3 Changes with Apache 2.4.24
5 *) SECURITY: CVE-2016-8740 (cve.mitre.org)
6 mod_http2: Mitigate DoS memory exhaustion via endless
8 [Naveen Tiwari <naveen.tiwari@asu.edu> and CDF/SEFCOM at Arizona State
9 University, Stefan Eissing]
11 *) SECURITY: CVE-2016-5387 (cve.mitre.org)
12 core: Mitigate [f]cgi "httpoxy" issues.
13 [Dominic Scheirlinck <dominic vendhq.com>, Yann Ylavic]
15 *) SECURITY: CVE-2016-2161 (cve.mitre.org)
16 mod_auth_digest: Prevent segfaults during client entry allocation when
17 the shared memory space is exhausted.
18 [Maksim Malyutin <m.malyutin dsec.ru>, Eric Covener, Jacob Champion]
20 *) SECURITY: CVE-2016-0736 (cve.mitre.org)
21 mod_session_crypto: Authenticate the session data/cookie with a
22 MAC (SipHash) to prevent deciphering or tampering with a padding
23 oracle attack. [Yann Ylavic, Colm MacCarthaigh]
25 *) SECURITY: CVE-2016-8743 (cve.mitre.org)
26 Enforce HTTP request grammar corresponding to RFC7230 for request lines
27 and request headers, to prevent response splitting and cache pollution by
28 malicious clients or downstream proxies. [William Rowe, Stefan Fritsch]
30 *) Validate HTTP response header grammar defined by RFC7230, resulting
31 in a 500 error in the event that invalid response header contents are
32 detected when serving the response, to avoid response splitting and cache
33 pollution by malicious clients, upstream servers or faulty modules.
34 [Stefan Fritsch, Eric Covener, Yann Ylavic]
36 *) mod_socache_memcache: Provide memcache stats to mod_status.
39 *) http_filters: Fix potential looping in new check_headers() due to new
40 pattern of ap_die() from http header filter. Explicitly clear the
41 previous headers and body.
43 *) core: Drop Content-Length header and message-body from HTTP 204 responses.
44 PR 51350 [Luca Toscano]
46 *) mod_proxy: Honor a server scoped ProxyPass exception when ProxyPass is
47 configured in <Location>, like in 2.2. PR 60458.
50 *) mod_lua: Fix default value of LuaInherit directive. It should be
51 'parent-first' instead of 'none', as per documentation. PR 60419
54 *) core: New directive HttpProtocolOptions to control httpd enforcement
55 of various RFC7230 requirements. [Stefan Fritsch, William Rowe]
57 *) core: Permit unencoded ';' characters to appear in proxy requests and
58 Location: response headers. Corresponds to modern browser behavior.
61 *) core: ap_rgetline_core now pulls from r->proto_input_filters.
63 *) core: Correctly parse an IPv6 literal host specification in an absolute
64 URL in the request line. [Stefan Fritsch]
66 *) core: New directive RegisterHttpMethod for registering non-standard
67 HTTP methods. [Stefan Fritsch]
69 *) mod_socache_memcache: Pass expiration time through to memcached.
70 [Faidon Liambotis <paravoid debian.org>, Joe Orton]
72 *) mod_cache: Use the actual URI path and query-string for identifying the
73 cached entity (key), such that rewrites are taken into account when
74 running afterwards (CacheQuickHandler off). PR 21935. [Yann Ylavic]
76 *) mod_http2: new directive 'H2EarlyHints' to enable sending of HTTP status
77 103 interim responses. Disabled by default. [Stefan Eissing]
79 *) mod_ssl: Fix quick renegotiation (OptRenegotiaton) with no intermediate
80 in the client certificate chain. PR 55786. [Yann Ylavic]
82 *) event: Allow to use the whole allocated scoreboard (up to ServerLimit
83 slots) to avoid scoreboard full errors when some processes are finishing
84 gracefully. Also, make gracefully finishing processes close all
85 keep-alive connections. PR 53555. [Stefan Fritsch]
87 *) mpm_event: Don't take over scoreboard slots from gracefully finishing
88 threads. [Stefan Fritsch]
90 *) mpm_event: Free memory earlier when shutting down processes.
93 *) mod_status: Display the process slot number in the async connection
94 overview. [Stefan Fritsch]
96 *) mod_dir: Responses that go through "FallbackResource" might appear to
97 hang due to unterminated chunked encoding. PR58292. [Eric Covener]
99 *) mod_dav: Fix a potential cause of unbounded memory usage or incorrect
100 behavior in a routine that sends <DAV:response>'s to the output filters.
103 *) mod_http2: new directive 'H2PushResource' to enable early pushes before
104 processing of the main request starts. Resources are announced to the
105 client in Link headers on a 103 early hint response.
106 All responses with status code <400 are inspected for Link header and
107 trigger pushes accordingly. 304 still does prevent pushes.
108 'H2PushResource' can mark resources as 'critical' which gives them higher
109 priority than the main resource. This leads to preferred scheduling for
110 processing and, when content is available, will send it first. 'critical'
111 is also recognized on Link headers. [Stefan Eissing]
113 *) mod_proxy_http2: uris in Link headers are now mapped back to a suitable
114 local url when available. Relative uris with an absolute path are mapped
115 as well. This makes reverse proxy mapping available for resources
116 announced in this header.
117 With 103 interim responses being forwarded to the main client connection,
118 this effectively allows early pushing of resources by a reverse proxied
119 backend server. [Stefan Eissing]
121 *) mod_proxy_http2: adding support for newly proposed 103 status code.
124 *) mpm_unix: Apache fails to start if previously crashed then restarted with
125 the same PID (e.g. in container). PR 60261.
126 [Val <valentin.bremond gmail.com>, Yann Ylavic]
128 *) mod_http2: unannounced and multiple interim responses (status code < 200)
129 are parsed and forwarded to client until a final response arrives.
132 *) mod_proxy_http2: improved robustness when main connection is closed early
133 by resetting all ongoing streams against the backend.
136 *) mod_http2: allocators from slave connections are released earlier,
137 resulting in less overall memory use on busy, long lived connections.
140 *) mod_remoteip: Pick up where we left off during a subrequest rather
141 than running with the modified XFF but original TCP address.
144 *) http: Respond with "408 Request Timeout" when a timeout occurs while
145 reading the request body. [Yann Ylavic]
147 *) mod_http2: connection shutdown revisited: corrected edge cases on
148 shutting down ongoing streams, changed log warnings to be less noisy
149 when waiting on long running tasks. [Stefan Eissing]
151 *) mod_http2: changed all AP_DEBUG_ASSERT to ap_assert to have them
152 available also in normal deployments. [Stefan Eissing]
154 *) mod_http2/mod_proxy_http2: 100-continue handling now properly implemented
155 up to the backend. Reused HTTP/2 proxy connections with more than a second
156 not used will block request bodies until a PING answer is received.
157 Requests headers are not delayed by this, since they are repeatable in
158 case of failure. This greatly increases robustness, especially with
159 busy server and/or low keepalive connections. [Stefan Eissing]
161 *) mod_proxy_http2: fixed duplicate symbols with mod_http2.
164 *) mod_http2: rewrite of how responses and trailers are transferred between
165 master and slave connection. Reduction of internal states for tasks
166 and streams, stability. Heuristic id generation for slave connections
167 to better keep promise of connection ids unique at given point int time.
168 Fix for mod_cgid interop in high load situtations.
169 Fix for handling of incoming trailers when no request body is sent.
172 *) mod_http2: fix suspended handling for streams. Output could become
173 blocked in rare cases. [Stefan Eissing]
175 *) mpm_winnt: Prevent a denial of service when the 'data' AcceptFilter is in
176 use by replacing it with the 'connect' filter. PR 59970. [Jacob Champion]
178 *) mod_cgid: Resolve a case where a short CGI response causes a subsequent
179 CGI to be killed prematurely, resulting in a truncated subsequent
180 response. [Eric Covener]
182 *) mod_proxy_hcheck: Set health check URI and expression correctly for health
183 check worker. PR 60038 [zdeno <zdeno@scnet.sk>]
185 *) mod_http2: if configured with nghttp2 1.14.0 and onward, invalid request
186 headers will immediately reset the stream with a PROTOCOL error. Feature
187 logged by module on startup as 'INVHD' in info message.
190 *) mod_http2: fixed handling of stream buffers during shutdown.
193 *) mod_reqtimeout: Fix body timeout disabling for CONNECT requests to avoid
194 triggering mod_proxy_connect's AH01018 once the tunnel is established.
197 *) ab: Set the Server Name Indication (SNI) extension on outgoing TLS
198 connections (unless -I is specified), according to the Host header (if
199 any) or the requested URL's hostname otherwise. [Yann Ylavic]
201 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: avoid loops when ProxyErrorOverride is enabled
202 and the error documents are proxied. PR 55415. [Luca Toscano]
204 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: read the whole FCGI response even when the content
205 has not been modified (HTTP 304) or in case of a precondition failure
206 (HTTP 412) to avoid subsequent bogus reads and confusing
207 error messages logged. [Luca Toscano]
209 *) mod_http2: h2 status resource follows latest draft, see
210 http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-benfield-http2-debug-state-01.txt
213 *) mod_http2: handling graceful shutdown gracefully, e.g. handling existing
214 streams to the end. [Stefan Eissing]
216 *) mod_proxy_{http,ajp,fcgi}: don't reuse backend connections with data
217 available before the request is sent. PR 57832. [Yann Ylavic]
219 *) mod_proxy_balancer: Prevent redirect loops between workers within a
220 balancer by limiting the number of redirects to the number balancer
221 members. PR 59864 [Ruediger Pluem]
223 *) mod_proxy: Correctly consider error response codes by the backend when
224 processing failonstatus. PR 59869 [Ruediger Pluem]
226 *) mod_dav: Add dav_get_provider_name() function to obtain the name
227 of the provider from mod_dav. [Graham Leggett]
229 *) mod_dav: Add support for childtags to dav_error.
230 [Jari Urpalainen <jari.urpalainen nokia.com>]
232 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Fix 2.4.23 breakage for mod_rewrite per-dir and query
233 string showing up in SCRIPT_FILENAME. PR59815
235 *) mod_include: Fix a potential memory misuse while evaluating expressions.
236 PR59844. [Eric Covener]
238 *) mod_http2: new H2CopyFiles directive that changes treatment of file
239 handles in responses. Necessary in order to fix broken lifetime handling
240 in modules such as mod_wsgi.
242 *) mod_http2: removing timeouts on master connection while requests are
243 being processed. Requests may timeout, but the master only times out when
244 no more requests are active. [Stefan Eissing]
246 *) mod_http2: fixes connection flush when answering SETTINGS without any
247 stream open. [Moto Ishizawa <@summerwind>, Stefan Eissing]
249 Changes with Apache 2.4.23
251 *) mod_ssl: reset client-verify state of ssl when aborting renegotiations.
252 [Erki Aring <erki@example.ee>, Stefan Eissing]
254 *) mod_sed: Fix 'x' command processing. [Christophe Jaillet]
256 *) configure: Fix ./configure edge-case failures around dependencies
257 of mod_proxy_hcheck. [William Rowe, Ruediger Pluem, Jeff Trawick]
259 Changes with Apache 2.4.22
261 *) mod_http2: fix for request abort when connections drops, introduced in
264 Changes with Apache 2.4.21
266 *) ab: Use caseless matching for HTTP tokens (e.g. content-length). PR 59111.
269 *) mod_http2: more rigid error handling in DATA frame assembly, leading
270 to deterministic connection errors if assembly fails.
271 [Stefan Eissing, Pal Nilsen <https://github.com/maedox>]
273 *) abs: Include OPENSSL_Applink when compiling on Windows, to resolve
274 failures under Visual Studio 2015 and other mismatched MSVCRT flavors.
275 PR59630 [Jan Ehrhardt <phpdev ehrhardt.nl>]
277 *) mod_ssl: Add "no_crl_for_cert_ok" flag to SSLCARevocationCheck directive
278 to opt-in previous behaviour (2.2) with CRLs verification when checking
279 certificate(s) with no corresponding CRL. [Yann Ylavic]
281 *) mpm_event, mpm_worker: Fix computation of MinSpareThreads' lower bound
282 according the number of listeners buckets. [Yann Ylavic]
284 *) Add ap_cstr_casecmp[n]() - placeholder of apr_cstr_casecmp[n] functions
285 for case-insensitive C/POSIX-locale token comparison.
286 [Jim Jagielski, William Rowe, Yann Ylavic, Branko ÄŒibej]
288 *) mod_userdir: Constify and save a few bytes in the conf pool when
289 parsing the "UserDir" directive. [Christophe Jaillet]
291 *) mod_cache: Fix (max-stale with no '=') and enforce (check
292 integers after '=') Cache-Control header parsing.
295 *) core: Add -DDUMP_INCLUDES configtest option to show the tree
296 of Included configuration files.
297 [Jacob Champion <champion.pxi gmail.com>]
299 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Avoid passing a filename of proxy:fcgi:// as
300 SCRIPT_FILENAME to a FastCGI server. PR59618.
301 [Jacob Champion <champion.pxi gmail.com>]
303 *) mod_dav: Add dav_get_provider_name() function to obtain the name
304 of the provider from mod_dav.
305 [Jari Urpalainen <jari.urpalainen nokia.com>]
307 *) mod_proxy_http2: properly care for HTTP2 flow control of the frontend
308 connection is HTTP/1.1. [Patch supplied by Evgeny Kotkov]
310 *) mod_http2: improved cleanup of connection/streams/tasks to always
311 have deterministic order regardless of event initiating it. Addresses
312 reported crashes due to memory read after free issues.
315 *) mod_ssl: Correct the interaction between SSLProxyCheckPeerCN and newer
316 SSLProxyCheckPeerName directives since release 2.4.5, such that disabling
317 either disables both, and that enabling either triggers the new, more
318 comprehensive SSLProxyCheckPeerName behavior. Only a single configuration
319 remains to enable the legacy behavior, which is to explicitly disable
320 SSLProxyCheckPeerName, and enable SSLProxyCheckPeerCN. [William Rowe]
322 *) mod_include: add the <!--#comment ...> syntax in order to include comments
323 in a SSI file. [Christophe Jaillet based on a suggestion from Rob]
325 *) mod_http2: improved event handling for suspended streams, responses
326 and window updates. [Stefan Eissing]
328 *) mod_proxy_hcheck: Provide for dynamic background health
329 checks on reverse proxies associated with BalancerMember
330 workers. [Jim Jagielski]
332 *) mod_http2: Fix async write issue that led to selection of wrong timeout
333 vs. keepalive timeout selection for idle sessions. [Stefan Eissing]
335 *) mod_http2: checking LimitRequestLine, LimitRequestFields and
336 LimitRequestFieldSize configurated values for incoming streams. Returning
337 HTTP status 431 for too long/many headers fields and 414 for a too long
338 pseudo header. [Stefan Eissing]
340 *) mod_http2: tracking conn_rec->current_thread on slave connections, so
341 that mod_lua finds the correct one. Fixes PR 59542. [Stefan Eissing]
343 *) mod_proxy_http2: new experimental http2 proxy module for h2: and h2c: proxy
344 urls. Part of the httpd mod_proxy framework, common settings apply.
345 Requests from the same HTTP/2 frontend connection against the same backend
346 are aggregated on a single connection.
349 *) mod_http2: slave connections have conn_rec->aborted flag set when a stream
350 has been reset by the client. [Stefan Eissing]
352 *) mod_http2: merge of some 2.4.x adaptions re filters on slave connections.
353 Small fixes in bucket beams when forwarding file buckets. Output handling
354 on master connection uses less FLUSH and passes automatically when more
355 than half of H2StreamMaxMemSize bytes have accumulated.
356 Workaround for http: when forwarding partial file buckets to keep the
357 output filter from closing these too early. [Stefan Eissing]
359 *) mod_http2: elimination of fixed master connection buffer for TLS
360 connections. New scratch bucket handling optimized for TLS write sizes.
361 File bucket data read directly into scratch buffers, avoiding one
362 copy. Non-TLS connections continue to pass buckets unchanged to the core
363 filters to allow sendfile() usage. [Stefan Eissing]
365 *) mod_http2/mod_proxy_http2: h2_request.c is no longer shared between these
366 modules. This simplifies building on platforms such as Windows, as module
367 reference used in logging is now clear. [Stefan Eissing]
369 *) Scoreboard: Fix a regression in 2.4.20 that causes wrong request data
370 to be displayed on the status page. PR 59333. [Yann Ylavic, William Rowe]
372 *) mod_http2: fixed a bug that caused mod_proxy_http2 to be called for window
373 updates on requests it had already reported done. Added synchronization
374 on early connection/stream close that lets ongoing requests safely drain
378 *) mod_http2: scoreboard updates that summarize the h2 session (and replace
379 the last request information) will only happen when the session is idle or
380 in shutdown/done phase. [Stefan Eissing]
382 *) mod_http2: new "bucket beam" technology to transport buckets across
383 threads without buffer copy. Delaying response start until flush or
384 enough body data has been accumulated. Overall significantly smaller
385 memory footprint. [Stefan Eissing]
387 *) core: New CGIVar directive can configure REQUEST_URI to represent the
388 current URI being processed instead of always the original request.
391 *) scoreboard/status: Restore behavior of showing workers' previous Client,
392 VHost and Request values when idle, like in 2.4.18 and earlier.
394 *) mod_http2: r->protocol changed to "HTTP/2.0" (was "HTTP/2") as this will
395 give expected syntax in CGI's SERVER_PROTOCOL is more compatible with
396 existing major/minor handling. Fixes PR 59313.
398 *) mod_http2: disabling mmap for file buckets transport due to segmenation
399 faults when files change on the fly.
401 Changes with Apache 2.4.20
403 *) SECURITY: CVE-2016-1546 (cve.mitre.org)
404 mod_http2: restricting number of concurrent stream workers per connection
407 *) core: Do not read .htaccess if AllowOverride and AllowOverrideList
408 are "None". PR 58528.
409 [Michael Schlenker <msc contact.de, Ruediger Pluem, Daniel Ruggeri]
411 *) mod_proxy_express: Fix possible use of DB handle after close. PR 59230.
412 [Petr <pgajdos suse.cz>]
414 *) core/util_script: relax alphanumeric filter of environment variable names
415 on Windows to allow '(' and ')' for passing PROGRAMFILES(X86) et.al.
416 unadulterated in 64 bit versions of Windows. PR 46751.
417 [John <john leineweb de>]
419 *) mod_http2: incrementing keepalives on each request started so that logging
420 %k gives increasing numbers per master http2 connection.
421 New documented variables in env, usable in custom log formats: H2_PUSH,
422 H2_PUSHED, H2_PUSHED_ON, H2_STREAM_ID and H2_STREAM_TAG.
425 *) mod_http2: more efficient passing of response bodies with less contention
426 and file bucket forwarding. [Stefan Eissing]
428 *) mod_http2: fix for missing score board updates on request count, fix for
429 memory leak on slave connection reuse. [Stefan Eissing]
431 *) mod_http2: Fix build on Windows from dsp files.
434 Changes with Apache 2.4.19
436 *) mod_include: Add variable DOCUMENT_ARGS, with the arguments to the
437 request for the SSI document. [Jeff Trawick]
439 *) mod_authz_host: Add a new "forward-dns" authorization type, not relying on
440 reverse DNS lookups. [Fabien]
442 *) mod_proxy_http2: new experimental http2 proxy module for h2: and h2c: proxy
443 urls. Uses backend connections for concurrent requests if frontend
444 connection is http2 as well.
447 *) mod_ssl: Add hooks to allow other modules to perform processing at
448 several stages of initialization and connection handling. See
449 mod_ssl_openssl.h. [Jeff Trawick]
451 *) mod_http2: disabling PUSH when client sends GOAWAY. Slave connections are
452 reused for several requests, improved performance and better memory use.
455 *) mod_rewrite: Don't implicitly URL-escape the original query string
456 when no substitution has changed it (like PR50447 but server context)
457 [Evgeny Kotkov <evgeny.kotkov visualsvn.com>]
459 *) mod_http2: fixes problem with wrong lifetime of file buckets on main
460 connection. [Stefan Eissing]
462 *) mod_http2: fixes incorrect denial of requests without :authority header.
465 *) mod_reqtimeout: Prevent long response times from triggering a timeout once
466 the request has been fully read. PR 59045. [Yann Ylavic]
468 *) ap_expr: expression support for variable HTTP2=on|off. [Stefan Eissing]
470 *) mod_http2: give control to async mpm for keepalive timeouts only when
471 no streams are open and even if only after 1 sec delay. Under load, event
472 mpm discards connections otherwise too quickly. [Stefan Eissing]
474 *) mod_ssl: Don't lose track of the SSL context if an unlikely failure occurs
475 in ssl_init_ssl_connection(). [Graham Leggett]
477 *) mod_rewrite: Add QSL|qslast flag to allow rewrites to files with
478 literal question marks in their names. PR 58777. [Eric Covener]
480 *) event: use pre_connection hook to properly initialize connection state for
481 slave connections. use protocol_switch hook to initialize server config
482 early based on SNI selected vhost.
485 *) hostname: Test and log useragent_host per-request across various modules,
486 including the scoreboard, expression and rewrite engines, setenvif,
487 authz_host, access_compat, custom logging, ssl and REMOTE_HOST variables.
488 PR55348 [William Rowe]
490 *) core: Track the useragent_host per-request when mod_remoteip or similar
491 modules track a per-request useragent_ip. Modules should be updated
492 to inquire for ap_get_useragent_host() in place of ap_get_remote_host().
495 *) core: fix a bug in <UnDefine ...> directive processing. When used, the last
496 <Define...>'ed variable was also withdrawn. PR 59019
499 *) mod_http2: Accept-Encoding is, when present on the initiating request,
500 added to push promises. This lets compressed content work in pushes.
501 by the client. [Stefan Eissing]
503 *) mod_http2: fixed possible read after free when streams were cancelled early
504 by the client. [Stefan Eissing]
506 *) mod_http2: fixed possible deadlock during connection shutdown. Thanks to
507 @FrankStolle for reporting and getting the necessary data.
510 *) mod_http2: fixed apr_uint64_t formatting in a log statement to user proper
511 APR def, thanks to @Sp1l.
513 *) mod_http2: number of worker threads allowed to a connection is adjusting
514 dynamically. Starting with 4, the number is doubled when streams can be
515 served without block on http/2 connection flow. The number is halfed, when
516 the server has to wait on client flow control grants.
517 This can happen with a maximum frequency of 5 times per second.
518 When a connection occupies too many workers, repeatable requests
519 (GET/HEAD/OPTIONS) are cancelled and placed back in the queue. Should that
520 not suffice and a stream is busy longer than the server timeout, the
521 connection will be aborted with error code ENHANCE_YOUR_CALM.
522 This does *not* limit the number of streams a client may open, rather the
523 number of server threads a connection might use.
526 *) mod_http2: allowing link header to specify multiple "rel" values,
527 space-separated inside a quoted string. Prohibiting push when Link
528 parameter "nopush" is present.
531 *) mod_http2: reworked connection state handling. Idle connections accept a
532 GOAWAY from the client without further reply. Otherwise the
533 module makes a best effort to send one last GOAWAY to the client.
535 *) mod_http2: the values from standard directives Timeout and KeepAliveTimeout
536 properly are applied to http/2 connections.
539 *) mod_http2: idle connections are returned to async mpms. new hook
540 "pre_close_connection" used to send GOAWAY frame when not already done.
541 Setting event mpm server config "by hand" for the main connection to
542 the correct negotiated server.
545 *) mod_http2: keep-alive blocking reads are done with 1 second timeouts to
546 check for MPM stopping. Will announce early GOAWAY and finish processing
547 open streams, then close.
550 *) mod_http2: bytes read/written on slave connections are reported via the
551 optional mod_logio functions. Fixes PR 58871.
553 *) prefork: Initialize the POD when running in ONE_PROCESS (or -X) mode to
554 avoid a crash. [Jan Kaluza, Yann Ylavic]
556 *) mod_ssl: When SSLVerify is disabled (NONE), don't force a renegotiation if
557 the SSLVerifyDepth applied with the default/handshaken vhost differs from
558 the one applicable with the finally selected vhost. [Yann Ylavic]
560 *) core: Ensure that httpd exits with an error status when the MPM fails
561 to run. [Yann Ylavic]
563 *) mod_ssl: Fix a possible memory leak on restart for custom [EC]DH params.
564 [Jan Kaluza, Yann Ylavic]
566 *) mod_ssl: Add SSLOCSPProxyURL to add the possibility to do all queries
567 to OCSP responders through a HTTP proxy. [Ruediger Pluem]
569 *) mod_proxy: Play/restore the TLS-SNI on new backend connections which
570 had to be issued because the remote closed the previous/reusable one
571 during idle (keep-alive) time. [Yann Ylavic]
573 *) mod_cache_socache: Fix a possible cached entity body corruption when it
574 is received from an origin server in multiple batches and forwarded by
575 mod_proxy. [Yann Ylavic]
577 *) core: Add expression support to SetHandler.
580 *) mod_remoteip: Prevent an external proxy from presenting an internal
581 proxy. PR 55962. [Mike Rumph]
583 *) core: Prevent a server crash in case of an invalid CONNECT request with
584 a custom error page for status code 400 that uses server side includes.
585 PR 58929 [Ruediger Pluem]
587 *) mod_ssl: handle TIMEOUT on empty SSL input as non-fatal, returning
588 APR_TIMEUP and preserving connection state for later retry.
591 *) mod_ssl: Save some TLS record (application data) fragmentations by
592 including the last and subsequent suitable buckets when coalescing.
595 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Suppress HTTP error 503 and message 01075,
596 "Error dispatching request", when the cause appears to be
597 due to the client closing the connection.
598 PR58118. [Tobias Adolph <adolph lrz.de>]
600 *) mod_cgid: Message AH02550, failure to flush a response to the client,
601 is now logged at TRACE1 level to match the underlying core output filter
602 severity. [Eric Covener]
604 *) mime.types: add common extension "m4a" for MPEG 4 Audio.
605 PR 57895 [Dylan Millikin <dylan.millikin gmail.com>]
607 *) Added many log numbers to log statements that had none.
610 *) mod_log_config: Add GlobalLog to allow a globally defined log to
611 be inherited by virtual hosts that define a CustomLog.
614 *) mod_http2: connections how keep a "push diary" where hashes of already
615 pushed resources are kept. See directive H2PushDiarySize for managing this.
616 Push diaries can be initialized by clients via the "Cache-Digest" request
617 header. This carries a base64url encoded. compressed Golomb set as described
618 in https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kazuho-h2-cache-digest/
619 Introduced a status handler for HTTP/2 connections, giving various counters
620 and statistics about the current connection, plus its cache digest value
621 in a JSON record. Not a replacement for more HTTP/2 in the server status.
623 <Location "/http2-status">
624 SetHandler http2-status
628 *) mod_http2: Fixed flushing of last GOAWAY frame. Previously, that frame
629 did not always reach the client, causing some to fail the next request.
630 Fixed calculation of last stream id accepted as described in rfc7540.
631 Reading in KEEPALIVE state now correctly shown in scoreboard.
632 Fixed possible race in connection shutdown after review by Ylavic.
633 Fixed segfault on connection shutdown, callback ran into a semi dismantled session.
636 *) mod_http2: Added support for experimental accept-push-policy draft
637 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ruellan-http-accept-push-policy-00). Clients
638 may now influence server pushes by sending accept-push-policy headers.
641 *) mod_http2: new r->subprocess_env variables HTTP2 and H2PUSH, set to "on"
642 when available for request.
645 *) mod_http2: fixed bug in input window size calculation by moving chunked
646 request body encoding into later stage of processing. Fixes PR 58825.
649 *) core: new hook "pre_close_connection" which is run before the lingering
650 close of connections is started. This gives protocol handlers one last
651 chance to use a connection before it goes down.
654 *) mod_status/scoreboard: showing connection protocol in new column, new
655 ap_update_child_status methods for updating server/description. mod_ssl
656 sets vhost negotiated by servername directly.
659 Changes with Apache 2.4.18
661 *) mod_ssl: for all ssl_engine_vars.c lookups, fall back to master connection
662 if conn_rec itself holds no valid SSLConnRec*. Fixes PR58666.
665 *) mod_http2: connection level window for flow control is set to protocol
666 maximum of 2GB-1, preventing window exhaustion when sending data on many
667 streams with higher cumulative window size.
668 Reducing write frequency unless push promises need to be flushed.
671 *) mod_http2: required minimum version of libnghttp2 is 1.2.1
674 *) mod_proxy_fdpass: Fix AH01153 error when using the default configuration.
675 In earlier version of httpd, you can explicitelly set the 'flusher' parameter
676 to 'flush' as a workaround. (i.e. flusher=flush)
677 Add documentation for the 'flusher' parameter when defining a proxy worker.
680 *) mod_ssl: For the "SSLStaplingReturnResponderErrors off" case, make sure
681 to only staple responses with certificate status "good". [Kaspar Brand]
683 *) mod_http2: new directive 'H2PushPriority' to allow priority specifications
684 on server pushed streams according to their content-type.
