dynamic data
1806 (such as filters like mod_include). [Justin Erenkrantz]
1808 *) Allow mod_rewrite's set of "int:" internal RewriteMap functions
1809 to be extended by third-party modules via an optional function.
1810 [Tahiry Ramanamampanoharana <nomentsoa hotmail.com>, Cliff Woolley]
1812 *) Fix mod_include expression parser's handling of unquoted strings
1813 followed immediately by a closing paren. PR 8462. [Brian Pane]
1815 *) Remove autom4te.cache in 'make distclean'.
1816 [Thom May <thom planetarytramp.net>]
1818 *) Fix generated httpd.conf to respect layout for LoadModule lines.
1819 PR 8170. [Thom May <thom planetarytramp.net>]
1821 *) Win32: During a graceful restart, threads in the new process
1822 were accessing scoreboard slots still in use by active threads in
1823 the the old process. [Bill Stoddard]
1825 Changes with Apache 2.0.36
1827 *) Fix some minor formatting issues with ab. Part of this is
1828 in reference to PR 8544, the rest I noticed while testing
1829 the PR fix. [Paul J. Reder]
1831 *) Fix a case where an invalid pass phrase is entered and an
1832 error message is given, but the prompt is not shown again.
1833 This left the user in an ambiguous state. PR 8320 [Paul J. Reder]
1835 *) Close sockets on worker MPM when doing a graceless restart.
1838 *) Reverted a minor optimization in mod_ssl.c that used the vhost ID
1839 as the session id context rather that a MD5 hash of that vhost ID,
1840 because it caused very long vhost id's to be unusable with mod_ssl.
1841 PR 8572. [Cliff Woolley]
1843 *) Fix the link to the description of the CoredumpDirectory
1844 directive in the server-wide document. PR 8643. [Jeff Trawick]
1846 *) Fixed SHMCB session caching. [Aaron Bannert, Cliff Woolley]
1848 *) Synced with remaining changes from mod_ssl 2.8.8-1.3.24:
1849 - Avoid SIGBUS on sparc machines with SHMCB session caches
1850 - Allow whitespace between the pipe and the name of the
1851 program in SSLLog "| /path/to/program". [Cliff Woolley]
1853 *) Introduce mod_ext_filter and mod_deflate experimental modules
1854 to the Win32 build (zlib sources must be in srclib\zlib.)
1857 *) Changes to the worker MPM's queue management and thread
1858 synchronization code to reduce mutex contention [Brian Pane]
1860 *) Don't install *.in configuration files since we already install
1861 *-std.conf files. [Aaron Bannert]
1863 *) Many improvements to the threadpool MPM. [Aaron Bannert]
1865 *) Fix subreqs that are promoted via fast_redirect from having invalid
1866 frec->r structures. This would cause subtle errors later on in
1867 request processing such as seen in PR 7966. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1869 *) More efficient pool recycling logic for the worker MPM [Brian Pane]
1871 *) Modify the worker MPM to not accept() new connections until
1872 there is an available worker thread. This prevents queued
1873 connections from starving for processing time while long-running
1874 connections were hogging all the available threads. [Aaron Bannert]
1876 *) Convert the worker MPM's fdqueue from a LIFO back into a FIFO.
1879 *) Get basic HTTP proxy working on EBCDIC machines. [Jeff Trawick]
1881 *) Allow mod_unique_id to work on systems with no IPv4 address
1882 corresponding to their host name. [Jeff Trawick]
1884 *) Fix suexec behavior with user directories. PR 7810.
1885 [Colm <colmmacc redbrick.dcu.ie>]
1887 *) Reject a blank UserDir directive since it is ambiguous. PR 8472.
1890 *) Make mod_mime use case-insensitive matching when examining
1891 extensions on all platforms. PR 8223. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1893 *) Add an intelligent error message should no proxy submodules be
1894 valid to handle a request. PR 8407 [Graham Leggett]
1896 *) Major improvements in concurrent processing for AB by enabling
1897 non-blocking connect()s and preventing APR from doing blocking
1898 read()s. Also implement fatal error checking for apr_recv().
1901 *) Fix Win32 NTFS Junctions (symlinks). PR 8014 [William Rowe]
1903 *) Fix Win32 'short name' aliases in httpd.conf directives.
1904 PR 8009 [William Rowe]
1906 *) Fix generation of default httpd.conf when the layout paths are
1907 disjoint. PR 7979, 8227. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1909 *) Swap downgrade-1.0 and force-response-1.0 conditional checks so
1910 that downgraded responses can have force-response. PR 8357.
1913 *) Fix perchild MPM so that it can be configured with the move to the
1914 experimental directory. [Scott Lamb <slamb slamb.org>]
1916 *) Fix perchild MPM so that it uses ap_gname2id for groups instead of
1917 ap_uname2id. [Scott Lamb <slamb slamb.org>]
1919 *) Fix AcceptPathInfo. PR 8234 [Cliff Woolley]
1921 *) SECURITY: Added the APLOG_TOCLIENT flag to ap_log_rerror() to
1922 explicitly tell the server that warning messages should be sent
1923 to the client in addition to being recorded in the error log.
1924 Prior to this change, ap_log_rerror() always sent warning
1925 messages to the client. In one case, a faulty CGI script caused
1926 the server to send a warning message to the client that contained
1927 the full path to the CGI script. This could be considered a
1928 minor security exposure. [Bill Stoddard]
1930 *) mod_autoindex output when SuppressRules was specified would
1931 omit the first carriage return so the first item in the list
1932 would appear to the right of the column headings instead of
1933 underneath them. PR 8016 [David Shane Holden <dpejesh yahoo.com>]
1935 *) Moved the call to apr_mmap_dup outside the error branch so
1936 that it would actually get called. This fixes a core dump
1937 at init everytime you use the MMapFile directive. PR 8314
1940 *) Trigger an error when a LoadModule directive attempts to
1941 load a module which is built-in. This is a common error when
1942 switching from a DSO build to a static build. [Jeff Trawick]
1944 *) Change instdso.sh to use libtool --install everywhere and then
1945 clean up some stray files and symlinks that libtool leaves around
1946 on some platforms. This gets subversion building properly since
1947 it needed a re-link to be performed by libtool at install time,
1948 and the old instdso.sh logic to simply cp the DSO didn't handle
1949 that requirement. [Sander Striker]
1951 *) Allow VPATH builds to succeed when configured from an empty
1952 directory. [Thom May <thom planetarytramp.net>]
1954 *) Fix 'control reaches end of non-void function' warning in
1955 server/log.c. [Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman collab.net>]
1957 *) Perchild MPM is now correctly deemed as experimental and is now
1958 located in server/mpm/experimental. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1960 *) Fix segfault in mod_mem_cache when garabge collecting an expired
1961 cache entry. [Bill Stoddard]
1963 *) Introduced -E startup_logfile_name option to httpd to allow admins
1964 to begin logging errors immediately. This provides Win32 users
1965 an alternative to sending startup errors to the event viewer, and
1966 allows other daemon tool authors an alternative to logging to stderr.
1969 *) Fix subreqs with non-defined Content-Types being served improperly.
1972 *) Merge in latest GNU config.guess and config.sub files. PR 7818.
1975 *) Move 100 - Continue support to the HTTP_IN filter so that filters
1976 are guaranteed to support 100 - Continue logic without any
1977 intervention. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1979 *) Add HTTP chunked input trailer support. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1981 *) Rename and export get_mime_headers as ap_get_mime_headers.
1984 *) Allow empty Host: header arguments. PR 7441. [Justin Erenkrantz]
1986 *) Properly substitute sbindir as httpd's location in apachectl. PR 7840.
1987 [Andreas Hasenack <andreas netbank.com.br>]
1989 *) Allow Win32 shebang scripts to follow the path (or omit the .exe
1990 suffix from the shebang command), and allow ScriptInterpreterSource
1991 Registry or RegistryStrict to override shebang lines, as 1.3 did.
1992 PR 8004 [William Rowe]
1994 *) worker MPM: Fix a situation where a child exited without releasing
1995 the accept mutex. Depending on the OS and mutex mechanism this
1996 could result in a hang. [Jeff Trawick]
1998 *) Update the instructions for how to get started with mod_example.
2001 *) Fix PidFile to default to rel_runtimedir instead of
2002 rel_logfiledir. PR 7841. [Andreas Hasenack <andreas netbank.com.br>]
2004 *) Win32: Fix problem that caused rapid performance degradation
2005 when number of connecting clients exceeded ThreadsPerChild.
2008 *) Fixed a segfault parsing large SSIs on non-mmap systems.
2011 *) Proxy was bombing out every second keepalive request, caused by a
2012 stray CRLF before the second response's status line. Proxy now
2013 tries to read one more line if it encounters a CRLF where it
2014 expected a status. PR 10010 [Graham Leggett]
2016 *) Deprecated the apr_lock.h API. Please see the following files
2017 for the improved thread and process locking and signaling:
2018 apr_proc_mutex.h, apr_thread_mutex.h, apr_thread_rwlock.h,
2019 apr_thread_cond.h, and apr_global_mutex.h. [Aaron Bannert]
2021 *) Change mod_status to use scoreboard accessor functions so it can
2022 be used in any MPM without having to be recompiled.
2023 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan covalent.net>]
2025 *) Fix parsing of some AP_DECLARE_DATA declarations so that the filter
2026 handle declarations are recognized. This fixes problems loading
2027 mod_autoindex on some platforms. [Brian Havard]
2029 *) add optional fixup hook to proxy [Daniel Lopez <daniel covalent.net>]
2031 *) Remind the admin about the User and Group directives when we are
2032 unable to set permissions on a semaphore. PR 7812 [Jeff Trawick]
2034 *) fix possible compilation problem in ssl_engine_kernel.c. PR 7802
2037 *) fix possible infinite loop in mod_ssl triggered by certain
2038 netscape clients [Doug MacEachern]
2040 *) fix ProxyPass when frontend is https and backend is http
2043 *) Add DASL support to mod_dav
2044 [Sung Kim <hunkim cse.ucsc.edu>]
2046 Changes with Apache 2.0.35
2048 *) mod_rewrite: updated to use the new APR global mutex type.
2051 *) Fixes for mod_include errors on boundary conditions in which
2052 "<!--#" occurs at the very end of a bucket
2053 [Paul Reder, Brian Pane]
2055 *) worker, prefork, perchild, beos MPMs: Add -DFOREGROUND switch to
2056 cause the Apache parent process to run in the foreground (similar to
2057 -DNO_DETACH except that it doesn't switch session ids).
2060 *) Added support for Posix semaphore mutex locking (AcceptMutex posixsem)
2061 for those platforms that support it. If using the default
2062 implementation, this is between pthread and sysvsem in priority.
2063 This implies it's the new default for Darwin. [Jim Jagielski]
2065 *) AIX: Fix the syntax for setting the LDR_CNTRL and AIXTHREAD_SCOPE
2066 environment variables in the envvars file. [Jeff Trawick]
2068 *) worker MPM: Don't create a listener thread until we have a worker
2069 thread. Otherwise, in situations where we'll have to wait a while
2070 to take over scoreboard slots from a previous generation, we'll be
2071 accepting connections we can't process yet. [Jeff Trawick]
2073 *) Allow worker MPM to build on systems without pthread_kill().
2074 [Pier Fumagalli, Jeff Trawick]
2076 *) Prevent ap_add_output_filters_by_type from being called in
2077 ap_set_content_type if the content-type hasn't changed.
2080 *) Performance: implemented the bucket allocator made possible by the
2081 API change in 2.0.34. [Cliff Woolley]
2083 *) Don't allow initialization to succeed if we can't get a socket
2084 corresponding to one of the Listen statements. [Jeff Trawick]
2086 Changes with Apache 2.0.34
2088 *) Allow all Perchild directives to accept either numerical UID/GID
2089 or logical user/group names. [Scott Lamb <slamb slamb.org>]
2091 *) Make Perchild compile cleanly and serve pages again. [Ryan Bloom]
2093 *) implement ssl proxy to support ProxyPass / https:// and the
2094 SSLProxy* directives [Doug MacEachern]
2096 *) Update mod_cgid to not do single-byte socket reads for CGI headers
2099 *) Made AB's use of the Host: header rfc2616 compliant
2100 by Taisuke Yamada <tai iij.ad.jp> [Dirk-Willem van Gulik].
2102 *) The old, legacy (and unused) code in which the scoreboard was totally
2103 and completely contained in a file (SCOREBOARD_FILE) has been
2104 removed. This does not affect scoreboards which are *mapped* to
2105 files using named-shared-memory. [Jim Jagielski]
2107 *) Change bucket brigades API to allow a "bucket allocator" to be
2108 passed in at certain points. This allows us to implement freelists
2109 so that we can stop using malloc/free so frequently.
2110 [Cliff Woolley, Brian Pane]
2112 *) Add support for macro expansion within the variable names in
2113 <!--#echo--> and <!--#set--> directives [Brian Pane]
2115 *) Fix some mod_include segfaults [Cliff Woolley, Brian Pane, Brad Nicholes]
2117 *) Update the "RedHat" Layout to match Red Hat Linux version 7. PR BZ-7422
2120 *) add compat layer to support RSA SSLC 1.x and 2.x in mod_ssl
2121 [Jon Travis, John Barbee, William Rowe, Ryan Bloom, Doug MacEachern]
2123 *) Add a new parameter to the quick_handler hook to instruct
2124 quick handlers to optionally do a lookup rather than actually
2125 serve content. This is the first of several changes required fix
2126 several problems with how quick handlers work with subrequests.
2129 *) worker MPM: Get MaxRequestsPerChild to work again. [Jeff Trawick]
2131 *) [APR-related] The ordering of the default accept mutex method has
2132 been changed to better match what's done in Apache 1.3. The ordering
2133 is now (highest to lowest): pthread -> sysvsem -> fcntl -> flock.
2136 *) Ensure that the build/ directory is created when using VPATH.
2139 *) Add some popular types to the mime magic file. PR 7730.
2140 [Linus Walleij <triad df.lth.se>, Justin Erenkrantz]
2142 *) Remove the single-byte socket reads for CGI headers [Brian Pane]
2144 *) When a proxied site was being served, Apache was replacing
2145 the original site Server header with it's own, which is not
2146 allowed by RFC2616. Fixed. [Graham Leggett]
2148 *) Fix a mod_cgid problem that left daemon processes stranded
2149 in some server restart scenarios. [Jeff Trawick]
2151 *) Added exp_foo and rel_foo variables to config_vars.mk for
2152 all Apache and Autoconf path variables (like --sysconfdir,
2153 --sbindir, etc). exp_foo is the "expanded" version, which means
2154 that all internal variable references have been interpolated.
2155 rel_foo is the same as $exp_foo, only relative to $prefix if they
2156 share a common path. [Aaron Bannert]
2158 *) Fix some restart/terminate problems in the worker MPM. Don't
2159 drop connections during graceful restart. [Jeff Trawick]
2161 *) Change the header merging behaviour in proxy, as some headers
2162 (like Set-Cookie) cannot be unmerged due to stray commas in
2163 dates. [Graham Leggett]
2165 *) Be more vocal about what AcceptMutex values we allow, to make
2166 us closer to how 1.3 does it. [Jim Jagielski]
2168 *) Get nph- CGI scripts working again. PRs 8902, 8907, 9983
2171 *) Upgraded PCRE library to latest version 3.9 [Brian Pane]
2173 *) Add accessor function to set r->content_type. From now on,
2174 ap_rset_content_type() should be used to set r->content_type.
2175 This change is required to properly implement the
2176 AddOutputFilterByType configuration directive.
2177 [Bill Stoddard, Sander Striker, Ryan Bloom]
2179 *) Add new M_FOO symbols for the WebDAV/DeltaV methods specified by
2180 RFC 3253. Improved the method name/number mapping functions.
2183 *) remove sock_enable_linger from connection.c [Ian Holsman]
2185 *) Fix for virtual host processing where the requested hostname
2186 has a '.' at the end (PR 9187) [Ryan Cruse <ryan estara.com>]
2188 *) mod_dav's APIs for REPORT response handling was changed so that
2189 providers can generate the content directly into the output filter
2190 stack, rather than buffering the response into memory. [Greg Stein]
2192 *) Fix a hang condition with graceful restart and prefork MPM
2193 in the situation where MaxClients is very high but
2194 much fewer servers are actually started at the time of the
2195 restart. [Jeff Trawick]
2197 *) Small performance fixes for mod_include [Brian Pane]
2199 *) Performance improvement for the error logger [Brian Pane]
2201 *) Change configure so that Solaris 8 and above have
2202 SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT defined by default.
2203 according to sun people solaris 8+ doesn't have a thundering
2204 herd problem [Ian Holsman]
2206 *) Allow URIs specifying CGI scripts to include '/' at the end
2207 (e.g., /cgi-bin/printenv/) on AIX and Solaris (and other OSs
2208 which ignore '/' at the end of the names of non-directories).
2209 PR 10138 [Jeff Trawick]
2211 *) implement SSLSessionCache shmht and shmcb based on apr_rmm and
2212 apr_shm. [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli hp.com>]
2214 *) Fix apxs -g handling. Move config_vars.mk from the top build
2215 directory to the build directory. PR 10163 [Jeff Trawick]
2217 *) Fix some mod_include problems which broke evaluation of some
2218 expressions. PR 10108 [Jeff Trawick]
2220 *) Fix the calculation of request time in mod_status. [Stas Bekman]
2222 *) Fix the calculation of thread_num in the worker score structure.
2225 *) Use apr_atomic operations in managing the mod_mem_cache
2226 cache_objects for SMP scalability. (see USE_ATOMICS
2227 preprocessor directive in mod_file_cache)
2230 *) Add filehandle caching to mod_mem_cache. (see CACHE_FD
2231 preprocessor directive in mod_file_cache)
2234 *) Implement prototype mod_disk_cache for use with mod_cache.
2237 *) Add a missing manualdir entry in the Debian config.layout.
2238 [Thom May <thom planetarytramp.net>]
2240 *) Stop installing libtool for APR and tell APR where it should place
2241 its copy of libtool (via our installbuildpath layout variable).
2244 *) New directive ProxyIOBufferSize. Sets the size of the buffer used
2245 when reading from a remote HTTP server in proxy. [Graham Leggett]
2247 *) Modify receive/send loop in proxy_http and proxy_ftp so that
2248 should it be necessary, the remote server socket is closed before
2249 transmitting the last buffer (set by ProxyIOBufferSize) to the
2250 client. This prevents the backend server from being forced to hang
2251 around while the last few bytes are transmitted to a slow client.
2252 Fix the case where no error checking was performed on the final
2253 brigade in the loop. [Graham Leggett]
2255 *) Scrap CacheMaxExpireMin and CacheDefaultExpireMin. Change
2256 CacheMaxExpire and CacheDefaultExpire to use seconds rather than
2257 hours. [Graham Leggett, Bill Stoddard]
2259 *) New Directive SSIUndefinedEcho. to change the '(none)' echoed
2260 for a undefined variable. [Ian Holsman]
2262 *) Proxy HTTP and CONNECT: Keep trying other addresses from the DNS
2263 when we can't get a socket in the specified address family. We may
2264 have gotten back an IPv6 address first and yet our system is not
2265 configured to allow IPv6 sockets. [Jeff Trawick]
2267 *) Be more careful about recursively removing CVS directories. Make
2268 sure that we aren't cd'ing to their home directory first. PR: 9993
2269 [Aaron Bannert, James LewisMoss <dres lewismoss.net>]
2271 *) Add a missing errordir entry in the Debian config.layout. PR: 10067
2272 [Dirk-Jan Faber <dirk-jan selwerd.nl>, Aaron Bannert,
2273 Thom May <thom planetarytramp.net>]
2275 *) Rename the filter ordering priorities. The recent filtering fixes
2276 have showcased problems with their usage. Therefore, we need to
2277 rename them to increase the clarity. (CONTENT->RESOURCE,
2278 HTTP_HEADER->CONTENT_SET/PROTOCOL) [Justin Erenkrantz]
2280 Changes with Apache 2.0.33
2282 *) Fix a problem in the new --enable-layout functionality where
2283 it wouldn't allow overrides from variables like --prefix,
2284 --bindir, etc. [Thom May <thom planetarytramp.net>]
2286 *) Fix a bug in the core input filter for AP_MODE_EXHAUSTIVE. It
2287 no longer hangs around waiting for the socket to close before
2288 returning exhaustive data. [Aaron Bannert]
2290 *) rename apr_exploded_time_t to apr_time_exp_t (as per renames pending)
2291 [Thom May <thom planetarytramp.net>]
2293 *) Change mod_ssl to always do a full startup/teardown on restarts.
2294 this allows mod_ssl to be added to a server that is already
2295 running and makes it possible to add/change certs/keys after the
2296 server has been started. [Doug MacEachern]
2298 *) Introduce PassPhraseDialog "|/path/to/pipe" mechanism to mod_ssl.
2299 This pipe must be a bidirectional 'console' style relay, which
2300 mod_ssl prints all prompts to the pipe's stdin, and reads the
2301 passphrases from the pipe's stdout. [William Rowe]
2303 *) Fix bug where --sysconfdir and --localstatedir were being
2304 ignored. [Thom May <thom planetarytramp.net>, Aaron Bannert]
2307 *) Fix --enable-layout to work again. Caution: When specifying
2308 --enable-layout, common arguments like --prefix, --exec-prefix,
2309 etc. will be ignored and the settings from the layout will be
2310 used instead. [Thom May <thom planetarytramp.net>, Aaron Bannert]
2313 *) New Directive for mod_proxy: ProxyRemoteMatch. This provides
2314 regex pattern matching for the determination of which requests
2315 to use the remote proxy for. [Jim Jagielski]
2317 *) Fix CustomLog bytes-sent with HTTP 0.9. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2319 *) Prevent Apache from ignoring SIGHUP due to some lingering 1.3
2320 cruft in piped logs and rewritemap child processes.
2323 *) All instances of apr_lock_t have been removed and converted
2324 to one of the following new lock APIs: apr_thread_mutex.h,
2325 apr_proc_mutex.h, or apr_global_mutex.h. No new code should
2326 use the apr_lock.h API, as the old API will soon be deprecated.
2329 *) Merged in changes to mod_ssl up through 2.8.7-1.3.23.
2330 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Cliff Woolley]
2332 *) mod-include: make it handle flush'es and fix the 'false-alarm'
2333 [Justin Erenkrantz, Brian Pane, Ian Holsman]
2335 *) ap_get_*_filter_handle() functions to allow 3rd party modules
2336 to lookup filter handles so they can bypass the filter name
2337 lookup when adding filters to a request (via ap_add_*_filter_handle())
2338 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan covalent.net>]
2340 *) Fix for multiple file buckets on Win32, where the first file
2341 bucket would cause the immediate closure of the socket on any
2342 non-keepalive requests. [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan covalent.net>]
2344 *) Correct Win32 failure of mmap of a segment beyond start of the
2345 file; fixes large SSL and similar transfers. [William Rowe]
2348 *) Implement apr_proc_detach changes and allow -DNO_DETACH in the
2349 multi-process mode to not "daemonize" while detaching from the
2350 controlling terminal. This is necessary for Apache to work with
2351 process-management tools like AIX's "System Resource Controller"
2352 as well as Dan Bernstein's "daemontools".
2353 [Jos Backus <josb cncdsl.com>, Aaron Bannert]
2355 *) Convert mod_auth_digest to use the new apr_global_mutex_t
2356 type. [Aaron Bannert]
2358 *) fix bug in mod-include where it wouldn't send a unmatched
2359 part if it was at the end of a bucket [Ian Holsman]
2361 *) worker MPM: Improve logging of errors with the interface between
2362 the listener thread and worker threads. [Jeff Trawick]
2364 *) Some browsers ignore cookies that have been merged into a
2365 single Set-Cookie header. Set-Cookie and Set-Cookie2 headers
2366 are now unmerged in the http proxy before being sent to the
2367 client. [Graham Leggett]
2369 *) Fix a problem with proxy where each entry of a duplicated
2370 header such as Set-Cookie would overwrite and obliterate the
2371 previous value of the header, resulting in multiple header
2372 values (like cookies) going missing.
2373 [Graham Leggett, Joshua Slive]
2375 *) Add the server-limit and thread-limit values to the scoreboard
2376 for the sake of third-party applications.
2377 [Adam Sussman <myddryn vishnu.vidya.com>]
2379 *) Fix segfault when proxy recieves an invalid HTTP response [Ian Holsman]
2381 *) OS/390: Get make install to properly copy DSO modules.
2384 *) Win32: Fix bug in mod_status with displaying "Restart Time"
2385 and "Server uptime".
2388 *) Fix IPv6 name-based virtual hosts. [Jeff Trawick]
2390 *) Introduce AddOutputFilterByType directive. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2392 *) Fix DEBUG_CGI support in mod_cgi. PR 9670, 9671.
2393 [David MacKenzie <djm pix.net>]
2395 *) Fix incorrect check for script_in in mod_cgi. PR 9669.
2396 [David MacKenzie <djm pix.net>]
2398 *) Fix segfault and display error when SSLMutex file can not be
2399 created. [Adam Sussman <myddryn vishnu.vidya.com>]
2401 *) Add reference counting to mod_mem_cache cache objects to
2402 better manage removing objects from the cache.
2405 *) Change the verbage on the ScoreBoardFile in our default configs.
2406 Also change the default to be commented out (unspecified) so we
2407 get anonymous shared memory by default. [Aaron Bannert]
2409 *) Implement new ScoreBoardFile directive logic. This affects how
2410 we create the scoreboard's shared memory segment. If the directive
2411 is present, a name-based segment is created. If the directive is
2412 not present, first an anonymous segment is created, and if that
2413 fails, a name-based segment is created from a file of the name
2414 DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD. This gives third-party applications the
2415 ability to access our scoreboard. [Aaron Bannert]
2417 *) Allow mod_deflate to work with non-GET requests and properly send
2418 Content-Lengths. [Sander Striker <striker apache.org>]
2420 *) Fix ap_directory_merge() to correctly merge configs when there is
2421 no <Directory /> block. [Justin Erenkrantz, William Rowe]
2423 *) Remove spurious debug messsages that are normal under HTTP
2424 keep-alive logic. [Jeff Trawick, Justin Erenkrantz]
2426 *) Fix a bug in mod_cgid that would prevent proper shutdown death
2427 of the cgid process. [Aaron Bannert]
2429 *) Add signal handling back in to the worker MPM for the one_process
2430 (-X, -DDEBUG, -DONE_PROCESS) case. [Aaron Bannert]
2432 *) Performance: Reuse per-connection transaction pools in the
2433 worker MPM, rather than destroying and recreating them. [Brian Pane]
2435 *) Remove all signals from the worker MPM's child process. Instead,
2436 the parent uses the Pipe of Death for all communication with the
2437 child processes. [Ryan Bloom]
2439 Changes with Apache 2.0.32
2441 *) mod_negotiation: ForceLanguagePriority now uses 'Prefer' as the
2442 default if the directive is not specified. This mirrors older
2443 behavior without changes to the httpd.conf. [William Rowe]
2445 *) Win32: solve the win32 service problems in 2.0.31-alpha, by fixing
2446 the service, mpm and logging code, and bugs in apr_file_open_stderr
2447 and apr_file_dup2 functions. Win2K/XP services have no handles
2448 associated for stdin/out/err, which caused unpredictable behavior
2449 in the prior release. [William Rowe, Bill Stoddard]
2451 *) Win32: simplify the Application Event Log messages, since there isn't
2452 likely to be 'more information in the error log' before an error log
2453 has been opened. [William Rowe]
2455 *) Win32: substantial cleanup to the mpm_winnt code for legibility and
2456 to follow the program flow of other MPMs. [Ryan Bloom, William Rowe]
2458 *) Win32: apache -k shutdown now behaves like apache -k stop.
2461 *) Fix prefork to not kill the parent if a child hits a resource shortage
2462 on accept(). [Greg Ames]
2464 *) Fix seg faults that occur when what should be the httpd request line
2465 starts with \r\n followed by garbage. [Greg Ames]
2467 *) Allow statically linked support binaries with the new
2468 --enable-static-support flag, and enable this behavior in
2469 the binbuild script. Also add a new --enable-static-htdbm
2470 flag. [Aaron Bannert]
2472 *) Allow mod_autoindex to serve symlinks if permitted and attempt to
2473 do only one stat() call when generating the directory listings.
2476 *) Fix resolve_symlink to save the original symlink name if known.
2479 *) Be a bit more sane with regard to CanonicalNames. If the user has
2480 specified they want to use the CanonicalName, but they have not
2481 configured a port with the ServerName, then use the same port that
2482 the original request used. [Ryan Bloom and Ken Coar]
2484 *) In core_input_filter, check for an empty brigade after
2485 APR_BRIGADE_NORMALIZE(). Otherwise, we can get segfaults if a
2486 client says it will post some data but we get FIN before any
2487 data arrives. [Jeff Trawick]
2489 *) Not being able to bind to the socket is a fatal error. We should
2490 print an error to the console, and return a non-zero status code.
2491 With these changes, all of the Unix MPMs do that correctly.
2494 *) suexec: Allow HTTPS and SSL_* environment variables to be passed
2495 through to CGI scripts. PR 9163
2496 [Brian Reid <breid customlogic.com>,
2497 Zvi Har'El <rl math.technion.ac.il>]
2499 *) binbuild.sh: Make sure that we use the expat from our source
2500 tree so that there aren't any surprises on the target machine.
2503 *) mod_cgid: Add retry logic for when the daemon can't fork fast
2504 enough to keep up with new requests. Start using
2505 HTTP_SERVER_UNAVAILABLE instead of HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR
2506 when we can't talk to the daemon. [Jeff Trawick]
2508 *) apxs: LTFLAGS envvar can override default libtool options. Try
2509 "LTFLAGS=' ' apxs -c mod_foo.c" to see what libtool does under
2510 the covers. [Jeff Trawick]
2512 *) The Location: response header field, used for external
2513 redirect, *must* be an absoluteURI. The Redirect directive
2514 tested for that, but RedirectMatch didn't -- it would allow
2515 almost anything through. Now it will try to turn an abs_path
2516 into an absoluteURI, but it will correctly varf like Redirect
2517 if the final redirection target isn't an absoluteURI. [Ken Coar]
2519 Changes with Apache 2.0.31
2521 *) Create the scoreboard (in the parent) in a global pool context,
2522 so it survives graceful restarts. This fixes a SEGV during
2523 graceful restarts. [Aaron Bannert]
2525 *) Add a timeout option to the proxy code 'ProxyTimeout'
2528 *) FTP directory listings are now always retrieved in ASCII mode.
2529 The FTP proxy properly escapes URI's and HTML in the generated
2530 listing, and escapes the path components when talking to the FTP
2531 server. It is now possible to browse the root directory by using
2532 a url like: ftp://user@host/%2f/ (ported from apache_1.3.24)
2533 Also, the last path component may contain wildcard characters
2534 '*' and '?', and if they do, a directory listing is created instead
2535 of a file retrieval. Example: ftp://user@host/httpd/server/*.c
2538 *) Added single-listener unserialized accept support to the
2539 worker MPM [Brian Pane]
2541 *) New Directive for mod_proxy: 'ProxyPreserveHost'. This passes
2542 the incoming host header through to the proxied server
2543 [Geoff <g.russell ieee.org>]
2545 *) New Directive Option for ProxyPass. It now can block a location
2546 from being proxied [Jukka Pihl <jukka.pihl entirem.com>]
2548 *) Don't let the default handler try to serve a raw directory. At
2549 best you get gibberish. Much worse things can happen depending
2550 on the OS. [Jeff Trawick]
2552 *) Change the pre_config hook to return a value. Modules can now emit
2553 an error message and then cause the server to quit gracefully during
2554 startup. This required a bump to the MMN. [Aaron Bannert]
2556 *) Fix some unix socket descriptor leaks in the handler side of
2557 mod_cgid (the part that runs in the server process). Whack a
2558 silly "close(-1)" in the handler too. [Jeff Trawick]
2560 *) Change the pre_mpm hook to return a value, so that scoreboard
2561 init errors percolate up to code that knows how to exit
2562 cleanly. This required a bump to the MMN. [Jeff Trawick]
2564 *) Add the socket back to the conn_rec and remove the create_connection
2565 hook. The create_connection hook had a design flaw that did not
2566 allow creating connections based on vhost info. [Bill Stoddard]
2568 *) Fixed PATH_INFO and QUERY_STRING from mod_negotiation results.
2569 Resolves the common case of using negotation to resolve the request
2570 /script/foo for /script.cgi/foo. [William Rowe]
2572 *) Added new functions ap_add_(input|output)_filter_handle to
2573 allow modules to bypass the usual filter name lookup when
2574 adding hard-coded filters to a request [Brian Pane]
2576 *) caching should now work on subrequests (still very experimental)
2579 *) The Win32 mpm_winnt now has a shared scoreboard. [William Rowe]
2581 *) Change ap_get_brigade prototype to use apr_off_t instead of apr_off_t*.
2584 *) Refactor ap_rgetline so that it does not use an internal brigade.
2585 Change ap_rgetline's prototype to return errors. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2587 *) Remove mod_auth_db. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2589 *) Do not install unnecessary pcre headers like config.h and internal.h.
2590 [Joe Orton <joe manyfish.co.uk>]
2592 *) Change in quick_hanlder behavior for subrequests. it now passes DONE
2593 (as it does for a normal request). quick_handled sub-requests now work
2594 in mod-include [Ian Holsman]
2596 *) Change SUBREQ_CORE so that it is a 'HTTP_HEADER' filter instead of
2597 'CONTENT' one, as it needs to run AFTER all content headers
2599 *) Rename BeOS MPM directive RequestsPerThread to MaxRequestsPerThread.
2602 *) Split out blocking from the mode in the input filters.
2605 *) Fix a segfault in mod_include. [Justin Erenkrantz, Jeff Trawick]
2607 *) Cause Win32 to capture all child-worker process errors in
2608 Apache to the main server error log, until the child can
2609 open its own error logs. [William Rowe]
2611 *) HPUX 11.*: Do not kill the child process when accept()
2612 returns ENOBUFS on HPUX 11.*. (ported from th 1.3 patch)
2613 [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli hp.com>, Bill Stoddard]
2615 *) Fix a problem in the parsing of the <Proxy foo> directive.
2618 *) rewrite of mod_ssl input filter for better performance and less
2619 memory usage [Doug MacEachern]
2621 *) allow quick_handler to be run on subrequests. [Ian Holsman]
2623 *) mod_dav now asks its provider to place content directly into the
2624 filter stack when handling a GET request. The mod_dav/provider
2625 API has changed, so providers need to be updated. [Greg Stein]
2627 *) Clear the output socket descriptor in unixd_accept() to make sure
2628 we don't supply a bogus socket to the caller if the accept fails.
2629 This caused problems with the worker MPM, which tried to process
2630 the returned socket if it was non-NULL. [Brian Pane]
2632 *) Move a check for an empty brigade to the start of core input filter
2633 to avoid segfaults. [Justin Erenkrantz, Jeff Trawick]
2635 *) Add FileETag directive to allow configurable control of what
2636 data are used to form ETag values for file-based URIs. MMN
2637 bumped to 20020111 because of fields added to the end of
2638 the core_dir_config structure. [Ken Coar]
2640 *) Fix a segfault in mod_rewrite's logging code caused by passing the
2641 wrong config to ap_get_remote_host(). [Jeff Trawick]
2643 *) Allow mod_cgid to work from a binary distribution install by
2644 using 755 for the permissions on the log directory instead of
2647 *) Fixed a segfault that happened during graceful shutdown (or when
2648 the httpd ran out of file descriptors) with the worker MPM [Brian Pane]
2650 *) Split all Win32 modules [excluding the core components mod_core,
2651 mod_so, mod_win32 and the winnt mpm] into individual loadable
2652 modules, so the administrator may individually disable the former
2653 compiled-in modules by simply commenting out their LoadModule
2654 directives. [William Rowe]
2656 *) Saved Win32 module authors and porters many future headaches, by
2657 duplicating the appropriate .h files such as os.h into the include
2658 directory, including in the build tree. [William Rowe]
2660 *) mod_ssl adjustments to help with using toolkits other than OpenSSL:
2661 Use SSL functions/macros instead of directly dereferencing SSL
2662 structures wherever possible.
2663 Add type-casts for the cases where functions return a generic pointer.
2664 Add $SSL/include to configure search path.
2665 [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli hp.com>]
2667 *) Moved several pointers out of the shared Scoreboard so it is
2668 more portable, and will present the vhost name across server
2669 generation restarts. [William Rowe]
2671 *) Fix SSLPassPhraseDialog exec: and SSLRandomSeed exec:
2674 Changes with Apache 2.0.30
2676 *) Fix the main bug for FreeBSD and threaded MPM's. There are
2677 still issues (see STATUS) but at least the server will now
2678 run without crashing the machine.
2679 [David Reid, Aaron Bannert, Justin Erenkrantz]
2681 *) Fix a typo in mod_deflate's m4 config section.
2682 [albert chin <china thewrittenword.com>]
2684 *) Fix a couple of mod_proxy problems forwarding HTTP connections
2685 and handling CONNECT:
2686 (1) PR #9190 Proxy failed to connect to IPv6 hosts.
2687 (2) Proxy failed to connect when the first IP address returned by
2688 the resolver was unreachable but a secondary IP address was.
2691 *) Fix the module identifer as shown in the docs for various core
2692 modules (e.g., the identifer for mod_log_config was previously
2693 listed as config_log_module). PR #9338
2694 [James Watson <ap2bug sowega.org>]
2696 *) Fix LimitRequestBody directive by placing it in the HTTP
2697 filter. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2699 *) Fix mod_proxy seg fault when the proxied server returns
2700 an HTTP/0.9 response or a bogus status line.
2703 *) Prevent mod_proxy from truncating one character off the
2704 end of the status line returned from the proxied server.
2705 [Adam Sussman, Bill Stoddard]
2707 *) Eliminate loop in ap_proxy_string_read().
2708 [Adam Sussman, Bill Stoddard]
2710 *) Provide $0..$9 results from mod_include regex parsing.
2713 *) Allow mod-include to look for alternate start & end tags [Ian Holsman]
2715 *) Introduced the ForceLanguagePriority directive, to prevent
2716 returning MULTIPLE_CHOICES or NONE_ACCEPTABLE in some cases,
2717 when using Multiviews. [William Rowe]
2719 *) Fix a problem which prevented mod_cgid and suexec from working
2720 together reliably [Greg Ames]
2722 *) Remove the call to exit() from within mod_auth_digest's post_config
2723 phase. [Aaron Bannert]
2725 *) Fix a problem in mod_auth_digest that could potentially cause
2726 problems with initialized static data on a system that uses DSOs.
2729 *) Fix a segfault in the worker MPM that could happen during
2730 child process exits. [Brian Pane, Aaron Bannert]
2732 *) Allow mod_auth_dbm to handle multiple DBM types [Ian Holsman]
2734 *) Fix matching of vhosts by ip address so we find IPv4
2735 vhost address when target address is v4-mapped form of
2736 that address. [Jeff Trawick]
2738 *) More performance tweaks to the BNDM string-search algorithm
2739 used to find "<!--#" tokens in mod_include [Brian Pane]
2741 *) Miscellaneous small performance fixes: optimized away various
2742 string copy operations and removed large temp buffers from
2743 the stack [Brian Pane]
2745 *) Fixed startup segfault that occurred when a VirtualHost
2746 directive had a port but no address [Brian Pane]
2748 *) Allow htdbm to work with multiple DBM types [Ian Holsman]
2750 *) Win32: Made change to apr_sendfile() to return APR_ENOTIMPL
2751 if oslevel < WINNT. This should fix several problems reported
2752 Against 2.0.28 on Windows 98 [Bill Stoddard]
2754 *) Win32: Fix bug that could cause CGI scripts with QUERY_STRINGS
2755 to fail. [Bill Stoddard]
2757 *) Change core code to allow an MPM to set hard thread/server
2758 limits at startup. prefork, worker, and perchild MPMs now have
2759 directives to set these limits. [Jeff Trawick]
2761 *) Win32: The async AcceptEx() event should be autoreset upon
2762 successful completion of a wait (WaitForSingleObject). This
2763 eliminates a number of spurious
2764 setsockopt(SO_UPDATE_ACCEPT_CONTEXT) failed." messages.
2767 *) Move any load library path environment variables out of
2768 apachectl and into a separate environment variable file which
2769 can be more easily tailored by the admin. The environment
2770 variable file as built by Apache may have additional system-
2771 specific settings. For example, on OS/390 we tailor the heap
2772 settings to allow lots of threads. [Jeff Trawick]
2774 *) Use the new APR pool code to reduce pool-related lock
2775 contention in the worker MPM. [Sander Striker]
2777 *) The POD no longer assumes the child is listening on 127.0.0.1
2778 and now pulls the first hostname in the list of listeners to
2779 perform the dummy connect on. This fixes a bug when the user
2780 had configured the Listen directive for an IP other than
2781 127.0.0.1. This would result in undead children and error
2782 messages such as "Connection refused: connect to listener".
2785 *) The worker MPM now respects the LockFile setting, needed to
2786 avoid locking problems with NFS. [Jeff Trawick]
2788 *) Fix segfault when worker MPM receives SIGHUP.
2789 [Ian Holsman, Aaron Bannert, Justin Erenkrantz]
2791 *) Fix bug that could potentially prevent the perchild MPM from
2792 working with more than one vhost/uid. [Aaron Bannert]
2794 *) Change make install and apxs -i processing of DSO modules to
2795 perform special handling on platforms where libtool doesn't install
2796 mod_foo.so. This fixes some wonkiness on HP-UX, Tru64, and AIX
2797 which prevented standard LoadModule statements from working.
2800 *) Whenever mod_so is enabled (not just when there are DSOs for
2801 our modules), do whatever special magic is required for compiling/
2802 loading third-party modules. This allows third-party DSOs to
2803 be used on an AIX build when there were no built-in modules
2804 built as DSOs. (This should help on OS/390 and BeOS as well.)
2807 *) Allow apxs to be used to build DSOs on AIX without requiring the
2808 user to hard-code the list of import files. (This should help
2809 on OS/390 and BeOS as well.) [Jeff Trawick]
2811 *) Resolved segfault in mod_isapi when configuring with ISAPICacheFile.
2812 PR 8563, 8919 [William Rowe]
2814 *) Get binary builds working when libapr and libaprutil are built
2817 *) Get shared builds of libapr and libaprutil, as well as Apache DSOs,
2818 working on AIX. [Aaron Bannert, Dick Dunbar <RLDunbar pacbell.net>,
2819 Gary Hook <ghook us.ibm.com>, Victor Orlikowski, Jeff Trawick]
2821 *) Fix the handling of SSI directives in which the ">" of the
2822 terminating "-->" is the last byte in a file [Brian Pane]
2824 *) Add back in the "suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /path/to/suexec)"
2825 message that we had back in apache-1.3 and still have scattered
2826 throughout our docs. [Aaron Bannert]
2828 *) Prevent the Win32 port from continuing after encountering an
2829 error in the command line args to apache. [William Rowe]
2831 *) On a error in the proxy, make it write a line to the error log
2834 *) Various mod_ssl performance improvements [Doug MacEachern]
2836 Changes with Apache 2.0.29
2838 *) Add buffering in core_output_filter to ensure that long
2839 lists of small buckets don't cause small packet writes.
2840 [Brian Pane, Ryan Bloom]
2842 *) Fix the installation target to make sure that the manual is
2843 installed in the correct location.
2844 [Yoshifumi Hiramatsu <hiramatu boreas.dti.ne.jp> and
2845 Gomez Henri <hgomez slib.fr>]
2847 *) Fix the cmd command for mod_include. When we are processing
2848 a cmd command, we do not want to use the r->filename to set
2849 the command name. The command comes from the SSI tag. To do this,
2850 I added a variable to the function that builds the command line
2851 in mod_cgi. This allows the include_cmd function to specify
2852 the command line itself. [Ryan Bloom]
2854 *) Change open_logs hook to return a value, allowing you
2855 to flag a error while opening logs
2856 [Ian Holsman, Doug MacEachern]
2858 *) Change post_config hook to return a value, allowing you
2859 to flag a error post config
2860 [Ian Holsman, Jeff Trawick]
2862 *) Allow SUEXEC_BIN (the path to the suexec binary that is
2863 hard-coded into the server) to be specified to the configure
2864 script by the --with-suexec-bin parameter. [Aaron Bannert]
2866 *) Fix segv in worker MPM following accept on pipe-of-death
2869 *) Add mod_deflate to experimental.
2870 [Ian Holsman, Justin Erenkrantz]
2872 *) Bail out at configure time if an invalid MPM was specified.
2873 [jean-frederic clere <jfrederic.clere fujitsu-siemens.com>]
2875 *) Prevent segv in ap_note_basic_auth_failure() when no AuthName is
2876 configured [John Sterling <sterling covalent.net>]
2878 *) Fix apxs to use sbindir. [Henri Gomez <hgomez slib.fr>]
2880 *) Fix a problem with IPv6 vhosts. PR #8118 [Jeff Trawick]
2882 *) Optimization for the BNDM string-search function in
2883 mod_include. [Brian Pane]
2885 *) Fixed the behavior of the XBitHack directive.
2886 [Taketo Kabe <kabe sra-tohoku.co.jp>, Cliff Woolley] PR#8804
2888 *) The threaded MPM for Unix has been removed. Use the worker
2889 MPM instead. [various]
2891 *) APR-ize the resolver logic in mod_unique_id. This fixes a bug
2892 in logging the error from a failed DNS lookup. [Jeff Trawick]
2894 *) Added the missing macros AP_INIT_TAKE13 and AP_INIT_TAKE123.
2897 *) Get mod_cgid killed when a MPM exits due to a fatal error.
2900 *) Fix a file descriptor leak in mod_include. When we include a
2901 file, we use a sub-request, but we didn't destroy the sub-request
2902 immediately, instead we waited until the original request was
2903 done. This patch closes the sub-request as soon as the data is
2904 done being generated. [Brian Pane <bpane pacbell.net>]
2906 *) Allow modules that add sockets to the ap_listeners list to
2907 define the function that should be used to accept on that
2908 socket. Each MPM can define their own function to use for
2909 the accept function with the MPM_ACCEPT_FUNC macro. This
2910 also abstracts out all of the Unix accept error handling
2911 logic, which has become out of synch across Unix MPMs.
2914 *) Fix a bug which would cause the response headers to be omitted
2915 when sending a negotiated ErrorDocument because the required
2916 filters were attached to the wrong request_rec.
2917 [John Sterling <sterling covalent.net>]
2919 *) Remove commas from the end of the macros that define
2920 directives that are used by MPMs. Prior to this patch,
2921 you would use these macros without commas, which was unlike
2922 the macros for any other directives. Now, the caller provides
2923 the comma rather than the macro providing it. This makes
2924 the macros look more like the rest of the directives.
2925 [Ryan Bloom and Cliff Woolley]
2927 *) Add 'redirect-carefully' environment option to disable sending
2928 redirects under special circumstances. This is helpful for
2929 Microsoft's WebFolders when accessing a directory resource via
2930 DAV methods. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2932 *) Begin to abstract out the underlying transport layer.
2933 The first step is to remove the socket from the conn_rec,
2934 the server now lives in a context that is passed to the
2935 core's input and output filters. This forces us to be very
2936 careful when adding calls that use the socket directly,
2937 because the socket isn't available in most locations.
2940 *) Really reset the MaxClients value in worker and threaded
2941 when the configured value is not a multiple of the number
2942 of threads per child. We said we did previously but we
2943 forgot to. [Jeff Trawick]
2945 *) Add Debian layout. [Daniel Stone <daniel sfarc.net>]
2947 *) If shared modules are requested and mod_so is not available,
2948 produce a fatal config-time error. [Justin Erenkrantz]
2950 *) Improve http2env's performance by cutting the work it has to
2951 do. [Brian Pane <bpane pacbell.net>]
2953 *) use new 'apr_hash_merge' function in mod_mime (performance fix)
2954 [Brian Pane <bpane pacbell.net>]
2956 Changes with Apache 2.0.28
2958 *) Fix infinite loop in mod_cgid.c.
2959 [Dale Ghent <daleg elemental.org>, Brian Pane <bpane pacbell.net>]
2961 *) When no port is given in a "ServerName host" directive, the
2962 server_rec->port is now set to zero, not 80. That allows for
2963 run-time deduction of the correct server port (depending on
2964 SSL/plain, and depending also on the current setting of
2965 UseCanonicalName). This change makes redirections
2966 work, even with https:// connections. As in Apache-1.3, the
2967 connection's actual port number is never used, only the ServerName
2968 setting or the client's Host: setting. Documentation updated
2969 to reflect the change. [Martin Kraemer]
2971 *) Add a '%{note-name}e' argument to mod-headers, which works in
2972 the same way as mod_log_confg. [Ian Holsman]
2974 *) Fix the spelling of the AP_MPMQ_MIN_SPARE_DAEMONS and
2975 AP_MPMQ_MAX_REQUESTS_DAEMON macros in ap_mpm.h and all standard
2976 MPMs. [Cliff Woolley]
2978 *) Introduce htdbm, a user management utility for db/dbm authorization
2979 databases. [Mladen Turk <mturk mappingsoft.com>]
2981 *) Optimize usage of strlen and strcat in ap_directory_walk.
2982 [Brian Pane <bpane pacbell.net>]
2984 Changes with Apache 2.0.27
2986 *) Introduce an Apache mod_ssl initial configuration template
2987 (ssl.conf, generated from ssl-std.conf). [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2989 *) Fixed a memory leak in the getline parsing code that could
2990 be triggered by arbitrarily large header lines. Requests
2991 from the core input filter for single lines are now limited
2992 to HUGE_STRING_LEN (8192 bytes). [Aaron Bannert]
2994 *) Fix a truncation bug in how we print the port on the Via: header.
2995 The routine that prints the Via: header now takes a length for
2996 the port string. [Zvi Har'El <rl math.technion.ac.il>]
2998 *) Some syntax errors in mod_mime_magic's magic file can result
2999 in a 500 error, which previously was unlogged. Now we log the
3000 error. [Jeff Trawick]
3002 *) Add the support/checkgid helper app, which checks the run-time
3003 validity of group identifiers usable in the Group directive.
3006 *) Various --enable-so options have been fixed: --enable-so is
3007 treated as "static"; explicit --enable-so=shared issues an error;
3008 and explicit --enable-so fails with error on systems without
3009 APR_HAS_DSO. [Aaron Bannert]
3011 *) Fix a segfault in the core input filter when the client socket
3012 gets disconnected unexpectedly. [Cliff Woolley]
3014 *) Fix the reporting for child processes that die. This removes
3015 all of the non-portable W* macros from Apache.
3016 [Jeff Trawick and Ryan Bloom]
3018 *) Win32: Track and display "Parent Server Generation:" in
3019 mod_status output. The generation will be bumped at
3020 server graceful restart, when the child process exits
3021 by hitting MaxRequestsPerChild or if the child
3022 process exits abnormally. [Bill Stoddard]
3024 *) Win32: Fix problem where MaxRequestsPerChild directive was
3025 not being picked up in favor of the default. Enable
3026 the parent to start up a new child process immediately upon
3027 the old child starting shutdown.
3030 *) Fix some bungling of the remote port in rfc1413.c so that
3031 IdentityCheck retrieves the proper user id instead of failing
3032 and thus always returning "nobody."
3033 [Dick Streefland <Dick.Streefland xs4all.nl>]
3035 *) Introduced thread saftey for mod_rewrite's internal cache.
3036 [Brian Pane <bpane pacbell.net>]
3038 *) Simplified mod_env's directives to behave as most directives are
3039 expected, in that UnsetEnv will not unset a SetEnv and PassEnv
3040 directive following that UnsetEnv within the same container.
3041 Also provides a runtime startup warning if a PassEnv configured
3042 environment value is undefined. [William Rowe]
3044 *) The worker MPM is now completely ported to APR's new lock API. It
3045 uses native APR types for thread mutexes, cross-process mutexes,
3046 and condition variables. [Aaron Bannert]
3048 *) Sync up documentation to remove all references to the now deprecated
3049 Port directive. [Justin Erenkrantz]
3051 *) Moved all ldap modules from the core to httpd-ldap sub-project
3054 *) Exit when we can't listen on any of the configured ports. This
3055 is the same behavior as 1.3, and it avoids having the MPMs to
3056 deal with bogus ap_listen_rec structures. [Jeff Trawick]
3058 *) Cleanup the proxy code that creates a request to the origin
3059 server. This change adds an optional hook, which allows modules
3060 to gain control while the request is created if the proxy module
3061 is loaded. The purpose of this hook is to allow modules to add
3062 input and/or output filters to the request to the origin. While
3063 I was at it, I made the core use this hook, so that proxy request
3064 creation uses some of the code from the core. This can still be
3065 greatly improved, but this is a good start. [Ryan Bloom]
3067 Changes with Apache 2.0.26
3069 *) Port the MaxClients changes from the worker MPM to the threaded
3072 *) Fix mod_proxy so that it handles chunked transfer-encoding and works
3073 with the new input filtering system. [Justin Erenkrantz]
3075 *) Introduce the MultiviewsMatch directive, to allow the operator
3076 to be flexible in recognizing Handlers and Filters filename
3077 extensions as part of the Multiviews matching logic, strict with
3078 MultiviewsMatch NegotiatedOnly to accept only filename extentions
3079 that designate negotiated parameters, (content type, charset, etc.)
3080 or MultiviewsAll for the 1.3 behavior of matching any files, even
3081 if they have unregistered extensions. [William Rowe]
3083 *) Fixed the configure script to add a LoadModule directive to
3084 the default httpd.conf for any module that was compiled
3085 as a DSO. [Aaron Bannert <aaron clove.org>]
3087 *) rewrite mod_ssl input filtering to work with the new input filtering
3088 system. [Justin Erenkrantz]
3090 *) prefork: Don't segfault when we are able to listen on some but
3091 not all of the configured ports. [Jeff Trawick]
3093 *) Build mod_so even if no core modules are built shared.
3094 [Aaron Bannert <aaron clove.org>]
3096 *) Introduce ap_directory_walk rewrite (with further optimizations
3097 required) to adapt to the ap_process_request_internal() changes.
3098 Optimized so subrequests and redirects now reuse previous section
3099 merges, until we mismatch with the original directory_walk, and
3100 precomputed r->finfo results will cause directory_walk to skip
3101 the most expensive phases of the function. [William Rowe]
3103 *) Allow ApacheMonitor to connect to and control Apache on other
3104 WinNT/2K machines. [Mladen Turk <mturk mappingsoft.com>]
3106 *) Remove the Port directive. In it's place, the Listen directive
3107 is now a required directive, which tells Apache what port to
3108 listen on. The ServerName directive has also been extended
3109 to accept an optional port. If the port is specified to the
3110 ServerName, the server will report that port whenever it
3111 reports the port that it is listening on. This change was
3112 made to ease configuration errors that stem from having a Port
3113 directive, and a Listen directive. In that situation, the server
3114 would only listen to the port specified by the Listen command,
3115 which caused a lot of confusion to users. [Ryan Bloom]
3117 *) Added mod_mime_magic, mod_unique_id and mod_vhost_alias to the Win32
3118 build, as loadable modules. [William Rowe]
3120 *) Fix --enable-mods-shared processing. If most is specified,
3121 then all modules that can be compiled as shared modules are.
3122 [Aaron Bannert <aaron clove.org>]
3124 *) Update the mime.types file to map video/vnd.mpegurl to mxu
3125 and add commonly used audio/x-mpegurl for m3u extensions.
3126 [Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106 uni-bonn.de>, Lars Eilebrecht]
3128 *) Eliminate the depreciated r->content_language, in favor of the array
3129 r->content_languages introduced many years ago. Module authors must
3130 substantially overhaul their modules, so this needs to be upgraded
3131 if the module still relied on backwards-brokeness. [William Rowe]
3133 *) Allow configure help strings to work with autoconf 2.50+ and 2.13.
3136 *) Rewrite the input filtering mechanisms to consolidate and reorganize
3137 code. In short, core_input_filter does something now and
3138 ap_http_filter is now only concerned with HTTP. [Justin Erenkrantz]
3140 *) Update the Win32 build to re-absorb mod_proxy and family.
3143 *) Resolved the build failure on Win32 using MSVC 5.0 (without the
3144 current SDK.) [William Rowe]
3146 *) Some style changes to the code that does ProxyErrorOverride. Fixed
3147 config merge behaviour. [Graham Leggett]
3149 *) Allow support programs to be compiled against a static version
3150 of libapr. This allows the smaller support programs to be
3151 relocated. [Aaron Bannert <aaron clove.org>]
3153 *) Update the mime.types file to the registered media types as
3154 of 2001-09-25, and add mapping for xsl extension [Mark Cox]
3156 *) Fix MaxClients in the Worker MPM, so that it specifies the maximum
3157 number of clients that can connect at the same time, instead of
3158 specifying the maximum number of child processes.
3159 [Aaron Bannert <aaron clove.org>]
3161 *) Switch proc_pthread AcceptMutex configuration directive to pthread to
3162 be consistent with 1.3. [Justin Erenkrantz]
3164 *) Cache apr_explode_localtime() value for 15 seconds.
3165 [Brian Pane <bpane pacbell.net>]
3167 *) Fix mod_include to not return ETag or Last-Modified headers.
3168 [Ian Holsman <ianh cnet.com>]
3170 *) Fix worker MPM's scoreboard logic. [Aaron Bannert <aaron clove.org>]
3172 *) Eliminate the wasteful run-time conversion of method names from strings
3173 to numbers in places where the methods are known at compile time.
3174 [Brian Pane <bpane pacbell.net>]
3176 *) Turn the worker MPM's queue into a LIFO. This may
3177 improve cache-hit performance under some conditions.
3178 [Aaron Bannert <aaron clove.org>]
3180 *) Switch back to SIGUSR1 for graceful restarts on all platforms that
3181 support it. [Justin Erenkrantz]
3183 *) Cleanup the worker MPM. We no longer re-use transaction
3184 pools. This incurs less overhead than shuffling the pools
3185 around so that they can be re-used. Remove one of the
3186 queue's condition variables. We just redefined the API to
3187 state that you can't try to add more stuff than you allocated
3188 segments for. [Aaron Bannert <aaron clove.org>]
3190 *) Fix SSL VPATH builds [Cody Sherr <csherr covalent.net>]
3192 *) Fixed persistent connections when a request contains a body.
3195 *) mod_dav uses a new API to speak to the backend provider for dead
3196 property management. [Greg Stein]
3198 *) Remove the Win32 script-processing exception from mod_cgi, and
3199 roll build_command_line/build_argv_list into a unified, overrideable
3200 ap_cgi_build_command optional function. [William Rowe]
3202 *) Rewrite find_start_sequence to use a better search algorithm
3203 to find the start tag. [Justin Erenkrantz]
3205 *) Fix a seg fault in mod_include. When we are generating an
3206 internal redirect, we must set r->uri to "", not a bogus
3207 string, and not NULL. [Ryan Bloom]
3209 *) Optimized location_walk, so subrequests, redirects and second passes
3210 now reuse previous section merges on a <Location > by <Location >
3211 basis, until we mismatch with the original location_walk.
3214 *) Back out the 1.45 change to util_script.c. This change made
3215 us set the environment variable REQUEST_URI to the redirected
3216 URI, instead of the originally requested URI.
3217 [Taketo Kabe <kabe sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
3219 *) Make mod_include do lazy evaluation of potentially expensive to
3220 compute variables. [Brian Pane <bpane pacbell.net>]
3222 *) Fix logging of bytes sent for HEAD requests. %b and %B should
3223 log either - or 0, before this patch, they were both logging
3224 the file size. [Taketo Kabe <kabe sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
3226 *) Make mod_include check for BYTE_CHECK_THRESHOLD per bucket rather
3227 than per character. [Brian Pane <bpane pacbell.net>]
3229 *) Normalize the primary request, redirects and sub-requests to
3230 run the same ap_process_request_internal for consistency in
3231 robustness, behavior and security. [William Rowe]
3233 *) Fix a segfault with mod_include when r->path_info is not set
3234 (which is the case with mod_proxy). [Ian Holsman <ianh cnet.com>]
3236 *) Add -X functionality back. This indicates to all MPMs and any other
3237 part of Apache that it should run in "debug" mode. [Justin Erenkrantz]
3239 *) Some initial support for the cygwin platform [prefork only].
3240 This is not to be confused with support for the WinNT/Win32
3241 platform, which is the recommended configuration for native
3242 Win32 users. The cygwin platform support is recommended for
3243 cygwin platform users. [Stipe Tolj <tolj wapme-systems.de>]
3245 *) Changed syntax of Set{Input|Output}Filter. The list of filters
3246 must be semicolon delimited (if more than one filter is given.)
3247 The Set{Input|Output}Filter directive now overrides a parent
3248 container's directive (e.g. SetInputFilter in <Directory /web/foo>
3249 will override any SetInputFilter directive in <Directory /web>.)
3250 This new syntax is more consistent with Add{Input|Output}Filter
3251 directives defined in mod_mime. Also cures a bug in prior releases
3252 where the Set{Input|Output}Filter directive would corrupt the
3253 global configuration if the multiple directives were nested.
3256 *) Cured what's ailed mime for quite some time. If an AddSomething
3257 was given in the configuration (Language, Charset, Handler or
3258 Encoding) Apache would set the content type as given by AddType,
3259 but refused to check the mime.types file if AddType wasn't given
3260 for that specific extension. Setting the AddHandler for .html
3261 without setting the AddType text/html html would cause Apache to
3262 use the default content type. [William Rowe]
3264 *) Added some bulletproofing to memory allocation in the LDAP cache
3265 code. [Graham Leggett]
3267 Changes with Apache 2.0.25
3269 *) Move the installed /manual directory out of the /htdocs/ tree, so
3270 that it can be kept more independently from the remaining document
3271 root. The "Alias /manual ..." already allowed for easy projection
3272 into existing private document trees. [Martin Kraemer]
3274 *) Add specified user attributes to the environment when using
3275 mod_auth_ldap. This allows you to use mod_include to embed specified
3276 user attributes in a page like so:
3277 Hello <!--#echo var="AUTHENTICATE_CN"-->, how are you?
3280 *) Fix a performance problem with the worker MPM. We now create
3281 transaction pools once, and re-use them for each connection.
