1 Changes with Apache 2.0.29-dev
3 *) Remove commas from the end of the macros that define
4 directives that are used by MPMs. Prior to this patch,
5 you would use these macros without commas, which was unlike
6 the macros for any other directives. Now, the caller provides
7 the comma rather than the macro providing it. This makes
8 the macros look more like the rest of the directives.
9 [Ryan Bloom and Cliff Woolley]
11 *) Add 'redirect-carefully' environment option to disable sending
12 redirects under special circumstances. This is helpful for
13 Microsoft's WebFolders when accessing a directory resource via
14 DAV methods. [Justin Erenkrantz]
16 *) Begin to abstract out the underlying transport layer.
17 The first step is to remove the socket from the conn_rec,
18 the server now lives in a context that is passed to the
19 core's input and output filters. This forces us to be very
20 careful when adding calls that use the socket directly,
21 because the socket isn't available in most locations.
24 *) Really reset the MaxClients value in worker and threaded
25 when the configured value is not a multiple of the number
26 of threads per child. We said we did previously but we
27 forgot to. [Jeff Trawick]
29 *) Add Debian layout. [Daniel Stone <daniel@sfarc.net>]
31 *) If shared modules are requested and mod_so is not available,
32 produce a fatal config-time error. [Justin Erenkrantz]
34 *) Improve http2env's performance by cutting the work it has to
35 do. [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
37 *) use new 'apr_hash_merge' function in mod_mime (performance fix)
38 [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
40 Changes with Apache 2.0.28
42 *) Fix infinite loop in mod_cgid.c.
43 [Dale Ghent <daleg@elemental.org>, Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
45 *) When no port is given in a "ServerName host" directive, the
46 server_rec->port is now set to zero, not 80. That allows for
47 run-time deduction of the correct server port (depending on
48 SSL/plain, and depending also on the current setting of
49 UseCanonicalName). This change makes redirections
50 work, even with https:// connections. As in Apache-1.3, the
51 connection's actual port number is never used, only the ServerName
52 setting or the client's Host: setting. Documentation updated
53 to reflect the change. [Martin Kraemer]
55 *) Add a '%{note-name}e' argument to mod-headers, which works in
56 the same way as mod_log_confg. [Ian Holsman]
58 *) Fix the spelling of the AP_MPMQ_MIN_SPARE_DAEMONS and
59 AP_MPMQ_MAX_REQUESTS_DAEMON macros in ap_mpm.h and all standard
62 *) Introduce htdbm, a user management utility for db/dbm authorization
63 databases. [Mladen Turk <mturk@mappingsoft.com>]
65 *) Optimize usage of strlen and strcat in ap_directory_walk.
66 [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
68 Changes with Apache 2.0.27
70 *) Introduce an Apache mod_ssl initial configuration template
71 (ssl.conf, generated from ssl-std.conf). [Ralf S. Engelschall]
73 *) Fixed a memory leak in the getline parsing code that could
74 be triggered by arbitrarily large header lines. Requests
75 from the core input filter for single lines are now limited
76 to HUGE_STRING_LEN (8192 bytes). [Aaron Bannert]
78 *) Fix a truncation bug in how we print the port on the Via: header.
79 The routine that prints the Via: header now takes a length for
80 the port string. [Zvi Har'El <rl@math.technion.ac.il>]
82 *) Some syntax errors in mod_mime_magic's magic file can result
83 in a 500 error, which previously was unlogged. Now we log the
86 *) Add the support/checkgid helper app, which checks the run-time
87 validity of group identifiers usable in the Group directive.
90 *) Various --enable-so options have been fixed: --enable-so is
91 treated as "static"; explicit --enable-so=shared issues an error;
92 and explicit --enable-so fails with error on systems without
93 APR_HAS_DSO. [Aaron Bannert]
95 *) Fix a segfault in the core input filter when the client socket
96 gets disconnected unexpectedly. [Cliff Woolley]
98 *) Fix the reporting for child processes that die. This removes
99 all of the non-portable W* macros from Apache.
100 [Jeff Trawick and Ryan Bloom]
102 *) Win32: Track and display "Parent Server Generation:" in
103 mod_status output. The generation will be bumped at
104 server graceful restart, when the child process exits
105 by hitting MaxRequestsPerChild or if the child
106 process exits abnormally. [Bill Stoddard]
108 *) Win32: Fix problem where MaxRequestsPerChild directive was
109 not being picked up in favor of the default. Enable
110 the parent to start up a new child process immediately upon
111 the old child starting shutdown.
114 *) Fix some bungling of the remote port in rfc1413.c so that
115 IdentityCheck retrieves the proper user id instead of failing
116 and thus always returning "nobody."
117 [Dick Streefland <Dick.Streefland@xs4all.nl>]
119 *) Introduced thread saftey for mod_rewrite's internal cache.
120 [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
122 *) Simplified mod_env's directives to behave as most directives are
123 expected, in that UnsetEnv will not unset a SetEnv and PassEnv
124 directive following that UnsetEnv within the same container.
125 Also provides a runtime startup warning if a PassEnv configured
126 environment value is undefined. [William Rowe]
128 *) The worker MPM is now completely ported to APR's new lock API. It
129 uses native APR types for thread mutexes, cross-process mutexes,
130 and condition variables. [Aaron Bannert]
132 *) Sync up documentation to remove all references to the now deprecated
133 Port directive. [Justin Erenkrantz]
135 *) Moved all ldap modules from the core to httpd-ldap sub-project
138 *) Exit when we can't listen on any of the configured ports. This
139 is the same behavior as 1.3, and it avoids having the MPMs to
140 deal with bogus ap_listen_rec structures. [Jeff Trawick]
142 *) Cleanup the proxy code that creates a request to the origin
143 server. This change adds an optional hook, which allows modules
144 to gain control while the request is created if the proxy module
145 is loaded. The purpose of this hook is to allow modules to add
146 input and/or output filters to the request to the origin. While
147 I was at it, I made the core use this hook, so that proxy request
148 creation uses some of the code from the core. This can still be
149 greatly improved, but this is a good start. [Ryan Bloom]
151 Changes with Apache 2.0.26
153 *) Port the MaxClients changes from the worker MPM to the threaded
156 *) Fix mod_proxy so that it handles chunked transfer-encoding and works
157 with the new input filtering system. [Justin Erenkrantz]
159 *) Introduce the MultiviewsMatch directive, to allow the operator
160 to be flexible in recognizing Handlers and Filters filename
161 extensions as part of the Multiviews matching logic, strict with
162 MultiviewsMatch NegotiatedOnly to accept only filename extentions
163 that designate negotiated parameters, (content type, charset, etc.)
164 or MultiviewsAll for the 1.3 behavior of matching any files, even
165 if they have unregistered extensions. [William Rowe]
167 *) Fixed the configure script to add a LoadModule directive to
168 the default httpd.conf for any module that was compiled
169 as a DSO. [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
171 *) rewrite mod_ssl input filtering to work with the new input filtering
172 system. [Justin Erenkrantz]
174 *) prefork: Don't segfault when we are able to listen on some but
175 not all of the configured ports. [Jeff Trawick]
177 *) Build mod_so even if no core modules are built shared.
178 [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
180 *) Introduce ap_directory_walk rewrite (with further optimizations
181 required) to adapt to the ap_process_request_internal() changes.
182 Optimized so subrequests and redirects now reuse previous section
183 merges, until we mismatch with the original directory_walk, and
184 precomputed r->finfo results will cause directory_walk to skip
185 the most expensive phases of the function. [William Rowe]
187 *) Allow ApacheMonitor to connect to and control Apache on other
188 WinNT/2K machines. [Mladen Turk <mturk@mappingsoft.com>]
190 *) Remove the Port directive. In it's place, the Listen directive
191 is now a required directive, which tells Apache what port to
192 listen on. The ServerName directive has also been extended
193 to accept an optional port. If the port is specified to the
194 ServerName, the server will report that port whenever it
195 reports the port that it is listening on. This change was
196 made to ease configuration errors that stem from having a Port
197 directive, and a Listen directive. In that situation, the server
198 would only listen to the port specified by the Listen command,
199 which caused a lot of confusion to users. [Ryan Bloom]
201 *) Added mod_mime_magic, mod_unique_id and mod_vhost_alias to the Win32
202 build, as loadable modules. [William Rowe]
204 *) Fix --enable-mods-shared processing. If most is specified,
205 then all modules that can be compiled as shared modules are.
206 [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
208 *) Update the mime.types file to map video/vnd.mpegurl to mxu
209 and add commonly used audio/x-mpegurl for m3u extensions.
210 [Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@uni-bonn.de>, Lars Eilebrecht]
212 *) Eliminate the depreciated r->content_language, in favor of the array
213 r->content_languages introduced many years ago. Module authors must
214 substantially overhaul their modules, so this needs to be upgraded
215 if the module still relied on backwards-brokeness. [William Rowe]
217 *) Allow configure help strings to work with autoconf 2.50+ and 2.13.
220 *) Rewrite the input filtering mechanisms to consolidate and reorganize
221 code. In short, core_input_filter does something now and
222 ap_http_filter is now only concerned with HTTP. [Justin Erenkrantz]
224 *) Update the Win32 build to re-absorb mod_proxy and family.
227 *) Resolved the build failure on Win32 using MSVC 5.0 (without the
228 current SDK.) [William Rowe]
230 *) Some style changes to the code that does ProxyErrorOverride. Fixed
231 config merge behaviour. [Graham Leggett]
233 *) Allow support programs to be compiled against a static version
234 of libapr. This allows the smaller support programs to be
235 relocated. [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
237 *) Update the mime.types file to the registered media types as
238 of 2001-09-25, and add mapping for xsl extension [Mark Cox]
240 *) Fix MaxClients in the Worker MPM, so that it specifies the maximum
241 number of clients that can connect at the same time, instead of
242 specifying the maximum number of child processes.
243 [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
245 *) Switch proc_pthread AcceptMutex configuration directive to pthread to
246 be consistent with 1.3. [Justin Erenkrantz]
248 *) Cache apr_explode_localtime() value for 15 seconds.
249 [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
251 *) Fix mod_include to not return ETag or Last-Modified headers.
252 [Ian Holsman <ianh@cnet.com>]
254 *) Fix worker MPM's scoreboard logic. [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
256 *) Eliminate the wasteful run-time conversion of method names from strings
257 to numbers in places where the methods are known at compile time.
258 [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
260 *) Turn the worker MPM's queue into a LIFO. This may
261 improve cache-hit performance under some conditions.
262 [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
264 *) Switch back to SIGUSR1 for graceful restarts on all platforms that
265 support it. [Justin Erenkrantz]
267 *) Cleanup the worker MPM. We no longer re-use transaction
268 pools. This incurs less overhead than shuffling the pools
269 around so that they can be re-used. Remove one of the
270 queue's condition variables. We just redefined the API to
271 state that you can't try to add more stuff than you allocated
272 segments for. [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
274 *) Fix SSL VPATH builds [Cody Sherr <csherr@covalent.net>]
276 *) Fixed persistent connections when a request contains a body.
279 *) mod_dav uses a new API to speak to the backend provider for dead
280 property management. [Greg Stein]
282 *) Remove the Win32 script-processing exception from mod_cgi, and
283 roll build_command_line/build_argv_list into a unified, overrideable
284 ap_cgi_build_command optional function. [William Rowe]
286 *) Rewrite find_start_sequence to use a better search algorithm
287 to find the start tag. [Justin Erenkrantz]
289 *) Fix a seg fault in mod_include. When we are generating an
290 internal redirect, we must set r->uri to "", not a bogus
291 string, and not NULL. [Ryan Bloom]
293 *) Optimized location_walk, so subrequests, redirects and second passes
294 now reuse previous section merges on a <Location > by <Location >
295 basis, until we mismatch with the original location_walk.
298 *) Back out the 1.45 change to util_script.c. This change made
299 us set the environment variable REQUEST_URI to the redirected
300 URI, instead of the originally requested URI.
301 [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
303 *) Make mod_include do lazy evaluation of potentially expensive to
304 compute variables. [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
306 *) Fix logging of bytes sent for HEAD requests. %b and %B should
307 log either - or 0, before this patch, they were both logging
308 the file size. [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
310 *) Make mod_include check for BYTE_CHECK_THRESHOLD per bucket rather
311 than per character. [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
313 *) Normalize the primary request, redirects and sub-requests to
314 run the same ap_process_request_internal for consistency in
315 robustness, behavior and security. [William Rowe]
317 *) Fix a segfault with mod_include when r->path_info is not set
318 (which is the case with mod_proxy). [Ian Holsman <ianh@cnet.com>]
320 *) Add -X functionality back. This indicates to all MPMs and any other
321 part of Apache that it should run in "debug" mode. [Justin Erenkrantz]
323 *) Some initial support for the cygwin platform [prefork only].
324 This is not to be confused with support for the WinNT/Win32
325 platform, which is the recommended configuration for native
326 Win32 users. The cygwin platform support is recommended for
327 cygwin platform users. [Stipe Tolj <tolj@wapme-systems.de>]
329 *) Changed syntax of Set{Input|Output}Filter. The list of filters
330 must be semicolon delimited (if more than one filter is given.)
331 The Set{Input|Output}Filter directive now overrides a parent
332 container's directive (e.g. SetInputFilter in <Directory /web/foo>
333 will override any SetInputFilter directive in <Directory /web>.)
334 This new syntax is more consistent with Add{Input|Output}Filter
335 directives defined in mod_mime. Also cures a bug in prior releases
336 where the Set{Input|Output}Filter directive would corrupt the
337 global configuration if the multiple directives were nested.
340 *) Cured what's ailed mime for quite some time. If an AddSomething
341 was given in the configuration (Language, Charset, Handler or
342 Encoding) Apache would set the content type as given by AddType,
343 but refused to check the mime.types file if AddType wasn't given
344 for that specific extension. Setting the AddHandler for .html
345 without setting the AddType text/html html would cause Apache to
346 use the default content type. [William Rowe]
348 *) Added some bulletproofing to memory allocation in the LDAP cache
349 code. [Graham Leggett]
351 Changes with Apache 2.0.25
353 *) Move the installed /manual directory out of the /htdocs/ tree, so
354 that it can be kept more independently from the remaining document
355 root. The "Alias /manual ..." already allowed for easy projection
356 into existing private document trees. [Martin Kraemer]
358 *) Add specified user attributes to the environment when using
359 mod_auth_ldap. This allows you to use mod_include to embed specified
360 user attributes in a page like so:
361 Hello <!--#echo var="AUTHENTICATE_CN"-->, how are you?
364 *) Fix a performance problem with the worker MPM. We now create
365 transaction pools once, and re-use them for each connection.
366 [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
368 *) Modfied mod_mime to prevent mod_negotation from serving a multiview
369 of a 'handler' or 'filter', so that any filename extension that does
370 not contribute to the negotiated metadata can't be served without
371 an explicit request. E.g., if the .Z extension is associated with
372 an unzip filter, the user request somefile.Z.html, mod_negotiation
373 won't serve it. It can serve somefile.Z.html when somefile.Z is
374 requested, since the .Z extension is explictly requested, if the
375 .html extension is associated with ContentType text/html.
378 *) Introduce the AddInputFilter filter[;filter...] ext [ext...]
379 and corresponding AddOutputFilter syntax, to insert one or more
380 filters by mod_mime filename extension processing.
383 *) Fix a growing connection pool in core_output_filter() for
384 keepalive requests. [Jeff Trawick]
386 *) Moved split_and_pass_pretag_buckets back to being a
387 macro at Ryans's request. Removed the return from it
388 by setting and returning a return code instead. Updated
389 the code to check the return code from the macro and
390 do the right thing. [Paul J. Reder]
392 *) Fix a segfault when a numeric value was received for Host:.
395 *) Add a function ap_remove_input_filter. This is to match
396 up with ap_remove_output_filter. [Ryan Bloom]
398 *) Clean up location_walk, so that this step performs a minimum
399 amount of redundant effort (it must be run twice, but it will no
400 longer reparse all <Location > blocks when the request uri
401 hadn't changed.) [William Rowe]
403 *) Eliminate proxy: (and all other 'special') processing from the
404 ap_directory_walk() phase. Modules that want to use special
405 walk logic should refer to the mod_proxy map_to_location example,
406 with it's proxy_walk and proxysection implementation. This makes
407 either directory_walk flavor much more legible, since that phase
408 only runs against real <Directory > blocks.
411 *) Fix a security problem in mod_include which would allow
412 an SSI document to be passed to the client unparsed.
413 [Cliff Woolley, Brian Pane]
415 *) Introduce the map_to_storage hook, which allows modules to bypass
416 the directory_walk and file_walk for non-file requests. TRACE
417 shortcut moved to http_protocol.c as APR_HOOK_MIDDLE, and the
418 directory_walk/file_walk happen as APR_HOOK_VERY_LAST in core.c.
421 *) Add the ability for mod_include to add the INCLUDES filter
422 if the file is configured for the server-parsed handler.
423 This makes the configuration for .shtml files much easier
424 to understand, and allows mod_include to honor Apache 1.3
425 config files. Based on Doug MacEachern's patch to PHP
426 to do the same thing. [Ryan Bloom]
428 *) force OpenSSL to ignore process local-caching and to always
429 get/set/delete sessions using mod_ssl's callbacks
430 [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli@hp.com>,
431 Geoff Thorpe <geoff@geoffthorpe.net>]
433 *) Make the worker MPM shutdown and restart cleanly. This also
434 cleans up some race conditions, and gets the worker using
435 pools more cleanly. [Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>]
437 *) Implement CRYPTO_set_locking_callback() in terms of apr_lock
439 [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli@hp.com>]
441 *) Fix for mod_include. Ryan's patch to check error
442 codes put a return in the wrong place. Also, the
443 include handler return code wasn't being checked.
444 I don't like macros with returns, so I converted
445 SPLIT_AND_PASS_PRETAG_BUCKETS into a function.
446 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
448 *) fix segv in mod_mime if no AddTypes are configured
449 [John Sterling <sterling@covalent.net>]
451 *) Enable ssl client authentication at SSL_accept time
452 [Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli@hp.com>]
454 *) Fix a segfault in mod_include when the original request has no
455 associated filename (e.g., we're filtering the error document for
456 a bad URI). [Jeff Trawick]
458 *) Fix a storage leak (a strdup() call) in mod_mime_magic. [Jeff Trawick]
460 *) The prefork and OS/2 MPMs are overwriting the pid file when a second copy
461 of httpd is started and shuts down due to socket conflict. Moving the
462 call to ap_log_pid solves the problem.
464 *) Changed the late-1.3 log_config substitution %c to %X, to log the
465 status of the closed connection, as it conflicts with the far more
466 common, historical ssl logging directive %...{var}c. [William Rowe]
468 *) Added the common error/ tree to the build/install targets
469 (similar to the common icons/ tree) for the multi-language error
470 messages that Lars committed earlier. [William Rowe]
472 *) Added a multi process, multi threaded OS/2 MPM mpmt_os2. [Brian Havard]
474 *) Added a default commented-out mod_ldap and mod_auth_ldap
475 configuration to httpd-std.conf and httpd-win.conf
478 *) Added documentation for mod_ldap and mod_auth_ldap.
481 *) Enabled negative caching on attribute comparisons in the LDAP cache.
482 Fixed a problem where the default cache TTL was set in milliseconds
483 not microseconds causing the cache to time out almost immediately.
486 *) Fixed all the #if APR_HAS_SHARED_MEMORY checks within the LDAP
487 module code to follow APR. [Graham Leggett]
489 *) Fixed LDAP cleanup on graceful restarts. LDAP connections are now
490 cleaned up when the connection pool pool is cleaned up.
493 *) Fix a minor issue with Jeff Trawick's mod_include
494 patch. Without this patch, the code will just allocate
495 more bytes in get_combined_directive than are needed.
498 *) Added the LDAP authentication module mod_auth_ldap.
499 [Dave Carrigan <dave@rudedog.org>, Graham Leggett]
501 *) Added the LDAP cache and connection pooling module mod_ldap.
502 [Dave Carrigan <dave@rudedog.org>, Graham Leggett]
504 *) Fix --enable-modules=all breakage with mod_auth_db and mod_auth_digest
505 by allowing a module to disable itself if its prerequisites are not
506 met. [Justin Erenkrantz]
508 Changes with Apache 2.0.24
510 *) Fix a couple of issues in mod_include when the tag appeared at
511 offsets near 8192 in the file being parsed. [Jeff Trawick]
513 *) Fix an assertion failure in mod_ssl when the keepalive timeout is
514 reached. [Jeff Trawick]
516 *) Numerous improvements to the Win32 build system. Introduced command line
517 builds without requiring .mak files for MSVC 6.0 and later versions.
518 Improved .dsp file compatibility for both Visual Studio 5.0 and 6.0 users.
521 *) Assorted corrections and improvements to the winnt_mpm startup code. Better
522 reporting of uninstalled services and other error conditions, and changed the
523 default service name to Apache2. [William Rowe]
525 *) Numerous improvements to the Win32 ApacheMonitor utility, including winnt_mpm
526 compatibility with existing Apache 1.3 Win32 Apache management utilites.
527 [Mladen Turk <mturk@mappingsoft.com>, William Rowe]
529 *) Fixed the segfaults in mod_mime introduced by hash tables in 2.0.20.
530 [William Rowe, Greg Ames]
532 *) Rounded out the mod_mime Add/Remove pairs by adding RemoveLanguage
533 and RemoveCharset directives. [William Rowe]
535 *) The Unix MPMs other than perchild now allow child server
536 processes to use the accept mutex when starting as root and
537 using SysV sems for the accept mutex. Previously, this
538 combination would lead to fatal errors in the child server
539 processes. perchild can't use SysV sems because of security
540 issues. [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames]
542 *) Added Win32 revision stamp resources to all http binaries
543 (including modules/ and support/ tools.) PR7322 [William Rowe]
545 *) Fix ap_rvprintf to support more than 4K of data at one time.
546 [Cody Sherr <csherr@covalent.net>]
548 *) We have always used the obsolete/deprecated Netscape syntax
549 for our tracking cookies; now the CookieStyle directive
550 allows the Webmaster to choose the Netscape, RFC2109, or
551 RFC2965 format. The new CookieDomain directive allows the
552 setting of the cookie's Domain= attribute, too. PR #s 5006,
553 5023, 5920, 6140 [Ken Coar]
555 *) Tweak server/Makefile so that the rules for generating exports.c
556 are compatible with make utilities which don't expand wildcards
557 in a dependency list (e.g., OS/390 make, certain levels of GNU
558 make). [Jeff Trawick]
560 *) Install the SSL headers. [John Sterling <sterling@covalent.net>]
562 *) Begin to sanitize the MPM configuration directives. Now, all
563 MPMs use the same functions for all common MPM directives. This
564 should make it easier to catch all bugs in these directives once.
565 [Cody Sherr <csherr@covalent.net>]
567 *) Close a major resource leak. Every time we had issued a
568 graceful restart, we leaked a socket descriptor.
571 *) Fix a problem with the new method code. We need to cast
572 the 1 to an apr_int64_t or it will be treated as a 32-bit
573 integer, and it will wrap after being shifted 32 times.
574 [Cody Sherr <csherr@covalent.net> and Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
576 *) Fix a bug in mod_expires. Previous to this patch, if you
577 told mod_expires to add 604800 seconds to the last-modified
578 time, it actually added 604800 usec's to the last-modified time,
579 so that when looking at the response it looked like nothing
580 had been done. The root of the problem was that we always compute
581 time in usec's, but we ask users to input sec's. This means we
582 need to convert to usec's before using those values.
585 *) The worker MPM now handles shutdown and restart requests. It
586 definitely isn't perfect, but we do stop the servers correctly.
587 The biggest problem right now is that SIGHUP causes the server to
588 just die. [Ryan Bloom]
590 Changes with Apache 2.0.23
592 *) Use the prefork MPM by default on Unix. [various]
594 *) Added a systray icon monitor application for Win32.
595 [Mladen Turk <mturk@mappingsoft.com>]
597 *) mod_rewrite: Fix the line ending on some non-Unix systems for
598 messages written to the rewrite log.
599 [Richard Labennett <rlabenn@us.ibm.com>]
601 *) All mod_autoindex query parsing is now quietly quashed with the
602 IndexOption IgnoreClient. The IndexOption SuppressColumnSorting
603 still drops the column sort <a href>'s for the column headers, but
604 IgnoreClient is required to ignore these Query options entirely.
607 *) Introduced new mod_autoindex query argument parsing for F=[0|1|2]
608 to allow the client to select plain, FancyIndexing or HTMLTable
609 formatting, V=[0|1] to inhibit or enable version sorting, and
610 P=pattern to return only specific files. The old Query Arguments
611 were reorganized as C=f for sorting column 'f' (same N, D, S, or M
612 as before), and O=A|D for ordering ascending or descending.
615 *) Fixed an error in mod_include's directive parsing routines which
616 caused #if, #elif, and #else expressions containing backslashes
617 to be improperly evaluated. [Cliff Woolley]
619 *) Introduced new mod_autoindex IndexOptions flags: SuppressIcon to
620 drop the icon column, SuppressRules to drop the <hr> elements,
621 and HTMLTable to create rudimentary HTML table listings (implies
622 FancyIndexing). [William Rowe]
624 *) Re-introduced the mod_autoindex IndexOptions flag TrackModified
625 from Apache 1.3.15. This is needed for two reasons, first, given
626 multiple machines within a server farm, ETags and Last-Modified
627 stamps won't correspond from machine to machine, and second, many
628 Unixes don't capture changes to the date or time stamp of existing
629 files, since these don't modify the dirent itself. [William Rowe]
631 *) Re-introduced the mod_autoindex IndexOptions flag FoldersFirst
632 and DirectoryWidth options from Apache 1.3.10.
633 [William Rowe, Ken Coar]
635 *) Eliminated FancyIndexing directive, deprecated early in Apache
636 1.3 by the IndexOptions FancyIndexing syntax. [William Rowe]
638 *) mod_autoindex now excludes any file names that would result in
639 an error, other than a success or redirect. Also optimized
640 the parent directory, always included except in the URI '/'.
643 *) Refactored mod_negotiation and mod_mime to help mod_dir accept
644 negotiated index pages, and prevent the server from defaulting
645 to an autoindex of the directory. mod_negotiation will now die
646 with a 500 Internal Error if it could match some filenames
647 (e.g. for mod_dir) but none can be served. mod_negotation now
648 refuses to serve any file with an extention that mod_mime doesn't
649 recognize, and wasn't part of the request. [William Rowe]
651 *) Eliminate mod_cgi's handling of .exe files without the .exe file
652 extension. This is already handled by multiviews, if the admin
653 wishes to AddHandler .exe or define a content type handler and
654 associate .exe files with that content type. Multiviews must be
655 enabled to allow these to be served. [William Rowe]
657 *) Speed up the server's response to a spike in incoming workload
658 or restarts by assigning empty scoreboard slots to new processes
659 when they are available. [Greg Ames]
661 *) Add a handler to mod_includes.c. This handler is designed to
662 implement the XbitHack directive. This can't be done with a
663 fixup, because we need to check the content-type, which is
664 only available in the handler phase. [Ryan Bloom]
666 *) Make the includes filter check return codes from filters lower in
667 the filter chain. If a lower level filter returns an error, then
668 the request needs to stop immediately. This allows mod_include to
669 stop parsing data once a lower filter recognizes an error.
672 *) Add the ability to extend the methods that Apache understands
673 and have those methods <limit>able in the httpd.conf. It uses
674 the same bit mask/shifted offset as the original HTTP methods
675 such as M_GET or M_POST, but expands the total bits from an int to
676 an ap_int64_t to handle more bits for new request methods than
677 an int provides. [Cody Sherr <csherr@covalent.net>]
679 *) Fix broken mod_mime behavior in merging its arguments. Possible
680 cause of unexplicable crashes introduced in 2.0.20. [William Rowe]
682 *) Solve many mod_ssl porting issues (too many to detail) with
683 help from the whole team, but most notably [Ralf S. Engelschall,
684 Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli@hp.com>,
685 Doug MacEachern, William Rowe, Cliff Woolley]
687 *) More stall fixes for the threaded & worker mpm's.
688 Make mod_status output more accurate. Don't
689 count workers in processes which aren't actively
690 serving requests. [Greg Ames]
692 *) Win32: Get SSI exec cgi tag working. [Bill Stoddard]
694 *) Add a single listener/multiple worker MPM. This MPM is
695 definately not fully correct, but it allows us to solve many
696 of the problems that exist in the threaded MPM. This is a
697 modified version of the threaded MPM. [Ryan Bloom]
699 *) Improve content generation throughout Apache, providing closer
700 compliance with HTML 3.2, HTML 4.01 Transitional and XHTML 1.0
701 Transitional specifications. [William Rowe]
703 Changes with Apache 2.0.22
705 *) Fix a problem where the threaded MPM stalls after restarts or
706 segfaults. Also prevent multiple active processes from using
707 the same scoreboard slot. [Greg Ames]
709 *) Apache/Win32 now fills in the service description with Apache's
710 server version string, including loaded and advertised modules.
713 *) Improved support for the Win32 build, to recover gracefully from
714 missing apr or apr-util directories or the awk interpreter,
715 create the proper cgi-bin examples, including a test-cgi.bat, and
716 fix the perl shebang line for printenv.pl, when installing from
717 the build environment. [William Rowe]
719 *) Fix a segfault in threaded.c caused by passing uninitialized
720 apr_thread_t * to apr_thread_join(). [Jeff Trawick]
722 *) Use new APR number conversion functions to reduce CPU consumption
723 when setting the content length, and in mod_log_config.
726 *) Fix problem reported by Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>
727 where HEAD response headers were being repeated twice for
728 files greater than 32K bytes (4*AP_MIN_BYTES_TO_WRITE). This
729 problem in the http_header filter was exposed by the recent rewrite
730 of the content_length filter. [Taketo Kabe, Bill Stoddard]
732 *) Fix seg faults in mod_status with ExtendedStatus enabled, after
733 restarts. A garbage pointer to a vhost's server_rec from the
734 previous generation was being left around under certain
735 conditions. [Greg Ames]
737 *) Fix a cosmetic problem with mod_include. Non-existant SSI vars
738 used to appear as '(none', without the closing paren.
739 [Günter Knauf <eflash@gmx.net>]
741 *) Improve the exports generating awk script. In the past, we had
742 work around problems in the awk script by avoiding some #if and
743 #ifdefs. This has bitten us many times in generating the exports.c
744 file. This improvement allows corrects the header file parsing.
745 [Sander Striker <striker@apache.org>]
747 Changes with Apache 2.0.21
749 *) Resolve the Win32 htpasswd bug, where a file that existed would be
750 overwritten, regardless of the -c flag.
751 [William Rowe, Mladen Turk <mladen.turk@mail.inet.hr>]
753 *) Introduce connection sub-pools into ab. Truncating the lifetime
754 of these allocations means that ab no longer perpetually grows
755 its working set, running out of memory on large request attempts.
758 *) Make scoreboard creation a hook. This allows management
759 modules to have access to the scoreboard at the time that it is
760 created, and at every restart request.
761 [Cody Sherr <csherr@covalent.net>]
763 *) Changed AP_MPMQ_MAX_DAEMONS to refer to MaxClients and
764 added an AP_MPMQ_MAX_DAEMON_USED to refer to the highest
765 daemon index actually used in the scoreboard. I also
766 updated the pertinent calls. [Paul J. Reder]
768 *) Win32: Prevent listening sockets from being inherited by
769 the Apache child process, CGI scripts, rotatelog process
770 etc. If the Apache child process segfaults, any processes
771 that the child started are not reaped. Prior to this fix,
772 these processes inherited the listening sockets which sometimes
773 prevented the restarted Apache child process from accepting
774 connections (ie, the server would hang).
777 *) Provide vhost and request strings when ExtendedStatus is on.
780 *) Fix some issues with the pod and prefork: check the pod *after*
781 processing a connection so that a server processing a time-
782 consuming request bails out as soon as practical; when the
783 parent process wakes up a server process via connect(), use an
784 APR timeout on the connect() so that we don't hang for a long
785 time if there aren't server processes around to do accept().
786 [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames]
788 *) Performance improvement to mod_mime.c. find_ct() in mod_mime,
789 spends a lot of time in apr_table_get calls. Using the default
790 httpd.conf, the tables for languages and charsets are somewhat
791 large, so the time spent scanning them on each request is
792 significant. Replacing the tables with hash tables provides
793 a nice speedup. [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
795 *) Add two functions to allow modules to access random parts of the
796 scoreboard. This allows modules compiled for one MPM to access the
797 scoreboard, even if it the server was compiled for another MPM.
798 [Harrie Hazewinkel <harrie@covalent.net>]
800 Changes with Apache 2.0.20
802 *) Fix problem in content-length filter where the filter would
803 buffer all the output from a CGI before sending any bytes
804 down the filter stack to the network. This problem would cause
805 significant memory consumption if the CGIs generated
806 lots of bytes. [Bill Stoddard]
808 *) Get non-blocking CGI pipe reads working with the bucket brigades.
811 *) Fix seg fault on Windows when serving files cached with mod_file_cache.
814 *) Fix a bug in the threaded MPM that would cause it to kill off all
815 workers immediately after starting if the number of workers started
816 was above a certain threshold. [Ryan Bloom, Bill Stoddard]
818 Changes with Apache 2.0.19
820 *) Fix problem with threaded MPM. The problem was that if each child
821 process was busy serving a single long-lived request and the server
822 was sent a graceful restart signal, the server would stop serving
823 requests. This would happen because each child process would wait to
824 die until the last thread was done, and the parent wouldn't spawn any
825 new children until a process died. Now, the parent looks at the fact
826 that the children are dying gracefully, and starts new children.
827 Those new children only start enough threads to compliment the number
828 of threads in the other child process that shares the same spot in
829 the scoreboard. In this way, we make sure to never go over
830 MaxClients. [Ryan Bloom]
832 *) modified mod_negotiation and mod_autoindex to speed up by almost a
833 factor of two on apr_dir_read()-enhanced platforms, such as Win32
834 and OS2, by calling ap_sub_request_lookup_dirent() with the results
835 already provided by apr_dir_read(). [William Rowe]
837 *) mod_file_cache is now more robust to filtering and serves requests
838 slightly more efficiently. [Cliff Woolley]
840 *) Fix problem handling FLUSH bucket in the chunked encoding filter.
841 Module was calling ap_rwrite() followed by ap_rflush() but the
842 served content was not being displayed in the browser. Inspection
843 of the output stream revealed that the first data chunk was
844 missing the trailing CRLF required by the RFC. [Bill Stoddard]
846 *) apxs no longer generates ap_send_http_header() in the example handler
848 *) Fix an ab problem which could cause a divide-by-zero exception
849 with certain invocations (e.g., ab -k -c 6 -n 100 localhost/).
850 [Ian Holsman <ianh@cnet.com>]
852 *) Solve case-insensitive platforms' confusion about negotiated
853 filenames, allowing files of differnt case to match in choosing
854 the document to serve. [William Rowe]
856 *) Fix brokenness when ThreadsPerChild is higher than the built-in
857 limit. We left ap_threads_per_child at the higher value which
858 led to segfaults when doing certain scoreboard operations.
861 *) Fix seg faults and/or missing output from mod_include. The
862 default_handler was using the subrequest pool for files and
863 MMAPs, even though the associated APR structures typically
864 live longer than the subrequest. [Greg Ames]
866 *) Extend mod_setenvif to support specifying regular expressions
867 on the SetEnvIf (and SetEnvIfNoCase) directive attribute field.
868 Example: SetEnvIf ^TS* [a-z].* HAVE_TS
869 will cause HAVE_TS to be set if any of the request headers begins
870 with "TS" and has a value that begins with any character in the
871 set [a-z]. [Bill Stoddard]
873 *) httpd children now re-bind themselves to a random CPU on
874 multiprocessor systems on AIX via bindprocessor() in 2.0.
875 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
877 *) Fix htdigest. It would go into a loop in getline when adding
878 a second user. [Bill Stoddard]
880 *) Win32 platforms now fully support mod_userdir options. [Will Rowe]
882 *) Automatically generate httpd.exp for AIX.
883 DSOs now work again on AIX in 2.0
884 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
886 *) Add a new request hook, error_log. This phase allows modules
887 to act on the error log string _after_ it has been written
888 to the error log. The goal for this hook is to allow monitoring
889 modules to send the error string to the monitoring agent.
892 *) Modify mod_echo to make it use filters for input and output.
893 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
895 *) Extend mod_headers to support conditional driven Header
896 add, append and set. Use SetEnvIf to set an envar and conditionally
897 add/append/set headers based on this envar thusly:
899 SetEnvIf TSMyHeader value HAVE_TSMyHeader
900 Header add MyHeader "%t %D" env=HAVE_TSMyHeader
902 If the request contains header "TSMyHeader: value" then header
903 MyHeader: "t=xxxxxxxxxx D=yyyy" will be sent on the response.
906 *) Extend mod_headers to support using format specifiers on Header
907 add, append and set header values. Two format specifiers are supported:
909 %t - reports, in UTC microseconds since the epoch, when the
910 request was received.
912 %D - reports the time, in microseconds, between when the request was
913 received and the response sent.
916 Header add MyHeader "This request served in %D microseconds. %t"
918 results in a header being added to the response that looks like this:
920 MyHeader: This request served in D=5438 microseconds. t=991424704447256
924 *) Fix reset_filter(). We need to be careful how we remove filters.
925 If we set r->output_filters to NULL, we also have to reset the
926 connection's filters. [John Sterling]
928 *) Optimise reset_filter() in http_protocol.c. [Greg Stein]
930 *) Add a check to ap_die() to make sure the filter stack is sane and
931 contains the correct basic filters when an error occurs. This fixes
932 a problem where headers are not being sent on error. [John Sterling]
934 *) New Header directive 'echo' option. "Header echo regex" will
935 cause any headers received on the request that match regex to be
936 echoed to (included in) the response headers.
939 *) include/ap_compat.h tested and set APR_COMPAT_H instead of AP_COMPAT_H.
940 This prevented the inclusion of apr_compat.h. PR #7773
941 [Oleg Broytmann <phd@phd.pp.ru>]
943 *) Moved util_uri to the apr-util library. This required a bunch of
944 apr_name changes for the uri utility functions. [Justin Erenkrantz]
946 *) Move the addition of default AP_HTTP_HTTP_HEADER filters to the
947 insert_filter phase so that other filters are not bypassed by default.
950 *) Reimplement mod_headers as an output filter. mod_headers can now
951 add custom headers to inbound requests using the RequestHeader directive
952 and to responses using the same old Header directive. [Graham Leggett]
954 Changes with Apache 2.0.18
956 *) Fix command-line processing so that if a bad argument is specified
957 Apache will exit. [Jeff Trawick]
959 *) Change the make targets and rules to be consistent in all of the
960 Apache-owned source trees. [Roy Fielding]
962 *) Fix processing of the TRACE method. Previously we passed bogus
963 parms to form_header_field() and it overlaid some vhost structures,
964 resulting in a segfault in check_hostalias().
965 [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
967 *) Win32: Add support for reliable piped logs. If the logging process
968 goes down, Apache will automatically restart it. This function has
969 been part of Apache on Unix/Linux/BSD since the early v1.3 releases.
972 *) Do not start piped log processes during the config file
973 preflight. This change also circumvents a problem on
974 Windows where the rotatelog processes created during preflight
975 was not getting cleaned up properly.
978 *) add "Request Phase Participation" info to mod_info
981 *) Make first phase changes to the scoreboard data structures in
982 preparation for the rewriting of the scoreboard per my posted
983 design notes. [Paul J. Reder]
985 *) Fix httpd's definition of LTFLAGS to be consistent with that of apr
986 and apr-util, allow it to be overridden by the configure command-line
987 (default="--silent") and introduce LT_LDFLAGS to replace what we were
988 formerly abusing as LTFLAGS. [Roy Fielding]
990 *) Clean up the reporting of incorrect closing container tags.
991 [Barrie Slaymaker <barries@slaysys.com>]
993 *) Simplify the configure process by moving all libtool stuff to APR
994 and moving hints.m4 inline. [Roy Fielding]
996 *) Add the AP_DECLARE()/AP_CORE_DECLARE macros on the return types
997 of functions used by mod_proxy for export in the DLL
998 [Ian Holsman <IanH@cnet.com>]
1000 *) Prevent a hang when a cgi handled by mod_cgid tries to read a
1001 request body from its stdin but no reqest body is being written to
1002 the cgi. [Jeff Trawick]
1004 *) mod_log_config: %c connection status incorrectly logged
1005 as "-" (non-keepalive) when MaxKeepAliveRequests is set to 0.
1008 *) Get mod_cern_meta working under Windows
1011 *) Create Files, and thus MMAPs, out of the request pool, not the
1012 connection pool. This solves a small resource leak that had us
1013 not closing files until a connection was closed. In order to do
1014 this, at the end of the core_output_filter, we loop through the
1015 brigade and convert any data we have into a single HEAP bucket
1016 that we know will survive clearing the request_rec.
1017 [Ryan Bloom, Justin Erenkrantz <jerenkrantz@ebuilt.com>,
1020 *) Completely revamp configure so that it preserves the standard make
1021 variables CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, LDFLAGS and LIBS by moving
1022 the configure additions to EXTRA_* variables. Also, allow the user
1023 to specify NOTEST_* values for all of the above, which eliminates the
1024 need for THREAD_CPPFLAGS, THREAD_CFLAGS, and OPTIM. Fix the setting
1025 of INCLUDES and EXTRA_INCLUDES. Check flags as they are added to
1026 avoid pointless duplications. Fix the order in which flags are given
1027 on the compile and link lines. Remove obsolete macros APR_DOEXTRA,
1028 AC_ADD_LIBRARY, AC_CHECK_DEFINE, APACHE_PASSTHRU, and APACHE_ONCE.
1029 Added APR_SAVE_THE_ENVIRONMENT and APR_RESTORE_THE_ENVIRONMENT macros.
1030 Renamed AC_TYPE_RLIM_T macro to APACHE_TYPE_RLIM_T. [Roy Fielding]
1032 *) Get mod_tls to compile/work better on Windows. PR #7612
1033 [Bernhard Schrenk <b.schrenk@improx.com>]
1035 *) Fix shutdown/restart hangs in the threaded MPM.
1036 [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames, Ryan Bloom]
1038 *) Removed the keptalive boolean from conn_rec because it is now only
1039 used by a single routine and can be replaced by a local variable.
1040 [Greg Stein, Ryan Bloom, Roy Fielding]
1042 *) Patch prefork to put enough of the signal processing back in so that
1043 signals are all handled properly now. The previous patch fixed the
1044 deadlock race condition, but broke the user directed signal handling.
1045 This fixes it to work the way it did before my previous prefork patch
1046 (primarily, SIGTERM is now working).
1048 *) Change how input filters decide how much data is returned to the
1049 higher filter. We used to use a field in the conn_rec, with this
1050 change, we use an argument to ap_get_brigade to determine how much
1051 data is retrieved. [Ryan Bloom]
1053 *) Fix seg fault at start-up introduced by Ryan's change to enable
1054 modules to specify their own logging tags. mod_log_config
1055 registers an optional function, ap_register_log_handler().
1056 ap_register_log_handler() was being called by http_core before
1057 the directive hash table was created. This patch creates the
1058 directive hash table before ap_register_log_handler() is
1059 registered as an optional function.
1060 [jean-frederic clere <jfrederic.clere@fujitsu-siemens.com>]
1062 *) Add ap_set_int_slot() function
1063 [John K. Sterling <sterling@covalent.net>]
1065 *) Under certain circumstances, Apache did not supply the
1066 right response headers when requiring authentication.
1067 [Gertjan van Wingerde <Gertjan.van.Wingerde@cmg.nl>] PR#7114
1068 (This is a port of the change that went into Apache 1.3.19.)
1070 *) Allow modules to specify their own logging tags. This basically
1071 allows a module to tell mod_log_config that when %x is encountered
1072 a specific function should be called. Currently, x can be any single
1073 character. It may be more useful to make this a string at some point.
1076 Changes with Apache 2.0.17
1078 *) If a higher-level filter handles the the byterange aspects of a
1079 request, then the byterange filter should not try to redo the
1080 work. The most common case of this happening, is a byterange
1081 request going through the proxy, and the origin server handles
1082 the byterange request. The proxy should ignore it.
1083 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>]
1085 *) Changed the threaded mpm to have child_main join to each of the
1086 worker threads to make sure the kids are all gone before child_main
1087 exits after a signal (cleanup from perform_idle_server_maintenance).
1088 This is an extension of Ryans recent commit to make the child_main
1091 *) Add more options to the ap_mpm_query function. This also allows MPMs to
1092 report if their threads are dynamic or static. Finally, this also
1093 implements a new API, ap_show_mpm, which returns the MPM that was
1094 required into the core. [Harrie Hazewinkel <harrie@covalent.net>]
1096 *) Do not install the binaries from the support directory twice.
1097 [jun-ichiro hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>]
1099 *) The ap_f* functions should flush data to the filter that is passed
1100 in, not the the filter after the one passed in.
1101 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
1103 *) Make ab work again by changing its native types to apr types and formats.
1104 [Justin Erenkrantz <jerenkrantz@ebuilt.com>]
1106 *) Move the byterange filter and all of the supporting functions back
1107 to the HTTP module. The byterange filter turned out to be very
1108 HTTP specific, and it belongs in the HTTP module. [Greg Stein]
1110 *) Make clean, distclean, and extraclean consistently according to the
1111 Gnu makefile guidelines. [Justin Erenkrantz <jerenkrantz@ebuilt.com>]
1113 *) Fix errors in the renaming of the apr_threadattr_detach_xxx functions.
1114 This may have been causing problems stopping processes in the threaded
1117 *) Fix content-length in mod_negotiation to a long int representation.
1120 *) Remove BindAddress from the default config file.
1121 [giles@nemeton.com.au]
1123 *) Allow module authors to add a module to their Apache build using
1124 --with-module, without re-running buildconf. The syntax is:
1125 --with-module=module_type:/path/to/module.c
1126 The configure script will copy the module.c file to
1127 modules/module_type, and it will be added to the relevant Makefiles.
1128 currently, this only works for static modules. [Ryan Bloom]
1130 *) Changes required to make prefork clean up idle children properly.
1131 There was a window during which a starting worker deadlocks when
1132 an idle cleanup arrives before it completes init. Apache then keeps
1133 trying to cleanup the same deadlocked worker forever (until higher
1134 pids come along, but it still will never reduce below the deadlocked
1135 pid). Thus the number of children would not reduce to the correct
1136 idle level. [Paul J. Reder]
1138 Changes with Apache 2.0.16
1140 *) Change the default installation directory to /usr/local/apache2,
1141 as now defined by the "Apache" layout in config.layout. [Marc Slemko]
1143 *) OS/2: Added support for building loadable modules as OS/2 DLLs.
1146 *) Get MaxRequestsPerChild working with the Windows MPM.
1149 *) Make generic hooks to work, with mod_generic_hook_import/export
1150 experimental modules. [Ben Laurie, Will Rowe]
1152 *) Fix segfaults for configuration file syntax errors such as
1153 "<Directory>" followed by "</Directory" and
1154 "<Directory>" followed by "</Directoryz>". [Jeff Trawick]
1156 *) Cleanup the --enable-layout option of configure. This makes
1157 us use a consistent location for the config.layout file, and it
1158 makes configure more portable.
1159 [jun-ichiro hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>]
1161 *) Changes to 'ab'; fixed int overrun's, added statistics, output in
1162 csv/gnuplot format, rudimentary ssl support and various other tweaks
1163 to make results more true to what is measured. The upshot of this it
1164 turns out that 'ab' has often underreported the true performance of
1165 apache. Often by a order of magnitude :-) See talk/paper of Sander
1166 Temme <sctemme@covalent.net> at April ApacheCon 2001 for details.
1167 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
1169 *) Clean up mod_cgid's temporary request pool. Besides fixing a
1170 storage leak this ensures that some unnecessary pipes are closed.
1173 *) Performance: Add quick_handler hook. This hook is called at the
1174 very beginning of the request processing before location_walk,
1175 translate_name, etc. This hook is useful for URI keyed content
1176 caches like Mike Abbott's Quick Shortcut Cache.
1179 *) top_module global variable renamed to ap_top_module [Perl]
1181 *) Move ap_set_last_modified to the core. This is a potentially
1182 controversial change, because this is kind of HTTP specific. However
1183 many protocols should be able to take advantage of this kind of
1184 information. I expect that headers will need one more layer of
1185 indirection for multi-protocol work, but this is a small step in
1186 the right direction. [Ryan Bloom]
1188 *) Enable mod_status by default. This matches what Apache 1.3 does.
1191 *) Add a ScriptSock directive to the default config file. This is
1192 only enabled when mod_cgid is used.
1193 [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
1195 Changes with Apache 2.0.15
1197 *) Untangled the buildconf script and eliminated the need for build's
1198 aclocal.m4, generated_lists, build.mk, build2.mk, and a host of other
1199 libtool muck that is now under srclib/apr/build. [Roy Fielding]
1201 *) Win32: Don't accept more connections than we have worker threads
1205 *) Fix bug in the Unix threaded.c MPM that allowed child processes
1206 to fork() new child processes.
1209 *) Fix a major security problem with double-reverse lookup checking.
1210 Previously, a client connecting over IPv4 would not be matched
1211 properly when the server had an IPv6 listening socket. PR #7407
1212 [Taketo Kabe <kiabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
1214 *) Change the way the beos MPM handles polling to allow it to stop and
1215 restart. Problem was the sockets being polled were being reset by
1216 the select call, so once it had accepted a connection it was no
1217 longer listening on the UDP socket we use for shutdown instructions.
1218 APR needs to be altered, patch on it's way. [David Reid]
1220 *) Empty out the brigade shared by ap_getline()/ap_get_client_block()
1221 on error exit from ap_getline(). Some other code got upset because
1222 the wrong data was in the brigade. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
1224 *) Handle ap_discard_request_body() being called more than once.
1225 [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
1227 *) Get rid of an inadvertent close of file descriptor 2 in
1228 mod_mime_magic. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
1230 *) Add a hook, create_request. This hook allows modules to modify
1231 a request while it is being created. This hook is called for all
1232 request_rec's, main request, sub request, and internal redirect.
1233 When this hook is called, the the r->main, r->prev, r->next
1234 pointers have been set, so modules can determine what kind of
1235 request this is. [Ryan Bloom]
1237 *) Cleanup the build process a bit more. The Apache configure
1238 script no longer creates its own helper scripts, it just
1240 [jean-frederic clere <jfrederic.clere@fujitsu-siemens.com>]
1242 *) Stop the forced downgrade of the connection to HTTP/1.0 for
1243 proxy requests. [Graham Leggett]
1245 *) Avoid using sscanf to determine the HTTP protocol number in
1246 the common case because sscanf is a performance hog. From
1247 Mike Abbot's Accelerating Apache patch number 6.
1248 [Mike Abbot <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com>, Bill Stoddard]
1250 *) Fix a security exposure in mod_access. Previously when IPv6
1251 listening sockets were used, allow/deny-from-IPv4-address rules
1252 were not evaluated properly (PR #7407). Also, add the ability to
1253 specify IPv6 address strings with optional prefix length on Allow
1254 and Deny. [Jeff Trawick]
1256 *) Enhance rotatelogs so that a UTC offset can be specified, and
1257 the logfile name can be formatted using strftime(3). (Brought
1258 forward from 1.3.) [Ken Coar]
1260 *) Reimplement the Windows MPM (mpm_winnt.c) to eliminate calling
1261 DuplicateHandle on an IOCompletionPort (a practice which
1262 MS "discourages"). The new model does not rely on associating
1263 the completion port with the listening sockets, thus the
1264 completion port can be completely managed within the child
1265 process. A dedicated thread accepts connections off the network,
1266 then calls PostQueuedCompletionStatus() to wake up worker
1267 threads blocked on the completion port.
1270 *) Bring forward the --suexec-umask option which allows the
1271 builder to preset the umask for suexec processes. [Ken Coar]
1273 *) Add a -V flag to suexec, which causes it to display the
1274 compile-time settings with which it was built. (Only
1275 usable by root or the AP_HTTPD_USER username.) [Ken Coar]
1277 *) Mod_include should always unset the content-length if the file is
1278 going to be passed through send_parsed_content. There is no to
1279 determine if the content will change before actually scanning the
1280 entire content. It is far safer to just remove the C-L as long
1281 as we are scanning it. [Ryan Bloom]
1283 *) Make sure Apache sends WWW-Authenticate during a reverse proxy
1284 request and not Proxy-Authenticate.
1285 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>]
1287 Changes with Apache 2.0.14
1289 *) Fix content-length computation. We ONLY compute a content-length if
1290 We are not in a 1.1 request and we cannot chunk, and this is a keepalive
1291 or we already have all the data. [Ryan Bloom]
1293 *) Report unbounded containers in the config file. Previously, a typo
1294 in the </container> directive could result in the rest of the config
1295 file being silently ignored, with undesired defaults used.
1298 *) Make the old_write filter use the ap_f* functions for the buffering.
1301 *) Move more code from the http module into the core server. This
1302 is core code, basically the default handler, the default input
1303 and output filters, and all of the core configuration directives.
1304 All of this code is required in order for the server to work, with or
1305 without HTTP. The server is closer to working without the HTTP
1306 module, although there is still more to do. [Ryan Bloom]
1308 *) Fix a number of SGI compile warnings throughout the server. Fix some
1309 bad parameters to apr_bucket_read(). Fix a bad statement in
1310 ap_method_in_list(). For the mod_rewrite cache use apr_time_t
1311 consistently; we were mixing apr_time_t and time_t in invalid ways
1312 before. In load_file(), call apr_dso_error() instead of
1313 apr_strerror() so that we get a more specific string on some platforms.
1314 PR #6980 [Jeff Trawick]
1316 *) Allow modules to query the MPM about it's execution profile. This
1317 query API can and should be extended in the future, but for now,
1318 max_daemons, and threading or forking is a very good start.
1319 [Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>]
1321 *) Modify mod_include to send blocks of data no larger than 9k.
1322 Without this, mod_include will wait until the whole file is parsed,
1323 or the first tag is found to send any data to the client.
1324 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
1326 *) Fix mod_info, so that <Directory> and <Location> directives are
1327 not displayed twice when displaying the current configuration.
1328 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
1330 *) Add config directives to override DEFAULT_ERROR_MSG and
1331 DEFAULT_TIME_FORMAT. This was sent in as PR 6193.
1332 [Dan Rench <drench@xnet.com>]
1334 *) Get mod_info building and loading on Win32. [William Rowe]
1336 *) Begin to move protocol independant functions out of mod_http. The goal
1337 is to have only functions that are HTTP specific in the http directory.
1340 Changes with Apache 2.0.13
1342 *) Don't assume that there will always be multiple calls to the byterange
1343 filter. It is possible that we will need to do byteranges with only
1344 one call to the filter. [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
1346 *) Move the error_bucket definition from the http module to the
1347 core server. Every protocol will need this ability, not just
1350 Changes with Apache 2.0.12
1352 *) Modify mod_file_cache to save pre-formatted strings for
1353 content-length and last-modified headers for performance.
1354 [Mike Abbot <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com>]
1356 *) Namespace protect IOBUFSIZ since it is exposed in the API.
1357 [Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>]
1359 *) Use "Basic" authentication instead of "basic" in ab, as the spec
1360 says we should. [Andre Breiler <andre.breiler@rd.bbc.co.uk>]
1362 *) Fix a seg fault in mod_userdir.c. We used to use the pw structure
1363 without ever filling it out. This fixes PR 7271.
1364 [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp> and
1365 Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
1367 *) Add a couple of GCC attribute tags to printf style functions.