687 *) mod_http2: fixes crash on connection abort for a busy connection.
688 fixes crash on a request that did not produce any response.
691 *) mod_http2: trailers are sent after response body if set in request_rec
692 trailers_out before the end-of-request bucket is sent through the
693 output filters. [Stefan Eissing]
695 *) mod_http2: incoming trailers (headers after request body) are properly
696 forwarded to the processing engine. [Stefan Eissing]
698 *) mod_http2: new directive 'H2Push' to en-/disable HTTP/2 server
699 pushes a server/virtual host. Pushes are initiated by the presence
700 of 'Link:' headers with relation 'preload' on a response. [Stefan Eissing]
702 *) mod_http2: write performance of http2 improved for larger resources,
703 especially static files. [Stefan Eissing]
705 *) core: if the first HTTP/1.1 request on a connection goes to a server that
706 prefers different protocols, these protocols are announced in a Upgrade:
707 header on the response, mentioning the preferred protocols.
710 *) mod_http2: new directives 'H2TLSWarmUpSize' and 'H2TLSCoolDownSecs'
711 to control TLS record sizes during connection lifetime.
714 *) mod_http2: new directive 'H2ModernTLSOnly' to enforce security
715 requirements of RFC 7540 on TLS connections. [Stefan Eissing]
717 *) core: add ap_get_protocol_upgrades() to retrieve the list of protocols
718 that a client could possibly upgrade to. Use in first request on a
719 connection to announce protocol choices. [Stefan Eissing]
721 *) mod_http2: reworked deallocation on connection shutdown and worker
722 abort. Separate parent pool for all workers. worker threads are joined
723 on planned worker shutdown. [Yann Ylavic, Stefan Eissing]
725 *) mod_ssl: when receiving requests for other virtual hosts than the handshake
726 server, the SSL parameters are checked for equality. With equal
727 configuration, requests are passed for processing. Any change will trigger
728 the old behaviour of "421 Misdirected Request".
729 SSL now remembers the cipher suite that was used for the last handshake.
730 This is compared against for any vhost/directory cipher specification.
731 Detailed examination of renegotiation is only done when these do not
733 Renegotiation is 403ed when a master connection is present. Exact reason
734 is given additionally in a request note. [Stefan Eissing]
736 *) mod_ssl: Make the output filter more friendly with deferred write and
737 response pipelining. [Yann Ylavic, Joe Orton]
739 *) core: Fix scoreboard crash (SIGBUS) on hardware requiring strict 64bit
740 alignment (SPARC64, PPC64). [Yann Ylavic]
742 *) mod_cache: Accept HT (Horizontal Tab) when parsing cache related header
743 fields as described in RFC7230. [Christophe Jaillet]
745 *) core/util_script: making REDIRECT_URL a full URL is now opt-in
746 via new 'QualifyRedirectURL' directive.
748 *) core: Limit to ten the number of tolerated empty lines between request,
749 and consume them before the pipelining check to avoid possible response
750 delay when reading the next request without flushing. [Yann Ylavic]
752 *) mod_ssl: Extend expression parser registration to support ssl variables
753 in any expression using mod_rewrite syntax "%{SSL:VARNAME}" or function
754 syntax "ssl(VARNAME)". [Rainer Jung]
756 Changes with Apache 2.4.17
758 *) mod_http2: added donated HTTP/2 implementation via core module. Similar
759 configuration options to mod_ssl. [Stefan Eissing]
761 *) mod_proxy: don't recyle backend announced "Connection: close" connections
762 to avoid reusing it should the close be effective after some new request
763 is ready to be sent. [Yann Ylavic]
765 *) mod_substitute: Allow to configure the patterns merge order with the new
766 SubstituteInheritBefore on|off directive. PR 57641
767 [Marc.Stern <Marc.Stern approach.be>, Yann Ylavic, William Rowe]
769 *) mod_proxy: Fix ProxySourceAddress binding failure with AH00938.
770 PR 56687. [Arne de Bruijn <apache arbruijn.dds.nl>
772 *) mod_ssl: Support compilation against libssl built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL3,
773 and change the compiled-in default for SSL[Proxy]Protocol to "all -SSLv3",
774 in accordance with RFC 7568. PR 58349, PR 57120. [Kaspar Brand]
776 *) mod_ssl: append :!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXP to the cipher string settings,
777 instead of prepending !aNULL:!eNULL:!EXP: (as was the case in 2.4.7
778 and later). Enables support for configuring the SUITEB* cipher
779 strings introduced in OpenSSL 1.0.2. PR 58213. [Kaspar Brand]
781 *) mod_ssl: Add support for extracting the msUPN and dnsSRV forms
782 of subjectAltName entries of type "otherName" into
783 SSL_{CLIENT,SERVER}_SAN_OTHER_{msUPN,dnsSRV}_n environment
784 variables. Addresses PR 58020. [Jan Pazdziora <jpazdziora redhat.com>,
787 *) mod_logio: Fix logging of %^FB (time to first byte) on the first request on
788 an SSL connection. PR 58454.
789 [Konstantin J. Chernov <k.j.chernov gmail.com>]
791 *) mod_cache: r->err_headers_out is not merged into
792 r->headers when mod_cache is enabled and the response
793 is cached for the first time. [Edward Lu]
795 *) mod_slotmem_shm: Fix slots/SHM files names on restart for systems that
796 can't create new (clear) slots while previous children gracefully stopping
797 still use the old ones (e.g. Windows, OS2). mod_proxy_balancer failed to
798 restart whenever the number of configured balancers/members changed during
799 restart. PR 58024. [Yann Ylavic]
801 *) core/util_script: make REDIRECT_URL a full URL. PR 57785. [Nick Kew]
803 *) MPMs: Support SO_REUSEPORT to create multiple duplicated listener
804 records for scalability. [Yingqi Lu <yingqi.lu@intel.com>,
805 Jeff Trawick, Jim Jagielski, Yann Ylavic]
807 *) mod_alias: Introduce expression parser support for Alias, ScriptAlias
808 and Redirect. Limit Redirect expressions to directory (Location) context
809 and redirect statuses (implicit or explicit).
810 [Graham Leggett, Yann Ylavic, Ruediger Pluem]
812 *) mod_proxy: Fix a race condition that caused a failed worker to be retried
813 before the retry period is over. [Ruediger Pluem]
815 *) mod_autoindex: Allow autoindexes when neither mod_dir nor mod_mime are
816 loaded. [Eric Covener]
818 *) mod_rewrite: Allow cookies set by mod_rewrite to contain ':' by accepting
819 ';' as an alternate separator. PR47241.
820 [<bugzilla schermesser com>, Eric Covener]
822 *) apxs: Add HTTPD_VERSION and HTTPD_MMN to the variables available with
823 apxs -q. PR58202. [Daniel Shahaf <danielsh apache.org>]
825 *) mod_rewrite: Avoid a crash when lacking correct DB access permissions
826 when using RewriteMap with MapType dbd or fastdbd. [Christophe Jaillet]
828 *) mod_authz_dbd: Avoid a crash when lacking correct DB access permissions.
829 PR 57868. [Jose Kahan <jose w3.org>, Yann Ylavic]
831 *) mod_socache_memcache: Add the 'MemcacheConnTTL' directive to control how
832 long to keep idle connections with the memcache server(s).
833 Change default value from 600 usec (!) to 15 sec. PR 58091
836 *) mod_dir: Prevent the internal identifier "httpd/unix-directory" from
837 appearing as a Content-Type response header when requests for a directory
838 are rewritten by mod_rewrite. [Eric Covener]
840 Changes with Apache 2.4.16
842 *) http: Fix LimitRequestBody checks when there is no more bytes to read.
843 [Michael Kaufmann <mail michael-kaufmann.ch>]
845 *) mod_alias: Revert expression parser support for Alias, ScriptAlias
846 and Redirect due to a regression (introduced in 2.4.13, not released).
848 *) mod_reqtimeout: Don't let pipelining checks and keep-alive times interfere
849 with the timeouts computed for subsequent requests. PR 56729.
850 [Eric Covener, Yann Ylavic]
852 *) core: Avoid a possible truncation of the faulty header included in the
853 HTML response when LimitRequestFieldSize is reached. [Yann Ylavic]
855 *) mod_ldap: In some case, LDAP_NO_SUCH_ATTRIBUTE could be returned instead
856 of an error during a compare operation. [Eric Covener]
858 Changes with Apache 2.4.15 (not released)
860 *) mod_ext_filter, mod_charset_lite: Avoid inadvertent filtering of protocol
861 data during read of chunked request bodies. PR 58049.
862 [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail.com>]
864 *) mod_ldap: Stop leaking LDAP connections when 'LDAPConnectionPoolTTL 0'
865 is configured. PR 58037. [Ted Phelps <phelps gnusto.com>]
867 *) core: Allow spaces after chunk-size for compatibility with implementations
868 using a pre-filled buffer. [Yann Ylavic, Jeff Trawick]
870 *) mod_ssl: Remove deprecated SSLCertificateChainFile warning.
873 Changes with Apache 2.4.14 (not released)
875 *) SECURITY: CVE-2015-3183 (cve.mitre.org)
876 core: Fix chunk header parsing defect.
877 Remove apr_brigade_flatten(), buffering and duplicated code from
878 the HTTP_IN filter, parse chunks in a single pass with zero copy.
879 Limit accepted chunk-size to 2^63-1 and be strict about chunk-ext
880 authorized characters. [Graham Leggett, Yann Ylavic]
882 *) SECURITY: CVE-2015-3185 (cve.mitre.org)
883 Replacement of ap_some_auth_required (unusable in Apache httpd 2.4)
884 with new ap_some_authn_required and ap_force_authn hook. [Ben Reser]
886 Changes with Apache 2.4.13 (not released)
888 *) SECURITY: CVE-2015-0253 (cve.mitre.org)
889 core: Fix a crash with ErrorDocument 400 pointing to a local URL-path
890 with the INCLUDES filter active, introduced in 2.4.11. PR 57531.
893 *) SECURITY: CVE-2015-0228 (cve.mitre.org)
894 mod_lua: A maliciously crafted websockets PING after a script
895 calls r:wsupgrade() can cause a child process crash.
896 [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail.com>]
898 *) mod_proxy: Don't put the worker in error state for 500 or 503 errors
899 returned by the backend unless failonstatus is configured to. PR 56925.
902 *) core: Don't lowercase the argument to SetHandler if it begins with
903 "proxy:unix". PR 57968. [Eric Covener]
905 *) mod_ssl OCSP Stapling: Don't block initial handshakes while refreshing
906 the OCSP response for a different certificate. mod_ssl has an additional
907 global mutex, "ssl-stapling-refresh". PR 57131 (partial fix).
910 *) mod_authz_dbm: Fix crashes when "dbm-file-group" is used and
911 authz modules were loaded in the "wrong" order. [Joe Orton]
913 *) mod_authn_dbd, mod_authz_dbd, mod_session_dbd, mod_rewrite: Fix lifetime
914 of DB lookup entries independently of the selected DB engine. PR 46421.
915 [Steven whitson <steven.whitson gmail com>, Jan Kaluza, Yann Ylavic].
917 *) In alignment with RFC 7525, the default recommended SSLCipherSuite
918 and SSLProxyCipherSuite now exclude RC4 as well as MD5. Also, the
919 default recommended SSLProtocol and SSLProxyProtocol directives now
920 exclude SSLv3. Existing configurations must be adjusted by the
921 administrator. [William Rowe]
923 *) mod_ssl: Add support for extracting subjectAltName entries of type
924 rfc822Name and dNSName into SSL_{CLIENT,SERVER}_SAN_{Email,DNS}_n
925 environment variables. Also addresses PR 57207. [Kaspar Brand]
927 *) dav_validate_request: avoid validating locks and ETags when there are
928 no If headers providing them on a resource we aren't modifying.
931 *) mod_proxy_scgi: ProxySCGIInternalRedirect now allows an alternate
932 response header to be used by the application, for when the application
933 or framework is unable to return Location in the internal-redirect
936 *) core: Cleanup the request soon/even if some output filter fails to
937 handle the EOR bucket. [Yann Ylavic]
939 *) mpm_event: Allow for timer events duplicates. [Jim Jagielski, Yann Ylavic]
941 *) mod_proxy, mod_ssl, mod_cache_socache, mod_socache_*: Support machine
942 readable server-status produced when using the "?auto" query string.
945 *) mod_status: Add more data to machine readable server-status produced
946 when using the "?auto" query string. [Rainer Jung]
948 *) mod_ssl: Check for the Entropy Gathering Daemon (EGD) availability at
949 configure time (RAND_egd), and complain if SSLRandomSeed requires using
950 it otherwise. [Bernard Spil <pil.oss gmail com>, Stefan Sperling,
953 *) mod_ssl: make sure to consistently output SSLCertificateChainFile
954 deprecation warnings, when encountered in a VirtualHost block.
955 [Falco Schwarz <hiding falco.me>]
957 *) mod_log_config: Add "%{UNIT}T" format to output request duration in
958 seconds, milliseconds or microseconds depending on UNIT ("s", "ms", "us").
959 [Ben Reser, Rainer Jung]
961 *) Allow FallbackResource to work when a directory is requested and
962 there is no autoindex nor DirectoryIndex.
963 [Jack <tjerk.meesters gmail.com>, Eric Covener]
965 *) mod_proxy_wstunnel: Bypass the handler while the connection is not
966 upgraded to WebSocket, so that other modules can possibly take over
967 the leading HTTP requests. [Yann Ylavic]
969 *) mod_http: Fix incorrect If-Match handling. PR 57358
970 [Kunihiko Sakamoto <ksakamoto google.com>]
972 *) mod_ssl: Add a warning if protocol given in SSLProtocol or SSLProxyProtocol
973 will override other parameters given in the same directive. This could be
974 a missing + or - prefix. PR 52820 [Christophe Jaillet]
976 *) core, modules: Avoid error response/document handling by the core if some
977 handler or input filter already did it while reading the request (causing
978 a double response body). [Yann Ylavic]
980 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Fix client connection errors handling and logged status
981 when it occurs. PR 56823. [Yann Ylavic]
983 *) mod_proxy: Use the correct server name for SNI in case the backend
984 SSL connection itself is established via a proxy server.
985 PR 57139 [Szabolcs Gyurko <szabolcs gyurko.org>]
987 *) mod_ssl: Fix possible crash when loading server certificate constraints.
988 PR 57694. [Paul Spangler <paul.spangler ni com>, Yann Ylavic]
990 *) build: Don't load both mod_cgi and mod_cgid in the default configuration
991 if they're both built. [olli hauer <ohauer gmx.de>]
993 *) mod_logio: Add LogIOTrackTTFB and %^FB logformat to log the time
994 taken to start writing response headers. [Eric Covener]
996 *) mod_ssl: Avoid compilation errors with LibreSSL related to
997 the use of ENGINE_CTRL_CHIL_SET_FORKCHECK.
998 [Stuart Henderson <sthen openbsd.org>]
1000 *) mod_proxy_http: Use the "Connection: close" header for requests to
1001 backends not recycling connections (disablereuse), including the default
1002 reverse and forward proxies. [Yann Ylavic]
1004 *) mod_proxy: Add ap_connection_reusable() for checking if a connection
1005 is reusable as of this point in processing. [Jeff Trawick]
1007 *) mod_proxy_wstunnel: Avoid an empty response by failing with 502 (Bad
1008 Gateway) when no response is ever received from the backend.
1011 *) core_filters: Restore/disable TCP_NOPUSH option after non-blocking
1012 sendfile. [Yann Ylavic]
1014 *) mod_buffer: Forward flushed input data immediately and avoid (unlikely)
1015 access to freed memory. [Yann Ylavic, Christophe Jaillet]
1017 *) core: Add CGIPassAuth directive to control whether HTTP authorization
1018 headers are passed to scripts as CGI variables. PR 56855. [Jeff
1021 *) core: Initialize scoreboard's used optional functions on graceful restarts
1022 to avoid a crash when relocation occurs. PR 57177. [Yann Ylavic]
1024 *) mod_dav: Avoid a potential integer underflow in the lock timeout value sent
1025 back to a client. The answer to a LOCK request could be an extremly large
1026 integer if the time needed to lock the resource was longer that the
1027 requested timeout given in the LOCK request. In such a case, we now answer
1029 [Christophe Jaillet]
1031 *) mod_cgid: Within the first minute of a server start or restart,
1032 allow mod_cgid to retry connecting to its daemon process. Previously,
1033 'No such file or directory: unable to connect to cgi daemon...' could
1034 be logged without an actual retry. PR57685.
1035 [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail.com>]
1037 *) mod_proxy: Use the original (non absolute) form of the request-line's URI
1038 for requests embedded in CONNECT payloads used to connect SSL backends via
1039 a ProxyRemote forward-proxy. PR 55892. [Hendrik Harms <hendrik.harms
1040 gmail com>, William Rowe, Yann Ylavic]
1042 *) http: Make ap_die() robust against any HTTP error code and not modify
1043 response status (finally logged) when nothing is to be done. PR 56035.
1046 *) mod_proxy_connect/wstunnel: If both client and backend sides get readable
1047 at the same time, don't lose errors occurring while forwarding on the first
1048 side when none occurs next on the other side, and abort. [Yann Ylavic]
1050 *) mod_rewrite: Improve relative substitutions in per-directory/htaccess
1051 context for directories found by mod_userdir and mod_alias. These no
1052 longer require RewriteBase to be specified. [Eric Covener]
1054 *) mod_proxy_http: Don't expect the backend to ack the "Connection: close" to
1055 finally close those not meant to be kept alive by SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive
1056 or force-proxy-request-1.0. [Yann Ylavic]
1058 *) core: If explicitly configured, use the KeepaliveTimeout value of the
1059 virtual host which handled the latest request on the connection, or by
1060 default the one of the first virtual host bound to the same IP:port.
1061 PR56226. [Yann Ylavic]
1063 *) mod_lua: After a r:wsupgrade(), mod_lua was not properly
1064 responding to a websockets PING but instead invoking the specified
1065 script. PR57524. [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail.com>]
1067 *) mod_ssl: Add the SSL_CLIENT_CERT_RFC4523_CEA variable, which provides
1068 a combination of certificate serialNumber and issuer as defined by
1069 CertificateExactMatch in RFC4523. [Graham Leggett]
1071 *) core: Add expression support to ErrorDocument. Switch from a fixed
1072 sized 664 byte array per merge to a hash table. [Graham Leggett]
1074 *) ab: Add missing longest request (100%) to CSV export.
1075 [Marcin Fabrykowski <bugzilla fabrykowski.pl>]
1077 *) mod_macro: Clear macros before initialization to avoid use-after-free
1078 on startup or restart when the module is linked statically. PR 57525
1079 [apache.org tech.futurequest.net, Yann Ylavic]
1081 *) mod_alias: Introduce expression parser support for Alias, ScriptAlias
1082 and Redirect. [Graham Leggett]
1084 *) mod_ssl: 'SSLProtocol ALL' was being ignored in virtual host context.
1085 PR 57100. [Michael Kaufmann <apache-bugzilla michael-kaufmann.ch>,
1088 *) mpm_event: Avoid access to the scoreboard from the connection while
1089 it is suspended (waiting for events). [Eric Covener, Jeff Trawick]
1091 *) mod_ssl: Fix renegotiation failures redirected to an ErrorDocument.
1092 PR 57334. [Yann Ylavic].
1094 *) mod_deflate: A misplaced check prevents limiting small bodies with the
1095 new inflate limits. PR56872. [Edward Lu, Eric Covener, Yann Ylavic]
1097 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Forward SSL protocol name (SSLv3, TLSv1.1 etc.) as a
1098 request attribute to the backend. Recent Tomcat versions will extract
1099 it and provide it as a servlet request attribute named
1100 "org.apache.tomcat.util.net.secure_protocol_version". [Rainer Jung]
1102 *) core: Optimize string concatenation in expression parser when evaluating
1103 a string expression. [Rainer Jung]
1105 *) acinclude.m4: Generate #LoadModule directive in default httpd.conf for
1106 every --enable-mpms-shared. PR 53882. [olli hauer <ohauer gmx.de>,
1109 *) mod_authn_dbd: Fix the error message logged in case of error while querying
1110 the database. This is associated to AH01656 and AH01661. [Christophe Jaillet]
1112 *) mod_authz_groupfile: Reduce the severity of AH01667 from ERROR to DEBUG,
1113 because it may be evaluated inside <RequireAny>. PR55523. [Eric Covener]
1115 *) mod_ssl: Fix small memory leak during initialization when ECDH is used.
1118 Changes with Apache 2.4.12
1120 *) mpm_winnt: Accept utf-8 (Unicode) service names and descriptions for
1121 internationalization. [William Rowe]
1123 *) mpm_winnt: Normalize the error and status messages emitted by service.c,
1124 the service control interface for Windows. [William Rowe]
1126 *) configure: Fix --enable-v4-mapped configuration on *BSD. PR 53824.
1127 [ olli hauer <ohauer gmx.de>, Yann Ylavic ]
1129 *) Reverted <DirectoryMatch > behavior regression introduced in 2.4.11
1132 Changes with Apache 2.4.11 (not released)
1134 *) SECURITY: CVE-2014-3583 (cve.mitre.org)
1135 mod_proxy_fcgi: Fix a potential crash due to buffer over-read, with
1136 response headers' size above 8K. [Yann Ylavic, Jeff Trawick]
1138 *) SECURITY: CVE-2014-3581 (cve.mitre.org)
1139 mod_cache: Avoid a crash when Content-Type has an empty value.
1140 PR 56924. [Mark Montague <mark catseye.org>, Jan Kaluza]
1142 *) SECURITY: CVE-2014-8109 (cve.mitre.org)
1143 mod_lua: Fix handling of the Require line when a LuaAuthzProvider is
1144 used in multiple Require directives with different arguments.
1145 PR57204 [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail.com>]
1147 *) SECURITY: CVE-2013-5704 (cve.mitre.org)
1148 core: HTTP trailers could be used to replace HTTP headers
1149 late during request processing, potentially undoing or
1150 otherwise confusing modules that examined or modified
1151 request headers earlier. Adds "MergeTrailers" directive to restore
1152 legacy behavior. [Edward Lu, Yann Ylavic, Joe Orton, Eric Covener]
1154 *) mod_ssl: New directive SSLSessionTickets (On|Off).
1155 The directive controls the use of TLS session tickets (RFC 5077),
1156 default value is "On" (unchanged behavior).
1157 Session ticket creation uses a random key created during web
1158 server startup and recreated during restarts. No other key
1159 recreation mechanism is available currently. Therefore using session
1160 tickets without restarting the web server with an appropriate frequency
1161 (e.g. daily) compromises perfect forward secrecy. [Rainer Jung]
1163 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Provide some basic alternate options for specifying
1164 how PATH_INFO is passed to FastCGI backends by adding significance to
1165 the value of proxy-fcgi-pathinfo. PR 55329. [Eric Covener]
1167 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Enable UDS backends configured with SetHandler/RewriteRule
1168 to opt-in to connection reuse and other Proxy options via explicitly
1169 declared "proxy workers" (<Proxy unix:... enablereuse=on max=...)
1172 *) mod_proxy: Add "enablereuse" option as the inverse of "disablereuse".
1175 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Enable opt-in to TCP connection reuse by explicitly
1176 setting proxy option disablereuse=off. [Eric Covener] PR 57378.
1178 *) event: Update the internal "connection id" when requests
1179 move from thread to thread. Reuse can confuse modules like
1180 mod_cgid. PR 57435. [Michael Thorpe <mike gistnet.com>]
1182 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Remove proxy:balancer:// prefix from SCRIPT_FILENAME
1183 passed to fastcgi backends. [Eric Covener]
1185 *) core: Configuration files with long lines and continuation characters
1186 are not read properly. PR 55910. [Manuel Mausz <manuel-as mausz.at>]
1188 *) mod_include: the 'env' function was incorrectly handled as 'getenv' if the
1189 leading 'e' was written in upper case in <!--#if expr="..." -->
1190 statements. [Christophe Jaillet]
1192 *) split-logfile: Fix perl error: 'Can't use string ("example.org:80")
1193 as a symbol ref while "strict refs"'. PR 56329.
1194 [Holger Mauermann <mauermann gmail.com>]
1196 *) mod_proxy: Prevent ProxyPassReverse from doing a substitution when
1197 the URL parameter interpolates to an empty string. PR 56603.
1198 [<ajprout hotmail.com>]
1200 *) core: Fix -D[efined] or <Define>[d] variables lifetime across restarts.
1201 PR 57328. [Armin Abfalterer <a.abfalterer gmail.com>, Yann Ylavic].
1203 *) mod_proxy: Preserve original request headers even if they differ
1204 from the ones to be forwarded to the backend. PR 45387.
1207 *) mod_ssl: dump SSL IO/state for the write side of the connection(s),
1208 like reads (level TRACE4). [Yann Ylavic]
1210 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Ignore body data from backend for 304 responses. PR 57198.
1213 *) mod_ssl: Do not crash when looking up SSL related variables during
1214 expression evaluation on non SSL connections. PR 57070 [Ruediger Pluem]
1216 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Fix handling of the default port (8009) in the
1217 ProxyPass and <Proxy> configurations. PR 57259. [Yann Ylavic]
1219 *) mpm_event: Avoid a possible use after free when notifying the end of
1220 connection during lingering close. PR 57268. [Eric Covener, Yann Ylavic]
1222 *) mod_ssl: Fix recognition of OCSP stapling responses that are encoded
1223 improperly or too large. [Jeff Trawick]
1225 *) core: Add ap_log_data(), ap_log_rdata(), etc. for logging buffers.
1228 *) mod_proxy_fcgi, mod_authnz_fcgi: stop reading the response and issue an
1229 error when parsing or forwarding the response fails. [Yann Ylavic]
1231 *) mod_ssl: Fix a memory leak in case of graceful restarts with OpenSSL >= 0.9.8e
1232 PR 53435 [tadanori <tadanori2007 yahoo.com>, Sebastian Wiedenroth <wiedi frubar.net>]
1234 *) mod_proxy_connect: Don't issue AH02447 on sockets hangups, let the read
1235 determine whether it is a normal close or a real error. PR 57168. [Yann
1238 *) mod_proxy_wstunnel: abort backend connection on polling error to avoid
1239 further processing. [Yann Ylavic]
1241 *) core: Support custom ErrorDocuments for HTTP 501 and 414 status codes.
1242 PR 57167 [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail.com>]
1244 *) mod_proxy_connect: Fix ProxyRemote to https:// backends on EBCDIC
1245 systems. PR 57092 [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail.com>]
1247 *) mod_cache: Avoid a 304 response to an unconditional requst when an AH00752
1248 CacheLock error occurs during cache revalidation. [Eric Covener]
1250 *) mod_ssl: Move OCSP stapling information from a per-certificate store to
1251 a per-server hash. PR 54357, PR 56919. [Alex Bligh <alex alex.org.uk>,
1252 Yann Ylavic, Kaspar Brand]
1254 *) mod_cache_socache: Change average object size hint from 32 bytes to
1255 2048 bytes. [Rainer Jung]
1257 *) mod_cache_socache: Add cache status to server-status. [Rainer Jung]
1259 *) event: Fix worker-listener deadlock in graceful restart.
1262 *) Concat strings at compile time when possible. PR 53741.
1264 *) mod_substitute: Restrict configuration in .htaccess to
1265 FileInfo as documented. [Rainer Jung]
1267 *) mod_substitute: Make maximum line length configurable. [Rainer Jung]
1269 *) mod_substitute: Fix line length limitation in case of regexp plus flatten.
1272 *) mod_proxy: Truncated character worker names are no longer fatal
1273 errors. PR53218. [Jim Jagielski]
1275 *) mod_dav: Set r->status_line in dav_error_response. PR 55426.
1277 *) mod_proxy_http, mod_cache: Avoid (unlikely) accesses to freed memory.
1278 [Yann Ylavic, Christophe Jaillet]
1280 *) http_protocol: fix logic in ap_method_list_(add|remove) in order:
1281 - to correctly reset bits
1282 - not to modify the 'method_mask' bitfield unnecessarily
1283 [Christophe Jaillet]
1285 *) mod_slotmem_shm: Increase log level for some originally debug messages.
1288 *) mod_ldap: In 2.4.10, some LDAP searches or comparisons might be done with
1289 the wrong credentials when a backend connection is reused.
1292 *) mod_macro: Add missing APLOGNO for some Warning log messages.
1293 [Christophe Jaillet]
1295 *) mod_cache: Avoid sending 304 responses during failed revalidations
1296 PR56881. [Eric Covener]
1298 *) mod_status: Honor client IP address using mod_remoteip. PR 55886.
1301 *) cmake-based build for Windows: Fix incompatibility with cmake 2.8.12
1302 and later. PR 56615. [Chuck Liu <cliu81 gmail.com>, Jeff Trawick]
1304 *) mod_ratelimit: Drop severity of AH01455 and AH01457 (ap_pass_brigade
1305 failed) messages from ERROR to TRACE1. Other filters do not bother
1306 re-reporting failures from lower level filters. PR56832. [Eric Covener]
1308 *) core: Avoid useless warning message when parsing a section guarded by
1309 <IfDefine foo> if $(foo) is used within the section.
