3 Changes with Apache 2.3.5
5 *) mod_cache: Do an exact match of the keys defined by
6 CacheIgnoreURLSessionIdentifiers against the querystring instead of
7 a partial match. PR 48401.i
8 [Dodou Wang <wangdong.08 gmail.com>, Ruediger Pluem]
10 *) mod_proxy_balancer: Fix crash in balancer-manager. [Rainer Jung]
12 *) mod_headers: Ensure that changes to the main request remain valid when
13 the subrequest is destroyed. PR 48359 [Nick Kew, Ruediger Pluem]
15 *) Core HTTP: disable keepalive when the Client has sent
17 but we respond directly with a non-100 response.
18 Keepalive here led to data from clients continuing being treated as
22 *) Core: reject NULLs in request line or request headers.
25 *) Core: (re)-introduce -T commandline option to suppress documentroot
27 PR 41887 [Jan van den Berg <janvdberg gmail.com>]
29 *) mod_autoindex: support XHTML as equivalent to HTML in IndexOptions,
30 ScanHTMLTitles, ReadmeName, HeaderName
31 PR 48416 [Dmitry Bakshaev <dab18 izhnet.ru>, Nick Kew]
33 *) Proxy: Fix ProxyPassReverse with relative URL
34 Derived (slightly erroneously) from PR 38864 [Nick Kew]
36 *) mod_headers: align Header Edit with Header Set when used on Content-Type
37 PR 48422 [Cyril Bonté <cyril.bonte free.fr>, Nick Kew>]
39 Changes with Apache 2.3.4
41 *) Replace AcceptMutex, LockFile, RewriteLock, SSLMutex, SSLStaplingMutex,
42 and WatchdogMutexPath with a single Mutex directive. Add APIs to
43 simplify setup and user customization of APR proc and global mutexes.
44 (See util_mutex.h.) Build-time setting DEFAULT_LOCKFILE is no longer
45 respected; set DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR instead. [Jeff Trawick]
47 *) http_core: KeepAlive no longer accepts other than On|Off.
50 *) mod_dav: Remove errno from dav_error interface. Calls to dav_new_error()
51 and dav_new_error_tag() must be adjusted to add an apr_status_t parameter.
54 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Add AuthLDAPBindAuthoritative to allow Authentication to
55 try other providers in the case of an LDAP bind failure.
56 PR 46608 [Justin Erenkrantz, Joe Schaefer, Tony Stevenson]
58 *) Build: fix --with-module to work as documented
59 PR 43881 [Gez Saunders <gez.saunders virgin.net>]
61 Changes with Apache 2.3.3
63 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-3095 (cve.mitre.org)
64 mod_proxy_ftp: sanity check authn credentials.
65 [Stefan Fritsch <sf fritsch.de>, Joe Orton]
67 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-3094 (cve.mitre.org)
68 mod_proxy_ftp: NULL pointer dereference on error paths.
69 [Stefan Fritsch <sf fritsch.de>, Joe Orton]
70 *) mod_ssl: enable support for ECC keys and ECDH ciphers. Tested against
71 OpenSSL 1.0.0b3. [Vipul Gupta <vipul.gupta sun.com>, Sander Temme]
73 *) mod_dav: Include uri when logging a PUT error due to connection abort.
74 PR 38149. [Stefan Fritsch]
76 *) mod_dav: Return 409 instead of 500 for a LOCK request if the parent
77 resource does not exist or is not a collection. PR 43465. [Stefan Fritsch]
79 *) mod_dav_fs: Return 409 instead of 500 for Litmus test case copy_nodestcoll
80 (a COPY request where the parent of the destination resource does not
81 exist). PR 39299. [Stefan Fritsch]
83 *) mod_dav_fs: Don't delete the whole file if a PUT with content-range failed.
84 PR 42896. [Stefan Fritsch]
86 *) mod_dav_fs: Make PUT create files atomically and no longer destroy the
87 old file if the transfer aborted. PR 39815. [Paul Querna, Stefan Fritsch]
89 *) mod_dav_fs: Remove inode keyed locking as this conflicts with atomically
90 creating files. On systems with inode numbers, this is a format change of
91 the DavLockDB. The old DavLockDB must be deleted on upgrade.
94 *) mod_log_config: Make ${cookie}C correctly match whole cookie names
95 instead of substrings. PR 28037. [Dan Franklin <dan dan-franklin.com>,
98 *) vhost: A purely-numeric Host: header should not be treated as a port.
101 *) mod_ldap: Avoid 500 errors with "Unable to set LDAP_OPT_REFHOPLIMIT option to 5"
102 when built against openldap by using SDK LDAP_OPT_REFHOPLIMIT defaults unless
103 LDAPReferralHopLimit is explicitly configured.
106 *) mod_charset_lite: Honor 'CharsetOptions NoImplicitAdd'.
109 *) mod_ssl: Add support for OCSP Stapling. PR 43822.
110 [Dr Stephen Henson <shenson oss-institute.org>]
112 *) mod_socache_shmcb: Allow parens in file name if cache size is given.
113 Fixes SSLSessionCache directive mis-parsing parens in pathname.
114 PR 47945. [Stefan Fritsch]
116 *) htpasswd: Improve out of disk space handling. PR 30877. [Stefan Fritsch]
118 *) htpasswd: Use MD5 hash by default on all platforms. [Stefan Fritsch]
120 *) mod_sed: Reduce memory consumption when processing very long lines.
121 PR 48024 [Basant Kumar Kukreja <basant.kukreja sun.com>]
123 *) ab: Fix segfault in case the argument for -n is a very large number.
