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