3282 [Aaron Bannert <aaron clove.org>]
3284 *) Modfied mod_mime to prevent mod_negotation from serving a multiview
3285 of a 'handler' or 'filter', so that any filename extension that does
3286 not contribute to the negotiated metadata can't be served without
3287 an explicit request. E.g., if the .Z extension is associated with
3288 an unzip filter, the user request somefile.Z.html, mod_negotiation
3289 won't serve it. It can serve somefile.Z.html when somefile.Z is
3290 requested, since the .Z extension is explictly requested, if the
3291 .html extension is associated with ContentType text/html.
3294 *) Introduce the AddInputFilter filter[;filter...] ext [ext...]
3295 and corresponding AddOutputFilter syntax, to insert one or more
3296 filters by mod_mime filename extension processing.
3299 *) Fix a growing connection pool in core_output_filter() for
3300 keepalive requests. [Jeff Trawick]
3302 *) Moved split_and_pass_pretag_buckets back to being a
3303 macro at Ryans's request. Removed the return from it
3304 by setting and returning a return code instead. Updated
3305 the code to check the return code from the macro and
3306 do the right thing. [Paul J. Reder]
3308 *) Fix a segfault when a numeric value was received for Host:.
3311 *) Add a function ap_remove_input_filter. This is to match
3312 up with ap_remove_output_filter. [Ryan Bloom]
3314 *) Clean up location_walk, so that this step performs a minimum
3315 amount of redundant effort (it must be run twice, but it will no
3316 longer reparse all <Location > blocks when the request uri
3317 hadn't changed.) [William Rowe]
3319 *) Eliminate proxy: (and all other 'special') processing from the
3320 ap_directory_walk() phase. Modules that want to use special
3321 walk logic should refer to the mod_proxy map_to_location example,
3322 with it's proxy_walk and proxysection implementation. This makes
3323 either directory_walk flavor much more legible, since that phase
3324 only runs against real <Directory > blocks.
3327 *) SECURITY: Fix a security problem in mod_include which would allow
3328 an SSI document to be passed to the client unparsed.
3329 [Cliff Woolley, Brian Pane]
3331 *) Introduce the map_to_storage hook, which allows modules to bypass
3332 the directory_walk and file_walk for non-file requests. TRACE
3333 shortcut moved to http_protocol.c as APR_HOOK_MIDDLE, and the
3334 directory_walk/file_walk happen as APR_HOOK_VERY_LAST in core.c.
3337 *) Add the ability for mod_include to add the INCLUDES filter
3338 if the file is configured for the server-parsed handler.
3339 This makes the configuration for .shtml files much easier
3340 to understand, and allows mod_include to honor Apache 1.3
3341 config files. Based on Doug MacEachern's patch to PHP
3342 to do the same thing. [Ryan Bloom]
3344 *) force OpenSSL to ignore process local-caching and to always
3345 get/set/delete sessions using mod_ssl's callbacks
3346 [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli hp.com>,
3347 Geoff Thorpe <geoff geoffthorpe.net>]
3349 *) Make the worker MPM shutdown and restart cleanly. This also
3350 cleans up some race conditions, and gets the worker using
3351 pools more cleanly. [Aaron Bannert <aaron clove.org>]
3353 *) Implement CRYPTO_set_locking_callback() in terms of apr_lock
3355 [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli hp.com>]
3357 *) Fix for mod_include. Ryan's patch to check error
3358 codes put a return in the wrong place. Also, the
3359 include handler return code wasn't being checked.
3360 I don't like macros with returns, so I converted
3361 SPLIT_AND_PASS_PRETAG_BUCKETS into a function.
3362 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj raleigh.ibm.com>]
3364 *) fix segv in mod_mime if no AddTypes are configured
3365 [John Sterling <sterling covalent.net>]
3367 *) Enable ssl client authentication at SSL_accept time
3368 [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli hp.com>]
3370 *) Fix a segfault in mod_include when the original request has no
3371 associated filename (e.g., we're filtering the error document for
3372 a bad URI). [Jeff Trawick]
3374 *) Fix a storage leak (a strdup() call) in mod_mime_magic. [Jeff Trawick]
3376 *) The prefork and OS/2 MPMs are overwriting the pid file when a second copy
3377 of httpd is started and shuts down due to socket conflict. Moving the
3378 call to ap_log_pid solves the problem.
3380 *) Changed the late-1.3 log_config substitution %c to %X, to log the
3381 status of the closed connection, as it conflicts with the far more
3382 common, historical ssl logging directive %...{var}c. [William Rowe]
3384 *) Added the common error/ tree to the build/install targets
3385 (similar to the common icons/ tree) for the multi-language error
3386 messages that Lars committed earlier. [William Rowe]
3388 *) Added a multi process, multi threaded OS/2 MPM mpmt_os2. [Brian Havard]
3390 *) Added a default commented-out mod_ldap and mod_auth_ldap
3391 configuration to httpd-std.conf and httpd-win.conf
3394 *) Added documentation for mod_ldap and mod_auth_ldap.
3397 *) Enabled negative caching on attribute comparisons in the LDAP cache.
3398 Fixed a problem where the default cache TTL was set in milliseconds
3399 not microseconds causing the cache to time out almost immediately.
3402 *) Fixed all the #if APR_HAS_SHARED_MEMORY checks within the LDAP
3403 module code to follow APR. [Graham Leggett]
3405 *) Fixed LDAP cleanup on graceful restarts. LDAP connections are now
3406 cleaned up when the connection pool pool is cleaned up.
3409 *) Fix a minor issue with Jeff Trawick's mod_include
3410 patch. Without this patch, the code will just allocate
3411 more bytes in get_combined_directive than are needed.
3414 *) Added the LDAP authentication module mod_auth_ldap.
3415 [Dave Carrigan <dave rudedog.org>, Graham Leggett]
3417 *) Added the LDAP cache and connection pooling module mod_ldap.
3418 [Dave Carrigan <dave rudedog.org>, Graham Leggett]
3420 *) Fix --enable-modules=all breakage with mod_auth_db and mod_auth_digest
3421 by allowing a module to disable itself if its prerequisites are not
3422 met. [Justin Erenkrantz]
3424 Changes with Apache 2.0.24
3426 *) Fix a couple of issues in mod_include when the tag appeared at
3427 offsets near 8192 in the file being parsed. [Jeff Trawick]
3429 *) Fix an assertion failure in mod_ssl when the keepalive timeout is
3430 reached. [Jeff Trawick]
3432 *) Numerous improvements to the Win32 build system. Introduced command line
3433 builds without requiring .mak files for MSVC 6.0 and later versions.
3434 Improved .dsp file compatibility for both Visual Studio 5.0 and 6.0 users.
3437 *) Assorted corrections and improvements to the winnt_mpm startup code. Better
3438 reporting of uninstalled services and other error conditions, and changed the
3439 default service name to Apache2. [William Rowe]
3441 *) Numerous improvements to the Win32 ApacheMonitor utility, including winnt_mpm
3442 compatibility with existing Apache 1.3 Win32 Apache management utilites.
3443 [Mladen Turk <mturk mappingsoft.com>, William Rowe]
3445 *) Fixed the segfaults in mod_mime introduced by hash tables in 2.0.20.
3446 [William Rowe, Greg Ames]
3448 *) Rounded out the mod_mime Add/Remove pairs by adding RemoveLanguage
3449 and RemoveCharset directives. [William Rowe]
3451 *) The Unix MPMs other than perchild now allow child server
3452 processes to use the accept mutex when starting as root and
3453 using SysV sems for the accept mutex. Previously, this
3454 combination would lead to fatal errors in the child server
3455 processes. perchild can't use SysV sems because of security
3456 issues. [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames]
3458 *) Added Win32 revision stamp resources to all http binaries
3459 (including modules/ and support/ tools.) PR7322 [William Rowe]
3461 *) Fix ap_rvprintf to support more than 4K of data at one time.
3462 [Cody Sherr <csherr covalent.net>]
3464 *) We have always used the obsolete/deprecated Netscape syntax
3465 for our tracking cookies; now the CookieStyle directive
3466 allows the Webmaster to choose the Netscape, RFC2109, or
3467 RFC2965 format. The new CookieDomain directive allows the
3468 setting of the cookie's Domain= attribute, too. PR #s 5006,
3469 5023, 5920, 6140 [Ken Coar]
3471 *) Tweak server/Makefile so that the rules for generating exports.c
3472 are compatible with make utilities which don't expand wildcards
3473 in a dependency list (e.g., OS/390 make, certain levels of GNU
3474 make). [Jeff Trawick]
3476 *) Install the SSL headers. [John Sterling <sterling covalent.net>]
3478 *) Begin to sanitize the MPM configuration directives. Now, all
3479 MPMs use the same functions for all common MPM directives. This
3480 should make it easier to catch all bugs in these directives once.
3481 [Cody Sherr <csherr covalent.net>]
3483 *) Close a major resource leak. Every time we had issued a
3484 graceful restart, we leaked a socket descriptor.
3487 *) Fix a problem with the new method code. We need to cast
3488 the 1 to an apr_int64_t or it will be treated as a 32-bit
3489 integer, and it will wrap after being shifted 32 times.
3490 [Cody Sherr <csherr covalent.net> and Ryan Morgan <rmorgan covalent.net>]
3492 *) Fix a bug in mod_expires. Previous to this patch, if you
3493 told mod_expires to add 604800 seconds to the last-modified
3494 time, it actually added 604800 usec's to the last-modified time,
3495 so that when looking at the response it looked like nothing
3496 had been done. The root of the problem was that we always compute
3497 time in usec's, but we ask users to input sec's. This means we
3498 need to convert to usec's before using those values.
3501 *) The worker MPM now handles shutdown and restart requests. It
3502 definitely isn't perfect, but we do stop the servers correctly.
3503 The biggest problem right now is that SIGHUP causes the server to
3504 just die. [Ryan Bloom]
3506 Changes with Apache 2.0.23
3508 *) Use the prefork MPM by default on Unix. [various]
3510 *) Added a systray icon monitor application for Win32.
3511 [Mladen Turk <mturk mappingsoft.com>]
3513 *) mod_rewrite: Fix the line ending on some non-Unix systems for
3514 messages written to the rewrite log.
3515 [Richard Labennett <rlabenn us.ibm.com>]
3517 *) All mod_autoindex query parsing is now quietly quashed with the
3518 IndexOption IgnoreClient. The IndexOption SuppressColumnSorting
3519 still drops the column sort <a href>'s for the column headers, but
3520 IgnoreClient is required to ignore these Query options entirely.
3523 *) Introduced new mod_autoindex query argument parsing for F=[0|1|2]
3524 to allow the client to select plain, FancyIndexing or HTMLTable
3525 formatting, V=[0|1] to inhibit or enable version sorting, and
3526 P=pattern to return only specific files. The old Query Arguments
3527 were reorganized as C=f for sorting column 'f' (same N, D, S, or M
3528 as before), and O=A|D for ordering ascending or descending.
3531 *) Fixed an error in mod_include's directive parsing routines which
3532 caused #if, #elif, and #else expressions containing backslashes
3533 to be improperly evaluated. [Cliff Woolley]
3535 *) Introduced new mod_autoindex IndexOptions flags: SuppressIcon to
3536 drop the icon column, SuppressRules to drop the <hr> elements,
3537 and HTMLTable to create rudimentary HTML table listings (implies
3538 FancyIndexing). [William Rowe]
3540 *) Re-introduced the mod_autoindex IndexOptions flag TrackModified
3541 from Apache 1.3.15. This is needed for two reasons, first, given
3542 multiple machines within a server farm, ETags and Last-Modified
3543 stamps won't correspond from machine to machine, and second, many
3544 Unixes don't capture changes to the date or time stamp of existing
3545 files, since these don't modify the dirent itself. [William Rowe]
3547 *) Re-introduced the mod_autoindex IndexOptions flag FoldersFirst
3548 and DirectoryWidth options from Apache 1.3.10.
3549 [William Rowe, Ken Coar]
3551 *) Eliminated FancyIndexing directive, deprecated early in Apache
3552 1.3 by the IndexOptions FancyIndexing syntax. [William Rowe]
3554 *) mod_autoindex now excludes any file names that would result in
3555 an error, other than a success or redirect. Also optimized
3556 the parent directory, always included except in the URI '/'.
3559 *) Refactored mod_negotiation and mod_mime to help mod_dir accept
3560 negotiated index pages, and prevent the server from defaulting
3561 to an autoindex of the directory. mod_negotiation will now die
3562 with a 500 Internal Error if it could match some filenames
3563 (e.g. for mod_dir) but none can be served. mod_negotation now
3564 refuses to serve any file with an extention that mod_mime doesn't
3565 recognize, and wasn't part of the request. [William Rowe]
3567 *) Eliminate mod_cgi's handling of .exe files without the .exe file
3568 extension. This is already handled by multiviews, if the admin
3569 wishes to AddHandler .exe or define a content type handler and
3570 associate .exe files with that content type. Multiviews must be
3571 enabled to allow these to be served. [William Rowe]
3573 *) Speed up the server's response to a spike in incoming workload
3574 or restarts by assigning empty scoreboard slots to new processes
3575 when they are available. [Greg Ames]
3577 *) Add a handler to mod_includes.c. This handler is designed to
3578 implement the XbitHack directive. This can't be done with a
3579 fixup, because we need to check the content-type, which is
3580 only available in the handler phase. [Ryan Bloom]
3582 *) Make the includes filter check return codes from filters lower in
3583 the filter chain. If a lower level filter returns an error, then
3584 the request needs to stop immediately. This allows mod_include to
3585 stop parsing data once a lower filter recognizes an error.
3588 *) Add the ability to extend the methods that Apache understands
3589 and have those methods <limit>able in the httpd.conf. It uses
3590 the same bit mask/shifted offset as the original HTTP methods
3591 such as M_GET or M_POST, but expands the total bits from an int to
3592 an ap_int64_t to handle more bits for new request methods than
3593 an int provides. [Cody Sherr <csherr covalent.net>]
3595 *) Fix broken mod_mime behavior in merging its arguments. Possible
3596 cause of unexplicable crashes introduced in 2.0.20. [William Rowe]
3598 *) Solve many mod_ssl porting issues (too many to detail) with
3599 help from the whole team, but most notably [Ralf S. Engelschall,
3600 Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli hp.com>,
3601 Doug MacEachern, William Rowe, Cliff Woolley]
3603 *) More stall fixes for the threaded & worker mpm's.
3604 Make mod_status output more accurate. Don't
3605 count workers in processes which aren't actively
3606 serving requests. [Greg Ames]
3608 *) Win32: Get SSI exec cgi tag working. [Bill Stoddard]
3610 *) Add a single listener/multiple worker MPM. This MPM is
3611 definately not fully correct, but it allows us to solve many
3612 of the problems that exist in the threaded MPM. This is a
3613 modified version of the threaded MPM. [Ryan Bloom]
3615 *) Improve content generation throughout Apache, providing closer
3616 compliance with HTML 3.2, HTML 4.01 Transitional and XHTML 1.0
3617 Transitional specifications. [William Rowe]
3619 Changes with Apache 2.0.22
3621 *) Fix a problem where the threaded MPM stalls after restarts or
3622 segfaults. Also prevent multiple active processes from using
3623 the same scoreboard slot. [Greg Ames]
3625 *) Apache/Win32 now fills in the service description with Apache's
3626 server version string, including loaded and advertised modules.
3629 *) Improved support for the Win32 build, to recover gracefully from
3630 missing apr or apr-util directories or the awk interpreter,
3631 create the proper cgi-bin examples, including a test-cgi.bat, and
3632 fix the perl shebang line for printenv.pl, when installing from
3633 the build environment. [William Rowe]
3635 *) Fix a segfault in threaded.c caused by passing uninitialized
3636 apr_thread_t * to apr_thread_join(). [Jeff Trawick]
3638 *) Use new APR number conversion functions to reduce CPU consumption
3639 when setting the content length, and in mod_log_config.
3642 *) Fix problem reported by Taketo Kabe <kabe sra-tohoku.co.jp>
3643 where HEAD response headers were being repeated twice for
3644 files greater than 32K bytes (4*AP_MIN_BYTES_TO_WRITE). This
3645 problem in the http_header filter was exposed by the recent rewrite
3646 of the content_length filter. [Taketo Kabe, Bill Stoddard]
3648 *) Fix seg faults in mod_status with ExtendedStatus enabled, after
3649 restarts. A garbage pointer to a vhost's server_rec from the
3650 previous generation was being left around under certain
3651 conditions. [Greg Ames]
3653 *) Fix a cosmetic problem with mod_include. Non-existant SSI vars
3654 used to appear as '(none', without the closing paren.
3655 [Günter Knauf <eflash gmx.net>]
3657 *) Improve the exports generating awk script. In the past, we had
3658 work around problems in the awk script by avoiding some #if and
3659 #ifdefs. This has bitten us many times in generating the exports.c
3660 file. This improvement allows corrects the header file parsing.
3661 [Sander Striker <striker apache.org>]
3663 Changes with Apache 2.0.21
3665 *) Resolve the Win32 htpasswd bug, where a file that existed would be
3666 overwritten, regardless of the -c flag.
3667 [William Rowe, Mladen Turk <mladen.turk mail.inet.hr>]
3669 *) Introduce connection sub-pools into ab. Truncating the lifetime
3670 of these allocations means that ab no longer perpetually grows
3671 its working set, running out of memory on large request attempts.
3674 *) Make scoreboard creation a hook. This allows management
3675 modules to have access to the scoreboard at the time that it is
3676 created, and at every restart request.
3677 [Cody Sherr <csherr covalent.net>]
3679 *) Changed AP_MPMQ_MAX_DAEMONS to refer to MaxClients and
3680 added an AP_MPMQ_MAX_DAEMON_USED to refer to the highest
3681 daemon index actually used in the scoreboard. I also
3682 updated the pertinent calls. [Paul J. Reder]
3684 *) Win32: Prevent listening sockets from being inherited by
3685 the Apache child process, CGI scripts, rotatelog process
3686 etc. If the Apache child process segfaults, any processes
3687 that the child started are not reaped. Prior to this fix,
3688 these processes inherited the listening sockets which sometimes
3689 prevented the restarted Apache child process from accepting
3690 connections (ie, the server would hang).
3693 *) Provide vhost and request strings when ExtendedStatus is on.
3696 *) Fix some issues with the pod and prefork: check the pod *after*
3697 processing a connection so that a server processing a time-
3698 consuming request bails out as soon as practical; when the
3699 parent process wakes up a server process via connect(), use an
3700 APR timeout on the connect() so that we don't hang for a long
3701 time if there aren't server processes around to do accept().
3702 [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames]
3704 *) Performance improvement to mod_mime.c. find_ct() in mod_mime,
3705 spends a lot of time in apr_table_get calls. Using the default
3706 httpd.conf, the tables for languages and charsets are somewhat
3707 large, so the time spent scanning them on each request is
3708 significant. Replacing the tables with hash tables provides
3709 a nice speedup. [Brian Pane <bpane pacbell.net>]
3711 *) Add two functions to allow modules to access random parts of the
3712 scoreboard. This allows modules compiled for one MPM to access the
3713 scoreboard, even if it the server was compiled for another MPM.
3714 [Harrie Hazewinkel <harrie covalent.net>]
3716 Changes with Apache 2.0.20
3718 *) Fix problem in content-length filter where the filter would
3719 buffer all the output from a CGI before sending any bytes
3720 down the filter stack to the network. This problem would cause
3721 significant memory consumption if the CGIs generated
3722 lots of bytes. [Bill Stoddard]
3724 *) Get non-blocking CGI pipe reads working with the bucket brigades.
3727 *) Fix seg fault on Windows when serving files cached with mod_file_cache.
3730 *) Fix a bug in the threaded MPM that would cause it to kill off all
3731 workers immediately after starting if the number of workers started
3732 was above a certain threshold. [Ryan Bloom, Bill Stoddard]
3734 Changes with Apache 2.0.19
3736 *) Fix problem with threaded MPM. The problem was that if each child
3737 process was busy serving a single long-lived request and the server
3738 was sent a graceful restart signal, the server would stop serving
3739 requests. This would happen because each child process would wait to
3740 die until the last thread was done, and the parent wouldn't spawn any
3741 new children until a process died. Now, the parent looks at the fact
3742 that the children are dying gracefully, and starts new children.
3743 Those new children only start enough threads to compliment the number
3744 of threads in the other child process that shares the same spot in
3745 the scoreboard. In this way, we make sure to never go over
3746 MaxClients. [Ryan Bloom]
3748 *) modified mod_negotiation and mod_autoindex to speed up by almost a
3749 factor of two on apr_dir_read()-enhanced platforms, such as Win32
3750 and OS2, by calling ap_sub_request_lookup_dirent() with the results
3751 already provided by apr_dir_read(). [William Rowe]
3753 *) mod_file_cache is now more robust to filtering and serves requests
3754 slightly more efficiently. [Cliff Woolley]
3756 *) Fix problem handling FLUSH bucket in the chunked encoding filter.
3757 Module was calling ap_rwrite() followed by ap_rflush() but the
3758 served content was not being displayed in the browser. Inspection
3759 of the output stream revealed that the first data chunk was
3760 missing the trailing CRLF required by the RFC. [Bill Stoddard]
3762 *) apxs no longer generates ap_send_http_header() in the example handler
3764 *) Fix an ab problem which could cause a divide-by-zero exception
3765 with certain invocations (e.g., ab -k -c 6 -n 100 localhost/).
3766 [Ian Holsman <ianh cnet.com>]
3768 *) Solve case-insensitive platforms' confusion about negotiated
3769 filenames, allowing files of differnt case to match in choosing
3770 the document to serve. [William Rowe]
3772 *) Fix brokenness when ThreadsPerChild is higher than the built-in
3773 limit. We left ap_threads_per_child at the higher value which
3774 led to segfaults when doing certain scoreboard operations.
3777 *) Fix seg faults and/or missing output from mod_include. The
3778 default_handler was using the subrequest pool for files and
3779 MMAPs, even though the associated APR structures typically
3780 live longer than the subrequest. [Greg Ames]
3782 *) Extend mod_setenvif to support specifying regular expressions
3783 on the SetEnvIf (and SetEnvIfNoCase) directive attribute field.
3784 Example: SetEnvIf ^TS* [a-z].* HAVE_TS
3785 will cause HAVE_TS to be set if any of the request headers begins
3786 with "TS" and has a value that begins with any character in the
3787 set [a-z]. [Bill Stoddard]
3789 *) httpd children now re-bind themselves to a random CPU on
3790 multiprocessor systems on AIX via bindprocessor() in 2.0.
3791 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
3793 *) Fix htdigest. It would go into a loop in getline when adding
3794 a second user. [Bill Stoddard]
3796 *) Win32 platforms now fully support mod_userdir options. [Will Rowe]
3798 *) Automatically generate httpd.exp for AIX.
3799 DSOs now work again on AIX in 2.0
3800 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
3802 *) Add a new request hook, error_log. This phase allows modules
3803 to act on the error log string _after_ it has been written
3804 to the error log. The goal for this hook is to allow monitoring
3805 modules to send the error string to the monitoring agent.
3808 *) Modify mod_echo to make it use filters for input and output.
3809 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan covalent.net>]
3811 *) Extend mod_headers to support conditional driven Header
3812 add, append and set. Use SetEnvIf to set an envar and conditionally
3813 add/append/set headers based on this envar thusly:
3815 SetEnvIf TSMyHeader value HAVE_TSMyHeader
3816 Header add MyHeader "%t %D" env=HAVE_TSMyHeader
3818 If the request contains header "TSMyHeader: value" then header
3819 MyHeader: "t=xxxxxxxxxx D=yyyy" will be sent on the response.
3822 *) Extend mod_headers to support using format specifiers on Header
3823 add, append and set header values. Two format specifiers are supported:
3825 %t - reports, in UTC microseconds since the epoch, when the
3826 request was received.
3828 %D - reports the time, in microseconds, between when the request was
3829 received and the response sent.
3832 Header add MyHeader "This request served in %D microseconds. %t"
3834 results in a header being added to the response that looks like this:
3836 MyHeader: This request served in D=5438 microseconds. t=991424704447256
3840 *) Fix reset_filter(). We need to be careful how we remove filters.
3841 If we set r->output_filters to NULL, we also have to reset the
3842 connection's filters. [John Sterling]
3844 *) Optimise reset_filter() in http_protocol.c. [Greg Stein]
3846 *) Add a check to ap_die() to make sure the filter stack is sane and
3847 contains the correct basic filters when an error occurs. This fixes
3848 a problem where headers are not being sent on error. [John Sterling]
3850 *) New Header directive 'echo' option. "Header echo regex" will
3851 cause any headers received on the request that match regex to be
3852 echoed to (included in) the response headers.
3855 *) include/ap_compat.h tested and set APR_COMPAT_H instead of AP_COMPAT_H.
3856 This prevented the inclusion of apr_compat.h. PR #7773
3857 [Oleg Broytmann <phd phd.pp.ru>]
3859 *) Moved util_uri to the apr-util library. This required a bunch of
3860 apr_name changes for the uri utility functions. [Justin Erenkrantz]
3862 *) Move the addition of default AP_HTTP_HTTP_HEADER filters to the
3863 insert_filter phase so that other filters are not bypassed by default.
3866 *) Reimplement mod_headers as an output filter. mod_headers can now
3867 add custom headers to inbound requests using the RequestHeader directive
3868 and to responses using the same old Header directive. [Graham Leggett]
3870 Changes with Apache 2.0.18
3872 *) Fix command-line processing so that if a bad argument is specified
3873 Apache will exit. [Jeff Trawick]
3875 *) Change the make targets and rules to be consistent in all of the
3876 Apache-owned source trees. [Roy Fielding]
3878 *) Fix processing of the TRACE method. Previously we passed bogus
3879 parms to form_header_field() and it overlaid some vhost structures,
3880 resulting in a segfault in check_hostalias().
3881 [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
3883 *) Win32: Add support for reliable piped logs. If the logging process
3884 goes down, Apache will automatically restart it. This function has
3885 been part of Apache on Unix/Linux/BSD since the early v1.3 releases.
3888 *) Do not start piped log processes during the config file
3889 preflight. This change also circumvents a problem on
3890 Windows where the rotatelog processes created during preflight
3891 was not getting cleaned up properly.
3894 *) add "Request Phase Participation" info to mod_info
3897 *) Make first phase changes to the scoreboard data structures in
3898 preparation for the rewriting of the scoreboard per my posted
3899 design notes. [Paul J. Reder]
3901 *) Fix httpd's definition of LTFLAGS to be consistent with that of apr
3902 and apr-util, allow it to be overridden by the configure command-line
3903 (default="--silent") and introduce LT_LDFLAGS to replace what we were
3904 formerly abusing as LTFLAGS. [Roy Fielding]
3906 *) Clean up the reporting of incorrect closing container tags.
3907 [Barrie Slaymaker <barries slaysys.com>]
3909 *) Simplify the configure process by moving all libtool stuff to APR
3910 and moving hints.m4 inline. [Roy Fielding]
3912 *) Add the AP_DECLARE()/AP_CORE_DECLARE macros on the return types
3913 of functions used by mod_proxy for export in the DLL
3914 [Ian Holsman <IanH cnet.com>]
3916 *) Prevent a hang when a cgi handled by mod_cgid tries to read a
3917 request body from its stdin but no reqest body is being written to
3918 the cgi. [Jeff Trawick]
3920 *) mod_log_config: %c connection status incorrectly logged
3921 as "-" (non-keepalive) when MaxKeepAliveRequests is set to 0.
3924 *) Get mod_cern_meta working under Windows
3927 *) Create Files, and thus MMAPs, out of the request pool, not the
3928 connection pool. This solves a small resource leak that had us
3929 not closing files until a connection was closed. In order to do
3930 this, at the end of the core_output_filter, we loop through the
3931 brigade and convert any data we have into a single HEAP bucket
3932 that we know will survive clearing the request_rec.
3933 [Ryan Bloom, Justin Erenkrantz <jerenkrantz ebuilt.com>,
3936 *) Completely revamp configure so that it preserves the standard make
3937 variables CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, LDFLAGS and LIBS by moving
3938 the configure additions to EXTRA_* variables. Also, allow the user
3939 to specify NOTEST_* values for all of the above, which eliminates the
3940 need for THREAD_CPPFLAGS, THREAD_CFLAGS, and OPTIM. Fix the setting
3941 of INCLUDES and EXTRA_INCLUDES. Check flags as they are added to
3942 avoid pointless duplications. Fix the order in which flags are given
3943 on the compile and link lines. Remove obsolete macros APR_DOEXTRA,
3944 AC_ADD_LIBRARY, AC_CHECK_DEFINE, APACHE_PASSTHRU, and APACHE_ONCE.
3945 Added APR_SAVE_THE_ENVIRONMENT and APR_RESTORE_THE_ENVIRONMENT macros.
3946 Renamed AC_TYPE_RLIM_T macro to APACHE_TYPE_RLIM_T. [Roy Fielding]
3948 *) Get mod_tls to compile/work better on Windows. PR #7612
3949 [Bernhard Schrenk <b.schrenk improx.com>]
3951 *) Fix shutdown/restart hangs in the threaded MPM.
3952 [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames, Ryan Bloom]
3954 *) Removed the keptalive boolean from conn_rec because it is now only
3955 used by a single routine and can be replaced by a local variable.
3956 [Greg Stein, Ryan Bloom, Roy Fielding]
3958 *) Patch prefork to put enough of the signal processing back in so that
3959 signals are all handled properly now. The previous patch fixed the
3960 deadlock race condition, but broke the user directed signal handling.
3961 This fixes it to work the way it did before my previous prefork patch
3962 (primarily, SIGTERM is now working).
3964 *) Change how input filters decide how much data is returned to the
3965 higher filter. We used to use a field in the conn_rec, with this
3966 change, we use an argument to ap_get_brigade to determine how much
3967 data is retrieved. [Ryan Bloom]
3969 *) Fix seg fault at start-up introduced by Ryan's change to enable
3970 modules to specify their own logging tags. mod_log_config
3971 registers an optional function, ap_register_log_handler().
3972 ap_register_log_handler() was being called by http_core before
3973 the directive hash table was created. This patch creates the
3974 directive hash table before ap_register_log_handler() is
3975 registered as an optional function.
3976 [jean-frederic clere <jfrederic.clere fujitsu-siemens.com>]
3978 *) Add ap_set_int_slot() function
3979 [John K. Sterling <sterling covalent.net>]
3981 *) Under certain circumstances, Apache did not supply the
3982 right response headers when requiring authentication.
3983 [Gertjan van Wingerde <Gertjan.van.Wingerde cmg.nl>] PR#7114
3984 (This is a port of the change that went into Apache 1.3.19.)
3986 *) Allow modules to specify their own logging tags. This basically
3987 allows a module to tell mod_log_config that when %x is encountered
3988 a specific function should be called. Currently, x can be any single
3989 character. It may be more useful to make this a string at some point.
3992 Changes with Apache 2.0.17
3994 *) If a higher-level filter handles the the byterange aspects of a
3995 request, then the byterange filter should not try to redo the
3996 work. The most common case of this happening, is a byterange
3997 request going through the proxy, and the origin server handles
3998 the byterange request. The proxy should ignore it.
3999 [Graham Leggett <minfrin sharp.fm>]
4001 *) Changed the threaded mpm to have child_main join to each of the
4002 worker threads to make sure the kids are all gone before child_main
4003 exits after a signal (cleanup from perform_idle_server_maintenance).
4004 This is an extension of Ryans recent commit to make the child_main
4007 *) Add more options to the ap_mpm_query function. This also allows MPMs to
4008 report if their threads are dynamic or static. Finally, this also
4009 implements a new API, ap_show_mpm, which returns the MPM that was
4010 required into the core. [Harrie Hazewinkel <harrie covalent.net>]
4012 *) Do not install the binaries from the support directory twice.
4013 [jun-ichiro hagino <itojun iijlab.net>]
4015 *) The ap_f* functions should flush data to the filter that is passed
4016 in, not the the filter after the one passed in.
4017 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan covalent.net>]
4019 *) Make ab work again by changing its native types to apr types and formats.
4020 [Justin Erenkrantz <jerenkrantz ebuilt.com>]
4022 *) Move the byterange filter and all of the supporting functions back
4023 to the HTTP module. The byterange filter turned out to be very
4024 HTTP specific, and it belongs in the HTTP module. [Greg Stein]
4026 *) Make clean, distclean, and extraclean consistently according to the
4027 Gnu makefile guidelines. [Justin Erenkrantz <jerenkrantz ebuilt.com>]
4029 *) Fix errors in the renaming of the apr_threadattr_detach_xxx functions.
4030 This may have been causing problems stopping processes in the threaded
4033 *) Fix content-length in mod_negotiation to a long int representation.
4036 *) Remove BindAddress from the default config file.
4037 [<giles nemeton.com.au>]
4039 *) Allow module authors to add a module to their Apache build using
4040 --with-module, without re-running buildconf. The syntax is:
4041 --with-module=module_type:/path/to/module.c
4042 The configure script will copy the module.c file to
4043 modules/module_type, and it will be added to the relevant Makefiles.
4044 currently, this only works for static modules. [Ryan Bloom]
4046 *) Changes required to make prefork clean up idle children properly.
4047 There was a window during which a starting worker deadlocks when
4048 an idle cleanup arrives before it completes init. Apache then keeps
4049 trying to cleanup the same deadlocked worker forever (until higher
4050 pids come along, but it still will never reduce below the deadlocked
4051 pid). Thus the number of children would not reduce to the correct
4052 idle level. [Paul J. Reder]
4054 Changes with Apache 2.0.16
4056 *) Change the default installation directory to /usr/local/apache2,
4057 as now defined by the "Apache" layout in config.layout. [Marc Slemko]
4059 *) OS/2: Added support for building loadable modules as OS/2 DLLs.
4062 *) Get MaxRequestsPerChild working with the Windows MPM.
4065 *) Make generic hooks to work, with mod_generic_hook_import/export
4066 experimental modules. [Ben Laurie, Will Rowe]
4068 *) Fix segfaults for configuration file syntax errors such as
4069 "<Directory>" followed by "</Directory" and
4070 "<Directory>" followed by "</Directoryz>". [Jeff Trawick]
4072 *) Cleanup the --enable-layout option of configure. This makes
4073 us use a consistent location for the config.layout file, and it
4074 makes configure more portable.
4075 [jun-ichiro hagino <itojun iijlab.net>]
4077 *) Changes to 'ab'; fixed int overrun's, added statistics, output in
4078 csv/gnuplot format, rudimentary ssl support and various other tweaks
4079 to make results more true to what is measured. The upshot of this it
4080 turns out that 'ab' has often underreported the true performance of
4081 apache. Often by a order of magnitude :-) See talk/paper of Sander
4082 Temme at April ApacheCon 2001 for details.
4083 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
4085 *) Clean up mod_cgid's temporary request pool. Besides fixing a
4086 storage leak this ensures that some unnecessary pipes are closed.
4089 *) Performance: Add quick_handler hook. This hook is called at the
4090 very beginning of the request processing before location_walk,
4091 translate_name, etc. This hook is useful for URI keyed content
4092 caches like Mike Abbott's Quick Shortcut Cache.
4095 *) top_module global variable renamed to ap_top_module [Perl]
4097 *) Move ap_set_last_modified to the core. This is a potentially
4098 controversial change, because this is kind of HTTP specific. However
4099 many protocols should be able to take advantage of this kind of
4100 information. I expect that headers will need one more layer of
4101 indirection for multi-protocol work, but this is a small step in
4102 the right direction. [Ryan Bloom]
4104 *) Enable mod_status by default. This matches what Apache 1.3 does.
4107 *) Add a ScriptSock directive to the default config file. This is
4108 only enabled when mod_cgid is used.
4109 [Taketo Kabe <kabe sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
4111 Changes with Apache 2.0.15
4113 *) Untangled the buildconf script and eliminated the need for build's
4114 aclocal.m4, generated_lists, build.mk, build2.mk, and a host of other
4115 libtool muck that is now under srclib/apr/build. [Roy Fielding]
4117 *) Win32: Don't accept more connections than we have worker threads
4121 *) Fix bug in the Unix threaded.c MPM that allowed child processes
4122 to fork() new child processes.
4125 *) SECURITY: Fix a major security problem with double-reverse lookup
4126 checking. Previously, a client connecting over IPv4 would not be
4127 matched properly when the server had an IPv6 listening socket.
4128 PR #7407 [Taketo Kabe <kiabe sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
4130 *) Change the way the beos MPM handles polling to allow it to stop and
4131 restart. Problem was the sockets being polled were being reset by
4132 the select call, so once it had accepted a connection it was no
4133 longer listening on the UDP socket we use for shutdown instructions.
4134 APR needs to be altered, patch on it's way. [David Reid]
4136 *) Empty out the brigade shared by ap_getline()/ap_get_client_block()
4137 on error exit from ap_getline(). Some other code got upset because
4138 the wrong data was in the brigade. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
4140 *) Handle ap_discard_request_body() being called more than once.
4141 [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
4143 *) Get rid of an inadvertent close of file descriptor 2 in
4144 mod_mime_magic. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
4146 *) Add a hook, create_request. This hook allows modules to modify
4147 a request while it is being created. This hook is called for all
4148 request_rec's, main request, sub request, and internal redirect.
4149 When this hook is called, the the r->main, r->prev, r->next
4150 pointers have been set, so modules can determine what kind of
4151 request this is. [Ryan Bloom]
4153 *) Cleanup the build process a bit more. The Apache configure
4154 script no longer creates its own helper scripts, it just
4156 [jean-frederic clere <jfrederic.clere fujitsu-siemens.com>]
4158 *) Stop the forced downgrade of the connection to HTTP/1.0 for
4159 proxy requests. [Graham Leggett]
4161 *) Avoid using sscanf to determine the HTTP protocol number in
4162 the common case because sscanf is a performance hog. From
4163 Mike Abbot's Accelerating Apache patch number 6.
4164 [Mike Abbot <mja trudge.engr.sgi.com>, Bill Stoddard]
4166 *) SECURITY: Fix a security exposure in mod_access. Previously when
4167 IPv6 listening sockets were used, allow/deny-from-IPv4-address rules
4168 were not evaluated properly (PR #7407). Also, add the ability to
4169 specify IPv6 address strings with optional prefix length on Allow
4170 and Deny. [Jeff Trawick]
4172 *) Enhance rotatelogs so that a UTC offset can be specified, and
4173 the logfile name can be formatted using strftime(3). (Brought
4174 forward from 1.3.) [Ken Coar]
4176 *) Reimplement the Windows MPM (mpm_winnt.c) to eliminate calling
4177 DuplicateHandle on an IOCompletionPort (a practice which
4178 MS "discourages"). The new model does not rely on associating
4179 the completion port with the listening sockets, thus the
4180 completion port can be completely managed within the child
4181 process. A dedicated thread accepts connections off the network,
4182 then calls PostQueuedCompletionStatus() to wake up worker
4183 threads blocked on the completion port.
4186 *) Bring forward the --suexec-umask option which allows the
4187 builder to preset the umask for suexec processes. [Ken Coar]
4189 *) Add a -V flag to suexec, which causes it to display the
4190 compile-time settings with which it was built. (Only
4191 usable by root or the AP_HTTPD_USER username.) [Ken Coar]
4193 *) Mod_include should always unset the content-length if the file is
4194 going to be passed through send_parsed_content. There is no to
4195 determine if the content will change before actually scanning the
4196 entire content. It is far safer to just remove the C-L as long
4197 as we are scanning it. [Ryan Bloom]
4199 *) Make sure Apache sends WWW-Authenticate during a reverse proxy
4200 request and not Proxy-Authenticate.
4201 [Graham Leggett <minfrin sharp.fm>]
4203 Changes with Apache 2.0.14
4205 *) Fix content-length computation. We ONLY compute a content-length if
4206 We are not in a 1.1 request and we cannot chunk, and this is a keepalive
4207 or we already have all the data. [Ryan Bloom]
4209 *) Report unbounded containers in the config file. Previously, a typo
4210 in the </container> directive could result in the rest of the config
4211 file being silently ignored, with undesired defaults used.
4214 *) Make the old_write filter use the ap_f* functions for the buffering.
4217 *) Move more code from the http module into the core server. This
4218 is core code, basically the default handler, the default input
4219 and output filters, and all of the core configuration directives.
4220 All of this code is required in order for the server to work, with or
4221 without HTTP. The server is closer to working without the HTTP
4222 module, although there is still more to do. [Ryan Bloom]
4224 *) Fix a number of SGI compile warnings throughout the server. Fix some
4225 bad parameters to apr_bucket_read(). Fix a bad statement in
4226 ap_method_in_list(). For the mod_rewrite cache use apr_time_t
4227 consistently; we were mixing apr_time_t and time_t in invalid ways
4228 before. In load_file(), call apr_dso_error() instead of
4229 apr_strerror() so that we get a more specific string on some platforms.
4230 PR #6980 [Jeff Trawick]
4232 *) Allow modules to query the MPM about it's execution profile. This
4233 query API can and should be extended in the future, but for now,
4234 max_daemons, and threading or forking is a very good start.
4235 [Jon Travis <jtravis covalent.net>]
4237 *) Modify mod_include to send blocks of data no larger than 9k.
4238 Without this, mod_include will wait until the whole file is parsed,
4239 or the first tag is found to send any data to the client.
4240 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj raleigh.ibm.com>]
4242 *) Fix mod_info, so that <Directory> and <Location> directives are
4243 not displayed twice when displaying the current configuration.
4244 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan covalent.net>]
4246 *) Add config directives to override DEFAULT_ERROR_MSG and
4247 DEFAULT_TIME_FORMAT. This was sent in as PR 6193.
4248 [Dan Rench <drench xnet.com>]
4250 *) Get mod_info building and loading on Win32. [William Rowe]
4252 *) Begin to move protocol independant functions out of mod_http. The goal
4253 is to have only functions that are HTTP specific in the http directory.
4256 Changes with Apache 2.0.13
4258 *) Don't assume that there will always be multiple calls to the byterange
4259 filter. It is possible that we will need to do byteranges with only
4260 one call to the filter. [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan covalent.net>]
4262 *) Move the error_bucket definition from the http module to the
4263 core server. Every protocol will need this ability, not just
4266 Changes with Apache 2.0.12
4268 *) Modify mod_file_cache to save pre-formatted strings for
4269 content-length and last-modified headers for performance.
4270 [Mike Abbot <mja trudge.engr.sgi.com>]
4272 *) Namespace protect IOBUFSIZ since it is exposed in the API.
4273 [Jon Travis <jtravis covalent.net>]
4275 *) Use "Basic" authentication instead of "basic" in ab, as the spec
4276 says we should. [Andre Breiler <andre.breiler rd.bbc.co.uk>]
4278 *) Fix a seg fault in mod_userdir.c. We used to use the pw structure
4279 without ever filling it out. This fixes PR 7271.
4280 [Taketo Kabe <kabe sra-tohoku.co.jp> and
4281 Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley yahoo.com>]
4283 *) Add a couple of GCC attribute tags to printf style functions.
4284 [Jon Travis <jtravis covalent.net>]
4286 *) Add the correct language tag for interoperation with the Taiwanese
4287 versions of MSIE and Netscape. [Clive Lin <clive CirX.ORG>] PR#7142
4289 *) Migrate the perchild MPM to use the new apr signal child, and
4290 APR thread functions. [Ryan Bloom]
4292 *) Close one copy of the CGI's stdout before creating the new process.
4293 The CGI will still have stdout, because we have already dup'ed it.
4294 This keeps Apache from waiting forever to send the results of a CGI
4295 process that has forked a long-lived child process.
4296 [Taketo Kabe <kabe sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
4298 *) Remove the rest of the pthreads functions from the threaded MPM.
4299 This requires the APR support for a signal thread that was just
4302 *) Make mod_dir use a fixup for sending a redirect to the browser.
4303 Before this, we were using a handler, which doesn't make much
4304 sense, because the handler wasn't generating any data, it would
4305 either return a redirect error code, or DECLINED. This fits the
4306 current hooks better. [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan covalent.net>]
4308 *) Make the threaded MPM use APR threads instead of pthreads.
4311 *) Get mod_tls to the point where it actually appears to work in all cases.
4314 *) implement --enable-modules and --enable-mods-shared for "all" and
4315 "most". [Greg Stein]
4317 *) Move the threaded MPM to use APR locks instead of pthread locks.
4320 *) Rename mpmt_pthread to threaded. This is more in line with the
4321 fact that mpmt_pthread shouldn't be using pthreads directly, and
4322 it is a smaller name that doesn't tie into anything.
4325 *) Rename the module structures so that the exported symbol matches
4326 the file name, and it is easier to automate the installation
4327 process (generating LoadModule directives from the module filenames).
4330 *) Remove the coalesce filter. With the ap_f* functions, this filter
4331 is no longer needed. [Ryan Bloom]
4333 Changes with Apache 2.0.11
4335 *) Remove the dexter MPM. Perchild is the same basic idea, but it has the
4336 added feature of allowing a uid/gid per child process. If no
4337 uid/gid is specified, then Perchild behaves exactly like dexter.
4340 *) Get perchild building again. [Ryan Bloom]
4342 *) Don't disable threads just because we are using the prefork MPM.
4343 If somebody wants to compile without threads, they must now add
4344 --disable-threads to the configure command line. [Ryan Bloom]
4346 *) Begin to move the calls to update_child_status into common code, so
4347 that each individual MPM does not need to update the scoreboard itself.
4350 *) Allow mod_tls to compile under Unix boxes where openssl has been
4351 installed to the system include files.
4352 [Gomez Henri <new-httpd slib.fr>]
4354 *) Cleanup the mod_tls configure process. This should remove any need
4355 to hand-edit any files. We require OpenSSL 0.9.6 or later, but
4356 configure doesn't check that yet. [Ryan Bloom]
4358 *) Add a very early prototype of SSL support (in mod_tls.c). It is
4359 vital that you read modules/tls/README before attempting to build
4362 *) Fix a potential seg fault on all platforms. David Reid fixed this
4363 on BEOS, but the problem could happen anywhere, so we don't want
4364 to #ifdef it. [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley yahoo.com>]
4366 *) Add new LogFormat directive, %D, to log time it takes to serve a
4367 request in microseconds. [Bill Stoddard]
4369 *) Change AddInputFilter and AddOutputFilter to SetInputFilter and
4370 SetOutputFilter. This corresponds nicely with the other Set
4371 directives, which operate on containers while the Add* directives
4372 tend to work directly on extensions. [Ryan Bloom]
4374 *) Cleanup the header handling a bit. This uses the apr_brigade_*
4375 functions for the buffering so that we don't need to compute
4376 the length of the headers before we actually create the header
4377 buffer. [Ryan Bloom]
4379 *) Allow filters to buffer data using the ap_f* functions. These have
4380 become macros that resolve directly to apr_brigade_*.
4383 *) Get the Unix MPM's to do a graceful restart again. If we are going
4384 to register a cleanup with ap_cleanup_scoreboard, then we have to
4385 kill the cleanup with the same function, and that function can't be
4386 static. [Ryan Bloom]
4388 *) Install all required header files. Without these, it was not
4389 possible to compile some modules outside of the server.
4392 *) Fix the AliasMatch directive in Apache 2.0. When we brought a patch
4393 forward from 1.3 to 2.0, we missed a single line, which broke regex
4394 aliases. [Ryan Bloom]
4396 *) We have a poor abstraction in the protocol. This is a temporary
4397 hack to fix the bug, but it will need to be fixed for real. If
4398 we find an error while sending out a custom error response, we back
4399 up to the first non-OK request and send the data. Then, when we send
4400 the EOS from finalize_request_protocol, we go to the last request,
4401 to ensure that we aren't sending an EOS to a request that has already
4402 received one. Because the data is sent on a different request than
4403 the EOS, the error text never gets sent down the filter stack. This
4404 fixes the problem by finding the last request, and sending the data
4405 with that request. [Ryan Bloom]
4407 *) Make the server status page show the correct restart time, and
4408 thus the proper uptime. [Ryan Bloom]
4410 *) Move the CGI creation logic from mod_include to mod_cgi(d). This
4411 should reduce the amount of duplicate code that is required to
4412 create CGI processes.
4413 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj raleigh.ibm.com>]
4415 *) ap_new_connection() closes the socket and returns NULL if a socket
4416 call fails. Usually this is due to a connection which has been
4417 reset. [Jeff Trawick]
4419 *) Move the Apache version information out of httpd.h and into release.h.
4420 This is in preparation for the first tag with the new tag and release
4421 system. [Ryan Bloom]
4423 *) Begin restructuring scoreboard code to enable adding back in
4424 the ability to use IPC other than shared memory.
4425 Get mod_status working on Windows again. [Bill Stoddard]
4427 *) Make mod_status work with 2.0. This will work for prefork,
4428 mpmt_pthread, and dexter. [Ryan Bloom]
4430 *) Correct a typo in httpd.conf.
4431 [Kunihiro Tanaka <tanaka apache.or.jp>] PR#7154
4433 *) Really fix mod_rewrite map lookups this time. [Tony Finch]
4435 *) Get the correct IP address if ServerName isn't set and we can't
4436 find a fully-qualified domain name at startup.
4437 PR#7170 [Danek Duvall <dduvall eng.sun.com>]
4439 *) Make mod_cgid work with SuExec. [Ryan Bloom]
4441 *) Adopt apr user/group name features for mod_rewrite. Eliminates some
4442 'extra' stat's for user/group since they should never occur, and now
4443 resolves the SCRIPT_USER and SCRIPT_GROUP, including on WinNT NTFS
4444 volumes. [William Rowe]
4446 *) Adopt apr features to simplify mod_includes. This changes the
4447 behavior of the USER_NAME variable, unknown uid's are now reported
4448 as USER_NAME="<unknown>" rather than the old user#000 result.
4449 WinNT now resolves USER_NAME on NTFS volumes. [William Rowe]
4451 *) Adopt apr features for simplifing mod_userdir, and accept the new
4452 Win32/OS2 exceptions without hiccuping. [William Rowe]
4454 *) Replace configure --with-optim option by using and saving the
4455 environment variable OPTIM instead. This is needed because configure
4456 options do not support multiple flags separated by spaces.
4459 *) Fix some byterange handling. If we get a byte range that looks like
4460 "-999999" where that is past the end of the file, we should return
4461 a PARTIAL CONTENT status code, and return the whole file as one big
4462 byterange. This matches the 1.3 handling now. [Ryan Bloom]
4464 *) Make the error bucket a real meta-data bucket. This means that the
4465 bucket length is 0, and a read returns NULL data. If one of these
4466 buckets is passed down after the headers are sent, this data will
4467 just be ignored. [Greg Stein]
4469 *) The prefork MPM wasn't killing child processes correctly if a restart
4470 signal was received while the process was serving a request. The child
4471 process would become the equivalent of a second parent process. If
4472 we break out of the accept loop, then we need to do die after cleaning
4473 up after ourselves. [Ryan Bloom]
4475 *) Change the Prefork MPM to use SIGWINCH instead of SIGUSR1 for graceful
4476 restarts. [Ryan Bloom]
4478 *) Modify the apr_stat/lstat/getfileinfo calls within apache to use
4479 the most optimal APR_FINFO_wanted bits. This spares Win32 from
4480 performing very expensive owner, group and permission lookups
4481 and allows the server to function until these apr_finfo_t fields
4482 are implemented under Win32. [William Rowe]
4484 *) Support for typedsafe optional functions - that is functions exported by
4485 optional modules, which, therefore, may or may not be present, depending
4486 on configuration. See the experimental modules mod_optional_fn_{ex,im}port
4487 for sample code. [Ben Laurie]
4489 *) filters can now report an HTTP error to the server. This is done
4490 by sending a brigade where the first bucket is an error_bucket.
4491 This bucket is a simple bucket that stores an HTTP error and
4492 a string. Currently the string is not used, but it may be needed
4493 to output an error log. The http_header_filter will find this
4494 bucket, and output the error text, and then return
4495 AP_FILTER_ERROR, which informs the server that the error web page
4496 has already been sent. [Ryan Bloom]
4498 *) If we get an error, then we should remove all filters except for
4499 those critical to serving a web page. This fixes a bug, where
4500 error pages were going through the byterange filter, even though
4501 that made no sense. [Ryan Bloom]
4503 *) Relax the syntax checking of Host: headers in order to support
4504 iDNS. PR#6635 [Tony Finch]
4506 *) Cleanup the byterange filter to use the apr_brigade_partition
4507 and apr_bucket_copy functions. This removes a lot of very messy
4508 code, and hopefully makes this filter more stable.
4511 *) Remove AddModule and ClearModuleList directives. Both of these
4512 directives were used to ensure that modules could be enabled
4513 in the correct order. That requirement is now gone, because
4514 we use hooks to ensure that modules are in the correct order.
4517 *) When SuExec is specified, we need to add it to the list of
4518 targets to be built. If we don't, then any changes to the
4519 configuration won't affect SuExec, unless 'make suexec' is
4520 specifically run. [Ryan Bloom]
4522 *) Cleaned out open_file from mod_file_cache, as apr now accepts
4523 the APR_XTHREAD argument to open a file for consumption by
4524 parallel threads on win32. [William Rowe]
4526 *) Correct a bug in determining when we follow symlinks. The code
4527 expected a stat -1 result, not an apr_status_t positive error.
4528 Also check if the APR_FINFO_USER fields are valid before we
4529 follow the link. [William Rowe]
4531 *) Move initgroupgs, ap_uname2id and ap_gname2id from util.c to
4532 mpm_common.c. These functions are only valid on some platforms,
4533 so they should not be in the main-line code. [Ryan Bloom]
4535 *) Remove ap_chdir_file(). This function is not thread-safe,
4536 and nobody is currently using it. [Ryan Bloom]
4538 *) Do not try to run make depend if there are no .c files in the
4539 current directory, doing so makes `make depend` fail.
4542 *) Update highperformance.conf to work with either prefork or
4543 pthreads mpms. [Greg Ames]
4545 *) Stop checking to see if this is a pipelined request if we know
4546 for a fact that it isn't. Basically, if r->connection->keepalive == 0.
4547 This keeps us from making an extra read call when serving a 1.0
4548 request. [Ryan Bloom and Greg Stein]
4550 *) Fix the handling of variable expansion look-ahead in mod_rewrite,
4551 i.e. syntax like %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER}, and also fix the parsing of
4552 more complicated nested RewriteMap lookups. PR#7087 [Tony Finch]
4554 *) Fix the RFC number mentioned when complaining about a missing
4555 Host: header. PR#7079 [Alexey Toptygin <alexeyt wam.umd.edu>]
4557 *) Fix an endless loop in ab which occurred when ab was posting
4558 and the server dropped the connection unexpectedly.
4561 *) Fix a segfault while handling request bodies in ap_http_filter().
4562 This problem has been seen with mod_dav usage as well as with
4563 requests where the body was just being discarded. [Jeff Trawick]
4565 *) Some adjustment on the handling and automatic setting (via
4566 hints.m4) of various compilation flags (eg: CFLAGS). Also,
4567 add the capability to specify flags (NOTEST_CFLAGS and
4568 NOTEST_LDFLAGS) which are used to compile Apache, but
4569 not used during the configuration process. Useful for
4570 flags like "-Werror". [Jim Jagielski]
4572 *) Stop using environment variables to force debug mode or
4573 no detach. We now use the -D command line argument to
4574 specify the correct mode. -DONE_PROCESS and -DNO_DETACH.
4575 [Greg Stein, Ryan Bloom]
4577 *) Change handlers to use hooks. [Ben Laurie]
4579 *) Stop returning copies of filenames from both apr_file_t and
4580 apr_dir_t. We pstrdup the filenames that we store in the
4581 actual structures, so we don't need to pstrdup the strings again.
4584 *) mod_cgi: Fix some problems where the wrong error value was being
4585 traced. [Jeff Trawick]
4587 *) EBCDIC: Fix some missing ASCII conversion on some protocol data.
4590 *) Add generic hooks. [Ben Laurie]
4592 *) Use a real pool to dup the error log descriptor. [Ryan Bloom]
4594 *) Fix a segfault caused by mod_ext_filter when the external filter
4595 program does not exist. [Jeff Trawick]
4597 *) Fix an output truncation error when on an HTTP >= 1.0 request an
4598 object of size between DEFAULT_BUCKET_SIZE and AP_MIN_BYTES_TO_WRITE
4599 was served through mod_charset_lite (or anything else that would
4600 create a transient bucket in this size range). ap_bucket_make_heap()
4601 silently failed (fixed), transient_setaside() discovered it, but
4602 ap_save_brigade() ignored it (fixed). [Jeff Trawick]
4604 *) Ignore \r\n or \n when using PEEK mode for input filters. The problem
4605 is that some browsers send extra lines at the end of POST requests, and
4606 we don't want to delay sending data back to the user just because the
4607 browser isn't well behaved. [Ryan Bloom]
4609 *) Get SuEXEC working again. We can't send absolute paths to suExec
4610 because it refuses to execute those programs. SuEXEC also wasn't
4611 always recognizing configuration changes made using the autoconf
4614 *) Allow the buildconf process to find the config.m4 files in the correct
4615 order. Basically, we can now name config.m4 files as config\d\d.m4,
4616 and we will sort them correctly when inserting them into the build
4617 process. [Ryan Bloom]
4619 *) Get mod_cgid to use apr calls for creating the actual CGI process.
4620 This also allows mod_cgid to use ap_os_create_priviledged_process,
4621 thus allowing for SuExec execution from mod_cgid. Currently, we do
4622 not support everything that standard SuExec supports, but at least
4623 it works minimally now. [Ryan Bloom]
4625 *) Allow SuExec to be configured from the ./configure command line.
4628 *) Update some of the docs in README and INSTALL to reflect some of
4629 the changes in Apache 2.0 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley yahoo.com>]
4631 *) If we get EAGAIN returned from the call to apr_sendfile, then we
4632 need to call sendfile again. This gets us serving large files
4633 such as apache_2.0a9.tar.gz on FreeBSD again. [Ryan Bloom]
4635 *) Get the support programs building cleanly again.
4636 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley yahoo.com>]
4638 *) The Apache/Win32 Apache.exe and dll's now live in bin. The
4639 current directory logic now backs up over bin/ to determine the
4640 server root from the Apache.exe path.
4642 *) Apache/Win32 now follows the standard conventions of mod_foo.so
4643 loadable modules, dynamic libs are all named libfoo.dll, and the
4644 makefile.win populates the include, lib and libexec directories.
4646 *) Apache is now IPv6-capable. On systems where APR supports IPv6,
4647 Apache gets IPv6 listening sockets by default. Additionally, the
4648 Listen, NameVirtualHost, and <VirtualHost> directives support IPv6
4649 numeric address strings (e.g., "Listen [fe80::1]:8080").
4652 *) Modify the install directory layout. Modules are now installed in
4653 modules/. Shared libraries should be installed in libraries/, but
4654 we don't have any of those on Unix yet. All install directories
4655 are modifyable at configure time. [Ryan Bloom]
4657 *) Install all header files in the same directory on Unix. [Ryan Bloom]
4659 *) Get the functions in server/linked into the server, regardless of
4660 which modules linked into the server. This uses the same hack
4661 for Apache that we use for APR and apr-util to ensure all of the
4662 necessary functions are linked. As a part of thise, the CHARSET_EBCDIC
4663 was renamed to AP_CHARSET_EBCDIC for namespace protection, and to make
4664 the scripts a bit easier.
4667 *) Rework the RFC1413 handling to make it thread-safe, use a timeout
4668 on the query, and remove IPv4 dependencies. [Jeff Trawick]
4670 *) Get all of the auth modules to the point that they will install and
4671 be loadable into the server. Our new build/install mechanism expects
4672 that all modules will have a common name format. The auth modules
4673 didn't use that format, so we didn't install them properly.
4676 *) API routines ap_pgethostbyname() and ap_pduphostent() are no longer
4677 available. Use apr_getaddrinfo() instead. [Jeff Trawick]
4679 *) Get "NameVirtualHost *" working in 2.0. [Ryan Bloom]
4681 *) Return HTTP_RANGE_NOT_SATISFIABLE if the every range requested starts
4682 after the end of the response. [Ryan Bloom]
4684 *) Get byterange requests working with responses that do not have a
4685 content-length. Because of the way byterange requests work, we have to
4686 have all of the data before we can actually do the byterange, so we
4687 can compute the content-length in the byterange filter.
4690 *) Get exe CGI's working again on Windows.
4693 *) Get mod_cgid and mod_rewrite to work as DSOs by changing the way
4694 they keep track of whether or not their post config hook has been
4695 called before. Instead of a static variable (which is replaced when
4696 the DSO is loaded a second time), use userdata in the process pool.
4699 Changes with Apache 2.0a9
4701 *) Win32 now requires perl to complete the final install step for users
4702 to build + install on Win32. Makefile.win now rewrites @@ServerRoot@
4703 and installs the conf, htdocs and htdocs/manual directories.
4706 *) Make mod_include use a hash table to associate directive tags with
4707 functions. This allows modules to implement their own SSI tags easily.
4708 The idea is simple enough, a module can insert it's own tag and function
4709 combination into a hash table provided by mod_include. While mod_include
4710 parses an SSI file, when it encounters a tag in the file, it does a
4711 hash lookup to find the function that implements that tag, and passes
4712 all of the relevant data to the function. That function is then
4713 responsible for processing the tag and handing the remaining data back
4714 to mod_include for further processing.
4715 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj raleigh.ibm.com>]
4717 *) Get rid of ap_new_apr_connection(). ap_new_connection() now has
4718 fewer parameters: the local and remote socket addresses were removed
4719 from the parameter list because all required information is available
4720 via the APR socket. [Jeff Trawick]
4722 *) Distribution directory structure reorganized to reflect a
4723 normal source distribution with external install targets.
4726 *) The MPMs that need multiple segments of shared memory now create
4727 two apr_shmem_t variables, one for each shared memory allocation.
4728 the problem is that we can't determine how much memory will be required
4729 for shared memory allocations once we try to allocate more than one
4730 variable. The MM code automatically aligns the shared memory allocations,
4731 so we end up needing to pad the amount of shared memory we want based
4732 on how many variables will be allocated out of the shared memory segment.
4733 It is just easier to create a second apr_shmem_t variable, and two
4734 shmem memory blocks.
4737 *) Cleanup the export list a bit. This creates a single unified list of
4738 functions exported by APR. The export list is generated at configure
4739 time, and that list is then used to generate the exports.c file.
4740 Because of the way the export list is generated, we only export those
4741 functions that are valid on the platform we are building on.