124 PR 47178. [Philipp Hagemeister <oss phihag.de>]
126 *) Allow ProxyPreserveHost to work in <Proxy> sections. PR 34901.
129 *) configure: Fix THREADED_MPMS so that mod_cgid is enabled again
130 for worker MPM. [Takashi Sato]
132 *) mod_dav: Provide a mechanism to obtain the request_rec and pathname
133 from the dav_resource. [Jari Urpalainen <jari.urpalainen nokia.com>,
134 Brian France <brian brianfrance.com>]
136 *) Build: Use install instead of cp if available on installing
137 modules to avoid segmentation fault. PR 47951. [hirose31 gmail.com]
139 *) mod_cache: correctly consider s-maxage in cacheability
140 decisions. [Dan Poirier]
142 *) mod_logio/core: Report more accurate byte counts in mod_status if
143 mod_logio is loaded. PR 25656. [Stefan Fritsch]
145 *) mod_ldap: If LDAPSharedCacheSize is too small, try harder to purge
146 some cache entries and log a warning. Also increase the default
147 LDAPSharedCacheSize to 500000. This is a more realistic size suitable
148 for the default values of 1024 for LdapCacheEntries/LdapOpCacheEntries.
149 PR 46749. [Stefan Fritsch]
151 *) mod_rewrite: Make sure that a hostname:port isn't fully qualified if
152 the request is a CONNECT request. [Bill Zajac <billz consultla.com>]
154 *) mod_cache: Teach CacheEnable and CacheDisable to work from within a
155 Location section, in line with how ProxyPass works. [Graham Leggett]
157 *) mod_reqtimeout: New module to set timeouts and minimum data rates for
158 receiving requests from the client. [Stefan Fritsch]
160 *) core: Fix potential memory leaks by making sure to not destroy
161 bucket brigades that have been created by earlier filters.
164 *) core, mod_deflate, mod_sed: Reduce memory usage by reusing bucket
165 brigades in several places. [Stefan Fritsch]
167 *) mod_cache: Fix uri_meets_conditions() so that CacheEnable will
168 match by scheme, or by a wildcarded hostname. PR 40169
169 [Peter Grandi <pg_asf asf.for.sabi.co.uk>, Graham Leggett]
171 *) suxec: Allow to log an error if exec fails by setting FD_CLOEXEC
172 on the log file instead of closing it. PR 10744. [Nicolas Rachinsky]
174 *) mod_mime: Make RemoveType override the info from TypesConfig.
175 PR 38330. [Stefan Fritsch]
177 *) mod_cache: Introduce the option to run the cache from within the
178 normal request handler, and to allow fine grained control over
179 where in the filter chain content is cached. [Graham Leggett]
181 *) core: Treat timeout reading request as 408 error, not 400.
182 Log 408 errors in access log as was done in Apache 1.3.x.
183 PR 39785 [Nobutaka Mantani <nobutaka nobutaka.org>,
184 Stefan Fritsch <sf fritsch.de>, Dan Poirier]
186 *) mod_ssl: Reintroduce SSL_CLIENT_S_DN, SSL_CLIENT_I_DN, SSL_SERVER_S_DN,
187 SSL_SERVER_I_DN back to the environment variables to be set by mod_ssl.
188 [Peter Sylvester <peter.sylvester edelweb.fr>]
190 *) mod_disk_cache: don't cache incomplete responses, per RFC 2616, 13.8.
191 PR15866. [Dan Poirier]
193 *) ab: ab segfaults in verbose mode on https sites
194 PR46393. [Ryan Niebur]
196 *) mod_dav: Allow other modules to become providers and add resource types
197 to the DAV response. [Jari Urpalainen <jari.urpalainen nokia.com>,
198 Brian France <brian brianfrance.com>]
200 *) mod_dav: Allow other modules to add things to the DAV or Allow headers
201 of an OPTIONS request. [Jari Urpalainen <jari.urpalainen nokia.com>,
202 Brian France <brian brianfrance.com>]
204 *) core: Lower memory usage of core output filter.
205 [Stefan Fritsch <sf sfritsch.de>]
207 *) mod_mime: Detect invalid use of MultiviewsMatch inside Location and
208 LocationMatch sections. PR47754. [Dan Poirier]
210 *) mod_request: Make sure the KeptBodySize directive rejects values
211 that aren't valid numbers. [Graham Leggett]
213 *) mod_session_crypto: Sanity check should the potentially encrypted
214 session cookie be too short. [Graham Leggett]
216 *) mod_session.c: Prevent a segfault when session is added but not
217 configured. [Graham Leggett]
219 *) htcacheclean: 19 ways to fail, 1 error message. Fixed. [Graham Leggett]
221 *) mod_auth_digest: Fail server start when nonce count checking
222 is configured without shared memory, or md5-sess algorithm is
223 configured. [Dan Poirier]
225 *) mod_proxy_connect: The connect method doesn't work if the client is
226 connecting to the apache proxy through an ssl socket. Fixed.
227 PR29744. [Brad Boyer, Mark Cave-Ayland, Julian Gilbey, Fabrice Durand,
228 David Gence, Tim Dodge, Per Gunnar Hans, Emmanuel Elango,
229 Kevin Croft, Rudolf Cardinal]
231 *) mod_ssl: The error message when SSLCertificateFile is missing should
232 at least give the name or position of the problematic virtual host
233 definition. [Stefan Fritsch sf sfritsch.de]
235 *) mod_auth_digest: Fix null pointer when qop=none. [Dan Poirier]
237 *) Add support for HTTP PUT to ab. [Jeff Barnes <jbarnesweb yahoo.com>]
239 *) mod_headers: generalise the envclause to support expression
240 evaluation with ap_expr parser [Nick Kew]
242 *) mod_cache: Introduce the thundering herd lock, a mechanism to keep
243 the flood of requests at bay that strike a backend webserver as
244 a cached entity goes stale. [Graham Leggett]
246 *) mod_auth_digest: Fix usage of shared memory and re-enable it.