1368 [Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>]
1370 *) Add the correct language tag for interoperation with the Taiwanese
1371 versions of MSIE and Netscape. [Clive Lin <clive@CirX.ORG>] PR#7142
1373 *) Migrate the perchild MPM to use the new apr signal child, and
1374 APR thread functions. [Ryan Bloom]
1376 *) Close one copy of the CGI's stdout before creating the new process.
1377 The CGI will still have stdout, because we have already dup'ed it.
1378 This keeps Apache from waiting forever to send the results of a CGI
1379 process that has forked a long-lived child process.
1380 [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
1382 *) Remove the rest of the pthreads functions from the threaded MPM.
1383 This requires the APR support for a signal thread that was just
1386 *) Make mod_dir use a fixup for sending a redirect to the browser.
1387 Before this, we were using a handler, which doesn't make much
1388 sense, because the handler wasn't generating any data, it would
1389 either return a redirect error code, or DECLINED. This fits the
1390 current hooks better. [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
1392 *) Make the threaded MPM use APR threads instead of pthreads.
1395 *) Get mod_tls to the point where it actually appears to work in all cases.
1398 *) implement --enable-modules and --enable-mods-shared for "all" and
1399 "most". [Greg Stein]
1401 *) Move the threaded MPM to use APR locks instead of pthread locks.
1404 *) Rename mpmt_pthread to threaded. This is more in line with the
1405 fact that mpmt_pthread shouldn't be using pthreads directly, and
1406 it is a smaller name that doesn't tie into anything.
1409 *) Rename the module structures so that the exported symbol matches
1410 the file name, and it is easier to automate the installation
1411 process (generating LoadModule directives from the module filenames).
1414 *) Remove the coalesce filter. With the ap_f* functions, this filter
1415 is no longer needed. [Ryan Bloom]
1417 Changes with Apache 2.0.11
1419 *) Remove the dexter MPM. Perchild is the same basic idea, but it has the
1420 added feature of allowing a uid/gid per child process. If no
1421 uid/gid is specified, then Perchild behaves exactly like dexter.
1424 *) Get perchild building again. [Ryan Bloom]
1426 *) Don't disable threads just because we are using the prefork MPM.
1427 If somebody wants to compile without threads, they must now add
1428 --disable-threads to the configure command line. [Ryan Bloom]
1430 *) Begin to move the calls to update_child_status into common code, so
1431 that each individual MPM does not need to update the scoreboard itself.
1434 *) Allow mod_tls to compile under Unix boxes where openssl has been
1435 installed to the system include files.
1436 [Gomez Henri <new-httpd@slib.fr>]
1438 *) Cleanup the mod_tls configure process. This should remove any need
1439 to hand-edit any files. We require OpenSSL 0.9.6 or later, but
1440 configure doesn't check that yet. [Ryan Bloom]
1442 *) Add a very early prototype of SSL support (in mod_tls.c). It is
1443 vital that you read modules/tls/README before attempting to build
1446 *) Fix a potential seg fault on all platforms. David Reid fixed this
1447 on BEOS, but the problem could happen anywhere, so we don't want
1448 to #ifdef it. [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
1450 *) Add new LogFormat directive, %D, to log time it takes to serve a
1451 request in microseconds. [Bill Stoddard]
1453 *) Change AddInputFilter and AddOutputFilter to SetInputFilter and
1454 SetOutputFilter. This corresponds nicely with the other Set
1455 directives, which operate on containers while the Add* directives
1456 tend to work directly on extensions. [Ryan Bloom]
1458 *) Cleanup the header handling a bit. This uses the apr_brigade_*
1459 functions for the buffering so that we don't need to compute
1460 the length of the headers before we actually create the header
1461 buffer. [Ryan Bloom]
1463 *) Allow filters to buffer data using the ap_f* functions. These have
1464 become macros that resolve directly to apr_brigade_*.
1467 *) Get the Unix MPM's to do a graceful restart again. If we are going
1468 to register a cleanup with ap_cleanup_scoreboard, then we have to
1469 kill the cleanup with the same function, and that function can't be
1470 static. [Ryan Bloom]
1472 *) Install all required header files. Without these, it was not
1473 possible to compile some modules outside of the server.
1476 *) Fix the AliasMatch directive in Apache 2.0. When we brought a patch
1477 forward from 1.3 to 2.0, we missed a single line, which broke regex
1478 aliases. [Ryan Bloom]
1480 *) We have a poor abstraction in the protocol. This is a temporary
1481 hack to fix the bug, but it will need to be fixed for real. If
1482 we find an error while sending out a custom error response, we back
1483 up to the first non-OK request and send the data. Then, when we send
1484 the EOS from finalize_request_protocol, we go to the last request,
1485 to ensure that we aren't sending an EOS to a request that has already
1486 received one. Because the data is sent on a different request than
1487 the EOS, the error text never gets sent down the filter stack. This
1488 fixes the problem by finding the last request, and sending the data
1489 with that request. [Ryan Bloom]
1491 *) Make the server status page show the correct restart time, and
1492 thus the proper uptime. [Ryan Bloom]
1494 *) Move the CGI creation logic from mod_include to mod_cgi(d). This
1495 should reduce the amount of duplicate code that is required to
1496 create CGI processes.
1497 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
1499 *) ap_new_connection() closes the socket and returns NULL if a socket
1500 call fails. Usually this is due to a connection which has been
1501 reset. [Jeff Trawick]
1503 *) Move the Apache version information out of httpd.h and into release.h.
1504 This is in preparation for the first tag with the new tag and release
1505 system. [Ryan Bloom]
1507 *) Begin restructuring scoreboard code to enable adding back in
1508 the ability to use IPC other than shared memory.
1509 Get mod_status working on Windows again. [Bill Stoddard]
1511 *) Make mod_status work with 2.0. This will work for prefork,
1512 mpmt_pthread, and dexter. [Ryan Bloom]
1514 *) Correct a typo in httpd.conf.
1515 [Kunihiro Tanaka <tanaka@apache.or.jp>] PR#7154
1517 *) Really fix mod_rewrite map lookups this time. [Tony Finch]
1519 *) Get the correct IP address if ServerName isn't set and we can't
1520 find a fully-qualified domain name at startup.
1521 PR#7170 [Danek Duvall <dduvall@eng.sun.com>]
1523 *) Make mod_cgid work with SuExec. [Ryan Bloom]
1525 *) Adopt apr user/group name features for mod_rewrite. Eliminates some
1526 'extra' stat's for user/group since they should never occur, and now
1527 resolves the SCRIPT_USER and SCRIPT_GROUP, including on WinNT NTFS
1528 volumes. [William Rowe]
1530 *) Adopt apr features to simplify mod_includes. This changes the
1531 behavior of the USER_NAME variable, unknown uid's are now reported
1532 as USER_NAME="<unknown>" rather than the old user#000 result.
1533 WinNT now resolves USER_NAME on NTFS volumes. [William Rowe]
1535 *) Adopt apr features for simplifing mod_userdir, and accept the new
1536 Win32/OS2 exceptions without hiccuping. [William Rowe]
1538 *) Replace configure --with-optim option by using and saving the
1539 environment variable OPTIM instead. This is needed because configure
1540 options do not support multiple flags separated by spaces.
1543 *) Fix some byterange handling. If we get a byte range that looks like
1544 "-999999" where that is past the end of the file, we should return
1545 a PARTIAL CONTENT status code, and return the whole file as one big
1546 byterange. This matches the 1.3 handling now. [Ryan Bloom]
1548 *) Make the error bucket a real meta-data bucket. This means that the
1549 bucket length is 0, and a read returns NULL data. If one of these
1550 buckets is passed down after the headers are sent, this data will
1551 just be ignored. [Greg Stein]
1553 *) The prefork MPM wasn't killing child processes correctly if a restart
1554 signal was received while the process was serving a request. The child
1555 process would become the equivalent of a second parent process. If
1556 we break out of the accept loop, then we need to do die after cleaning
1557 up after ourselves. [Ryan Bloom]
1559 *) Change the Prefork MPM to use SIGWINCH instead of SIGUSR1 for graceful
1560 restarts. [Ryan Bloom]
1562 *) Modify the apr_stat/lstat/getfileinfo calls within apache to use
1563 the most optimal APR_FINFO_wanted bits. This spares Win32 from
1564 performing very expensive owner, group and permission lookups
1565 and allows the server to function until these apr_finfo_t fields
1566 are implemented under Win32. [William Rowe]
1568 *) Support for typedsafe optional functions - that is functions exported by
1569 optional modules, which, therefore, may or may not be present, depending
1570 on configuration. See the experimental modules mod_optional_fn_{ex,im}port
1571 for sample code. [Ben Laurie]
1573 *) filters can now report an HTTP error to the server. This is done
1574 by sending a brigade where the first bucket is an error_bucket.
1575 This bucket is a simple bucket that stores an HTTP error and
1576 a string. Currently the string is not used, but it may be needed
1577 to output an error log. The http_header_filter will find this
1578 bucket, and output the error text, and then return
1579 AP_FILTER_ERROR, which informs the server that the error web page
1580 has already been sent. [Ryan Bloom]
1582 *) If we get an error, then we should remove all filters except for
1583 those critical to serving a web page. This fixes a bug, where
1584 error pages were going through the byterange filter, even though
1585 that made no sense. [Ryan Bloom]
1587 *) Relax the syntax checking of Host: headers in order to support
1588 iDNS. PR#6635 [Tony Finch]
1590 *) Cleanup the byterange filter to use the apr_brigade_partition
1591 and apr_bucket_copy functions. This removes a lot of very messy
1592 code, and hopefully makes this filter more stable.
1595 *) Remove AddModule and ClearModuleList directives. Both of these
1596 directives were used to ensure that modules could be enabled
1597 in the correct order. That requirement is now gone, because
1598 we use hooks to ensure that modules are in the correct order.
1601 *) When SuExec is specified, we need to add it to the list of
1602 targets to be built. If we don't, then any changes to the
1603 configuration won't affect SuExec, unless 'make suexec' is
1604 specifically run. [Ryan Bloom]
1606 *) Cleaned out open_file from mod_file_cache, as apr now accepts
1607 the APR_XTHREAD argument to open a file for consumption by
1608 parallel threads on win32. [William Rowe]
1610 *) Correct a bug in determining when we follow symlinks. The code
1611 expected a stat -1 result, not an apr_status_t positive error.
1612 Also check if the APR_FINFO_USER fields are valid before we
1613 follow the link. [William Rowe]
1615 *) Move initgroupgs, ap_uname2id and ap_gname2id from util.c to
1616 mpm_common.c. These functions are only valid on some platforms,
1617 so they should not be in the main-line code. [Ryan Bloom]
1619 *) Remove ap_chdir_file(). This function is not thread-safe,
1620 and nobody is currently using it. [Ryan Bloom]
1622 *) Do not try to run make depend if there are no .c files in the
1623 current directory, doing so makes `make depend` fail.
1626 *) Update highperformance.conf to work with either prefork or
1627 pthreads mpms. [Greg Ames]
1629 *) Stop checking to see if this is a pipelined request if we know
1630 for a fact that it isn't. Basically, if r->connection->keepalive == 0.
1631 This keeps us from making an extra read call when serving a 1.0
1632 request. [Ryan Bloom and Greg Stein]
1634 *) Fix the handling of variable expansion look-ahead in mod_rewrite,
1635 i.e. syntax like %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER}, and also fix the parsing of
1636 more complicated nested RewriteMap lookups. PR#7087 [Tony Finch]
1638 *) Fix the RFC number mentioned when complaining about a missing
1639 Host: header. PR#7079 [Alexey Toptygin <alexeyt@wam.umd.edu>]
1641 *) Fix an endless loop in ab which occurred when ab was posting
1642 and the server dropped the connection unexpectedly.
1645 *) Fix a segfault while handling request bodies in ap_http_filter().
1646 This problem has been seen with mod_dav usage as well as with
1647 requests where the body was just being discarded. [Jeff Trawick]
1649 *) Some adjustment on the handling and automatic setting (via
1650 hints.m4) of various compilation flags (eg: CFLAGS). Also,
1651 add the capability to specify flags (NOTEST_CFLAGS and
1652 NOTEST_LDFLAGS) which are used to compile Apache, but
1653 not used during the configuration process. Useful for
1654 flags like "-Werror". [Jim Jagielski]
1656 *) Stop using environment variables to force debug mode or
1657 no detach. We now use the -D command line argument to
1658 specify the correct mode. -DONE_PROCESS and -DNO_DETACH.
1659 [Greg Stein, Ryan Bloom]
1661 *) Change handlers to use hooks. [Ben Laurie]
1663 *) Stop returning copies of filenames from both apr_file_t and
1664 apr_dir_t. We pstrdup the filenames that we store in the
1665 actual structures, so we don't need to pstrdup the strings again.
1668 *) mod_cgi: Fix some problems where the wrong error value was being
1669 traced. [Jeff Trawick]
1671 *) EBCDIC: Fix some missing ASCII conversion on some protocol data.
1674 *) Add generic hooks. [Ben Laurie]
1676 *) Use a real pool to dup the error log descriptor. [Ryan Bloom]
1678 *) Fix a segfault caused by mod_ext_filter when the external filter
1679 program does not exist. [Jeff Trawick]
1681 *) Fix an output truncation error when on an HTTP >= 1.0 request an
1682 object of size between DEFAULT_BUCKET_SIZE and AP_MIN_BYTES_TO_WRITE
1683 was served through mod_charset_lite (or anything else that would
1684 create a transient bucket in this size range). ap_bucket_make_heap()
1685 silently failed (fixed), transient_setaside() discovered it, but
1686 ap_save_brigade() ignored it (fixed). [Jeff Trawick]
1688 *) Ignore \r\n or \n when using PEEK mode for input filters. The problem
1689 is that some browsers send extra lines at the end of POST requests, and
1690 we don't want to delay sending data back to the user just because the
1691 browser isn't well behaved. [Ryan Bloom]
1693 *) Get SuEXEC working again. We can't send absolute paths to suExec
1694 because it refuses to execute those programs. SuEXEC also wasn't
1695 always recognizing configuration changes made using the autoconf
1698 *) Allow the buildconf process to find the config.m4 files in the correct
1699 order. Basically, we can now name config.m4 files as config\d\d.m4,
1700 and we will sort them correctly when inserting them into the build
1701 process. [Ryan Bloom]
1703 *) Get mod_cgid to use apr calls for creating the actual CGI process.
1704 This also allows mod_cgid to use ap_os_create_priviledged_process,
1705 thus allowing for SuExec execution from mod_cgid. Currently, we do
1706 not support everything that standard SuExec supports, but at least
1707 it works minimally now. [Ryan Bloom]
1709 *) Allow SuExec to be configured from the ./configure command line.
1712 *) Update some of the docs in README and INSTALL to reflect some of
1713 the changes in Apache 2.0 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
1715 *) If we get EAGAIN returned from the call to apr_sendfile, then we
1716 need to call sendfile again. This gets us serving large files
1717 such as apache_2.0a9.tar.gz on FreeBSD again. [Ryan Bloom]
1719 *) Get the support programs building cleanly again.
1720 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
1722 *) The Apache/Win32 Apache.exe and dll's now live in bin. The
1723 current directory logic now backs up over bin/ to determine the
1724 server root from the Apache.exe path.
1726 *) Apache/Win32 now follows the standard conventions of mod_foo.so
1727 loadable modules, dynamic libs are all named libfoo.dll, and the
1728 makefile.win populates the include, lib and libexec directories.
1730 *) Apache is now IPv6-capable. On systems where APR supports IPv6,
1731 Apache gets IPv6 listening sockets by default. Additionally, the
1732 Listen, NameVirtualHost, and <VirtualHost> directives support IPv6
1733 numeric address strings (e.g., "Listen [fe80::1]:8080").
1736 *) Modify the install directory layout. Modules are now installed in
1737 modules/. Shared libraries should be installed in libraries/, but
1738 we don't have any of those on Unix yet. All install directories
1739 are modifyable at configure time. [Ryan Bloom]
1741 *) Install all header files in the same directory on Unix. [Ryan Bloom]
1743 *) Get the functions in server/linked into the server, regardless of
1744 which modules linked into the server. This uses the same hack
1745 for Apache that we use for APR and apr-util to ensure all of the
1746 necessary functions are linked. As a part of thise, the CHARSET_EBCDIC
1747 was renamed to AP_CHARSET_EBCDIC for namespace protection, and to make
1748 the scripts a bit easier.
1751 *) Rework the RFC1413 handling to make it thread-safe, use a timeout
1752 on the query, and remove IPv4 dependencies. [Jeff Trawick]
1754 *) Get all of the auth modules to the point that they will install and
1755 be loadable into the server. Our new build/install mechanism expects
1756 that all modules will have a common name format. The auth modules
1757 didn't use that format, so we didn't install them properly.
1760 *) API routines ap_pgethostbyname() and ap_pduphostent() are no longer
1761 available. Use apr_getaddrinfo() instead. [Jeff Trawick]
1763 *) Get "NameVirtualHost *" working in 2.0. [Ryan Bloom]
1765 *) Return HTTP_RANGE_NOT_SATISFIABLE if the every range requested starts
1766 after the end of the response. [Ryan Bloom]
1768 *) Get byterange requests working with responses that do not have a
1769 content-length. Because of the way byterange requests work, we have to
1770 have all of the data before we can actually do the byterange, so we
1771 can compute the content-length in the byterange filter.
1774 *) Get exe CGI's working again on Windows.
1777 *) Get mod_cgid and mod_rewrite to work as DSOs by changing the way
1778 they keep track of whether or not their post config hook has been
1779 called before. Instead of a static variable (which is replaced when
1780 the DSO is loaded a second time), use userdata in the process pool.
1783 Changes with Apache 2.0a9
1785 *) Win32 now requires perl to complete the final install step for users
1786 to build + install on Win32. Makefile.win now rewrites @@ServerRoot@
1787 and installs the conf, htdocs and htdocs/manual directories.
1790 *) Make mod_include use a hash table to associate directive tags with
1791 functions. This allows modules to implement their own SSI tags easily.
1792 The idea is simple enough, a module can insert it's own tag and function
1793 combination into a hash table provided by mod_include. While mod_include
1794 parses an SSI file, when it encounters a tag in the file, it does a
1795 hash lookup to find the function that implements that tag, and passes
1796 all of the relevant data to the function. That function is then
1797 responsible for processing the tag and handing the remaining data back
1798 to mod_include for further processing.
1799 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
1801 *) Get rid of ap_new_apr_connection(). ap_new_connection() now has
1802 fewer parameters: the local and remote socket addresses were removed
1803 from the parameter list because all required information is available
1804 via the APR socket. [Jeff Trawick]
1806 *) Distribution directory structure reorganized to reflect a
1807 normal source distribution with external install targets.
1810 *) The MPMs that need multiple segments of shared memory now create
1811 two apr_shmem_t variables, one for each shared memory allocation.
1812 the problem is that we can't determine how much memory will be required
1813 for shared memory allocations once we try to allocate more than one
1814 variable. The MM code automatically aligns the shared memory allocations,
1815 so we end up needing to pad the amount of shared memory we want based
1816 on how many variables will be allocated out of the shared memory segment.
1817 It is just easier to create a second apr_shmem_t variable, and two
1818 shmem memory blocks.
1821 *) Cleanup the export list a bit. This creates a single unified list of
1822 functions exported by APR. The export list is generated at configure
1823 time, and that list is then used to generate the exports.c file.
1824 Because of the way the export list is generated, we only export those
1825 functions that are valid on the platform we are building on.
1828 *) Enable logging the cookie with mod_log_config
1829 [Sander van Zoest <sander@covalent.net>]
1831 *) Fix a segfault in mod_info when it reaches the end of the configuration.
1834 *) Added lib/aputil/ as a placeholder for utility functions which are not
1835 specific to the Apache HTTP Server (but do not make sense with APR).
1836 The first utility is "apu_dbm": a set of functions to work with DBM
1837 files. This first version can be compiled for SDBM or GDBM databases.
1840 *) Complete re-write of mod_include. This makes mod_include a filter that
1841 uses buckets directly. This has now served the FAQ correctly.
1842 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
1844 *) Allow modules to specify the first filter in a sub_request when
1845 making the sub_request. This keeps modules from having to change the
1846 output_filter immediately after creating the sub-request, and therefore
1847 skip the sub_req_output_filter. [Ryan Bloom]
1849 *) Update ab to accept URLs with IPv6 literal address strings (in the
1850 format described in RFC 2732), and to build Host header fields in
1851 the same format. This allows IPv6 literal address strings to be
1852 used with ab. This support has been tested against Apache 1.3 with
1853 the KAME patch, but Apache 2.0 does not yet work with this format
1854 of the Host header field. [Jeff Trawick]
1856 *) Accomodate an out-of-space condition in the piped logs and the
1857 rotatelogs.c code, and no longer churn log processes for this
1858 condition. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
1860 *) Add support for partial writes with apr_sendfile() to core_output_filter.
1863 Changes with Apache 2.0a8
1865 *) Add a directive to mod_mime so that filters can be associated with
1869 *) Get multi-views working again. We were setting the path_info
1870 field incorrectly if we couldn't find the specified file.
1873 *) Fix 304 processing. The core should never try to send the headers
1874 down the filter stack. Always, just setup the table in the request
1875 record, and let the header filter convert it to data that is ready
1879 *) More fixes for the proxy. There are still bugs in the proxy code,
1880 but this has now proxied www.yahoo.com and www.ntrnet.net (my ISP)
1884 *) Fix params for apr_getaddrinfo() call in connect proxy handler.
1887 *) APR: Add new apr_getopt_long function to handle long options.
1888 [B. W. Fitzpatrick <fitz@red-bean.com>]
1890 *) APR: Change apr_connect() to take apr_sockaddr_t instead of hostname.
1891 Add generic apr_create_socket(). Add apr_getaddrinfo() for doing
1892 hostname resolution/address string parsing and building
1893 apr_sockaddr_t. Add apr_get_sockaddr() for getting the address
1894 of one of the apr_sockaddr_t structures for a socket. Change
1895 apr_bind() to take apr_sockaddr_t. [David Reid and Jeff Trawick]
1897 *) Remove the BUFF from the HTTP proxy. This is still a bit ugly, but
1898 I have proxied pages with it, cleanup will commence soon.
1901 *) Make the proxy work with filters. This isn't perfect, because we
1902 aren't dealing with the headers properly. [Ryan Bloom]
1904 *) Do not send a content-length iff the C-L is 0 and this is a head
1905 request. [Ryan Bloom]
1907 *) Make cgi-bin work as a regular directory when using mod_vhost_alias
1908 with no VirtualScriptAlias directives. PR#6829 [Tony Finch]
1910 *) Remove BUFF from the PROXY connect handling. [Ryan Bloom]
1912 *) Get the default_handler to stop trying to deal with HEAD requests.
1913 The idea is to let the content-length filter compute the C-L before
1914 we try to send the data. If we can get the C-L correctly, then we
1915 should send it in the HEAD response.
1918 *) The Header filter can now determine if a body should be sent based
1919 on r->header_only. The general idea of this is that if we delay
1920 deciding to send the body, then we might be able to compute the
1921 content-length correctly, which will help caching proxies to cache
1922 our data better. Any handler that doesn't want to try to compute
1923 the content-length can just send an EOS bucket without data and
1924 everything will just work.
1927 *) Add the referer to the error log if one is available.
1928 [Markus Gyger <mgyger@itr.ch>]
1930 *) Mod_info.c has now been ported to Apache 2.0. As a part of this
1931 change, the root of the configuration tree has been exposed to modules
1933 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
1935 *) Get the core_output_filter to use the bucket interface directly.
1936 This keeps us from calling the content-length filter multiple times
1937 for a simple static request.
1940 *) We are sending the content-type correctly now.
1941 [Ryan Bloom and Will Rowe]
1943 *) APR on FreeBSD: Fix a bug in apr_sendfile() which caused us to report
1944 a bogus bytes-sent value when the only thing being sent was trailers
1945 and writev() returned an error (or EAGAIN). [Jeff Trawick]
1947 *) Get SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT working again. This uses the
1948 hints file to determine which platforms define
1949 SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT.
1952 *) APR: add apr_get_home_directory() [Jeff Trawick]
1954 *) Initial import of 1.3-current mod_proxy. [Chuck Murcko]
1956 *) Not all platforms have INADDR_NONE defined by default. Apache
1957 used to make this check and define INADDR_NONE if appropriate,
1958 but APR needs the check too, and I suspect other applications will
1959 as well. APR now defines APR_INADDR_NONE, which is always a valid
1960 value on all platforms.
1961 [Branko Èibej <brane@xbc.nu>]
1963 *) Destroy the pthread mutex in lock_intra_cleanup() for PR#6824.
1964 [Shuichi Kitaguchi <ki@hh.iij4u.or.jp>]
1966 *) Relax the syntax checking of Host: headers in order to support
1967 iDNS. PR#6635 [Tony Finch]
1969 *) When reading from file buckets we convert to an MMAP if it makes
1970 sense. This also simplifies the default handler because the
1971 default handler no longer needs to try to create MMAPs.
1974 *) BUFF has been removed from the main server. The BUFF code will remain
1975 in the code until it has been purged from the proxy module as well.
1978 *) Byteranges have been completely re-written to be a filter. This
1979 has been tested, and I believe it is working correctly, but it could
1980 doesn't work for the Adobe Acrobat plug-in. The output almost matches
1981 the output from 1.3, the only difference being that 1.3 includes
1982 a content-length in the response, and this does not.
1985 *) APR read/write functions and bucket read functions now operate
1986 on unsigned integers, instead of signed ones. It doesn't make
1987 any sense to use signed ints, because we return the error codes,
1988 so if we have an error we should report 0 bytes read or written.
1991 *) Always compute the content length, whether it is sent or not.
1992 The reason for this, is that it allows us to correctly report
1993 the bytes_sent when logging the request. This also simplifies
1994 content-length filter a bit, and fixes the actual byte-reporing
1995 code in mod_log_config.c
1998 *) Remove AP_END_OF_BRIGADE definition. This does not signify what
1999 it says, because it was only used by EOS and FLUSH buckets. Since
2000 neither of those are required at the end of a brigade, this was
2001 really signifying FLUSH_THE_DATA, but that can be determined better
2002 by checking AP_BUCKET_IS_EOS() or AP_BUCKET_IS_FLUSH. EOS and FLUSH
2003 buckets now return a length of 0, which is actually the amount of data
2004 read, so they make more sense.
2007 *) Allow the core_output_filter to save some data past the end of a
2008 request. If we get an EOS bucket, we only send the data if it
2009 makes sense to send it. This allows us to pipeline request
2010 responses. As a part of this, we also need to allocate mmap
2011 buckets out of the connection pool, not the request pool. This
2012 allows the mmap to outlive the request.
2015 *) Make blocking and non-blocking bucket reads work correctly for
2016 sockets and pipes. These are the only bucket types that should
2017 have non-blocking reads, because the other bucket types should
2018 ALWAYS be able to return something immediately.
2021 *) In the Apache/Win32 console window, accept Ctrl+C to stop the
2022 server, but use Ctrl+Break to initiate a graceful restart
2023 instead of duplicating behavior. [John Sterling]
2025 *) Patch mod_autoindex to set the Last-Modified header based on
2026 the directory's mtime, and add the ETag header. [William Rowe]
2028 *) Merge the 1.3 patch to add support for logging query string in
2029 such a way that "%m %U%q %H" is the same as "%r".
2032 *) Port three log methods from mod_log_config 1.3 to 2.0:
2033 CLF compliant '-' byte count, method and protocol.
2036 *) Add a new LogFormat directive, %c, that will log connection
2037 status at the end of the response as follows:
2038 'X' - connection aborted before the response completed.
2039 '+' - connection may be kept-alive by the server.
2040 '-' - connection will be closed by the server.
2043 *) Expand APR for WinNT to fully accept and return utf-8 encoded
2044 Unicode file names and paths for Win32, and tag the Content-Type
2045 from mod_autoindex to reflect that charset if the the feature
2046 macro APR_HAS_UNICODE_FS is true. [William Rowe]
2048 *) Compute the content length (and add appropriate header field) for
2049 the response when no content length is available and we can't use
2050 chunked encoding. [Jeff Trawick]
2052 *) Changed ap_discard_request_body() to use REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK,
2053 so that content input filters get dechunked data when using
2054 the default handler. Also removed REQUEST_CHUNKED_PASS.
2057 *) Add mod_ext_filter as an experimental module. This module allows
2058 the administrator to use external programs as filters. Currently,
2059 only filtering of output is supported. [Jeff Trawick]
2061 *) Most Apache functions work on EBCDIC machines again, as protocol
2062 data is now translated (again). [Jeff Trawick]
2064 *) Introduce ap_xlate_proto_{to|from}_ascii() to clean up some of
2065 the EBCDIC support. They are noops on ASCII machines, so this
2066 type of translation doesn't have to be surrounded by #ifdef
2067 CHARSET_EBCDIC. [Jeff Trawick]
2069 *) Fix mod_include. tag commands work again, and the server will
2070 send the FAQ again. This also allows mod_include to set aside
2071 buckets that include partial buckets.
2072 [Ryan Bloom and David Reid]
2074 *) Add suexec support back. [Manoj Kasichainula]
2076 *) Lingering close now uses the socket directly instead of using
2077 BUFF. This has been tested, but since all we can tell is that it
2078 doesn't fail, this needs to be really hacked on.
2081 *) Allow filters to modify headers and have those headers be sent to
2082 the client. The idea is that we have an http_header filter that
2083 actually sends the headers to the network. This removes the need
2084 for the BUFF to send headers.
2087 *) Charset translation: mod_charset_lite handles translation of
2088 request bodies. Get rid of the xlate version of ap_md5_digest()
2089 since we don't compute digests of filtered (e.g., translated)
2090 response bodies this way anymore. (Note that we don't do it at
2091 all at the present; somebody needs to write a filter to do so.)
2094 *) Input filters and ap_get_brigade() now have a input mode parameter
2095 (blocking, non-blocking, peek) instead of a length parameter.
2098 *) Update the mime.types file to the registered media types as
2099 of 2000-10-19. PR#6613 [Carsten Klapp <carsten.klapp@home.net>,
2102 *) Namespace protect some macros declared in ap_config.h
2105 *) Support HTTP header line folding with input filtering.
2108 *) Mod_include works again. This should still be re-written, but at
2109 least now we can serve an SHTML page again.
2112 *) Begin to remove BUFF from the core. Currently, we keep a pointer
2113 to both the BUFF and the socket in the conn_rec. Functions that
2114 want to use the BUFF can, functions that want to use the socket,
2115 can. They point to the same place.
2118 *) apr_psprintf doesn't understand %lld as a format. Make it %ld.
2119 [Tomas "Ögren" <stric@ing.umu.se>]
2121 *) APR pipes on Unix and Win32 are now cleaned up automatically when the
2122 associated pool goes away. (APR pipes on OS/2 were already had this
2123 logic.) This resolvs a fatal file descriptor leak with CGIs.
2126 *) The final line of the config file was not being read if there was
2127 no \n at the end of it. This was caused by apr_fgets returning
2128 APR_EOF even though we had read valid data. This is solved by
2129 making cfg_getline check the buff that was returned from apr_fgets.
2130 If apr_fgets return APR_EOF, but there was data in the buf, then we
2131 return the buf, otherwise we return NULL.
2134 *) Piped logs work again in the 2.0 series.
2137 *) Restore functionality broken by the mod_rewrite security fix:
2138 rewrite map lookup keys and default values are now expanded
2139 so that the lookup can depend on the requested URI etc.
2140 PR #6671 [Tony Finch]
2142 *) Tighten up the syntax checking of Host: headers to fix a
2143 security bug in some mass virtual hosting configurations
2144 that can allow a remote attacker to retrieve some files
2145 on the system that should be inaccessible. [Tony Finch]
2147 *) Add a pool bucket type. This bucket is used for data allocated out
2148 of a pool. If the pool is cleaned before the bucket is destroyed, then
2149 the data is converted to a heap bucket, allowing it to survive the
2153 *) Add a flush bucket. This allows modules to signal that the filters
2154 should all flush whatever data they currently have. There is no way
2155 to actually force them to do this, so if a filter ignores this bucket,
2156 that's life, but at least we can try with this.
2159 *) Add an output filter for sub-requests. This filter just strips the
2160 EOS bucket so that we don't confuse the main request's core output
2161 filter by sending multiple EOS buckets. This change also makes sub
2162 requests start to send EOS buckets when they are finished.
2165 *) Make ap_bucket_(read|destroy|split|setaside) into macros. Also
2166 makes ap_bucket_destroy a return void, which is okay because it
2167 used to always return APR_SUCCESS, and nobody ever checked its
2168 return value anyway.
2169 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
2171 *) Remove the index into the bucket-type table from the buckets
2172 structure. This has now been replaced with a pointer to the
2173 bucket_type. Also add some macros to test the bucket-type.
2176 *) Renamed all MODULE_EXPORT symbols to AP_MODULE_DECLARE and all symbols
2177 for CORE_EXPORT to AP_CORE_DECLARE (namespace protecting the wrapper)
2178 and retitled API_EXPORT as AP_DECLARE and APR_EXPORT as APR_DECLARE.
2179 All _VAR_ flavors changes to _DATA to be absolutely clear.
2182 *) Add support for /, //, //servername and //server/sharename
2183 parsing of <Directory> blocks under Win32 and OS2.
2184 [Tim Costello, William Rowe, Brian Harvard]
2186 *) Remove the function pointers from the ap_bucket type. They have been
2187 replaced with a global table. Modules are allowed to register bucket
2188 types and use then use those buckets.
2191 *) mod_cgid: In the handler, shut down the Unix socket (only for write)
2192 once we finish writing the request body to the cgi child process;
2193 otherwise, the client doesn't hit EOF on stdin. Small request bodies
2194 worked without this change (for reasons I don't understand), but large
2195 ones didn't. [Jeff Trawick]
2197 *) Remove file bucket specific information from the ap_bucket type.
2198 This has been moved to a file_bucket specific type that hangs off
2199 the data pointer in the ap_bucket type.
2202 *) Input filtering now has a third argument. This is the amount of data
2203 to read from lower filters. This argument can be -1, 0, or a positive
2204 number. -1 means give me all the data you have, I'll deal with it and
2205 let you know if I need more. 0 means give me one line and one line
2206 only. A positive number means I want no more than this much data.
2208 Currently, only 0 and a positive number are implemented. This allows
2209 us to remove the remaining field from the conn_rec structure, which
2213 *) Big cleanup of the input filtering. The goal is that http_filter
2214 understands two conditions, headers and body. It knows where it is
2215 based on c->remaining. If c->remaining is 0, then we are in headers,
2216 and http_filter returns a line at a time. If it is not 0, then we are
2217 in body, and http_filter returns raw data, but only up to c->remaining
2218 bytes. It can return less, but never more.
2219 [Greg Ames, Ryan Bloom, Jeff Trawick]
2221 *) mod_cgi: Write all of the request body to the child, not just what
2222 the kernel would accept on the first write. [Jeff Trawick]
2224 *) Back out the change that moved the brigade from the core_output_filters
2225 ctx to the conn_rec. Since all requests over a given connection
2226 go through the same core_output_filter, the ctx pointer has the
2230 *) Fix another bug in the send_the_file() read/write loop. A partial
2231 send by apr_send would cause unsent data in the read buffer to
2232 get clobbered. Complete making send_the_file handle partial
2233 writes to the network.
2236 *) Fix a couple of type fixes to allow compilation on AIX again
2237 [Victor J. Orlikowski <v.j.orlikowski@gte.net>]
2239 *) Fix bug in send_the_file() which causes offset to be ignored
2240 if there are no headers to send.
2243 *) Handle APR_ENOTIMPL returned from apr_sendfile in the core
2244 filter. Useful for supporting Windows 9* with a binary
2245 compiled on Windows NT.
2248 Changes with Apache 2.0a7
2250 *) Reimplement core_output_filter to buffer/save bucket brigades
2251 across multiple calls to the core_filter. The brigade will be
2252 sent when either MIN_BYTES_TO_SEND or MAX_IOVEC_TO_WRITE
2253 thresholds are hit or the EOS bucket is received.
2256 *) Create experimental filter (buffer_filter) that coalesces bytes
2257 into one large buffer before invoking the next filter in the
2258 chain. This filter is particularly useful with the current
2259 implementation of mod_autoindex when it inserted above the
2260 chunk_filter. mod_autoindex generates a lot of brigades that
2261 containing buckets holding just a few bytes each. The
2262 buffer_filter coalesces these buckets into a single large bucket.
2265 *) Add apr_sendfile() support into the core_output_filter.
2268 *) Add apr_sendv() support into the core_output_filter.
2271 *) Fix mod_log_config so that it compiles cleanly with BUFFERED_LOGS
2272 [Mike Abbott <mja@sgi.com>]
2274 *) Remove ap_send_fb. This is no longer used in Apache, and it doesn't
2275 make much sense, because Apache uses buckets instead of BUFFs now.
2278 *) send_the_file now falls back to a read/write loop on platforms that
2279 do not have sendfile.
2280 [Ryan Bloom and Brian Havard]
2282 *) Install apachectl correctly, and substitute the proper values so
2283 that it works again. [Ryan Bloom]
2285 *) Better(??) handle platforms that lack sendfile().
2288 *) APR now has UUID generation/formatting/parsing support.
2291 *) Begin the http_filter. This is an input filter that understands
2292 the absolute basic amount required to parse an HTTP Request. The
2293 goal is to be able to split headers from request body before passing
2294 the data back to the other filters.
2297 *) Bring forward from 1.3.13 the config directory implementation
2300 *) install apxs if it is created
2303 *) Added APR_IS_STATUS_condition test macros to eliminate canonical error
2304 conversions. [William Rowe]
2306 *) Now that we have ap_add_input_filter(), rename ap_add_filter() to
2307 ap_add_output_filter(). [Jeff Trawick]
2309 *) Multiple build and configuration fixes
2312 -add datadir and localstatedir substitutions
2314 -fix logfilename misspelling
2315 -fix evaluation of installation dir variables and
2316 -replace $foobar by $(foobar) to be usefull in the makefile
2320 -add rules for cross-compiling in rules.mk. Okay, rule to check for
2321 $CC_FOR_BUILD is still missing
2322 -use CHECK_TOOL instead of CHECK_PROG for ranlib
2323 -add missing "AR=@AR@" to severaly Makefile.in's
2324 -cache result for "struct rlimit"
2325 -compile all helper programs with native and cross compiler
2326 and use the native version to generate header file
2327 ["Rüdiger" Kuhlmann <Tadu@gmx.de>]
2329 *) Prepare our autoconf setup for autoconf 2.14a and for cross-
2331 ["Rüdiger" Kuhlmann <Tadu@gmx.de>]
2333 *) Fix a bug where a client which only sends \n to delimit header
2334 lines (netcat) gets a strange looking HTTP_NOT_IMPLEMENTED
2335 message. Start working on ebcdic co-existance with input
2337 [William Rowe, Greg Ames]
2339 *) If mod_so is enabled in the server always create libexec, even
2340 if there are no modules installed in this directory. This is a
2341 requirement for APXS to work correctly.
2344 *) Connection oriented output filters are now stored in the
2345 conn_rec instead of the request_rec. This allows us to add the
2346 output filter in the pre-connection phase instead of the
2347 post_read_request phase, which keeps us from trying to write an
2348 error page before we have a filter to write to the network.
2349 [Ryan Bloom, Jeff Trawick, and Greg Ames]
2351 *) Cleaning up an mmap bucket no longer deletes the mmap. An
2352 mmap can be used across multiple buckets (default_handler with
2353 byte ranges, mod_file_cache, mod_mmap_static), so cleanup of
2354 the mmap itself can't be associated with the bucket.
2357 *) Add .dll caching directive ISAPICacheFile to mod_isapi.
2360 *) Radical surgery to improve mod_isapi support under Win32.
2361 Includes a number of newer ServerSupportFunction calls, support
2362 for ReadClient (in order to retrieve POSTs greater than 48KB),
2363 and general bug fixes to more reliably load ISAPI .dll's and
2364 prevent leaking handle resources. Note: There are still
2365 discrepancies between IIS's and Apache's ServerVariables, and
2366 async calls are still not supported. Additional warnings are
2367 logged to facilitate debugging of unsupported ISAPI calls.
2370 *) Add input filtering to Apache. The basic idea for the input
2371 filters is the same as the ideas for output filters. The biggest
2372 difference is that instead of calling ap_pass_brigade, ap_get_brigade
2373 should be called, and the order of execution for the filter itself is
2374 different. When writing an output filter, a brigade is passed in,
2375 and filters operate directly on that brigade, when done, they call
2376 ap_pass_brigade. Input filters are the exact opposite. Because input
2377 is not a push operation, filters first call ap_get_brigade. When this
2378 function returns, the input filter will be left with a valid brigade.
2379 The input filter should then operate on the brigade, and return.
2382 *) Fix building on BSD/OS using its native make. The build system
2383 falls back to the BSD .include directive on that host platform.
2386 *) Expand dbmmanage to allow -d -m -s -p options for Crypt, MD5,
2387 SHA1 and plaintext password encodings. Make feature tests a
2388 bit more flexible. [William Rowe]
2390 *) Charset translation: mod_charset_lite handles output content
2391 translation in a filter. mod_charset_lite no longer ignores
2392 subrequests. A bunch of cruft related to BUFF's support for
2393 translating request and response bodies was removed.
2396 *) Move the addition of the CORE filter to the post_read_request
2397 hook in http_core.c. This removes the need to add the filter in
2398 multiple places and allows for an SSL module to be added much
2399 simpler. [Ryan Bloom]
2401 *) Fix a security problem that affects certain configurations of
2402 mod_rewrite. If the result of a RewriteRule is a filename that
2403 contains expansion specifiers, especially regexp backreferences
2404 $0..$9 and %0..%9, then it may be possible for an attacker to
2405 access any file on the web server. [Tony Finch]
2407 *) Fix a bug where errors that are detected during early request parsing
2408 don't produce visible HTTP error messages at the browser, because
2409 the core_filter wasn't present. [Greg Ames]
2411 *) Provide apr_socklen_t as a portability aid.
2412 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
2414 *) Overhaul of dbmmanage to allow a groups arg (as in Apache 1.2)
2415 as well as a comment arg to the add, adduser and update cmds.
2416 update allows the user to clear or preserve pw/groups/comment.
2417 Fixed a bug in dbmmanage that prevented the check option from
2418 parsing a password followed by :group... text. Corrected the
2419 seed calcualation for Win32 systems, and added -lsdbm support.
2422 *) Configured mod_auth_dbm to compile with sdbmlib under Win32.
2425 *) Avoid a segfault when parsing .htaccess files. An
2426 uninitialized tree pointer was passed to ap_build_config().
2429 *) Change the way that inet_addr & inet_network are checked for
2430 in APR's configure process to allow BeOS BONE to correctly
2431 find them. With this change BeOS BONE now builds from source
2432 with no problems. [David Reid]
2434 *) Fix a bug in apr_create_process() for Unix. The NULL signifying
2435 the end of the parameters to execve() was stored in the wrong
2436 location, overlaying the storage beyond the newargs[] array and
2437 also passing uninitialized storage to execve(), which would
2438 sometimes fail with EFAULT. [Jeff Trawick]
2440 *) Fix a bug parsing configuration file containers. With a sequence
2441 like this in the config file
2443 <IfModule mod_kilroy.c>
2446 <IfModule mod_lovejoy.c>
2451 the second container would be terminated at the blank line due to
2452 sediment in the buffer from reading the prior </IfModule> and an
2453 error message would be generated for the real </IfModule> for the
2454 second container. Also due to this problem, any two characters
2455 could be used for "</" in the close of a container.
2458 *) ap_add_filter prototype changed to remove the ctx pointer. The
2459 pointer still remains in the filter structure, but it can not be
2460 a part of the ap_add_filter prototype. The reason is that when
2461 the core uses AddFilter to add a filter to the stack it doesn't
2462 know how to allocate the ctx pointer, or even how much memory should
2463 be allocated. The filters will have to be responsible for allocating
2464 the ctx memory when they need it.
2467 *) Add an AddFilter directive. This directive takes a list of filters
2468 that should be activated for the requested resource.
2471 *) apr_snprintf(): Get quad format strings working on OS/390 (and perhaps
2472 some other platforms). [Jeff Trawick]
2474 *) Modify mod_include to be a filter. Currently, it has only been tested
2475 on actual files, but it should work for CGI scripts too.
2478 *) apr_putc(), apr_puts() for Unix: handle buffered files and interrupted
2479 writes. apr_flush() for Unix: handle interrupted writes.
2482 *) NameVirtualHost can now take "*" as an argument instead of
2483 an IP address. This allows you to create a purely name-based
2484 virtual hosting server that does not have any IP addresses in
2485 the configuration file and which ignores the local address
2486 of any connections. PR #5595, PR #4455 [Tony Finch]
2488 *) Fix some compile warnings in mod_mmap_static.c
2489 [Mike Abbott <mja@sgi.com>]
2491 *) Fix chunking problem with CGI scripts. The general problem was that
2492 the CGI modules were adding an EOS bucket and then the core added an
2493 EOS bucket. The chunking filter finalizes the chunked response when it
2494 encounters an EOS bucket. Because two EOS buckets were sent, we
2495 finalized the response twice. The fix is to make sure we only send one
2496 EOS, by utilizing a flag in the request_rec.
2499 *) apr_put_os_file() now sets up the unget byte appropriately on Unix
2500 and Win32. Previously, the first read from an apr_file_t set up via
2501 apr_put_os_file() would return a '\0'. [Jeff Trawick]
2503 *) Mod_cgid now creates a single element bucket brigade, with a pipe
2504 bucket, instead of using BUFF's and ap_r*.
2507 *) APRVARS.in no longer overwrites the EXTRA_LIBS variable.
2508 [Mike Abbott <mja@sgi.com>]
2510 *) Remove ap_bopenf from buff code. This required modifying the file_cache
2511 code to use APR file's directly instead of going through BUFFs.
2514 *) Fix compile break on some platforms for mod_mime_magic.c
2515 [John K. Sterling <sterling@covalent.net>]
2517 *) Fix merging of AddDefaultCharset directive.
2518 PR #5872 (1.3) [Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@imgsrc.co.jp>]
2520 *) Minor revamp of the rlimit sections of code. We now test
2521 explicitly for setrlimit and getrlimit. Also, unixd_set_rlimit()
2522 is now "available" even if the platform doesn't support
2523 the rlimit family (it's just a noop though). [Jim Jagielski]
2525 *) Migrate the pre-selection of which MPM to use for specific
2526 platforms to hints.m4, which contains (or should contain)
2527 all platform specific "hints". [Jim Jagielski]
2529 *) Remove IOLs from Apache. With filtering, IOLs are no longer necessary
2532 *) Add tables with non-string/binary values to APR.
2535 *) Fix some bad calls to ap_log_rerror() in mod_rewrite.
2538 *) Update PCRE to version 3.2. [Ryan Bloom]
2540 *) Change the way buckets' destroy functions are called so that
2541 they can be more directly used when changing the type of a
2542 bucket in place. [Tony Finch]
2544 *) Add generic support for reference-counting the resources used by
2545 buckets, and alter the HEAP and MMAP buckets to use it. Change
2546 the way buckets are initialised to support changing the type of
2547 buckets in place, and use it when setting aside TRANSIENT buckets.
2548 Change the implementation of TRANSIENT buckets so that it can be
2549 mostly shared with IMMORTAL buckets, which are now implemented.
2552 Changes with Apache 2.0a6
2554 *) Add support to Apache and APR for dsos on OS/390. [Greg Ames]
2556 *) Add a chunking filter to Apache. This brings us one step closer
2557 to removing BUFF. [Ryan Bloom]
2559 *) ap_add_filter now adds filters in a LIFO fashion. The first filter
2560 added to the stack is the last filter to be called. [Ryan Bloom]
2562 *) Apache 2.0 has been completely documented using Scandoc. The
2563 docs can be generated by running 'make docs'. [Ryan Bloom]
2565 *) Add filtered I/O to Apache. This is based on bucket brigades,
2566 Currently the buckets still use BUFF under the covers, but that
2567 should change quickly. The only currently written filter is the
2568 core filter which just calls ap_bwrite. [The Apache Group]
2570 *) APR locks on Unix: Let APR_LOCKALL locks work when APR isn't
2571 built with thread support. [Jeff Trawick]
2573 *) Abort configuration if --with-layout was specified and there's
2574 no layout definition file. [Ken Coar]
2576 *) Add support for '--with-port=n' option to configure. [Ken Coar]
2578 *) Add support for extension methods for the Allow response header
2579 field, and an API routine for accessing r->allowed and the
2580 list of extension methods in a unified manner. [Ken Coar]
2582 *) mod_cern_meta: fix broken file reading loop in scan_meta_file().
2583 [Rob Simonson <simo@us.ibm.com>]
2585 *) Get xlate builds working again. The apr renaming in 2.0a5 broke
2586 APACHE_XLATE builds. [Jeff Trawick]
2588 *) A configuration file parsing problem was fixed. When the
2589 configuration file started with an IfModule/IfDefine container,
2590 only the last statement in the container would be retained.
2593 Changes with Apache 2.0a5
2595 *) Perchild is serving pages after passing them to different child
2596 processes. There are still a lot of bugs, but this does work. I
2597 have made requests against the same installation of Apache, and had
2598 different servers use different user IDs to serve the responses.
2599 This change moves to using socketpair instead of an AF_UNIX socket.
2602 *) Perchild MPM still doesn't work perfectly, but it is serving pages.
2603 It can't seem to pass between child processes yet, but I think we
2604 are closer now than before. This moves us back to using Unix
2605 Domain Sockets. [Ryan Bloom]
2607 *) libapr functions and types renamed with apr_ prefix.
2608 #include "apr_compat.h" for 1.3.x backwards compat
2611 *) Fix problems with APR sockaddr handling on Win32. It didn't always
2612 return the right information on the local socket address.
2613 [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls@level8.com>]
2615 *) ap_recv() on Win32: Set bytes-read to 0 on error.
2616 [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls@level8.com>]
2618 *) Add an option to not detach from the controlling terminal without
2619 going into single process mode. This allows for much easier
2620 debugging of the process startup code. [Ryan Bloom]
2622 *) ab: don't use perror() to report the failure of an APR function.
2625 *) Make dexter, mpmt_pthread, and perchild MPMs not destroy the
2626 scoreboard on graceful restarts.
2629 *) Fix segfault/SIGSEGV when running gzip from mod_mime_magic.c.
2630 An invalid ap_proc_t was passed to ap_create_process().
2633 *) Allow modules to register filters. Those filters are still
2634 never called, but this is a step in the right direction.
2635 [Ryan Bloom and Greg Stein]
2637 *) Register the mod_cgid daemon process for cleanup so that it is
2638 killed at termination if it does not die when the parent gets
2639 SIGTERM. This change is to fix occasional problems where the
2640 process stays around. Bugs in similar logic in mod_rewrite and
2641 mod_include were also fixed. [Jeff Trawick]
2643 *) Fix a bug in the time handling. Basically, we were imploding a time
2644 in ap_parseHTTPdate, but it had bogus data in the exploded time format.
2645 Namely, tm_usec and tm_gmtoff were not filled out. ap_implode_time
2646 uses those two fields to adjust the time value. Because of the HTTP
2647 spec, both of those values can be zero'ed out safely. This fixes
2648 the bug correctly. [Ryan Bloom]
2650 *) Fix a couple of place in the Windows code where the wrong error
2651 code was being returned. [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls@level8.com>]
2653 *) Fix POOL_DEBUG (at least for prefork mpm). [Dean Gaudet]
2655 *) Added the APR_EOL_STR macro for platform dependent differences in
2656 logfiles and other raw text (such as all APR files). Fixes logfiles
2657 not terminated with cr/lf sequences in Win32. [William Rowe]
2659 *) Move all strings functions in APR to src/lib/apr/strings and create
2660 apr_strings.h for the prototypes. [Ryan Bloom]
2662 *) APR lock fixes: when using SysV sems, flock(), or fcntl(), be sure
2663 to repeat the syscall until we stop getting EINTR. I noticed a
2664 related problem at termination (SIGTERM) on FreeBSD when using
2665 fcntl(). Apache 1.3 had these new loops too. Also, make the flock()
2666 implementation work properly with child init. Previously, ap_lock()
2667 was essentially a no-op because all children were using different
2668 locks and thus nobody ever blocked. [Jeff Trawick]
2670 *) The htdocs/ tree has been moved out of the CVS source tree into
2671 a separate area for easier development. This has NO EFFECT on
2672 end-users or Apache installations. [Ken Coar]
2674 *) Integrate the mod_dav module for WebDAV protocol handling. This
2675 adds the dav and dav_fs modules, the SDBM library, and additional
2676 XML handling utilities. [Greg Stein]
2678 *) Clean out obsolete names (from httpd.h) for the HTTP Status Codes
2681 *) Update the lib/expat-lite/ library (bring forward changes from
2682 the Apache 1.3 repository). [Greg Stein]
2684 *) If sizeof(long long) == sizeof(long), then prefer long in APR
2685 configure.in. [Dave Hill <ddhill@zk3.dec.com>]
2687 *) Add ap_sendfile for Tru64 Unix. Also, add an error message for
2688 machines where sendfile is detected, but nobody has written ap_sendfile.
2689 [Dave Hill <ddhill@zk3.dec.com>]
2691 *) Compile fixes in mod_mmap_static. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
2693 *) ab would start up more connections than needed, then quit when the
2694 desired number were finished. Also fixed a logic error involving
2695 ab keepalives. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
2697 *) WinNT: Implement non-blocking pipes with timeouts to communicate
2698 with CGIs. Apache 2.0a4 had non-blocking pipes but without
2699 timeouts (i.e, if a timeout was specified, the pipe reverted to
2700 a full blocking pipe). Now the behaviour is more in line with
2701 Unix non-blocking pipes.
2704 *) WinNT: Implement accept socket reuse. Using mod_file_cache to
2705 cache open file handles along with accept socket reuse enables
2706 Apache 2.0 to serve non-keepalive requests for static files at
2707 3x the rate of Apache 1.3.(e.g, Apache 1.3 will serve 400 rps
2708 and Apache 2.0 will serve almost 1200 rps on my system).
2711 *) Merge mod_mmap_static function into mod_file_cache. mod_file_cache
2712 supports two config directives, mmapfile (same behavious as
2713 mod_mmap_static) and cachefile. Use the cachefile directive
2714 to cache open file handles. This directive only works on systems
2715 that have implemented the ap_sendfile API. cachefile works today
2716 on Windows NT, but has not been tested on any flavors of Unix.
2719 *) Cleanup the configuration. With the last few changes the
2720 configuration process automatically:
2721 inherits information about how to build from APR. Allowing
2722 APR to inform Apache that it should or should not use -ldl
2724 Detects which mod_cgi should be used mod_cgi or mod_cgid,
2725 based on the threading model
2727 Apache calls APR's configure process before finishing it's
2728 configuration processing, allowing for more information flow
2733 *) Change Unix and Win32 ap_setsockopt() so that APR_SO_NONBLOCK
2734 with non-zero argument makes the socket non-blocking. BeOS and
2735 OS/2 already worked this way. [Jeff Trawick]
2737 *) ap_close() now calls ap_flush() for buffered files, so write
2738 operations work a whole lot better on buffered files.
2741 *) Fix error messages issued from MPMs which explain where to change
2742 compiled-in limits (e.g., ThreadsPerChild, MaxClients, StartTreads).
2745 *) ap_create_pipe() now leaves pipes in blocking state. (This helps
2746 reduce the number of syscalls on Unix.) ap_set_pipe_timeout() is
2747 now the way that the blocking state of a pipe is manipulated.