1310 PR 56503 [Christophe Jaillet]
1312 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Fix faulty logging of large amounts of stderr from the
1313 application. PR 56858. [Manuel Mausz <manuel-asf mausz.at>]
1315 *) mod_proxy_http: Proxy responses with error status and
1316 "ProxyErrorOverride On" hang until proxy timeout.
1317 PR53420 [Rainer Jung]
1319 *) mod_log_config: Allow three character log formats to be registered. For
1320 backwards compatibility, the first character of a three-character format
1321 must be the '^' (caret) character. [Eric Covener]
1323 *) mod_lua: Don't quote Expires and Path values. PR 56734.
1324 [Keith Mashinter, <kmashint yahoo com>]
1326 *) mod_authz_core: Allow <AuthzProviderAlias>'es to be seen from auth
1327 stanzas under virtual hosts. PR 56870. [Eric Covener]
1329 Changes with Apache 2.4.10
1331 *) SECURITY: CVE-2014-0117 (cve.mitre.org)
1332 mod_proxy: Fix crash in Connection header handling which allowed a denial
1333 of service attack against a reverse proxy with a threaded MPM.
1336 *) SECURITY: CVE-2014-3523 (cve.mitre.org)
1337 Fix a memory consumption denial of service in the WinNT MPM, used in all
1338 Windows installations. Workaround: AcceptFilter <protocol> {none|connect}
1341 *) SECURITY: CVE-2014-0226 (cve.mitre.org)
1342 Fix a race condition in scoreboard handling, which could lead to
1343 a heap buffer overflow. [Joe Orton, Eric Covener]
1345 *) SECURITY: CVE-2014-0118 (cve.mitre.org)
1346 mod_deflate: The DEFLATE input filter (inflates request bodies) now
1347 limits the length and compression ratio of inflated request bodies to
1348 avoid denial of service via highly compressed bodies. See directives
1349 DeflateInflateLimitRequestBody, DeflateInflateRatioLimit,
1350 and DeflateInflateRatioBurst. [Yann Ylavic, Eric Covener]
1352 *) SECURITY: CVE-2014-0231 (cve.mitre.org)
1353 mod_cgid: Fix a denial of service against CGI scripts that do
1354 not consume stdin that could lead to lingering HTTPD child processes
1355 filling up the scoreboard and eventually hanging the server. By
1356 default, the client I/O timeout (Timeout directive) now applies to
1357 communication with scripts. The CGIDScriptTimeout directive can be
1358 used to set a different timeout for communication with scripts.
1359 [Rainer Jung, Eric Covener, Yann Ylavic]
1361 *) mod_ssl: Extend the scope of SSLSessionCacheTimeout to sessions
1362 resumed by TLS session resumption (RFC 5077). [Rainer Jung]
1364 *) mod_deflate: Don't fail when flushing inflated data to the user-agent
1365 and that coincides with the end of stream ("Zlib error flushing inflate
1366 buffer"). PR 56196. [Christoph Fausak <christoph fausak glueckkanja.com>]
1368 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Forward local IP address as a custom request attribute
1369 like we already do for the remote port. [Rainer Jung]
1371 *) core: Include any error notes set by modules in the canned error
1372 response for 403 errors. [Jeff Trawick]
1374 *) mod_ssl: Set an error note for requests rejected due to
1375 SSLStrictSNIVHostCheck. [Jeff Trawick]
1377 *) mod_ssl: Fix issue with redirects to error documents when handling
1378 SNI errors. [Jeff Trawick]
1380 *) mod_ssl: Fix tmp DH parameter leak, adjust selection to prefer
1381 larger keys and support up to 8192-bit keys. [Ruediger Pluem,
1384 *) mod_dav: Fix improper encoding in PROPFIND responses. PR 56480.
1387 *) WinNT MPM: Improve error handling for termination events in child.
1390 *) mod_proxy: When ping/pong is configured for a worker, don't send or
1391 forward "100 Continue" (interim) response to the client if it does
1392 not expect one. [Yann Ylavic]
1394 *) mod_ldap: Be more conservative with the last-used time for
1395 LDAPConnectionPoolTTL. PR54587 [Eric Covener]
1397 *) mod_ldap: LDAP connections used for authn were not respecting
1398 LDAPConnectionPoolTTL. PR54587 [Eric Covener]
1400 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Fix occasional high CPU when handling request bodies.
1403 *) event MPM: Fix possible crashes (third-party modules accessing c->sbh)
1404 or occasional missed mod_status updates under load. PR 56639.
1405 [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail com>]
1407 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Support primitive LDAP servers do not accept
1408 filters, such as "SDBM-backed LDAP" on z/OS, by allowing a special
1409 filter "none" to be specified in AuthLDAPURL. [Eric Covener]
1411 *) mod_deflate: Fix inflation of files larger than 4GB. PR 56062.
1412 [Lukas Bezdicka <social v3.sk>]
1414 *) mod_deflate: Handle Zlib header and validation bytes received in multiple
1415 chunks. PR 46146. [Yann Ylavic]
1417 *) mod_proxy: Allow reverse-proxy to be set via explicit handler.
1418 [ryo takatsuki <ryotakatsuki gmail com>]
1420 *) ab: support custom HTTP method with -m argument. PR 56604.
1421 [Roman Jurkov <winfinit gmail.com>]
1423 *) mod_proxy_balancer: Correctly encode user provided data in management
1424 interface. PR 56532 [Maksymilian, <max cert.cx>]
1426 *) mod_proxy: Don't limit the size of the connectable Unix Domain Socket
1427 paths. [Graham Dumpleton, Christophe Jaillet, Yann Ylavic]
1429 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Support iobuffersize parameter. [Jeff Trawick]
1431 *) event: Send the SSL close notify alert when the KeepAliveTimeout
1432 expires. PR54998. [Yann Ylavic]
1434 *) mod_ssl: Ensure that the SSL close notify alert is flushed to the client.
1435 PR54998. [Tim Kosse <tim.kosse filezilla-project.org>, Yann Ylavic]
1437 *) mod_proxy: Shutdown (eg. SSL close notify) the backend connection before
1438 closing. [Yann Ylavic]
1440 *) mod_auth_form: Add a debug message when the fields on a form are not
1441 recognised. [Graham Leggett]
1443 *) mod_cache: Preserve non-cacheable headers forwarded from an origin 304
1444 response. PR 55547. [Yann Ylavic]
1446 *) mod_proxy_wstunnel: Fix the use of SSL connections with the "wss:"
1447 scheme. PR55320. [Alex Liu <alex.leo.ca gmail.com>]
1449 *) mod_socache_shmcb: Correct counting of expirations for status display.
1450 Expirations happening during retrieval were not counted. [Rainer Jung]
1452 *) mod_cache: Retry unconditional request with the full URL (including the
1453 query-string) when the origin server's 304 response does not match the
1454 conditions used to revalidate the stale entry. [Yann Ylavic].
1456 *) mod_alias: Stop setting CONTEXT_PREFIX and CONTEXT_DOCUMENT environment
1457 variables as a result of AliasMatch. [Eric Covener]
1459 *) mod_cache: Don't add cached/revalidated entity headers to a 304 response.
1460 PR 55547. [Yann Ylavic]
1462 *) mod_proxy_scgi: Support Unix sockets. ap_proxy_port_of_scheme():
1463 Support default SCGI port (4000). [Jeff Trawick]
1465 *) mod_cache: Fix AH00784 errors on Windows when the the CacheLock directive
1466 is enabled. [Eric Covener]
1468 *) mod_expires: don't add Expires header to error responses (4xx/5xx),
1469 be they generated or forwarded. PR 55669. [Yann Ylavic]
1471 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Don't segfault when failing to connect to the backend.
1472 (regression in 2.4.9 release) [Jeff Trawick]
1474 *) mod_authn_socache: Fix crash at startup in certain configurations.
1475 PR 56371. (regression in 2.4.7) [Jan Kaluza]
1477 *) mod_ssl: restore argument structure for "exec"-type SSLPassPhraseDialog
1478 programs to the form used in releases up to 2.4.7, and emulate
1479 a backwards-compatible behavior for existing setups. [Kaspar Brand]
1481 *) mod_ssl: Add SSLOCSPUseRequestNonce directive to control whether or not
1482 OCSP requests should use a nonce to be checked against the responder's
1483 one. PR 56233. [Yann Ylavic, Kaspar Brand]
1485 *) mod_ssl: "SSLEngine off" will now override a Listen-based default
1486 and does disable mod_ssl for the vhost. [Joe Orton]
1488 *) mod_lua: Enforce the max post size allowed via r:parsebody()
1491 *) mod_lua: Use binary comparison to find boundaries for multipart
1492 objects, as to not terminate our search prematurely when hitting
1493 a NULL byte. [Daniel Gruno]
1495 *) mod_ssl: add workaround for SSLCertificateFile when using OpenSSL
1496 versions before 0.9.8h and not specifying an SSLCertificateChainFile
1497 (regression introduced with 2.4.8). PR 56410. [Kaspar Brand]
1499 *) mod_ssl: bring SNI behavior into better conformance with RFC 6066:
1500 no longer send warning-level unrecognized_name(112) alerts,
1501 and limit startup warnings to cases where an OpenSSL version
1502 without TLS extension support is used. PR 56241. [Kaspar Brand]
1504 *) mod_proxy_html: Avoid some possible memory access violation in case of
1505 specially crafted files, when the ProxyHTMLMeta directive is turned on.
1506 Follow up of PR 56287 [Christophe Jaillet]
1508 *) mod_auth_form: Make sure the optional functions are loaded even when
1509 the AuthFormProvider isn't specified. [Graham Leggett]
1511 *) mod_ssl: avoid processing bogus SSLCertificateKeyFile values
1512 (and logging garbled file names). PR 56306. [Kaspar Brand]
1514 *) mod_ssl: fix merging of global and vhost-level settings with the
1515 SSLCertificateFile, SSLCertificateKeyFile, and SSLOpenSSLConfCmd
1516 directives. PR 56353. [Kaspar Brand]
1518 *) mod_headers: Allow the "value" parameter of Header and RequestHeader to
1519 contain an ap_expr expression if prefixed with "expr=". [Eric Covener]
1521 *) rotatelogs: Avoid creation of zombie processes when -p is used on
1522 Unix platforms. [Joe Orton]
1524 *) mod_authnz_fcgi: New module to enable FastCGI authorizer
1525 applications to authenticate and/or authorize clients.
1528 *) mod_proxy: Do not try to parse the regular expressions passed by
1529 ProxyPassMatch as URL as they do not follow their syntax.
1530 PR 56074. [Ruediger Pluem]
1532 *) mod_reqtimeout: Resolve unexpected timeouts on keepalive requests
1533 under the Event MPM. PR56216. [Frank Meier <frank meier ergon ch>]
1535 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Fix sending of response without some HTTP headers
1536 that might be set by filters. PR 55558. [Jim Riggs <jim riggs.me>]
1538 *) mod_proxy_html: Do not delete the wrong data from HTML code when a
1539 "http-equiv" meta tag specifies a Content-Type behind any other
1540 "http-equiv" meta tag. PR 56287 [Micha Lenk <micha lenk info>]
1542 *) mod_proxy: Don't reuse a SSL backend connection whose requested SNI
1543 differs. PR 55782. [Yann Ylavic]
1545 *) Add suspend_connection and resume_connection hooks to notify modules
1546 when the thread/connection relationship changes. (Should be implemented
1547 for any third-party async MPMs.) [Jeff Trawick]
1549 *) mod_proxy_wstunnel: Don't issue AH02447 and log a 500 on routine
1550 hangups from websockets origin servers. PR 56299
1551 [Yann Ylavic, Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail com>, Eric Covener]
1553 *) mod_proxy_wstunnel: Don't pool backend websockets connections,
1554 because we need to handshake every time. PR 55890.
1557 *) mod_lua: Redesign how request record table access behaves,
1558 in order to utilize the request record from within these tables.
1561 *) mod_lua: Add r:wspeek for peeking at WebSocket frames. [Daniel Gruno]
1563 *) mod_lua: Log an error when the initial parsing of a Lua file fails.
1564 [Daniel Gruno, Felipe Daragon <filipe syhunt com>]
1566 *) mod_lua: Reformat and escape script error output.
1567 [Daniel Gruno, Felipe Daragon <filipe syhunt com>]
1569 *) mod_lua: URL-escape cookie keys/values to prevent tainted cookie data
1570 from causing response splitting.
1571 [Daniel Gruno, Felipe Daragon <filipe syhunt com>]
1573 *) mod_lua: Disallow newlines in table values inside the request_rec,
1574 to prevent HTTP Response Splitting via tainted headers.
1575 [Daniel Gruno, Felipe Daragon <filipe syhunt com>]
1577 *) mod_lua: Remove the non-working early/late arguments for
1578 LuaHookCheckUserID. [Daniel Gruno]
1580 *) mod_lua: Change IVM storage to use shm [Daniel Gruno]
1582 *) mod_lua: More verbose error logging when a handler function cannot be
1583 found. [Daniel Gruno]
1585 Changes with Apache 2.4.9
1587 *) mod_ssl: Work around a bug in some older versions of OpenSSL that
1588 would cause a crash in SSL_get_certificate for servers where the
1589 certificate hadn't been sent. [Stephen Henson]
1591 *) mod_lua: Add a fixups hook that checks if the original request is intended
1592 for LuaMapHandler. This fixes a bug where FallbackResource invalidates the
1593 LuaMapHandler directive in certain cases by changing the URI before the map
1594 handler code executes [Daniel Gruno, Daniel Ferradal <dferradal gmail com>].
1596 Changes with Apache 2.4.8 (not released)
1598 *) SECURITY: CVE-2014-0098 (cve.mitre.org)
1599 Clean up cookie logging with fewer redundant string parsing passes.
1600 Log only cookies with a value assignment. Prevents segfaults when
1601 logging truncated cookies.
1602 [William Rowe, Ruediger Pluem, Jim Jagielski]
1604 *) SECURITY: CVE-2013-6438 (cve.mitre.org)
1605 mod_dav: Keep track of length of cdata properly when removing
1606 leading spaces. Eliminates a potential denial of service from
1607 specifically crafted DAV WRITE requests
1608 [Amin Tora <Amin.Tora neustar.biz>]
1610 *) core: Support named groups and backreferences within the LocationMatch,
1611 DirectoryMatch, FilesMatch and ProxyMatch directives. (Requires
1612 non-ancient PCRE library) [Graham Leggett]
1614 *) core: draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-23 corrections regarding
1615 TE/CL conflicts. [Yann Ylavic, Jim Jagielski]
1617 *) core: Detect incomplete request and response bodies, log an error and
1618 forward it to the underlying filters. PR 55475 [Yann Ylavic]
1620 *) mod_dir: Add DirectoryCheckHandler to allow a 2.2-like behavior, skipping
1621 execution when a handler is already set. PR53929. [Eric Covener]
1623 *) mod_ssl: Do not perform SNI / Host header comparison in case of a
1624 forward proxy request. [Ruediger Pluem]
1626 *) mod_ssl: Remove the hardcoded algorithm-type dependency for the
1627 SSLCertificateFile and SSLCertificateKeyFile directives, to enable
1628 future algorithm agility, and deprecate the SSLCertificateChainFile
1629 directive (obsoleted by SSLCertificateFile). [Kaspar Brand]
1631 *) mod_rewrite: Add RewriteOptions InheritDown, InheritDownBefore,
1632 and IgnoreInherit to allow RewriteRules to be pushed from parent scopes
1633 to child scopes without explicitly configuring each child scope.
1634 PR56153. [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail com>]
1636 *) prefork: Fix long delays when doing a graceful restart.
1637 PR 54852 [Jim Jagielski, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm maven pl>]
1639 *) FreeBSD: Disable IPv4-mapped listening sockets by default for versions
1640 5+ instead of just for FreeBSD 5. PR 53824. [Jeff Trawick]
1642 *) mod_proxy_wstunnel: Avoid busy loop on client errors, drop message
1643 IDs 02445, 02446, and 02448 to TRACE1 from DEBUG. PR 56145.
1644 [Joffroy Christen <joffroy.christen solvaxis com>, Eric Covener]
1646 *) mod_remoteip: Correct the trusted proxy match test. PR 54651.
1647 [Yoshinori Ehara <yoshinori ehara gmail com>, Eugene L <eugenel amazon com>]
1649 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Fix error message when an unexpected protocol version
1650 number is received from the application. PR 56110. [Jeff Trawick]
1652 *) mod_remoteip: Use the correct IP addresses to populate the proxy_ips field.
1653 PR 55972. [Mike Rumph]
1655 *) mod_lua: Update r:setcookie() to accept a table of options and add domain,
1656 path and httponly to the list of options available to set.
1657 PR 56128 [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail com>, Daniel Gruno]
1659 *) mod_lua: Fix r:setcookie() to add, rather than replace,
1660 the Set-Cookie header. PR56105
1661 [Kevin J Walters <kjw ms com>, Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail com>]
1663 *) mod_lua: Allow for database results to be returned as a hash with
1664 row-name/value pairs instead of just row-number/value. [Daniel Gruno]
1666 *) mod_rewrite: Add %{CONN_REMOTE_ADDR} as the non-useragent counterpart to
1667 %{REMOTE_ADDR}. PR 56094. [Edward Lu <Chaosed0 gmail com>]
1669 *) WinNT MPM: If ap_run_pre_connection() fails or sets c->aborted, don't
1670 save the socket for reuse by the next worker as if it were an
1671 APR_SO_DISCONNECTED socket. Restores 2.2 behavior. [Eric Covener]
1673 *) mod_dir: Don't search for a DirectoryIndex or DirectorySlash on a URL
1674 that was just rewritten by mod_rewrite. PR53929. [Eric Covener]
1676 *) mod_session: When we have a session we were unable to decode,
1677 behave as if there was no session at all. [Thomas Eckert
1678 <thomas.r.w.eckert gmail com>]
1680 *) mod_session: Fix problems interpreting the SessionInclude and
1681 SessionExclude configuration. PR 56038. [Erik Pearson
1682 <erik adaptations.com>]
1684 *) mod_authn_core: Allow <AuthnProviderAlias>'es to be seen from auth
1685 stanzas under virtual hosts. PR 55622. [Eric Covener]
1687 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Use apr_socket_timeout_get instead of hard-coded
1688 30 seconds timeout. [Jan Kaluza]
1690 *) build: only search for modules (config*.m4) in known subdirectories, see
1691 build/config-stubs. [Stefan Fritsch]
1693 *) mod_cache_disk: Fix potential hangs on Windows when using mod_cache_disk.
1694 PR 55833. [Eric Covener]
1696 *) mod_ssl: Add support for OpenSSL configuration commands by introducing
1697 the SSLOpenSSLConfCmd directive. [Stephen Henson, Kaspar Brand]
1699 *) mod_proxy: Remove (never documented) <Proxy ~ wildcard-url> syntax which
1700 is equivalent to <ProxyMatch wildcard-url>. [Christophe Jaillet]
1702 *) mod_authz_user, mod_authz_host, mod_authz_groupfile, mod_authz_dbm,
1703 mod_authz_dbd, mod_authnz_ldap: Support the expression parser within the
1704 require directives. [Graham Leggett]
1706 *) mod_proxy_http: Core dumped under high load. PR 50335.
1707 [Jan Kaluza <jkaluza redhat.com>]
1709 *) mod_socache_shmcb.c: Remove arbitrary restriction on shared memory size
1710 previously limited to 64MB. [Jens Låås <jelaas gmail.com>]
1712 *) mod_lua: Use binary copy when dealing with uploads through r:parsebody()
1713 to prevent truncating files. [Daniel Gruno]
1715 Changes with Apache 2.4.7
1717 *) SECURITY: CVE-2013-4352 (cve.mitre.org)
1718 mod_cache: Fix a NULL pointer deference which allowed untrusted
1719 origin servers to crash mod_cache in a forward proxy
1720 configuration. [Graham Leggett]
1722 *) APR 1.5.0 or later is now required for the event MPM.
1724 *) slotmem_shm: Error detection. [Jim Jagielski]
1726 *) event: Use skiplist data structure. [Jim Jagielski]
1728 *) event: Fail at startup with message AP02405 if the APR atomic
1729 implementation is not compatible with the MPM. [Jim Jagielski]
1731 *) mpm_unix: Add ap_mpm_podx_* implementation to avoid code duplication
1732 and align w/ trunk. [Jim Jagielski]
1734 *) Fix potential rejection of valid MaxMemFree and ThreadStackSize
1735 directives. [Mike Rumph <mike.rumph oracle.com>]
1737 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Remove 64K limit on encoded length of all envvars.
1738 An individual envvar with an encoded length of more than 16K will be
1739 omitted. [Jeff Trawick]
1741 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Handle reading protocol data that is split between
1742 packets. [Jeff Trawick]
1744 *) mod_ssl: Improve handling of ephemeral DH and ECDH keys by
1745 allowing custom parameters to be configured via SSLCertificateFile,
1746 and by adding standardized DH parameters for 1024/2048/3072/4096 bits.
1747 Unless custom parameters are configured, the standardized parameters
1748 are applied based on the certificate's RSA/DSA key size. [Kaspar Brand]
1750 *) mod_ssl, configure: Require OpenSSL 0.9.8a or later. [Kaspar Brand]
1752 *) mod_ssl: drop support for export-grade ciphers with ephemeral RSA
1753 keys, and unconditionally disable aNULL, eNULL and EXP ciphers
1754 (not overridable via SSLCipherSuite). [Kaspar Brand]
1756 *) mod_proxy: Added support for unix domain sockets as the
1757 backend server endpoint. This also introduces an unintended
1758 incompatibility for third party modules using the mod_proxy
1759 proxy_worker_shared structure, especially for balancer lbmethod
1760 modules. [Jim Jagielski, Blaise Tarr <blaise tarr gmail com>]
1762 *) Add experimental cmake-based build system for Windows. [Jeff Trawick,
1765 *) event MPM: Fix possible crashes (third party modules accessing c->sbh)
1766 or occasional missed mod_status updates for some keepalive requests
1767 under load. [Eric Covener]
1769 *) mod_authn_socache: Support optional initialization arguments for
1770 socache providers. [Chris Darroch]
1772 *) mod_session: Reset the max-age on session save. PR 47476. [Alexey
1773 Varlamov <alexey.v.varlamov gmail com>]
1775 *) mod_session: After parsing the value of the header specified by the
1776 SessionHeader directive, remove the value from the response. PR 55279.
1779 *) mod_headers: Allow for format specifiers in the substitution string
1780 when using Header edit. [Daniel Ruggeri]
1782 *) mod_dav: dav_resource->uri is treated as unencoded. This was an
1783 unnecessary ABI changed introduced in 2.4.6. PR 55397.
1785 *) mod_dav: Don't require lock tokens for COPY source. PR 55306.
1787 *) core: Don't truncate output when sending is interrupted by a signal,
1788 such as from an exiting CGI process. PR 55643. [Jeff Trawick]
1790 *) WinNT MPM: Exit the child if the parent process crashes or is terminated.
1791 [Oracle Corporation]
1793 *) Windows: Correct failure to discard stderr in some error log
1794 configurations. (Error message AH00093) [Jeff Trawick]
1796 *) mod_session_crypto: Allow using exec: calls to obtain session
1797 encryption key. [Daniel Ruggeri]
1799 *) core: Add missing Reason-Phrase in HTTP response headers.
1800 PR 54946. [Rainer Jung]
1802 *) mod_rewrite: Make rewrite websocket-aware to allow proxying.
1803 PR 55598. [Chris Harris <chris.harris kitware com>]
1805 *) mod_ldap: When looking up sub-groups, use an implicit objectClass=*
1806 instead of an explicit cn=* filter. [David Hawes <dhawes vt.edu>]
1808 *) ab: Add wait time, fix processing time, and output write errors only if
1809 they occurred. [Christophe Jaillet]
1811 *) worker MPM: Don't forcibly kill worker threads if the child process is
1812 exiting gracefully. [Oracle Corporation]
1814 *) core: apachectl -S prints wildcard name-based virtual hosts twice.
1815 PR54948 [Eric Covener]
1817 *) mod_auth_basic: Add AuthBasicUseDigestAlgorithm directive to
1818 allow migration of passwords from digest to basic authentication.
1821 *) ab: Add a new -l parameter in order not to check the length of the responses.
1822 This can be useful with dynamic pages.
1823 PR9945, PR27888, PR42040 [<ccikrs1 cranbrook edu>]
1825 *) Suppress formatting of startup messages written to the console when
1826 ErrorLogFormat is used. [Jeff Trawick]
1828 *) mod_auth_digest: Be more specific when the realm mismatches because the
1829 realm has not been specified. [Graham Leggett]
1831 *) mod_proxy: Add a note in the balancer manager stating whether changes
1832 will or will not be persisted and whether settings are inherited.
1833 [Daniel Ruggeri, Jim Jagielski]
1835 *) core: Add util_fcgi.h and associated definitions and support
1836 routines for FastCGI, based largely on mod_proxy_fcgi.
1839 *) mod_headers: Add 'Header note header-name note-name' for copying a response
1840 headers value into a note. [Eric Covener]
1842 *) mod_headers: Add 'setifempty' command to Header and RequestHeader.
1845 *) mod_logio: new format-specifier %S (sum) which is the sum of received
1846 and sent byte counts.
1847 PR54015 [Christophe Jaillet]
1849 *) mod_deflate: Improve error detection when decompressing request bodies
1850 with trailing garbage: handle case where trailing bytes are in
1851 the same bucket. [Rainer Jung]
1853 *) mod_authz_groupfile, mod_authz_user: Reduce severity of AH01671 and AH01663
1854 from ERROR to DEBUG, since these modules do not know what mod_authz_core
1855 is doing with their AUTHZ_DENIED return value. [Eric Covener]
1857 *) mod_ldap: add TRACE5 for LDAP retries. [Eric Covener]
1859 *) mod_ldap: retry on an LDAP timeout during authn. [Eric Covener]
1861 *) mod_ldap: Change "LDAPReferrals off" to actually set the underlying LDAP
1862 SDK option to OFF, and introduce "LDAPReferrals default" to take the SDK
1863 default, sans rebind authentication callback.
1864 [Jan Kaluza <kaluze AT redhat.com>]
1866 *) core: Log a message at TRACE1 when the client aborts a connection.
1869 *) WinNT MPM: Don't crash during child process initialization if the
1870 Listen protocol is unrecognized. [Jeff Trawick]
1872 *) modules: Fix some compiler warnings. [Guenter Knauf]
1874 *) Sync 2.4 and trunk
1875 - Avoid some memory allocation and work when TRACE1 is not activated
1876 - fix typo in include guard
1878 - No need to lower the string before removing the path, it is just
1881 [Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet wanadoo.fr>]
1883 *) mod_filter: Add "change=no" as a proto-flag to FilterProtocol
1884 to remove a providers initial flags set at registration time.
1887 *) core, mod_ssl: Enable the ability for a module to reverse the sense of
1888 a poll event from a read to a write or vice versa. This is a step on
1889 the way to allow mod_ssl taking full advantage of the event MPM.
1892 *) Makefile.win: Install proper pcre DLL file during debug build install.
1893 PR 55235. [Ben Reser <ben reser org>]
1895 *) mod_ldap: Fix a potential memory leak or corruption. PR 54936.
1896 [Zhenbo Xu <zhenbo1987 gmail com>]
1898 *) ab: Fix potential buffer overflows when processing the T and X
1899 command-line options. PR 55360.
1900 [Mike Rumph <mike.rumph oracle.com>]
1902 *) fcgistarter: Specify SO_REUSEADDR to allow starting a server
1903 with old connections in TIME_WAIT. [Jeff Trawick]
1905 *) core: Add open_htaccess hook which, in conjunction with dirwalk_stat
1906 and post_perdir_config (introduced in 2.4.5), allows mpm-itk to be
1907 used without patches to httpd core. [Stefan Fritsch]
1909 *) support/htdbm: fix processing of -t command line switch. Regression
1911 PR 55264 [Jo Rhett <jrhett netconsonance com>]
1913 *) mod_lua: add websocket support via r:wsupgrade, r:wswrite, r:wsread
1914 and r:wsping. [Daniel Gruno]
1916 *) mod_lua: add support for writing/reading cookies via r:getcookie and
1917 r:setcookie. [Daniel Gruno]
1919 *) mod_lua: If the first yield() of a LuaOutputFilter returns a string, it should
1920 be prefixed to the response as documented. [Eric Covener]
1921 Note: Not present in 2.4.7 CHANGES
1923 *) mod_lua: Remove ETAG, Content-Length, and Content-MD5 when a LuaOutputFilter
1924 is configured without mod_filter. [Eric Covener]
1925 Note: Not present in 2.4.7 CHANGES
1927 *) mod_lua: Register LuaOutputFilter scripts as changing the content and
1928 content-length by default, when run my mod_filter. Previously,
1929 growing or shrinking a response that started with Content-Length set
1930 would require mod_filter and FilterProtocol change=yes. [Eric Covener]
1931 Note: Not present in 2.4.7 CHANGES
1933 *) mod_lua: Return a 500 error if a LuaHook* script doesn't return a
1934 numeric return code. [Eric Covener]
1935 Note: Not present in 2.4.7 CHANGES
1937 Changes with Apache 2.4.6
1939 *) Revert a broken fix for PR54948 that was applied to 2.4.5 (which was
1940 not released) and found post-2.4.5 tagging.