247 PR 16057 [Dan Poirier]
249 *) Preserve Port information over internal redirects
250 PR 35999 [Jonas Ringh <jonas.ringh cixit.se>]
252 *) Proxy: unable to connect to a backend is SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE,
253 rather than BAD_GATEWAY or (especially) NOT_FOUND.
254 PR 46971 [evanc nortel.com]
256 *) Various modules: Do better checking of pollset operations in order to
257 avoid segmentation faults if they fail. PR 46467
258 [Stefan Fritsch <sf sfritsch.de>]
260 *) mod_autoindex: Correctly create an empty cell if the description
261 for a file is missing. PR 47682 [Peter Poeml <poeml suse.de>]
263 *) ab: Fix broken error messages after resolver or connect() failures.
266 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-1890 (cve.mitre.org)
267 Fix a potential Denial-of-Service attack against mod_proxy in a
268 reverse proxy configuration, where a remote attacker can force a
269 proxy process to consume CPU time indefinitely. [Nick Kew, Joe Orton]
271 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-1191 (cve.mitre.org)
272 mod_proxy_ajp: Avoid delivering content from a previous request which
273 failed to send a request body. PR 46949 [Ruediger Pluem]
275 *) htdbm: Fix possible buffer overflow if dbm database has very
276 long values. PR 30586 [Dan Poirier]
278 *) core: Return APR_EOF if request body is shorter than the length announced
279 by the client. PR 33098 [ Stefan Fritsch <sf sfritsch.de>]
281 *) mod_suexec: correctly set suexec_enabled when httpd is run by a
282 non-root user and may have insufficient permissions.
283 PR 42175 [Jim Radford <radford blackbean.org>]
285 *) mod_ssl: Fix SSL_*_DN_UID variables to use the 'userID' attribute
286 type. PR 45107. [Michael Ströder <michael stroeder.com>,
287 Peter Sylvester <peter.sylvester edelweb.fr>]
289 *) mod_proxy_http: fix case sensitivity checking transfer encoding
290 PR 47383 [Ryuzo Yamamoto <ryuzo.yamamoto gmail.com>]
292 *) mod_alias: ensure Redirect issues a valid URL.
293 PR 44020 [HÃ¥kon Stordahl <hakon stordahl.org>]
295 *) mod_dir: add FallbackResource directive, to enable admin to specify
296 an action to happen when a URL maps to no file, without resorting
297 to ErrorDocument or mod_rewrite. PR 47184 [Nick Kew]
299 *) mod_cgid: Do not leak the listening Unix socket file descriptor to the
300 CGI process. PR 47335 [Kornél Pál <kornelpal gmail.com>]
302 *) mod_rewrite: Remove locking for writing to the rewritelog.
303 PR 46942 [Dan Poirier <poirier pobox.com>]
305 *) mod_alias: check sanity in Redirect arguments.
306 PR 44729 [Sönke Tesch <st kino-fahrplan.de>, Jim Jagielski]
308 *) mod_proxy_http: fix Host: header for literal IPv6 addresses.
309 PR 47177 [Carlos Garcia Braschi <cgbraschi gmail.com>]
311 *) mod_cache: Add CacheIgnoreURLSessionIdentifiers directive to ignore
312 defined session identifiers encoded in the URL when caching.
315 *) mod_rewrite: Fix the error string returned by RewriteRule.
316 RewriteRule returned "RewriteCond: bad flag delimiters" when the 3rd
317 argument of RewriteRule was not started with "[" or not ended with "]".
318 PR 45082 [Vitaly Polonetsky <m_vitaly topixoft.com>]
320 *) Windows: Fix usage message.
323 *) apachectl: When passing through arguments to httpd in
324 non-SysV mode, use the "$@" syntax to preserve arguments.
327 *) mod_dbd: add DBDInitSQL directive to enable SQL statements to
328 be run when a connection is opened. PR 46827
329 [Marko Kevac <mkevac gmail.com>]
331 *) mod_cgid: Improve handling of long AF_UNIX socket names (ScriptSock).
332 PR 47037. [Jeff Trawick]
334 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Check more strictly that the backend follows the AJP
335 protocol. [Mladen Turk]
337 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Forward remote port information by default.
340 *) Allow MPMs to be loaded dynamically, as with most other modules. Use
341 --enable-mpms-shared={list|"all"} to enable. This required changes to
342 the MPM interfaces. Removed: mpm.h, mpm_default.h (as an installed
343 header), APACHE_MPM_DIR, MPM_NAME, ap_threads_per_child,
344 ap_max_daemons_limit, ap_my_generation, etc. ap_mpm_query() can't be
345 called until after the register-hooks phase. [Jeff Trawick]
347 *) mod_ssl: Add SSLProxyCheckPeerExpire and SSLProxyCheckPeerCN directives
348 to enable stricter checking of remote server certificates.
351 *) ab: Fix a 100% CPU loop on platforms where a failed non-blocking connect
352 returns EINPROGRESS and a subsequent poll() returns only POLLERR.