2748 ap_block_pipe() is gone. [Jeff Trawick]
2750 *) Correct the problem where the only local host name that the IP stack
2751 can discover are 'undotted' private names. If no fully qualified
2752 domain name can be identified, the default ServerName will be set to
2753 the machine's IP address string. A warning is always provided if the
2754 ServerName not specified, but assumed. Solves PR6215 [William Rowe]
2756 *) Repair problems with config file processing which caused segfault
2757 at init when virtual hosts were defined and which caused ServerName to
2758 be ignored when there was no valid DNS setup. [Jeff Trawick]
2760 *) Removed pointless ap_is_aborted macro function. [Roy Fielding]
2762 *) Add ap_sendfile implementation for AIX
2763 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
2765 *) Repair C++ compatibility in ap_config.h, apr_file_io.h,
2766 apr_network_io.h, and apr_thread_proc.h.
2767 [Tyler J. Brooks <tylerjbrooks@home.com>, Jeff Trawick]
2769 *) Bring the allocation and pool debugging code back into a working
2770 state. This will need to be tested as so far it's only been used on
2773 *) Change configuration command setup to be properly typesafe when in
2774 maintainer mode. Note that this requires a compiler that can initialise
2775 unions. [Ben Laurie]
2777 *) Turn on buffering for config file reads. Part of this was to
2778 repair buffered I/O support in Unix and implement buffered
2779 ap_fgets() for all platforms. [Brian Havard, Jeff Trawick]
2781 *) Win32: Fix problem where UTC offset was not being set correctly
2782 in the access log. Problem reported on news group by Jerry Baker.
2785 *) Fix segfault when reporting this type of syntax error:
2786 "</container> without matching <container> section", where
2787 container is VirtualHost or Directory or whatever.
2790 *) Prevent the source code for CGIs from being revealed when using
2791 mod_vhost_alias and the CGI directory is under the document root
2792 and a user makes a request like http://www.example.com//cgi-bin/cgi
2793 as reported in <news:960999105.344321@ernani.logica.co.uk>
2796 *) Add support for the new Beos NetwOrking Environment (BONE)
2799 *) xlate: ap_xlate_conv_buffer() now tells the caller when the
2800 final input char is incomplete; ap_bwrite_xlate() now handles
2801 incomplete final input chars. [Jeff Trawick]
2803 *) Yet another update to saferead/halfduplex stuff -- need to ensure
2804 that a bhalfduplex call occurs before logging or else DNS and
2805 such can delay the last packet of the response. [Dean Gaudet]
2807 *) Some syscall reduction in APR on unix -- don't seek when setting
2808 up an mmap; and don't fcntl() more than once per socket.
2811 *) When mod_cgid is started as root, the cgi daemon now switches
2812 to the configured User/Group (like other httpd processes)
2813 instead of continuing as root. [Jeff Trawick]
2815 *) The prefork MPM now uses an APR lock for the accept() mutex.
2816 It has not been getting a lock at all recently. httpd -V now
2817 displays APR's selection of the lock mechanism instead of the
2818 symbols previously respected by prefork. [Jeff Trawick]
2820 *) Change the mmap() feature test to check only for existence.
2821 The previous check required features not used by Apache.
2824 *) Fix a couple of bugs in mod_cgid: The cgi arguments were
2825 sometimes mangled. The len parm to accept() was not
2826 initialized, leading sometimes to an endless loop of failed
2827 accept() calls on OS/390 and anywhere else that failed the call
2828 if the len was negative. Use <sys/un.h> for struct sockaddr_un
2829 instead of declaring it ourselves to fix a compilation problem
2830 on Solaris. [Jeff Trawick]
2832 *) Add Resource limiting code back into Apache 2.0. [Ryan Bloom]
2834 *) Fix zombie process problem with mod_cgi. [Jeff Trawick]
2836 *) Port mod_mmap_static to 2.0. Make it go faster. [Greg Ames]
2838 *) Fix storage overlay when loading dsos. Symptom: Apache dies at
2839 initialization if ALLOC_DEBUG is defined; no known symptom
2840 otherwise. [Jeff Trawick]
2842 *) Fix typo in configure script when checking for mod_so. bash
2843 doesn't seem to have a problem but /bin/sh on Solaris does.
2844 Symptom: "./configure: test: unknown operator =="
2847 *) Rebind the Win32 NT and 9x services control into the MPM.
2848 All console, WinNT SCM and Win9x pseudo-service control code is
2849 now wrapped within the WinNT MPM.
2852 *) Make a copy of getenv("PATH") before storing for later use. Some
2853 getenv() implementations use the same storage for successive calls.
2854 CGIs on OS/390 had a bad PATH due to this. [Jeff Trawick]
2856 *) Server Tokens work in 2.0 again. This also propogates the change
2857 to allow just the product name in the server string using
2861 Changes with Apache 2.0a4
2863 *) EBCDIC: Rearrange calls to ap_checkconv() so that most handlers
2864 won't need to call it. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
2866 *) Move pre_config hook call to between configuration read and config
2867 tree walk. This allows all modules to implement pre_config hooks
2868 and know that they will be called at an appropriate time.
2871 *) mod_cgi, mod_cgid: Make ScriptLog directive work again.
2874 *) Add pre-config hooks back to all modules.
2877 *) Fix a SIGSEGV in ap_md5digest(), which is used when you have
2878 ContentDigest enabled and we can't/don't mmap the file.
2881 *) We now report the correct line number for syntax errors in config
2882 files. [Ryan Bloom, Greg Stein, Jeff Trawick]
2884 *) Brought mod_auth_digest up to synch with 1.3, fixed ap_time_t-
2885 related bugs, and changed shmem/locking to use apr API. Shared-mem
2886 is currently disabled, however, because of problems with graceful
2887 restarts. [Ronald Tschalär]
2889 *) Fix corruption of IFS variable in --with-module= handling.
2890 Depending on the user's shell or customization thereof, there
2891 would be errors generating ap_config_auto.h later in the configure
2892 procedure. [Jeff Trawick]
2894 *) mod_cgi: Restore logging of stderr from child process when ScriptLog
2895 isn't used (as in 1.3), except that on Unix it is now logged via
2896 ap_log_rerror() instead of by the child having STDERR_FILENO refer
2897 to the error log. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
2899 *) Add '-D' argument processing for run time configuration defines.
2902 *) Organize http_main.c as independent code, such that no code or
2903 global data is exported from it. WIN32 will dynamically link it
2904 to the server core, so this will prevent mutual dependency.
2907 *) Add separate dynamic linkage tags APR_EXPORT(), APR_EXPORT_NONSTD()
2908 and APR_VAR_EXPORT to correctly resolve apr functions and globals.
2911 *) Add Win9x service execution and Ctrl+C/Ctrl+Break/Shutdown handlers.
2912 [William Rowe, Jan Just Keijser <KEIJSERJJ@logica.com>]
2914 *) Add mod_charset_lite for configuring character set translation.
2917 *) Add '-n' option to htpasswd to make it print its user:pw record
2918 on stdout rather than having to frob a text file. [Ken Coar]
2920 *) Fix saferead. Basically, we flush the output buffer if a read on the
2924 *) APR: Add ap_xlate_get_sb() so that an app can find out whether or not
2925 a conversion is single-byte only. [Jeff Trawick]
2927 *) BEOS: ap_shutdown should return APR_SUCCESS or errno. Note that
2928 the BeOS 5.0 documentation says that shutdown doesn't work yet.
2931 *) Fix some minor errors where pid was being manipulated as an int
2932 instead of the portable pid_t. [Roy Fielding]
2934 *) Fix some error log prints that were printing the pointer to a
2935 structure rather than the pid within the structure.
2936 [Jeff Trawick, Roy Fielding]
2938 *) ab: Fix a command-line processing bug; track bad headers in
2939 err_response; support reading headers up to 2K.
2940 [Ask Bjoern Hansen <ask@valueclick.com>]
2942 *) Fix ap_resolve_env() so that it handles new function added in a prior
2943 alpha (see "Added the capability to do ${ENVVAR} constructs in the
2944 config file.") as well as the constructs used by mod_rewrite.
2945 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
2947 *) Apache 2.0 builds and runs on OS/390. [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames]
2949 *) Change the EBCDIC support in functions for MD5, SHA1, and base 64 to use
2950 APR to perform translation, instead of accessing the hard-coded tables
2951 in 1.3's ebcdic.c. [Jeff Trawick]
2953 *) Fix some bugs (mostly lost 1.3 code) in ab's command-line processing.
2956 *) Add the ability to hook into the config file reading phase. Basically
2957 if a directive is specified EXEC_ON_READ, then when that directive is
2958 read from the config file, the assocaited function is executed. This
2959 should only be used for those directives that must muck with HOW the
2960 server INTERPRETS the config. This should not be used for directives
2961 that re-order or replace items in the config tree. Those changes should
2962 be made in the pre-config step.
2965 *) Add mod_example to the build system.
2968 *) APR: Add ap_xlate_conv_byte() to convert one char between single-
2969 byte character sets. [Jeff Trawick]
2971 *) Pick up various EBCDIC fixes from 1.3 (from Martin
2972 Kraemer and Oliver Reh originally according to the change log).
2975 *) Fix a couple of problems in RFC1413 support (controlled by the
2976 IdentityCheck directive). Apache did not build the request string
2977 properly and more importantly Apache would loop forever if the
2978 would-be ident server dropped the connection before sending a
2979 properly terminated response. [Jeff Trawick]
2981 *) apxs works in 2.0.
2984 *) Reliable piped logs work in 2.0.
2987 *) Introduce a hash table implementation into APR to be used for
2988 replacing tables and other random data structures in Apache.
2991 *) Add some more error reporting to htpasswd in the case of problems
2992 generating or accessing the temporary file. Also, pass in a
2993 buffer if the implementation knows how to use it (i.e., if L_tmpnam
2994 is defined). [Ken Coar]
2996 *) Configure creates config.nice now containing your configure
2997 options. Syntax: ./config.nice [--more-options]
3000 *) Fix various return code problems in APR on Win32. For most of
3001 these, APR was returning APR_EEXIST instead of GetLastError()/
3002 WSAGetLastError(). [Jeff Trawick]
3004 *) Make piped logs work again in version 2.0
3007 *) Add VPATH support to UNIX build system of Apache and APR.
3010 *) Fix ap_tokenize_to_argv to respect the const arguments that are
3014 *) Fix mm's memcpy/memset macros, pointer arithmetic was broken.
3015 Patch submitted to author.
3018 *) Fix mm configuration on Solaris 8 x86 and OS/390. Don't require
3019 /sbin in PATH on FreeBSD (all submitted to rse previously)
3022 *) Fix building Pthread-based MPMs on OpenBSD
3023 [Sascha Schumann] PR#26
3025 *) Fix ap_readdir() problem on systems where d_name[] field in
3026 struct dirent is declared with only one byte. (This problem only
3027 affected multithreaded builds.) This caused a segfault during
3028 pool cleanup with mod_autoindex on Solaris (Solaris 8 x86, at
3029 least). [Jeff Trawick]
3031 *) Fix some make-portability problems on at least Tru64, Irix
3033 [Sascha Schumann] PR#18, PR#39
3035 *) Add ap_sigwait() to support old-style sigwait() on systems
3036 like OS/390 and UnixWare.
3039 *) Add POSIX-thread flags for more platforms.
3042 *) Fix some minor bugs in ap_strerror(). Teach ap_strerror()
3043 (on Unix, at least) to handle resolver errors. Fix a bug in
3044 the definition of APR_ENOMEM so that ap_strerror() can spit
3045 out the correct error message for it.
3048 Changes with Apache 2.0a3
3050 *) mod_so reports ap_os_dso_error() if ap_dso_load() fails
3053 *) API: *HOOK* macros now have an AP_ prefix
3056 *) Win32: Eliminate redundant calls to initialize winsock.
3057 [Tim Costello <timcostello@ozemail.com.au>]
3059 *) Fix bugs initializing ungetchar for pipes.
3060 [Chia-liang Kao <clkao@CirX.ORG>]
3062 *) The ab program in the src/support directory is now portable using
3066 *) Support directory is being compiled when the server is built
3069 *) The configure option --with-program-name has been added to allow
3070 developers to rename the executable at configure time. This also
3071 changes the name of the config files to match the executable's name.
3074 *) mod_autoindex: Add `IndexOptions +VersionSort', to nicely sort filenames
3075 containing version numbers. [Martin Pool]
3077 *) ap_open(..,APR_OS_DEFAULT,..) uses perms 0666 instead of 0777 on
3078 Unix; access_log and error_log now created with these perms; non-
3079 Unix is unaffected [Jeff Trawick]
3081 *) Finished move of ap_md5 routines to apr_md5. Removed ap_md5.h.
3082 Replaced more magic numbers with MD5_DIGESTSIZE.
3083 [William Rowe, Roy Fielding]
3085 *) Win32: Get mod_auth_digest compiling and added to the Windows
3086 build environment. Not tested and I'd be suprised if it
3087 actually works. [Bill Stoddard]
3089 *) Revamp the Win32 make environment. Makefiles have been removed and
3090 Apache.dsw created to bring together all the pieces. Create new file
3091 os/win32/BaseAddr.ref to define module base addresses (to prevent
3092 dll relocation at start-up).
3093 [William Rowe, Greg Marr, Tim Costello, Bill Stoddard]
3095 *) [EBCDIC] Port Paul Gilmartin's CRLF patch from 1.3. This replaces most
3096 of the \015, \012, and \015\012 constants with macros.
3097 [Greg Ames <gregames@us.ibm.com>]
3099 *) Add ap_xlate_open() et al for translation of text between different
3100 character sets. The initial implementation requires iconv().
3103 *) More FAQs and answers from comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix.
3104 [Joshua Slive <slive@finance.commerce.ubc.ca>]
3106 *) CGI output is being timed out now.
3109 *) Fix the problem with dieing quietly. dupfile now takes a pool which
3110 is used by the new apr file. There is no reason to create a new file
3111 with the same lifetime as the original file.
3114 *) Win32: Attempt to eliminate dll relocation at start-up by specifying
3115 module base addresses. This will help shooting seg faults
3116 in the field. [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
3118 *) Update Apache on Windows documentation. Add new document
3119 describing how to compile Apache on Windows.
3120 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
3122 *) ap_set_pipe_timeout(), ap_poll(), and APR_SO_TIMEOUT now take
3123 microseconds instead of seconds. Some storage leaks and other
3124 minor bugs in related code were fixed. [Jeff Trawick]
3126 *) Win32: First cut at getting mod_isapi working under 2.0
3127 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
3129 *) First stab at getting mod_auth_digest working under 2.0
3130 quick change summary:
3131 - moved the random byte generation (ap_generate_random_bytes) into APR
3132 - now uses ap_time_t
3133 - compiles and runs on linux
3135 [Brian Martin <bmartin@penguincomputing.com>]
3137 *) Win32: Move the space stripping of physical service names
3138 fix up from Apache 1.3. #include'ing "ap_mpm.h" fixes up an
3139 unresolved symbol. Add dependency checking to the
3140 CreateService call to ensure TCPIP and AFP (winsock) is started
3142 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
3144 *) Win32: Add code to perform latebinding on functions that may
3145 not exist on all levels of Windows where Apache runs. This
3146 is needed to allow Apache to start-up on Win95/98. All calls
3147 to non portable functions should be protected with
3148 ap_oslevel checks to prevent runtime segfaults.
3149 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
3151 *) Fix fallback default values for SHM_R and SHM_W [Martin Kraemer]
3153 *) Get lingering_close() working again. [Dean Gaudet, Jeff Trawick]
3155 *) Win32: Get non-blocking CGI pipe reads working under Windows NT.
3156 This addresses PR 1623. Still need to address timing out runaway
3157 CGI scripts. [Bill Stoddard]
3159 *) Win32: Make ap_stat Windows 95/98 friendly
3160 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
3162 *) Win32: Fix a bug in ap_get_oslevel which causes GetVersionEx() to
3163 always fail. Need to initialise the dwOSVersionInfoSize member of the
3164 OSVERSIONINFO struct before calling GetVersionEx, so GetVersionEx
3167 The patch also enhances ap_get_oslevel (and the associated enum) to
3168 handle selected service packs for NT4, and adds recognition for
3169 Windows 2000. This is useful, eg. if we can recognise NT4 SP2 then
3170 we can use ReadFileScatter and WriteFileGather in readwrite.c.
3171 [Tim Costello <Tim.Costello@BTFinancialgroup.com>]
3173 *) Get mod_rewrite building and running, and mod_status building for Win NT
3174 [Allan Edwards <ake@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3176 *) Patch to port mod_auth_db to the 2.0 api and also to support
3177 Berlekey DB 3.0. It works for me with both Berkeley DB 3.0.55 and
3178 2.7.7. It should work with version 1 as well but I haven't tested it.
3179 [Brian Martin <bmartin@penguincomputing.com>]
3181 *) Get APR DSO code working under Windows. Includes cross platform
3183 [Tim.Costello@BTFinancialgroup.com]
3185 *) Fix some of the Windows APR time functions.
3188 *) FAQ changes related to tidying up historical documents on the web site.
3189 [Joshua Slive <slive@finance.commerce.ubc.ca>]
3191 *) Move Windows DSO code into APR.
3194 *) Eliminate apr_win.h and apr_winconfig.h (and the ugly #ifdefs they cause).
3195 Now, apr.h and apr_config.h are generated from apr.hw and apr_config.hw
3196 at build time. At this point, the server will not compile on Windows because
3197 of the recent DSO commits. Fixing those next.
3198 [Bill Rowe & Bill Stoddard]
3200 *) Added error checking for file I/O APR routines.
3201 [Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>]
3203 *) APR: Don't use the values of resolver error codes for the
3204 corresponding APR error codes. On Unix and Win32, return the
3205 proper APR error code after a resolver error. [Jeff Trawick]
3207 Changes with Apache 2.0a2
3209 *) Renamed the executable back to httpd on all platforms other
3213 *) Allow BeOS to survive restarts, log properly and a few
3214 small things it had problems with due to the way it setup
3215 users and groups. [David Reid]
3217 *) Get mod_rewrite working with APR locks
3218 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3220 *) Actually remove the sempahore when the lock cleanup routine
3221 is called on BeOS. [David Reid]
3223 *) Clear hook registrations between reads of the config file.
3224 When DSOs are unloaded and re-loaded the old hook pointers may
3225 no longer be valid. This fix eliminates potential segfaults.
3226 [Allan Edwards <ake@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3228 *) Fix a problem with Sigfunc not being defined or bypassed
3229 if sigaction() wasn't found. [Jim Jagielski]
3231 *) Fix the locking mechanism on BSD variants. They now use fcntl
3232 locks. This allows the server to start and serve pages.
3235 *) First cut at getting the Win32 installer to work
3236 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
3238 *) Get htpasswd compiling under Windows
3239 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
3241 *) Change the log message for a bind() failure to show the
3242 interface and port number. [Jeff Trawick]
3244 *) Import the documentation from 1.3.12 and bring parts of it
3245 up-to-date with respect to the changes that have occurred
3249 *) BeOS MPM updated. CGI bug on BeOS fixed. IP addresses
3250 now logged correctly on BeOS.
3253 *) Create one makefile for all Win32 distributions (NT/2000/95/98).
3254 Makefile.win includes the same user interface as the old
3256 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>, Jeff Trawick <trawick@us.ibm.com>]
3258 *) Win32 exec now uses COMSPEC environment string for command
3259 shell path resolution.
3260 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>] PR#3715
3262 *) Win32: ap_connect() was not returning correct error condition
3264 [Allen Prescott <allen@clanprescott.com>]
3266 *) Win32: ap_open() was broken on Win9x because an NT-specific
3267 flag was passed to CreateFile. ap_puts() added an unnecessary
3269 [Jeff Trawick <trawick@us.ibm.com>]
3271 *) Put in Korean and Norwegian index.html pages (2.0 and 1.3)
3272 which where donated by Lee Kuk Hyun and Lorant Czaran. 'Fixed'
3273 confusing ee/et name and made all extensions language/dialect
3274 rather than country reflecting. Changed example files to
3275 explicit reflect the ISO charset and added a few common
3276 ones to the example config [dirkx]
3278 *) Extend external module capability. To use this, you call
3279 configure with --with-module=path/to/mod1,path/to/mod2,etc.
3282 *) Backported the various "default charset" fixes from 1.3.12,
3283 including the AddDefaultCharset directive. [Jim Jagielski]
3285 *) Added the capability to do ${ENVVAR} constructs in the
3286 config file. E.g. 'ServerAdmin ${POSTMASTER}'. As commited
3287 it does this on a line by line basis; i.e. if the envvar
3288 expands to something with spaces you have to protect it
3289 by adding quotes around it (Unless of course you expect it
3290 to contains more than one argument. Alternatively you
3291 can compile it on a per token basis; which is what people
3292 usually expect by setting RESOLVE_ENV_PER_TOKEN. But this
3293 hampers fancier hacks.
3294 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
3296 *) Changed the 'ErrorDocument' syntax in that it NO longer
3297 supports the asymetric
3299 ErrorDocument 301 "Some message
3301 Note the opening " quote, without a closing quote. It now
3302 has either the following syntaxes
3304 ErrorDocument XXX /local/uri
3305 ErrorDocument XXX http://valid/url
3306 ErrorDocument XXX "Some Message"
3308 The recognition heuristic is: if it has a space it
3309 is a message. If it has no spaces and starts with a /
3310 or is a valid URL then treat it that way. Otherwise it
3311 is assumed to be a message.
3313 This breaks backward compatibility but makes live a hell
3314 of a lot easier for GUI's and config file parsers.
3315 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
3317 *) Changed 'CacheNegotiatedDocs' from its present/not-present
3318 syntax into a 'on' or 'off' syntax. As it currently is the
3319 only non nesting token which uses NO_ARGS and thus is an
3320 absolute pain for any config interface automation. This
3321 breaks backward compatibility. [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
3323 *) Add ability to add external modules to the build process. This is
3324 done with --with-module=/path/to/module. Modules can only be added
3325 as static modules at this point.
3328 Changes with Apache 2.0a1
3330 *) Fix FreeBSD 3.3 core dump.
3331 Basically, ap_initialize() needs to get called before
3332 create_process(), since create_process() passes op_on structure
3333 to semop() to get a lock, but op_on isn't initialized until
3334 ap_initialize() calls setup_lock(). Here is a slight
3335 rearrangement to main() which calls ap_initialize() earlier...
3336 [Jeff Trawick <trawick@us.ibm.com>]
3338 *) Enable Apache to use sendfile/TransmitFile API
3339 [Bill Stoddard, David Reid, Paul Reder]
3341 *) Re-Implement Win32 APR network I/O APIs and most of the file I/O
3345 *) Make file I/O and network I/O writev/sendv APIs consistent.
3346 Eliminate use of ap_iovec_t and use Posix struct iovec.
3347 Use seperate variable on ap_writev to set the number of iovecs
3348 passed in and number of bytes written.
3351 *) Adapt file iol to use APR functions. Replaced ap_open_file()
3352 with ap_create_file_iol(). ap_create_file_iol() requires that
3353 the file be opened prior to the call using ap_open().
3356 *) Port mod_include and mod_cgi to 2.0
3357 [Paul Reder, Bill Stoddard]
3359 *) ap_send{,v}, ap_recv, ap_sendfile API clarification --
3360 bytes_read/bytes_written is always valid (never -1). Plus
3361 some fixes to buff.c to correct problems introduced by the
3362 errno => ap_status_t changes a while back. Plus a fix to
3363 chunked encoding introduced right at the beginning of 2.0.
3366 *) Revamped UNIX build system to use autoconf and libtool.
3367 [Manoj Kasichainula, Sascha Schumann]
3369 *) port mod_rewrite to 2.0. [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3371 *) More rigorous checking of Host: headers to fix security problems
3372 with mass name-based virtual hosting (whether using mod_rewrite
3373 or mod_vhost_alias).
3374 [Ben Hyde, Tony Finch]
3376 *) Add back support for UseCanonicalName in <Directory> containers.
3377 [Manoj Kasichainula]
3379 *) Added APLOG_STARTUP log type. This allows us to write an error
3380 message without any of the date and time information. As a part
3381 of this change, I also removed all of the calls to fprintf(stderr
3382 and replaced them with calls to ap_log_error using APLOG_STARTUP
3383 writing to stderr is no longer portable, because we don't direct
3384 stderr to the error log on all platforms.
3387 *) Convert error logging functions to take errno as an argument.
3388 This makes our error logs more portable, because some Windows API's
3389 don't set errno. This change allows us to still output a valid
3390 message on all of our platforms.
3393 *) mod_mime_magic runs in 2.0-dev now.
3394 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3396 *) sendfile has been added to APR.
3397 [John Zedlewski <zedlwski@Princeton.EDU>]
3399 *) buff.c has been converted to no longer use errno.
3400 [Manoj Kasichainula]
3402 *) mod_speling runs in 2.0-dev now: a bug in readdir_r handling and
3403 interface adaption to APR functions did it. [Martin Kraemer]
3405 *) Support DSOs properly on 32-bit HP-UX 11.0
3406 [Dilip Khandekar <dilip@cup.hp.com>]
3408 *) Updated MM in APR source tree from version 1.0.8 to 1.0.11
3409 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3411 *) Cleaned APR build environment integration and bootstrap APR
3412 automatically for developers from src/Configure.
3413 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3415 *) Fixed building of src/support/htpasswd.c
3416 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3418 *) When generating the Location: header, mod_speling forgot
3419 to escape the spelling-fixed uri. (Forw-Port from 1.3)
3422 *) Moved mod_auth_digest.c from experimental to standard. [Roy Fielding]
3424 *) Change all pools to APR contexts. This is the first step to
3425 incorporating APR into Apache. [Ryan Bloom]
3427 *) Move "handler not found" warning message to below the check
3428 for a wildcard handler. [Dirk <dirkm@teleport.com>, Roy Fielding]
3429 PR#2584, PR#2751, PR#3349, PR#3436, PR#3548, PR#4384, PR#4795, PR#4807
3431 *) Support line-continuation feature in config.option file and
3432 allow the loading of multiple option sections at once via
3433 ``--with-option=<section1>,<section2>,...''
3434 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3436 *) Rebuilt CVS repository with Apache 1.3.9 as basis. [Roy Fielding]
3438 Changes with Apache MPM
3440 *) Use asynchronous AcceptEx() and a completion port to accept and
3441 dispatch connections to threads in Windows NT/2000.
3444 *) Implement WINNT Win32 MPM from original Win32 code in http_main.c
3447 *) Implement the APACI --with-option facility
3448 (per default used the config.option file).
3449 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3451 *) MPM BEOS port. [David Reid <abb37@dial.pipex.com>]
3453 *) Start to implement module-defined hooks that are a) fast and b) typesafe.
3454 Replace pre_connection module call with a register_hook call and
3455 implement pre_connection as a hook. The intent is that these hooks will
3456 be extended to allow Apache to be multi-protocol, and also to allow the
3457 calling order to be specified on a per-hook/per-module basis.
3460 *) Implement mpm_* methods as "modules". Each method gets its own
3461 subdir in src/modules (eg: src/modules/prefork). Selection
3462 of method uses Rule MPM_METHOD. [Jim Jagielski]
3464 *) Port the hybrid server from the apache-apr repository as
3465 mpm_mpmt_pthread. [Manoj Kasichainula]
3467 *) os/unix/unixd.[ch]: detach, setuid, setgid, stuff which will be common
3468 amongst the unix MPMs.
3470 *) mpm_prefork: throw away all the alarm/timeout crud; and clean up the
3471 signal handling for the new world order. [Dean Gaudet]
3473 *) Crude ap_thread_mutex abstraction so that we get the pthread stuff out
3474 of alloc.c for now. [Dean Gaudet]
3476 *) Handle partial large writes correctly. [Ben Laurie]
3478 *) Eliminate conn_rec's pointer to server. All it knows is the base server
3479 based on IP/port. [Ben Laurie]
3481 *) Port a bunch of modules to the new module structure.
3482 ["Michael H. Voase" <mvoase@midcoast.com.au>]
3484 *) I/O layering and BUFF revamp. See docs/buff.txt. [Dean Gaudet]
3486 *) Basic restructuring to introduce the MPM concept; includes various
3487 changes to the module API... better described by
3488 docs/initial_blurb.txt. [Dean Gaudet]
3490 Changes with Apache pthreads
3492 *) New buff option added: BO_TIMEOUT. It describes the timeout for
3493 buff operations (generally over a network).
3494 [Dean Gaudet, Ryan Bloom, Manoj Kasichainula]
3496 *) Created http_accept abstraction. Added 4 new functions (not exported):
3497 init_accept(), begin_accepting_requests(), get_request(),
3498 stop_accepting_requests() [Bill Stoddard]
3500 *) Fix to ap_rprintf call that allows mod_info to work properly.
3501 [James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>]
3503 *) user and ap_auth_type fields were moved from connection_rec to
3504 request_rec. [Ryan Bloom]
3506 *) Removed the ap_block_alarms and ap_unblock_alarm calls. These aren't
3507 needed in a threaded server.
3509 *) Initial pthread implementation from from Dean's apache-nspr code.
3510 [Bill Stoddard, Ryan Bloom]
3513 Changes with Apache 1.3.9
3515 *) Remove bogus error message when a redirect doesn't set Location.
3516 Instead, use an empty string to avoid coredump if the error message
3517 was supposed to include a location. [Roy Fielding]
3519 *) Don't allow configure to include mod_auth_digest unless it is
3520 explicitly requested, even if the user asked for all modules.
3523 *) Translate module names to dll names for OS/2 so that they are no more
3524 than 8 characters long and have an extension of "dll" instead of "so".
3527 *) Print out pointer to Rule DEV_RANDOM when truerand lib not found.
3528 Fix test-compile check to check for randbyte instead of trand32.
3529 Use ap_base64encode_binary/decode instead of copy in mod_auth_digest.c
3530 and tweak to make Amaya happier. [Ronald Tschalär]
3532 *) Ensure that the installed expat include files are world readable,
3533 just like the other header files. [Martin Kraemer]
3535 *) Fixed generated AddModule adjustments in APACI's `configure' script
3536 in order to allow (new) modules like mod_vhost_alias to be handled
3537 correctly (which was touched by the adjustments for mod_alias).
3538 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3540 *) For binary builds, add -R flag to apachectl to work around the lack of
3541 an absolute path to the ./libexec directory where the libhttp.ep file
3542 is needed for SHARED_CORE architectures. [Randy Terbush]
3544 *) WIN32: Create the CGI script process as DETACHED. This may solve the
3545 problem observed by some Win95/98 users where they get CGI script
3546 output sent to the console. [Bill Stoddard]
3548 *) Fix (re)naming in the uuencode/decode section. The ap/ap_
3549 routines are now called ap_base64* and are 'plain' (i.e., no
3550 pool access or anything clever). Inside util.c the routines acting
3551 like pstrdup are called ap_pbase64encode() and ap_pbase64decode().
3552 The oddly named ap_uuencode(), ap_uudecode() are kept around for
3553 now but deprecated. [dirkx]
3555 *) Clean up the base64 and SHA1 additions and make sure they are
3556 represented in the ApacheCore.def, ApacheCoreOS2.def, and httpd.exp
3557 files. [Roy Fielding]
3559 *) WIN32: Migrate to InstallShield 5.5 and provide a bit more error
3560 checking. Allow compiling on VS 6.0. [Randy Terbush]
3562 *) Fixed assumption of absolute paths in binbuild.sh. [Tony Finch]
3564 *) Use TestCompile to search for the truerand library (rather than blindly
3565 assuming its existence). If it is not found, complain (but do not
3566 exit - yet). [Martin Kraemer]
3568 *) We forgot to add the new exported function names to
3569 src/support/httpd.exp. [Bill Stoddard, Randy Terbush]
3571 *) Add description of -T command-line option to usage().
3572 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3574 *) For "some" platforms (notably, EBCDIC based ones), libos needs to be
3575 searched only AFTER libap has been searched, because libap needs
3576 some symbols from libos. [Martin Kraemer]
3578 *) Fix conflict with original mod_digest related to the symbol of the
3579 module dispatch list (which has to be unique for DSO and follow the
3580 usual conventions for the installation procedure).
3581 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3583 *) Add a dbm-library check for the "usual places" (-ldbm, -lndbm, -ldb)
3584 for other platforms as well. [Martin Kraemer]
3586 *) Make ap_sha1.c compile for EBCDIC platforms: replace remaining LONG
3587 types by AP_LONG and replace reference to renamed variable 'ubuf'
3588 by 'buffer'. [Martin Kraemer]
3590 Changes with Apache 1.3.8 [not released]
3592 *) Flush the output buffer immediately after sending an error or redirect
3593 response, since the result may be needed by the client to abort a
3594 long data transfer or restart a series of pipelined requests.
3595 [Tom Vaughan <tvaughan@aventail.com>, Roy Fielding]
3597 *) PORT: Improved compilation and DSO support on Sequent DYNIX/ptx.
3598 [Ian Turner <iant@sequent.com>] PR#4735
3600 *) Local struct mmap in http_core.c conflicted with system structure
3601 name on DYNIX -- changed to mmap_rec. [Roy Fielding] PR#4735
3603 *) Added updated mod_digest as modules/experimental/mod_auth_digest.
3604 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald@innovation.ch>]
3606 *) Fix a memory leak where the module counts were getting messed
3607 up across restarts. [David Harris <dharris@drh.net>]
3609 *) CIDR addresses such as a.b.c.d/24 where d != 0 weren't handled
3610 properly in mod_access.
3611 ["Paul J. Reder" <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#4770
3613 *) RewriteLock/RewriteMap didn't work properly with virtual hosts.
3614 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su>] PR#3874
3616 *) PORT: Support for compaq/tandem/com.
3617 [Michael Ottati <michael.ottati@compaq.com>, dirkx]
3619 *) Added SHA1 password encryption support to easy migration from
3620 Netscape servers. See support/SHA1 for more information.
3621 Caused the separation of ap_md5.c into md5, sha1 and a general
3622 ap_checkpass.c with just a validate_passwd routine. Added a
3623 couple of flags to support/htpasswd. Some reuse of the to64()
3624 function; hence renamed to ap_to64().
3625 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Clinton Wong <clintdw@netcom.com>]
3627 *) Change for EBCDIC platforms (TPF and BS2000) to correctly deal
3628 with ASCII/EBCDIC conversions in "ident" query.
3629 [David McCreedy <McCreedy@us.ibm.com>]
3631 *) Get rid of redefinition warning on MAC_OS_X_SERVER platform.
3632 Change "Power Macintosh" to Power* so if uname prints "Power Book"
3633 we're still happy on Rhapsody platforms. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
3635 *) Fix SIGSEGV on some systems because the Vary fix below included
3636 a call to table_do with a variable argument list that was not
3637 NULL terminated. Replaced with better implementation. [Roy Fielding]
3639 Changes with Apache 1.3.7 [not released]
3641 *) The "Vary" response header field is now sanitised right before
3642 the header is sent back to the client. Multiple "Vary" fields
3643 are combined, and duplicate tokens (e.g., "Vary: host, host" or
3644 "Vary: host, negotiate, host, accept-language") are reduced to
3645 single instances. This is a better solution than the force-no-vary
3646 one (which is still valid for clients that can't cope with Vary
3647 at all). PR#3118 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Ken Coar]
3649 *) Portability changes for BeOS. [David Reid abb37@dial.pipex.com]
3651 *) Link DSO's with "gcc -shared" instead of "ld -Bshareable" at
3652 least on Linux and FreeBSD for now.
3655 *) Win32: More apache -k restart work. Restarts are now honored
3656 immediately and connections in the listen queue are -not- lost.
3657 This is made possible by the use of the WSADuplicateSocket()
3658 call. The listeners are opened in the parent, duplicated, then
3659 the duplicates are passed to the child. The original listen sockets
3660 are not closed by the parent across a restart, thus the listen queue
3662 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3664 *) Fix handling of case when a client has sent "Expect: 100-continue"
3665 and we are going to respond with an error, but get stuck waiting to
3666 discard the body in the pointless hope of preserving the connection.
3667 [Roy Fielding, Joe Orton <jeo101@york.ac.uk>] PR#4499, PR#3806
3669 *) Fix 'configure' to work correctly with SysV-based versions of
3670 'tr' (consistent with Configure's use as well). [Jim Jagielski]
3672 *) apxs: Add "-S var=val" option which allows for override of CFG_*
3673 built-in values. Add "-e" option which works like -i but doesn't
3674 install the DSO; useful for editing httpd.conf with apxs. Fix
3675 editing code so that multiple invocations of apxs -a will not
3676 create duplicate LoadModule/AddModule entries; apxs can now be
3677 used to re- enable/disable a module. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
3679 *) Win32: Update the server to use Winsock 2. Specifically, link with
3680 ws2_32.lib rather than wsock32.lib. This gives us access to
3681 WSADuplcateSocket() in addition to some other enhanced comm APIs.
3682 Win 95 users may need to update their TCP/IP stack to pick up
3683 Winsock 2. (See http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/)
3684 [Bill Stoddard stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com]
3686 *) Win32: Redirect CGI script stderr (script debug info) into the
3687 error.log when CGI scripts fail. This makes Apache on Win32
3688 behave more like Unix.
3689 [Bill Stoddard stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com]
3691 *) Fixed `httpd' usage display: -D was missing.
3692 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4614
3694 *) Fix `make r' test procedure in src/regex/: ap_isprint was not found.
3695 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4561, PR#4562
3697 *) OS/2: Fix problem with accept lock semaphores where server would die with
3698 "OS2SEM: Error 105 getting accept lock. Exiting!"
3699 [Brian Havard] PR#4505
3701 *) Add DSO support for DGUX 4.x using gcc. Tested on x86 platforms.
3702 [Randy Terbush <randy@covalent.net>]
3704 *) Add the new mass-vhost module (mod_vhost_alias.c) developed and
3705 used by Demon Internet, Ltd. [Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net>]
3707 *) Better GCC detection for DSO flags under Solaris 2 where the `cc'
3708 command potentially _is_ GCC. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3710 *) Fix apxs build issues on AIX
3711 [Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3713 *) DocumentRoot Checking: Under previous versions, when Apache
3714 first started up, it used to do a stat of each DocumentRoot to
3715 see if it existed and was a directory. If not, then an error
3716 message was printed. THIS HAS BEEN DISABLED. If DocumentRoot
3717 does not exist, you will get error messages in error_log. If
3718 the '-t' command line option is used (to check the configuration)
3719 the check of DocumentRoot IS performed. An additional command
3720 line option, '-T', has been added if you want to avoid the
3721 DocumentRoot check even when checking the configuration.
3724 *) Win32: The query switch "apache -S" didn't exit after showing the
3725 vhost settings. That was inconsistent with the other query functions.
3726 [Bill Stoddard - Fixed by Martin on Unix in 1.3.4]
3728 *) Win32: Changed behaviour of apache -k restart.
3729 Previously, the server would drain all connections in the stack's
3730 listen queue before honoring the restart. On a busy server, this
3731 could take hours. Now, a restart is honored almost immediately.
3732 All connections in Apache's queues are handled but connections in
3733 the stack's listen queue are discarded. Restart triggered by
3734 MaxRequestPerChild is unchanged.
3735 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3737 *) Win32: Eliminated unnecessary call to wait_for_multiple_objects in
3738 the accept loop. Good for a 5% performance boost. Cleaned up
3739 parent/child process management code.
3740 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3742 *) Added ceiling on file size for memory mapped files.
3743 [John Giannandrea <jg@meer.net>] PR#4122
3745 *) Fix ndbm.h include problems with brain-dead glibc >= 2.1 which
3746 has ndbm.h in a non-standard db1/ subdir. PR#4431, PR#4528
3747 [Henri Gomez <gomez@slib.fr>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
3749 *) Determine AP_BYTE_ORDER for ap_config_auto.h and already
3750 use this at least for Expat. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3752 *) Allow .module files to specify libraries with Lib:.
3755 *) Allow SetEnvIf[NoCase] to test environment variables as well
3756 as header fields and request attributes. [Ken Coar]
3758 *) Fix mod_autoindex's handling of ScanHTMLTitles when file
3759 content-types are "text/html;parameters". PR#4524 [Ken Coar]
3761 *) Remove "mxb" support from mod_negotiation -- it was a draft feature
3762 never accepted into any standard, and it opens up certain DoS
3763 attacks. [Koen Holtman <Koen.Holtman@cern.ch>]
3765 *) TestCompile updated. We can now run programs and output the
3766 results during the Configure process. [ Jim Jagielski]
3768 *) The source is now quad (long long) aware as needed. Specifically,
3769 the Configure process determines the correct size of off_t and
3770 *void. When the OS/platform/compiler supports quads, ap_snprintf()
3771 provides for the 'q' format qualifier (if quads are not available,
3772 'q' is silently "demoted" to long). [Jim Jagielski]
3774 *) When the username or password fed to htpasswd is too long, include the
3775 size limit in the error message. Also report illegal characters
3776 (currently only ':') in the username. Add the size restrictions
3777 to the man page. [Ken Coar]
3779 *) Fixed the configure --without-support option so it doesn't result in
3780 an infinite loop. [Marc Slemko]
3782 *) Piped error logs could cause a segfault if an error occured
3783 during configuration after a restart.
3784 [Aidan Cully <aidan@panix.com>] PR#4456
3786 *) If a "Location" field was stored in r->err_headers_out rather
3787 than r->headers_out, redirect processing wouldn't find it and
3788 the server would core dump on ap_escape_html(NULL). Check both
3789 tables and raise HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR with a log message
3790 if Location isn't set. [Doug MacEachern, Ken Coar]
3792 *) Add RULE_EXPAT, the src/lib/ directory structure, and a modified copy
3793 of the Expat 1.0.2 distribution. [Greg Stein]
3795 *) Replace regexec() calls with calls to a new API stub function
3796 ap_regexec(). This solves problems with DSO modules which use the regex
3797 library. [Jens-Uwe Mager <jum@helios.de>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
3799 *) Add 'Request_Protocol' special keyword to mod_setenvif so that
3800 environment variables can be set according to the protocol version
3801 (e.g., HTTP/0.9 or HTTP/1.1) of the request. [Ken Coar]
3803 *) Add DSO support for OpenStep (Mach 4.2) platform.
3804 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>] PR#3997
3806 *) Fix sed regex for generating ap_config_auto.h in src/Configure.
3807 [Jan Gallo <gallo@pvt.sk>] PR#3690, PR#4373
3809 *) Switch to /bin/sh5 in APACI on Ultrix and friends to avoid problems with
3810 their brain-dead /bin/sh. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4372
3812 *) Better DSO flags recognition on NetBSD platforms using ELF.
3813 [Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>] PR#4310
3815 *) Always log months in english format for %t in mod_log_config.
3816 [Petr Lampa <lampa@fee.vutbr.cz>] PR#4366, 679
3818 *) Support for server-parsed and multiview-determined ReadmeName and
3819 HeaderName files in mod_autoindex. Removed the restriction on
3820 "/"s in ReadmeName and HeaderName directives since the *sub_req*
3821 routines will deal with the access issues. (It's now possible to
3822 have {site|group|project|customer|...} wide readmes and headers.)
3823 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx@rsbx.net>, Ken Coar] PR#1574, 3026, 3529,
3826 *) When stat() fails, don't assume anything about the contents of
3827 the struct stat. [Ed Korthof <ed@bitmechanic.com>]
3829 *) It's OK for a semop to return EINTR, just loop around and try
3830 again. [Dean Gaudet]
3832 *) Fix configuration engine re-entrant hangups, which solve a
3833 handful of problems seen with mod_perl <Perl> configuration sections
3834 [Salvador Ortiz Garcia <sog@msg.com.mx>]
3836 *) Mac OS and Mac OS X Server now use the appropriate custom layout
3837 by default when building with APACI; allow for platform-specific
3838 variable defaults in configure. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
3840 *) Do setgid() before initgroups() in http_main; some platforms
3841 zap the grouplist when setgid() is called. This was fixed in
3842 suexec earlier, but the main httpd code missed the change.
3843 [Rob Saccoccio <robs@InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2579
3845 *) Add recognition of .tgz as a gzipped tarchive.
3846 [Bertrand de Singly <bertrand.de-singly@polytechnique.fr>] PR#2364
3848 *) mod_include's fsize/flastmod should allow only relative paths, just
3849 like "include file". [Jaroslav Benkovsky <benkovsk@pha.pvt.cz>]
3851 *) OS/2: Add support for building loadable modules using DLLs.
3854 *) Add iconsdir, htdocsdir, and cgidir to config.layout.
3857 *) Fix minor but annoying bug with the test for Configuration.tmpl
3858 being newer than Configuration so that it is less likely to fail
3859 when using APACI and shadow sources. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
3861 *) PORT: Add initial support for Mac OS (versions 10.0 and
3862 greater). Use Mac OS X Server layout for now. Clean up dyld code
3863 in unix/os.c, and don't install the dyld error handlers, which
3864 are no longer needed in Mac OS. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
3866 *) Rename Rhapsody layout to "Mac OS X Server". Change install
3867 locations to appropriate ones for user-built (as opposed to
3868 system) installs. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
3870 *) Modify mod_autoindex's handling of AddDescription so that the
3871 behaviour matches the documentation. [Ken Coar] PR#1898, 3072.
3873 *) Add functionality to the install-bindist.sh script created by
3874 binbuild.sh to use tar when copying distribution files to the
3875 serverroot. This allows upgrading an existing installation
3876 without nesting the new distribution in the old.
3878 install-bindist.sh now detects the local perl5 path to install
3879 apxs and dbmmanage with proper path to perl interpreter.
3881 Add an install-binsupport target which copies the source files
3882 for apxs and dbmmanage to bindist to allow these scripts to
3883 be properly installed relative to the destination serverroot.
3884 [Randy Terbush, Covalent Technologies, randy@covalent.net]
3886 *) Fix intermittent SEGV in ap_proxy_cache_error() in
3887 src/modules/proxy_util.c where a NULL filepointer and
3888 temporary filename were closed and unlinked.
3889 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>,
3890 Tim Costello <tjcostel@socs.uts.edu.au>] PR#3178
3892 *) Fix inconsistent error messages reported by mod_proxy.
3893 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>]
3895 *) OS/2: Fix terminating CGIs that aren't compiled by EMX GCC when a
3896 connection is aborted. [Brian Havard]
3898 *) Force the LANG envariable to the known state of "C" so that we
3899 have assurance about how string manipulators (e.g., tr) will
3900 function. [Ken Coar] PR#1630
3902 *) Add a directive to allow customising of the tracking cookie name.
3903 [Ken Coar] PR#2921, 4303
3905 *) Add "force-no-vary" envariable to allow servers to work around
3906 clients that choke on "Vary" fields in the response header.
3907 [Ken Coar, Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@zippy.machaon.ru>] PR#4118
3909 *) Fixed a bug in mod_dir that causes a child process will infinitely
3910 recurse when it attemps to handle a request for a directory wnd the
3911 value of the DirectoryIndex directive is a single dot. Also likely
3912 to happen for anyother values of DirectoryIndex that will map back
3913 to the same directory. The handler now only considers regular files
3914 as being index candidates. No PR#s found.
3915 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx@rsbx.net>]
3917 *) Ease configuration debugging by making TestCompile fall back to
3918 using "make" if the $MAKE variable is unset [Martin Kraemer]
3920 *) Fixed the ServerSignature directive to work as documented.
3921 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx@rsbx.net>] PR#4248
3923 *) Add "opt" (SysV-style) layout to config.layout. [Raymond S Brand
3926 *) Add APACI --without-execstrip option which can be used to disable the
3927 stripping of executables on installation. This is very important for DSO
3928 and debugging situations. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3930 *) Add support for OS/2 (case insenstive filesystem, .exe suffix, etc)
3931 to APACI files and related scripts.
3932 [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4269
3934 *) Add support for standalone mode in TPF
3935 [Joe Moenich <moenich@us.ibm.com>]
3937 *) Fix number of bytes copied by read_connection() in src/support/ab.c
3938 [Jim Cox <jc@superlink.net>] PR#4271
3940 *) Fix special RewriteCond "-s" pattern matching.
3941 [Bob Finch <bob@nas.com>]
3943 *) Fix value quoting in src/Configure script for ap_config_auto.h
3944 [Paul Sutton <paul@awe.com>]
3946 *) Make sure RewriteLock can be used only in the global context, (i.e.
3947 outside of any <VirtualHost> sections) because it's a global facility of
3948 the rewrite engine. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3950 *) Fix the ownership delegation for proxy directory under `make install'.
3951 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3953 *) APACI would not correctly build suexec. [Maria Verina
3954 <mariav@icgeb.trieste.it>] PR#4260
3956 *) mod_mime_magic passed only the first 4k of a file to
3957 uncompress/gzip, but those tools sometimes do not produce
3958 any output unless a sufficient portion of the compressed
3959 file is input. Change to pass the entire file -- but
3960 only read 4k of output.
3961 [Marcin Cieslak <saper@system.pl>] PR#4097
3963 *) "IndexOptions None" generated extra spaces at the end of each
3964 line. [inkling@firstnethou.com] PR#3770
3966 *) The "100 Continue" response wasn't being sent after internal
3967 redirects. [Jose KAHAN <kahan@w3.org>] PR#3910, 3806, 3575
3969 *) When padding the name with spaces for display, mod_autoindex would
3970 count &, <, and > in their escaped width, messing up the display.
3971 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4075, 3758
3973 *) PORT: fixed a compilation problem on NEXT.
3974 [Jacques Distler <distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu>] PR#4130
3976 *) r->request_time wasn't being set properly in certain error conditions.
3977 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4156
3979 *) PORT: deal with UTS compiler error in http_protocol.c
3980 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#4189
3982 *) Add ap_vrprintf() function. [John Tobey <jtobey@banta-im.com>] PR#4246
3984 *) Fix the mod_mime hash table to work properly with locales other
3985 than C. [Dean Gaudet] PR#3427
3987 *) Fix a memory leak which is exacerbated by certain configurations.
3988 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4225
3990 *) Prevent clobbering saved IFS values in APACI. [Jim Jagielski]
3992 *) Fix buffer overflows in ap_uuencode and ap_uudecode pointed out
3993 by "Peter 'Luna' Altberg <peter@altberg.nu>" and PR#3422
3994 [Peter 'Luna' Altberg <peter@altberg.nu>, Ronald Tschalär]
3996 *) Make {Set,Unset,Pass}Env per-directory instead of per-server.
3999 *) Correct an apparent typo: on the Windows and MPE platforms, the
4000 htpasswd utility was limiting passwords to only 8 characters.
4003 *) EBCDIC platforms: David submitted patches for two bugs in the
4004 MD5 digest port for EBCDIC machines:
4005 a) the htdigest utility overwrote the old contents of the digest file
4006 b) the Content-MD5 header value (ContentDigest directive) was wrong
4007 when the returned file was not converted from EBCDIC, but was a
4008 binary (e.g., image file) in the first place.
4009 [David McCreedy <mccreedy@us.ibm.com>]
4011 *) support/htpasswd now permits the password to be specified on the
4012 command line with the '-b' switch. This is useful when passwords
4013 need to be maintained by scripts -- particularly in the Win32
4014 environment. [Ken Coar]
4016 *) Win32: Win32 multiple services patch. Added capability to install and
4017 run multiple copies of apache as individual services.
4020 apache -n apache1 -i -f c:/httpd.conf
4021 Installs apache as service 'apache1' and associates c:/httpd.conf
4024 Starts apache1 service.
4026 Stops apache1 service
4029 apache -n apache2 -i
4030 Installs apache as service 'apache2'. httpd.conf is located under
4031 the default server root (/apache/conf/httpd.conf).
4033 Starts apache2 service.
4036 apache -n apache3 -i -d c:/program files/apache
4037 Install apache as service 'apache3' and sets server root to
4038 c:/program files/apache.
4041 apache -n apache2 -k restart
4042 Restart apache2 service
4044 [Keith Wannamaker, Ken Parzygnat, Bill Stoddard]
4046 *) Correct the signed/unsigned character handling for the MD5 routines;
4047 mismatches were causing compilation problems with gcc -pedantic and
4048 in the TPF cross-compilation. [Ken Coar]
4050 *) OS/2: Rework CGI handling to use spawn*() instead of fork/exec, achieving
4051 a roughly 5 fold speed up. [Brian Havard]
4053 *) proxy ftp: instead of using the hardwired string "text/plain" as
4054 a fallback type for files served by the ftp proxy, use the
4055 ap_default_type() function to determine the configured type.
4056 This allows for special configurations like
4057 <Directory proxy:ftp://some.host>
4058 DefaultType gargle/blurb
4060 Additionally, add the Content-Encoding: header to FTP proxy replies
4061 when the encoding is defined (by the AddEncoding directive).
4062 Because it was missing, it was almost impossible to browse compressed
4063 files using the FTP proxy (works now perfectly in Communicator).
4064 The ftp proxy now also returns the Date: and Server: header lines (if not
4065 much else... This code is "somewhat" broken) like normal requests do.
4068 *) Be more smart in APACI's configure script when determining the UID/GID
4069 for User/Group directives and use the determined UID/GID to initialize
4070 the permissions on the proxycachedir.
4071 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Ralf S. Engelschall]
4073 *) Changed the forking-prior-to-cleanup in the proxy module to first
4074 check wether it actually needs to collect garbage. This reduces
4075 the number of fork()s from one/request to just the odd one an hour.
4076 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
4078 *) Added proxy, auth and header support to src/support/ab.c. Added a
4079 README file to src/support/
4080 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
4082 *) Don't hard-code the path to AWK in --shadow bootstrapping Makefile.
4083 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4050
4085 *) Add support for DSO module compilation on BSD/OS 3.x.
4086 [Randy Terbush, Covalent Technologies]
4088 *) Fix sed-substitutions in `make install': path elements like `httpd/conf'
4089 (for instance from an APACI configure --sysconfdir=/etc/httpd/conf
4090 option) were substituted with $(TARGET).conf, etc. Same for other strings
4091 with dots where the dot wasn't matched as plain text.
4092 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4094 *) PORT: Add support for FreeBSD 4.x [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4096 *) Fix verbose output of APACI configure (option -v)
4097 [Martin Kraemer, Ralf S. Engelschall]
4099 Changes with Apache 1.3.6
4101 *) Removed new PassAllEnv code due to DSO problems. [Lars Eilebrecht]
4103 Changes with Apache 1.3.5 [not released]
4105 *) M_INVALID needed a value within the scope of METHODS so that unknown
4106 methods can be access controlled. [Roy Fielding] PR#3821
4108 *) Added PassAllEnv; makes server's entire environment available
4109 to CGIs and SSIs executed within directive's scope. [Ken Coar]
4111 *) ap_uuencode() always added two trailing '='s and encoding of
4112 8 bit characters on a machine with signed char may produced
4113 incorrect results. Additionally ap_uuencode() should now
4114 work correctly on EBCDIC platforms.
4115 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald@innovation.ch>] PR#3411
4117 *) WIN32: Binary installer now runs the configuration DLL before
4118 the reboot prompt (which is only given if MSVCRT.DLL system
4119 DLL is new or updated). This should avoid the configuration
4120 directory being empty after installation. [Paul Sutton]
4121 PR#3767, 3800, 3827, 3850, 3900, 3953, 3988
4123 *) WIN32: Binary installer now creates Start menu options to start
4124 and stop Apache as a console application and to uninstall
4125 the Apache service on NT. [Paul Sutton] PR#3741
4127 *) WIN32: Apache.exe now contains an icon. [Paul Sutton]
4129 *) PORT: Switch back to using fcntl() locking on Linux -- instabilities
4130 have been reported with flock() locking (probably related to kernel
4131 version). [Dean Gaudet] PR#2723, 3531
4133 *) Using APACI, the main config file (usually httpd.conf) was
4134 not being adjusted as $(TARGET).conf. [Wilfredo Sanchez
4135 <wsanchez@apple.com>]
4137 *) PORT: AIX does not require the SHARED_CODE "hack"
4138 [Ryan Bloom <rbb@raleigh.ibm.com>]
4140 *) Set-Cookie headers were being doubled up for some CGIs by the O(n^2)
4141 avoidance code added in 1.3.3.
