2 Changes with Apache 2.5.0
4 *) mod_session_dbd: fix a segmentation fault in the function dbd_remove.
5 PR 53452. [<rebanerebane gmail com>, Reimo Rebane]
7 *) core: New directive RegisterHttpMethod for registering non-standard
8 HTTP methods. [Stefan Fritsch]
10 *) mod_xml2enc: Fix problems with charset conversion altering the
11 Content-Length. [Micha Lenk <micha lenk info>]
13 *) core: New directive HttpProtocol which allows to disable HTTP/0.9
14 support. [Stefan Fritsch]
16 *) mod_allowhandlers: New module to forbid specific handlers for specific
17 directories. [Stefan Fritsch]
19 *) core: Be more correct about rejecting directives that cannot work in <If>
20 sections. [Stefan Fritsch]
22 *) core: Fix directives like LogLevel that need to know if they are invoked
23 at virtual host context or in Directory/Files/Location/If sections to
24 work properly in If sections that are not in a Directory/Files/Location.
27 *) mod_cache_disk: Resolve errors while revalidating disk-cached files on
28 Windows ("...rename tempfile to datafile failed..."). PR 38827
31 *) mod_proxy: Add ability to configure the sticky session separator.
32 PR 53893. [<inu inusasha de>, Jim Jagielski]
34 *) mod_proxy_ftp: Fix segfaults on IPv4 requests to hosts with DNS AAAA records.
35 PR 40841. [Andrew Rucker Jones <arjones simultan dyndns org>,
36 <ast domdv de>, Jim Jagielski]
38 *) ap_expr: Add req_novary function that allows HTTP header lookups
39 without adding the name to the Vary header. [Stefan Fritsch]
41 *) mod_ssl: Change default for SSLCompression to off, as compression
42 causes security issues in most setups. (The so called "CRIME" attack).
45 *) syslog logging: Remove stray ", referer" at the end of some messages.
48 *) configure: Fix processing of --disable-FEATURE for various features.
51 *) "Iterate" directives: Report an error if no arguments are provided.
54 *) htpasswd, htdbm: Optionally read passwords from stdin, as more
55 secure alternative to -b. PR 40243. [Adomas Paltanavicius <adomas
56 paltanavicius gmail com>, Stefan Fritsch]
58 *) htpasswd, htdbm: Add support for bcrypt algorithm (requires
59 apr-util 1.5 or higher). PR 49288. [Stefan Fritsch]
61 *) htpasswd, htdbm: Put full 48bit of entropy into salt, improve
62 error handling. Add some of htpasswd's improvements to htdbm,
63 e.g. warn if password is truncated by crypt(). [Stefan Fritsch]
65 *) ab: add TLS1.1/TLS1.2 options to -f switch, and adapt output
66 to more accurately report the negotiated protocol. PR 53916.
67 [Nicolás Pernas Maradei <nico emutex com>, Kaspar Brand]
69 *) mod_systemd: New module, for integration with systemd on Linux.
70 [Jan Kaluza <jkaluza redhat.com>]
72 *) core: ErrorDocument now works for requests without a Host header.
73 PR 48357. [Jeff Trawick]
75 *) --with-module: Fix failure to integrate them into some existing
76 module directories. PR 40097. [Jeff Trawick]
78 *) mod_headers: New params: %l for load averages, %i for an
79 idle percentage rating of httpd, and %b for a busy percentage
80 rating. [Jim Jagielski]
82 *) core: New functions to obtain load parameters: ap_get_sload()
83 and ap_get_loadavg(). [Jim Jagielski]
85 *) mod_cache_socache: New cache implementation backed by mod_socache
86 that replaces mod_mem_cache removed from httpd v2.2. [Graham
89 *) mod_auth_form: Support the expr parser in the
90 AuthFormLoginRequiredLocation, AuthFormLoginSuccessLocation and
91 AuthFormLogoutLocation directives. [Graham Leggett]
93 *) core: Add dirwalk_stat and pre_htaccess hooks, allowing mpm-itk
94 to be used without patches to httpd core. [Jeff Trawick]
96 *) mod_proxy: Allow for persistence of local changes (via the
97 balancer-manager) between graceful and normal restarts.
100 *) mod_slotmem: New provider function, fgrab(), which forces an
101 allocation of a slot. [Jim Jagielski]
103 *) mod_proxy_balancer: The nonce is only derived from the UUID iff
104 not set via the 'nonce' balancer param. [Jim Jagielski]
106 *) mod_lua: Add LuaInputFilter/LuaOutputFilter for creating content
107 filters in Lua [Daniel Gruno]
109 *) core: Apply length limit when logging Status header values.
110 [Jeff Trawick, Chris Darroch]
112 *) mod_ssl: Match wildcard SSL certificate names in proxy mode.