353 Observed on HP-UX. [Eric Covener]
355 *) Remove broken support for BeOS, OS/2, TPF, and even older platforms such
356 as A/UX, Next, and Tandem. [Jeff Trawick]
358 *) mod_proxy_ftp: Add ProxyFtpListOnWildcard directive to allow files with
359 globbing characters to be retrieved instead of converted into a
360 directory listing. PR 46789 [Dan Poirier <poirier pobox.com>]
362 *) Provide ap_retained_data_create()/ap_retained_data_get() for preservation
363 of module state across unload/load. [Jeff Trawick]
365 *) mod_substitute: Fix a memory leak. PR 44948
366 [Dan Poirier <poirier pobox.com>]
368 Changes with Apache 2.3.2
370 *) mod_mime_magic: Fix detection of compressed content. [Rainer Jung]
372 *) mod_negotiation: Escape pathes of filenames in 406 responses to avoid
373 HTML injections and HTTP response splitting. PR 46837.
374 [Geoff Keating <geoffk apple.com>]
376 *) mod_ssl: add support for type-safe STACK constructs in OpenSSL
377 development HEAD. PR 45521. [Kaspar Brand, Sander Temme]
379 *) ab: Fix maintenance of the pollset to resolve EALREADY errors
380 with kqueue (BSD/OS X) and excessive CPU with event ports (Solaris).
381 PR 44584. Use APR_POLLSET_NOCOPY for better performance with some
382 pollset implementations. [Jeff Trawick]
384 *) mod_disk_cache: The module now turns off sendfile support if
385 'EnableSendfile off' is defined globally. [Lars Eilebrecht]
387 *) mod_deflate: Adjust content metadata before bailing out on 304
388 responses so that the metadata does not differ from 200 response.
391 *) mod_deflate: Fix creation of invalid Etag headers. We now make sure
392 that the Etag value is properly quoted when adding the gzip marker.
393 PR 39727, 45023. [Lars Eilebrecht, Roy T. Fielding]
395 *) Added 20x22 icons for ODF, SVG, and XML documents. PR 37185.
398 *) Disabled DefaultType directive and removed ap_default_type()
399 from core. We now exclude Content-Type from responses for which
400 a media type has not been configured via mime.types, AddType,
401 ForceType, or some other mechanism. PR 13986. [Roy T. Fielding]
403 *) mod_rewrite: Add IPV6 variable to RewriteCond
404 [Ryan Phillips <ryan-apache trolocsis.com>]
406 *) core: Enhance KeepAliveTimeout to support a value in milliseconds.
407 PR 46275. [Takashi Sato]
409 *) rotatelogs: Allow size units B, K, M, G and combination of
410 time and size based rotation. [Rainer Jung]
412 *) rotatelogs: Add flag for verbose (debug) output. [Rainer Jung]
414 *) mod_ssl: Fix merging of SSLRenegBufferSize directive. PR 46508
415 [<tlhackque yahoo.com>]
417 *) core: Translate the the status line to ASCII on EBCDIC platforms in
418 ap_send_interim_response() and for locally generated "100 Continue"
419 responses. [Eric Covener]
421 *) prefork: Fix child process hang during graceful restart/stop in
422 configurations with multiple listening sockets. PR 42829. [Joe Orton,
425 *) mod_session_crypto: Ensure that SessionCryptoDriver can only be
426 set in the global scope. [Graham Leggett]
428 *) mod_ext_filter: We need to detect failure to startup the filter
429 program (a mangled response is not acceptable). Fix to detect
430 failure, and offer configuration option either to abort or
431 to remove the filter and continue.
434 *) mod_session_crypto: Rewrite the session_crypto module against the
435 apr_crypto API. [Graham Leggett]
437 *) mod_auth_form: Fix a pool lifetime issue, don't remove the subrequest
438 until the main request is cleaned up. [Graham Leggett]
440 Changes with Apache 2.3.1
442 *) ap_slotmem: Add in new slot-based memory access API impl., including
443 2 providers (mod_sharedmem and mod_plainmem) [Jim Jagielski,
444 Jean-Frederic Clere, Brian Akins <brian.akins turner.com>]
446 *) mod_include: support generating non-ASCII characters as entities in SSI
449 *) core/utils: Enhance ap_escape_html API to support escaping non-ASCII chars
452 *) mod_rewrite: fix "B" flag breakage by reverting r5589343
453 PR 45529 [Bob Ionescu <bobsiegen googlemail.com>]
455 *) CGI: return 504 (Gateway timeout) rather than 500 when a script
456 times out before returning status line/headers.
459 *) mod_cgid: fix segfault problem on solaris.
460 PR 39332 [Masaoki Kobayashi <masaoki techfirm.co.jp>]
462 *) mod_proxy_scgi: Added. [André Malo]
464 *) mod_cache: Introduce 'no-cache' per-request environment variable
465 to prevent the saving of an otherwise cacheable response.
468 *) mod_rewrite: Introduce DiscardPathInfo|DPI flag to stop the troublesome
469 way that per-directory rewrites append the previous notion of PATH_INFO
470 to each substitution before evaluating subsequent rules.
471 PR 38642 [Eric Covener]
473 *) mod_cgid: Do not add an empty argument when calling the CGI script.
474 PR 46380 [Ruediger Pluem]
476 *) scoreboard: Remove unused sb_type from process_score.
477 [Torsten Foertsch <torsten.foertsch gmx.net>, Chris Darroch]
479 *) mod_ssl: Add SSLRenegBufferSize directive to allow changing the
480 size of the buffer used for the request-body where necessary
481 during a per-dir renegotiation. PR 39243. [Joe Orton]
483 *) mod_proxy_fdpass: New module to pass a client connection over to a separate
484 process that is reading from a unix daemon socket.
486 *) mod_ssl: Improve environment variable extraction to be more
487 efficient and to correctly handle DNs with duplicate tags.