4142 [Dean Gaudet, Jeff Lewis <lewis@stanford.edu>] PR#3872
4144 *) ap_isxdigit was somehow neglected when adding the ap_isfoo() macros
4145 for 8-bit safeness. [Dean Gaudet]
4147 *) PORT: Use -fPIC instead of -fpic on Solaris and SunOS for compiling DSOs
4148 because SPARCs have a small machine-specific maximum size for the Global
4149 Offset Table which is often exceeded when compiling one of the larger
4150 third-party modules with Apache. [Peter Urban <Peter.Urban@epfl.ch>] PR#3977
4152 *) Move the directive `ExtendedStatus' in httpd.conf-dist-win _after_ the
4153 DSO/DLL section because it's a directive from mod_status and isn't
4154 available before the DLL of mod_status is loaded.
4155 [Martin POESCHL <mpoeschl@gmx.net>] PR#3936
4157 *) SECURITY: Fix a bug in the calculation of the buffer size for the line
4158 continuation facility in Apache's configuration files which could
4159 lead to a buffer overflow situation.
4160 [Thomas Devanneaux <Thomas.Devanneaux@enst.fr>] PR#3617
4162 *) Make documentation and error messages of APACI's --activate-module=FILE
4163 option more clear. [Jan Wolter <janc@wwnet.net>] PR#3995
4165 *) Fix the gcc version check (for enabling the `inline' facility) to
4166 really support all future gcc versions >= 2.7 until we know more.
4167 [John Tobey <jtobey@banta-im.com>] PR#3983
4169 *) Let APACI's configure script correctly complain for unknown --enable-XXX
4170 and --disable-XXX options. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3958
4172 *) Link the shared core bootstrap program (``Rule SHARED_CORE=yes'') also
4173 against libap.a and use its ap_snprintf() instead of sprintf() to avoid
4174 possible buffer overflows. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4176 *) Remove no longer used non-API function ap_single_module_init().
4177 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4179 *) Add Apple's Mac OS X Server Layout "Rhapsody" to config.layout.
4182 *) Add cgidir, htdocsdir, iconsdir variables to Makefile.tmpl in order
4183 to make platform installations easier. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
4185 *) In configure, do not append the target name to the directory path if
4186 the path already contains "apache". [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4188 *) SIGPIPE is now ignored by the server core. The request write routines
4189 (ap_rputc, ap_rputs, ap_rvputs, ap_rwrite, ap_rprintf, ap_rflush) now
4190 correctly check for output errors and mark the connection as aborted.
4191 Replaced many direct (unchecked) calls to ap_b* routines with the
4192 analogous ap_r* calls. [Roy Fielding]
4194 *) Enhanced mod_rewrite's mapfile handling: The in-core cache for text and
4195 DBM format mapfiles now uses a 4-way hash table with LRU functionality.
4196 Furthermore map lookups for non-existent keys are now cached as well.
4197 Additionally "txt" maps are now parsed with simple string functions
4198 instead of using ap_pregcomp(). As a side effect a bug that prevented
4199 the usage of keys containing the "," character was fixed.
4200 The changes drastically improve the performance when large rewrite maps
4202 [Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.swb.de>, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3160
4204 *) Added ap_sub_req_method_uri() for doing a subrequest with a method
4205 other than GET, and const'd the definition of method in request_rec.
4208 *) Use proper pid_t type for saving PIDs in alloc.c. [John Bley]
4210 *) Replaced use of WIN32 define with HAVE_DRIVE_LETTERS to indicate
4211 when the OS allows a DOS drive letter within pathnames. [Brian Havard]
4213 *) Add %V to mod_log_config, this logs the hostname according to the
4214 UseCanonicalName setting (this is the pre-1.3.4 behaviour of
4215 %v). Useful for mass vhosting. [Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>]
4217 *) Add support for \n and \t to mod_log_config, can be used to produce
4218 more reliable logs with multiline entries. [Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>]
4220 *) Fixed a few compiler nits. [John Bley <jbb6@acpub.duke.edu>]
4222 *) Added informative error messages for failed munmap() and fseek() calls
4223 in http_core.c. [John Bley, Roy Fielding]
4225 *) Added some informative error messages for some failed malloc()
4226 calls. [John Bley <jbb6@acpub.duke.edu>, Jim Jagielski]
4228 *) OS/2 ap_os_canonical_filename()'s behaviour is improved: ap_assert()
4229 is removed. This allows <Directory proxy:*> directives to work and
4230 prevents invalid requests from killing the process.
4231 [Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
4233 *) Reorganised FAQ document.
4234 [Joshua Slive <slive@finance.commerce.ubc.ca>] PR#2497
4236 *) src/support/: The ApacheBench benchmark program was overhauled by
4237 David N. Welton: you can now have it generate an HTML TABLE, presumably
4238 for integration into other HTML sources. David updated the ab man page
4239 as well and added some missing descriptions. Thanks!
4240 [David N. Welton <davidw@prosa.it>]
4242 *) Win32: The filename validity checker now allows filenames containing
4243 characters in the range 0x80 to 0xff (for example accented characters).
4244 [Paul Sutton] PR#3890
4246 *) Added conditional logging based upon environment variables to
4247 mod_log_config. mod_log_referer and mod_log_agent
4248 are now deprecated. [Ken Coar]
4250 *) Allow apache acting as a proxy server to relay the real
4251 reason of a failure to a client rather than the "internal
4252 server error" it does currently. The general exposure mechanism
4253 can be triggered by any module by setting the "verbose-error-to"
4254 note to "*"; this allows more than just proxy errors to be exposed.
4255 [Cliff Skolnick, Roy Fielding, Martin Kraemer] Related to PR#3455, 4086
4257 *) Moved man pages for ab and apachectrl to section 8.
4258 [Wilfredo Sanchez, Roy Fielding]
4260 *) Added -S option to install.sh so that options can be passed to
4261 strip on some platforms. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Wilfredo Sanchez]
4263 *) Tweak modules Makefile generated by Configure so that it handles
4264 the test case of no modules being selected. [chaz@reliant.com]
4266 *) Added a <LimitExcept method ...> sectioning directive that allows
4267 the user to assign authentication control to any HTTP method that
4268 is *not* given in the argument list; i.e., the logical negation
4269 of the <Limit> directive. This is particularly useful for controlling
4270 access on methods unknown to the Apache core, but perhaps known by
4271 some module or CGI script. [Roy Fielding, Tony Finch]
4273 *) Prevent apachectl from complaining if the PIDFILE exists but
4274 does not contain a process id, as might occur if the server is
4275 being rapidly restarted. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
4277 *) Win32: Add global symbols missing from ApacheCore.def. [Carl Olsen]
4279 *) Entity tag comparisons for If-Match and If-None-Match were not being
4280 performed correctly -- weak tags might cause false positives. Also,
4281 strong comparison wasn't properly enforced in all cases.
4282 [Roy Fielding, Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet] PR#2065, 3657
4284 *) OS/2: Supply OS/2 error code instead of errno on semaphore errors.
4287 *) Work around a bug in Lynx regarding its sending "Negotiate: trans"
4288 even though it doesn't understand TCN. [Koen Holtman, Roy Fielding]
4290 *) Added ap_size_list_item(), ap_get_list_item(), and ap_find_list_item()
4291 to util.c for parsing an HTTP header field value to extract the next
4292 list item, taking into account the possible presence of nested comments,
4293 quoted-pairs, and quoted-strings. ap_get_list_item() also removes
4294 insignificant whitespace and lowercases non-quoted tokens.
4295 [Roy Fielding] PR#2065
4297 *) proxy: The various calls to ap_proxyerror() can return HTTP/1.1 status
4298 code different from 500. This allows the proxy to, e.g., return
4299 "403 Forbidden" for ProxyBlock'ed URL's. [Martin Kraemer] Related to PR#3455
4301 *) Fix ordering of language variants for the case where the traditional
4302 negotiation algorithm is being used with multiple language variants
4303 and no Accept-Language. [James Treacy <treacy@debian.org>] PR#3299, 3688
4305 *) Do not round the TCN quality calculation to 5 decimal places,
4306 unlike RFC 2296, because the calculation might need 12 decimal places
4307 to get the right result. [Roy Fielding]
4309 *) Remove unused code to disable transparent negotiation when
4310 negotiating on encoding only, as we now handle encoding too
4311 (though this is nonstandard for TCN), remove charset=ISO-8859-1
4312 fiddle from the fiddle-averse RVSA comparison, and fix bugs in
4313 some debugging statements within mod_negotiation. [Koen Holtman]
4315 *) Fixed a rare memory corruption possibility in mod_dir if the index
4316 file is negotiable and no acceptable variant can be found.
4317 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Martin Kraemer]
4319 *) Win32: Add new config directive, ScriptInterpreterSource, to enable
4320 searching the Win32 registry for script interpreters.
4323 *) Win32: The compiled-in default filename for the error log is now
4324 error.log, which matches the default in the distributed httpd.conf.
4327 *) Win32: Any error messages from -i or -u command line options are now
4328 displayed on the console output rather than sent to the error log.
4329 Also the "Running Apache..." message is not output unless Apache is
4330 going to serve requests. [Paul Sutton]
4332 *) Rework the MD5 authentication scheme to use FreeBSD's algorithm,
4333 and use a private significator ('$apr1$') to mark passwords as
4334 being smashed with our own algorithm. Also abstract the password
4335 checking into a new ap_validate_password() routine. [Ken Coar]
4337 *) Win32: The filename validity checker now allows "COM" but refuses
4338 access to "COM1" through "COM4". This allows filenames such
4339 as "com.name" to be served. [Paul Sutton] PR#3769.
4341 *) BS2000: Adapt to the new ufork() system call interface which will
4342 make subtasking easier on the OSD/POSIX mainframe environment.
4345 *) Add a compatibility define for escape_uri() -> ap_escape_uri() to
4346 ap_compat.h. [David White <david@persimmon.com>] PR#3725
4348 *) Make NDBM file suffix determination for mod_rewrite more accurate, i.e.
4349 use `.db' instead of `.pag' not only for FreeBSD, but also when
4350 the NDBM library looks like Berkeley-DB based.
4351 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3773
4353 *) Add ability to handle DES or MD5 authentication passwords.
4354 [Ryan Bloom <rbb@Raleigh.IBM.Com>]
4356 *) Fix O(n^2) memory consumption in mod_speling. [Dean Gaudet]
4358 *) SECURITY: Avoid some buffer overflow problems when escaping
4359 quoted strings. (This overflow was on the heap and we believe
4360 impossible to exploit.) [Rick Perry <perry@ece.vill.edu>]
4362 *) Let src/Configure be aware of CFLAGS options starting with plus
4363 signs as it's the case for the HP/UX compiler.
4364 [Doug Yatcilla <yatcilda@umdnj.edu>] PR#3681
4366 *) Remove the hard-wire of TAR=tar (we now check for gtar and gnutar first)
4367 and check to see if the tar we wind up with supports '-h'.
4368 [Jim Jagielski] PR#3671
4370 *) A consistent and conservative style for all shell scripts has been
4371 implemented. Basically, all shell string tests use the traditional
4372 hack of 'if [ "x$var" != "x" ]' or 'if [ "x$var" = "xstring" ]'
4373 to protect against bare null variable strings (ie: wrapping both
4374 sides with double quotes and prepending 'x'). 'x' was chosen
4375 because it's more universal and hopefully easier for old shell
4376 prgrammers, as well as being easier to search for in 'vi' (/x\$) :)
4379 *) The status module now prints out both the main server generation as
4380 well as the generation of each process. Also, the vhost info is
4381 printed with '?notable'. [Jim Jagielski]
4383 *) Move src/main/md5c.c to src/ap/ap_md5c.c; it's httpd-neutral
4384 and this makes its functions available to things in src/support.
4387 Changes with Apache 1.3.4
4389 *) Renamed macros status_drops_connection to ap_status_drops_connection
4390 and vestigial scan_script_header to ap_scan_script_header_err,
4391 mostly for aesthetic reasons. [Roy Fielding]
4393 *) The query switch "httpd -S" didn't exit after showing the
4394 vhost settings. That was inconsistent with the other query functions.
4397 *) Moved the MODULE_MAGIC_COOKIE from before the versions and
4398 filename to the end of the STANDARD_MODULE_STUFF. Its
4399 presence at the beginning prevented reporting of the filename
4400 for modules compiled before 1 January 1999. [Ken Coar]
4402 *) SECURITY: ap_os_is_filename_valid() has been added to Win32
4403 to detect and prevent access to special DOS device file names.
4404 [Paul Sutton, Ken Parzygnat]
4406 *) WIN32: Created new makefiles Makefile_win32.txt (normal build)
4407 and Makefile_win32_debug.txt (debug build) that work on Win95.
4408 Run each of the following from the src directory:
4409 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt # compiles normal build
4410 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt install # compiles and installs
4411 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt clean # removes compiled junk
4412 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt # compiles debug build
4413 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt install
4414 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt clean
4417 *) Added binbuild.sh and findprg.sh helpers to make it easier for us
4418 to build binary distributions. [Lars Eilebrecht]
4420 *) IndexOptions SuppressColumnSorting only turned off making
4421 the column headers anchors; you could still change the display
4422 order by manually adding a '?N=A' or similar query string to the
4423 URL. Now SuppressColumnSorting locks in the sort order so
4424 it can't be overridden this way. [Ken Coar]
4426 *) Added IndexOrderDefault directive to supply a default sort order
4427 for FancyIndexed directory listings. [Ken Coar] PR#1699
4429 *) Change the ap_assert macro to a variant that works on all platforms.
4430 [Richard Prinz <richard.prinz@cso.net>] PR#2575
4432 *) Make sure under ELF-based NetBSD (now) and OpenBSD (future) we don't
4433 search for an underscore on dlsym() (as it's already the case
4434 for FreeBSD 3.0). [Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>] PR#2462
4436 *) Small fix for mod_env.html: The module was documented as to be _not_
4437 compiled into Apache per default, although it _IS_ compiled into
4438 Apache per default. [Sim Harbert <sim@mindspring.com>] PR#3572
4440 *) Instead of fixing a bug in the generation procedure for config.status (a
4441 backslash was missing) we remove the bug together with it's complete
4442 context because the special cases of the past can now no longer occur
4443 because of the recent magic for the --with-layout default.
4444 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3590
4446 *) Make top-level Makefile aware of a parallel build procedures (make -j) by
4447 making sure the src/support/ tools are _forced_ to be build last (they
4448 depend on other libraries).
4449 [Markus Theissinger <markus.theissinger@gmx.de>]
4451 *) Fix installation procedure: Now that os-inline.c is actually used (a
4452 recently fixed bug prevented this) we need to also install os-include.c
4453 in addition to os.h into the PREFIX/include/ location or building of
4454 module DSOs with APXS fails. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3527
4456 *) Added MODULE_MAGIC_COOKIE as the first field in a module structure to
4457 allow us to distinguish between a garbled DSO (or even a file which isn't
4458 an Apache module DSO at all) and a DSO which doesn't match the current
4459 Apache API. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3152
4461 *) Two minor enhancements to mod_rewrite: First RewriteRule now also
4462 supports the ``nocase|NC'' flag (as RewriteCond already does for ages) to
4463 match case insensitive (this especially avoids nasty patterns like
4464 `[tT][eE][sS][tT]'). Second two additional internal map functions
4465 `escape' and `unescape' were added which can be used to escape/unescape
4466 to/from hex-encodings in URLs parts (this is especially useful in
4467 combination with map lookups).
4468 [Magnus Bodin, Ian Kallen, Ralf S. Engelschall]
4470 *) Renamed the macro escape_uri() to ap_escape_uri() which was
4471 forgotten (because it was a macro) in the symbol renaming process.
4472 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4474 *) Fix some inconsistencies related to the scopes of directives. The only
4475 user visible change is that the directives `UseCanonicalName' and
4476 `ContentDigest' now use the (more correct) `Options' scope instead of
4477 (less correct) `AuthConfig' scope. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4479 *) Using DSO, the Server token was being mangled. Specifically, the
4480 module's token was being added first before the Apache token. This
4481 has been fixed. [Jim Jagielski]
4483 *) Major overhaul of mod_negotiation.c, part 2.
4484 - properly handle "identity" within Accept-Encoding.
4485 - allow encoded variants in RVSA negotiation and let them appear in
4486 the Alternates field using the non-standard "encoding" tag-list.
4487 - fixed both negotiation algorithms so that an explicitly accepted
4488 encoding is preferred over no encoding if "identity" is not
4489 included within Accept-Encoding.
4490 - added ap_array_pstrcat() to alloc.c for efficient concatenation
4491 of large substring sequences.
4492 - replaced O(n^2) memory hogs in mod_negotiation with ap_array_pstrcat.
4495 *) Major overhaul of mod_negotiation.c, part 1.
4496 - cleanups to mod_negotiation comments and code structure
4497 - made compliant with HTTP/1.1 proposed standard (rfc2068) and added
4498 support for everything in the upcoming HTTP/1.1
4499 revision (draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-06.txt).
4500 - language tag matching also handles tags with more than 2
4502 - empty Accept, Accept-Language, Accept-Charset headers are
4503 processed correctly; previously an empty header would make all
4504 values acceptable instead of unacceptable.
4505 - allowed for q values in Accept-Encoding
4506 - added support for transparent content negotiation (rfc2295 and
4507 rfc2296) (though we do not implement all features in these drafts,
4508 e.g. no feature negotiation). Removed old experimental version.
4509 - implemented 'structured entity tags' for better cache correctness
4510 (structured entity tags ensure that caches which can deal with Vary
4511 will (eventually) be updated if the set of variants on the server
4513 - this involved adding a vlist_validator element to request_rec
4514 - this involved adding the ap_make_etag() function to the global API
4515 - modified guessing of charsets used by Apache negotiation algorithm
4516 to guess 'no charset' if the variant is not a text/* type
4517 - added code to sort multiviews variants into a canonical order so that
4518 negotiation results are consistent across backup/restores and mirrors
4519 - removed possibility of a type map file resolving to another type map
4520 file as its best variant
4521 [Koen Holtman, Roy Fielding, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3451, 3299, 1987
4523 *) RFC2396 allows the syntax http://host:/path (with no port number)
4524 but the proxy disallowed it (ap_proxy_canon_netloc()).
4525 [David Kristol <dmk@bell-labs.com>] PR#3530
4527 *) When modules update/modify the file name in the configfile_t structure,
4528 syntax errors will report the updated name, not the original one.
4529 [Fabien Coelho <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>] PR#3573
4531 *) Correct some filename case assumptions from WIN32 to
4532 CASE_BLIND_FILESYSTEM. [Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
4534 *) For %v log ServerName regardless of the UseCanonicalName
4535 setting (similarly for %p). [Dean Gaudet]
4537 *) Configure was initializing the variables $OSDIR, $INCDIR and $SHELL
4538 rather late (too late for some invocations of TestCompile).
4539 This improves the make environment available to TestCompile and
4540 the *.module scripts. [Martin Kraemer]
4542 *) The hashbang emulation code in ap_execve.c would interpret
4543 #!/hashbang/scripts correctly, but failed to fall back to a
4544 standard shell for scripts which did NOT start with #!
4545 Now SHELL_PATH is started in these cases. [Martin Kraemer]
4547 *) PORT: Added the Cyberguard V2 port [Richard Stagg <stagg@lentil.org>]
4550 *) Update APXS manual page: some -q option arguments were missing
4551 and another was incorrect. [Mark Anderson <mda@discerning.com>] PR#3553
4553 *) Cleanup the command line options: `-?' was documented to show
4554 the usage list but does it with an error because `?' is not a valid
4555 command. OTOH a lot of users expect `-h' to print such a usage list and
4556 instead are annoyed for ages by our huge unreadable list of directives.
4557 So we now changed the command line options this way:
4559 Intent: we need `-L' to be free, and `-R' for the DSO run-time path is
4560 very similar to the popular linker option.
4562 Intent: while -l gives the small list of modules, -L now gives the
4563 large list of directives implemented by these modules. This is also
4564 consistent with -v (short version info) and -V (large version info).
4566 Intent: it's now the expected option ;-)
4567 The manual page was adjusted accordingly.
4568 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2714
4570 *) Fixed problem of fclose() on an unopened file in suexec if LOG_EXEC
4571 wasn't defined. [Rick Franchuk <rickf@transpect.net>]
4573 *) Removed recently introduced bugs and disfigurements in APACI:
4574 o fixed argument line processing: using $args was broken: It was not
4575 initialized and using args="$args $apc_option" and even args="$args
4576 \"$apc_option\"" fails in the second processing round for any arguments
4577 containing whitespaces. The only correct way is to use the construct
4578 "$@" (but not possible here) or iterate _both_ times over the implicit
4579 argument line (no argument to for-loop) which is what we now use.
4580 o make --with-layout=Apache the default without creating
4581 redundancy (copying the --with-layout block in the argument parsing
4582 loop). We achieve this by using the "$@" construct together with the
4583 `set' command to prepend --with-layout=Apache to the command line in
4584 case --with-layout is not used.
4585 o fixed auto-suffix handling now that config.layout exists.
4586 Paths which are auto-suffixed are marked with a trailing plus sign in
4587 config.layout and every path now can be marked this way (not only the
4588 four paths for which we do it currently). Additionally the suffix is
4589 no longer a static one. Instead it's now `/<target>' where <target> is
4590 the argument of the --target option or per default `httpd'.
4591 o allow also tabs (and only spaces) where we match whitespaces
4592 o various fixes and cleanups related to used shell coding style
4593 o made Jim happy by replacing `Written by' with `Initially written by' ;-)
4594 o trimmed output of --help to fit into 80 columns
4595 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4597 *) Added two new core API functions, ap_single_module_configure() and
4598 ap_single_module_init(), which are now used by mod_so to configure a module
4599 after loading. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4601 *) PORT: Add defines for USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT and
4602 SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT to NetBSD/OpenBSD section
4603 of ap_config.h to allow serialized accept for multiport listens.
4604 [Roy Fielding, Curt Sampson] PR#3120
4606 *) PORT: Fixed a misplaced #endif for NetBSD/OpenBSD section
4607 of ap_config.h that would skip several defines if DEFAULT_GROUP
4608 was overridden. [Roy Fielding]
4610 *) PORT: The I86 version of DGUX has support for strncasecmp and
4611 strcasecmp, so allow it in ap_config.h. [Amiel Lee Yee] PR#3247
4613 *) Fix ordering of definitions in ap_config.h so that ap_inline is
4614 defined before it might be used. [Victor Khimenko]
4616 *) PORT: Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for BSDI (v4.0).
4617 [Tom Serkowski <tks@bsdi.com>] PR#3453
4619 *) Make generation of src/Configuration.apaci more robust: It failed to
4620 differenciate between modules when one module name was a postfix of
4621 another (e.g. cgi vs. fastcgi). We now check for mod_XXX, libXXX and even
4622 just XXX (think about totally non-standard names like "apache_ssl", too).
4623 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3380
4625 *) In src/Configure remove the SERVER_SUBVERSION support (already deprecated
4626 since 1.3b7) and make whitespace handling more robust (it failed horrible
4627 when whitespaces were present in the arguments of -D options).
4628 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3240
4630 *) Add APACI --shadow=DIR variant (in addition to --shadow). This now first
4631 creates an external package shadow tree in DIR before the local build
4632 shadow tree is generated under DIR. This way one can have the extracted
4633 Apache distribution tree read-only on NFS or CDROM and still build Apache
4634 from these sources. An automatically triggered VPATH-like mechanism is
4635 provided through the TOP variable, too.
4636 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
4638 *) Fix negotiation so that a Vary response header is correctly
4639 generated when, for a particular dimension, variants only vary
4640 in having or not having a value for that dimension. [Paul Sutton]
4642 *) Fix negotiation so that we prefer an encoded variant over an
4643 unencoded variant if the user-agent explicitly says it can
4644 accept that encoding. Previously we always preferred the unencoded
4646 [Paul Ausbeck <paula@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu>, Paul Sutton] PR#3447
4648 *) Fix APXS tool: query variables LIBS_SHLIB and TARGET were not recognized
4649 and the usage page was inconsistent with the functionality and manpage.
4650 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4652 *) Allow special options -Wc,xxx and -Wl,xxx on APXS compile/link command.
4653 They can occur multiple times and their arguments (`xxx') are passed AS
4654 IS to the compiler/linker command. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4656 *) Fixed possible (but harmless in practice) bug in the DBM lookup
4657 procedure of mod_rewrite: very long keys were truncated.
4658 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4660 *) Added a generic --with-layout=[FILE:]ID option. ID here is a layout
4661 identifier, currently "Apache" and "GNU" are pre-defined in the file
4662 config.layout. Custom layouts are possible by using FILE:ID as the
4663 argument where the layout ID is taken from FILE.
4665 The config.layout file consists of <Layout ID>..</Layout> sections
4666 where inside those sections "path_variable: path_value" pairs can be
4667 specified. These lines are converted to path_variable='path_value'.
4669 *) Add a DefaultLanguage directive so that files missing a language
4670 extension (e.g., .fr, .de) can be labelled as being some other
4671 default language. DefaultLanguage can appear in <Directory> and
4672 <Files> containers as well as .htaccess files. [Paul Sutton]
4675 *) Fix TARGET configuration when configuring and installing using
4676 APACI configure. TARGET now defines the basename of the configuration
4677 file, startup script, manual page, etc. log_error_core() now reports
4678 the server binary name given by argv[0]. TARGET can now also be defined
4679 with --target=TARGET parameter passed to APACI configure.
4680 [Ralf Engelschall, Randy Terbush]
4682 *) mod_include.c:handle_perl() now properly tests for OPT_INCNOEXEC
4683 rather than OPT_INCLUDES [Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>]
4685 *) ap_md5_binary() was using sprintf() rather than a table lookup
4686 to convert binary bytes to hex digits.
4687 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald@innovation.ch>] PR#3409
4689 *) Fix SEGV in TCN negotiation if no variants are acceptable.
4690 [Martin Plechsmid <plechsmi@karlin.mff.cuni.cz>] PR#1987
4692 *) API: ap_exists_config_define() function is now "public" [Doug MacEachern]
4694 *) Fix documentation of `Action' directive: It can activate a CGI script
4695 when either a handler or a MIME content type is triggered by the request.
4696 [Andrew Pimlott <pimlott@math.harvard.edu>] PR#3340
4698 *) Document the `add' command of `dbmmanage' in `dbmmanage.1' manpage.
4699 [David MacKenzie <djm@uu.net>] PR#3394
4701 *) Ignore a "ErrorDocument 401" directive with a full URL and write a
4702 notice to the error log. It is not possible to send a 401 response
4703 and a redirect at the same time. [Lars Eilebrecht]
4705 *) Fallback to native compilers for IRIX-32 platform. It seems that
4706 a gcc 2.8.1 compiled apache is logging client addresses with all
4707 bits set (255.255.255.255). This is the second such problem caused
4708 by gcc 2.8.1 compiler. The first being broken semaphore locking.
4711 *) Updated mime.types to reflect current Internet media types
4712 and include a URL to the registry.
4713 [Manoj Kasichainula, Roy Fielding] PR#2380, 2286, 2246
4715 *) SECURITY: Do a more complete check in mod_include to avoid
4716 an infinite loop of recursive SSI includes. [Marc Slemko] PR#3323
4718 *) Add APACI --suexec-docroot and --suexec-logfile options which can be
4719 used to set the document root directory (DOC_ROOT) and the suexec
4720 logfile (LOG_EXEC), respectively. Additionally the --layout option
4721 was changed to show more information about the suEXEC setup.
4722 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3316, 3357, 3361
4724 *) Added the last two WebDAV status codes of 424 (Failed Dependency)
4725 and 507 (Insufficient Storage) for use by third-party modules.
4728 *) Enabled all of the WebDAV method names for use by third-party
4729 modules, Limit, and Script directives. That includes PATCH,
4730 PROPFIND, PROPPATCH, MKCOL, COPY, MOVE, LOCK, and UNLOCK.
4731 Improved mod_actions.c so that it can use any of the methods
4732 defined in httpd.h. Added ap_method_number_of(method) for
4733 getting the internal method number. [Roy Fielding]
4735 *) PORT: Add a port to the TPF OS. [Joe Moenich <moenich@us.ibm.com> and
4738 *) Fix problems with handling of UNC names (e.g., \\host\path)
4739 on Win32. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@us.ibm.com>]
4741 *) Rework os_canonical_*() on Win32 so it's simpler, more
4742 robust, and works. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@us.ibm.com>]
4743 PR#2555, 2915, 3064, 3232
4745 *) Work around incomplete implementation of strftime on Win32.
4746 [Manoj Kasichainula, Ken Parzygnat <kparz@us.ibm.com>]
4748 *) Move a typedef to fix compile problems on Linux with 1.x kernels.
4749 [Manoj Kasichainula] PR#3177
4751 *) PORT: Add a port to the Concurrent PowerMAX OS. [Tom Horsley
4752 <Tom.Horsley@mail.ccur.com>]
4754 *) WIN32: Log more explicit error messages if spawning an interpreted
4755 script failed, including the command line used to attempt to execute
4756 the interpreter and the Win32 error code returned. [Marc Slemko]
4758 *) Disable sending of error-notes on a 500 (Internal Server Error) response
4759 since it often includes file path info. Enable sending of error-notes
4760 on a 501 (Method Not Implemented). [Roy Fielding] PR#3173
4762 *) http_config.c would respond with 501 (Method Not Implemented) if a
4763 content type handler was specified but could not be found, which
4764 should have been a 500 response. Likewise, mod_proxy.c would responsd
4765 with a 501 if the URI scheme is unrecognized instead of the correct
4766 response of 403 (Forbidden). [Roy Fielding]
4768 *) SECURITY: Eliminate DoS attack when a bad URI path contains what
4769 looks like a printf format escape. [Marc Slemko, Studenten Net Twente]
4771 *) Fix in mod_autoindex: for files where the last modified time stamp was
4772 unavailable, an empty string was printed which was 2 bytes short.
4773 The size and description columns were therefore not aligned correctly.
4774 [Martin Kraemer] (no PR#)
4776 *) Update BS2000 OS code to work with recent versions. Starting with
4777 release A17, the child fork() must be replaced by a _rfork().
4778 (BS2000 only) [Martin Kraemer]
4780 *) Add the actual server_rec structure of the specific Vhost to the
4781 scoreboard file and avoid a string copy (as well as allow some
4782 further future enhancements). [Harrie Hazewinkel
4783 <harrie.hazewinkel@jrc.it>]
4785 *) Add APACI --permute-module=foo:bar option which can be used to
4786 on-the-fly/batch permute the order of two modules (mod_foo and mod_bar)
4787 in the Configuration[.apaci] file. Two special and important variants are
4788 supported for the option argument: first BEGIN:foo which permutes module
4789 mod_foo with the begin of the module list, i.e. it `moves' the module to
4790 the begin of the list (gives it lowest priority). And second foo:END
4791 which permutes mod_foo with the end of the module list, i.e. it `moves'
4792 the module to the end of the list (gives it highest priority).
4793 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4795 *) Fix problem with 'apache -k shutdown' and startup event
4796 synchronisation (Win32). [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>]
4799 *) The config parser wasn't correctly noticing a missing '>'
4800 on container start lines (e.g., it wouldn't spot
4801 "<Directory /" as a syntax error). [Ryan Bloom <rbbloom@us.ibm.com>]
4804 *) Add a 'RemoveHandler' directive which will selectively remove
4805 all handler associations for the specified file extensions.
4806 [Ryan Bloom <rbbloom@us.ibm.com>] PR#1799.
4808 *) Properly handle & allow "nul" and ".*/null" in AccessConfig and
4809 ResourceConfig directives on Win32. Also add a note to the effect
4810 of 'useless User directive ignored on Win32' to the errorlog if
4811 a User directive is encountered on Win32.
4812 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2078, 2303.
4814 *) Fix multiple whitespace handling in imagemaps for mod_imap which was
4815 broken since Apache 1.3.1 where we took out compressing of multiple
4816 spaces in ap_cfg_getline().
4817 [Ivan Richwalski <ivan@seppuku.net>] PR#3249
4819 *) Fix Berkeley-DB/2.x support in mod_auth_db: The data structures were not
4820 initialized correctly and the db_open() call used an invalid mode
4821 parameter. [Ron Klatchko <ron@ckm.ucsf.edu>] PR#3171
4823 *) PORT: DSO support for UnixWare 7
4824 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Ron Record <rr@sco.com>]
4826 *) Merge the contents of the {srm,access}.conf-dist* files into the
4827 httpd.conf-dist* files. The srm and access files now contain
4828 only comments, and httpd.conf has all the combined contents in
4829 a rational order. [Ken Coar]
4831 *) PORT: DSO/ELF support for FreeBSD 3.0.
4832 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Dirk Froemberg <ibex@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>]
4834 *) Add a "default-handler" handler that calls the default_hander()
4835 function which is normally called for static content. This allows
4836 you to override a specific handler. [Marc Slemko]
4838 *) Further simplify checking for absolute paths by replacing an
4839 hard-coded syntax check with a call to a routine we already created to
4840 do this. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2976, 3074
4842 *) Log an error if we encounter a malformed "require" directive
4843 in mod_auth if we know that we know that no other module can
4844 deal with it. [Marc Slemko]
4846 *) Remove ap_private_extern method of hiding conflicting symbols
4847 on the NEXT platform because it is not correct for all versions,
4848 and the versions for which it is correct are unknown.
4849 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
4851 *) Fix inheritance of IndexOptions NameWidth and remove unintended
4852 restriction on +NameWidth, +IconHeight, and +IconWidth. [Ken Coar]
4854 *) Fix per-directory config merging for cases in which a 500 error
4855 is encountered in an .htaccess file somewhere down the tree.
4858 *) Minor performance improvement to ap_escape_html(). [Roy Fielding]
4860 *) Fixed a segmentation violation in mod_proxy when a response is
4861 non-cachable. [Roy Fielding, traced by Doug Bloebaum]. PR#2950, 3056
4863 Changes with Apache 1.3.3
4865 *) Added a complete implementation of the Expect header field as
4866 specified in rev-05 of HTTP/1.1. Disabled the 100 Continue
4867 response when we already know the final status, which is mighty
4868 useful for PUT responses that result in 302 or 401. [Roy Fielding]
4870 *) Remove extra trailing whitespace from the getline results as part
4871 of the protocol processing, which is extra nice because it works
4872 between continuation lines, is almost no cost in the normal case
4873 of no extra whitespace, and saves memory. [Roy Fielding]
4875 *) Added new HTTP status codes and default response bodies from the
4876 revised HTTP/1.1 (307, 416, 417), WebDAV (102, 207, 422, 423), and
4877 HTTP Extension Framework (510) specifications. Did not add the
4878 WebDAV 424 and 425 codes because they are bogus. We don't use any
4879 of these codes yet, but they are now available to 3rd-party modules.
4882 *) Fix a possible race condition between timed-out requests and the
4883 ap_bhalfduplex select that might result in an infinite loop on
4884 platforms that do not validate the descriptor. [Roy Fielding]
4886 *) WIN32: Add "-k shutdown" and "-k restart" options to signal a
4887 running Apache server [Paul Sutton]
4889 *) Fix mod_autoindex bug where directories got a size of "0k" instead
4890 of "-". [Martin Plechsmid <plechsmi@karlin.mff.cuni.cz>, Marc Slemko]
4893 *) PORT: DRS 6000 machine. [Paul Debleecker <pdebleecker@jetair.be>]
4895 *) Add the server signature text (from the core ServerSignature directive)
4896 to the list of envariables available to scripts, SSI, and the like.
4899 *) PORT: Fix sys/resource.h handling for SCO 3.x platform.
4900 [M. Laak <maert@proinv.ee>] PR#3108
4902 *) Fallback from sysconf-based to plain HZ-based `ticks per second'
4903 calculation in mod_status for all systems which don't have POSIX
4904 sysconf() (like UTS 2.1) and not only for the NEXT platform.
4905 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#3055
4907 *) Fix `require ...' directive parsing in mod_auth, mod_auth_dbm and
4908 mod_auth_db by using ap_getword_white() (which uses ap_isspace())
4909 instead of ap_getword(..., ' ') (which parses only according to spaces
4910 but not tabs). [James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>,
4911 Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3105
4913 *) Fix the SERVER_NAME variable under sub-request situations (where
4914 `UseCanonicalName off' is used) like CGI's called from SSI pages or
4915 RewriteCond variables by adopting r->hostname to sub-requests.
4916 [James Grinter <jrg@blodwen.demon.co.uk>] PR#3111
4918 *) Fix stderr redirection under syslog-based error logging situation.
4919 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#3095
4921 *) Document `ErrorLog syslog:facility' variant of error logging.
4922 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#3096
4924 *) Fix http://localhost/ hints in top-level INSTALL document.
4925 [Rob Jenson <robjen@spotch.com>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3088
4927 *) Quote paths in default configuration files. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
4929 *) PORT: Remove extra HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H define for RHAPSODY since
4930 it is now taken care of properly by the header file tests.
4931 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
4933 *) Fix problem with scripts and filehandle inheritance on Win32.
4934 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2884, 2910
4936 *) Win32 name canonicalisation could end up using the server's
4937 working directory to fill in some blanks. [Ken Parzygnat
4938 <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#3001
4940 *) Correct invalid assumption by ap_sub_req_lookup_file() that all
4941 absolute paths begin with "/" -- because they don't on Win32.
4942 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2976, 3074
4944 *) Add [REDIRECT_]VARIANTS environment variable to mod_speling
4945 so that ErrorDocument 300 processors can reformat the list
4946 if desired. [Ken Coar] PR#2859
4948 *) Add +/- incremental prefixes to IndexOptions keywords, and
4949 enable merging of multiple IndexOptions directives. [Ken Coar]
4951 *) PORT: Allow GuessOS to recognize Unixware 7.0.1 [Steve Cameron
4952 <steve.cameron@compaq.com>]
4954 *) Reconstructed the loop through multiple htaccess file names so
4955 that missing files are not confused with unreadable files.
4958 *) The ap_pfopen and ap_pfdopen routines were failing to protect the
4959 errno on an error, which leads to one error being mistaken for
4960 another when reading non-existent .htaccess files.
4963 *) OS/2: The new header tests get things right, need to update
4964 ap_config.h. [Brian Havard]
4966 *) The Perl %ENV hash will now be setup by default when using the
4967 mod_include `perl' command [Doug MacEachern]
4969 *) PORT: Add Pyramid DC/OSx support to configuration mechanism.
4970 [Earle Ake <akee@wpdiss1.wpafb.af.mil>]
4972 *) PORT: Fix sys/resource.h handling for Amdahl's UTS 2.1
4973 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#3054
4975 *) Correct comment in mod_log_config.c about its internals.
4976 [Elf Sternberg <elf@halcyon.com>]
4978 *) Avoid possible line overflow in Configure: Use an awkfile to
4979 handle the creation of modules.c [Jim Jagielski]
4981 Changes with Apache 1.3.2
4983 *) Fix bug in ap_remove_module(), which caused problems for dso's
4984 who were the top_module. [Doug MacEachern]
4986 *) Add support for Berkeley-DB/2.x (in addition to Berkeley-DB/1.x) to
4987 mod_auth_db to both be friendly to users who wants to use this version
4988 and to avoid problems under platforms where only version 2.x is present.
4989 [Dan Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
4991 *) When using ap_log_rerror(), make the error message available to the
4992 *ERROR_NOTES envariables by default. [Ken Coar]
4994 *) BS2000 platform only: get rid of the nasty BS2000AuthFile.
4995 You now must define a BS2000Account name for the server User.
4996 This has fewer security implications than the old approach.
4999 *) Fix SHARED_CORE feature for HPUX platform: We now use extension `.sl'
5000 instead of `.so' and `SHLIB_PATH' instead of `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' on this
5001 platform to make the braindead HPUX linker happy. Notice, for the module
5002 DSOs we don't have to use this, because these are loaded manually (and
5003 not via HPUX' dld). [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2905, PR#2968
5005 *) Remove 64 thread limit on Win32.
5006 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
5008 *) Remove redundant substitutions in top-level Makefile.tmpl.
5009 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5011 *) Fix APACI's `Group' configuration adjustment - especially for Linux
5012 platforms where `nogroup' exists in /etc/group. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5014 *) Make PrintPath work generically instead of having one version
5015 strictly for OS/2. [Jim Jagielski, Brian Havard]
5017 *) Fix the recently introduced C header file checking: We now use the C
5018 pre-processor pass only (and no longer the complete compiler pass) to
5019 determine whether a C header file exists or not. Because only this way
5020 we're safe against inter-header dependencies (which caused horrible
5021 portability problems). The only drawback is that we now have a CPP
5022 configuration variable which has to be determined first (we do a similar
5023 approach as GNU Autoconf does here). When all fails the user still has
5024 the possibility to override it manually via APACI or src/Configuration.
5025 As a fallback for the header check itself we can directly check the
5026 existance of the file under /usr/include, too.
5027 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2777
5029 *) PORT: Added RHAPSODY (Mac OS X Server) support. MAP_TMPFILE defined
5030 as an alternate mechanism for mmap'd shared memory for RHAPSODY.
5031 ap_private_extern defined to hide symbols that conflict with loaded
5032 dynamic libraries on the NEXT and RHAPSODY platforms.
5033 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
5035 *) Delete PID file on clean shutdowns.
5036 [Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com>] PR#2947
5038 *) Fix mod_auth_*.html documents: NSCA -> NCSA
5039 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#2991
5041 *) Fix INSTALL document: www.gnu.ai.mit.edu -> www.gnu.org
5042 [Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>] PR#2994
5044 *) Fix dbmmanage.1 manual page.
5045 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#2992
5047 *) Fix possible buffer overflow situation in suexec.c.
5048 [Jeff Stewart <jws@purdue.edu>] PR#2790
5050 *) Add some more LIBS for the SCO5 platform which are needed for the already
5051 used -lprot. It's actually a bug in SCO5, of course.
5052 [Ronald Record <rr@sco.com>] PR#2533
5054 *) Fix documentation of ProxyPass/ProxyPassReverse according to the
5055 trailing slash problem. [Jon Drukman <jsd@gamespot.com>] PR#2933
5057 *) Remove `-msym' option from LDFLAGS_SHLIB for the Digital UNIX (OSF/1)
5058 platform, because it's only supported under version 4.0 and higher. But
5059 because our GuessOS is still unaware of Digital UNIX versions and the
5060 -msym is just to optimize the DSO statup time a little bit it's safe and
5061 best when we leave it out now. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2969
5063 *) Fix the ap_log_error_old(), ap_log_unixerr() and ap_log_printf()
5064 functions: First all three functions no longer fail on strings containing
5065 "%" chars and second ap_log_printf() no longer does a double-formatting
5066 (instead it directly passes through the message to be formatted to the
5067 real internal formatting function). [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2941
5069 *) Allow "Include" directives anywhere in the server config
5070 files (but not .htaccess files). [Ken Coar] PR#2727
5072 *) The proxy was refusing to serve CONNECT requests except to
5073 port 443 (https://) and 563 (snews://). The new AllowCONNECT
5074 directive allows the configuration of the ports to which a
5075 CONNECT is allowed. [Sameer Parekh, Martin Kraemer]
5077 *) mod_expires will now act on content that is not sent from a file
5078 on disk. Previously it would never add an Expires: header to
5079 any response that did not come from a file on disk; the only
5080 case where it still doesn't (and can't) add one for that type of
5081 content is if you are using a modification date based setting.
5082 [Marc Slemko, Paul Phillips <paulp@go2net.com>]
5084 *) Problems encountered during .htaccess parsing or CGI execution
5085 that lead to a "500 Server Error" condition now provide explanatory
5086 text (in the *ERROR_NOTES envariable) to ErrorDocument 500 scripts.
5089 *) Add NameWidth keyword to IndexOptions directive so that the
5090 width of the filename column is customisable. [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
5093 *) Recognize lowercase _and_ uppercase `uname' results under
5094 SCO OpenServer. [David Coelho <drc@ppt.com>]
5096 *) As duplicate "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" lines within the header seem to be
5097 a common problem of (mis-administrated?) IIS servers, make the apache
5098 proxy immune to these errors (and ignore the duplicates, but log
5099 the fact to error_log). [Martin Kraemer], after the proposal in PR#2914
5101 *) The <IfModule and <IfDefine block starting directives now only
5102 allow exactly one argument. Previously, the optional negation
5103 character '!' could be separated by whitespace without a syntax
5104 error being reported, albeit defeating the IfModule functionality
5105 (enclosed directives would ALWAYS be executed). By using the
5106 stricter syntax, these hard-to-track errors can be avoided.
5109 *) Simplify handling of IndexOptions in mod_autoindex -- and BTW
5110 cause the standalone FancyIndexing directive to logically OR
5111 into any existing IndexOptions settings rather than wiping
5112 them out. [Ken Coar]
5114 *) Changes in ftp proxy: make URL parsing simpler by using the
5116 + Add display of the "current directory" in cases where it's
5117 different from the supplied path (e.g., ftp://user@host/ lives
5118 in /home/user, not in /, therefore clicking on "../" in the
5119 starting directory might send us to /home/).
5120 + When ftp login fails, (esp. when a user name was part of the
5121 URL already), we now return [401 Unauthorized ] to allow the
5122 browser to pop up an authorization dialog. This makes passwords
5123 slightly less visible (they don't appear in the regular log files)
5124 and implements a functionality that other www proxy servers
5128 *) Triggered by the recent "Via:" header changes, the proxy module would
5129 dump core for replies with invalid headers (e.g., duplicate
5130 "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" lines). These errors are now logged and the
5131 core dump is avoided. Also, broken replies are not cached.
5132 [Martin Kraemer] PR#2914
5134 *) new `GprofDir' directive when compiled with -DGPROF, where gprof can
5135 plop gmon.out profile data for each child [Doug MacEachern]
5137 *) Use the construct ``"$@"'' instead of ``$*'' in the generated
5138 config.status script to be immune against arguments with whitespaces.
5139 [Yves Arrouye <yves@apple.com>] PR#2866
5141 *) Replace the inlined information grabbing stuff for the configuration
5142 adjustment feature (no --without-confadjust) with calls to a new helper
5143 script `buildinfo.sh' which is both more flexible and already proofed to
5144 be more robust against platform differences. This mainly fixes the
5145 recently occured ``sed: command garbled: ...'' problems.
5146 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2776, PR#2848
5148 *) Make ab.c again pass ``gcc -Wall -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align
5149 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Winline''
5150 without complains after we recently added the POST feature.
5151 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5153 *) Renamed is_HTTP_xxx() macros to ap_is_HTTP_xxx() name. They are used inside
5154 modules as API functions and we forgot them at the big symbol renaming.
5155 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5157 *) Remove bad reference to non-existing SERVER_VERSION in mod_rewrite.html
5158 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.ORG>] PR#2895
5160 *) Dynamically size the filename column of mod_autoindex output.
5163 *) Add the ability to do POST requests to the ab benchmarking tool.
5164 [Kurt Sussman <kls@best.com>] PR#2871
5166 *) Bump up MAX_ENV_FLAGS in mod_rewrite.h from the too conservatice limit of
5167 5 to 10 because there are some users out there who always have 5 to 8
5168 variables in one RewriteRule and had to patch mod_rewrite.h for every
5169 release. So 15 should be now more than enough, even for them. (I never
5170 needed more than 4 in my RewriteRules ;-)
5171 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5173 *) Make the proxy generate and understand Via: headers
5176 *) Change the proxy to use tables instead of array_headers for
5177 the header lines. [Martin Kraemer]
5179 *) Make sure the config.status file is not overridden when just
5180 ``configure --help'' is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2844
5182 *) Split MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER into _MAJOR/_MINOR numbers. This should
5183 provide a way to trace API changes that add functionality but do
5184 not create a compatibility issue for precompiled modules, etc.
5185 See include/ap_mmn.h for more details. [Randy Terbush]
5187 *) Fix suexec installation under `make install root=xxx' situation.
5188 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5190 *) Extend the output of the -V switch to include the paths of all
5191 compiled-in configuration files, if they were overridden at
5192 compile time, for least astonishment of the user.
5195 *) When READing a request in ExtendedStatus mode, the "old"
5196 vhost, request and client information is not displayed.
5199 *) STATUS is no longer available. Full status information now
5200 run-time configurable using the ExtendedStatus directive.
5203 *) SECURITY: Eliminate O(n^2) space DoS attacks (and other O(n^2)
5204 cpu time attacks) in header parsing. Add ap_overlap_tables(),
5205 a function which can be used to perform bulk update operations
5206 on tables in a more efficient manner. [Dean Gaudet]
5208 *) SECURITY: Added compile-time and configurable limits for
5209 various aspects of reading a client request to avoid some simple
5210 denial of service attacks, including limits on maximum request-line
5211 size (LimitRequestLine), number of header fields (LimitRequestFields),
5212 and size of any one header field (LimitRequestFieldsize). Also added
5213 a configurable directive LimitRequestBody for limiting the size of the
5214 request message body. [Roy Fielding]
5216 *) Make status module aware of DNS and logging states, even if
5217 STATUS not defined. [Jim Jagielski]
5219 *) Fix a problem with the new OS/2 mutexes. [Brian Havard]
5221 *) Enhance mod_speling so that CheckSpelling can be used in
5222 <Directory> containers and .htaccess files. [Ken Coar]
5224 *) API: new ap_custom_response() function for hooking into the
5225 ErrorDocument mechanism at runtime [Doug MacEachern]
5227 *) API: new ap_uuencode() function [Doug MacEachern]
5229 *) API: scan_script_header_err_core() now "public" and renamed
5230 ap_scan_script_header_err_core() [Doug MacEachern]
5232 *) The 'status' module will now show the process pid's and their
5233 state even without full STATUS accounting. [Jim Jagielski]
5235 *) Restore the client IP address to the error log messages, this
5236 was lost during the transition from 1.2 to 1.3. Add a new
5237 function ap_log_rerror() which takes a request_rec * and
5238 formats it appropriately. [Dean Gaudet] PR#2661
5240 *) Cure ap_cfg_getline() of its nasty habit of compressing internal
5241 whitespace in input lines -- including within quoted strings.
5243 but leading and trailing whitespace should continue to be
5244 stripped [Martin Kraemer]
5246 *) Cleanup of the PrintPath/PrintPathOS2 helper functions. Avoid
5247 the ugly use of an env. variable and use command-line args for
5248 alternate $PATH. Make more like advanced 'type's as well.
5251 *) The IRIXN32 Rule was being ignored. Configure now correctly adds
5252 -n32 only if IRIXN32 says to. [Jim Jagielski, Alain St-Denis
5253 <alain.st-denis@ec.gc.ca>] PR#2736
5255 *) Clean up a warning in mod_proxy. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5257 *) Renamed __EMX__ (internal define of the gcc port under OS/2) to OS2
5258 following the same idea as "MSVC vs WIN32". Additionally the src/os/emx/
5259 directory was renamed to src/os/os2/ for consistency.
5260 [Brian Havard, Ralf S. Engelschall]
5262 *) Add new Rule SHARED_CHAIN which can be used to enable linking of DSO
5263 files (here modules) against other DSO files (here shared libraries).
5264 This is done by determining a subset of LIBS which can be safely used for
5265 linking the DSOs, i.e. PIC libs and shared libs. Currently the rule is
5266 disabled for all platforms to avoid problems with this (experimental)
5267 rule. But we provide it now for those people how ran into problems and
5268 want to came out by forcing linking against DSOs.
5269 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2587
5271 *) Fix suEXEC start message: Has to be of `notice' level to really get
5272 printed together with the standard startup message because the `notice'
5273 level is handled special inside ap_log_error() for startup messages.
5274 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2761 PR#2761 PR#2765
5276 *) Add correct `model' MIME types from RFC2077 to mime.types file.
5277 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2732
5279 *) Fixed examples in mod_rewrite.html document.
5280 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2756
5282 *) Allow ap_read_request errors to propagate through the normal request
5283 handling loop so that the connection can be properly closed with
5284 lingering_close, thus avoiding a potential TCP reset that would
5285 cause the client to miss the HTTP error response. [Roy Fielding]
5287 *) One more portability fix for APACI shadow tree support: Swap order of awk
5288 and sed in top-level configure script to avoid sed fails on some
5289 platforms (for instance SunOS 4.1.3 and NCR SysV) because of the
5290 non-newline-termined output of Awk. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2729
5292 *) PORT: NEC EWS4800 support.
5293 [MATSUURA Takanori <t-matsuu@protein.osaka-u.ac.jp>]
5295 *) Fix a segfault in the proxy on OS/2. [Brian Havard]
5297 *) Fix Win32 part of ap_spawn_child() by providing a reasonable child_info
5298 structure instead of just NULL. This fixes at least the RewriteMap
5299 programs under Win32. [Marco De Michele <mdemichele@tin.it>] PR#2483
5301 *) Add workaround to top-level `configure' script for brain dead
5302 `echo' commands which interpet escape sequences per default.
5303 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2654
5305 *) Make sure that the path to the Perl interpreter is correctly
5306 adjusted under `make install' also for the printenv CGI script.
5307 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2595
5309 *) Update the mod_rewrite.html document to correctly reflect the situation
5310 of the `proxy' (`[P]') feature. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2679
5312 *) Fix `install-includes' sub-target of `install' target in top-level
5313 Makefile.tmpl: The umask+cp approach didn't work as expected (especially
5314 for users which extracted the distribution under 'umask 077'), so replace
5315 it by an explicit cp+chmod approach.
5316 [Richard Lloyd, Curt Sampson, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2656 PR#2626
5318 *) Fix `distclean' and `clean' targets in src/Makefile.tmpl to have same
5319 behavior and to cleanup correctly even under enabled SHARED_CORE rule.
5320 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5322 *) Use a more straight forward and thus less problematic Sed command in
5323 src/helper/mkdir.sh script. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5325 *) Make sure the `configure' scripts doesn't fail when trying to guess the
5326 domainname of the machine and there are multiple `domainname' and
5327 `search' entries in /etc/resolv.conf.
5328 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2710
5330 *) Add note about the SHARED_CORE requirement on some platforms also to the
5331 INSTALL file because a lot of users don't read htdocs/manual/dso.html
5332 first. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2701
5334 *) Fix document "hyperlink" for dso.html in src/Configuration.tmpl
5335 [Knut A.Syed <Knut.Syed@nhh.no>] PR#2674
5337 *) Modify mod_rewrite to update the Vary response field if the URL rewriting
5338 engine does any manipulations or decisions based upon request fields.
5341 *) Document the special APACI behavior for installation paths where
5342 ``/apache'' is appended to paths under some (well defined, of course)
5343 situations to prevent pollution of system locations with Apache files.
5344 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2660
5346 *) Fixed problem with buffered response message not being sent for
5347 the read_request error conditions of URI-too-long (414) and
5348 malformed header fields (400). [Roy Fielding] PR#2646
5350 *) Add support for the Max-Forwards: header line required by RFC2068 for
5351 the TRACE method. This allows apache to TRACE along a chain of proxies
5352 up to a predetermined depth. [Martin Kraemer]
5354 *) Fix SHARED_CORE rule: The CFLAGS_SHLIB variable is no longer doubled
5355 (compilers complained) and the .so.V.R.P filename extension was adjusted
5356 to correctly reflect the 1.3.2 version.
5357 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2644
5359 *) SECURITY: Plug "..." and other canonicalization holes under OS/2.
5362 *) PORT: implement serialized accepts for OS/2. [Brian Havard]
5364 *) mod_include had problems with the fsize and flastmod directives
5365 under WIN32. Fix also avoids the minor security hole of using
5366 ".." paths for fsize and flastmod.