4744 *) Enable logging the cookie with mod_log_config
4745 [Sander van Zoest <sander covalent.net>]
4747 *) Fix a segfault in mod_info when it reaches the end of the configuration.
4750 *) Added lib/aputil/ as a placeholder for utility functions which are not
4751 specific to the Apache HTTP Server (but do not make sense with APR).
4752 The first utility is "apu_dbm": a set of functions to work with DBM
4753 files. This first version can be compiled for SDBM or GDBM databases.
4756 *) Complete re-write of mod_include. This makes mod_include a filter that
4757 uses buckets directly. This has now served the FAQ correctly.
4758 [Paul Reder <rederpj raleigh.ibm.com>]
4760 *) Allow modules to specify the first filter in a sub_request when
4761 making the sub_request. This keeps modules from having to change the
4762 output_filter immediately after creating the sub-request, and therefore
4763 skip the sub_req_output_filter. [Ryan Bloom]
4765 *) Update ab to accept URLs with IPv6 literal address strings (in the
4766 format described in RFC 2732), and to build Host header fields in
4767 the same format. This allows IPv6 literal address strings to be
4768 used with ab. This support has been tested against Apache 1.3 with
4769 the KAME patch, but Apache 2.0 does not yet work with this format
4770 of the Host header field. [Jeff Trawick]
4772 *) Accomodate an out-of-space condition in the piped logs and the
4773 rotatelogs.c code, and no longer churn log processes for this
4774 condition. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
4776 *) Add support for partial writes with apr_sendfile() to core_output_filter.
4779 Changes with Apache 2.0a8
4781 *) Add a directive to mod_mime so that filters can be associated with
4785 *) Get multi-views working again. We were setting the path_info
4786 field incorrectly if we couldn't find the specified file.
4789 *) Fix 304 processing. The core should never try to send the headers
4790 down the filter stack. Always, just setup the table in the request
4791 record, and let the header filter convert it to data that is ready
4795 *) More fixes for the proxy. There are still bugs in the proxy code,
4796 but this has now proxied www.yahoo.com and www.ntrnet.net (my ISP)
4800 *) Fix params for apr_getaddrinfo() call in connect proxy handler.
4803 *) APR: Add new apr_getopt_long function to handle long options.
4804 [B. W. Fitzpatrick <fitz red-bean.com>]
4806 *) APR: Change apr_connect() to take apr_sockaddr_t instead of hostname.
4807 Add generic apr_create_socket(). Add apr_getaddrinfo() for doing
4808 hostname resolution/address string parsing and building
4809 apr_sockaddr_t. Add apr_get_sockaddr() for getting the address
4810 of one of the apr_sockaddr_t structures for a socket. Change
4811 apr_bind() to take apr_sockaddr_t. [David Reid and Jeff Trawick]
4813 *) Remove the BUFF from the HTTP proxy. This is still a bit ugly, but
4814 I have proxied pages with it, cleanup will commence soon.
4817 *) Make the proxy work with filters. This isn't perfect, because we
4818 aren't dealing with the headers properly. [Ryan Bloom]
4820 *) Do not send a content-length iff the C-L is 0 and this is a head
4821 request. [Ryan Bloom]
4823 *) Make cgi-bin work as a regular directory when using mod_vhost_alias
4824 with no VirtualScriptAlias directives. PR#6829 [Tony Finch]
4826 *) Remove BUFF from the PROXY connect handling. [Ryan Bloom]
4828 *) Get the default_handler to stop trying to deal with HEAD requests.
4829 The idea is to let the content-length filter compute the C-L before
4830 we try to send the data. If we can get the C-L correctly, then we
4831 should send it in the HEAD response.
4834 *) The Header filter can now determine if a body should be sent based
4835 on r->header_only. The general idea of this is that if we delay
4836 deciding to send the body, then we might be able to compute the
4837 content-length correctly, which will help caching proxies to cache
4838 our data better. Any handler that doesn't want to try to compute
4839 the content-length can just send an EOS bucket without data and
4840 everything will just work.
4843 *) Add the referer to the error log if one is available.
4844 [Markus Gyger <mgyger itr.ch>]
4846 *) Mod_info.c has now been ported to Apache 2.0. As a part of this
4847 change, the root of the configuration tree has been exposed to modules
4849 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan covalent.net>]
4851 *) Get the core_output_filter to use the bucket interface directly.
4852 This keeps us from calling the content-length filter multiple times
4853 for a simple static request.
4856 *) We are sending the content-type correctly now.
4857 [Ryan Bloom and Will Rowe]
4859 *) APR on FreeBSD: Fix a bug in apr_sendfile() which caused us to report
4860 a bogus bytes-sent value when the only thing being sent was trailers
4861 and writev() returned an error (or EAGAIN). [Jeff Trawick]
4863 *) Get SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT working again. This uses the
4864 hints file to determine which platforms define
4865 SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT.
4868 *) APR: add apr_get_home_directory() [Jeff Trawick]
4870 *) Initial import of 1.3-current mod_proxy. [Chuck Murcko]
4872 *) Not all platforms have INADDR_NONE defined by default. Apache
4873 used to make this check and define INADDR_NONE if appropriate,
4874 but APR needs the check too, and I suspect other applications will
4875 as well. APR now defines APR_INADDR_NONE, which is always a valid
4876 value on all platforms.
4877 [Branko Èibej <brane xbc.nu>]
4879 *) Destroy the pthread mutex in lock_intra_cleanup() for PR#6824.
4880 [Shuichi Kitaguchi <ki hh.iij4u.or.jp>]
4882 *) Relax the syntax checking of Host: headers in order to support
4883 iDNS. PR#6635 [Tony Finch]
4885 *) When reading from file buckets we convert to an MMAP if it makes
4886 sense. This also simplifies the default handler because the
4887 default handler no longer needs to try to create MMAPs.
4890 *) BUFF has been removed from the main server. The BUFF code will remain
4891 in the code until it has been purged from the proxy module as well.
4894 *) Byteranges have been completely re-written to be a filter. This
4895 has been tested, and I believe it is working correctly, but it could
4896 doesn't work for the Adobe Acrobat plug-in. The output almost matches
4897 the output from 1.3, the only difference being that 1.3 includes
4898 a content-length in the response, and this does not.
4901 *) APR read/write functions and bucket read functions now operate
4902 on unsigned integers, instead of signed ones. It doesn't make
4903 any sense to use signed ints, because we return the error codes,
4904 so if we have an error we should report 0 bytes read or written.
4907 *) Always compute the content length, whether it is sent or not.
4908 The reason for this, is that it allows us to correctly report
4909 the bytes_sent when logging the request. This also simplifies
4910 content-length filter a bit, and fixes the actual byte-reporing
4911 code in mod_log_config.c
4914 *) Remove AP_END_OF_BRIGADE definition. This does not signify what
4915 it says, because it was only used by EOS and FLUSH buckets. Since
4916 neither of those are required at the end of a brigade, this was
4917 really signifying FLUSH_THE_DATA, but that can be determined better
4918 by checking AP_BUCKET_IS_EOS() or AP_BUCKET_IS_FLUSH. EOS and FLUSH
4919 buckets now return a length of 0, which is actually the amount of data
4920 read, so they make more sense.
4923 *) Allow the core_output_filter to save some data past the end of a
4924 request. If we get an EOS bucket, we only send the data if it
4925 makes sense to send it. This allows us to pipeline request
4926 responses. As a part of this, we also need to allocate mmap
4927 buckets out of the connection pool, not the request pool. This
4928 allows the mmap to outlive the request.
4931 *) Make blocking and non-blocking bucket reads work correctly for
4932 sockets and pipes. These are the only bucket types that should
4933 have non-blocking reads, because the other bucket types should
4934 ALWAYS be able to return something immediately.
4937 *) In the Apache/Win32 console window, accept Ctrl+C to stop the
4938 server, but use Ctrl+Break to initiate a graceful restart
4939 instead of duplicating behavior. [John Sterling]
4941 *) Patch mod_autoindex to set the Last-Modified header based on
4942 the directory's mtime, and add the ETag header. [William Rowe]
4944 *) Merge the 1.3 patch to add support for logging query string in
4945 such a way that "%m %U%q %H" is the same as "%r".
4948 *) Port three log methods from mod_log_config 1.3 to 2.0:
4949 CLF compliant '-' byte count, method and protocol.
4952 *) Add a new LogFormat directive, %c, that will log connection
4953 status at the end of the response as follows:
4954 'X' - connection aborted before the response completed.
4955 '+' - connection may be kept-alive by the server.
4956 '-' - connection will be closed by the server.
4959 *) Expand APR for WinNT to fully accept and return utf-8 encoded
4960 Unicode file names and paths for Win32, and tag the Content-Type
4961 from mod_autoindex to reflect that charset if the the feature
4962 macro APR_HAS_UNICODE_FS is true. [William Rowe]
4964 *) Compute the content length (and add appropriate header field) for
4965 the response when no content length is available and we can't use
4966 chunked encoding. [Jeff Trawick]
4968 *) Changed ap_discard_request_body() to use REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK,
4969 so that content input filters get dechunked data when using
4970 the default handler. Also removed REQUEST_CHUNKED_PASS.
4973 *) Add mod_ext_filter as an experimental module. This module allows
4974 the administrator to use external programs as filters. Currently,
4975 only filtering of output is supported. [Jeff Trawick]
4977 *) Most Apache functions work on EBCDIC machines again, as protocol
4978 data is now translated (again). [Jeff Trawick]
4980 *) Introduce ap_xlate_proto_{to|from}_ascii() to clean up some of
4981 the EBCDIC support. They are noops on ASCII machines, so this
4982 type of translation doesn't have to be surrounded by #ifdef
4983 CHARSET_EBCDIC. [Jeff Trawick]
4985 *) Fix mod_include. tag commands work again, and the server will
4986 send the FAQ again. This also allows mod_include to set aside
4987 buckets that include partial buckets.
4988 [Ryan Bloom and David Reid]
4990 *) Add suexec support back. [Manoj Kasichainula]
4992 *) Lingering close now uses the socket directly instead of using
4993 BUFF. This has been tested, but since all we can tell is that it
4994 doesn't fail, this needs to be really hacked on.
4997 *) Allow filters to modify headers and have those headers be sent to
4998 the client. The idea is that we have an http_header filter that
4999 actually sends the headers to the network. This removes the need
5000 for the BUFF to send headers.
5003 *) Charset translation: mod_charset_lite handles translation of
5004 request bodies. Get rid of the xlate version of ap_md5_digest()
5005 since we don't compute digests of filtered (e.g., translated)
5006 response bodies this way anymore. (Note that we don't do it at
5007 all at the present; somebody needs to write a filter to do so.)
5010 *) Input filters and ap_get_brigade() now have a input mode parameter
5011 (blocking, non-blocking, peek) instead of a length parameter.
5014 *) Update the mime.types file to the registered media types as
5015 of 2000-10-19. PR#6613 [Carsten Klapp <carsten.klapp home.net>,
5018 *) Namespace protect some macros declared in ap_config.h
5021 *) Support HTTP header line folding with input filtering.
5024 *) Mod_include works again. This should still be re-written, but at
5025 least now we can serve an SHTML page again.
5028 *) Begin to remove BUFF from the core. Currently, we keep a pointer
5029 to both the BUFF and the socket in the conn_rec. Functions that
5030 want to use the BUFF can, functions that want to use the socket,
5031 can. They point to the same place.
5034 *) apr_psprintf doesn't understand %lld as a format. Make it %ld.
5035 [Tomas "Ögren" <stric ing.umu.se>]
5037 *) APR pipes on Unix and Win32 are now cleaned up automatically when the
5038 associated pool goes away. (APR pipes on OS/2 were already had this
5039 logic.) This resolvs a fatal file descriptor leak with CGIs.
5042 *) The final line of the config file was not being read if there was
5043 no \n at the end of it. This was caused by apr_fgets returning
5044 APR_EOF even though we had read valid data. This is solved by
5045 making cfg_getline check the buff that was returned from apr_fgets.
5046 If apr_fgets return APR_EOF, but there was data in the buf, then we
5047 return the buf, otherwise we return NULL.
5050 *) Piped logs work again in the 2.0 series.
5053 *) Restore functionality broken by the mod_rewrite security fix:
5054 rewrite map lookup keys and default values are now expanded
5055 so that the lookup can depend on the requested URI etc.
5056 PR #6671 [Tony Finch]
5058 *) SECURITY: Tighten up the syntax checking of Host: headers to fix a
5059 security bug in some mass virtual hosting configurations
5060 that can allow a remote attacker to retrieve some files
5061 on the system that should be inaccessible. [Tony Finch]
5063 *) Add a pool bucket type. This bucket is used for data allocated out
5064 of a pool. If the pool is cleaned before the bucket is destroyed, then
5065 the data is converted to a heap bucket, allowing it to survive the
5069 *) Add a flush bucket. This allows modules to signal that the filters
5070 should all flush whatever data they currently have. There is no way
5071 to actually force them to do this, so if a filter ignores this bucket,
5072 that's life, but at least we can try with this.
5075 *) Add an output filter for sub-requests. This filter just strips the
5076 EOS bucket so that we don't confuse the main request's core output
5077 filter by sending multiple EOS buckets. This change also makes sub
5078 requests start to send EOS buckets when they are finished.
5081 *) Make ap_bucket_(read|destroy|split|setaside) into macros. Also
5082 makes ap_bucket_destroy a return void, which is okay because it
5083 used to always return APR_SUCCESS, and nobody ever checked its
5084 return value anyway.
5085 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley yahoo.com>]
5087 *) Remove the index into the bucket-type table from the buckets
5088 structure. This has now been replaced with a pointer to the
5089 bucket_type. Also add some macros to test the bucket-type.
5092 *) Renamed all MODULE_EXPORT symbols to AP_MODULE_DECLARE and all symbols
5093 for CORE_EXPORT to AP_CORE_DECLARE (namespace protecting the wrapper)
5094 and retitled API_EXPORT as AP_DECLARE and APR_EXPORT as APR_DECLARE.
5095 All _VAR_ flavors changes to _DATA to be absolutely clear.
5098 *) Add support for /, //, //servername and //server/sharename
5099 parsing of <Directory> blocks under Win32 and OS2.
5100 [Tim Costello, William Rowe, Brian Harvard]
5102 *) Remove the function pointers from the ap_bucket type. They have been
5103 replaced with a global table. Modules are allowed to register bucket
5104 types and use then use those buckets.
5107 *) mod_cgid: In the handler, shut down the Unix socket (only for write)
5108 once we finish writing the request body to the cgi child process;
5109 otherwise, the client doesn't hit EOF on stdin. Small request bodies
5110 worked without this change (for reasons I don't understand), but large
5111 ones didn't. [Jeff Trawick]
5113 *) Remove file bucket specific information from the ap_bucket type.
5114 This has been moved to a file_bucket specific type that hangs off
5115 the data pointer in the ap_bucket type.
5118 *) Input filtering now has a third argument. This is the amount of data
5119 to read from lower filters. This argument can be -1, 0, or a positive
5120 number. -1 means give me all the data you have, I'll deal with it and
5121 let you know if I need more. 0 means give me one line and one line
5122 only. A positive number means I want no more than this much data.
5124 Currently, only 0 and a positive number are implemented. This allows
5125 us to remove the remaining field from the conn_rec structure, which
5129 *) Big cleanup of the input filtering. The goal is that http_filter
5130 understands two conditions, headers and body. It knows where it is
5131 based on c->remaining. If c->remaining is 0, then we are in headers,
5132 and http_filter returns a line at a time. If it is not 0, then we are
5133 in body, and http_filter returns raw data, but only up to c->remaining
5134 bytes. It can return less, but never more.
5135 [Greg Ames, Ryan Bloom, Jeff Trawick]
5137 *) mod_cgi: Write all of the request body to the child, not just what
5138 the kernel would accept on the first write. [Jeff Trawick]
5140 *) Back out the change that moved the brigade from the core_output_filters
5141 ctx to the conn_rec. Since all requests over a given connection
5142 go through the same core_output_filter, the ctx pointer has the
5146 *) Fix another bug in the send_the_file() read/write loop. A partial
5147 send by apr_send would cause unsent data in the read buffer to
5148 get clobbered. Complete making send_the_file handle partial
5149 writes to the network.
5152 *) Fix a couple of type fixes to allow compilation on AIX again
5153 [Victor J. Orlikowski <v.j.orlikowski gte.net>]
5155 *) Fix bug in send_the_file() which causes offset to be ignored
5156 if there are no headers to send.
5159 *) Handle APR_ENOTIMPL returned from apr_sendfile in the core
5160 filter. Useful for supporting Windows 9* with a binary
5161 compiled on Windows NT.
5164 Changes with Apache 2.0a7
5166 *) Reimplement core_output_filter to buffer/save bucket brigades
5167 across multiple calls to the core_filter. The brigade will be
5168 sent when either MIN_BYTES_TO_SEND or MAX_IOVEC_TO_WRITE
5169 thresholds are hit or the EOS bucket is received.
5172 *) Create experimental filter (buffer_filter) that coalesces bytes
5173 into one large buffer before invoking the next filter in the
5174 chain. This filter is particularly useful with the current
5175 implementation of mod_autoindex when it inserted above the
5176 chunk_filter. mod_autoindex generates a lot of brigades that
5177 containing buckets holding just a few bytes each. The
5178 buffer_filter coalesces these buckets into a single large bucket.
5181 *) Add apr_sendfile() support into the core_output_filter.
5184 *) Add apr_sendv() support into the core_output_filter.
5187 *) Fix mod_log_config so that it compiles cleanly with BUFFERED_LOGS
5188 [Mike Abbott <mja sgi.com>]
5190 *) Remove ap_send_fb. This is no longer used in Apache, and it doesn't
5191 make much sense, because Apache uses buckets instead of BUFFs now.
5194 *) send_the_file now falls back to a read/write loop on platforms that
5195 do not have sendfile.
5196 [Ryan Bloom and Brian Havard]
5198 *) Install apachectl correctly, and substitute the proper values so
5199 that it works again. [Ryan Bloom]
5201 *) Better(??) handle platforms that lack sendfile().
5204 *) APR now has UUID generation/formatting/parsing support.
5207 *) Begin the http_filter. This is an input filter that understands
5208 the absolute basic amount required to parse an HTTP Request. The
5209 goal is to be able to split headers from request body before passing
5210 the data back to the other filters.
5213 *) Bring forward from 1.3.13 the config directory implementation
5216 *) install apxs if it is created
5219 *) Added APR_IS_STATUS_condition test macros to eliminate canonical error
5220 conversions. [William Rowe]
5222 *) Now that we have ap_add_input_filter(), rename ap_add_filter() to
5223 ap_add_output_filter(). [Jeff Trawick]
5225 *) Multiple build and configuration fixes
5228 -add datadir and localstatedir substitutions
5230 -fix logfilename misspelling
5231 -fix evaluation of installation dir variables and
5232 -replace $foobar by $(foobar) to be usefull in the makefile
5236 -add rules for cross-compiling in rules.mk. Okay, rule to check for
5237 $CC_FOR_BUILD is still missing
5238 -use CHECK_TOOL instead of CHECK_PROG for ranlib
5239 -add missing "AR=@AR@" to severaly Makefile.in's
5240 -cache result for "struct rlimit"
5241 -compile all helper programs with native and cross compiler
5242 and use the native version to generate header file
5243 ["Rüdiger" Kuhlmann <Tadu gmx.de>]
5245 *) Prepare our autoconf setup for autoconf 2.14a and for cross-
5247 ["Rüdiger" Kuhlmann <Tadu gmx.de>]
5249 *) Fix a bug where a client which only sends \n to delimit header
5250 lines (netcat) gets a strange looking HTTP_NOT_IMPLEMENTED
5251 message. Start working on ebcdic co-existance with input
5253 [William Rowe, Greg Ames]
5255 *) If mod_so is enabled in the server always create libexec, even
5256 if there are no modules installed in this directory. This is a
5257 requirement for APXS to work correctly.
5260 *) Connection oriented output filters are now stored in the
5261 conn_rec instead of the request_rec. This allows us to add the
5262 output filter in the pre-connection phase instead of the
5263 post_read_request phase, which keeps us from trying to write an
5264 error page before we have a filter to write to the network.
5265 [Ryan Bloom, Jeff Trawick, and Greg Ames]
5267 *) Cleaning up an mmap bucket no longer deletes the mmap. An
5268 mmap can be used across multiple buckets (default_handler with
5269 byte ranges, mod_file_cache, mod_mmap_static), so cleanup of
5270 the mmap itself can't be associated with the bucket.
5273 *) Add .dll caching directive ISAPICacheFile to mod_isapi.
5276 *) Radical surgery to improve mod_isapi support under Win32.
5277 Includes a number of newer ServerSupportFunction calls, support
5278 for ReadClient (in order to retrieve POSTs greater than 48KB),
5279 and general bug fixes to more reliably load ISAPI .dll's and
5280 prevent leaking handle resources. Note: There are still
5281 discrepancies between IIS's and Apache's ServerVariables, and
5282 async calls are still not supported. Additional warnings are
5283 logged to facilitate debugging of unsupported ISAPI calls.
5286 *) Add input filtering to Apache. The basic idea for the input
5287 filters is the same as the ideas for output filters. The biggest
5288 difference is that instead of calling ap_pass_brigade, ap_get_brigade
5289 should be called, and the order of execution for the filter itself is
5290 different. When writing an output filter, a brigade is passed in,
5291 and filters operate directly on that brigade, when done, they call
5292 ap_pass_brigade. Input filters are the exact opposite. Because input
5293 is not a push operation, filters first call ap_get_brigade. When this
5294 function returns, the input filter will be left with a valid brigade.
5295 The input filter should then operate on the brigade, and return.
5298 *) Fix building on BSD/OS using its native make. The build system
5299 falls back to the BSD .include directive on that host platform.
5302 *) Expand dbmmanage to allow -d -m -s -p options for Crypt, MD5,
5303 SHA1 and plaintext password encodings. Make feature tests a
5304 bit more flexible. [William Rowe]
5306 *) Charset translation: mod_charset_lite handles output content
5307 translation in a filter. mod_charset_lite no longer ignores
5308 subrequests. A bunch of cruft related to BUFF's support for
5309 translating request and response bodies was removed.
5312 *) Move the addition of the CORE filter to the post_read_request
5313 hook in http_core.c. This removes the need to add the filter in
5314 multiple places and allows for an SSL module to be added much
5315 simpler. [Ryan Bloom]
5317 *) SECURITY [CVE-2000-0913] (cve.mitre.org):
5318 Fix a security problem that affects certain configurations of
5319 mod_rewrite. If the result of a RewriteRule is a filename that
5320 contains expansion specifiers, especially regexp backreferences
5321 $0..$9 and %0..%9, then it may be possible for an attacker to
5322 access any file on the web server. [Tony Finch]
5324 *) Fix a bug where errors that are detected during early request parsing
5325 don't produce visible HTTP error messages at the browser, because
5326 the core_filter wasn't present. [Greg Ames]
5328 *) Provide apr_socklen_t as a portability aid.
5329 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
5331 *) Overhaul of dbmmanage to allow a groups arg (as in Apache 1.2)
5332 as well as a comment arg to the add, adduser and update cmds.
5333 update allows the user to clear or preserve pw/groups/comment.
5334 Fixed a bug in dbmmanage that prevented the check option from
5335 parsing a password followed by :group... text. Corrected the
5336 seed calcualation for Win32 systems, and added -lsdbm support.
5339 *) Configured mod_auth_dbm to compile with sdbmlib under Win32.
5342 *) Avoid a segfault when parsing .htaccess files. An
5343 uninitialized tree pointer was passed to ap_build_config().
5346 *) Change the way that inet_addr & inet_network are checked for
5347 in APR's configure process to allow BeOS BONE to correctly
5348 find them. With this change BeOS BONE now builds from source
5349 with no problems. [David Reid]
5351 *) Fix a bug in apr_create_process() for Unix. The NULL signifying
5352 the end of the parameters to execve() was stored in the wrong
5353 location, overlaying the storage beyond the newargs[] array and
5354 also passing uninitialized storage to execve(), which would
5355 sometimes fail with EFAULT. [Jeff Trawick]
5357 *) Fix a bug parsing configuration file containers. With a sequence
5358 like this in the config file
5360 <IfModule mod_kilroy.c>
5363 <IfModule mod_lovejoy.c>
5368 the second container would be terminated at the blank line due to
5369 sediment in the buffer from reading the prior </IfModule> and an
5370 error message would be generated for the real </IfModule> for the
5371 second container. Also due to this problem, any two characters
5372 could be used for "</" in the close of a container.
5375 *) ap_add_filter prototype changed to remove the ctx pointer. The
5376 pointer still remains in the filter structure, but it can not be
5377 a part of the ap_add_filter prototype. The reason is that when
5378 the core uses AddFilter to add a filter to the stack it doesn't
5379 know how to allocate the ctx pointer, or even how much memory should
5380 be allocated. The filters will have to be responsible for allocating
5381 the ctx memory when they need it.
5384 *) Add an AddFilter directive. This directive takes a list of filters
5385 that should be activated for the requested resource.
5388 *) apr_snprintf(): Get quad format strings working on OS/390 (and perhaps
5389 some other platforms). [Jeff Trawick]
5391 *) Modify mod_include to be a filter. Currently, it has only been tested
5392 on actual files, but it should work for CGI scripts too.
5395 *) apr_putc(), apr_puts() for Unix: handle buffered files and interrupted
5396 writes. apr_flush() for Unix: handle interrupted writes.
5399 *) NameVirtualHost can now take "*" as an argument instead of
5400 an IP address. This allows you to create a purely name-based
5401 virtual hosting server that does not have any IP addresses in
5402 the configuration file and which ignores the local address
5403 of any connections. PR #5595, PR #4455 [Tony Finch]
5405 *) Fix some compile warnings in mod_mmap_static.c
5406 [Mike Abbott <mja sgi.com>]
5408 *) Fix chunking problem with CGI scripts. The general problem was that
5409 the CGI modules were adding an EOS bucket and then the core added an
5410 EOS bucket. The chunking filter finalizes the chunked response when it
5411 encounters an EOS bucket. Because two EOS buckets were sent, we
5412 finalized the response twice. The fix is to make sure we only send one
5413 EOS, by utilizing a flag in the request_rec.
5416 *) apr_put_os_file() now sets up the unget byte appropriately on Unix
5417 and Win32. Previously, the first read from an apr_file_t set up via
5418 apr_put_os_file() would return a '\0'. [Jeff Trawick]
5420 *) Mod_cgid now creates a single element bucket brigade, with a pipe
5421 bucket, instead of using BUFF's and ap_r*.
5424 *) APRVARS.in no longer overwrites the EXTRA_LIBS variable.
5425 [Mike Abbott <mja sgi.com>]
5427 *) Remove ap_bopenf from buff code. This required modifying the file_cache
5428 code to use APR file's directly instead of going through BUFFs.
5431 *) Fix compile break on some platforms for mod_mime_magic.c
5432 [John K. Sterling <sterling covalent.net>]
5434 *) Fix merging of AddDefaultCharset directive.
5435 PR #5872 (1.3) [Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama imgsrc.co.jp>]
5437 *) Minor revamp of the rlimit sections of code. We now test
5438 explicitly for setrlimit and getrlimit. Also, unixd_set_rlimit()
5439 is now "available" even if the platform doesn't support
5440 the rlimit family (it's just a noop though). [Jim Jagielski]
5442 *) Migrate the pre-selection of which MPM to use for specific
5443 platforms to hints.m4, which contains (or should contain)
5444 all platform specific "hints". [Jim Jagielski]
5446 *) Remove IOLs from Apache. With filtering, IOLs are no longer necessary
5449 *) Add tables with non-string/binary values to APR.
5452 *) Fix some bad calls to ap_log_rerror() in mod_rewrite.
5455 *) Update PCRE to version 3.2. [Ryan Bloom]
5457 *) Change the way buckets' destroy functions are called so that
5458 they can be more directly used when changing the type of a
5459 bucket in place. [Tony Finch]
5461 *) Add generic support for reference-counting the resources used by
5462 buckets, and alter the HEAP and MMAP buckets to use it. Change
5463 the way buckets are initialised to support changing the type of
5464 buckets in place, and use it when setting aside TRANSIENT buckets.
5465 Change the implementation of TRANSIENT buckets so that it can be
5466 mostly shared with IMMORTAL buckets, which are now implemented.
5469 Changes with Apache 2.0a6
5471 *) Add support to Apache and APR for dsos on OS/390. [Greg Ames]
5473 *) Add a chunking filter to Apache. This brings us one step closer
5474 to removing BUFF. [Ryan Bloom]
5476 *) ap_add_filter now adds filters in a LIFO fashion. The first filter
5477 added to the stack is the last filter to be called. [Ryan Bloom]
5479 *) Apache 2.0 has been completely documented using Scandoc. The
5480 docs can be generated by running 'make docs'. [Ryan Bloom]
5482 *) Add filtered I/O to Apache. This is based on bucket brigades,
5483 Currently the buckets still use BUFF under the covers, but that
5484 should change quickly. The only currently written filter is the
5485 core filter which just calls ap_bwrite. [The Apache Group]
5487 *) APR locks on Unix: Let APR_LOCKALL locks work when APR isn't
5488 built with thread support. [Jeff Trawick]
5490 *) Abort configuration if --with-layout was specified and there's
5491 no layout definition file. [Ken Coar]
5493 *) Add support for '--with-port=n' option to configure. [Ken Coar]
5495 *) Add support for extension methods for the Allow response header
5496 field, and an API routine for accessing r->allowed and the
5497 list of extension methods in a unified manner. [Ken Coar]
5499 *) mod_cern_meta: fix broken file reading loop in scan_meta_file().
5500 [Rob Simonson <simo us.ibm.com>]
5502 *) Get xlate builds working again. The apr renaming in 2.0a5 broke
5503 APACHE_XLATE builds. [Jeff Trawick]
5505 *) A configuration file parsing problem was fixed. When the
5506 configuration file started with an IfModule/IfDefine container,
5507 only the last statement in the container would be retained.
5510 Changes with Apache 2.0a5
5512 *) Perchild is serving pages after passing them to different child
5513 processes. There are still a lot of bugs, but this does work. I
5514 have made requests against the same installation of Apache, and had
5515 different servers use different user IDs to serve the responses.
5516 This change moves to using socketpair instead of an AF_UNIX socket.
5519 *) Perchild MPM still doesn't work perfectly, but it is serving pages.
5520 It can't seem to pass between child processes yet, but I think we
5521 are closer now than before. This moves us back to using Unix
5522 Domain Sockets. [Ryan Bloom]
5524 *) libapr functions and types renamed with apr_ prefix.
5525 #include "apr_compat.h" for 1.3.x backwards compat
5528 *) Fix problems with APR sockaddr handling on Win32. It didn't always
5529 return the right information on the local socket address.
5530 [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls level8.com>]
5532 *) ap_recv() on Win32: Set bytes-read to 0 on error.
5533 [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls level8.com>]
5535 *) Add an option to not detach from the controlling terminal without
5536 going into single process mode. This allows for much easier
5537 debugging of the process startup code. [Ryan Bloom]
5539 *) ab: don't use perror() to report the failure of an APR function.
5542 *) Make dexter, mpmt_pthread, and perchild MPMs not destroy the
5543 scoreboard on graceful restarts.
5546 *) Fix segfault/SIGSEGV when running gzip from mod_mime_magic.c.
5547 An invalid ap_proc_t was passed to ap_create_process().
5550 *) Allow modules to register filters. Those filters are still
5551 never called, but this is a step in the right direction.
5552 [Ryan Bloom and Greg Stein]
5554 *) Register the mod_cgid daemon process for cleanup so that it is
5555 killed at termination if it does not die when the parent gets
5556 SIGTERM. This change is to fix occasional problems where the
5557 process stays around. Bugs in similar logic in mod_rewrite and
5558 mod_include were also fixed. [Jeff Trawick]
5560 *) Fix a bug in the time handling. Basically, we were imploding a time
5561 in ap_parseHTTPdate, but it had bogus data in the exploded time format.
5562 Namely, tm_usec and tm_gmtoff were not filled out. ap_implode_time
5563 uses those two fields to adjust the time value. Because of the HTTP
5564 spec, both of those values can be zero'ed out safely. This fixes
5565 the bug correctly. [Ryan Bloom]
5567 *) Fix a couple of place in the Windows code where the wrong error
5568 code was being returned. [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls level8.com>]
5570 *) Fix POOL_DEBUG (at least for prefork mpm). [Dean Gaudet]
5572 *) Added the APR_EOL_STR macro for platform dependent differences in
5573 logfiles and other raw text (such as all APR files). Fixes logfiles
5574 not terminated with cr/lf sequences in Win32. [William Rowe]
5576 *) Move all strings functions in APR to src/lib/apr/strings and create
5577 apr_strings.h for the prototypes. [Ryan Bloom]
5579 *) APR lock fixes: when using SysV sems, flock(), or fcntl(), be sure
5580 to repeat the syscall until we stop getting EINTR. I noticed a
5581 related problem at termination (SIGTERM) on FreeBSD when using
5582 fcntl(). Apache 1.3 had these new loops too. Also, make the flock()
5583 implementation work properly with child init. Previously, ap_lock()
5584 was essentially a no-op because all children were using different
5585 locks and thus nobody ever blocked. [Jeff Trawick]
5587 *) The htdocs/ tree has been moved out of the CVS source tree into
5588 a separate area for easier development. This has NO EFFECT on
5589 end-users or Apache installations. [Ken Coar]
5591 *) Integrate the mod_dav module for WebDAV protocol handling. This
5592 adds the dav and dav_fs modules, the SDBM library, and additional
5593 XML handling utilities. [Greg Stein]
5595 *) Clean out obsolete names (from httpd.h) for the HTTP Status Codes
5598 *) Update the lib/expat-lite/ library (bring forward changes from
5599 the Apache 1.3 repository). [Greg Stein]
5601 *) If sizeof(long long) == sizeof(long), then prefer long in APR
5602 configure.in. [Dave Hill <ddhill zk3.dec.com>]
5604 *) Add ap_sendfile for Tru64 Unix. Also, add an error message for
5605 machines where sendfile is detected, but nobody has written ap_sendfile.
5606 [Dave Hill <ddhill zk3.dec.com>]
5608 *) Compile fixes in mod_mmap_static. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
5610 *) ab would start up more connections than needed, then quit when the
5611 desired number were finished. Also fixed a logic error involving
5612 ab keepalives. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
5614 *) WinNT: Implement non-blocking pipes with timeouts to communicate
5615 with CGIs. Apache 2.0a4 had non-blocking pipes but without
5616 timeouts (i.e, if a timeout was specified, the pipe reverted to
5617 a full blocking pipe). Now the behaviour is more in line with
5618 Unix non-blocking pipes.
5621 *) WinNT: Implement accept socket reuse. Using mod_file_cache to
5622 cache open file handles along with accept socket reuse enables
5623 Apache 2.0 to serve non-keepalive requests for static files at
5624 3x the rate of Apache 1.3.(e.g, Apache 1.3 will serve 400 rps
5625 and Apache 2.0 will serve almost 1200 rps on my system).
5628 *) Merge mod_mmap_static function into mod_file_cache. mod_file_cache
5629 supports two config directives, mmapfile (same behavious as
5630 mod_mmap_static) and cachefile. Use the cachefile directive
5631 to cache open file handles. This directive only works on systems
5632 that have implemented the ap_sendfile API. cachefile works today
5633 on Windows NT, but has not been tested on any flavors of Unix.
5636 *) Cleanup the configuration. With the last few changes the
5637 configuration process automatically:
5638 inherits information about how to build from APR. Allowing
5639 APR to inform Apache that it should or should not use -ldl
5641 Detects which mod_cgi should be used mod_cgi or mod_cgid,
5642 based on the threading model
5644 Apache calls APR's configure process before finishing it's
5645 configuration processing, allowing for more information flow
5650 *) Change Unix and Win32 ap_setsockopt() so that APR_SO_NONBLOCK
5651 with non-zero argument makes the socket non-blocking. BeOS and
5652 OS/2 already worked this way. [Jeff Trawick]
5654 *) ap_close() now calls ap_flush() for buffered files, so write
5655 operations work a whole lot better on buffered files.
5658 *) Fix error messages issued from MPMs which explain where to change
5659 compiled-in limits (e.g., ThreadsPerChild, MaxClients, StartTreads).
5662 *) ap_create_pipe() now leaves pipes in blocking state. (This helps
5663 reduce the number of syscalls on Unix.) ap_set_pipe_timeout() is
5664 now the way that the blocking state of a pipe is manipulated.
5665 ap_block_pipe() is gone. [Jeff Trawick]
5667 *) Correct the problem where the only local host name that the IP stack
5668 can discover are 'undotted' private names. If no fully qualified
5669 domain name can be identified, the default ServerName will be set to
5670 the machine's IP address string. A warning is always provided if the
5671 ServerName not specified, but assumed. Solves PR6215 [William Rowe]
5673 *) Repair problems with config file processing which caused segfault
5674 at init when virtual hosts were defined and which caused ServerName to
5675 be ignored when there was no valid DNS setup. [Jeff Trawick]
5677 *) Removed pointless ap_is_aborted macro function. [Roy Fielding]
5679 *) Add ap_sendfile implementation for AIX
5680 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
5682 *) Repair C++ compatibility in ap_config.h, apr_file_io.h,
5683 apr_network_io.h, and apr_thread_proc.h.
5684 [Tyler J. Brooks <tylerjbrooks home.com>, Jeff Trawick]
5686 *) Bring the allocation and pool debugging code back into a working
5687 state. This will need to be tested as so far it's only been used on
5690 *) Change configuration command setup to be properly typesafe when in
5691 maintainer mode. Note that this requires a compiler that can initialise
5692 unions. [Ben Laurie]
5694 *) Turn on buffering for config file reads. Part of this was to
5695 repair buffered I/O support in Unix and implement buffered
5696 ap_fgets() for all platforms. [Brian Havard, Jeff Trawick]
5698 *) Win32: Fix problem where UTC offset was not being set correctly
5699 in the access log. Problem reported on news group by Jerry Baker.
5702 *) Fix segfault when reporting this type of syntax error:
5703 "</container> without matching <container> section", where
5704 container is VirtualHost or Directory or whatever.
5707 *) SECURITY [CAN-2000-1204] (cve.mitre.org):
5708 Prevent the source code for CGIs from being revealed when
5709 using mod_vhost_alias and the CGI directory is under the document root
5710 and a user makes a request like http://www.example.com//cgi-bin/cgi
5711 as reported in <news:960999105.344321 ernani.logica.co.uk>
5714 *) Add support for the new Beos NetwOrking Environment (BONE)
5717 *) xlate: ap_xlate_conv_buffer() now tells the caller when the
5718 final input char is incomplete; ap_bwrite_xlate() now handles
5719 incomplete final input chars. [Jeff Trawick]
5721 *) Yet another update to saferead/halfduplex stuff -- need to ensure
5722 that a bhalfduplex call occurs before logging or else DNS and
5723 such can delay the last packet of the response. [Dean Gaudet]
5725 *) Some syscall reduction in APR on unix -- don't seek when setting
5726 up an mmap; and don't fcntl() more than once per socket.
5729 *) When mod_cgid is started as root, the cgi daemon now switches
5730 to the configured User/Group (like other httpd processes)
5731 instead of continuing as root. [Jeff Trawick]
5733 *) The prefork MPM now uses an APR lock for the accept() mutex.
5734 It has not been getting a lock at all recently. httpd -V now
5735 displays APR's selection of the lock mechanism instead of the
5736 symbols previously respected by prefork. [Jeff Trawick]
5738 *) Change the mmap() feature test to check only for existence.
5739 The previous check required features not used by Apache.
5742 *) Fix a couple of bugs in mod_cgid: The cgi arguments were
5743 sometimes mangled. The len parm to accept() was not
5744 initialized, leading sometimes to an endless loop of failed
5745 accept() calls on OS/390 and anywhere else that failed the call
5746 if the len was negative. Use <sys/un.h> for struct sockaddr_un
5747 instead of declaring it ourselves to fix a compilation problem
5748 on Solaris. [Jeff Trawick]
5750 *) Add Resource limiting code back into Apache 2.0. [Ryan Bloom]
5752 *) Fix zombie process problem with mod_cgi. [Jeff Trawick]
5754 *) Port mod_mmap_static to 2.0. Make it go faster. [Greg Ames]
5756 *) Fix storage overlay when loading dsos. Symptom: Apache dies at
5757 initialization if ALLOC_DEBUG is defined; no known symptom
5758 otherwise. [Jeff Trawick]
5760 *) Fix typo in configure script when checking for mod_so. bash
5761 doesn't seem to have a problem but /bin/sh on Solaris does.
5762 Symptom: "./configure: test: unknown operator =="
5765 *) Rebind the Win32 NT and 9x services control into the MPM.
5766 All console, WinNT SCM and Win9x pseudo-service control code is
5767 now wrapped within the WinNT MPM.
5770 *) Make a copy of getenv("PATH") before storing for later use. Some
5771 getenv() implementations use the same storage for successive calls.
5772 CGIs on OS/390 had a bad PATH due to this. [Jeff Trawick]
5774 *) Server Tokens work in 2.0 again. This also propogates the change
5775 to allow just the product name in the server string using
5779 Changes with Apache 2.0a4
5781 *) EBCDIC: Rearrange calls to ap_checkconv() so that most handlers
5782 won't need to call it. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
5784 *) Move pre_config hook call to between configuration read and config
5785 tree walk. This allows all modules to implement pre_config hooks
5786 and know that they will be called at an appropriate time.
5789 *) mod_cgi, mod_cgid: Make ScriptLog directive work again.
5792 *) Add pre-config hooks back to all modules.
5795 *) Fix a SIGSEGV in ap_md5digest(), which is used when you have
5796 ContentDigest enabled and we can't/don't mmap the file.
5799 *) We now report the correct line number for syntax errors in config
5800 files. [Ryan Bloom, Greg Stein, Jeff Trawick]
5802 *) Brought mod_auth_digest up to synch with 1.3, fixed ap_time_t-
5803 related bugs, and changed shmem/locking to use apr API. Shared-mem
5804 is currently disabled, however, because of problems with graceful
5805 restarts. [Ronald Tschalär]
5807 *) Fix corruption of IFS variable in --with-module= handling.
5808 Depending on the user's shell or customization thereof, there
5809 would be errors generating ap_config_auto.h later in the configure
5810 procedure. [Jeff Trawick]
5812 *) mod_cgi: Restore logging of stderr from child process when ScriptLog
5813 isn't used (as in 1.3), except that on Unix it is now logged via
5814 ap_log_rerror() instead of by the child having STDERR_FILENO refer
5815 to the error log. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
5817 *) Add '-D' argument processing for run time configuration defines.
5820 *) Organize http_main.c as independent code, such that no code or
5821 global data is exported from it. WIN32 will dynamically link it
5822 to the server core, so this will prevent mutual dependency.
5825 *) Add separate dynamic linkage tags APR_EXPORT(), APR_EXPORT_NONSTD()
5826 and APR_VAR_EXPORT to correctly resolve apr functions and globals.
5829 *) Add Win9x service execution and Ctrl+C/Ctrl+Break/Shutdown handlers.
5830 [William Rowe, Jan Just Keijser <KEIJSERJJ logica.com>]
5832 *) Add mod_charset_lite for configuring character set translation.
5835 *) Add '-n' option to htpasswd to make it print its user:pw record
5836 on stdout rather than having to frob a text file. [Ken Coar]
5838 *) Fix saferead. Basically, we flush the output buffer if a read on the
5842 *) APR: Add ap_xlate_get_sb() so that an app can find out whether or not
5843 a conversion is single-byte only. [Jeff Trawick]
5845 *) BEOS: ap_shutdown should return APR_SUCCESS or errno. Note that
5846 the BeOS 5.0 documentation says that shutdown doesn't work yet.
5849 *) Fix some minor errors where pid was being manipulated as an int
5850 instead of the portable pid_t. [Roy Fielding]
5852 *) Fix some error log prints that were printing the pointer to a
5853 structure rather than the pid within the structure.
5854 [Jeff Trawick, Roy Fielding]
5856 *) ab: Fix a command-line processing bug; track bad headers in
5857 err_response; support reading headers up to 2K.
5858 [Ask Bjoern Hansen <ask valueclick.com>]
5860 *) Fix ap_resolve_env() so that it handles new function added in a prior
5861 alpha (see "Added the capability to do ${ENVVAR} constructs in the
5862 config file.") as well as the constructs used by mod_rewrite.
5863 [Paul Reder <rederpj raleigh.ibm.com>]
5865 *) Apache 2.0 builds and runs on OS/390. [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames]
5867 *) Change the EBCDIC support in functions for MD5, SHA1, and base 64 to use
5868 APR to perform translation, instead of accessing the hard-coded tables
5869 in 1.3's ebcdic.c. [Jeff Trawick]
5871 *) Fix some bugs (mostly lost 1.3 code) in ab's command-line processing.
5874 *) Add the ability to hook into the config file reading phase. Basically
5875 if a directive is specified EXEC_ON_READ, then when that directive is
5876 read from the config file, the assocaited function is executed. This
5877 should only be used for those directives that must muck with HOW the
5878 server INTERPRETS the config. This should not be used for directives
5879 that re-order or replace items in the config tree. Those changes should
5880 be made in the pre-config step.
5883 *) Add mod_example to the build system.
5886 *) APR: Add ap_xlate_conv_byte() to convert one char between single-
5887 byte character sets. [Jeff Trawick]
5889 *) Pick up various EBCDIC fixes from 1.3 (from Martin
5890 Kraemer and Oliver Reh originally according to the change log).
5893 *) Fix a couple of problems in RFC1413 support (controlled by the
5894 IdentityCheck directive). Apache did not build the request string
5895 properly and more importantly Apache would loop forever if the
5896 would-be ident server dropped the connection before sending a
5897 properly terminated response. [Jeff Trawick]
5899 *) apxs works in 2.0.
5902 *) Reliable piped logs work in 2.0.
5905 *) Introduce a hash table implementation into APR to be used for
5906 replacing tables and other random data structures in Apache.
5909 *) Add some more error reporting to htpasswd in the case of problems
5910 generating or accessing the temporary file. Also, pass in a
5911 buffer if the implementation knows how to use it (i.e., if L_tmpnam
5912 is defined). [Ken Coar]
5914 *) Configure creates config.nice now containing your configure
5915 options. Syntax: ./config.nice [--more-options]
5918 *) Fix various return code problems in APR on Win32. For most of
5919 these, APR was returning APR_EEXIST instead of GetLastError()/
5920 WSAGetLastError(). [Jeff Trawick]
5922 *) Make piped logs work again in version 2.0
5925 *) Add VPATH support to UNIX build system of Apache and APR.
5928 *) Fix ap_tokenize_to_argv to respect the const arguments that are
5932 *) Fix mm's memcpy/memset macros, pointer arithmetic was broken.
5933 Patch submitted to author.
5936 *) Fix mm configuration on Solaris 8 x86 and OS/390. Don't require
5937 /sbin in PATH on FreeBSD (all submitted to rse previously)
5940 *) Fix building Pthread-based MPMs on OpenBSD
5941 [Sascha Schumann] PR#26
5943 *) Fix ap_readdir() problem on systems where d_name[] field in
5944 struct dirent is declared with only one byte. (This problem only
5945 affected multithreaded builds.) This caused a segfault during
5946 pool cleanup with mod_autoindex on Solaris (Solaris 8 x86, at
5947 least). [Jeff Trawick]
5949 *) Fix some make-portability problems on at least Tru64, Irix
5951 [Sascha Schumann] PR#18, PR#39
5953 *) Add ap_sigwait() to support old-style sigwait() on systems
5954 like OS/390 and UnixWare.
5957 *) Add POSIX-thread flags for more platforms.
5960 *) Fix some minor bugs in ap_strerror(). Teach ap_strerror()
5961 (on Unix, at least) to handle resolver errors. Fix a bug in
5962 the definition of APR_ENOMEM so that ap_strerror() can spit
5963 out the correct error message for it.
5966 Changes with Apache 2.0a3
5968 *) mod_so reports ap_os_dso_error() if ap_dso_load() fails
5971 *) API: *HOOK* macros now have an AP_ prefix
5974 *) Win32: Eliminate redundant calls to initialize winsock.
5975 [Tim Costello <timcostello ozemail.com.au>]
5977 *) Fix bugs initializing ungetchar for pipes.
5978 [Chia-liang Kao <clkao CirX.ORG>]
5980 *) The ab program in the src/support directory is now portable using
5984 *) Support directory is being compiled when the server is built
5987 *) The configure option --with-program-name has been added to allow
5988 developers to rename the executable at configure time. This also
5989 changes the name of the config files to match the executable's name.
5992 *) mod_autoindex: Add `IndexOptions +VersionSort', to nicely sort filenames
5993 containing version numbers. [Martin Pool]
5995 *) ap_open(..,APR_OS_DEFAULT,..) uses perms 0666 instead of 0777 on
5996 Unix; access_log and error_log now created with these perms; non-
5997 Unix is unaffected [Jeff Trawick]
5999 *) Finished move of ap_md5 routines to apr_md5. Removed ap_md5.h.
6000 Replaced more magic numbers with MD5_DIGESTSIZE.
6001 [William Rowe, Roy Fielding]
6003 *) Win32: Get mod_auth_digest compiling and added to the Windows
6004 build environment. Not tested and I'd be suprised if it
6005 actually works. [Bill Stoddard]
6007 *) Revamp the Win32 make environment. Makefiles have been removed and
6008 Apache.dsw created to bring together all the pieces. Create new file
6009 os/win32/BaseAddr.ref to define module base addresses (to prevent
6010 dll relocation at start-up).
6011 [William Rowe, Greg Marr, Tim Costello, Bill Stoddard]
6013 *) [EBCDIC] Port Paul Gilmartin's CRLF patch from 1.3. This replaces most
6014 of the \015, \012, and \015\012 constants with macros.
6017 *) Add ap_xlate_open() et al for translation of text between different
6018 character sets. The initial implementation requires iconv().
6021 *) More FAQs and answers from comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix.
6022 [Joshua Slive <slive finance.commerce.ubc.ca>]
6024 *) CGI output is being timed out now.
6027 *) Fix the problem with dieing quietly. dupfile now takes a pool which
6028 is used by the new apr file. There is no reason to create a new file
6029 with the same lifetime as the original file.
6032 *) Win32: Attempt to eliminate dll relocation at start-up by specifying
6033 module base addresses. This will help shooting seg faults
6034 in the field. [William Rowe <wrowe lnd.com>]
6036 *) Update Apache on Windows documentation. Add new document
6037 describing how to compile Apache on Windows.
6038 [William Rowe <wrowe lnd.com>]
6040 *) ap_set_pipe_timeout(), ap_poll(), and APR_SO_TIMEOUT now take
6041 microseconds instead of seconds. Some storage leaks and other
6042 minor bugs in related code were fixed. [Jeff Trawick]
6044 *) Win32: First cut at getting mod_isapi working under 2.0
6045 [William Rowe <wrowe lnd.com>]
6047 *) First stab at getting mod_auth_digest working under 2.0
6048 quick change summary:
6049 - moved the random byte generation (ap_generate_random_bytes) into APR
6050 - now uses ap_time_t
6051 - compiles and runs on linux
6053 [Brian Martin <bmartin penguincomputing.com>]
6055 *) Win32: Move the space stripping of physical service names
6056 fix up from Apache 1.3. #include'ing "ap_mpm.h" fixes up an
6057 unresolved symbol. Add dependency checking to the
6058 CreateService call to ensure TCPIP and AFP (winsock) is started
6060 [William Rowe <wrowe lnd.com>]
6062 *) Win32: Add code to perform latebinding on functions that may
6063 not exist on all levels of Windows where Apache runs. This
6064 is needed to allow Apache to start-up on Win95/98. All calls
6065 to non portable functions should be protected with
6066 ap_oslevel checks to prevent runtime segfaults.
6067 [William Rowe <wrowe lnd.com>]
6069 *) Fix fallback default values for SHM_R and SHM_W [Martin Kraemer]
6071 *) Get lingering_close() working again. [Dean Gaudet, Jeff Trawick]
6073 *) Win32: Get non-blocking CGI pipe reads working under Windows NT.
6074 This addresses PR 1623. Still need to address timing out runaway
6075 CGI scripts. [Bill Stoddard]
6077 *) Win32: Make ap_stat Windows 95/98 friendly
6078 [William Rowe <wrowe lnd.com>]
6080 *) Win32: Fix a bug in ap_get_oslevel which causes GetVersionEx() to
6081 always fail. Need to initialise the dwOSVersionInfoSize member of the
6082 OSVERSIONINFO struct before calling GetVersionEx, so GetVersionEx
6085 The patch also enhances ap_get_oslevel (and the associated enum) to
6086 handle selected service packs for NT4, and adds recognition for
6087 Windows 2000. This is useful, eg. if we can recognise NT4 SP2 then
6088 we can use ReadFileScatter and WriteFileGather in readwrite.c.
6089 [Tim Costello <Tim.Costello BTFinancialgroup.com>]
6091 *) Get mod_rewrite building and running, and mod_status building for Win NT
6092 [Allan Edwards <ake raleigh.ibm.com>]
6094 *) Patch to port mod_auth_db to the 2.0 api and also to support
6095 Berlekey DB 3.0. It works for me with both Berkeley DB 3.0.55 and
6096 2.7.7. It should work with version 1 as well but I haven't tested it.
6097 [Brian Martin <bmartin penguincomputing.com>]
6099 *) Get APR DSO code working under Windows. Includes cross platform
6101 [<Tim.Costello BTFinancialgroup.com>]
6103 *) Fix some of the Windows APR time functions.
6106 *) FAQ changes related to tidying up historical documents on the web site.
6107 [Joshua Slive <slive finance.commerce.ubc.ca>]
6109 *) Move Windows DSO code into APR.
6112 *) Eliminate apr_win.h and apr_winconfig.h (and the ugly #ifdefs they cause).
6113 Now, apr.h and apr_config.h are generated from apr.hw and apr_config.hw
6114 at build time. At this point, the server will not compile on Windows because
6115 of the recent DSO commits. Fixing those next.
6116 [Bill Rowe & Bill Stoddard]
6118 *) Added error checking for file I/O APR routines.
6119 [Jon Travis <jtravis covalent.net>]
6121 *) APR: Don't use the values of resolver error codes for the
6122 corresponding APR error codes. On Unix and Win32, return the
6123 proper APR error code after a resolver error. [Jeff Trawick]
6125 Changes with Apache 2.0a2
6127 *) Renamed the executable back to httpd on all platforms other
6131 *) Allow BeOS to survive restarts, log properly and a few
6132 small things it had problems with due to the way it setup
6133 users and groups. [David Reid]
6135 *) Get mod_rewrite working with APR locks
6136 [Paul Reder <rederpj raleigh.ibm.com>]
6138 *) Actually remove the sempahore when the lock cleanup routine
6139 is called on BeOS. [David Reid]
6141 *) Clear hook registrations between reads of the config file.
6142 When DSOs are unloaded and re-loaded the old hook pointers may
6143 no longer be valid. This fix eliminates potential segfaults.
6144 [Allan Edwards <ake raleigh.ibm.com>]
6146 *) Fix a problem with Sigfunc not being defined or bypassed
6147 if sigaction() wasn't found. [Jim Jagielski]
6149 *) Fix the locking mechanism on BSD variants. They now use fcntl
6150 locks. This allows the server to start and serve pages.
6153 *) First cut at getting the Win32 installer to work
6154 [William Rowe <wrowe lnd.com>]
6156 *) Get htpasswd compiling under Windows
6157 [William Rowe <wrowe lnd.com>]
6159 *) Change the log message for a bind() failure to show the
6160 interface and port number. [Jeff Trawick]
6162 *) Import the documentation from 1.3.12 and bring parts of it
6163 up-to-date with respect to the changes that have occurred
6167 *) BeOS MPM updated. CGI bug on BeOS fixed. IP addresses
6168 now logged correctly on BeOS.
6171 *) Create one makefile for all Win32 distributions (NT/2000/95/98).
6172 Makefile.win includes the same user interface as the old
6174 [William Rowe <wrowe lnd.com>, Jeff Trawick <trawick us.ibm.com>]
6176 *) Win32 exec now uses COMSPEC environment string for command
6177 shell path resolution.
6178 [William Rowe <wrowe lnd.com>] PR#3715
6180 *) Win32: ap_connect() was not returning correct error condition
6182 [Allen Prescott <allen clanprescott.com>]
6184 *) Win32: ap_open() was broken on Win9x because an NT-specific
6185 flag was passed to CreateFile. ap_puts() added an unnecessary
6187 [Jeff Trawick <trawick us.ibm.com>]
6189 *) Put in Korean and Norwegian index.html pages (2.0 and 1.3)
6190 which where donated by Lee Kuk Hyun and Lorant Czaran. 'Fixed'
6191 confusing ee/et name and made all extensions language/dialect
6192 rather than country reflecting. Changed example files to
6193 explicit reflect the ISO charset and added a few common
6194 ones to the example config [dirkx]
6196 *) Extend external module capability. To use this, you call
6197 configure with --with-module=path/to/mod1,path/to/mod2,etc.
6200 *) Backported the various "default charset" fixes from 1.3.12,
6201 including the AddDefaultCharset directive. [Jim Jagielski]
6203 *) Added the capability to do ${ENVVAR} constructs in the
6204 config file. E.g. 'ServerAdmin ${POSTMASTER}'. As commited
6205 it does this on a line by line basis; i.e. if the envvar
6206 expands to something with spaces you have to protect it
6207 by adding quotes around it (Unless of course you expect it
6208 to contains more than one argument. Alternatively you
6209 can compile it on a per token basis; which is what people
6210 usually expect by setting RESOLVE_ENV_PER_TOKEN. But this
6211 hampers fancier hacks.
6212 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
6214 *) Changed the 'ErrorDocument' syntax in that it NO longer
6215 supports the asymetric
6217 ErrorDocument 301 "Some message
6219 Note the opening " quote, without a closing quote. It now
6220 has either the following syntaxes
6222 ErrorDocument XXX /local/uri
6223 ErrorDocument XXX http://valid/url
6224 ErrorDocument XXX "Some Message"
6226 The recognition heuristic is: if it has a space it
6227 is a message. If it has no spaces and starts with a /
6228 or is a valid URL then treat it that way. Otherwise it
6229 is assumed to be a message.
6231 This breaks backward compatibility but makes live a hell
6232 of a lot easier for GUI's and config file parsers.
6233 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
6235 *) Changed 'CacheNegotiatedDocs' from its present/not-present
6236 syntax into a 'on' or 'off' syntax. As it currently is the
6237 only non nesting token which uses NO_ARGS and thus is an
6238 absolute pain for any config interface automation. This
6239 breaks backward compatibility. [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
6241 *) Add ability to add external modules to the build process. This is
6242 done with --with-module=/path/to/module. Modules can only be added
6243 as static modules at this point.
6246 Changes with Apache 2.0a1
6248 *) Fix FreeBSD 3.3 core dump.
6249 Basically, ap_initialize() needs to get called before
6250 create_process(), since create_process() passes op_on structure
6251 to semop() to get a lock, but op_on isn't initialized until
6252 ap_initialize() calls setup_lock(). Here is a slight
6253 rearrangement to main() which calls ap_initialize() earlier...
6254 [Jeff Trawick <trawick us.ibm.com>]
6256 *) Enable Apache to use sendfile/TransmitFile API
6257 [Bill Stoddard, David Reid, Paul Reder]
6259 *) Re-Implement Win32 APR network I/O APIs and most of the file I/O
6263 *) Make file I/O and network I/O writev/sendv APIs consistent.
6264 Eliminate use of ap_iovec_t and use Posix struct iovec.
6265 Use seperate variable on ap_writev to set the number of iovecs
6266 passed in and number of bytes written.
6269 *) Adapt file iol to use APR functions. Replaced ap_open_file()
6270 with ap_create_file_iol(). ap_create_file_iol() requires that
6271 the file be opened prior to the call using ap_open().
6274 *) Port mod_include and mod_cgi to 2.0
6275 [Paul Reder, Bill Stoddard]
6277 *) ap_send{,v}, ap_recv, ap_sendfile API clarification --
6278 bytes_read/bytes_written is always valid (never -1). Plus
6279 some fixes to buff.c to correct problems introduced by the
6280 errno => ap_status_t changes a while back. Plus a fix to
6281 chunked encoding introduced right at the beginning of 2.0.
6284 *) Revamped UNIX build system to use autoconf and libtool.
6285 [Manoj Kasichainula, Sascha Schumann]
6287 *) port mod_rewrite to 2.0. [Paul J. Reder <rederpj raleigh.ibm.com>]
6289 *) SECURITY: More rigorous checking of Host: headers to fix security
6290 problems with mass name-based virtual hosting (whether using mod_rewrite
6291 or mod_vhost_alias).
6292 [Ben Hyde, Tony Finch]
6294 *) Add back support for UseCanonicalName in <Directory> containers.
6295 [Manoj Kasichainula]
6297 *) Added APLOG_STARTUP log type. This allows us to write an error
6298 message without any of the date and time information. As a part
6299 of this change, I also removed all of the calls to fprintf(stderr
6300 and replaced them with calls to ap_log_error using APLOG_STARTUP
6301 writing to stderr is no longer portable, because we don't direct
6302 stderr to the error log on all platforms.
6305 *) Convert error logging functions to take errno as an argument.
6306 This makes our error logs more portable, because some Windows API's
6307 don't set errno. This change allows us to still output a valid
6308 message on all of our platforms.
6311 *) mod_mime_magic runs in 2.0-dev now.
6312 [Paul Reder <rederpj raleigh.ibm.com>]
6314 *) sendfile has been added to APR.
6315 [John Zedlewski <zedlwski Princeton.EDU>]
6317 *) buff.c has been converted to no longer use errno.
6318 [Manoj Kasichainula]
6320 *) mod_speling runs in 2.0-dev now: a bug in readdir_r handling and
6321 interface adaption to APR functions did it. [Martin Kraemer]
6323 *) Support DSOs properly on 32-bit HP-UX 11.0
6324 [Dilip Khandekar <dilip cup.hp.com>]
6326 *) Updated MM in APR source tree from version 1.0.8 to 1.0.11
6327 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6329 *) Cleaned APR build environment integration and bootstrap APR
6330 automatically for developers from src/Configure.