1942 Changes with Apache 2.4.5
1944 *) SECURITY: CVE-2013-1896 (cve.mitre.org)
1945 mod_dav: Sending a MERGE request against a URI handled by mod_dav_svn with
1946 the source href (sent as part of the request body as XML) pointing to a
1947 URI that is not configured for DAV will trigger a segfault. [Ben Reser
1950 *) SECURITY: CVE-2013-2249 (cve.mitre.org)
1951 mod_session_dbd: Make sure that dirty flag is respected when saving
1952 sessions, and ensure the session ID is changed each time the session
1953 changes. This changes the format of the updatesession SQL statement.
1954 Existing configurations must be changed.
1955 [Takashi Sato, Graham Leggett]
1957 *) mod_auth_basic: Add a generic mechanism to fake basic authentication
1958 using the ap_expr parser. AuthBasicFake allows the administrator to
1959 construct their own username and password for basic authentication based
1960 on their needs. [Graham Leggett]
1962 *) mpm_event: Check that AsyncRequestWorkerFactor is not negative. PR 54254.
1963 [Jackie Zhang <jackie qq zhang gmail com>]
1965 *) mod_proxy: Ensure we don't attempt to amend a table we are iterating
1966 through, ensuring that all headers listed by Connection are removed.
1967 [Graham Leggett, Co-Advisor <coad measurement-factory.com>]
1969 *) mod_proxy_http: Make the proxy-interim-response environment variable
1970 effective by formally overriding origin server behaviour. [Graham
1971 Leggett, Co-Advisor <coad measurement-factory.com>]
1973 *) mod_proxy: Fix seg-faults when using the global pool on threaded
1974 MPMs [Thomas Eckert <thomas.r.w.eckert gmail.com>, Graham Leggett,
1977 *) mod_deflate: Remove assumptions as to when an EOS bucket might arrive.
1978 Gracefully step aside if the body size is zero. [Graham Leggett]
1980 *) mod_ssl: Fix possible truncation of OCSP responses when reading from the
1983 *) core: Support the SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT optimization
1984 on Linux kernel versions 3.x and above. PR 55121. [Bradley Heilbrun
1985 <apache heilbrun.org>]
1987 *) mod_cache_socache: Make sure the CacheSocacheMaxSize directive is merged
1988 correctly. [Jens Låås <jelaas gmail.com>]
1990 *) rotatelogs: add -n number-of-files option to rotate through a number
1991 of fixed-name logfiles. [Eric Covener]
1993 *) mod_proxy: Support web-socket tunnels via mod_proxy_wstunnel.
1996 *) mod_cache_socache: Use the name of the socache implementation when performing
1997 a lookup rather than using the raw arguments. [Martin Ksellmann
1998 <martin@ksellmann.de>]
2000 *) core: Add dirwalk_stat hook. [Jeff Trawick]
2002 *) core: Add post_perdir_config hook.
2003 [Steinar Gunderson <sgunderson bigfoot.com>]
2005 *) proxy_util: NULL terminate the right buffer in 'send_http_connect'.
2006 [Christophe Jaillet]
2008 *) mod_remoteip: close file in error path. [Christophe Jaillet]
2010 *) core: make the "default" parameter of the "ErrorDocument" option case
2011 insensitive. PR 54419 [Tianyin Xu <tixu cs ucsd edu>]
2013 *) mod_proxy_html: make the "ProxyHTMLFixups" options case insensitive.
2014 PR 54420 [Tianyin Xu <tixu cs ucsd edu>]
2016 *) mod_cache: Make option "CacheDisable" in mod_cache case insensitive.
2017 PR 54462 [Tianyin Xu <tixu cs ucsd edu>]
2019 *) mod_cache: If a 304 response indicates an entity not currently cached, then
2020 the cache MUST disregard the response and repeat the request without the
2021 conditional. [Graham Leggett, Co-Advisor <coad measurement-factory.com>]
2023 *) mod_cache: Ensure that we don't attempt to replace a cached response
2024 with an older response as per RFC2616 13.12. [Graham Leggett, Co-Advisor
2025 <coad measurement-factory.com>]
2027 *) core, mod_cache: Ensure RFC2616 compliance in ap_meets_conditions()
2028 with weak validation combined with If-Range and Range headers. Break
2029 out explicit conditional header checks to be useable elsewhere in the
2030 server. Ensure weak validation RFC compliance in the byteranges filter.
2031 Ensure RFC validation compliance when serving cached entities. PR 16142
2032 [Graham Leggett, Co-Advisor <coad measurement-factory.com>]
2034 *) core: Add the ability to do explicit matching on weak and strong ETags
2035 as per RFC2616 Section 13.3.3. [Graham Leggett, Co-Advisor
2036 <coad measurement-factory.com>]
2038 *) mod_cache: Ensure that updated responses to HEAD requests don't get
2039 mistakenly paired with a previously cached body. Ensure that any existing
2040 body is removed when a HEAD request is cached. [Graham Leggett,
2041 Co-Advisor <coad measurement-factory.com>]
2043 *) mod_cache: Honour Cache-Control: no-store in a request. [Graham Leggett]
2045 *) mod_cache: Make sure that contradictory entity headers present in a 304
2046 Not Modified response are caught and cause the entity to be removed.
2049 *) mod_cache: Make sure Vary processing handles multivalued Vary headers and
2050 multivalued headers referred to via Vary. [Graham Leggett]
2052 *) mod_cache: When serving from cache, only the last header of a multivalued
2053 header was taken into account. Fixed. Ensure that Warning headers are
2054 correctly handled as per RFC2616. [Graham Leggett]
2056 *) mod_cache: Ignore response headers specified by no-cache=header and
2057 private=header as specified by RFC2616 14.9.1 What is Cacheable. Ensure
2058 that these headers are still processed when multiple Cache-Control
2059 headers are present in the response. PR 54706 [Graham Leggett,
2060 Yann Ylavic <ylavic.dev gmail.com>]
2062 *) mod_cache: Invalidate cached entities in response to RFC2616 Section
2063 13.10 Invalidation After Updates or Deletions. PR 15868 [Graham
2066 *) mod_dav: Improve error handling in dav_method_put(), add new
2067 dav_join_error() function. PR 54145. [Ben Reser <ben reser.org>]
2069 *) mod_dav: Do not fail PROPPATCH when prop namespace is not known.
2070 PR 52559 [Diego Santa Cruz <diego.santaCruz spinetix.com>]
2072 *) mod_dav: When a PROPPATCH attempts to remove a non-existent dead
2073 property on a resource for which there is no dead property in the same
2074 namespace httpd segfaults. PR 52559 [Diego Santa Cruz
2075 <diego.santaCruz spinetix.com>]
2077 *) mod_dav: Sending an If or If-Match header with an invalid ETag doesn't
2078 result in a 412 Precondition Failed for a COPY operation. PR54610
2079 [Timothy Wood <tjw omnigroup.com>]
2081 *) mod_dav: Make sure that when we prepare an If URL for Etag comparison,
2082 we compare unencoded paths. PR 53910 [Timothy Wood <tjw omnigroup.com>]
2084 *) mod_deflate: Remove assumptions as to when an EOS bucket might arrive.
2085 Gracefully step aside if the body size is zero. [Graham Leggett]
2087 *) 'AuthGroupFile' and 'AuthUserFile' do not accept anymore the optional
2088 'standard' keyword . It was unused and not documented.
2089 PR54463 [Tianyin Xu <tixu cs.ucsd.edu> and Christophe Jaillet]
2091 *) core: Do not over allocate memory within 'ap_rgetline_core' for
2092 the common case. [Christophe Jaillet]
2094 *) core: speed up (for common cases) and reduce memory usage of
2095 ap_escape_logitem(). This should save 70-100 bytes in the request
2096 pool for a default config. [Christophe Jaillet]
2098 *) mod_dav: Ensure URI is correctly uriencoded on return. PR 54611
2099 [Timothy Wood <tjw omnigroup.com>]
2101 *) mod_proxy: Reject invalid values for Max-Forwards. [Graham Leggett,
2102 Co-Advisor <coad measurement-factory.com>]
2104 *) mod_cache: RFC2616 14.9.3 The s-maxage directive also implies the
2105 semantics of the proxy-revalidate directive. [Graham Leggett]
2107 *) mod_ssl: add support for subjectAltName-based host name checking
2108 in proxy mode (SSLProxyCheckPeerName). PR 54030. [Kaspar Brand]
2110 *) core: Use the proper macro for HTTP/1.1. [Graham Leggett]
2112 *) event MPM: Provide error handling for ThreadStackSize. PR 54311
2113 [Tianyin Xu <tixu cs.ucsd.edu>, Christophe Jaillet]
2115 *) mod_dav: Do not segfault on PROPFIND with a zero length DBM.
2116 PR 52559 [Diego Santa Cruz <diego.santaCruz spinetix.com>]
2118 *) core: Improve error message where client's request-line exceeds
2119 LimitRequestLine. PR 54384 [Christophe Jaillet]
2121 *) mod_macro: New module that provides macros within configuration files.
2124 *) mod_cache_socache: New cache implementation backed by mod_socache
2125 that replaces mod_mem_cache known from httpd 2.2. [Graham
2128 *) htpasswd: Add -v option to verify a password. [Stefan Fritsch]
2130 *) mod_proxy: Add BalancerInherit and ProxyPassInherit to control
2131 whether Proxy Balancers and Workers are inherited by vhosts
2132 (default is On). [Jim Jagielski]
2134 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Allow using exec: calls to obtain LDAP bind
2135 password. [Daniel Ruggeri]
2137 *) Added balancer parameter failontimeout to allow server admin
2138 to configure an IO timeout as an error in the balancer.
2141 *) mod_auth_digest: Fix crashes if shm initialization failed. [Stefan
2144 *) htpasswd, htdbm: Fix password generation. PR 54735. [Stefan Fritsch]
2146 *) core: Add workaround for gcc bug on sparc/64bit. PR 52900.
2149 *) mod_setenvif: Fix crash in case SetEnvif and SetEnvIfExpr are used
2150 together. PR 54881. [Ruediger Pluem]
2152 *) htdigest: Fix buffer overflow when reading digest password file
2153 with very long lines. PR 54893. [Rainer Jung]
2155 *) ap_expr: Add the ability to base64 encode and base64 decode
2156 strings and to generate their SHA1 and MD5 hash.
2157 [Graham Leggett, Stefan Fritsch]
2159 *) mod_log_config: Fix crash when logging request end time for a failed
2160 request. PR 54828 [Rainer Jung]
2162 *) mod_ssl: Catch missing, mismatched or encrypted client cert/key pairs
2163 with SSLProxyMachineCertificateFile/Path directives. PR 52212, PR 54698.
2164 [Keith Burdis <keith burdis.org>, Joe Orton, Kaspar Brand]
2166 *) mod_ssl: Quiet FIPS mode weak keys disabled and FIPS not selected emits
2167 in the error log to debug level. [William Rowe]
2169 *) mod_cache_disk: CacheMinFileSize and CacheMaxFileSize were always
2170 using compiled in defaults of 1000000/1 respectively. [Eric Covener]
2172 *) mod_lbmethod_heartbeat, mod_heartmonitor: Respect DefaultRuntimeDir/
2173 DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR for the heartbeat storage file. [Jeff Trawick]
2175 *) mod_include: Use new ap_expr for 'elif', like 'if',
2176 if legacy parser is not specified. PR 54548 [Tom Donovan]
2178 *) mod_lua: Add some new functions: r:htpassword(), r:mkdir(), r:mkrdir(),
2179 r:rmdir(), r:touch(), r:get_direntries(), r.date_parse_rfc().
2182 *) mod_lua: Add multipart form data handling. [Daniel Gruno]
2184 *) mod_lua: If a LuaMapHandler doesn't return any value, log a warning
2185 and treat it as apache2.OK. [Eric Covener]
2187 *) mod_lua: Add bindings for apr_dbd/mod_dbd database access
2190 *) mod_lua: Add LuaInputFilter/LuaOutputFilter for creating content
2191 filters in Lua [Daniel Gruno]
2193 *) mod_lua: Allow scripts handled by the lua-script handler to return
2194 a status code to the client (such as a 302 or a 500) [Daniel Gruno]
2196 *) mod_lua: Decline handling 'lua-script' if the file doesn't exist,
2197 rather than throwing an internal server error. [Daniel Gruno]
2199 *) mod_lua: Add functions r:flush and r:sendfile as well as additional
2200 request information to the request_rec structure. [Daniel Gruno]
2202 *) mod_lua: Add a server scope for Lua states, which creates a pool of
2203 states with manageable minimum and maximum size. [Daniel Gruno]
2205 *) mod_lua: Add new directive, LuaMapHandler, for dynamically mapping
2206 URIs to Lua scripts and functions using regular expressions.
2209 *) mod_lua: Add new directive LuaCodeCache for controlling in-memory
2210 caching of lua scripts. [Daniel Gruno]
2212 Changes with Apache 2.4.4
2214 *) SECURITY: CVE-2012-3499 (cve.mitre.org)
2215 Various XSS flaws due to unescaped hostnames and URIs HTML output in
2216 mod_info, mod_status, mod_imagemap, mod_ldap, and mod_proxy_ftp.
2217 [Jim Jagielski, Stefan Fritsch, Niels Heinen <heinenn google com>]
2219 *) SECURITY: CVE-2012-4558 (cve.mitre.org)
2220 XSS in mod_proxy_balancer manager interface. [Jim Jagielski,
2221 Niels Heinen <heinenn google com>]
2223 *) mod_dir: Add support for the value 'disabled' in FallbackResource.
2224 [Vincent Deffontaines]
2226 *) mod_proxy_connect: Don't keepalive the connection to the client if the
2227 backend closes the connection. PR 54474. [Pavel Mateja <pavel netsafe cz>]
2229 *) mod_lua: Add bindings for mod_dbd/apr_dbd database access.
2232 *) mod_proxy: Allow for persistence of local changes made via the
2233 balancer-manager between graceful/normal restarts and power
2234 cycles. [Jim Jagielski]
2236 *) mod_proxy: Fix startup crash with mis-defined balancers.
2237 PR 52402. [Jim Jagielski]
2239 *) --with-module: Fix failure to integrate them into some existing
2240 module directories. PR 40097. [Jeff Trawick]
2242 *) htcacheclean: Fix potential segfault if "-p" is omitted. [Joe Orton]
2244 *) mod_proxy_http: Honour special value 0 (unlimited) of LimitRequestBody
2245 PR 54435. [Pavel Mateja <pavel netsafe.cz>]
2247 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Support unknown HTTP methods. PR 54416.
2250 *) htcacheclean: Fix list options "-a" and "-A".
2253 *) mod_slotmem_shm: Fix mistaken reset of num_free for restored shm.
2256 *) mod_proxy: non-existence of byrequests is not an immediate error.
2259 *) mod_proxy_balancer: Improve output of balancer-manager (re: Drn,
2260 Dis, Ign, Stby). PR 52478 [Danijel <dt-ng rbfh de>]
2262 *) configure: Fix processing of --disable-FEATURE for various features.
2265 *) mod_dialup/mod_http: Prevent a crash in mod_dialup in case of internal
2268 *) various modules, rotatelogs: Replace use of apr_file_write() with
2269 apr_file_write_full() to prevent incomplete writes. PR 53131.
2270 [Nicolas Viennot <apache viennot biz>, Stefan Fritsch]
2272 *) ab: Support socket timeout (-s timeout).
2273 [Guido Serra <zeph fsfe org>]
2275 *) httxt2dbm: Correct length computation for the 'value' stored in the
2276 DBM file. PR 47650 [jon buckybox com]
2278 *) core: Be more correct about rejecting directives that cannot work in <If>
2279 sections. [Stefan Fritsch]
2281 *) core: Fix directives like LogLevel that need to know if they are invoked
2282 at virtual host context or in Directory/Files/Location/If sections to
2283 work properly in If sections that are not in a Directory/Files/Location.
2286 *) mod_xml2enc: Fix problems with charset conversion altering the
2287 Content-Length. [Micha Lenk <micha lenk info>]
2289 *) ap_expr: Add req_novary function that allows HTTP header lookups
2290 without adding the name to the Vary header. [Stefan Fritsch]
2292 *) mod_slotmem_*: Add in new fgrab() function which forces a grab and
2293 slot allocation on a specified slot. Allow for clearing of inuse
2294 array. [Jim Jagielski]
2296 *) mod_proxy_ftp: Fix segfaults on IPv4 requests to hosts with DNS
2297 AAAA records. PR 40841. [Andrew Rucker Jones <arjones simultan
2298 dyndns org>, <ast domdv de>, Jim Jagielski]
2300 *) mod_auth_form: Make sure that get_notes_auth() sets the user as does
2301 get_form_auth() and get_session_auth(). Makes sure that REMOTE_USER
2302 does not vanish during mod_include driven subrequests. [Graham
2305 *) mod_cache_disk: Resolve errors while revalidating disk-cached files on
2306 Windows ("...rename tempfile to datafile failed..."). PR 38827
2309 *) mod_proxy_balancer: Bring XML output up to date. [Jim Jagielski]
2311 *) htpasswd, htdbm: Optionally read passwords from stdin, as more
2312 secure alternative to -b. PR 40243. [Adomas Paltanavicius <adomas
2313 paltanavicius gmail com>, Stefan Fritsch]
2315 *) htpasswd, htdbm: Add support for bcrypt algorithm (requires
2316 apr-util 1.5 or higher). PR 49288. [Stefan Fritsch]
2318 *) htpasswd, htdbm: Put full 48bit of entropy into salt, improve
2319 error handling. Add some of htpasswd's improvements to htdbm,
2320 e.g. warn if password is truncated by crypt(). [Stefan Fritsch]
2322 *) mod_auth_form: Support the expr parser in the
2323 AuthFormLoginRequiredLocation, AuthFormLoginSuccessLocation and
2324 AuthFormLogoutLocation directives. [Graham Leggett]
2326 *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS-SRP (Secure Remote Password key exchange
2327 for TLS, RFC 5054). PR 51075. [Quinn Slack <sqs cs stanford edu>,
2328 Christophe Renou, Peter Sylvester]
2330 *) mod_rewrite: Stop mergeing RewriteBase down to subdirectories
2331 unless new option 'RewriteOptions MergeBase' is configured.
2332 PR 53963. [Eric Covener]
2334 *) mod_header: Allow for exposure of loadavg and server load using new
2335 format specifiers %l, %i, %b [Jim Jagielski]
2337 *) core: Make ap_regcomp() return AP_REG_ESPACE if out of memory. Make
2338 ap_pregcomp() abort if out of memory. This raises the minimum PCRE
2339 requirement to version 6.0. [Stefan Fritsch]
2341 *) mod_proxy: Add ability to configure the sticky session separator.
2342 PR 53893. [<inu inusasha de>, Jim Jagielski]
2344 *) mod_dumpio: Correctly log large messages
2345 PR 54179 [Marek Wianecki <mieszek2 interia pl>]
2347 *) core: Don't fail at startup with AH00554 when Include points to
2348 a directory without any wildcard character. [Eric Covener]
2350 *) core: Fail startup if the argument to ServerTokens is unrecognized.
2351 [Jackie Zhang <jackie.qq.zhang gmail.com>]
2353 *) mod_log_forensic: Don't log a spurious "-" if a request has been rejected
2354 before mod_log_forensic could attach its id to it. [Stefan Fritsch]
2356 *) rotatelogs: Omit the second argument for the first invocation of
2357 a post-rotate program when -p is used, per the documentation.
2360 *) mod_session_dbd: fix a segmentation fault in the function dbd_remove.
2361 PR 53452. [<rebanerebane gmail com>, Reimo Rebane]
2363 *) core: Functions to provide server load values: ap_get_sload() and
2364 ap_get_loadavg(). [Jim Jagielski, Jan Kaluza <jkaluza redhat.com>,
2367 *) mod_ldap: Fix regression in handling "server unavailable" errors on
2368 Windows. PR 54140. [Eric Covener]
2370 *) syslog logging: Remove stray ", referer" at the end of some messages.
2373 *) "Iterate" directives: Report an error if no arguments are provided.
2376 *) mod_ssl: Change default for SSLCompression to off, as compression
2377 causes security issues in most setups. (The so called "CRIME" attack).
2380 *) ab: add TLS1.1/TLS1.2 options to -f switch, and adapt output
2381 to more accurately report the negotiated protocol. PR 53916.
2382 [Nicolás Pernas Maradei <nico emutex com>, Kaspar Brand]
2384 *) core: ErrorDocument now works for requests without a Host header.
2385 PR 48357. [Jeff Trawick]
2387 *) prefork: Avoid logging harmless errors during graceful stop.
2388 [Joe Orton, Jeff Trawick]
2390 *) mod_proxy: When concatting for PPR, avoid cases where we
2391 concat ".../" and "/..." to create "...//..." [Jim Jagielski]
2393 *) mod_cache: Wrong content type and character set when
2394 mod_cache serves stale content because of a proxy error.
2395 PR 53539. [Rainer Jung, Ruediger Pluem]
2397 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Fix crash in packet dump code when logging
2398 with LogLevel trace7 or trace8. PR 53730. [Rainer Jung]
2400 *) httpd.conf: Removed the configuration directives setting a bad_DNT
2401 environment introduced in 2.4.3. The actual directives are commented
2402 out in the default conf file.
2404 *) core: Apply length limit when logging Status header values.
2405 [Jeff Trawick, Chris Darroch]
2407 *) mod_proxy_balancer: The nonce is only derived from the UUID iff
2408 not set via the 'nonce' balancer param. [Jim Jagielski]
2410 *) mod_ssl: Match wildcard SSL certificate names in proxy mode.
2411 PR 53006. [Joe Orton]
2413 *) Windows: Fix output of -M, -L, and similar command-line options
2414 which display information about the server configuration.
2417 Changes with Apache 2.4.3
2419 *) SECURITY: CVE-2012-3502 (cve.mitre.org)
2420 mod_proxy_ajp, mod_proxy_http: Fix an issue in back end
2421 connection closing which could lead to privacy issues due
2422 to a response mixup. PR 53727. [Rainer Jung]
2424 *) SECURITY: CVE-2012-2687 (cve.mitre.org)
2425 mod_negotiation: Escape filenames in variant list to prevent a
2426 possible XSS for a site where untrusted users can upload files to
2427 a location with MultiViews enabled. [Niels Heinen <heinenn google.com>]
2429 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Don't try a potentially expensive nested groups
2430 search before exhausting all AuthLDAPGroupAttribute checks on the
2431 current group. PR 52464 [Eric Covener]
2433 *) mod_lua: Add new directive LuaAuthzProvider to allow implementing an
2434 authorization provider in lua. [Stefan Fritsch]
2436 *) core: Be less strict when checking whether Content-Type is set to
2437 "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" when parsing POST data,
2438 or we risk losing data with an appended charset. PR 53698
2439 [Petter Berntsen <petterb gmail.com>]
2441 *) httpd.conf: Added configuration directives to set a bad_DNT environment
2442 variable based on User-Agent and to remove the DNT header field from
2443 incoming requests when a match occurs. This currently has the effect of
2444 removing DNT from requests by MSIE 10.0 because it deliberately violates
2445 the current specification of DNT semantics for HTTP. [Roy T. Fielding]
2447 *) mod_socache_shmcb: Fix bus error due to a misalignment
2448 in some 32 bit builds, especially on Solaris Sparc.
2449 PR 53040. [Rainer Jung]
2451 *) mod_cache: Set content type in case we return stale content.
2454 *) Windows: Fix SSL failures on windows with AcceptFilter https none.
2455 PR 52476. [Jeff Trawick]
2457 *) ab: Fix read failure when targeting SSL server. [Jeff Trawick]
2459 *) The following now respect DefaultRuntimeDir/DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR:
2460 - mod_auth_digest: shared memory file
2463 *) htpasswd: Use correct file mode for checking if file is writable.
2464 PR 45923. [Stefan Fritsch]
2466 *) mod_rewrite: Fix crash with dbd RewriteMaps. PR 53663. [Mikhail T.
2467 <mi apache aldan algebra com>]
2469 *) mod_ssl: Add new directive SSLCompression to disable TLS-level
2470 compression. PR 53219. [Björn Jacke <bjoern j3e de>, Stefan Fritsch]
2472 *) mod_lua: Add a few missing request_rec fields. Rename remote_ip to
2473 client_ip to match conn_rec. [Stefan Fritsch]
2475 *) mod_lua: Change prototype of vm_construct, to work around gcc bug which
2476 causes a segfault. PR 52779. [Dick Snippe <Dick Snippe tech omroep nl>]
2478 *) mpm_event: Don't count connections in lingering close state when
2479 calculating how many additional connections may be accepted.
2482 *) mod_ssl: If exiting during initialization because of a fatal error,
2483 log a message to the main error log pointing to the appropriate
2484 virtual host error log. [Stefan Fritsch]
2486 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Reduce memory usage in case of many keep-alive requests on
2487 one connection. PR 52275. [Naohiro Ooiwa <naohiro ooiwa miraclelinux com>]
2489 *) mod_proxy_balancer: Restore balancing after a failed worker has
2490 recovered when using lbmethod_bybusyness. PR 48735. [Jeff Trawick]
2492 *) mod_setenvif: Compile some global regex only once during startup.
2493 This should save some memory, especially with .htaccess.
2496 *) core: Add the port number to the vhost's name in the scoreboard.
2499 *) mod_proxy: Fix ProxyPassReverse for balancer configurations.
2500 PR 45434. [Joe Orton]
2502 *) mod_lua: Add the parsebody function for parsing POST data. PR 53064.
2505 *) apxs: Use LDFLAGS from config_vars.mk in addition to CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS.
2508 *) mod_proxy: Fix memory leak or possible corruption in ProxyBlock
2509 implementation. [Ruediger Pluem, Joe Orton]
2511 *) mod_proxy: Check hostname from request URI against ProxyBlock list,
2512 not forward proxy, if ProxyRemote* is configured. [Joe Orton]
2514 *) mod_proxy_connect: Avoid DNS lookup on hostname from request URI
2515 if ProxyRemote* is configured. PR 43697. [Joe Orton]
2517 *) mpm_event, mpm_worker: Remain active amidst prevalent child process
2518 resource shortages. [Jeff Trawick]
2520 *) Add "strict" and "warnings" pragmas to Perl scripts. [Rich Bowen]
2522 *) The following now respect DefaultRuntimeDir/DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR:
2523 - core: the scoreboard (ScoreBoardFile), pid file (PidFile), and
2527 *) ab: Fix bind() errors. [Joe Orton]
2529 *) mpm_event: Don't do a blocking write when starting a lingering close
2530 from the listener thread. PR 52229. [Stefan Fritsch]
2532 *) mod_so: If a filename without slashes is specified for LoadFile or
2533 LoadModule and the file cannot be found in the server root directory,
2534 try to use the standard dlopen() search path. [Stefan Fritsch]
2536 *) mpm_event, mpm_worker: Fix cases where the spawn rate wasn't reduced
2537 after child process resource shortages. [Jeff Trawick]
2539 *) mpm_prefork: Reduce spawn rate after a child process exits due to
2540 unexpected poll or accept failure. [Jeff Trawick]
2542 *) core: Log value of Status header line in script responses rather
2543 than the fixed header name. [Chris Darroch]
2545 *) mod_ssl: Fix handling of empty response from OCSP server.
2546 [Jim Meyering <meyering redhat.com>, Joe Orton]
2548 *) mpm_event: Fix handling of MaxConnectionsPerChild. [Stefan Fritsch]
2550 *) mod_authz_core: If an expression in "Require expr" returns denied and
2551 references %{REMOTE_USER}, trigger authentication and retry. PR 52892.
2554 *) core: Always log if LimitRequestFieldSize triggers. [Stefan Fritsch]
2556 *) mod_deflate: Skip compression if compression is enabled at SSL level.
2559 *) core: Add missing HTTP status codes registered with IANA.
2560 [Julian Reschke <julian.reschke gmx.de>, Rainer Jung]
2562 *) mod_ldap: Treat the "server unavailable" condition as a transient
2563 error with all LDAP SDKs. [Filip Valder <filip.valder vsb.cz>]
2565 *) core: Fix spurious "not allowed here" error returned when the Options
2566 directive is used in .htaccess and "AllowOverride Options" (with no
2567 specific options restricted) is configured. PR 53444. [Eric Covener]
2569 *) mod_authz_core: Fix parsing of Require arguments in <AuthzProviderAlias>.