488 PR 45975. [Joe Orton]
490 *) Remove the obsolete serial attribute from the RPM spec file. Compile
491 against the external pcre. Add missing binaries fcgistarter, and
492 mod_socache* and mod_session*. [Graham Leggett]
494 Changes with Apache 2.3.0
496 *) mod_ratelimit: New module to do bandwidth rate limiting. [Paul Querna]
498 *) Remove X-Pad header which was added as a work around to a bug in
499 Netscape 2.x to 4.0b2. [Takashi Sato <takashi lans-tv.com>]
501 *) Add DTrace Statically Defined Tracing (SDT) probes.
502 [Theo Schlossnagle <jesus omniti.com>, Paul Querna]
504 *) mod_proxy_balancer: Move all load balancing implementations
505 as individual, self-contained mod_proxy submodules under
506 modules/proxy/balancers [Jim Jagielski]
508 *) Rename APIs to include ap_ prefix:
509 find_child_by_pid -> ap_find_child_by_pid
510 suck_in_APR -> ap_suck_in_APR
511 sys_privileges_handlers -> ap_sys_privileges_handlers
512 unixd_accept -> ap_unixd_accept
513 unixd_config -> ap_unixd_config
514 unixd_killpg -> ap_unixd_killpg
515 unixd_set_global_mutex_perms -> ap_unixd_set_global_mutex_perms
516 unixd_set_proc_mutex_perms -> ap_unixd_set_proc_mutex_perms
517 unixd_set_rlimit -> ap_unixd_set_rlimit
520 *) core: When the ap_http_header_filter processes an error bucket, cleanup
521 the passed brigade before returning AP_FILTER_ERROR down the filter
522 chain. This unambiguously ensures the same error bucket isn't revisited
525 *) mod_lbmethod_heartbeat: New module to load balance mod_proxy workers
526 based on heartbeats. [Paul Querna]
528 *) mod_heartmonitor: New module to collect heartbeats, and write out a file
529 so that other modules can load balance traffic as needed. [Paul Querna]
531 *) mod_heartbeat: New module to generate multicast heartbeats to know if a
532 server is online. [Paul Querna]
534 *) core: Error responses set by filters were being coerced into 500 errors,
535 sometimes appended to the original error response. Log entry of:
536 'Handler for (null) returned invalid result code -3'
539 *) mod_buffer: Honour the flush bucket and flush the buffer in the
540 input filter. Make sure that metadata buckets are written to
541 the buffer, not to the final brigade. [Graham Leggett]
543 *) mod_buffer: Optimise the buffering of heap buckets when the heap
544 buckets stay exactly APR_BUCKET_BUFF_SIZE long. [Graham Leggett,
547 *) mod_buffer: Optional support for buffering of the input and output
548 filter stacks. Can collapse many small buckets into fewer larger
549 buckets, and prevents excessively small chunks being sent over
550 the wire. [Graham Leggett]
552 *) mod_privileges: new module to make httpd on Solaris privileges-aware
553 and to enable different virtualhosts to run with different
554 privileges and Unix user/group IDs [Nick Kew]
556 *) mod_mem_cache: this module has been removed. [William Rowe]
558 *) authn/z: Remove mod_authn_default and mod_authz_default.
561 *) authz: Fix handling of authz configurations, make default authz
562 logic replicate 2.2.x authz logic, and replace <Satisfy*>, Reject,
563 and AuthzMergeRules directives with Match, <Match*>, and AuthzMerge
564 directives. [Chris Darroch]
566 *) mod_authn_core: Prevent crash when provider alias created to
567 provider which is not yet registered. [Chris Darroch]
569 *) mod_authn_core: Add AuthType of None to support disabling
570 authentication. [Chris Darroch]
572 *) core: Allow <Limit> and <LimitExcept> directives to nest, and
573 constrain their use to conform with that of other access control
574 and authorization directives. [Chris Darroch]
576 *) unixd: turn existing code into a module, and turn the set user/group
577 and chroot into a child_init function. [Nick Kew]
579 *) core: Add ap_timeout_parameter_parse to public API. [Ruediger Pluem]
581 *) mod_dir: Support "DirectoryIndex disabled"
582 Suggested By André Warnier <aw ice-sa.com> [Eric Covener]
584 *) mod_ssl: Send Content-Type application/ocsp-request for POST requests to
585 OSCP responders. PR 46014 [Dr Stephen Henson <steve openssl.org>]
587 *) Export and install the mod_rewrite.h header to ensure the optional
588 rewrite_mapfunc_t and ap_register_rewrite_mapfunc functions are
589 available to third party modules. [Graham Leggett]
591 *) mod_authnz_ldap: don't return NULL-valued environment variables to
592 other modules. PR 39045 [Francois Pesce <francois.pesce gmail.com>]
594 *) Don't adjust case in pathname components that are not of interest
595 to mod_mime. Fixes mod_negotiation's use of such components.
596 PR 43250 [Basant Kumar Kukreja <basant.kukreja sun.com>]
598 *) Be tolerant in what you accept - accept slightly broken
599 status lines from a backend provide they include a valid status code.