6331 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6333 *) Fixed building of src/support/htpasswd.c
6334 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6336 *) When generating the Location: header, mod_speling forgot
6337 to escape the spelling-fixed uri. (Forw-Port from 1.3)
6340 *) Moved mod_auth_digest.c from experimental to standard. [Roy Fielding]
6342 *) Change all pools to APR contexts. This is the first step to
6343 incorporating APR into Apache. [Ryan Bloom]
6345 *) Move "handler not found" warning message to below the check
6346 for a wildcard handler. [Dirk <dirkm teleport.com>, Roy Fielding]
6347 PR#2584, PR#2751, PR#3349, PR#3436, PR#3548, PR#4384, PR#4795, PR#4807
6349 *) Support line-continuation feature in config.option file and
6350 allow the loading of multiple option sections at once via
6351 ``--with-option=<section1>,<section2>,...''
6352 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6354 *) Rebuilt CVS repository with Apache 1.3.9 as basis. [Roy Fielding]
6356 Changes with Apache MPM
6358 *) Use asynchronous AcceptEx() and a completion port to accept and
6359 dispatch connections to threads in Windows NT/2000.
6362 *) Implement WINNT Win32 MPM from original Win32 code in http_main.c
6365 *) Implement the APACI --with-option facility
6366 (per default used the config.option file).
6367 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6369 *) MPM BEOS port. [David Reid <abb37 dial.pipex.com>]
6371 *) Start to implement module-defined hooks that are a) fast and b) typesafe.
6372 Replace pre_connection module call with a register_hook call and
6373 implement pre_connection as a hook. The intent is that these hooks will
6374 be extended to allow Apache to be multi-protocol, and also to allow the
6375 calling order to be specified on a per-hook/per-module basis.
6378 *) Implement mpm_* methods as "modules". Each method gets its own
6379 subdir in src/modules (eg: src/modules/prefork). Selection
6380 of method uses Rule MPM_METHOD. [Jim Jagielski]
6382 *) Port the hybrid server from the apache-apr repository as
6383 mpm_mpmt_pthread. [Manoj Kasichainula]
6385 *) os/unix/unixd.[ch]: detach, setuid, setgid, stuff which will be common
6386 amongst the unix MPMs.
6388 *) mpm_prefork: throw away all the alarm/timeout crud; and clean up the
6389 signal handling for the new world order. [Dean Gaudet]
6391 *) Crude ap_thread_mutex abstraction so that we get the pthread stuff out
6392 of alloc.c for now. [Dean Gaudet]
6394 *) Handle partial large writes correctly. [Ben Laurie]
6396 *) Eliminate conn_rec's pointer to server. All it knows is the base server
6397 based on IP/port. [Ben Laurie]
6399 *) Port a bunch of modules to the new module structure.
6400 ["Michael H. Voase" <mvoase midcoast.com.au>]
6402 *) I/O layering and BUFF revamp. See docs/buff.txt. [Dean Gaudet]
6404 *) Basic restructuring to introduce the MPM concept; includes various
6405 changes to the module API... better described by
6406 docs/initial_blurb.txt. [Dean Gaudet]
6408 Changes with Apache pthreads
6410 *) New buff option added: BO_TIMEOUT. It describes the timeout for
6411 buff operations (generally over a network).
6412 [Dean Gaudet, Ryan Bloom, Manoj Kasichainula]
6414 *) Created http_accept abstraction. Added 4 new functions (not exported):
6415 init_accept(), begin_accepting_requests(), get_request(),
6416 stop_accepting_requests() [Bill Stoddard]
6418 *) Fix to ap_rprintf call that allows mod_info to work properly.
6419 [James Morris <jmorris intercode.com.au>]
6421 *) user and ap_auth_type fields were moved from connection_rec to
6422 request_rec. [Ryan Bloom]
6424 *) Removed the ap_block_alarms and ap_unblock_alarm calls. These aren't
6425 needed in a threaded server.
6427 *) Initial pthread implementation from from Dean's apache-nspr code.
6428 [Bill Stoddard, Ryan Bloom]
6431 Changes with Apache 1.3.9
6433 *) Remove bogus error message when a redirect doesn't set Location.
6434 Instead, use an empty string to avoid coredump if the error message
6435 was supposed to include a location. [Roy Fielding]
6437 *) Don't allow configure to include mod_auth_digest unless it is
6438 explicitly requested, even if the user asked for all modules.
6441 *) Translate module names to dll names for OS/2 so that they are no more
6442 than 8 characters long and have an extension of "dll" instead of "so".
6445 *) Print out pointer to Rule DEV_RANDOM when truerand lib not found.
6446 Fix test-compile check to check for randbyte instead of trand32.
6447 Use ap_base64encode_binary/decode instead of copy in mod_auth_digest.c
6448 and tweak to make Amaya happier. [Ronald Tschalär]
6450 *) Ensure that the installed expat include files are world readable,
6451 just like the other header files. [Martin Kraemer]
6453 *) Fixed generated AddModule adjustments in APACI's `configure' script
6454 in order to allow (new) modules like mod_vhost_alias to be handled
6455 correctly (which was touched by the adjustments for mod_alias).
6456 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6458 *) For binary builds, add -R flag to apachectl to work around the lack of
6459 an absolute path to the ./libexec directory where the libhttp.ep file
6460 is needed for SHARED_CORE architectures. [Randy Terbush]
6462 *) WIN32: Create the CGI script process as DETACHED. This may solve the
6463 problem observed by some Win95/98 users where they get CGI script
6464 output sent to the console. [Bill Stoddard]
6466 *) Fix (re)naming in the uuencode/decode section. The ap/ap_
6467 routines are now called ap_base64* and are 'plain' (i.e., no
6468 pool access or anything clever). Inside util.c the routines acting
6469 like pstrdup are called ap_pbase64encode() and ap_pbase64decode().
6470 The oddly named ap_uuencode(), ap_uudecode() are kept around for
6471 now but deprecated. [dirkx]
6473 *) Clean up the base64 and SHA1 additions and make sure they are
6474 represented in the ApacheCore.def, ApacheCoreOS2.def, and httpd.exp
6475 files. [Roy Fielding]
6477 *) WIN32: Migrate to InstallShield 5.5 and provide a bit more error
6478 checking. Allow compiling on VS 6.0. [Randy Terbush]
6480 *) Fixed assumption of absolute paths in binbuild.sh. [Tony Finch]
6482 *) Use TestCompile to search for the truerand library (rather than blindly
6483 assuming its existence). If it is not found, complain (but do not
6484 exit - yet). [Martin Kraemer]
6486 *) We forgot to add the new exported function names to
6487 src/support/httpd.exp. [Bill Stoddard, Randy Terbush]
6489 *) Add description of -T command-line option to usage().
6490 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6492 *) For "some" platforms (notably, EBCDIC based ones), libos needs to be
6493 searched only AFTER libap has been searched, because libap needs
6494 some symbols from libos. [Martin Kraemer]
6496 *) Fix conflict with original mod_digest related to the symbol of the
6497 module dispatch list (which has to be unique for DSO and follow the
6498 usual conventions for the installation procedure).
6499 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6501 *) Add a dbm-library check for the "usual places" (-ldbm, -lndbm, -ldb)
6502 for other platforms as well. [Martin Kraemer]
6504 *) Make ap_sha1.c compile for EBCDIC platforms: replace remaining LONG
6505 types by AP_LONG and replace reference to renamed variable 'ubuf'
6506 by 'buffer'. [Martin Kraemer]
6508 Changes with Apache 1.3.8 [not released]
6510 *) Flush the output buffer immediately after sending an error or redirect
6511 response, since the result may be needed by the client to abort a
6512 long data transfer or restart a series of pipelined requests.
6513 [Tom Vaughan <tvaughan aventail.com>, Roy Fielding]
6515 *) PORT: Improved compilation and DSO support on Sequent DYNIX/ptx.
6516 [Ian Turner <iant sequent.com>] PR#4735
6518 *) Local struct mmap in http_core.c conflicted with system structure
6519 name on DYNIX -- changed to mmap_rec. [Roy Fielding] PR#4735
6521 *) Added updated mod_digest as modules/experimental/mod_auth_digest.
6522 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald innovation.ch>]
6524 *) Fix a memory leak where the module counts were getting messed
6525 up across restarts. [David Harris <dharris drh.net>]
6527 *) CIDR addresses such as a.b.c.d/24 where d != 0 weren't handled
6528 properly in mod_access.
6529 ["Paul J. Reder" <rederpj raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#4770
6531 *) RewriteLock/RewriteMap didn't work properly with virtual hosts.
6532 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima bog.msu.su>] PR#3874
6534 *) PORT: Support for compaq/tandem/com.
6535 [Michael Ottati <michael.ottati compaq.com>, dirkx]
6537 *) Added SHA1 password encryption support to easy migration from
6538 Netscape servers. See support/SHA1 for more information.
6539 Caused the separation of ap_md5.c into md5, sha1 and a general
6540 ap_checkpass.c with just a validate_passwd routine. Added a
6541 couple of flags to support/htpasswd. Some reuse of the to64()
6542 function; hence renamed to ap_to64().
6543 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Clinton Wong <clintdw netcom.com>]
6545 *) Change for EBCDIC platforms (TPF and BS2000) to correctly deal
6546 with ASCII/EBCDIC conversions in "ident" query.
6547 [David McCreedy <McCreedy us.ibm.com>]
6549 *) Get rid of redefinition warning on MAC_OS_X_SERVER platform.
6550 Change "Power Macintosh" to Power* so if uname prints "Power Book"
6551 we're still happy on Rhapsody platforms. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
6553 *) Fix SIGSEGV on some systems because the Vary fix below included
6554 a call to table_do with a variable argument list that was not
6555 NULL terminated. Replaced with better implementation. [Roy Fielding]
6557 Changes with Apache 1.3.7 [not released]
6559 *) The "Vary" response header field is now sanitised right before
6560 the header is sent back to the client. Multiple "Vary" fields
6561 are combined, and duplicate tokens (e.g., "Vary: host, host" or
6562 "Vary: host, negotiate, host, accept-language") are reduced to
6563 single instances. This is a better solution than the force-no-vary
6564 one (which is still valid for clients that can't cope with Vary
6565 at all). PR#3118 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Ken Coar]
6567 *) Portability changes for BeOS. [David Reid <abb37 dial.pipex.com>]
6569 *) Link DSO's with "gcc -shared" instead of "ld -Bshareable" at
6570 least on Linux and FreeBSD for now.
6573 *) Win32: More apache -k restart work. Restarts are now honored
6574 immediately and connections in the listen queue are -not- lost.
6575 This is made possible by the use of the WSADuplicateSocket()
6576 call. The listeners are opened in the parent, duplicated, then
6577 the duplicates are passed to the child. The original listen sockets
6578 are not closed by the parent across a restart, thus the listen queue
6580 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard raleigh.ibm.com>]
6582 *) Fix handling of case when a client has sent "Expect: 100-continue"
6583 and we are going to respond with an error, but get stuck waiting to
6584 discard the body in the pointless hope of preserving the connection.
6585 [Roy Fielding, Joe Orton <jeo101 york.ac.uk>] PR#4499, PR#3806
6587 *) Fix 'configure' to work correctly with SysV-based versions of
6588 'tr' (consistent with Configure's use as well). [Jim Jagielski]
6590 *) apxs: Add "-S var=val" option which allows for override of CFG_*
6591 built-in values. Add "-e" option which works like -i but doesn't
6592 install the DSO; useful for editing httpd.conf with apxs. Fix
6593 editing code so that multiple invocations of apxs -a will not
6594 create duplicate LoadModule/AddModule entries; apxs can now be
6595 used to re- enable/disable a module. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
6597 *) Win32: Update the server to use Winsock 2. Specifically, link with
6598 ws2_32.lib rather than wsock32.lib. This gives us access to
6599 WSADuplcateSocket() in addition to some other enhanced comm APIs.
6600 Win 95 users may need to update their TCP/IP stack to pick up
6601 Winsock 2. (See http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/)
6602 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard raleigh.ibm.com>]
6604 *) Win32: Redirect CGI script stderr (script debug info) into the
6605 error.log when CGI scripts fail. This makes Apache on Win32
6606 behave more like Unix.
6607 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard raleigh.ibm.com>]
6609 *) Fixed `httpd' usage display: -D was missing.
6610 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4614
6612 *) Fix `make r' test procedure in src/regex/: ap_isprint was not found.
6613 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4561, PR#4562
6615 *) OS/2: Fix problem with accept lock semaphores where server would die with
6616 "OS2SEM: Error 105 getting accept lock. Exiting!"
6617 [Brian Havard] PR#4505
6619 *) Add DSO support for DGUX 4.x using gcc. Tested on x86 platforms.
6620 [Randy Terbush <randy covalent.net>]
6622 *) Add the new mass-vhost module (mod_vhost_alias.c) developed and
6623 used by Demon Internet, Ltd. [Tony Finch <fanf demon.net>]
6625 *) Better GCC detection for DSO flags under Solaris 2 where the `cc'
6626 command potentially _is_ GCC. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6628 *) Fix apxs build issues on AIX
6629 [Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus raleigh.ibm.com>]
6631 *) DocumentRoot Checking: Under previous versions, when Apache
6632 first started up, it used to do a stat of each DocumentRoot to
6633 see if it existed and was a directory. If not, then an error
6634 message was printed. THIS HAS BEEN DISABLED. If DocumentRoot
6635 does not exist, you will get error messages in error_log. If
6636 the '-t' command line option is used (to check the configuration)
6637 the check of DocumentRoot IS performed. An additional command
6638 line option, '-T', has been added if you want to avoid the
6639 DocumentRoot check even when checking the configuration.
6642 *) Win32: The query switch "apache -S" didn't exit after showing the
6643 vhost settings. That was inconsistent with the other query functions.
6644 [Bill Stoddard - Fixed by Martin on Unix in 1.3.4]
6646 *) Win32: Changed behaviour of apache -k restart.
6647 Previously, the server would drain all connections in the stack's
6648 listen queue before honoring the restart. On a busy server, this
6649 could take hours. Now, a restart is honored almost immediately.
6650 All connections in Apache's queues are handled but connections in
6651 the stack's listen queue are discarded. Restart triggered by
6652 MaxRequestPerChild is unchanged.
6653 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard raleigh.ibm.com>]
6655 *) Win32: Eliminated unnecessary call to wait_for_multiple_objects in
6656 the accept loop. Good for a 5% performance boost. Cleaned up
6657 parent/child process management code.
6658 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard raleigh.ibm.com>]
6660 *) Added ceiling on file size for memory mapped files.
6661 [John Giannandrea <jg meer.net>] PR#4122
6663 *) Fix ndbm.h include problems with brain-dead glibc >= 2.1 which
6664 has ndbm.h in a non-standard db1/ subdir. PR#4431, PR#4528
6665 [Henri Gomez <gomez slib.fr>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
6667 *) Determine AP_BYTE_ORDER for ap_config_auto.h and already
6668 use this at least for Expat. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6670 *) Allow .module files to specify libraries with Lib:.
6673 *) Allow SetEnvIf[NoCase] to test environment variables as well
6674 as header fields and request attributes. [Ken Coar]
6676 *) Fix mod_autoindex's handling of ScanHTMLTitles when file
6677 content-types are "text/html;parameters". PR#4524 [Ken Coar]
6679 *) Remove "mxb" support from mod_negotiation -- it was a draft feature
6680 never accepted into any standard, and it opens up certain DoS
6681 attacks. [Koen Holtman <Koen.Holtman cern.ch>]
6683 *) TestCompile updated. We can now run programs and output the
6684 results during the Configure process. [ Jim Jagielski]
6686 *) The source is now quad (long long) aware as needed. Specifically,
6687 the Configure process determines the correct size of off_t and
6688 *void. When the OS/platform/compiler supports quads, ap_snprintf()
6689 provides for the 'q' format qualifier (if quads are not available,
6690 'q' is silently "demoted" to long). [Jim Jagielski]
6692 *) When the username or password fed to htpasswd is too long, include the
6693 size limit in the error message. Also report illegal characters
6694 (currently only ':') in the username. Add the size restrictions
6695 to the man page. [Ken Coar]
6697 *) Fixed the configure --without-support option so it doesn't result in
6698 an infinite loop. [Marc Slemko]
6700 *) Piped error logs could cause a segfault if an error occured
6701 during configuration after a restart.
6702 [Aidan Cully <aidan panix.com>] PR#4456
6704 *) If a "Location" field was stored in r->err_headers_out rather
6705 than r->headers_out, redirect processing wouldn't find it and
6706 the server would core dump on ap_escape_html(NULL). Check both
6707 tables and raise HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR with a log message
6708 if Location isn't set. [Doug MacEachern, Ken Coar]
6710 *) Add RULE_EXPAT, the src/lib/ directory structure, and a modified copy
6711 of the Expat 1.0.2 distribution. [Greg Stein]
6713 *) Replace regexec() calls with calls to a new API stub function
6714 ap_regexec(). This solves problems with DSO modules which use the regex
6715 library. [Jens-Uwe Mager <jum helios.de>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
6717 *) Add 'Request_Protocol' special keyword to mod_setenvif so that
6718 environment variables can be set according to the protocol version
6719 (e.g., HTTP/0.9 or HTTP/1.1) of the request. [Ken Coar]
6721 *) Add DSO support for OpenStep (Mach 4.2) platform.
6722 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Rex Dieter <rdieter math.unl.edu>] PR#3997
6724 *) Fix sed regex for generating ap_config_auto.h in src/Configure.
6725 [Jan Gallo <gallo pvt.sk>] PR#3690, PR#4373
6727 *) Switch to /bin/sh5 in APACI on Ultrix and friends to avoid problems with
6728 their brain-dead /bin/sh. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4372
6730 *) Better DSO flags recognition on NetBSD platforms using ELF.
6731 [Todd Vierling <tv pobox.com>] PR#4310
6733 *) Always log months in english format for %t in mod_log_config.
6734 [Petr Lampa <lampa fee.vutbr.cz>] PR#4366, 679
6736 *) Support for server-parsed and multiview-determined ReadmeName and
6737 HeaderName files in mod_autoindex. Removed the restriction on
6738 "/"s in ReadmeName and HeaderName directives since the *sub_req*
6739 routines will deal with the access issues. (It's now possible to
6740 have {site|group|project|customer|...} wide readmes and headers.)
6741 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx rsbx.net>, Ken Coar] PR#1574, 3026, 3529,
6744 *) When stat() fails, don't assume anything about the contents of
6745 the struct stat. [Ed Korthof <ed bitmechanic.com>]
6747 *) It's OK for a semop to return EINTR, just loop around and try
6748 again. [Dean Gaudet]
6750 *) Fix configuration engine re-entrant hangups, which solve a
6751 handful of problems seen with mod_perl <Perl> configuration sections
6752 [Salvador Ortiz Garcia <sog msg.com.mx>]
6754 *) Mac OS and Mac OS X Server now use the appropriate custom layout
6755 by default when building with APACI; allow for platform-specific
6756 variable defaults in configure. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
6758 *) Do setgid() before initgroups() in http_main; some platforms
6759 zap the grouplist when setgid() is called. This was fixed in
6760 suexec earlier, but the main httpd code missed the change.
6761 [Rob Saccoccio <robs InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2579
6763 *) Add recognition of .tgz as a gzipped tarchive.
6764 [Bertrand de Singly <bertrand.de-singly polytechnique.fr>] PR#2364
6766 *) mod_include's fsize/flastmod should allow only relative paths, just
6767 like "include file". [Jaroslav Benkovsky <benkovsk pha.pvt.cz>]
6769 *) OS/2: Add support for building loadable modules using DLLs.
6772 *) Add iconsdir, htdocsdir, and cgidir to config.layout.
6775 *) Fix minor but annoying bug with the test for Configuration.tmpl
6776 being newer than Configuration so that it is less likely to fail
6777 when using APACI and shadow sources. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
6779 *) PORT: Add initial support for Mac OS (versions 10.0 and
6780 greater). Use Mac OS X Server layout for now. Clean up dyld code
6781 in unix/os.c, and don't install the dyld error handlers, which
6782 are no longer needed in Mac OS. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
6784 *) Rename Rhapsody layout to "Mac OS X Server". Change install
6785 locations to appropriate ones for user-built (as opposed to
6786 system) installs. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
6788 *) Modify mod_autoindex's handling of AddDescription so that the
6789 behaviour matches the documentation. [Ken Coar] PR#1898, 3072.
6791 *) Add functionality to the install-bindist.sh script created by
6792 binbuild.sh to use tar when copying distribution files to the
6793 serverroot. This allows upgrading an existing installation
6794 without nesting the new distribution in the old.
6796 install-bindist.sh now detects the local perl5 path to install
6797 apxs and dbmmanage with proper path to perl interpreter.
6799 Add an install-binsupport target which copies the source files
6800 for apxs and dbmmanage to bindist to allow these scripts to
6801 be properly installed relative to the destination serverroot.
6802 [Randy Terbush, Covalent Technologies, <randy covalent.net>]
6804 *) Fix intermittent SEGV in ap_proxy_cache_error() in
6805 src/modules/proxy_util.c where a NULL filepointer and
6806 temporary filename were closed and unlinked.
6807 [Graham Leggett <minfrin sharp.fm>,
6808 Tim Costello <tjcostel socs.uts.edu.au>] PR#3178
6810 *) Fix inconsistent error messages reported by mod_proxy.
6811 [Graham Leggett <minfrin sharp.fm>]
6813 *) OS/2: Fix terminating CGIs that aren't compiled by EMX GCC when a
6814 connection is aborted. [Brian Havard]
6816 *) Force the LANG envariable to the known state of "C" so that we
6817 have assurance about how string manipulators (e.g., tr) will
6818 function. [Ken Coar] PR#1630
6820 *) Add a directive to allow customising of the tracking cookie name.
6821 [Ken Coar] PR#2921, 4303
6823 *) Add "force-no-vary" envariable to allow servers to work around
6824 clients that choke on "Vary" fields in the response header.
6825 [Ken Coar, Dmitry Khrustalev <dima zippy.machaon.ru>] PR#4118
6827 *) Fixed a bug in mod_dir that causes a child process will infinitely
6828 recurse when it attemps to handle a request for a directory wnd the
6829 value of the DirectoryIndex directive is a single dot. Also likely
6830 to happen for anyother values of DirectoryIndex that will map back
6831 to the same directory. The handler now only considers regular files
6832 as being index candidates. No PR#s found.
6833 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx rsbx.net>]
6835 *) Ease configuration debugging by making TestCompile fall back to
6836 using "make" if the $MAKE variable is unset [Martin Kraemer]
6838 *) Fixed the ServerSignature directive to work as documented.
6839 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx rsbx.net>] PR#4248
6841 *) Add "opt" (SysV-style) layout to config.layout. [Raymond S Brand
6844 *) Add APACI --without-execstrip option which can be used to disable the
6845 stripping of executables on installation. This is very important for DSO
6846 and debugging situations. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6848 *) Add support for OS/2 (case insenstive filesystem, .exe suffix, etc)
6849 to APACI files and related scripts.
6850 [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna efn.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4269
6852 *) Add support for standalone mode in TPF
6853 [Joe Moenich <moenich us.ibm.com>]
6855 *) Fix number of bytes copied by read_connection() in src/support/ab.c
6856 [Jim Cox <jc superlink.net>] PR#4271
6858 *) Fix special RewriteCond "-s" pattern matching.
6859 [Bob Finch <bob nas.com>]
6861 *) Fix value quoting in src/Configure script for ap_config_auto.h
6862 [Paul Sutton <paul awe.com>]
6864 *) Make sure RewriteLock can be used only in the global context, (i.e.
6865 outside of any <VirtualHost> sections) because it's a global facility of
6866 the rewrite engine. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6868 *) Fix the ownership delegation for proxy directory under `make install'.
6869 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6871 *) APACI would not correctly build suexec. [Maria Verina
6872 <mariav icgeb.trieste.it>] PR#4260
6874 *) mod_mime_magic passed only the first 4k of a file to
6875 uncompress/gzip, but those tools sometimes do not produce
6876 any output unless a sufficient portion of the compressed
6877 file is input. Change to pass the entire file -- but
6878 only read 4k of output.
6879 [Marcin Cieslak <saper system.pl>] PR#4097
6881 *) "IndexOptions None" generated extra spaces at the end of each
6882 line. [<inkling firstnethou.com>] PR#3770
6884 *) The "100 Continue" response wasn't being sent after internal
6885 redirects. [Jose KAHAN <kahan w3.org>] PR#3910, 3806, 3575
6887 *) When padding the name with spaces for display, mod_autoindex would
6888 count &, <, and > in their escaped width, messing up the display.
6889 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4075, 3758
6891 *) PORT: fixed a compilation problem on NEXT.
6892 [Jacques Distler <distler golem.ph.utexas.edu>] PR#4130
6894 *) r->request_time wasn't being set properly in certain error conditions.
6895 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4156
6897 *) PORT: deal with UTS compiler error in http_protocol.c
6898 [Dave Dykstra <dwd bell-labs.com>] PR#4189
6900 *) Add ap_vrprintf() function. [John Tobey <jtobey banta-im.com>] PR#4246
6902 *) Fix the mod_mime hash table to work properly with locales other
6903 than C. [Dean Gaudet] PR#3427
6905 *) Fix a memory leak which is exacerbated by certain configurations.
6906 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4225
6908 *) Prevent clobbering saved IFS values in APACI. [Jim Jagielski]
6910 *) Fix buffer overflows in ap_uuencode and ap_uudecode pointed out
6911 by "Peter 'Luna' Altberg <peter altberg.nu>" and PR#3422
6912 [Peter 'Luna' Altberg <peter altberg.nu>, Ronald Tschalär]
6914 *) Make {Set,Unset,Pass}Env per-directory instead of per-server.
6917 *) Correct an apparent typo: on the Windows and MPE platforms, the
6918 htpasswd utility was limiting passwords to only 8 characters.
6921 *) EBCDIC platforms: David submitted patches for two bugs in the
6922 MD5 digest port for EBCDIC machines:
6923 a) the htdigest utility overwrote the old contents of the digest file
6924 b) the Content-MD5 header value (ContentDigest directive) was wrong
6925 when the returned file was not converted from EBCDIC, but was a
6926 binary (e.g., image file) in the first place.
6927 [David McCreedy <mccreedy us.ibm.com>]
6929 *) support/htpasswd now permits the password to be specified on the
6930 command line with the '-b' switch. This is useful when passwords
6931 need to be maintained by scripts -- particularly in the Win32
6932 environment. [Ken Coar]
6934 *) Win32: Win32 multiple services patch. Added capability to install and
6935 run multiple copies of apache as individual services.
6938 apache -n apache1 -i -f c:/httpd.conf
6939 Installs apache as service 'apache1' and associates c:/httpd.conf
6942 Starts apache1 service.
6944 Stops apache1 service
6947 apache -n apache2 -i
6948 Installs apache as service 'apache2'. httpd.conf is located under
6949 the default server root (/apache/conf/httpd.conf).
6951 Starts apache2 service.
6954 apache -n apache3 -i -d c:/program files/apache
6955 Install apache as service 'apache3' and sets server root to
6956 c:/program files/apache.
6959 apache -n apache2 -k restart
6960 Restart apache2 service
6962 [Keith Wannamaker, Ken Parzygnat, Bill Stoddard]
6964 *) Correct the signed/unsigned character handling for the MD5 routines;
6965 mismatches were causing compilation problems with gcc -pedantic and
6966 in the TPF cross-compilation. [Ken Coar]
6968 *) OS/2: Rework CGI handling to use spawn*() instead of fork/exec, achieving
6969 a roughly 5 fold speed up. [Brian Havard]
6971 *) proxy ftp: instead of using the hardwired string "text/plain" as
6972 a fallback type for files served by the ftp proxy, use the
6973 ap_default_type() function to determine the configured type.
6974 This allows for special configurations like
6975 <Directory proxy:ftp://some.host>
6976 DefaultType gargle/blurb
6978 Additionally, add the Content-Encoding: header to FTP proxy replies
6979 when the encoding is defined (by the AddEncoding directive).
6980 Because it was missing, it was almost impossible to browse compressed
6981 files using the FTP proxy (works now perfectly in Communicator).
6982 The ftp proxy now also returns the Date: and Server: header lines (if not
6983 much else... This code is "somewhat" broken) like normal requests do.
6986 *) Be more smart in APACI's configure script when determining the UID/GID
6987 for User/Group directives and use the determined UID/GID to initialize
6988 the permissions on the proxycachedir.
6989 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Ralf S. Engelschall]
6991 *) Changed the forking-prior-to-cleanup in the proxy module to first
6992 check wether it actually needs to collect garbage. This reduces
6993 the number of fork()s from one/request to just the odd one an hour.
6994 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
6996 *) Added proxy, auth and header support to src/support/ab.c. Added a
6997 README file to src/support/
6998 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
7000 *) Don't hard-code the path to AWK in --shadow bootstrapping Makefile.
7001 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4050
7003 *) Add support for DSO module compilation on BSD/OS 3.x.
7004 [Randy Terbush, Covalent Technologies]
7006 *) Fix sed-substitutions in `make install': path elements like `httpd/conf'
7007 (for instance from an APACI configure --sysconfdir=/etc/httpd/conf
7008 option) were substituted with $(TARGET).conf, etc. Same for other strings
7009 with dots where the dot wasn't matched as plain text.
7010 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7012 *) PORT: Add support for FreeBSD 4.x [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7014 *) Fix verbose output of APACI configure (option -v)
7015 [Martin Kraemer, Ralf S. Engelschall]
7017 Changes with Apache 1.3.6
7019 *) Removed new PassAllEnv code due to DSO problems. [Lars Eilebrecht]
7021 Changes with Apache 1.3.5 [not released]
7023 *) M_INVALID needed a value within the scope of METHODS so that unknown
7024 methods can be access controlled. [Roy Fielding] PR#3821
7026 *) Added PassAllEnv; makes server's entire environment available
7027 to CGIs and SSIs executed within directive's scope. [Ken Coar]
7029 *) ap_uuencode() always added two trailing '='s and encoding of
7030 8 bit characters on a machine with signed char may produced
7031 incorrect results. Additionally ap_uuencode() should now
7032 work correctly on EBCDIC platforms.
7033 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald innovation.ch>] PR#3411
7035 *) WIN32: Binary installer now runs the configuration DLL before
7036 the reboot prompt (which is only given if MSVCRT.DLL system
7037 DLL is new or updated). This should avoid the configuration
7038 directory being empty after installation. [Paul Sutton]
7039 PR#3767, 3800, 3827, 3850, 3900, 3953, 3988
7041 *) WIN32: Binary installer now creates Start menu options to start
7042 and stop Apache as a console application and to uninstall
7043 the Apache service on NT. [Paul Sutton] PR#3741
7045 *) WIN32: Apache.exe now contains an icon. [Paul Sutton]
7047 *) PORT: Switch back to using fcntl() locking on Linux -- instabilities
7048 have been reported with flock() locking (probably related to kernel
7049 version). [Dean Gaudet] PR#2723, 3531
7051 *) Using APACI, the main config file (usually httpd.conf) was
7052 not being adjusted as $(TARGET).conf. [Wilfredo Sanchez
7053 <wsanchez apple.com>]
7055 *) PORT: AIX does not require the SHARED_CODE "hack"
7056 [Ryan Bloom <rbb raleigh.ibm.com>]
7058 *) Set-Cookie headers were being doubled up for some CGIs by the O(n^2)
7059 avoidance code added in 1.3.3.
7060 [Dean Gaudet, Jeff Lewis <lewis stanford.edu>] PR#3872
7062 *) ap_isxdigit was somehow neglected when adding the ap_isfoo() macros
7063 for 8-bit safeness. [Dean Gaudet]
7065 *) PORT: Use -fPIC instead of -fpic on Solaris and SunOS for compiling DSOs
7066 because SPARCs have a small machine-specific maximum size for the Global
7067 Offset Table which is often exceeded when compiling one of the larger
7068 third-party modules with Apache. [Peter Urban <Peter.Urban epfl.ch>] PR#3977
7070 *) Move the directive `ExtendedStatus' in httpd.conf-dist-win _after_ the
7071 DSO/DLL section because it's a directive from mod_status and isn't
7072 available before the DLL of mod_status is loaded.
7073 [Martin POESCHL <mpoeschl gmx.net>] PR#3936
7075 *) SECURITY: Fix a bug in the calculation of the buffer size for the line
7076 continuation facility in Apache's configuration files which could
7077 lead to a buffer overflow situation.
7078 [Thomas Devanneaux <Thomas.Devanneaux enst.fr>] PR#3617
7080 *) Make documentation and error messages of APACI's --activate-module=FILE
7081 option more clear. [Jan Wolter <janc wwnet.net>] PR#3995
7083 *) Fix the gcc version check (for enabling the `inline' facility) to
7084 really support all future gcc versions >= 2.7 until we know more.
7085 [John Tobey <jtobey banta-im.com>] PR#3983
7087 *) Let APACI's configure script correctly complain for unknown --enable-XXX
7088 and --disable-XXX options. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3958
7090 *) Link the shared core bootstrap program (``Rule SHARED_CORE=yes'') also
7091 against libap.a and use its ap_snprintf() instead of sprintf() to avoid
7092 possible buffer overflows. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7094 *) Remove no longer used non-API function ap_single_module_init().
7095 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7097 *) Add Apple's Mac OS X Server Layout "Rhapsody" to config.layout.
7100 *) Add cgidir, htdocsdir, iconsdir variables to Makefile.tmpl in order
7101 to make platform installations easier. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
7103 *) In configure, do not append the target name to the directory path if
7104 the path already contains "apache". [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7106 *) SIGPIPE is now ignored by the server core. The request write routines
7107 (ap_rputc, ap_rputs, ap_rvputs, ap_rwrite, ap_rprintf, ap_rflush) now
7108 correctly check for output errors and mark the connection as aborted.
7109 Replaced many direct (unchecked) calls to ap_b* routines with the
7110 analogous ap_r* calls. [Roy Fielding]
7112 *) Enhanced mod_rewrite's mapfile handling: The in-core cache for text and
7113 DBM format mapfiles now uses a 4-way hash table with LRU functionality.
7114 Furthermore map lookups for non-existent keys are now cached as well.
7115 Additionally "txt" maps are now parsed with simple string functions
7116 instead of using ap_pregcomp(). As a side effect a bug that prevented
7117 the usage of keys containing the "," character was fixed.
7118 The changes drastically improve the performance when large rewrite maps
7120 [Michael van Elst <mlelstv serpens.swb.de>, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3160
7122 *) Added ap_sub_req_method_uri() for doing a subrequest with a method
7123 other than GET, and const'd the definition of method in request_rec.
7126 *) Use proper pid_t type for saving PIDs in alloc.c. [John Bley]
7128 *) Replaced use of WIN32 define with HAVE_DRIVE_LETTERS to indicate
7129 when the OS allows a DOS drive letter within pathnames. [Brian Havard]
7131 *) Add %V to mod_log_config, this logs the hostname according to the
7132 UseCanonicalName setting (this is the pre-1.3.4 behaviour of
7133 %v). Useful for mass vhosting. [Tony Finch <dot dotat.at>]
7135 *) Add support for \n and \t to mod_log_config, can be used to produce
7136 more reliable logs with multiline entries. [Tony Finch <dot dotat.at>]
7138 *) Fixed a few compiler nits. [John Bley <jbb6 acpub.duke.edu>]
7140 *) Added informative error messages for failed munmap() and fseek() calls
7141 in http_core.c. [John Bley, Roy Fielding]
7143 *) Added some informative error messages for some failed malloc()
7144 calls. [John Bley <jbb6 acpub.duke.edu>, Jim Jagielski]
7146 *) OS/2 ap_os_canonical_filename()'s behaviour is improved: ap_assert()
7147 is removed. This allows <Directory proxy:*> directives to work and
7148 prevents invalid requests from killing the process.
7149 [Brian Havard <brianh kheldar.apana.org.au>]
7151 *) Reorganised FAQ document.
7152 [Joshua Slive <slive finance.commerce.ubc.ca>] PR#2497
7154 *) src/support/: The ApacheBench benchmark program was overhauled by
7155 David N. Welton: you can now have it generate an HTML TABLE, presumably
7156 for integration into other HTML sources. David updated the ab man page
7157 as well and added some missing descriptions. Thanks!
7158 [David N. Welton <davidw prosa.it>]
7160 *) Win32: The filename validity checker now allows filenames containing
7161 characters in the range 0x80 to 0xff (for example accented characters).
7162 [Paul Sutton] PR#3890
7164 *) Added conditional logging based upon environment variables to
7165 mod_log_config. mod_log_referer and mod_log_agent
7166 are now deprecated. [Ken Coar]
7168 *) Allow apache acting as a proxy server to relay the real
7169 reason of a failure to a client rather than the "internal
7170 server error" it does currently. The general exposure mechanism
7171 can be triggered by any module by setting the "verbose-error-to"
7172 note to "*"; this allows more than just proxy errors to be exposed.
7173 [Cliff Skolnick, Roy Fielding, Martin Kraemer] Related to PR#3455, 4086
7175 *) Moved man pages for ab and apachectrl to section 8.
7176 [Wilfredo Sanchez, Roy Fielding]
7178 *) Added -S option to install.sh so that options can be passed to
7179 strip on some platforms. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Wilfredo Sanchez]
7181 *) Tweak modules Makefile generated by Configure so that it handles
7182 the test case of no modules being selected. [<chaz reliant.com>]
7184 *) Added a <LimitExcept method ...> sectioning directive that allows
7185 the user to assign authentication control to any HTTP method that
7186 is *not* given in the argument list; i.e., the logical negation
7187 of the <Limit> directive. This is particularly useful for controlling
7188 access on methods unknown to the Apache core, but perhaps known by
7189 some module or CGI script. [Roy Fielding, Tony Finch]
7191 *) Prevent apachectl from complaining if the PIDFILE exists but
7192 does not contain a process id, as might occur if the server is
7193 being rapidly restarted. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
7195 *) Win32: Add global symbols missing from ApacheCore.def. [Carl Olsen]
7197 *) Entity tag comparisons for If-Match and If-None-Match were not being
7198 performed correctly -- weak tags might cause false positives. Also,
7199 strong comparison wasn't properly enforced in all cases.
7200 [Roy Fielding, Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet] PR#2065, 3657
7202 *) OS/2: Supply OS/2 error code instead of errno on semaphore errors.
7205 *) Work around a bug in Lynx regarding its sending "Negotiate: trans"
7206 even though it doesn't understand TCN. [Koen Holtman, Roy Fielding]
7208 *) Added ap_size_list_item(), ap_get_list_item(), and ap_find_list_item()
7209 to util.c for parsing an HTTP header field value to extract the next
7210 list item, taking into account the possible presence of nested comments,
7211 quoted-pairs, and quoted-strings. ap_get_list_item() also removes
7212 insignificant whitespace and lowercases non-quoted tokens.
7213 [Roy Fielding] PR#2065
7215 *) proxy: The various calls to ap_proxyerror() can return HTTP/1.1 status
7216 code different from 500. This allows the proxy to, e.g., return
7217 "403 Forbidden" for ProxyBlock'ed URL's. [Martin Kraemer] Related to PR#3455
7219 *) Fix ordering of language variants for the case where the traditional
7220 negotiation algorithm is being used with multiple language variants
7221 and no Accept-Language. [James Treacy <treacy debian.org>] PR#3299, 3688
7223 *) Do not round the TCN quality calculation to 5 decimal places,
7224 unlike RFC 2296, because the calculation might need 12 decimal places
7225 to get the right result. [Roy Fielding]
7227 *) Remove unused code to disable transparent negotiation when
7228 negotiating on encoding only, as we now handle encoding too
7229 (though this is nonstandard for TCN), remove charset=ISO-8859-1
7230 fiddle from the fiddle-averse RVSA comparison, and fix bugs in
7231 some debugging statements within mod_negotiation. [Koen Holtman]
7233 *) Fixed a rare memory corruption possibility in mod_dir if the index
7234 file is negotiable and no acceptable variant can be found.
7235 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Martin Kraemer]
7237 *) Win32: Add new config directive, ScriptInterpreterSource, to enable
7238 searching the Win32 registry for script interpreters.
7241 *) Win32: The compiled-in default filename for the error log is now
7242 error.log, which matches the default in the distributed httpd.conf.
7245 *) Win32: Any error messages from -i or -u command line options are now
7246 displayed on the console output rather than sent to the error log.
7247 Also the "Running Apache..." message is not output unless Apache is
7248 going to serve requests. [Paul Sutton]
7250 *) Rework the MD5 authentication scheme to use FreeBSD's algorithm,
7251 and use a private significator ('$apr1$') to mark passwords as
7252 being smashed with our own algorithm. Also abstract the password
7253 checking into a new ap_validate_password() routine. [Ken Coar]
7255 *) Win32: The filename validity checker now allows "COM" but refuses
7256 access to "COM1" through "COM4". This allows filenames such
7257 as "com.name" to be served. [Paul Sutton] PR#3769.
7259 *) BS2000: Adapt to the new ufork() system call interface which will
7260 make subtasking easier on the OSD/POSIX mainframe environment.
7263 *) Add a compatibility define for escape_uri() -> ap_escape_uri() to
7264 ap_compat.h. [David White <david persimmon.com>] PR#3725
7266 *) Make NDBM file suffix determination for mod_rewrite more accurate, i.e.
7267 use `.db' instead of `.pag' not only for FreeBSD, but also when
7268 the NDBM library looks like Berkeley-DB based.
7269 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3773
7271 *) Add ability to handle DES or MD5 authentication passwords.
7272 [Ryan Bloom <rbb Raleigh.IBM.Com>]
7274 *) Fix O(n^2) memory consumption in mod_speling. [Dean Gaudet]
7276 *) SECURITY: Avoid some buffer overflow problems when escaping
7277 quoted strings. (This overflow was on the heap and we believe
7278 impossible to exploit.) [Rick Perry <perry ece.vill.edu>]
7280 *) Let src/Configure be aware of CFLAGS options starting with plus
7281 signs as it's the case for the HP/UX compiler.
7282 [Doug Yatcilla <yatcilda umdnj.edu>] PR#3681
7284 *) Remove the hard-wire of TAR=tar (we now check for gtar and gnutar first)
7285 and check to see if the tar we wind up with supports '-h'.
7286 [Jim Jagielski] PR#3671
7288 *) A consistent and conservative style for all shell scripts has been
7289 implemented. Basically, all shell string tests use the traditional
7290 hack of 'if [ "x$var" != "x" ]' or 'if [ "x$var" = "xstring" ]'
7291 to protect against bare null variable strings (ie: wrapping both
7292 sides with double quotes and prepending 'x'). 'x' was chosen
7293 because it's more universal and hopefully easier for old shell
7294 prgrammers, as well as being easier to search for in 'vi' (/x\$) :)
7297 *) The status module now prints out both the main server generation as
7298 well as the generation of each process. Also, the vhost info is
7299 printed with '?notable'. [Jim Jagielski]
7301 *) Move src/main/md5c.c to src/ap/ap_md5c.c; it's httpd-neutral
7302 and this makes its functions available to things in src/support.
7305 Changes with Apache 1.3.4
7307 *) Renamed macros status_drops_connection to ap_status_drops_connection
7308 and vestigial scan_script_header to ap_scan_script_header_err,
7309 mostly for aesthetic reasons. [Roy Fielding]
7311 *) The query switch "httpd -S" didn't exit after showing the
7312 vhost settings. That was inconsistent with the other query functions.
7315 *) Moved the MODULE_MAGIC_COOKIE from before the versions and
7316 filename to the end of the STANDARD_MODULE_STUFF. Its
7317 presence at the beginning prevented reporting of the filename
7318 for modules compiled before 1 January 1999. [Ken Coar]
7320 *) SECURITY: ap_os_is_filename_valid() has been added to Win32
7321 to detect and prevent access to special DOS device file names.
7322 [Paul Sutton, Ken Parzygnat]
7324 *) WIN32: Created new makefiles Makefile_win32.txt (normal build)
7325 and Makefile_win32_debug.txt (debug build) that work on Win95.
7326 Run each of the following from the src directory:
7327 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt # compiles normal build
7328 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt install # compiles and installs
7329 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt clean # removes compiled junk
7330 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt # compiles debug build
7331 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt install
7332 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt clean
7335 *) Added binbuild.sh and findprg.sh helpers to make it easier for us
7336 to build binary distributions. [Lars Eilebrecht]
7338 *) IndexOptions SuppressColumnSorting only turned off making
7339 the column headers anchors; you could still change the display
7340 order by manually adding a '?N=A' or similar query string to the
7341 URL. Now SuppressColumnSorting locks in the sort order so
7342 it can't be overridden this way. [Ken Coar]
7344 *) Added IndexOrderDefault directive to supply a default sort order
7345 for FancyIndexed directory listings. [Ken Coar] PR#1699
7347 *) Change the ap_assert macro to a variant that works on all platforms.
7348 [Richard Prinz <richard.prinz cso.net>] PR#2575
7350 *) Make sure under ELF-based NetBSD (now) and OpenBSD (future) we don't
7351 search for an underscore on dlsym() (as it's already the case
7352 for FreeBSD 3.0). [Todd Vierling <tv pobox.com>] PR#2462
7354 *) Small fix for mod_env.html: The module was documented as to be _not_
7355 compiled into Apache per default, although it _IS_ compiled into
7356 Apache per default. [Sim Harbert <sim mindspring.com>] PR#3572
7358 *) Instead of fixing a bug in the generation procedure for config.status (a
7359 backslash was missing) we remove the bug together with it's complete
7360 context because the special cases of the past can now no longer occur
7361 because of the recent magic for the --with-layout default.
7362 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3590
7364 *) Make top-level Makefile aware of a parallel build procedures (make -j) by
7365 making sure the src/support/ tools are _forced_ to be build last (they
7366 depend on other libraries).
7367 [Markus Theissinger <markus.theissinger gmx.de>]
7369 *) Fix installation procedure: Now that os-inline.c is actually used (a
7370 recently fixed bug prevented this) we need to also install os-include.c
7371 in addition to os.h into the PREFIX/include/ location or building of
7372 module DSOs with APXS fails. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3527
7374 *) Added MODULE_MAGIC_COOKIE as the first field in a module structure to
7375 allow us to distinguish between a garbled DSO (or even a file which isn't
7376 an Apache module DSO at all) and a DSO which doesn't match the current
7377 Apache API. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3152
7379 *) Two minor enhancements to mod_rewrite: First RewriteRule now also
7380 supports the ``nocase|NC'' flag (as RewriteCond already does for ages) to
7381 match case insensitive (this especially avoids nasty patterns like
7382 `[tT][eE][sS][tT]'). Second two additional internal map functions
7383 `escape' and `unescape' were added which can be used to escape/unescape
7384 to/from hex-encodings in URLs parts (this is especially useful in
7385 combination with map lookups).
7386 [Magnus Bodin, Ian Kallen, Ralf S. Engelschall]
7388 *) Renamed the macro escape_uri() to ap_escape_uri() which was
7389 forgotten (because it was a macro) in the symbol renaming process.
7390 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7392 *) Fix some inconsistencies related to the scopes of directives. The only
7393 user visible change is that the directives `UseCanonicalName' and
7394 `ContentDigest' now use the (more correct) `Options' scope instead of
7395 (less correct) `AuthConfig' scope. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7397 *) Using DSO, the Server token was being mangled. Specifically, the
7398 module's token was being added first before the Apache token. This
7399 has been fixed. [Jim Jagielski]
7401 *) Major overhaul of mod_negotiation.c, part 2.
7402 - properly handle "identity" within Accept-Encoding.
7403 - allow encoded variants in RVSA negotiation and let them appear in
7404 the Alternates field using the non-standard "encoding" tag-list.
7405 - fixed both negotiation algorithms so that an explicitly accepted
7406 encoding is preferred over no encoding if "identity" is not
7407 included within Accept-Encoding.
7408 - added ap_array_pstrcat() to alloc.c for efficient concatenation
7409 of large substring sequences.
7410 - replaced O(n^2) memory hogs in mod_negotiation with ap_array_pstrcat.
7413 *) Major overhaul of mod_negotiation.c, part 1.
7414 - cleanups to mod_negotiation comments and code structure
7415 - made compliant with HTTP/1.1 proposed standard (rfc2068) and added
7416 support for everything in the upcoming HTTP/1.1
7417 revision (draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-06.txt).
7418 - language tag matching also handles tags with more than 2
7420 - empty Accept, Accept-Language, Accept-Charset headers are
7421 processed correctly; previously an empty header would make all
7422 values acceptable instead of unacceptable.
7423 - allowed for q values in Accept-Encoding
7424 - added support for transparent content negotiation (rfc2295 and
7425 rfc2296) (though we do not implement all features in these drafts,
7426 e.g. no feature negotiation). Removed old experimental version.
7427 - implemented 'structured entity tags' for better cache correctness
7428 (structured entity tags ensure that caches which can deal with Vary
7429 will (eventually) be updated if the set of variants on the server
7431 - this involved adding a vlist_validator element to request_rec
7432 - this involved adding the ap_make_etag() function to the global API
7433 - modified guessing of charsets used by Apache negotiation algorithm
7434 to guess 'no charset' if the variant is not a text/* type
7435 - added code to sort multiviews variants into a canonical order so that
7436 negotiation results are consistent across backup/restores and mirrors
7437 - removed possibility of a type map file resolving to another type map
7438 file as its best variant
7439 [Koen Holtman, Roy Fielding, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3451, 3299, 1987
7441 *) RFC2396 allows the syntax http://host:/path (with no port number)
7442 but the proxy disallowed it (ap_proxy_canon_netloc()).
7443 [David Kristol <dmk bell-labs.com>] PR#3530
7445 *) When modules update/modify the file name in the configfile_t structure,
7446 syntax errors will report the updated name, not the original one.
7447 [Fabien Coelho <coelho cri.ensmp.fr>] PR#3573
7449 *) Correct some filename case assumptions from WIN32 to
7450 CASE_BLIND_FILESYSTEM. [Brian Havard <brianh kheldar.apana.org.au>]
7452 *) For %v log ServerName regardless of the UseCanonicalName
7453 setting (similarly for %p). [Dean Gaudet]
7455 *) Configure was initializing the variables $OSDIR, $INCDIR and $SHELL
7456 rather late (too late for some invocations of TestCompile).
7457 This improves the make environment available to TestCompile and
7458 the *.module scripts. [Martin Kraemer]
7460 *) The hashbang emulation code in ap_execve.c would interpret
7461 #!/hashbang/scripts correctly, but failed to fall back to a
7462 standard shell for scripts which did NOT start with #!
7463 Now SHELL_PATH is started in these cases. [Martin Kraemer]
7465 *) PORT: Added the Cyberguard V2 port [Richard Stagg <stagg lentil.org>]
7468 *) Update APXS manual page: some -q option arguments were missing
7469 and another was incorrect. [Mark Anderson <mda discerning.com>] PR#3553
7471 *) Cleanup the command line options: `-?' was documented to show
7472 the usage list but does it with an error because `?' is not a valid
7473 command. OTOH a lot of users expect `-h' to print such a usage list and
7474 instead are annoyed for ages by our huge unreadable list of directives.
7475 So we now changed the command line options this way:
7477 Intent: we need `-L' to be free, and `-R' for the DSO run-time path is
7478 very similar to the popular linker option.
7480 Intent: while -l gives the small list of modules, -L now gives the
7481 large list of directives implemented by these modules. This is also
7482 consistent with -v (short version info) and -V (large version info).
7484 Intent: it's now the expected option ;-)
7485 The manual page was adjusted accordingly.
7486 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2714
7488 *) Fixed problem of fclose() on an unopened file in suexec if LOG_EXEC
7489 wasn't defined. [Rick Franchuk <rickf transpect.net>]
7491 *) Removed recently introduced bugs and disfigurements in APACI:
7492 o fixed argument line processing: using $args was broken: It was not
7493 initialized and using args="$args $apc_option" and even args="$args
7494 \"$apc_option\"" fails in the second processing round for any arguments
7495 containing whitespaces. The only correct way is to use the construct
7496 "$@" (but not possible here) or iterate _both_ times over the implicit
7497 argument line (no argument to for-loop) which is what we now use.
7498 o make --with-layout=Apache the default without creating
7499 redundancy (copying the --with-layout block in the argument parsing
7500 loop). We achieve this by using the "$@" construct together with the
7501 `set' command to prepend --with-layout=Apache to the command line in
7502 case --with-layout is not used.
7503 o fixed auto-suffix handling now that config.layout exists.
7504 Paths which are auto-suffixed are marked with a trailing plus sign in
7505 config.layout and every path now can be marked this way (not only the
7506 four paths for which we do it currently). Additionally the suffix is
7507 no longer a static one. Instead it's now `/<target>' where <target> is
7508 the argument of the --target option or per default `httpd'.
7509 o allow also tabs (and only spaces) where we match whitespaces
7510 o various fixes and cleanups related to used shell coding style
7511 o made Jim happy by replacing `Written by' with `Initially written by' ;-)
7512 o trimmed output of --help to fit into 80 columns
7513 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7515 *) Added two new core API functions, ap_single_module_configure() and
7516 ap_single_module_init(), which are now used by mod_so to configure a module
7517 after loading. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7519 *) PORT: Add defines for USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT and
7520 SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT to NetBSD/OpenBSD section
7521 of ap_config.h to allow serialized accept for multiport listens.
7522 [Roy Fielding, Curt Sampson] PR#3120
7524 *) PORT: Fixed a misplaced #endif for NetBSD/OpenBSD section
7525 of ap_config.h that would skip several defines if DEFAULT_GROUP
7526 was overridden. [Roy Fielding]
7528 *) PORT: The I86 version of DGUX has support for strncasecmp and
7529 strcasecmp, so allow it in ap_config.h. [Amiel Lee Yee] PR#3247
7531 *) Fix ordering of definitions in ap_config.h so that ap_inline is
7532 defined before it might be used. [Victor Khimenko]
7534 *) PORT: Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for BSDI (v4.0).
7535 [Tom Serkowski <tks bsdi.com>] PR#3453
7537 *) Make generation of src/Configuration.apaci more robust: It failed to
7538 differenciate between modules when one module name was a postfix of
7539 another (e.g. cgi vs. fastcgi). We now check for mod_XXX, libXXX and even
7540 just XXX (think about totally non-standard names like "apache_ssl", too).
7541 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3380
7543 *) In src/Configure remove the SERVER_SUBVERSION support (already deprecated
7544 since 1.3b7) and make whitespace handling more robust (it failed horrible
7545 when whitespaces were present in the arguments of -D options).
7546 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3240
7548 *) Add APACI --shadow=DIR variant (in addition to --shadow). This now first
7549 creates an external package shadow tree in DIR before the local build
7550 shadow tree is generated under DIR. This way one can have the extracted
7551 Apache distribution tree read-only on NFS or CDROM and still build Apache
7552 from these sources. An automatically triggered VPATH-like mechanism is
7553 provided through the TOP variable, too.
7554 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez apple.com>]
7556 *) Fix negotiation so that a Vary response header is correctly
7557 generated when, for a particular dimension, variants only vary
7558 in having or not having a value for that dimension. [Paul Sutton]
7560 *) Fix negotiation so that we prefer an encoded variant over an
7561 unencoded variant if the user-agent explicitly says it can
7562 accept that encoding. Previously we always preferred the unencoded
7564 [Paul Ausbeck <paula alumni.cse.ucsc.edu>, Paul Sutton] PR#3447
7566 *) Fix APXS tool: query variables LIBS_SHLIB and TARGET were not recognized
7567 and the usage page was inconsistent with the functionality and manpage.
7568 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7570 *) Allow special options -Wc,xxx and -Wl,xxx on APXS compile/link command.
7571 They can occur multiple times and their arguments (`xxx') are passed AS
7572 IS to the compiler/linker command. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7574 *) Fixed possible (but harmless in practice) bug in the DBM lookup
7575 procedure of mod_rewrite: very long keys were truncated.
7576 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7578 *) Added a generic --with-layout=[FILE:]ID option. ID here is a layout
7579 identifier, currently "Apache" and "GNU" are pre-defined in the file
7580 config.layout. Custom layouts are possible by using FILE:ID as the
7581 argument where the layout ID is taken from FILE.
7583 The config.layout file consists of <Layout ID>..</Layout> sections
7584 where inside those sections "path_variable: path_value" pairs can be
7585 specified. These lines are converted to path_variable='path_value'.
7587 *) Add a DefaultLanguage directive so that files missing a language
7588 extension (e.g., .fr, .de) can be labelled as being some other
7589 default language. DefaultLanguage can appear in <Directory> and
7590 <Files> containers as well as .htaccess files. [Paul Sutton]
7593 *) Fix TARGET configuration when configuring and installing using
7594 APACI configure. TARGET now defines the basename of the configuration
7595 file, startup script, manual page, etc. log_error_core() now reports
7596 the server binary name given by argv[0]. TARGET can now also be defined
7597 with --target=TARGET parameter passed to APACI configure.
7598 [Ralf Engelschall, Randy Terbush]
7600 *) mod_include.c:handle_perl() now properly tests for OPT_INCNOEXEC
7601 rather than OPT_INCLUDES [Rainer Schoepf <schoepf uni-mainz.de>]
7603 *) ap_md5_binary() was using sprintf() rather than a table lookup
7604 to convert binary bytes to hex digits.
7605 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald innovation.ch>] PR#3409
7607 *) Fix SEGV in TCN negotiation if no variants are acceptable.
7608 [Martin Plechsmid <plechsmi karlin.mff.cuni.cz>] PR#1987
7610 *) API: ap_exists_config_define() function is now "public" [Doug MacEachern]
7612 *) Fix documentation of `Action' directive: It can activate a CGI script
7613 when either a handler or a MIME content type is triggered by the request.
7614 [Andrew Pimlott <pimlott math.harvard.edu>] PR#3340
7616 *) Document the `add' command of `dbmmanage' in `dbmmanage.1' manpage.
7617 [David MacKenzie <djm uu.net>] PR#3394
7619 *) Ignore a "ErrorDocument 401" directive with a full URL and write a
7620 notice to the error log. It is not possible to send a 401 response
7621 and a redirect at the same time. [Lars Eilebrecht]
7623 *) Fallback to native compilers for IRIX-32 platform. It seems that
7624 a gcc 2.8.1 compiled apache is logging client addresses with all
7625 bits set (255.255.255.255). This is the second such problem caused
7626 by gcc 2.8.1 compiler. The first being broken semaphore locking.
7629 *) Updated mime.types to reflect current Internet media types
7630 and include a URL to the registry.
7631 [Manoj Kasichainula, Roy Fielding] PR#2380, 2286, 2246
7633 *) SECURITY: Do a more complete check in mod_include to avoid
7634 an infinite loop of recursive SSI includes. [Marc Slemko] PR#3323
7636 *) Add APACI --suexec-docroot and --suexec-logfile options which can be
7637 used to set the document root directory (DOC_ROOT) and the suexec
7638 logfile (LOG_EXEC), respectively. Additionally the --layout option
7639 was changed to show more information about the suEXEC setup.
7640 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3316, 3357, 3361
7642 *) Added the last two WebDAV status codes of 424 (Failed Dependency)
7643 and 507 (Insufficient Storage) for use by third-party modules.
7646 *) Enabled all of the WebDAV method names for use by third-party
7647 modules, Limit, and Script directives. That includes PATCH,
7648 PROPFIND, PROPPATCH, MKCOL, COPY, MOVE, LOCK, and UNLOCK.
7649 Improved mod_actions.c so that it can use any of the methods
7650 defined in httpd.h. Added ap_method_number_of(method) for
7651 getting the internal method number. [Roy Fielding]
7653 *) PORT: Add a port to the TPF OS. [Joe Moenich <moenich us.ibm.com> and
7656 *) Fix problems with handling of UNC names (e.g., \\host\path)
7657 on Win32. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz us.ibm.com>]
7659 *) Rework os_canonical_*() on Win32 so it's simpler, more
7660 robust, and works. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz us.ibm.com>]
7661 PR#2555, 2915, 3064, 3232
7663 *) Work around incomplete implementation of strftime on Win32.
7664 [Manoj Kasichainula, Ken Parzygnat <kparz us.ibm.com>]
7666 *) Move a typedef to fix compile problems on Linux with 1.x kernels.
7667 [Manoj Kasichainula] PR#3177
7669 *) PORT: Add a port to the Concurrent PowerMAX OS. [Tom Horsley
7670 <Tom.Horsley mail.ccur.com>]
7672 *) WIN32: Log more explicit error messages if spawning an interpreted
7673 script failed, including the command line used to attempt to execute
7674 the interpreter and the Win32 error code returned. [Marc Slemko]
7676 *) Disable sending of error-notes on a 500 (Internal Server Error) response
7677 since it often includes file path info. Enable sending of error-notes
7678 on a 501 (Method Not Implemented). [Roy Fielding] PR#3173
7680 *) http_config.c would respond with 501 (Method Not Implemented) if a
7681 content type handler was specified but could not be found, which
7682 should have been a 500 response. Likewise, mod_proxy.c would responsd
7683 with a 501 if the URI scheme is unrecognized instead of the correct
7684 response of 403 (Forbidden). [Roy Fielding]
7686 *) SECURITY: Eliminate DoS attack when a bad URI path contains what
7687 looks like a printf format escape. [Marc Slemko, Studenten Net Twente]
7689 *) Fix in mod_autoindex: for files where the last modified time stamp was
7690 unavailable, an empty string was printed which was 2 bytes short.
7691 The size and description columns were therefore not aligned correctly.
7692 [Martin Kraemer] (no PR#)
7694 *) Update BS2000 OS code to work with recent versions. Starting with
7695 release A17, the child fork() must be replaced by a _rfork().
7696 (BS2000 only) [Martin Kraemer]
7698 *) Add the actual server_rec structure of the specific Vhost to the
7699 scoreboard file and avoid a string copy (as well as allow some
7700 further future enhancements). [Harrie Hazewinkel
7701 <harrie.hazewinkel jrc.it>]
7703 *) Add APACI --permute-module=foo:bar option which can be used to
7704 on-the-fly/batch permute the order of two modules (mod_foo and mod_bar)
7705 in the Configuration[.apaci] file. Two special and important variants are
7706 supported for the option argument: first BEGIN:foo which permutes module
7707 mod_foo with the begin of the module list, i.e. it `moves' the module to
7708 the begin of the list (gives it lowest priority). And second foo:END
7709 which permutes mod_foo with the end of the module list, i.e. it `moves'
7710 the module to the end of the list (gives it highest priority).