2570 PR 53048. [Stefan Fritsch]
2572 *) mod_log_config: Fix %{abc}C truncating cookie values at first "=".
2573 PR 53104. [Greg Ames]
2575 *) mod_ext_filter: Fix error_log spam when input filters are configured.
2578 *) mod_rewrite: Add "AllowAnyURI" option. PR 52774. [Joe Orton]
2580 *) htdbm, htpasswd: Don't crash if crypt() fails (e.g. with FIPS enabled).
2581 [Paul Wouters <pwouters redhat.com>, Joe Orton]
2583 *) core: Use a TLS 1.0 close_notify alert for internal dummy connection if
2584 the chosen listener is configured for https. [Joe Orton]
2586 *) mod_proxy: Use the the same hostname for SNI as for the HTTP request when
2587 forwarding to SSL backends. PR 53134.
2588 [Michael Weiser <michael weiser.dinsnail.net>, Ruediger Pluem]
2590 *) mod_info: Display all registered providers. [Stefan Fritsch]
2592 *) mod_ssl: Send the error message for speaking http to an https port using
2593 HTTP/1.0 instead of HTTP/0.9, and omit the link that may be wrong when
2594 using SNI. PR 50823. [Stefan Fritsch]
2596 *) core: Fix segfault in logging if r->useragent_addr or c->client_addr is
2597 unset. PR 53265. [Stefan Fritsch]
2599 *) log_server_status: Bring Perl style forward to the present, use
2600 standard modules, update for new format of server-status output.
2601 PR 45424. [Richard Bowen, Dave Brondsema, and others]
2603 *) mod_sed, mod_log_debug, mod_rewrite: Symbol namespace cleanups.
2604 [Joe Orton, André Malo]
2606 *) core: Prevent "httpd -k restart" from killing server in presence of
2607 config error. [Joe Orton]
2609 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: If there is an error reading the headers from the
2610 backend, send an error to the client. PR 52879. [Stefan Fritsch]
2612 Changes with Apache 2.4.2
2614 *) SECURITY: CVE-2012-0883 (cve.mitre.org)
2615 envvars: Fix insecure handling of LD_LIBRARY_PATH that could lead to the
2616 current working directory to be searched for DSOs. [Stefan Fritsch]
2618 *) mod_slotmem_shm: Honor DefaultRuntimeDir [Jim Jagielski]
2620 *) mod_ssl: Fix crash with threaded MPMs due to race condition when
2621 initializing EC temporary keys. [Stefan Fritsch]
2623 *) mod_rewrite: Fix RewriteCond integer checks to be parsed correctly.
2624 PR 53023. [Axel Reinhold <apache freakout.de>, André Malo]
2626 *) mod_proxy: Add the forcerecovery balancer parameter that determines if
2627 recovery for balancer workers is enforced. [Ruediger Pluem]
2629 *) Fix MPM DSO load failure on AIX. [Jeff Trawick]
2631 *) mod_proxy: Correctly set up reverse proxy worker. PR 52935.
2632 [Petter Berntsen <petterb gmail.com>]
2634 *) mod_sed: Don't define PATH_MAX to a potentially undefined value, causing
2635 compile problems on GNU hurd. [Stefan Fritsch]
2637 *) core: Add ap_runtime_dir_relative() and DefaultRuntimeDir.
2640 *) core: Fix breakage of Listen directives with MPMs that use a
2641 per-directory config. PR 52904. [Stefan Fritsch]
2643 *) core: Disallow directives in AllowOverrideList which are only allowed
2644 in VirtualHost or server context. These are usually not prepared to be
2645 called in .htaccess files. [Stefan Fritsch]
2647 *) core: In AllowOverrideList, do not allow 'None' together with other
2648 directives. PR 52823. [Stefan Fritsch]
2650 *) mod_slotmem_shm: Support DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR for file-based shm.
2653 *) core: Fix merging of AllowOverrideList and ContentDigest.
2656 *) mod_request: Fix validation of the KeptBodySize argument so it
2657 doesn't always throw a configuration error. PR 52981 [Eric Covener]
2659 *) core: Add filesystem paths to access denied / access failed messages
2660 AH00035 and AH00036. [Eric Covener]
2662 *) mod_dumpio: Properly handle errors from subsequent input filters.
2663 PR 52914. [Stefan Fritsch]
2665 *) Unix MPMs: Fix small memory leak in parent process if connect()
2666 failed when waking up children. [Joe Orton]
2668 *) "DirectoryIndex disabled" now undoes DirectoryIndex settings in
2669 the current configuration section, not just previous config sections.
2670 PR 52845. [Eric Covener]
2672 *) mod_xml2enc: Fix broken handling of EOS buckets which could lead to
2673 response headers not being sent. PR 52766. [Stefan Fritsch]
2675 *) mod_ssl: Properly free the GENERAL_NAMEs. PR 32652. [Kaspar Brand]
2677 *) core: Check during config test that directories for the access
2678 logs actually exist. PR 29941. [Stefan Fritsch]
2680 *) mod_xml2enc, mod_proxy_html: Enable per-module loglevels.
2683 *) mod_filter: Fix segfault with AddOutputFilterByType. PR 52755.
2686 *) mod_session: Sessions are encoded as application/x-www-form-urlencoded
2687 strings, however we do not handle the encoding of spaces properly.
2688 Fixed. [Graham Leggett]
2690 *) Configuration: Example in comment should use a path consistent
2691 with the default configuration. PR 52715.
2692 [Rich Bowen, Jens Schleusener, Rainer Jung]
2694 *) Configuration: Switch documentation links from trunk to 2.4.
2697 *) configure: Fix out of tree build using apr and apr-util in srclib.
2700 Changes with Apache 2.4.1
2702 *) SECURITY: CVE-2012-0053 (cve.mitre.org)
2703 Fix an issue in error responses that could expose "httpOnly" cookies
2704 when no custom ErrorDocument is specified for status code 400.
2707 *) mod_proxy_balancer: Fix crash on Windows. PR 52402 [Mladen Turk]
2709 *) core: Check during configtest that the directories for error logs exist.
2710 PR 29941 [Stefan Fritsch]
2712 *) Core configuration: add AllowOverride option to treat syntax
2713 errors in .htaccess as non-fatal. PR 52439 [Nick Kew, Jim Jagielski]
2715 *) core: Fix memory consumption in core output filter with streaming
2716 bucket types like CGI or PIPE. [Joe Orton, Stefan Fritsch]
2718 *) configure: Disable modules at configure time if a prerequisite module
2719 is not enabled. PR 52487. [Stefan Fritsch]
2721 *) Rewrite and proxy now decline what they don't support rather
2722 than fail the request. [Joe Orton]
2724 *) Fix building against external apr plus apr-util if apr is not installed
2725 in a system default path. [Rainer Jung]
2727 *) Doxygen fixes and improvements. [Joe Orton, Igor Galić]
2729 *) core: Fix building against PCRE 8.30 by switching from the obsolete
2730 pcre_info() to pcre_fullinfo(). PR 52623 [Ruediger Pluem, Rainer Jung]
2732 Changes with Apache 2.4.0
2734 *) SECURITY: CVE-2012-0031 (cve.mitre.org)
2735 Fix scoreboard issue which could allow an unprivileged child process
2736 to cause the parent to crash at shutdown rather than terminate
2737 cleanly. [Joe Orton]
2739 *) mod_ssl: Fix compilation with xlc on AIX. PR 52394. [Stefan Fritsch]
2741 *) SECURITY: CVE-2012-0021 (cve.mitre.org)
2742 mod_log_config: Fix segfault (crash) when the '%{cookiename}C' log format
2743 string is in use and a client sends a nameless, valueless cookie, causing
2744 a denial of service. The issue existed since version 2.2.17 and 2.3.3.
2745 PR 52256. [Rainer Canavan <rainer-apache 7val com>]
2747 *) mod_ssl: when compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.1 or later, allow explicit
2748 control of TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 through the SSLProtocol directive.
2751 *) mod_ssl: set OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN when compiling against OpenSSL 1.0.1
2752 or later, to improve binary compatibility with future OpenSSL releases.
2755 *) mod_mime: Don't arbitrarily bypass AddOutputFilter during a ProxyPass,
2756 but then allow AddOutputFilter during a RewriteRule [P]. Make mod_mime
2757 behave identically in both cases. PR52342. [Graham Leggett]
2759 *) Move ab, logresolve, httxt2dbm and apxs to bin from sbin, along with
2760 corresponding man pages. [Graham Leggett]
2762 *) Distinguish properly between the bindir and sbindir directories when
2763 installing binaries. Previously all binaries were silently installed to
2764 sbindir, whether they were system administration commands or not.
2767 Changes with Apache 2.3.16
2769 *) SECURITY: CVE-2011-4317 (cve.mitre.org)
2770 Resolve additional cases of URL rewriting with ProxyPassMatch or
2771 RewriteRule, where particular request-URIs could result in undesired
2772 backend network exposure in some configurations.
2775 *) core: Limit line length in .htaccess to 8K like in 2.2.x, to avoid
2776 additional DoS potential. [Stefan Fritsch]
2778 *) core, all modules: Add unique tag to most error log messages. [Stefan
2781 *) mod_socache_memcache: Change provider name from "mc" to "memcache" to
2782 match module name. [Stefan Fritsch]
2784 *) mod_slotmem_shm: Change provider name from "shared" to "shm" to match
2785 module name. [Stefan Fritsch]
2787 *) mod_ldap: Fix segfault with Solaris LDAP when enabling ldaps. This
2788 requires an apr-util fix in which is available in apr-util >= 1.4.0.
2789 PR 42682. [Stefan Fritsch]
2791 *) mod_rewrite: Add the AllowNoSlash RewriteOption, which makes it possible
2792 for RewriteRules to be placed in .htaccess files that match the directory
2793 with no trailing slash. PR 48304.
2794 [Matthew Byng-Maddick <matthew byng-maddick bbc.co.uk>]
2796 *) mod_session_crypto: Add a SessionCryptoPassphraseFile directive so that
2797 the administrator can hide the keys from the configuration. [Graham
2800 *) Introduce a per request version of the remote IP address, which can be
2801 optionally modified by a module when the effective IP of the client
2802 is not the same as the real IP of the client (such as a load balancer).
2803 Introduce a per connection "peer_ip" and a per request "client_ip" to
2804 distinguish between the raw IP address of the connection and the effective
2805 IP address of the request. [Graham Leggett]
2807 *) ap_pass_brigade_fchk() function added. [Jim Jagielski]
2809 *) core: Pass ap_errorlog_info struct to error log hook. [Stefan Fritsch]
2811 *) mod_cache_disk: Make sure we check return codes on all writes and
2812 attempts to close, and clean up after ourselves in these cases.
2813 PR43589. [Graham Leggett]
2815 *) mod_cache_disk: Remove the unnecessary intermediate brigade while
2816 writing to disk. Fixes a problem where mod_disk_cache was leaving
2817 buckets in the intermediate brigade and not passing them to out on
2818 exit. [Florian S. <f_los_ch yahoo.com>, Graham Leggett]
2820 *) mod_ssl: use a shorter setting for SSLCipherSuite in the default
2821 default configuration file, and add some more information about
2822 configuring a speed-optimized alternative.
2825 *) mod_ssl: drop support for the SSLv2 protocol. [Kaspar Brand]
2827 *) mod_lua: Stop losing track of all but the most specific LuaHook* directives
2828 when multiple per-directory config sections are used. Adds LuaInherit
2829 directive to control how parent sections are merged. [Eric Covener]
2831 *) Server directive display (-L): Include directives of DSOs.
2834 *) mod_cache: Make sure we merge headers correctly when we handle a
2835 non cacheable conditional response. PR52120. [Graham Leggett]
2837 *) Pre GA removal of components that will not be included:
2838 - mod_noloris was superseded by mod_reqtimeout
2843 *) core: Set MaxMemFree 2048 by default. [Stefan Fritsch]
2845 *) mpm_event: Fix assertion failure during very high load. [Stefan Fritsch]
2847 *) configure: Additional modules loaded by default: mod_headers.
2848 Modules moved from module set "few" to "most" and no longer loaded
2849 by default: mod_actions, mod_allowmethods, mod_auth_form, mod_buffer,
2850 mod_cgi(d), mod_include, mod_negotiation, mod_ratelimit, mod_request,
2851 mod_userdir. [Rainer Jung]
2853 *) mod_lua: Use the right lua scope when used as a hook. [Rainer Jung]
2855 *) configure: Only load the really imporant modules (i.e. those enabled by
2856 the 'few' selection) by default. Don't handle modules enabled with
2857 --enable-foo specially. [Stefan Fritsch]
2859 *) end-generation hook: Fix false notification of end-of-generation for
2860 temporary intervals with no active MPM children. [Jeff Trawick]
2862 *) mod_ssl: Add support for configuring persistent TLS session ticket
2863 encryption/decryption keys (useful for clustered environments).
2864 [Paul Querna, Kaspar Brand]
2866 *) mod_usertrack: Use random value instead of remote IP address.
2869 Changes with Apache 2.3.15
2871 *) SECURITY: CVE-2011-3348 (cve.mitre.org)
2872 mod_proxy_ajp: Respond with HTTP_NOT_IMPLEMENTED when the method is not
2873 recognized. [Jean-Frederic Clere]
2875 *) SECURITY: CVE-2011-3192 (cve.mitre.org)
2876 core: Fix handling of byte-range requests to use less memory, to avoid
2877 denial of service. If the sum of all ranges in a request is larger than
2878 the original file, ignore the ranges and send the complete file.
2879 PR 51714. [Stefan Fritsch, Jim Jagielski, Ruediger Pluem, Eric Covener,
2880 <lowprio20 gmail.com>]
2882 *) SECURITY: CVE-2011-3607 (cve.mitre.org)
2883 core: Fix integer overflow in ap_pregsub. This can be triggered e.g.
2884 with mod_setenvif via a malicious .htaccess. [Stefan Fritsch]
2886 *) SECURITY: CVE-2011-3368 (cve.mitre.org)
2887 Reject requests where the request-URI does not match the HTTP
2888 specification, preventing unexpected expansion of target URLs in
2889 some reverse proxy configurations. [Joe Orton]
2891 *) configure: Load all modules in the generated default configuration
2892 when using --enable-load-all-modules. [Rainer Jung]
2894 *) mod_reqtimeout: Change the default to set some reasonable timeout
2895 values. [Stefan Fritsch]
2897 *) core, mod_dav_fs: Change default ETag to be "size mtime", i.e. remove
2898 the inode. PR 49623. [Stefan Fritsch]
2900 *) mod_lua: Expose SSL variables via r:ssl_var_lookup(). [Eric Covener]
2902 *) mod_lua: LuaHook{AccessChecker,AuthChecker,CheckUserID,TranslateName}
2903 can now additionally be run as "early" or "late" relative to other modules.
2906 *) configure: By default, only load those modules that are either required
2907 or explicitly selected by a configure --enable-foo argument. The
2908 LoadModule statements for modules enabled by --enable-mods-shared=most
2909 and friends will be commented out. [Stefan Fritsch]
2911 *) mod_lua: Prevent early Lua hooks (LuaHookTranslateName and
2912 LuaHookQuickHandler) from being configured in <Directory>, <Files>,
2913 and htaccess where the configuration would have been ignored.
2916 *) mod_lua: Resolve "attempt to index local 'r' (a userdata value)" errors
2917 in LuaMapHandler scripts [Eric Covener]
2919 *) mod_log_debug: Rename optional argument from if= to expr=, to be more
2920 in line with other config directives. [Stefan Fritsch]
2922 *) mod_headers: Require an expression to be specified with expr=, to be more
2923 in line with other config directives. [Stefan Fritsch]
2925 *) mod_substitute: To prevent overboarding memory usage, limit line length
2926 to 1MB. [Stefan Fritsch]
2928 *) mod_lua: Make the query string (r.args) writable. [Eric Covener]
2930 *) mod_include: Add support for application/x-www-form-urlencoded encoding
2931 and decoding. [Graham Leggett]
2933 *) rotatelogs: Add -c option to force logfile creation in every rotation
2934 interval, even if empty. [Jan Kaluža <jkaluza redhat.com>]
2936 *) core: Limit ap_pregsub() to 64K, add ap_pregsub_ex() for longer strings.
2939 *) mod_session_crypto: Refactor to support the new apr_crypto API.
2942 *) http: Add missing Location header if local URL-path is used as
2943 ErrorDocument for 30x. [Stefan Fritsch]
2945 *) mod_buffer: Make sure we step down for subrequests, but not for internal
2946 redirects triggered by mod_rewrite. [Graham Leggett]
2948 *) mod_lua: add r:construct_url as a wrapper for ap_construct_url.
2951 *) mod_remote_ip: Fix configuration of internal proxies. PR 49272.
2952 [Jim Riggs <jim riggs me>]
2954 *) mpm_winnt: Handle AcceptFilter 'none' mode correctly; resolve specific
2955 server IP endpoint and remote client IP upon connection. [William Rowe]
2957 *) mod_setenvif: Remove OID match which is obsoleted by SetEnvIfExpr with
2958 PeerExtList(). [Stefan Fritsch]
2960 *) mpm_prefork, mpm_worker, mpm_event: If a child is created just before
2961 graceful restart and then exits because of a missing lock file, don't
2962 shutdown the whole server. PR 39311. [Shawn Michael
2963 <smichael rightnow com>]
2965 *) mpm_event: Check the return value from ap_run_create_connection.
2966 PR 41194. [Davi Arnaut]
2968 *) mod_mime_magic: Add signatures for PNG and SWF to the example config.
2969 PR 48352. [Jeremy Wagner-Kaiser <jwagner-kaiser adknowledge com>]
2971 *) core, unixd: Add -D DUMP_RUN_CFG option to dump some configuration items
2972 from the parsed (or default) config. This is useful for init scripts that
2973 need to setup temporary directories and permissions. [Stefan Fritsch]
2975 *) core, mod_actions, mod_asis: Downgrade error log messages which accompany
2976 a 404 request status from loglevel error to info. PR 35768. [Stefan
2979 *) core: Fix hook sorting with Perl modules. PR 45076. [Torsten Foertsch
2980 <torsten foertsch gmx net>]
2982 *) core: Enforce LimitRequestFieldSize after multiple headers with the same
2983 name have been merged. [Stefan Fritsch]
2985 *) mod_ssl: If MaxMemFree is set, ask OpenSSL >= 1.0.0 to reduce memory
2986 usage. PR 51618. [Cristian RodrÃguez <crrodriguez opensuse org>,
2989 *) mod_ssl: At startup, when checking a server certificate whether it
2990 matches the configured ServerName, also take dNSName entries in the
2991 subjectAltName extension into account. PR 32652, PR 47051. [Kaspar Brand]
2993 *) mod_substitute: Reduce memory usage and copying of data. PR 50559.
2996 *) mod_ssl/proxy: enable the SNI extension for backend TLS connections
2999 *) Add wrappers for malloc, calloc, realloc that check for out of memory
3000 situations and use them in many places. PR 51568, PR 51569, PR 51571.
3003 *) Fix cross-compilation of mod_cgi/mod_cgid when APR_HAVE_STRUCT_RLIMIT is
3004 false but RLIMIT_* are defined. PR51371. [Eric Covener]
3006 *) core: Correctly obey ServerName / ServerAlias if the Host header from the
3007 request matches the VirtualHost address.
3008 PR 51709. [Micha Lenk <micha lenk.info>]
3010 *) mod_unique_id: Use random number generator to initialize counter.
3011 PR 45110. [Stefan Fritsch]
3013 *) core: Add convenience API for apr_random. [Stefan Fritsch]
3015 *) core: Add MaxRangeOverlaps and MaxRangeReversals directives to control
3016 the number of overlapping and reversing ranges (respectively) permitted
3017 before returning the entire resource, with a default limit of 20.
3020 *) mod_ldap: Optional function uldap_ssl_supported(r) always returned false
3021 if called from a virtual host with mod_ldap directives in it. Did not
3022 affect mod_authnz_ldap's usage of mod_ldap. [Eric Covener]
3024 *) mod_filter: Instead of dropping the Accept-Ranges header when a filter
3025 registered with AP_FILTER_PROTO_NO_BYTERANGE is present,
3026 set the header value to "none". [Eric Covener, Ruediger Pluem]
3028 *) core: Allow MaxRanges none|unlimited|default and set 'Accept-Ranges: none'
3029 in the case Ranges are being ignored with MaxRanges none.
3032 *) mod_ssl: revamp CRL-based revocation checking when validating
3033 certificates of clients or proxied servers. Completely delegate
3034 CRL processing to OpenSSL, and add a new [Proxy]CARevocationCheck
3035 directive for controlling the revocation checking mode. [Kaspar Brand]
3037 *) core: Add MaxRanges directive to control the number of ranges permitted
3038 before returning the entire resource, with a default limit of 200.
3041 *) mod_cache: Ensure that CacheDisable can correctly appear within
3042 a LocationMatch. [Graham Leggett]
3044 *) mod_cache: Fix the moving of the CACHE filter, which erroneously
3045 stood down if the original filter was not added by configuration.
3048 *) mod_ssl: improve certificate error logging. PR 47408. [Kaspar Brand]
3050 *) mod_authz_groupfile: Increase length limit of lines in the group file to
3051 16MB. PR 43084. [Stefan Fritsch]
3053 *) core: Increase length limit of lines in the configuration file to 16MB.
3054 PR 45888. PR 50824. [Stefan Fritsch]
3056 *) core: Add API for resizable buffers. [Stefan Fritsch]
3058 *) mod_ldap: Enable LDAPConnectionTimeout for LDAP toolkits that have
3059 LDAP_OPT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT instead of LDAP_OPT_NETWORK_TIMEOUT, such
3060 as Tivoli Directory Server 6.3 and later. [Eric Covener]
3062 *) mod_ldap: Change default number of retries from 10 to 3, and add
3063 an LDAPRetries and LDAPRetryDelay directives. [Eric Covener]
3065 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Don't retry during authentication, because this just
3066 multiplies the ample retries already being done by mod_ldap. [Eric Covener]
3068 *) configure: Allow to explicitly disable modules even with module selection
3069 'reallyall'. [Stefan Fritsch]
3071 *) mod_rewrite: Check validity of each internal (int:) RewriteMap even if the
3072 RewriteEngine is disabled in server context, avoiding a crash while
3073 referencing the invalid int: map at runtime. PR 50994.
3074 [Ben Noordhuis <info noordhuis nl>]
3076 *) mod_ssl, configure: require OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later. [Kaspar Brand]
3078 *) mod_ssl: remove ssl_toolkit_compat layer. [Kaspar Brand]
3080 *) mod_ssl, configure, ab: drop support for RSA BSAFE SSL-C toolkit.
3083 *) mod_usertrack: Run mod_usertrack earlier in the fixups hook to ensure the
3084 cookie is set when modules such as mod_rewrite trigger a redirect. Also
3085 use r->err_headers_out for the cookie, for the same reason. PR29755.
3086 [Sami J. Mäkinen <sjm almamedia fi>, Eric Covener]
3088 *) mod_proxy_http, mod_proxy_connect: Add 'proxy-status' and
3089 'proxy-source-port' request notes for logging. PR 30195. [Stefan Fritsch]
3091 *) configure: Enable ldap modules in 'all' and 'most' selections if ldap
3092 is compiled into apr-util. [Stefan Fritsch]
3094 *) core: Add ap_check_cmd_context()-check if a command is executed in
3095 .htaccess file. [Stefan Fritsch]
3097 *) mod_deflate: Fix endless loop if first bucket is metadata. PR 51590.
3098 [Torsten Foertsch <torsten foertsch gmx net>]
3100 *) mod_authn_socache: Fix to work in .htaccess if not configured anywhere
3101 in httpd.conf, and introduce an AuthnCacheEnable directive.
3104 *) mod_xml2enc: new (formerly third-party) module supporting
3105 internationalisation for filters via smart charset sniffing
3106 and conversion. [Nick Kew]
3108 *) mod_proxy_html: new (formerly third-party) module to fix up
3109 HTML links in a reverse proxy situation, where a backend
3110 generates URLs that are not resolvable by Clients. [Nick Kew]
3112 Changes with Apache 2.3.14
3114 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Improve trace logging. [Rainer Jung]
3116 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Respect "reuse" flag in END_REPONSE packets.
3119 *) mod_proxy: enable absolute URLs to be rewritten with ProxyPassReverse,
3120 e.g. to reverse proxy "Location: https://other-internal-server/login"
3123 *) prefork, worker, event: Make sure crashes are logged to the error log if
3124 httpd has already detached from the console. [Stefan Fritsch]
3126 *) prefork, worker, event: Reduce period during startup/restart where a
3127 successive signal may be lost. PR 43696. [Arun Bhalla <arun shme net>]
3129 *) mod_allowmethods: Correct Merging of "reset" and do not allow an
3130 empty parameter list for the AllowMethods directive. [Rainer Jung]
3132 *) configure: Update selection of modules for 'all' and 'most'. 'all' will
3133 now enable all modules except for example and test modules. Make the
3134 selection for 'most' more useful (including ssl and proxy). Both 'all'
3135 and 'most' will now disable modules if dependencies are missing instead
3136 of aborting. If a specific module is requested with --enable-XXX=yes,
3137 missing dependencies will still cause configure to exit with an error.
3140 *) mod_ldap: Revert the integration of apr-ldap as ap_ldap which was done
3141 in 2.3.13. [Stefan Fritsch]
3143 *) core: For '*' or '_default_' vhosts, use a wildcard address of any
3144 address family, rather than IPv4 only. [Joe Orton]
3146 *) core, mod_rewrite, mod_ssl, mod_nw_ssl: Make the SERVER_NAME variable
3147 include [ ] for literal IPv6 addresses, as mandated by RFC 3875.
3148 PR 26005. [Stefan Fritsch]
3150 *) mod_negotiation: Fix parsing of Content-Length in type maps. PR 42203.
3151 [Nagae Hidetake <nagae eagan jp>]
3153 *) core: Add more logging to ap_scan_script_header_err* functions. Add
3154 ap_scan_script_header_err*_ex functions that take a module index for
3156 mod_cgi, mod_cgid, mod_proxy_fcgi, mod_proxy_scgi, mod_isapi: Use the
3157 new functions in order to make logging configurable per-module.
3160 *) mod_dir: Add DirectoryIndexRedirect to send an external redirect to
3161 the proper index. [Eric Covener]
3163 *) mod_deflate: Don't try to compress requests with a zero sized body.
3164 PR 51350. [Stefan Fritsch]
3166 *) core: Fix startup on IPv6-only systems. PR 50592. [Joe Orton,
3167 <root linkage white-void net>]
3169 *) suexec: Add environment variables CONTEXT_DOCUMENT_ROOT, CONTEXT_PREFIX,
3170 REDIRECT_ERROR_NOTES, REDIRECT_SCRIPT_FILENAME, REQUEST_SCHEME to the
3171 whitelist in suexec. PR 51499. [Graham Laverty <graham reg ca>,
3174 *) mod_rewrite: Fix regexp RewriteCond with NoCase. [Stefan Fritsch]
3176 *) mod_log_debug: New module that allows to log custom messages at various
3177 phases in the request processing. [Stefan Fritsch]
3179 *) mod_ssl: Add some debug logging when loading server certificates.
3180 PR 37912. [Nick Burch <nick burch alfresco com>]
3182 *) configure: Support reallyall option also for --enable-mods-static.
3185 *) mod_socache_dc: add --with-distcache to configure for choosing
3186 the distcache installation directory. [Rainer Jung]
3188 *) mod_socache_dc: use correct build variable MOD_SOCACHE_DC_LDADD
3189 instead of MOD_SOCACHE_LDADD in build macro. [Rainer Jung]
3191 *) mod_lua, mod_deflate: respect platform specific runpath linker
3194 *) configure: Only link the httpd binary against PCRE. No other support
3195 binary needs PCRE. [Rainer Jung]
3197 *) configure: tolerate dependency checking failures for modules if
3198 they have been enabled implicitly. [Rainer Jung]
3200 *) configure: Allow to specify module specific custom linker flags via
3201 the MOD_XXX_LDADD variables. [Rainer Jung]
3203 Changes with Apache 2.3.13
3205 *) ab: Support specifying the local address to use. PR 48930.
3206 [Peter Schuller <scode spotify com>]
3208 *) core: Add support to ErrorLogFormat for logging the system unique
3209 thread id under Linux. [Stefan Fritsch]
3211 *) event: New AsyncRequestWorkerFactor directive to influence how many
3212 connections will be accepted per process. [Stefan Fritsch]
3214 *) prefork, worker, event: Rename MaxClients to MaxRequestWorkers which
3215 describes more accurately what it does. [Stefan Fritsch]
3217 *) rotatelogs: Add -p argument to specify custom program to invoke
3218 after a log rotation. PR 51285. [Sven Ulland <sveniu ifi.uio.no>,
3221 *) mod_ssl: Don't do OCSP checks for valid self-issued certs. [Kaspar Brand]
3223 *) mod_ssl: Avoid unnecessary renegotiations with SSLVerifyDepth 0.