5367 [Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2355
5369 *) Fixed some Makefile dependency problems. [Dean Gaudet]
5371 Changes with Apache 1.3.1
5373 *) Disable the incorrect entry for application/msword in the
5374 mod_mime_magic "magic" file because it also matches other Office
5375 documents. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2608
5377 *) Fix broken RANLIB handling in src/Configure (the entry from
5378 src/Configuration.tmpl was ignored) and additionally force RANLIB to
5379 /bin/true under HP/UX where ranlib exists but is deprecated.
5380 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2627
5382 *) 'apachectl status' failed on some systems.
5383 [Steve VanDevender <stevev@darkwing.uoregon.edu>, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#2613
5385 *) Add new flags for ap_unparse_uri_components() to make it generate
5386 the scheme://sitepart string only, or to omit the query string.
5389 *) WIN32: Canonicalize ServerRoot before checking to see if it
5390 is a valid directory. The failure to do this caused certain
5391 ServerRoot settings (eg. "ServerRoot /apache") to be improperly
5392 rejected. [Marc Slemko]
5394 *) Global renaming of C header files to both get rid of conflicts with third
5395 party packages and to again reach consistency:
5396 1. conf.h -> ap_config.h
5397 2. conf_auto.h -> ap_config_auto.h \ these are now merged
5398 3. ap_config.h -> ap_config_auto.h / in the config process
5399 4. compat.h -> ap_compat.h
5400 5. apctype.h -> ap_ctype.h
5401 Backward compatibility files for conf.h and compat.h were created.
5403 *) mod_mmap_static will no longer take action on requests unless at
5404 least one "mmapfile" directive is present in the configuration.
5405 This experimental module has to do some black magic to operate
5406 inside the current API and thus creates side-effects for other
5407 modules under some circumstances.
5408 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5410 *) Add conservative ticks around more egrep arguments in top-level configure
5411 to avoid problems under brain-dead platforms like Digital UNIX (OSF1).
5412 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2596
5414 *) mod_rewrite created RewriteLock files under the UID of the parent
5415 process, thus the child processes had no write access to the files.
5416 Now a chown() is done on the file to the uid of the children,
5417 if applicable. [Lars Eilebrecht, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2341
5419 *) Autogenerate some HAVE_XXXXX_H defines in conf_auto.h (determined via
5420 TestCompile) instead of defining them manually in conf.h based on less
5421 accurate platform definitions. This way we no longer have to fiddle with
5422 OS-type and/or OS-version identifiers to discover whether a system header
5423 file exists or not. Instead we now directly check for the existence of
5424 those esoteric ones.
5425 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2093, PR#2361, PR#2377, PR#2434,
5426 PR#2524, PR#2525, PR#2533, PR#2569
5428 *) mod_setenvif (BrowserMatch* and friends) will now match a missing
5429 field with "^$". [Ken Coar]
5431 *) Set the RTLD_GLOBAL dlopen mode parameter to allow dynamically loaded
5432 modules to load their own modules dynamically. This improves mod_perl
5433 and mod_php3 when these modules are loaded dynamically into Apache.
5436 *) Cache a proxied request in the event that the client cancels the
5437 transfer, provided that the configured percentage of the file has
5438 already been transfered. It works for HTTP transfers only. The
5439 new configuration directive is called CacheForceCompletion.
5440 [Glen Parker <glenebob@nwlink.com>] PR#2277
5442 *) Add the "<!DOCTYPE HTML" magic cookie used by modern documents (and
5443 required by HTML 3.2 and later) to mod_mime_magic's conf/magic.
5444 [Anna Shergold <anna@inext.co.uk>]
5446 *) Fix yet another signal-based race condition involving nested timers.
5447 Signals suck. [Dean Gaudet]
5449 *) suexec's error messages have been clarified a little bit. [Ken Coar]
5451 *) Clean up some, but perhaps not all, 8-bit character set problems
5452 with config file parsing, and URL parsing. We now define
5453 ap_isdigit(), ap_isupper(), ... which cast to an (unsigned char).
5454 This should work on most modern unixes.
5455 [Dean Gaudet] PR#800, 2282, 2553 (and others)
5457 *) The "handler not found" error was issued in cases where the handler
5458 really did exist, but was just declining to serve the request.
5459 [John Van Essen <jve@gamers.org>] PR#2529
5461 *) Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for SCO5 (OpenServer 5.0.x).
5462 [Ronald Record <rr@sco.com>] PR#2533
5464 *) The APACI libexecdir was not extended with an "apache/" subdir
5465 if the installation prefix didn't already contain "apache", but
5466 it should be because the DSO files are Apache-specific. Now
5467 libexecdir is treated the same way sysconfdir, datadir, localstatedir
5468 and includedir are already treated.
5469 [Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>] PR#2551
5471 *) The <Limit> parsing routine was incorrectly treating methods as
5472 case-insensitive. [Ken Coar]
5474 *) The ap_bprintf() code neglected to test if there was an error on
5475 the connection. ap_bflush() misdiagnosed a failure as a success.
5478 *) add support for #perl arg interpolation in mod_include
5481 *) API: Name changes of table_elts to ap_table_elts, is_table_empty
5482 to ap_is_table_empty and bgetflag to ap_bgetflag. [Ben Laurie]
5484 *) PORT: Add UnixWare 7 support
5485 [Vadim Kostoglodoff <vadim@olly.ru>] PR#2463
5487 *) Fix the Guess-DSO-flags-from-Perl stuff in src/Configure: "perl" was
5488 used instead of "$PERL" which contains the correctly determined Perl
5489 interpreter (important for instance on systems where "perl" and "perl5"
5490 exists, like BSDI or FreeBSD, etc).
5491 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2505
5493 *) Move the initial suEXEC-related startup message from plain
5494 fprintf()/stderr to a delayed ap_log_error()-based one to avoid problems
5495 when Apache is started from inetd (instead of standalone). Under this
5496 situation startup messages on stderr lead to problems (the line is sent
5497 to the client in front of the requested document).
5498 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#871, PR#1318
5500 *) Add a flag so ap_fnmatch() can be used for case-blind pattern matching.
5501 [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
5503 *) WIN32: Don't collapse multiple slashes in PATH_INFO.
5504 [Ben Laurie, Bill Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>] PR#2274
5506 *) WIN32 SECURITY: Eliminate trailing "."s in path components. These are
5507 ignored by the Windows filesystem, and so can be used to bypass security.
5508 [Ben Laurie, Alexei Kosut].
5510 *) We now attempt to dump core when we get SIGILL. [Jim Jagielski]
5512 *) PORT: remove broken test for MAP_FILE in http_main.c.
5513 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
5515 *) PORT: Change support/apachectl to use "kill -0 $pid" to test if the
5516 httpd is running. This should be more portable than figuring out
5517 which of three dozen different versions of "ps" are installed.
5520 *) WIN32: If we can't figure out how to execute a file in a script
5521 directory, bail out of the request with an error message. [W G Stoddard]
5523 *) WIN32 SECURITY: Eliminate directories consisting of three or more dots;
5524 these are treated by Win32 as if they are ".." but are not detected by
5525 other machinery within Apache. This is something of a kludge but
5526 eliminates a security hole. [Manoj Kasichainula, Ben Laurie]
5528 *) Move ap_escape_quotes() from src/ap to src/main/util.c; it uses
5529 pools and thus pollutes libap (until the pool stuff is moved there).
5532 *) IndexIgnore should be case-blind on Win32 (and any other case-aware
5533 but case-insensitive platforms). New #define for this added to conf.h
5534 (CASE_BLIND_FILESYSTEM). [Ken Coar] PR#2455
5536 *) Enable DSO support for OpenBSD in general, not only for 2.x, because it
5537 also works for OpenBSD 1.x. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5539 *) PORT: Fix compilation problem on ARM Linux.
5540 [Sam Kington <sam@illuminated.co.uk>] PR#2443
5542 *) Let APACI's configure script determine some configuration parameters
5543 (Group, Port, ServerAdmin, ServerName) via some intelligent tests to
5544 remove some of the classical hurdles for new users when setting up
5545 Apache. This is done per default because it is useful for the average
5546 user. Package authors can use the --without-confadjust option to disable
5547 these configuration adjustments.
5548 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5550 *) Added an EXTRA_DEPS configuration parameter which can be used
5551 to add an extra Makefile dependency for the httpd target, for instance
5552 to external third-party libraries, etc.
5553 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5555 *) Add <IfDefine>..</IfDefine> sections to the core module (with same spirit
5556 as <IfModule>..</IfModule> sections) which can be used to skip or process
5557 contained commands dependend of ``-D PARAMETER'' options on the command
5558 line. This can be used to achieve logical conditions like <IfDefine
5559 ReverseProxy> instead of physically ones (e.g. <IfModule mod_proxy.c>)
5560 and thus especially can be used for conditionally loading DSO-based
5561 modules via LoadModule, etc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5563 *) PORT: clean up a warning in mod_status for OS/2. [Brian Havard]
5565 *) Make table elements const. This may prevent obscure errors. [Ben Laurie]
5567 *) Fix parsing of FTP `SIZE' responses in proxy module: The newline was not
5568 truncated which forced following HTTP headers to be data in the HTTP
5569 reponse. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Charles Fu <ccwf@bacchus.com>]
5572 *) Portability fix for APACI shadow tree support: Swap order of awk and sed
5573 in top-level configure script to avoid sed fails on some platforms (for
5574 instance SunOS 4.1.3 and NCR SysV) because of the non-newline-termined
5575 output of Awk. [Bill Houle <bhoule@sandiegoca.ncr.com>] PR#2435
5577 *) Improve performance of directory listings (mod_autoindex) by comparing
5578 integer keys (last-modified and size) as integers rather than converting
5579 them to strings first. Also use a set of explicit byte tests rather
5580 than strcmp() to check for parent directory-ness of an entry. Oh, and
5581 make sure the parent directory (if displayed) is *always* listed first
5582 regardless of the sort key. Overall performance winnage should be good
5583 in CPU time, instruction cache, and memory usage, particularly for large
5584 directories. [Ken Coar]
5586 *) Add a tiny but useful goody to APACI's configure script: The generation
5587 of a config.status script (as GNU Autoconf does) which remembers the used
5588 configure command and hence can be used to restore the configuration by
5589 just re-running this script or for remembering the configuration between
5591 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5593 *) Add httpd -t (test) option for running configuration syntax tests only.
5594 If something is broken it complains and exits with a return code
5595 non-equal to 0. This can be used manually by the user to check the Apache
5596 configuration after editing and is also automatically used by apachectl
5597 on (graceful) restart command to make sure Apache doesn't die on restarts
5598 because of a configuration which is now broken since the last (re)start.
5599 This way `apachectl restart' can be used inside cronjobs without having
5600 to expect Apache to be falling down. Additionally the httpd -t can be run
5601 via `apachectl configtest'.
5602 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2393
5604 *) Minor display fix for "install" target of top-level Makefile:
5605 the displayed installation command was incorrect although the
5606 executed command was correct. Now they are in sync.
5607 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2402
5609 *) Correct initialization of variable `allowed_globals' in http_main.c
5610 [Justin Bradford <justin@ukans.edu>] PR#2400
5612 *) Apache would incorrectly downcase the entire Content-Type passed from
5613 CGIs. This affected server-push scripts and such which use
5614 multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary=ThisRandomString.
5615 [Dean Gaudet] PR#2394
5617 *) PORT: QNX update to properly guess 32-bit systems.
5618 [Sean Boudreau <seanb@qnx.com>] PR#2390
5620 *) Make sure the DSO emulation code for HPUX finds the proprietary shl_xxx()
5621 functions which are in libdld under HPUX 9/10.
5622 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2378
5624 *) Make sure the "install" target of the top-level Makefile doesn't break
5625 because of a return code of 1 from an "if" (for instance under braindead
5626 Ultrix the result code of an "if" construct is 1 if the "then" clause
5627 didn't match). [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5629 *) Add an additional "dummy" target to the "$(LIB)" target in generated
5630 modules/xxx/Makefile's to avoid problems with SVR4 Make under "full-DSO"
5631 situation (no libxxx.a built, only mod_xxx.so's) where LIB and OBJS are
5632 empty. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Dean Gaudet, Martin Kraemer]
5634 *) Replace two bad sprintf() calls with ap_snprintf() variants in
5635 mod_rewrite. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5637 *) Fix missing usage description for MetaFiles directive.
5638 [David MacKenzie <djm@va.pubnix.com>] PR#2384
5640 *) mod_log_config wouldn't let vhosts use log formats defined in the
5641 main server. [Christof Damian <damian@mediaconsult.com>] PR#2090
5643 *) mod_usertrack was corrupting the client hostname. As part of the
5644 fix, the cookie values were slightly extended to include the
5645 fully qualified hostname of the client.
5646 [Dean Gaudet] PR#2190, 2229, 2366
5648 *) Fix a typo in pool debugging code. [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
5650 *) mod_unique_id did not work on alpha linux (in general on any
5651 architecture that has 64-bit time_t).
5652 [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
5654 *) PORT: Make SCO 5 (and probably 3) compile again. [Ben Laurie]
5656 *) PORT: NCR MPRAS systems have the same bug with SIGHUP restart that
5657 Solaris systems experience. So define WORKAROUND_SOLARIS_BUG.
5658 [Klaus Weber <kweber@chephren.germany.ncr.com>] PR#1973
5660 *) Change "Options None" to "Options FollowSymLinks" in the
5661 <Directory /> section of the default access.conf-dist
5662 (and -win even though it doesn't matter there). This has better
5663 performance, and more intuitive semantics. [Dean Gaudet]
5665 *) PORT: Updated support for UTS 2.1.2.
5666 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#2320
5668 *) Fix symbol export list (src/support/httpd.exp) after recent
5669 API changes in the child spawning area.
5670 [Jens-Uwe Mager <jum@helios.de>]
5672 *) Workaround for configure script and old `test' commands which do not
5673 support the -x flag (for instance under platforms like Ultrix). This is
5674 solved by another helper script findprg.sh which searches for Perl and
5675 Awk like PrintPath but _via different names_.
5676 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5678 *) Remove the system() call from htpasswd.c, which eliminates a system
5679 dependancy. ["M.D.Parker" <mdpc@netcom.com>] PR#2332
5681 *) PORT: Fix compilation failures on NEXTSTEP.
5682 [Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>] PR#2293, 2316
5684 *) PORT: F_NDELAY is a typo, should have been FNDELAY. There's also
5685 O_NDELAY on various systems. [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#2313
5687 *) PORT: helpers/GuessOS updates for various versions for NCR SVR4.
5688 [juerg schreiner <j.schreiner@zh.ch>,
5689 Bill Houle <Bill.Houle@SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM>] PR#2310
5691 *) Fix recently introduced Win32 child spawning code in mod_rewrite.c which
5692 was broken because of invalid ap_pstrcat() -> strcat() transformation.
5693 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5695 *) Proxy Cache Fixes: account for directory sizes, fork off garbage collection
5696 to continue in background, use predefined types (off_t, size_t, time_t),
5697 log the current cache usage percentage at LogLevel debug
5698 [Martin Kraemer, based on discussion between Dean Gaudet & Dirk vanGulik]
5700 Changes with Apache 1.3.0
5702 *) Using a type map file as a custom error document was not possible.
5703 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#1031
5705 *) Avoid problems with braindead Awks by additionally searching for gawk
5706 and nawk in APACI's configure script.
5707 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2319
5709 *) Rename md5.h to ap_md5.h to avoid conflicts with native MD5 on
5710 some systems. [Randy Terbush]
5712 *) Change usage of perror()+fprintf(stderr,...) in mod_rewrite to
5713 more proper ap_log_error() variants.
5714 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5716 *) Make sure the argument for the --add-module option to APACI's configure
5717 script is of type [path/to/]mod_xxx.c because all calculations inside
5718 configure and src/Configure depend on this.
5719 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2307
5721 *) Changes usage of perror/fprintf to stderr to more proper ap_log_error
5722 in mod_mime, mod_log_referer, mod_log_agent, and mod_log_config.
5725 *) Various OS/2 cleanups ["Brian Havard" <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
5727 *) PORT: QNX needed a #include <sys/mman.h>; and now it uses flock
5728 serialized accept to handle multiple sockets.
5729 [Rob Saccoccio <robs@InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2295, 2296
5731 *) Have NT properly set the directory for CGI scripts
5732 (& other spawned children)
5733 [W G Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>]
5735 *) Propagate environment to CGI scripts correctly in Win32.
5736 [W G Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>] PR#2294
5738 *) Some symbol renaming:
5739 ap_spawn_child_err became ap_spawn_child
5740 ap_spawn_child_err_buff became ap_bspawn_child
5741 spawn_child was obsoleted and moved to compat.h
5744 *) Upgrade the child spawning code in mod_rewrite for the RewriteMap
5745 programs: ap_spawn_child_err() is used and the Win32 case now uses
5746 CreateProcess() instead of a low-level execl() (which caused problems in
5747 the past under Win32).
5748 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5750 *) A few cosmetics and trivial enhancements to APXS to make the
5751 generated Makefile more user friendly. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5753 *) Proxy Fix: The proxy special failure routine ap_proxyerror()
5754 was updated to use the normal apache error processing, thereby allowing
5755 proxy errors to be treated by ErrorDocument's as well. For this
5756 purpose, a new module-to-core communication variable "error-notes"
5757 was introduced; the proxy (and possibly other modules) communicates
5758 its error text using this variable. Its content is copied to a new
5759 cgi-env-var REDIRECT_ERROR_NOTES for use by ErrorDocuments.
5760 The old proxy special error routine ap_proxy_log_uerror()
5761 was replaced by regular ap_log_error() calls, many messages were made
5763 [Martin Kraemer] PR#494, 1259
5765 *) SECURITY: A possible buffer overflow in the ftp proxy was fixed.
5768 *) Transform the configure message "You need root privileges for suEXEC"
5769 from a fatal error into a (more friendly) warning because the building
5770 ("make") of Apache we can allow, of course. Root privileges are needed
5771 only for the installation step ("make install"). So make sure the
5772 user is aware of this fact but let him proceed as long as he can.
5773 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2288
5775 *) Renamed three more functions to common ap_ prefix which we missed at the
5776 Big Symbol Renaming because they're #defines and not real C functions:
5777 is_default_port(), default_port(), http_method().
5778 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5780 *) A zero-length name after a $ in an SSI document should cause
5781 just the $ to be in the expansion. This was broken during the
5782 security fixes in 1.2.5. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1921, 2249
5784 *) Call ap_destroy_sub_req() in ap_add_cgi_vars() to reclaim some
5785 memory. [Rob Saccoccio <robs@InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2252
5787 *) Fix src/support/httpd.exp (DSO export file which is currently only
5788 used under AIX) because of recent changes to function names.
5789 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5791 Changes with Apache 1.3b7
5793 *) Make sure a MIME-type can be forced via a RewriteRule even when no
5794 substitution takes place, for instance via the following rule:
5795 ``RewriteRule ^myscript$ - [T=application/x-httpd-cgi]'' This was often
5796 requested by users in the past to force a single script without a .cgi
5797 extension and outside any cgi-bin dirs to be executed as a CGI program.
5798 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2254
5800 *) A fix for protocol issues surrounding 400, 408, and
5801 414 responses. [Ed Korthof]
5803 *) Ignore MaxRequestsPerChild on WIN32. [Brian Behlendorf]
5805 *) Fix discrepancy in proxy_ftp.c which was causing failures when
5806 trying to connect to certain ftpd's, such as anonftpd.
5807 [Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>]
5809 *) Make mod_rewrite use ap_open_piped_log() for RewriteLog directive's
5810 logfile instead of fiddling around itself with child spawning stuff.
5811 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5813 *) Made RefererIgnore case-insensitive.
5815 *) Mod_log_agent, mod_log_referer now use ap_open_piped_log for piped logs.
5818 *) Replace use of spawn_child with ap_spawn_child_err_buff, to make everything
5819 "safe" under Win32. In: mod_include.c, mod_mime_magic.c
5822 *) Improve RFC1413 support. [Bob Beck <beck@bofh.ucs.ualberta.ca>]
5824 *) Fix support script `dbmmanage': It was unable to handle some sort
5825 of passwords, especially passwords with "0" chars.
5826 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2242
5828 *) WIN32: Clicking on "Last Modified" in a fancy index caused a crash. Fixed.
5829 [Ben Laurie] PR#2238
5831 *) WIN32: CGIs could cause a hang (because of a deadlock in the standard C
5832 library), so CGI handling has been changed to use Win32 native handles
5833 instead of C file descriptors.
5834 [Ben Laurie and Bill Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>] PR#1129, 1607
5836 *) The proxy cache would store an incorrect content-length in the cached
5837 file copy after a cache update. That resulted in repeated fetching
5838 of the original copy instead of using the cached copy.
5839 [Ernst Kloppenburg <kloppen@isr.uni-stuttgart.de>] PR#2094
5841 *) The Makefiles assumed that DSO files are build via $(LD). This
5842 is broken for two reasons: First we never defined at least LD=ld
5843 somewhere to make sure this works (it was silently assumed that most Make
5844 provide a built-in LD definition - ARGL!) and second using the generic LD
5845 variable is not the truth. Instead a special variable named LD_SHLIB is
5846 reasonable because although "ld" is usually the default, the command for
5847 building DSO files can be "libtool" or even "cc" on some systems.
5848 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5850 *) Replace the AddVersionPlatform directive with ServerTokens which
5851 provides for more control over the format of the Server:
5852 header line. SERVER_SUBVERSION is no longer supported;
5853 all module should use the ap_add_version_component()
5854 API function instead. [Jim Jagielski]
5856 *) Support for the NCR MP/RAS 3.0
5857 [John Withers <withers@semi.kcsc.mwr.irs.gov>]
5859 *) The LDFLAGS_SHLIB_EXPORT variable of src/Configuration[.tmpl] was
5860 not retrieved in src/Configure and thus was not useable.
5861 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5863 *) Various Makefile consistency cleanups:
5864 - make OSDIR also automatically be relative to src/ like INCDIR
5865 - SUBDIRS is now generated in src/Makefile only and not in
5866 Makefile.config because it is a local define for this location.
5867 - remove BROKEN_BPRINTF_FLAGS because is it no longer used inside
5868 any Makefile but make sure that at least the "-K inline" is kept in
5870 - update the "depend" targets in Makefile.tmpl files to use $(OSDIR), too.
5871 - updated the dependencies theirself
5872 - removed not existing SHLIB variable from "clean" targets
5873 - replaced SHLIB_OBJS/SHLIBS_OBJ consistently with OBJS_PIC because OBJS
5874 already exists and OBJS_PIC are also just plain objects and have not
5875 directly to do with "shared" things. The only difference is that they
5876 contain PIC. So OBJS_PIC is the more canonical name.
5877 - Updated the Makefile-dependency lines for OBJS_PIC
5878 - Removed the Makefile-dependency line in Configure to avoid double
5880 - replaced ugly xx-so.o/xx.so-o hack with a clean and consistent usage
5881 of xxx.lo as GNU libtool does with its PIC objects
5882 - reduce local complexity in modules Makefile.tmpl by moving the last
5883 existing target "depend" to the generation section in Configure, too.
5884 - removed the historical $(SPACER) which was used in the past together
5885 with BROKEN_BPRINTF_FLAGS to avoid zig-zags in the build process. This
5886 is no longer needed.
5887 - force the build and run of the gen_xxx programs under main/ as the
5888 first step before building the objects because it looks cleaner
5889 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5891 *) WIN32: Make Win32 work again after the /dev/null DoS fix.
5894 *) WIN32: Check for buffer overflows in ap_os_canonical_filename.
5897 *) WIN32: Don't force ISAPI headers to finish with \n.
5898 [Jim Patterson <Jim.Patterson@Cognos.COM>, Ben Laurie] PR#2060
5900 *) When opening "configuration" files (like httpd.conf, htaccess
5901 and htpasswd), Apache will not allow them to be non-/dev/null
5902 device files. This closes a DoS hole. At the same time,
5903 we use ap_pfopen to open these files to handle timeouts.
5904 [Jim Jagielski, Martin Kraemer]
5906 *) Apache will now log the reason its httpd children exit if they exit
5907 due to an unexpected signal. (It requires a new porting define,
5908 SYS_SIGLIST, which if defined should point to a list of text
5909 descriptions of the signals available. See PORTING.) [Dean Gaudet]
5911 *) WIN32: chdir() doesn't make sense in a multithreaded environment
5912 like WIN32. Before, Win32 CGI's could have had sporadic failures
5913 if a chdir call from one thread was made between another chdir call
5914 and a spawn in another thread. So, for now don't chdir for CGI scripts
5915 in WIN32. The current CGI "spec" is unclear as to whether it's
5916 necessary. Long-term fix is to either serialize the chdir/spawn combo
5917 or use WIN32 native calls to spawn a process. This temp fix was
5918 necessary to remove this as a showstopper for 1.3's release.
5921 *) Cleanup the suEXEC support in APACI and make it more safe:
5922 1. Add big fat hint in INSTALL about risks and to read the
5923 htdocs/manual/suexec.html document before using the suexec-related
5925 2. Make sure the user has at least provided one --suexec-xxxx option
5926 (specifies suEXEC parameters) in addition to --enable-suexec option.
5927 If only --enable-suexec is given APACI stops with a hint to INSTALL
5928 and htdocs/manual/suexec.html documents.
5929 3. Provide two additional --suexec-xxxx options to make the suEXEC
5930 configuration complete (especially for package maintainers who else
5931 had to patch the source tree) by providing ways to configure minimal
5932 UID/GID and safe PATH, too.
5933 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5935 *) Cleanup of the `configure --shadow' process:
5936 - make sure the configure script creates its temporary files in the
5937 shadow tree to avoid conflicts with parallel configure runs
5938 - removed unnecessary option "-r" from "rm" call for Makefiles
5939 - make sure the configure scripts creates the shadow-wrapper Makefile
5940 only when no shadow trees already exists
5941 - make sure "make distclean" removes the shadow-wrapper Makefile but only
5942 when no more shadow trees exists
5943 - overhauled mkshadow.sh script: now its more IFS-safe and approx. twice
5944 as fast (in the past it needed 70sec, now it runs just 38sec)
5945 - make sure CVS does not complain about the created files
5946 Makefille.<gnutriple> and directories src.<gnutriple>
5947 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5949 *) Added the ap_add_version_component() API routine and the
5950 AddVersionPlatform core directive. The first allows modules to
5951 declare themselves in the Server response header field value,
5952 augmenting the SERVER_SUBVERSION define in the Configuration file
5953 with run-time settings (more useful in a loadable-module environment).
5954 AddVersionPlatform inserts a comment such as "(UNIX)" or "(Win32)"
5955 into the server version string. [Ken Coar] PR#2056
5957 *) Minor stability tweaks to avoid core dumps in ap_snprintf.
5960 *) Emit the "Accept-Range" header for the default handler.
5961 [Brian Behlendorf] PR#1464
5963 *) Add a note to httpd.conf-dist that apache will on some systems fail
5964 to start when the Group # is set to a negative or large positive value.
5967 *) Make sure the module execution order is correct even when some modules
5968 are loaded under runtime (`LoadModule') via the DSO mechanism:
5969 1. The list of loaded modules is now a dynamically allocated one
5970 and not the original statically list from modules.c
5971 2. The loaded modules are now correctly setup by LoadModule for
5972 later use by the AddModule command.
5973 3. When the DSO mechanism for modules is used APACI's `install'
5974 target now enables all created `LoadModule' lines per default because
5975 this is both already expected by the user _and_ needed to avoid
5976 confusion with the next point and reduces the Makefile.tmpl complexity
5977 4. When the DSO mechanism for modules is used, APACI's `install'
5978 target now additionally makes sure the module list is reconstructed
5979 via a complete `ClearModuleList+AddModule...' entry.
5980 5. The support tool `apxs' now also makes sure an AddModule command
5981 is added in addition to the LoadModule command.
5982 6. The modules.c generation was extended to now contain two
5983 comments to make sure no one is confused by the confusing terminology
5984 of loading/linking (we use load=link+load & link=activate instead of
5985 the obvious load=activate & link=link :-( )
5986 This way now there is no longer a difference under execution time between
5987 statically and dynamically linked modules.
5988 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5990 *) Fix the generated mod_xxx.c from "apxs -g -f xxx" after the
5991 Big Symbol Renaming. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5993 *) Add a comment to mod_example.c showing the format of a FLAG command
5996 *) Standardized the time format in mod_status to match that of other
5997 places in the code (e.g. DATE_GMT). PR#1551
5999 *) Fix handling of %Z in timefmt strings for those platforms with no time
6000 zone information in their tm struct. [Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>]
6003 *) Makes mod_rewrite, mod_log_config, mod_status and the ServerSignature
6004 feature compatible with 'UseCanonicalName off' by changing
6005 r->server->server_hostname to ap_get_server_name(). And I changed some
6006 functions which use r->server->port to use ap_get_server_port() instead,
6007 because if there's no Port directive in the config r->server->port is 0.
6010 *) get/set_module_config are trivial enough to be better off inline. Worth
6011 1.5% performance boost. [Dean Gaudet]
6013 *) Fix off-by-one error in ap_proxy_date_canon() in proxy_util.c
6014 when ensuring 'x' is at least 30-chars big. [Jim Jagielski,
6017 *) [BS2000 security] BS2000 needs an extra authentication to initialize
6018 the task environment to the unprivileged User id. Otherwise CGI scripts
6019 would have a way to gain super user access. [Martin Kraemer]
6021 *) Fix debug log messages for BS2000/OSD: instead of logging the whole
6022 absolute path, only log base name of logging source as is done
6023 in unix. [Martin Kraemer]
6025 *) Ronald Tschalaer's Accept-Encoding patch - preserve the "x-" in
6026 the encoding type from the Accept-Encoding header (if it's there)
6027 and use it in the response, as that's probably what it'll be expecting.
6028 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch]
6030 *) Fix to mod_alias: translate_alias_redir is dealing with
6031 a URI, not a filename, so the check for drive letters for win32
6032 and emx is not necessary. [Dean Gaudet]
6034 *) WIN32: Allow .cmd as an executable extension.
6035 [Kari Likovuori <Kari.Likovuori@mol.fi>] PR#2146
6037 *) Make Apache header files, and some variables, C++ friendly.
6038 [Michael Anderson's <mka@redes.int.com.mx>]
6040 *) Child processes can now "signal" (by exiting with a status
6041 of APEXIT_CHILDFATAL) the parent process to abort and
6042 shutdown the server if the error in the child process was
6043 fatal enough. [Jim Jagielski]
6045 *) mod_autoindex's find_itme() was sensitive to MIME type case.
6046 [Jim Jagielski] PR#2112
6048 *) Make sure the referer_log and agent_log entries in the default httpd.conf
6049 file are also adjusted for the actual relative installation paths.
6050 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2175
6052 *) WIN32: Extensive overhaul of the way UNCs are handled. [Ben Laurie]
6054 *) WIN32: Make roots of filesystems (e.g. c:/) work. [Ben Laurie]
6057 *) PORT: Various porting changes to support AIX 3.2, 4.1.5, 4.2 and 4.3.
6058 Additionally the checks for finding the vendor DSO library were moved
6059 from mod_so.c to Configure because first it needs $PLAT etc. and second
6060 mod_so already uses an abstraction layer and does not fiddle with the
6061 vendor functions itself.
6062 [Jens-Uwe Mager, Ralf S. Engelschall]
6064 *) PORT: Some optimization defines for NetBSD
6065 [Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>] PR#2165
6067 *) PORT: Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for NetBSD.
6068 [Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2158
6070 *) Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for AIX (at least 4.2 but older
6071 AIX variants should work fine, too. Even AIX 3.x should work). This is
6072 accomplished by using the free DSO emulation code from Jens-Uwe Mager
6073 which we put into a os/unix/os-dso-aix.c file.
6074 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6076 *) PORT: Fix compiler warnings under AIX >= 4.2 where the manual pages imply
6077 that we should use NET_SIZE_T == int but the include files force size_t.
6078 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6080 *) Fix two bugs in select() handling in http_main.c.
6083 *) Suppress "error(0)" messages for ap_log_error() when the APLOG_NOERRNO
6084 is unset (as it is in situations like timeouts) where it is unclear
6085 whether errno is set or not. [Martin Kraemer]
6087 *) Just having APACI's localstatedir is too general and not enough for most
6088 of the systems. 1.3b6 again required manual APACI patches by package
6089 maintainers from RedHat and FreeBSD because for their filesystem layout a
6090 little bit more flexibility in configuring the paths is needed. Hence we
6091 provide three additional configure options (--runtimedir, --logfiledir,
6092 --proxycachedir) which now can be used for more granular adjustments if
6093 --localstatedir is not enough to fit the particular needs. As a nice
6094 side-effect this reduces some subdir fiddling in configure+Makefile.tmpl.
6095 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6097 *) Make the install root for "make install" in APACI's Makefile overrideable
6098 by package authors. This way we are even more friendly to package
6099 maintainers (especially Debian and RedHat) who build for the real prefix
6100 via "configure --prefix=/<real>" but use a different local prefix via
6101 "make root=/tmp/apache install" for rolling the package without bristling
6102 the target location on their system.
6103 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6105 *) Workaround sed limitations in APACI's configure script by now
6106 substituting in chunks of 50 commands (because for instance HPUX's vendor
6107 sed has a limit of max. 98 commands)
6108 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2136
6110 *) Adding SOCKS5 support and fixing existing SOCKS4 support.
6111 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2140
6113 *) Manually fix some symbols which were not renamed to prefix ap_ in the BIG
6114 RENAMING process because they are defined as pre-processor macros instead
6115 of real functions: bputc, bgetc, piped_log_write_fd, piped_log_read_fd
6116 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6118 *) Workaround braindead AWK's when generating ap_config.h: The split() and
6119 substr() functions cannot be nested under vendor AWK from Solaris 2.6.
6120 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2139
6122 *) Various bugfixes and cleanups for the APACI configure script:
6123 o fix IFS handling for _nested_ situation
6124 o fix Perl interpreter search: take first one found instead of last one
6125 o fix DSO consistency check
6126 o print error messages to stderr instead of stdout
6127 o add install-quiet for --shadow situation to Makefile stub
6128 o reduce complexity by avoiding sed-hacks for rule and module list loops
6129 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6131 *) Fix DEBUG_CGI situation in mod_cgi.c [David MacKenzie] PR#2114
6133 *) Make sure the input field separator (IFS) shell variable is explicitly
6134 initialized correctly before _every_ `for' loop and also restored after
6135 the loops. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6137 *) Make sure that "make install" doesn't overwrite the `mime.types' and
6138 `magic' files from an existing Apache installation. Because people often
6139 customize these for own MIME and content types.
6140 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6142 *) PORT: Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for OpenBSD 2.x
6143 [Peter Galbavy, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2109
6145 *) Fix the path to the ScoreBoardFile in the install-config target, too.
6146 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2105
6148 *) Let "configure" clear out the users parameters (provided as shell
6149 variables) to avoid side-effects in "src/Configure" when the user
6150 exported them (which is not needed, but some users do it).
6151 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2101
6153 *) Provide backward compatibility from some old src/Configuration.tmpl
6154 parameter names to the canonical Autoconf-style shell variable names. For
6155 instance CFLAGS vs. EXTRA_CFLAGS. The EXTRA_xxx variants are accepted now
6156 but a hint message is displayed. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6158 *) Make sure that "make install" doesn't overwrite the DocumentRoot and
6159 CGI scripts from an existing Apache installation.
6160 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Jim Jagielski] PR#2084
6162 *) Make `configure --compat' more "compatible" by first
6163 let the libexecdir default to EPREFIX/libexec instead of EPREFIX/bin and
6164 second by making sure the "avoid-bristling-suffix" /apache is not
6165 appended to sysconfdir, datadir, localstatedir and includedir when
6166 --compat is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Lars Eilebrecht]
6168 *) NeXT required strdup() in support/logresolve.c
6169 [Francisco Tomei <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>] PR#2082
6171 *) AIX required sys/select.h in support/ab.c
6172 [Jens Schleusener <Jens.Schleusener@dlr.de>] PR#2081
6174 *) Fix the path to the MimeMagicFile in the install-config target, too.
6175 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2089
6177 *) PORT: Added HP-UX 11 patches [Jeff Earickson <jaearick@colby.edu>]
6179 *) If you start apache with the -S command line option it will dump
6180 out the parsed vhost settings. This is useful for folks trying
6181 to figure out what is wrong with their vhost configuration.
6182 (Other dumps may be added in the future.) [Dean Gaudet]
6184 *) Add %pA, %pI, and %pp codes to ap_vformatter (and hence ap_bprintf,
6185 ap_snprintf, and ap_psprintf). See include/ap.h for docs.
6188 *) Because /usr/local/apache is the default prefix the ``configure
6189 --compat'' option no longer has to set prefix, again. This way the
6190 --compat option honors a leading --prefix option. [Lars Eilebrecht]
6192 *) PORT: Cast the first argument of dlopen() in ap_os_dso_load()
6193 to `char *' under OSF1 and FreeBSD 2.x where it is defined this way
6194 to avoid "discard const" warnings. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6196 *) If a specific handler is set for a file yet the request still
6197 ends up being handled by the default handler, log an error
6198 message before handling it. This catches things such as trying
6199 to use SSIs without mod_include enabled. [Marc Slemko]
6201 *) Fix error logging for the startup case where ap_log_error() still uses
6202 stderr as the target. Now the default log level is honored here, too.
6203 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6205 *) PORT: Make sure some AWK's don't fail in src/Configure with "string too
6206 long" errors when generating the MODULES entry for src/Makefile
6207 [Ben Hyde, Ralf S. Engelschall]
6209 *) Make sure src/Configure doesn't complain about the old directory
6210 /usr/local/etc/httpd/ when APACI is used. [Lars Eilebrecht]
6212 Changes with Apache 1.3b6
6214 *) PORT: Clean up warnings on Ultrix and HPUX. [Ben Hyde]
6216 *) Adding DSO support for the HP/UX platform by emulating the dlopen-style
6217 interface via the similar but proprietary HP/UX shl_xxx-style system
6218 calls. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6220 *) PORT: Updated UnixWare 2.0.x and 2.1.x entries for DSO support and made
6221 APACI Makefile.tmpl "install" target more robust for sensible UnixWare
6222 Make. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6224 *) ++++ THE BIG SYMBOL RENAMING ++++
6225 To avoid symbol clashes with third-party code compiled into the server,
6226 we globally applied the prefix "ap_" to the following classes of
6228 - Apache provided general functions (e.g., ap_cpystrn)
6229 - Public API functions (e.g., palloc, bgets)
6230 - Private functions which we can't make static (because of
6231 cross-object usage) but should be (e.g., new_connection)
6232 For backward source compatibility a new header file named compat.h was
6233 created which provides defines for the old symbol names and can be used
6234 by third-party module authors.
6237 *) Added dynamic shared object (DSO) support for SVR4-derivates: The
6238 problem under SVR4 is that there is no command flag to force the linker
6239 to export the global symbols of the httpd executable therewith they are
6240 available to the DSO's. Instead of problematic hacks like creating a
6241 dummy.so file (containing dummy references to all global symbols) the
6242 httpd binary is linked against, we use a clean trick stolen from Perl 5:
6243 Placing the Apache core code itself into a DSO library named libhttpd.so.
6244 This way the global symbols _HAVE_ to be exported and thus are available
6245 to any manually loaded DSO's under runtime. To reduce the impact to the
6246 user to null we go even further and create a stub httpd executable which
6247 automatically keeps track of the DSO library loading itself and thus
6248 hides the complete mechanism from the user. Although the generation of
6249 this DSO library is automatically triggered for platforms which
6250 essentially need it (mostly all SVR4-derivates) it can be also enabled
6251 manually via the Rule SHARED_CORE. This can be interesting in the future
6252 where we perhaps exploit this libhttpd.so mechanism for providing nifty
6253 features like graceful upgrades, or whatever.
6254 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Martin Kraemer]
6256 *) Build the libraries before building the rest of the tools. [Ben Hyde]
6258 *) Add "distclean" target to src/-Makefiles to provide "make distclean" also
6259 inside the src subtree (i.e. for non-APACI users). Following GNU Makefile
6260 conventions while "clean" removes only stuff created by "all" targets,
6261 "distclean" additionally removes the stuff from the configuration
6262 process. This way "make distclean" (hence the name) provides a fresh
6263 source tree as it was for distribution.
6264 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6266 *) Allow top-level (APACI) Makefile to break on build errors
6267 the same way the src/ subtree Makefiles breaks on them by replacing the
6268 initial APACI sed-subdir-display-kludge with a more clean
6269 variable-passing-solution: variable SDP can optionally hold the subdir
6270 prefix which is consistently used for displaying the subdir movement.
6271 This way even the top-level Makefile can stop correctly on errors as the
6272 user expects. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6274 *) Fixed ordering of argument checks for RewriteBase directive.
6275 [Todd Eigenschink <eigenstr@mixi.net>] PR#2045
6277 *) Change Win32 IS_MODULE to SHARED_MODULE to match Unix' method of
6278 indicating that a module is being compiled for dynamic loading. Also
6279 remove #define IS_MODULE from modules and add SHARED_MODULE define
6280 to the mak/dsp files. [Alexei Kosut]
6282 *) Reduce logging level of "normal" warning messages to APLOG_INFO,
6283 since we are now logging APLOG_WARNING by default. [Roy Fielding]
6285 *) PORT: OS/2 tweak to deal with multiple .exe targets. [Brian Havard]
6287 *) Add documentation file and src/Configuration.tmpl entry for the
6288 experimental mod_mmap_static module. Because although it is and marked as
6289 an experimental one it is distributed and thus should be documented and
6290 prepared for configuration the same way as all others modules.
6291 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6293 *) Add query (-q) option to apxs support tool to be able to manually query
6294 specific settings from apxs. This is needed for instance when you
6295 manually want to access Apache's header files and you need to assemble
6296 the -I option. Now you can do -I`apxs -q INCLUDEDIR`.
6297 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6299 *) Now src/Configure uses a fallback strategy for the shared object support
6300 on platforms where no explicit information is available: If a Perl
6301 installation exists we ask it about its shared object support and if it's
6302 the dlopen-style one we shamelessly guess the compiler and linker flags
6303 for creating shared objects from Perls knowledge. Of course, the user is
6304 warning about what we are doing and informed that he should send us
6305 the guessed flags when they work. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6307 *) Provide APACI --without-support option to be able to disable the build
6308 and installation of the support tools from the src/support/ area.
6309 Although its useful to have these installed per default we should provide
6310 a way to compile and install without them for backward-compatibility.
6311 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6313 *) Add of the new APache eXtenSion (apxs) support tool for building and
6314 installing modules into an _already installed_ Apache package through the
6315 dynamic shared object (DSO) mechanism [mod_so.c]. The trick here is that
6316 this approach actually doesn't need the Apache source tree. The
6317 (APACI-installed) server package is enough, because this now includes the
6318 Apache C header files (PREFIX/include) and the new APXS tool
6319 (SBINDIR/apxs). The intend is to provide a handy tool for third-party
6320 module authors to build their Apache modules _OUTSIDE_ the Apache source
6321 tree while avoiding them to fiddle around with the totally platform
6322 dependend way of compiling DSO files. The tool supports all ranges of
6323 modules, from trivial ones (single mod_foo.c) to complex ones (like PHP3
6324 which has a mod_php3.c plus a pre-built libmodphp3-so.a) and even can
6325 on-the-fly generate a minimalistic Makefile and sample module for the
6326 first step to provide both a quick success event and to demonstrate the
6327 APXS mechanism to module authors. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6329 *) Fix core dumps in use of CONNECT in proxy.
6330 [Rainer.Scherg@rexroth.de] PR#1326, #1573, #1942
6332 *) Modify the log directives in httpd.conf-dist files to use CustomLog
6333 so that users have examples of how CustomLog can be used.
6336 *) Add the new Apache Autoconf-style Interface (APACI) for the top-level of
6337 the Apache distribution tree. Until Apache 1.3 there was no real
6338 out-of-the-box batch-capable build and installation procedure for the
6339 complete Apache package. This is now provided by a top-level "configure"
6340 script and a corresponding top-level "Makefile.tmpl" file. The goal is
6341 to provide a GNU Autoconf-style frontend which is capable to both drive
6342 the old src/Configure stuff in batch and additionally installs the
6343 package with a GNU-conforming directory layout. Any options from the old
6344 configuration scheme are available plus a lot of new options for flexibly
6345 customizing Apache. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6347 *) The floating point ap_snprintf code wasn't threadsafe.
6348 Had to remove the HAVE_CVT macro in order to do threadsafe
6349 calling of the ?cvt() floating point routines. [Dean Gaudet]
6351 *) PORT: Add the SCO_SV port. [Jim Jagielski] PR#1962
6353 *) PORT: IRIX needs the -n32 flag iff using the 'cc' compiler
6354 [Jim Jagielski] PR#1901
6356 *) BUG: Configure was using TCC and CC inconsistently. Make sure
6357 Configure knows which CC we are using. [Jim Jagielski]
6359 *) "Options +Includes" wasn't correctly merged if "+IncludesNoExec"
6360 was defined in a parent directory. [Lars Eilebrecht]
6362 *) API: ap_snprintf() code mutated into ap_vformatter(), which is
6363 a generic printf-style routine that can call arbitrary output
6364 routines. Use this to replace http_bprintf.c. Add new routines
6365 psprintf(), pvsprintf() which allocate the exact amount of memory
6366 required for a string from a pool. Use psprintf() to clean up
6367 various bits of code which used ap_snprintf()/pstrdup().
6370 *) PORT: HAVE_SNPRINTF doesn't do anything any longer. This is because
6371 ap_snprintf() has different semantics and formatting codes than
6372 snprintf(). [Dean Gaudet]
6374 *) SIGXCPU and SIGXFSZ are now reset to SIG_DFL at boot-time. This
6375 is necessary on at least Solaris where the /etc/rc?.d scripts
6376 are run with these signals ignored, and "SIG_IGN" settings are
6377 maintained across exec().
6378 [Rein Tollevik <reint@sys.sol.no>] PR#2009
6380 *) Fix the check for symbolic links in ``RewriteCond ... -l'': stat() was
6381 used instead of lstat() and thus this flag didn't work as expected.
6382 [Rein Tollevik <reint@sys.sol.no>] PR#2010
6384 *) Fix the proxy pass-through feature of mod_rewrite for the case of
6385 existing QUERY_STRING now that mod_proxy was recently changed because of
6386 the new URL parsing stuff. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6388 *) A few changes to scoreboard definitions which helps gcc generate
6389 better code. [Dean Gaudet]
6391 *) ANSI C doesn't guarantee that "int foo : 2" in a structure will
6392 be a signed bitfield. So mark a few bitfields as signed to
6393 ensure correct code. [Dean Gaudet]
6395 *) The default for HostnameLookups was changed to Off, but there
6396 was a problem and it wasn't taking effect. [Dean Gaudet]
6398 *) PORT: Clean up undefined signals on some platforms (SCO, BeOS).
6401 *) After a SIGHUP the listening sockets in the parent weren't
6402 properly marked for closure on fork().
6403 [Jürgen Keil <jk@tools.de>] PR#2000
6405 *) Allow %2F in two situations: 1) it is in the query part of the URI,
6406 therefore not exposed to %2F -> '/' translations and 2) the request
6407 is a proxy request, so we're not dealing with a local resource anyway.
6408 Without this, the proxy would fail to work for any URL's with
6409 %2f in them (occurs quite often in
6410 http://.../cgi-bin/...?http%3A%2F%2F... references) [Martin Kraemer]
6412 *) Protect against FD_SETSIZE mismatches. [Dean Gaudet]
6414 *) Make the shared object compilation command more portable by avoiding
6415 the direct combination of `-c' & `-o' which is not honored by some
6416 compilers like UnixWare's cc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6418 *) WIN32: the proxy was creating filenames missing the last four
6419 characters. While this normally doesn't stop anything from
6420 working, it can result in extra collisions.
6421 [Tim Costello <tjcostel@socs.uts.edu.au>] PR#1890
6423 *) Now mod_proxy uses the response string (in addition to the response status
6424 code) from the already used FTP SIZE command to setup the Content-Length
6425 header if available. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1183
6427 *) Reanimated the (still undocumented) proxy receive buffer size directive:
6428 Renamed from ReceiveBufferSize to ProxyReceiveBufferSize because the old
6429 name was really too generic, added documentation for this directive to
6430 the mod_proxy.html and corrected the hyperlink to it in the
6431 new_features_1.3.html document. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1348
6433 *) Fix a bug in the src/helpers/fp2rp script and make it a little bit
6434 faster [Martin Kraemer]
6436 *) Make Configure die when you give it an unknown command switch.
6439 *) Add five new and fresh manpages for the support programs: dbmmanage.1,
6440 suexec.8, htdigest.1, rotatelogs.8 and logresolve.8. Now all up-to-date
6441 and per default compiled support programs have manual pages - just to
6442 document our stuff a little bit more and to be able to do really
6443 Unix-like installations ;-) [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6445 *) Major cleanups to the Configure script to make it and its generated
6446 Makefiles again readable and maintainable: add SRCDIR option, removed
6447 INCLUDES_DEPTH[0-2] kludge, cleanup of TARGET option, cleanup of
6448 generated sections, consequently added Makefile headers with inheritance
6449 information, added subdir movement messages for easier following where
6450 the build process currently stays (more verbose then standard Make, less
6451 verbose than GNU make), same style to comments in the Configure script,
6452 added Apache license header, fixed a few bugs, etc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6454 *) Add the new ApacheBench program "ab" to src/support/: This is derived
6455 from the ZeusBench benchmarking program and can be used to determine the
6456 response performance of an Apache installation. This version is
6457 officially licensed with Zeus Technology, Ltd. See the license agreement
6458 statements in <199803171224.NAA24547@en1.engelschall.com> in apache-core.
6459 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6461 *) API: Various core functions that are definately not part of the API
6462 have been made static, and a few have been marked API_EXPORT. Still
6463 more have been marked CORE_EXPORT and are not intended for general
6464 use by modules. [Doug MacEachern, Dean Gaudet]
6466 *) mod_proxy was not clearing the Proxy-Connection header from
6467 requests; now it does. This did not violate any spec, however
6468 causes poor interactions when you are talking to remote proxies.
6469 [Marc Slemko] PR#1741
6471 *) Various cleanups to the command line interface and manual pages.
6472 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6474 *) cfg_getline() was not properly handling lines that did not end
6475 with a line termination character. [Marc Slemko] PR#1869, 1909
6477 *) Performance tweak to mod_log_config. [Dmitry Khrustalev]
6479 *) Clean up some undocumented behavior of mod_setenvif related to
6480 "merging" two SetEnvIf directives when they match the same header
6481 and regex. Document that mod_setenvif will perform comparisons in
6482 the order they appear in the config file. Optimize mod_setenvif by
6483 doing more work at config time rather than at runtime.
6486 *) src/include/ap_config.h now wraps it's #define's with #ifndef/#endif's
6487 to allow for modules to overrule them and to reduce redefinition
6488 warnings [Jim Jagielski]
6490 *) [PORT] For A/UX change the OS-#define for -DAUX to -DAUX3.
6493 *) Making the hard-coded cross-module function call mime_find_ct() (from
6494 mod_proxy to mod_mime) obsolete by making sure the API hook for MIME type
6495 checking is really called even for proxy requests except for URLs with
6496 HTTP schemes (because there we can optimize by not running the type
6497 checking hooks due to the fact that the proxy gets the MIME Content-type
6498 from the remote host later). This change cleans up mod_mime by removing
6499 the ugly export kludge, makes the one-liner file mod_mime.h obsolete, and
6500 especially unbundles mod_proxy and mod_mime. This way they both now can
6501 be compiled as shared objects and are no longer tied together.
6502 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6504 *) util.c cleanup and speedup. [Dean Gaudet]
6506 *) API: Clarification, pstrndup() will always copy n bytes of the source
6507 and NUL terminate at the (n+1)st byte. [Dean Gaudet]
6509 *) Mark module command_rec and handler_rec structures const so that they
6510 end up in the read-only data section (and are friendlier to systems
6511 that don't do optimistic memory allocation on fork()). [Dean Gaudet]
6513 *) Add check to the "Port" directive to make sure the specified
6514 port is in the appropriate range. [Ben Hyde]
6516 *) Performance improvements to invoke_handler().
6517 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su>]
6519 *) Added support for building shared objects even for library-style modules
6520 (which are built from more than one object file). This now provides the
6521 ability to build mod_proxy as a shared object module. Additionally
6522 modules like mod_example are now also supported for shared object
6523 building because the generated Makefiles now no longer assume there is at
6524 least one statically linked module. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6526 *) API: Clarify usage of content_type, handler, content_encoding,
6527 content_language and content_languages fields in request_rec. They
6528 must always be lowercased; and the strings pointed to shouldn't
6529 be modified (you must copy them to modify them). Fix a few bugs
6530 related to this. [Dean Gaudet]
6532 *) API: Clarification: except for RAW_ARGS, all command handlers can
6533 treat the char * parameters as permanent, and modifiable. There
6534 is no need to pstrdup() them. Clean up some needless pstrdup().
6537 *) Now mod_so keeps track of which module shared objects with which names
6538 are loaded and thus avoids multiple loading and unloading and irritating
6539 error_log messages. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6541 *) Prior to the existence of mod_setenv it was necessary to tweak the TZ
6542 environment variable in the apache core. But that tweaking interferes
6543 with mod_setenv. So don't tweak if the user has specified an explicit
6544 TZ variable. [Jay Soffian <jay@cimedia.com>] PR#1888
6546 *) rputs() did not calculate r->sent_bodyct properly.
6547 [Siegmund Stirnweiss <siegst@kat.ina.de>] PR#1900
6549 *) The CGI spec says that REMOTE_HOST should be set to the remote hosts's
6550 name, or left unset if this value is unavailable. Apache was setting
6551 it to the IP address when unavailable.
6552 [Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net>] PR#1925
6554 *) Various improvements to the configuration and build support for compiling
6555 modules as shared objects. Especially Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.1, IRIX and
6556 OSF1 support with GCC and vendor compilers was added. This way shared
6557 object support is now provided out-of-the-box for FreeBSD, Linux,
6558 Solaris, SunOS, IRIX and OSF1. In short: On all major platforms!
6559 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6561 *) Minor cleanup in http_main -- split QNX and OS2 specific "mmap"
6562 scoreboard code into separate #defines -- USE_POSIX_SCOREBOARD
6563 and USE_OS2_SCOREBOARD. [Dean Gaudet]
6565 *) Fix one more special locking problem for RewriteMap programs in
6566 mod_rewrite: According to the documentation of flock(), "Locks are on
6567 files, not file descriptors. That is, file descriptors duplicated
6568 through dup(2) or fork(2) do not result in multiple instances of a lock,
6569 but rather multiple references to a single lock. If a process holding a
6570 lock on a file forks and the child explicitly unlocks the file, the
6571 parent will lose its lock.". To overcome this we have to make sure the
6572 RewriteLock file is opened _AFTER_ the childs were spawned which is now
6573 the case by opening it in the child_init instead of the module_init API
6574 hook. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1029
6576 *) Change to Location and LocationMatch semantics. LocationMatch no
6577 longer lets a single slash match multiple adjacent slashes in the
6578 URL. This change is for consistency with RewriteRule and
6579 AliasMatch. Multiple slashes have meaning in URLs that they do
6580 not have in (some) filesystems. Location on the other hand can
6581 be considered a shorthand for a more complicated regex, and it
6582 does match multiple slashes with a single slash -- which is
6583 also consistent with the Alias directive.
6584 [Dean Gaudet] related PR#1440
6586 *) Fix bug with mod_mime_magic causing certain files, including files
6587 of length 0, to result in no response from the server.
6590 *) The Configure script now generates src/include/ap_config.h which
6591 contains the set of defines used when Apache is compiled on a platform.
