2 Changes with Apache 2.5.0
4 *) mod_ldap: Treat the "server unavailable" condition as a transient
5 error with all LDAP SDKs. [Filip Valder <filip.valder vsb.cz>]
7 *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS-SRP (Secure Remote Password key exchange
8 for TLS, RFC 5054). PR 51075. [Quinn Slack <sqs cs stanford edu>,
9 Christophe Renou, Peter Sylvester]
11 *) htdbm, htpasswd: Don't crash if crypt() fails (e.g. with FIPS enabled).
12 [Paul Wouters <pwouters redhat.com>, Joe Orton]
14 *) mod_ssl: Add new directive SSLCompression to disable TLS-level
15 compression. PR 53219. [Björn Jacke <bjoern j3e de>, Stefan Fritsch]
17 *) core: Make ap_regcomp() return AP_REG_ESPACE if out of memory. Make
18 ap_pregcomp() abort if out of memory. This raises the minimum PCRE
19 requirement to version 6.0. PR 53284. [Stefan Fritsch]
21 *) apxs: Use LDFLAGS from config_vars.mk in addition to CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS.
24 *) mpm_event: Fix handling of MaxConnectionsPerChild. [Stefan Fritsch]
26 *) suexec: Add --enable-suexec-capabilites support on Linux, to use
27 setuid/setgid capability bits rather than a setuid root binary.
30 *) suexec: Add support for logging to syslog as an alternative to logging
31 to a file; configure --without-suexec-logfile --with-suexec-syslog.
34 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Reduce memory usage in case of many keep-alive requests on
35 one connection. PR 52275. [Naohiro Ooiwa <naohiro ooiwa miraclelinux com>]
37 *) mod_proxy: Use the the same hostname for SNI as for the HTTP request when
38 forwarding to SSL backends. PR 53134.
39 [Michael Weiser <michael weiser.dinsnail.net>, Ruediger Pluem]
41 *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS Next Protocol Negotiation. PR 52210.
42 [Matthew Steele <mdsteele google.com>]
44 *) mod_so: If a filename without slashes is specified for LoadFile or
45 LoadModule and the file cannot be found in the server root directory,
46 try to use the standard dlopen() search path. [Stefan Fritsch]
48 *) various modules, rotatelogs: Replace use of apr_file_write() with
49 apr_file_write_full() to prevent incomplete writes. PR 53131.
50 [Nicolas Viennot <apache viennot biz>, Stefan Fritsch]
52 *) core: Fix segfault in logging if r->useragent_addr or c->client_addr is
53 unset. [Stefan Fritsch]
55 *) cross-compile: allow to provide CC_FOR_BUILD so that gen_test_char will
56 be compiled by the build compiler instead of the host compiler.
57 Also set CC_FOR_BUILD to 'cc' when cross-compilation is detected.
58 PR 51257. [Guenter Knauf]
60 *) mod_ssl: Send the error message for speaking http to an https port using
61 HTTP/1.0 instead of HTTP/0.9, and omit the link that may be wrong when
62 using SNI. PR 50823. [Stefan Fritsch]
64 *) mod_authz_core: Fix parsing of Require arguments in <AuthzProviderAlias>.
65 PR 53048. [Stefan Fritsch]
67 *) core: Fix error handling in ap_scan_script_header_err_brigade() if there
68 is no EOS bucket in the brigade. Fixes segfault with mod_proxy_fcgi.
69 PR 48272. [Stefan Fritsch]
71 *) mod_proxy_fcgi: If there is an error reading the headers from the
72 backend, send an error to the client. PR 52879. [Stefan Fritsch]
74 *) mod_rewrite: Fix RewriteCond integer checks to be parsed correctly.
75 PR 53023. [Axel Reinhold <apache freakout.de>, André Malo]
77 *) mod_proxy: Add the forcerecovery balancer parameter that determines if
78 recovery for balancer workers is enforced. [Ruediger Pluem]
80 *) mod_proxy: Correctly set up reverse proxy worker. PR 52935.
81 [Petter Berntsen <petterb gmail.com>]
83 *) core: Add filesystem paths to access denied / access failed messages
84 AH00035 and AH00036. [Eric Covener]
86 *) Fix MPM DSO load failure on AIX. [Jeff Trawick]
88 *) core: Add the port number to the vhost's name in the scoreboard.
91 *) mpm_event: Don't do a blocking write when starting a lingering close
92 from the listener thread. PR 52229. [Stefan Fritsch]
94 *) core: In maintainer mode, replace apr_palloc with a version that
95 initializes the allocated memory with non-zero values, except if
96 AP_DEBUG_NO_ALLOC_POISON is defined. [Stefan Fritsch]
98 *) mod_log_config: Check during config test that directories for access logs
99 exist. PR 29941. [Stefan Fritsch]
101 *) mod_authnz_ldap: Don't try a potentially expensive nested groups
102 search before exhausting all AuthLDAPGroupAttribute checks on the
103 current group. PR52464 [Eric Covener]
105 *) mod_policy: Add a new testing module to help server administrators
106 enforce a configurable level of protocol compliance on their
107 servers and application servers behind theirs. [Graham Leggett]
109 *) mod_firehose: Add a new debugging module able to record traffic
110 passing through the server in such a way that connections and/or
111 requests be reconstructed and replayed. [Graham Leggett]
113 *) Event MPM: Reduce locking by using a lock free circular queue.
123 [Apache 2.5.0-dev includes those bug fixes and changes with the
124 Apache 2.4.xx tree as documented below, except as noted.]
126 Changes with Apache 2.4.x and later:
128 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/CHANGES?view=markup
130 Changes with Apache 2.2.x and later:
132 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/CHANGES?view=markup
134 Changes with Apache 2.0.x and later:
136 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x/CHANGES?view=markup