3224 PR 48215. [Kaspar Brand]
3226 *) mod_status: Display information about asynchronous connections in the
3227 server-status. PR 44377. [Stefan Fritsch]
3229 *) mpm_event: If the number of connections of a process is very high, or if
3230 all workers are busy, don't accept new connections in that process.
3233 *) mpm_event: Process lingering close asynchronously instead of tying up
3234 worker threads. [Jeff Trawick, Stefan Fritsch]
3236 *) mpm_event: If MaxMemFree is set, limit the number of pools that is kept
3237 around. [Stefan Fritsch]
3239 *) mpm_event: Fix graceful restart aborting connections. PR 43359.
3240 [Takashi Sato <takashi lans-tv com>]
3242 *) mod_ssl: Disable AECDH ciphers in example config. PR 51363.
3243 [Rob Stradling <rob comodo com>]
3245 *) core: Introduce new function ap_get_conn_socket() to access the socket of
3246 a connection. [Stefan Fritsch]
3248 *) mod_data: Introduce a filter to support RFC2397 data URLs. [Graham
3251 *) mod_userdir/mod_alias/mod_vhost_alias: Correctly set DOCUMENT_ROOT,
3252 CONTEXT_DOCUMENT_ROOT, CONTEXT_PREFIX. PR 26052. PR 46198.
3255 *) core: Allow to override document_root on a per-request basis. Introduce
3256 new context_document_root and context_prefix which provide information
3257 about non-global URI-to-directory mappings (from e.g. mod_userdir or
3258 mod_alias) to scripts. PR 49705. [Stefan Fritsch]
3260 *) core: Add <ElseIf> and <Else> to complement <If> sections.
3263 *) mod_ext_filter: Remove DebugLevel option in favor of per-module loglevel.
3266 *) mod_include: Make the "#if expr" element use the new "ap_expr" expression
3267 parser. The old parser can still be used by setting the new directive
3268 SSILegacyExprParser. [Stefan Fritsch]
3270 *) core: Add some features to ap_expr for use by mod_include: a restricted
3271 mode that does not allow to bypass request access restrictions; new
3272 variables DOCUMENT_URI (alias for REQUEST_URI), LAST_MODIFIED; -A as an
3273 alias for -U; an additional data entry in ap_expr_eval_ctx_t for use by
3274 the consumer; an extensible ap_expr_exec_ctx() API that allows to use that
3275 data entry. [Stefan Fritsch]
3277 *) mod_include: Merge directory configs instead of one SSI* config directive
3278 causing all other per-directory SSI* config directives to be reset.
3281 *) mod_charset_lite: Remove DebugLevel option in favour of per-module
3282 loglevel. [Stefan Fritsch]
3284 *) core: Add ap_regexec_len() function that works with non-null-terminated
3285 strings. PR 51231. [Yehezkel Horowitz <horowity checkpoint com>]
3287 *) mod_authnz_ldap: If the LDAP server returns constraint violation,
3288 don't treat this as an error but as "auth denied". [Stefan Fritsch]
3290 *) mod_proxy_fcgi|scgi: Add support for "best guess" of PATH_INFO
3291 for SCGI/FCGI. PR 50880, 50851. [Mark Montague <mark catseye.org>,
3294 *) mod_cache: When content is served stale, and there is no means to
3295 revalidate the content using ETag or Last-Modified, and we have
3296 mandated no stale-on-error behaviour, stand down and don't cache.
3297 Saves a cache write that will never be read.
3300 *) mod_reqtimeout: Fix a timed out connection going into the keep-alive
3301 state after a timeout when discarding a request body. PR 51103.
3304 *) core: Add various file existence test operators to ap_expr.
3307 *) mod_proxy_express: New mass reverse-proxy switch extension for
3308 mod_proxy. [Jim Jagielski]
3310 *) configure: Fix script error when configuring module set "reallyall".
3313 Changes with Apache 2.3.12
3315 *) configure, core: Provide easier support for APR's hook probe
3316 capability. [Jim Jagielski, Jeff Trawick]
3318 *) Silence autoconf 2.68 warnings. [Rainer Jung]
3320 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Resolve crash when LDAP is used for authorization only
3321 [Scott Hill <shill genscape.com>]
3323 *) support: Make sure check_forensic works with mod_unique_id loaded
3326 *) Add child_status hook for tracking creation/termination of MPM child
3327 processes. Add end_generation hook for notification when the last
3328 MPM child of a generation exits. [Jeff Trawick]
3330 *) mod_ldap: Make LDAPSharedCacheSize 0 create a non-shared-memory cache per
3331 process as opposed to disabling caching completely. This allows to use
3332 the non-shared-memory cache as a workaround for the shared memory cache
3333 not being available during graceful restarts. PR 48958. [Stefan Fritsch]
3335 *) Add new ap_reserve_module_slots/ap_reserve_module_slots_directive API,
3336 necessary if a module (like mod_perl) registers additional modules late
3337 in the startup phase. [Stefan Fritsch]
3339 *) core: Prevent segfault if DYNAMIC_MODULE_LIMIT is reached. PR 51072.
3340 [Torsten Förtsch <torsten foertsch gmx net>]
3342 *) WinNT MPM: Improve robustness under heavy load. [Jeff Trawick]
3344 *) MinGW build improvements. PR 49535. [John Vandenberg
3345 <jayvdb gmail.com>, Jeff Trawick]
3347 *) core: Support module names with colons in loglevel configuration.
3348 [Torsten Förtsch <torsten foertsch gmx net>]
3350 *) mod_ssl, ab: Support OpenSSL compiled without SSLv2 support.
3353 *) core: Abort if the MPM is changed across restart. [Jeff Trawick]
3355 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Add support for 'ProxyErrorOverride on'. PR 50945.
3356 [Peter Pramberger <peter pramberger.at>, Jim Jagielski]
3358 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Add support for 'ProxyErrorOverride on'. PR 50913.
3359 [Mark Montague <mark catseye.org>, Jim Jagielski]
3361 *) core: Change the APIs of ap_cfg_getline() and ap_cfg_getc() to return an
3362 error code. Abort with a nice error message if a config line is too long.
3363 Partial fix for PR 50824. [Stefan Fritsch]
3365 *) mod_info: Dump config to stdout during startup if -DDUMP_CONFIG is
3366 specified. PR 31956. [Stefan Fritsch]
3368 *) Restore visibility of DEFAULT_PIDLOG to core and modules. MPM
3369 helper function ap_remove_pid() added. [Jeff Trawick]
3371 *) Enable DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR on Windows and NetWare. [various]
3373 *) Correct C++ incompatibility with http_log.h. [Stefan Fritsch, Jeff
3376 *) mod_log_config: Prevent segfault. PR 50861. [Torsten Förtsch
3377 <torsten.foertsch gmx.net>]
3379 *) core: AllowEncodedSlashes new option NoDecode to allow encoded slashes
3380 in request URL path info but not decode them. Change behavior of option
3381 "On" to decode the encoded slashes as 2.0 and 2.2 do. PR 35256,
3382 PR 46830. [Dan Poirier]
3384 *) mod_ssl: Check SNI hostname against Host header case-insensitively.
3385 PR 49491. [Mayank Agrawal <magrawal.08 gmail.com>]
3387 *) mod_ldap: Add LDAPConnectionPoolTTL to give control over lifetime
3388 of bound backend LDAP connections. PR47634 [Eric Covener]
3390 *) mod_cache: Make CacheEnable and CacheDisable configurable per
3391 directory in addition to per server, making them work from within
3392 a LocationMatch. [Graham Leggett]
3394 *) worker, event, prefork: Correct several issues when built as
3395 DSOs; most notably, the scoreboard was reinitialized during graceful
3396 restart, such that processes of the previous generation were not
3397 observable. [Jeff Trawick]
3399 Changes with Apache 2.3.11
3401 *) mod_win32: Added shebang check for '! so that .vbs scripts work as CGI.
3402 Win32's cscript interpreter can only use a single quote as comment char.
3405 *) mod_proxy: balancer-manager now uses POST instead of GET.
3408 *) core: new util function: ap_parse_form_data(). Previously,
3409 this capability was tucked away in mod_request. [Jim Jagielski]
3411 *) core: new hook: ap_run_pre_read_request. [Jim Jagielski]
3413 *) modules: Fix many modules that were not correctly initializing if they
3414 were not active during server startup but got enabled later during a
3415 graceful restart. [Stefan Fritsch]
3417 *) core: Create new ap_state_query function that allows modules to determine
3418 if the current configuration run is the initial one at server startup,
3419 and if the server is started for testing/config dumping only.
3422 *) mod_proxy: Runtime configuration of many parameters for existing
3423 balancers via the balancer-manager. [Jim Jagielski]
3425 *) mod_proxy: Runtime addition of new workers (BalancerMember) for existing
3426 balancers via the balancer-manager. [Jim Jagielski]
3428 *) mod_cache: When a bad Expires date is present, we need to behave as if
3429 the Expires is in the past, not as if the Expires is missing. PR 16521.
3430 [Co-Advisor <coad measurement-factory.com>]
3432 *) mod_cache: We must ignore quoted-string values that appear in a
3433 Cache-Control header. PR 50199. [Graham Leggett]
3435 *) mod_dav: Revert change to send 501 error if unknown Content-* header is
3436 received for a PUT request. PR 42978. [Stefan Fritsch]
3438 *) mod_cache: Respect s-maxage as described by RFC2616 14.9.3, which must
3439 take precedence if present. PR 35247. [Graham Leggett]
3441 *) mod_ssl: Fix a possible startup failure if multiple SSL vhosts
3442 are configured with the same ServerName and private key file.
3443 [Masahiro Matsuya <mmatsuya redhat.com>, Joe Orton]
3445 *) mod_socache_dc: Make module compile by fixing some typos.
3446 PR 50735 [Mark Montague <mark catseye.org>]
3448 *) prefork: Update MPM state in children during a graceful stop or
3449 restart. PR 41743. [Andrew Punch <andrew.punch 247realmedia.com>]
3451 *) mod_mime: Ignore leading dots when looking for mime extensions.
3452 PR 50434 [Stefan Fritsch]
3454 *) core: Add support to set variables with the 'Define' directive. The
3455 variables that can then be used in the config using the ${VAR} syntax
3456 known from envvar interpolation. [Stefan Fritsch]
3458 *) mod_proxy_http: make adding of X-Forwarded-* headers configurable.
3459 ProxyAddHeaders defaults to On. [Vincent Deffontaines]
3461 *) mod_slotmem_shm: Increase memory alignment for slotmem data.
3464 *) mod_ssl: Add config options for OCSP: SSLOCSPResponderTimeout,
3465 SSLOCSPResponseMaxAge, SSLOCSPResponseTimeSkew.
3466 [Kaspar Brand <httpd-dev.2011 velox.ch>]
3468 *) mod_ssl: Revamp output buffering to reduce network overhead for
3469 output fragmented into many buckets, such as chunked HTTP responses.
3472 *) core: Apply <If> sections to all requests, not only to file base requests.
3473 Allow to use <If> inside <Directory>, <Location>, and <Files> sections.
3474 The merging of <If> sections now happens after the merging of <Location>
3475 sections, even if an <If> section is embedded inside a <Directory> or
3476 <Files> section. [Stefan Fritsch]
3478 *) mod_proxy: Refactor usage of shared data by dropping the scoreboard
3479 and using slotmem. Create foundation for dynamic growth/changes of
3480 members within a balancer. Remove BalancerNonce in favor of a
3481 per-balancer 'nonce' parameter. [Jim Jagielski]
3483 *) mod_status: Don't show slots which are disabled by MaxClients as open.
3484 PR 47022 [Jordi Prats <jordi prats gmail com>, Stefan Fritsch]
3486 *) mpm_prefork: Fix ap_mpm_query results for AP_MPMQ_MAX_DAEMONS and
3487 AP_MPMQ_MAX_THREADS.
3489 *) mod_authz_core: Fix bug in merging logic if user-based and non-user-based
3490 authorization directives were mixed. [Stefan Fritsch]
3492 *) mod_authn_socache: change directive name from AuthnCacheProvider
3493 to AuthnCacheProvideFor. The term "provider" is overloaded in
3494 this module, and we should avoid confusion between the provider
3495 of a backend (AuthnCacheSOCache) and the authn provider(s) for
3496 which this module provides cacheing (AuthnCacheProvideFor).
3499 *) mod_proxy_http: Allocate the fake backend request from a child pool
3500 of the backend connection, instead of misusing the pool of the frontend
3501 request. Fixes a thread safety issue where buckets set aside in the
3502 backend connection leak into other threads, and then disappear when
3503 the frontend request is cleaned up, in turn causing corrupted buckets
3504 to make other threads spin. [Graham Leggett]
3506 *) mod_ssl: Change the format of the SSL_{CLIENT,SERVER}_{I,S}_DN variables
3507 to be RFC 2253 compatible, convert non-ASCII characters to UTF8, and
3508 escape other special characters with backslashes. The old format can
3509 still be used with the LegacyDNStringFormat argument to SSLOptions.
3511 *) core, mod_rewrite: Make the REQUEST_SCHEME variable available to
3512 scripts and mod_rewrite. [Stefan Fritsch]
3514 *) mod_rewrite: Allow to use arbitrary boolean expressions (ap_expr) in
3515 RewriteCond. [Stefan Fritsch]
3517 *) mod_rewrite: Allow to unset environment variables using E=!VAR.
3518 PR 49512. [Mark Drayton <mark markdrayton info>, Stefan Fritsch]
3520 *) mod_headers: Restore the 2.3.8 and earlier default for the first
3521 argument of the Header directive ("onsuccess"). [Eric Covener]
3523 *) core: Disallow the mixing of relative and absolute Options PR 33708.
3524 [Sönke Tesch <st kino-fahrplan.de>]
3526 *) core: When exporting request headers to HTTP_* environment variables,
3527 drop variables whose names contain invalid characters. Describe in the
3528 docs how to restore the old behaviour. [Malte S. Stretz <mss apache org>]
3530 *) core: When selecting an IP-based virtual host, favor an exact match for
3531 the port over a wildcard (or omitted) port instead of favoring the one
3532 that came first in the configuration file. [Eric Covener]
3534 *) core: Overlapping virtual host address/port combinations now implicitly
3535 enable name-based virtual hosting for that address. The NameVirtualHost
3536 directive has no effect, and _default_ is interpreted the same as "*".
3539 *) core: In the absence of any Options directives, the default is now
3540 "FollowSymlinks" instead of "All". [Igor Galić]
3542 *) rotatelogs: Add -e option to write logs through to stdout for optional
3543 further processing. [Graham Leggett]
3545 *) mod_ssl: Correctly read full lines in input filter when the line is
3546 incomplete during first read. PR 50481. [Ruediger Pluem]
3548 *) mod_authz_core: Add AuthzSendForbiddenOnFailure directive to allow
3549 sending '403 FORBIDDEN' instead of '401 UNAUTHORIZED' if authorization
3550 fails for an authenticated user. PR 40721. [Stefan Fritsch]
3552 Changes with Apache 2.3.10
3554 *) mod_rewrite: Don't implicitly URL-escape the original query string
3555 when no substitution has changed it. PR 50447. [Eric Covener]
3557 *) core: Honor 'AcceptPathInfo OFF' during internal redirects,
3558 such as per-directory mod_rewrite substitutions. PR 50349.
3561 *) mod_rewrite: Add 'RewriteOptions InheritBefore' to put the base
3562 rules/conditions before the overridden rules/conditions. PR 39313.
3563 [Jérôme Grandjanny <jerome.grandjanny cea.fr>]
3565 *) mod_autoindex: add IndexIgnoreReset to reset the list of IndexIgnored
3566 filenames in higher precedence configuration sections. PR 24243.
3569 *) mod_cgid: RLimit* directive support for mod_cgid. PR 42135
3572 *) core: Fail startup when the argument to ServerName looks like a glob
3573 or a regular expression instead of a hostname (*?[]). PR 39863
3574 [Rahul Nair <rahul.g.nair gmail.com>]
3576 *) mod_userdir: Add merging of enable, disable, and filename arguments
3577 to UserDir directive, leaving enable/disable of userlists unmerged.
3578 PR 44076 [Eric Covener]
3580 *) httpd: When no -k option is provided on the httpd command line, the server
3581 was starting without checking for an existing pidfile. PR 50350
3584 *) mod_proxy: Put the worker in error state if the SSL handshake with the
3585 backend fails. PR 50332.
3586 [Daniel Ruggeri <DRuggeri primary.net>, Ruediger Pluem]
3588 *) mod_cache_disk: Fix Windows build which was broken after renaming
3589 the module. [Gregg L. Smith]
3591 Changes with Apache 2.3.9
3593 *) SECURITY: CVE-2010-1623 (cve.mitre.org)
3594 Fix a denial of service attack against mod_reqtimeout.
3597 *) mod_headers: Change default first argument of Header directive
3598 from "onsuccess" to "always". [Eric Covener]
3600 *) mod_include: Add the onerror attribute to the include element,
3601 allowing an URL to be specified to include on error. [Graham
3604 *) mod_cache_disk: mod_disk_cache renamed to mod_cache_disk, to be
3605 consistent with the naming of other modules. [Graham Leggett]
3607 *) mod_setenvif: Add SetEnvIfExpr directive to set env var depending on
3608 expression. [Stefan Fritsch]
3610 *) mod_proxy: Fix ProxyPassInterpolateEnv directive. PR 50292.
3613 *) suEXEC: Add Suexec directive to disable suEXEC without renaming the
3614 binary (Suexec Off), or force startup failure if suEXEC is required
3615 but not supported (Suexec On). Change SuexecUserGroup to fail
3616 startup instead of just printing a warning if suEXEC is disabled.
3619 *) core: Add Error directive for aborting startup or htaccess processing
3620 with a specified error message. [Jeff Trawick]
3622 *) mod_rewrite: Fix the RewriteEngine directive to work within a
3623 location. Previously, once RewriteEngine was switched on globally,
3624 it was impossible to switch off. [Graham Leggett]
3626 *) core, mod_include, mod_ssl: Move the expression parser derived from
3627 mod_include back into mod_include. Replace ap_expr with a parser
3628 derived from mod_ssl's parser. Make mod_ssl use the new parser. Rework
3629 ap_expr's public interface and provide hooks for modules to add variables
3630 and functions. [Stefan Fritsch]
3632 *) core: Do the hook sorting earlier so that the hooks are properly sorted
3633 for the pre_config hook and during parsing the config. [Stefan Fritsch]
3635 *) core: In the absence of any AllowOverride directives, the default is now
3636 "None" instead of "All". PR49823 [Eric Covener]
3638 *) mod_proxy: Don't allow ProxyPass or ProxyPassReverse in
3639 <Directory> or <Files>. PR47765 [Eric Covener]
3641 *) prefork/worker/event MPMS: default value (when no directive is present)
3642 of MaxConnectionsPerChild/MaxRequestsPerChild is changed to 0 from 10000
3643 to match default configuration and manual. PR47782 [Eric Covener]
3645 *) proxy_connect: Don't give up in the middle of a CONNECT tunnel
3646 when the child process is starting to exit. PR50220. [Eric Covener]
3648 *) mod_autoindex: Fix inheritance of mod_autoindex directives into
3649 contexts that don't have any mod_autoindex directives. PR47766.
3652 *) mod_rewrite: Add END flag for RewriteRule to prevent further rounds
3653 of rewrite processing when a per-directory substitution occurs.
3656 *) mod_ssl: Make sure to always log an error if loading of CA certificates
3657 fails. PR 40312. [Paul Tiemann <issues apache org ourdetour com>]
3659 *) mod_dav: Send 501 error if unknown Content-* header is received for a PUT
3660 request (RFC 2616 9.6). PR 42978. [Stefan Fritsch]
3662 *) mod_dav: Send 400 error if malformed Content-Range header is received for
3663 a put request (RFC 2616 14.16). PR 49825. [Stefan Fritsch]
3665 *) mod_proxy: Release the backend connection as soon as EOS is detected,
3666 so the backend isn't forced to wait for the client to eventually
3667 acknowledge the data. [Graham Leggett]
3669 *) mod_proxy: Optimise ProxyPass within a Location so that it is stored
3670 per-directory, and chosen during the location walk. Make ProxyPass
3671 work correctly from within a LocationMatch. [Graham Leggett]
3673 *) core: Fix segfault if per-module LogLevel is on virtual host
3674 scope. PR 50117. [Stefan Fritsch]
3676 *) mod_proxy: Move the ProxyErrorOverride directive to have per
3677 directory scope. [Graham Leggett]
3679 *) mod_allowmethods: New module to deny certain HTTP methods without
3680 interfering with authentication/authorization. [Paul Querna,
3681 Igor Galić, Stefan Fritsch]
3683 *) mod_ssl: Log certificate information and improve error message if client
3684 cert verification fails. PR 50093, PR 50094. [Lassi Tuura <lat cern ch>,
3687 *) htcacheclean: Teach htcacheclean to limit cache size by number of
3688 inodes in addition to size of files. Prevents a cache disk from
3689 running out of space when many small files are cached.
3692 *) core: Rename MaxRequestsPerChild to MaxConnectionsPerChild, which
3693 describes more accurately what the directive does. The old name
3694 still works but logs a warning. [Stefan Fritsch]
3696 *) mod_cache: Optionally serve stale data when a revalidation returns a
3697 5xx response, controlled by the CacheStaleOnError directive.
3700 *) htcacheclean: Allow the listing of valid URLs within the cache, with
3701 the option to list entry metadata such as sizes and times. [Graham
3704 *) mod_cache: correctly parse quoted strings in cache headers.
3707 *) mod_cache: Allow control over the base URL of reverse proxied requests
3708 using the CacheKeyBaseURL directive, so that the cache key can be
3709 calculated from the endpoint URL instead of the server URL. [Graham
3712 *) mod_cache: CacheLastModifiedFactor, CacheStoreNoStore, CacheStorePrivate,
3713 CacheStoreExpired, CacheIgnoreNoLastMod, CacheDefaultExpire,
3714 CacheMinExpire and CacheMaxExpire can be set per directory/location.
3717 *) mod_disk_cache: CacheMaxFileSize, CacheMinFileSize, CacheReadSize and
3718 CacheReadTime can be set per directory/location. [Graham Leggett]
3720 *) core: Speed up config parsing if using a very large number of config
3721 files. PR 50002 [andrew cloudaccess net]
3723 *) mod_cache: Support the caching of HEAD requests. [Graham Leggett]
3725 *) htcacheclean: Allow the option to round up file sizes to a given
3726 block size, improving the accuracy of disk usage. [Graham Leggett]
3728 *) mod_ssl: Add authz providers for use with mod_authz_core and its
3729 RequireAny/RequireAll containers: 'ssl' (equivalent to SSLRequireSSL),
3730 'ssl-verify-client' (for use with 'SSLVerifyClient optional'), and
3731 'ssl-require' (expressions with same syntax as SSLRequire).
3734 *) mod_ssl: Make the ssl expression parser thread-safe. It now requires
3735 bison instead of yacc. [Stefan Fritsch]
3737 *) mod_disk_cache: Change on-disk header file format to support the
3738 link of the device/inode of the data file to the matching header
3739 file, and to support the option of not writing a data file when
3740 the data file is empty. [Graham Leggett]
3742 *) core/mod_unique_id: Add generate_log_id hook to allow to use
3743 the ID generated by mod_unique_id as error log ID for requests.
3746 *) mod_cache: Make sure that we never allow a 304 Not Modified response
3747 that we asked for to leak to the client should the 304 response be
3748 uncacheable. PR45341 [Graham Leggett]
3750 *) mod_cache: Add the cache_status hook to register the final cache
3751 decision hit/miss/revalidate. Add optional support for an X-Cache
3752 and/or an X-Cache-Detail header to add the cache status to the
3753 response. PR48241 [Graham Leggett]
3755 *) mod_authz_host: Add 'local' provider that matches connections originating
3756 on the local host. PR 19938. [Stefan Fritsch]
3758 *) Event MPM: Fix crash accessing pollset on worker thread when child
3759 process is exiting. [Jeff Trawick]
3761 *) core: For process invocation (cgi, fcgid, piped loggers and so forth)
3762 pass the system library path (LD_LIBRARY_PATH or platform-specific
3763 variables) along with the system PATH, by default. Both should be
3764 overridden together as desired using PassEnv etc; see mod_env.
3767 *) mod_cache: Introduce CacheStoreExpired, to allow administrators to
3768 capture a stale backend response, perform If-Modified-Since requests
3769 against the backend, and serving from the cache all 304 responses.
3770 This restores pre-2.2.4 cache behavior. [William Rowe]
3772 *) mod_rewrite: Introduce <=, >= string comparison operators, and integer
3773 comparators -lt, -le, -eq, -ge, and -gt. To help bash users and drop
3774 the ambiguity of the symlink test "-ltest", introduce -h or -L as
3775 symlink test operators. [William Rowe]
3777 *) mod_cache: Give the cache provider the opportunity to choose to cache
3778 or not cache based on the buckets present in the brigade, such as the
3779 presence of a FILE bucket.
3782 *) mod_authz_core: Allow authz providers to check args while reading the
3783 config and allow to cache parsed args. Move 'all' and 'env' authz
3784 providers from mod_authz_host to mod_authz_core. Add 'method' authz
3785 provider depending on the HTTP method. [Stefan Fritsch]
3787 *) mod_include: Move the request_rec within mod_include to be
3788 exposed within include_ctx_t. [Graham Leggett]
3790 *) mod_include: Reinstate support for UTF-8 character sets by allowing a
3791 variable being echoed or set to be decoded and then encoded as separate
3792 steps. PR47686 [Graham Leggett]
3794 *) mod_cache: Add a discrete commit_entity() provider function within the
3795 mod_cache provider interface which is called to indicate to the
3796 provider that caching is complete, giving the provider the opportunity
3797 to commit temporary files permanently to the cache in an atomic
3798 fashion. Replace the inconsistent use of error cleanups with a formal
3799 set of pool cleanups attached to a subpool, which is destroyed on error.
3802 *) mod_cache: Change the signature of the store_body() provider function
3803 within the mod_cache provider interface to support an "in" brigade
3804 and an "out" brigade instead of just a single input brigade. This
3805 gives a cache provider the option to consume only part of the brigade
3806 passed to it, rather than the whole brigade as was required before.
3807 This fixes an out of memory and a request timeout condition that would
3808 occur when the original document was a large file. Introduce
3809 CacheReadSize and CacheReadTime directives to mod_disk_cache to control
3810 the amount of data to attempt to cache at a time. [Graham Leggett]
3812 *) core: Add ErrorLogFormat to allow configuring error log format, including
3813 additional information that is logged once per connection or request. Add
3814 error log IDs for connections and request to allow correlating error log
3815 lines and the corresponding access log entry. [Stefan Fritsch]
3817 *) core: Disable sendfile by default. [Stefan Fritsch]
3819 *) mod_cache: Check the request to determine whether we are allowed
3820 to return cached content at all, and respect a "Cache-Control:
3821 no-cache" header from a client. Previously, "no-cache" would
3822 behave like "max-age=0". [Graham Leggett]
3824 *) mod_cache: Use a proper filter context to hold filter data instead
3825 of misusing the per-request configuration. Fixes a segfault on trunk
3826 when the normal handler is used. [Graham Leggett]
3828 *) mod_cgid: Log a warning if the ScriptSock path is truncated because
3829 it is too long. PR 49388. [Stefan Fritsch]
3831 *) vhosts: Do not allow _default_ in NameVirtualHost, or mixing *
3832 and non-* ports on NameVirtualHost, or multiple NameVirtualHost
3833 directives for the same address:port, or NameVirtualHost
3834 directives with no matching VirtualHosts, or multiple ip-based
3835 VirtualHost sections for the same address:port. These were
3836 previously accepted with a warning, but the behavior was
3837 undefined. [Dan Poirier]
3839 *) mod_remoteip: Fix a segfault when using mod_remoteip in conjunction with
3840 Allow/Deny. PR 49838. [Andrew Skalski <voltara gmail.com>]
3842 *) core: DirectoryMatch can now match on the end of line character ($),
3843 and sub-directories of matched directories are no longer implicitly
3844 matched. PR49809 [Eric Covener]
3846 *) Regexps: introduce new higher-level regexp utility including parsing
3847 and executing perl-style regexp ops (e.g s/foo/bar/i) and regexp memory
3850 *) Proxy: support setting source address. PR 29404
3851 [Multiple contributors iterating through bugzilla,
3852 Aron Ujvari <xanco nikhok.hu>, Aleksey Midenkov <asm uezku.kemsu.ru>,
3853 <dan listening-station.net; trunk version Nick Kew]
3855 *) HTTP protocol: return 400 not 503 if we have to abort due to malformed
3856 chunked encoding. [Nick Kew]
3858 Changes with Apache 2.3.8
3860 *) suexec: Support large log files. PR 45856. [Stefan Fritsch]
3862 *) core: Abort with sensible error message if no or more than one MPM is
3863 loaded. [Stefan Fritsch]
3865 *) mod_proxy: Rename erroronstatus to failonstatus.