7711 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7713 *) Fix problem with 'apache -k shutdown' and startup event
7714 synchronisation (Win32). [Ken Parzygnat <kparz raleigh.ibm.com>]
7717 *) The config parser wasn't correctly noticing a missing '>'
7718 on container start lines (e.g., it wouldn't spot
7719 "<Directory /" as a syntax error). [Ryan Bloom <rbbloom us.ibm.com>]
7722 *) Add a 'RemoveHandler' directive which will selectively remove
7723 all handler associations for the specified file extensions.
7724 [Ryan Bloom <rbbloom us.ibm.com>] PR#1799.
7726 *) Properly handle & allow "nul" and ".*/null" in AccessConfig and
7727 ResourceConfig directives on Win32. Also add a note to the effect
7728 of 'useless User directive ignored on Win32' to the errorlog if
7729 a User directive is encountered on Win32.
7730 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2078, 2303.
7732 *) Fix multiple whitespace handling in imagemaps for mod_imap which was
7733 broken since Apache 1.3.1 where we took out compressing of multiple
7734 spaces in ap_cfg_getline().
7735 [Ivan Richwalski <ivan seppuku.net>] PR#3249
7737 *) Fix Berkeley-DB/2.x support in mod_auth_db: The data structures were not
7738 initialized correctly and the db_open() call used an invalid mode
7739 parameter. [Ron Klatchko <ron ckm.ucsf.edu>] PR#3171
7741 *) PORT: DSO support for UnixWare 7
7742 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Ron Record <rr sco.com>]
7744 *) Merge the contents of the {srm,access}.conf-dist* files into the
7745 httpd.conf-dist* files. The srm and access files now contain
7746 only comments, and httpd.conf has all the combined contents in
7747 a rational order. [Ken Coar]
7749 *) PORT: DSO/ELF support for FreeBSD 3.0.
7750 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Dirk Froemberg <ibex physik.TU-Berlin.DE>]
7752 *) Add a "default-handler" handler that calls the default_hander()
7753 function which is normally called for static content. This allows
7754 you to override a specific handler. [Marc Slemko]
7756 *) Further simplify checking for absolute paths by replacing an
7757 hard-coded syntax check with a call to a routine we already created to
7758 do this. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2976, 3074
7760 *) Log an error if we encounter a malformed "require" directive
7761 in mod_auth if we know that we know that no other module can
7762 deal with it. [Marc Slemko]
7764 *) Remove ap_private_extern method of hiding conflicting symbols
7765 on the NEXT platform because it is not correct for all versions,
7766 and the versions for which it is correct are unknown.
7767 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez apple.com>]
7769 *) Fix inheritance of IndexOptions NameWidth and remove unintended
7770 restriction on +NameWidth, +IconHeight, and +IconWidth. [Ken Coar]
7772 *) Fix per-directory config merging for cases in which a 500 error
7773 is encountered in an .htaccess file somewhere down the tree.
7776 *) Minor performance improvement to ap_escape_html(). [Roy Fielding]
7778 *) Fixed a segmentation violation in mod_proxy when a response is
7779 non-cachable. [Roy Fielding, traced by Doug Bloebaum]. PR#2950, 3056
7781 Changes with Apache 1.3.3
7783 *) Added a complete implementation of the Expect header field as
7784 specified in rev-05 of HTTP/1.1. Disabled the 100 Continue
7785 response when we already know the final status, which is mighty
7786 useful for PUT responses that result in 302 or 401. [Roy Fielding]
7788 *) Remove extra trailing whitespace from the getline results as part
7789 of the protocol processing, which is extra nice because it works
7790 between continuation lines, is almost no cost in the normal case
7791 of no extra whitespace, and saves memory. [Roy Fielding]
7793 *) Added new HTTP status codes and default response bodies from the
7794 revised HTTP/1.1 (307, 416, 417), WebDAV (102, 207, 422, 423), and
7795 HTTP Extension Framework (510) specifications. Did not add the
7796 WebDAV 424 and 425 codes because they are bogus. We don't use any
7797 of these codes yet, but they are now available to 3rd-party modules.
7800 *) Fix a possible race condition between timed-out requests and the
7801 ap_bhalfduplex select that might result in an infinite loop on
7802 platforms that do not validate the descriptor. [Roy Fielding]
7804 *) WIN32: Add "-k shutdown" and "-k restart" options to signal a
7805 running Apache server [Paul Sutton]
7807 *) Fix mod_autoindex bug where directories got a size of "0k" instead
7808 of "-". [Martin Plechsmid <plechsmi karlin.mff.cuni.cz>, Marc Slemko]
7811 *) PORT: DRS 6000 machine. [Paul Debleecker <pdebleecker jetair.be>]
7813 *) Add the server signature text (from the core ServerSignature directive)
7814 to the list of envariables available to scripts, SSI, and the like.
7817 *) PORT: Fix sys/resource.h handling for SCO 3.x platform.
7818 [M. Laak <maert proinv.ee>] PR#3108
7820 *) Fallback from sysconf-based to plain HZ-based `ticks per second'
7821 calculation in mod_status for all systems which don't have POSIX
7822 sysconf() (like UTS 2.1) and not only for the NEXT platform.
7823 [Dave Dykstra <dwd bell-labs.com>] PR#3055
7825 *) Fix `require ...' directive parsing in mod_auth, mod_auth_dbm and
7826 mod_auth_db by using ap_getword_white() (which uses ap_isspace())
7827 instead of ap_getword(..., ' ') (which parses only according to spaces
7828 but not tabs). [James Morris <jmorris intercode.com.au>,
7829 Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3105
7831 *) Fix the SERVER_NAME variable under sub-request situations (where
7832 `UseCanonicalName off' is used) like CGI's called from SSI pages or
7833 RewriteCond variables by adopting r->hostname to sub-requests.
7834 [James Grinter <jrg blodwen.demon.co.uk>] PR#3111
7836 *) Fix stderr redirection under syslog-based error logging situation.
7837 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#3095
7839 *) Document `ErrorLog syslog:facility' variant of error logging.
7840 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#3096
7842 *) Fix http://localhost/ hints in top-level INSTALL document.
7843 [Rob Jenson <robjen spotch.com>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3088
7845 *) Quote paths in default configuration files. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
7847 *) PORT: Remove extra HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H define for RHAPSODY since
7848 it is now taken care of properly by the header file tests.
7849 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez apple.com>]
7851 *) Fix problem with scripts and filehandle inheritance on Win32.
7852 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2884, 2910
7854 *) Win32 name canonicalisation could end up using the server's
7855 working directory to fill in some blanks. [Ken Parzygnat
7856 <kparz raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#3001
7858 *) Correct invalid assumption by ap_sub_req_lookup_file() that all
7859 absolute paths begin with "/" -- because they don't on Win32.
7860 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2976, 3074
7862 *) Add [REDIRECT_]VARIANTS environment variable to mod_speling
7863 so that ErrorDocument 300 processors can reformat the list
7864 if desired. [Ken Coar] PR#2859
7866 *) Add +/- incremental prefixes to IndexOptions keywords, and
7867 enable merging of multiple IndexOptions directives. [Ken Coar]
7869 *) PORT: Allow GuessOS to recognize Unixware 7.0.1 [Steve Cameron
7870 <steve.cameron compaq.com>]
7872 *) Reconstructed the loop through multiple htaccess file names so
7873 that missing files are not confused with unreadable files.
7876 *) The ap_pfopen and ap_pfdopen routines were failing to protect the
7877 errno on an error, which leads to one error being mistaken for
7878 another when reading non-existent .htaccess files.
7881 *) OS/2: The new header tests get things right, need to update
7882 ap_config.h. [Brian Havard]
7884 *) The Perl %ENV hash will now be setup by default when using the
7885 mod_include `perl' command [Doug MacEachern]
7887 *) PORT: Add Pyramid DC/OSx support to configuration mechanism.
7888 [Earle Ake <akee wpdiss1.wpafb.af.mil>]
7890 *) PORT: Fix sys/resource.h handling for Amdahl's UTS 2.1
7891 [Dave Dykstra <dwd bell-labs.com>] PR#3054
7893 *) Correct comment in mod_log_config.c about its internals.
7894 [Elf Sternberg <elf halcyon.com>]
7896 *) Avoid possible line overflow in Configure: Use an awkfile to
7897 handle the creation of modules.c [Jim Jagielski]
7899 Changes with Apache 1.3.2
7901 *) Fix bug in ap_remove_module(), which caused problems for dso's
7902 who were the top_module. [Doug MacEachern]
7904 *) Add support for Berkeley-DB/2.x (in addition to Berkeley-DB/1.x) to
7905 mod_auth_db to both be friendly to users who wants to use this version
7906 and to avoid problems under platforms where only version 2.x is present.
7907 [Dan Jacobowitz <drow false.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
7909 *) When using ap_log_rerror(), make the error message available to the
7910 *ERROR_NOTES envariables by default. [Ken Coar]
7912 *) BS2000 platform only: get rid of the nasty BS2000AuthFile.
7913 You now must define a BS2000Account name for the server User.
7914 This has fewer security implications than the old approach.
7917 *) Fix SHARED_CORE feature for HPUX platform: We now use extension `.sl'
7918 instead of `.so' and `SHLIB_PATH' instead of `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' on this
7919 platform to make the braindead HPUX linker happy. Notice, for the module
7920 DSOs we don't have to use this, because these are loaded manually (and
7921 not via HPUX' dld). [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2905, PR#2968
7923 *) Remove 64 thread limit on Win32.
7924 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard raleigh.ibm.com>]
7926 *) Remove redundant substitutions in top-level Makefile.tmpl.
7927 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7929 *) Fix APACI's `Group' configuration adjustment - especially for Linux
7930 platforms where `nogroup' exists in /etc/group. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7932 *) Make PrintPath work generically instead of having one version
7933 strictly for OS/2. [Jim Jagielski, Brian Havard]
7935 *) Fix the recently introduced C header file checking: We now use the C
7936 pre-processor pass only (and no longer the complete compiler pass) to
7937 determine whether a C header file exists or not. Because only this way
7938 we're safe against inter-header dependencies (which caused horrible
7939 portability problems). The only drawback is that we now have a CPP
7940 configuration variable which has to be determined first (we do a similar
7941 approach as GNU Autoconf does here). When all fails the user still has
7942 the possibility to override it manually via APACI or src/Configuration.
7943 As a fallback for the header check itself we can directly check the
7944 existance of the file under /usr/include, too.
7945 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2777
7947 *) PORT: Added RHAPSODY (Mac OS X Server) support. MAP_TMPFILE defined
7948 as an alternate mechanism for mmap'd shared memory for RHAPSODY.
7949 ap_private_extern defined to hide symbols that conflict with loaded
7950 dynamic libraries on the NEXT and RHAPSODY platforms.
7951 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez apple.com>]
7953 *) Delete PID file on clean shutdowns.
7954 [Charles Randall <crandall matchlogic.com>] PR#2947
7956 *) Fix mod_auth_*.html documents: NSCA -> NCSA
7957 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#2991
7959 *) Fix INSTALL document: www.gnu.ai.mit.edu -> www.gnu.org
7960 [Karl Berry <karl gnu.org>] PR#2994
7962 *) Fix dbmmanage.1 manual page.
7963 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#2992
7965 *) Fix possible buffer overflow situation in suexec.c.
7966 [Jeff Stewart <jws purdue.edu>] PR#2790
7968 *) Add some more LIBS for the SCO5 platform which are needed for the already
7969 used -lprot. It's actually a bug in SCO5, of course.
7970 [Ronald Record <rr sco.com>] PR#2533
7972 *) Fix documentation of ProxyPass/ProxyPassReverse according to the
7973 trailing slash problem. [Jon Drukman <jsd gamespot.com>] PR#2933
7975 *) Remove `-msym' option from LDFLAGS_SHLIB for the Digital UNIX (OSF/1)
7976 platform, because it's only supported under version 4.0 and higher. But
7977 because our GuessOS is still unaware of Digital UNIX versions and the
7978 -msym is just to optimize the DSO statup time a little bit it's safe and
7979 best when we leave it out now. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2969
7981 *) Fix the ap_log_error_old(), ap_log_unixerr() and ap_log_printf()
7982 functions: First all three functions no longer fail on strings containing
7983 "%" chars and second ap_log_printf() no longer does a double-formatting
7984 (instead it directly passes through the message to be formatted to the
7985 real internal formatting function). [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2941
7987 *) Allow "Include" directives anywhere in the server config
7988 files (but not .htaccess files). [Ken Coar] PR#2727
7990 *) The proxy was refusing to serve CONNECT requests except to
7991 port 443 (https://) and 563 (snews://). The new AllowCONNECT
7992 directive allows the configuration of the ports to which a
7993 CONNECT is allowed. [Sameer Parekh, Martin Kraemer]
7995 *) mod_expires will now act on content that is not sent from a file
7996 on disk. Previously it would never add an Expires: header to
7997 any response that did not come from a file on disk; the only
7998 case where it still doesn't (and can't) add one for that type of
7999 content is if you are using a modification date based setting.
8000 [Marc Slemko, Paul Phillips <paulp go2net.com>]
8002 *) Problems encountered during .htaccess parsing or CGI execution
8003 that lead to a "500 Server Error" condition now provide explanatory
8004 text (in the *ERROR_NOTES envariable) to ErrorDocument 500 scripts.
8007 *) Add NameWidth keyword to IndexOptions directive so that the
8008 width of the filename column is customisable. [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
8011 *) Recognize lowercase _and_ uppercase `uname' results under
8012 SCO OpenServer. [David Coelho <drc ppt.com>]
8014 *) As duplicate "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" lines within the header seem to be
8015 a common problem of (mis-administrated?) IIS servers, make the apache
8016 proxy immune to these errors (and ignore the duplicates, but log
8017 the fact to error_log). [Martin Kraemer], after the proposal in PR#2914
8019 *) The <IfModule and <IfDefine block starting directives now only
8020 allow exactly one argument. Previously, the optional negation
8021 character '!' could be separated by whitespace without a syntax
8022 error being reported, albeit defeating the IfModule functionality
8023 (enclosed directives would ALWAYS be executed). By using the
8024 stricter syntax, these hard-to-track errors can be avoided.
8027 *) Simplify handling of IndexOptions in mod_autoindex -- and BTW
8028 cause the standalone FancyIndexing directive to logically OR
8029 into any existing IndexOptions settings rather than wiping
8030 them out. [Ken Coar]
8032 *) Changes in ftp proxy: make URL parsing simpler by using the
8034 + Add display of the "current directory" in cases where it's
8035 different from the supplied path (e.g., ftp://user@host/ lives
8036 in /home/user, not in /, therefore clicking on "../" in the
8037 starting directory might send us to /home/).
8038 + When ftp login fails, (esp. when a user name was part of the
8039 URL already), we now return [401 Unauthorized ] to allow the
8040 browser to pop up an authorization dialog. This makes passwords
8041 slightly less visible (they don't appear in the regular log files)
8042 and implements a functionality that other www proxy servers
8046 *) Triggered by the recent "Via:" header changes, the proxy module would
8047 dump core for replies with invalid headers (e.g., duplicate
8048 "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" lines). These errors are now logged and the
8049 core dump is avoided. Also, broken replies are not cached.
8050 [Martin Kraemer] PR#2914
8052 *) new `GprofDir' directive when compiled with -DGPROF, where gprof can
8053 plop gmon.out profile data for each child [Doug MacEachern]
8055 *) Use the construct ``"$@"'' instead of ``$*'' in the generated
8056 config.status script to be immune against arguments with whitespaces.
8057 [Yves Arrouye <yves apple.com>] PR#2866
8059 *) Replace the inlined information grabbing stuff for the configuration
8060 adjustment feature (no --without-confadjust) with calls to a new helper
8061 script `buildinfo.sh' which is both more flexible and already proofed to
8062 be more robust against platform differences. This mainly fixes the
8063 recently occured ``sed: command garbled: ...'' problems.
8064 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2776, PR#2848
8066 *) Make ab.c again pass ``gcc -Wall -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align
8067 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Winline''
8068 without complains after we recently added the POST feature.
8069 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8071 *) Renamed is_HTTP_xxx() macros to ap_is_HTTP_xxx() name. They are used inside
8072 modules as API functions and we forgot them at the big symbol renaming.
8073 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8075 *) Remove bad reference to non-existing SERVER_VERSION in mod_rewrite.html
8076 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga jp.FreeBSD.ORG>] PR#2895
8078 *) Dynamically size the filename column of mod_autoindex output.
8081 *) Add the ability to do POST requests to the ab benchmarking tool.
8082 [Kurt Sussman <kls best.com>] PR#2871
8084 *) Bump up MAX_ENV_FLAGS in mod_rewrite.h from the too conservatice limit of
8085 5 to 10 because there are some users out there who always have 5 to 8
8086 variables in one RewriteRule and had to patch mod_rewrite.h for every
8087 release. So 15 should be now more than enough, even for them. (I never
8088 needed more than 4 in my RewriteRules ;-)
8089 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8091 *) Make the proxy generate and understand Via: headers
8094 *) Change the proxy to use tables instead of array_headers for
8095 the header lines. [Martin Kraemer]
8097 *) Make sure the config.status file is not overridden when just
8098 ``configure --help'' is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2844
8100 *) Split MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER into _MAJOR/_MINOR numbers. This should
8101 provide a way to trace API changes that add functionality but do
8102 not create a compatibility issue for precompiled modules, etc.
8103 See include/ap_mmn.h for more details. [Randy Terbush]
8105 *) Fix suexec installation under `make install root=xxx' situation.
8106 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8108 *) Extend the output of the -V switch to include the paths of all
8109 compiled-in configuration files, if they were overridden at
8110 compile time, for least astonishment of the user.
8113 *) When READing a request in ExtendedStatus mode, the "old"
8114 vhost, request and client information is not displayed.
8117 *) STATUS is no longer available. Full status information now
8118 run-time configurable using the ExtendedStatus directive.
8121 *) SECURITY [CAN-1999-1199] (cve.mitre.org):
8122 Eliminate O(n^2) space DoS attacks (and other O(n^2)
8123 cpu time attacks) in header parsing. Add ap_overlap_tables(),
8124 a function which can be used to perform bulk update operations
8125 on tables in a more efficient manner.
8128 *) SECURITY: Added compile-time and configurable limits for
8129 various aspects of reading a client request to avoid some simple
8130 denial of service attacks, including limits on maximum request-line
8131 size (LimitRequestLine), number of header fields (LimitRequestFields),
8132 and size of any one header field (LimitRequestFieldsize). Also added
8133 a configurable directive LimitRequestBody for limiting the size of the
8134 request message body. [Roy Fielding]
8136 *) Make status module aware of DNS and logging states, even if
8137 STATUS not defined. [Jim Jagielski]
8139 *) Fix a problem with the new OS/2 mutexes. [Brian Havard]
8141 *) Enhance mod_speling so that CheckSpelling can be used in
8142 <Directory> containers and .htaccess files. [Ken Coar]
8144 *) API: new ap_custom_response() function for hooking into the
8145 ErrorDocument mechanism at runtime [Doug MacEachern]
8147 *) API: new ap_uuencode() function [Doug MacEachern]
8149 *) API: scan_script_header_err_core() now "public" and renamed
8150 ap_scan_script_header_err_core() [Doug MacEachern]
8152 *) The 'status' module will now show the process pid's and their
8153 state even without full STATUS accounting. [Jim Jagielski]
8155 *) Restore the client IP address to the error log messages, this
8156 was lost during the transition from 1.2 to 1.3. Add a new
8157 function ap_log_rerror() which takes a request_rec * and
8158 formats it appropriately. [Dean Gaudet] PR#2661
8160 *) Cure ap_cfg_getline() of its nasty habit of compressing internal
8161 whitespace in input lines -- including within quoted strings.
8163 but leading and trailing whitespace should continue to be
8164 stripped [Martin Kraemer]
8166 *) Cleanup of the PrintPath/PrintPathOS2 helper functions. Avoid
8167 the ugly use of an env. variable and use command-line args for
8168 alternate $PATH. Make more like advanced 'type's as well.
8171 *) The IRIXN32 Rule was being ignored. Configure now correctly adds
8172 -n32 only if IRIXN32 says to. [Jim Jagielski, Alain St-Denis
8173 <alain.st-denis ec.gc.ca>] PR#2736
8175 *) Clean up a warning in mod_proxy. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8177 *) Renamed __EMX__ (internal define of the gcc port under OS/2) to OS2
8178 following the same idea as "MSVC vs WIN32". Additionally the src/os/emx/
8179 directory was renamed to src/os/os2/ for consistency.
8180 [Brian Havard, Ralf S. Engelschall]
8182 *) Add new Rule SHARED_CHAIN which can be used to enable linking of DSO
8183 files (here modules) against other DSO files (here shared libraries).
8184 This is done by determining a subset of LIBS which can be safely used for
8185 linking the DSOs, i.e. PIC libs and shared libs. Currently the rule is
8186 disabled for all platforms to avoid problems with this (experimental)
8187 rule. But we provide it now for those people how ran into problems and
8188 want to came out by forcing linking against DSOs.
8189 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2587
8191 *) Fix suEXEC start message: Has to be of `notice' level to really get
8192 printed together with the standard startup message because the `notice'
8193 level is handled special inside ap_log_error() for startup messages.
8194 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2761 PR#2761 PR#2765
8196 *) Add correct `model' MIME types from RFC2077 to mime.types file.
8197 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2732
8199 *) Fixed examples in mod_rewrite.html document.
8200 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga jp.FreeBSD.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2756
8202 *) Allow ap_read_request errors to propagate through the normal request
8203 handling loop so that the connection can be properly closed with
8204 lingering_close, thus avoiding a potential TCP reset that would
8205 cause the client to miss the HTTP error response. [Roy Fielding]
8207 *) One more portability fix for APACI shadow tree support: Swap order of awk
8208 and sed in top-level configure script to avoid sed fails on some
8209 platforms (for instance SunOS 4.1.3 and NCR SysV) because of the
8210 non-newline-termined output of Awk. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2729
8212 *) PORT: NEC EWS4800 support.
8213 [MATSUURA Takanori <t-matsuu protein.osaka-u.ac.jp>]
8215 *) Fix a segfault in the proxy on OS/2. [Brian Havard]
8217 *) Fix Win32 part of ap_spawn_child() by providing a reasonable child_info
8218 structure instead of just NULL. This fixes at least the RewriteMap
8219 programs under Win32. [Marco De Michele <mdemichele tin.it>] PR#2483
8221 *) Add workaround to top-level `configure' script for brain dead
8222 `echo' commands which interpet escape sequences per default.
8223 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2654
8225 *) Make sure that the path to the Perl interpreter is correctly
8226 adjusted under `make install' also for the printenv CGI script.
8227 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2595
8229 *) Update the mod_rewrite.html document to correctly reflect the situation
8230 of the `proxy' (`[P]') feature. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2679
8232 *) Fix `install-includes' sub-target of `install' target in top-level
8233 Makefile.tmpl: The umask+cp approach didn't work as expected (especially
8234 for users which extracted the distribution under 'umask 077'), so replace
8235 it by an explicit cp+chmod approach.
8236 [Richard Lloyd, Curt Sampson, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2656 PR#2626
8238 *) Fix `distclean' and `clean' targets in src/Makefile.tmpl to have same
8239 behavior and to cleanup correctly even under enabled SHARED_CORE rule.
8240 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8242 *) Use a more straight forward and thus less problematic Sed command in
8243 src/helper/mkdir.sh script. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8245 *) Make sure the `configure' scripts doesn't fail when trying to guess the
8246 domainname of the machine and there are multiple `domainname' and
8247 `search' entries in /etc/resolv.conf.
8248 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2710
8250 *) Add note about the SHARED_CORE requirement on some platforms also to the
8251 INSTALL file because a lot of users don't read htdocs/manual/dso.html
8252 first. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2701
8254 *) Fix document "hyperlink" for dso.html in src/Configuration.tmpl
8255 [Knut A.Syed <Knut.Syed nhh.no>] PR#2674
8257 *) Modify mod_rewrite to update the Vary response field if the URL rewriting
8258 engine does any manipulations or decisions based upon request fields.
8261 *) Document the special APACI behavior for installation paths where
8262 ``/apache'' is appended to paths under some (well defined, of course)
8263 situations to prevent pollution of system locations with Apache files.
8264 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2660
8266 *) Fixed problem with buffered response message not being sent for
8267 the read_request error conditions of URI-too-long (414) and
8268 malformed header fields (400). [Roy Fielding] PR#2646
8270 *) Add support for the Max-Forwards: header line required by RFC2068 for
8271 the TRACE method. This allows apache to TRACE along a chain of proxies
8272 up to a predetermined depth. [Martin Kraemer]
8274 *) Fix SHARED_CORE rule: The CFLAGS_SHLIB variable is no longer doubled
8275 (compilers complained) and the .so.V.R.P filename extension was adjusted
8276 to correctly reflect the 1.3.2 version.
8277 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2644
8279 *) SECURITY: Plug "..." and other canonicalization holes under OS/2.
8282 *) PORT: implement serialized accepts for OS/2. [Brian Havard]
8284 *) mod_include had problems with the fsize and flastmod directives
8285 under WIN32. Fix also avoids the minor security hole of using
8286 ".." paths for fsize and flastmod.
8287 [Manoj Kasichainula <manojk raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2355
8289 *) Fixed some Makefile dependency problems. [Dean Gaudet]
8291 Changes with Apache 1.3.1
8293 *) Disable the incorrect entry for application/msword in the
8294 mod_mime_magic "magic" file because it also matches other Office
8295 documents. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2608
8297 *) Fix broken RANLIB handling in src/Configure (the entry from
8298 src/Configuration.tmpl was ignored) and additionally force RANLIB to
8299 /bin/true under HP/UX where ranlib exists but is deprecated.
8300 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2627
8302 *) 'apachectl status' failed on some systems.
8303 [Steve VanDevender <stevev darkwing.uoregon.edu>, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#2613
8305 *) Add new flags for ap_unparse_uri_components() to make it generate
8306 the scheme://sitepart string only, or to omit the query string.
8309 *) WIN32: Canonicalize ServerRoot before checking to see if it
8310 is a valid directory. The failure to do this caused certain
8311 ServerRoot settings (eg. "ServerRoot /apache") to be improperly
8312 rejected. [Marc Slemko]
8314 *) Global renaming of C header files to both get rid of conflicts with third
8315 party packages and to again reach consistency:
8316 1. conf.h -> ap_config.h
8317 2. conf_auto.h -> ap_config_auto.h \ these are now merged
8318 3. ap_config.h -> ap_config_auto.h / in the config process
8319 4. compat.h -> ap_compat.h
8320 5. apctype.h -> ap_ctype.h
8321 Backward compatibility files for conf.h and compat.h were created.
8323 *) mod_mmap_static will no longer take action on requests unless at
8324 least one "mmapfile" directive is present in the configuration.
8325 This experimental module has to do some black magic to operate
8326 inside the current API and thus creates side-effects for other
8327 modules under some circumstances.
8328 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8330 *) Add conservative ticks around more egrep arguments in top-level configure
8331 to avoid problems under brain-dead platforms like Digital UNIX (OSF1).
8332 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2596
8334 *) mod_rewrite created RewriteLock files under the UID of the parent
8335 process, thus the child processes had no write access to the files.
8336 Now a chown() is done on the file to the uid of the children,
8337 if applicable. [Lars Eilebrecht, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2341
8339 *) Autogenerate some HAVE_XXXXX_H defines in conf_auto.h (determined via
8340 TestCompile) instead of defining them manually in conf.h based on less
8341 accurate platform definitions. This way we no longer have to fiddle with
8342 OS-type and/or OS-version identifiers to discover whether a system header
8343 file exists or not. Instead we now directly check for the existence of
8344 those esoteric ones.
8345 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2093, PR#2361, PR#2377, PR#2434,
8346 PR#2524, PR#2525, PR#2533, PR#2569
8348 *) mod_setenvif (BrowserMatch* and friends) will now match a missing
8349 field with "^$". [Ken Coar]
8351 *) Set the RTLD_GLOBAL dlopen mode parameter to allow dynamically loaded
8352 modules to load their own modules dynamically. This improves mod_perl
8353 and mod_php3 when these modules are loaded dynamically into Apache.
8356 *) Cache a proxied request in the event that the client cancels the
8357 transfer, provided that the configured percentage of the file has
8358 already been transfered. It works for HTTP transfers only. The
8359 new configuration directive is called CacheForceCompletion.
8360 [Glen Parker <glenebob nwlink.com>] PR#2277
8362 *) Add the "<!DOCTYPE HTML" magic cookie used by modern documents (and
8363 required by HTML 3.2 and later) to mod_mime_magic's conf/magic.
8364 [Anna Shergold <anna inext.co.uk>]
8366 *) Fix yet another signal-based race condition involving nested timers.
8367 Signals suck. [Dean Gaudet]
8369 *) suexec's error messages have been clarified a little bit. [Ken Coar]
8371 *) Clean up some, but perhaps not all, 8-bit character set problems
8372 with config file parsing, and URL parsing. We now define
8373 ap_isdigit(), ap_isupper(), ... which cast to an (unsigned char).
8374 This should work on most modern unixes.
8375 [Dean Gaudet] PR#800, 2282, 2553 (and others)
8377 *) The "handler not found" error was issued in cases where the handler
8378 really did exist, but was just declining to serve the request.
8379 [John Van Essen <jve gamers.org>] PR#2529
8381 *) Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for SCO5 (OpenServer 5.0.x).
8382 [Ronald Record <rr sco.com>] PR#2533
8384 *) The APACI libexecdir was not extended with an "apache/" subdir
8385 if the installation prefix didn't already contain "apache", but
8386 it should be because the DSO files are Apache-specific. Now
8387 libexecdir is treated the same way sysconfdir, datadir, localstatedir
8388 and includedir are already treated.
8389 [Charles Levert <charles comm.polymtl.ca>] PR#2551
8391 *) The <Limit> parsing routine was incorrectly treating methods as
8392 case-insensitive. [Ken Coar]
8394 *) The ap_bprintf() code neglected to test if there was an error on
8395 the connection. ap_bflush() misdiagnosed a failure as a success.
8398 *) add support for #perl arg interpolation in mod_include
8401 *) API: Name changes of table_elts to ap_table_elts, is_table_empty
8402 to ap_is_table_empty and bgetflag to ap_bgetflag. [Ben Laurie]
8404 *) PORT: Add UnixWare 7 support
8405 [Vadim Kostoglodoff <vadim olly.ru>] PR#2463
8407 *) Fix the Guess-DSO-flags-from-Perl stuff in src/Configure: "perl" was
8408 used instead of "$PERL" which contains the correctly determined Perl
8409 interpreter (important for instance on systems where "perl" and "perl5"
8410 exists, like BSDI or FreeBSD, etc).
8411 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2505
8413 *) Move the initial suEXEC-related startup message from plain
8414 fprintf()/stderr to a delayed ap_log_error()-based one to avoid problems
8415 when Apache is started from inetd (instead of standalone). Under this
8416 situation startup messages on stderr lead to problems (the line is sent
8417 to the client in front of the requested document).
8418 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#871, PR#1318
8420 *) Add a flag so ap_fnmatch() can be used for case-blind pattern matching.
8421 [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
8423 *) WIN32: Don't collapse multiple slashes in PATH_INFO.
8424 [Ben Laurie, Bill Stoddard <wgstodda us.ibm.com>] PR#2274
8426 *) WIN32 SECURITY: Eliminate trailing "."s in path components. These are
8427 ignored by the Windows filesystem, and so can be used to bypass security.
8428 [Ben Laurie, Alexei Kosut].
8430 *) We now attempt to dump core when we get SIGILL. [Jim Jagielski]
8432 *) PORT: remove broken test for MAP_FILE in http_main.c.
8433 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez apple.com>]
8435 *) PORT: Change support/apachectl to use "kill -0 $pid" to test if the
8436 httpd is running. This should be more portable than figuring out
8437 which of three dozen different versions of "ps" are installed.
8440 *) WIN32: If we can't figure out how to execute a file in a script
8441 directory, bail out of the request with an error message. [W G Stoddard]
8443 *) WIN32 SECURITY: Eliminate directories consisting of three or more dots;
8444 these are treated by Win32 as if they are ".." but are not detected by
8445 other machinery within Apache. This is something of a kludge but
8446 eliminates a security hole. [Manoj Kasichainula, Ben Laurie]
8448 *) Move ap_escape_quotes() from src/ap to src/main/util.c; it uses
8449 pools and thus pollutes libap (until the pool stuff is moved there).
8452 *) IndexIgnore should be case-blind on Win32 (and any other case-aware
8453 but case-insensitive platforms). New #define for this added to conf.h
8454 (CASE_BLIND_FILESYSTEM). [Ken Coar] PR#2455
8456 *) Enable DSO support for OpenBSD in general, not only for 2.x, because it
8457 also works for OpenBSD 1.x. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8459 *) PORT: Fix compilation problem on ARM Linux.
8460 [Sam Kington <sam illuminated.co.uk>] PR#2443
8462 *) Let APACI's configure script determine some configuration parameters
8463 (Group, Port, ServerAdmin, ServerName) via some intelligent tests to
8464 remove some of the classical hurdles for new users when setting up
8465 Apache. This is done per default because it is useful for the average
8466 user. Package authors can use the --without-confadjust option to disable
8467 these configuration adjustments.
8468 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8470 *) Added an EXTRA_DEPS configuration parameter which can be used
8471 to add an extra Makefile dependency for the httpd target, for instance
8472 to external third-party libraries, etc.
8473 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8475 *) Add <IfDefine>..</IfDefine> sections to the core module (with same spirit
8476 as <IfModule>..</IfModule> sections) which can be used to skip or process
8477 contained commands dependend of ``-D PARAMETER'' options on the command
8478 line. This can be used to achieve logical conditions like <IfDefine
8479 ReverseProxy> instead of physically ones (e.g. <IfModule mod_proxy.c>)
8480 and thus especially can be used for conditionally loading DSO-based
8481 modules via LoadModule, etc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8483 *) PORT: clean up a warning in mod_status for OS/2. [Brian Havard]
8485 *) Make table elements const. This may prevent obscure errors. [Ben Laurie]
8487 *) Fix parsing of FTP `SIZE' responses in proxy module: The newline was not
8488 truncated which forced following HTTP headers to be data in the HTTP
8489 reponse. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Charles Fu <ccwf bacchus.com>]
8492 *) Portability fix for APACI shadow tree support: Swap order of awk and sed
8493 in top-level configure script to avoid sed fails on some platforms (for
8494 instance SunOS 4.1.3 and NCR SysV) because of the non-newline-termined
8495 output of Awk. [Bill Houle <bhoule sandiegoca.ncr.com>] PR#2435
8497 *) Improve performance of directory listings (mod_autoindex) by comparing
8498 integer keys (last-modified and size) as integers rather than converting
8499 them to strings first. Also use a set of explicit byte tests rather
8500 than strcmp() to check for parent directory-ness of an entry. Oh, and
8501 make sure the parent directory (if displayed) is *always* listed first
8502 regardless of the sort key. Overall performance winnage should be good
8503 in CPU time, instruction cache, and memory usage, particularly for large
8504 directories. [Ken Coar]
8506 *) Add a tiny but useful goody to APACI's configure script: The generation
8507 of a config.status script (as GNU Autoconf does) which remembers the used
8508 configure command and hence can be used to restore the configuration by
8509 just re-running this script or for remembering the configuration between
8511 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8513 *) Add httpd -t (test) option for running configuration syntax tests only.
8514 If something is broken it complains and exits with a return code
8515 non-equal to 0. This can be used manually by the user to check the Apache
8516 configuration after editing and is also automatically used by apachectl
8517 on (graceful) restart command to make sure Apache doesn't die on restarts
8518 because of a configuration which is now broken since the last (re)start.
8519 This way `apachectl restart' can be used inside cronjobs without having
8520 to expect Apache to be falling down. Additionally the httpd -t can be run
8521 via `apachectl configtest'.
8522 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2393
8524 *) Minor display fix for "install" target of top-level Makefile:
8525 the displayed installation command was incorrect although the
8526 executed command was correct. Now they are in sync.
8527 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2402
8529 *) Correct initialization of variable `allowed_globals' in http_main.c
8530 [Justin Bradford <justin ukans.edu>] PR#2400
8532 *) Apache would incorrectly downcase the entire Content-Type passed from
8533 CGIs. This affected server-push scripts and such which use
8534 multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary=ThisRandomString.
8535 [Dean Gaudet] PR#2394
8537 *) PORT: QNX update to properly guess 32-bit systems.
8538 [Sean Boudreau <seanb qnx.com>] PR#2390
8540 *) Make sure the DSO emulation code for HPUX finds the proprietary shl_xxx()
8541 functions which are in libdld under HPUX 9/10.
8542 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2378
8544 *) Make sure the "install" target of the top-level Makefile doesn't break
8545 because of a return code of 1 from an "if" (for instance under braindead
8546 Ultrix the result code of an "if" construct is 1 if the "then" clause
8547 didn't match). [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8549 *) Add an additional "dummy" target to the "$(LIB)" target in generated
8550 modules/xxx/Makefile's to avoid problems with SVR4 Make under "full-DSO"
8551 situation (no libxxx.a built, only mod_xxx.so's) where LIB and OBJS are
8552 empty. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Dean Gaudet, Martin Kraemer]
8554 *) Replace two bad sprintf() calls with ap_snprintf() variants in
8555 mod_rewrite. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8557 *) Fix missing usage description for MetaFiles directive.
8558 [David MacKenzie <djm va.pubnix.com>] PR#2384
8560 *) mod_log_config wouldn't let vhosts use log formats defined in the
8561 main server. [Christof Damian <damian mediaconsult.com>] PR#2090
8563 *) mod_usertrack was corrupting the client hostname. As part of the
8564 fix, the cookie values were slightly extended to include the
8565 fully qualified hostname of the client.
8566 [Dean Gaudet] PR#2190, 2229, 2366
8568 *) Fix a typo in pool debugging code. [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
8570 *) mod_unique_id did not work on alpha linux (in general on any
8571 architecture that has 64-bit time_t).
8572 [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
8574 *) PORT: Make SCO 5 (and probably 3) compile again. [Ben Laurie]
8576 *) PORT: NCR MPRAS systems have the same bug with SIGHUP restart that
8577 Solaris systems experience. So define WORKAROUND_SOLARIS_BUG.
8578 [Klaus Weber <kweber chephren.germany.ncr.com>] PR#1973
8580 *) Change "Options None" to "Options FollowSymLinks" in the
8581 <Directory /> section of the default access.conf-dist
8582 (and -win even though it doesn't matter there). This has better
8583 performance, and more intuitive semantics. [Dean Gaudet]
8585 *) PORT: Updated support for UTS 2.1.2.
8586 [Dave Dykstra <dwd bell-labs.com>] PR#2320
8588 *) Fix symbol export list (src/support/httpd.exp) after recent
8589 API changes in the child spawning area.
8590 [Jens-Uwe Mager <jum helios.de>]
8592 *) Workaround for configure script and old `test' commands which do not
8593 support the -x flag (for instance under platforms like Ultrix). This is
8594 solved by another helper script findprg.sh which searches for Perl and
8595 Awk like PrintPath but _via different names_.
8596 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8598 *) Remove the system() call from htpasswd.c, which eliminates a system
8599 dependancy. ["M.D.Parker" <mdpc netcom.com>] PR#2332
8601 *) PORT: Fix compilation failures on NEXTSTEP.
8602 [Rex Dieter <rdieter math.unl.edu>] PR#2293, 2316
8604 *) PORT: F_NDELAY is a typo, should have been FNDELAY. There's also
8605 O_NDELAY on various systems. [Dave Dykstra <dwd bell-labs.com>] PR#2313
8607 *) PORT: helpers/GuessOS updates for various versions for NCR SVR4.
8608 [juerg schreiner <j.schreiner zh.ch>,
8609 Bill Houle <Bill.Houle SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM>] PR#2310
8611 *) Fix recently introduced Win32 child spawning code in mod_rewrite.c which
8612 was broken because of invalid ap_pstrcat() -> strcat() transformation.
8613 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8615 *) Proxy Cache Fixes: account for directory sizes, fork off garbage collection
8616 to continue in background, use predefined types (off_t, size_t, time_t),
8617 log the current cache usage percentage at LogLevel debug
8618 [Martin Kraemer, based on discussion between Dean Gaudet & Dirk vanGulik]
8620 Changes with Apache 1.3.0
8622 *) Using a type map file as a custom error document was not possible.
8623 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#1031
8625 *) Avoid problems with braindead Awks by additionally searching for gawk
8626 and nawk in APACI's configure script.
8627 [Dave Dykstra <dwd bell-labs.com>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2319
8629 *) Rename md5.h to ap_md5.h to avoid conflicts with native MD5 on
8630 some systems. [Randy Terbush]
8632 *) Change usage of perror()+fprintf(stderr,...) in mod_rewrite to
8633 more proper ap_log_error() variants.
8634 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8636 *) Make sure the argument for the --add-module option to APACI's configure
8637 script is of type [path/to/]mod_xxx.c because all calculations inside
8638 configure and src/Configure depend on this.
8639 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2307
8641 *) Changes usage of perror/fprintf to stderr to more proper ap_log_error
8642 in mod_mime, mod_log_referer, mod_log_agent, and mod_log_config.
8645 *) Various OS/2 cleanups ["Brian Havard" <brianh kheldar.apana.org.au>]
8647 *) PORT: QNX needed a #include <sys/mman.h>; and now it uses flock
8648 serialized accept to handle multiple sockets.
8649 [Rob Saccoccio <robs InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2295, 2296
8651 *) Have NT properly set the directory for CGI scripts
8652 (& other spawned children)
8653 [W G Stoddard <wgstodda us.ibm.com>]
8655 *) Propagate environment to CGI scripts correctly in Win32.
8656 [W G Stoddard <wgstodda us.ibm.com>] PR#2294
8658 *) Some symbol renaming:
8659 ap_spawn_child_err became ap_spawn_child
8660 ap_spawn_child_err_buff became ap_bspawn_child
8661 spawn_child was obsoleted and moved to compat.h
8664 *) Upgrade the child spawning code in mod_rewrite for the RewriteMap
8665 programs: ap_spawn_child_err() is used and the Win32 case now uses
8666 CreateProcess() instead of a low-level execl() (which caused problems in
8667 the past under Win32).
8668 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8670 *) A few cosmetics and trivial enhancements to APXS to make the
8671 generated Makefile more user friendly. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8673 *) Proxy Fix: The proxy special failure routine ap_proxyerror()
8674 was updated to use the normal apache error processing, thereby allowing
8675 proxy errors to be treated by ErrorDocument's as well. For this
8676 purpose, a new module-to-core communication variable "error-notes"
8677 was introduced; the proxy (and possibly other modules) communicates
8678 its error text using this variable. Its content is copied to a new
8679 cgi-env-var REDIRECT_ERROR_NOTES for use by ErrorDocuments.
8680 The old proxy special error routine ap_proxy_log_uerror()
8681 was replaced by regular ap_log_error() calls, many messages were made
8683 [Martin Kraemer] PR#494, 1259
8685 *) SECURITY: A possible buffer overflow in the ftp proxy was fixed.
8688 *) Transform the configure message "You need root privileges for suEXEC"
8689 from a fatal error into a (more friendly) warning because the building
8690 ("make") of Apache we can allow, of course. Root privileges are needed
8691 only for the installation step ("make install"). So make sure the
8692 user is aware of this fact but let him proceed as long as he can.
8693 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2288
8695 *) Renamed three more functions to common ap_ prefix which we missed at the
8696 Big Symbol Renaming because they're #defines and not real C functions:
8697 is_default_port(), default_port(), http_method().
8698 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8700 *) A zero-length name after a $ in an SSI document should cause
8701 just the $ to be in the expansion. This was broken during the
8702 security fixes in 1.2.5. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1921, 2249
8704 *) Call ap_destroy_sub_req() in ap_add_cgi_vars() to reclaim some
8705 memory. [Rob Saccoccio <robs InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2252
8707 *) Fix src/support/httpd.exp (DSO export file which is currently only
8708 used under AIX) because of recent changes to function names.
8709 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8711 Changes with Apache 1.3b7
8713 *) Make sure a MIME-type can be forced via a RewriteRule even when no
8714 substitution takes place, for instance via the following rule:
8715 ``RewriteRule ^myscript$ - [T=application/x-httpd-cgi]'' This was often
8716 requested by users in the past to force a single script without a .cgi
8717 extension and outside any cgi-bin dirs to be executed as a CGI program.
8718 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2254
8720 *) A fix for protocol issues surrounding 400, 408, and
8721 414 responses. [Ed Korthof]
8723 *) Ignore MaxRequestsPerChild on WIN32. [Brian Behlendorf]
8725 *) Fix discrepancy in proxy_ftp.c which was causing failures when
8726 trying to connect to certain ftpd's, such as anonftpd.
8727 [Rick Ohnemus <rick ecompcon.com>]
8729 *) Make mod_rewrite use ap_open_piped_log() for RewriteLog directive's
8730 logfile instead of fiddling around itself with child spawning stuff.
8731 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8733 *) Made RefererIgnore case-insensitive.
8735 *) Mod_log_agent, mod_log_referer now use ap_open_piped_log for piped logs.
8738 *) Replace use of spawn_child with ap_spawn_child_err_buff, to make everything
8739 "safe" under Win32. In: mod_include.c, mod_mime_magic.c
8742 *) Improve RFC1413 support. [Bob Beck <beck bofh.ucs.ualberta.ca>]
8744 *) Fix support script `dbmmanage': It was unable to handle some sort
8745 of passwords, especially passwords with "0" chars.
8746 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2242
8748 *) WIN32: Clicking on "Last Modified" in a fancy index caused a crash. Fixed.
8749 [Ben Laurie] PR#2238
8751 *) WIN32: CGIs could cause a hang (because of a deadlock in the standard C
8752 library), so CGI handling has been changed to use Win32 native handles
8753 instead of C file descriptors.
8754 [Ben Laurie and Bill Stoddard <wgstodda us.ibm.com>] PR#1129, 1607
8756 *) The proxy cache would store an incorrect content-length in the cached
8757 file copy after a cache update. That resulted in repeated fetching
8758 of the original copy instead of using the cached copy.
8759 [Ernst Kloppenburg <kloppen isr.uni-stuttgart.de>] PR#2094
8761 *) The Makefiles assumed that DSO files are build via $(LD). This
8762 is broken for two reasons: First we never defined at least LD=ld
8763 somewhere to make sure this works (it was silently assumed that most Make
8764 provide a built-in LD definition - ARGL!) and second using the generic LD
8765 variable is not the truth. Instead a special variable named LD_SHLIB is
8766 reasonable because although "ld" is usually the default, the command for
8767 building DSO files can be "libtool" or even "cc" on some systems.
8768 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8770 *) Replace the AddVersionPlatform directive with ServerTokens which
8771 provides for more control over the format of the Server:
8772 header line. SERVER_SUBVERSION is no longer supported;
8773 all module should use the ap_add_version_component()
8774 API function instead. [Jim Jagielski]
8776 *) Support for the NCR MP/RAS 3.0
8777 [John Withers <withers semi.kcsc.mwr.irs.gov>]
8779 *) The LDFLAGS_SHLIB_EXPORT variable of src/Configuration[.tmpl] was
8780 not retrieved in src/Configure and thus was not useable.
8781 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8783 *) Various Makefile consistency cleanups:
8784 - make OSDIR also automatically be relative to src/ like INCDIR
8785 - SUBDIRS is now generated in src/Makefile only and not in
8786 Makefile.config because it is a local define for this location.
8787 - remove BROKEN_BPRINTF_FLAGS because is it no longer used inside
8788 any Makefile but make sure that at least the "-K inline" is kept in
8790 - update the "depend" targets in Makefile.tmpl files to use $(OSDIR), too.
8791 - updated the dependencies theirself
8792 - removed not existing SHLIB variable from "clean" targets
8793 - replaced SHLIB_OBJS/SHLIBS_OBJ consistently with OBJS_PIC because OBJS
8794 already exists and OBJS_PIC are also just plain objects and have not
8795 directly to do with "shared" things. The only difference is that they
8796 contain PIC. So OBJS_PIC is the more canonical name.
8797 - Updated the Makefile-dependency lines for OBJS_PIC
8798 - Removed the Makefile-dependency line in Configure to avoid double
8800 - replaced ugly xx-so.o/xx.so-o hack with a clean and consistent usage
8801 of xxx.lo as GNU libtool does with its PIC objects
8802 - reduce local complexity in modules Makefile.tmpl by moving the last
8803 existing target "depend" to the generation section in Configure, too.
8804 - removed the historical $(SPACER) which was used in the past together
8805 with BROKEN_BPRINTF_FLAGS to avoid zig-zags in the build process. This
8806 is no longer needed.
8807 - force the build and run of the gen_xxx programs under main/ as the
8808 first step before building the objects because it looks cleaner
8809 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8811 *) WIN32: Make Win32 work again after the /dev/null DoS fix.
8814 *) WIN32: Check for buffer overflows in ap_os_canonical_filename.
8817 *) WIN32: Don't force ISAPI headers to finish with \n.
8818 [Jim Patterson <Jim.Patterson Cognos.COM>, Ben Laurie] PR#2060
8820 *) When opening "configuration" files (like httpd.conf, htaccess
8821 and htpasswd), Apache will not allow them to be non-/dev/null
8822 device files. This closes a DoS hole. At the same time,
8823 we use ap_pfopen to open these files to handle timeouts.
8824 [Jim Jagielski, Martin Kraemer]
8826 *) Apache will now log the reason its httpd children exit if they exit
8827 due to an unexpected signal. (It requires a new porting define,
8828 SYS_SIGLIST, which if defined should point to a list of text
8829 descriptions of the signals available. See PORTING.) [Dean Gaudet]
8831 *) WIN32: chdir() doesn't make sense in a multithreaded environment
8832 like WIN32. Before, Win32 CGI's could have had sporadic failures
8833 if a chdir call from one thread was made between another chdir call
8834 and a spawn in another thread. So, for now don't chdir for CGI scripts
8835 in WIN32. The current CGI "spec" is unclear as to whether it's
8836 necessary. Long-term fix is to either serialize the chdir/spawn combo
8837 or use WIN32 native calls to spawn a process. This temp fix was
8838 necessary to remove this as a showstopper for 1.3's release.
8841 *) Cleanup the suEXEC support in APACI and make it more safe:
8842 1. Add big fat hint in INSTALL about risks and to read the
8843 htdocs/manual/suexec.html document before using the suexec-related
8845 2. Make sure the user has at least provided one --suexec-xxxx option
8846 (specifies suEXEC parameters) in addition to --enable-suexec option.
8847 If only --enable-suexec is given APACI stops with a hint to INSTALL
8848 and htdocs/manual/suexec.html documents.
8849 3. Provide two additional --suexec-xxxx options to make the suEXEC
8850 configuration complete (especially for package maintainers who else
8851 had to patch the source tree) by providing ways to configure minimal
8852 UID/GID and safe PATH, too.
8853 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8855 *) Cleanup of the `configure --shadow' process:
8856 - make sure the configure script creates its temporary files in the
8857 shadow tree to avoid conflicts with parallel configure runs
8858 - removed unnecessary option "-r" from "rm" call for Makefiles
8859 - make sure the configure scripts creates the shadow-wrapper Makefile
8860 only when no shadow trees already exists
8861 - make sure "make distclean" removes the shadow-wrapper Makefile but only
8862 when no more shadow trees exists
8863 - overhauled mkshadow.sh script: now its more IFS-safe and approx. twice
8864 as fast (in the past it needed 70sec, now it runs just 38sec)
8865 - make sure CVS does not complain about the created files
8866 Makefille.<gnutriple> and directories src.<gnutriple>
8867 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8869 *) Added the ap_add_version_component() API routine and the
8870 AddVersionPlatform core directive. The first allows modules to
8871 declare themselves in the Server response header field value,
8872 augmenting the SERVER_SUBVERSION define in the Configuration file
8873 with run-time settings (more useful in a loadable-module environment).
8874 AddVersionPlatform inserts a comment such as "(UNIX)" or "(Win32)"
8875 into the server version string. [Ken Coar] PR#2056
8877 *) Minor stability tweaks to avoid core dumps in ap_snprintf.
8880 *) Emit the "Accept-Range" header for the default handler.
8881 [Brian Behlendorf] PR#1464
8883 *) Add a note to httpd.conf-dist that apache will on some systems fail
8884 to start when the Group # is set to a negative or large positive value.
8887 *) Make sure the module execution order is correct even when some modules
8888 are loaded under runtime (`LoadModule') via the DSO mechanism:
8889 1. The list of loaded modules is now a dynamically allocated one
8890 and not the original statically list from modules.c
8891 2. The loaded modules are now correctly setup by LoadModule for
8892 later use by the AddModule command.
8893 3. When the DSO mechanism for modules is used APACI's `install'
8894 target now enables all created `LoadModule' lines per default because
8895 this is both already expected by the user _and_ needed to avoid
8896 confusion with the next point and reduces the Makefile.tmpl complexity
8897 4. When the DSO mechanism for modules is used, APACI's `install'
8898 target now additionally makes sure the module list is reconstructed
8899 via a complete `ClearModuleList+AddModule...' entry.
8900 5. The support tool `apxs' now also makes sure an AddModule command
8901 is added in addition to the LoadModule command.
8902 6. The modules.c generation was extended to now contain two
8903 comments to make sure no one is confused by the confusing terminology
8904 of loading/linking (we use load=link+load & link=activate instead of
8905 the obvious load=activate & link=link :-( )
8906 This way now there is no longer a difference under execution time between
8907 statically and dynamically linked modules.
8908 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8910 *) Fix the generated mod_xxx.c from "apxs -g -f xxx" after the
8911 Big Symbol Renaming. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8913 *) Add a comment to mod_example.c showing the format of a FLAG command
8916 *) Standardized the time format in mod_status to match that of other
8917 places in the code (e.g. DATE_GMT). PR#1551
8919 *) Fix handling of %Z in timefmt strings for those platforms with no time
8920 zone information in their tm struct. [Paul Eggert <eggert twinsun.com>]
8923 *) Makes mod_rewrite, mod_log_config, mod_status and the ServerSignature
8924 feature compatible with 'UseCanonicalName off' by changing
8925 r->server->server_hostname to ap_get_server_name(). And I changed some
8926 functions which use r->server->port to use ap_get_server_port() instead,
8927 because if there's no Port directive in the config r->server->port is 0.
8930 *) get/set_module_config are trivial enough to be better off inline. Worth
8931 1.5% performance boost. [Dean Gaudet]
8933 *) Fix off-by-one error in ap_proxy_date_canon() in proxy_util.c
8934 when ensuring 'x' is at least 30-chars big. [Jim Jagielski,
8937 *) [BS2000 security] BS2000 needs an extra authentication to initialize
8938 the task environment to the unprivileged User id. Otherwise CGI scripts
8939 would have a way to gain super user access. [Martin Kraemer]
8941 *) Fix debug log messages for BS2000/OSD: instead of logging the whole
8942 absolute path, only log base name of logging source as is done
8943 in unix. [Martin Kraemer]
8945 *) Ronald Tschalaer's Accept-Encoding patch - preserve the "x-" in
8946 the encoding type from the Accept-Encoding header (if it's there)
8947 and use it in the response, as that's probably what it'll be expecting.
8948 [<Ronald.Tschalaer psi.ch>]
8950 *) Fix to mod_alias: translate_alias_redir is dealing with
8951 a URI, not a filename, so the check for drive letters for win32
8952 and emx is not necessary. [Dean Gaudet]
8954 *) WIN32: Allow .cmd as an executable extension.
8955 [Kari Likovuori <Kari.Likovuori mol.fi>] PR#2146
8957 *) Make Apache header files, and some variables, C++ friendly.
8958 [Michael Anderson's <mka redes.int.com.mx>]
8960 *) Child processes can now "signal" (by exiting with a status
8961 of APEXIT_CHILDFATAL) the parent process to abort and
8962 shutdown the server if the error in the child process was
8963 fatal enough. [Jim Jagielski]
8965 *) mod_autoindex's find_itme() was sensitive to MIME type case.
8966 [Jim Jagielski] PR#2112
8968 *) Make sure the referer_log and agent_log entries in the default httpd.conf
8969 file are also adjusted for the actual relative installation paths.
8970 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2175
8972 *) WIN32: Extensive overhaul of the way UNCs are handled. [Ben Laurie]
8974 *) WIN32: Make roots of filesystems (e.g. c:/) work. [Ben Laurie]
8977 *) PORT: Various porting changes to support AIX 3.2, 4.1.5, 4.2 and 4.3.
8978 Additionally the checks for finding the vendor DSO library were moved
8979 from mod_so.c to Configure because first it needs $PLAT etc. and second
8980 mod_so already uses an abstraction layer and does not fiddle with the
8981 vendor functions itself.
8982 [Jens-Uwe Mager, Ralf S. Engelschall]
8984 *) PORT: Some optimization defines for NetBSD
8985 [Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek ics.muni.cz>] PR#2165
8987 *) PORT: Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for NetBSD.
8988 [Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek ics.muni.cz>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2158
8990 *) Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for AIX (at least 4.2 but older
8991 AIX variants should work fine, too. Even AIX 3.x should work). This is
8992 accomplished by using the free DSO emulation code from Jens-Uwe Mager
8993 which we put into a os/unix/os-dso-aix.c file.
8994 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8996 *) PORT: Fix compiler warnings under AIX >= 4.2 where the manual pages imply
8997 that we should use NET_SIZE_T == int but the include files force size_t.
8998 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9000 *) Fix two bugs in select() handling in http_main.c.
9003 *) Suppress "error(0)" messages for ap_log_error() when the APLOG_NOERRNO
9004 is unset (as it is in situations like timeouts) where it is unclear
9005 whether errno is set or not. [Martin Kraemer]
9007 *) Just having APACI's localstatedir is too general and not enough for most
9008 of the systems. 1.3b6 again required manual APACI patches by package
9009 maintainers from Red Hat and FreeBSD because for their filesystem layout a
9010 little bit more flexibility in configuring the paths is needed. Hence we
9011 provide three additional configure options (--runtimedir, --logfiledir,
9012 --proxycachedir) which now can be used for more granular adjustments if
9013 --localstatedir is not enough to fit the particular needs. As a nice
9014 side-effect this reduces some subdir fiddling in configure+Makefile.tmpl.
9015 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9017 *) Make the install root for "make install" in APACI's Makefile overrideable
9018 by package authors. This way we are even more friendly to package
9019 maintainers (especially Debian and Red Hat) who build for the real prefix
9020 via "configure --prefix=/<real>" but use a different local prefix via
9021 "make root=/tmp/apache install" for rolling the package without bristling
9022 the target location on their system.
9023 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9025 *) Workaround sed limitations in APACI's configure script by now
9026 substituting in chunks of 50 commands (because for instance HPUX's vendor
9027 sed has a limit of max. 98 commands)
9028 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2136
9030 *) Adding SOCKS5 support and fixing existing SOCKS4 support.
9031 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2140
9033 *) Manually fix some symbols which were not renamed to prefix ap_ in the BIG
9034 RENAMING process because they are defined as pre-processor macros instead
9035 of real functions: bputc, bgetc, piped_log_write_fd, piped_log_read_fd
9036 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9038 *) Workaround braindead AWK's when generating ap_config.h: The split() and
9039 substr() functions cannot be nested under vendor AWK from Solaris 2.6.
9040 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2139
9042 *) Various bugfixes and cleanups for the APACI configure script:
9043 o fix IFS handling for _nested_ situation
9044 o fix Perl interpreter search: take first one found instead of last one
9045 o fix DSO consistency check
9046 o print error messages to stderr instead of stdout
9047 o add install-quiet for --shadow situation to Makefile stub
9048 o reduce complexity by avoiding sed-hacks for rule and module list loops
9049 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9051 *) Fix DEBUG_CGI situation in mod_cgi.c [David MacKenzie] PR#2114
9053 *) Make sure the input field separator (IFS) shell variable is explicitly
9054 initialized correctly before _every_ `for' loop and also restored after
9055 the loops. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9057 *) Make sure that "make install" doesn't overwrite the `mime.types' and
9058 `magic' files from an existing Apache installation. Because people often
9059 customize these for own MIME and content types.
9060 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9062 *) PORT: Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for OpenBSD 2.x
9063 [Peter Galbavy, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2109
9065 *) Fix the path to the ScoreBoardFile in the install-config target, too.
9066 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2105
9068 *) Let "configure" clear out the users parameters (provided as shell
9069 variables) to avoid side-effects in "src/Configure" when the user
9070 exported them (which is not needed, but some users do it).
9071 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2101
9073 *) Provide backward compatibility from some old src/Configuration.tmpl
9074 parameter names to the canonical Autoconf-style shell variable names. For
9075 instance CFLAGS vs. EXTRA_CFLAGS. The EXTRA_xxx variants are accepted now
9076 but a hint message is displayed. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9078 *) Make sure that "make install" doesn't overwrite the DocumentRoot and
9079 CGI scripts from an existing Apache installation.
9080 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Jim Jagielski] PR#2084
9082 *) Make `configure --compat' more "compatible" by first
9083 let the libexecdir default to EPREFIX/libexec instead of EPREFIX/bin and
9084 second by making sure the "avoid-bristling-suffix" /apache is not
9085 appended to sysconfdir, datadir, localstatedir and includedir when
9086 --compat is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Lars Eilebrecht]
9088 *) NeXT required strdup() in support/logresolve.c
9089 [Francisco Tomei <fatomei sandburg.unm.edu>] PR#2082
9091 *) AIX required sys/select.h in support/ab.c
9092 [Jens Schleusener <Jens.Schleusener dlr.de>] PR#2081
9094 *) Fix the path to the MimeMagicFile in the install-config target, too.
9095 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2089
9097 *) PORT: Added HP-UX 11 patches [Jeff Earickson <jaearick colby.edu>]
9099 *) If you start apache with the -S command line option it will dump
9100 out the parsed vhost settings. This is useful for folks trying
9101 to figure out what is wrong with their vhost configuration.
9102 (Other dumps may be added in the future.) [Dean Gaudet]
9104 *) Add %pA, %pI, and %pp codes to ap_vformatter (and hence ap_bprintf,
9105 ap_snprintf, and ap_psprintf). See include/ap.h for docs.