600 PR 44995 [Rainer Jung <rainer.jung kippdata.de>]
602 *) New module mod_sed: filter Request/Response bodies through sed
603 [Basant Kumar Kukreja <basant.kukreja sun.com>]
605 *) mod_auth_form: Make sure that basic authentication is correctly
606 faked directly after login. [Graham Leggett]
608 *) mod_session_cookie, mod_session_dbd: Make sure cookies are set both
609 within the output headers and error output headers, so that the
610 session is maintained across redirects. [Graham Leggett]
612 *) mod_auth_form: Make sure the logged in user is populated correctly
613 after a form login. Fixes a missing REMOTE_USER variable directly
614 following a login. [Graham Leggett]
616 *) mod_session_cookie: Make sure that cookie attributes are correctly
617 included in the blank cookie when cookies are removed. This fixes an
618 inability to log out when using mod_auth_form. [Graham Leggett]
620 *) mod_autoindex: add configuration option to insert string
621 in HTML HEAD. [Nick Kew]
623 *) mod_session: Prevent a segfault when a CGI script sets a cookie with a
624 null value. [David Shane Holden <dpejesh apache.org>]
626 *) mod_headers: Prevent Header edit from processing only the first header
627 of possibly multiple headers with the same name and deleting the
628 remaining ones. PR 45333. [Ruediger Pluem]
630 *) mod_rewrite: Preserve the query string with [proxy,noescape]. PR 45247
633 *) core, authn/z: Determine registered authn/z providers directly in
634 ap_setup_auth_internal(), which allows optional functions that just
635 wrapped ap_list_provider_names() to be removed from authn/z modules.
638 *) authn/z: Convert common provider version strings to macros.
641 *) ab: Make ab.c compile on VC6. PR 45024 [Ruediger Pluem]
643 *) configure: Don't reject libtool 2.x
644 PR 44817 [Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever.FTA gmail.com>]
646 *) core: When testing for slash-terminated configuration paths in
647 ap_location_walk(), don't look past the start of an empty string
648 such as that created by a <Location ""> directive.
651 *) core, mod_proxy: If a kept_body is present, it becomes safe for
652 subrequests to support message bodies. Make sure that safety
653 checks within the core and within the proxy are not triggered
654 when kept_body is present. This makes it possible to embed
655 proxied POST requests within mod_include. [Graham Leggett]
657 *) mod_auth_form: Make sure the input filter stack is properly set
658 up before reading the login form. Make sure the kept body filter
659 is correctly inserted to ensure the body can be read a second
660 time safely should the authn be successful. [Graham Leggett,
663 *) mod_request: Insert the KEPT_BODY filter via the insert_filter
664 hook instead of during fixups. Add a safety check to ensure the
665 filters cannot be inserted more than once. [Graham Leggett,
668 *) core: Do not allow Options ALL if not all options are allowed to be
669 overwritten. PR 44262 [Michał Grzędzicki <lazy iq.pl>]
671 *) ap_cache_cacheable_headers_out() will (now) always
672 merge an error headers _before_ clearing them and _before_
673 merging in the actual entity headers and doing normal
674 hop-by-hop cleansing. [Dirk-Willem van Gulik].
676 *) cache: retire ap_cache_cacheable_hdrs_out() which was used
677 for both in- and out-put headers; and replace it by a single
678 ap_cache_cacheable_headers() wrapped in a in- and out-put
679 specific ap_cache_cacheable_headers_in()/out(). The latter
680 which will also merge error and ensure content-type. To keep
681 cache modules consistent with ease. This API change bumps
682 up the minor MM by one [Dirk-Willem van Gulik].
684 *) mod_rewrite: Allow Cookie option to set secure and HttpOnly flags.
685 PR 44799 [Christian Wenz <christian wenz.org>]
687 *) Move the KeptBodySize directive, kept_body filters and the
688 ap_parse_request_body function out of the http module and into a
689 new module called mod_request, reducing the size of the core.
692 *) mod_dbd: Handle integer configuration directive parameters with a
695 *) Change the directives within the mod_session* modules to be valid
696 both inside and outside the location/directory sections, as
697 suggested by wrowe. [Graham Leggett]
699 *) mod_auth_form: Add a module capable of allowing end users to log
700 in using an HTML form, storing the credentials within mod_session.
703 *) Add a function to the http filters that is able to parse an HTML
704 form request with the type of application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
707 *) mod_session_crypto: Initialise SSL in the post config hook.
708 [Ruediger Pluem, Graham Leggett]
710 *) mod_session_dbd: Add a session implementation capable of storing
711 session information in a SQL database via the dbd interface. Useful
712 for sites where session privacy is important. [Graham Leggett]
714 *) mod_session_crypto: Add a session encoding implementation capable
715 of encrypting and decrypting sessions wherever they may be stored.
716 Introduces a level of privacy when sessions are stored on the
717 browser. [Graham Leggett]
719 *) mod_session_cookie: Add a session implementation capable of storing
720 session information within cookies on the browser. Useful for high
721 volume sites where server bound sessions are too resource intensive.
724 *) mod_session: Add a generic session interface to unify the different
725 attempts at saving persistent sessions across requests.
728 *) core, authn/z: Avoid calling access control hooks for internal requests
729 with configurations which match those of initial request. Revert to
730 original behaviour (call access control hooks for internal requests
731 with URIs different from initial request) if any access control hooks or
732 providers are not registered as permitting this optimization.
733 Introduce wrappers for access control hook and provider registration
734 which can accept additional mode and flag data. [Chris Darroch]
736 *) Introduced ap_expr API for expression evaluation.
737 This is adapted from mod_include, which is the first module
741 *) mod_authz_dbd: When redirecting after successful login/logout per
742 AuthzDBDRedirectQuery, do not report authorization failure, and use
743 first row returned by database query instead of last row.
746 *) mod_ldap: Correctly return all requested attribute values
747 when some attributes have a null value.
748 PR 44560 [Anders Kaseorg <anders kaseorg.com>]
750 *) core: check symlink ownership if both FollowSymlinks and
751 SymlinksIfOwnerMatch are set [Nick Kew]
753 *) core: fix origin checking in SymlinksIfOwnerMatch
754 PR 36783 [Robert L Mathews <rob-apache.org.bugs tigertech.net>]
756 *) Activate mod_cache, mod_file_cache and mod_disk_cache as part of the
757 'most' set for '--enable-modules' and '--enable-shared-mods'. Include
758 mod_mem_cache in 'all' as well. [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
760 *) Also install mod_so.h, mod_rewrite.h and mod_cache.h; as these
761 contain public function declarations which are useful for
762 third party module authors. PR 42431 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik].