6592 This file can then be included by external modules before including
6593 any Apache header files in case they are being built separately from
6594 Apache. Along with this change, a couple of minor changes were
6595 made to make Apache's #defines coexist peacefully with any autoconf
6596 defines an external module might have. [Rasmus Lerdorf]
6598 *) Fix mod_rewrite for the ugly API case where <VirtualHost> sections exist
6599 but without any RewriteXXXXX directives. Here mod_rewrite is given no
6600 chance by the API to initialize its per-server configuration and thus
6601 receives the wrong one from the main server. This is now avoided by
6602 remembering the server together with the config structure while
6603 configuring and later assuming there is no config when we see a
6604 difference between the remembered server and the one calling us.
6605 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1790
6607 *) Fixed the DBM RewriteMap support for mod_rewrite: First the support now
6608 is automatically disabled under configure time when the dbm_xxx functions
6609 are not available. Second, two heavy source code errors in the DBM
6610 support code were fixed. This makes DBM RewriteMap's usable again after
6611 a long time of brokenness. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1696
6613 *) Now all configuration files support Unix-style line-continuation via
6614 the trailing backslash ("\") character. This enables us to write down
6615 complex or just very long directives in a more readable way. The
6616 backslash character has to be really the last character before the
6617 newline and it has not been prefixed by another (escaping) backslash.
6618 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6620 *) When using ProxyPass the ?querystring was not passed correctly.
6621 [Joel Truher <truher@wired.com>]
6623 *) To deal with modules being compiled and [dynamically] linked
6624 at a different time from the core, the SERVER_VERSION and
6625 SERVER_BUILT symbols have been abstracted through the new
6626 API routines apapi_get_server_version() and apapi_get_server_built().
6629 *) WIN32: Preserve trailing slash in canonical path (and hence
6630 in PATH_INFO). [Paul Sutton, Ben Laurie]
6632 *) PORT: USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT has proven unreliable
6633 depending on the rev of Solaris and what mixture of modules
6634 are in use. So it has been disabled, and Solaris is back to
6635 using USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT. Users may experiment with
6636 USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT at their own risk, it may speed
6637 up static content only servers. Or it may fail unpredictably.
6638 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1779, 1854, 1904
6640 *) mod_test_util_uri.c created which tests the logic in util_uri.c.
6643 *) API: Rewrite of absoluteURI handling, and in particular how
6644 absoluteURIs match vhosts. Unless a request is a proxy request, a
6645 "http://host" url is treated as if a similar "Host:" header had been
6646 supplied. This change was made to support future HTTP/1.x protocols
6647 which may require clients to send absoluteURIs for all requests.
6649 In order to achieve this change subtle changes were made to the API. In a
6650 request_rec, r->hostlen has been removed. r->unparsed_uri now exists so
6651 that the unmodified uri can be retrieved easily. r->proxyreq is not set
6652 by the core, modules must set it during the post_read_request or
6653 translate_names phase.
6655 Plus changes to the virtualhost test suite for absoluteURI testing.
6657 This fixes several bugs with the proxy proxying requests to vhosts
6658 managed by the same httpd.
6661 *) API: Cleanup of code in http_vhost.c, and remove vhost matching
6662 code from mod_rewrite. The vhost matching is now performed by a
6663 globally available function matches_request_vhost(). [Dean Gaudet]
6665 *) Reduce memory usage, and speed up ServerAlias support. As a
6666 side-effect users can list multiple ServerAlias directives
6667 and they're all considered.
6668 [Chia-liang Kao <clkao@cirx.org>] PR#1531
6670 *) The "poly" directive in image maps did not include the borders of the
6671 polygon, whereas the "rect" directive does. Fix this inconsistency.
6672 [Konstantin Morshnev <moko@design.ru>] PR#1771
6674 *) Make \\ behave as expected. [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch]
6676 *) Add the `%a' construct to LogFormat and CustomLog to log the client IP
6677 address. [Todd Eigenschink <eigenstr@mixi.net>] PR#1885
6679 *) API: A new source module main/util_uri.c; It contains a routine
6680 parse_uri_components() and friends which breaks a URI into its component
6681 parts. These parts are stored in a uri_components structure called
6682 parsed_uri within each request_rec, and are available to all modules.
6683 Additionally, an unparse routine is supplied which re-assembles the URI
6684 components back to an URI, optionally hiding the username:password@ part
6685 from ftp proxy requests, and other useful routines. Within the structure,
6686 you find on a ready-for-use basis:
6687 scheme; /* scheme ("http"/"ftp"/...) */
6688 hostinfo; /* combined [user[:password]@]host[:port] */
6689 user; /* user name, as in http://user:passwd@host:port/ */
6690 password; /* password, as in http://user:passwd@host:port/ */
6691 hostname; /* hostname from URI (or from Host: header) */
6692 port_str; /* port string (integer representation is in "port") */
6693 path; /* the request path (or "/" if only scheme://host was given) */
6694 query; /* Everything after a '?' in the path, if present */
6695 fragment; /* Trailing "#fragment" string, if present */
6696 This is meant to serve as the platform for *BIG* savings in
6697 code complexity for the proxy module (and maybe the vhost logic).
6700 *) Make all possible meta-construct expansions ($N, %N, %{NAME} and
6701 ${map:key}) available for all location where a string is created in
6702 mod_rewrite rewriting rulesets: 1st arg of RewriteCond, 2nd arg of
6703 RewriteRule and for the [E=NAME:STRING] flag of RewriteRule. This way the
6704 possible expansions are consequently usable at all string creation
6705 locations. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6707 *) Fix initialization of RewriteLogLevel (default now is 0 as documented
6708 and not 1) and the per-virtual-server merging of directives. Now all
6709 directives except `RewriteEngine' and `RewriteOption' are either
6710 completely overridden (default) or completely inherited (when
6711 `RewriteOptions inherit') is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1325
6713 *) Fix `RewriteMap' program lookup in situations where such maps are
6714 defined but disabled (`RewriteEngine off') in per-server context.
6715 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1431
6717 *) Fix bug introduced in 1.3b4-dev, config with no Port setting would cause
6718 server to bind to port 0 rather than 80. [Dean Gaudet]
6720 *) Fix long-standing problem with RewriteMap _programs_ under Unix derivates
6721 (like SunOS and FreeBSD) which don't accept the locking of pipes
6722 directly. A new directive RewriteLock is introduced which can be used to
6723 setup a separate locking file which then is used for synchronization.
6724 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1029
6726 *) WIN32: The server root is obtained from the registry key
6727 HKLM\SOFTWARE\Apache Group\Apache\<version> (version is currently
6728 "1.3 beta"), unless overridden by the -d command line flag. The
6729 value is stored by running "apache -i -d serverroot". [Paul Sutton]
6731 *) Merged os/win32/mod_dll.c into modules/standard/mod_so.c to support
6732 dynamic loading on Win32 and Unix via the same module. [Paul Sutton]
6734 *) Now mod_rewrite no longer makes problematic assumptions on the characters
6735 a username can contain when trying to expand it via /etc/passwd.
6736 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6738 *) The mod_setenvif BrowserMatch backwards compatibility command did not
6739 work properly with spaces in the regex. [Ronald Tschalaer] PR#1825
6741 *) Add new RewriteMap types: First, `rnd' which is equivalent to the `txt'
6742 type but with a special post-processing for the looked-up value: It
6743 parses it into alternatives according to `|' chars and then only one
6744 particular alternative is chosen randomly (this is an essential
6745 functionality needed for balancing between backend-servers when using
6746 Apache as a Reverse Proxy. The looked up value here is a list of
6747 servers). Second, `int' with the built-in maps named `tolower' and
6748 `toupper' which can be used to map URL parts to a fixed case (this is an
6749 essential feature to fix the case of server names when doing mass
6750 virtual-hosting with the help of mod_rewrite instead of using
6751 <VirtualHost> sections). [Ralf S. Engelschall, parts based on code from
6752 Jay Soffian <jay@cimedia.com>] PR#1631
6754 *) Add a new directive to mod_proxy similar to ProxyPass: `ProxyPassReverse'.
6755 This directive lets Apache adjust the URL in Location-headers on HTTP
6756 redirect responses sent by the remote server. This way the virtually
6757 mapped area is no longer left on redirects and thus by-passed which is
6758 especially essential when running Apache as a reverse proxy.
6759 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6761 *) Hide Proxy-Authorization from CGI/SSI/etc just like Authorization is
6762 hidden. [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
6764 *) Apache will, when started with the -X (single process) debugging flag,
6765 honor the SIGINT or SIGQUIT signals again now. This capability got lost
6766 a while ago during OS/2 signal handling changes.
6768 *) [PORT] Work around the fact that NeXT runs on more than the
6769 m68k chips in mod_status [Scott Anguish and Timothy Luoma
6772 *) [PORT] Recognize FreeBSD versions so we can use the OS regex as well
6773 as handling unsigned-chars for FreeBSD v3 and v2 [Andrey Chernov
6774 <ache@nagual.pp.ru> and Jim] PR#1450
6776 *) Use SA_RESETHAND or SA_ONESHOT when installing the coredump handlers.
6777 In particular the handlers could trigger themselves into an infinite
6778 loop if RLimitMem was used with a small amount of memory -- too small
6779 for the signal stack frame to be set up. [Dean Gaudet]
6781 *) Fix problems with absoluteURIs introduced during 1.3b4. [Dean Gaudet,
6782 Alvaro Martinez Echevarria <alvaro@lander.es>]
6784 *) Fix multiple UserDir problem introduced during 1.3b4-dev.
6785 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1850
6787 *) ap_cpystrn() had an off-by-1 error.
6788 [Charles Fu <ccwf@klab.caltech.edu>] PR#1847
6790 *) API: As Ken suggested the check_cmd_context() function and related
6791 defines are non-static now so modules can use 'em. [Martin Kraemer]
6793 *) mod_info would occasionally produce an unpaired <tt> in its
6794 output. Fixed. [Martin Kraemer]
6796 *) By default AIX binds a process (and it's children) to a single
6797 processor. httpd children now unbind themselves from that cpu
6798 and re-bind to one selected at random via bindprocessor()
6801 *) Linux 2.0 and above implement RLIMIT_AS, RLIMIT_DATA has almost no
6802 effect. Work around it by using RLIMIT_AS for the RLimitMEM
6803 directive. [Enrik Berkhan <enrik@inka.de>] PR#1816
6805 *) mod_mime_magic error message should indicate the filename when
6806 reads fail. ["M.D.Parker" <mdpc@netcom.com>] PR#1827
6808 *) Previously Apache would permit </Files> to end <FilesMatch> (and
6809 similary for Location and Directory), now this is diagnosed as an
6810 error. Improve error messages for mismatched sections (<Files>,
6811 <FilesMatch>, <Directory>, <DirectoryMatch>, ...).
6812 [Dean Gaudet, Martin Kraemer]
6814 *) <Files> is not permitted within <Location> (because of the
6815 semantic ordering). [Dean Gaudet] PR#379
6817 *) <Files> with wildcards was broken by the change in wildcard
6818 semantics (* does not match /). To fix this, <Files> now
6819 apply only to the basename of the request filename. This
6820 fixes some other inconsistencies in <Files> semantics
6821 (such as <Files a*b> not working). [Dean Gaudet] PR#1817
6823 *) Removed bogus "dist.tar" target from Makefile.tmpl and make sure
6824 backup files are removed on "clean" target [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6826 *) PORT: Add -lm to LIBS for HPUX. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1639
6828 *) Various errors from select() and accept() in child_main() would
6829 result in an infinite loop. It seems these two tickle kernel
6830 or library bugs occasionally, and result in log spammage and
6831 a generally bad scene. Now the child exits immediately,
6832 which seems to be a good workaround.
6833 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1747, 1107, 588, 1787, 987, 588
6835 *) Cleaned up some race conditions in unix child_main during
6836 initialization. [Dean Gaudet]
6838 *) SECURITY: "UserDir /abspath" without a * in the path would allow
6839 remote users to access "/~.." and bypass access restrictions
6840 (but note /~../.. was handled properly).
6841 [Lauri Jesmin <jesmin@ut.ee>] PR#1701
6843 *) API: os_is_path_absolute() now takes a const char * instead of a char *.
6846 Changes with Apache 1.3b5
6848 *) Source file dependencies in Makefile.tmpl files throughout the
6849 source tree were updated to accurately reflect reality.
6852 *) Preserve the content encoding given by the AddEncoding directive
6853 when the client doesn't otherwise specify an encoding.
6854 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>]
6856 *) Sort out problems with canonical filename handling happening too late.
6857 [Dean Gaudet, Ben Laurie]
6859 Changes with Apache 1.3b4
6861 *) The module structure was modified to include a *dynamic_load_handle
6862 in the STANDARD_MODULE_STUFF portion, and the MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER
6863 has been bumped accordingly. [Paul Sutton]
6865 *) All BrowserMatch directives mentioned in
6866 htdocs/manual/known_client_problems.html are in the default
6867 configuration files. [Lars Eilebrecht]
6869 *) MiNT port update. [Jan Paul Schmidt]
6871 *) HTTP/1.1 requires x-gzip and gzip encodings be treated
6872 equivalent, similarly for x-compress and compress. Apache
6873 now ignores a leading x- when comparing encodings. It also
6874 preserves the encoding the client requests (for example if
6875 it requests x-gzip, then Apache will respond with x-gzip
6876 in the Content-Encoding header).
6877 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>] PR#1772
6879 *) Fix a memory leak on keep-alive connections. [Igor Tatarinov]
6881 *) Added mod_so module to support dynamic loading of modules on Unix
6882 (like mod_dld for Win32). This replaces mod_dld.c. Use SharedModule
6883 instead of AddModule in Configuration to build shared modules
6884 [Sameer Parekh, Paul Sutton]
6886 *) Minor cleanups to r->finfo handling in some modules.
6889 *) Abstract read()/write() to ap_read()/ap_write().
6890 Makes it easier to add other types of IO code such as SFIO.
6893 *) API: Generalize default_port manipulations to make support of
6894 different protocols easier. [Ben Laurie, Randy Terbush]
6896 *) There are many cases where users do not want Apache to form
6897 self-referential urls using the "canonical" ServerName and Port.
6898 The new UseCanonicalName directive (default on), if set to off
6899 will cause Apache to use the client-supplied hostname and port.
6900 API: Part of this change required a change to the construct_url()
6901 prototype; and the addition of get_server_name() and
6903 [Michael Douglass <mikedoug@texas.net>, Dean Gaudet]
6904 PR#315, 459, 485, 1433
6906 *) Yet another rearrangement of the source tree.. now all the common
6907 header files are in the src/include directory. The -Imain -Iap
6908 references in Makefiles have been changed to the simpler -Iinclude
6909 instead. In addition to simplifying the build a little bit, this
6910 also makes it clear when a module is referencing something in a
6911 other than kosher manner (e.g., the proxy including mod_mime.h).
6912 Module-private header files (the proxy, mod_mime, the regex library,
6913 and mod_rewrite) have not been moved to src/include; nor have
6914 the OS-abstraction files. [Ken Coar]
6916 *) Fix a bug where r->hostname didn't have the :port stripped
6917 from it. [Dean Gaudet]
6919 *) Tweaked the headers_out table size, and the subprocess_env
6920 table size guess in rename_original_environment(). Added
6921 MAKE_TABLE_PROFILE which can help discover make_table()
6922 calls that use too small an initial guess, see alloc.c.
6925 *) Options and AllowOverride weren't properly merging in the main
6926 server setting inside vhosts (only an issue when you have no
6927 <Directory> or other section containing an Options that affects
6928 a request). Options +foo or -foo in the main_server wouldn't
6929 affect the main_server's lookup defaults. [Dean Gaudet]
6931 *) Variable 'cwd' was being used pointlessly before being set.
6934 *) r->allowed handling cleaned up in the standard modules.
6937 *) Some case-sensitivity issues cleaned up to be consistent with
6938 RFC2068. [Dean Gaudet]
6940 *) SIGURG doesn't exist everywhere.
6941 [Mark Andrew Heinrich <heinrich@tinderbox.Stanford.EDU>]
6943 *) mod_unique_id was erroneously generating a second unique id when
6944 an internal redirect occured. Such redirects occur, for example,
6945 when processing a DirectoryIndex match. [Dean Gaudet]
6947 *) API: table_add, table_merge, and table_set include implicit pstrdup()
6948 of the key and value. But in many cases this is not required
6949 because the key/value is a constant, or the value has been built
6950 by pstrcat() or other similar means. New routines table_addn,
6951 table_mergen, and table_setn have been added to the API, these
6952 routines do not pstrdup() their arguments. The core code and
6953 standard modules were changed to take advantage of these routines.
6954 The resulting server is up to 20% faster in some situations.
6956 Note that it is easy to get code subtly wrong if you pass a key/value
6957 which is in a pool other than the pool of the table. The only
6958 safe thing to do is to pass key/values which are in the pool of
6959 the table, or in one of the ancestors of the pool of the table.
6960 i.e. if the table is part of a subrequest, a value from the main
6961 request's pool is OK since the subrequest pool is a sub_pool of the
6962 main request's pool (and therefore has a lifespan at most as long as
6963 the main pool). There is debugging code which can detect improper
6964 usage, enabled by defining POOL_DEBUG. See alloc.c for more details.
6965 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su>, Dean Gaudet]
6967 *) More mod_mime_magic cleanup: fewer syscalls; should handle "files"
6968 which don't exist on disk more gracefully; handles vhosts properly.
6969 Update documentation to reflect the code -- if there's no
6970 MimeMagicFile directive then the module is not enabled.
6973 *) PORT: Some older *nix dialects cannot automatically start scripts
6974 which begin with a #! interpreter line (the shell starts the scripts
6975 appropriately on these platforms). Apache now supports starting of
6976 "hashbang-scripts" when the NEED_HASHBANG_EMUL define is set.
6977 [Martin Kraemer, with code from peter@zeus.dialix.oz.au (Peter Wemm)
6980 *) API: "typedef array_header table" removed from alloc.h, folks should
6981 have been writing to use table as if it were an opaque type, but even
6982 some standard modules got this wrong. By changing the definition
6983 to "typedef struct table table" module authors will receive compile
6984 time warnings that they're doing the wrong thing. This change
6985 facilitates future changes with more sophisticated table
6986 structures. Specifically, module authors should be using table_elts()
6987 to get access to an array_header * for the table. [Dean Gaudet]
6989 *) API: Renamed new_connection() to avoid namespace collision with LDAP
6990 library routines. [Ken Coar, Rasmus Lerdorf]
6992 *) WIN32: mod_speling is now available on the Win32 platform.
6995 *) For clarity the following compile time definition was changed:
6997 SAFE_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT -> SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT
6999 Also, for example, HAVE_MMAP would mean to use mmap() scoreboards
7000 and not be a general notice that the OS has mmap(). Now the
7001 HAVE_MMAP/SHMGET #defines strictly are informational that the
7002 OS has that method of shared memory; the type to use for
7003 the scoreboard is a seperate #define (USE_MMAP_SCOREBOARD
7004 and USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD). This allows outside modules to
7005 determine if shared memory is available and allows Apache
7006 to determine the best method to use for the scoreboard.
7009 *) PORT: UnixWare 2.1.2 SMP appears to require USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT,
7010 as do various earlier versions. It should be safe on all versions.
7011 Unixware 1.x appears to have the same SIGHUP bug as solaris does with
7012 the slack code. A few other cleanups for Unixware.
7013 [Tom Hughes <thh@cyberscience.com>] PR#1082, PR#1282, PR#1499, PR#1553
7015 *) PORT: A/UX can handle single-listen accepts without mutex
7016 locking, so we add SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT. [Jim Jagielski]
7018 *) When die() happens we need to eat any request body if one exists.
7019 Otherwise we can't continue with a keepalive session. This shows up
7020 as a POST problem with MSIE 4.0, typically against pages which are
7021 authenticated. [Roy Fielding] PR#1399
7023 *) If you define SECURITY_HOLE_PASS_AUTHORIZATION then the Authorization
7024 header will be passed to CGIs. This is generally a security hole, so
7025 it's not a default. [Marc Slemko] PR#549
7027 *) Fix Y2K problem with date printing in suexec log.
7028 [Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>] PR#1343
7030 *) WIN32 deserves a pid file. [Ben Hyde]
7032 *) suexec errors now include the errno/description. [Marc Slemko] PR#1543
7034 *) PORT: OSF/1 now uses USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT to solve PR#467.
7035 The choice of flock vs. fcntl was made based on timings which showed that
7036 even on non-NFS, non-exported filesystems fcntl() was an order of
7037 magnitude slower. It also uses SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT so
7038 that single socket users will see no difference. [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
7040 *) "File does not exist" error message was erroneously including the
7041 errno. [Marc Slemko]
7043 *) Improve the warning message generated when a client drops the
7044 connection (hits stop button, etc.) during a send. [Roy Fielding]
7046 *) Defining GPROF will disable profiling in the parent and enable it
7047 in the children. If you're profiling under Linux this is pretty much
7048 necessary because SIGPROF is lost across a fork(). [Dean Gaudet]
7050 *) htdigest and htpasswd needed slight tweaks to work on OS/2 and WIN32.
7053 *) The NeXT cc (which is gcc hacked up) doesn't appear to support some
7054 gcc functionality. Work around it.
7055 [Keith Severson <keith@sssd.navy.mil>] PR#1613
7057 *) Some linkers complain when .o files contain no functions.
7058 [Keith Severson <keith@sssd.navy.mil>] PR#1614
7060 *) Some const declarations in mod_imap.c that were added for debugging
7061 purposes caused some compilers heartburn without adding any
7062 significant value, so they've been removed. [Ken Coar]
7064 *) The src/main/*.h header files have had #ifndef wrappers added to
7065 insulate them against duplicate calls if they get included through
7066 multiple paths (e.g., in .c files as well as other .h files).
7069 *) The libap routines now have a header file for their prototypes,
7070 src/ap/ap.h, to ease their use in non-httpd applications. [Ken Coar]
7072 *) mod_autoindex with a plaintext header file would emit the <PRE>
7073 start-tag before the HTML preamble, rather than after the preamble
7074 but before the header file contents. [John Van Essen <jve@gamers.org>]
7077 *) SECURITY: Fix a possible buffer overflow in logresolve. This is
7078 only an issue on systems without a MAXDNAME define or where
7079 the resolver returns domain names longer than MAXDNAME. [Marc Slemko]
7081 *) SECURITY: Eliminate possible buffer overflow in cfg_getline, which
7082 is used to read various types of files such as htaccess and
7083 htpasswd files. [Marc Slemko]
7085 *) SECURITY: Ensure that the buffer returned by ht_time is always
7086 properly null terminated. [Marc Slemko]
7088 *) The "Connection" header could be sent back with multiple "close"
7089 tokens. Not an error, but a waste.
7090 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1683
7092 *) mod_rewrite's RewriteLog should behave like mod_log_config, it
7093 shouldn't force hostname lookups. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1684
7095 *) "basic" auth needs a case-insensitive comparison.
7096 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1666
7098 *) For maximum portability, the environment passed to CGIs should
7099 only contain variables whose names match the regex
7100 /[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]*/. This is now enforced by stamping
7101 underscores over any character outside the regex. This
7102 affects HTTP_* variables, in a way that should be backward
7103 compatible for all the standard headers; and affects variables
7104 set with SetEnv/BrowserMatch and similar directives.
7107 *) mod_speling returned incorrect HREF's when an ambigous match
7108 was found. Noticed by <robinton@amtrash.comlink.de> (Soeren Ziehe)
7109 [robinton@amtrash.comlink.de (Soeren Ziehe), Martin Kraemer]
7111 *) PORT: Apache now compiles & runs on an EBCDIC mainframe
7112 (the Siemens BS2000/OSD family) in the POSIX subsystem
7115 *) PORT: Fix problem killing children when terminating. Allow ^C
7116 to shut down the server. [Brian Havard]
7118 *) pstrdup() is implicit in calls to table_* functions, so there's
7119 no need to do it before calling. Clean up a few cases.
7120 [Marc Slemko, Dean Gaudet]
7122 *) new -C and -c command line arguments
7124 -C "directive" : process directive before reading config files
7125 -c "directive" : process directive after reading config files
7127 httpd -C "PerlModule Apache::httpd_conf"
7128 [Doug MacEachern, Martin Kraemer]
7130 *) WIN32: Fix the execution of CGIs that are scripts and called
7131 with path info that does not have an '=' in.
7132 (eg. http://server/cgi-bin/printenv?foobar)
7133 [Marc Slemko] PR#1591
7135 *) WIN32: Fix a call to os_canonical_filename so it doesn't try to
7136 mess with fake filenames. This fixes proxy caching on
7139 *) SECURITY: General mod_include cleanup, including fixing several
7140 possible buffer overflows and a possible infinite loop.
7141 [Dean Gaudet, Marc Slemko]
7143 *) SECURITY: Numerous changes to mod_imap in a general cleanup
7144 including fixing a possible buffer overflow. [Dean Gaudet]
7146 *) WIN32: overhaul of multithreading code. Shutdowns are now graceful
7147 (connections are not dropped). Code can handle graceful restarts
7148 (but there is as yet no way to signal this to Apache). Various
7149 other cleanups. [Paul Sutton]
7151 *) The aplog_error changes specific to 1.3 introduced a buffer
7152 overrun in the (now legacy) log_printf function. Fixed.
7155 *) mod_digest didn't properly deal with proxy authentication. It
7156 also lacked a case-insensitive comparision of the "Digest"
7157 token. [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>] PR#1599
7159 *) A few cleanups in mod_status for efficiency. [Dean Gaudet]
7161 *) A few cleanups in mod_info to make it thread-safe, and remove an
7162 off-by-5 bug that could hammer \0 on the stack. [Dean Gaudet]
7164 *) no2slash() was O(n^2) in the length of the input. Make it O(n).
7167 *) API: migration from strncpy() to our "enhanced" version called
7168 ap_cpystrn() for performance and functionality reasons.
7169 Located in libap.a. [Jim Jagielski]
7171 *) table_set() and table_unset() did not deal correctly with
7172 multiple occurrences of the same key.
7173 [Stephen Scheck <sscheck@infonex.net>, Ben Laurie] PR#1604
7175 *) The AuthName must now be enclosed in quotes if it is to contain
7176 spaces. [Ken Coar] PR#1195
7178 *) API: new function: ap_escape_quotes(). [Ken Coar] PR#1195
7180 *) WIN32: Work around optimiser bug that killed ISAPI in release
7181 versions. [Ben Laurie] PR#1533
7183 *) PORT: Update the MPE port [Mark Bixby, Jim Jagielski]
7185 *) Interim (slow) fix for p->sub_pool critical sections in
7186 alloc.c (affects win32 only). [Ben Hyde]
7188 *) non-WIN32 was missing destroy_mutex definition. [Ben Hyde]
7190 *) send_fd_length() did not calculate total_bytes_sent properly.
7191 [Ben Reser <breser@regnow.com>] PR#1366
7193 *) The bputc() macro was not properly integrated with the chunking
7194 code; in many cases modules using bputc() could cause completely
7195 bogus chunked output. (Typically this will show up as problems
7196 with Internet Explorer 4.0 reading a page, but other browsers
7197 having no problem.) [Dean Gaudet]
7199 *) Create LARGE_WRITE_THRESHOLD define which determines how many
7200 bytes have to be supplied to bwrite() before it will consider
7201 doing a writev() to assemble multiple buffers in one system
7202 call. This is critical for modules such as mod_include,
7203 mod_autoindex, mod_php3 which all use bputc()/bputs() of smaller
7204 strings in some cases. The result would be extra effort
7205 setting up writev(), and in many cases extra effort building
7206 chunks. The default is 31, it can be overriden at compile
7209 *) Move the gid switching code into the child so that log files
7210 and pid files are opened with the root gid.
7211 [Gregory A Lundberg <lundberg@vr.net>]
7213 *) WIN32: Check for binaries by looking for the executable header
7214 instead of counting control characters.
7215 [Jim Patterson <Jim.Patterson@Cognos.COM>] PR#1340
7217 *) ap_snprintf() moved from main/util_snprintf.c to ap/ap_snprintf.c
7218 so the functionality is available to applications other than the
7219 server itself (like the src/support tools). [Ken Coar]
7221 *) ap_slack() moved out of main/util.c into ap/ap_slack.c as part of
7222 the libap consolidation work. [Ken Coar]
7224 *) ap_snprintf() with a len of 0 behaved like sprintf(). This is not
7225 useful, and isn't what the standards require. Now it returns 0
7226 and writes nothing. [Dean Gaudet]
7228 *) When an error occurs in fcntl() locking suggest the user look up
7229 the docs for LockFile. [Dean Gaudet]
7231 *) Eliminate some dead code from writev_it_all().
7232 [Igor Tatarinov <tatarino@prairie.NoDak.edu>]
7234 *) mod_autoindex had an fread() without checking the result code.
7235 It also wouldn't handle "AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/text.gif text/*"
7236 (note the missing closing paren) properly. [Dean Gaudet]
7238 *) It appears the "257th byte" bug (see
7239 htdocs/manual/misc/known_client_problems.html#257th-byte) can happen
7240 at the 256th byte as well. Fixed. [Dean Gaudet]
7242 *) PORT: Fix mod_mime_magic under OS/2, no support for block devices.
7245 *) Fix memory corruption caused by allocating auth usernames in the
7246 wrong pool. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1500
7248 *) Fix an off-by-1, and an unterminated string error in
7249 mod_mime_magic. [Dean Gaudet]
7251 *) Fix a potential SEGV problem in mod_negotiation when dealing
7252 with type-maps. [Dean Gaudet]
7254 *) Better glibc support under Linux. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1542
7256 *) "RedirectMatch gone /" would cause a SIGSEGV. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1319
7258 *) WIN32: avoid overflows during file canonicalisations.
7259 [malcolm@mgdev.demon.co.uk] PR#1378
7261 *) WIN32: set_file_slot() didn't detect absolute paths. [Ben Laurie]
7264 *) WIN32: mod_status display header didn't match fields. [Ben Laurie]
7266 *) The pthread_mutex_* functions return an error code, and don't
7267 set errno. [Igor Tatarinov <tatarino@prairie.NoDak.edu>]
7269 *) WIN32: Allow spaces to prefix the interpreter in #! lines.
7270 [Ben Laurie] PR#1101
7272 *) WIN32: Cure file leak in CGIs. [Peter Tillemans <pti@net4all.be>] PR#1523
7274 *) proxy_ftp: the directory listings generated by the proxy ftp module
7275 now have a title in which the path components are clickable and allow
7276 quick navigation to the clicked-on directory on the currently listed
7277 ftp server. This also fixes a bug where the ".." directory links would
7278 sometimes refer to the wrong directory. [Martin Kraemer]
7280 *) WIN32: Allocate the correct amount of memory for the scoreboard.
7283 *) WIN32: Only lowercase the part of the path that is real. [Ben Laurie]
7286 *) Fix problems with timeouts in inetd mode and -X mode. [Dean Gaudet]
7288 *) Fix the spurious "(0)unknown error: mmap_handler: mmap failed"
7289 error messages. [Ben Hyde]
7291 Changes with Apache 1.3b3
7293 *) WIN32: Work around brain-damaged spawn calls that can't deal
7294 with spaces and slashes. [Ben Laurie]
7296 *) WIN32: Fix the code so CGIs can use socket calls on Windows.
7297 The problem was that certain undocumented environment variables
7298 needed for sockets to work under Win32 were not being passed.
7299 [Frank Faubert <frank@sane.com>]
7301 *) Add a "-V" command line flag to the httpd binary. This
7302 flag shows some of the defines that Apache was compiled with.
7303 It is useful for debugging purposes. [Martin Kraemer]
7305 *) Start separating the ap_*() routines into their own library, so they
7306 can be used by items in src/support among other things.
7307 [Ken Coar] PR#512, 905, 1252, 1308
7309 *) Give a more informative error when no AuthType is set.
7312 *) Remove strtoul() use from mod_proxy because it isn't available
7313 on all platforms. [Marc Slemko] PR#1214
7315 *) WIN32: Some Win32 systems terminated all responses after 16 kB.
7316 This turns out to be a bug in Winsock - select() doesn't always
7317 return the correct status. [Ben Laurie]
7319 *) Directives owned by http_core can now use the new check_cmd_context()
7320 routine to ensure that they're not being used within a container
7321 (e.g., <Directory>) where they're invalid. [Martin Kraemer]
7323 *) PORT: Recent changes made it necessary to add explicit prototype
7324 for fgetc() and fgets() on SunOS 4.x. [Martin Kraemer, Ben Hyde]
7326 *) It was necessary to distinguish between resources which are
7327 allocated in the parent, for cleanup in the parent, and resources
7328 which are allocated in each child, for cleanup in each child.
7329 A new pool was created which is passed to the module child_init
7330 and child_exit functions; modules are free to register per-child
7331 cleanups there. This fixes a bug with reliable piped logs.
7334 *) mod_autoindex wasn't displaying the ReadmeName file at the bottom
7335 unless it was also doing FancyIndexes, but it displayed the
7336 HeaderName file at the top under all circumstances. It now shows
7337 the ReadmeName file for simple indices, too, as it should.
7340 *) http_core was mmap()ing even in cases where it wasn't going to
7341 read the file. [Ben Hyde <bhyde@gensym.com>]
7343 *) Complete rewrite ;-) of mod_rewrite's URL rewriting engine:
7344 Now the rewriting engine (the heart of mod_rewrite) is organized more
7345 straight-forward, first time well documented and reduced to the really
7346 essential parts. All redundant cases were stripped off and processing now
7347 is the same for both per-server and per-directory context with only a
7348 minimum difference (the prefix stripping in per-dir context). As a
7349 side-effect some subtle restrictions and two recently discovered problems
7350 are gone: Wrong escaping of QUERY_STRING on redirects in per-directory
7351 context and restrictions on the substitution URL on redirects.
7352 Additionally some minor source cleanups were done.
7353 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7355 *) Lars Eilebrecht wrote a whole new set of Apache Vhost Internals
7356 documentation, examples, explanations and caveats. They live in a new
7357 subdirectory htdocs/manual/vhost/. [Lars Eilebrecht <sfx@unix-ag.org>]
7359 *) If ap_slack fails to allocate above the low slack line it's a good
7360 indication that further problems will occur; it's a better indication
7361 than many external libraries give us when we actually run out of
7362 descriptors. So report it to the user once per restart.
7363 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1181
7365 *) Change mod_include and mod_autoindex to use Y2K-safe date formats
7366 by default. [Ken Coar]
7368 *) Add a "SuppressColumnSorting" option to the IndexOptions list,
7369 which will keep the column heading from being links for sorting
7370 the display. [Ken Coar, suggested by Brian Tiemann <btman@pacific.net>]
7373 *) PORT: Update the LynxOS port. [Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>]
7375 *) Fix logic error when issuing a mmap() failed message
7376 with a non-zero MMAP_THRESHOLD.
7377 [David Chambers <davidc@flosun.salk.edu>] PR#1294
7379 *) Preserve handler value on ProxyPass'ed requests by not
7380 calling find_types on a proxy'd request; fixes problems
7381 where some ProxyPass'ed URLs weren't actually passed
7383 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#870
7385 *) Fix a byte ordering problem in mod_access which prevented
7386 the old-style syntax (i.e. "a.b.c." to match a class C)
7387 from working properly. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1248, 1328, 1384
7389 *) Fix problem with USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT not working
7390 properly. Each child needs to open the lockfile instead
7391 of using the passed file-descriptor from the parent.
7392 [Jim Jagielski] PR#1056
7394 *) Fix the error logging in mod_cgi; the recent error log changes
7395 introduced a bug that prevented it from working correctly.
7396 [M.D.Parker] PR#1352
7398 *) Default to USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT on HPUX to properly
7399 handle multiple Listen directives. [Marc Slemko] PR#872
7401 *) Inherit a bugfix to fnmatch.c from FreeBSD sources.
7402 ["[KOI8-R] áÎÄÒÅÊ þÅÒÎÏ×" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>] PR#1311
7404 *) When a configuration parse complained about a bad directive,
7405 the logger would use whatever (unrelated) value was in errno.
7406 errno is now forced to EINVAL first in this case. [Ken Coar]
7408 *) A sed command in the Configure script pushed the edge of POSIXness,
7409 breaking on some systems. [Bhaba R.Misra <system@vt.edu>] PR#1368
7411 *) Solaris >= 2.5 was totally broken due to a mess up using pthread
7412 mutexes. [Roy Fielding, Dean Gaudet]
7414 *) OS/2 Port updated; it should be possible to build OS/2 from the same
7415 sources as Unix now. [Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
7417 *) Fix a year formatting bug in mod_usertrack.
7418 [Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>] PR#1342
7420 *) A mild SIGTERM/SIGALRM race condition was eliminated.
7421 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1211
7423 *) Warn user that default path has changed if /usr/local/etc/httpd
7424 is found on the system. [Lars Eilebrecht]
7426 *) Various mod_mime_magic bug fixes and cleanups: Uncompression
7427 should work, it should work on WIN32, and a few resource
7428 leaks and abort conditions are fixed.
7429 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1205
7431 *) PORT: On AIX 1.x files can't be named '@', fix the proxy cache
7432 to use '%' instead of '@' in its encodings.
7433 [David Schuler <schuld@btv.ibm.com>] PR#1317
7435 *) Improve the warning message generated when the "server is busy".
7436 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1293
7438 *) PORT: All ports which don't otherwise define DEF_WANTHSREGEX will
7439 get Spencer regex by default. This is to avoid having to
7440 discover bugs in operating system libraries. [Dean Gaudet]
7442 *) PORT: "Fix" PR#467 by generating warnings on systems which we have
7443 not been able to get working USE_*_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT settings for.
7444 Document this a bit more in src/PORTING. [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
7446 *) Ensure that one copy of config warnings makes it to the
7447 error_log. [Dean Gaudet]
7449 *) Invent new structure and associated methods to handle config file
7450 reading. Add "custom" hook to use config file cfg_getline() on
7451 something which is not a FILE* [Martin Kraemer]
7453 *) Make single-exe Windows install. [Ben Laurie and Eric Esselink]
7455 *) WIN32: Make CGI work under Win95. [Ben Laurie and Paul Sutton]
7457 *) WIN32: Make index.html and friends work under Win95. [Ben Laurie]
7459 *) PORT: Solaris 2.4 needs Spencer regex, the system regex is broken.
7460 [John Line <jml4@cam.ac.uk>] PR#1321
7462 *) Default pathname has been changed everywhere to /usr/local/apache
7463 [Sameer <sameer@c2.net>]
7465 *) PORT: AIX now uses USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT.
7466 [David Bronder <David-Bronder@uiowa.edu>] PR#849
7468 *) PORT: i386 AIX does not have memmove.
7469 [David Schuler <schuld@btv.ibm.com>] PR#1267
7471 *) PORT: HPUX now defaults to using Spencer regex.
7472 [Philippe Vanhaesendonck <pvanhaes@be.oracle.com>,
7473 Omar Del Rio <al112263@academ01.lag.itesm.mx>] PR#482, 1246
7475 *) PORT: Some versions of NetBSD don't automatically define
7476 __NetBSD__. Workaround by defining NETBSD.
7477 [Chris Craft <ccraft@cncc.cc.co.us>] PR#977
7479 *) PORT: UnixWare 2.x requires -lgen for syslog.
7480 [Hans Snijder <hs@meganet.nl>] PR#1249
7482 *) PORT: ULTRIX appears to not have syslog.
7483 [Lars Eilebrecht <Lars.Eilebrecht@unix-ag.org>]
7485 *) PORT: Basic Gemini port (treat it like unixware212).
7486 ["Pavel Yakovlev (Paul McHacker)" <hac@tomcat.olly.ru>]
7488 *) PORT: All SVR4 systems now use NET_SIZE_T = size_t, and
7489 use USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD.
7492 *) Various improvements in detecting config file errors (missing closing
7493 directives for <Directory>, <Files> etc. blocks, prohibiting global
7494 server settings in <VirtualHost> blocks, flagging unhandled multiple
7495 arguments to <Directory>, <Files> etc.)
7498 *) Add support to suexec wrapper program for mod_unique_id's UNIQUE_ID
7499 variable to provide this one to suexec'd CGIs, too.
7500 [M.D.Parker <mdpc@netcom.com>] PR#1284
7502 *) New support tool: src/support/split-logfile, a sample Perl script which
7503 splits up a combined access log into separate files based on the
7504 name of the virtual host (listed first in the log records by "%v").
7507 Changes with Apache 1.3b2 (there is no 1.3b1)
7509 *) TestCompile was not passing $LIBS [Dean Gaudet]
7511 *) Makefile.tmpl was not using $CFLAGS in the link phase.
7514 *) Add debugging code to alloc.c. Defining ALLOC_DEBUG provides a
7515 rudimentary memory debugger which can be used on live servers with
7516 low impact -- it sets all allocated and freed memory bytes to 0xa5.
7517 Defining ALLOC_USE_MALLOC will cause the alloc code to use malloc()
7518 and free() for each object. This is far more expensive and should
7519 only be used for testing with tools such as Electric Fence and
7520 Purify. See main/alloc.c for more details. [Dean Gaudet]
7522 *) Configure uses a sh trap and didn't set its exitcode properly.
7523 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1159
7525 *) Yet another vhost revamp. Add the NameVirtualHost directive which
7526 explicitly lists the ip:port pairs that are to be used for name-vhosts.
7527 From a given ip:port, regardless what the Host: header is, you can
7528 only reach the vhosts defined on that ip:port. The precedence of
7529 vhosts was reversed to match other precedences in the config --
7530 the earlier vhosts override the later vhosts. All vhost matching was
7531 moved into http_vhost.[ch]. [Dean Gaudet]
7533 *) ap_inline can be used to force inlining. GNUC __attribute__() can
7534 be used for whatever reason is appropriate (i.e. format() warnings
7535 for printf style functions). Both are enabled only with
7536 gcc >= 2.7.x (so that we have fewer support issues with older
7537 versions). [Dean Gaudet]
7539 *) Fix support for Proxy Authentication (we were testing the response
7540 status too early). [Marc Slemko]
7542 *) CoreDumpDirectory directive directs where the core file is
7543 written when a SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, SIGABORT or SIGABRT are
7544 received. [Marc Slemko, Dean Gaudet]
7546 *) PORT: Support for Atari MINT.
7547 [Jan Paul Schmidt <Jan.P.Schmidt@mni.fh-giessen.de>]
7549 *) When booting, apache will now detach itself from stdin, stdout,
7550 and stderr. stderr will not be detached until after the config
7551 files have been read so you will be able to see initial error
7552 messages. After that all errors are logged in the error_log.
7553 This makes it more convenient to start apache via rsh, ssh,
7554 or crontabs. [Dean Gaudet] PR#523
7556 *) mod_proxy was sending HTTP/1.1 responses to ftp requests by mistake.
7557 Also removed the auto-generated link to www.apache.org that was the
7558 source of so many misdirected bug reports. [Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
7560 *) send_fb would not detect aborted connections in some situations.
7563 *) mod_include would use uninitialized data when parsing certain
7564 expressions involving && and ||. [Brian Slesinsky] PR#1139
7566 *) mod_imap should only handle GET methods. [Jay Bloodworth]
7568 *) suexec.c wouldn't build without -DLOG_EXEC. [Jason A. Dour]
7570 *) mod_autoindex improperly counted &escapes; as more than one
7571 character in the description. It also improperly truncated
7572 descriptions that were exactly the maximum length.
7575 *) RedirectMatch was not properly escaping the result (PR#1155). Also
7576 "RedirectMatch /advertiser/(.*) $1" is now permitted.
7579 *) mod_include now uses symbolic names to check for request success
7580 and return HTTP errors, and correctly handles all types of
7581 redirections (previously it only did temporary redirect correctly).
7582 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding]
7584 *) mod_userdir was modifying r->finfo in cases where it wasn't setting
7585 r->filename. Since those two are meant to be in sync with each other
7586 this is a bug. ["Paul B. Henson" <henson@intranet.csupomona.edu>]
7588 *) PORT: Support Unisys SVR4, whose uname returns mostly useless data.
7589 ["Kaufman, Steven E" <Steven.Kaufman@unisys.com>]
7591 *) Inetd mode (which is buggy) uses timeouts without having setup the
7592 jmpbuffer. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1064
7594 *) Work around problem under Linux where a child will start looping
7595 reporting a select error over and over.
7596 [Rick Franchuk <rickf@transpect.net>] PR#1107, 987, 588
7598 *) Fixed error in proxy_util.c when looping through multiple host IP
7599 addresses. [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#974
7601 *) If BUFFERED_LOGS is defined then mod_log_config will do atomic
7602 buffered writes -- that is, it will buffer up to PIPE_BUF (i.e. 4k)
7603 bytes before writing, but it will never split a log entry across a
7604 buffer boundary. [Dean Gaudet]
7606 *) API: the short_score record has been split into two pieces, one which
7607 the parent writes on, and one which the child writes on. As part of
7608 this change the get_scoreboard_info() function was removed, and
7609 scoreboard_image was exported. This change fixes a race condition
7610 in file based scoreboard systems, and speeds up changes involving the
7611 scoreboard in earlier 1.3 development. [Dean Gaudet]
7613 *) API: New register_other_child() API (see http_main.h) which allows
7614 modules to register children with the parent for maintenance. It
7615 is disabled by defining NO_OTHER_CHILD. [Dean Gaudet]
7617 *) API: New piped_log API (see http_log.h) which implements piped logs,
7618 and will use register_other_child to implement reliable piped logs
7619 when it is available. The reliable piped logs part can be disabled
7620 by defining NO_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS. At the moment reliable piped
7621 logs is only available on Unix. [Dean Gaudet]
7623 *) API: set_last_modified() broken into set_last_modified(), set_etag(), and
7624 meets_conditions(). This allows conditional HTTP selection to be
7625 handled separately from the storing of the header fields, and provides
7626 the ability for CGIs to set their own ETags for conditional checking.
7627 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding] PR#895
7629 *) Changes to mod_log_config to allow naming of format strings.
7630 Format nicknames are defined with "LogFormat fmt nickname", and can
7631 be used with "LogFormat nickname" and "CustomLog logtarget nickname".
7634 *) New module, "mod_speling", which can help find files even when
7635 the URL is slightly misspelled. [Martin Kraemer, Alexei Kosut]
7637 *) API: New function child_terminate() triggers the child process to
7638 exit, while allowing the child finish what it needs to for the
7639 current request first.
7640 [Doug MacEachern, Alexei Kosut]
7642 *) Windows now defaults to using full status reports with mod_status.
7643 [Alexei Kosut] PR #1094
7645 *) *Really* disable all mod_rewrite operations if the engine is off.
7646 Some things (like RewriteMaps) were checked/performed even if they
7647 weren't supposed to be. [Ken Coar] PR #991
7649 *) Implement a new timer scheme which eliminates the need to call alarm() all
7650 the time. Instead a counter in the scoreboard for each child is used to
7651 show when the child has made forward progress. The parent samples this
7652 counter every scoreboard maintenance cycle, and issues SIGALRM if no
7653 progress has been made in the timeout period. This reduces the static
7654 request best-case syscall count to 22 from 29. This scheme is only
7655 used by systems with memory-based scoreboards. [Dean Gaudet]
7657 *) The proxy now properly handles CONNECT requests which are sent
7658 to proxy servers when using ProxyRemote. [Marc Slemko] PR#1024
7660 *) A script called apachectl has been added to the support
7661 directory. This script allows you to do things such as
7662 "apachectl start" and "apachectl restart" from the command
7665 *) Modules and core routines are now put into libraries, which
7666 simplifies the link line tremendously (among other advantages).
7669 *) Some of the MD5 names defined in Apache have been renamed to have
7670 an `ap_' prefix to avoid conflicts with routines supplied by
7671 external libraries. [Ken Coar]
7673 *) Removal of mod_auth_msql.c from the distribution. There are many
7674 other options for databases today. Rather than offer one option,
7675 offer none at this time. mod_auth_msql and other SQL database
7676 authentication modules can be found at the Apache Module Registry.
7677 http://modules.apache.org/ It would be nice to offer a generic
7678 mod_auth_sql option in the near future.
7680 *) PORT: BeOS support added [Alexei Kosut]
7682 *) Configure no longer accepts the -make option, since it creates
7683 Makefile on the fly based on Makefile.tmpl and Configuration.
7685 *) Apache now gracefully shuts down when it receives a SIGTERM, instead
7686 of forcibly killing off all its processes and exiting without
7687 cleaning up. [Alexei Kosut]
7689 *) API: A new field in the request_rec, r->mtime, has been added to
7690 avoid gratuitous parsing of date strings. It is intended to hold
7691 the last-modified date of the resource (if applicable). An
7692 update_mtime() routine has also been added to advance it if
7693 appropriate. [Roy Fielding, Ken Coar]
7695 *) SECURITY: If a htaccess file can not be read due to bad permissions,
7696 deny access to the directory with a HTTP_FORBIDDEN. The previous
7697 behavior was to ignore the htaccess file if it could not be read.
7698 This change may make some setups with unreadable htaccess files
7699 stop working. [Marc Slemko] PR#817
7701 *) Add aplog_error() providing a mechanism to define levels of
7702 verbosity to the server error logging. This addition also provides
7703 the ability to log errors using syslogd. Error logging is configurable
7704 on a per-server basis using the LogLevel directive. Conversion
7705 of log_*() in progress. [Randy Terbush]
7707 *) Further enhance aplog_error() to not log filename, line number, and
7708 errno information when it isn't applicable. [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
7710 *) WIN32: Canonicalise filenames under Win32. Short filenames are
7711 converted to long ones. Backslashes are converted to forward
7712 slashes. Case is converted to lower. Parts of URLs that do not
7713 correspond to files are left completely alone. [Ben Laurie]
7715 *) PORT: 2 new OSs added to the list of ports:
7716 Encore's UMAX V: Arieh Markel <amarkel@encore.com>
7717 Acorn RISCiX: Stephen Borrill <sborrill@xemplar.co.uk>
7719 *) Add the server version (SERVER_VERSION macro) to the "server
7720 configured and running" entry in the error_log. Also build an
7721 object file at link-time that contains the current time
7722 (SERVER_BUILT global const char[]), and include that in the
7725 *) Set r->headers_out when sending responses from the proxy.
7726 This fixes things such as the logging of headers sent from
7727 the proxy. [Marc Slemko] PR#659
7729 *) support/httpd_monitor is no longer distributed because the
7730 scoreboard should not be file based if at all possible. Use
7731 mod_status to see current server snapshot.
7733 *) (set_file_slot): New function, allowing auth directives to be
7734 independent of the server root, so the server documents can be
7735 moved to a different directory or machine more easily.
7736 [David J. MacKenzie]
7738 *) If no TransferLog is given explicitly, decline
7739 to log. This supports coexistence with other logging modules,
7740 such as the custom one that UUNET uses. [David J. MacKenzie]
7742 *) Check for titles in server-parsed HTML files.
7743 Ignore leading newlines and returns in titles. The old behavior
7744 of replacing a newline after <title> with a space causes the
7745 title to be misaligned in the listing. [David J. MacKenzie]
7747 *) Change mod_cern_meta to be configurable on a per-directory basis.
7748 [David J. MacKenzie]
7750 *) Add 'Include' directive to allow inclusion of configuration
7751 files within configuration files. [Randy Terbush]
7753 *) Proxy errors on connect() are logged to the error_log (nothing
7754 new); now they include the IP address and port that failed
7755 (*that's* new). [Ken Coar, Marc Slemko] PR#352
7757 *) Various architectures now define USE_MMAP_FILES which causes
7758 the server to use mmap() for static files. There are two
7759 compile-time tunables MMAP_THRESHOLD (minimum number of bytes
7760 required to use mmap(), default is 0), and MMAP_SEGMENT_SIZE (maximum
7761 number of bytes written in one cycle from a single mmap()d object,
7762 default 32768). [Dean Gaudet]
7764 *) API: Added post_read_request API phase which is run right after reading
7765 the request from a client, or right after an internal redirect. It is
7766 useful for modules setting environment variables that depend only on
7767 the headers/contents of the request. It does not run during subrequests
7768 because subrequests inherit pretty much everything from the main
7769 request. [Dean Gaudet]
7771 *) Added mod_unique_id which is used to generate a unique identifier for
7772 each hit, available in the environment variable UNIQUE_ID.
7775 *) init_modules is now called after the error logs have been opened. This
7776 allows modules to emit information messages into the error logs.
7779 *) Fixed proxy-pass-through feature of mod_rewrite; Added error logging
7780 information for case where proxy module is not available. [Marc Slemko]
7782 *) PORT: Apache has need for mutexes to serialize its children around
7783 accept. In prior versions either fcntl file locking or flock file
7784 locking were used. The method is chosen by the definition of
7785 USE_xxx_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT in conf.h. xxx is FCNTL for fcntl(),
7786 and FLOCK for flock(). New options have been added:
7787 - SYSVSEM to use System V style semaphores
7788 - PTHREAD to use POSIX threads (appears to work on Solaris only)
7789 - USLOCK to use IRIX uslock
7790 Based on timing various techniques, the following changes were made
7792 - Linux 2.x uses flock instead of fcntl
7793 - Solaris 2.x uses pthreads
7794 - IRIX uses SysV semaphores -- however multiprocessor IRIX boxes
7795 work far faster if you -DUSE_USLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT
7796 [Dean Gaudet, Pierre-Yves Kerembellec <Pierre-Yves.Kerembellec@vtcom.fr>,
7797 Martijn Koster <m.koster@pobox.com>]
7799 *) PORT: The semantics of accept/select make it very desirable to use
7800 mutexes to serialize accept when multiple Listens are in use. But
7801 in the case where only a single socket is open it is sometimes
7802 redundant to serialize accept(). Not all unixes do a good job with
7803 potentially dozens of children blocked on accept() on the same
7804 socket. It's now possible to define SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT and
7805 the server will avoid serialization when listening on only one socket,
7806 and use serialization when listening on multiple sockets.
7807 [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
7809 *) Configure changes: TestLib replaced by TestCompile, which has
7810 some additional capability (such as doing a sanity check of
7811 the compiler and flags selected); the version of Solaris is now
7812 available via the #define value of SOLARIS2; IRIX n32bit libs
7813 now supported and selectable by new Configuration Rule: IRIXN32;
7814 We no longer default to -O2 optimization. [Jim Jagielski]
7816 *) Updated Configure: Configuration now uses AddModule to specify
7817 module source or binary file location, relative to src directory.
7818 Modules can be dropped into modules/extra, or in their own
7819 directory, and modules can come with a Makefile or Configure can
7820 create one. Modules can add compiler or library information to
7821 generated Makefiles. [Paul Sutton]
7823 *) Source core re-organisation: distributed modules are now in
7824 modules/standard. All other source code is in main. OS-specific
7825 code is in os/{unix,emx,win32} directories. [Paul Sutton]
7827 *) mod_browser has been removed, since it's replaced by mod_setenvif.
7830 *) Fix another long-standing bug in sub_req_lookup_file where it would
7831 happily skip past access checks on subdirectories looked up with
7832 relative paths. (It's used by mod_dir, mod_negotiation,
7833 and mod_include.) [Dean Gaudet]
7835 *) directory_walk optimization to reduce an O(N*M) loop to O(N+M) where
7836 N is the number of <Directory> sections, and M is the number of
7837 components in the filename of an object.
7839 To achieve this optimization the following config changes were made:
7840 - Wildcards (* and ?, not the regex forms) in <Directory>s,
7841 <Files>s, and <Location>s now treat a slash as a special
7842 character. For example "/home/*/public_html" previously would
7843 match "/home/a/andrew/public_html", now it only matches things
7844 like "/home/bob/public_html". This mimics /bin/sh behaviour.
7845 - It's possible now to use [] wildcarding in <Directory>, <Files>
7847 - Regex <Directory>s are applied after all non-regex <Directory>s.