9108 *) Because /usr/local/apache is the default prefix the ``configure
9109 --compat'' option no longer has to set prefix, again. This way the
9110 --compat option honors a leading --prefix option. [Lars Eilebrecht]
9112 *) PORT: Cast the first argument of dlopen() in ap_os_dso_load()
9113 to `char *' under OSF1 and FreeBSD 2.x where it is defined this way
9114 to avoid "discard const" warnings. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9116 *) If a specific handler is set for a file yet the request still
9117 ends up being handled by the default handler, log an error
9118 message before handling it. This catches things such as trying
9119 to use SSIs without mod_include enabled. [Marc Slemko]
9121 *) Fix error logging for the startup case where ap_log_error() still uses
9122 stderr as the target. Now the default log level is honored here, too.
9123 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9125 *) PORT: Make sure some AWK's don't fail in src/Configure with "string too
9126 long" errors when generating the MODULES entry for src/Makefile
9127 [Ben Hyde, Ralf S. Engelschall]
9129 *) Make sure src/Configure doesn't complain about the old directory
9130 /usr/local/etc/httpd/ when APACI is used. [Lars Eilebrecht]
9132 Changes with Apache 1.3b6
9134 *) PORT: Clean up warnings on Ultrix and HPUX. [Ben Hyde]
9136 *) Adding DSO support for the HP/UX platform by emulating the dlopen-style
9137 interface via the similar but proprietary HP/UX shl_xxx-style system
9138 calls. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9140 *) PORT: Updated UnixWare 2.0.x and 2.1.x entries for DSO support and made
9141 APACI Makefile.tmpl "install" target more robust for sensible UnixWare
9142 Make. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9144 *) ++++ THE BIG SYMBOL RENAMING ++++
9145 To avoid symbol clashes with third-party code compiled into the server,
9146 we globally applied the prefix "ap_" to the following classes of
9148 - Apache provided general functions (e.g., ap_cpystrn)
9149 - Public API functions (e.g., palloc, bgets)
9150 - Private functions which we can't make static (because of
9151 cross-object usage) but should be (e.g., new_connection)
9152 For backward source compatibility a new header file named compat.h was
9153 created which provides defines for the old symbol names and can be used
9154 by third-party module authors.
9157 *) Added dynamic shared object (DSO) support for SVR4-derivates: The
9158 problem under SVR4 is that there is no command flag to force the linker
9159 to export the global symbols of the httpd executable therewith they are
9160 available to the DSO's. Instead of problematic hacks like creating a
9161 dummy.so file (containing dummy references to all global symbols) the
9162 httpd binary is linked against, we use a clean trick stolen from Perl 5:
9163 Placing the Apache core code itself into a DSO library named libhttpd.so.
9164 This way the global symbols _HAVE_ to be exported and thus are available
9165 to any manually loaded DSO's under runtime. To reduce the impact to the
9166 user to null we go even further and create a stub httpd executable which
9167 automatically keeps track of the DSO library loading itself and thus
9168 hides the complete mechanism from the user. Although the generation of
9169 this DSO library is automatically triggered for platforms which
9170 essentially need it (mostly all SVR4-derivates) it can be also enabled
9171 manually via the Rule SHARED_CORE. This can be interesting in the future
9172 where we perhaps exploit this libhttpd.so mechanism for providing nifty
9173 features like graceful upgrades, or whatever.
9174 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Martin Kraemer]
9176 *) Build the libraries before building the rest of the tools. [Ben Hyde]
9178 *) Add "distclean" target to src/-Makefiles to provide "make distclean" also
9179 inside the src subtree (i.e. for non-APACI users). Following GNU Makefile
9180 conventions while "clean" removes only stuff created by "all" targets,
9181 "distclean" additionally removes the stuff from the configuration
9182 process. This way "make distclean" (hence the name) provides a fresh
9183 source tree as it was for distribution.
9184 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9186 *) Allow top-level (APACI) Makefile to break on build errors
9187 the same way the src/ subtree Makefiles breaks on them by replacing the
9188 initial APACI sed-subdir-display-kludge with a more clean
9189 variable-passing-solution: variable SDP can optionally hold the subdir
9190 prefix which is consistently used for displaying the subdir movement.
9191 This way even the top-level Makefile can stop correctly on errors as the
9192 user expects. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9194 *) Fixed ordering of argument checks for RewriteBase directive.
9195 [Todd Eigenschink <eigenstr mixi.net>] PR#2045
9197 *) Change Win32 IS_MODULE to SHARED_MODULE to match Unix' method of
9198 indicating that a module is being compiled for dynamic loading. Also
9199 remove #define IS_MODULE from modules and add SHARED_MODULE define
9200 to the mak/dsp files. [Alexei Kosut]
9202 *) Reduce logging level of "normal" warning messages to APLOG_INFO,
9203 since we are now logging APLOG_WARNING by default. [Roy Fielding]
9205 *) PORT: OS/2 tweak to deal with multiple .exe targets. [Brian Havard]
9207 *) Add documentation file and src/Configuration.tmpl entry for the
9208 experimental mod_mmap_static module. Because although it is and marked as
9209 an experimental one it is distributed and thus should be documented and
9210 prepared for configuration the same way as all others modules.
9211 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9213 *) Add query (-q) option to apxs support tool to be able to manually query
9214 specific settings from apxs. This is needed for instance when you
9215 manually want to access Apache's header files and you need to assemble
9216 the -I option. Now you can do -I`apxs -q INCLUDEDIR`.
9217 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9219 *) Now src/Configure uses a fallback strategy for the shared object support
9220 on platforms where no explicit information is available: If a Perl
9221 installation exists we ask it about its shared object support and if it's
9222 the dlopen-style one we shamelessly guess the compiler and linker flags
9223 for creating shared objects from Perls knowledge. Of course, the user is
9224 warning about what we are doing and informed that he should send us
9225 the guessed flags when they work. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9227 *) Provide APACI --without-support option to be able to disable the build
9228 and installation of the support tools from the src/support/ area.
9229 Although its useful to have these installed per default we should provide
9230 a way to compile and install without them for backward-compatibility.
9231 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9233 *) Add of the new APache eXtenSion (apxs) support tool for building and
9234 installing modules into an _already installed_ Apache package through the
9235 dynamic shared object (DSO) mechanism [mod_so.c]. The trick here is that
9236 this approach actually doesn't need the Apache source tree. The
9237 (APACI-installed) server package is enough, because this now includes the
9238 Apache C header files (PREFIX/include) and the new APXS tool
9239 (SBINDIR/apxs). The intend is to provide a handy tool for third-party
9240 module authors to build their Apache modules _OUTSIDE_ the Apache source
9241 tree while avoiding them to fiddle around with the totally platform
9242 dependend way of compiling DSO files. The tool supports all ranges of
9243 modules, from trivial ones (single mod_foo.c) to complex ones (like PHP3
9244 which has a mod_php3.c plus a pre-built libmodphp3-so.a) and even can
9245 on-the-fly generate a minimalistic Makefile and sample module for the
9246 first step to provide both a quick success event and to demonstrate the
9247 APXS mechanism to module authors. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9249 *) Fix core dumps in use of CONNECT in proxy.
9250 [<Rainer.Scherg rexroth.de>] PR#1326, #1573, #1942
9252 *) Modify the log directives in httpd.conf-dist files to use CustomLog
9253 so that users have examples of how CustomLog can be used.
9256 *) Add the new Apache Autoconf-style Interface (APACI) for the top-level of
9257 the Apache distribution tree. Until Apache 1.3 there was no real
9258 out-of-the-box batch-capable build and installation procedure for the
9259 complete Apache package. This is now provided by a top-level "configure"
9260 script and a corresponding top-level "Makefile.tmpl" file. The goal is
9261 to provide a GNU Autoconf-style frontend which is capable to both drive
9262 the old src/Configure stuff in batch and additionally installs the
9263 package with a GNU-conforming directory layout. Any options from the old
9264 configuration scheme are available plus a lot of new options for flexibly
9265 customizing Apache. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9267 *) The floating point ap_snprintf code wasn't threadsafe.
9268 Had to remove the HAVE_CVT macro in order to do threadsafe
9269 calling of the ?cvt() floating point routines. [Dean Gaudet]
9271 *) PORT: Add the SCO_SV port. [Jim Jagielski] PR#1962
9273 *) PORT: IRIX needs the -n32 flag iff using the 'cc' compiler
9274 [Jim Jagielski] PR#1901
9276 *) BUG: Configure was using TCC and CC inconsistently. Make sure
9277 Configure knows which CC we are using. [Jim Jagielski]
9279 *) "Options +Includes" wasn't correctly merged if "+IncludesNoExec"
9280 was defined in a parent directory. [Lars Eilebrecht]
9282 *) API: ap_snprintf() code mutated into ap_vformatter(), which is
9283 a generic printf-style routine that can call arbitrary output
9284 routines. Use this to replace http_bprintf.c. Add new routines
9285 psprintf(), pvsprintf() which allocate the exact amount of memory
9286 required for a string from a pool. Use psprintf() to clean up
9287 various bits of code which used ap_snprintf()/pstrdup().
9290 *) PORT: HAVE_SNPRINTF doesn't do anything any longer. This is because
9291 ap_snprintf() has different semantics and formatting codes than
9292 snprintf(). [Dean Gaudet]
9294 *) SIGXCPU and SIGXFSZ are now reset to SIG_DFL at boot-time. This
9295 is necessary on at least Solaris where the /etc/rc?.d scripts
9296 are run with these signals ignored, and "SIG_IGN" settings are
9297 maintained across exec().
9298 [Rein Tollevik <reint sys.sol.no>] PR#2009
9300 *) Fix the check for symbolic links in ``RewriteCond ... -l'': stat() was
9301 used instead of lstat() and thus this flag didn't work as expected.
9302 [Rein Tollevik <reint sys.sol.no>] PR#2010
9304 *) Fix the proxy pass-through feature of mod_rewrite for the case of
9305 existing QUERY_STRING now that mod_proxy was recently changed because of
9306 the new URL parsing stuff. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9308 *) A few changes to scoreboard definitions which helps gcc generate
9309 better code. [Dean Gaudet]
9311 *) ANSI C doesn't guarantee that "int foo : 2" in a structure will
9312 be a signed bitfield. So mark a few bitfields as signed to
9313 ensure correct code. [Dean Gaudet]
9315 *) The default for HostnameLookups was changed to Off, but there
9316 was a problem and it wasn't taking effect. [Dean Gaudet]
9318 *) PORT: Clean up undefined signals on some platforms (SCO, BeOS).
9321 *) After a SIGHUP the listening sockets in the parent weren't
9322 properly marked for closure on fork().
9323 [Jürgen Keil <jk tools.de>] PR#2000
9325 *) Allow %2F in two situations: 1) it is in the query part of the URI,
9326 therefore not exposed to %2F -> '/' translations and 2) the request
9327 is a proxy request, so we're not dealing with a local resource anyway.
9328 Without this, the proxy would fail to work for any URL's with
9329 %2f in them (occurs quite often in
9330 http://.../cgi-bin/...?http%3A%2F%2F... references) [Martin Kraemer]
9332 *) Protect against FD_SETSIZE mismatches. [Dean Gaudet]
9334 *) Make the shared object compilation command more portable by avoiding
9335 the direct combination of `-c' & `-o' which is not honored by some
9336 compilers like UnixWare's cc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9338 *) WIN32: the proxy was creating filenames missing the last four
9339 characters. While this normally doesn't stop anything from
9340 working, it can result in extra collisions.
9341 [Tim Costello <tjcostel socs.uts.edu.au>] PR#1890
9343 *) Now mod_proxy uses the response string (in addition to the response status
9344 code) from the already used FTP SIZE command to setup the Content-Length
9345 header if available. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1183
9347 *) Reanimated the (still undocumented) proxy receive buffer size directive:
9348 Renamed from ReceiveBufferSize to ProxyReceiveBufferSize because the old
9349 name was really too generic, added documentation for this directive to
9350 the mod_proxy.html and corrected the hyperlink to it in the
9351 new_features_1.3.html document. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1348
9353 *) Fix a bug in the src/helpers/fp2rp script and make it a little bit
9354 faster [Martin Kraemer]
9356 *) Make Configure die when you give it an unknown command switch.
9359 *) Add five new and fresh manpages for the support programs: dbmmanage.1,
9360 suexec.8, htdigest.1, rotatelogs.8 and logresolve.8. Now all up-to-date
9361 and per default compiled support programs have manual pages - just to
9362 document our stuff a little bit more and to be able to do really
9363 Unix-like installations ;-) [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9365 *) Major cleanups to the Configure script to make it and its generated
9366 Makefiles again readable and maintainable: add SRCDIR option, removed
9367 INCLUDES_DEPTH[0-2] kludge, cleanup of TARGET option, cleanup of
9368 generated sections, consequently added Makefile headers with inheritance
9369 information, added subdir movement messages for easier following where
9370 the build process currently stays (more verbose then standard Make, less
9371 verbose than GNU make), same style to comments in the Configure script,
9372 added Apache license header, fixed a few bugs, etc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9374 *) Add the new ApacheBench program "ab" to src/support/: This is derived
9375 from the ZeusBench benchmarking program and can be used to determine the
9376 response performance of an Apache installation. This version is
9377 officially licensed with Zeus Technology, Ltd. See the license agreement
9378 statements in <199803171224.NAA24547 en1.engelschall.com> in apache-core.
9379 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9381 *) API: Various core functions that are definately not part of the API
9382 have been made static, and a few have been marked API_EXPORT. Still
9383 more have been marked CORE_EXPORT and are not intended for general
9384 use by modules. [Doug MacEachern, Dean Gaudet]
9386 *) mod_proxy was not clearing the Proxy-Connection header from
9387 requests; now it does. This did not violate any spec, however
9388 causes poor interactions when you are talking to remote proxies.
9389 [Marc Slemko] PR#1741
9391 *) Various cleanups to the command line interface and manual pages.
9392 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9394 *) cfg_getline() was not properly handling lines that did not end
9395 with a line termination character. [Marc Slemko] PR#1869, 1909
9397 *) Performance tweak to mod_log_config. [Dmitry Khrustalev]
9399 *) Clean up some undocumented behavior of mod_setenvif related to
9400 "merging" two SetEnvIf directives when they match the same header
9401 and regex. Document that mod_setenvif will perform comparisons in
9402 the order they appear in the config file. Optimize mod_setenvif by
9403 doing more work at config time rather than at runtime.
9406 *) src/include/ap_config.h now wraps it's #define's with #ifndef/#endif's
9407 to allow for modules to overrule them and to reduce redefinition
9408 warnings [Jim Jagielski]
9410 *) [PORT] For A/UX change the OS-#define for -DAUX to -DAUX3.
9413 *) Making the hard-coded cross-module function call mime_find_ct() (from
9414 mod_proxy to mod_mime) obsolete by making sure the API hook for MIME type
9415 checking is really called even for proxy requests except for URLs with
9416 HTTP schemes (because there we can optimize by not running the type
9417 checking hooks due to the fact that the proxy gets the MIME Content-type
9418 from the remote host later). This change cleans up mod_mime by removing
9419 the ugly export kludge, makes the one-liner file mod_mime.h obsolete, and
9420 especially unbundles mod_proxy and mod_mime. This way they both now can
9421 be compiled as shared objects and are no longer tied together.
9422 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9424 *) util.c cleanup and speedup. [Dean Gaudet]
9426 *) API: Clarification, pstrndup() will always copy n bytes of the source
9427 and NUL terminate at the (n+1)st byte. [Dean Gaudet]
9429 *) Mark module command_rec and handler_rec structures const so that they
9430 end up in the read-only data section (and are friendlier to systems
9431 that don't do optimistic memory allocation on fork()). [Dean Gaudet]
9433 *) Add check to the "Port" directive to make sure the specified
9434 port is in the appropriate range. [Ben Hyde]
9436 *) Performance improvements to invoke_handler().
9437 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima bog.msu.su>]
9439 *) Added support for building shared objects even for library-style modules
9440 (which are built from more than one object file). This now provides the
9441 ability to build mod_proxy as a shared object module. Additionally
9442 modules like mod_example are now also supported for shared object
9443 building because the generated Makefiles now no longer assume there is at
9444 least one statically linked module. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9446 *) API: Clarify usage of content_type, handler, content_encoding,
9447 content_language and content_languages fields in request_rec. They
9448 must always be lowercased; and the strings pointed to shouldn't
9449 be modified (you must copy them to modify them). Fix a few bugs
9450 related to this. [Dean Gaudet]
9452 *) API: Clarification: except for RAW_ARGS, all command handlers can
9453 treat the char * parameters as permanent, and modifiable. There
9454 is no need to pstrdup() them. Clean up some needless pstrdup().
9457 *) Now mod_so keeps track of which module shared objects with which names
9458 are loaded and thus avoids multiple loading and unloading and irritating
9459 error_log messages. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9461 *) Prior to the existence of mod_setenv it was necessary to tweak the TZ
9462 environment variable in the apache core. But that tweaking interferes
9463 with mod_setenv. So don't tweak if the user has specified an explicit
9464 TZ variable. [Jay Soffian <jay cimedia.com>] PR#1888
9466 *) rputs() did not calculate r->sent_bodyct properly.
9467 [Siegmund Stirnweiss <siegst kat.ina.de>] PR#1900
9469 *) The CGI spec says that REMOTE_HOST should be set to the remote hosts's
9470 name, or left unset if this value is unavailable. Apache was setting
9471 it to the IP address when unavailable.
9472 [Tony Finch <fanf demon.net>] PR#1925
9474 *) Various improvements to the configuration and build support for compiling
9475 modules as shared objects. Especially Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.1, IRIX and
9476 OSF1 support with GCC and vendor compilers was added. This way shared
9477 object support is now provided out-of-the-box for FreeBSD, Linux,
9478 Solaris, SunOS, IRIX and OSF1. In short: On all major platforms!
9479 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9481 *) Minor cleanup in http_main -- split QNX and OS2 specific "mmap"
9482 scoreboard code into separate #defines -- USE_POSIX_SCOREBOARD
9483 and USE_OS2_SCOREBOARD. [Dean Gaudet]
9485 *) Fix one more special locking problem for RewriteMap programs in
9486 mod_rewrite: According to the documentation of flock(), "Locks are on
9487 files, not file descriptors. That is, file descriptors duplicated
9488 through dup(2) or fork(2) do not result in multiple instances of a lock,
9489 but rather multiple references to a single lock. If a process holding a
9490 lock on a file forks and the child explicitly unlocks the file, the
9491 parent will lose its lock.". To overcome this we have to make sure the
9492 RewriteLock file is opened _AFTER_ the childs were spawned which is now
9493 the case by opening it in the child_init instead of the module_init API
9494 hook. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1029
9496 *) Change to Location and LocationMatch semantics. LocationMatch no
9497 longer lets a single slash match multiple adjacent slashes in the
9498 URL. This change is for consistency with RewriteRule and
9499 AliasMatch. Multiple slashes have meaning in URLs that they do
9500 not have in (some) filesystems. Location on the other hand can
9501 be considered a shorthand for a more complicated regex, and it
9502 does match multiple slashes with a single slash -- which is
9503 also consistent with the Alias directive.
9504 [Dean Gaudet] related PR#1440
9506 *) Fix bug with mod_mime_magic causing certain files, including files
9507 of length 0, to result in no response from the server.
9510 *) The Configure script now generates src/include/ap_config.h which
9511 contains the set of defines used when Apache is compiled on a platform.
9512 This file can then be included by external modules before including
9513 any Apache header files in case they are being built separately from
9514 Apache. Along with this change, a couple of minor changes were
9515 made to make Apache's #defines coexist peacefully with any autoconf
9516 defines an external module might have. [Rasmus Lerdorf]
9518 *) Fix mod_rewrite for the ugly API case where <VirtualHost> sections exist
9519 but without any RewriteXXXXX directives. Here mod_rewrite is given no
9520 chance by the API to initialize its per-server configuration and thus
9521 receives the wrong one from the main server. This is now avoided by
9522 remembering the server together with the config structure while
9523 configuring and later assuming there is no config when we see a
9524 difference between the remembered server and the one calling us.
9525 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1790
9527 *) Fixed the DBM RewriteMap support for mod_rewrite: First the support now
9528 is automatically disabled under configure time when the dbm_xxx functions
9529 are not available. Second, two heavy source code errors in the DBM
9530 support code were fixed. This makes DBM RewriteMap's usable again after
9531 a long time of brokenness. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1696
9533 *) Now all configuration files support Unix-style line-continuation via
9534 the trailing backslash ("\") character. This enables us to write down
9535 complex or just very long directives in a more readable way. The
9536 backslash character has to be really the last character before the
9537 newline and it has not been prefixed by another (escaping) backslash.
9538 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9540 *) When using ProxyPass the ?querystring was not passed correctly.
9541 [Joel Truher <truher wired.com>]
9543 *) To deal with modules being compiled and [dynamically] linked
9544 at a different time from the core, the SERVER_VERSION and
9545 SERVER_BUILT symbols have been abstracted through the new
9546 API routines apapi_get_server_version() and apapi_get_server_built().
9549 *) WIN32: Preserve trailing slash in canonical path (and hence
9550 in PATH_INFO). [Paul Sutton, Ben Laurie]
9552 *) PORT: USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT has proven unreliable
9553 depending on the rev of Solaris and what mixture of modules
9554 are in use. So it has been disabled, and Solaris is back to
9555 using USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT. Users may experiment with
9556 USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT at their own risk, it may speed
9557 up static content only servers. Or it may fail unpredictably.
9558 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1779, 1854, 1904
9560 *) mod_test_util_uri.c created which tests the logic in util_uri.c.
9563 *) API: Rewrite of absoluteURI handling, and in particular how
9564 absoluteURIs match vhosts. Unless a request is a proxy request, a
9565 "http://host" url is treated as if a similar "Host:" header had been
9566 supplied. This change was made to support future HTTP/1.x protocols
9567 which may require clients to send absoluteURIs for all requests.
9569 In order to achieve this change subtle changes were made to the API. In a
9570 request_rec, r->hostlen has been removed. r->unparsed_uri now exists so
9571 that the unmodified uri can be retrieved easily. r->proxyreq is not set
9572 by the core, modules must set it during the post_read_request or
9573 translate_names phase.
9575 Plus changes to the virtualhost test suite for absoluteURI testing.
9577 This fixes several bugs with the proxy proxying requests to vhosts
9578 managed by the same httpd.
9581 *) API: Cleanup of code in http_vhost.c, and remove vhost matching
9582 code from mod_rewrite. The vhost matching is now performed by a
9583 globally available function matches_request_vhost(). [Dean Gaudet]
9585 *) Reduce memory usage, and speed up ServerAlias support. As a
9586 side-effect users can list multiple ServerAlias directives
9587 and they're all considered.
9588 [Chia-liang Kao <clkao cirx.org>] PR#1531
9590 *) The "poly" directive in image maps did not include the borders of the
9591 polygon, whereas the "rect" directive does. Fix this inconsistency.
9592 [Konstantin Morshnev <moko design.ru>] PR#1771
9594 *) Make \\ behave as expected. [<Ronald.Tschalaer psi.ch>]
9596 *) Add the `%a' construct to LogFormat and CustomLog to log the client IP
9597 address. [Todd Eigenschink <eigenstr mixi.net>] PR#1885
9599 *) API: A new source module main/util_uri.c; It contains a routine
9600 parse_uri_components() and friends which breaks a URI into its component
9601 parts. These parts are stored in a uri_components structure called
9602 parsed_uri within each request_rec, and are available to all modules.
9603 Additionally, an unparse routine is supplied which re-assembles the URI
9604 components back to an URI, optionally hiding the username:password@ part
9605 from ftp proxy requests, and other useful routines. Within the structure,
9606 you find on a ready-for-use basis:
9607 scheme; /* scheme ("http"/"ftp"/...) */
9608 hostinfo; /* combined [user[:password]@]host[:port] */
9609 user; /* user name, as in http://user:passwd@host:port/ */
9610 password; /* password, as in http://user:passwd@host:port/ */
9611 hostname; /* hostname from URI (or from Host: header) */
9612 port_str; /* port string (integer representation is in "port") */
9613 path; /* the request path (or "/" if only scheme://host was given) */
9614 query; /* Everything after a '?' in the path, if present */
9615 fragment; /* Trailing "#fragment" string, if present */
9616 This is meant to serve as the platform for *BIG* savings in
9617 code complexity for the proxy module (and maybe the vhost logic).
9620 *) Make all possible meta-construct expansions ($N, %N, %{NAME} and
9621 ${map:key}) available for all location where a string is created in
9622 mod_rewrite rewriting rulesets: 1st arg of RewriteCond, 2nd arg of
9623 RewriteRule and for the [E=NAME:STRING] flag of RewriteRule. This way the
9624 possible expansions are consequently usable at all string creation
9625 locations. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9627 *) Fix initialization of RewriteLogLevel (default now is 0 as documented
9628 and not 1) and the per-virtual-server merging of directives. Now all
9629 directives except `RewriteEngine' and `RewriteOption' are either
9630 completely overridden (default) or completely inherited (when
9631 `RewriteOptions inherit') is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1325
9633 *) Fix `RewriteMap' program lookup in situations where such maps are
9634 defined but disabled (`RewriteEngine off') in per-server context.
9635 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1431
9637 *) Fix bug introduced in 1.3b4-dev, config with no Port setting would cause
9638 server to bind to port 0 rather than 80. [Dean Gaudet]
9640 *) Fix long-standing problem with RewriteMap _programs_ under Unix derivates
9641 (like SunOS and FreeBSD) which don't accept the locking of pipes
9642 directly. A new directive RewriteLock is introduced which can be used to
9643 setup a separate locking file which then is used for synchronization.
9644 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1029
9646 *) WIN32: The server root is obtained from the registry key
9647 HKLM\SOFTWARE\Apache Group\Apache\<version> (version is currently
9648 "1.3 beta"), unless overridden by the -d command line flag. The
9649 value is stored by running "apache -i -d serverroot". [Paul Sutton]
9651 *) Merged os/win32/mod_dll.c into modules/standard/mod_so.c to support
9652 dynamic loading on Win32 and Unix via the same module. [Paul Sutton]
9654 *) Now mod_rewrite no longer makes problematic assumptions on the characters
9655 a username can contain when trying to expand it via /etc/passwd.
9656 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9658 *) The mod_setenvif BrowserMatch backwards compatibility command did not
9659 work properly with spaces in the regex. [Ronald Tschalaer] PR#1825
9661 *) Add new RewriteMap types: First, `rnd' which is equivalent to the `txt'
9662 type but with a special post-processing for the looked-up value: It
9663 parses it into alternatives according to `|' chars and then only one
9664 particular alternative is chosen randomly (this is an essential
9665 functionality needed for balancing between backend-servers when using
9666 Apache as a Reverse Proxy. The looked up value here is a list of
9667 servers). Second, `int' with the built-in maps named `tolower' and
9668 `toupper' which can be used to map URL parts to a fixed case (this is an
9669 essential feature to fix the case of server names when doing mass
9670 virtual-hosting with the help of mod_rewrite instead of using
9671 <VirtualHost> sections). [Ralf S. Engelschall, parts based on code from
9672 Jay Soffian <jay cimedia.com>] PR#1631
9674 *) Add a new directive to mod_proxy similar to ProxyPass: `ProxyPassReverse'.
9675 This directive lets Apache adjust the URL in Location-headers on HTTP
9676 redirect responses sent by the remote server. This way the virtually
9677 mapped area is no longer left on redirects and thus by-passed which is
9678 especially essential when running Apache as a reverse proxy.
9679 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9681 *) Hide Proxy-Authorization from CGI/SSI/etc just like Authorization is
9682 hidden. [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
9684 *) Apache will, when started with the -X (single process) debugging flag,
9685 honor the SIGINT or SIGQUIT signals again now. This capability got lost
9686 a while ago during OS/2 signal handling changes.
9688 *) [PORT] Work around the fact that NeXT runs on more than the
9689 m68k chips in mod_status [Scott Anguish and Timothy Luoma
9692 *) [PORT] Recognize FreeBSD versions so we can use the OS regex as well
9693 as handling unsigned-chars for FreeBSD v3 and v2 [Andrey Chernov
9694 <ache nagual.pp.ru> and Jim] PR#1450
9696 *) Use SA_RESETHAND or SA_ONESHOT when installing the coredump handlers.
9697 In particular the handlers could trigger themselves into an infinite
9698 loop if RLimitMem was used with a small amount of memory -- too small
9699 for the signal stack frame to be set up. [Dean Gaudet]
9701 *) Fix problems with absoluteURIs introduced during 1.3b4. [Dean Gaudet,
9702 Alvaro Martinez Echevarria <alvaro lander.es>]
9704 *) Fix multiple UserDir problem introduced during 1.3b4-dev.
9705 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1850
9707 *) ap_cpystrn() had an off-by-1 error.
9708 [Charles Fu <ccwf klab.caltech.edu>] PR#1847
9710 *) API: As Ken suggested the check_cmd_context() function and related
9711 defines are non-static now so modules can use 'em. [Martin Kraemer]
9713 *) mod_info would occasionally produce an unpaired <tt> in its
9714 output. Fixed. [Martin Kraemer]
9716 *) By default AIX binds a process (and it's children) to a single
9717 processor. httpd children now unbind themselves from that cpu
9718 and re-bind to one selected at random via bindprocessor()
9721 *) Linux 2.0 and above implement RLIMIT_AS, RLIMIT_DATA has almost no
9722 effect. Work around it by using RLIMIT_AS for the RLimitMEM
9723 directive. [Enrik Berkhan <enrik inka.de>] PR#1816
9725 *) mod_mime_magic error message should indicate the filename when
9726 reads fail. ["M.D.Parker" <mdpc netcom.com>] PR#1827
9728 *) Previously Apache would permit </Files> to end <FilesMatch> (and
9729 similary for Location and Directory), now this is diagnosed as an
9730 error. Improve error messages for mismatched sections (<Files>,
9731 <FilesMatch>, <Directory>, <DirectoryMatch>, ...).
9732 [Dean Gaudet, Martin Kraemer]
9734 *) <Files> is not permitted within <Location> (because of the
9735 semantic ordering). [Dean Gaudet] PR#379
9737 *) <Files> with wildcards was broken by the change in wildcard
9738 semantics (* does not match /). To fix this, <Files> now
9739 apply only to the basename of the request filename. This
9740 fixes some other inconsistencies in <Files> semantics
9741 (such as <Files a*b> not working). [Dean Gaudet] PR#1817
9743 *) Removed bogus "dist.tar" target from Makefile.tmpl and make sure
9744 backup files are removed on "clean" target [Ralf S. Engelschall]
9746 *) PORT: Add -lm to LIBS for HPUX. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1639
9748 *) Various errors from select() and accept() in child_main() would
9749 result in an infinite loop. It seems these two tickle kernel
9750 or library bugs occasionally, and result in log spammage and
9751 a generally bad scene. Now the child exits immediately,
9752 which seems to be a good workaround.
9753 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1747, 1107, 588, 1787, 987, 588
9755 *) Cleaned up some race conditions in unix child_main during
9756 initialization. [Dean Gaudet]
9758 *) SECURITY: "UserDir /abspath" without a * in the path would allow
9759 remote users to access "/~.." and bypass access restrictions
9760 (but note /~../.. was handled properly).
9761 [Lauri Jesmin <jesmin ut.ee>] PR#1701
9763 *) API: os_is_path_absolute() now takes a const char * instead of a char *.
9766 Changes with Apache 1.3b5
9768 *) Source file dependencies in Makefile.tmpl files throughout the
9769 source tree were updated to accurately reflect reality.
9772 *) Preserve the content encoding given by the AddEncoding directive
9773 when the client doesn't otherwise specify an encoding.
9774 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer psi.ch>]
9776 *) Sort out problems with canonical filename handling happening too late.
9777 [Dean Gaudet, Ben Laurie]
9779 Changes with Apache 1.3b4
9781 *) The module structure was modified to include a *dynamic_load_handle
9782 in the STANDARD_MODULE_STUFF portion, and the MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER
9783 has been bumped accordingly. [Paul Sutton]
9785 *) All BrowserMatch directives mentioned in
9786 htdocs/manual/known_client_problems.html are in the default
9787 configuration files. [Lars Eilebrecht]
9789 *) MiNT port update. [Jan Paul Schmidt]
9791 *) HTTP/1.1 requires x-gzip and gzip encodings be treated
9792 equivalent, similarly for x-compress and compress. Apache
9793 now ignores a leading x- when comparing encodings. It also
9794 preserves the encoding the client requests (for example if
9795 it requests x-gzip, then Apache will respond with x-gzip
9796 in the Content-Encoding header).
9797 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer psi.ch>] PR#1772
9799 *) Fix a memory leak on keep-alive connections. [Igor Tatarinov]
9801 *) Added mod_so module to support dynamic loading of modules on Unix
9802 (like mod_dld for Win32). This replaces mod_dld.c. Use SharedModule
9803 instead of AddModule in Configuration to build shared modules
9804 [Sameer Parekh, Paul Sutton]
9806 *) Minor cleanups to r->finfo handling in some modules.
9809 *) Abstract read()/write() to ap_read()/ap_write().
9810 Makes it easier to add other types of IO code such as SFIO.
9813 *) API: Generalize default_port manipulations to make support of
9814 different protocols easier. [Ben Laurie, Randy Terbush]
9816 *) There are many cases where users do not want Apache to form
9817 self-referential urls using the "canonical" ServerName and Port.
9818 The new UseCanonicalName directive (default on), if set to off
9819 will cause Apache to use the client-supplied hostname and port.
9820 API: Part of this change required a change to the construct_url()
9821 prototype; and the addition of get_server_name() and
9823 [Michael Douglass <mikedoug texas.net>, Dean Gaudet]
9824 PR#315, 459, 485, 1433
9826 *) Yet another rearrangement of the source tree.. now all the common
9827 header files are in the src/include directory. The -Imain -Iap
9828 references in Makefiles have been changed to the simpler -Iinclude
9829 instead. In addition to simplifying the build a little bit, this
9830 also makes it clear when a module is referencing something in a
9831 other than kosher manner (e.g., the proxy including mod_mime.h).
9832 Module-private header files (the proxy, mod_mime, the regex library,
9833 and mod_rewrite) have not been moved to src/include; nor have
9834 the OS-abstraction files. [Ken Coar]
9836 *) Fix a bug where r->hostname didn't have the :port stripped
9837 from it. [Dean Gaudet]
9839 *) Tweaked the headers_out table size, and the subprocess_env
9840 table size guess in rename_original_environment(). Added
9841 MAKE_TABLE_PROFILE which can help discover make_table()
9842 calls that use too small an initial guess, see alloc.c.
9845 *) Options and AllowOverride weren't properly merging in the main
9846 server setting inside vhosts (only an issue when you have no
9847 <Directory> or other section containing an Options that affects
9848 a request). Options +foo or -foo in the main_server wouldn't
9849 affect the main_server's lookup defaults. [Dean Gaudet]
9851 *) Variable 'cwd' was being used pointlessly before being set.
9854 *) r->allowed handling cleaned up in the standard modules.
9857 *) Some case-sensitivity issues cleaned up to be consistent with
9858 RFC2068. [Dean Gaudet]
9860 *) SIGURG doesn't exist everywhere.
9861 [Mark Andrew Heinrich <heinrich tinderbox.Stanford.EDU>]
9863 *) mod_unique_id was erroneously generating a second unique id when
9864 an internal redirect occured. Such redirects occur, for example,
9865 when processing a DirectoryIndex match. [Dean Gaudet]
9867 *) API: table_add, table_merge, and table_set include implicit pstrdup()
9868 of the key and value. But in many cases this is not required
9869 because the key/value is a constant, or the value has been built
9870 by pstrcat() or other similar means. New routines table_addn,
9871 table_mergen, and table_setn have been added to the API, these
9872 routines do not pstrdup() their arguments. The core code and
9873 standard modules were changed to take advantage of these routines.
9874 The resulting server is up to 20% faster in some situations.
9876 Note that it is easy to get code subtly wrong if you pass a key/value
9877 which is in a pool other than the pool of the table. The only
9878 safe thing to do is to pass key/values which are in the pool of
9879 the table, or in one of the ancestors of the pool of the table.
9880 i.e. if the table is part of a subrequest, a value from the main
9881 request's pool is OK since the subrequest pool is a sub_pool of the
9882 main request's pool (and therefore has a lifespan at most as long as
9883 the main pool). There is debugging code which can detect improper
9884 usage, enabled by defining POOL_DEBUG. See alloc.c for more details.
9885 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima bog.msu.su>, Dean Gaudet]
9887 *) More mod_mime_magic cleanup: fewer syscalls; should handle "files"
9888 which don't exist on disk more gracefully; handles vhosts properly.
9889 Update documentation to reflect the code -- if there's no
9890 MimeMagicFile directive then the module is not enabled.
9893 *) PORT: Some older *nix dialects cannot automatically start scripts
9894 which begin with a #! interpreter line (the shell starts the scripts
9895 appropriately on these platforms). Apache now supports starting of
9896 "hashbang-scripts" when the NEED_HASHBANG_EMUL define is set.
9897 [Martin Kraemer, with code from Peter Wemm <peter zeus.dialix.oz.au>
9900 *) API: "typedef array_header table" removed from alloc.h, folks should
9901 have been writing to use table as if it were an opaque type, but even
9902 some standard modules got this wrong. By changing the definition
9903 to "typedef struct table table" module authors will receive compile
9904 time warnings that they're doing the wrong thing. This change
9905 facilitates future changes with more sophisticated table
9906 structures. Specifically, module authors should be using table_elts()
9907 to get access to an array_header * for the table. [Dean Gaudet]
9909 *) API: Renamed new_connection() to avoid namespace collision with LDAP
9910 library routines. [Ken Coar, Rasmus Lerdorf]
9912 *) WIN32: mod_speling is now available on the Win32 platform.
9915 *) For clarity the following compile time definition was changed:
9917 SAFE_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT -> SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT
9919 Also, for example, HAVE_MMAP would mean to use mmap() scoreboards
9920 and not be a general notice that the OS has mmap(). Now the
9921 HAVE_MMAP/SHMGET #defines strictly are informational that the
9922 OS has that method of shared memory; the type to use for
9923 the scoreboard is a seperate #define (USE_MMAP_SCOREBOARD
9924 and USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD). This allows outside modules to
9925 determine if shared memory is available and allows Apache
9926 to determine the best method to use for the scoreboard.
9929 *) PORT: UnixWare 2.1.2 SMP appears to require USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT,
9930 as do various earlier versions. It should be safe on all versions.
9931 Unixware 1.x appears to have the same SIGHUP bug as solaris does with
9932 the slack code. A few other cleanups for Unixware.
9933 [Tom Hughes <thh cyberscience.com>] PR#1082, PR#1282, PR#1499, PR#1553
9935 *) PORT: A/UX can handle single-listen accepts without mutex
9936 locking, so we add SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT. [Jim Jagielski]
9938 *) When die() happens we need to eat any request body if one exists.
9939 Otherwise we can't continue with a keepalive session. This shows up
9940 as a POST problem with MSIE 4.0, typically against pages which are
9941 authenticated. [Roy Fielding] PR#1399
9943 *) If you define SECURITY_HOLE_PASS_AUTHORIZATION then the Authorization
9944 header will be passed to CGIs. This is generally a security hole, so
9945 it's not a default. [Marc Slemko] PR#549
9947 *) Fix Y2K problem with date printing in suexec log.
9948 [Paul Eggert <eggert twinsun.com>] PR#1343
9950 *) WIN32 deserves a pid file. [Ben Hyde]
9952 *) suexec errors now include the errno/description. [Marc Slemko] PR#1543
9954 *) PORT: OSF/1 now uses USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT to solve PR#467.
9955 The choice of flock vs. fcntl was made based on timings which showed that
9956 even on non-NFS, non-exported filesystems fcntl() was an order of
9957 magnitude slower. It also uses SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT so
9958 that single socket users will see no difference. [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
9960 *) "File does not exist" error message was erroneously including the
9961 errno. [Marc Slemko]
9963 *) Improve the warning message generated when a client drops the
9964 connection (hits stop button, etc.) during a send. [Roy Fielding]
9966 *) Defining GPROF will disable profiling in the parent and enable it
9967 in the children. If you're profiling under Linux this is pretty much
9968 necessary because SIGPROF is lost across a fork(). [Dean Gaudet]
9970 *) htdigest and htpasswd needed slight tweaks to work on OS/2 and WIN32.
9973 *) The NeXT cc (which is gcc hacked up) doesn't appear to support some
9974 gcc functionality. Work around it.
9975 [Keith Severson <keith sssd.navy.mil>] PR#1613
9977 *) Some linkers complain when .o files contain no functions.
9978 [Keith Severson <keith sssd.navy.mil>] PR#1614
9980 *) Some const declarations in mod_imap.c that were added for debugging
9981 purposes caused some compilers heartburn without adding any
9982 significant value, so they've been removed. [Ken Coar]
9984 *) The src/main/*.h header files have had #ifndef wrappers added to
9985 insulate them against duplicate calls if they get included through
9986 multiple paths (e.g., in .c files as well as other .h files).
9989 *) The libap routines now have a header file for their prototypes,
9990 src/ap/ap.h, to ease their use in non-httpd applications. [Ken Coar]
9992 *) mod_autoindex with a plaintext header file would emit the <PRE>
9993 start-tag before the HTML preamble, rather than after the preamble
9994 but before the header file contents. [John Van Essen <jve gamers.org>]
9997 *) SECURITY: Fix a possible buffer overflow in logresolve. This is
9998 only an issue on systems without a MAXDNAME define or where
9999 the resolver returns domain names longer than MAXDNAME. [Marc Slemko]
10001 *) SECURITY: Eliminate possible buffer overflow in cfg_getline, which
10002 is used to read various types of files such as htaccess and
10003 htpasswd files. [Marc Slemko]
10005 *) SECURITY: Ensure that the buffer returned by ht_time is always
10006 properly null terminated. [Marc Slemko]
10008 *) The "Connection" header could be sent back with multiple "close"
10009 tokens. Not an error, but a waste.
10010 [<Ronald.Tschalaer psi.ch>] PR#1683
10012 *) mod_rewrite's RewriteLog should behave like mod_log_config, it
10013 shouldn't force hostname lookups. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1684
10015 *) "basic" auth needs a case-insensitive comparison.
10016 [<Ronald.Tschalaer psi.ch>] PR#1666
10018 *) For maximum portability, the environment passed to CGIs should
10019 only contain variables whose names match the regex
10020 /[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]*/. This is now enforced by stamping
10021 underscores over any character outside the regex. This
10022 affects HTTP_* variables, in a way that should be backward
10023 compatible for all the standard headers; and affects variables
10024 set with SetEnv/BrowserMatch and similar directives.
10027 *) mod_speling returned incorrect HREF's when an ambigous match
10028 was found. Noticed by <robinton amtrash.comlink.de> (Soeren Ziehe)
10029 [Soeren Ziehe <robinton amtrash.comlink.de>, Martin Kraemer]
10031 *) PORT: Apache now compiles & runs on an EBCDIC mainframe
10032 (the Siemens BS2000/OSD family) in the POSIX subsystem
10035 *) PORT: Fix problem killing children when terminating. Allow ^C
10036 to shut down the server. [Brian Havard]
10038 *) pstrdup() is implicit in calls to table_* functions, so there's
10039 no need to do it before calling. Clean up a few cases.
10040 [Marc Slemko, Dean Gaudet]
10042 *) new -C and -c command line arguments
10044 -C "directive" : process directive before reading config files
10045 -c "directive" : process directive after reading config files
10047 httpd -C "PerlModule Apache::httpd_conf"
10048 [Doug MacEachern, Martin Kraemer]
10050 *) WIN32: Fix the execution of CGIs that are scripts and called
10051 with path info that does not have an '=' in.
10052 (eg. http://server/cgi-bin/printenv?foobar)
10053 [Marc Slemko] PR#1591
10055 *) WIN32: Fix a call to os_canonical_filename so it doesn't try to
10056 mess with fake filenames. This fixes proxy caching on
10059 *) SECURITY: General mod_include cleanup, including fixing several
10060 possible buffer overflows and a possible infinite loop.
10061 [Dean Gaudet, Marc Slemko]
10063 *) SECURITY: Numerous changes to mod_imap in a general cleanup
10064 including fixing a possible buffer overflow. [Dean Gaudet]
10066 *) WIN32: overhaul of multithreading code. Shutdowns are now graceful
10067 (connections are not dropped). Code can handle graceful restarts
10068 (but there is as yet no way to signal this to Apache). Various
10069 other cleanups. [Paul Sutton]
10071 *) The aplog_error changes specific to 1.3 introduced a buffer
10072 overrun in the (now legacy) log_printf function. Fixed.
10075 *) mod_digest didn't properly deal with proxy authentication. It
10076 also lacked a case-insensitive comparision of the "Digest"
10077 token. [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer psi.ch>] PR#1599
10079 *) A few cleanups in mod_status for efficiency. [Dean Gaudet]
10081 *) A few cleanups in mod_info to make it thread-safe, and remove an
10082 off-by-5 bug that could hammer \0 on the stack. [Dean Gaudet]
10084 *) no2slash() was O(n^2) in the length of the input. Make it O(n).
10087 *) API: migration from strncpy() to our "enhanced" version called
10088 ap_cpystrn() for performance and functionality reasons.
10089 Located in libap.a. [Jim Jagielski]
10091 *) table_set() and table_unset() did not deal correctly with
10092 multiple occurrences of the same key.
10093 [Stephen Scheck <sscheck infonex.net>, Ben Laurie] PR#1604
10095 *) The AuthName must now be enclosed in quotes if it is to contain
10096 spaces. [Ken Coar] PR#1195
10098 *) API: new function: ap_escape_quotes(). [Ken Coar] PR#1195
10100 *) WIN32: Work around optimiser bug that killed ISAPI in release
10101 versions. [Ben Laurie] PR#1533
10103 *) PORT: Update the MPE port [Mark Bixby, Jim Jagielski]
10105 *) Interim (slow) fix for p->sub_pool critical sections in
10106 alloc.c (affects win32 only). [Ben Hyde]
10108 *) non-WIN32 was missing destroy_mutex definition. [Ben Hyde]
10110 *) send_fd_length() did not calculate total_bytes_sent properly.
10111 [Ben Reser <breser regnow.com>] PR#1366
10113 *) The bputc() macro was not properly integrated with the chunking
10114 code; in many cases modules using bputc() could cause completely
10115 bogus chunked output. (Typically this will show up as problems
10116 with Internet Explorer 4.0 reading a page, but other browsers
10117 having no problem.) [Dean Gaudet]
10119 *) Create LARGE_WRITE_THRESHOLD define which determines how many
10120 bytes have to be supplied to bwrite() before it will consider
10121 doing a writev() to assemble multiple buffers in one system
10122 call. This is critical for modules such as mod_include,
10123 mod_autoindex, mod_php3 which all use bputc()/bputs() of smaller
10124 strings in some cases. The result would be extra effort
10125 setting up writev(), and in many cases extra effort building
10126 chunks. The default is 31, it can be overriden at compile
10127 time. [Dean Gaudet]
10129 *) Move the gid switching code into the child so that log files
10130 and pid files are opened with the root gid.
10131 [Gregory A Lundberg <lundberg vr.net>]
10133 *) WIN32: Check for binaries by looking for the executable header
10134 instead of counting control characters.
10135 [Jim Patterson <Jim.Patterson Cognos.COM>] PR#1340
10137 *) ap_snprintf() moved from main/util_snprintf.c to ap/ap_snprintf.c
10138 so the functionality is available to applications other than the
10139 server itself (like the src/support tools). [Ken Coar]
10141 *) ap_slack() moved out of main/util.c into ap/ap_slack.c as part of
10142 the libap consolidation work. [Ken Coar]
10144 *) ap_snprintf() with a len of 0 behaved like sprintf(). This is not
10145 useful, and isn't what the standards require. Now it returns 0
10146 and writes nothing. [Dean Gaudet]
10148 *) When an error occurs in fcntl() locking suggest the user look up
10149 the docs for LockFile. [Dean Gaudet]
10151 *) Eliminate some dead code from writev_it_all().
10152 [Igor Tatarinov <tatarino prairie.NoDak.edu>]
10154 *) mod_autoindex had an fread() without checking the result code.
10155 It also wouldn't handle "AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/text.gif text/*"
10156 (note the missing closing paren) properly. [Dean Gaudet]
10158 *) It appears the "257th byte" bug (see
10159 htdocs/manual/misc/known_client_problems.html#257th-byte) can happen
10160 at the 256th byte as well. Fixed. [Dean Gaudet]
10162 *) PORT: Fix mod_mime_magic under OS/2, no support for block devices.
10165 *) Fix memory corruption caused by allocating auth usernames in the
10166 wrong pool. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1500
10168 *) Fix an off-by-1, and an unterminated string error in
10169 mod_mime_magic. [Dean Gaudet]
10171 *) Fix a potential SEGV problem in mod_negotiation when dealing
10172 with type-maps. [Dean Gaudet]
10174 *) Better glibc support under Linux. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1542
10176 *) "RedirectMatch gone /" would cause a SIGSEGV. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1319
10178 *) WIN32: avoid overflows during file canonicalisations.
10179 [<malcolm mgdev.demon.co.uk>] PR#1378
10181 *) WIN32: set_file_slot() didn't detect absolute paths. [Ben Laurie]
10184 *) WIN32: mod_status display header didn't match fields. [Ben Laurie]
10186 *) The pthread_mutex_* functions return an error code, and don't
10187 set errno. [Igor Tatarinov <tatarino prairie.NoDak.edu>]
10189 *) WIN32: Allow spaces to prefix the interpreter in #! lines.
10190 [Ben Laurie] PR#1101
10192 *) WIN32: Cure file leak in CGIs. [Peter Tillemans <pti net4all.be>] PR#1523
10194 *) proxy_ftp: the directory listings generated by the proxy ftp module
10195 now have a title in which the path components are clickable and allow
10196 quick navigation to the clicked-on directory on the currently listed
10197 ftp server. This also fixes a bug where the ".." directory links would
10198 sometimes refer to the wrong directory. [Martin Kraemer]
10200 *) WIN32: Allocate the correct amount of memory for the scoreboard.
10203 *) WIN32: Only lowercase the part of the path that is real. [Ben Laurie]
10206 *) Fix problems with timeouts in inetd mode and -X mode. [Dean Gaudet]
10208 *) Fix the spurious "(0)unknown error: mmap_handler: mmap failed"
10209 error messages. [Ben Hyde]
10211 Changes with Apache 1.3b3
10213 *) WIN32: Work around brain-damaged spawn calls that can't deal
10214 with spaces and slashes. [Ben Laurie]
10216 *) WIN32: Fix the code so CGIs can use socket calls on Windows.
10217 The problem was that certain undocumented environment variables
10218 needed for sockets to work under Win32 were not being passed.
10219 [Frank Faubert <frank sane.com>]
10221 *) Add a "-V" command line flag to the httpd binary. This
10222 flag shows some of the defines that Apache was compiled with.
10223 It is useful for debugging purposes. [Martin Kraemer]
10225 *) Start separating the ap_*() routines into their own library, so they
10226 can be used by items in src/support among other things.
10227 [Ken Coar] PR#512, 905, 1252, 1308
10229 *) Give a more informative error when no AuthType is set.
10232 *) Remove strtoul() use from mod_proxy because it isn't available
10233 on all platforms. [Marc Slemko] PR#1214
10235 *) WIN32: Some Win32 systems terminated all responses after 16 kB.
10236 This turns out to be a bug in Winsock - select() doesn't always
10237 return the correct status. [Ben Laurie]
10239 *) Directives owned by http_core can now use the new check_cmd_context()
10240 routine to ensure that they're not being used within a container
10241 (e.g., <Directory>) where they're invalid. [Martin Kraemer]
10243 *) PORT: Recent changes made it necessary to add explicit prototype
10244 for fgetc() and fgets() on SunOS 4.x. [Martin Kraemer, Ben Hyde]
10246 *) It was necessary to distinguish between resources which are
10247 allocated in the parent, for cleanup in the parent, and resources
10248 which are allocated in each child, for cleanup in each child.
10249 A new pool was created which is passed to the module child_init
10250 and child_exit functions; modules are free to register per-child
10251 cleanups there. This fixes a bug with reliable piped logs.
10254 *) mod_autoindex wasn't displaying the ReadmeName file at the bottom
10255 unless it was also doing FancyIndexes, but it displayed the
10256 HeaderName file at the top under all circumstances. It now shows
10257 the ReadmeName file for simple indices, too, as it should.
10260 *) http_core was mmap()ing even in cases where it wasn't going to
10261 read the file. [Ben Hyde <bhyde gensym.com>]
10263 *) Complete rewrite ;-) of mod_rewrite's URL rewriting engine:
10264 Now the rewriting engine (the heart of mod_rewrite) is organized more
10265 straight-forward, first time well documented and reduced to the really
10266 essential parts. All redundant cases were stripped off and processing now
10267 is the same for both per-server and per-directory context with only a
10268 minimum difference (the prefix stripping in per-dir context). As a
10269 side-effect some subtle restrictions and two recently discovered problems
10270 are gone: Wrong escaping of QUERY_STRING on redirects in per-directory
10271 context and restrictions on the substitution URL on redirects.
10272 Additionally some minor source cleanups were done.
10273 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10275 *) Lars Eilebrecht wrote a whole new set of Apache Vhost Internals
10276 documentation, examples, explanations and caveats. They live in a new
10277 subdirectory htdocs/manual/vhost/. [Lars Eilebrecht <sfx unix-ag.org>]
10279 *) If ap_slack fails to allocate above the low slack line it's a good
10280 indication that further problems will occur; it's a better indication
10281 than many external libraries give us when we actually run out of
10282 descriptors. So report it to the user once per restart.
10283 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1181
10285 *) Change mod_include and mod_autoindex to use Y2K-safe date formats
10286 by default. [Ken Coar]
10288 *) Add a "SuppressColumnSorting" option to the IndexOptions list,
10289 which will keep the column heading from being links for sorting
10290 the display. [Ken Coar, suggested by Brian Tiemann <btman pacific.net>]
10293 *) PORT: Update the LynxOS port. [Marius Groeger <mag sysgo.de>]
10295 *) Fix logic error when issuing a mmap() failed message
10296 with a non-zero MMAP_THRESHOLD.
10297 [David Chambers <davidc flosun.salk.edu>] PR#1294
10299 *) Preserve handler value on ProxyPass'ed requests by not
10300 calling find_types on a proxy'd request; fixes problems
10301 where some ProxyPass'ed URLs weren't actually passed
10303 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#870
10305 *) Fix a byte ordering problem in mod_access which prevented
10306 the old-style syntax (i.e. "a.b.c." to match a class C)
10307 from working properly. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1248, 1328, 1384
10309 *) Fix problem with USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT not working
10310 properly. Each child needs to open the lockfile instead
10311 of using the passed file-descriptor from the parent.
10312 [Jim Jagielski] PR#1056
10314 *) Fix the error logging in mod_cgi; the recent error log changes
10315 introduced a bug that prevented it from working correctly.
10316 [M.D.Parker] PR#1352
10318 *) Default to USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT on HPUX to properly
10319 handle multiple Listen directives. [Marc Slemko] PR#872
10321 *) Inherit a bugfix to fnmatch.c from FreeBSD sources.
10322 ["[KOI8-R] áÎÄÒÅÊ þÅÒÎÏ×" <ache nagual.pp.ru>] PR#1311
10324 *) When a configuration parse complained about a bad directive,
10325 the logger would use whatever (unrelated) value was in errno.
10326 errno is now forced to EINVAL first in this case. [Ken Coar]
10328 *) A sed command in the Configure script pushed the edge of POSIXness,
10329 breaking on some systems. [Bhaba R.Misra <system vt.edu>] PR#1368
10331 *) Solaris >= 2.5 was totally broken due to a mess up using pthread
10332 mutexes. [Roy Fielding, Dean Gaudet]
10334 *) OS/2 Port updated; it should be possible to build OS/2 from the same
10335 sources as Unix now. [Brian Havard <brianh kheldar.apana.org.au>]
10337 *) Fix a year formatting bug in mod_usertrack.
10338 [Paul Eggert <eggert twinsun.com>] PR#1342
10340 *) A mild SIGTERM/SIGALRM race condition was eliminated.
10341 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1211
10343 *) Warn user that default path has changed if /usr/local/etc/httpd
10344 is found on the system. [Lars Eilebrecht]
10346 *) Various mod_mime_magic bug fixes and cleanups: Uncompression
10347 should work, it should work on WIN32, and a few resource
10348 leaks and abort conditions are fixed.
10349 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1205
10351 *) PORT: On AIX 1.x files can't be named '@', fix the proxy cache
10352 to use '%' instead of '@' in its encodings.
10353 [David Schuler <schuld btv.ibm.com>] PR#1317
10355 *) Improve the warning message generated when the "server is busy".
10356 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1293
10358 *) PORT: All ports which don't otherwise define DEF_WANTHSREGEX will
10359 get Spencer regex by default. This is to avoid having to
10360 discover bugs in operating system libraries. [Dean Gaudet]
10362 *) PORT: "Fix" PR#467 by generating warnings on systems which we have
10363 not been able to get working USE_*_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT settings for.
10364 Document this a bit more in src/PORTING. [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
10366 *) Ensure that one copy of config warnings makes it to the
10367 error_log. [Dean Gaudet]
10369 *) Invent new structure and associated methods to handle config file
10370 reading. Add "custom" hook to use config file cfg_getline() on
10371 something which is not a FILE* [Martin Kraemer]
10373 *) Make single-exe Windows install. [Ben Laurie and Eric Esselink]
10375 *) WIN32: Make CGI work under Win95. [Ben Laurie and Paul Sutton]
10377 *) WIN32: Make index.html and friends work under Win95. [Ben Laurie]
10379 *) PORT: Solaris 2.4 needs Spencer regex, the system regex is broken.
10380 [John Line <jml4 cam.ac.uk>] PR#1321
10382 *) Default pathname has been changed everywhere to /usr/local/apache
10383 [Sameer <sameer c2.net>]
10385 *) PORT: AIX now uses USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT.
10386 [David Bronder <David-Bronder uiowa.edu>] PR#849
10388 *) PORT: i386 AIX does not have memmove.
10389 [David Schuler <schuld btv.ibm.com>] PR#1267
10391 *) PORT: HPUX now defaults to using Spencer regex.
10392 [Philippe Vanhaesendonck <pvanhaes be.oracle.com>,
10393 Omar Del Rio <al112263 academ01.lag.itesm.mx>] PR#482, 1246
10395 *) PORT: Some versions of NetBSD don't automatically define
10396 __NetBSD__. Workaround by defining NETBSD.
10397 [Chris Craft <ccraft cncc.cc.co.us>] PR#977
10399 *) PORT: UnixWare 2.x requires -lgen for syslog.
10400 [Hans Snijder <hs meganet.nl>] PR#1249
10402 *) PORT: ULTRIX appears to not have syslog.
10403 [Lars Eilebrecht <Lars.Eilebrecht unix-ag.org>]
10405 *) PORT: Basic Gemini port (treat it like unixware212).
10406 ["Pavel Yakovlev (Paul McHacker)" <hac tomcat.olly.ru>]
10408 *) PORT: All SVR4 systems now use NET_SIZE_T = size_t, and
10409 use USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD.
10412 *) Various improvements in detecting config file errors (missing closing
10413 directives for <Directory>, <Files> etc. blocks, prohibiting global
10414 server settings in <VirtualHost> blocks, flagging unhandled multiple
10415 arguments to <Directory>, <Files> etc.)
10418 *) Add support to suexec wrapper program for mod_unique_id's UNIQUE_ID
10419 variable to provide this one to suexec'd CGIs, too.
10420 [M.D.Parker <mdpc netcom.com>] PR#1284
10422 *) New support tool: src/support/split-logfile, a sample Perl script which
10423 splits up a combined access log into separate files based on the
10424 name of the virtual host (listed first in the log records by "%v").
10427 Changes with Apache 1.3b2 (there is no 1.3b1)
10429 *) TestCompile was not passing $LIBS [Dean Gaudet]
10431 *) Makefile.tmpl was not using $CFLAGS in the link phase.
10434 *) Add debugging code to alloc.c. Defining ALLOC_DEBUG provides a
10435 rudimentary memory debugger which can be used on live servers with
10436 low impact -- it sets all allocated and freed memory bytes to 0xa5.
10437 Defining ALLOC_USE_MALLOC will cause the alloc code to use malloc()
10438 and free() for each object. This is far more expensive and should
10439 only be used for testing with tools such as Electric Fence and
10440 Purify. See main/alloc.c for more details. [Dean Gaudet]
10442 *) Configure uses a sh trap and didn't set its exitcode properly.
10443 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1159
10445 *) Yet another vhost revamp. Add the NameVirtualHost directive which
10446 explicitly lists the ip:port pairs that are to be used for name-vhosts.
10447 From a given ip:port, regardless what the Host: header is, you can
10448 only reach the vhosts defined on that ip:port. The precedence of
10449 vhosts was reversed to match other precedences in the config --
10450 the earlier vhosts override the later vhosts. All vhost matching was
10451 moved into http_vhost.[ch]. [Dean Gaudet]
10453 *) ap_inline can be used to force inlining. GNUC __attribute__() can
10454 be used for whatever reason is appropriate (i.e. format() warnings
10455 for printf style functions). Both are enabled only with
10456 gcc >= 2.7.x (so that we have fewer support issues with older
10457 versions). [Dean Gaudet]
10459 *) Fix support for Proxy Authentication (we were testing the response
10460 status too early). [Marc Slemko]
10462 *) CoreDumpDirectory directive directs where the core file is
10463 written when a SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, SIGABORT or SIGABRT are
10464 received. [Marc Slemko, Dean Gaudet]
10466 *) PORT: Support for Atari MINT.
10467 [Jan Paul Schmidt <Jan.P.Schmidt mni.fh-giessen.de>]
10469 *) When booting, apache will now detach itself from stdin, stdout,
10470 and stderr. stderr will not be detached until after the config
10471 files have been read so you will be able to see initial error
10472 messages. After that all errors are logged in the error_log.
10473 This makes it more convenient to start apache via rsh, ssh,
10474 or crontabs. [Dean Gaudet] PR#523
10476 *) mod_proxy was sending HTTP/1.1 responses to ftp requests by mistake.
10477 Also removed the auto-generated link to www.apache.org that was the
10478 source of so many misdirected bug reports. [Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
10480 *) send_fb would not detect aborted connections in some situations.