3866 [Daniel Ruggeri <DRuggeri primary.net>]
3868 *) mod_dav_fs: Fix broken "creationdate" property.
3869 Regression in version 2.3.7. [Rainer Jung]
3871 Changes with Apache 2.3.7
3873 *) SECURITY: CVE-2010-1452 (cve.mitre.org)
3874 mod_dav, mod_cache, mod_session: Fix Handling of requests without a path
3875 segment. PR 49246 [Mark Drayton, Jeff Trawick]
3877 *) mod_ldap: Properly check the result returned by apr_ldap_init. PR 46076.
3880 *) mod_rewrite: Log errors if rewrite map files cannot be opened. PR 49639.
3883 *) mod_proxy_http: Support the 'ping' property for backend HTTP/1.1 servers
3884 via leveraging 100-Continue as the initial "request".
3887 *) core/mod_authz_core: Introduce new access_checker_ex hook that enables
3888 mod_authz_core to bypass authentication if access should be allowed by
3889 IP address/env var/... [Stefan Fritsch]
3891 *) core: Introduce note_auth_failure hook to allow modules to add support
3892 for additional auth types. This makes ap_note_auth_failure() work with
3893 mod_auth_digest again. PR 48807. [Stefan Fritsch]
3895 *) socache modules: return APR_NOTFOUND when a lookup is not found [Nick Kew]
3897 *) mod_authn_socache: new module [Nick Kew]
3899 *) configure: Add reallyall option for --enable-mods-shared. [Stefan Fritsch]
3901 *) Fix Windows build when using VC6. [Gregg L. Smith <lists glewis com>]
3903 *) mod_rewrite: Allow to set environment variables without explicitly
3904 giving a value. [Rainer Jung]
3906 *) mod_rewrite: Remove superfluous EOL from rewrite logging. [Rainer Jung]
3908 *) mod_include: recognise "text/html; parameters" as text/html
3909 PR 49616 [Andrey Chernov <ache nagual.pp.ru>]
3911 *) CGI vars: allow PATH to be set by SetEnv, consistent with LD_LIBRARY_PATH
3914 *) Core: Extra robustness: don't try authz and segfault if authn
3915 fails to set r->user. Log bug and return 500 instead.
3918 *) HTTP protocol filter: fix handling of longer chunk extensions
3919 PR 49474 [<tee.bee gmx.de>]
3921 *) Update SSL cipher suite and add example for SSLHonorCipherOrder.
3922 [Lars Eilebrecht, Rainer Jung]
3924 *) move AddOutputFilterByType from core to mod_filter. This should
3925 fix nasty side-effects that happen when content_type is set
3926 more than once in processing a request, and make it fully
3927 compatible with dynamic and proxied contents. [Nick Kew]
3929 *) mod_log_config: Implement logging for sub second timestamps and
3930 request end time. [Rainer Jung]
3932 Changes with Apache 2.3.6
3934 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-3555 (cve.mitre.org)
3935 mod_ssl: Comprehensive fix of the TLS renegotiation prefix injection
3936 attack when compiled against OpenSSL version 0.9.8m or later. Introduces
3937 the 'SSLInsecureRenegotiation' directive to reopen this vulnerability
3938 and offer unsafe legacy renegotiation with clients which do not yet
3939 support the new secure renegotiation protocol, RFC 5746.
3940 [Joe Orton, and with thanks to the OpenSSL Team]
3942 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-3555 (cve.mitre.org)
3943 mod_ssl: A partial fix for the TLS renegotiation prefix injection attack
3944 by rejecting any client-initiated renegotiations. Forcibly disable
3945 keepalive for the connection if there is any buffered data readable. Any
3946 configuration which requires renegotiation for per-directory/location
3947 access control is still vulnerable, unless using OpenSSL >= 0.9.8l.
3948 [Joe Orton, Ruediger Pluem, Hartmut Keil <Hartmut.Keil adnovum.ch>]
3950 *) SECURITY: CVE-2010-0408 (cve.mitre.org)
3951 mod_proxy_ajp: Respond with HTTP_BAD_REQUEST when the body is not sent
3952 when request headers indicate a request body is incoming; not a case of
3953 HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR. [Niku Toivola <niku.toivola sulake.com>]
3955 *) SECURITY: CVE-2010-0425 (cve.mitre.org)
3956 mod_isapi: Do not unload an isapi .dll module until the request
3957 processing is completed, avoiding orphaned callback pointers.
3958 [Brett Gervasoni <brettg senseofsecurity.com>, Jeff Trawick]
3960 *) core: Filter init functions are now run strictly once per request
3961 before handler invocation. The init functions are no longer run
3962 for connection filters. PR 49328. [Joe Orton]
3964 *) core: Adjust the output filter chain correctly in an internal
3965 redirect from a subrequest, preserving filters from the main
3966 request as necessary. PR 17629. [Joe Orton]
3968 *) mod_cache: Explicitly allow cache implementations to cache a 206 Partial
3969 Response if they so choose to do so. Previously an attempt to cache a 206
3970 was arbitrarily allowed if the response contained an Expires or
3971 Cache-Control header, and arbitrarily denied if both headers were missing.
3974 *) core: Add microsecond timestamp fractions, process id and thread id
3975 to the error log. [Rainer Jung]
3977 *) configure: The "most" module set gets build by default. [Rainer Jung]
3979 *) configure: Building dynamic modules (DSO) by default. [Rainer Jung]
3981 *) configure: Fix broken VPATH build when using included APR.
3984 *) mod_session_crypto: Fix configure problem when building
3985 with APR 2 and for VPATH builds with included APR.
3988 *) mod_session_crypto: API compatibility with APR 2 crypto and
3989 APR Util 1.x crypto. [Rainer Jung]
3991 *) ab: Fix memory leak with -v2 and SSL. PR 49383.
3992 [Pavel Kankovsky <peak argo troja mff cuni cz>]
3994 *) core: Add per-module and per-directory loglevel configuration.
3995 Add some more trace logging.
3996 mod_rewrite: Replace RewriteLog/RewriteLogLevel with trace log levels.
3997 mod_ssl: Replace LogLevelDebugDump with trace log levels.
3998 mod_ssl/mod_proxy*: Adjust loglevels to be less verbose at levels info
4000 mod_dumpio: Replace DumpIOLogLevel with trace log levels.
4003 *) mod_ldap: LDAP caching was suppressed (and ldap-status handler returns
4004 title page only) when any mod_ldap directives were used in VirtualHost
4005 context. [Eric Covener]
4007 *) mod_disk_cache: Decline the opportunity to cache if the response is
4008 a 206 Partial Content. This stops a reverse proxied partial response
4009 from becoming cached, and then being served in subsequent responses.
4012 *) mod_deflate: avoid the risk of forwarding data before headers are set.
4013 PR 49369 [Matthew Steele <mdsteele google.com>]
4015 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Ensure nested groups are checked when the
4016 top-level group doesn't have any direct non-group members
4017 of attributes in AuthLDAPGroupAttribute. [Eric Covener]
4019 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Search or Comparison during authorization phase
4020 can use the credentials from the authentication phase
4021 (AuthLDAPSearchAsUSer,AuthLDAPCompareAsUser).
4022 PR 48340 [Domenico Rotiroti, Eric Covener]
4024 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Allow the initial DN search during authentication
4025 to use the HTTP username/pass instead of an anonymous or hard-coded
4026 LDAP id (AuthLDAPInitialBindAsUser, AuthLDAPInitialBindPattern).
4029 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Publish requested LDAP data with an AUTHORIZE_ prefix
4030 when this module is used for authorization. See AuthLDAPAuthorizePrefix.
4031 PR 45584 [Eric Covener]
4033 *) apxs -q: Stop filtering out ':' characters from the reported values.
4034 PR 45343. [Bill Cole]
4036 *) prefork MPM: Work around possible crashes on child exit in APR reslist
4037 cleanup code. PR 43857. [Tom Donovan]
4039 *) ab: fix number of requests sent by ab when keepalive is enabled. PR 48497.
4040 [Bryn Dole <dole blekko.com>]
4042 *) Log an error for failures to read a chunk-size, and return 408 instead of
4043 413 when this is due to a read timeout. This change also fixes some cases
4044 of two error documents being sent in the response for the same scenario.
4045 [Eric Covener] PR49167
4047 *) mod_proxy_balancer: Add new directive BalancerNonce to allow admin
4048 to control/set the nonce used in the balancer-manager application.
4051 *) mod_proxy_connect: Support port ranges in AllowConnect. PR 23673.
4054 *) Proxy balancer: support setting error status according to HTTP response
4055 code from a backend. PR 48939. [Daniel Ruggeri <DRuggeri primary.net>]
4057 *) htcacheclean: Introduce the ability to clean specific URLs from the
4058 cache, if provided as an optional parameter on the command line.
4061 *) core: Introduce the IncludeStrict directive, which explicitly fails
4062 server startup if no files or directories match a wildcard path.
4065 *) htcacheclean: Report additional statistics about entries deleted.
4066 PR 48944. [Mark Drayton mark markdrayton.info]
4068 *) Introduce SSLFIPS directive to support OpenSSL FIPS_mode; permits all
4069 builds of mod_ssl to use 'SSLFIPS off' for portability, but the proper
4070 build of openssl is required for 'SSLFIPS on'. PR 46270.
4071 [Dr Stephen Henson <steve openssl.org>, William Rowe]
4073 *) mod_proxy_http: Log the port of the remote server in various messages.
4074 PR 48812. [Igor Galić <i galic brainsware org>]
4076 *) mod_reqtimeout: Do not wrongly enforce timeouts for mod_proxy's backend
4077 connections and other protocol handlers (like mod_ftp). [Stefan Fritsch]
4079 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Really regard the operation a success, when the client
4080 aborted the connection. In addition adjust the log message if the client
4081 aborted the connection. [Ruediger Pluem]
4083 *) mod_ssl: Add the 'SSLInsecureRenegotiation' directive, which
4084 allows insecure renegotiation with clients which do not yet
4085 support the secure renegotiation protocol. [Joe Orton]
4087 *) mod_ssl: Fix a potential I/O hang if a long list of trusted CAs
4088 is configured for client cert auth. PR 46952. [Joe Orton]
4090 *) core: Only log a 408 if it is no keepalive timeout. PR 39785
4091 [Ruediger Pluem, Mark Montague <markmont umich.edu>]
4093 *) support/rotatelogs: Add -L option to create a link to the current
4094 log file. PR 48761 [<lyndon orthanc.ca>, Dan Poirier]
4096 *) mod_ldap: Update LDAPTrustedClientCert to consistently be a per-directory
4097 setting only, matching most of the documentation and examples.
4098 PR 46541 [Paul Reder, Eric Covener]
4100 *) mod_ldap: LDAPTrustedClientCert now accepts CA_DER/CA_BASE64 argument
4101 types previously allowed only in LDAPTrustedGlobalCert. [Eric Covener]
4103 *) mod_negotiation: Preserve query string over multiviews negotiation.
4104 This buglet was fixed for type maps in 2.2.6, but the same issue
4105 affected multiviews and was overlooked.
4106 PR 33112 [Joergen Thomsen <apache jth.net>]
4108 *) mod_ldap: Eliminate a potential crash with multiple LDAPTrustedClientCert
4109 when some are not password-protected. [Eric Covener]
4111 *) Fix startup segfault when the Mutex directive is used but no loaded
4112 modules use httpd mutexes. PR 48787. [Jeff Trawick]
4114 *) Proxy: get the headers right in a HEAD request with
4115 ProxyErrorOverride, by checking for an overridden error
4116 before not after going into a catch-all code path.
4117 PR 41646. [Nick Kew, Stuart Children]
4119 *) support/rotatelogs: Support the simplest log rotation case, log
4120 truncation. Useful when the log is being processed in real time
4121 using a command like tail. [Graham Leggett]
4123 *) support/htcacheclean: Teach it how to write a pid file (modelled on
4124 httpd's writing of a pid file) so that it becomes possible to run
4125 more than one instance of htcacheclean on the same machine.
4128 *) Log command line on startup, so there's a record of command line
4129 arguments like -f. PR 48752. [Dan Poirier]
4131 *) Introduce mod_reflector, a handler capable of reflecting POSTed
4132 request bodies back within the response through the output filter
4133 stack. Can be used to turn an output filter into a web service.
4136 *) mod_proxy_http: Make sure that when an ErrorDocument is served
4137 from a reverse proxied URL, that the subrequest respects the status
4138 of the original request. This brings the behaviour of proxy_handler
4139 in line with default_handler. PR 47106. [Graham Leggett]
4141 *) Support wildcards in both the directory and file components of
4142 the path specified by the Include directive. [Graham Leggett]
4144 *) mod_proxy, mod_proxy_http: Support remote https proxies
4145 by using HTTP CONNECT. PR 19188.
4146 [Philippe Dutrueux <lilas evidian.com>, Rainer Jung]
4148 *) apxs: Fix -A and -a options to ignore whitespace in httpd.conf
4149 [Philip M. Gollucci]
4151 *) worker: Don't report server has reached MaxClients until it has.
4152 Add message when server gets within MinSpareThreads of MaxClients.
4153 PR 46996. [Dan Poirier]
4155 *) mod_session: Session expiry was being initialised, but not updated
4156 on each session save, resulting in timed out sessions when there
4157 should not have been. Fixed. [Graham Leggett]
4159 *) mod_log_config: Add the R option to log the handler used within the
4160 request. [Christian Folini <christian.folini netnea com>]
4162 *) mod_include: Allow fine control over the removal of Last-Modified and
4163 ETag headers within the INCLUDES filter, making it possible to cache
4164 responses if desired. Fix the default value of the SSIAccessEnable
4165 directive. [Graham Leggett]
4167 *) Add new UnDefine directive to undefine a variable. PR 35350.
4170 *) Make ap_pregsub(), used by AliasMatch and friends, use the same syntax
4171 for regex backreferences as mod_rewrite and mod_include: Remove the use
4172 of '&' as an alias for '$0' and allow to escape any character with a
4173 backslash. PR 48351. [Stefan Fritsch]
4175 *) mod_authnz_ldap: If AuthLDAPCharsetConfig is set, also convert the
4176 password to UTF-8. PR 45318.
4177 [Johannes Müller <joh_m gmx.de>, Stefan Fritsch]
4179 *) ab: Fix calculation of requests per second in HTML output. PR 48594.
4182 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Failures to map a username to a DN, or to check a user
4183 password now result in an informational level log entry instead of
4184 warning level. [Eric Covener]
4186 Changes with Apache 2.3.5
4188 *) SECURITY: CVE-2010-0434 (cve.mitre.org)
4189 Ensure each subrequest has a shallow copy of headers_in so that the
4190 parent request headers are not corrupted. Eliminates a problematic
4191 optimization in the case of no request body. PR 48359
4192 [Jake Scott, William Rowe, Ruediger Pluem]
4194 *) Turn static function get_server_name_for_url() into public
4195 ap_get_server_name_for_url() and use it where appropriate. This
4196 fixes mod_rewrite generating invalid URLs for redirects to IPv6
4197 literal addresses. [Stefan Fritsch]
4199 *) mod_ldap: Introduce new config option LDAPTimeout to set the timeout
4200 for LDAP operations like bind and search. [Stefan Fritsch]
4202 *) mod_proxy, mod_proxy_ftp: Move ProxyFtpDirCharset from mod_proxy to
4203 mod_proxy_ftp. [Takashi Sato]
4205 *) mod_proxy, mod_proxy_connect: Move AllowCONNECT from mod_proxy to
4206 mod_proxy_connect. [Takashi Sato]
4208 *) mod_cache: Do an exact match of the keys defined by
4209 CacheIgnoreURLSessionIdentifiers against the querystring instead of
4210 a partial match. PR 48401.
4211 [Dodou Wang <wangdong.08 gmail.com>, Ruediger Pluem]
4213 *) mod_proxy_balancer: Fix crash in balancer-manager. [Rainer Jung]
4215 *) Core HTTP: disable keepalive when the Client has sent
4216 Expect: 100-continue
4217 but we respond directly with a non-100 response.
4218 Keepalive here led to data from clients continuing being treated as
4222 *) Core: reject NULLs in request line or request headers.
4225 *) Core: (re)-introduce -T commandline option to suppress documentroot
4227 PR 41887 [Jan van den Berg <janvdberg gmail.com>]
4229 *) mod_autoindex: support XHTML as equivalent to HTML in IndexOptions,
4230 ScanHTMLTitles, ReadmeName, HeaderName
4231 PR 48416 [Dmitry Bakshaev <dab18 izhnet.ru>, Nick Kew]
4233 *) Proxy: Fix ProxyPassReverse with relative URL
4234 Derived (slightly erroneously) from PR 38864 [Nick Kew]
4236 *) mod_headers: align Header Edit with Header Set when used on Content-Type
4237 PR 48422 [Cyril Bonté <cyril.bonte free.fr>, Nick Kew>]
4239 *) mod_headers: Enable multi-match-and-replace edit option
4242 *) mod_filter: enable it to act on non-200 responses.
4245 Changes with Apache 2.3.4
4247 *) Replace AcceptMutex, LockFile, RewriteLock, SSLMutex, SSLStaplingMutex,
4248 and WatchdogMutexPath with a single Mutex directive. Add APIs to
4249 simplify setup and user customization of APR proc and global mutexes.
4250 (See util_mutex.h.) Build-time setting DEFAULT_LOCKFILE is no longer
4251 respected; set DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR instead. [Jeff Trawick]
4253 *) http_core: KeepAlive no longer accepts other than On|Off.
4256 *) mod_dav: Remove errno from dav_error interface. Calls to dav_new_error()
4257 and dav_new_error_tag() must be adjusted to add an apr_status_t parameter.
4260 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Add AuthLDAPBindAuthoritative to allow Authentication to
4261 try other providers in the case of an LDAP bind failure.
4262 PR 46608 [Justin Erenkrantz, Joe Schaefer, Tony Stevenson]
4264 *) Build: fix --with-module to work as documented
4265 PR 43881 [Gez Saunders <gez.saunders virgin.net>]
4267 Changes with Apache 2.3.3
4269 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-3095 (cve.mitre.org)
4270 mod_proxy_ftp: sanity check authn credentials.
4271 [Stefan Fritsch <sf fritsch.de>, Joe Orton]
4273 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-3094 (cve.mitre.org)
4274 mod_proxy_ftp: NULL pointer dereference on error paths.
4275 [Stefan Fritsch <sf fritsch.de>, Joe Orton]
4277 *) mod_ssl: enable support for ECC keys and ECDH ciphers. Tested against
4278 OpenSSL 1.0.0b3. [Vipul Gupta <vipul.gupta sun.com>, Sander Temme]
4280 *) mod_dav: Include uri when logging a PUT error due to connection abort.
4281 PR 38149. [Stefan Fritsch]
4283 *) mod_dav: Return 409 instead of 500 for a LOCK request if the parent
4284 resource does not exist or is not a collection. PR 43465. [Stefan Fritsch]
4286 *) mod_dav_fs: Return 409 instead of 500 for Litmus test case copy_nodestcoll
4287 (a COPY request where the parent of the destination resource does not
4288 exist). PR 39299. [Stefan Fritsch]
4290 *) mod_dav_fs: Don't delete the whole file if a PUT with content-range failed.
4291 PR 42896. [Stefan Fritsch]
4293 *) mod_dav_fs: Make PUT create files atomically and no longer destroy the
4294 old file if the transfer aborted. PR 39815. [Paul Querna, Stefan Fritsch]
4296 *) mod_dav_fs: Remove inode keyed locking as this conflicts with atomically
4297 creating files. On systems with inode numbers, this is a format change of
4298 the DavLockDB. The old DavLockDB must be deleted on upgrade.
4301 *) mod_log_config: Make ${cookie}C correctly match whole cookie names
4302 instead of substrings. PR 28037. [Dan Franklin <dan dan-franklin.com>,
4305 *) vhost: A purely-numeric Host: header should not be treated as a port.
4308 *) mod_ldap: Avoid 500 errors with "Unable to set LDAP_OPT_REFHOPLIMIT option to 5"
4309 when built against openldap by using SDK LDAP_OPT_REFHOPLIMIT defaults unless
4310 LDAPReferralHopLimit is explicitly configured.
4313 *) mod_charset_lite: Honor 'CharsetOptions NoImplicitAdd'.
4316 *) mod_ssl: Add support for OCSP Stapling. PR 43822.
4317 [Dr Stephen Henson <shenson oss-institute.org>]
4319 *) mod_socache_shmcb: Allow parens in file name if cache size is given.
4320 Fixes SSLSessionCache directive mis-parsing parens in pathname.
4321 PR 47945. [Stefan Fritsch]
4323 *) htpasswd: Improve out of disk space handling. PR 30877. [Stefan Fritsch]
4325 *) htpasswd: Use MD5 hash by default on all platforms. [Stefan Fritsch]
4327 *) mod_sed: Reduce memory consumption when processing very long lines.
4328 PR 48024 [Basant Kumar Kukreja <basant.kukreja sun.com>]
4330 *) ab: Fix segfault in case the argument for -n is a very large number.
4331 PR 47178. [Philipp Hagemeister <oss phihag.de>]
4333 *) Allow ProxyPreserveHost to work in <Proxy> sections. PR 34901.
4336 *) configure: Fix THREADED_MPMS so that mod_cgid is enabled again
4337 for worker MPM. [Takashi Sato]
4339 *) mod_dav: Provide a mechanism to obtain the request_rec and pathname
4340 from the dav_resource. [Jari Urpalainen <jari.urpalainen nokia.com>,
4341 Brian France <brian brianfrance.com>]
4343 *) Build: Use install instead of cp if available on installing
4344 modules to avoid segmentation fault. PR 47951. [hirose31 gmail.com]
4346 *) mod_cache: correctly consider s-maxage in cacheability
4347 decisions. [Dan Poirier]
4349 *) mod_logio/core: Report more accurate byte counts in mod_status if
4350 mod_logio is loaded. PR 25656. [Stefan Fritsch]
4352 *) mod_ldap: If LDAPSharedCacheSize is too small, try harder to purge
4353 some cache entries and log a warning. Also increase the default
4354 LDAPSharedCacheSize to 500000. This is a more realistic size suitable
4355 for the default values of 1024 for LdapCacheEntries/LdapOpCacheEntries.
4356 PR 46749. [Stefan Fritsch]
4358 *) mod_rewrite: Make sure that a hostname:port isn't fully qualified if
4359 the request is a CONNECT request. [Bill Zajac <billz consultla.com>]
4361 *) mod_cache: Teach CacheEnable and CacheDisable to work from within a
4362 Location section, in line with how ProxyPass works. [Graham Leggett]
4364 *) mod_reqtimeout: New module to set timeouts and minimum data rates for
4365 receiving requests from the client. [Stefan Fritsch]
4367 *) core: Fix potential memory leaks by making sure to not destroy
4368 bucket brigades that have been created by earlier filters.
4371 *) core, mod_deflate, mod_sed: Reduce memory usage by reusing bucket
4372 brigades in several places. [Stefan Fritsch]
4374 *) mod_cache: Fix uri_meets_conditions() so that CacheEnable will
4375 match by scheme, or by a wildcarded hostname. PR 40169
4376 [Peter Grandi <pg_asf asf.for.sabi.co.uk>, Graham Leggett]
4378 *) suxec: Allow to log an error if exec fails by setting FD_CLOEXEC
4379 on the log file instead of closing it. PR 10744. [Nicolas Rachinsky]
4381 *) mod_mime: Make RemoveType override the info from TypesConfig.
4382 PR 38330. [Stefan Fritsch]
4384 *) mod_cache: Introduce the option to run the cache from within the
4385 normal request handler, and to allow fine grained control over
4386 where in the filter chain content is cached. Adds CacheQuickHandler
4387 directive. [Graham Leggett]
4389 *) core: Treat timeout reading request as 408 error, not 400.
4390 Log 408 errors in access log as was done in Apache 1.3.x.
4391 PR 39785 [Nobutaka Mantani <nobutaka nobutaka.org>,
4392 Stefan Fritsch <sf fritsch.de>, Dan Poirier]
4394 *) mod_ssl: Reintroduce SSL_CLIENT_S_DN, SSL_CLIENT_I_DN, SSL_SERVER_S_DN,
4395 SSL_SERVER_I_DN back to the environment variables to be set by mod_ssl.
4396 [Peter Sylvester <peter.sylvester edelweb.fr>]
4398 *) mod_disk_cache: don't cache incomplete responses, per RFC 2616, 13.8.
4399 PR15866. [Dan Poirier]
4401 *) ab: ab segfaults in verbose mode on https sites
4402 PR46393. [Ryan Niebur]
4404 *) mod_dav: Allow other modules to become providers and add resource types
4405 to the DAV response. [Jari Urpalainen <jari.urpalainen nokia.com>,
4406 Brian France <brian brianfrance.com>]
4408 *) mod_dav: Allow other modules to add things to the DAV or Allow headers
4409 of an OPTIONS request. [Jari Urpalainen <jari.urpalainen nokia.com>,
4410 Brian France <brian brianfrance.com>]
4412 *) core: Lower memory usage of core output filter.
4413 [Stefan Fritsch <sf sfritsch.de>]
4415 *) mod_mime: Detect invalid use of MultiviewsMatch inside Location and
4416 LocationMatch sections. PR47754. [Dan Poirier]
4418 *) mod_request: Make sure the KeptBodySize directive rejects values
4419 that aren't valid numbers. [Graham Leggett]
4421 *) mod_session_crypto: Sanity check should the potentially encrypted
4422 session cookie be too short. [Graham Leggett]
4424 *) mod_session.c: Prevent a segfault when session is added but not
4425 configured. [Graham Leggett]
4427 *) htcacheclean: 19 ways to fail, 1 error message. Fixed. [Graham Leggett]
4429 *) mod_auth_digest: Fail server start when nonce count checking
4430 is configured without shared memory, or md5-sess algorithm is
4431 configured. [Dan Poirier]
4433 *) mod_proxy_connect: The connect method doesn't work if the client is
4434 connecting to the apache proxy through an ssl socket. Fixed.
4435 PR29744. [Brad Boyer, Mark Cave-Ayland, Julian Gilbey, Fabrice Durand,
4436 David Gence, Tim Dodge, Per Gunnar Hans, Emmanuel Elango,
4437 Kevin Croft, Rudolf Cardinal]
4439 *) mod_ssl: The error message when SSLCertificateFile is missing should
4440 at least give the name or position of the problematic virtual host
4441 definition. [Stefan Fritsch sf sfritsch.de]
4443 *) mod_auth_digest: Fix null pointer when qop=none. [Dan Poirier]
4445 *) Add support for HTTP PUT to ab. [Jeff Barnes <jbarnesweb yahoo.com>]
4447 *) mod_headers: generalise the envclause to support expression
4448 evaluation with ap_expr parser [Nick Kew]
4450 *) mod_cache: Introduce the thundering herd lock, a mechanism to keep
4451 the flood of requests at bay that strike a backend webserver as
4452 a cached entity goes stale. [Graham Leggett]
4454 *) mod_auth_digest: Fix usage of shared memory and re-enable it.
4455 PR 16057 [Dan Poirier]
4457 *) Preserve Port information over internal redirects
4458 PR 35999 [Jonas Ringh <jonas.ringh cixit.se>]
4460 *) Proxy: unable to connect to a backend is SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE,
4461 rather than BAD_GATEWAY or (especially) NOT_FOUND.
4462 PR 46971 [evanc nortel.com]
4464 *) Various modules: Do better checking of pollset operations in order to
4465 avoid segmentation faults if they fail. PR 46467
4466 [Stefan Fritsch <sf sfritsch.de>]
4468 *) mod_autoindex: Correctly create an empty cell if the description
4469 for a file is missing. PR 47682 [Peter Poeml <poeml suse.de>]
4471 *) ab: Fix broken error messages after resolver or connect() failures.
4474 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-1890 (cve.mitre.org)
4475 Fix a potential Denial-of-Service attack against mod_proxy in a
4476 reverse proxy configuration, where a remote attacker can force a
4477 proxy process to consume CPU time indefinitely. [Nick Kew, Joe Orton]
4479 *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-1191 (cve.mitre.org)
4480 mod_proxy_ajp: Avoid delivering content from a previous request which
4481 failed to send a request body. PR 46949 [Ruediger Pluem]
4483 *) htdbm: Fix possible buffer overflow if dbm database has very
4484 long values. PR 30586 [Dan Poirier]
4486 *) core: Return APR_EOF if request body is shorter than the length announced
4487 by the client. PR 33098 [ Stefan Fritsch <sf sfritsch.de>]
4489 *) mod_suexec: correctly set suexec_enabled when httpd is run by a
4490 non-root user and may have insufficient permissions.
4491 PR 42175 [Jim Radford <radford blackbean.org>]
4493 *) mod_ssl: Fix SSL_*_DN_UID variables to use the 'userID' attribute
4494 type. PR 45107. [Michael Ströder <michael stroeder.com>,
4495 Peter Sylvester <peter.sylvester edelweb.fr>]
4497 *) mod_proxy_http: fix case sensitivity checking transfer encoding
4498 PR 47383 [Ryuzo Yamamoto <ryuzo.yamamoto gmail.com>]
4500 *) mod_alias: ensure Redirect issues a valid URL.