764 *) mod_dir, mod_negotiation: pass the output filter information
765 to newly created sub requests; as these are later on used
766 as true requests with an internal redirect. This allows for
767 mod_cache et.al. to trap the results of the redirect.
768 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Ruediger Pluem]
770 *) mod_ldap: Add support (taking advantage of the new APR capability)
771 for ldap rebind callback while chasing referrals. This allows direct
772 searches on LDAP servers (in particular MS Active Directory 2003+)
773 using referrals without the use of the global catalog.
774 PRs 26538, 40268, and 42557 [Paul J. Reder]
776 *) mod_ssl: Added server name indication support (SNI, RFC 4366).
777 PR 34607. [Kaspar Brand <asfbugz velox.ch>]. A test configuration
778 can be created with test/make_sni.sh [Dirk-Willem van Gulik].
780 *) ApacheMonitor.exe: Introduce --kill argument for use by the
781 installer. This will permit the installation tool to remove
782 all running instances before attempting to remove the .exe.
785 *) mod_ssl: Add support for OCSP validation of client certificates.
786 PR 41123. [Marc Stern <marc.stern approach.be>, Joe Orton]
788 *) mod_serf: New module for Reverse Proxying. [Paul Querna]
790 *) core: Add the option to keep aside a request body up to a certain
791 size that would otherwise be discarded, to be consumed by filters
792 such as mod_include. When enabled for a directory, POST requests
793 to shtml files can be passed through to embedded scripts as POST
794 requests, rather being downgraded to GET requests. [Graham Leggett]
796 *) mod_ssl: Fix TLS upgrade (RFC 2817) support. PR 41231. [Joe Orton]
798 *) scoreboard: Correctly declare ap_time_process_request.
799 PR 43789 [Tom Donovan <Tom.Donovan acm.org>]
801 *) core; scoreboard: ap_get_scoreboard_worker(sbh) now takes the sbh member
802 from the connection rec, ap_get_scoreboard_worker(proc, thread) will now
803 provide the unusual legacy lookup. [William Rowe]
805 *) mpm winnt: fix null pointer dereference
806 PR 42572 [Davi Arnaut]
808 *) mod_authnz_ldap, mod_authn_dbd: Tidy up the code to expose authn
809 parameters to the environment. Improve portability to
810 EBCDIC machines by using apr_toupper(). [Martin Kraemer]
812 *) mod_ldap, mod_authnzldap: Add support for nested groups (i.e. the ability
813 to authorize an authenticated user via a "require ldap-group X" directive
814 where the user is not in group X, but is in a subgroup contained in X.
815 PR 42891 [Paul J. Reder]
817 *) mod_ssl: Add support for caching SSL Sessions in memcached. [Paul Querna]
819 *) mod_ldap: Fix the search limit parameter to ldap_search_ext_s()
820 for SDKs that define LDAP_NO_LIMIT to something other than -1.
821 [David Jones <oscaremma gmail.com>]
823 *) apxs: Enhance -q flag to print all known variables and their values
824 when invoked without variable name(s).
825 [William Rowe, Sander Temme]
827 *) apxs: Eliminate run-time check for mod_so. PR 40653.
828 [David M. Lee <dmlee crossroads.com>]
830 *) beos MPM: Create pmain pool and run modules' child_init hooks when
831 entering ap_mpm_run(), then destroy pmain when exiting ap_mpm_run().
834 *) netware MPM: Destroy pmain pool when exiting ap_mpm_run() so that
835 cleanups registered in modules' child_init hooks are performed.
838 *) mod_dbd: Stash DBD connections in request_config of initial request
839 only, or else sub-requests and internal redirections may cause
840 entire DBD pool to be stashed in a single HTTP request. [Chris Darroch]
842 *) Fix issue which could cause error messages to be written to access logs
843 on Win32. PR 40476. [Tom Donovan <Tom.Donovan acm.org>]
845 *) The LockFile directive, which specifies the location of
846 the accept() mutex lockfile, is deprecated. Instead, the
847 AcceptMutex directive now takes an optional lockfile
848 location parameter, ala SSLMutex. [Jim Jagielski]
850 *) mod_authn_dbd: Export any additional columns queried in the SQL select
851 into the environment with the name AUTHENTICATE_<COLUMN>. This brings
852 mod_authn_dbd behaviour in line with mod_authnz_ldap. [Graham Leggett]
854 *) mod_dbd: Key the storage of prepared statements on the hex string
855 value of server_rec, rather than the server name, as the server name
856 may change (eg when the server name is set) at any time, causing
857 weird behaviour in modules dependent on mod_dbd. [Graham Leggett]
859 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Added win32 build. [Mladen Turk]
861 *) sendfile_nonblocking() takes the _brigade_ as an argument, gets
862 the first bucket from the brigade, finds it not to be a FILE
863 bucket and barfs. The fix is to pass a bucket rather than a brigade.
864 [Niklas Edmundsson <nikke acc.umu.se>]
866 *) mod_rewrite: support rewritemap by SQL query [Nick Kew]
868 *) ap_get_server_version() has been removed. Third-party modules must
869 now use ap_get_server_banner() or ap_get_server_description().
872 *) All MPMs: Introduce a check_config phase between pre_config and
873 open_logs, to allow modules to review interdependent configuration
874 directive values and adjust them while messages can still be logged
875 to the console. Handle relevant MPM directives during this phase
876 and format messages for both the console and the error log, as
877 appropriate. [Chris Darroch]
879 *) mod_proxy: don't URLencode tilde in path component
880 [Stijn Hoop <stijn sandcat.nl>]
882 *) mpm_winnt: Fix return values from wait_for_many_objects.