10483 *) mod_include would use uninitialized data when parsing certain
10484 expressions involving && and ||. [Brian Slesinsky] PR#1139
10486 *) mod_imap should only handle GET methods. [Jay Bloodworth]
10488 *) suexec.c wouldn't build without -DLOG_EXEC. [Jason A. Dour]
10490 *) mod_autoindex improperly counted &escapes; as more than one
10491 character in the description. It also improperly truncated
10492 descriptions that were exactly the maximum length.
10495 *) RedirectMatch was not properly escaping the result (PR#1155). Also
10496 "RedirectMatch /advertiser/(.*) $1" is now permitted.
10499 *) mod_include now uses symbolic names to check for request success
10500 and return HTTP errors, and correctly handles all types of
10501 redirections (previously it only did temporary redirect correctly).
10502 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding]
10504 *) mod_userdir was modifying r->finfo in cases where it wasn't setting
10505 r->filename. Since those two are meant to be in sync with each other
10506 this is a bug. ["Paul B. Henson" <henson intranet.csupomona.edu>]
10508 *) PORT: Support Unisys SVR4, whose uname returns mostly useless data.
10509 ["Kaufman, Steven E" <Steven.Kaufman unisys.com>]
10511 *) Inetd mode (which is buggy) uses timeouts without having setup the
10512 jmpbuffer. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1064
10514 *) Work around problem under Linux where a child will start looping
10515 reporting a select error over and over.
10516 [Rick Franchuk <rickf transpect.net>] PR#1107, 987, 588
10518 *) Fixed error in proxy_util.c when looping through multiple host IP
10519 addresses. [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#974
10521 *) If BUFFERED_LOGS is defined then mod_log_config will do atomic
10522 buffered writes -- that is, it will buffer up to PIPE_BUF (i.e. 4k)
10523 bytes before writing, but it will never split a log entry across a
10524 buffer boundary. [Dean Gaudet]
10526 *) API: the short_score record has been split into two pieces, one which
10527 the parent writes on, and one which the child writes on. As part of
10528 this change the get_scoreboard_info() function was removed, and
10529 scoreboard_image was exported. This change fixes a race condition
10530 in file based scoreboard systems, and speeds up changes involving the
10531 scoreboard in earlier 1.3 development. [Dean Gaudet]
10533 *) API: New register_other_child() API (see http_main.h) which allows
10534 modules to register children with the parent for maintenance. It
10535 is disabled by defining NO_OTHER_CHILD. [Dean Gaudet]
10537 *) API: New piped_log API (see http_log.h) which implements piped logs,
10538 and will use register_other_child to implement reliable piped logs
10539 when it is available. The reliable piped logs part can be disabled
10540 by defining NO_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS. At the moment reliable piped
10541 logs is only available on Unix. [Dean Gaudet]
10543 *) API: set_last_modified() broken into set_last_modified(), set_etag(), and
10544 meets_conditions(). This allows conditional HTTP selection to be
10545 handled separately from the storing of the header fields, and provides
10546 the ability for CGIs to set their own ETags for conditional checking.
10547 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding] PR#895
10549 *) Changes to mod_log_config to allow naming of format strings.
10550 Format nicknames are defined with "LogFormat fmt nickname", and can
10551 be used with "LogFormat nickname" and "CustomLog logtarget nickname".
10554 *) New module, "mod_speling", which can help find files even when
10555 the URL is slightly misspelled. [Martin Kraemer, Alexei Kosut]
10557 *) API: New function child_terminate() triggers the child process to
10558 exit, while allowing the child finish what it needs to for the
10559 current request first.
10560 [Doug MacEachern, Alexei Kosut]
10562 *) Windows now defaults to using full status reports with mod_status.
10563 [Alexei Kosut] PR #1094
10565 *) *Really* disable all mod_rewrite operations if the engine is off.
10566 Some things (like RewriteMaps) were checked/performed even if they
10567 weren't supposed to be. [Ken Coar] PR #991
10569 *) Implement a new timer scheme which eliminates the need to call alarm() all
10570 the time. Instead a counter in the scoreboard for each child is used to
10571 show when the child has made forward progress. The parent samples this
10572 counter every scoreboard maintenance cycle, and issues SIGALRM if no
10573 progress has been made in the timeout period. This reduces the static
10574 request best-case syscall count to 22 from 29. This scheme is only
10575 used by systems with memory-based scoreboards. [Dean Gaudet]
10577 *) The proxy now properly handles CONNECT requests which are sent
10578 to proxy servers when using ProxyRemote. [Marc Slemko] PR#1024
10580 *) A script called apachectl has been added to the support
10581 directory. This script allows you to do things such as
10582 "apachectl start" and "apachectl restart" from the command
10583 line. [Marc Slemko]
10585 *) Modules and core routines are now put into libraries, which
10586 simplifies the link line tremendously (among other advantages).
10589 *) Some of the MD5 names defined in Apache have been renamed to have
10590 an `ap_' prefix to avoid conflicts with routines supplied by
10591 external libraries. [Ken Coar]
10593 *) Removal of mod_auth_msql.c from the distribution. There are many
10594 other options for databases today. Rather than offer one option,
10595 offer none at this time. mod_auth_msql and other SQL database
10596 authentication modules can be found at the Apache Module Registry.
10597 http://modules.apache.org/ It would be nice to offer a generic
10598 mod_auth_sql option in the near future.
10600 *) PORT: BeOS support added [Alexei Kosut]
10602 *) Configure no longer accepts the -make option, since it creates
10603 Makefile on the fly based on Makefile.tmpl and Configuration.
10605 *) Apache now gracefully shuts down when it receives a SIGTERM, instead
10606 of forcibly killing off all its processes and exiting without
10607 cleaning up. [Alexei Kosut]
10609 *) API: A new field in the request_rec, r->mtime, has been added to
10610 avoid gratuitous parsing of date strings. It is intended to hold
10611 the last-modified date of the resource (if applicable). An
10612 update_mtime() routine has also been added to advance it if
10613 appropriate. [Roy Fielding, Ken Coar]
10615 *) SECURITY: If a htaccess file can not be read due to bad permissions,
10616 deny access to the directory with a HTTP_FORBIDDEN. The previous
10617 behavior was to ignore the htaccess file if it could not be read.
10618 This change may make some setups with unreadable htaccess files
10619 stop working. [Marc Slemko] PR#817
10621 *) Add aplog_error() providing a mechanism to define levels of
10622 verbosity to the server error logging. This addition also provides
10623 the ability to log errors using syslogd. Error logging is configurable
10624 on a per-server basis using the LogLevel directive. Conversion
10625 of log_*() in progress. [Randy Terbush]
10627 *) Further enhance aplog_error() to not log filename, line number, and
10628 errno information when it isn't applicable. [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
10630 *) WIN32: Canonicalise filenames under Win32. Short filenames are
10631 converted to long ones. Backslashes are converted to forward
10632 slashes. Case is converted to lower. Parts of URLs that do not
10633 correspond to files are left completely alone. [Ben Laurie]
10635 *) PORT: 2 new OSs added to the list of ports:
10636 Encore's UMAX V: Arieh Markel <amarkel encore.com>
10637 Acorn RISCiX: Stephen Borrill <sborrill xemplar.co.uk>
10639 *) Add the server version (SERVER_VERSION macro) to the "server
10640 configured and running" entry in the error_log. Also build an
10641 object file at link-time that contains the current time
10642 (SERVER_BUILT global const char[]), and include that in the
10643 message. [Ken Coar]
10645 *) Set r->headers_out when sending responses from the proxy.
10646 This fixes things such as the logging of headers sent from
10647 the proxy. [Marc Slemko] PR#659
10649 *) support/httpd_monitor is no longer distributed because the
10650 scoreboard should not be file based if at all possible. Use
10651 mod_status to see current server snapshot.
10653 *) (set_file_slot): New function, allowing auth directives to be
10654 independent of the server root, so the server documents can be
10655 moved to a different directory or machine more easily.
10656 [David J. MacKenzie]
10658 *) If no TransferLog is given explicitly, decline
10659 to log. This supports coexistence with other logging modules,
10660 such as the custom one that UUNET uses. [David J. MacKenzie]
10662 *) Check for titles in server-parsed HTML files.
10663 Ignore leading newlines and returns in titles. The old behavior
10664 of replacing a newline after <title> with a space causes the
10665 title to be misaligned in the listing. [David J. MacKenzie]
10667 *) Change mod_cern_meta to be configurable on a per-directory basis.
10668 [David J. MacKenzie]
10670 *) Add 'Include' directive to allow inclusion of configuration
10671 files within configuration files. [Randy Terbush]
10673 *) Proxy errors on connect() are logged to the error_log (nothing
10674 new); now they include the IP address and port that failed
10675 (*that's* new). [Ken Coar, Marc Slemko] PR#352
10677 *) Various architectures now define USE_MMAP_FILES which causes
10678 the server to use mmap() for static files. There are two
10679 compile-time tunables MMAP_THRESHOLD (minimum number of bytes
10680 required to use mmap(), default is 0), and MMAP_SEGMENT_SIZE (maximum
10681 number of bytes written in one cycle from a single mmap()d object,
10682 default 32768). [Dean Gaudet]
10684 *) API: Added post_read_request API phase which is run right after reading
10685 the request from a client, or right after an internal redirect. It is
10686 useful for modules setting environment variables that depend only on
10687 the headers/contents of the request. It does not run during subrequests
10688 because subrequests inherit pretty much everything from the main
10689 request. [Dean Gaudet]
10691 *) Added mod_unique_id which is used to generate a unique identifier for
10692 each hit, available in the environment variable UNIQUE_ID.
10695 *) init_modules is now called after the error logs have been opened. This
10696 allows modules to emit information messages into the error logs.
10699 *) Fixed proxy-pass-through feature of mod_rewrite; Added error logging
10700 information for case where proxy module is not available. [Marc Slemko]
10702 *) PORT: Apache has need for mutexes to serialize its children around
10703 accept. In prior versions either fcntl file locking or flock file
10704 locking were used. The method is chosen by the definition of
10705 USE_xxx_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT in conf.h. xxx is FCNTL for fcntl(),
10706 and FLOCK for flock(). New options have been added:
10707 - SYSVSEM to use System V style semaphores
10708 - PTHREAD to use POSIX threads (appears to work on Solaris only)
10709 - USLOCK to use IRIX uslock
10710 Based on timing various techniques, the following changes were made
10712 - Linux 2.x uses flock instead of fcntl
10713 - Solaris 2.x uses pthreads
10714 - IRIX uses SysV semaphores -- however multiprocessor IRIX boxes
10715 work far faster if you -DUSE_USLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT
10716 [Dean Gaudet, Pierre-Yves Kerembellec <Pierre-Yves.Kerembellec vtcom.fr>,
10717 Martijn Koster <m.koster pobox.com>]
10719 *) PORT: The semantics of accept/select make it very desirable to use
10720 mutexes to serialize accept when multiple Listens are in use. But
10721 in the case where only a single socket is open it is sometimes
10722 redundant to serialize accept(). Not all unixes do a good job with
10723 potentially dozens of children blocked on accept() on the same
10724 socket. It's now possible to define SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT and
10725 the server will avoid serialization when listening on only one socket,
10726 and use serialization when listening on multiple sockets.
10727 [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
10729 *) Configure changes: TestLib replaced by TestCompile, which has
10730 some additional capability (such as doing a sanity check of
10731 the compiler and flags selected); the version of Solaris is now
10732 available via the #define value of SOLARIS2; IRIX n32bit libs
10733 now supported and selectable by new Configuration Rule: IRIXN32;
10734 We no longer default to -O2 optimization. [Jim Jagielski]
10736 *) Updated Configure: Configuration now uses AddModule to specify
10737 module source or binary file location, relative to src directory.
10738 Modules can be dropped into modules/extra, or in their own
10739 directory, and modules can come with a Makefile or Configure can
10740 create one. Modules can add compiler or library information to
10741 generated Makefiles. [Paul Sutton]
10743 *) Source core re-organisation: distributed modules are now in
10744 modules/standard. All other source code is in main. OS-specific
10745 code is in os/{unix,emx,win32} directories. [Paul Sutton]
10747 *) mod_browser has been removed, since it's replaced by mod_setenvif.
10750 *) Fix another long-standing bug in sub_req_lookup_file where it would
10751 happily skip past access checks on subdirectories looked up with
10752 relative paths. (It's used by mod_dir, mod_negotiation,
10753 and mod_include.) [Dean Gaudet]
10755 *) directory_walk optimization to reduce an O(N*M) loop to O(N+M) where
10756 N is the number of <Directory> sections, and M is the number of
10757 components in the filename of an object.
10759 To achieve this optimization the following config changes were made:
10760 - Wildcards (* and ?, not the regex forms) in <Directory>s,
10761 <Files>s, and <Location>s now treat a slash as a special
10762 character. For example "/home/*/public_html" previously would
10763 match "/home/a/andrew/public_html", now it only matches things
10764 like "/home/bob/public_html". This mimics /bin/sh behaviour.
10765 - It's possible now to use [] wildcarding in <Directory>, <Files>
10767 - Regex <Directory>s are applied after all non-regex <Directory>s.
10771 *) Fix a bug introduced in 1.3a1 directory_walk regarding .htaccess files
10772 and corrupted paths. [Dean Gaudet]
10774 *) Enhanced and cleaned up the URL rewriting engine of mod_rewrite:
10775 First the grouped parts of RewriteRule pattern matches (parenthesis!) can
10776 be accessed now via backreferences $1..$9 in RewriteConds test-against
10777 strings in addition to RewriteRules subst string. Second the grouped
10778 parts of RewriteCond pattern matches (parenthesis!) can be accessed now
10779 via backreferences %1..%9 both in following RewriteCond test-against
10780 strings and RewriteRules subst string. This provides maximum flexibility
10781 through the use of backreferences.
10782 Additionally the rewriting engine was cleaned up by putting common
10783 code to the new expand_backrefs_inbuffer() function.
10784 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10786 *) When merging the main server's <Directory> and <Location> sections into
10787 a vhost, put the main server's first and the vhost's second. Otherwise
10788 the vhost can't override the main server. [Dean Gaudet] PR#717
10790 *) The <Directory> code would merge and re-merge the same section after
10791 a match was found, possibly causing problems with some modules.
10794 *) ip-based vhosts are stored and queried using a hashing function, which
10795 has been shown to improve performance on servers with many ip-vhosts.
10796 Some other changes had to be made to accommodate this:
10797 - the * address for vhosts now behaves like _default_
10798 - the matching process now is:
10799 - match an ip-vhost directly via hash (possibly matches main
10801 - if that fails, just pretend it matched the main server
10802 - if so far only the main server has been matched, perform
10803 name-based lookups (ServerName, ServerAlias, ServerPath)
10804 *only on name-based vhosts*
10805 - if they fail, look for _default_ vhosts
10806 [Dean Gaudet, Dave Hankins <dhankins sugarat.net>]
10808 *) dbmmanage overhaul:
10809 - merge dbmmanage and dbmmanage.new functionality, remove dbmmanage.new
10810 - tie() to AnyDBM_File which will use one of DB_File, NDBM_File or
10811 GDBM_File (-ldb, -lndbm, -lgdbm) (trying each in that order)
10812 - provide better seed for rand
10813 - prompt for password as per getpass(3) (turn off echo, read from
10815 - use "newstyle" crypt based on $Config{osname} ($^O)
10816 - will not add a user if already in database, use new `update' command
10818 - added `check' command to check a users' password
10819 - added `import' command to convert existing password text-files or
10820 dbm files exported with `view'
10821 - more descriptive usage, general cleanup, 'use strict' clean, etc.
10824 *) Added psocket() which is a pool form of socket(), various places within
10825 the proxy weren't properly blocking alarms while registering the cleanup
10826 for its sockets. bclose() now uses pclose() and pclosesocket(). There
10827 was a bug where the client socket was being close()d twice due a still
10828 registered cleanup. [Dean Gaudet]
10830 *) A few cleanups were made to reduce time(), getpid(), and signal() calls.
10833 *) PORT: AIX >= 4.2 requires -lm due to libc changes.
10834 [Jason Venner <jason idiom.com>] PR#667
10836 *) Enable ``=""'' for RewriteCond directives to match against
10837 the empty string. This is the preferred way instead of ``^$''.
10838 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
10840 *) Fixed an infinite loop in mod_imap for references above the server root
10841 [Dean Gaudet] PR#748
10843 *) mod_proxy now has a ReceiveBufferSize directive, similar to
10844 SendBufferSize, so that the TCP window can be set appropriately
10845 for LFNs. [Phillip A. Prindeville]
10847 *) mod_browser has been replaced by the more general mod_setenvif
10848 (courtesy of Paul Sutton). BrowserMatch* directives are still
10849 available, but are now joined by SetEnvIf*, UnSetEnvIf*, and
10850 UnSetEnvIfZero directives. [Ken Coar]
10852 *) "HostnameLookups double" forces double-reverse DNS to succeed in
10853 order for remote_host to be set (for logging, or for the env var
10854 REMOTE_HOST). The old define MAXIMUM_DNS has been deprecated.
10857 *) mod_access overhaul:
10858 - Now understands network/netmask syntax (i.e. 10.1.0.0/255.255.0.0)
10859 and cidr syntax (i.e. 10.1.0.0/16). PR#762
10860 - Critical path was sped up by pre-computing a few things at config time.
10861 - The undocumented syntax "allow user-agents" was removed,
10862 the replacement is "allow from env=foobar" combined with mod_browser.
10863 - When used with hostnames it now forces a double-reverse lookup
10864 no matter what the directory settings are. This double-reverse
10865 doesn't affect any of the other routines that use the remote
10866 hostname. In particular it's still passed to CGIs and the log
10867 without the double-reverse check. Related PR#860.
10870 *) When a large bwrite() occurs (larger than the internal buffer size),
10871 while there is already something in the buffer, apache will combine
10872 the large write and the buffer into a single writev(). (This is
10873 in anticipation of using mmap() for reading files.)
10876 *) In obscure cases where a partial socket write occurred while chunking,
10877 Apache would omit the chunk header/footer on the next block. Cleaned
10878 up other bugs/inconsistencies in error conditions in buff.c. Fixed
10879 a bug where a long pause in DNS lookups could cause the last packet
10880 of a response to be unduly delayed. [Roy Fielding, Dean Gaudet]
10882 *) API: Added child_exit function to module structure. This is called
10883 once per "heavy-weight process" just before a server child exit()'s
10884 e.g. when max_requests_per_child is reached, etc.
10885 [Doug MacEachern, Dean Gaudet]
10887 *) mod_include cleanup showed that handle_else was being used to handle
10888 endif. It didn't cause problems, but it was cleaned up too.
10891 *) mod_cern_meta would attempt to find meta files for the directory itself
10892 in some cases, but not in others. It now avoids it in all cases.
10895 *) mod_mime_magic would core dump if there was a decompression error.
10896 [Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer mch.sni.de>] PR#904
10898 *) PORT: some variants of DGUX require -lsocket -lnsl
10899 [Alexander L Jones <alex systems-options.co.uk>] PR#732
10901 *) mod_autoindex now allows sorting of FancyIndexed directory listings
10902 by the various fields (name, size, et cetera), either in ascending
10903 or descending order. Just click on the column header. [Ken Coar]
10905 *) PORT: Various tweaks to eliminate pointer-int casting warnings on 64-bit
10906 CPUs like the Alpha. Apache still stores ints in pointers, but that's
10907 the relatively safe direction. [Dean Gaudet] PR#344
10909 *) PORT: QNX mmap() support for faster/more reliable scoreboard handling.
10910 [Igor N Kovalenko <infoh mail.wplus.net>] PR#683
10912 *) child_main avoids an unneeded call to select() when there is only one
10913 listening socket. [Dean Gaudet]
10915 *) In the event that the server is starved for idle servers it will
10916 spawn 1, then 2, then 4, ..., then 32 servers each second,
10917 doubling each second. It'll also give a warning in the errorlog
10918 since the most common reason for this is a poor StartServers
10919 setting. The define MAX_SPAWN_RATE can be used to raise/lower
10920 the maximum. [Dean Gaudet]
10922 *) Apache now provides an effectively unbuffered connection for
10923 CGI scripts. This means that data will be sent to the client
10924 as soon as the CGI pauses or stops output; previously, Apache would
10925 buffer the output up to a fixed buffer size before sending, which
10926 could result in the user viewing an empty page until the CGI finished
10927 or output a complete buffer. It is no longer necessary to use an
10928 "nph-" CGI to get unbuffered output. Given that most CGIs are written
10929 in a language that by default does buffering (e.g. perl) this
10930 shouldn't have a detrimental effect on performance.
10932 "nph-" CGIs, which formerly provided a direct socket to the client
10933 without any server post-processing, were not fully compatible with
10934 HTTP/1.1 or SSL support. As such they would have had to implement
10935 the transport details, such as encryption or chunking, in order
10936 to work properly in certain situations. Now, the only difference
10937 between nph and non-nph scripts is "non-parsed headers".
10938 [Dean Gaudet, Sameer Parekh, Roy Fielding]
10940 *) If a BUFF is switched from buffered to unbuffered reading the first
10941 bread() will return whatever remained in the buffer prior to the
10942 switch. [Dean Gaudet]
10944 Changes with Apache 1.3a1
10946 *) Added another Configure helper script: TestLib. It determines
10947 if a specified library exists. [Jim Jagielski]
10949 *) PORT: Allow for use of n32bit libraries under IRIX 6.x
10950 [derived from patch from Jeff Hayes <jhayes aw.sgi.com>]
10953 *) PORT: Some architectures use size_t for various lengths in network
10954 functions such as accept(), and getsockname(). The definition
10955 NET_SIZE_T is used to control this. [Dean Gaudet]
10957 *) PORT: Linux: Attempt to detect glibc based systems and include crypt.h
10958 and -lcrypt. Test for various db libraries (dbm, ndbm, db) when
10959 mod_auth_dbm or mod_auth_db are included. [Dean Gaudet]
10961 *) PORT: QNX doesn't have initgroups() which support/suexec.c uses.
10962 [Igor N Kovalenko <infoh mail.wplus.net>]
10964 *) "force-response-1.0" now only applies to requests which are HTTP/1.0 to
10965 begin with. "nokeepalive" now works for HTTP/1.1 clients. Added
10966 "downgrade-1.0" which causes Apache to pretend it received a 1.0.
10967 [Dean Gaudet] related PR#875
10969 *) API: Correct child_init() slot declaration from int to void, to
10970 match the init() declaration. Update mod_example to use the new
10973 *) added transport handle slot (t_handle) to the BUFF structure
10976 *) get_client_block() returns wrong length if policy is
10977 REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK.
10978 [Kenichi Hori <ken d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#815
10980 *) Support the image map format of FrontPage. For example:
10981 rect /url.hrm 10 20 30 40
10982 ["Chris O'Byrne" <obyrne iol.ie>] PR#807
10984 *) PORT: -lresolv and -lsocks were in the wrong order for Solaris.
10985 ["Darren O'Shaughnessy" <darren aaii.oz.au>] PR#846
10987 *) AddModuleInfo directive for mod_info which allows you to annotate
10988 the output of mod_info. ["Lou D. Langholtz" <ldl usi.utah.edu>]
10990 *) Added NoProxy directive to avoid using ProxyRemote for selected
10991 addresses. Added ProxyDomain directive to cause unqualified
10992 names to be qualified by redirection.
10993 [Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer mch.sni.de>]
10995 *) Support Proxy Authentication, and don't pass the Proxy-Authorize
10996 header to the remote host in the proxy. [Sameer Parekh and
10999 *) Upgraded mod_rewrite from 3.0.6+ to latest officially available version
11000 3.0.9. This upgrade includes: fixed deadlooping on rewriting to same
11001 URLs, fixed rewritelog(), fixed forced response code handling on
11002 redirects from within .htaccess files, disabled pipe locking under
11003 braindead SunOS 4.1.x, allow env variables to be set even on rules with
11004 no substitution, bugfixed situations where HostnameLookups is off, made
11005 mod_rewrite more thread-safe for NT port and fixed problem when creating
11006 an empty query string via "xxx?".
11007 This update also removes the copyright of Ralf S. Engelschall,
11008 i.e. now mod_rewrite no longer has a shared copyright. Instead is is
11009 exclusively copyrighted by the Apache Group now. This happened because
11010 the author now has gifted mod_rewrite exclusively to the Apache Group and
11011 no longer maintains an external version.
11012 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
11014 *) API: Added child_init function to module structure. This is called
11015 once per "heavy-weight process" before any requests are handled.
11016 See http_config.h for more details. [Dean Gaudet]
11018 *) Anonymous_LogEmail was logging on each subrequest.
11019 [Dean Gaudet] PR#421, 868
11021 *) API: Added is_initial_req() which tests if the request being
11022 processed is the initial request, or a subrequest.
11025 *) Extended SSI (mod_include) now handles additional relops for
11026 string comparisons (<, >, <=, and >=). [Bruno Wolff III] PR#41
11028 *) Configure fixed to correctly propagate user-selected options and
11029 settings (such as CC and OPTIM) to Makefiles other than
11030 src/Makefile (notably support/Makefile). [Ken Coar] PR#666, #834
11032 *) IndexOptions SuppressHTMLPreamble now causes the actual HTML of
11033 directory indices to start with the contents of the HeaderName file
11034 if there is one. If there isn't one, the behaviour is unchanged.
11035 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding, Andrey A. Chernov]
11037 *) WIN32: Modules can now be dynamically loaded DLLs using the
11038 LoadModule/LoadFile directives. Note that module DLLs must be
11039 compiled with the multithreaded DLL version of the runtime library.
11040 [Alexei Kosut and Ben Laurie]
11042 *) Automatic indexing removed from mod_dir and placed into mod_autoindex.
11043 This allows the admin to completely remove automatic indexing
11044 from the server, while still supporting the basic functions of
11045 trailing-slash redirects and DirectoryIndex files. Note that if
11046 you're carrying over an old Configuration file and you use directory
11047 indexing then you'll want to add:
11049 Module autoindex_module mod_autoindex.o
11051 before mod_dir in your Configuration. [Dean Gaudet]
11053 *) popendir/pclosedir created to properly protect directory scanning.
11054 [Dean Gaudet] PR#525
11056 *) AliasMatch, ScriptAliasMatch and RedirectMatch directives added,
11057 giving regex support to mod_alias. <DirectoryMatch>, <LocationMatch>
11058 and <FilesMatch> sections added to succeed <DirectoryMatch ~>, etc...
11061 *) The AccessFileName directive can now take more than one filename.
11062 ["Lou D. Langholtz" <ldl usi.utah.edu>]
11064 *) The new mod_mime_magic can be used to "magically" determine the type
11065 of a file if the extension is unknown. Based on the unix file(1)
11066 command. [Ian Kluft <ikluft cisco.com>]
11068 *) We now determine and display the time spent processing a
11069 request if desired. [Jim Jagielski]
11071 *) mod_status: PID field of "dead" child slots no longer displays
11072 main httpd process's PID. [Jim Jagielski]
11074 *) Makefile.nt added - to build all the bits from the command line:
11075 nmake -f Makefile.nt
11076 Doesn't yet work properly. [Ben Laurie]
11078 *) Default text of 404 error is now "Not Found" rather than the
11079 potentially misleading "File Not Found". [Ken Coar]
11081 *) CONFIG: "HostnameLookups" now defaults to off because it is far better
11082 for the net if we require people that actually need this data to
11083 enable it. [Linus Torvalds]
11085 *) directory_walk() is an expensive function, keep a little more state to
11086 avoid needless string counting. Add two new functions make_dirstr_parent
11087 and make_dirstr_prefix which replace all existing uses of make_dirstr.
11088 The new functions are a little less general than make_dirstr, but
11089 work more efficiently (less memory, less string counting).
11092 *) EXTRA_LFLAGS was changed to EXTRA_LDFLAGS (and LFLAGS was changed
11093 to LDFLAGS) to avoid complications with lex rules in make files.
11094 [Dean Gaudet] PR#372
11096 *) run_method optimized to avoid needless scanning over NULLs in the
11097 module list. [Dean Gaudet]
11099 *) Revamp of (unix) scoreboard management code such that it avoids
11100 unnecessary traversals of the scoreboard on each hit. This is
11101 particularly important for high volume sites with a large
11102 HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. Some of the previous operations were O(n^2),
11103 and are now O(n). See also SCOREBOARD_MAINTENANCE_INTERVAL in
11104 httpd.h. [Dean Gaudet]
11106 *) In configurations using multiple Listen statements it was possible for
11107 busy sockets to starve other sockets of service. [Dean Gaudet]
11109 *) Added hook so standalone_main can be replaced at compile time
11110 (define STANDALONE_MAIN)
11113 *) Lowest-level read/write functions in buff.c will be replaced with
11114 the SFIO library calls sfread/sfwrite if B_SFIO is defined at
11115 compile time. The default sfio discipline will behave as apache
11116 would without sfio compiled in.
11119 *) Enhance UserDir directive (mod_userdir) to accept a list of
11120 usernames for the 'disable' keyword, and add 'enable user...' to
11121 selectively *en*able userdirs if they're globally disabled.
11124 *) If NETSCAPE_DBM_COMPAT is defined in EXTRA_CFLAGS then Apache
11125 will work with Netscape dbm files. (dbmmanage will probably not
11126 work however.) [Alexander Spohr <aspohr netmatic.com>] PR#444
11128 *) Add a ListenBacklog directive to control the backlog parameter
11129 passed to listen(). Also change the default to 511 from 512.
11132 *) API: A new handler response DONE which informs apache that the
11133 request has been handled and it can finish off quickly, similar to
11134 how it handles errors. [Rob Hartill]
11136 *) Turn off chunked encoding after sending terminating chunk/footer
11137 so that we can't do it twice by accident. [Roy Fielding]
11139 *) mod_expire also issues Cache-Control: max-age headers.
11142 *) API: Added kill_only_once option for free_proc_chain so that it won't
11143 aggressively try to kill off specific children. For fastcgi.
11144 [Stanley Gambarin <gambarin OpenMarket.com>]
11146 *) mod_auth deals with extra ':' delimited fields. [Marc Slemko]
11148 *) Added IconHeight and IconWidth to mod_dir's IndexOptions directive.
11149 When used together, these cause mod_dir to emit HEIGHT and WIDTH
11150 attributes in the FancyIndexing IMG tags. [Ken Coar]
11152 *) PORT: Sequent and SONY NEWS-OS support added. [Jim Jagielski]
11154 *) PORT: Added Windows NT support
11155 [Ben Laurie and Ambarish Malpani <ambarish valicert.com>]
11157 Changes with Apache 1.2.6
11159 *) mod_include when using XBitHack Full would send ETags in addition to
11160 sending Last-Modifieds. This is incorrect HTTP/1.1 behaviour.
11161 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1133
11163 *) SECURITY: When a client connects to a particular port/addr, and
11164 gives a Host: header ensure that the virtual host requested can
11165 actually be reached via that port/addr. [Ed Korthof <ed organic.com>]
11167 *) Support virtual hosts with wildcard port and/or multiple ports
11168 properly. [Ed Korthof <ed organic.com>]
11170 *) Fixed some case-sensitivity issues according to RFC2068.
11173 *) Set r->allowed properly in mod_asis.c, mod_dir.c, mod_info.c,
11174 and mod_include.c. [Dean Gaudet]
11176 *) Variable 'cwd' was being used pointlessly before being set.
11179 *) SIGURG doesn't exist on all platforms.
11180 [Mark Andrew Heinrich <heinrich tinderbox.Stanford.EDU>]
11182 *) When an error occurs during a POST, or other operation with a
11183 request body, the body has to be read from the net before allowing
11184 a keepalive session to continue. [Roy Fielding] PR#1399
11186 *) When an error occurs in fcntl() locking suggest the user look up
11187 the docs for LockFile. [Dean Gaudet]
11189 *) table_set() and table_unset() did not deal correctly with
11190 multiple occurrences of the same key. [Stephen Scheck
11191 <sscheck infonex.net>, Ben Laurie] PR#1604
11193 *) send_fd_length() did not calculate total_bytes_sent properly in error
11194 cases. [Ben Reser <breser regnow.com>] PR#1366
11196 *) r->connection->user was allocated in the wrong pool causing corruption
11197 in some cases when used with mod_cern_meta. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1500
11199 *) mod_proxy was sending HTTP/1.1 responses to ftp requests by mistake.
11200 Also removed the auto-generated link to www.apache.org that was the
11201 source of so many misdirected bug reports. [Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
11203 *) Multiple "close" tokens may have been set in the "Connection"
11204 header, not an error, but a waste.
11205 [<Ronald.Tschalaer psi.ch>] PR#1683
11207 *) "basic" and "digest" auth tokens should be tested case-insensitive.
11208 [<Ronald.Tschalaer psi.ch>] PR#1599, PR#1666
11210 *) It appears the "257th byte" bug (see
11211 htdocs/manual/misc/known_client_problems.html#257th-byte) can happen
11212 at the 256th byte as well. Fixed. [Dean Gaudet]
11214 *) mod_rewrite would not handle %3f properly in some situations.
11217 *) Apache could generate improperly chunked HTTP/1.1 responses when
11218 the bputc() or rputc() functions were used by modules (such as
11219 mod_include). [Dean Gaudet]
11221 *) #ifdef wrap a few #defines in httpd.h to make life easier on
11222 some ports. [Ralf Engelschall]
11224 *) Fix MPE compilation error in mod_usertrack.c. [Mark Bixby]
11226 *) Quote CC='$(CC)' to improve recurse make calls. [Martin Kraemer]
11228 *) Avoid B_ERROR redeclaration on sysvr4 systems. [Martin Kraemer]
11230 Changes with Apache 1.2.5
11232 *) SECURITY: Fix a possible buffer overflow in logresolve. This is
11233 only an issue on systems without a MAXDNAME define or where
11234 the resolver returns domain names longer than MAXDNAME. [Marc Slemko]
11236 *) Fix an improper length in an ap_snprintf call in proxy_date_canon().
11239 *) Fix core dump in the ftp proxy when reading incorrectly formatted
11240 directory listings. [Marc Slemko]
11242 *) SECURITY: Fix possible minor buffer overflow in the proxy cache.
11245 *) SECURITY: Eliminate possible buffer overflow in cfg_getline, which
11246 is used to read various types of files such as htaccess and
11247 htpasswd files. [Marc Slemko]
11249 *) SECURITY: Ensure that the buffer returned by ht_time is always
11250 properly null terminated. [Marc Slemko]
11252 *) SECURITY: General mod_include cleanup, including fixing several
11253 possible buffer overflows and a possible infinite loop. This cleanup
11254 was done against 1.3 code and then backported to 1.2, the result
11255 is a large difference (due to indentation cleanup in 1.3 code).
11256 Users interested in seeing a smaller set of relevant differences
11257 should consider comparing against src/modules/standard/mod_include.c
11258 from the 1.3b3 release. Non-indentation changes to mod_include
11259 between 1.2 and 1.3 were minimal. [Dean Gaudet, Marc Slemko]
11261 *) SECURITY: Numerous changes to mod_imap in a general cleanup
11262 including fixing a possible buffer overflow. This cleanup also
11263 was done with 1.3 code as a basis, see the the previous note
11264 about mod_include. [Dean Gaudet]
11266 *) SECURITY: If a htaccess file can not be read due to bad
11267 permissions, deny access to the directory with a HTTP_FORBIDDEN.
11268 The previous behavior was to ignore the htaccess file if it could not
11269 be read. This change may make some setups with unreadable
11270 htaccess files stop working. PR#817 [Marc Slemko]
11272 *) SECURITY: no2slash() was O(n^2) in the length of the input.
11273 Make it O(n). This inefficiency could be used to mount a denial
11274 of service attack against the Apache server. Thanks to
11275 Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf boss.staszic.waw.pl> for reporting
11276 this. [Dean Gaudet]
11278 *) mod_include used uninitialized data for some uses of && and ||.
11279 [Brian Slesinsky <bslesins wired.com>] PR#1139
11281 *) mod_imap should decline all non-GET methods.
11282 [Jay Bloodworth <jay pathways.sde.state.sc.us>]
11284 *) suexec.c wouldn't build without -DLOG_EXEC. [Jason A. Dour]
11286 *) mod_userdir was modifying r->finfo in cases where it wasn't setting
11287 r->filename. Since those two are meant to be in sync with each other
11288 this is a bug. ["Paul B. Henson" <henson intranet.csupomona.edu>]
11290 *) mod_include did not properly handle all possible redirects from sub-
11291 requests. [Ken Coar]
11293 *) Inetd mode (which is buggy) uses timeouts without having setup the
11294 jmpbuffer. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1064
11296 *) Work around problem under Linux where a child will start looping
11297 reporting a select error over and over.
11298 [Rick Franchuk <rickf transpect.net>] PR#1107
11300 Changes with Apache 1.2.4
11302 *) The ProxyRemote change in 1.2.3 introduced a bug resulting in the proxy
11303 always making requests with the full-URI instead of just the URI path.
11304 [Marc Slemko, Roy Fielding]
11306 *) Add -lm for AIX versions >= 4.2 to allow Apache to link properly
11307 on this platform. [Marc Slemko]
11309 Changes with Apache 1.2.3
11311 *) The request to a remote proxy was mangled if it was generated as the
11312 result of a ProxyPass directive. URL schemes other than http:// were not
11313 supported when ProxyRemote was used. PR#260, PR#656, PR#699, PR#713,
11314 PR#812 [Lars Eilebrecht]
11316 *) Fixed proxy-pass-through feature of mod_rewrite; Added error logging
11317 information for case where proxy module is not available. [Marc Slemko]
11319 *) Force proxy to always respond as HTTP/1.0, which it was failing to
11320 do for errors and cached responses. [Roy Fielding]
11322 *) PORT: Improved support for ConvexOS 11. [Jeff Venters]
11324 Changes with Apache 1.2.2 [not released]
11326 *) Fixed another long-standing bug in sub_req_lookup_file where it would
11327 happily skip past access checks on subdirectories looked up with relative
11328 paths. (It's used by mod_dir, mod_negotiation, and mod_include.)
11331 *) Add lockfile name to error message printed out when
11332 USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is defined.
11335 *) Enhanced the chunking and error handling inside the buffer functions.
11336 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding]
11338 *) When merging the main server's <Directory> and <Location> sections into
11339 a vhost, put the main server's first and the vhost's second. Otherwise
11340 the vhost can't override the main server. [Dean Gaudet] PR#717
11342 *) The <Directory> code would merge and re-merge the same section after
11343 a match was found, possibly causing problems with some modules.
11346 *) Fixed an infinite loop in mod_imap for references above the server root.
11347 [Dean Gaudet] PR#748
11349 *) mod_include cleanup showed that handle_else was being used to handle
11350 endif. It didn't cause problems, but it was cleaned up too.
11353 *) Last official synchronization of mod_rewrite with author version (because
11354 mod_rewrite is now directly developed by the author at the Apache Group):
11355 o added diff between mod_rewrite 3.0.6+ and 3.0.9
11356 minus WIN32/NT stuff, but plus copyright removement.
11358 - workaround for detecting infinite rewriting loops
11359 - fixed setting of env vars when "-" is used as subst string
11360 - fixed forced response code on redirects (PR#777)
11361 - fixed cases where r->args is ""
11362 - kludge to disable locking on pipes under braindead SunOS
11363 - fix for rewritelog in cases where remote hostname is unknown
11364 - fixed totally damaged request_rec walk-back loop
11365 o remove static from local data and add static to global ones.
11366 o replaced ugly proxy finding stuff by simple
11367 find_linked_module("mod_proxy") call.
11368 o added missing negation char on rewritelog()
11369 o fixed a few comment typos
11370 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
11372 *) Anonymous_LogEmail was logging on each subrequest.
11373 [Dean Gaudet] PR#421, PR#868
11375 *) "force-response-1.0" now only applies to requests which are HTTP/1.0 to
11376 begin with. "nokeepalive" now works for HTTP/1.1 clients. Added
11377 "downgrade-1.0" which causes Apache to pretend it received a 1.0.
11378 Additionally mod_browser now triggers during translate_name to workaround
11379 a deficiency in the header_parse phase.
11380 [Dean Gaudet] PR#875
11382 *) get_client_block() returns wrong length if policy is
11383 REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK.
11384 [Kenichi Hori <ken d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#815
11386 *) Properly treat <files> container like other containers in mod_info.
11387 [Marc Slemko] PR#848
11389 *) The proxy didn't treat the "Host:" keyword of the host header as case-
11390 insensitive. The proxy would corrupt the first line of a response from
11391 an HTTP/0.9 server. [Kenichi Hori <ken d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#813,814
11393 *) mod_include would log some bogus values occasionally.
11394 [Skip Montanaro <skip calendar.com>, Marc Slemko] PR#797
11396 *) PORT: The slack fd changes in 1.2.1 introduced a problem with SIGHUP
11397 under Solaris 2.x (up through 2.5.1). It has been fixed.
11398 [Dean Gaudet] PR#832
11400 *) API: In HTTP/1.1, whether or not a request message contains a body
11401 is independent of the request method and based solely on the presence
11402 of a Content-Length or Transfer-Encoding. Therefore, our default
11403 handlers need to be prepared to read a body even if they don't know
11404 what to do with it; otherwise, the body would be mistaken for the
11405 next request on a persistent connection. discard_request_body()
11406 has been added to take care of that. [Roy Fielding] PR#378
11408 *) API: Symbol APACHE_RELEASE provides a numeric form of the Apache
11409 release version number, such that it always increases along the
11410 same lines as our source code branching. [Roy Fielding]
11412 *) Minor oversight on multiple variants fixed. [Paul Sutton] PR#94
11414 Changes with Apache 1.2.1
11416 *) SECURITY: Don't serve file system objects unless they are plain files,
11417 symlinks, or directories. This prevents local users from using pipes
11418 or named sockets to invoke programs for an extremely crude form of
11421 *) SECURITY: HeaderName and ReadmeName were settable in .htaccess and
11422 could contain "../" allowing a local user to "publish" any file on
11423 the system. No slashes are allowed now. [Dean Gaudet]
11425 *) SECURITY: It was possible to violate the symlink Options using mod_dir
11426 (headers, readmes, titles), mod_negotiation (type maps), or
11427 mod_cern_meta (meta files). [Dean Gaudet]
11429 *) SECURITY: Apache will refuse to run as "User root" unless
11430 BIG_SECURITY_HOLE is defined at compile time. [Dean Gaudet]
11432 *) CONFIG: If a symlink pointed to a directory then it would be disallowed
11433 if it contained a .htaccess disallowing symlinks. This is contrary
11434 to the rule that symlink permissions are tested with the symlink
11435 options of the parent directory. [Dean Gaudet] PR#353
11437 *) CONFIG: The LockFile directive can be used to place the serializing
11438 lockfile in any location. It previously defaulted to /usr/tmp/htlock.
11439 [Somehow it took four of us: Randy Terbush, Jim Jagielski, Dean Gaudet,
11442 *) Request processing now retains state of whether or not the request
11443 body has been read, so that internal redirects and subrequests will
11444 not try to read it twice (and block). [Roy Fielding]
11446 *) Add a placeholder in modules/Makefile to avoid errors with certain
11447 makes. [Marc Slemko]
11449 *) QUERY_STRING was unescaped in mod_include, it shouldn't be.
11450 [Dean Gaudet] PR#644
11452 *) mod_include was not properly changing the current directory.
11453 [Marc Slemko] PR#742
11455 *) Attempt to work around problems with third party libraries that do not
11456 handle high numbered descriptors (examples include bind, and
11457 solaris libc). On all systems apache attempts to keep all permanent
11458 descriptors above 15 (called the low slack line). Solaris users
11459 can also benefit from adding -DHIGH_SLACK_LINE=256 to EXTRA_CFLAGS
11460 which keeps all non-FILE * descriptors above 255. On all systems
11461 this should make supporting large numbers of vhosts with many open
11462 log files more feasible. If this causes trouble please report it,
11463 you can disable this workaround by adding -DNO_SLACK to EXTRA_CFLAGS.
11464 [Dean Gaudet] various PRs
11466 *) Related to the last entry, network sockets are now opened before
11467 log files are opened. The only known case where this can cause
11468 problems is under Solaris with many virtualhosts and many Listen
11469 directives. But using -DHIGH_SLACK_LINE=256 described above will
11470 work around this problem. [Dean Gaudet]
11472 *) USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is now default for FreeBSD, A/UX, and
11475 *) Improved unix error response logging. [Marc Slemko]
11477 *) Update mod_rewrite from 3.0.5 to 3.0.6. New ruleflag
11478 QSA=query_string_append. Also fixed a nasty bug in per-dir context:
11479 when a URL http://... was used in conjunction with a special
11480 redirect flag, e.g. R=permanent, the permanent status was lost.
11481 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer psi.ch>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
11483 *) If an object has multiple variants that are otherwise equal Apache
11484 would prefer the last listed variant rather than the first.
11485 [Paul Sutton] PR#94
11487 *) "make clean" at the top level now removes *.o. [Dean Gaudet] PR#752
11489 *) mod_status dumps core in inetd mode. [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
11492 *) pregsub had an off-by-1 in its error checking code. [Alexei Kosut]
11494 *) PORT: fix rlim_t problems with AIX 4.2. [Marc Slemko] PR#333
11496 *) PORT: Update UnixWare support for 2.1.2.
11497 [Lawrence Rosenman <ler lerctr.org>] PR#511
11499 *) PORT: NonStop-UX [Joachim Schmitz <schmitz_joachim tandem.com>] PR#327
11501 *) PORT: Update ConvexOS support for 11.5.
11502 [David DeSimone <fox convex.com>] PR#399
11504 *) PORT: Support for DEC cc compiler under ULTRIX.
11505 ["P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia" <alejolo ideam.gov.co>] PR#388
11507 *) PORT: Support for Maxion/OS SVR4.2 Real Time Unix. [no name given] PR#383
11509 *) PORT: Workaround for AIX 3.x compiler bug in http_bprintf.c.
11510 [Marc Slemko] PR#725
11512 *) PORT: fix problem compiling http_bprintf.c with gcc under SCO
11513 [Marc Slemko] PR#695
11515 Changes with Apache 1.2
11517 Changes with Apache 1.2b11
11519 *) Fixed open timestamp fd in proxy_cache.c [Chuck Murcko]
11521 *) Added undocumented perl SSI mechanism for -DUSE_PERL_SSI and mod_perl.
11522 [Doug MacEachern, Rob Hartill]
11524 *) Proxy needs to use hard_timeout instead of soft_timeout when it is
11525 reading from one buffer and writing to another, at least until it has
11526 a custom timeout handler. [Roy Fielding and Petr Lampa]
11528 *) Fixed problem on IRIX with servers hanging in IdentityCheck,
11529 apparently due to a mismatch between sigaction and setjmp.
11530 [Roy Fielding] PR#502
11532 *) Log correct status code if we timeout before receiving a request (408)
11533 or if we received a request-line that was too long to process (414).
11534 [Ed Korthof and Roy Fielding] PR#601
11536 *) Virtual hosts with the same ServerName, but on different ports, were
11537 not being selected properly. [Ed Korthof]
11539 *) Added code to return the requested IP address from proxy_host2addr()
11540 if gethostbyaddr() fails due to reverse DNS lookup problems. Original
11541 change submitted by Jozsef Hollosi <hollosi sbcm.com>.
11542 [Chuck Murcko] PR#614
11544 *) If multiple requests on a single connection are used to retrieve
11545 data from different virtual hosts, the virtual host list would be
11546 scanned starting with the most recently used VH instead of the first,
11547 causing most virtual hosts to be ignored.
11548 [Paul Sutton and Martin Mares] PR#610
11550 *) The OS/2 handling of process group was broken by a porting patch for
11551 MPE, so restored prior code for OS/2. [Roy Fielding and Garey Smiley]
11553 *) Inherit virtual server port from main server if none (or "*") is
11554 given for VirtualHost. [Dean Gaudet] PR#576
11556 *) If the lookup for a DirectoryIndex name with content negotiation
11557 has found matching variants, but none are acceptable, return the
11558 negotiation result if there are no more DirectoryIndex names to lookup.
11559 [Petr Lampa and Roy Fielding]
11561 *) If a soft_timeout occurs after keepalive is set, then the main child
11562 loop would try to read another request even though the connection
11563 has been aborted. [Roy Fielding]
11565 *) Configure changes: Allow for whitespace at the start of a
11566 Module declaration. Also, be more understanding about the
11567 CC=/OPTIM= format in Configuration. Finally, fix compiler
11568 flags if using HP-UX's cc compiler. [Jim Jagielski]
11570 *) Subrequests and internal redirects now inherit the_request from the
11571 original request-line. [Roy Fielding]
11573 *) Test for error conditions before creating output header fields, since
11574 we don't want the error message to include those fields. Likewise,
11575 reset the content_language(s) and content_encoding of the response
11576 before generating or redirecting to an error message, since the new
11577 message will have its own Content-* definitions. [Dean Gaudet]
11579 *) Restored the semantics of headers_out (headers sent only with 200..299
11580 and 304 responses) and err_headers_out (headers sent with all responses).
11581 Avoid the overhead of copying tables if err_headers_out is empty
11582 (the usual case). [Roy Fielding]
11584 *) Fixed a couple places where a check for the default Content-Type was
11585 not properly checking both the value configured by the DefaultType
11586 directive and the DEFAULT_TYPE symbol in httpd.h. Changed the value
11587 of DEFAULT_TYPE to match the documented default (text/plain).
11588 [Dean Gaudet] PR#506
11590 *) Escape the HTML-sensitive characters in the Request-URI that is
11591 output for each child by mod_status. [Dean Gaudet and Ken Coar] PR#501
11593 *) Properly initialize the flock structures used by the mutex locking
11594 around accept() when USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is defined.
11597 *) The method for determining PATH_INFO has been restored to the pre-1.2b
11598 (and NCSA httpd) definition wherein it was the extra path info beyond
11599 the CGI script filename. The environment variable FILEPATH_INFO has
11600 been removed, and instead we supply the original REQUEST_URI to any
11601 script that wants to be Apache-specific and needs the real URI path.
11602 This solves a problem with existing scripts that use extra path info
11603 in the ScriptAlias directive to pass options to the CGI script.
11606 *) The _default_ change in 1.2b10 will change the behaviour on configs
11607 that use multiple Listen statements for listening on multiple ports.
11608 But that change is necessary to make _default_ consistent with other
11609 forms of <VirtualHost>. It requires such configs to be modified
11610 to use <VirtualHost _default_:*>. The documentation has been
11611 updated. [Dean Gaudet] PR#530
11613 *) If an ErrorDocument CGI script is used to respond to an error
11614 generated by another CGI script which has already read the message
11615 body of the request, the server would block trying to read the
11616 message body again. [Rob Hartill]
11618 *) signal() replacement conflicted with a define on QNX (and potentially
11619 other platforms). Fixed. [Ben Laurie] PR#512
11621 Changes with Apache 1.2b10
11623 *) Allow HTTPD_ROOT, SERVER_CONFIG_FILE, DEFAULT_PATH, and SHELL_PATH
11624 to be configured via -D in Configuration. [Dean Gaudet] PR#449
11626 *) <VirtualHost _default_:portnum> didn't work properly. [Dean Gaudet]
11628 *) Added prototype for mktemp() for SUNOS4 [Marc Slemko]
11630 *) In mod_proxy.c, check return values for proxy_host2addr() when reading
11631 config, in case the hostent struct returned is trash.
11632 [Chuck Murcko] PR #491
11634 *) Fixed the fix in 1.2b9 for parsing URL query info into args for CGI
11635 scripts. [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
11637 Changes with Apache 1.2b9 [never announced]
11639 *) Reset the MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER to account for the unsigned port
11640 changes and in anticipation of 1.2 final release. [Roy Fielding]
11642 *) Fix problem with scripts not receiving a SIGPIPE when client drops
11643 the connection (e.g., when user presses Stop). Apache will now stop
11644 trying to send a message body immediately after an error from write.
11645 [Roy Fielding and Nathan Kurz] PR#335
11647 *) Rearrange Configuration.tmpl so that mod_rewrite has higher priority
11648 than mod_alias, and mod_alias has higher priority than mod_proxy;
11649 rearranged other modules to enhance understanding of their purpose
11650 and relative order (and maybe even reduce some overhead).
11651 [Roy Fielding and Sameer Parekh]
11653 *) Fix graceful restart. Eliminate many signal-related race
11654 conditions in both forms of restart, and in SIGTERM. See
11655 htdocs/manual/stopping.html for details on stopping and
11656 restarting the parent. [Dean Gaudet]
11658 *) Fix memory leaks in mod_rewrite, mod_browser, mod_include. Tune
11659 memory allocator to avoid a behaviour that required extra blocks to
11660 be allocated. [Dean Gaudet]
11662 *) Allow suexec to access files relative to current directory but not
11663 above. (Excluding leading / or any .. directory.) [Ken Coar]
11666 *) Fix suexec segfault when group doesn't exist. [Gregory Neil Shapiro]
11667 PR#367, 368, 354, 453
11669 *) Fix the above fix: if suexec is enabled, avoid destroying r->url
11670 while obtaining the /~user and save the username in a separate data
11671 area so that it won't be overwritten by the call to getgrgid(), and
11672 fix some misuse of the pool string allocation functions. Also fixes
11673 a general problem with parsing URL query info into args for CGI scripts.
11674 [Roy Fielding] PR#339, 367, 354, 453
11676 *) Fix IRIX warning about bzero undefined. [Marc Slemko]
11678 *) Fix problem with <Directory proxy:...>. [Martin Kraemer] PR#271
11680 *) Corrected spelling of "authoritative". AuthDBAuthoratative became
11681 AuthDBAuthoritative. [Marc Slemko] PR#420
11683 *) MaxClients should be at least 1. [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#375
11685 *) The default handler now logs invalid methods or URIs (i.e. PUT on an
11686 object that can't be PUT, or FOOBAR for some method FOOBAR that
11687 apache doesn't know about at all). Log 404s that occur in mod_include.
11688 [Paul Sutton, John Van Essen]
11690 *) If a soft timeout (or lingerout) occurs while trying to flush a
11691 buffer or write inside buff.c or fread'ing from a CGI's output,
11692 then the timeout would be ignored. [Roy Fielding] PR#373
11694 *) Work around a bug in Netscape Navigator versions 2.x, 3.x and 4.0b2's
11695 parsing of headers. If the terminating empty-line CRLF occurs starting
11696 at the 256th or 257th byte of output, then Navigator will think a normal
11697 image is invalid. We are guessing that this is because their initial
11698 read of a new request uses a 256 byte buffer. We check the bytes written
11699 so far and, if we are about to tickle the bug, we instead insert a
11700 padding header of eminent bogosity. [Roy Fielding and Dean Gaudet] PR#232
11702 *) Fixed SIGSEGV problem when a DirectoryIndex file is also the source
11703 of an external redirection. [Roy Fielding and Paul Sutton]
11705 *) Configure would create a broken Makefile if the configuration file
11706 contained a commented-out Rule. [Roy Fielding]
11708 *) Promote per_dir_config and subprocess_env from the subrequest to the
11709 main request in mod_negotiation. In particular this fixes a bug
11710 where <Files> sections wouldn't properly apply to negotiated content.
11713 *) Fix a potential deadlock in mod_cgi script_err handling.
11714 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
11716 *) rotatelogs zero-pads the logfile names to improve alphabetic sorting.
11717 [Mitchell Blank Jr]
11719 *) Updated mod_rewrite to 3.0.4: Fixes HTTP redirects from within
11720 .htaccess files because the RewriteBase was not replaced correctly.
11721 Updated mod_rewrite to 3.0.5: Fixes problem with rewriting inside
11722 <Directory> sections missing a trailing /. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
11724 *) Clean up Linux settings in conf.h by detecting 2.x versus 1.x. For
11725 1.x the settings are those of pre-1.2b8. For 2.x we include
11726 USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD (scoreboard in shared memory rather than file) and
11727 HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H (enable the RLimit commands).
11728 [Dean Gaudet] PR#336, PR#340
11730 *) Redirect did not preserve ?query_strings when present in the client's
11731 request. [Dean Gaudet]
11733 *) Configure was finding non-modules on EXTRA_LIBS. [Frank Cringle] PR#380
11735 *) Use /bin/sh5 on ULTRIX. [P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia] PR#369
11737 *) Add UnixWare compile/install instructions. [Chuck Murcko]
11739 *) Add mod_example (illustration of API techniques). [Ken Coar]
11741 *) Add macro for memmove to conf.h for SUNOS4. [Marc Slemko]
11743 *) Improve handling of directories when filenames have spaces in them.
11746 *) For hosts with multiple IP addresses, try all additional addresses if
11747 necessary to get a connect. Fail only if hostent address list is
11748 exhausted. [Chuck Murcko]
11750 *) More signed/unsigned port fixes. [Dean Gaudet]
11752 *) HARD_SERVER_LIMIT can be defined in the Configuration file now.
11755 Changes with Apache 1.2b8
11757 *) suexec.c doesn't close the log file, allowing CGIs to continue writing
11758 to it. [Marc Slemko]
11760 *) The addition of <Location> and <File> directives made the
11761 sub_req_lookup_simple() function bogus, so we now handle
11762 the special cases directly. [Dean Gaudet]
11764 *) We now try to log where the server is dumping core when a fatal
11765 signal is received. [Ken Coar]
11767 *) Improved lingering_close by adding a special timeout, removing the
11768 spurious log messages, removing the nonblocking settings (they
11769 are not needed with the better timeout), and adding commentary
11770 about the NO_LINGCLOSE and USE_SO_LINGER issues. NO_LINGCLOSE is
11771 now the default for SunOS4, UnixWare, NeXT, and IRIX. [Roy Fielding]
11773 *) Send error messages about setsockopt failures to the server error
11774 log instead of stderr. [Roy Fielding]
11776 *) Fix loopholes in proxy cache expiry vis a vis alarms. [Brian Moore]
11778 *) Stopgap solution for CGI 3-second delay with server-side includes: if
11779 processing a subrequest, allocate memory from r->main->pool instead
11780 of r->pool so that we can avoid waiting for free_proc_chain to cleanup
11781 in the middle of an SSI request. [Dean Gaudet] PR #122
11783 *) Fixed status of response when POST is received for a nonexistent URL
11784 (was sending 405, now 404) and when any method is sent with a
11785 full-URI that doesn't match the server and the server is not acting
11786 as a proxy (was sending 501, now 403). [Roy Fielding]
11788 *) Host port changed to unsigned short. [Ken Coar] PR #276
11790 *) Fix typo in command definition of AuthAuthoritative. [Ken Coar] PR #246
11792 *) Defined USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD for shared memory on Linux. [Dean Gaudet]
11794 *) Report extra info from errno with many errors that cause httpd to exit.
11795 spawn_child, popenf, and pclosef now have valid errno returns in the
11796 event of an error. Correct problems where errno was stomped on
11797 before being reported. [Dean Gaudet]
11799 *) In the proxy, if the cache filesystem was full, garbage_coll() was
11800 never called, and thus the filesystem would remain full indefinitely.
11801 We now also remove incomplete cache files left if the origin server
11802 didn't send a Content-Length header and either the client has aborted
11803 transfer or bwrite() to client has failed. [Petr Lampa]
11805 *) Fixed the handling of module and script-added header fields.
11806 Improved the interface for sending header fields and reduced
11807 the duplication of code between sending okay responses and errors.
11808 We now always send both headers_out and err_headers_out, and
11809 ensure that the server-reserved fields are not being overridden,
11810 while not overriding those that are not reserved. [Roy Fielding]
11812 *) Moved transparent content negotiation fields to err_headers_out
11813 to reflect above changes. [Petr Lampa]
11815 *) Fixed the determination of whether or not we should make the
11816 connection persistent for all of the cases where some other part
11817 of the server has already indicated that we should not. Also
11818 improved the ordering of the test so that chunked encoding will
11819 be set whenever it is desired instead of only when KeepAlive
11820 is enabled. Added persistent connection capability for most error
11821 responses (those that do not indicate a bad input stream) when
11822 accessed by an HTTP/1.1 client. [Roy Fielding]
11824 *) Added missing timeouts for sending header fields, error responses,
11825 and the last chunk of chunked encoding, each of which could have
11826 resulted in a process being stuck in write forever. Using soft_timeout
11827 requires that the sender check for an aborted connection rather than
11828 continuing after an EINTR. Timeouts that used to be initiated before
11829 send_http_header (and never killed) are now initiated only within or
11830 around the routines that actually do the sending, and not allowed to
11831 propagate above the caller. [Roy Fielding]
11833 *) mod_auth_anon required an @ or a . in the email address, not both.
11836 *) per_dir_defaults weren't set correctly until directory_walk for
11837 name-based vhosts. This fixes an obscure bug with the wrong config
11838 info being used for vhosts that share the same ip as the server.
11841 *) Improved generation of modules/Makefile to be more generic for
11842 new module directories. [Ken Coar, Chuck Murcko, Roy Fielding]
11844 *) Generate makefile dependency for Configuration based on the actual
11845 name given when running the Configure process. [Dean Gaudet]
11847 *) Fixed problem with vhost error log not being set prior to
11848 initializing virtual hosts. [Dean Gaudet]
11850 *) Fixed infinite loop when a trailing slash is included after a type map
11851 file URL (extra path info). [Petr Lampa]
11853 *) Fixed server status updating of per-connection counters. [Roy Fielding]
11855 *) Add documentation for DNS issues (reliability and security), and try
11856 to explain the virtual host matching process. [Dean Gaudet]
11858 *) Try to continue gracefully by disabling the vhost if a DNS lookup
11859 fails while parsing the configuration file. [Dean Gaudet]
11861 *) Improved calls to setsockopt. [Roy Fielding]
11863 *) Negotiation changes: Don't output empty content-type in variant list;
11864 Output charset in variant list; Return sooner from handle_multi() if
11865 no variants found; Add handling of '*' wildcard in Accept-Charset.
11866 [Petr Lampa and Paul Sutton]
11868 *) Fixed overlaying of request/sub-request notes and headers in
11869 mod_negotiation. [Dean Gaudet]
11871 *) If two variants' charset quality are equal and one is the default
11872 charset (iso-8859-1), then prefer the variant that was specifically
11873 listed in Accept-Charset instead of the default. [Petr Lampa]
11875 *) Memory allocation problem in push_array() -- it would corrupt memory
11876 when nalloc==0. [Kai Risku <krisku tf.hut.fi> and Roy Fielding]
11878 *) invoke_handler() doesn't handle mime arguments in content-type
11879 [Petr Lampa] PR#160
11881 *) Reduced IdentityCheck timeout to 30 seconds, as per RFC 1413 minimum.
