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