7851 *) Fix a bug introduced in 1.3a1 directory_walk regarding .htaccess files
7852 and corrupted paths. [Dean Gaudet]
7854 *) Enhanced and cleaned up the URL rewriting engine of mod_rewrite:
7855 First the grouped parts of RewriteRule pattern matches (parenthesis!) can
7856 be accessed now via backreferences $1..$9 in RewriteConds test-against
7857 strings in addition to RewriteRules subst string. Second the grouped
7858 parts of RewriteCond pattern matches (parenthesis!) can be accessed now
7859 via backreferences %1..%9 both in following RewriteCond test-against
7860 strings and RewriteRules subst string. This provides maximum flexibility
7861 through the use of backreferences.
7862 Additionally the rewriting engine was cleaned up by putting common
7863 code to the new expand_backrefs_inbuffer() function.
7864 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7866 *) When merging the main server's <Directory> and <Location> sections into
7867 a vhost, put the main server's first and the vhost's second. Otherwise
7868 the vhost can't override the main server. [Dean Gaudet] PR#717
7870 *) The <Directory> code would merge and re-merge the same section after
7871 a match was found, possibly causing problems with some modules.
7874 *) ip-based vhosts are stored and queried using a hashing function, which
7875 has been shown to improve performance on servers with many ip-vhosts.
7876 Some other changes had to be made to accommodate this:
7877 - the * address for vhosts now behaves like _default_
7878 - the matching process now is:
7879 - match an ip-vhost directly via hash (possibly matches main
7881 - if that fails, just pretend it matched the main server
7882 - if so far only the main server has been matched, perform
7883 name-based lookups (ServerName, ServerAlias, ServerPath)
7884 *only on name-based vhosts*
7885 - if they fail, look for _default_ vhosts
7886 [Dean Gaudet, Dave Hankins <dhankins@sugarat.net>]
7888 *) dbmmanage overhaul:
7889 - merge dbmmanage and dbmmanage.new functionality, remove dbmmanage.new
7890 - tie() to AnyDBM_File which will use one of DB_File, NDBM_File or
7891 GDBM_File (-ldb, -lndbm, -lgdbm) (trying each in that order)
7892 - provide better seed for rand
7893 - prompt for password as per getpass(3) (turn off echo, read from
7895 - use "newstyle" crypt based on $Config{osname} ($^O)
7896 - will not add a user if already in database, use new `update' command
7898 - added `check' command to check a users' password
7899 - added `import' command to convert existing password text-files or
7900 dbm files exported with `view'
7901 - more descriptive usage, general cleanup, 'use strict' clean, etc.
7904 *) Added psocket() which is a pool form of socket(), various places within
7905 the proxy weren't properly blocking alarms while registering the cleanup
7906 for its sockets. bclose() now uses pclose() and pclosesocket(). There
7907 was a bug where the client socket was being close()d twice due a still
7908 registered cleanup. [Dean Gaudet]
7910 *) A few cleanups were made to reduce time(), getpid(), and signal() calls.
7913 *) PORT: AIX >= 4.2 requires -lm due to libc changes.
7914 [Jason Venner <jason@idiom.com>] PR#667
7916 *) Enable ``=""'' for RewriteCond directives to match against
7917 the empty string. This is the preferred way instead of ``^$''.
7918 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7920 *) Fixed an infinite loop in mod_imap for references above the server root
7921 [Dean Gaudet] PR#748
7923 *) mod_proxy now has a ReceiveBufferSize directive, similar to
7924 SendBufferSize, so that the TCP window can be set appropriately
7925 for LFNs. [Phillip A. Prindeville]
7927 *) mod_browser has been replaced by the more general mod_setenvif
7928 (courtesy of Paul Sutton). BrowserMatch* directives are still
7929 available, but are now joined by SetEnvIf*, UnSetEnvIf*, and
7930 UnSetEnvIfZero directives. [Ken Coar]
7932 *) "HostnameLookups double" forces double-reverse DNS to succeed in
7933 order for remote_host to be set (for logging, or for the env var
7934 REMOTE_HOST). The old define MAXIMUM_DNS has been deprecated.
7937 *) mod_access overhaul:
7938 - Now understands network/netmask syntax (i.e. 10.1.0.0/255.255.0.0)
7939 and cidr syntax (i.e. 10.1.0.0/16). PR#762
7940 - Critical path was sped up by pre-computing a few things at config time.
7941 - The undocumented syntax "allow user-agents" was removed,
7942 the replacement is "allow from env=foobar" combined with mod_browser.
7943 - When used with hostnames it now forces a double-reverse lookup
7944 no matter what the directory settings are. This double-reverse
7945 doesn't affect any of the other routines that use the remote
7946 hostname. In particular it's still passed to CGIs and the log
7947 without the double-reverse check. Related PR#860.
7950 *) When a large bwrite() occurs (larger than the internal buffer size),
7951 while there is already something in the buffer, apache will combine
7952 the large write and the buffer into a single writev(). (This is
7953 in anticipation of using mmap() for reading files.)
7956 *) In obscure cases where a partial socket write occurred while chunking,
7957 Apache would omit the chunk header/footer on the next block. Cleaned
7958 up other bugs/inconsistencies in error conditions in buff.c. Fixed
7959 a bug where a long pause in DNS lookups could cause the last packet
7960 of a response to be unduly delayed. [Roy Fielding, Dean Gaudet]
7962 *) API: Added child_exit function to module structure. This is called
7963 once per "heavy-weight process" just before a server child exit()'s
7964 e.g. when max_requests_per_child is reached, etc.
7965 [Doug MacEachern, Dean Gaudet]
7967 *) mod_include cleanup showed that handle_else was being used to handle
7968 endif. It didn't cause problems, but it was cleaned up too.
7971 *) mod_cern_meta would attempt to find meta files for the directory itself
7972 in some cases, but not in others. It now avoids it in all cases.
7975 *) mod_mime_magic would core dump if there was a decompression error.
7976 [Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>] PR#904
7978 *) PORT: some variants of DGUX require -lsocket -lnsl
7979 [Alexander L Jones <alex@systems-options.co.uk>] PR#732
7981 *) mod_autoindex now allows sorting of FancyIndexed directory listings
7982 by the various fields (name, size, et cetera), either in ascending
7983 or descending order. Just click on the column header. [Ken Coar]
7985 *) PORT: Various tweaks to eliminate pointer-int casting warnings on 64-bit
7986 CPUs like the Alpha. Apache still stores ints in pointers, but that's
7987 the relatively safe direction. [Dean Gaudet] PR#344
7989 *) PORT: QNX mmap() support for faster/more reliable scoreboard handling.
7990 [Igor N Kovalenko <infoh@mail.wplus.net>] PR#683
7992 *) child_main avoids an unneeded call to select() when there is only one
7993 listening socket. [Dean Gaudet]
7995 *) In the event that the server is starved for idle servers it will
7996 spawn 1, then 2, then 4, ..., then 32 servers each second,
7997 doubling each second. It'll also give a warning in the errorlog
7998 since the most common reason for this is a poor StartServers
7999 setting. The define MAX_SPAWN_RATE can be used to raise/lower
8000 the maximum. [Dean Gaudet]
8002 *) Apache now provides an effectively unbuffered connection for
8003 CGI scripts. This means that data will be sent to the client
8004 as soon as the CGI pauses or stops output; previously, Apache would
8005 buffer the output up to a fixed buffer size before sending, which
8006 could result in the user viewing an empty page until the CGI finished
8007 or output a complete buffer. It is no longer necessary to use an
8008 "nph-" CGI to get unbuffered output. Given that most CGIs are written
8009 in a language that by default does buffering (e.g. perl) this
8010 shouldn't have a detrimental effect on performance.
8012 "nph-" CGIs, which formerly provided a direct socket to the client
8013 without any server post-processing, were not fully compatible with
8014 HTTP/1.1 or SSL support. As such they would have had to implement
8015 the transport details, such as encryption or chunking, in order
8016 to work properly in certain situations. Now, the only difference
8017 between nph and non-nph scripts is "non-parsed headers".
8018 [Dean Gaudet, Sameer Parekh, Roy Fielding]
8020 *) If a BUFF is switched from buffered to unbuffered reading the first
8021 bread() will return whatever remained in the buffer prior to the
8022 switch. [Dean Gaudet]
8024 Changes with Apache 1.3a1
8026 *) Added another Configure helper script: TestLib. It determines
8027 if a specified library exists. [Jim Jagielski]
8029 *) PORT: Allow for use of n32bit libraries under IRIX 6.x
8030 [derived from patch from Jeff Hayes <jhayes@aw.sgi.com>]
8033 *) PORT: Some architectures use size_t for various lengths in network
8034 functions such as accept(), and getsockname(). The definition
8035 NET_SIZE_T is used to control this. [Dean Gaudet]
8037 *) PORT: Linux: Attempt to detect glibc based systems and include crypt.h
8038 and -lcrypt. Test for various db libraries (dbm, ndbm, db) when
8039 mod_auth_dbm or mod_auth_db are included. [Dean Gaudet]
8041 *) PORT: QNX doesn't have initgroups() which support/suexec.c uses.
8042 [Igor N Kovalenko <infoh@mail.wplus.net>]
8044 *) "force-response-1.0" now only applies to requests which are HTTP/1.0 to
8045 begin with. "nokeepalive" now works for HTTP/1.1 clients. Added
8046 "downgrade-1.0" which causes Apache to pretend it received a 1.0.
8047 [Dean Gaudet] related PR#875
8049 *) API: Correct child_init() slot declaration from int to void, to
8050 match the init() declaration. Update mod_example to use the new
8053 *) added transport handle slot (t_handle) to the BUFF structure
8056 *) get_client_block() returns wrong length if policy is
8057 REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK.
8058 [Kenichi Hori <ken@d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#815
8060 *) Support the image map format of FrontPage. For example:
8061 rect /url.hrm 10 20 30 40
8062 ["Chris O'Byrne" <obyrne@iol.ie>] PR#807
8064 *) PORT: -lresolv and -lsocks were in the wrong order for Solaris.
8065 ["Darren O'Shaughnessy" <darren@aaii.oz.au>] PR#846
8067 *) AddModuleInfo directive for mod_info which allows you to annotate
8068 the output of mod_info. ["Lou D. Langholtz" <ldl@usi.utah.edu>]
8070 *) Added NoProxy directive to avoid using ProxyRemote for selected
8071 addresses. Added ProxyDomain directive to cause unqualified
8072 names to be qualified by redirection.
8073 [Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>]
8075 *) Support Proxy Authentication, and don't pass the Proxy-Authorize
8076 header to the remote host in the proxy. [Sameer Parekh and
8079 *) Upgraded mod_rewrite from 3.0.6+ to latest officially available version
8080 3.0.9. This upgrade includes: fixed deadlooping on rewriting to same
8081 URLs, fixed rewritelog(), fixed forced response code handling on
8082 redirects from within .htaccess files, disabled pipe locking under
8083 braindead SunOS 4.1.x, allow env variables to be set even on rules with
8084 no substitution, bugfixed situations where HostnameLookups is off, made
8085 mod_rewrite more thread-safe for NT port and fixed problem when creating
8086 an empty query string via "xxx?".
8087 This update also removes the copyright of Ralf S. Engelschall,
8088 i.e. now mod_rewrite no longer has a shared copyright. Instead is is
8089 exclusively copyrighted by the Apache Group now. This happened because
8090 the author now has gifted mod_rewrite exclusively to the Apache Group and
8091 no longer maintains an external version.
8092 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8094 *) API: Added child_init function to module structure. This is called
8095 once per "heavy-weight process" before any requests are handled.
8096 See http_config.h for more details. [Dean Gaudet]
8098 *) Anonymous_LogEmail was logging on each subrequest.
8099 [Dean Gaudet] PR#421, 868
8101 *) API: Added is_initial_req() which tests if the request being
8102 processed is the initial request, or a subrequest.
8105 *) Extended SSI (mod_include) now handles additional relops for
8106 string comparisons (<, >, <=, and >=). [Bruno Wolff III] PR#41
8108 *) Configure fixed to correctly propagate user-selected options and
8109 settings (such as CC and OPTIM) to Makefiles other than
8110 src/Makefile (notably support/Makefile). [Ken Coar] PR#666, #834
8112 *) IndexOptions SuppressHTMLPreamble now causes the actual HTML of
8113 directory indices to start with the contents of the HeaderName file
8114 if there is one. If there isn't one, the behaviour is unchanged.
8115 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding, Andrey A. Chernov]
8117 *) WIN32: Modules can now be dynamically loaded DLLs using the
8118 LoadModule/LoadFile directives. Note that module DLLs must be
8119 compiled with the multithreaded DLL version of the runtime library.
8120 [Alexei Kosut and Ben Laurie]
8122 *) Automatic indexing removed from mod_dir and placed into mod_autoindex.
8123 This allows the admin to completely remove automatic indexing
8124 from the server, while still supporting the basic functions of
8125 trailing-slash redirects and DirectoryIndex files. Note that if
8126 you're carrying over an old Configuration file and you use directory
8127 indexing then you'll want to add:
8129 Module autoindex_module mod_autoindex.o
8131 before mod_dir in your Configuration. [Dean Gaudet]
8133 *) popendir/pclosedir created to properly protect directory scanning.
8134 [Dean Gaudet] PR#525
8136 *) AliasMatch, ScriptAliasMatch and RedirectMatch directives added,
8137 giving regex support to mod_alias. <DirectoryMatch>, <LocationMatch>
8138 and <FilesMatch> sections added to succeed <DirectoryMatch ~>, etc...
8141 *) The AccessFileName directive can now take more than one filename.
8142 ["Lou D. Langholtz" <ldl@usi.utah.edu>]
8144 *) The new mod_mime_magic can be used to "magically" determine the type
8145 of a file if the extension is unknown. Based on the unix file(1)
8146 command. [Ian Kluft <ikluft@cisco.com>]
8148 *) We now determine and display the time spent processing a
8149 request if desired. [Jim Jagielski]
8151 *) mod_status: PID field of "dead" child slots no longer displays
8152 main httpd process's PID. [Jim Jagielski]
8154 *) Makefile.nt added - to build all the bits from the command line:
8155 nmake -f Makefile.nt
8156 Doesn't yet work properly. [Ben Laurie]
8158 *) Default text of 404 error is now "Not Found" rather than the
8159 potentially misleading "File Not Found". [Ken Coar]
8161 *) CONFIG: "HostnameLookups" now defaults to off because it is far better
8162 for the net if we require people that actually need this data to
8163 enable it. [Linus Torvalds]
8165 *) directory_walk() is an expensive function, keep a little more state to
8166 avoid needless string counting. Add two new functions make_dirstr_parent
8167 and make_dirstr_prefix which replace all existing uses of make_dirstr.
8168 The new functions are a little less general than make_dirstr, but
8169 work more efficiently (less memory, less string counting).
8172 *) EXTRA_LFLAGS was changed to EXTRA_LDFLAGS (and LFLAGS was changed
8173 to LDFLAGS) to avoid complications with lex rules in make files.
8174 [Dean Gaudet] PR#372
8176 *) run_method optimized to avoid needless scanning over NULLs in the
8177 module list. [Dean Gaudet]
8179 *) Revamp of (unix) scoreboard management code such that it avoids
8180 unnecessary traversals of the scoreboard on each hit. This is
8181 particularly important for high volume sites with a large
8182 HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. Some of the previous operations were O(n^2),
8183 and are now O(n). See also SCOREBOARD_MAINTENANCE_INTERVAL in
8184 httpd.h. [Dean Gaudet]
8186 *) In configurations using multiple Listen statements it was possible for
8187 busy sockets to starve other sockets of service. [Dean Gaudet]
8189 *) Added hook so standalone_main can be replaced at compile time
8190 (define STANDALONE_MAIN)
8193 *) Lowest-level read/write functions in buff.c will be replaced with
8194 the SFIO library calls sfread/sfwrite if B_SFIO is defined at
8195 compile time. The default sfio discipline will behave as apache
8196 would without sfio compiled in.
8199 *) Enhance UserDir directive (mod_userdir) to accept a list of
8200 usernames for the 'disable' keyword, and add 'enable user...' to
8201 selectively *en*able userdirs if they're globally disabled.
8204 *) If NETSCAPE_DBM_COMPAT is defined in EXTRA_CFLAGS then Apache
8205 will work with Netscape dbm files. (dbmmanage will probably not
8206 work however.) [Alexander Spohr <aspohr@netmatic.com>] PR#444
8208 *) Add a ListenBacklog directive to control the backlog parameter
8209 passed to listen(). Also change the default to 511 from 512.
8212 *) API: A new handler response DONE which informs apache that the
8213 request has been handled and it can finish off quickly, similar to
8214 how it handles errors. [Rob Hartill]
8216 *) Turn off chunked encoding after sending terminating chunk/footer
8217 so that we can't do it twice by accident. [Roy Fielding]
8219 *) mod_expire also issues Cache-Control: max-age headers.
8222 *) API: Added kill_only_once option for free_proc_chain so that it won't
8223 aggressively try to kill off specific children. For fastcgi.
8224 [Stanley Gambarin <gambarin@OpenMarket.com>]
8226 *) mod_auth deals with extra ':' delimited fields. [Marc Slemko]
8228 *) Added IconHeight and IconWidth to mod_dir's IndexOptions directive.
8229 When used together, these cause mod_dir to emit HEIGHT and WIDTH
8230 attributes in the FancyIndexing IMG tags. [Ken Coar]
8232 *) PORT: Sequent and SONY NEWS-OS support added. [Jim Jagielski]
8234 *) PORT: Added Windows NT support
8235 [Ben Laurie and Ambarish Malpani <ambarish@valicert.com>]
8237 Changes with Apache 1.2.6
8239 *) mod_include when using XBitHack Full would send ETags in addition to
8240 sending Last-Modifieds. This is incorrect HTTP/1.1 behaviour.
8241 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1133
8243 *) SECURITY: When a client connects to a particular port/addr, and
8244 gives a Host: header ensure that the virtual host requested can
8245 actually be reached via that port/addr. [Ed Korthof <ed@organic.com>]
8247 *) Support virtual hosts with wildcard port and/or multiple ports
8248 properly. [Ed Korthof <ed@organic.com>]
8250 *) Fixed some case-sensitivity issues according to RFC2068.
8253 *) Set r->allowed properly in mod_asis.c, mod_dir.c, mod_info.c,
8254 and mod_include.c. [Dean Gaudet]
8256 *) Variable 'cwd' was being used pointlessly before being set.
8259 *) SIGURG doesn't exist on all platforms.
8260 [Mark Andrew Heinrich <heinrich@tinderbox.Stanford.EDU>]
8262 *) When an error occurs during a POST, or other operation with a
8263 request body, the body has to be read from the net before allowing
8264 a keepalive session to continue. [Roy Fielding] PR#1399
8266 *) When an error occurs in fcntl() locking suggest the user look up
8267 the docs for LockFile. [Dean Gaudet]
8269 *) table_set() and table_unset() did not deal correctly with
8270 multiple occurrences of the same key. [Stephen Scheck
8271 <sscheck@infonex.net>, Ben Laurie] PR#1604
8273 *) send_fd_length() did not calculate total_bytes_sent properly in error
8274 cases. [Ben Reser <breser@regnow.com>] PR#1366
8276 *) r->connection->user was allocated in the wrong pool causing corruption
8277 in some cases when used with mod_cern_meta. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1500
8279 *) mod_proxy was sending HTTP/1.1 responses to ftp requests by mistake.
8280 Also removed the auto-generated link to www.apache.org that was the
8281 source of so many misdirected bug reports. [Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
8283 *) Multiple "close" tokens may have been set in the "Connection"
8284 header, not an error, but a waste.
8285 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1683
8287 *) "basic" and "digest" auth tokens should be tested case-insensitive.
8288 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1599, PR#1666
8290 *) It appears the "257th byte" bug (see
8291 htdocs/manual/misc/known_client_problems.html#257th-byte) can happen
8292 at the 256th byte as well. Fixed. [Dean Gaudet]
8294 *) mod_rewrite would not handle %3f properly in some situations.
8297 *) Apache could generate improperly chunked HTTP/1.1 responses when
8298 the bputc() or rputc() functions were used by modules (such as
8299 mod_include). [Dean Gaudet]
8301 *) #ifdef wrap a few #defines in httpd.h to make life easier on
8302 some ports. [Ralf Engelschall]
8304 *) Fix MPE compilation error in mod_usertrack.c. [Mark Bixby]
8306 *) Quote CC='$(CC)' to improve recurse make calls. [Martin Kraemer]
8308 *) Avoid B_ERROR redeclaration on sysvr4 systems. [Martin Kraemer]
8310 Changes with Apache 1.2.5
8312 *) SECURITY: Fix a possible buffer overflow in logresolve. This is
8313 only an issue on systems without a MAXDNAME define or where
8314 the resolver returns domain names longer than MAXDNAME. [Marc Slemko]
8316 *) Fix an improper length in an ap_snprintf call in proxy_date_canon().
8319 *) Fix core dump in the ftp proxy when reading incorrectly formatted
8320 directory listings. [Marc Slemko]
8322 *) SECURITY: Fix possible minor buffer overflow in the proxy cache.
8325 *) SECURITY: Eliminate possible buffer overflow in cfg_getline, which
8326 is used to read various types of files such as htaccess and
8327 htpasswd files. [Marc Slemko]
8329 *) SECURITY: Ensure that the buffer returned by ht_time is always
8330 properly null terminated. [Marc Slemko]
8332 *) SECURITY: General mod_include cleanup, including fixing several
8333 possible buffer overflows and a possible infinite loop. This cleanup
8334 was done against 1.3 code and then backported to 1.2, the result
8335 is a large difference (due to indentation cleanup in 1.3 code).
8336 Users interested in seeing a smaller set of relevant differences
8337 should consider comparing against src/modules/standard/mod_include.c
8338 from the 1.3b3 release. Non-indentation changes to mod_include
8339 between 1.2 and 1.3 were minimal. [Dean Gaudet, Marc Slemko]
8341 *) SECURITY: Numerous changes to mod_imap in a general cleanup
8342 including fixing a possible buffer overflow. This cleanup also
8343 was done with 1.3 code as a basis, see the the previous note
8344 about mod_include. [Dean Gaudet]
8346 *) SECURITY: If a htaccess file can not be read due to bad
8347 permissions, deny access to the directory with a HTTP_FORBIDDEN.
8348 The previous behavior was to ignore the htaccess file if it could not
8349 be read. This change may make some setups with unreadable
8350 htaccess files stop working. PR#817 [Marc Slemko]
8352 *) SECURITY: no2slash() was O(n^2) in the length of the input.
8353 Make it O(n). This inefficiency could be used to mount a denial
8354 of service attack against the Apache server. Thanks to
8355 Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@boss.staszic.waw.pl> for reporting
8358 *) mod_include used uninitialized data for some uses of && and ||.
8359 [Brian Slesinsky <bslesins@wired.com>] PR#1139
8361 *) mod_imap should decline all non-GET methods.
8362 [Jay Bloodworth <jay@pathways.sde.state.sc.us>]
8364 *) suexec.c wouldn't build without -DLOG_EXEC. [Jason A. Dour]
8366 *) mod_userdir was modifying r->finfo in cases where it wasn't setting
8367 r->filename. Since those two are meant to be in sync with each other
8368 this is a bug. ["Paul B. Henson" <henson@intranet.csupomona.edu>]
8370 *) mod_include did not properly handle all possible redirects from sub-
8371 requests. [Ken Coar]
8373 *) Inetd mode (which is buggy) uses timeouts without having setup the
8374 jmpbuffer. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1064
8376 *) Work around problem under Linux where a child will start looping
8377 reporting a select error over and over.
8378 [Rick Franchuk <rickf@transpect.net>] PR#1107
8380 Changes with Apache 1.2.4
8382 *) The ProxyRemote change in 1.2.3 introduced a bug resulting in the proxy
8383 always making requests with the full-URI instead of just the URI path.
8384 [Marc Slemko, Roy Fielding]
8386 *) Add -lm for AIX versions >= 4.2 to allow Apache to link properly
8387 on this platform. [Marc Slemko]
8389 Changes with Apache 1.2.3
8391 *) The request to a remote proxy was mangled if it was generated as the
8392 result of a ProxyPass directive. URL schemes other than http:// were not
8393 supported when ProxyRemote was used. PR#260, PR#656, PR#699, PR#713,
8394 PR#812 [Lars Eilebrecht]
8396 *) Fixed proxy-pass-through feature of mod_rewrite; Added error logging
8397 information for case where proxy module is not available. [Marc Slemko]
8399 *) Force proxy to always respond as HTTP/1.0, which it was failing to
8400 do for errors and cached responses. [Roy Fielding]
8402 *) PORT: Improved support for ConvexOS 11. [Jeff Venters]
8404 Changes with Apache 1.2.2 [not released]
8406 *) Fixed another long-standing bug in sub_req_lookup_file where it would
8407 happily skip past access checks on subdirectories looked up with relative
8408 paths. (It's used by mod_dir, mod_negotiation, and mod_include.)
8411 *) Add lockfile name to error message printed out when
8412 USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is defined.
8415 *) Enhanced the chunking and error handling inside the buffer functions.
8416 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding]
8418 *) When merging the main server's <Directory> and <Location> sections into
8419 a vhost, put the main server's first and the vhost's second. Otherwise
8420 the vhost can't override the main server. [Dean Gaudet] PR#717
8422 *) The <Directory> code would merge and re-merge the same section after
8423 a match was found, possibly causing problems with some modules.
8426 *) Fixed an infinite loop in mod_imap for references above the server root.
8427 [Dean Gaudet] PR#748
8429 *) mod_include cleanup showed that handle_else was being used to handle
8430 endif. It didn't cause problems, but it was cleaned up too.
8433 *) Last official synchronization of mod_rewrite with author version (because
8434 mod_rewrite is now directly developed by the author at the Apache Group):
8435 o added diff between mod_rewrite 3.0.6+ and 3.0.9
8436 minus WIN32/NT stuff, but plus copyright removement.
8438 - workaround for detecting infinite rewriting loops
8439 - fixed setting of env vars when "-" is used as subst string
8440 - fixed forced response code on redirects (PR#777)
8441 - fixed cases where r->args is ""
8442 - kludge to disable locking on pipes under braindead SunOS
8443 - fix for rewritelog in cases where remote hostname is unknown
8444 - fixed totally damaged request_rec walk-back loop
8445 o remove static from local data and add static to global ones.
8446 o replaced ugly proxy finding stuff by simple
8447 find_linked_module("mod_proxy") call.
8448 o added missing negation char on rewritelog()
8449 o fixed a few comment typos
8450 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8452 *) Anonymous_LogEmail was logging on each subrequest.
8453 [Dean Gaudet] PR#421, PR#868
8455 *) "force-response-1.0" now only applies to requests which are HTTP/1.0 to
8456 begin with. "nokeepalive" now works for HTTP/1.1 clients. Added
8457 "downgrade-1.0" which causes Apache to pretend it received a 1.0.
8458 Additionally mod_browser now triggers during translate_name to workaround
8459 a deficiency in the header_parse phase.
8460 [Dean Gaudet] PR#875
8462 *) get_client_block() returns wrong length if policy is
8463 REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK.
8464 [Kenichi Hori <ken@d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#815
8466 *) Properly treat <files> container like other containers in mod_info.
8467 [Marc Slemko] PR#848
8469 *) The proxy didn't treat the "Host:" keyword of the host header as case-
8470 insensitive. The proxy would corrupt the first line of a response from
8471 an HTTP/0.9 server. [Kenichi Hori <ken@d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#813,814
8473 *) mod_include would log some bogus values occasionally.
8474 [Skip Montanaro <skip@calendar.com>, Marc Slemko] PR#797
8476 *) PORT: The slack fd changes in 1.2.1 introduced a problem with SIGHUP
8477 under Solaris 2.x (up through 2.5.1). It has been fixed.
8478 [Dean Gaudet] PR#832
8480 *) API: In HTTP/1.1, whether or not a request message contains a body
8481 is independent of the request method and based solely on the presence
8482 of a Content-Length or Transfer-Encoding. Therefore, our default
8483 handlers need to be prepared to read a body even if they don't know
8484 what to do with it; otherwise, the body would be mistaken for the
8485 next request on a persistent connection. discard_request_body()
8486 has been added to take care of that. [Roy Fielding] PR#378
8488 *) API: Symbol APACHE_RELEASE provides a numeric form of the Apache
8489 release version number, such that it always increases along the
8490 same lines as our source code branching. [Roy Fielding]
8492 *) Minor oversight on multiple variants fixed. [Paul Sutton] PR#94
8494 Changes with Apache 1.2.1
8496 *) SECURITY: Don't serve file system objects unless they are plain files,
8497 symlinks, or directories. This prevents local users from using pipes
8498 or named sockets to invoke programs for an extremely crude form of
8501 *) SECURITY: HeaderName and ReadmeName were settable in .htaccess and
8502 could contain "../" allowing a local user to "publish" any file on
8503 the system. No slashes are allowed now. [Dean Gaudet]
8505 *) SECURITY: It was possible to violate the symlink Options using mod_dir
8506 (headers, readmes, titles), mod_negotiation (type maps), or
8507 mod_cern_meta (meta files). [Dean Gaudet]
8509 *) SECURITY: Apache will refuse to run as "User root" unless
8510 BIG_SECURITY_HOLE is defined at compile time. [Dean Gaudet]
8512 *) CONFIG: If a symlink pointed to a directory then it would be disallowed
8513 if it contained a .htaccess disallowing symlinks. This is contrary
8514 to the rule that symlink permissions are tested with the symlink
8515 options of the parent directory. [Dean Gaudet] PR#353
8517 *) CONFIG: The LockFile directive can be used to place the serializing
8518 lockfile in any location. It previously defaulted to /usr/tmp/htlock.
8519 [Somehow it took four of us: Randy Terbush, Jim Jagielski, Dean Gaudet,
8522 *) Request processing now retains state of whether or not the request
8523 body has been read, so that internal redirects and subrequests will
8524 not try to read it twice (and block). [Roy Fielding]
8526 *) Add a placeholder in modules/Makefile to avoid errors with certain
8527 makes. [Marc Slemko]
8529 *) QUERY_STRING was unescaped in mod_include, it shouldn't be.
8530 [Dean Gaudet] PR#644
8532 *) mod_include was not properly changing the current directory.
8533 [Marc Slemko] PR#742
8535 *) Attempt to work around problems with third party libraries that do not
8536 handle high numbered descriptors (examples include bind, and
8537 solaris libc). On all systems apache attempts to keep all permanent
8538 descriptors above 15 (called the low slack line). Solaris users
8539 can also benefit from adding -DHIGH_SLACK_LINE=256 to EXTRA_CFLAGS
8540 which keeps all non-FILE * descriptors above 255. On all systems
8541 this should make supporting large numbers of vhosts with many open
8542 log files more feasible. If this causes trouble please report it,
8543 you can disable this workaround by adding -DNO_SLACK to EXTRA_CFLAGS.
8544 [Dean Gaudet] various PRs
8546 *) Related to the last entry, network sockets are now opened before
8547 log files are opened. The only known case where this can cause
8548 problems is under Solaris with many virtualhosts and many Listen
8549 directives. But using -DHIGH_SLACK_LINE=256 described above will
8550 work around this problem. [Dean Gaudet]
8552 *) USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is now default for FreeBSD, A/UX, and
8555 *) Improved unix error response logging. [Marc Slemko]
8557 *) Update mod_rewrite from 3.0.5 to 3.0.6. New ruleflag
8558 QSA=query_string_append. Also fixed a nasty bug in per-dir context:
8559 when a URL http://... was used in conjunction with a special
8560 redirect flag, e.g. R=permanent, the permanent status was lost.
8561 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
8563 *) If an object has multiple variants that are otherwise equal Apache
8564 would prefer the last listed variant rather than the first.
8567 *) "make clean" at the top level now removes *.o. [Dean Gaudet] PR#752
8569 *) mod_status dumps core in inetd mode. [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
8572 *) pregsub had an off-by-1 in its error checking code. [Alexei Kosut]
8574 *) PORT: fix rlim_t problems with AIX 4.2. [Marc Slemko] PR#333
8576 *) PORT: Update UnixWare support for 2.1.2.
8577 [Lawrence Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>] PR#511
8579 *) PORT: NonStop-UX [Joachim Schmitz <schmitz_joachim@tandem.com>] PR#327
8581 *) PORT: Update ConvexOS support for 11.5.
8582 [David DeSimone <fox@convex.com>] PR#399
8584 *) PORT: Support for DEC cc compiler under ULTRIX.
8585 ["P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia" <alejolo@ideam.gov.co>] PR#388
8587 *) PORT: Support for Maxion/OS SVR4.2 Real Time Unix. [no name given] PR#383
8589 *) PORT: Workaround for AIX 3.x compiler bug in http_bprintf.c.
8590 [Marc Slemko] PR#725
8592 *) PORT: fix problem compiling http_bprintf.c with gcc under SCO
8593 [Marc Slemko] PR#695
8595 Changes with Apache 1.2
8597 Changes with Apache 1.2b11
8599 *) Fixed open timestamp fd in proxy_cache.c [Chuck Murcko]
8601 *) Added undocumented perl SSI mechanism for -DUSE_PERL_SSI and mod_perl.
8602 [Doug MacEachern, Rob Hartill]
8604 *) Proxy needs to use hard_timeout instead of soft_timeout when it is
8605 reading from one buffer and writing to another, at least until it has
8606 a custom timeout handler. [Roy Fielding and Petr Lampa]
8608 *) Fixed problem on IRIX with servers hanging in IdentityCheck,
8609 apparently due to a mismatch between sigaction and setjmp.
8610 [Roy Fielding] PR#502
8612 *) Log correct status code if we timeout before receiving a request (408)
8613 or if we received a request-line that was too long to process (414).
8614 [Ed Korthof and Roy Fielding] PR#601
8616 *) Virtual hosts with the same ServerName, but on different ports, were
8617 not being selected properly. [Ed Korthof]
8619 *) Added code to return the requested IP address from proxy_host2addr()
8620 if gethostbyaddr() fails due to reverse DNS lookup problems. Original
8621 change submitted by Jozsef Hollosi <hollosi@sbcm.com>.
8622 [Chuck Murcko] PR#614
8624 *) If multiple requests on a single connection are used to retrieve
8625 data from different virtual hosts, the virtual host list would be
8626 scanned starting with the most recently used VH instead of the first,
8627 causing most virtual hosts to be ignored.
8628 [Paul Sutton and Martin Mares] PR#610
8630 *) The OS/2 handling of process group was broken by a porting patch for
8631 MPE, so restored prior code for OS/2. [Roy Fielding and Garey Smiley]
8633 *) Inherit virtual server port from main server if none (or "*") is
8634 given for VirtualHost. [Dean Gaudet] PR#576
8636 *) If the lookup for a DirectoryIndex name with content negotiation
8637 has found matching variants, but none are acceptable, return the
8638 negotiation result if there are no more DirectoryIndex names to lookup.
8639 [Petr Lampa and Roy Fielding]
8641 *) If a soft_timeout occurs after keepalive is set, then the main child
8642 loop would try to read another request even though the connection
8643 has been aborted. [Roy Fielding]
8645 *) Configure changes: Allow for whitespace at the start of a
8646 Module declaration. Also, be more understanding about the
8647 CC=/OPTIM= format in Configuration. Finally, fix compiler
8648 flags if using HP-UX's cc compiler. [Jim Jagielski]
8650 *) Subrequests and internal redirects now inherit the_request from the
8651 original request-line. [Roy Fielding]
8653 *) Test for error conditions before creating output header fields, since
8654 we don't want the error message to include those fields. Likewise,
8655 reset the content_language(s) and content_encoding of the response
8656 before generating or redirecting to an error message, since the new
8657 message will have its own Content-* definitions. [Dean Gaudet]
8659 *) Restored the semantics of headers_out (headers sent only with 200..299
8660 and 304 responses) and err_headers_out (headers sent with all responses).
8661 Avoid the overhead of copying tables if err_headers_out is empty
8662 (the usual case). [Roy Fielding]
8664 *) Fixed a couple places where a check for the default Content-Type was
8665 not properly checking both the value configured by the DefaultType
8666 directive and the DEFAULT_TYPE symbol in httpd.h. Changed the value
8667 of DEFAULT_TYPE to match the documented default (text/plain).
8668 [Dean Gaudet] PR#506
8670 *) Escape the HTML-sensitive characters in the Request-URI that is
8671 output for each child by mod_status. [Dean Gaudet and Ken Coar] PR#501
8673 *) Properly initialize the flock structures used by the mutex locking
8674 around accept() when USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is defined.
8677 *) The method for determining PATH_INFO has been restored to the pre-1.2b
8678 (and NCSA httpd) definition wherein it was the extra path info beyond
8679 the CGI script filename. The environment variable FILEPATH_INFO has
8680 been removed, and instead we supply the original REQUEST_URI to any
8681 script that wants to be Apache-specific and needs the real URI path.
8682 This solves a problem with existing scripts that use extra path info
8683 in the ScriptAlias directive to pass options to the CGI script.
8686 *) The _default_ change in 1.2b10 will change the behaviour on configs
8687 that use multiple Listen statements for listening on multiple ports.
8688 But that change is necessary to make _default_ consistent with other
8689 forms of <VirtualHost>. It requires such configs to be modified
8690 to use <VirtualHost _default_:*>. The documentation has been
8691 updated. [Dean Gaudet] PR#530
8693 *) If an ErrorDocument CGI script is used to respond to an error
8694 generated by another CGI script which has already read the message
8695 body of the request, the server would block trying to read the
8696 message body again. [Rob Hartill]
8698 *) signal() replacement conflicted with a define on QNX (and potentially
8699 other platforms). Fixed. [Ben Laurie] PR#512
8701 Changes with Apache 1.2b10
8703 *) Allow HTTPD_ROOT, SERVER_CONFIG_FILE, DEFAULT_PATH, and SHELL_PATH
8704 to be configured via -D in Configuration. [Dean Gaudet] PR#449
8706 *) <VirtualHost _default_:portnum> didn't work properly. [Dean Gaudet]
8708 *) Added prototype for mktemp() for SUNOS4 [Marc Slemko]
8710 *) In mod_proxy.c, check return values for proxy_host2addr() when reading
8711 config, in case the hostent struct returned is trash.
8712 [Chuck Murcko] PR #491
8714 *) Fixed the fix in 1.2b9 for parsing URL query info into args for CGI
8715 scripts. [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
8717 Changes with Apache 1.2b9 [never announced]
8719 *) Reset the MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER to account for the unsigned port
8720 changes and in anticipation of 1.2 final release. [Roy Fielding]
8722 *) Fix problem with scripts not receiving a SIGPIPE when client drops
8723 the connection (e.g., when user presses Stop). Apache will now stop
8724 trying to send a message body immediately after an error from write.
8725 [Roy Fielding and Nathan Kurz] PR#335
8727 *) Rearrange Configuration.tmpl so that mod_rewrite has higher priority
8728 than mod_alias, and mod_alias has higher priority than mod_proxy;
8729 rearranged other modules to enhance understanding of their purpose
8730 and relative order (and maybe even reduce some overhead).
8731 [Roy Fielding and Sameer Parekh]
8733 *) Fix graceful restart. Eliminate many signal-related race
8734 conditions in both forms of restart, and in SIGTERM. See
8735 htdocs/manual/stopping.html for details on stopping and
8736 restarting the parent. [Dean Gaudet]
8738 *) Fix memory leaks in mod_rewrite, mod_browser, mod_include. Tune
8739 memory allocator to avoid a behaviour that required extra blocks to
8740 be allocated. [Dean Gaudet]
8742 *) Allow suexec to access files relative to current directory but not
8743 above. (Excluding leading / or any .. directory.) [Ken Coar]
8746 *) Fix suexec segfault when group doesn't exist. [Gregory Neil Shapiro]
8747 PR#367, 368, 354, 453
8749 *) Fix the above fix: if suexec is enabled, avoid destroying r->url
8750 while obtaining the /~user and save the username in a separate data
8751 area so that it won't be overwritten by the call to getgrgid(), and
8752 fix some misuse of the pool string allocation functions. Also fixes
8753 a general problem with parsing URL query info into args for CGI scripts.
8754 [Roy Fielding] PR#339, 367, 354, 453
8756 *) Fix IRIX warning about bzero undefined. [Marc Slemko]
8758 *) Fix problem with <Directory proxy:...>. [Martin Kraemer] PR#271
8760 *) Corrected spelling of "authoritative". AuthDBAuthoratative became
8761 AuthDBAuthoritative. [Marc Slemko] PR#420
8763 *) MaxClients should be at least 1. [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#375
8765 *) The default handler now logs invalid methods or URIs (i.e. PUT on an
8766 object that can't be PUT, or FOOBAR for some method FOOBAR that
8767 apache doesn't know about at all). Log 404s that occur in mod_include.
8768 [Paul Sutton, John Van Essen]
8770 *) If a soft timeout (or lingerout) occurs while trying to flush a
8771 buffer or write inside buff.c or fread'ing from a CGI's output,
8772 then the timeout would be ignored. [Roy Fielding] PR#373
8774 *) Work around a bug in Netscape Navigator versions 2.x, 3.x and 4.0b2's
8775 parsing of headers. If the terminating empty-line CRLF occurs starting
8776 at the 256th or 257th byte of output, then Navigator will think a normal
8777 image is invalid. We are guessing that this is because their initial
8778 read of a new request uses a 256 byte buffer. We check the bytes written
8779 so far and, if we are about to tickle the bug, we instead insert a
8780 padding header of eminent bogosity. [Roy Fielding and Dean Gaudet] PR#232
8782 *) Fixed SIGSEGV problem when a DirectoryIndex file is also the source
8783 of an external redirection. [Roy Fielding and Paul Sutton]
8785 *) Configure would create a broken Makefile if the configuration file
8786 contained a commented-out Rule. [Roy Fielding]
8788 *) Promote per_dir_config and subprocess_env from the subrequest to the
8789 main request in mod_negotiation. In particular this fixes a bug
8790 where <Files> sections wouldn't properly apply to negotiated content.
8793 *) Fix a potential deadlock in mod_cgi script_err handling.
8794 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8796 *) rotatelogs zero-pads the logfile names to improve alphabetic sorting.
8799 *) Updated mod_rewrite to 3.0.4: Fixes HTTP redirects from within
8800 .htaccess files because the RewriteBase was not replaced correctly.
8801 Updated mod_rewrite to 3.0.5: Fixes problem with rewriting inside
8802 <Directory> sections missing a trailing /. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8804 *) Clean up Linux settings in conf.h by detecting 2.x versus 1.x. For
8805 1.x the settings are those of pre-1.2b8. For 2.x we include
8806 USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD (scoreboard in shared memory rather than file) and
8807 HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H (enable the RLimit commands).
8808 [Dean Gaudet] PR#336, PR#340
8810 *) Redirect did not preserve ?query_strings when present in the client's
8811 request. [Dean Gaudet]
8813 *) Configure was finding non-modules on EXTRA_LIBS. [Frank Cringle] PR#380
8815 *) Use /bin/sh5 on ULTRIX. [P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia] PR#369
8817 *) Add UnixWare compile/install instructions. [Chuck Murcko]
8819 *) Add mod_example (illustration of API techniques). [Ken Coar]
8821 *) Add macro for memmove to conf.h for SUNOS4. [Marc Slemko]
8823 *) Improve handling of directories when filenames have spaces in them.
8826 *) For hosts with multiple IP addresses, try all additional addresses if
8827 necessary to get a connect. Fail only if hostent address list is
8828 exhausted. [Chuck Murcko]
8830 *) More signed/unsigned port fixes. [Dean Gaudet]
8832 *) HARD_SERVER_LIMIT can be defined in the Configuration file now.
8835 Changes with Apache 1.2b8
8837 *) suexec.c doesn't close the log file, allowing CGIs to continue writing
8838 to it. [Marc Slemko]
8840 *) The addition of <Location> and <File> directives made the
8841 sub_req_lookup_simple() function bogus, so we now handle
8842 the special cases directly. [Dean Gaudet]
8844 *) We now try to log where the server is dumping core when a fatal
8845 signal is received. [Ken Coar]
8847 *) Improved lingering_close by adding a special timeout, removing the
8848 spurious log messages, removing the nonblocking settings (they
8849 are not needed with the better timeout), and adding commentary
8850 about the NO_LINGCLOSE and USE_SO_LINGER issues. NO_LINGCLOSE is
8851 now the default for SunOS4, UnixWare, NeXT, and IRIX. [Roy Fielding]
8853 *) Send error messages about setsockopt failures to the server error
8854 log instead of stderr. [Roy Fielding]
8856 *) Fix loopholes in proxy cache expiry vis a vis alarms. [Brian Moore]
8858 *) Stopgap solution for CGI 3-second delay with server-side includes: if
8859 processing a subrequest, allocate memory from r->main->pool instead
8860 of r->pool so that we can avoid waiting for free_proc_chain to cleanup
8861 in the middle of an SSI request. [Dean Gaudet] PR #122
8863 *) Fixed status of response when POST is received for a nonexistent URL
8864 (was sending 405, now 404) and when any method is sent with a
8865 full-URI that doesn't match the server and the server is not acting
8866 as a proxy (was sending 501, now 403). [Roy Fielding]
8868 *) Host port changed to unsigned short. [Ken Coar] PR #276
8870 *) Fix typo in command definition of AuthAuthoritative. [Ken Coar] PR #246
8872 *) Defined USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD for shared memory on Linux. [Dean Gaudet]
8874 *) Report extra info from errno with many errors that cause httpd to exit.
8875 spawn_child, popenf, and pclosef now have valid errno returns in the
8876 event of an error. Correct problems where errno was stomped on
8877 before being reported. [Dean Gaudet]
8879 *) In the proxy, if the cache filesystem was full, garbage_coll() was
8880 never called, and thus the filesystem would remain full indefinitely.
8881 We now also remove incomplete cache files left if the origin server
8882 didn't send a Content-Length header and either the client has aborted
8883 transfer or bwrite() to client has failed. [Petr Lampa]
8885 *) Fixed the handling of module and script-added header fields.
8886 Improved the interface for sending header fields and reduced
8887 the duplication of code between sending okay responses and errors.
8888 We now always send both headers_out and err_headers_out, and
8889 ensure that the server-reserved fields are not being overridden,
8890 while not overriding those that are not reserved. [Roy Fielding]
8892 *) Moved transparent content negotiation fields to err_headers_out
8893 to reflect above changes. [Petr Lampa]
8895 *) Fixed the determination of whether or not we should make the
8896 connection persistent for all of the cases where some other part
8897 of the server has already indicated that we should not. Also
8898 improved the ordering of the test so that chunked encoding will
8899 be set whenever it is desired instead of only when KeepAlive
8900 is enabled. Added persistent connection capability for most error
8901 responses (those that do not indicate a bad input stream) when
8902 accessed by an HTTP/1.1 client. [Roy Fielding]
8904 *) Added missing timeouts for sending header fields, error responses,
8905 and the last chunk of chunked encoding, each of which could have
8906 resulted in a process being stuck in write forever. Using soft_timeout
8907 requires that the sender check for an aborted connection rather than
8908 continuing after an EINTR. Timeouts that used to be initiated before
8909 send_http_header (and never killed) are now initiated only within or
8910 around the routines that actually do the sending, and not allowed to
8911 propagate above the caller. [Roy Fielding]
8913 *) mod_auth_anon required an @ or a . in the email address, not both.
8916 *) per_dir_defaults weren't set correctly until directory_walk for
8917 name-based vhosts. This fixes an obscure bug with the wrong config
8918 info being used for vhosts that share the same ip as the server.
8921 *) Improved generation of modules/Makefile to be more generic for
8922 new module directories. [Ken Coar, Chuck Murcko, Roy Fielding]
8924 *) Generate makefile dependency for Configuration based on the actual
8925 name given when running the Configure process. [Dean Gaudet]
8927 *) Fixed problem with vhost error log not being set prior to
8928 initializing virtual hosts. [Dean Gaudet]
8930 *) Fixed infinite loop when a trailing slash is included after a type map
8931 file URL (extra path info). [Petr Lampa]
8933 *) Fixed server status updating of per-connection counters. [Roy Fielding]
8935 *) Add documentation for DNS issues (reliability and security), and try
8936 to explain the virtual host matching process. [Dean Gaudet]
8938 *) Try to continue gracefully by disabling the vhost if a DNS lookup
8939 fails while parsing the configuration file. [Dean Gaudet]
8941 *) Improved calls to setsockopt. [Roy Fielding]
8943 *) Negotiation changes: Don't output empty content-type in variant list;
8944 Output charset in variant list; Return sooner from handle_multi() if
8945 no variants found; Add handling of '*' wildcard in Accept-Charset.
8946 [Petr Lampa and Paul Sutton]
8948 *) Fixed overlaying of request/sub-request notes and headers in
8949 mod_negotiation. [Dean Gaudet]
8951 *) If two variants' charset quality are equal and one is the default
8952 charset (iso-8859-1), then prefer the variant that was specifically
8953 listed in Accept-Charset instead of the default. [Petr Lampa]
8955 *) Memory allocation problem in push_array() -- it would corrupt memory
8956 when nalloc==0. [Kai Risku <krisku@tf.hut.fi> and Roy Fielding]
8958 *) invoke_handler() doesn't handle mime arguments in content-type
8961 *) Reduced IdentityCheck timeout to 30 seconds, as per RFC 1413 minimum.
8964 *) Fixed problem with ErrorDocument not working for virtual hosts
8965 due to one of the performance changes in 1.2b7. [Dean Gaudet]
8967 *) Log an error message if we get a request header that is too long,
8968 since it may indicate a buffer overflow attack. [Marc Slemko]
8970 *) Made is_url() allow "[-.+a-zA-Z0-9]+:" as a valid scheme and
8971 not reject URLs without a double-slash, as per RFC2068 section 3.2.
8972 [Ken Coar] PR #146, #187
8974 *) Added table entry placeholder for new header_parser callback
8975 in all of the distributed modules. [Ken Coar] PR #191
8977 *) Allow for cgi files without the .EXE extension on them under OS/2.
8978 [Garey Smiley] PR #59
8980 *) Fixed error message when resource is not found and URL contains
8981 path info. [Petr Lampa and Dean Gaudet] PR #40
8983 *) Fixed user and server confusion over what should be a virtual host
8984 and what is the main server, resulting in access to something
8985 other than the name defined in the virtualhost directive (but
8986 with the same IP address) failing. [Dean Gaudet]
8988 *) Updated mod_rewrite to version 3.0.2, which: fixes compile error on
8989 AIX; improves the redirection stuff to enable the users to generally
8990 redirect to http, https, gopher and ftp; added TIME variable for
8991 RewriteCond which expands to YYYYMMDDHHMMSS strings and added the
8992 special patterns >STRING, <STRING and =STRING to RewriteCond, which
8993 can be used in conjunction with %{TIME} or other variables to create
8994 time-dependent rewriting rules. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8996 *) bpushfd() no longer notes cleanups for the file descriptors it is handed.
8997 Module authors may need to adjust their code for proper cleanup to take
8998 place (that is, call note_cleanups_for_fd()). This change fixes problems
8999 with file descriptors being erroneously closed when the proxy module was
9000 in use. [Ben Laurie]
9002 *) Fix bug in suexec reintroduced by changes in 1.2b7 which allows
9003 initgroups() to hose the group information needed for later
9004 comparisons. [Randy Terbush]
9006 *) Remove unnecessary call to va_end() in create_argv() which
9007 caused a SEGV on some systems.
9009 *) Use proper MAXHOSTNAMELEN symbol for limiting length of server name.
9012 *) Clear memory allocated for listeners. [Randy Terbush]
9014 *) Improved handling of IP address as a virtualhost address and
9015 introduced "_default_" as a synonym for the default vhost config.
9016 [Dean Gaudet] PR #212
9018 Changes with Apache 1.2b7
9020 *) Port to UXP/DS(V20) [Toshiaki Nomura <nom@yk.fujitsu.co.jp>]
9022 *) unset Content-Length if chunked (RFC-2068) [Petr Lampa]
9024 *) mod_negotiation fixes [Petr Lampa] PR#157, PR#158, PR#159
9025 - replace protocol response numbers with symbols
9026 - save variant-list into main request notes
9027 - free allocated memory from subrequests
9028 - merge notes, headers_out and err_headers_out
9030 *) changed status check mask in proxy_http.c from "HTTP/#.# ### *" to
9031 "HTTP/#.# ###*" to be more lenient about what we accept.
9034 *) more proxy FTP bug fixes:
9035 - Changed send_dir() to remove user/passwd from displayed URL.
9036 - Changed login error messages to be more descriptive.
9037 - remove setting of SO_DEBUG socket option
9038 - Make ftp_getrc() more lenient about multiline responses,
9039 specifically, 230 responses which don't have continuation 230-
9040 on each line). These seem to be all NT FTP servers, and while
9041 perhaps questionable, they appear to be legal by RFC 959.
9042 - Add missing kill_timeout() after transfer to user completes.
9045 *) Fixed problem where a busy server could hang when restarting
9046 after being sent a SIGHUP due to child processes not exiting.
9049 *) Modify mod_include escaping so a '\' only signifies an escaped
9050 character if the next character is one that needs
9051 escaping. [Ben Laurie]
9053 *) Eliminated possible infinite loop in mod_imap when relative URLs are
9054 used with a 'base' directive that does not have a '/' in it.
9055 [Marc Slemko, reported by Onno Witvliet <onno@tc.hsa.nl>]
9057 *) Reduced the default timeout from 1200 seconds to 300, and the
9058 one in the sample configfile from 400 to 300. [Marc Slemko]
9060 *) Stop vbprintf from crashing if given a NULL string pointer;
9061 print (null) instead. [Ken Coar]
9063 *) Don't disable Nagle algorithm if system doesn't have TCP_NODELAY.
9064 [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
9066 *) Fixed problem with mod_cgi-generated internal redirects trying to
9067 read the request message-body twice. [Archie Cobbs and Roy Fielding]
9069 *) Reduced timeout on lingering close, removed possibility of a blocked
9070 read causing the child to hang, and stopped logging of errors if
9071 the socket is not connected (reset by client). [Roy Fielding]
9073 *) Rearranged main child loop to remove duplication of code in
9074 select/accept and keep-alive requests, fixed several bugs regarding
9075 checking scoreboard_image for exit indication and failure to
9076 account for all success conditions and trap all error conditions,
9077 prevented multiple flushes before closing the socket; close the entire
9078 socket buffer instead of just one descriptor, prevent logging of
9079 EPROTO and ECONNABORTED on platforms where supported, and generally
9080 improved readability. [Roy Fielding]
9082 *) Extensive performance improvements. Cleaned up inefficient use of
9083 auto initializers, multiple is_matchexp calls on a static string,
9084 and excessive merging of response_code_strings. [Dean Gaudet]
9086 *) Added double-buffering to mod_include to improve performance on
9087 server-side includes. [Marc Slemko]
9089 *) Several fixes for suexec wrapper. [Randy Terbush]
9090 - Make wrapper work for files on NFS filesystem.
9091 - Fix portability problem of MAXPATHLEN.
9092 - Fix array overrun problem in clean_env().
9093 - Fix allocation of PATH environment variable
9095 *) Removed extraneous blank line is description of mod_status chars.
9098 *) Logging of errors from the call_exec routine simply went nowhere,
9099 since the logfile fd has been closed, so now we send them to stderr.
9100 [Harald T. Alvestrand]
9102 *) Fixed core dump when DocumentRoot is a CGI.
9103 [Ben Laurie, reported by geddis@tesserae.com]
9105 *) Fixed potential file descriptor leak in mod_asis; updated it and
9106 http_core to use pfopen/pfclose instead of fopen/fclose.
9107 [Randy Terbush and Roy Fielding]
9109 *) Fixed handling of unsigned ints in ap_snprintf() on some chips such
9110 as the DEC Alpha which is 64-bit but uses 32-bit ints.