883 The return value is index to the signaled thread in the
884 creted_threads array. We can not use WAIT_TIMEOUT because
885 his value is defined as 258, thus limiting the MaxThreads
886 to that value. [Mladen Turk]
888 *) core: Do not allow internal redirects like the DirectoryIndex of mod_dir
889 to circumvent the symbolic link checks imposed by FollowSymLinks and
890 SymLinksIfOwnerMatch. [Nick Kew, Ruediger Pluem, William Rowe]
892 *) New SSLLogLevelDebugDump [ None (default) | IO (not bytes) | Bytes ]
893 configures the I/O Dump of SSL traffic, when LogLevel is set to Debug.
894 The default is none as this is far greater debugging resolution than
895 the typical administrator is prepared to untangle. [William Rowe]
897 *) mod_disk_cache: If possible, check if the size of an object to cache is
898 within the configured boundaries before actually saving data.
899 [Niklas Edmundsson <nikke acc.umu.se>]
901 *) mod_disk_cache: Delete temporary files if they cannot be renamed to their
902 final name. [Davi Arnaut <davi haxent.com.br>]
904 *) Worker and event MPMs: Remove improper scoreboard updates which were
905 performed in the event of a fork() failure. [Chris Darroch]
907 *) Add support for fcgi:// proxies to mod_rewrite.
908 [Markus Schiegl <ms schiegl.com>]
910 *) Remove incorrect comments from scoreboard.h regarding conditional
911 loading of worker_score structure with mod_status, and remove unused
912 definitions relating to old life_status field.
913 [Chris Darroch <chrisd pearsoncmg.com>]
915 *) Remove allocation of memory for unused array of lb_score pointers
916 in ap_init_scoreboard(). [Chris Darroch <chrisd pearsoncmg.com>]
918 *) Add mod_proxy_fcgi, a FastCGI back end for mod_proxy.
919 [Garrett Rooney, Jim Jagielski, Paul Querna]
921 *) Event MPM: Fill in the scoreboard's tid field. PR 38736.
922 [Chris Darroch <chrisd pearsoncmg.com>]
924 *) mod_charset_lite: Remove Content-Length when output filter can
925 invalidate it. Warn when input filter can invalidate it.
928 *) Authz: Add the new module mod_authn_core that will provide common
929 authn directives such as 'AuthType', 'AuthName'. Move the directives
930 'AuthType' and 'AuthName' out of the core module and merge mod_authz_alias
931 into mod_authn_core. [Brad Nicholes]
933 *) Authz: Move the directives 'Order', 'Allow', 'Deny' and 'Satisfy'
934 into the new module mod_access_compat which can be loaded to provide
935 support for these directives.
938 *) Authz: Move the 'Require' directive from the core module as well as
939 add the directives '<SatisfyAll>', '<SatisfyOne>', '<RequireAlias>'
940 and 'Reject' to mod_authz_core. The new directives introduce 'AND/OR'
941 logic into the authorization processing. [Brad Nicholes]
943 *) Authz: Add the new module mod_authz_core which acts as the
944 authorization provider vector and contains common authz
945 directives. [Brad Nicholes]
947 *) Authz: Renamed mod_authz_dbm authz providers from 'group' and
948 'file-group' to 'dbm-group' and 'dbm-file-group'. [Brad Nicholes]
950 *) Authz: Added the new authz providers 'env', 'ip', 'host', 'all' to handle
951 host-based access control provided by mod_authz_host and invoked
952 through the 'Require' directive. [Brad Nicholes]
954 *) Authz: Convert all of the authz modules from hook based to
955 provider based. [Brad Nicholes]
957 *) mod_cache: Add CacheMinExpire directive to set the minimum time in
958 seconds to cache a document.
959 [Brian Akins <brian.akins turner.com>, Ruediger Pluem]
961 *) mod_authz_dbd: SQL authz with Login/Session support [Nick Kew]
963 *) Fix typo in ProxyStatus syntax error message.
964 [Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet wanadoo.fr>]
966 *) Asynchronous write completion for the Event MPM. [Brian Pane]
968 *) Added an End-Of-Request bucket type. The logging of a request and
969 the freeing of its pool are now done when the EOR bucket is destroyed.
970 This has the effect of delaying the logging until right after the last
971 of the response is sent; ap_core_output_filter() calls the access logger
972 indirectly when it destroys the EOR bucket. [Brian Pane]
974 *) Rewrite of logresolve support utility: IPv6 addresses are now supported
975 and the format of statistical output has changed. [Colm MacCarthaigh]
977 *) Rewrite of ap_coreoutput_filter to do nonblocking writes [Brian Pane]
979 *) Added new connection states for handler and write completion
982 *) mod_cgid: Refuse to work on Solaris 10 due to OS bugs. PR 34264.
985 *) Teach mod_ssl to use arbitrary OIDs in an SSLRequire directive,
986 allowing string-valued client certificate attributes to be used for
987 access control, as in: SSLRequire "value" in OID("1.3.6.1.4.1.18060.1")
988 [Martin Kraemer, David Reid]
990 [Apache 2.1.0-dev includes those bug fixes and changes with the
991 Apache 2.2.xx tree as documented, and except as noted, below.]
993 Changes with Apache 2.2.x and later:
995 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/CHANGES?view=markup
997 Changes with Apache 2.0.x and later:
999 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x/CHANGES?view=markup
1001 Changes with Apache 1.3.x and later:
1003 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/1.3.x/src/CHANGES?view=markup