113 PR 53006. [Joe Orton]
115 *) WinNT MPM: Store pid and generation for each thread in scoreboard
116 to allow tracking of threads from exiting children via mod_status
117 or other such mechanisms. [Jeff Trawick]
119 *) mod_ssl: Catch missing or mismatched client cert/key pairs with
120 SSLProxyMachineCertificateFile/Path directives. PR 52212.
121 [Keith Burdis <keith burdis.org>, Joe Orton]
123 *) mod_lua: Allow scripts handled by the lua-script handler to return
124 a status code to the client (such as a 302 or a 500) [Daniel Gruno]
126 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Fix crash in packet dump code when logging
127 with LogLevel trace7 or trace8. PR 53730. [Rainer Jung]
129 *) mod_cache: Wrong content type and character set when
130 mod_cache serves stale content because of a proxy error.
131 PR 53539. [Rainer Jung, Ruediger Pluem]
133 *) mod_lua: Decline handling 'lua-script' if the file doesn't exist,
134 rather than throwing an internal server error. [Daniel Gruno]
136 *) mod_lua: Add functions r:flush and r:sendfile as well as additional
137 request information to the request_rec structure. [Daniel Gruno]
139 *) mod_lua: Add a server scope for Lua states, which creates a pool of
140 states with managable minimum and maximum size. [Daniel Gruno]
142 *) core: Add post_perdir_config hook.
143 [Steinar Gunderson <sgunderson bigfoot.com>]
145 *) mod_lua: Add new directive, LuaMapHandler, for dynamically mapping
146 URIs to Lua scripts and functions using regular expressions.
149 *) mod_lua: Add new directive LuaCodeCache for controlling in-memory
150 caching of lua scripts. [Daniel Gruno]
152 *) The following now respect DefaultRuntimeDir/DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR:
153 - APIs: ap_log_pid(), ap_remove_pid, ap_read_pid()
154 - core: the scoreboard (ScoreBoardFile), pid file (PidFile), and
156 - mod_cache: thundering herd lock directory
157 - mod_lbmethod_heartbeat, mod_heartmonitor: heartbeat storage file
158 - mod_ldap: shared memory cache
159 - mod_socache_shmcb, mod_socache_dbm: shared memory or dbm for cache
162 *) mod_ssl: Add RFC 5878 support. [Ben Laurie]
164 *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS-SRP (Secure Remote Password key exchange
165 for TLS, RFC 5054). PR 51075. [Quinn Slack <sqs cs stanford edu>,
166 Christophe Renou, Peter Sylvester]
168 *) core: Make ap_regcomp() return AP_REG_ESPACE if out of memory. Make
169 ap_pregcomp() abort if out of memory. This raises the minimum PCRE
170 requirement to version 6.0. PR 53284. [Stefan Fritsch]
172 *) suexec: Add --enable-suexec-capabilites support on Linux, to use
173 setuid/setgid capability bits rather than a setuid root binary.
176 *) suexec: Add support for logging to syslog as an alternative to logging
177 to a file; configure --without-suexec-logfile --with-suexec-syslog.
180 *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS Next Protocol Negotiation. PR 52210.
181 [Matthew Steele <mdsteele google.com>]
183 *) various modules, rotatelogs: Replace use of apr_file_write() with
184 apr_file_write_full() to prevent incomplete writes. PR 53131.
185 [Nicolas Viennot <apache viennot biz>, Stefan Fritsch]
187 *) cross-compile: allow to provide CC_FOR_BUILD so that gen_test_char will
188 be compiled by the build compiler instead of the host compiler.
189 Also set CC_FOR_BUILD to 'cc' when cross-compilation is detected.
190 PR 51257. [Guenter Knauf]
192 *) core: In maintainer mode, replace apr_palloc with a version that
193 initializes the allocated memory with non-zero values, except if
194 AP_DEBUG_NO_ALLOC_POISON is defined. [Stefan Fritsch]
196 *) mod_policy: Add a new testing module to help server administrators
197 enforce a configurable level of protocol compliance on their
198 servers and application servers behind theirs. [Graham Leggett]
200 *) mod_firehose: Add a new debugging module able to record traffic
201 passing through the server in such a way that connections and/or
202 requests be reconstructed and replayed. [Graham Leggett]
212 [Apache 2.5.0-dev includes those bug fixes and changes with the
213 Apache 2.4.xx tree as documented below, except as noted.]
215 Changes with Apache 2.4.x and later:
217 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/CHANGES?view=markup
219 Changes with Apache 2.2.x and later:
221 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/CHANGES?view=markup
223 Changes with Apache 2.0.x and later:
225 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x/CHANGES?view=markup