2 Changes with Apache 2.5.0
4 *) core: Add LogLevelOverride directive that allows to override the
5 loglevel for clients from certain IPs. This also works for things
6 like the SSL handshake where <If> LogLevel ... </If> is evaluated
7 too late. [Stefan Fritsch]
9 *) core: Add new directive Warning to issue warnings from a configuration
10 file. Both Warning and Error now generate a timestamped log message.
13 *) mod_status: Print out list of times since a Vhost was last used.
16 *) ap_expr: Add SERVER_PROTOCOL_VERSION, ..._MAJOR, and ..._MINOR
17 variables. [Stefan Fritsch]
19 *) mod_rewrite: Stop mergeing RewriteBase down to subdirectories
20 unless new option 'RewriteOptions MergeBase' is configured.
21 PR 53963. [Eric Covener]
23 *) core: New directive RegisterHttpMethod for registering non-standard
24 HTTP methods. [Stefan Fritsch]
26 *) mod_xml2enc: Fix problems with charset conversion altering the
27 Content-Length. [Micha Lenk <micha lenk info>]
29 *) core: New directive HttpProtocol which allows to disable HTTP/0.9
30 support. [Stefan Fritsch]
32 *) mod_allowhandlers: New module to forbid specific handlers for specific
33 directories. [Stefan Fritsch]
35 *) core: Be more correct about rejecting directives that cannot work in <If>
36 sections. [Stefan Fritsch]
38 *) core: Fix directives like LogLevel that need to know if they are invoked
39 at virtual host context or in Directory/Files/Location/If sections to
40 work properly in If sections that are not in a Directory/Files/Location.
43 *) mod_cache_disk: Resolve errors while revalidating disk-cached files on
44 Windows ("...rename tempfile to datafile failed..."). PR 38827
47 *) mod_proxy: Add ability to configure the sticky session separator.
48 PR 53893. [<inu inusasha de>, Jim Jagielski]
50 *) mod_proxy_ftp: Fix segfaults on IPv4 requests to hosts with DNS AAAA records.
51 PR 40841. [Andrew Rucker Jones <arjones simultan dyndns org>,
52 <ast domdv de>, Jim Jagielski]
54 *) ap_expr: Add req_novary function that allows HTTP header lookups
55 without adding the name to the Vary header. [Stefan Fritsch]
57 *) configure: Fix processing of --disable-FEATURE for various features.
60 *) htpasswd, htdbm: Optionally read passwords from stdin, as more
61 secure alternative to -b. PR 40243. [Adomas Paltanavicius <adomas
62 paltanavicius gmail com>, Stefan Fritsch]
64 *) htpasswd, htdbm: Add support for bcrypt algorithm (requires
65 apr-util 1.5 or higher). PR 49288. [Stefan Fritsch]
67 *) htpasswd, htdbm: Put full 48bit of entropy into salt, improve
68 error handling. Add some of htpasswd's improvements to htdbm,
69 e.g. warn if password is truncated by crypt(). [Stefan Fritsch]
71 *) ab: add TLS1.1/TLS1.2 options to -f switch, and adapt output
72 to more accurately report the negotiated protocol. PR 53916.
73 [Nicolás Pernas Maradei <nico emutex com>, Kaspar Brand]
75 *) mod_systemd: New module, for integration with systemd on Linux.
76 [Jan Kaluza <jkaluza redhat.com>]
78 *) --with-module: Fix failure to integrate them into some existing
79 module directories. PR 40097. [Jeff Trawick]
81 *) mod_headers: New params: %l for load averages, %i for an
82 idle percentage rating of httpd, and %b for a busy percentage
83 rating. [Jim Jagielski]
85 *) core: New functions to obtain load parameters: ap_get_sload()
86 and ap_get_loadavg(). [Jim Jagielski]
88 *) mod_cache_socache: New cache implementation backed by mod_socache
89 that replaces mod_mem_cache removed from httpd v2.2. [Graham
92 *) mod_auth_form: Support the expr parser in the
93 AuthFormLoginRequiredLocation, AuthFormLoginSuccessLocation and
94 AuthFormLogoutLocation directives. [Graham Leggett]
96 *) core: Add dirwalk_stat and pre_htaccess hooks, allowing mpm-itk
97 to be used without patches to httpd core. [Jeff Trawick]
99 *) mod_proxy: Allow for persistence of local changes (via the
100 balancer-manager) between graceful and normal restarts.
