2 Changes with Apache 2.5.0
4 *) configure: Fix processing of --disable-FEATURE for various features.
7 *) "Iterate" directives: Report an error if no arguments are provided.
10 *) htpasswd, htdbm: Optionally read passwords from stdin, as more
11 secure alternative to -b. PR 40243. [Adomas Paltanavicius <adomas
12 paltanavicius gmail com>, Stefan Fritsch]
14 *) htpasswd, htdbm: Add support for bcrypt algorithm (requires
15 apr-util 1.5 or higher). PR 49288. [Stefan Fritsch]
17 *) htpasswd, htdbm: Put full 48bit of entropy into salt, improve
18 error handling. Add some of htpasswd's improvements to htdbm,
19 e.g. warn if password is truncated by crypt(). [Stefan Fritsch]
21 *) ab: add TLS1.1/TLS1.2 options to -f switch, and adapt output
22 to more accurately report the negotiated protocol. PR 53916.
23 [Nicolás Pernas Maradei <nico emutex com>, Kaspar Brand]
25 *) mod_systemd: New module, for integration with systemd on Linux.
26 [Jan Kaluza <jkaluza redhat.com>]
28 *) core: ErrorDocument now works for requests without a Host header.
29 PR 48357. [Jeff Trawick]
31 *) --with-module: Fix failure to integrate them into some existing
32 module directories. PR 40097. [Jeff Trawick]
34 *) mod_headers: New params: %l for load averages, %i for an
35 idle percentage rating of httpd, and %b for a busy percentage
36 rating. [Jim Jagielski]
38 *) core: New functions to obtain load parameters: ap_get_sload()
39 and ap_get_loadavg(). [Jim Jagielski]
41 *) mod_cache_socache: New cache implementation backed by mod_socache
42 that replaces mod_mem_cache removed from httpd v2.2. [Graham
45 *) mod_auth_form: Support the expr parser in the
46 AuthFormLoginRequiredLocation, AuthFormLoginSuccessLocation and
47 AuthFormLogoutLocation directives. [Graham Leggett]
49 *) core: Add dirwalk_stat and pre_htaccess hooks, allowing mpm-itk
50 to be used without patches to httpd core. [Jeff Trawick]
52 *) mod_proxy: Allow for persistence of local changes (via the
53 balancer-manager) between graceful and normal restarts.
56 *) mod_slotmem: New provider function, fgrab(), which forces an
57 allocation of a slot. [Jim Jagielski]
59 *) mod_proxy_balancer: The nonce is only derived from the UUID iff
60 not set via the 'nonce' balancer param. [Jim Jagielski]
62 *) mod_lua: Add LuaInputFilter/LuaOutputFilter for creating content
63 filters in Lua [Daniel Gruno]
65 *) core: Apply length limit when logging Status header values.
66 [Jeff Trawick, Chris Darroch]
68 *) mod_ssl: Match wildcard SSL certificate names in proxy mode.
71 *) WinNT MPM: Store pid and generation for each thread in scoreboard
72 to allow tracking of threads from exiting children via mod_status
73 or other such mechanisms. [Jeff Trawick]
75 *) mod_ssl: Catch missing or mismatched client cert/key pairs with
76 SSLProxyMachineCertificateFile/Path directives. PR 52212.
77 [Keith Burdis <keith burdis.org>, Joe Orton]
79 *) mod_lua: Allow scripts handled by the lua-script handler to return
80 a status code to the client (such as a 302 or a 500) [Daniel Gruno]
82 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Fix crash in packet dump code when logging
83 with LogLevel trace7 or trace8. PR 53730. [Rainer Jung]
85 *) mod_cache: Wrong content type and character set when
86 mod_cache serves stale content because of a proxy error.
87 PR 53539. [Rainer Jung, Ruediger Pluem]
89 *) mod_lua: Decline handling 'lua-script' if the file doesn't exist,
90 rather than throwing an internal server error. [Daniel Gruno]
92 *) mod_lua: Add functions r:flush and r:sendfile as well as additional
93 request information to the request_rec structure. [Daniel Gruno]
95 *) mod_lua: Add a server scope for Lua states, which creates a pool of
96 states with managable minimum and maximum size. [Daniel Gruno]
98 *) core: Add post_perdir_config hook.
99 [Steinar Gunderson <sgunderson bigfoot.com>]
101 *) mod_lua: Add new directive, LuaMapHandler, for dynamically mapping
102 URIs to Lua scripts and functions using regular expressions.
105 *) mod_lua: Add new directive LuaCodeCache for controlling in-memory
106 caching of lua scripts. [Daniel Gruno]
108 *) The following now respect DefaultRuntimeDir/DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR:
109 - APIs: ap_log_pid(), ap_remove_pid, ap_read_pid()
110 - core: the scoreboard (ScoreBoardFile), pid file (PidFile), and
112 - mod_lbmethod_heartbeat, mod_heartmonitor: heartbeat storage file
113 - mod_ldap: shared memory cache
114 - mod_socache_shmcb, mod_socache_dbm: shared memory or dbm for cache
117 *) mod_ssl: Add RFC 5878 support. [Ben Laurie]
119 *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS-SRP (Secure Remote Password key exchange
120 for TLS, RFC 5054). PR 51075. [Quinn Slack <sqs cs stanford edu>,
121 Christophe Renou, Peter Sylvester]
123 *) core: Make ap_regcomp() return AP_REG_ESPACE if out of memory. Make
124 ap_pregcomp() abort if out of memory. This raises the minimum PCRE
125 requirement to version 6.0. PR 53284. [Stefan Fritsch]
127 *) suexec: Add --enable-suexec-capabilites support on Linux, to use
128 setuid/setgid capability bits rather than a setuid root binary.
131 *) suexec: Add support for logging to syslog as an alternative to logging
132 to a file; configure --without-suexec-logfile --with-suexec-syslog.
135 *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS Next Protocol Negotiation. PR 52210.
136 [Matthew Steele <mdsteele google.com>]
138 *) various modules, rotatelogs: Replace use of apr_file_write() with
139 apr_file_write_full() to prevent incomplete writes. PR 53131.
140 [Nicolas Viennot <apache viennot biz>, Stefan Fritsch]
142 *) cross-compile: allow to provide CC_FOR_BUILD so that gen_test_char will
143 be compiled by the build compiler instead of the host compiler.
144 Also set CC_FOR_BUILD to 'cc' when cross-compilation is detected.
145 PR 51257. [Guenter Knauf]
147 *) core: In maintainer mode, replace apr_palloc with a version that
148 initializes the allocated memory with non-zero values, except if
149 AP_DEBUG_NO_ALLOC_POISON is defined. [Stefan Fritsch]
151 *) mod_policy: Add a new testing module to help server administrators
152 enforce a configurable level of protocol compliance on their
153 servers and application servers behind theirs. [Graham Leggett]
155 *) mod_firehose: Add a new debugging module able to record traffic
156 passing through the server in such a way that connections and/or
157 requests be reconstructed and replayed. [Graham Leggett]
167 [Apache 2.5.0-dev includes those bug fixes and changes with the
168 Apache 2.4.xx tree as documented below, except as noted.]
170 Changes with Apache 2.4.x and later:
172 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/CHANGES?view=markup
174 Changes with Apache 2.2.x and later:
176 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/CHANGES?view=markup
178 Changes with Apache 2.0.x and later:
180 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x/CHANGES?view=markup