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