103 *) mod_slotmem: New provider function, fgrab(), which forces an
104 allocation of a slot. [Jim Jagielski]
106 *) mod_lua: Add LuaInputFilter/LuaOutputFilter for creating content
107 filters in Lua [Daniel Gruno]
109 *) WinNT MPM: Store pid and generation for each thread in scoreboard
110 to allow tracking of threads from exiting children via mod_status
111 or other such mechanisms. [Jeff Trawick]
113 *) mod_ssl: Catch missing or mismatched client cert/key pairs with
114 SSLProxyMachineCertificateFile/Path directives. PR 52212.
115 [Keith Burdis <keith burdis.org>, Joe Orton]
117 *) mod_lua: Allow scripts handled by the lua-script handler to return
118 a status code to the client (such as a 302 or a 500) [Daniel Gruno]
120 *) mod_lua: Decline handling 'lua-script' if the file doesn't exist,
121 rather than throwing an internal server error. [Daniel Gruno]
123 *) mod_lua: Add functions r:flush and r:sendfile as well as additional
124 request information to the request_rec structure. [Daniel Gruno]
126 *) mod_lua: Add a server scope for Lua states, which creates a pool of
127 states with managable minimum and maximum size. [Daniel Gruno]
129 *) core: Add post_perdir_config hook.
130 [Steinar Gunderson <sgunderson bigfoot.com>]
132 *) mod_lua: Add new directive, LuaMapHandler, for dynamically mapping
133 URIs to Lua scripts and functions using regular expressions.
136 *) mod_lua: Add new directive LuaCodeCache for controlling in-memory
137 caching of lua scripts. [Daniel Gruno]
139 *) The following now respect DefaultRuntimeDir/DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR:
140 - APIs: ap_log_pid(), ap_remove_pid, ap_read_pid()
141 - core: the scoreboard (ScoreBoardFile), pid file (PidFile), and
143 - mod_cache: thundering herd lock directory
144 - mod_lbmethod_heartbeat, mod_heartmonitor: heartbeat storage file
145 - mod_ldap: shared memory cache
146 - mod_socache_shmcb, mod_socache_dbm: shared memory or dbm for cache
149 *) mod_ssl: Add RFC 5878 support. [Ben Laurie]
151 *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS-SRP (Secure Remote Password key exchange
152 for TLS, RFC 5054). PR 51075. [Quinn Slack <sqs cs stanford edu>,
153 Christophe Renou, Peter Sylvester]
155 *) core: Make ap_regcomp() return AP_REG_ESPACE if out of memory. Make
156 ap_pregcomp() abort if out of memory. This raises the minimum PCRE
157 requirement to version 6.0. PR 53284. [Stefan Fritsch]
159 *) suexec: Add --enable-suexec-capabilites support on Linux, to use
160 setuid/setgid capability bits rather than a setuid root binary.
163 *) suexec: Add support for logging to syslog as an alternative to logging
164 to a file; configure --without-suexec-logfile --with-suexec-syslog.
167 *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS Next Protocol Negotiation. PR 52210.
168 [Matthew Steele <mdsteele google.com>]
170 *) various modules, rotatelogs: Replace use of apr_file_write() with
171 apr_file_write_full() to prevent incomplete writes. PR 53131.
172 [Nicolas Viennot <apache viennot biz>, Stefan Fritsch]
174 *) cross-compile: allow to provide CC_FOR_BUILD so that gen_test_char will
175 be compiled by the build compiler instead of the host compiler.
176 Also set CC_FOR_BUILD to 'cc' when cross-compilation is detected.
177 PR 51257. [Guenter Knauf]
179 *) core: In maintainer mode, replace apr_palloc with a version that
180 initializes the allocated memory with non-zero values, except if
181 AP_DEBUG_NO_ALLOC_POISON is defined. [Stefan Fritsch]
183 *) mod_policy: Add a new testing module to help server administrators
184 enforce a configurable level of protocol compliance on their
185 servers and application servers behind theirs. [Graham Leggett]
187 *) mod_firehose: Add a new debugging module able to record traffic
188 passing through the server in such a way that connections and/or
189 requests be reconstructed and replayed. [Graham Leggett]
199 [Apache 2.5.0-dev includes those bug fixes and changes with the
200 Apache 2.4.xx tree as documented below, except as noted.]
202 Changes with Apache 2.4.x and later:
204 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/CHANGES?view=markup
206 Changes with Apache 2.2.x and later:
208 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/CHANGES?view=markup
210 Changes with Apache 2.0.x and later:
212 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x/CHANGES?view=markup