2 Changes with Apache 2.5.0
4 *) mpm_event, mpm_worker: Fix cases where the spawn rate wasn't reduced
5 after child process resource shortages. [Jeff Trawick]
7 *) mpm_prefork: Reduce spawn rate after a child process exits due to
8 unexpected poll or accept failure. [Jeff Trawick]
10 *) core: Log value of Status header line in script responses rather
11 than the fixed header name. [Chris Darroch]
13 *) mpm_event: Don't count connections in lingering close state when
14 calculating how many additional connections may be accepted.
17 *) mod_deflate: Skip compression if compression is enabled at SSL level.
20 *) mod_ext_filter: Fix error_log spam when input filters are configured.
23 *) mod_rewrite: Add "AllowAnyURI" option. PR 52774. [Joe Orton]
25 *) mod_ssl: Add RFC 5878 support. [Ben Laurie]
27 *) mod_authz_core: If an expression in "Require expr" returns denied and
28 references %{REMOTE_USER}, trigger authentication and retry. PR 52892.
31 *) mod_lua: Add new directive LuaAuthzProvider to allow implementing an
32 authorization provider in lua. [Stefan Fritsch]
34 *) mod_lua: Add a few missing request_rec fields. Rename remote_ip to
35 client_ip to match conn_rec. [Stefan Fritsch]
37 *) mod_lua: Change prototype of vm_construct, to work around gcc bug which
38 causes a segfault. PR 52779. [Dick Snippe <Dick Snippe tech omroep nl>]
40 *) mod_lua: Add the parsebody function for parsing POST data. PR 53064.
43 *) mod_ssl: If exiting during initialization because of a fatal error,
44 log a message to the main error log pointing to the appropriate
45 virtual host error log. [Stefan Fritsch]
47 *) mod_ldap: Treat the "server unavailable" condition as a transient
48 error with all LDAP SDKs. [Filip Valder <filip.valder vsb.cz>]
50 *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS-SRP (Secure Remote Password key exchange
51 for TLS, RFC 5054). PR 51075. [Quinn Slack <sqs cs stanford edu>,
52 Christophe Renou, Peter Sylvester]
54 *) mod_ssl: Add new directive SSLCompression to disable TLS-level
55 compression. PR 53219. [Björn Jacke <bjoern j3e de>, Stefan Fritsch]
57 *) core: Make ap_regcomp() return AP_REG_ESPACE if out of memory. Make
58 ap_pregcomp() abort if out of memory. This raises the minimum PCRE
59 requirement to version 6.0. PR 53284. [Stefan Fritsch]
61 *) apxs: Use LDFLAGS from config_vars.mk in addition to CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS.
64 *) mpm_event: Fix handling of MaxConnectionsPerChild. [Stefan Fritsch]
66 *) suexec: Add --enable-suexec-capabilites support on Linux, to use
67 setuid/setgid capability bits rather than a setuid root binary.
70 *) suexec: Add support for logging to syslog as an alternative to logging
71 to a file; configure --without-suexec-logfile --with-suexec-syslog.
74 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Reduce memory usage in case of many keep-alive requests on
75 one connection. PR 52275. [Naohiro Ooiwa <naohiro ooiwa miraclelinux com>]
77 *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS Next Protocol Negotiation. PR 52210.
78 [Matthew Steele <mdsteele google.com>]
80 *) mod_so: If a filename without slashes is specified for LoadFile or
81 LoadModule and the file cannot be found in the server root directory,
82 try to use the standard dlopen() search path. [Stefan Fritsch]
84 *) various modules, rotatelogs: Replace use of apr_file_write() with
85 apr_file_write_full() to prevent incomplete writes. PR 53131.
86 [Nicolas Viennot <apache viennot biz>, Stefan Fritsch]
88 *) cross-compile: allow to provide CC_FOR_BUILD so that gen_test_char will
89 be compiled by the build compiler instead of the host compiler.
90 Also set CC_FOR_BUILD to 'cc' when cross-compilation is detected.
91 PR 51257. [Guenter Knauf]
93 *) mod_authz_core: Fix parsing of Require arguments in <AuthzProviderAlias>.
94 PR 53048. [Stefan Fritsch]
96 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: If there is an error reading the headers from the
97 backend, send an error to the client. PR 52879. [Stefan Fritsch]
99 *) mod_rewrite: Fix RewriteCond integer checks to be parsed correctly.
100 PR 53023. [Axel Reinhold <apache freakout.de>, André Malo]
102 *) Fix MPM DSO load failure on AIX. [Jeff Trawick]
104 *) core: Add the port number to the vhost's name in the scoreboard.
107 *) mpm_event: Don't do a blocking write when starting a lingering close
108 from the listener thread. PR 52229. [Stefan Fritsch]
110 *) core: In maintainer mode, replace apr_palloc with a version that
111 initializes the allocated memory with non-zero values, except if
112 AP_DEBUG_NO_ALLOC_POISON is defined. [Stefan Fritsch]
114 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Don't try a potentially expensive nested groups
115 search before exhausting all AuthLDAPGroupAttribute checks on the
116 current group. PR52464 [Eric Covener]
118 *) mod_policy: Add a new testing module to help server administrators
119 enforce a configurable level of protocol compliance on their
120 servers and application servers behind theirs. [Graham Leggett]
122 *) mod_firehose: Add a new debugging module able to record traffic
123 passing through the server in such a way that connections and/or
124 requests be reconstructed and replayed. [Graham Leggett]
134 [Apache 2.5.0-dev includes those bug fixes and changes with the
135 Apache 2.4.xx tree as documented below, except as noted.]
137 Changes with Apache 2.4.x and later:
139 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/CHANGES?view=markup
141 Changes with Apache 2.2.x and later:
143 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/CHANGES?view=markup
145 Changes with Apache 2.0.x and later:
147 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x/CHANGES?view=markup