4501 PR 44020 [HÃ¥kon Stordahl <hakon stordahl.org>]
4503 *) mod_dir: add FallbackResource directive, to enable admin to specify
4504 an action to happen when a URL maps to no file, without resorting
4505 to ErrorDocument or mod_rewrite. PR 47184 [Nick Kew]
4507 *) mod_cgid: Do not leak the listening Unix socket file descriptor to the
4508 CGI process. PR 47335 [Kornél Pál <kornelpal gmail.com>]
4510 *) mod_rewrite: Remove locking for writing to the rewritelog.
4511 PR 46942 [Dan Poirier <poirier pobox.com>]
4513 *) mod_alias: check sanity in Redirect arguments.
4514 PR 44729 [Sönke Tesch <st kino-fahrplan.de>, Jim Jagielski]
4516 *) mod_proxy_http: fix Host: header for literal IPv6 addresses.
4517 PR 47177 [Carlos Garcia Braschi <cgbraschi gmail.com>]
4519 *) mod_cache: Add CacheIgnoreURLSessionIdentifiers directive to ignore
4520 defined session identifiers encoded in the URL when caching.
4523 *) mod_rewrite: Fix the error string returned by RewriteRule.
4524 RewriteRule returned "RewriteCond: bad flag delimiters" when the 3rd
4525 argument of RewriteRule was not started with "[" or not ended with "]".
4526 PR 45082 [Vitaly Polonetsky <m_vitaly topixoft.com>]
4528 *) Windows: Fix usage message.
4531 *) apachectl: When passing through arguments to httpd in
4532 non-SysV mode, use the "$@" syntax to preserve arguments.
4535 *) mod_dbd: add DBDInitSQL directive to enable SQL statements to
4536 be run when a connection is opened. PR 46827
4537 [Marko Kevac <mkevac gmail.com>]
4539 *) mod_cgid: Improve handling of long AF_UNIX socket names (ScriptSock).
4540 PR 47037. [Jeff Trawick]
4542 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Check more strictly that the backend follows the AJP
4543 protocol. [Mladen Turk]
4545 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Forward remote port information by default.
4548 *) Allow MPMs to be loaded dynamically, as with most other modules. Use
4549 --enable-mpms-shared={list|"all"} to enable. This required changes to
4550 the MPM interfaces. Removed: mpm.h, mpm_default.h (as an installed
4551 header), APACHE_MPM_DIR, MPM_NAME, ap_threads_per_child,
4552 ap_max_daemons_limit, ap_my_generation, etc. ap_mpm_query() can't be
4553 called until after the register-hooks phase. [Jeff Trawick]
4555 *) mod_ssl: Add SSLProxyCheckPeerExpire and SSLProxyCheckPeerCN directives
4556 to enable stricter checking of remote server certificates.
4559 *) ab: Fix a 100% CPU loop on platforms where a failed non-blocking connect
4560 returns EINPROGRESS and a subsequent poll() returns only POLLERR.
4561 Observed on HP-UX. [Eric Covener]
4563 *) Remove broken support for BeOS, TPF, and even older platforms such
4564 as A/UX, Next, and Tandem. [Jeff Trawick]
4566 *) mod_proxy_ftp: Add ProxyFtpListOnWildcard directive to allow files with
4567 globbing characters to be retrieved instead of converted into a
4568 directory listing. PR 46789 [Dan Poirier <poirier pobox.com>]
4570 *) Provide ap_retained_data_create()/ap_retained_data_get() for preservation
4571 of module state across unload/load. [Jeff Trawick]
4573 *) mod_substitute: Fix a memory leak. PR 44948
4574 [Dan Poirier <poirier pobox.com>]
4576 Changes with Apache 2.3.2
4578 *) mod_mime_magic: Fix detection of compressed content. [Rainer Jung]
4580 *) mod_negotiation: Escape paths of filenames in 406 responses to avoid
4581 HTML injections and HTTP response splitting. PR 46837.
4582 [Geoff Keating <geoffk apple.com>]
4584 *) mod_ssl: add support for type-safe STACK constructs in OpenSSL
4585 development HEAD. PR 45521. [Kaspar Brand, Sander Temme]
4587 *) ab: Fix maintenance of the pollset to resolve EALREADY errors
4588 with kqueue (BSD/OS X) and excessive CPU with event ports (Solaris).
4589 PR 44584. Use APR_POLLSET_NOCOPY for better performance with some
4590 pollset implementations. [Jeff Trawick]
4592 *) mod_disk_cache: The module now turns off sendfile support if
4593 'EnableSendfile off' is defined globally. [Lars Eilebrecht]
4595 *) mod_deflate: Adjust content metadata before bailing out on 304
4596 responses so that the metadata does not differ from 200 response.
4599 *) mod_deflate: Fix creation of invalid Etag headers. We now make sure
4600 that the Etag value is properly quoted when adding the gzip marker.
4601 PR 39727, 45023. [Lars Eilebrecht, Roy T. Fielding]
4603 *) Added 20x22 icons for ODF, SVG, and XML documents. PR 37185.
4606 *) Disabled DefaultType directive and removed ap_default_type()
4607 from core. We now exclude Content-Type from responses for which
4608 a media type has not been configured via mime.types, AddType,
4609 ForceType, or some other mechanism. PR 13986. [Roy T. Fielding]
4611 *) mod_rewrite: Add IPV6 variable to RewriteCond
4612 [Ryan Phillips <ryan-apache trolocsis.com>]
4614 *) core: Enhance KeepAliveTimeout to support a value in milliseconds.
4615 PR 46275. [Takashi Sato]
4617 *) rotatelogs: Allow size units B, K, M, G and combination of
4618 time and size based rotation. [Rainer Jung]
4620 *) rotatelogs: Add flag for verbose (debug) output. [Rainer Jung]
4622 *) mod_ssl: Fix merging of SSLRenegBufferSize directive. PR 46508
4623 [<tlhackque yahoo.com>]
4625 *) core: Translate the the status line to ASCII on EBCDIC platforms in
4626 ap_send_interim_response() and for locally generated "100 Continue"
4627 responses. [Eric Covener]
4629 *) prefork: Fix child process hang during graceful restart/stop in
4630 configurations with multiple listening sockets. PR 42829. [Joe Orton,
4633 *) mod_session_crypto: Ensure that SessionCryptoDriver can only be
4634 set in the global scope. [Graham Leggett]
4636 *) mod_ext_filter: We need to detect failure to startup the filter
4637 program (a mangled response is not acceptable). Fix to detect
4638 failure, and offer configuration option either to abort or
4639 to remove the filter and continue.
4642 *) mod_session_crypto: Rewrite the session_crypto module against the
4643 apr_crypto API. [Graham Leggett]
4645 *) mod_auth_form: Fix a pool lifetime issue, don't remove the subrequest
4646 until the main request is cleaned up. [Graham Leggett]
4648 Changes with Apache 2.3.1
4650 *) ap_slotmem: Add in new slot-based memory access API impl., including
4651 2 providers (mod_sharedmem and mod_plainmem) [Jim Jagielski,
4652 Jean-Frederic Clere, Brian Akins <brian.akins turner.com>]
4654 *) mod_include: support generating non-ASCII characters as entities in SSI
4657 *) core/utils: Enhance ap_escape_html API to support escaping non-ASCII chars
4660 *) mod_rewrite: fix "B" flag breakage by reverting r5589343
4661 PR 45529 [Bob Ionescu <bobsiegen googlemail.com>]
4663 *) CGI: return 504 (Gateway timeout) rather than 500 when a script
4664 times out before returning status line/headers.
4667 *) mod_cgid: fix segfault problem on solaris.
4668 PR 39332 [Masaoki Kobayashi <masaoki techfirm.co.jp>]
4670 *) mod_proxy_scgi: Added. [André Malo]
4672 *) mod_cache: Introduce 'no-cache' per-request environment variable
4673 to prevent the saving of an otherwise cacheable response.
4676 *) mod_rewrite: Introduce DiscardPathInfo|DPI flag to stop the troublesome
4677 way that per-directory rewrites append the previous notion of PATH_INFO
4678 to each substitution before evaluating subsequent rules.
4679 PR 38642 [Eric Covener]
4681 *) mod_cgid: Do not add an empty argument when calling the CGI script.
4682 PR 46380 [Ruediger Pluem]
4684 *) scoreboard: Remove unused sb_type from process_score.
4685 [Torsten Foertsch <torsten.foertsch gmx.net>, Chris Darroch]
4687 *) mod_ssl: Add SSLRenegBufferSize directive to allow changing the
4688 size of the buffer used for the request-body where necessary
4689 during a per-dir renegotiation. PR 39243. [Joe Orton]
4691 *) mod_proxy_fdpass: New module to pass a client connection over to a separate
4692 process that is reading from a unix daemon socket.
4694 *) mod_ssl: Improve environment variable extraction to be more
4695 efficient and to correctly handle DNs with duplicate tags.
4696 PR 45975. [Joe Orton]
4698 *) Remove the obsolete serial attribute from the RPM spec file. Compile
4699 against the external pcre. Add missing binaries fcgistarter, and
4700 mod_socache* and mod_session*. [Graham Leggett]
4702 Changes with Apache 2.3.0
4704 *) mod_ratelimit: New module to do bandwidth rate limiting. [Paul Querna]
4706 *) Remove X-Pad header which was added as a work around to a bug in
4707 Netscape 2.x to 4.0b2. [Takashi Sato <takashi lans-tv.com>]
4709 *) Add DTrace Statically Defined Tracing (SDT) probes.
4710 [Theo Schlossnagle <jesus omniti.com>, Paul Querna]
4712 *) mod_proxy_balancer: Move all load balancing implementations
4713 as individual, self-contained mod_proxy submodules under
4714 modules/proxy/balancers [Jim Jagielski]
4716 *) Rename APIs to include ap_ prefix:
4717 find_child_by_pid -> ap_find_child_by_pid
4718 suck_in_APR -> ap_suck_in_APR
4719 sys_privileges_handlers -> ap_sys_privileges_handlers
4720 unixd_accept -> ap_unixd_accept
4721 unixd_config -> ap_unixd_config
4722 unixd_killpg -> ap_unixd_killpg
4723 unixd_set_global_mutex_perms -> ap_unixd_set_global_mutex_perms
4724 unixd_set_proc_mutex_perms -> ap_unixd_set_proc_mutex_perms
4725 unixd_set_rlimit -> ap_unixd_set_rlimit
4728 *) mod_lbmethod_heartbeat: New module to load balance mod_proxy workers
4729 based on heartbeats. [Paul Querna]
4731 *) mod_heartmonitor: New module to collect heartbeats, and write out a file
4732 so that other modules can load balance traffic as needed. [Paul Querna]
4734 *) mod_heartbeat: New module to generate multicast heartbeats to know if a
4735 server is online. [Paul Querna]
4737 *) mod_buffer: Honour the flush bucket and flush the buffer in the
4738 input filter. Make sure that metadata buckets are written to
4739 the buffer, not to the final brigade. [Graham Leggett]
4741 *) mod_buffer: Optimise the buffering of heap buckets when the heap
4742 buckets stay exactly APR_BUCKET_BUFF_SIZE long. [Graham Leggett,
4745 *) mod_buffer: Optional support for buffering of the input and output
4746 filter stacks. Can collapse many small buckets into fewer larger
4747 buckets, and prevents excessively small chunks being sent over
4748 the wire. [Graham Leggett]
4750 *) mod_privileges: new module to make httpd on Solaris privileges-aware
4751 and to enable different virtualhosts to run with different
4752 privileges and Unix user/group IDs [Nick Kew]
4754 *) mod_mem_cache: this module has been removed. [William Rowe]
4756 *) authn/z: Remove mod_authn_default and mod_authz_default.
4759 *) authz: Fix handling of authz configurations, make default authz
4760 logic replicate 2.2.x authz logic, and replace <Satisfy*>, Reject,
4761 and AuthzMergeRules directives with Match, <Match*>, and AuthzMerge
4762 directives. [Chris Darroch]
4764 *) mod_authn_core: Prevent crash when provider alias created to
4765 provider which is not yet registered. [Chris Darroch]
4767 *) mod_authn_core: Add AuthType of None to support disabling
4768 authentication. [Chris Darroch]
4770 *) core: Allow <Limit> and <LimitExcept> directives to nest, and
4771 constrain their use to conform with that of other access control
4772 and authorization directives. [Chris Darroch]
4774 *) unixd: turn existing code into a module, and turn the set user/group
4775 and chroot into a child_init function. [Nick Kew]
4777 *) mod_dir: Support "DirectoryIndex disabled"
4778 Suggested By André Warnier <aw ice-sa.com> [Eric Covener]
4780 *) mod_ssl: Send Content-Type application/ocsp-request for POST requests to
4781 OSCP responders. PR 46014 [Dr Stephen Henson <steve openssl.org>]
4783 *) mod_authnz_ldap: don't return NULL-valued environment variables to
4784 other modules. PR 39045 [Francois Pesce <francois.pesce gmail.com>]
4786 *) Don't adjust case in pathname components that are not of interest
4787 to mod_mime. Fixes mod_negotiation's use of such components.
4788 PR 43250 [Basant Kumar Kukreja <basant.kukreja sun.com>]
4790 *) Be tolerant in what you accept - accept slightly broken
4791 status lines from a backend provided they include a valid status code.
4792 PR 44995 [Rainer Jung <rainer.jung kippdata.de>]
4794 *) New module mod_sed: filter Request/Response bodies through sed
4795 [Basant Kumar Kukreja <basant.kukreja sun.com>]
4797 *) mod_auth_form: Make sure that basic authentication is correctly
4798 faked directly after login. [Graham Leggett]
4800 *) mod_session_cookie, mod_session_dbd: Make sure cookies are set both
4801 within the output headers and error output headers, so that the
4802 session is maintained across redirects. [Graham Leggett]
4804 *) mod_auth_form: Make sure the logged in user is populated correctly
4805 after a form login. Fixes a missing REMOTE_USER variable directly
4806 following a login. [Graham Leggett]
4808 *) mod_session_cookie: Make sure that cookie attributes are correctly
4809 included in the blank cookie when cookies are removed. This fixes an
4810 inability to log out when using mod_auth_form. [Graham Leggett]
4812 *) mod_session: Prevent a segfault when a CGI script sets a cookie with a
4813 null value. [David Shane Holden <dpejesh apache.org>]
4815 *) core, authn/z: Determine registered authn/z providers directly in
4816 ap_setup_auth_internal(), which allows optional functions that just
4817 wrapped ap_list_provider_names() to be removed from authn/z modules.
4820 *) authn/z: Convert common provider version strings to macros.
4823 *) core: When testing for slash-terminated configuration paths in
4824 ap_location_walk(), don't look past the start of an empty string
4825 such as that created by a <Location ""> directive.
4828 *) core, mod_proxy: If a kept_body is present, it becomes safe for
4829 subrequests to support message bodies. Make sure that safety
4830 checks within the core and within the proxy are not triggered
4831 when kept_body is present. This makes it possible to embed
4832 proxied POST requests within mod_include. [Graham Leggett]
4834 *) mod_auth_form: Make sure the input filter stack is properly set
4835 up before reading the login form. Make sure the kept body filter
4836 is correctly inserted to ensure the body can be read a second
4837 time safely should the authn be successful. [Graham Leggett,
4840 *) mod_request: Insert the KEPT_BODY filter via the insert_filter
4841 hook instead of during fixups. Add a safety check to ensure the
4842 filters cannot be inserted more than once. [Graham Leggett,
4845 *) ap_cache_cacheable_headers_out() will (now) always
4846 merge an error headers _before_ clearing them and _before_
4847 merging in the actual entity headers and doing normal
4848 hop-by-hop cleansing. [Dirk-Willem van Gulik].
4850 *) cache: retire ap_cache_cacheable_hdrs_out() which was used
4851 for both in- and out-put headers; and replace it by a single
4852 ap_cache_cacheable_headers() wrapped in a in- and out-put
4853 specific ap_cache_cacheable_headers_in()/out(). The latter
4854 which will also merge error and ensure content-type. To keep
4855 cache modules consistent with ease. This API change bumps
4856 up the minor MM by one [Dirk-Willem van Gulik].
4858 *) Move the KeptBodySize directive, kept_body filters and the
4859 ap_parse_request_body function out of the http module and into a
4860 new module called mod_request, reducing the size of the core.
4863 *) mod_dbd: Handle integer configuration directive parameters with a
4866 *) Change the directives within the mod_session* modules to be valid
4867 both inside and outside the location/directory sections, as
4868 suggested by wrowe. [Graham Leggett]
4870 *) mod_auth_form: Add a module capable of allowing end users to log
4871 in using an HTML form, storing the credentials within mod_session.
4874 *) Add a function to the http filters that is able to parse an HTML
4875 form request with the type of application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
4878 *) mod_session_crypto: Initialise SSL in the post config hook.
4879 [Ruediger Pluem, Graham Leggett]
4881 *) mod_session_dbd: Add a session implementation capable of storing
4882 session information in a SQL database via the dbd interface. Useful
4883 for sites where session privacy is important. [Graham Leggett]
4885 *) mod_session_crypto: Add a session encoding implementation capable
4886 of encrypting and decrypting sessions wherever they may be stored.
4887 Introduces a level of privacy when sessions are stored on the
4888 browser. [Graham Leggett]
4890 *) mod_session_cookie: Add a session implementation capable of storing
4891 session information within cookies on the browser. Useful for high
4892 volume sites where server bound sessions are too resource intensive.
4895 *) mod_session: Add a generic session interface to unify the different
4896 attempts at saving persistent sessions across requests.
4899 *) core, authn/z: Avoid calling access control hooks for internal requests
4900 with configurations which match those of initial request. Revert to
4901 original behaviour (call access control hooks for internal requests
4902 with URIs different from initial request) if any access control hooks or
4903 providers are not registered as permitting this optimization.
4904 Introduce wrappers for access control hook and provider registration
4905 which can accept additional mode and flag data. [Chris Darroch]
4907 *) Introduced ap_expr API for expression evaluation.
4908 This is adapted from mod_include, which is the first module
4912 *) mod_authz_dbd: When redirecting after successful login/logout per
4913 AuthzDBDRedirectQuery, do not report authorization failure, and use
4914 first row returned by database query instead of last row.
4917 *) mod_ldap: Correctly return all requested attribute values
4918 when some attributes have a null value.
4919 PR 44560 [Anders Kaseorg <anders kaseorg.com>]
4921 *) core: check symlink ownership if both FollowSymlinks and
4922 SymlinksIfOwnerMatch are set [Nick Kew]
4924 *) core: fix origin checking in SymlinksIfOwnerMatch
4925 PR 36783 [Robert L Mathews <rob-apache.org.bugs tigertech.net>]
4927 *) Activate mod_cache, mod_file_cache and mod_disk_cache as part of the
4928 'most' set for '--enable-modules' and '--enable-shared-mods'. Include
4929 mod_mem_cache in 'all' as well. [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
4931 *) Also install mod_so.h, mod_rewrite.h and mod_cache.h; as these
4932 contain public function declarations which are useful for
4933 third party module authors. PR 42431 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik].
4935 *) mod_dir, mod_negotiation: pass the output filter information
4936 to newly created sub requests; as these are later on used
4937 as true requests with an internal redirect. This allows for
4938 mod_cache et.al. to trap the results of the redirect.
4939 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Ruediger Pluem]
4941 *) mod_ldap: Add support (taking advantage of the new APR capability)
4942 for ldap rebind callback while chasing referrals. This allows direct
4943 searches on LDAP servers (in particular MS Active Directory 2003+)
4944 using referrals without the use of the global catalog.
4945 PRs 26538, 40268, and 42557 [Paul J. Reder]
4947 *) ApacheMonitor.exe: Introduce --kill argument for use by the
4948 installer. This will permit the installation tool to remove
4949 all running instances before attempting to remove the .exe.
4952 *) mod_ssl: Add support for OCSP validation of client certificates.
4953 PR 41123. [Marc Stern <marc.stern approach.be>, Joe Orton]
4955 *) mod_serf: New module for Reverse Proxying. [Paul Querna]
4957 *) core: Add the option to keep aside a request body up to a certain
4958 size that would otherwise be discarded, to be consumed by filters
4959 such as mod_include. When enabled for a directory, POST requests
4960 to shtml files can be passed through to embedded scripts as POST
4961 requests, rather being downgraded to GET requests. [Graham Leggett]
4963 *) mod_ssl: Fix TLS upgrade (RFC 2817) support. PR 41231. [Joe Orton]
4965 *) scoreboard: Correctly declare ap_time_process_request.
4966 PR 43789 [Tom Donovan <Tom.Donovan acm.org>]
4968 *) core; scoreboard: ap_get_scoreboard_worker(sbh) now takes the sbh member
4969 from the connection rec, ap_get_scoreboard_worker(proc, thread) will now
4970 provide the unusual legacy lookup. [William Rowe]
4972 *) mpm winnt: fix null pointer dereference
4973 PR 42572 [Davi Arnaut]
4975 *) mod_authnz_ldap, mod_authn_dbd: Tidy up the code to expose authn
4976 parameters to the environment. Improve portability to
4977 EBCDIC machines by using apr_toupper(). [Martin Kraemer]
4979 *) mod_ldap, mod_authnz_ldap: Add support for nested groups (i.e. the ability
4980 to authorize an authenticated user via a "require ldap-group X" directive
4981 where the user is not in group X, but is in a subgroup contained in X.
4982 PR 42891 [Paul J. Reder]
4984 *) mod_ssl: Add support for caching SSL Sessions in memcached. [Paul Querna]
4986 *) apxs: Enhance -q flag to print all known variables and their values
4987 when invoked without variable name(s).
4988 [William Rowe, Sander Temme]
4990 *) apxs: Eliminate run-time check for mod_so. PR 40653.
4991 [David M. Lee <dmlee crossroads.com>]
4993 *) beos MPM: Create pmain pool and run modules' child_init hooks when
4994 entering ap_mpm_run(), then destroy pmain when exiting ap_mpm_run().
4997 *) netware MPM: Destroy pmain pool when exiting ap_mpm_run() so that
4998 cleanups registered in modules' child_init hooks are performed.
5001 *) Fix issue which could cause error messages to be written to access logs
5002 on Win32. PR 40476. [Tom Donovan <Tom.Donovan acm.org>]
5004 *) The LockFile directive, which specifies the location of
5005 the accept() mutex lockfile, is deprecated. Instead, the
5006 AcceptMutex directive now takes an optional lockfile
5007 location parameter, ala SSLMutex. [Jim Jagielski]
5009 *) mod_authn_dbd: Export any additional columns queried in the SQL select
5010 into the environment with the name AUTHENTICATE_<COLUMN>. This brings
5011 mod_authn_dbd behaviour in line with mod_authnz_ldap. [Graham Leggett]
5013 *) mod_dbd: Key the storage of prepared statements on the hex string
5014 value of server_rec, rather than the server name, as the server name
5015 may change (eg when the server name is set) at any time, causing
5016 weird behaviour in modules dependent on mod_dbd. [Graham Leggett]
5018 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: Added win32 build. [Mladen Turk]
5020 *) sendfile_nonblocking() takes the _brigade_ as an argument, gets
5021 the first bucket from the brigade, finds it not to be a FILE
5022 bucket and barfs. The fix is to pass a bucket rather than a brigade.
5023 [Niklas Edmundsson <nikke acc.umu.se>]
5025 *) mod_rewrite: support rewritemap by SQL query [Nick Kew]
5027 *) ap_get_server_version() has been removed. Third-party modules must
5028 now use ap_get_server_banner() or ap_get_server_description().
5031 *) All MPMs: Introduce a check_config phase between pre_config and
5032 open_logs, to allow modules to review interdependent configuration
5033 directive values and adjust them while messages can still be logged
5034 to the console. Handle relevant MPM directives during this phase
5035 and format messages for both the console and the error log, as
5036 appropriate. [Chris Darroch]
5038 *) core: Do not allow internal redirects like the DirectoryIndex of mod_dir
5039 to circumvent the symbolic link checks imposed by FollowSymLinks and
5040 SymLinksIfOwnerMatch. [Nick Kew, Ruediger Pluem, William Rowe]
5042 *) New SSLLogLevelDebugDump [ None (default) | IO (not bytes) | Bytes ]
5043 configures the I/O Dump of SSL traffic, when LogLevel is set to Debug.
5044 The default is none as this is far greater debugging resolution than
5045 the typical administrator is prepared to untangle. [William Rowe]
5047 *) mod_disk_cache: If possible, check if the size of an object to cache is
5048 within the configured boundaries before actually saving data.
5049 [Niklas Edmundsson <nikke acc.umu.se>]
5051 *) Worker and event MPMs: Remove improper scoreboard updates which were
5052 performed in the event of a fork() failure. [Chris Darroch]
5054 *) Add support for fcgi:// proxies to mod_rewrite.
5055 [Markus Schiegl <ms schiegl.com>]
5057 *) Remove incorrect comments from scoreboard.h regarding conditional
5058 loading of worker_score structure with mod_status, and remove unused
5059 definitions relating to old life_status field.
5060 [Chris Darroch <chrisd pearsoncmg.com>]
5062 *) Remove allocation of memory for unused array of lb_score pointers
5063 in ap_init_scoreboard(). [Chris Darroch <chrisd pearsoncmg.com>]
5065 *) Add mod_proxy_fcgi, a FastCGI back end for mod_proxy.
5066 [Garrett Rooney, Jim Jagielski, Paul Querna]
5068 *) Event MPM: Fill in the scoreboard's tid field. PR 38736.
5069 [Chris Darroch <chrisd pearsoncmg.com>]
5071 *) mod_charset_lite: Remove Content-Length when output filter can
5072 invalidate it. Warn when input filter can invalidate it.
5075 *) Authz: Add the new module mod_authn_core that will provide common
5076 authn directives such as 'AuthType', 'AuthName'. Move the directives
5077 'AuthType' and 'AuthName' out of the core module and merge mod_authz_alias
5078 into mod_authn_core. [Brad Nicholes]
5080 *) Authz: Move the directives 'Order', 'Allow', 'Deny' and 'Satisfy'
5081 into the new module mod_access_compat which can be loaded to provide
5082 support for these directives.
5085 *) Authz: Move the 'Require' directive from the core module as well as
5086 add the directives '<SatisfyAll>', '<SatisfyOne>', '<RequireAlias>'
5087 and 'Reject' to mod_authz_core. The new directives introduce 'AND/OR'
5088 logic into the authorization processing. [Brad Nicholes]
5090 *) Authz: Add the new module mod_authz_core which acts as the
5091 authorization provider vector and contains common authz
5092 directives. [Brad Nicholes]
5094 *) Authz: Renamed mod_authz_dbm authz providers from 'group' and
5095 'file-group' to 'dbm-group' and 'dbm-file-group'. [Brad Nicholes]
5097 *) Authz: Added the new authz providers 'env', 'ip', 'host', 'all' to handle
5098 host-based access control provided by mod_authz_host and invoked
5099 through the 'Require' directive. [Brad Nicholes]
5101 *) Authz: Convert all of the authz modules from hook based to
5102 provider based. [Brad Nicholes]
5104 *) mod_cache: Add CacheMinExpire directive to set the minimum time in
5105 seconds to cache a document.
5106 [Brian Akins <brian.akins turner.com>, Ruediger Pluem]
5108 *) mod_authz_dbd: SQL authz with Login/Session support [Nick Kew]
5110 *) Fix typo in ProxyStatus syntax error message.
5111 [Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet wanadoo.fr>]
5113 *) Asynchronous write completion for the Event MPM. [Brian Pane]
5115 *) Added an End-Of-Request bucket type. The logging of a request and
5116 the freeing of its pool are now done when the EOR bucket is destroyed.
5117 This has the effect of delaying the logging until right after the last
5118 of the response is sent; ap_core_output_filter() calls the access logger
5119 indirectly when it destroys the EOR bucket. [Brian Pane]
5121 *) Rewrite of logresolve support utility: IPv6 addresses are now supported
5122 and the format of statistical output has changed. [Colm MacCarthaigh]
5124 *) Rewrite of ap_coreoutput_filter to do nonblocking writes [Brian Pane]
5126 *) Added new connection states for handler and write completion
5129 *) mod_cgid: Refuse to work on Solaris 10 due to OS bugs. PR 34264.
5132 *) Teach mod_ssl to use arbitrary OIDs in an SSLRequire directive,
5133 allowing string-valued client certificate attributes to be used for
5134 access control, as in: SSLRequire "value" in OID("1.3.6.1.4.1.18060.1")
5135 [Martin Kraemer, David Reid]
5137 [Apache 2.3.0-dev includes those bug fixes and changes with the
5138 Apache 2.2.xx tree as documented, and except as noted, below.]
5140 Changes with Apache 2.2.x and later:
5142 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/CHANGES?view=markup
5144 Changes with Apache 2.0.x and later:
5146 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x/CHANGES?view=markup