9111 [Dean Gaudet and Ken Coar]
9113 *) Return a 302 response code to the client when sending a redirect
9114 due to a missing trailing '/' on a directory instead of a 301; now
9115 it is cacheable. [Markus Gyger]
9117 *) Fix condition where, if a bad directive occurs in .htaccess, and
9118 sub_request() goes first to this directory, then log_reason() will
9119 SIGSEGV because it doesn't have initialized r->per_dir_config.
9120 [PR#162 from Petr Lampa, fix by Marc Slemko and Dean Gaudet]
9122 *) Fix handling of lang_index in is_variant_better(). This was
9123 causing problems which resulted in the server sending the
9124 wrong language document in some cases. [Petr Lampa]
9126 *) Remove free() from clean_env() in suexec wrapper. This was nuking
9127 the clean environment on some systems.
9129 *) Tweak byteserving code (e.g. serving PDF files) to work around
9130 bugs in Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
9131 Emit Content-Length header when sending multipart/byteranges.
9134 *) Port to HI-UX/WE2. [Nick Maclaren]
9136 *) Port to HP MPE operating system for HP 3000 machines
9137 [Mark Bixby <markb@cccd.edu>]
9139 *) Fixed bug which caused a segmentation fault if only one argument
9140 given to RLimit* directives. [Ed Korthof]
9142 *) Continue persistent connection after 204 or 304 response. [Dean Gaudet]
9144 *) Improved buffered output to the client by delaying the flush decision
9145 until the BUFF code is actually about to read the next request.
9146 This fixes a problem introduced in 1.2b5 with clients that send
9147 an extra CRLF after a POST request. Also improved chunked output
9148 performance by combining writes using writev() and removing as
9149 many bflush() calls as possible. NOTE: Platforms without writev()
9150 must add -DNO_WRITEV to the compiler CFLAGS, either in Configuration
9151 or Configure, unless we have already done so. [Dean Gaudet]
9153 *) Fixed mod_rewrite bug which truncated the rewritten URL [Marc Slemko]
9155 *) Fixed mod_info output corruption bug introduced by buffer overflow
9156 fixes. [Dean Gaudet]
9158 *) Fixed http_protocol to correctly output all HTTP/1.1 headers, including
9159 for the special case of a 304 response. [Paul Sutton]
9161 *) Improved handling of TRACE method by bypassing normal method handling
9162 and header parsing routines; fixed Allow response to always allow TRACE.
9165 *) Fixed compiler warnings in the regex library. [Dean Gaudet]
9167 *) Cleaned-up some of the generated HTML. [Ken Coar]
9169 Changes with Apache 1.2b6
9171 *) Allow whitespace in imagemap mapfile coordinates. [Marc Slemko]
9173 *) Fix typo introduced in fix for potential infinite loop around
9174 accept() in child_main(). This change caused the rev to 1.2b6.
9175 1.2b5 was never a public beta.
9177 Changes with Apache 1.2b5
9179 *) Change KeepAlive semantics (On|Off instead of a number), add
9180 MaxKeepAliveRequests directive. [Alexei Kosut]
9182 *) Various NeXT compilation patches, as well as a change in
9183 regex/regcomp.c since that file also used a NEXT define.
9186 *) Allow * to terminate the end of a directory match in mod_dir.
9187 Allows /~* to match for both /~joe and /~joe/. [David Bronder]
9189 *) Don't call can_exec() if suexec_enabled. Calling this requires
9190 scripts executed by the suexec wrapper to be world executable, which
9191 defeats one of the advantages of running the wrapper. [Randy Terbush]
9193 *) Portability Fix: IRIX complained with 'make clean' about *pure* (removed)
9196 *) Migration from sprintf() to snprintf() to avoid buffer
9197 overflows. [Marc Slemko]
9199 *) Provide portable snprintf() implementation (ap_snprintf)
9200 as well as *cvt family. [Jim Jagielski]
9202 *) Portability Fix: NeXT lacks unistd.h so we wrap it's inclusion
9205 *) Remove mod_fastcgi.c from the distribution. This module appears
9206 to be maintained more through the Open Market channels and should
9207 continue to be easily available at http://www.fastcgi.com/
9209 *) Fixed bug in modules/Makefile that wouldn't allow building in more
9210 than one subdirectory (or cleaning, either). [Jeremy Laidman]
9212 *) mod_info assumed that the config files were relative to ServerRoot.
9215 *) CGI scripts called as an error document resulting from failed
9216 CGI execution would hang waiting for POST'ed data. [Rob Hartill]
9218 *) Log reason when mod_dir returns access HTTP_FORBIDDEN
9221 *) Properly check errno to prevent display of a directory index
9222 when server receives a long enough URL to confuse stat().
9225 *) Several security enhancements to suexec wrapper. It is _highly_
9226 recommended that previously installed versions of the wrapper
9227 be replaced with this version. [Randy Terbush, Jason Dour]
9229 - ~user execution now properly restricted to ~user's home
9230 directory and below.
9231 - execution restricted to UID/GID > 100
9232 - restrict passed environment to known variables
9233 - call setgid() before initgroups() (portability fix)
9234 - remove use of setenv() (portability fix)
9236 *) Add HTTP/1.0 response forcing. [Ben Laurie]
9238 *) Add access control via environment variables. [Ben Laurie]
9240 *) Add rflush() function. [Alexei Kosut]
9242 *) remove duplicate pcalloc() call in new_connection().
9244 *) Fix incorrect comparison which could allow number of children =
9245 MaxClients + 1 if less than HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. Also fix potential
9246 problem if StartServers > HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. [Ed Korthof]
9248 *) Updated support for OSes (MachTen, ULTRIX, Paragon, ISC, OpenBSD
9249 AIX PS/2, CONVEXOS. [Jim Jagielski]
9251 *) Replace instances of inet_ntoa() with inet_addr() for ProxyBlock.
9252 It's more portable. [Martin Kraemer]
9254 *) Replace references to make in Makefile.tmpl with $(MAKE).
9257 *) Add ProxyBlock directive w/IP address caching. Add IP address
9258 caching to NoCache directive as well. ProxyBlock works with all
9259 handlers; NoCache now also works with FTP for anonymous logins.
9260 Still more code cleanup. [Chuck Murcko]
9262 *) Add "header parse" API hook [Ben Laurie]
9264 *) Fix byte ordering problems for REMOTE_PORT [Chuck Murcko]
9266 *) suEXEC wrapper was freeing memory that had not been malloc'ed.
9268 *) Correctly allow access and auth directives in <Files> sections in
9269 server config files. [Alexei Kosut]
9271 *) Fix bug with ServerPath that could cause certain files to be not
9272 found by the server. [Alexei Kosut]
9274 *) Fix handling of ErrorDocument so that it doesn't remove a trailing
9275 double-quote from text and so that it properly checks for unsupported
9276 status codes using the new index_of_response interface. [Roy Fielding]
9278 *) Multiple fixes to the lingering_close code in order to avoid being
9279 interrupted by a stray timeout, to avoid lingering on a connection
9280 that has already been aborted or never really existed, to ensure that
9281 we stop lingering as soon as any error condition is received, and to
9282 prevent being stuck indefinitely if the read blocks. Also improves
9283 reporting of error conditions. [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
9285 *) Fixed initialization of parameter structure for sigaction.
9286 [mgyger@itr.ch, Adrian Filipi-Martin]
9288 *) Fixed reinitializing the parameters before each call to accept and
9289 select, and removed potential for infinite loop in accept.
9290 [Roy Fielding, after useful PR from adrian@virginia.edu]
9292 *) Fixed condition where, if a child fails to fork, the scoreboard would
9293 continue to say SERVER_STARTING forever. Eventually, the main process
9294 would refuse to start new children because count_idle_servers() will
9295 count those SERVER_STARTING entries and will always report that there
9296 are enough idle servers. [Phillip Vandry]
9298 *) Fixed bug in bcwrite regarding failure to account for partial writes.
9299 Avoided calling bflush() when the client is pipelining requests.
9300 Removed unnecessary flushes from http_protocol. [Dean Gaudet]
9302 *) Added description of "." mode in server-status [Jim Jagielski]
9304 Changes with Apache 1.2b4
9306 *) Fix possible race condition in accept_mutex_init() that
9307 could leave a small security hole open allowing files to be
9308 overwritten in cases where the server UID has write permissions.
9311 *) Fix awk compatibilty problem in Configure. [Jim Jagielski]
9313 *) Fix portablity problem in util_script where ARG_MAX may not be
9314 defined for some systems.
9316 *) Add changes to allow compilation on Machten 4.0.3 for PowerPC.
9319 *) OS/2 changes to support an MMAP style scoreboard file and UNIX
9320 style magic #! token for better script portability. [Garey Smiley]
9322 *) Fix bug in suexec wrapper introduced in b3 that would cause failed
9323 execution for ~userdir CGI. [Jason Dour]
9325 *) Fix initgroups() business in suexec wrapper. [Jason Dour]
9327 *) Fix month off by one in suexec wrapper logging.
9329 Changes with Apache 1.2b3:
9331 *) Fix error in mod_cgi which could cause resources not to be properly
9332 freed, or worse. [Dean Gaudet]
9334 *) Fix find_string() NULL pointer dereference. [Howard Fear]
9336 *) Add set_flag_slot() at the request of Dirk and others.
9339 *) Sync mod_rewrite with patch level 10. [Ralf Engelschall]
9341 *) Add changes to improve the error message given for invalid
9342 ServerName parameters. [Dirk vanGulik]
9344 *) Add "Authoritative" directive for Auth modules that don't
9345 currently have it. This gives admin control to assign authoritative
9346 control to an authentication scheme and allow "fall through" for
9347 those authentication modules that aren't "Authoritative" thereby
9348 allowing multiple authentication mechanisms to be chained.
9351 *) Remove requirement for ResourceConfig/AccessConfig if not using
9352 the three config file layout. [Randy Terbush]
9354 *) Add PASV mode to mod_proxy FTP handler. [Chuck Murcko]
9356 *) Changes to suexec wrapper to fix the following problems:
9357 1. symlinked homedirs will kill ~userdirs.
9358 2. initgroups() on Linux 2.0.x clobbers gr->grid.
9359 3. CGI command lines paramters problems
9360 4. pw-pwdir for "docroot check" still the httpd user's pw record.
9361 [Randy Terbush, Jason Dour]
9363 *) Change create_argv() to accept variable arguments. This fixes
9364 a problem where arguments were not getting passed to the CGI via
9365 argv[] when the suexec wrapper was active. [Randy Terbush, Jake Buchholz]
9367 *) Collapse multiple slashes in path URLs to properly apply
9368 handlers defined by <Location>. [Alexei Kosut]
9370 *) Define a sane set of DEFAULT_USER and DEFAULT_GROUP values for AIX.
9372 *) Improve the accuracy of request duration timings by setting
9373 r->request_time in read_request_line() instead of read_request().
9376 *) Reset timeout while reading via get_client_block() in mod_cgi.c
9377 Fixes problem with timed out transfers of large files. [Rasmus Lerdorf]
9379 *) Add the ability to pass different Makefile.tmpl files to Configure
9380 using the -make flag. [Rob Hartill]
9382 *) Fix coredump triggered when sending a SIGHUP to the server caused
9383 by an assertion failure, in turn caused by an uninitialised field in a
9387 *) Add FILEPATH_INFO variable to CGI environment, which is equal to
9388 PATH_INFO from previous versions of Apache (in certain situations,
9389 Apache 1.2's PATH_INFO will be different than 1.1's). [Alexei Kosut]
9390 [later removed in 1.2b11]
9392 *) Add rwrite() function to API to allow for sending strings of
9393 arbitrary length. [Doug MacEachern]
9395 *) Remove rlim_t typedef for NetBSD. Do older versions need this?
9397 *) Defined rlim_t and WANTHSREGEX=yes and fixed waitpid() substitute for
9398 NeXT. [Jim Jagielski]
9400 *) Removed recent modification to promote the status code on internal
9401 redirects, since the correct fix was to change the default log format
9402 in mod_log_config so that it outputs the original status. [Rob Hartill]
9404 Changes with Apache 1.2b2:
9406 *) Update set_signals() to use sigaction() for setting handlers.
9407 This appears to fix a re-entrant problem in the seg_fault()
9408 bus_error() handlers. [Randy Terbush]
9410 *) Changes to allow mod_status compile for OS/2 [Garey Smiley]
9412 *) changes for DEC AXP running OSF/1 v3.0. [Marc Evans]
9414 *) proxy_http.c bugfixes: [Chuck Murcko]
9415 1) fixes possible NULL pointer reference w/NoCache
9416 2) fixes NoCache behavior when using ProxyRemote (ProxyRemote
9417 host would cache nothing if it was in the local domain,
9418 and the local domain was in the NoCache list)
9419 3) Adds Host: header when not available
9420 4) Some code cleanup and clarification
9422 *) mod_include.c bugfixes:
9423 1) Fixed an ommission that caused include variables to not
9424 be parsed in config errmsg directives [Howard Fear]
9425 2) Remove HAVE_POSIX_REGEX cruft [Alexei Kosut]
9426 3) Patch to fix compiler warnings [perrot@lal.in2p3.fr]
9427 4) Allow backslash-escaping to all quoted text
9428 [Ben Yoshino <ben@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu>]
9429 5) Pass variable to command line if not set in XSSI's env
9432 *) Fix infinite loop when processing Content-language lines in
9433 type-map files. [Alexei Kosut]
9435 *) Closed file-globbing hole in test-cgi script. [Brian Behlendorf]
9437 *) Fixed problem in set_[user|group] that prevented CGI execution
9438 for non-virtualhosts when suEXEC was enabled. [Randy Terbush]
9440 *) Added PORTING information file. [Jim Jagielski]
9442 *) Added definitions for S_IWGRP and S_IWOTH to conf.h [Ben Laurie]
9444 *) Changed default group to "nogroup" instead of "nobody" [Randy Terbush]
9446 *) Fixed define typo of FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT where
9447 USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT was intended.
9449 *) Fixed additional uses of 0xffffffff where INADDR_NONE was intended,
9450 which caused problems of systems where socket s_addr is >32bits.
9452 *) Added comment to explain (r->chunked = 1) side-effect in
9453 http_protocol.c [Roy Fielding]
9455 *) Replaced use of index() in mod_expires.c with more appropriate
9456 and portable isdigit() test. [Ben Laurie]
9458 *) Updated Configure for ...
9459 OS/2 (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes, other code changes)
9460 *-dg-dgux* (bad pattern match)
9461 QNX (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes)
9462 *-sunos4* (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes, -DUSEBCOPY)
9465 and added some user diagnostic info. [Ben Laurie]
9467 *) In helpers/CutRule, replaced "cut" invocation with "awk" invocation
9468 for better portability. [Jim Jagielski]
9470 *) Updated helpers/GuessOS for ...
9471 SCO 5 (recognize minor releases)
9472 SCO UnixWare (braindamaged uname, whatever-whatever-unixware2)
9473 SCO UnixWare 2.1.1 (requires a separate set of #defines in conf.h)
9474 IRIX64 (-sgi-irix64)
9475 ULTRIX (-unknown-ultrix)
9476 SINIX (-whatever-sysv4)
9477 NCR Unix (-ncr-sysv4)
9478 and fixed something in helpers/PrintPath [Ben Laurie]
9480 Changes with Apache 1.2b1
9482 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_2.html>
9484 Changes with Apache 1.1.1
9486 *) Fixed bug where Cookie module would make two entries in the
9487 logfile for each access [Mark Cox]
9489 *) Fixed bug where Redirect in .htaccess files would cause memory
9490 leak. [Nathan Neulinger]
9492 *) MultiViews now works correctly with AddHandler [Alexei Kosut]
9494 *) Problems with mod_auth_msql fixed [Dirk vanGulik]
9496 *) Fix misspelling of "Anonymous_Authorative" directive in mod_auth_anon.
9498 Changes with Apache 1.1.0
9500 *) Bring NeXT support up to date. [Takaaki Matsumoto]
9502 *) Bring QNX support up to date. [Ben Laurie]
9504 *) Make virtual hosts default to main server keepalive parameters.
9505 [Alexei Kosut, Ben Laurie]
9507 *) Allow ScanHTMLTitles to work with lowercase <title> tags. [Alexei Kosut]
9509 *) Fix missing address family for connect, also remove unreachable statement
9510 in mod_proxy. [Ben Laurie]
9512 *) mod_env now turned on by default in Configuration.tmpl.
9514 *) Bugs which were fixed:
9515 a) yet more mod_proxy bugs [Ben Laurie]
9516 b) CGI works again with inetd [Alexei Kosut]
9517 c) Leading colons were stripped from passwords [osm@interguide.com]
9518 d) Another fix to multi-method Limit problem [jk@tools.de]
9520 Changes with Apache 1.1b4
9522 *) r->bytes_sent variable restored. [Robert Thau]
9524 *) Previously broken multi-method <Limit> parsing fixed. [Robert Thau]
9526 *) More possibly unsecure programs removed from the support directory.
9528 *) More mod_auth_msql authentication improvements.
9530 *) VirtualHosts based on Host: headers no longer conflict with the
9533 *) OS/2 compatibility enhancements. [Gary Smiley]
9535 *) POST now allowed to directory index CGI scripts.
9537 *) Actions now work with files of the default type.
9539 *) Bugs which were fixed:
9540 a) more mod_proxy bugs
9541 b) early termination of inetd requests
9542 c) compile warnings on several systems
9543 d) problems when scripts stop reading output early
9545 Changes with Apache 1.1b3
9547 *) Much of cgi-bin and all of cgi-src has been removed, due to
9548 various security holes found and that we could no longer support
9551 *) The "Set-Cookie" header is now special-cased to not merge multiple
9552 instances, since certain popular browsers can not handle multiple
9553 Set-Cookie instructions in a single header. [Paul Sutton]
9555 *) rprintf() added to buffer code, occurrences of sprintf removed.
9558 *) CONNECT method for proxy module, which means tunneling SSL should work.
9559 (No crypto needed) Also a NoCache config directive.
9561 *) Several API additions: pstrndup(), table_unset() and get_token()
9562 functions now available to modules.
9564 *) mod_imap fixups, in particular Location: headers are now complete
9567 *) New "info" module which reports on installed module set through a
9568 special URL, a la mod_status.
9570 *) "ServerPath" directive added - allows for graceful transition
9571 for Host:-header-based virtual hosts.
9573 *) Anonymous authentication module improvements.
9575 *) MSQL authentication module improvements.
9577 *) Status module design improved - output now table-based. [Ben Laurie]
9579 *) htdigest utility included for use with digest authentication
9582 *) mod_negotiation: Accept values with wildcards to be treated with
9583 less priority than those without wildcards at the same quality
9584 value. [Alexei Kosut]
9586 *) Bugs which were fixed:
9587 a) numerous mod_proxy bugs
9588 b) CGI early-termination bug [Ben Laurie]
9589 c) Keepalives not working with virtual hosts
9590 d) RefererIgnore problems
9591 e) closing fd's twice in mod_include (causing core dumps on
9592 Linux and elsewhere).
9594 Changes with Apache 1.1b2
9597 a) core dumps in mod_digest
9598 b) truncated hostnames/ip address in the logs
9599 c) relative URL's in mod_imap map files
9601 Changes with Apache 1.1b1
9603 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_1.html>
9605 Changes with Apache 1.0.3
9607 *) Internal redirects which occur in mod_dir.c now preserve the
9608 query portion of a request (the bit after the question mark).
9611 *) Escape active characters '<', '>' and '&' in html output in
9612 directory listings, error messages and redirection links.
9615 *) Apache will now work with LynxOS 2.3 and later [Steven Watt]
9617 *) Fix for POSIX compliance in waiting for processes in alloc.c.
9620 *) setsockopt no longer takes a const declared argument [Martijn Koster]
9622 *) Reset timeout timer after each successful fwrite() to the network.
9623 This patch adds a reset_timeout() procedure that is called by
9624 send_fd() to reset the timeout ever time data is written to the net.
9627 *) timeout() signal handler now checks for SIGPIPE and reports
9628 lost connections in a more user friendly way. [Rob Hartill]
9630 *) Location of the "scoreboard" file which used to live in /tmp is
9631 now configurable (for OSes that can't use mmap) via ScoreBoardFile
9632 which works similar to PidFile (in httpd.conf) [Rob Hartill]
9634 *) Include sys/resource.h in the correct place for SunOS4 [Sameer Parekh]
9636 *) the pstrcat call in mod_cookies.c didn't have an ending NULL,
9637 which caused a SEGV with cookies enabled
9639 *) Output warning when MinSpareServers is set to <= 0 and change it to 1
9642 *) Log the UNIX textual error returned by some system calls, in
9643 particular errors from accept() [David Robinson]
9645 *) Add strerror function to util.c for SunOS4 [Randy Terbush]
9647 Changes with Apache 1.0.2
9649 *) patch to get Apache compiled on UnixWare 2.x, recommended as
9650 a temporary measure, pending rewrite of rfc931.c. [Chuck Murcko]
9652 *) Fix get_basic_auth_pw() to set the auth_type of the request.
9655 *) past changes to http_config.c to only use the
9656 setrlimit function on systems defining RLIMIT_NOFILE
9657 broke the feature on SUNOS4. Now defines HAVE_RESOURCE
9658 for SUNOS and prototypes the needed functions.
9660 *) Remove uses of MAX_STRING_LEN/HUGE_STRING_LEN from several routines.
9663 *) Fix use of pointer to scratch memory. [Cliff Skolnick]
9665 *) Merge multiple headers from CGI scripts instead of taking last
9666 one. [David Robinson]
9668 *) Add support for SCO 5. [Ben Laurie]
9670 Changes with Apache 1.0.1
9672 *) Silence mod_log_referer and mod_log_agent if not configured
9675 *) Recursive includes can occur if the client supplies PATH_INFO data
9676 and the server provider uses relative links; as file.html
9677 relative to /doc.shtml/pathinfo is /doc.shtml/file.html. [David Robinson]
9679 *) The replacement for initgroups() did not call {set,end}grent(). This
9680 had two implications: if anything else used getgrent(), then
9681 initgroups() would fail, and it was consuming a file descriptor.
9684 *) On heavily loaded servers it was possible for the scoreboard to get
9685 out of sync with reality, as a result of a race condition.
9686 The observed symptoms are far more Apaches running than should
9687 be, and heavy system loads, generally followed by catastrophic
9688 system failure. [Ben Laurie]
9690 *) Fix typo in license. [David Robinson]
9692 Changes with Apache 1.0.0 23 Nov 1995
9694 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_0.html>
9696 Changes with Apache 0.8.16 05 Nov 1995
9698 *) New man page for 'httpd' added to support directory [David Robinson]
9700 *) .htgroup files can have more than one line giving members for a
9701 given group (each must have the group name in front), for NCSA
9702 back-compatibility [Robert Thau]
9704 *) Mutual exclusion around accept() is on by default for SVR4 systems
9705 generally, since they generally can't handle multiple processes in
9706 accept() on the same socket. This should cure flaky behavior on
9707 a lot of those systems. [David Robinson]
9709 *) AddType, AddEncoding, and AddLanguage directives take multiple
9710 extensions on a single command line [David Robinson]
9712 *) UserDir can be disabled for a given virtual host by saying
9713 "UserDir disabled" in the <VirtualHost> section --- it was a bug
9714 that this didn't work. [David Robinson]
9716 *) Compiles on QNX [Ben Laurie]
9718 *) Corrected parsing of ctime time format [David Robinson]
9720 *) httpd does a perror() before exiting if it can't log its pid
9721 to the PidFile, to make diagnosing the error a bit easier.
9724 *) <!--#include file="..."--> can no longer include files in the
9725 parent directory, for NCSA back-compatibility. [David Robinson]
9727 *) '~' is *not* escaped in URIs generated for directory listings
9730 *) Eliminated compiler warning in the imagemap module [Randy Terbush]
9732 *) Fixed bug involving handling URIs with escaped %-characters
9733 in redirects [David Robinson]
9735 Changes with Apache 0.8.15 14 Oct 1995
9737 *) Switched to new, simpler license
9739 *) Eliminated core dumps with improperly formatted DBM group files [Mark Cox]
9741 *) Don't allow requests for ordinary files to have PATH_INFO [Ben Laurie]
9743 *) Reject paths containing %-escaped '%' or null characters [David Robinson]
9745 *) Correctly handles internal redirects to files with names containing '%'
9748 *) Repunctuated some error messages [Aram Mirzadeh, Andrew Wilson]
9750 *) Use geteuid() rather than getuid() to see if we have root privilege,
9751 so that server correctly resets privilege if run setuid root. [Andrew
9754 *) Handle ftp: and telnet: URLs correctly in imagemaps (built-in module)
9757 *) Fix relative URLs in imagemap files [Randy Terbush]
9759 *) Somewhat better fix for the old "Alias /foo/ /bar/" business
9762 *) Don't repeatedly open the ErrorLog if a bunch of <VirtualHost>
9763 entries all name the same one. [David Robinson]
9765 *) Fix directory listings with filenames containing unusual characters
9768 *) Better URI-escaping for generated URIs in directories with filenames
9769 containing unusual characters [Ben Laurie]
9771 *) Fixed potential FILE* leak in http_main.c [Ben Laurie]
9773 *) Unblock alarms on error return from spawn_child() [David Robinson]
9775 *) Sample Config files have extra note for SCO users [Ben Laurie]
9777 *) Configuration has note for HP-UX users [Rob Hartill]
9779 *) Eliminated some bogus Linux-only #defines in conf.h [Aram Mirzadeh]
9781 *) Nuked bogus #define in httpd.h [David Robinson]
9783 *) Better test for whether a system has setrlimit() [David Robinson]
9785 *) Calls update_child_status() after reopen_scoreboard() [David Robinson]
9787 *) Doesn't send itself SIGHUP on startup when run in the -X debug-only mode
9790 Changes with Apache 0.8.14 19 Sep 1995
9792 *) Compiles on SCO ODT 3.0 [Ben Laurie]
9794 *) AddDescription works (better) [Ben Laurie]
9796 *) Leaves an intelligible error diagnostic when it can't set group
9797 privileges on standalone startup [Andrew Wilson]
9799 *) Compiles on NeXT again --- the 0.8.13 RLIMIT patch was failing on
9800 that machine, which claims to be BSD but does not support RLIMIT.
9803 *) gcc -Wall no longer complains about an unused variable when util.c
9804 is compiled with -DMINIMAL_DNS [Andrew Wilson]
9806 *) Nuked another compiler warning for -Wall on Linux [Aram Mirzadeh]
9808 Changes with Apache 0.8.13 07 Sep 1995
9810 *) Make IndexIgnore *work* (ooops) [Jarkko Torppa]
9812 *) Have built-in imagemap code recognize & honor Point directive [James
9815 *) Generate cleaner directory listings in directories with a mix of
9816 long and short filenames [Rob Hartill]
9818 *) Properly initialize dynamically loaded modules [Royston Shufflebotham]
9820 *) Properly default ServerName for virtual servers [Robert Thau]
9822 *) Rationalize handling of BSD in conf.h and elsewhere [Randy Terbush,
9823 Paul Richards and a cast of thousands...]
9825 *) On self-identified BSD systems (we don't try to guess any more),
9826 allocate a few extra file descriptors per virtual host with setrlimit,
9827 if we can, to avoid running out. [Randy Terbush]
9829 *) Write 22-character lock file name into buffer with enough space
9830 on startup [Konstantin Olchanski]
9832 *) Use archaic setpgrp() interface on NeXT, which requires it [Brian
9835 *) Suppress -Wall warning by casting const away in util.c [Aram Mirzadeh]
9837 *) Suppress -Wall warning by initializing variable in negotiation code
9838 [Tobias Weingartner]
9840 Changes with Apache 0.8.12 31 Aug 1995
9842 *) Doesn't pause three seconds after including a CGI script which is
9843 too slow to die off (this is done by not even trying to kill off
9844 subprocesses, including the SIGTERM/pause/SIGKILL routine, until
9845 after the entire document has been processed). [Robert Thau]
9847 *) Doesn't do SSI if Options Includes is off. (Ooops). [David Robinson]
9849 *) Options IncludesNoExec allows inclusion of at least text/* [Roy Fielding]
9851 *) Allows .htaccess files to override <Directory> sections naming the
9852 same directory [David Robinson]
9854 *) Removed an efficiency hack in sub_req_lookup_uri which was
9855 causing certain extremely marginal cases (e.g., ScriptAlias of a
9856 *particular* index.html file) to fail. [David Robinson]
9858 *) Doesn't log an error when the requested URI requires
9859 authentication, but no auth header line was supplied by the
9860 client; this is a normal condition (the client doesn't no auth is
9861 needed here yet). [Robert Thau]
9863 *) Behaves more sanely when the name server loses its mind [Sean Welch]
9865 *) RFC931 code compiles cleanly on old BSDI releases [Randy Terbush]
9867 *) RFC931 code no longer passes out name of prior clients on current
9868 requests if the current request came from a server that doesn't
9869 do RFC931. [David Robinson]
9871 *) Configuration script accepts "Module" lines with trailing whitespace.
9874 *) Cleaned up compiler warning from mod_access.c [Robert Thau]
9876 *) Cleaned up comments in mod_cgi.c [Robert Thau]
9878 Changes with Apache 0.8.11 24 Aug 1995
9880 *) Wildcard <Directory> specifications work. [Robert Thau]
9882 *) Doesn't loop for buggy CGI on Solaris [Cliff Skolnick]
9884 *) Symlink checks (FollowSymLinks off, or SymLinkIfOwnerMatch) always check
9885 the file being requested itself, in addition to the directories leading
9886 up to it. [Robert Thau]
9888 *) Logs access failures due to symlink checks or invalid client address
9889 in the error log [Roy Fielding, Robert Thau]
9891 *) Symlink checks deal correctly with systems where lstat of
9892 "/path/to/some/link/" follows the link. [Thau, Fielding]
9894 *) Doesn't reset DirectoryIndex to 'index.html' when
9895 other directory options are set in a .htaccess file. [Robert Thau]
9897 *) Clarified init code and nuked bogus warning in mod_access.c
9900 *) Corrected several directives in sample srm.conf
9901 --- includes corrections to directory indexing icon-related directives
9902 (using unknown.gif rather than unknown.xbm as the DefaultIcon, doing
9903 icons for encodings right, and turning on AddEncoding by default).
9906 *) Corrected descriptions of args to AddIcon and AddAlt in command table
9909 *) INSTALL & README mention "contributed modules" directory [Brian
9912 *) Fixed English in the license language... "for for" --> "for".
9915 *) Fixed ScriptAlias/Alias interaction by moving ScriptAlias handling to
9916 mod_alias.c, merging it almost completely with handling of Alias, and
9917 adding a 'notes' field to the request_rec which allows the CGI module
9918 to discover whether the Alias module has put this request through
9919 ScriptAlias (which it needs to know for back-compatibility, as the old
9920 NCSA code did not check Options ExecCGI in ScriptAlias directories).
9923 Changes with Apache 0.8.10 18 Aug 1995
9925 *) AllowOverride applies to the named directory, and not just
9926 subdirectories. [David Robinson]
9928 *) Do locking for accept() exclusion (on systems that need it)
9929 using a special file created for the purpose in /usr/tmp, and
9930 not the error log; using the error log causes real problems
9931 if it's NFS-mounted; this is known to be the cause of a whole
9932 lot of "server hang" problems with Solaris. [David Robinson;
9933 thanks to Merten Schumann for help diagnosing the problem].
9935 Changes with Apache 0.8.9 12 Aug 1995
9937 *) Compiles with -DMAXIMUM_DNS ---- ooops! [Henrik Mortensen]
9939 *) Nested includes see environment variables of the including document,
9940 for NCSA bug-compatibility (some sites have standard footer includes
9941 which try to print out the last-modified date). [Eric Hagberg/Robert
9944 *) <!--exec cgi="/some/uri/here"--> always treats the item named by the
9945 URI as a CGI script, even if it would have been treated as something
9946 else if requested directly, for NCSA back-compatibility. (Note that
9947 this means that people who know the name of the script can see the
9948 code just by asking for it). [Robert Thau]
9950 *) New version of dbmmanage script included in support directory as
9953 *) Check if scoreboard file couldn't be opened, and say so, rather
9954 then going insane [David Robinson]
9956 *) POST to CGI works on A/UX [Jim Jagielski]
9958 *) AddIcon and AddAlt commands work properly [Rob Hartill]
9960 *) NCSA server push works properly --- the Arena bug compatibility
9961 workaround, which broke it, is gone (use -DARENA_BUG_WORKAROUND
9962 if you still want the workaround). [Rob Hartill]
9964 *) If client didn't submit any Accept-encodings, ignore encodings in
9965 content negotiation. (NB this will all have to be reworked anyway
9966 for the new HTTP draft). [Florent Guillaume]
9968 *) Don't dump core when trying to log timed-out requests [Jim Jagielski]
9970 *) Really honor CacheNegotiatedDocs [Florent Guillaume]
9972 *) Give Redirect priority over Alias, for NCSA bug compatibility
9975 *) Correctly set PATH_TRANSLATED in all cases from <!--#exec cmd=""-->,
9976 paralleling earlier bug fix for CGI [David Robinson]
9978 *) If DBM auth is improperly configured, report a server error and don't
9981 *) Deleted FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPTS from conf.h entry for A/UX;
9982 it seems to work well enough without it (even in a 10 hits/sec
9983 workout), and the overhead for the locking under A/UX is
9984 alarmingly high (though it is very low on other systems).
9985 [Eric Hagberg, Jim Jagielski]
9987 *) Fixed portability problems with mod_cookies.c [Cliff Skolnick]
9989 *) Further de-Berklize mod_cookies.c; change the bogus #include. [Brian
9990 Behlendorf/Eric Hagberg]
9992 *) More improvements to default Configuration for A/UX [Jim Jagielski]
9994 *) Compiles clean on NEXT [Rob Hartill]
9996 *) Compiles clean on SGI [Robert Thau]
9998 Changes with Apache 0.8.8 08 Aug 1995
10000 *) SunOS library prototypes now never included unless explicitly
10001 requested in the configuration (via -DSUNOS_LIB_PROTOTYPES);
10002 people using GNU libc on SunOS are screwed by prototypes for the
10005 (Those who wish to compile clean with gcc -Wall on a standard
10006 SunOS setup need the prototypes, and may obtain them using
10007 -DSUNOS_LIB_PROTOTYPES. Those wishing to use -Wall on a system
10008 with nonstandard libraries are presumably competent to make their
10011 *) Strips trailing '/' characters off both args to the Alias command,
10012 to make 'Alias /foo/ /bar/' work.
10014 Changes with Apache 0.8.7 03 Aug 1995
10016 *) Don't hang when restarting with a child from 'TransferLog "|..."' running
10017 [reported by David Robinson]
10019 *) Compiles clean on OSF/1 [David Robinson]
10021 *) Added some of the more recent significant changes (AddLanguage stuff,
10022 experimental LogFormat support) to CHANGES file in distribution root
10025 Changes with Apache 0.8.6 02 Aug 1995
10027 *) Deleted Netscape reload workaround --- it's in violation of HTTP specs.
10028 (If you actually wanted a conditional GET which bypassed the cache, you
10029 couldn't get it). [Reported by Roy Fielding]
10031 *) Properly terminate headers on '304 Not Modified' replies to conditional
10032 GETs --- no browser we can find cares much, but the CERN proxy chokes.
10033 [Reported by Cliff Skolnick; fix discovered independently by Rob Hartill]
10035 *) httpd -v doesn't call itself "Shambhala". [Reported by Chuck Murcko]
10037 *) SunOS lib-function prototypes in conf.h conditionalized on __GNUC__,
10038 not __SUNPRO_C (they're needed to quiet gcc -Wall, but acc chokes on 'em,
10039 and older versions don't set the __SUNPRO_C preprocessor variable). On
10040 all other systems, these are never used anyway. [Reported by Mark Cox].
10042 *) Scoreboard file (/tmp/htstatus.*) no longer publically writable.
10044 Changes with Apache 0.8.5 01 Aug 1995
10046 *) Added last-minute configurable log experiment, as optional module
10048 *) Correctly set r->bytes_sent for HTTP/0.9 requests, so they get logged
10049 properly. (One-line fix to http_protocol.c).
10051 *) Work around bogus behavior when reloading from Netscape.
10052 It's Netscape's bug --- for some reason they expect a request with
10053 If-modified-since: to not function as a conditional GET if it also
10054 comes with Pragma: no-cache, which is way out of line with the HTTP
10055 spec (according to Roy Fielding, the redactor).
10057 *) Added parameter to set maximum number of server processes.
10059 *) Added patches to make it work on A/UX. A/UX is *weird*. [Eric Hagberg,
10062 *) IdentityCheck bugfix [Chuck Murcko].
10064 *) Corrected cgi-src/Makefile entry for new imagemap script. [Alexei Kosut]
10066 *) More sample config file corrections; add extension to AddType for
10067 *.asis, move AddType generic description to its proper place, and
10068 fix miscellaneous typos. [ Alexei Kosut ]
10070 *) Deleted the *other* reference to the regents from the Berkeley
10071 legal disclaimer (everyplace).
10073 *) Nuked Shambhala name from src/README; had already cleaned it out
10074 of everywhere else.
10076 Changes with Apache 0.8.4
10078 *) Changes to server-pool management parms --- renamed current
10079 StartServers to MinSpareServers, created separate StartServers
10080 parameter which means what it says, and renamed MaxServers to
10081 MaxSpareServers (though the old name still works, for NCSA 1.4
10082 back-compatibility). The old names were generally regarded as
10083 too confusing. Also altered "docs" in sample config files.
10085 *) More improvements to default config files ---
10086 sample directives (commented out) for XBitHack, BindAddress,
10087 CacheNegotiatedDocs, VirtualHost; decent set of AddLanguage
10088 defaults, AddTypes for send-as-is and imagemap magic types, and
10089 improvements to samples for DirectoryIndex [Alexei Kosut]
10091 *) Yet more improvements to default config files --- changes to
10092 Alexei's sample AddLanguage directives, and sample LanguagePriority
10093 [ Florent Guillaume ]
10095 *) Set config file locations properly if not set in httpd.conf
10098 *) Don't escape URIs in internal redirects multiple times; don't
10099 do that when translating PATH_INFO to PATH_TRANSLATED either.
10102 *) Corrected spelling of "Required" in 401 error reports [Andrew Wilson]
10104 Changes with Apache 0.8.3
10106 *) Edited distribution README to *briefly* summarize installation
10107 procedures, and give a pointer to the INSTALL file in the src/
10110 *) Upgraded imagemap script in cgi-bin to 1.8 version from more
10111 recent NCSA distributions.
10113 *) Bug fix to previous bug fix --- if .htaccess file and <Directory>
10114 exist for the same directory, use both and don't segfault. [Reported
10117 *) Proper makefile dependencies [David Robinson]
10119 *) Note (re)starts in error log --- reported by Rob Hartill.
10121 *) Only call no2slash() after get_path_info() has been done, to
10122 preserve multiple slashes in the PATH_INFO [NCSA compatibility,
10123 reported by Andrew Wilson, though this one is probably a real bug]
10125 *) Fixed mod_imap.c --- relative paths with base_uri referer don't
10126 dump core when Referer is not supplied. [Randy Terbush]
10128 *) Lightly edited sample config files to refer people to our documentation
10129 instead of NCSA's, and to list Rob McCool as *original* author (also
10130 deleted his old, and no doubt non-functional email address). Would be
10131 nice to have examples of new features...
10133 Changes with Apache 0.8.2 19 Jul 1995
10135 *) Added AddLanuage code [Florent Guillaume]
10137 *) Don't say "access forbidden" when a CGI script is not found. [Mark Cox]
10139 *) All sorts of problems when MultiViews finds a directory. It would
10140 be nice if mod_dir.c was robust enough to handle that, but for now,
10141 just punt. [reported by Brian Behlendorf]
10143 *) Wait for all children on restart, to make sure that the old socket
10144 is gone and we can reopen it. [reported by Randy Terbush]
10146 *) Imagemap module is enabled in default Configuration
10148 *) RefererLog and UserAgentLog modules properly default the logfile
10151 *) Mark Cox's mod_cookies added to the distribution as an optional
10152 module (commented out in the default Configuration, and noted as
10153 an experiment, along with mod_dld). [Mark Cox]
10155 *) Compiles on ULTRIX (a continuing battle...). [Robert Thau]
10157 *) Fixed nasty bug in SIGTERM handling [reported by Randy Terbush]
10159 *) Changed "Shambhala" to "Apache" in API docs. [Robert Thau]
10161 *) Added new, toothier legal disclaimer. [Robert Thau; copied from BSD
10164 Changes with Apache 0.8.1
10166 *) New imagemap module [Randy Terbush]
10168 *) Replacement referer log module with NCSA-compatible RefererIgnore
10169 [Matthew Gray again]
10171 *) Don't mung directory listings with very long filenames.
10172 [Florent Guillaume]
10174 Changes with Apache 0.8.0 (nee Shambhala 0.6.2) 16 Jul 1995
10176 *) New config script. See INSTALL for info. [Robert Thau]
10178 *) Scoreboard mechanism for regulating the number of extant server
10179 processes. MaxServers and StartServers defaults are the same as
10180 for NCSA, but the meanings are slightly different. (Actually,
10181 I should probably lower the MaxServers default to 10).
10183 Before asking for a new connection, each server process checks
10184 the number of other servers which are also waiting for a
10185 connection. If there are more than MaxServers, it quietly dies
10186 off. Conversely, every second, the root, or caretaker, process
10187 looks to see how many servers are waiting for a new connection;
10188 if there are fewer than StartServers, it starts a new one. This
10189 does not depend on the number of server processes already extant.
10190 The accounting is arranged through a "scoreboard" file, named
10191 /tmp/htstatus.*, on which each process has an independent file
10192 descriptor (they need to seek without interference).
10194 The end effect is that MaxServers is the maximum number of
10195 servers on an *inactive* server machine, but more will be forked
10196 off to handle unusually heavy loads (or unusually slow clients);
10197 these will die off when they are no longer needed --- without
10198 reverting to the overhead of full forking operation. There is a
10199 hard maximum of 150 server processes compiled in, largely to
10200 avoid forking out of control and dragging the machine down.
10201 (This is arguably too high).
10203 In my server endurance tests, this mechanism did not appear to
10204 impose any significant overhead, even after I forced it to put the
10205 scoreboard file on a normal filesystem (which might have more
10206 overhead than tmpfs). [Robert Thau]
10208 *) Set HTTP_FOO variables for SSI <!--#exec cmd-->s, not just CGI scripts.
10211 *) Read .htaccess files even in directory with <Directory> section.
10212 (Former incompatibility noted on mailing list, now fixed). [Robert
10215 *) "HEAD /" gives the client a "Bad Request" error message, rather
10216 than trying to send no body *and* no headers. [Cliff Skolnick].
10218 *) Don't produce double error reports for some very obscure cases
10219 mainly involving auth configuration (the "all modules decline to
10220 handle" case which is a sure sign of a server bug in most cases,
10221 but also happens when authentication is badly misconfigured).
10224 *) Moved FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT defines into conf.h (that's what
10225 it's *for*, and this sort of thing really shouldn't be cluttering
10226 up the Makefile). [Robert Thau]
10228 *) Incidental code cleanups in http_main.c --- stop dragging
10229 sa_client around; just declare it where used. [Robert Thau]
10231 *) Another acc-related fix. (It doesn't like const char
10232 in some places...). [Mark Cox]
10234 Changes with Shambhala 0.6.1 13 Jul 1995
10236 *) Fixed auth_name-related typos in http_core.c [Brian Behlendorf]
10237 Also, fixed auth typo in http_protocol.c unmasked by this fix.
10239 *) Compiles clean with acc on SunOS [Paul Sutton]
10241 *) Reordered modules in modules.c so that Redirect takes priority
10242 over ScriptAlias, for NCSA bug-compatibility [Rob Hartill] ---
10243 believe it or not, he has an actual site with a ScriptAlias and
10244 a Redirect declared for the *exact same directory*. Even *my*
10245 compatibility fetish wouldn't motivate me to fix this if the fix
10246 required any effort, but it doesn't, so what the hey.
10248 *) Fixed to properly default several server_rec fields for virtual
10249 servers from the corresponding fields in the main server_rec.
10250 [Cliff Skolnick --- 'port' was a particular irritant].
10252 *) No longer kills off nph- child processes before they are
10253 finished sending output. [Matthew Gray]
10255 Changes with Shambhala 0.6.0 10 Jul 1995
10257 *) Two styles of timeout --- hard and soft. soft_timeout()s just put
10258 the connection to the client in an "aborted" state, but otherwise
10259 allow whatever handlers are running to clean up. hard_timeout()s
10260 abort the request in progress completely; anything not tied to some
10261 resource pool cleanup will leak. They're still around because I
10262 haven't yet come up with a more elegant way of handling
10263 timeouts when talking to something that isn't the client. The
10264 default_handler and the dir_handler now use soft timeouts, largely
10265 so I can test the feature. [Robert Thau]
10267 *) TransferLog "| my_postprocessor ..." seems to be there. Note that
10268 the case of log handlers dying prematurely is probably handled VERY
10269 gracelessly at this point, and if the logger stops reading input,
10270 the server will hang. (It is known to correctly restart the
10271 logging process on server restart; this is (should be!) going through
10272 the same SIGTERM/pause/SIGKILL routine used to ding an errant CGI
10273 script). [Robert Thau]
10275 *) asis files supported (new module). [Robert Thau]
10277 *) IdentityCheck code is compiled in, but has not been tested. (I
10278 don't know anyone who runs identd). [Robert Thau]
10280 *) PATH_INFO and PATH_TRANSLATED are not set unless some real PATH_INFO
10281 came in with the request, for NCSA bug-compatibility. [Robert Thau]
10283 *) Don't leak the DIR * on HEAD request for a directory. [Robert Thau]
10285 *) Deleted the block_alarms() stuff from dbm_auth; no longer necessary,
10286 as timeouts are not in scope. [Robert Thau]
10288 *) quoted-string args in config files now handled correctly (doesn't drop
10289 the last character). [Robert Thau; reported by Randy Terbush]
10291 *) Fixed silly typo in http_main.c which was suddenly fatal in HP-UX.
10292 How the hell did it ever work? [Robert Thau; reported by Rob Hartill]
10294 *) mod_core.c --- default_type returns DEFAULT_TYPE (the compile-time
10295 default default type); the former default default behavior when all
10296 type-checkers defaulted had been a core dump. [Paul Sutton]
10298 *) Copy filenames out of the struct dirent when indexing
10299 directories. (On Linux, readdir() returns a pointer to the same
10300 memory area every time). Fix is in mod_dir.c. [Paul Sutton]
10302 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.3 [not released]
10304 *) Default response handler notes "file not found" in the error log,
10305 if the file was not found. [Cliff Skolnick].
10307 *) Another Cliff bug --- "GET /~user" now properly redirects (the userdir
10308 code no longer sets up bogus PATH_INFO which fakes out the directory
10309 handler). [Cliff Skolnick]
10311 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.2 06 Jul 1995
10313 *) Changes to http_main.c --- root server no longer plays silly
10314 games with SIGCHLD, and so now detects and replaces dying
10315 children. Child processes just die on SIGTERM, without taking
10316 the whole process group with them. Potential problem --- if any
10317 child process refuses to die, we hang in restart.
10318 MaxRequestsPerChild may still not work, but it certainly works
10319 better than it did before this! [Robert Thau]
10321 *) mod_dir.c bug fixes: ReadmeName and HeaderName
10322 work (or work better, at least); over-long description lines
10323 properly terminated. [Mark Cox]
10325 *) http_request.c now calls unescape_url() more places where it
10326 should [Paul Sutton].
10328 *) More directory handling bugs (reported by Cox)
10329 Parent Directory link is now set correctly. [Robert Thau]
10331 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.1 04 Jul 1995
10333 *) Generalized cleanup interface in alloc.c --- any function can be
10334 registered with alloc.c as a cleanup for a resource pool;
10335 tracking of files and file descriptors has been reimplemented in
10336 terms of this interface, so I can give it some sort of a test.
10339 *) More changes in alloc.c --- new cleanup_for_exec() function,
10340 which tracks down and closes all file descriptors which have been
10341 registered with the alloc.c machinery before the server exec()s a
10342 child process for CGI or <!--#exec-->. CGI children now get
10343 started with exactly three file descriptors open. Hopefully,
10344 this cures the problem Rob H. was having with overly persistent
10345 CGI connections. [Robert Thau]
10347 *) Mutual exclusion around the accept() in child_main() --- this is
10348 required on at least SGI, Solaris and Linux, and is #ifdef'ed in
10349 by default on those systems only (-DFCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT).
10350 This uses fcntl(F_SETLK,...) on the error log descriptor because
10351 flock() on that descriptor won't work on systems which have BSD
10352 flock() semantics, including (I think) Linux 1.3 and Solaris.
10354 This does work on SunOS (when the server is idle, only one
10355 process in the pool is waiting on accept()); it *ought* to work
10356 on the other systems. [Robert Thau]
10358 *) FreeBSD and BSDI portability tweaks [Chuck Murcko]
10360 *) sizeof(*sa_client) bugfix from [Rob Hartill]
10362 *) pstrdup(..., NULL) returns NULL, [Randy Terbush]
10364 *) block_alarms() to avoid leaking the DBM* in dbm auth (this should
10365 be unnecessary if I go to the revised timeout-handling scheme).
10368 *) For NCSA bug-compatibility, set QUERY_STRING env var (to a null
10369 string) even if none came in with the request. [Robert Thau]
10371 *) CHANGES file added to distribution ;-).
10373 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.5
10375 *) mod_dld --- early dynamic loading support [rst]
10376 *) Add wildcard content handlers for XBITHACK; default_hander now
10377 invoked with that mechanism (as a handler hanging off mod_core) [rst]
10378 *) XBITHACK supported as a wildcard content-handler, and
10379 configurable at run-time (not just at compile time, as in the
10380 "patchy server" releases) [rst]
10382 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.4 30 Jun 1995
10384 *) Fixed basic thinkos in mod_dbm_auth.c [rst, reported by Mark Cox]
10385 *) Handle Addtype x/y .z [rst, reported by Cox]
10387 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.3
10389 *) Fixed very dumb bug in mod_alias; "Alias" and "Redirect" are not
10390 synonymous [rst, terbush]
10392 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.1 28 Jun 1995
10394 *) First-cut virtual host implementation; some refit in the config
10395 reading code, and log management, was necessary to support this [rst]
10396 *) Sub-pool machinery, originally added to avoid excessive storage
10397 allocation on listings of large directories (which turned out to
10398 be the problem that the 0.3 storage accounting was added to
10399 find). Subrequests and mod_dir changed to use subpools. [rst]
10400 *) More memory debugging --- free list consistency checks. [rst]
10401 *) Added err_headers to request_rec, with support elsewhere [rst]
10402 *) Other fixes to minor bugs in mod_dir and mod_includes [rst, terbush]
10404 Changes with Shambhala 0.3 19 Jun 1995
10406 *) Switch ONE_PROCESS to a runtime command-line option (-X)
10407 *) Don't compile in mod_ai_backcompat by default
10408 *) Switch name of server from Apache to Shambhala in Makefile
10409 *) Add some accounting routines to track memory usage in the pools,
10412 Changes with Shambhala 0.2
10414 *) Set DOCUMENT_ROOT CGI variable
10415 *) Add single-process debugging, as a compile-time option (ONE_PROCESS)
10416 *) Add critical section protection to handling of cleanup structures
10418 *) Significant code reorg within the server core to group related
10419 functions together [rst]
10420 *) Correctly handle clients that hang up before sending any request
10422 *) Replace dying child processes. [rst]
10424 Changes with Shambhala 0.1 12 Jun 1995
10426 Major rewrite of the pre-existing "patchy server" codebase, by
10427 Robert Thau (rst). Significant portions of the server code, such
10428 as configuration-file handling and HTTP authentication support,
10429 were ripped out and rewritten from scratch. Code that was not
10430 completely rewritten was significantly altered.
10432 Major changes with this release include:
10434 *) Introduction of the module API; in request handling, the central
10435 machinery just dispatches to various modules, which actually do
10436 most of the work. Configuration handling is similar --- modules
10437 declare their own commands, and the central machinery just
10438 dispatches to them.
10440 API features from shambhala/0.1 were substantially unchanged in
10441 Apache 1.0 and 1.1. (1.0 API features not yet present in this
10442 release, such as wildcard handlers and subpools, were added in
10443 subsequent Shambhala releases, and were also generally rst's
10446 *) This release included the following modules:
10448 mod_access (access control --- allow and deny directives),
10449 mod_alias (Alias and Redirect commands),
10450 mod_auth (straight HTTP authentication, based on flat-files)
10451 mod_auth_dbm (same, with dbm files)
10452 mod_cgi (CGI scripts and, in this release, ScriptAlias)
10453 mod_common_log (CLF access logs; later renamed mod_log_common)
10454 mod_dir (directory indexing)
10455 mod_include (server-side includes)
10456 mod_mime (AddType directives)
10457 mod_negotiation (content negotiation)
10458 mod_userdir (support for users' public_html directories)
10460 It also included a mod_ai_backcompat, which was a private hack
10461 for back-compatibility with rst's own AI-lab servers.
10463 All of these modules were substantially complete, and functional
10464 or nearly so (a few, which implemented features not in use at
10465 Thau's site, required patches of a few lines).
10467 *) sub-request machinery, to allow modules to determine how other
10468 modules would assign MIME types to a given file, or optionally
10469 serve its content (this is heavily used by mod_dir, mod_include
10470 and mod_negotiation).
10472 *) Resource pool system for keeping track of memory allocated and
10473 files opened in service of a particular request. Much of the
10474 code in the modules (when they weren't rewrites) was adjusted to
10475 replace a pervasive convention of using fixed-size buffers on
10476 the stack with an equally pervasive convention of using memory
10477 allocated with palloc().
10479 *) Reorganization of data structures associated with a given
10480 request to eliminate use of global variables and the troublesome
10481 unmunge_name function (used in NCSA and early Apache releases to
10482 attempt to determine the URI which mapped to a given filename
10483 --- a difficult proposition, given that it is easy to produce
10484 setups in which multiple URIs map to the same file).
10486 *) Source files renamed and rearranged
10488 *) Very simple pre-forking behavior --- parent process forked off a
10489 fixed number of children, and then just waited for SIGHUP.
10491 *) Other more minor changes too numerous to list.
10493 This release included modified versions of a lot of code from the
10494 Apache 0.6.4 public release, plus an early pre-forking patch
10495 codeveloped by Robert Thau and Rob Hartill.
10497 Changes with Apache 0.7.3 20 Jun 1995
10499 *) There were a bunch of changes between Apache 0.6.4 and 0.7.3 that
10500 were incorporated by Rob Hartill on the main branch while Robert Thau
10501 worked on the Shambhala rewrite above. Most were merged into the
10502 Shambala architecture after Apache 0.8.0.
10504 Changes with Apache 0.6.4 13 May 1995
10506 *) Patches by Rob Hartill, Cliff Skolnick, Randy Terbush, Robert Thau,
10509 Changes with Apache 0.5.1 10 Apr 1995
10511 Changes with Apache 0.4 02 Apr 1995
10513 *) Patches by Brian Behlendorf, Andrew Wilson, Robert Thau,
10516 Changes with Apache 0.3 24 Mar 1995
10518 *) Patches by Robert Thau, David Robinson, Rob Hartill, and
10521 Changes with Apache 0.2 18 Mar 1995
10523 *) Based on NCSA httpd 1.3 by Rob McCool and patches by CERT,
10524 Roy Fielding, Robert Thau, Nicolas Pioch, David Robinson,
10525 Brian Behlendorf, Rob Hartill, and Cliff Skolnick.
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