11884 *) Fixed problem with ErrorDocument not working for virtual hosts
11885 due to one of the performance changes in 1.2b7. [Dean Gaudet]
11887 *) Log an error message if we get a request header that is too long,
11888 since it may indicate a buffer overflow attack. [Marc Slemko]
11890 *) Made is_url() allow "[-.+a-zA-Z0-9]+:" as a valid scheme and
11891 not reject URLs without a double-slash, as per RFC2068 section 3.2.
11892 [Ken Coar] PR #146, #187
11894 *) Added table entry placeholder for new header_parser callback
11895 in all of the distributed modules. [Ken Coar] PR #191
11897 *) Allow for cgi files without the .EXE extension on them under OS/2.
11898 [Garey Smiley] PR #59
11900 *) Fixed error message when resource is not found and URL contains
11901 path info. [Petr Lampa and Dean Gaudet] PR #40
11903 *) Fixed user and server confusion over what should be a virtual host
11904 and what is the main server, resulting in access to something
11905 other than the name defined in the virtualhost directive (but
11906 with the same IP address) failing. [Dean Gaudet]
11908 *) Updated mod_rewrite to version 3.0.2, which: fixes compile error on
11909 AIX; improves the redirection stuff to enable the users to generally
11910 redirect to http, https, gopher and ftp; added TIME variable for
11911 RewriteCond which expands to YYYYMMDDHHMMSS strings and added the
11912 special patterns >STRING, <STRING and =STRING to RewriteCond, which
11913 can be used in conjunction with %{TIME} or other variables to create
11914 time-dependent rewriting rules. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
11916 *) bpushfd() no longer notes cleanups for the file descriptors it is handed.
11917 Module authors may need to adjust their code for proper cleanup to take
11918 place (that is, call note_cleanups_for_fd()). This change fixes problems
11919 with file descriptors being erroneously closed when the proxy module was
11920 in use. [Ben Laurie]
11922 *) Fix bug in suexec reintroduced by changes in 1.2b7 which allows
11923 initgroups() to hose the group information needed for later
11924 comparisons. [Randy Terbush]
11926 *) Remove unnecessary call to va_end() in create_argv() which
11927 caused a SEGV on some systems.
11929 *) Use proper MAXHOSTNAMELEN symbol for limiting length of server name.
11932 *) Clear memory allocated for listeners. [Randy Terbush]
11934 *) Improved handling of IP address as a virtualhost address and
11935 introduced "_default_" as a synonym for the default vhost config.
11936 [Dean Gaudet] PR #212
11938 Changes with Apache 1.2b7
11940 *) Port to UXP/DS(V20) [Toshiaki Nomura <nom yk.fujitsu.co.jp>]
11942 *) unset Content-Length if chunked (RFC-2068) [Petr Lampa]
11944 *) mod_negotiation fixes [Petr Lampa] PR#157, PR#158, PR#159
11945 - replace protocol response numbers with symbols
11946 - save variant-list into main request notes
11947 - free allocated memory from subrequests
11948 - merge notes, headers_out and err_headers_out
11950 *) changed status check mask in proxy_http.c from "HTTP/#.# ### *" to
11951 "HTTP/#.# ###*" to be more lenient about what we accept.
11954 *) more proxy FTP bug fixes:
11955 - Changed send_dir() to remove user/passwd from displayed URL.
11956 - Changed login error messages to be more descriptive.
11957 - remove setting of SO_DEBUG socket option
11958 - Make ftp_getrc() more lenient about multiline responses,
11959 specifically, 230 responses which don't have continuation 230-
11960 on each line). These seem to be all NT FTP servers, and while
11961 perhaps questionable, they appear to be legal by RFC 959.
11962 - Add missing kill_timeout() after transfer to user completes.
11965 *) Fixed problem where a busy server could hang when restarting
11966 after being sent a SIGHUP due to child processes not exiting.
11969 *) Modify mod_include escaping so a '\' only signifies an escaped
11970 character if the next character is one that needs
11971 escaping. [Ben Laurie]
11973 *) Eliminated possible infinite loop in mod_imap when relative URLs are
11974 used with a 'base' directive that does not have a '/' in it.
11975 [Marc Slemko, reported by Onno Witvliet <onno tc.hsa.nl>]
11977 *) Reduced the default timeout from 1200 seconds to 300, and the
11978 one in the sample configfile from 400 to 300. [Marc Slemko]
11980 *) Stop vbprintf from crashing if given a NULL string pointer;
11981 print (null) instead. [Ken Coar]
11983 *) Don't disable Nagle algorithm if system doesn't have TCP_NODELAY.
11984 [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
11986 *) Fixed problem with mod_cgi-generated internal redirects trying to
11987 read the request message-body twice. [Archie Cobbs and Roy Fielding]
11989 *) Reduced timeout on lingering close, removed possibility of a blocked
11990 read causing the child to hang, and stopped logging of errors if
11991 the socket is not connected (reset by client). [Roy Fielding]
11993 *) Rearranged main child loop to remove duplication of code in
11994 select/accept and keep-alive requests, fixed several bugs regarding
11995 checking scoreboard_image for exit indication and failure to
11996 account for all success conditions and trap all error conditions,
11997 prevented multiple flushes before closing the socket; close the entire
11998 socket buffer instead of just one descriptor, prevent logging of
11999 EPROTO and ECONNABORTED on platforms where supported, and generally
12000 improved readability. [Roy Fielding]
12002 *) Extensive performance improvements. Cleaned up inefficient use of
12003 auto initializers, multiple is_matchexp calls on a static string,
12004 and excessive merging of response_code_strings. [Dean Gaudet]
12006 *) Added double-buffering to mod_include to improve performance on
12007 server-side includes. [Marc Slemko]
12009 *) Several fixes for suexec wrapper. [Randy Terbush]
12010 - Make wrapper work for files on NFS filesystem.
12011 - Fix portability problem of MAXPATHLEN.
12012 - Fix array overrun problem in clean_env().
12013 - Fix allocation of PATH environment variable
12015 *) Removed extraneous blank line is description of mod_status chars.
12018 *) Logging of errors from the call_exec routine simply went nowhere,
12019 since the logfile fd has been closed, so now we send them to stderr.
12020 [Harald T. Alvestrand]
12022 *) Fixed core dump when DocumentRoot is a CGI.
12023 [Ben Laurie, reported by <geddis tesserae.com>]
12025 *) Fixed potential file descriptor leak in mod_asis; updated it and
12026 http_core to use pfopen/pfclose instead of fopen/fclose.
12027 [Randy Terbush and Roy Fielding]
12029 *) Fixed handling of unsigned ints in ap_snprintf() on some chips such
12030 as the DEC Alpha which is 64-bit but uses 32-bit ints.
12031 [Dean Gaudet and Ken Coar]
12033 *) Return a 302 response code to the client when sending a redirect
12034 due to a missing trailing '/' on a directory instead of a 301; now
12035 it is cacheable. [Markus Gyger]
12037 *) Fix condition where, if a bad directive occurs in .htaccess, and
12038 sub_request() goes first to this directory, then log_reason() will
12039 SIGSEGV because it doesn't have initialized r->per_dir_config.
12040 [PR#162 from Petr Lampa, fix by Marc Slemko and Dean Gaudet]
12042 *) Fix handling of lang_index in is_variant_better(). This was
12043 causing problems which resulted in the server sending the
12044 wrong language document in some cases. [Petr Lampa]
12046 *) Remove free() from clean_env() in suexec wrapper. This was nuking
12047 the clean environment on some systems.
12049 *) Tweak byteserving code (e.g. serving PDF files) to work around
12050 bugs in Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
12051 Emit Content-Length header when sending multipart/byteranges.
12054 *) Port to HI-UX/WE2. [Nick Maclaren]
12056 *) Port to HP MPE operating system for HP 3000 machines
12057 [Mark Bixby <markb cccd.edu>]
12059 *) Fixed bug which caused a segmentation fault if only one argument
12060 given to RLimit* directives. [Ed Korthof]
12062 *) Continue persistent connection after 204 or 304 response. [Dean Gaudet]
12064 *) Improved buffered output to the client by delaying the flush decision
12065 until the BUFF code is actually about to read the next request.
12066 This fixes a problem introduced in 1.2b5 with clients that send
12067 an extra CRLF after a POST request. Also improved chunked output
12068 performance by combining writes using writev() and removing as
12069 many bflush() calls as possible. NOTE: Platforms without writev()
12070 must add -DNO_WRITEV to the compiler CFLAGS, either in Configuration
12071 or Configure, unless we have already done so. [Dean Gaudet]
12073 *) Fixed mod_rewrite bug which truncated the rewritten URL [Marc Slemko]
12075 *) Fixed mod_info output corruption bug introduced by buffer overflow
12076 fixes. [Dean Gaudet]
12078 *) Fixed http_protocol to correctly output all HTTP/1.1 headers, including
12079 for the special case of a 304 response. [Paul Sutton]
12081 *) Improved handling of TRACE method by bypassing normal method handling
12082 and header parsing routines; fixed Allow response to always allow TRACE.
12085 *) Fixed compiler warnings in the regex library. [Dean Gaudet]
12087 *) Cleaned-up some of the generated HTML. [Ken Coar]
12089 Changes with Apache 1.2b6
12091 *) Allow whitespace in imagemap mapfile coordinates. [Marc Slemko]
12093 *) Fix typo introduced in fix for potential infinite loop around
12094 accept() in child_main(). This change caused the rev to 1.2b6.
12095 1.2b5 was never a public beta.
12097 Changes with Apache 1.2b5
12099 *) Change KeepAlive semantics (On|Off instead of a number), add
12100 MaxKeepAliveRequests directive. [Alexei Kosut]
12102 *) Various NeXT compilation patches, as well as a change in
12103 regex/regcomp.c since that file also used a NEXT define.
12106 *) Allow * to terminate the end of a directory match in mod_dir.
12107 Allows /~* to match for both /~joe and /~joe/. [David Bronder]
12109 *) Don't call can_exec() if suexec_enabled. Calling this requires
12110 scripts executed by the suexec wrapper to be world executable, which
12111 defeats one of the advantages of running the wrapper. [Randy Terbush]
12113 *) Portability Fix: IRIX complained with 'make clean' about *pure* (removed)
12116 *) Migration from sprintf() to snprintf() to avoid buffer
12117 overflows. [Marc Slemko]
12119 *) Provide portable snprintf() implementation (ap_snprintf)
12120 as well as *cvt family. [Jim Jagielski]
12122 *) Portability Fix: NeXT lacks unistd.h so we wrap it's inclusion
12125 *) Remove mod_fastcgi.c from the distribution. This module appears
12126 to be maintained more through the Open Market channels and should
12127 continue to be easily available at http://www.fastcgi.com/
12129 *) Fixed bug in modules/Makefile that wouldn't allow building in more
12130 than one subdirectory (or cleaning, either). [Jeremy Laidman]
12132 *) mod_info assumed that the config files were relative to ServerRoot.
12135 *) CGI scripts called as an error document resulting from failed
12136 CGI execution would hang waiting for POST'ed data. [Rob Hartill]
12138 *) Log reason when mod_dir returns access HTTP_FORBIDDEN
12141 *) Properly check errno to prevent display of a directory index
12142 when server receives a long enough URL to confuse stat().
12145 *) Several security enhancements to suexec wrapper. It is _highly_
12146 recommended that previously installed versions of the wrapper
12147 be replaced with this version. [Randy Terbush, Jason Dour]
12149 - ~user execution now properly restricted to ~user's home
12150 directory and below.
12151 - execution restricted to UID/GID > 100
12152 - restrict passed environment to known variables
12153 - call setgid() before initgroups() (portability fix)
12154 - remove use of setenv() (portability fix)
12156 *) Add HTTP/1.0 response forcing. [Ben Laurie]
12158 *) Add access control via environment variables. [Ben Laurie]
12160 *) Add rflush() function. [Alexei Kosut]
12162 *) remove duplicate pcalloc() call in new_connection().
12164 *) Fix incorrect comparison which could allow number of children =
12165 MaxClients + 1 if less than HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. Also fix potential
12166 problem if StartServers > HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. [Ed Korthof]
12168 *) Updated support for OSes (MachTen, ULTRIX, Paragon, ISC, OpenBSD
12169 AIX PS/2, CONVEXOS. [Jim Jagielski]
12171 *) Replace instances of inet_ntoa() with inet_addr() for ProxyBlock.
12172 It's more portable. [Martin Kraemer]
12174 *) Replace references to make in Makefile.tmpl with $(MAKE).
12177 *) Add ProxyBlock directive w/IP address caching. Add IP address
12178 caching to NoCache directive as well. ProxyBlock works with all
12179 handlers; NoCache now also works with FTP for anonymous logins.
12180 Still more code cleanup. [Chuck Murcko]
12182 *) Add "header parse" API hook [Ben Laurie]
12184 *) Fix byte ordering problems for REMOTE_PORT [Chuck Murcko]
12186 *) suEXEC wrapper was freeing memory that had not been malloc'ed.
12188 *) Correctly allow access and auth directives in <Files> sections in
12189 server config files. [Alexei Kosut]
12191 *) Fix bug with ServerPath that could cause certain files to be not
12192 found by the server. [Alexei Kosut]
12194 *) Fix handling of ErrorDocument so that it doesn't remove a trailing
12195 double-quote from text and so that it properly checks for unsupported
12196 status codes using the new index_of_response interface. [Roy Fielding]
12198 *) Multiple fixes to the lingering_close code in order to avoid being
12199 interrupted by a stray timeout, to avoid lingering on a connection
12200 that has already been aborted or never really existed, to ensure that
12201 we stop lingering as soon as any error condition is received, and to
12202 prevent being stuck indefinitely if the read blocks. Also improves
12203 reporting of error conditions. [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
12205 *) Fixed initialization of parameter structure for sigaction.
12206 [<mgyger itr.ch>, Adrian Filipi-Martin]
12208 *) Fixed reinitializing the parameters before each call to accept and
12209 select, and removed potential for infinite loop in accept.
12210 [Roy Fielding, after useful PR from <adrian virginia.edu>]
12212 *) Fixed condition where, if a child fails to fork, the scoreboard would
12213 continue to say SERVER_STARTING forever. Eventually, the main process
12214 would refuse to start new children because count_idle_servers() will
12215 count those SERVER_STARTING entries and will always report that there
12216 are enough idle servers. [Phillip Vandry]
12218 *) Fixed bug in bcwrite regarding failure to account for partial writes.
12219 Avoided calling bflush() when the client is pipelining requests.
12220 Removed unnecessary flushes from http_protocol. [Dean Gaudet]
12222 *) Added description of "." mode in server-status [Jim Jagielski]
12224 Changes with Apache 1.2b4
12226 *) Fix possible race condition in accept_mutex_init() that
12227 could leave a small security hole open allowing files to be
12228 overwritten in cases where the server UID has write permissions.
12231 *) Fix awk compatibilty problem in Configure. [Jim Jagielski]
12233 *) Fix portablity problem in util_script where ARG_MAX may not be
12234 defined for some systems.
12236 *) Add changes to allow compilation on Machten 4.0.3 for PowerPC.
12239 *) OS/2 changes to support an MMAP style scoreboard file and UNIX
12240 style magic #! token for better script portability. [Garey Smiley]
12242 *) Fix bug in suexec wrapper introduced in b3 that would cause failed
12243 execution for ~userdir CGI. [Jason Dour]
12245 *) Fix initgroups() business in suexec wrapper. [Jason Dour]
12247 *) Fix month off by one in suexec wrapper logging.
12249 Changes with Apache 1.2b3:
12251 *) Fix error in mod_cgi which could cause resources not to be properly
12252 freed, or worse. [Dean Gaudet]
12254 *) Fix find_string() NULL pointer dereference. [Howard Fear]
12256 *) Add set_flag_slot() at the request of Dirk and others.
12259 *) Sync mod_rewrite with patch level 10. [Ralf Engelschall]
12261 *) Add changes to improve the error message given for invalid
12262 ServerName parameters. [Dirk vanGulik]
12264 *) Add "Authoritative" directive for Auth modules that don't
12265 currently have it. This gives admin control to assign authoritative
12266 control to an authentication scheme and allow "fall through" for
12267 those authentication modules that aren't "Authoritative" thereby
12268 allowing multiple authentication mechanisms to be chained.
12271 *) Remove requirement for ResourceConfig/AccessConfig if not using
12272 the three config file layout. [Randy Terbush]
12274 *) Add PASV mode to mod_proxy FTP handler. [Chuck Murcko]
12276 *) Changes to suexec wrapper to fix the following problems:
12277 1. symlinked homedirs will kill ~userdirs.
12278 2. initgroups() on Linux 2.0.x clobbers gr->grid.
12279 3. CGI command lines paramters problems
12280 4. pw-pwdir for "docroot check" still the httpd user's pw record.
12281 [Randy Terbush, Jason Dour]
12283 *) Change create_argv() to accept variable arguments. This fixes
12284 a problem where arguments were not getting passed to the CGI via
12285 argv[] when the suexec wrapper was active. [Randy Terbush, Jake Buchholz]
12287 *) Collapse multiple slashes in path URLs to properly apply
12288 handlers defined by <Location>. [Alexei Kosut]
12290 *) Define a sane set of DEFAULT_USER and DEFAULT_GROUP values for AIX.
12292 *) Improve the accuracy of request duration timings by setting
12293 r->request_time in read_request_line() instead of read_request().
12296 *) Reset timeout while reading via get_client_block() in mod_cgi.c
12297 Fixes problem with timed out transfers of large files. [Rasmus Lerdorf]
12299 *) Add the ability to pass different Makefile.tmpl files to Configure
12300 using the -make flag. [Rob Hartill]
12302 *) Fix coredump triggered when sending a SIGHUP to the server caused
12303 by an assertion failure, in turn caused by an uninitialised field in a
12307 *) Add FILEPATH_INFO variable to CGI environment, which is equal to
12308 PATH_INFO from previous versions of Apache (in certain situations,
12309 Apache 1.2's PATH_INFO will be different than 1.1's). [Alexei Kosut]
12310 [later removed in 1.2b11]
12312 *) Add rwrite() function to API to allow for sending strings of
12313 arbitrary length. [Doug MacEachern]
12315 *) Remove rlim_t typedef for NetBSD. Do older versions need this?
12317 *) Defined rlim_t and WANTHSREGEX=yes and fixed waitpid() substitute for
12318 NeXT. [Jim Jagielski]
12320 *) Removed recent modification to promote the status code on internal
12321 redirects, since the correct fix was to change the default log format
12322 in mod_log_config so that it outputs the original status. [Rob Hartill]
12324 Changes with Apache 1.2b2:
12326 *) Update set_signals() to use sigaction() for setting handlers.
12327 This appears to fix a re-entrant problem in the seg_fault()
12328 bus_error() handlers. [Randy Terbush]
12330 *) Changes to allow mod_status compile for OS/2 [Garey Smiley]
12332 *) changes for DEC AXP running OSF/1 v3.0. [Marc Evans]
12334 *) proxy_http.c bugfixes: [Chuck Murcko]
12335 1) fixes possible NULL pointer reference w/NoCache
12336 2) fixes NoCache behavior when using ProxyRemote (ProxyRemote
12337 host would cache nothing if it was in the local domain,
12338 and the local domain was in the NoCache list)
12339 3) Adds Host: header when not available
12340 4) Some code cleanup and clarification
12342 *) mod_include.c bugfixes:
12343 1) Fixed an ommission that caused include variables to not
12344 be parsed in config errmsg directives [Howard Fear]
12345 2) Remove HAVE_POSIX_REGEX cruft [Alexei Kosut]
12346 3) Patch to fix compiler warnings [<perrot lal.in2p3.fr>]
12347 4) Allow backslash-escaping to all quoted text
12348 [Ben Yoshino <ben wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu>]
12349 5) Pass variable to command line if not set in XSSI's env
12352 *) Fix infinite loop when processing Content-language lines in
12353 type-map files. [Alexei Kosut]
12355 *) Closed file-globbing hole in test-cgi script. [Brian Behlendorf]
12357 *) Fixed problem in set_[user|group] that prevented CGI execution
12358 for non-virtualhosts when suEXEC was enabled. [Randy Terbush]
12360 *) Added PORTING information file. [Jim Jagielski]
12362 *) Added definitions for S_IWGRP and S_IWOTH to conf.h [Ben Laurie]
12364 *) Changed default group to "nogroup" instead of "nobody" [Randy Terbush]
12366 *) Fixed define typo of FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT where
12367 USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT was intended.
12369 *) Fixed additional uses of 0xffffffff where INADDR_NONE was intended,
12370 which caused problems of systems where socket s_addr is >32bits.
12372 *) Added comment to explain (r->chunked = 1) side-effect in
12373 http_protocol.c [Roy Fielding]
12375 *) Replaced use of index() in mod_expires.c with more appropriate
12376 and portable isdigit() test. [Ben Laurie]
12378 *) Updated Configure for ...
12379 OS/2 (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes, other code changes)
12380 *-dg-dgux* (bad pattern match)
12381 QNX (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes)
12382 *-sunos4* (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes, -DUSEBCOPY)
12384 *-unixware211 (new)
12385 and added some user diagnostic info. [Ben Laurie]
12387 *) In helpers/CutRule, replaced "cut" invocation with "awk" invocation
12388 for better portability. [Jim Jagielski]
12390 *) Updated helpers/GuessOS for ...
12391 SCO 5 (recognize minor releases)
12392 SCO UnixWare (braindamaged uname, whatever-whatever-unixware2)
12393 SCO UnixWare 2.1.1 (requires a separate set of #defines in conf.h)
12394 IRIX64 (-sgi-irix64)
12395 ULTRIX (-unknown-ultrix)
12396 SINIX (-whatever-sysv4)
12397 NCR Unix (-ncr-sysv4)
12398 and fixed something in helpers/PrintPath [Ben Laurie]
12400 Changes with Apache 1.2b1
12402 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_2.html>
12404 Changes with Apache 1.1.1
12406 *) Fixed bug where Cookie module would make two entries in the
12407 logfile for each access [Mark Cox]
12409 *) Fixed bug where Redirect in .htaccess files would cause memory
12410 leak. [Nathan Neulinger]
12412 *) MultiViews now works correctly with AddHandler [Alexei Kosut]
12414 *) Problems with mod_auth_msql fixed [Dirk vanGulik]
12416 *) Fix misspelling of "Anonymous_Authorative" directive in mod_auth_anon.
12418 Changes with Apache 1.1.0
12420 *) Bring NeXT support up to date. [Takaaki Matsumoto]
12422 *) Bring QNX support up to date. [Ben Laurie]
12424 *) Make virtual hosts default to main server keepalive parameters.
12425 [Alexei Kosut, Ben Laurie]
12427 *) Allow ScanHTMLTitles to work with lowercase <title> tags. [Alexei Kosut]
12429 *) Fix missing address family for connect, also remove unreachable statement
12430 in mod_proxy. [Ben Laurie]
12432 *) mod_env now turned on by default in Configuration.tmpl.
12434 *) Bugs which were fixed:
12435 a) yet more mod_proxy bugs [Ben Laurie]
12436 b) CGI works again with inetd [Alexei Kosut]
12437 c) Leading colons were stripped from passwords [<osm interguide.com>]
12438 d) Another fix to multi-method Limit problem [<jk tools.de>]
12440 Changes with Apache 1.1b4
12442 *) r->bytes_sent variable restored. [Robert Thau]
12444 *) Previously broken multi-method <Limit> parsing fixed. [Robert Thau]
12446 *) More possibly unsecure programs removed from the support directory.
12448 *) More mod_auth_msql authentication improvements.
12450 *) VirtualHosts based on Host: headers no longer conflict with the
12453 *) OS/2 compatibility enhancements. [Gary Smiley]
12455 *) POST now allowed to directory index CGI scripts.
12457 *) Actions now work with files of the default type.
12459 *) Bugs which were fixed:
12460 a) more mod_proxy bugs
12461 b) early termination of inetd requests
12462 c) compile warnings on several systems
12463 d) problems when scripts stop reading output early
12465 Changes with Apache 1.1b3
12467 *) Much of cgi-bin and all of cgi-src has been removed, due to
12468 various security holes found and that we could no longer support
12471 *) The "Set-Cookie" header is now special-cased to not merge multiple
12472 instances, since certain popular browsers can not handle multiple
12473 Set-Cookie instructions in a single header. [Paul Sutton]
12475 *) rprintf() added to buffer code, occurrences of sprintf removed.
12478 *) CONNECT method for proxy module, which means tunneling SSL should work.
12479 (No crypto needed) Also a NoCache config directive.
12481 *) Several API additions: pstrndup(), table_unset() and get_token()
12482 functions now available to modules.
12484 *) mod_imap fixups, in particular Location: headers are now complete
12487 *) New "info" module which reports on installed module set through a
12488 special URL, a la mod_status.
12490 *) "ServerPath" directive added - allows for graceful transition
12491 for Host:-header-based virtual hosts.
12493 *) Anonymous authentication module improvements.
12495 *) MSQL authentication module improvements.
12497 *) Status module design improved - output now table-based. [Ben Laurie]
12499 *) htdigest utility included for use with digest authentication
12502 *) mod_negotiation: Accept values with wildcards to be treated with
12503 less priority than those without wildcards at the same quality
12504 value. [Alexei Kosut]
12506 *) Bugs which were fixed:
12507 a) numerous mod_proxy bugs
12508 b) CGI early-termination bug [Ben Laurie]
12509 c) Keepalives not working with virtual hosts
12510 d) RefererIgnore problems
12511 e) closing fd's twice in mod_include (causing core dumps on
12512 Linux and elsewhere).
12514 Changes with Apache 1.1b2
12517 a) core dumps in mod_digest
12518 b) truncated hostnames/ip address in the logs
12519 c) relative URL's in mod_imap map files
12521 Changes with Apache 1.1b1
12523 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_1.html>
12525 Changes with Apache 1.0.3
12527 *) Internal redirects which occur in mod_dir.c now preserve the
12528 query portion of a request (the bit after the question mark).
12531 *) Escape active characters '<', '>' and '&' in html output in
12532 directory listings, error messages and redirection links.
12535 *) Apache will now work with LynxOS 2.3 and later [Steven Watt]
12537 *) Fix for POSIX compliance in waiting for processes in alloc.c.
12540 *) setsockopt no longer takes a const declared argument [Martijn Koster]
12542 *) Reset timeout timer after each successful fwrite() to the network.
12543 This patch adds a reset_timeout() procedure that is called by
12544 send_fd() to reset the timeout ever time data is written to the net.
12547 *) timeout() signal handler now checks for SIGPIPE and reports
12548 lost connections in a more user friendly way. [Rob Hartill]
12550 *) Location of the "scoreboard" file which used to live in /tmp is
12551 now configurable (for OSes that can't use mmap) via ScoreBoardFile
12552 which works similar to PidFile (in httpd.conf) [Rob Hartill]
12554 *) Include sys/resource.h in the correct place for SunOS4 [Sameer Parekh]
12556 *) the pstrcat call in mod_cookies.c didn't have an ending NULL,
12557 which caused a SEGV with cookies enabled
12559 *) Output warning when MinSpareServers is set to <= 0 and change it to 1
12562 *) Log the UNIX textual error returned by some system calls, in
12563 particular errors from accept() [David Robinson]
12565 *) Add strerror function to util.c for SunOS4 [Randy Terbush]
12567 Changes with Apache 1.0.2
12569 *) patch to get Apache compiled on UnixWare 2.x, recommended as
12570 a temporary measure, pending rewrite of rfc931.c. [Chuck Murcko]
12572 *) Fix get_basic_auth_pw() to set the auth_type of the request.
12575 *) past changes to http_config.c to only use the
12576 setrlimit function on systems defining RLIMIT_NOFILE
12577 broke the feature on SUNOS4. Now defines HAVE_RESOURCE
12578 for SUNOS and prototypes the needed functions.
12580 *) Remove uses of MAX_STRING_LEN/HUGE_STRING_LEN from several routines.
12583 *) Fix use of pointer to scratch memory. [Cliff Skolnick]
12585 *) Merge multiple headers from CGI scripts instead of taking last
12586 one. [David Robinson]
12588 *) Add support for SCO 5. [Ben Laurie]
12590 Changes with Apache 1.0.1
12592 *) Silence mod_log_referer and mod_log_agent if not configured
12595 *) Recursive includes can occur if the client supplies PATH_INFO data
12596 and the server provider uses relative links; as file.html
12597 relative to /doc.shtml/pathinfo is /doc.shtml/file.html. [David Robinson]
12599 *) The replacement for initgroups() did not call {set,end}grent(). This
12600 had two implications: if anything else used getgrent(), then
12601 initgroups() would fail, and it was consuming a file descriptor.
12604 *) On heavily loaded servers it was possible for the scoreboard to get
12605 out of sync with reality, as a result of a race condition.
12606 The observed symptoms are far more Apaches running than should
12607 be, and heavy system loads, generally followed by catastrophic
12608 system failure. [Ben Laurie]
12610 *) Fix typo in license. [David Robinson]
12612 Changes with Apache 1.0.0 23 Nov 1995
12614 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_0.html>
12616 Changes with Apache 0.8.16 05 Nov 1995
12618 *) New man page for 'httpd' added to support directory [David Robinson]
12620 *) .htgroup files can have more than one line giving members for a
12621 given group (each must have the group name in front), for NCSA
12622 back-compatibility [Robert Thau]
12624 *) Mutual exclusion around accept() is on by default for SVR4 systems
12625 generally, since they generally can't handle multiple processes in
12626 accept() on the same socket. This should cure flaky behavior on
12627 a lot of those systems. [David Robinson]
12629 *) AddType, AddEncoding, and AddLanguage directives take multiple
12630 extensions on a single command line [David Robinson]
12632 *) UserDir can be disabled for a given virtual host by saying
12633 "UserDir disabled" in the <VirtualHost> section --- it was a bug
12634 that this didn't work. [David Robinson]
12636 *) Compiles on QNX [Ben Laurie]
12638 *) Corrected parsing of ctime time format [David Robinson]
12640 *) httpd does a perror() before exiting if it can't log its pid
12641 to the PidFile, to make diagnosing the error a bit easier.
12644 *) <!--#include file="..."--> can no longer include files in the
12645 parent directory, for NCSA back-compatibility. [David Robinson]
12647 *) '~' is *not* escaped in URIs generated for directory listings
12650 *) Eliminated compiler warning in the imagemap module [Randy Terbush]
12652 *) Fixed bug involving handling URIs with escaped %-characters
12653 in redirects [David Robinson]
12655 Changes with Apache 0.8.15 14 Oct 1995
12657 *) Switched to new, simpler license
12659 *) Eliminated core dumps with improperly formatted DBM group files [Mark Cox]
12661 *) Don't allow requests for ordinary files to have PATH_INFO [Ben Laurie]
12663 *) Reject paths containing %-escaped '%' or null characters [David Robinson]
12665 *) Correctly handles internal redirects to files with names containing '%'
12668 *) Repunctuated some error messages [Aram Mirzadeh, Andrew Wilson]
12670 *) Use geteuid() rather than getuid() to see if we have root privilege,
12671 so that server correctly resets privilege if run setuid root. [Andrew
12674 *) Handle ftp: and telnet: URLs correctly in imagemaps (built-in module)
12677 *) Fix relative URLs in imagemap files [Randy Terbush]
12679 *) Somewhat better fix for the old "Alias /foo/ /bar/" business
12682 *) Don't repeatedly open the ErrorLog if a bunch of <VirtualHost>
12683 entries all name the same one. [David Robinson]
12685 *) Fix directory listings with filenames containing unusual characters
12688 *) Better URI-escaping for generated URIs in directories with filenames
12689 containing unusual characters [Ben Laurie]
12691 *) Fixed potential FILE* leak in http_main.c [Ben Laurie]
12693 *) Unblock alarms on error return from spawn_child() [David Robinson]
12695 *) Sample Config files have extra note for SCO users [Ben Laurie]
12697 *) Configuration has note for HP-UX users [Rob Hartill]
12699 *) Eliminated some bogus Linux-only #defines in conf.h [Aram Mirzadeh]
12701 *) Nuked bogus #define in httpd.h [David Robinson]
12703 *) Better test for whether a system has setrlimit() [David Robinson]
12705 *) Calls update_child_status() after reopen_scoreboard() [David Robinson]
12707 *) Doesn't send itself SIGHUP on startup when run in the -X debug-only mode
12710 Changes with Apache 0.8.14 19 Sep 1995
12712 *) Compiles on SCO ODT 3.0 [Ben Laurie]
12714 *) AddDescription works (better) [Ben Laurie]
12716 *) Leaves an intelligible error diagnostic when it can't set group
12717 privileges on standalone startup [Andrew Wilson]
12719 *) Compiles on NeXT again --- the 0.8.13 RLIMIT patch was failing on
12720 that machine, which claims to be BSD but does not support RLIMIT.
12723 *) gcc -Wall no longer complains about an unused variable when util.c
12724 is compiled with -DMINIMAL_DNS [Andrew Wilson]
12726 *) Nuked another compiler warning for -Wall on Linux [Aram Mirzadeh]
12728 Changes with Apache 0.8.13 07 Sep 1995
12730 *) Make IndexIgnore *work* (ooops) [Jarkko Torppa]
12732 *) Have built-in imagemap code recognize & honor Point directive [James
12735 *) Generate cleaner directory listings in directories with a mix of
12736 long and short filenames [Rob Hartill]
12738 *) Properly initialize dynamically loaded modules [Royston Shufflebotham]
12740 *) Properly default ServerName for virtual servers [Robert Thau]
12742 *) Rationalize handling of BSD in conf.h and elsewhere [Randy Terbush,
12743 Paul Richards and a cast of thousands...]
12745 *) On self-identified BSD systems (we don't try to guess any more),
12746 allocate a few extra file descriptors per virtual host with setrlimit,
12747 if we can, to avoid running out. [Randy Terbush]
12749 *) Write 22-character lock file name into buffer with enough space
12750 on startup [Konstantin Olchanski]
12752 *) Use archaic setpgrp() interface on NeXT, which requires it [Brian
12755 *) Suppress -Wall warning by casting const away in util.c [Aram Mirzadeh]
12757 *) Suppress -Wall warning by initializing variable in negotiation code
12758 [Tobias Weingartner]
12760 Changes with Apache 0.8.12 31 Aug 1995
12762 *) Doesn't pause three seconds after including a CGI script which is
12763 too slow to die off (this is done by not even trying to kill off
12764 subprocesses, including the SIGTERM/pause/SIGKILL routine, until
12765 after the entire document has been processed). [Robert Thau]
12767 *) Doesn't do SSI if Options Includes is off. (Ooops). [David Robinson]
12769 *) Options IncludesNoExec allows inclusion of at least text/* [Roy Fielding]
12771 *) Allows .htaccess files to override <Directory> sections naming the
12772 same directory [David Robinson]
12774 *) Removed an efficiency hack in sub_req_lookup_uri which was
12775 causing certain extremely marginal cases (e.g., ScriptAlias of a
12776 *particular* index.html file) to fail. [David Robinson]
12778 *) Doesn't log an error when the requested URI requires
12779 authentication, but no auth header line was supplied by the
12780 client; this is a normal condition (the client doesn't no auth is
12781 needed here yet). [Robert Thau]
12783 *) Behaves more sanely when the name server loses its mind [Sean Welch]
12785 *) RFC931 code compiles cleanly on old BSDI releases [Randy Terbush]
12787 *) RFC931 code no longer passes out name of prior clients on current
12788 requests if the current request came from a server that doesn't
12789 do RFC931. [David Robinson]
12791 *) Configuration script accepts "Module" lines with trailing whitespace.
12794 *) Cleaned up compiler warning from mod_access.c [Robert Thau]
12796 *) Cleaned up comments in mod_cgi.c [Robert Thau]
12798 Changes with Apache 0.8.11 24 Aug 1995
12800 *) Wildcard <Directory> specifications work. [Robert Thau]
12802 *) Doesn't loop for buggy CGI on Solaris [Cliff Skolnick]
12804 *) Symlink checks (FollowSymLinks off, or SymLinkIfOwnerMatch) always check
12805 the file being requested itself, in addition to the directories leading
12806 up to it. [Robert Thau]
12808 *) Logs access failures due to symlink checks or invalid client address
12809 in the error log [Roy Fielding, Robert Thau]
12811 *) Symlink checks deal correctly with systems where lstat of
12812 "/path/to/some/link/" follows the link. [Thau, Fielding]
12814 *) Doesn't reset DirectoryIndex to 'index.html' when
12815 other directory options are set in a .htaccess file. [Robert Thau]
12817 *) Clarified init code and nuked bogus warning in mod_access.c
12818 [Florent Guillaume]
12820 *) Corrected several directives in sample srm.conf
12821 --- includes corrections to directory indexing icon-related directives
12822 (using unknown.gif rather than unknown.xbm as the DefaultIcon, doing
12823 icons for encodings right, and turning on AddEncoding by default).
12826 *) Corrected descriptions of args to AddIcon and AddAlt in command table
12829 *) INSTALL & README mention "contributed modules" directory [Brian
12832 *) Fixed English in the license language... "for for" --> "for".
12835 *) Fixed ScriptAlias/Alias interaction by moving ScriptAlias handling to
12836 mod_alias.c, merging it almost completely with handling of Alias, and
12837 adding a 'notes' field to the request_rec which allows the CGI module
12838 to discover whether the Alias module has put this request through
12839 ScriptAlias (which it needs to know for back-compatibility, as the old
12840 NCSA code did not check Options ExecCGI in ScriptAlias directories).
12843 Changes with Apache 0.8.10 18 Aug 1995
12845 *) AllowOverride applies to the named directory, and not just
12846 subdirectories. [David Robinson]
12848 *) Do locking for accept() exclusion (on systems that need it)
12849 using a special file created for the purpose in /usr/tmp, and
12850 not the error log; using the error log causes real problems
12851 if it's NFS-mounted; this is known to be the cause of a whole
12852 lot of "server hang" problems with Solaris. [David Robinson;
12853 thanks to Merten Schumann for help diagnosing the problem].
12855 Changes with Apache 0.8.9 12 Aug 1995
12857 *) Compiles with -DMAXIMUM_DNS ---- ooops! [Henrik Mortensen]
12859 *) Nested includes see environment variables of the including document,
12860 for NCSA bug-compatibility (some sites have standard footer includes
12861 which try to print out the last-modified date). [Eric Hagberg/Robert
12864 *) <!--exec cgi="/some/uri/here"--> always treats the item named by the
12865 URI as a CGI script, even if it would have been treated as something
12866 else if requested directly, for NCSA back-compatibility. (Note that
12867 this means that people who know the name of the script can see the
12868 code just by asking for it). [Robert Thau]
12870 *) New version of dbmmanage script included in support directory as
12873 *) Check if scoreboard file couldn't be opened, and say so, rather
12874 then going insane [David Robinson]
12876 *) POST to CGI works on A/UX [Jim Jagielski]
12878 *) AddIcon and AddAlt commands work properly [Rob Hartill]
12880 *) NCSA server push works properly --- the Arena bug compatibility
12881 workaround, which broke it, is gone (use -DARENA_BUG_WORKAROUND
12882 if you still want the workaround). [Rob Hartill]
12884 *) If client didn't submit any Accept-encodings, ignore encodings in
12885 content negotiation. (NB this will all have to be reworked anyway
12886 for the new HTTP draft). [Florent Guillaume]
12888 *) Don't dump core when trying to log timed-out requests [Jim Jagielski]
12890 *) Really honor CacheNegotiatedDocs [Florent Guillaume]
12892 *) Give Redirect priority over Alias, for NCSA bug compatibility
12895 *) Correctly set PATH_TRANSLATED in all cases from <!--#exec cmd=""-->,
12896 paralleling earlier bug fix for CGI [David Robinson]
12898 *) If DBM auth is improperly configured, report a server error and don't
12901 *) Deleted FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPTS from conf.h entry for A/UX;
12902 it seems to work well enough without it (even in a 10 hits/sec
12903 workout), and the overhead for the locking under A/UX is
12904 alarmingly high (though it is very low on other systems).
12905 [Eric Hagberg, Jim Jagielski]
12907 *) Fixed portability problems with mod_cookies.c [Cliff Skolnick]
12909 *) Further de-Berklize mod_cookies.c; change the bogus #include. [Brian
12910 Behlendorf/Eric Hagberg]
12912 *) More improvements to default Configuration for A/UX [Jim Jagielski]
12914 *) Compiles clean on NEXT [Rob Hartill]
12916 *) Compiles clean on SGI [Robert Thau]
12918 Changes with Apache 0.8.8 08 Aug 1995
12920 *) SunOS library prototypes now never included unless explicitly
12921 requested in the configuration (via -DSUNOS_LIB_PROTOTYPES);
12922 people using GNU libc on SunOS are screwed by prototypes for the
12925 (Those who wish to compile clean with gcc -Wall on a standard
12926 SunOS setup need the prototypes, and may obtain them using
12927 -DSUNOS_LIB_PROTOTYPES. Those wishing to use -Wall on a system
12928 with nonstandard libraries are presumably competent to make their
12931 *) Strips trailing '/' characters off both args to the Alias command,
12932 to make 'Alias /foo/ /bar/' work.
12934 Changes with Apache 0.8.7 03 Aug 1995
12936 *) Don't hang when restarting with a child from 'TransferLog "|..."' running
12937 [reported by David Robinson]
12939 *) Compiles clean on OSF/1 [David Robinson]
12941 *) Added some of the more recent significant changes (AddLanguage stuff,
12942 experimental LogFormat support) to CHANGES file in distribution root
12945 Changes with Apache 0.8.6 02 Aug 1995
12947 *) Deleted Netscape reload workaround --- it's in violation of HTTP specs.
12948 (If you actually wanted a conditional GET which bypassed the cache, you
12949 couldn't get it). [Reported by Roy Fielding]
12951 *) Properly terminate headers on '304 Not Modified' replies to conditional
12952 GETs --- no browser we can find cares much, but the CERN proxy chokes.
12953 [Reported by Cliff Skolnick; fix discovered independently by Rob Hartill]
12955 *) httpd -v doesn't call itself "Shambhala". [Reported by Chuck Murcko]
12957 *) SunOS lib-function prototypes in conf.h conditionalized on __GNUC__,
12958 not __SUNPRO_C (they're needed to quiet gcc -Wall, but acc chokes on 'em,
12959 and older versions don't set the __SUNPRO_C preprocessor variable). On
12960 all other systems, these are never used anyway. [Reported by Mark Cox].
12962 *) Scoreboard file (/tmp/htstatus.*) no longer publically writable.
12964 Changes with Apache 0.8.5 01 Aug 1995
12966 *) Added last-minute configurable log experiment, as optional module
12968 *) Correctly set r->bytes_sent for HTTP/0.9 requests, so they get logged
12969 properly. (One-line fix to http_protocol.c).
12971 *) Work around bogus behavior when reloading from Netscape.
12972 It's Netscape's bug --- for some reason they expect a request with
12973 If-modified-since: to not function as a conditional GET if it also
12974 comes with Pragma: no-cache, which is way out of line with the HTTP
12975 spec (according to Roy Fielding, the redactor).
12977 *) Added parameter to set maximum number of server processes.
12979 *) Added patches to make it work on A/UX. A/UX is *weird*. [Eric Hagberg,
12982 *) IdentityCheck bugfix [Chuck Murcko].
12984 *) Corrected cgi-src/Makefile entry for new imagemap script. [Alexei Kosut]
12986 *) More sample config file corrections; add extension to AddType for
12987 *.asis, move AddType generic description to its proper place, and
12988 fix miscellaneous typos. [ Alexei Kosut ]
12990 *) Deleted the *other* reference to the regents from the Berkeley
12991 legal disclaimer (everyplace).
12993 *) Nuked Shambhala name from src/README; had already cleaned it out
12994 of everywhere else.
12996 Changes with Apache 0.8.4
12998 *) Changes to server-pool management parms --- renamed current
12999 StartServers to MinSpareServers, created separate StartServers
13000 parameter which means what it says, and renamed MaxServers to
13001 MaxSpareServers (though the old name still works, for NCSA 1.4
13002 back-compatibility). The old names were generally regarded as
13003 too confusing. Also altered "docs" in sample config files.
13005 *) More improvements to default config files ---
13006 sample directives (commented out) for XBitHack, BindAddress,
13007 CacheNegotiatedDocs, VirtualHost; decent set of AddLanguage
13008 defaults, AddTypes for send-as-is and imagemap magic types, and
13009 improvements to samples for DirectoryIndex [Alexei Kosut]
13011 *) Yet more improvements to default config files --- changes to
13012 Alexei's sample AddLanguage directives, and sample LanguagePriority
13013 [ Florent Guillaume ]
13015 *) Set config file locations properly if not set in httpd.conf
13018 *) Don't escape URIs in internal redirects multiple times; don't
13019 do that when translating PATH_INFO to PATH_TRANSLATED either.
13022 *) Corrected spelling of "Required" in 401 error reports [Andrew Wilson]
13024 Changes with Apache 0.8.3
13026 *) Edited distribution README to *briefly* summarize installation
13027 procedures, and give a pointer to the INSTALL file in the src/
13030 *) Upgraded imagemap script in cgi-bin to 1.8 version from more
13031 recent NCSA distributions.
13033 *) Bug fix to previous bug fix --- if .htaccess file and <Directory>
13034 exist for the same directory, use both and don't segfault. [Reported
13037 *) Proper makefile dependencies [David Robinson]
13039 *) Note (re)starts in error log --- reported by Rob Hartill.
13041 *) Only call no2slash() after get_path_info() has been done, to
13042 preserve multiple slashes in the PATH_INFO [NCSA compatibility,
13043 reported by Andrew Wilson, though this one is probably a real bug]
13045 *) Fixed mod_imap.c --- relative paths with base_uri referer don't
13046 dump core when Referer is not supplied. [Randy Terbush]
13048 *) Lightly edited sample config files to refer people to our documentation
13049 instead of NCSA's, and to list Rob McCool as *original* author (also
13050 deleted his old, and no doubt non-functional email address). Would be
13051 nice to have examples of new features...
13053 Changes with Apache 0.8.2 19 Jul 1995
13055 *) Added AddLanuage code [Florent Guillaume]
13057 *) Don't say "access forbidden" when a CGI script is not found. [Mark Cox]
13059 *) All sorts of problems when MultiViews finds a directory. It would
13060 be nice if mod_dir.c was robust enough to handle that, but for now,
13061 just punt. [reported by Brian Behlendorf]
13063 *) Wait for all children on restart, to make sure that the old socket
13064 is gone and we can reopen it. [reported by Randy Terbush]
13066 *) Imagemap module is enabled in default Configuration
13068 *) RefererLog and UserAgentLog modules properly default the logfile
13071 *) Mark Cox's mod_cookies added to the distribution as an optional
13072 module (commented out in the default Configuration, and noted as
13073 an experiment, along with mod_dld). [Mark Cox]
13075 *) Compiles on ULTRIX (a continuing battle...). [Robert Thau]
13077 *) Fixed nasty bug in SIGTERM handling [reported by Randy Terbush]
13079 *) Changed "Shambhala" to "Apache" in API docs. [Robert Thau]
13081 *) Added new, toothier legal disclaimer. [Robert Thau; copied from BSD
13084 Changes with Apache 0.8.1
13086 *) New imagemap module [Randy Terbush]
13088 *) Replacement referer log module with NCSA-compatible RefererIgnore
13089 [Matthew Gray again]
13091 *) Don't mung directory listings with very long filenames.
13092 [Florent Guillaume]
13094 Changes with Apache 0.8.0 (nee Shambhala 0.6.2) 16 Jul 1995
13096 *) New config script. See INSTALL for info. [Robert Thau]
13098 *) Scoreboard mechanism for regulating the number of extant server
13099 processes. MaxServers and StartServers defaults are the same as
13100 for NCSA, but the meanings are slightly different. (Actually,
13101 I should probably lower the MaxServers default to 10).
13103 Before asking for a new connection, each server process checks
13104 the number of other servers which are also waiting for a
13105 connection. If there are more than MaxServers, it quietly dies
13106 off. Conversely, every second, the root, or caretaker, process
13107 looks to see how many servers are waiting for a new connection;
13108 if there are fewer than StartServers, it starts a new one. This
13109 does not depend on the number of server processes already extant.
13110 The accounting is arranged through a "scoreboard" file, named
13111 /tmp/htstatus.*, on which each process has an independent file
13112 descriptor (they need to seek without interference).
13114 The end effect is that MaxServers is the maximum number of
13115 servers on an *inactive* server machine, but more will be forked
13116 off to handle unusually heavy loads (or unusually slow clients);
13117 these will die off when they are no longer needed --- without
13118 reverting to the overhead of full forking operation. There is a
13119 hard maximum of 150 server processes compiled in, largely to
13120 avoid forking out of control and dragging the machine down.
13121 (This is arguably too high).
13123 In my server endurance tests, this mechanism did not appear to
13124 impose any significant overhead, even after I forced it to put the
13125 scoreboard file on a normal filesystem (which might have more
13126 overhead than tmpfs). [Robert Thau]
13128 *) Set HTTP_FOO variables for SSI <!--#exec cmd-->s, not just CGI scripts.
13131 *) Read .htaccess files even in directory with <Directory> section.
13132 (Former incompatibility noted on mailing list, now fixed). [Robert
13135 *) "HEAD /" gives the client a "Bad Request" error message, rather
13136 than trying to send no body *and* no headers. [Cliff Skolnick].
13138 *) Don't produce double error reports for some very obscure cases
13139 mainly involving auth configuration (the "all modules decline to
13140 handle" case which is a sure sign of a server bug in most cases,
13141 but also happens when authentication is badly misconfigured).
13144 *) Moved FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT defines into conf.h (that's what
13145 it's *for*, and this sort of thing really shouldn't be cluttering
13146 up the Makefile). [Robert Thau]
13148 *) Incidental code cleanups in http_main.c --- stop dragging
13149 sa_client around; just declare it where used. [Robert Thau]
13151 *) Another acc-related fix. (It doesn't like const char
13152 in some places...). [Mark Cox]
13154 Changes with Shambhala 0.6.1 13 Jul 1995
13156 *) Fixed auth_name-related typos in http_core.c [Brian Behlendorf]
13157 Also, fixed auth typo in http_protocol.c unmasked by this fix.
13159 *) Compiles clean with acc on SunOS [Paul Sutton]
13161 *) Reordered modules in modules.c so that Redirect takes priority
13162 over ScriptAlias, for NCSA bug-compatibility [Rob Hartill] ---
13163 believe it or not, he has an actual site with a ScriptAlias and
13164 a Redirect declared for the *exact same directory*. Even *my*
13165 compatibility fetish wouldn't motivate me to fix this if the fix
13166 required any effort, but it doesn't, so what the hey.
13168 *) Fixed to properly default several server_rec fields for virtual
13169 servers from the corresponding fields in the main server_rec.
13170 [Cliff Skolnick --- 'port' was a particular irritant].
13172 *) No longer kills off nph- child processes before they are
13173 finished sending output. [Matthew Gray]
13175 Changes with Shambhala 0.6.0 10 Jul 1995
13177 *) Two styles of timeout --- hard and soft. soft_timeout()s just put
13178 the connection to the client in an "aborted" state, but otherwise
13179 allow whatever handlers are running to clean up. hard_timeout()s
13180 abort the request in progress completely; anything not tied to some
13181 resource pool cleanup will leak. They're still around because I
13182 haven't yet come up with a more elegant way of handling
13183 timeouts when talking to something that isn't the client. The
13184 default_handler and the dir_handler now use soft timeouts, largely
13185 so I can test the feature. [Robert Thau]
13187 *) TransferLog "| my_postprocessor ..." seems to be there. Note that
13188 the case of log handlers dying prematurely is probably handled VERY
13189 gracelessly at this point, and if the logger stops reading input,
13190 the server will hang. (It is known to correctly restart the
13191 logging process on server restart; this is (should be!) going through
13192 the same SIGTERM/pause/SIGKILL routine used to ding an errant CGI
13193 script). [Robert Thau]
13195 *) asis files supported (new module). [Robert Thau]
13197 *) IdentityCheck code is compiled in, but has not been tested. (I
13198 don't know anyone who runs identd). [Robert Thau]
13200 *) PATH_INFO and PATH_TRANSLATED are not set unless some real PATH_INFO
13201 came in with the request, for NCSA bug-compatibility. [Robert Thau]
13203 *) Don't leak the DIR * on HEAD request for a directory. [Robert Thau]
13205 *) Deleted the block_alarms() stuff from dbm_auth; no longer necessary,
13206 as timeouts are not in scope. [Robert Thau]
13208 *) quoted-string args in config files now handled correctly (doesn't drop
13209 the last character). [Robert Thau; reported by Randy Terbush]
13211 *) Fixed silly typo in http_main.c which was suddenly fatal in HP-UX.
13212 How the hell did it ever work? [Robert Thau; reported by Rob Hartill]
13214 *) mod_core.c --- default_type returns DEFAULT_TYPE (the compile-time
13215 default default type); the former default default behavior when all
13216 type-checkers defaulted had been a core dump. [Paul Sutton]
13218 *) Copy filenames out of the struct dirent when indexing
13219 directories. (On Linux, readdir() returns a pointer to the same
13220 memory area every time). Fix is in mod_dir.c. [Paul Sutton]
13222 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.3 [not released]
13224 *) Default response handler notes "file not found" in the error log,
13225 if the file was not found. [Cliff Skolnick].
13227 *) Another Cliff bug --- "GET /~user" now properly redirects (the userdir
13228 code no longer sets up bogus PATH_INFO which fakes out the directory
13229 handler). [Cliff Skolnick]
13231 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.2 06 Jul 1995
13233 *) Changes to http_main.c --- root server no longer plays silly
13234 games with SIGCHLD, and so now detects and replaces dying
13235 children. Child processes just die on SIGTERM, without taking
13236 the whole process group with them. Potential problem --- if any
13237 child process refuses to die, we hang in restart.
13238 MaxRequestsPerChild may still not work, but it certainly works
13239 better than it did before this! [Robert Thau]
13241 *) mod_dir.c bug fixes: ReadmeName and HeaderName
13242 work (or work better, at least); over-long description lines
13243 properly terminated. [Mark Cox]
13245 *) http_request.c now calls unescape_url() more places where it
13246 should [Paul Sutton].
13248 *) More directory handling bugs (reported by Cox)
13249 Parent Directory link is now set correctly. [Robert Thau]
13251 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.1 04 Jul 1995
13253 *) Generalized cleanup interface in alloc.c --- any function can be
13254 registered with alloc.c as a cleanup for a resource pool;
13255 tracking of files and file descriptors has been reimplemented in
13256 terms of this interface, so I can give it some sort of a test.
13259 *) More changes in alloc.c --- new cleanup_for_exec() function,
13260 which tracks down and closes all file descriptors which have been
13261 registered with the alloc.c machinery before the server exec()s a
13262 child process for CGI or <!--#exec-->. CGI children now get
13263 started with exactly three file descriptors open. Hopefully,
13264 this cures the problem Rob H. was having with overly persistent
13265 CGI connections. [Robert Thau]
13267 *) Mutual exclusion around the accept() in child_main() --- this is
13268 required on at least SGI, Solaris and Linux, and is #ifdef'ed in
13269 by default on those systems only (-DFCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT).
13270 This uses fcntl(F_SETLK,...) on the error log descriptor because
13271 flock() on that descriptor won't work on systems which have BSD
13272 flock() semantics, including (I think) Linux 1.3 and Solaris.
13274 This does work on SunOS (when the server is idle, only one
13275 process in the pool is waiting on accept()); it *ought* to work
13276 on the other systems. [Robert Thau]
13278 *) FreeBSD and BSDI portability tweaks [Chuck Murcko]
13280 *) sizeof(*sa_client) bugfix from [Rob Hartill]
13282 *) pstrdup(..., NULL) returns NULL, [Randy Terbush]
13284 *) block_alarms() to avoid leaking the DBM* in dbm auth (this should
13285 be unnecessary if I go to the revised timeout-handling scheme).
13288 *) For NCSA bug-compatibility, set QUERY_STRING env var (to a null
13289 string) even if none came in with the request. [Robert Thau]
13291 *) CHANGES file added to distribution ;-).
13293 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.5
13295 *) mod_dld --- early dynamic loading support [rst]
13296 *) Add wildcard content handlers for XBITHACK; default_hander now
13297 invoked with that mechanism (as a handler hanging off mod_core) [rst]
13298 *) XBITHACK supported as a wildcard content-handler, and
13299 configurable at run-time (not just at compile time, as in the
13300 "patchy server" releases) [rst]
13302 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.4 30 Jun 1995
13304 *) Fixed basic thinkos in mod_dbm_auth.c [rst, reported by Mark Cox]
13305 *) Handle Addtype x/y .z [rst, reported by Cox]
13307 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.3
13309 *) Fixed very dumb bug in mod_alias; "Alias" and "Redirect" are not
13310 synonymous [rst, terbush]
13312 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.1 28 Jun 1995
13314 *) First-cut virtual host implementation; some refit in the config
13315 reading code, and log management, was necessary to support this [rst]
13316 *) Sub-pool machinery, originally added to avoid excessive storage
13317 allocation on listings of large directories (which turned out to
13318 be the problem that the 0.3 storage accounting was added to
13319 find). Subrequests and mod_dir changed to use subpools. [rst]
13320 *) More memory debugging --- free list consistency checks. [rst]
13321 *) Added err_headers to request_rec, with support elsewhere [rst]
13322 *) Other fixes to minor bugs in mod_dir and mod_includes [rst, terbush]
13324 Changes with Shambhala 0.3 19 Jun 1995
13326 *) Switch ONE_PROCESS to a runtime command-line option (-X)
13327 *) Don't compile in mod_ai_backcompat by default
13328 *) Switch name of server from Apache to Shambhala in Makefile
13329 *) Add some accounting routines to track memory usage in the pools,
13332 Changes with Shambhala 0.2
13334 *) Set DOCUMENT_ROOT CGI variable
13335 *) Add single-process debugging, as a compile-time option (ONE_PROCESS)
13336 *) Add critical section protection to handling of cleanup structures
13338 *) Significant code reorg within the server core to group related
13339 functions together [rst]
13340 *) Correctly handle clients that hang up before sending any request
13342 *) Replace dying child processes. [rst]
13344 Changes with Shambhala 0.1 12 Jun 1995
13346 Major rewrite of the pre-existing "patchy server" codebase, by
13347 Robert Thau (rst). Significant portions of the server code, such
13348 as configuration-file handling and HTTP authentication support,
13349 were ripped out and rewritten from scratch. Code that was not
13350 completely rewritten was significantly altered.
13352 Major changes with this release include:
13354 *) Introduction of the module API; in request handling, the central
13355 machinery just dispatches to various modules, which actually do
13356 most of the work. Configuration handling is similar --- modules
13357 declare their own commands, and the central machinery just
13358 dispatches to them.
13360 API features from shambhala/0.1 were substantially unchanged in
13361 Apache 1.0 and 1.1. (1.0 API features not yet present in this
13362 release, such as wildcard handlers and subpools, were added in
13363 subsequent Shambhala releases, and were also generally rst's
13366 *) This release included the following modules:
13368 mod_access (access control --- allow and deny directives),
13369 mod_alias (Alias and Redirect commands),
13370 mod_auth (straight HTTP authentication, based on flat-files)
13371 mod_auth_dbm (same, with dbm files)
13372 mod_cgi (CGI scripts and, in this release, ScriptAlias)
13373 mod_common_log (CLF access logs; later renamed mod_log_common)
13374 mod_dir (directory indexing)
13375 mod_include (server-side includes)
13376 mod_mime (AddType directives)
13377 mod_negotiation (content negotiation)
13378 mod_userdir (support for users' public_html directories)
13380 It also included a mod_ai_backcompat, which was a private hack
13381 for back-compatibility with rst's own AI-lab servers.
13383 All of these modules were substantially complete, and functional
13384 or nearly so (a few, which implemented features not in use at
13385 Thau's site, required patches of a few lines).
13387 *) sub-request machinery, to allow modules to determine how other
13388 modules would assign MIME types to a given file, or optionally
13389 serve its content (this is heavily used by mod_dir, mod_include
13390 and mod_negotiation).
13392 *) Resource pool system for keeping track of memory allocated and
13393 files opened in service of a particular request. Much of the
13394 code in the modules (when they weren't rewrites) was adjusted to
13395 replace a pervasive convention of using fixed-size buffers on
13396 the stack with an equally pervasive convention of using memory
13397 allocated with palloc().
13399 *) Reorganization of data structures associated with a given
13400 request to eliminate use of global variables and the troublesome
13401 unmunge_name function (used in NCSA and early Apache releases to
13402 attempt to determine the URI which mapped to a given filename
13403 --- a difficult proposition, given that it is easy to produce
13404 setups in which multiple URIs map to the same file).
13406 *) Source files renamed and rearranged
13408 *) Very simple pre-forking behavior --- parent process forked off a
13409 fixed number of children, and then just waited for SIGHUP.
13411 *) Other more minor changes too numerous to list.
13413 This release included modified versions of a lot of code from the
13414 Apache 0.6.4 public release, plus an early pre-forking patch
13415 codeveloped by Robert Thau and Rob Hartill.
13417 Changes with Apache 0.7.3 20 Jun 1995
13419 *) There were a bunch of changes between Apache 0.6.4 and 0.7.3 that
13420 were incorporated by Rob Hartill on the main branch while Robert Thau
13421 worked on the Shambhala rewrite above. Most were merged into the
13422 Shambala architecture after Apache 0.8.0.
13424 Changes with Apache 0.6.4 13 May 1995
13426 *) Patches by Rob Hartill, Cliff Skolnick, Randy Terbush, Robert Thau,
13429 Changes with Apache 0.5.1 10 Apr 1995
13431 Changes with Apache 0.4 02 Apr 1995
13433 *) Patches by Brian Behlendorf, Andrew Wilson, Robert Thau,
13436 Changes with Apache 0.3 24 Mar 1995
13438 *) Patches by Robert Thau, David Robinson, Rob Hartill, and
13441 Changes with Apache 0.2 18 Mar 1995
13443 *) Based on NCSA httpd 1.3 by Rob McCool and patches by CERT,
13444 Roy Fielding, Robert Thau, Nicolas Pioch, David Robinson,
13445 Brian Behlendorf, Rob Hartill, and Cliff Skolnick.